001[Music] How do you [Music] do? Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey, Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Deep. Hey. Hey. [Music] Mr. Mononttoya present. Miss Aspus. Mr. Soul I am present. Miss Asi I'm present. And myself. We're all here. We'll start with a pledge of allegiance and then uh Jared Noble is offered to offer us a opening prayer. 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, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Nol, go ahead. Bow our heads. Heavenly Father, thank you for today. Thank you for the opportunity to come together um to just figure out student outcomes to better schools, better opportunities for for the district. Lord, I pray that healthy conversations occur and I pray that
002uh everyone in attendance to bless them and give them the the voice that they need. Lord, speak through the vocal cords, speak through the mind and Lord, speak through their heart. Thank you for the board members here. I thank you for the sunshine and the rain that happened. And I pray for students to uh rejuvenate even our staff to rejuvenate during spring break. And again, Lord, just for uh this spe this uh board meeting to uh go in your will. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. We'll take about three minutes for an agenda review. Uh Mr. Wells, I will go ahead make a motion to approve the agenda as presented. Thank you. Did you hear that? I didn't understand it. He uh after after everyone's done, he's already putting that motion
003out there to approve it to approve the agenda. I have a motion to approve the uh agenda as it stands. Do I have a second? Uh Mr. Wills, did you get my motion or in the alternative? If I will second. I got your I got your motion to approve it. I'm asking for a second. I will second. Thank you. It's been moved and second that we approve the agenda as it stands. Mr. Soul, I vote yes. Mr. Mononttoya, Miss Aspus. No, I I wanted uh clarification first. What do you like? What would you like a clarification on? Um so we have a request to um change the order. So if we leave it as stand, we can't change it. Then we can't change it. Thank you for that catch. Um, board member Aspus, um, the
004request is to, and I know that folks online probably didn't hear this and I should have made it known a little bit more publicly. There's there's a couple things we'd like to do before uh, we get into it on the agenda. We do have an audit report by Mr. Manning, so we do want to move him up just a little bit. Um, but we believe that he can go after the unique trip request so we can get folks out of here. So, there's two things. one is under the um under reports. The first unique trip request from KCHS um is by Mr. Zayn Webster is pretty much identical to the letter C the trip request from Nukem High School um by Shelley Eaton. So if we could combine those two um for and and have
005the two of them present together because the information again is is identical that'd be great. So that'd be one. So including A and C together under the presentation. Um and then for letter E that would be the audit report. We would like to bump him up uh before Mr. Venturina. And and the reason for that is Mr. uh Mr. Manning has two audit reports to give this evening and he needs to get all the way out to grants I believe or do it virtually for them. Okay. Okay. So if that was clear or or close. So I'd like to make a motion to make that change in the order on the agenda and um so that our auditor can um get on this other Zoom meeting. It's been second moved and seconded that uh the
006agenda be modified. Do I have uh Mr. Mr. Mononttoya? Yes. Miss Aspus? Yes. Miss Aspi? Yes. Did you amend the initial? Yes. Okay. Okay. Then I vote yes also. Okay, we will uh move on with that request. Uh and comments from the audience and I have one we missed. Number two is a recognition for the bilingual seal. No. Okay, we have Sorry about that. We have a a student staff and community recognition recognition for bilingual seal English expo science fair spelling bee winners by Mr. Noble, Vice President Wells, members of the board, Superintendent Carlson, and guests who have joined us today. Um, just I've been thinking about this uh maybe we could split up in two parts where we have a student here that's going to be uh talking about the Navajo Nation bilingual seal
007proficiency and where we can open that up to comments and questions and then we can speed it way through on the uh the last three. Go ahead. Did you want to comment? Well, I guess I could comment right now. I don't wish to speed up anything. Okay. I think uh things should flow as it is. This is uh the community's time and um not only the board members time. Well, Vice President Wells, members of the board, Stor Carlson. So, um it's just uh this is a great opportunity where this year we have two students for the first time this year have reached the bilingual seal of proficiency in Navajo. So, it's with great pride to recognize Cadence Yazy from Kirtland Central High School and Isaac Merritt from Shipwreck High School who have passed the assessment
008for their NAVO Nation bilingual seal of proficiency. Pretty good. Hello everyone. My name is Kaden Yazi. I currently go to school here at Curling Central High School and I am currently a senior as well. Um I just want to say I appreciate all of you for being here and you know taking time out of your evenings to to be here. Yeah. Um, to me, this accomplishment was it was it was one of my proudest moments that I um that I that I've gone through and uh it's one of my biggest things that I've accomplished as well. You know, growing up, I never I didn't really have Navajo, I guess, in my in my homestead. It was spoken, but it wasn't, you know, implemented on us to, you know, learn it. And so I feel that,
009you know, through education and going through uh kindergarten throughout, you know, my high school years till now, I've taken Navajo up to my middle school. And I feel that my the elementary schools especially have really impacted impact they've impacted me on the Navajo language and the culture itself. Um I feel that that's where, you know, I was taught Navajo and how the how I was taught the language structure. Not only that, but you know the curriculum as well back then was it was a lot. It was it was awesome. It was really really fun. Navo was it was really fun back then. But you know when we talk about Navajo classes now, it's it's only paper assignments. And so um I I feel like that's something I advocate for. You know, holding the title of
010Miss Northern Navina as well for this year. Uh I I really advocate for the youth. And that's one that's something I wanted to bring up as well is that um I feel that we need to make you know learning languages fun again not only Navajo but you know um Spanish as well and we have a lot of diverse ethnicity kids who are within our district and I feel that it's really important as well and now it's just um I feel like we need to implement more time in learning the Navo language especially Because at the elementary schools it's from my understanding it's like an hour. It's like an hour every day. But I feel that you know that's only during school times. I feel that we should in incorporate it during the summer as well
011or we should have it at the lower classes like the prek at the um prek level as well. Um and with that I um yeah that's what that's what I hope to see and I I want to advocate for that as well and not only the um those kind of sorry last one I was to say not having only paper assignments I guess at that kind of level but also the high school level you know I I've seen a big uh decrease in especially my school to where kids are just they they don't think it's fun no more they don't think kids. It's interesting and I feel that we should have more more hands-on stuff as well, not only with the NAVO culture, but um our different ethnicities as well. So, that's all I have
012for you today. Thank you. Thank you very much, Vice President Wells, members of the board. just to quickly uh mention so five students did take the assessment in our district and out of those five the two passed so I we do want to recognize those students that did take the assessment you know it's it is a challenge it's difficult to go into that assessment and and pass so um um and and Cadence and Isaac were also heavily in the news also which if Sharon if you scroll down a little further you can see them in in the links provided below um they're in the board doc so feel free to click on those. But again, um really excited that we see two students this year passed with the bilingual seal of proficiency. And with that,
013members of the board, um we open to comments and questions. I have a comment. Go ahead. I don't know. Can you hear me? Um, Cadence, I I I was there when you got your your recognition and um those of you that don't know, she does sing the anthem in Navajo as well. She has a great voice. I was very surprised by that. And um and I really want to note that she really had family support and um I I think that is valuable. And um you know they came from all over just to support her that evening. And um and you know I really love your perspective and yes you're right. You know I I um that was that that's so true. we stick to paper and we need to find more creative ways and
014um and I think uh board member Mononttoya had said that before about um you know coming up with with um different ways to to for our students to learn Navajo not just in the in a classroom setting but you know a way of life and and I believe that's probably how you learned um with grandma, uncles, aunties, you know, and so yes um I agree and and I I'm I'm really glad that you shared that with all of us. Thank you. Thank you. Um could I comment? Yes, you may. So, I feel that alongside this, it's um receiving this bilingual seal, it's a it's a perfect example of just how much um school and education itself can be incorporated into someone's life. So, for example, for me, I didn't, like I said, I didn't have
015it at home. It wasn't, you know, incorporated. all my my res my res my my family my um my extended relatives they all live back home on the reservation and so out here I really don't have you know extended family here and so with Isaac he you know he mentioned he grew up with Nava who was his first language and he had you know he had to speak it when he was younger and so I feel that that's um something very important to look at at that point from that point of just to see how it, you know, it how much of an impact it can really make on someone, especially the the education part, especially in going to school and having, you know, like you said, the support as well. So, yeah, that's that's
016my comment. Thank you. Are there any other comments or questions for this young lady? Comment. Go ahead. Miss Shazi, you're you're the epitome of what these programs stand for. It's one thing to acquire in a lot of um first language speakers, they they get it at home and that's where we learn it. And then to come into the educational institutions and pick it up and be able to be proficient enough to pass that test which is not easy is uh you're absolutely to be applauded for your efforts and your success for what you have done and that's quite frankly as uh Miss Aspus has pointed out I have developed a framework for that and really the the point is to have more students like you acquire it um within the educational institution because it can't
017be done um has to be done in a manner especially when you have to follow along state guidelines um to be able to do that and acquire English at the same time. So but it is possible and you've you've obviously done that. So congratulations to you and the best of success to you uh in the rest of your life and keep that language. Don't don't lose it. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else comment? Go ahead. Um, try again, Miss ASI. England 8 a.m. That was the end of my comment. I hope you heard me. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. If you want to stand right here and and uh be my double checker for the next three reports. So, um Vice President Wells, members of the board, Superintendent Carlson, uh as we proceed, uh Sharon,
018if you click over to science fair results. I'm trying to make it over there too. I might be able to read it there. Uh members of the board, Superintendent Carlson. So, uh so we had recently the district science fair and engineering fair over at Sanin College and it just we've heard great things about it. I was trying to find results today and I was able to find them on the web and um pulled it together to where we had 22 students who placed throughout the district in the district science fair. U and so there's the the the sheet there. Um so just shout out we had a lot of uh elementary schools, middle schools that attended. Um so uh ranging from fifth grade all the way to um to 10th grade it looks like there
019on the on the report. Thank you Sharon. Um so we just wanted to recognize those students, you know, going into the district science fair and just placing um among their peers with Aztec, Farmington, Bloomfield, all the other neighboring districts in the area. So, wanted to say congratulations to them. Next, we do have the expo winners. So, uh DBA Sibita Middle School uh went to Albuquerque to compete in the uh English Expo and it was just a great thing for them to do because they a lot of these students placed also in Albuquerque along with other districts in the state. So, um I'm not too sure their sponsors. I know Miss Chong's there is on the left, but on the right, if anyone might know who that might be on the right there, that teacher, that's
020okay. Um, just one thing to note too, Jasmine Redshirt is the state champion for technical writing and proofreading. She also bested all middle and high school student participants in the spelling be, making her the state champion. So, uh, just a standout achievement for her. There's all the students that uh received their awards there at the English Expo for winning. Last but not least, we do have the spelling bee winners. So on Thursday, these students um are going to be traveling to Crown Point to represent their schools at the final spelling be agency for the Navajo Nation. But a couple weeks ago they competed at the Northern Agency Spelling Bee in the Phil Performing Art Center. So um Laur So we have U Mary Mullen Molen from Nukem Elementary School who placed first place in fourth
021grade. We have Kira Oliver who placed uh first place in sixth grade. And to also note that Natalie uh Dona from Simitar Middle School placed third place. So she if just in case if the second place winner doesn't show up to the final agency spelling be, she swaps spaces with that person. So she has an opportunity to also represent the final agency spelling bee. Then we have Bennett Weber from 7th grade at Cibiton Middle School who took first place. And we have Ethan Stevenson from Kurland Middle School who took first place. So they again they will be traveling to Crown Point on Thursday. So we'll be getting up pretty early in the morning. We're going to leave. Got to make sure we're there by 8:00 to register and for them to take the test and
022and you know to win and go on to nationals. Vice President, members of the board, there's one more recogn I'm looking at somebody here in the crowd. I'd like to do a recognition for them too if that's okay. Go ahead. Zay, can you stand up? So, as you may not know, Zayn Webster is the district agricultural teacher of the year, a rookie of the year. So, congrats, congratulations to [Applause] him. As I uh pull up my notes, too. So, Zayn, he's the agricultural education teacher at Kurland Central High School. Uh so um Kurland is immersed in agricultural life with the Navajo agricultural products industry nearby. Since Webster's arrival, the the FFA chapter has experienced significant growth in our area with a large number of indigenous students actively participating. Um just to top off some things,
023he helped win a state championship and illustrate a talk, securing two gold rated and and Zay double check me if I'm saying all the things right because there's a lot here. So, securing two gold rated and two silver rated science fair projects, achieving state champion aggra science and NMSF, earning the state champion state fair booth, having every student make sale at San County Fair, uh, achieving two showmanship wins and sale makers at NMSF and ENMF, securing division wins and top five overall wins at national stock shows. So again, just Zane, congratulations to you. You're a pivotal part of the FFA chapter and and you definitely deserve all the recognition here. So congratulations members of the board. Uh vice president, I stand for questions. Are there any questions from the board? I have a comment. Go
024ahead. Um to Zane, Mr. Zayn, uh thank you for the work you do. I um I I saw that the the recognition on KSJ also and he he did a shout out for you. So um I think it's great that uh our Vicki has help and and I I I can't remember the other person's u name and Miss's right here too in the back. So, you know, thank you um FFA and um I really would like to see though um what we can do with um dogs and cats um about, you know, cuz that's a big issue on on the reservation. Um if so, somebody has any way of implementing, you know, those kind of services, it would be great. Thank you. Any other comments or or questions or just a comment? Go ahead. Uh
025congratulations to all the spelling be participants and those that participated in technical writing. Um to all the participants and the and the champions and those going on. Again, congratulations. And uh Mr. Zayn, um likewise, thank you for what you do. you have an excellent uh teacher to help you and groom you to um keep the programs going and being successful. So, thank you. Anything else, Zay? I know you're presenting later on today, so hopefully it made it a little easier for you to get it passed into the board. Huh. Thank you, Jerry. Thank you, sir. Members of the board, Superintendent Carlson. We'd next like to hear from Valeria Robinson. They're going to talk to us about Kirtland Central High School wrestling. Hello everyone. I'm Valyria Robinson. I'm the president for our booster club and for
026the wrestling team, the Kirtland Central Wrestling Team. And I came here to talk about um an incident that took place for the West uh Las Vegas High School event. It was the regionals tournament that the girls um had participated in. So, I wrote up something. This isn't um I'm not I didn't come here to argue. I didn't come here to point fingers. Um Thank you. May I? Yeah. Go ahead. Before you start. Yeah. No names. Okay. Um no names. And when you say no names, what do you mean? No. No names. Yeah. Okay. incidents are perfectly are acceptable but so no no names involved with the wrestlers. Okay. Okay. And no Okay. Well, even the staff even the staff. Okay. And I'm Rachel the vice president. Thank you. And this this was an event that
027took place. Um um it's it's like I said, it's nobody's fault. It's just something that we came here to try to address and try to make better. Um, so I'm just going to read off on here what I wrote. And if if you don't mind, may I please read this? You may. Yes. And she's the board lawyer. Okay. Okay. And I did try to um reach out to somebody from the board to see if we could talk about this. Um I never got anything back. And your name is Valyria Robinson. And if this was something that you guys would feel more comfortable, we talked um at another time. Um I I I would Okay. because you know we um just to kind of prepare for if this is something we can take care of like
028not here and if we could and we won't be liable for Yeah. No, I understand. And that's what I came here is to see if we can have that partnership. Okay. And to kind of build it um make sure it doesn't happen again. I would appreciate that as a board member um and as our superintendent also. But um and it's it's not stop you. Oh, yeah. No, it's it's just to keep us Yeah. And that's why I came respectfully to see if we could just fix this. Okay. We appreciate that. You should do it. Okay. All right. We'll do this privately then. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. And then, um, Valyria, um, if you have a better number, Mr. Dezwood tried to reach out to you a few days ago and wasn't
029able to get a hold of you. I don't know why, but if we just make sure we have your number so we can get a hold of you. Okay then. All right. I'll go ahead and talk to him if that's okay. Thank you. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Moving on to uh board and superintendent reports. Do we have something from the board? I do. Go ahead. there there's a lot that's happened. Um, I think that the schedule was really busy this this March and um um and I I do want to say that um I don't know how how many of you uh are on social media, but um there's been a uh a movement of some sort um with um with the murder and missing of Emily Pike. And I don't know
030how much of if you guys are aware or know of this case, but this happened in Arizona. And uh she was 14 years old um in a group home. and um and found and dismembered and um and that I mean all the talks, all the that the the the activity on on social media has really pointed out to um a lot of what we what we pointed out and what we saw during our safety summit. And so I um you know it's sad that you know that um it it had to come to that to for for people to for their eyes to open and um and I sure hope that this really gains um enough attention for legislation not only in Arizona but in New Mexico. and but um we've had one of our
031own and um with Ashlin Mike and I I think um I never want to go through something like that again. And I um and I I just wanted to point out that um I think as a district, as a community, we we are far ahead and especially with the um with Ashlin's mother and and her parents actually um Pamela Foster and Gary Mike and all the work that they did to um to have you know some type of um alert system and and now with the changes being made at the federal level um is quite concerning. Uh there was a symposium last month and he Gary Mr. Gary Mike was trying to get um funding for that to go back and advocate for the for Ashlin's Amber Alert. And so we don't know where that
032stands and it seems like we may have gone back to um the beginning. So, and and I uh as we all know, it's usually the school districts that are the hub of the community and um especially on the reservation because of the lack of township, municipalities, and things like that. So, just want you guys to be aware. I don't know how many if if you're who's all on social media and and um just be aware of these things. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any any other reports from the board? Then we'll hear from I I have a report. I have a really quick report, but I'm just pulling it up outside. Um, but I can do that right now. Uh, last week I was in um Washington DC again meeting with our representatives from
033the appropriation committee uh, Senate and Congress. And there are concerns with our funding impact aid, JOM, other federal programs right now that are there's some changes happening currently and um we're not going to know really what the changes are for a bit, but um the ask from the appropriations committee was to highlight to really for our parents, for our kids, for our staff members to really highlight um how these funds are instrumental to our school district, to our kids, to our community. Although as board members or as as administrators, we do this, but my the message I heard was that it needs to come from the parents and the students to really advocate for the funding to show how how important. And I think um the previous um the two to two students and I
034I apologize to the young men who also got the bilingual seal. I I I'm just so grateful that both of you got the bilingual seal, but those programs are funded by these very important federal monies. And if we could get and not saying that it put the the pressure on these two uh students, but as individual as students who are in our school district to be able to speak to how JOM or how impact aid like the language culture classes and or the the technology how those things are very impactful in their lives. If we could if that if that could be done, that would be great because that was one of the biggest pieces I think um that I I heard that was lacking because right now the our congressional members don't know how
035the funds are spent. They know that it's allocated to our communities, to our school district, but they don't know the actual impact of the funding. So, um, that was the the call to call to action that I received. So, it's just as a consideration to put it out there. I'll probably be talking more about those things, but um more in detail, but that would be something that I would like to put out there. Um, if there's parents, students, teachers who have these programs that that are funded by our federal federal allocations that if they if they want to do a testimony, a story, just uh send that information to the superintendent so that we can gather that for our advocacy. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? Commissioner, just a um I'm sorry, real quick real
036quick report. So, I'm uh currently out here with uh my wife who's a um fifth grade teacher at EVB and we're spending our our um spring break with some students that she's chaperoning here at SeaWorld at the sea camp. They spend um four days and three nights here and they go behind the scenes, learn about marine biology. I think this is the fifth time that we've done this. And so, um, these kids learn a lot. There's a there's a few kids that have never been out of the state of New Mexico, uh, never been to the ocean, and they're getting that opportunity to do that. So, that is why I'm not there in person. So, again, it's a the kids are having a wonderful time learning about it. In fact, uh before I came to
037the meeting, we were at the uh dolphin exposition and the kids were able to to feed the dolphins. So, that was something very special for them. So, anyways, that's that's my report. I'm going to turn the time over to Mr. Superintendent. Good evening everybody. Um, I'll make it very brief this evening. I won't keep everybody too long with a long report. I do want to say a couple things though. I spend a a lot of time talking about different things during these reports. And um, one of the things I haven't done lately um is is to thank some people. I want to make sure people are aware of what's going on with with that. Um, we have a lot of wonderful teachers in the district and I'm hoping that we have we have at least
038one of them here this evening. Um, but I'm hoping those who are not here and are not tuned in are um actually taking a nice break uh because they deserve a rest. We have some some fantastic teachers and some some really hardworking staff members. So, I want to thank all those folks who are in the buildings um and also throughout the district. I don't want to start mentioning um occupations because then I always forget a couple, but um I want to thank all those people who work for the district. Also, especially um the staff that work around me daily um who probably every now and then get tired of me, but um I do have one heck of a team. Um the directors and coordinators who are here and assistant superintendent. Um thank you all.
039Thanks for taking your time to be here. I know sometimes there might be other things you might want to do on a a Tuesday evening or a Thursday evening, but um you put in all the time and all the effort and I really do appreciate that. Also, um this is a time when the board of education has has met with us to do some really um important and sometimes difficult work. Um so, we had a a retreat recently and we have another one coming up. Thanks to the board for really putting in um the effort to to make this district a great place for kids and for folks who work here. So, I wanted to just say some thank yous to people. So, I appreciate all you people. So, give yourselves a hand, everybody. [Applause]
040and the other people, especially the teachers and staff. Um, also I just want to mention a couple things real quick. The legislative session that's been going on is coming to a close this week. Um, there's some some good news and some not so great news. So, I'm just going to say just four things just real quick. Um, the first one is House Bill 63 was being heard again today. And that's important for our district because there's some factors in there which would increase our funding. One of them is very important is the ELLL factor. I don't know, Mr. Chappelle, did you hear anything about that today? My my understanding is it's going back to the original bill, which is more which is better than Good. And and hopefully those appro appropriations remain, especially for ELLL
041students. Um that's one of those bills that we don't address Yazia Martinez very often with appropriations, but this bill does. So, we're hoping that makes it through. Um there's some other things. um the tribal education trust fund, Senate Bill 234, not going to make it more than likely. Um but there are some dollars that are going to go to tribal entities as kind of a starter for that within House Bill 2. Um, also folks in this district would are probably pleased about this, but we didn't necessarily need it, but um, tribal regalia for graduation. Um, that's going to be signed by the governor and so that's going to become law. Uh, where native students can wear their tribal regalia. So, you might want to applaud that one. Great news for that. Also, House Bill Two,
042um, that's the one that funds the government. Um, and so there's some money in there for out of school time funding. And Jermaine can correct me if I mess this up a little bit, but so some of that OST money is for our after school and summer school programs, but the state wants to take some of the money that would go to districts and they have been doing this and divvy it up to other organizations that are not school organizations. Um, in the case of Central Consolidated, that's not very fair because we don't have those other organizations. So we need that money for funding for those programs for our district. Whereas for instance, we have a district to the east of us a couple miles. They do have those kind of programs. And so those
043programs are taking money away from folks like us in our district. We don't believe that's fair. So hopefully that money will get allocated to the right places. And um like I said, this all wraps up. So, if you if any any of you watch the reports I do on Friday, um I won't do them this Friday, but the next Friday I'll give kind of a complete report on on what's going on with finances and raises and all those kind of things. So, that's my report for this evening. Thank you, sir. Any questions or comments? We'll move on to number five uh reports. And first we have Mr. uh Webster and and Miss Eaton for FFA. Yes, sir. Um thank you guys for having us. My name is Zay Webster. I'm with Kirtland Central High School
044and Shelley Eaton with Nukem the Nukem High School. Uh I saw Shelley here and we both were requesting the same trip uh the state CDE contest. Um Kirtland had six teams and 18 students qualify and then what did we have a special invitation for our lives team and that's four students. So, 22 students, if I'm math's correct, uh to travel to Los Cruus to compete in the career development event contest. Um there'll be about 1,400 to,600 students from around the state um competing in these career development event contests and we were hoping to compete with the best of them. I understand that you uh missed out because of the weather on the previous one and so uh yeah, I hope I hope hope the weather's better this time for you and you can you can
045make that trip happen. We hope so. It was pretty bad. About 12 to 15 I don't know the full count of schools across the state didn't get to go because the weather was so bad. Um this was for this past weekend in Roswell. They were having flipped over trailers and trucks. So, we're we're really happy we didn't. Although we wanted to go really bad, we're we're happy we didn't make that trip. We're glad you we're glad you kept it safe and didn't go, too. Any questions from the board for these two? Thank you and thank you for coming. Go ahead. He said, "Okay, I misunderstood him." Good luck to you and all your students and thank you for all you do. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Manning. Oh, no. We have to do the other
046one. The uh B first. Oh, that was another trip request. Sorry. And then it would be Mr. Manning. Nukem High School educators raising national competition uh going to Orlando, Florida. about um about um a beaver and a raccoon and how the raccoon saved uh helped save the the community. Uh so we're we're making we're modifying her book. Uh so like we're changing the sex of the raccoon from a male to a female. So she she's actually becoming a uh a leader in her well the first one was a was a was a male raccoon. They call him Chay and this time we changed it to a female. So, it's like a it kind of like it we we have that situation here like a lot a lot of our children are uh a lot of
047these kids are here are are being raised by grandma so it kind of brings that vibe back in into the community with them. So, uh we're making changes to her book so it it it'll be better. um and she qualified. And the other three students that qualified, they automatically qualified because their uh um their competition uh was cancelled at the state competition. They got cancelled and because it got cancelled, they automatically qualified for the national competition. Uh but they backed out. They decided they didn't want to go because of various reason, jobs, uh practices and all the other stuff. So only one student, the one with the book decided, Desanna, she decided to uh to to continue with the competition and present her book, her revised book at the national national um competition in Orlando.
048Hello. Yes, we got uh explain explain a little bit uh more about about what uh about lip or about what is know about what what the competition was on. Oh, the her compet they have very they had a whole bunch of uh categories. Hers was on a book, a children's book. She had to make a children's book. Um and she did this on her own. Yeah, she did it on her own. She actually did it uh during the student student l conference. She sat down with Miss Hill and they designed a book and she she made the book herself. She illustrated it herself as well. She did all the drawings for it and she did the story line. She asked a couple of people who spoke uh the language to help uh interpret some of
049the words. Um so it it's actually coded. So it's speaking uh the raccoon and the grammar of speaking both in English and Navajo. Uh Dette using the nebazad. So when when I started working on it with her with the Shauna, when we started working on the book, I started making changes to to use correct uh the correct terms like um one of the big things is like a male um grandfather uh was calling his uh grandson Shi Yaj, which is a term a mother would use for her for her children. So the correct term would have been shioui or Yeah. Satui. So, we're making changes like that. But like I said, we we changed the sex of the uh the raccoon to um the beaver, I'm sorry, to a uh to to to a grandma.
050So, she would would sound perfect right there. And um yeah, but there's a lot of instead of saying Navajo language, we said the Nebizad. We use we're making changes like that. And instead of saying instead of calling us Navajo, we're we're calling us what we are which is the NE. So making sure it's it's it's we're using correct terminology. But um so Educators Rising is a is is an is a national organization where you're we're taking young kids and we're teaching them to become teachers. We're kind of uh it's kind like a we're exposing them to to to the teaching world uh what what it means to be a teacher. So all these kids who are in the who all the students who participate in the competition are actually want to be teachers. We had
051a girl who was drawing she this girl she wanted to be a uh she wants to be art teacher but her competition was on speech. So she had to give a speech and a lot of these kids they they just want to be teachers and educators rising allows them to to um network with other teachers out there and get them exposed to to quality teaching. So when they when they go to these competition, it's also a conference at the same time. So they're being exposed to different like one one of the coolest things that that we had back there is at the state competition was a what do you call that? the CL CLR uh session. So that that's the culturally linguistic responsive intervention intervention uh that we're that we teachers are learning right now.
052So the high school kids are exposed to that as well. They're also exposed to like other things like title N and teaching inside the classroom lesson plan. there is a competition for lesson plans as well and uh yeah so it's there there's so many categories and it's geared towards students that that's where we have in our in our purpose the purpose of this is because we want to we want to raise our own teachers you know like uh we want uh teachers from new to be uh people from New to be teachers or people from NSI to be teachers and they want we want them to come back and teach our own people. My wife is one of them Gala she grew up here in New High School. Uh she grew up in Newm. She
053went to Newm High School and now she's a teacher and she's a leader. That's kind of what we're aiming for. Uh raising our own our board president has showed up. So, I'm going to turn the bulk of the meeting over to her. Hello. Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Okay. All right. Are there any questions or comments from the board? No. No. No questions. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Next on item number E, um we're moving to item E, 2023 2024 annual financial audit report by Brian Manning. Thank you. Did they give you the PDF of the audit report also? Okay, if you'll bring up the audit report and I'll just use the summary to that everybody can kind of follow along there with it. Can we make notes? You bet. That's yours.
054They got 14 copies of that. You got them all over here. So, and then I'll just key you to the pages. We're going to four in uh pages 4 through six. Um it's going to be the audit report. But, uh first of all, thank you for giving me opportunity to present today and for moving me up a little bit. Unfortunately, all the school districts have their board meetings the same nights. And so I've I told Grants I had to do yours first and then when I got home I'd get on the Zoom and do their presentation as well. So So you you're closer to home. Home is where the heart is. So um so that works. So, um, go down a couple of more pages. It'll actually be, uh, a few more because these right
055there is where the audit report will start. Um, you did receive an unmodified opinion. And of course, stop me at any time you guys have questions. I have a question. Sure. So, this has already been submitted and we can make comments. I can ask. Yes. Questions about different Yes, this is in state auditor has repro approved it and now it's a public document. Okay, perfect. It's finished completed and now it's up for review and comment and and tonight you would be approving uh your audit report uh for that. So uh of course an unmodified opinion is what you're shooting for. uh the best opinion you can receive. And so I recommend that uh board members always read through that. It's a little longer than it used to be, but it's probably a little more informative.
056The actual opinion uh that comes uh with the audit report now in the new format that started about three years ago. Um so from there we'll jump down about three more pages Sharon to the statement of net position. Keep coming right there be that one. Uh this is kind of a summary if you were thinking of it as a business. This is your overall balance sheet. It has all your assets, your buildings, your land, your liabilities and everything. Down towards the very bottom of the report, uh you have your state your net position and uh the unrestricted is actually a negative 113 million. um which is common for many districts to have a negative net position mainly because the state makes you put your share of the ERB and the RHC that's owed to the
057employees of Central Consolidated on there as if Central Consolidated owed it, but it doesn't. and those liabilities total uh $154.4 million on this balance sheet. So basically that what that says is the employees that worked for the district two years ago the estimated cost to the state for just those employees from central dis central consolidated is $154.4 million in the future. So, which isn't totally funded at this time. So, um that kind of spreads it out so it doesn't look so bad if you have every district keep it versus putting one big number down there for the state for everybody would kind of fall over if they looked and saw what that number really looked like. But that's why you show a negative balance. It's paper. It doesn't mean anything because nobody's coming to the
058district to get their ERB or their pension or their RHC. So, they're going to get it from the state, not the district. That's the retiree healthc care uh portion of it. So, I've I'm officially at that age now, but I haven't even checked what I would get with RHC. So, it's hard to think I'm that old now. Um, can you say that's supposed to be negative? Uh, right down there. Uh, the about the third to last line it says a negative 113,600,000 113 million on it. All right there. That number right there. And that is what your un Basically, your unrestricted net position is means if you had to pay everything out uh and you were going to the that portion, the bank would have a hard time giving you a loan. But since you
059don't really owe that, that's like having your friend's mortgage on your balance sheet is basically what it's saying. So that's why I say it's paper. It doesn't really mean anything. the district's never going to pay it out. On the next page, you have your statement of activities. And about twothirds of the way down the statement, it has the change in that position, which was about $44 million positive. Well, that positive change again is mainly due to changes in the the pension and the OPED uh estimates. So every year that number changes drastically and this year it changed to say well we don't think we're going to owe as much as we said we owed the last year. So it got 44 mill, you know, it got 40 million's better and so it changes, but it
060again it's a paper change. Doesn't mean much to you. On the next page, we'll get to something. This is what more what you're looking at. It's your funds and your activity by each fund, which is how you're used to looking at it from a school district. And that f first fund, the operational fund, that's the key fund uh that most of the district works through. Um and it uh your operational cash balance was about $7.7 million at the end of last year. Now, you get that by adding the cash line item plus the inter fund receivables because that's cash you had to loan to federal and state programs that have deficit balances because the state hasn't reimbursed us yet at year end. So, other funds owed the operational fund, you know, uh $7.6 6 million
061and then you take out the $4 million in acred payroll liabilities which are basically held checks. They're payroll liabilities that are going to get paid in July and August and September for for insurance and ERB and RHC and things like that. But overall uh of about 7.7 million the operational fund had in cash. We'll drop. So, what does that balance look like for our um employees? Um what are we paying? I mean, since we've gone through u a loss of staff and that balance there is u pretty similar to what the district has normally kept around in a cash balance. So before it was like 30 I think it was 31 million. What what is it now? Well, you're I think you might be talking the impact aid stuff and stuff, but I'm not sure
062because 31 million is bigger than what many times you would keep on your operational. But a lot of those five funds that you see up there, they kind of get added together. And the impact aid one used to be in 11,000. The 151 used to be in the 11,000. Now, they broke it out separately. You've got about 34 million over there. So, yes, that's part of the reason your 11,000 fund won't look quite the same if you compared it to four five years ago before they split some of these things out into different funds because our our prior financial director, I mean, was able to point out quickly um you know, that that uh loss or that that error and and and said that was to to um employees that was uh what we were
063paying. And so I I was just wondering how um through your so kind of what happened is the district made the air and kind of double counted that 33 million or roughly because it got budgeted in the 11,000 fund and in the 15 200 fund. So in essence, you put the money in there twice, though you only had it once. And so that is what caused a little bit of the problem for the district is they thought they had more money than they actually had just by an accounting error of putting that budget in both places is is what you were dealing with. Okay. If you Sharon, if you'll drop down a few more pages to page about right there. There's that's the this is your statement of revenues and expenditures. It's kind of your
064income statement. The 11,000 fund uh during last year. Uh if you come down just a little bit more, Sharon. So the revenues exceeded the expenditures by about $357,000. So last year in the main operational fund, you ended up with a little bit more revenues than you expended on the year. and 357 sounds big for uh your personal, but with a district that's going through millions and millions of dollars, it means you were pretty close to uh break even uh for the year uh with that. If you go down uh one more page, Sharon uh and then come down about twothirds of the way, the column way over on the right gives you the sum for all your funds. And so revenues exceeded expenditures in all the funds by about 1.8 million for the year, which
065is um and part of that is timing. uh that's going to go on. So, uh it wasn't a significantly big change. Then you had a couple other minor items uh that affected cash. Um now on pages 22 through 61, which are down quite a few, Sharon, go down a little bit more. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. one more place. Keep going. Let's see. Right there. That starts your notes to the financials. And from pages 22 to 61, it's kind of summary of accounting policies and procedures that have to be observed as a government agency and as a school district. Some of them uh national government standards, AICPA standards or state standards. And so this is an area that gives you a lot of information for uh just generic information of how the district has
066to operate. And as you drop down through all of those areas, you'll get to a section that's just the cash. And so it'll give you detail on the cash for the district and receivables, you know, who owes the district and how much your fixed assets. it'll get to a section that talks about those pensions and uh what that means to the district and the OPED other postmployment benefits. So, I always recommend board members read through this section just so you get a better feel uh and it's a lot more informative to you than all the spreadsheets that basically make up the rest of the financial statements for you. And so it'll give you some verbiage that may make it a little easier to understand. So I always recommend that you spend a little time uh
067in that area. Okay, Sharon, we're going to jump way down towards the end. So go ahead and drag uh way down. It's going to be probably 3/4 to let's see, stop about in there and let's see what we're at. Okay, we can come up a little ways. A little further. So, these are the findings. We're We'll be to the findings in just a minute. And that's where we're getting close to. Keep going up, Sharon. Little bit further. Let's see. Right in there. Let's see. What's that? Okay. Up just about five, six more pages. Okay, there we are. Let's go two more right there. Okay, this is page 139 on your report numbering. And this is the report on internal control and financial reporting where we look at your internal controls. There's no opinion. We give
068no opinion on the internal controls. We just tell you what we found while looking through those internal controls. And Sharon, if you'll scroll down just a little bit more um on that page, just that page that you had up, if you'll scroll down on it, uh right there. So there are two major types of findings, three types, two of them major. Uh you have for deficiencies in internal control in that second to last paragraph in the middle of it, you've got a material weakness. Now, a material weakness is a deficiency or a combination of deficiencies in internal control such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the entity's financial statements will not be prevented or detected or corrected on a timely basis. So, that means we're going to miss something big
069enough that would distort your financial statements. That's usually a pretty big error in a district like this. So, uh, fortunately, we did not identify any material weaknesses. And in the prior year, we did not identify any material weaknesses. Now, just because we didn't identify them doesn't mean they don't exist. Since we're doing it on a sampling basis, they could always be there in another document that we didn't look at. But we have pretty good confidence uh based on statistics that no we're going to be in pretty good shape. Now the second major deficiency. May I ask a question? Sure. Before you go any further. So on the sampling basis you mean you're only picking what? How many? Well, you'll pick. So, there's different ways we look at there's one that's called uh significant um items
070and so based on the size of the numbers and stuff, we'll come up with a number and central it may be $180,000 may be what's cons considered an individually significant item. So, we look at every transaction of that much or more. So you look at all the big transactions and with as much construction as the district was going through and stuff th those are the types of things that end up in there. And then you randomly pull a sample of in this area you may pull 25 to look at this type of dispersement. You may look at 25 in credit card dispersements. May look at 25 in travel dispersement. So, you pick various types and quantities based on the numbers. There are deposits. Okay, we're going to look at some of those, which in a
071school district is usually pretty good because most everything, the vast majority of the dollars come in direct deposit. The feds or the states just send you the money directly into your account. So, it's harder to have an issue with it. So that's the process that you're going through in an audit. So you're you're randomly se selecting areas unless something pops up that makes you say, "Well, I need to look at this more." So a significant deficiency is a deficiency or a combination of deficiencies and internal control that is less severe than a material weakness yet important enough to merit attention by those charged with governance. meaning you as a board and the administration. So in that case uh we identified three significant deficiencies in the current year and we had two in the prior year.
072So one more this year than we had in the prior year. Then um there go to the next page Sharon. Uh there's a third level of deficiency and here these are other matters. We identified nine items here. Two of which were dreams and in the pri prior year there had been 15 five of which had been dream. So in here there was a little bit of a an improvement. Now these types of findings in many states would not show up in your audit report. Let's say I was doing the audit in Colorado or Arizona. They may not be findings there because New Mexico has what they call zero materiality level in most things. I talked about a materiality that we're talking about bigger than this. Well, New Mexico has said, well, when you're looking for
073specific things, there's no materiality. If you find an error, you have to write a an audit finding on it. Doesn't matter how big it is or how often it occurs. And I always use an example. When I was the finance director here, we had there's a rule that deposits have to be made in 24 hours. There's no ifs, ands, or but 24 hours. Well, Nukem Elementary got a check for $247. So, do I want them to drive to Shiprock to deposit a check of $247 to go 30 miles one way, deposit it, and go back the other way? No. Well, doesn't matter. It still has to be in as a finding. So, it was a finding in a report because, and that's why we always put numbers and quantities in the findings so you as
074a board can look at it and say, "Okay, is this a human error?" because the law does not allow you to have a human error. I have a question. Sure. Well, that's for funds. Isn't there a like waver? Yes. And that's and that's kind of something we always recommend particularly in rural areas is that you get a variance to allow you more than 24 hours to make that deposit because after I got that finding we went to the state and said we would like a variance and sometimes this gives you an idea how sometimes when you're sitting there logic doesn't apply. ly. So went there and asked for variance and initially I said I want $500 or a week to make deposit and they go $500? You want to have $500 sitting around? And I
075said, "Yeah, well that's too much." And I said, "Can we have a change fund for athletics?" And they said, "Oh, yeah." I said, 'Well, my change fund at Kirtland Central High School for a girls game is $5,000. Yeah, and that that's okay. That's okay. Okay, so I can have a change fund for 5,000 sitting in the vault, but now you don't want me to have $500 sitting beside it waiting to take to the bank. Long pause on the other end. Uh, we'll get back to you. And they approved that variance. And so that is how you avoid some of these things. Now, some of them you just can't get over, but cuz some of the things don't make sense or it's not worth the cost to avoid some of the issues the state's looking at.
076So, and that's an example. That's why you want what's reasonable to make. You know, I told I don't want the PR I didn't want the principal at Kirtland Elementary driving down the street, you know, 10 minutes gone to deposit $20 because it's a waste of time for the type of risk and cost that you had out there. So, that's why we do some of those things. But there, so we'll talk about those in a few minutes. Sharon, if you go down to the next report right there, this is your report on compliance over each major federal program. This is your single audit, which entails the same type of stuff that you were doing on a regular audit, but you're picking some specific federal programs. You're doing the same work on just on them. Now here
077you have an unmodified opinion again which is again what you're looking for and uh the material weaknesses there were none identified. Uh we did identify two significant deficiencies in the federal programs that had findings. So, and then down to the next sh section Sharon about three pages. Um, one more starting on page 144 through 147 is your schedule of federal awards. Here it lists all the various federal awards that the district gets and the dollars that they get in each of those programs. Um, in total the district received, if you go down towards the bottom of that pa, next page, uh, Sharon, you're going to keep go down a little bit there. So, you ended up, um, uh, one more page towards the bottom. It's going to be close to it's 60.8 $8 million basically
078that you had in federal grants in that year. And so that's a separate audit that's going on inside of the regular audit. Okay, Sharon, if you go down two more pages, starting on page 148, you've got your summary for your schedule of findings and question costs. Now this first page just kind of gives you a summary of the audit report. Your type of audit report issued unmodified in internal control. Did we have any material weaknesses? None identified. Did we have significant deficiencies? Yes. Did we have non-compliance material to the financial statements? No. Then in the federal awards, we didn't identify material weaknesses, but we did identify significant deficiencies and it's an unmodified report. Then on bullet point four is the ones we looked at education stabilization fund basically the the esser funds the uh co
079funds impact aid and Indian ed formula grant. Now the dollar threshold for most districts between a type A and type B program is $750,000. What? because the district gets so many funds that number went up to a million823 basically for the district between a type A and a type B program. What that means that a type A program has to be looked at at least every three years. And so those are going to be your impact age, your idea B, your title one, your major programs. So you have to do an audit on them at least every three years. And uh the type B's you may have to do randomly uh a test on those which uh normally is anything bigger than about 188,000. Now these numbers are going to change in another year a
080little bit. 750,000 right now is the level of federal awards needed to have a single audit. As you can see, you're way past a single audit easy. But a lot of smaller districts just right down the road, I've got Hamus Mountain, they had like 760,000. So they had to have a single audit because of $10,000. They were at 760 instead of 750. So they still have to have the single audit. The state, the feds have raised that to a million now. And so uh a few years ago it was at 500,000. They've raised it. What happens that few entities fall out but almost no dollars fall out of it because the majority of the people getting federal dollars are getting more than that million dollars. So did we qualify as a a low audit risk?
081No. That's because two years ago we had material weaknesses. And so you have to go at least two years with no material weaknesses before you can qualify as a low audit risk. What that means is if you're not low, the dollar amount we have to audit has to cover at least 40% of your federal dollars. So had to cover 24 million of your 60 million. Whereas if you're low audity risk, that drops to 20%. And so you've got to look at 12 million of 60 million to meet the the minimum guidelines. Okay, if you go to the next page now, we start the part everybody's interested in. Here's our findings. You know, we always put them at the back and leave them to the end, you know, but that's where everybody wants to start. So
082again uh talk first some of the format so you understand the first 20241 means okay it's the 2024 audit and this is the first finding of that audit then right after it you see 2021-012 what that means is this finding has existed at the district since at least 2021 21. So 21 22 23 24. So it's four years now that this finding exists. The name of the finding comes next. Internal controls of request for reimbursement and revenue recording. And what type of finding is it? It's a significant deficiency. And after that repeated and modified because this is a repeat finding from at least the prior year. Then the next thing is the criteria. what we put that first so you know what is the statute the guidance or the peed guidance that's required for us
083to look at and then we try to highlight bold areas that are kind of what in the statute was the where we failed in the audit this year and this one is if you come on down uh Sharon keep coming. Then we come to the condition. So the condition says exactly what happened during this audit. So during our review of grants, we noted that the following issues which have occurred in the current year or are cumulative issues which have occurred over multiple years. uh the district has multiple federal and state grant funds that have negative and positive balances that should not exist. So basically on all those reimbursement funds your number should always be zero because whatever you spent you should get back bring you to zero and if you asked for a reimbursement it
084should tie to an expense you had so you shouldn't have cash in there either. So, what we've recommended that the district needs to get those old funds cleaned up again. So, that means if you got a negative balance, you're going to need to transfer funds from the 11,000 fund into it to bring it to zero. On the other side, you always ask, can we have the funds that have positive balances? And occasionally, the state says, yeah, because it's an old defunct one. more times than not they're going to say, "Nope, send us the money back." And so good. You send them the extra money back brings it back to a zero. So, um then also the district does not appear to have any systematic system systematic method to track funds monthly and verify that RFRS
085are done monthly and that the amounts correlate to existing fund balances. and that's back to bringing it to zero. So, close to year end, what we ended up having to do, we knew there were several funds that had negative balances. It's hard to get it's it's just a process anytime you're going to the state to do these permanent cash transfers can take months and months to get a response on something that should happen like this. So, the district last year when we pointed out these funds that existed, they went ahead and moved the cash, cleaning them out at the end of the year, but it means there were funds that we didn't get reimbursement for because we forgot to ask. So, the district lost out on those funds because we didn't get that reimbursement. So,
086and that's always okay. operational covered it, but it's a loss of funds. Just do do you know which funds those were? Uh this last year wasn't too bad. Now, part of it was uh the major one. The district was the flow through for the charter school for a few funds. Okay. And there was about 60 70,000 that we reimbured them for and then forgot to ask the state for the money back. So since we were the flow through to the charter, since we forgot to ask for it and it was legitimate cost from the charter, the district was out the the 70,000. So So we've just recommended that we always say the easy way to check it is at the end of the month run your cash balance that whatever that negative balance is should
087match your RFRS, your request for reimbursements. If it doesn't match, we've got a problem. And then if you do it every month and try to find out what that problem is, it's a lot easier to keep yourself because a couple of things can happen. The the federal fund uh said, "No, we're not going to reimburse you for these three expenses." And so it added up to $1,500. They sent all the money but the 1,500. Well, at that point, you know, you've got to move those costs over into operational because uh I idea B said, "We're not that's not a legitimate cost for the program. We're not reimbursing it." Or sometimes a vendor reimbures you something and you'd already asked for expenses on it. So now you've got a positive cash because the state reimbursed you
088and then it turned out the vendor gave you some money back. Well, in that case, you need to reduce your expense request the next month to make up for that $500 he gave you back. So, that's the issue there. So, then you'll have the cause. We'll put down what what caused that and the effect on the district. Okay. If you go to the next page, before you go any further, Sure. on on that first one that you were talking about uh the RFP procedures. Let's see the internal the first one's internal control. Let's see. I'm looking at it's 152. Okay, you're on two. So, this one over here is the one we were talking about there. Here's the connection. Okay. So, um I really don't have a question on this one. Okay. Come down. I
089want to point out a couple more things on this first one. We're going through just a little more. And so, anytime there's a a repeat, we also have to put something in there. In the prior year, the district had multiple funds which the district not request reimbursement resulting in 56,000 which was not reimbured. Uh so there has not been an improvement in this area. So we've got to say did you improve did you get worse or did you kind of stay the same on a repeat finding? So you'll always have that and then if you'll go to the next page Sharon. So then we give an auditor's recommendation, how to fix it. And then this is the key part for a board member, the responsible officials plan. Okay, what is the specific plan the district's
090going to do to correct it, the timeline for completing this improvement plan, and the positions, employee positions that are responsible for doing it. So this is where you would come back and say March we're getting ready to do the next. Okay. You might have a little report saying okay from the from the findings we had this last year we had this plan to do them. Have we implemented? How's it coming? What are we doing? So that's what the administration and the board, this is the main area that helps you to know how to handle going forward. Okay, Sharon, if you go to the next one, we'll have the failure to follow bid procedures. So since it's um um Dream D, you would still have to Well, the Dream D ones are going to be at
091the bottom. They only had two this year and so we'll get to them. These were the issue was it was Yes, it was Dream D, but we're the ones that didn't request the funds. We gave it to Dream Da but we forgot to ask the state to give the funds back that we gave to Dream D. That's where the issue was. And since we weren't checking those funds every month, it was sitting with a negative balance and we it didn't click that. Oh, and at the end of the year, the state gives you a very short time to get your last reimbursement requests in. So if you don't do it pretty quick, they just say sorry, thank you for the donation basically is how it works. So failure to follow bid and RFP procedures again
092a significant deficiency if you come down uh to the condition. So during our testing of bids the bid access point uh bid for access points had to have a lot large revision to the bid price as the fender had failed to include 200,000 labor in the box district couldn't send it out for bid again. This is one of those. The issue was it was for something that you were going to get the funding for, but after that happened and the bidder said, "I'm not going to do it at this price unless you allow me to put this in that I have to put in that the district was between a rock and a hardwood. If they rebid it, by the time the bid could come in and let it out, you would have lost the
093funds you were going to get anyway because it would have passed the time limit. So, you were going to lose it. So, it was kind of do we take a finding? We know we did it wrong, but do we give up the the funds we were going to get and do this infrastructure stuff that the vendor is going to do and know the auditors going to slap our hands for it or do we give up the hundreds of thousands of dollars that we were going to get? So, that's one of those where you go, oh, which do I do? district actually called me and said, "Okay, we got this. What do we do?" I said, "Well, as an auditor, I can tell you what I have to do. I have to give you a finding."
094They go, "Well, what if you were us?" Well, I'm not supposed to answer that. But 10 years ago, I'll tell you what I would have done when I was the finance director. That's different. And that is, hey, it was worth the fight in the end. So um so and you didn't have there was only one vendor who had bid on it initially. So it wasn't like any other vendor was out because nobody else even wanted to do the work. So that's that's when I say you're between a rock and a hard place. Do we give up the funding or do we get a finding because we didn't do it right? Because the vendor says he's not going to do it. Can you can you go over that whole thing again? I I don't quite follow
095um you're saying that there was 200,000 in labor. There was a bid that went out. Okay. Got published. Everything was done right. Only one vendor ended up responding to the bid. They come in for the bid opening, start opening it and reading off and a lot of time in construction type stuff, they say this cost and this cost and the vendor goes, "Oh, well, where's our labor?" They they said, "You didn't put any labor down." So, what do you mean we didn't put any labor down? Well, you don't have any labor on. Well, then we're going to pull our bid because we missed putting that's all the supplies and the materials, but we didn't have our labor line down there and that's 200,000 and they had their copy of what they thought they had put
096in the bid. So, it was a human error. Yeah. Well, my I guess based on that, who's whose job would it have been to catch that oversight bill? That's a pretty big error of $200,000. That would be the company's initial. And but the issue was central could say, "Yeah, we want it." And the bid vendors can say, "Well, I'm not going to because I made an error on my bid." And so it doesn't happen. But once you accept a bid, and to me, I think that's binding. And so whether you can always back out whether or not the contractor um human error I mean that's still binding he he hasn't signed the contract yet. He put in a bid he finds his air he can always pull his bid out. And so at that point,
097the district had no bids and the timeline was passing in two weeks. So they don't have time to put it out to bid again, let him fix it and get his bid in in time to get the funding. So that's the choice the district was at. Do we give up these funds or do we allow him to amend his bid? And since there were no other biders, you weren't actually hurting another firm. Or in that case, what you would have done is taken the next bidder. But since there was no other bidder, you know, sounds like a tactic to me. I don't think so, just because I've seen those types of errors happen. And I you hate to do it if you're the bidder, especially if two other guys responded. you know, you've lost no
098matter what, even if you were going to be the loan. So, so it's like I said, that's one of those rocker hard places. But district didn't do it properly. We've got to write you up for a finding for not doing it properly. I say he was lucky. There was no other bidder. He was. He was lucky. So, that to me is a tactic. So um next uh one Sharon so three internal controls over outside funding events. Okay if you come down to the that's funing. So may I ask um in in in your paper here you have number six item six and then you have the procurement code impose imposes civil wasn't all this are you saying that this wasn't stated or no that's just where we're going through how you do a proper bid.
099So we put the statute for doing a proper bid. Here's what you do. You went through all the other areas properly except you let the person end the bed versus going out to bed again. So, okay. So, on this, this one came to us to look at through a letter that went to the state auditor's office. So, Shiprock High School hosted a RAM expo at Shipro High School. Okay. Another question before you go further. Um so as as you were pointed out on the first one you said the the responsible view officials view. So um this says was accepted by the finance director after concurring with the auditor despite the procurement officer's recommendation. To me, I feel like um the contractors would be operation director. Well, what they what they put there was superintendent and
100the purchasers, they called called me up and said, "We're stuck. What do we do?" And that's where I said, "I got to give you a finding if you go through and and give the bid, but you will have full authority to do it. It's just, you know, you're not following the procedure. Let's let's just say that it's it's in my knowledge or that I think um when when there's a bid that the operations director is the one that handles all of that. And I don't know, correct me if I'm wrong, but here it says You know, it was revision was accepted by finance director. [Music] Um, shouldn't this have been noted or seen by the um operations? Well, technically who was doing the bids was that in your CBO Christie and them and you know
101she's going we're not following the guidelines. Okay, we're not following the guidelines. What do we do? So, the district knew in the end they didn't follow the procedures. It came down to do we take the dollars and take the finding or do we give up the dollars and not have a finding. That's basic it was it hadn't happened yet. So, it was it was at that point where going to make the decision. Yes. Yes. You have there the vendor's withdrawing if we don't allow him to put in his and we have no bids and we don't have time to bid it again or the the dollars are gone. Yeah, I understand that part. But I I was just looking at the responsible person. So to me it would be I would say in my opinion
102it would be the operations department. Well technically your finance director was over that over that person. So that's the top person taking responsibility because that's in the end that's who's making the call to the superintendent. The finance person saying hey my recommendation is we go forward. We know we we're in a tough spot, but we're going to take it and we're going to have a finding because the auditors already said we're going to have a finding for this for not doing it properly. Okay. So you had an event going on at high school and during that event participants pay a registration fee $20 per event through an app called showman and there had been around 120 plus individuals registered for the event. The app set up by a previous student for ship high school using
103a max phone. All key fees go back to the students when there was a place in the event. sponsor explained that previously cash had been collected put in envelopes and then giving to students in completion of judgment. Basically, they were running an event. Everybody was paying registration fees, none of it being really recorded, receipts like we're supposed to have in the school district and then payments go out. So they were basically collecting the $1,000 and at the end of the event they gave the $1,000 back to the winners. Well, all of that's totally against any way you're supposed to be running things in a uh school event sponsored event. So, so there were no records, no signin sheets, nothing to verify that yeah, we collected a thousand and we gave back a thousand. So, it
104was and no, that was something that should have had a request coming to the board to be able to do in the first place. Didn't have that. So, it was an event that a sponsor decided to do and had been doing on their own and it possibly has been happening for a while that had never been caught. Superintendent, um, have did you research that? I know about it. Did we find any requests? That's my knowledge. You want to go ahead? We did. It is. Mhm. Yes. Okay. Yeah. They your your people that were in charge at that time did it basically is you don't have a lot of records. So not much from our auditing sense. We got what we could. The rest is more from a policy point of view for the district, how
105to handle it from that. So that's what we could put up there from an auditor's perspective. Okay, Sharon, the next one. So federal awards, unallowable expenditures impact aid, significant deficiency, repeated So uh come down condition during our review of information provided by impact aation identified the following issues. District used impact aid special education funds to pay 85% of the salary of the district safety coordinator through mid December 2023 after which it was changed 15% of the salary for education funds. There was no justification in files review that identified why the individual's responsibilities related to special education funding. So the best could come well we do have some issues and safety happening because of special ed. But I said could you justify in essence close to half his salary for the year versus all the other
106types of incidents that would occur. And to us that wasn't a justification that that we could possibly see a p a smaller percentage being used because of percentage of special ed students versus non special ed but not at the rates that we're doing. So that's a significant issue of the way those funds were used. Okay. In the previous year, we had used some of those special ed funds to buy chlorine for the poll. So, it was a repeat because special ed funds have been used that way in the year before. So, that's why it was a repeat. Okay, Sharon, if you go to the next one now. impact aid application errors significant deficiency repeated and modified. So come down just a little bit sharing on that page. Okay. During our review of information provided on
107the impact aid application we identified the following issues. A student who has no record of being in special education program was listed on the impact a application as a student. Two students who were special ed students were left off the application because of 100 regular education students were left off the application because of the expenditure numbered on table seven of the application included numbers that were significantly less than the actual numbers for the district. The individual who entered the numbers took the wrong numbers from the expenditure report. Instead of using the numbers from the expenditures to date column, the remaining budget balance numbers were entered into the application. Number one, total additional expenditures of all children with with disabilities were under reported by about 5.5 million. Four, total funds from the part individuals and individuals
108with disabilities acted by 1.1 million and other sources were under reported by about 436,000. So basically, you weren't reporting near as many special ed funds expending as you actually did. And there were errors on the prior year's applications which were different errors than we found on this year's. So that's why it was a repeat also because we found application errors. The biggest thing is I ended up losing funding for whatever 100 students would have been of the funding because they ended up not getting reported who could have been reported. So was that similar case for last year audit? Uh not so dramatic in the numbers that probably in involved the funding. Um, can't remember off the top of my head what it was, but it didn't affect your funding as much as probably leaving the
109100 kids off and one one sped student in net because you had one that shouldn't have been there and you had two that got left off and so it was a net of one student there and 100 students on your regular ed. So the responsible um departments there's four responsible departments you have listed here and so how are you so identify I didn't I don't identify them that's the district's response that's who the district says is responsible right I mean how did you find those m those errors yeah because we take the application and we look at it and we say okay give us the report. Let's see a report out. Run the report out of your system now. And I get the report out of the system and I compared the numbers and at
110first I'm thinking they're way off. And then I finally figured out what they've done by doing the remaining budget line items instead of the expenditures to date. They were one column off from what the numbers they were supposed to be getting. on the student entry. It was simply a key putting the numbers into the application before sending it. So, you know, part of the recommendation is after the application's completed, someone else should review it and just double check your numbers because again, that's easy to do. you're putting it in on the computer and you slip a little and you hit a hit that one number off, but it can turn into quite a few dollars. Okay? All right. So, those are your major findings during the year, those that we were talking about. Now, we'll
111go on to the next level, your NMSA findings. Now, this is where uh it's a compliance issue with a uh a statute, a code or a peed requirement, purchase orders. So, 20246, 2023, that's pretty good. This is the most common finding we give out. Almost no school district does not have this finding. because it's so easy for lots of people to buy things in the district. And the statute for a school district says there must be an approved purchase order in place prior to you picking up the phone and ordering it well or tapping on to Amazon and putting in your order. So, it's simple. We look at the invoice date and we look at the PO date. If the PO date is later than the invoice date, guess what? It's an automatic finding. Wow.
112Because somebody ordered it before it was approved. And when you have this many people in this district who had the ability to do purchase orders, it's almost impossible to not have that fine. because you have a lot of just human mistake and you honestly have a lot with the attitude of it's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is permission. I'll do it. It's going to get bought anyway. Um Dr. pet when I was a finance director at one point said, "Okay, everybody's paying for it if they don't get their PO finished first." What sounds great and it works. Tell the first major one came in the the football coach at Nukem High School forgot to get his PO before he sent his helmets to get reconditioned. $5,500. So, is the superintendent really going to
113make the football coach pay three times his football coach salary to get the helmets reconditioned? That had to be done anyway. And so that doesn't happen. And so it went by the side. It's just that you just look and see how often is it happening, you know? And and to give you an example, we've done over a hundred school district audits since we've been doing audits. We only have one school district. Out of that, all but one school district has always had findings. I had one school district that two years had zero findings. Only school district who has ever accomplished it. And that's Maxwell who has 100 students about employees and a fabulous finance director and she only accomplished it two out of eight years. So nobody, it's almost impossible to be a school district
114and not have a fine in this section. We should be trying to avoid any up in the upper section. So those are the ones we really want to avoid because those are where we're making errors we shouldn't be making normally. And this is the after the fact. This is normally PO after the fact. So come down. Let's see just real quick. Let's look at the condition. One of 25. So one of 25 Portugal are in place 327 versus 41. In the prior year there have been two instances and in single audit dispersements one of 25 927 versus 1016. So actually that is better than most districts that we audit that we found in the various areas we look that you only had two purchase orders after the fact which is better than normal. It's not
115perfect. And Linda used to tell me by I want no findings next year. And I told her, Linda, having been an auditor before myself, if we do not have a finding in this district, I don't trust my audience because if they're not finding something here, they aren't looking at anything because it's difficult to be perfect. Even if it's $247 not being deposited within 30 and 24 hours. So, so I guess like going back to the impact aid, it sound it looks like the mistakes were made on the application caused a district shortage. Is it fair to say that? Yes. So, I guess moving forward, it's going to be up to the superintendent and the finance department to make sure that these errors because it's a huge part of our our funding to make sure that
116we don't have any mistakes. Good idea. Worth that extra eye. looking at that. Especially that part that caught my eye that says a keyboarding error or a mistake. That's a pretty darn big mistake because they had a nice spreadsheet for me. Here's here's every chapter. Here's every person in every chapter. It's right there. It's not right there. So it was in their spreadsheet that they did but when it got into the application again keyboard here. So okay next one Sharon Improper approval of budget adjustment. Okay, if we come down, this is also repeat. During the testing, we identified one budget adjustment that had missed getting on the board agenda. So, they may have three, four, five coming through and one just got left off. again, human error of getting that one turned in, but it
117didn't actually have the full approval that it should have had before it got entered into your system. Okay, Sharon. Next one. Improper reimbursement of travel expenses. The second most common air in a school district. Why? Well, the state has made travel reimbursement complicated. It used to be all predium which was pretty easy. How long you gone here? Bump. Done. Then they changed to pure. You could do actual expenditures. Well, that worked pretty good, too. Well, we add up all the receipts you gave in. There you are. Then the change went to its actual expenditures except for the last day which is Purdue. And when they put that in that has caused so much problem because if I leave at noon from noon to noon to noon I'm on actuals. So your receipt cabinet adds up.
118If I came back at noon, I'd left at noon and I come back at 5:00. That last five hours, it's no longer you bring me a receipt for lunch, doesn't matter. You throw it in the trash. You're not paid actual. Now you look at the chart and says, "Okay, that's more than this many hours less than this. How many dollars am I supposed to get?" Okay, it's $20. Boom. Doesn't matter what your expense was. And that just has thrown districts off. Some have chosen not to even do it that way. I had one rural district that said, you know, when they get to go to Albuquerque, we don't tell them to hurry up and get back home because, well, they're in Albuquerque, you know, they want to go to a nice restaurant or they want
119to go to a show or the movies or something there. So, we're not going to make them hurry up and drive back home. But if they don't hurry and drive back home, we have to pay them more because of your predeem that says, "Ah, when they get here, I got to give them $30." And they only spent $10 more dollars on food. And so they said, "We're not going to follow it. We'll continue to pay actuals throughout the whole trip." Well, the state auditor looked at it and said, "You as the auditor got to respond to them because they've said they're not going to follow the law." Our response was, "We agree with the school district." Because when we looked at it, the districts pay out more money by this pdium on this last day
120of travel than they would have had they paid actuals. And so we believe the school district is being more um frugal with their funds by paying actual than if they per even though it's against the statute. State auditor didn't say anything to us afterwards, but it really was. But this just makes it as you can see the reimbursements are close. 130 versus 148 157 versus 162 150 versus 100. So it's real close but not right. And then you run into the issue, you know, did they pay a tip? You can pay tips now, but it's maxed at 20%. So if you round it up and it was 20 22% is what it ends up and you reimburse them for it. Nope. That's ineligible because if it's a $10 meal, $2 is the maximum you can
121give and get reimbursed. So, it's little things like that that can really throw travel off. Jeez. Okay. And we look for it, but next one, Jar. Improper cat controls over outstanding warrants. Okay. Another repeat. So let's get going up. Let's see. Okay. Districts has still dated checks of $14.25 and an accounts payable. They have 57,000. That means checks that are older a over a year old still on the books. should never have checks over a year old on the books. Simple. Okay, let's go to the next one. Next page here. Missing background checks. Okay, this one's getting a lot better, but it's one we get from a lot of districts also. Every individual hired after n July 1st, 1997 was required to have an FBI background check on file. What we find lots of times
122now is somebody who got hired 20 years ago that nobody knows what a background check is. Or there were lots of districts who would go to the state licensing website and it said they're cleared. So they would print that out and put it in the file as a background check because the peed did do a background check on them and they couldn't get the license without the background check. But the statute says the school district's responsible for having an FBI background check on file. So whether the state did it or not is immaterial. The district has to have its copy of its background check on file. So what do we have? We had one of the 25 files we looked at didn't have a background check. So, um, our board members required to have background
123check. All right. They normally anybody you are going to deal with that can have any contact with kids is required to have a background check. Do you have you ever had contact with kids as a board member? There's your answer. Okay. And if you have volunteers They have background checks. Okay. Is it um through the same background uh company they've the the school district? I imagine that's who they'd be using. So, it's got to be the FBI background check has to be on file. Okay. FBI. Yes. And then um so our employees um HR is HR here. Yes. Oh, I'm sorry. Um so we we currently do both, right? Tribal and No, not tribal. We do the state the federal Okay. Is there such a thing as tribal? Yes. Um, so us being a district
124being on tribal lands, shouldn't we have that as well? Well, it's not a state statute. That's what until something happens. Yeah. But your back FBI background check should be picking up anything that a tribal background check since the FBI is over technically tribal lands as well. So it it it would it probably would pick up um major crimes if you're non- Navu. So there's a difference. If you're non NAVO then it's not going to pick up that like a crimes. But if it's misdemeanor and below then it probably would flag on a tribal background check but major crimes would be like a separate category. So, so that would be a district policy and not something that would fall under the state statutes. Okay. So, but what we're in compliance. I mean, yes. Okay. I mean,
125what you have to do is this that you're doing, that's what it's required for school districts in the state of New Mexico. Okay. And then to go back to the mileage and the perms and things like that, um during tax time, we're given the um what do you call that? 1099. 1099. And and that puts us as contractors. Um is that right? Some districts get it as a 1099, some give it as a W2, but you are required to pay taxes on it. I get one as the school as a board member at San Juan College. Okay. And so I pay on my board meetings for San Juan College. So are you considered a volunteer also with San as a state as as school board members? Our time here is considered voluntary. Yes. But the
126IRS considers any compensation given to you as compensation. But we don't receive compensation under the under the IRS guidelines. It is compensation. But it's considered mileage and predium under the state mileage predeem act. Um because if you look at if you look at state law it's classified as mileage and P mileage mileage of meals which is non- taxable. Just just for clarification, we are now agenda. So, no, that has to do with the findings. But if you read through and I think I sent it to the district where it falls and the wording that's actually in the statute in New Mexico makes it so that we all are subject to t IRS taxes on it. Okay. But that that if you use that analysis that would also mean that all the competition we receive for
127like hotel mileage to travel conferences that would fall under that exception. We can look at it later but you're you're only looking at one area of the language. There's another area that details it and it is not saying it is for mileage or your $45 or your $95. Okay. And so it does uh reference for attending the meeting you receive the funds as such you re it doesn't say anything about for reimbursement for mileage or that. Okay. So let's um we're going to table that conversation since we are really technically off the agenda. Uh if superintendent if you could include that in our next uh work session, I'd like to really have a thorough discussion about that and see the citations in regards to that. Sure. Next one. I have a comment. Go ahead. So,
128um, I asked that question at ASBO with the the person giving the session and and they were going to find out about it, but um that's why I'm asking and I'm hoping that we don't get a a findings over that. So, expenditures over budget, go back one page. coming down. We had two funds that had expenditures over budget. The 23,000 fund of 350,000 because we didn't actually budget anything in the 23,000 fund because that's we thought of as activity funds. But now that the activity funds for several years are now under the budget, you still have to budget your estimated costs for all your activity fund expenditures. And the 28201 was $6,148 short. And by statute, school districts are on a function level. So that's what you've got to watch it to, not on a
129fund level. Okay. What does that mean? So in the 11,000 fund, you have at function 1,000 expenditures. And so you as the fund, you may have $4 million of excess budget there in total. But if in that 1,000 function you overspend it by a dollar, what you had in that 1,000 function budget, you've now violated the budget act because you budgeted $100,000 and you spent $100,1. Even though down in all these other lines you have four million extra, it's still a violation because and it's basically if the number starts with a two, all the 21, 23, 24, all those get added together for one number. All the threes get added for one number and the fours. And so in the end, your budget in each of those major categories has to not you you can't
130exceed the expenditures that you had in the budget by that. Now, if you're the town of Kirkland, it's the budget by the fund in total. every other entity in the state it's been the fund in total but peed has made it to the function level which means it's more restrictive for school districts and you have to budget to that level okay next so the next two are both the charter school we'll just touch them quick right go two pages sharing right there. They had improper reimbursement of travel expenses. Then come down two more pages and cash appropriations of actual catch. So those are all the findings. Come down two more pages. Sharon right there. Then uh there you have the prior year findings. It says the ones from last year. You had three fin uh
131two financial statement findings. One was repeated, one was resolved. On the federal award findings last year, you had five federal award findings. Um we repeated two and resolved three. on your NMSA findings, you'll also resolve one, two, three, four of those findings repeatedly. So, some improvement over the year, but still again where you want to concentrate are those significant deficiencies. And if you ever end up with material weaknesses, like I said, some of these NMSA findings are hard to avoid just because it's human error in most cases. Any questions or comments? Any questions or comments, board members? So, um, what's our grade good grading on most of the districts? I do. If you said, "Okay, I'm going to curve it to the nine school districts, onetenth of the of the school districts last year. your
132probably a B C plus at worst to a B. So you have no material weaknesses, but you do have five, four significant deficiencies, two five significant deficiencies, but they're ones that could be easy to correct for the most part. Mhm. You I have quite a few districts that would be much below you and a few that would be above you, but for your size is not bad. If you can get rid of those up there in the financial statement and federal funding area and you just end up with NMSA findings, you end up really patting yourself on the back because you've done what for a district this size. Mhm. And it's it would be safe to say that most of our our deficiencies syn findings are um repeat findings. Correct. Yes. Mo you had very
133few new ones this year. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for that. Um next we will move on to uh letter D RFP 2025 tech 14 erate CCSD W and AI transitional by Mr. Ventino Trina, sorry. Is he still here? Is he online? Yes, President Hasky. I'm online. Oh, great. You can begin. Uh, yes. Good evening, board president, board members, and Superintendent Carson. I apologize for not being there. Um however I'm here to present a proposal um that that we have um put out um and it's called the um CCSD wide area network and the internet access transitional. So the bid was advertised on February 7 and 6 and 7, 2025 and the deadline for the bid was March 6, 2025 at 2 p.m. and the date of RP opening was March 7. So basically
134the scope of work is CCSD IT department is seeking for transitional services to provide internet access and one connectivity to several district areas or locations. Um we have two proposal item. Item number one is wide area network for Mesa and Shiprock High School and this requires one gigabytes um fiber one link to Mesa Shipra High School and it requires vendors to provide proposal for for the bandwidths. Um, all warn circuits must connect back to shipwreck admin or Kirtland business office either directly or indirectly through a separate circuit located at service provided or the NOC which is network operation centers. Um proposal number two is wide area network and internet access for our eastern schools that um includes um Kirtland High School, oh Amarillo and um of course the the Kirtland business office. Um the the
135internet access requires 4 GB of commodity internet access and associated transport as required. Um it is feasible that district may have lease racked space at the vendors NOOCC which is the again the network operation centers. Um therefore vendors may wish to offer a solution that leverage connectivity at a vendor NOOCC which may require transport if the one links are also hosted by the service provider. So you can see the um the criteria that we have used for selecting our proposal. So unfortunately proposal number one um wide area network and at Mesa and Shiprock we did not receive any submission for the RFP. However, we do have proposal number two for uh wide area network and internet access for eastern schools which is um so we did receive one um proposal from sacred winds or comnet
136broadband um the raw score is 346.5 with an average of 86.3 and our recommendation is to um to provide sacred winds u and comnet broadband the um the award um these are the highlights that we have put on um about our our RFP. So number one, the vendor has been providing services to CCSD in our eastern schools for several years. They also provide good good customer service for the school district and work with the IT department for remediation in any issues that may occur. And this is a transitional service that will provide undirected ser services to all our schools. That being said, we are recommending for proposal number two for secret meets and I stand for question if there is any board members. Are there any questions or comments? I have a question. Go ahead.
137Leandro, do um was that the only bidder? Yes, ma'am. So there's there's nothing else as far as um um well I I guess I'm assuming that um it being on tribal land as well. Um we didn't get any biders from off the reservation. Correct. And that's the only proposal that we can um solicit from any other um company. We we have NUA which is uh our current provider for Mesa Elementary and Shipwrock High School. Um and I wanted to mention that even though there's no proposal, we have an existing um contract that we have um from the past year um that may we may continue on a month-to-month or a yearly um um contracts. Okay. Doesate play in this? Yes, ma'am. So we have to put out an RFP for those services in order for
138us to qualify for a discounted rate for -ate funding which is um 90% of that will be covered by and 10% will be covered by central consolidated. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other questions? You're welcome. Okay. Thank you. We are moving. You're welcome. Have a good You too. Thank you. Thank you. Sorry. Um, letter F. Utilities comparison by report by Mr. Satinia. Satinia. Satenia. I'm going to learn your last name. That's all right. Everyone will learn. Not a problem. Let me just log in real quick just in case I need to pull these up. And hello. Thank you, President Hasky and board members and uh Mr. Carl Carlson. Uh thank you Sharon. Um all right so uh we have the utility comparison. So this report uh was created by uh previous
139directors. So we're keeping the same report even though I'm the new guy in town. And we're just going to go over it compares year-over-year based on the month. So you're looking at the month of February, uh 631,000 for this particular month, and we're now comparing it to the month of February last year in 2024, uh which the total expenses for utilities was 509574. Um it's a very simple report that only looks at utilities. Uh the between the two months, you're really just looking for indicators of were there increases and why. uh down below, the 5-year summary gets updated every fiscal year. You've seen that report consistently uh every month since last year, and that report will be updated uh probably a month after uh the end of the fiscal year once we get all the
140numbers in for utilities and expenses. So, I stand for questions regarding utilities. Are there any questions or comments from board? Okay, I have a comment. Mr. Satenia. Satenia. Like lasagna, but Satenia. Satenia. Yeah. The GN is like uh say lasagna. Yeah. Now you can think of lasagna. Okay. Yeah. Satenia or I'll just go with s or you can call me Dominic. Um so you have operational. This is the utilities, right? Yes. Uh uh yes. board member Estus. So you have operational um what additional uh with the new housing and Petridge do you have um uh is there any way to see what what it was before then we had the new teach? Um sure. So right now we're not collecting revenue for from utilities from the the houses that are being built. Um so the
141revenues that we are collecting on the teach accounts um are not related to to um to the utilities. So what is where utilities are being accounted for at the district level? A lot of those like for example at the central office in Shiprock uh there's not individual meters on the houses. Those utility costs are shared with uh the same line electrical line as uh as the central office buildings. Um even the the new ones even the new ones. Yeah. The new ones by the central office. Yes. Those are not individually metered. Yeah. they share the same electrical line that comes off that the the so in terms of of parsing out those costs and assigning them to those particular houses um is is not possible uh because they're not individually they don't have individual meters.
142So in terms of where the utilities are paid for for those particular homes is shared out of an operation account when we're paying the bills for the central office. Does that make sense? Okay. Yeah. I I well my my interest was really if if um they're energy efficient compared to the other that's that's where I was going. So I don't I don't want to make assumptions and I don't have that data in front of me, but if that's something that you're interested in, we can take a look at that in the future. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Continue, please. Yeah. Um, are there any other questions regarding that I can take for the utility summary? No, this is this is probably for the future discussion. Are there any areas in which we can
143start to save on energy utility costs at least as far as I look looking at building efficiencies? Um, ility efficiencies. Well, what buildings in particular? That's such a wide just in general. Just in general. I mean, yeah, there's there's definite ways to um uh invest in energy savings. Uh there's grants out there for changing, you know, uh moving over from gas cars to electric cars, vehicles, right? So, you're not paying gas. You might have a charging station at uh the central office for those cars. That's that's a way uh a lot of companies around the state and around the US are taking advantage of grants uh to put in solar panels at their major uh uh at their schools. So you might go to businesses where you see the parking lot and solar can create
144savings. Um another good way of creating savings is just monitoring on a monthly basis. Um, and actually I just worked with uh uh Rodney, our uh our in well Rodney who works in operations, we'll leave it at that. Um to review the utilities and starting a conversation about seeing any changes like a broken pipe that happens. How do I how do we identify those things that would create savings with utilities. Um and there's a multitude of other things that we could talk about. We could really go down that that road if you want, but those are some some ways of creating savings around utility uh utility use for for large organizations. Okay. Does that answer your question? Yes. Okay. Let me know if it doesn't. I'm happy to elaborate or follow up with you. Next.
145Yeah. Yes. All right, please. Thank you. Uh, this next report is the POS over 3,500 to 10,000. They don't require an approval. Um, but these are uh this these are amounts uh that we bring to the the board's attention. So, there was two this past month. Uh, Unity, Inc. Intercultural and Community Outreach for $7,50.50. And we also have Dragonfly Athletics LLC for 6,500 for New High School. And again, uh, going to community outreach and, uh, and athletics. I stand for questions. Any questions? No. Okay. So, on some of those, um, um, POS, uh, does it I I know we brought this up before about, um, or before you you came to our district. Mhm. Um you know when there the trips are funded or um there's times when uh from the ICO that or IEC
146that they're given extra funds and is that reflected on those POS? Um I I'm not sure uh at this point if we're talking about just the POS that are coming up with those if they are in that amount range they should come by um they should pass by by the board. So you should see him. But in terms of historical because we were we didn't know um I just happened to be in one of the meetings and if you show that last part that that last community conference. Um anyway, I just happened to be in the or attend the IEC meeting and um and and they were um deciding on what um how much they were going to give to to a certain event or to a certain field trip. and and then I mean
147these were large numbers that they were talking about and then I thought that doesn't we don't even hear that at the board and and then even um like this in this case 3,500 to 10,000 you know we we have to be transparent and and let you know the public know and yet we have a subcommittee that is playing with larger numbers and we don't even know. Sure. So um like for example like the unity conference they put in their travel request and you know that form and then my question was where on that form or when do are we told that IEC is coming with this amount and then we can fund this other what whatever's left over where does that reflect on that form if it does or if if we've made those changes
148or um I don't think we have. Sure. Uh thank you for the question board member Aspus. I cannot answer that right now. that actually uh what I can do is follow up and go back and review uh the pro the the board policies and requests to bring these POS within this range to the board and see if there's any exclusions as to why um the conversations that you're referring to why potential amounts like that might not come across from the board. But I uh unfortunately I can't answer that question but I can follow up and and provide that context at a later date. Okay. Thank you. Yeah, of course. Continue, please. Uh, next item uh is [Music] the board summary. Board report summary. Um, all right. Again, um I'm the new guy in town. However,
149we're keeping the same report that's been uh provided by previous boards of directors. At some point, we'll probably interact um uh the finance department will reach out to the uh the board to see if this report is still working for you. Um but in the meantime, we're we're keeping the same report. Uh I did make some modifications to this port report and added a couple lines that hadn't been previously um uh reported and I felt that it was important. Um, one of the items that I added was on the expenditure report. We previously weren't showing monthly or year-to- date expenditures for the 11,000 fund, the operational fund. That was left off every month. And given that that is one of our most important funds, I felt that it was important to include that on the
150report so that um you you could you could start to understand monthly expenses, maybe compare year-over-year uh or year to date to understand what where we stand uh with that particular account set since it's so important to the district. So that 11,000 right there that you see on the expenditure report uh I included this uh this month. And if you'll scroll down, Sharon, uh before we head back to the top, uh another another um another item that I included was where it says item C, capital outlay and debt services. Uh debt services has been included on the title. However, debt services uh the account for uh uh 41,000 debt services was never included. and I felt that it was important that that be included. That reflects payments on our existing bonds and that's an important
151issue for the board. So, I included that. Those are the two changes that I made. Um, you'll also see the revenues down below. Include that 11,000 fund there. Um, and then if you go down to the very bottom, you'll see that I included uh the debt services as well for that. If you'll scroll all the way to the top, uh I wanted to point out those changes uh before I I go over uh this month's report. Um these are the dispersement listings uh for operational and activities. That's important because we actually have activities separated out, which is why you see those two accounts. Um for the month it was 2.6 million. Uh and for activities it was 43,000. Uh and then you'll see the year-to- date as well. uh outstanding checklistings for the operational accounts
152is $373,000 and activities is 42 for the month. If we go down to the ex uh expenditures, you can see that for this month $4.8 million was spent out of that 11,000 uh operational fund. Uh and then also another important aspect is the impact aid operational. We spent 2.1 million this month uh for a total months uh uh spending of 8.1. Again, you're not having those numbers add up to the grand total because there's other accounts that were spent, but those are the significant ones that we um I believe that we should be taking a look at. Um if we move down to the grants, We just had a cough attack for those people listening in. Had to take a pause. Uh, next we have Oh, I'm sorry. If you'll go up. So, this is
153expenditures what we spent. So, those are our general funds 11,000 through 23. Moving down to the grants. Uh, these are the 24,000 to 29,000 funds uh that Mr. Manning was speaking of. anything that starts with a two uh usually related to grants. Um these have are are the ones that my understanding have been included uh for the board which includes the Carl Perkins, the Johnson Ali and then also we want to keep track of that impact aid sped uh which is the special education and impact aid that for uh Indian education. Um and then you can see the expenses uh there also under the capital outlay like I said I included the debt services there was no uh expenditures for the month uh um and then on the revenue side so that was the expenditures
154on the revenue side you see the general funds 11,000 uh we uh received 5.23 uh 5.23 23 million uh in revenues on the operational side. Uh and then if you'll scroll down, we didn't receive any impact aid uh revenues for the month. Uh but then for grants uh we didn't receive any uh income uh for for the grants and capital outlays this for the same. So um some of those are timed right on a quarterly basis or a monthly basis when we receive those. So some months like for example February is a weird month in finance where uh sometimes you might uh not see see those revenues come in. You might see them on another on another month. Uh that's where the yeartoate column on the right hand side is more important to kind of
155understand and track that even though something didn't take place that month we can see where we're at uh for yearto date in those in those accounts that are important to the board. And that is the report. Anyone? I stand for questions. Board members, any questions or comments? Uh, go to that um the top top uh go down. Okay. Right there on on B. So you have that Carl's per Carl Perkins. Yes. And um current and what is that other one? the redist redistribution. Yeah. So current and redistribution. I I haven't seen that before. What is that? The redistribution has been on the report. I think what's important to point out is uh the negative uh number that you see there in terms of expenses. Um that is an example of where we are failing as
156a district to make sure that we're meeting the criteria for grants. So there was a position that was paid out uh that uh at Bond Wilson and the curriculum when it was submitted for the grant that curriculum did not meet uh uh the criteria for the grant. So that was uh that was uh we had to go back and pay back again talking about the audit go back and pay and pay from another account because we didn't get the grant money uh because we said that position and that curriculum would qualify. It did not. Um the curriculum was updated uh for this semester so that we could start that individual could start receiving payment for their salary uh for this semester. uh this this uh change even though it's taking place maybe at the beginning
157or captured in February is representative of transactions uh prior to prior to this semester. So that's where you're seeing that negative and and on both sides of that the current and redistributions is where those two accounts uh inter interact to account for that. Okay. And then as you go down I would like to add something if I if I may. Um these are the types of things that I am identifying. Um and obviously you heard uh a very good explanation of our audit findings from Mr. Manning. Um as I discover these things, uh we're implementing checks and balances within the finance department and looking across the district how how we can avoid these mistakes. These are big mistakes. Um, obviously one of the material findings of last year's audit again points to a trend in
158the district where we're seeing up to $500,000 uh mistakes, right? With even with uh uh what we called in finance fat fingering, you know, a number and next thing you know it's off by half a million dollars. We are putting in checks and balances to make sure that we're reviewing each other's work. Uh, and I'm also holding our grants department as they come for requisitions that we're also taking accountability to work with the programs department and with our financial secretaries to make sure that before uh that that you know uh curriculum are reviewed that we're uh in the future we'll be sending memos and meeting ahead of time so that the financial secretaries understand what purchases actually will qualify so that we can reduce the amount of rejections of our requests for reimbursement uh for
159grants in in the future. So, that's something that we're committed to uh uh working through over over uh the next fisc now and over the next fiscal year. Okay. Okay. Good. Go down. And sometimes I have a tendency to talk really fast. So, just let me know if I need to slow down. Okay. Slow down. Slow down. Okay. Sorry. Thank you. I I will. So on B where you have continuing grants on the second page. Okay. Now why is that number 000 on the Carl Perkins? The Carl Perkins. Yeah. So uh revenues revenues would equal So usually you have two transactions but that doesn't always guarantee when you're reimbursing another account. So this bottom portion actually is money that's given to us uh by Carl Perkins and that did not take place where you saw
160the transaction in the expenses up above is us making a journal entry an accounting journal entry to handle the fact that we were not able we planned we accounted for those funds to get those funds and then we had to pay that back. So that's where that takes up pl up above is that expenditure. We had to credit that account. But that doesn't mean that when you look at the revenues, which is everything in purple down below on the second page, um that that there was any transaction from the Carl Carl's Perkins grant that would have given us revenue. Uh two different situations. They don't you don't necessarily need to see numbers in both if one's up above and one's not below. Okay. And and I'm trying to think of that formula. Um the one
161they just redid. Uh what do you call it? Um huh. Yes. The SEG formula. Yes. Yeah. Do you um is that something you can add to this? Add to Okay. So our SEG funds are the 11 um are primarily the 11,000 fund. That's why I added that in there. Um 11,000. The 11,000. Yeah. The operational. Yeah. Okay. Wow. And was never included. And it was never included. So when you talk about SEG funds that are distributed by the state, that represents that 11,000 account that was not ever included on your report and I chose to include it. That's good. Okay. Now, with regards to any changes in the formula, obviously there's conversations and it was spoken uh about a little bit with uh Superintendent Carlson and um and our attorney uh that we're keeping an
162eye on those House bills because while there's been no finan uh no decision made about some of the things that will impact that, uh we're keeping an eye out and I can't really speak to because the uh they haven't made final decisions on that. Is that the HB2 60? Yeah. 63. Yeah. So, as as we get those decisions, um obviously there's been efforts around the state to um lobby on the behalf of schools and schools such as ours. Um and and ultimately we have to wait to if the bill if and when that bill will pass and what version of that will. And then once we get that information, we can come back and report on the the summary of changes and the impacts that it will have on the school district. Well, I'm glad
163you brought that up because I was wondering um you know, with these with these um reports, these finance reports. Uh it would be nice to see maybe put a asterk or um you know what which ones are being um at the federal level that may be cut and we have are uncertain um and I heard something about the food program. I don't know where that lies in in here, but um where are we with our free lunch? Um superintendent, um I I can go ahead and answer that. Uh the the food services, yes, there's a potential impact of the food services where we pay um uh through grants for a lot of most of almost all of our food that is distributed around the school district. So, uh, I think what you're pointing to because
164again, until those decisions are made, and there's been, I'm sure, lobbying lobbying efforts, uh, in place to try to protect those funds and maximize the benefit to schools around the districts, uh, around the state. Um, what you're pointing to is actually making sure that those things that are important to us, such as that, are are potentially included in an updated report so that we can track those. Well, not an updated just simple asterisk of which ones are, you know, be federally impacted or were uncertain. I I think once um not only the board but also uh our audience once they see that I think then we get a a picture and we know that what's happening up there affects us you know. Absolutely. because and then on top of that we don't get um um
165you know we we we it's reality you know and and it shows us that um you know what we're going to have to work on what we're going to have to lobby what we're going to have to advocate for. Um so I I think that would that would be good. Um and and and the lunch program, that's going to be a big hit, you know, if if we're not being funded by that. And um because you're talking with summer coming up and our after school um events that happen and you know that's been a that's a big hit to our district and our community. Absolutely. So that's that's that's all I'm asking is is just a simple aster, you know, um this is maybe impacted. Sure. And I apologize. I understand now. Um it actually
166wouldn't require an asterisk. Um that particular grant has its own 2000 code. So, under grants where you see the 24,000 to 29 and then you have those five that are listed, there's actually we actually have about uh 80 or 90 grants uh that we have accounted for. Um not of not all of them return, but there is a specific 2000 code specific to the the fund that you are referring to. So, we wouldn't be able to asterisk any other account because it actually has its own account um that we could we could track separately. Okay. Okay. All right. Thank you. Yeah. Continue, please. Um other than that, if you scroll down to the bottom, one of the things that's also addressed during this time is budget adjustment requests, aka bars. Um and we do not
167have any this month for board approval or consideration. So, um, that was the last thing I left out as a part of the standard reporting from the finance department. Okay, great. And I think that's it. I don't think I have any other reports. Okay, comment. All right, let me know and I can come back. Thank you. Um, have a comment. Okay. Uh, six, review consent items see below and the items pull from consent agenda for discussion and or approval. A possible items removed from consent agenda. Madam President, yes, I did have a comment for Mr. Satena. There's a comment for you. I'm sorry. Um, Mr. Montoya, I couldn't see. I know we're trying to get out of here, but um I certainly would like to uh let him know that I appreciate the additions to
168the report that he added and took the time to look at to put out. Um so I I I really like that because the additions that he did put on there obviously again are are important to the board and to the general public um as they're explained. And the other thing I want to say too is that even in the short time, I don't know how many days it's been, 37. I know somebody was counting, but 37. There you go. There you go. There you go. I knew you had your number there. But just hearing the language that you're using, Mr. T, Mr. Satenia. um you obviously know what you're doing and I've said this before even to you in person is respects to uh because of your perspective, your varied perspective that you bring
169to the table. Um, I just I really appreciate that and the fact that um you're expressing that experience and knowledge to the board uh especially in this one that you've done for us this evening because it just tells me that you have a very diverse background and your knowledge is absolutely appreciated um for what we have to hear and and what we're told and also the fact that you're you're in the process of addressing um some of the audit findings, not specifically those that were just presented to tonight, but looking at possibilities and what you could do to try to mitigate those occurrences um from the time you've arrived through the process of of getting people a made aware of what they're doing and how what they're doing. And obviously that's very important because people
170need to understand that that um these things matter to a district of our size and accounting for every penny. And you were talking about that Carl Perkins and having to repay. I know specifically cuz I was involved in um an audit regarding recovering $10,000 and had to look on the southern part of the district for a whole bunch of money that couldn't have been accounted for. So, I'm really glad that you're taking that time to educate the people that are working for you and hopefully ensuring that everybody that is doing their job are certainly qualified and has uh uh credentials to do so, especially when you're talking at the school when there's that money and it could be passed over and looked at and miscounted uh because of lack of knowledge and understanding of of
171the process. So, I just wanted to say thank you very much for that and uh keep doing a good job. Looking forward to it. Thank you. Thank you. Go ahead. Yeah, just just looking back at our our audit and so forth. I mean, it looks like the total amount of money that the district received was over $65 million in all the federal money. That's title one, all the all the impacted and so forth. So, one of the questions I think that was brought up was just keeping close watch about what happens in Congress and and the White House because it looks like they're putting Title One and all those funding that we get a large portion of our money from is on the chopping block. So, that that's one of the big concerns because I
172it's usually around the month month of March or so that we start to get funding or draw downs from from uh US Department of Ed. And what I do recall is the Trump and those people, they got rid of all those people that are processing those payments. people that could I mean my our concern is we could have delays in funding that could have a big impact on our district and I still have have memories of when when all that stuff happened with sequestration we had face those same situations happened so what happens up there because of the the amount of money that we get it has a big impact on what we're doing here and so and the other is just being cognizant of uh the the possible budget cuts that could occur because
173our if you look at our numbers a large part portion of Our budget is federal. Yes. Um well, is there anything else before I respond? Gotcha. Thank you. Um uh board member Mononttoyo, thank you very much for for uh for the comments. I really do appreciate it and I have expressed this already, but I really do look forward to working uh with with the board. Um and with regards to uh Secretary So's comments, uh absolutely these are issues that are important and I believe and would like to encourage everyone to uh stay apprised on as the as they develop. Um and most importantly from what we're trying to achieve over the next couple of months is uh putting the uh uh putting a budget together that really takes into considerations um all the un you
174know certain uncertainties about the future and making sure that we're doing that responsibly um and understanding you know maybe the way things were 2 years ago 3 years five ago we might be in a different situation today and that we're doing that work and I look forward to doing that uh work with you over the next uh next month and two or two. So, thank you very much. So, on the reason why I was bringing up HB2 was according um some of the language that I seen and I think it was discussed today. I don't know if it passed but it was like something in 20 million. So, and and I from what I read I don't know if it's just the EIE schools or to Paul reservation. I don't know, but that's why I
175was asking about that, of course. Yeah. And um we're getting daily, I would almost say daily summaries of of the as these bills progress um from from Mr. Carlson. Um and then obviously I've only been here uh for for a month. Um uh but however, as I'm trying to work, uh you know, the daily issues of of of the district in the office, uh we're also trying to stay connected to what's going on at the state and federal level as well. So, I apologize if I'm not prepared to answer uh some of those questions that you might have about recent developments. Um I uh have been preparing things for the board uh today and yesterday, but there's changes happening every day and uh we'll continue to to look at those. Okay, thank you. Thank you
176very much. Appreciate your work. Thank you. Okay, so back to number seven, consent agenda. Um are there any possible items to remove? Uh or Madam President, I will make a motion to approve all the items listed under the consent agenda. Second that motion. Okay. Um, board member Mononttoya, how do you vote? Yes. Board member Aspis, how do you vote? Yes. Secretary So, yes. Vice President Wells, yes. And I vote yes. Okay, we are moving down to number eight, executive session. A conven executive session discussion on personnel matters regarding the board's goal and expectation of the superintendent as permitted under NMSA1978 section 10-15-1 H2 of the New Mexico Open Meetings Act. Discussion pertaining to threatening threatened threatening and pending litigation regarding the San Juan generating station PRC and Zouri lawsuit as permitted under NMSA1978 section 10-15-1H7
177of the New Mexico Open Meetings Act. Do I have a motion to go to I make a motion that we adjourn for executive session. Do I have a second to to go go into executive session? Motion to adjurnn? No. Motion stuck in the interest. I said ajourn too. Executive session. Uh board member Mononttoya, how do you vote? Yes. Board member Aspus, how do you vote? Yes. Secretary. So, yes. Vice President Wells. Yes. And I vote yes. We will enter um executive session. Thank you everybody for being here. Okay, go ahead. I will make the motion to reconvene in open session. Oh, I have to read this first. Wait, I have to read this. Sorry. B reconvene in open session stating that the board has discussed in executive session only the subject identified in the agenda
178as the reason for which the meeting was closed. Discussion on personnel matters regarding the board's goal and expectation of the superintendent as permitted under NMSA1978 section 10-15-1H2 of the New Mexico Open Meetings Act discussion pertaining to threatening threatened or pending litigation regarding the San Juan January Station PRC and Zouri lawsuit as permitted under NMSA 1978 section 10- 15-1H7 of the New Mexico Open Meetings Act. Do I have a motion? Madam Chair, I make the motion to reconvene in open session. Second. We'll do a roll call vote. Board member Mononttoya, yes. Board member Aspus, yes. Secretary So, Vice President Wells, yes. And I vote yes. C possible action items on matters discussed in executive session one. One, entertain a motion to participate in the stipulation supporting a replacement power project in CCSD school district in case
17924-00271- Can I get a motion? Do I have a motion? I shall move. Do I have a second? I will second that motion. Okay, we will vote. A board member Mononttoya. Yes. Board member Aspus. No. Secretary. So, yes. Vice President Wells, yes. And I vote yes. Nine. Request action items and or reports for next meeting. A possible items for next meeting. I I motion to set a special meeting to discuss bud budget analysis and debt financing issues if possible to be next week. And the dates are the 24th through the 28th. And I don't remember what day we had our other um retreat. I think that was in April though. April. Okay. 17th. Um are there any dates that you would be the board would be able to meet on through the week of March
18024th through March 28th and 25th? Does everybody is everybody okay with March 25th? Let me look. Okay, it's on a Tuesday. What time? How long would this 5:30 same time? 5:30. Board member Mononttoya, are you going to be available on March 25th? Uh, at this time, yes. Okay, I'm available. Okay. Yeah. For me as well. Okay. We'll we can have it here. Are there any other items for next meeting? I have none. And that and that item for that meeting is what? The budget. the budget for budget the budget analysis and debt financing issues. I would like uh um updates on the house bills. I think by then how many more days I think to the end of this I think it ended right and board members um Cai meaning the end of session is
181uh Saturday this coming Saturday the governor then has time to act or veto bills and so as part of the board retreat on the 17th we were going to circle back to that so that it'd be a little more um definite but we can definitely bring um that conversation to both conversations this special meeting if that's what you all would like as well as the next board meeting. Okay. I I mean I I think by that point we'll have already you should already have a list of what's already up there. Okay. And I I would like to know at that same time um about um the two Dominica Yes, Domin right. And Bzana. And yeah, I want to I I would like to know what the rules are because um it seems almost redundant sometimes,
182but um the the lady um gives us gives an analysis So, I I don't I'm wondering what what what they actually have to offer. We can definitely have that conversation. Not on the agenda right now, so I'm not going to answer it now, but definitely a meeting. Thank you. Can we clip that on there, too? All right. And um for the following meeting in April, I would like to start going over safety plans um plans for um handicap accessible accessibility and so forth for planning for graduations. I was about along those those lines. I was about to suggest or request a graduation update where things stand. How many are going to graduate and who's not going to graduate? Numbers anything? Anything else? It's all I can think of. I think we can email superintendent if
183there's any additional items that need to be included. Um, number 10 plus and deltas. A plus and deltos from the board. A board member Mononttoya. I have nothing. Board member Aspus. Yeah, I appreciate the um recognition for the bilingual seals and I I I wish um the young man from Shiprock had had had um had um attended as well, but the um FFA also um with Zane Zane Zay Zayn Weber Webster Webster and Um and then also the um um information for um from the financial director was a plus or um secretary. So yeah, all all the student stu student recognitions that occurred tonight uh the reports were also informative, detailed, and uh just taking taking care of a lot of business with the district. Vice President Del Delta. Um Oh, this is almost my
184first I heard about a meeting and it went to the next day more than one. Okay. All right. But let's wait another three minutes. Vice President Wells before Okay. And um appreciate everybody who's still here at the very end. Appreciation a lot of appreciation for the people that were here. And again also for um the bilingual seal recipients. Uh I Delta that I missed that. I was trying to get here as quickly as can. Drove through a what is it? Sandstorm and snow and all the giant tumble weeds. Giant tumble weeds everything hitting. So made it here in one piece. So um that's my my plus delta 11 adjournment ajourn regular school board meeting motion to adjourn. Do I have a second? Okay. Board member Mononttoya. Yes. Board member Aspus. Yes. Secretary soap. I'm going
185to wait two minutes. Yes. Vice President Wells. Yes. And I vote yes. We would had to do a um what is that called? Referendum. Not at all. [Music]