001All right. Good evening. Apologize about the delay. >> We'll go ahead and get started. This is the regular meeting for Thursday, October 16th, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. at shop administration building. Uh, Mr. Croll, can you call roll, please? >> Yes, sir. >> Mrs. Cameron, >> present. >> Mrs. PZ >> present. >> Mr. Arusco present. Mr. Crow present. >> All right. >> Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation indivisible justice for all the flag of Mexico City as friendship among cultures. any changes to the agenda? Uh, Mr. President, we have two changes. Um, we're going to need to uh from from item 12D in executive session, we're going to need to strike bullet number two and um item number 15 at the
002end of open session. When to strike those that is when other than that, no. Other than that, no. Other than that, no changes, Mr. President. Okay. And with those mentioned, I'll entertain a motion. >> I so move. >> I'll second. >> Mr. Croll? >> Yes, sir. >> Mrs. Cameron? >> Yes. >> Mrs. PZ? >> Yes. >> Mr. Rushco? >> Yes. >> Mr. Croll? Yes. >> All right. On to reports. Let me read off. >> Okay. >> Board President reports on September 18, 2025 uh separately held a closed executive session. The board met in closed executive session at the conclusion of the regular meeting held on September 18th, 2025 to discuss limited personnel matters as permit as permitted under section 10-15-1H2 of the New Mexico Open Meetings Act. Specifically for the board to receive reports from
003superintendent and deputy superintendent on employees on administrative leave with pay, employee grievances and employee issues as stated in legal notice and agenda of the meeting. Mr. Orosco, Mrs. Crumley, Mrs. Cameron, and Mrs. Pis were present. Matters discussed in the closed executive meeting were limited to those stated here. >> And then uh do we have a representative from NEA Deming this was seated. >> Okay. Uh welcome everyone. Glad to see a great crowd here. gives me the chance to say it's great to be a Wildcat and thank you that this is your first uh your first board meeting. Um we want to start off with the reason why many of you are here and it's always great to have this opportunity. We want to uh I'll invite Senator Gabriel Ramos here to the podium to recognize
004several of our students. >> First of all, thank you very much for uh for having me here today. It's it's a great pleasure to be here. Um I it's also great to see a lot of good friendly faces that I met during my campaign last year and uh it's just great to be your representative, your state senator here representing this this part of southwest New Mexico. It's it's been a great pleasure and you know being up in Santa Bay, I got to see a lot of your your uh your residents from Luna County to include your school board. I got to sit down and have breakfast with them and uh just learn a lot about what's going on here here at the Demian district. So, I really do appreciate everything you all do. Um I
005know that as as a board sometimes it's really hard because sometimes you're not appreciated. I've been on the board before and I know what it's like. So, hats off to you for serving. It's it's great to be around people that are public servants to to the fullest. And uh superintendent, I don't want to mess up your last name, but I think it's welcome, right? >> Yes, sir. That's very good. >> Want to welcome you and down to Southwest New Mexico. And it's it's a pleasure. I I've heard a lot of good things about you already and I it's just an honor to be here. And the reason I'm here today is because in the state senate we offer we we u we look at our schools in a whole different manner and we want to
006make sure that we award our kids what they do great things. And it seems to me like you have a a a a really good system here because when we called down here and asked for some names to honor here in the in this district. Um we we got quite a few names of these of kids that are just doing so well in schools and academics that we say well we got to get them a uh we're going to get them a certificate from the state senate. And the certificate reads, "The New Mexico State Senate, the 5if 57th Legislature, 2025. The New Mexico State Senate hereby recognizes these following students for excellence in academic performance and community service from Deming High School in 2025." And uh if I call your name, can you please come
007up? >> Let me invite the board here in the front, please. And if I chop up your name, I'm really sorry. Okay. >> First impression though. I hope I don't mess them up. >> And I think the hardest one is first. >> You did welcome at Senator Ramos. So you're you're on a good roll. >> And it's Vega. Addison Schul, >> Gabriel, [Music] >> Madrid. [Music] Destiny for us. [Music] Helen Lopez. Ethan Lopez. [Music] >> Ma, Eduardo Rodriguez. [Music] Eric Mor, >> Gabriel Loon, Jack Becket, Elizabeth Donaldson, Sanchez. Just >> gives me a great honor >> to uh pass out these certificates for especially for excellence in academics. You know, academics is so important. You know, I got here today and I got to see some of my old friends, Mr. Signs and Mr. Nunes.
008And hopefully that uh one of these days you all be in some of those positions. And what I tell you right now is set your goals high. Set your goals in life high because just cuz you're from a little town in southwest New Mexico should never stop you from reaching your goals. Always have fun, thank God, and move forward and complete those goals. Congratulations, SW here. Okay. So, help us figure this out. All right. >> As much as you can, >> Jessica, help us out. Everybody, >> I called these two and they didn't >> call in the back. One second. There's one person that we missed. I'm sorry about that. Here we go. Ashton. There we go. [Music] All right. Let's see what we can do here. Help us out, Jessica. >> Everybody that wants
009a picture, come and get one. Okay. Come and get one. >> Come to the front. And >> I didn't do anything wrong. You guys are too short to be back there. All right, then if you'll move just a little. >> There we go. >> Perfect, guys. Big smiles. >> All right, I'm gonna get a little bit more of a zoom on here. All right, there you go. Thank you guys so much. All right. This is a little weird here. I'm used to >> the Android guy. I'm sorry. >> Yeah. >> All right. Big smile there. Get your Zoom a little weird. Oh, there we go. >> All right. Thank you guys so much. >> Thank you. Thank you. [Music] Senator Ramos, before you leave, we'd like to thank you for this last legislative session. You
010you secured a quarter or quarter of a million dollars for us. Thank you so much. $150,000. So, we really do appreciate that. >> It goes a long way and it it definitely helps. Well, hopefully next year we can do more. >> Yes, sir. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you very much. >> Uh, thank you, Mr. President. It was so great to so great to end our day with seeing some students that are doing wonderful things here in D public schools and and representing our community um uh so well. Going to move on with a few more of the reports from this evening. Um, Charles is going to do his best to display over here and I will uh I will um do some interpretation and and explanation for you. Charles, if you want
011to move on to the enrollment slide. >> Got it. Thank you, Mr. Turner. Uh I I got it. I I got a new glasses the other day. I'm okay for now. If it gets much smaller than that, we're going to be in trouble. Uh the the the point I want to point out here is that Mr. Troll has been doing a great job in keeping track of us the diff between each different meeting. Uh so Charles right there if you just point to the October 10th that's the that's the third to the left column there. Uh that is what our enrollment is districtwide. Now as Miss Croll predicted in her first presentation that enrollment was going to remain relatively uh flat. So, uh, since our last meeting, uh, in, um, in September, there's only been,
012uh, you know, a little over a tenth of a percent change. So, we're still right, uh, at about, uh, 4,800 students in the district. Okay. Uh, next slide. And again, I always like to keep you up to date on on kindergarteners because kindergarten enrollment is uh, you know, um, something to keep track of. Again, if we look at uh there's our four um I'm sorry, our five schools there on the bottom. Uh we've uh had a loss of three kindergarteners uh disenrolled uh with from the schools since our last meeting. So that's just about a drop of 1%. So again, all things considered um our enrollment remains relatively um uh flat and um right now just last week was the 40th day which is the first day for reporting. Miss Croll and her team are
013busy making sure um everything gets submitted to um the state and then we can bring you some additional information um on some final numbers that we submitted to the state next um uh next time. Um any questions or clarifications about enrollment? >> Okay. Uh on to the next one. Mr. Turner, our human resources. Oh boy. Here we go. This is going to be okay. Okay, I'm going to walk over there. >> This is the same this is the same format that we we've given you here. I know Bob's got a laptop there. I will just share with you uh from I know it's kind of difficult to see. Um Charles, if you we have 25 total positions open, seven of those vacancies are sped. You go back to September, Charles, just give us a little
014a little uh comparison. May maybe September batch you're too far >> scroll over there. There we go. >> Last month it was 30 positions open and six vacancies were sped. So again we we have less vacancies overall than last month. Um and only one additional sped vacancy. So that's some pretty good consistency for this uh this time of the of the year. Um any clarifying questions about um enrollment? I mean, sorry, HR update. Thank you, Mr. Turner. Okay. And then, um, uh, we'll move on to our next, uh, presentation here. Uh, we know we have Miss Sam Gonzalez that's helping us with our charter school monitoring. However, um, I really appreciate that Mr. Nunees and Mr. Masters are willing to come give quarterly up uh, come give quarterly updates about the progress in the charter
015school. That way, we're up to date. I think that's great information to know because uh right there they're there students in our community as well. So um you'll find this information on the paper packet right Mr. Nunes and Mr. Masters were very prepared this evening by bringing the paper packet uh for us. So Mr. Nunes Mr. pastors. >> Thank you. Uh, Superintendent Logz, uh, Superintendent U Nick, members of the board, Mr. Chairman, uh, is singing guest. Thank you for today. Uh, we have a short report. Uh, but I do want to go into it a little bit in depth. Our enrollment is 154. It's lower than was last year at our 40th day. Uh, we do have 107 day students and we have 47 adult students in our adult learning academy. We're still seeking adult
016students. Um, we did transform our adult learning academy. Um, and this is something that I borrowed permanently because we don't steal in education. We never steal, we borrow >> uh from New Americas in Lasus. So what they do, they have quarters where they wait, it's uh 60 uh classroom hours. They wait um a credit. So what we did, we did the four credits. We have 5:30 to 7:30 Monday through Wednesday. Thursday is a virtual day and some students actually even go on Fridays uh if they're behind on work. Our teachers are willing to meet with them over Zoom on Fridays. Uh so they sometimes get a little bit more than 60 hours credit recovery. But what we did is uh for the every grading period they're getting a credit. So they are enrolled to one
017class and they can only miss two days. If they miss more than two days then they don't get the credit because it's intensive. It's similar to summer school. You only get uh the instruction that time and if you miss more than those two days, then you're going to miss out. So, we have uh contracts that we write uh and parents have to sign, students have to sign if they're the adults. Uh and last year that that helped us uh with the adult students graduating. But, uh this past semester or this past grading period, we did have I want to say 15 students received one credit in the past week. it was very burdensome in that the students were given a a learning packet. They would come in and we would help them do that and
018that wasn't working. So we had to transform that. So now we're doing direct instruction. So uh we have a science teacher, a math teacher, social studies teacher and an English teacher and they all rotate every single grading period. They teach a separate class based on need. Uh so we did have uh some success last year. We had 15 adult students actually graduate and that's the most we've ever had. Uh this year our numbers are down. So we're still trying to recruit adult students, but that seemed to work for us and uh it's more intensive and the students wanted that. We surveyed our students, our adult students and it's worked. So we're happy to uh keep going with year number two. Uh we want to expand it. We we want to make sure that uh we
019service more. We want to get to 70 adult students. Uh and I think we can do that. Uh but we we need to find the need. We need to get those students out there. Our enrollment uh by grade uh we have 15 freshman, 24 sophomores, 11 juniors, and 76 seniors. But this is where it gets tricky by credit. We have 10 students and these are excluding freshmen because they haven't completed a single credit. 10 students from our sophomores, our juniors, and our seniors that are freshman credits. We just took two seniors that have one credit and we understand it where they're not going to graduate on time, but you know, we take we take a hit in the graduation uh rate, but we know the service is there. We want to take these students, we
020want to graduate. If they graduate by age 21, we're going to graduate at age 21. That's what we want to do. We have even some adult people, 24, 25 year old people that are coming over. They want to graduate. The way we uh want to service them if they are within striking distance and for a striking distance is 12 credit hours. If you're within 12 credit hours and we can help you get a a high school diploma, we're going to do it. We know we don't get funding. We we put them in the infinite campus and we understand that they're not going to we're not going to get any funding for that. That's something that I've actually reached out to the state senators uh and I'm glad uh Mr. Ramos is here. We have asked
021for uh small school funding and adult education because here locally we don't have GED programs. We have students coming over and if they're above they're lacking more than 12 credit hours, we are putting them in a GED program that we have and we don't get any funding for that. But we're doing it because uh unfortunately uh no uh uh postsecary uh education uh entity is doing that. We have no GED programs here. So we're doing that. We're putting them on our edgenuity and right now I'm happy to say we have 10 students on a GED program and they're above 30 some we have a 40 year old we don't get funding for that but we we give them the program and that's what we have to do that's that's what we work with with our
022sophomores we have 40 this is this is starting number because a lot of our seniors that we have are right there they have sophomore credits and we have to get them graduated This year it's not going to happen. So this year graduation rate we know it's going to go down. Last year by our calculations we got 77%. That was a good year. This year we're going to struggle to get that graduation rate. We might even go down. We're hoping that we don't go down very far, but we're trying everything to do to work with these students to try to get them. We we get them in the day and if we have to come at night, they have to come at night. You know, we we we try everything with a lot of these students.
023uh with juniors, 27 juniors and seniors are there with credits and we have 23 out of the 76 seniors that are on track. So, you know, that's our story. You know, uh we did get our results for our scores and I'm so happy that you as a board decided not to uh rate us on that because it's very difficult to get students. 89% of our students are five reading levels below. They they can't read. They can't do math. And our math scores were zero. When we looked at the scores, it's disheartening. But then we compare them. And that's one of the things that uh Nick did compare with other schools. We compared it to other re-engagement schools and we're all the same. They're all the same right there. We understand that our students can't read.
024They struggle doing math. So we have our math and reading interventions and that's what we have to do. The first thing we do we have to non-negotiable. You have to take reading programs and math programs because without those they don't get the fundamentals. So we're working and we're trying to do that. People say, "Oh, you're doing good work." It is good work, but I'll be very honest with you, it's it's hard. You know, uh our day starts at uh well, we get there at 7:45, but as people, we get there right at 7:15. There's times when we don't get home till 7:00 at night, but that's what needs to get done to get this work. So, you know, I'm happy to be surrounded by great people, motivated people, and I'm telling you this, in the
025six years that I've been there, I haven't had a single person say, "I'm out of here because it's too much." People are unselfish in our there. And I'm happy to report that our attendance rate uh we started off rough at in July 74%, August was 86%, September's 89. I'm hoping October is going to be better. Overall, we have an 83% attendance rate. We did hire hire a few people. Uh we had hired a retired Demi public schools person, Lesie Wilson. She does everything. She's my testing coordinator. Uh she has helps me with lunch detention, helps me with uh um tutoring, for science, for math. She does everything. Uh we did hire Mr. Oman Leon. He's one of our secretaries. Uh Summer Bunting is one of our spas and Karina Mas. She's one of our educational
026assistant that's helping out with uh Egenuity. And we did have a person retire, which was Michelle Meridian. It was sad to see her go because she's a she's a rock star. She's really good. But at the end of the day, I want people to be happy and and that's a good thing. I'm happy that she actually uh got a chance to retire. Even though she doesn't look like she needs to retire, tell her I said that. Um professional development. These are all the current professional developments that I've taken uh this year. I'm happy to report and I'm happy to say this. Thank you, Nick, for allowing uh Debian public school principles to go to the uh priority school bureau because those are great great programs and I'm I'm I'm here too for the rice program
027and people in Albuquerque are I mean ecstatic that Demi public schools are back getting training. So, thank you for that. Thank you schoolboard for uh uh allowing his vision to come to fruition. uh with our graduation rate. Um last year we graduated 49 students. 15 of those were adult students. That's the most we've ever had. We have 34 day students. Our graduation rate went up to 55%. Prior to that was at 38%. And if you look at the graduation rate amongst all the charter schools, uh we look again with remediation schools. Ours was the highest. So have to report that. And it it it takes a lot of work and a lot of patients to do that. This next year we're hoping this is our our self-reported we are at 77% so hopefully they see
028it if if we're good at math and I have good math people so hopefully it actually does uh uh report to me to that. Um happy to say that we have a lot of community events. Uh we do have uh two we participate in one food drive every single month. the fourth Monday of every month, uh, Deming Public Schools, uh, as a matter of fact, the equity department goes out there, they use our facilities and they provide, uh, food for our our students at Deian public schools, and they include our students. We also, uh, our freshman, one of the uh, uh, adoptions that our governing council approved, all our freshmen have to do 50 hours of community service. That's what a school does. You know, we we have work study. uh we don't have many
029um electives to uh to give to our students opportunities. Some do go to Demi public schools at the high school and we're happy to have a great relationship with uh uh the high school and we have students that go there and get their electives but most of our students what are what our board approved is work study. They have to get work study and they have to do community service for incoming freshmen. I think that's something that that speaks volumes for our students because we want them to be ready uh when they get out of our high school to to go out there and be ready for the world. Um you know most of our students are not college driven but those that are going to go they go and we help them with that
030too. So, uh, the other thing that, well, that was really fun, uh, last week was, uh, Health New Mexico is going to change the their plan on using the portables in our, uh, our property. They were going to do toddlers. Correct me? >> Infants and toddlers. >> Infants. Infants and toddlers. And I think uh, what's going to happen, they're going to utilize both uh, portables in there. So, we're going to have three, well, a daycare and two preschools. Uh and the one condition that we work with New Mexico is make sure that they get our students uh an opportunity to go out there and do the work hours if they want to go into uh early education that they go out there and they get uh this opportunity. So we're happy to uh build that
031relationship with New Mexico and his kids daycare. Uh we're also like I said Sunshine uh fire department. We went out there. We're going to the first Thursday of every month to go do our community service where I'm taking all my uh freshmen over there. And I'm the one that's running this. I don't know why, but but that's the way it works, right? Uh and and we don't have major purchases, but one thing that we did approve was our MRI and CSI budget. It was a $262,50 uh budget to use on our schools for our graduation. We are an MRI school most uh uh in need of rigorous improvement because of our graduation rate. Uh the state of my school well that all schools have 66% graduation rate and they don't they don't care if you're
032a re-engage school and they don't care if you're an early college. They want every school to graduate above 66%. Well, for our school, we we like I said, when you have a senior that comes with us with one credit or no credits, there's no way you're going to graduate on time. And and they didn't ask for that, but that's what we have to do. So, we are using these monies. Um for our uh needs for all our students, we hired an instructional coach. Uh we're doing the best that we can. Um that concludes my report. I'll turn it over to my business manager to see if he has anything to refer on this side. One of the things and thank you for allowing us to be here tonight. Um, one of the things that uh,
033Mr. Nunes uh, fellow mentioned on the MRI CSI grant is that we actually have this approved by Santa Fe and uh, everybody involved about six, seven months earlier than we did last year. We ended up with three months basically to spend our allocated amount. A lot of that uh of course is in PDS but a lot of it for this year. Thank you very much for sharing some of your staff. Um Miss Reinhardt, several others several others helped through the whole process and we greatly appreciate working together helps everybody out. Um on the on the facility itself, we have two small renovations. The front fencing hopefully you can drive by at some point in time. Uh we have new chain links over there that is no longer 73 years old. Uh and new gates, rod
034iron gates. Uh we'll have the cups put in uh within a few weeks. Uh but it's looking nice already. And then we have one room. It's on the new addition. So it's the far west classroom will be our uh media room. So we have new paint, new flooring. uh basically took uh everything that smelled like 73 years old away. Um right now we don't have any large purchases other than the egeneuity that uh that he mentioned while ago. However, for this next quarter you'll see several including the uh the renovations, the upgrades in the the facility. Um and uh on our governing council um we do have one position still available. However, our governing council is meeting uh tomorrow night at 6:00 and uh we'll probably be selecting someone that point time. They've done interviews.
035They've done that process. So uh that should be shorted up uh by tomorrow. and each of the governing council members are uh enrolled at the Proto Charter Schools of New Mexico annual conference uh here in December and that would take care of all of their training hours for the year. So, uh we stand for any questions you might have. >> You talk about dropping enrollment, what what does that look like from this year to last year? So last year we were right at I want to say 168 170. >> Uh we hit 175 on on the 40th day and and this time you hit 154. >> Anything you can attribute to the decline? >> I don't know. I don't know right now. I don't know. I know that students are trickling in right now. Uh
036as of today we enrolled two new students uh during our day school, but it's our night school. We we can't get kids to come over to our night school. Everybody wants to be in day school and our rule of thumb is if you're a freshman, sophomore, we don't like to put you in night school, um, juniors and seniors, but for some reason we're not getting those students. So, this bias. >> Yes. I was just going to commend you on your GED program. I was going to share my journey cuz I also got a GED and so um, I understand how GEDs are so important. my I I got a GED when I was a lot younger and the support that I received from the GED program, not here in Demi, but it was somewhere else.
037But either way, the support I received gave me the ability to go on to get a a bachelor's degree, then a master's degree. And so, I think that's one of the reasons that I got into social work is because I understand the struggles that people go through. And I know that you're not getting reimbursed for your GED program, but you're getting reimbursed here, right? because you're doing what needs to be done and you're opening doors and you just never know which student is going to be somebody who takes that GED and just goes forward. So, I I appreciate that and I just wanted you to know that that um yeah, keep keep up the good work, guys. >> Thank you. >> And before we move on, I just want to again thank you Mr. Nunes
038and Mr. Masters for what you do over there. You know, I know you are a charter school, right? independent charter school where you're we're your authorizer. Um but you know uh we want to do whatever we can uh to re-engage the the kid the kids and the kids that have ended that have stopped coming to school in our community right uh the charter high school offers a great opportunity we're continue to grow those programs uh at the high school through our valley program I really think that the more type of programs we have either through the charter school or our own school to re-engage students to help them get those GEDs and get those uh diplomas um you know is why we're all an education So, thank you all for what you do. >> Thank
039you. And I appreciate all the support. I'm telling you um this year it's amazing. I I participated in the principles meetings, my vice principal or my de students at those. It's amazing. Uh Melanie Reinhardt, uh Dr. Oldm, all everybody. I mean, I'm talking about all these people, Ginger, these um right here. I just drew blank. Sorry. But they're all wonderful. They help us with our data. I this is it's very helpful because we're a very small group and without your support it would be a lot of harder. So, thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner. Uh, one quick thing. Um, I just wanted to share an addendum to my report. Uh, turn to the next slide, please. Um, you just remember Bond election is coming up a couple weeks here. We encourage you to
040go out to vote. There's the bond question. I just want, you know, remind the community, uh, this will be, um, not raise, uh, any taxes. It's reauthorizing the current, uh, bonds that are in place. It'll generate about $7 million for capital improvements here in our district. Um the bond question lists everything that can be done with the uh with the bond money uh as authorized by the state. However, right, as I've mentioned in our previous presentations, this is a bond election used to maintain your house. Right? This has been uh some great investments throughout our community with previous bond elections. And so we want to really focus on using this money to make sure we can uh have good HVAC systems, make sure our our roofing and building envelopes and and and all those um
041core structures are remain in place. Make sure we upgrade our technology. That's always expensive to make sure we have all of the the technology and all those things hardware. I know a couple of questions have come up about uh erecting and building teacher housing. That's an option that can be used with bond money. But Deming public schools does not participate uh in the teacher or teacher teacher housing program. Um but that is available on all bond questions throughout New Mexico for school districts because the very small districts in New Mexico smaller than us uh do use some of their bond money for that. But that's not something we're going to be using here in Debbing. When it comes to uh major construction projects, um the one that we're really looking at for this bond money
042um is a replacement of central cafeteria, which we know uh we have some of our schools that don't have cafeterias. So, we got to make sure that we um uh get that facility uh replaced in order to make sure we have a good place to serve meals out of. And again, as was talked about before, hopefully serve as kind of a backup kitchen uh for the community if there are needs. So, I just want to make sure that I clarified that before we moved on. Mr. Go back to U number seven. >> All right. Uh public comment. >> None. Okay. >> On to consent agenda and I'll entertain a motion. [Music] I would move that uh we uh approve the consent agenda as printed on our uh report today. >> I'll second that. Mr. C.
043>> Yes, sir. >> Mrs. Cameron? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Pay? >> Yes. >> Mr. Rosco? >> Yes. >> Mr. Croll? Yes. >> Okay. >> With that, on to discussion items. New Mexico School Superintendent Association legislative priorities. >> Uh Mr. the president. Every year the New Mexico School Superintendent Association puts out legislative priorities in addition to the New Mexico School Boards Association putting out legislative priorities. However, at this time, the School Boards Association has not uh published their um uh their priorities. However, I want to take a I want to take a moment to share today a little bit about what some of the superintendent association's priorities are. uh because from what I've heard there uh some alignment between what the schoolboards association is going to um be supporting. So um I'm going to step over
044there and use my history teacher voice uh and share with you some of the big concepts regarding our um superintendent association uh platform this year. So this is broken up into a couple of large categories. The first one being funding priorities and then uh policy priorities. Um I think we've talked about this first one before. It's uh making sure we ensure adequate funding for student transportation as has come up several times um uh prior to me getting here and every year we know that the state uh funding transportation formula the state student transportation funding formula uh is not adequate for what is needed in many districts including Deming public schools. So that's one thing that is being supported. Uh I'll go over this brief next one, but it's really about rural workforce development in the
045very small micro districts. Doesn't really apply here in uh in Debbie. Neither does the second one, but you can see that it's a priority throughout the state with the superintendent about addressing staffing and how well staffing challenges. Um we're not doing too bad in Deming actually. Um this is also in other districts addressing housing challenges because as I mentioned earlier Nimming doesn't participate in the teach or housing um projects from the state but other school districts do and the superintendent association wants that to be our priority that in our small small micro districts that housing is available for teachers to live in the community because that's uh uh very u vital. Uh one thing that you we've heard about uh in in some of the um meetings, we know that uh the the insurance uh
046um authority has put in some large premiums for districts to pay uh in if there is a payout for any kind of um uh sexual violence cases. And uh you know here uh throughout the state of New Mexico, we want to do all we can to mitigate and not have those happen in our school. Um, however, some of these uh deductibles depending on the size of your district can be up to $500,000 uh per um per per payout uh uh costing up to possibly eight cases. So, you could be some districts could be on for a $4 million deductible. Uh what the superintendents are saying here is that we agree uh we can't have this in our schools. However, um it's going to put a strain on our budgets if we have to put aside
047uh that money, right? All that that money we have to put aside for it just in case is taking things out of classroom. So, they're asking the legislature to support the districts and putting uh uh with additional money put aside for those um deductibles. Um again, no surprise uh here. Uh we might we see this every time we uh start to construct um buildings. uh today's price is not uh tomorrow's price and so um they do have we do have a a policy statement here about getting some legislative support uh to address the high cost of construction and maintenance costs throughout the state of New Mexico. Um you know some of these schools as they're as they're building them are um you know coming in at you know giving close like $1,000 a a square
048foot. Um and so we really want to make sure the legislature recognizes that and is um uh supporting that. Um again uh promoting continued school safety initiatives is one. Uh we know this is important especially here in D public schools. Making sure we strengthen support for IDA which is our students with disabilities um and our bilingual students. Making sure that we have and are able to attract and retain um staff and programming um to best support them. And then also uh growing support for community schools throughout the state. We have a community school um at Red Mountain Middle School. Um we know that strong community schools attendance throughout um districts or in multiple places in districts can really benefit um students abilities to be ready for school and or help families get students to school.
049And when we have them in school, we know students are more successful. um uh additional uh policy priorities that are a little bit more um you know esoteric but I do want to make sure I share them with you because this first one is really important. This almost passed in the last legislative session. Um about 22 years ago under the governor Richardson's administration the state the state board of education was abolished and replaced with a secretary uh secretary of education. So, uh, back in the old days, I guess in my very first year of teaching, you had a state board of education that was elected, uh, throughout the state and then they hired a state superintendent. Um, uh, and, uh, what that helped to have is consistency in leading of education New Mexico over time.
050Um, in 2003, it was changed to a cabinet level position. Uh, uh, the state board of education was abolished. And what happens now is that because the public education department uh the secretary is a is an appointee of the governor um that can change um once twice many times uh during any governor's term and superintendent have identified uh that constant change in leadership of the public education department uh may be getting in the way some of the progress we need to make in the state. So we're looking to support that and that came very close uh to passing. This is something that uh we we uh deal with all the districts deal with and we deal with here in Deming. Uh but this is a applicable to all public agencies in New Mexico. New Mexico
051has like many states a inspection of public records act. Um, New Mexico has a very generous uh inspection of public records act that um uh you know in a positive sense. Um records can be uh requested um in a very generous sense. Um sometimes that uh in school districts and other public agencies is creating a burden uh record keeping and a burden of responding to those. So the superintendent association and this came up um in the last session as well is asking for a little bit of uh help in in really we want people to have access to public records but we don't want them to have access in a way that is creating um a heavy time burden on staff in schools and other public agencies in in New Mexico. Um you know I
052I this is an important one as well kind of ties back to the idea of a of a secretary of education uh serving multiple uh you know multiple years. Um the state superendent association has also identified u if we think that the having a state superintendent or a secretary that's going to be there for multiple years to affect change. Um, you know, they also have said the same thing about uh superintendent tenure and looking at ways uh that the the the legislator legislative uh the legislators and the and the local agencies, that means the school boards uh like you all here can really talk about, hey, how can we keep superintendent um in their positions throughout the state of New Mexico for a longer period of time because that way we could possibly affect some
053change in our system that way um as well. And then of course the attendance for success uh act and proving that um and looking at ways to make sure um it's effective in getting kids to um uh school. And then you know this last one um has to do with the the mill levy rates in our in our schools and and you have to get your mill levies to a certain rate to get additional support from the state for funding. And so the superintendents are really looking at uh making sure that there's not any any any fluctuation in bill rates that would um allow us not to um uh get the money that we need. So those are some of the priorities I wanted to share those with you. I know those those of you
054that had the chance to attend the regional board meeting um uh you know went over this, but I wanted you to know as a superintendent association, these are the things that I am going out and and going to be um uh supporting as part of that association. And I truly believe as a longtime educator in New Mexico uh that these are some critical things uh that we need to look at and I really do they I really do believe they align with with also what's good for doing public schools. So I'm going to step back here going to ask you all if you have any clarifying questions. If not this sort of ties on uh possibly to our next discussion item any clarifying questions before um we move on to our next item. Okay. I'm
055going to move on to the next item. I'm going to let Mr. Turner speak a little bit about this. Uh we'll we'll uh because he has a little more history and background on this topic here uh for us. >> President OSCO, members of the board, Superintendent Wamouth. Um this is an overview of what the B or the district has gone uh after in Santa Fe. Um over the last couple of years, we've we've secured some funds. Last year, we secured the quarter of a million dollars that President Rosco referenced thanks to Senator Ramos. 150,000 of that was to upgrade the bathrooms at the auditorium at the high school to make them ADA compliant. A 100,000 was to help upgrade the uh baseball fields. Um so we have you guys approved that quote a couple of
056months ago. Uh and that is something that is in the works now. Uh the prior leg legislative session uh we had secured $78,000 for the uh vape detectors that we put up at uh Red Mountain and then ultimately that led to making that project bigger and we installed some at Denning High School as well. So with that, we are looking at this upcoming legislative session. Uh and Superintendent Wolgamoth and I would really like your input as far as uh some ideas that you would like to see funded through this. Uh that way we could start the groundwork. We could work with our schools. We could get some input from principles. Uh and then of course ultimately reach out to Senator Ramos and Representative Jones and some other contacts in Santa Fe. >> Any ideas off
057the top of your head from the board? Well, probably something we probably have to think about a little bit. >> And let me just share this with you. I wanted to put this on your radar because what um Charles and I are going to we're going to go out. We're going to talk to the schools, the principles, see what's needed. Um we did we didn't want to go out and start uh you know asking too many broad open-ended questions. if there was something that was on your mind. Uh we want to make sure if there was something on your mind that we focused our conversations in, you know, in that direction. We didn't want to be um too too out of bounds on that. Um what I what I will the question I will ask
058is is um you know, Charles just went over those prior investments that we asked our our legislators for. Um do you all feel that that those types of things, right? We saw foc uniforms. We saw vape detectors. We saw upgrades to restrooms and our torches. Are those the kinds of types of things that you want Charles and I to still go out and look for? You feel that's been a good use of of the of the funds and money? >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So what Charles and I will do um we'll go out and um we'll go out and we'll seek some feedback over this next month uh from our different programs uh and then we'll bring to you for discussion um uh uh we'll bring to you for discussion in uh scheduled
059no in November um to talk about some of the the parties we came up with to make sure um we're in line. Um, as always, uh, if something if something does come up that you'd like discussed in the next meeting or considered, just make sure you give that to me in the email and we'll be happy to, uh, we'll be happy to take care of that. >> What are the parameters of of that the priorities? >> So, whenever we So, our priorities can be anything from advocating for a certain bill like the state school board resolution uh, question. We have capital outlay projects which I learned from Joe is a very broad term as to what makes something a capital project. Uh but those are usually something that's going to last about 20 years is
060what what Mr. Adcock taught me. Uh and then we can also ask for junior monies which is what the dresses were were purchased with. >> Um and then our our rate detectors were also purchased with junior money. Uh and so those ones are a little bit uh >> more loose with what we can ask for and and more of an immediate impact. You know, something that's going to last maybe five years. Um so we we have advocated for, you know, certain things that are on the superintendent association priority list, the school board's association priority list, which oftent times overlap. Uh and then we've also asked for things that maybe never made it to the floor, but we just kind of put that bug in the ear. Uh, and one of those was, uh, increased funding
061for transportation just because rural districts see a higher cost. >> Yeah. And I don't know if this kind of even fits the the model of what it is, but, you know, I kind of go back to that whole um, third grade uh, literacy. I mean, it's huge because reading is something that you'll use for the rest of your life no matter if you finish school or not. And and we miss the mark, you know, Mr. Nunes is talking about it tonight. We miss the mark with reading. reading's fundamental for just being able to live life, you know, and I don't know if any of this money or we can ask for things to try to get us to pass the point or be like the the cutting edge piece of like, hey, Deming is the
062one that by third grade every kid that's there is reading at grade level. >> Yeah, that's something definitely uh we could look into. That sounds more like a junior junior money's situation. Um, so I will work with our our council of governments uh to see kind of where we can we can put something like that in in a request. And I uh of course you know I was up at 7 those five years and I think the clear uh we have the oh sorry I think the uh there the more precise we have to present is the is better because so many uh what I had heard those five years I was up there you know people would come in like well we like to do this well and didn't have everything together and those
063pe you know they just throw them out because they don't you know see see what's exactly happening. So I think we need to be very precise on what we are asking and u and to be all of us that might be up there saying sort of the same thing maybe in your same way but giving it uh us all being in line with what we're asking for. Well, you know, when Susanna Martinez was there, she was, you know, advocate for, you know, >> retention, third grade retention. If you can't read at grade level by third grade, you get retained. I mean, and it just it spells out more because I mean, you get the testing in sixth, 7th, 8th, 9th grade, and we're scratching our heads because the kids aren't passing the test. Well, they
064can't read what they're the questions. We shouldn't be scratching our head. It's it's a situation that just can't read. >> Mr. Turner, there there's a limit on a on that junior money and the other money. So, we don't have a lot. It's not a great amount. And then we might not get it this year, too. You know what I'm saying? So, we got to consider that, too. >> Yeah. Junior money, as I mentioned, is more more short-term. Uh, and as you mentioned, it's a smaller pot of money. It usually depends on revenue from the state and then they break that out based on on regions. um this last year was increased uh than the year prior, but we actually got a smaller portion of it. Um so yeah, that's always a possibility. Um usually that's
065that's more of the small ball and then the cap outlay is for the home run. >> And so what I'll take from this initial conversation, um one um you know, we're talking about non, you know, we talked about some junior money, probably some capital money stuff. We'll get you all feedback on that. When it comes to the other broad priorities that might be more policy or finance-based, um, a good thing to always try to hang our hat on is what the schoolboard association is promoting and we say, "Hey, of these, what do we want really want to push that are doing public schools?" Um, I would not be surprised in there. There's a lot a lot of investment has been made in literacy in New Mexico and early liter literacy and structured literacy to President
066Rokco's point, right, that the early literacy is so key. So, when those when those schoolboard association um priorities come out, which we hope we get them in November, but we've heard they're going to give them to us in December, then let's keep an eye on and look for those priorities uh relative to literacy um and support for language learners and student students with disabilities that we can really hone in on. So, that's what I'll take from this conversation. Thank you, >> sir. Just to to recap, uh last year some policy things as Mr. WTH was stating was uh state match for cafeteria funding that's for our building uh because currently that's not covered. Um increase in the SEG for rural transportation costs. Um employee health insurance coverage allowing states to receive more uh funding for
067an 8020 uh coverage student success act uh changes that the stu superintendent association is behind this year. Uh and then uh just our our cap labor. Thank you. Thank you so much. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. >> All right. On to action items. Um, first one, a consideration to approve budget adjustment requests. >> Mr. Atco's going to help us with this one. >> Correct. >> Mr. President, members of the board, uh, superintendent, uh, we've got two, uh, budget adjustment requests this evening. Uh, the first one is on our school buses. We h we uh ordered this bus back in October 2024. It was in the budget. We I just ended up putting it in the wrong function. So that's just the movement of the function to get it where it's supposed to be. The second
068one is on our title one. We are uh moving some budget from supplies to uh payroll benefits and some professional development um that we're needing for that. Typically a lot of times we'll put money in supplies and then we'll adjust with payroll and professional development as things come up throughout the year as we do >> questions by the board. >> Um when you talk about um adjusting for supplies, they're not for student supplies. Therefore, >> no well they can be for student supplies or they can be for uh administrator supplies. mostified one is is the student supplies >> and so that's a lot >> in this one. Yeah, in this one here um we are talking about the the student supplies um and then it's going into some support uh salaries. >> Yeah, I think
069that's fine. But what I'm just asking is is that allowable to move from student supplies into support staff? >> It it is allowable. Yes. >> Okay. >> A lot of times what uh PED is looking at uh and and they talked about it at spring budget this last year whenever they talk about what is what is student what is direct instruction they're looking at what was function 1,2100 and 2200. So those are figuring are going into the >> directly for the students whether it be guidance counseling whether it be nursing and those types of things. And so that's what we're doing here is we're moving from function 1 1000 to function 2100 uh for support uh of that instruction. >> Thank you. I appreciate the clarification. It really makes sense. >> Any other questions from
070the board? >> I'll entertain a motion. I make a motion to to consider the the budget adjustment request number five for buses 003 0T number six title one um 0033t >> I'll second that. Mr. Crow, >> yes, sir. >> Mrs. Cameron, >> yes. >> Mrs. PZ, >> yes. >> Mr. Rosco, >> yes. >> Mr. Crow, yes. >> All right. On to item B. consideration to accept $21,000 from NASA center team grant awarded to DHS First Robotics. Believe this is a one that we receive every year if I'm not mistaken. >> Mr. President, or is the board an excellent member, Mr. President? Uh this is a recurring uh grant we receive annually to support the supplies and materials for our VHS first robotics club. Any questions by the board? If none, I'll entertain a motion. >>
071I would move that we accept the 21,000 uh dollar NASA center team grant awarded to the Denning High School First Robotics. >> I'll second that. Mr. Croll? >> Yes, sir. >> Mrs. Cameron? >> Yes. >> Mrs. PZ? >> Yes. >> Mr. Roscoll? >> Yes. >> Mr. Cole? Yes. >> All right. On to item C. Consideration to approve quote from CES vendor Tyler Technologies for student transportation software $147,826. Mrs. Mora, >> thank you. >> Ma also uh double prepared tonight with the paper packets. >> Thank you. Yes, we have. >> And as Miss Mort is handing these out and getting ready to present, I think this is going to um uh kind of type some of the other questions we've had about uh routing and other transportation questions from earlier uh this week. Miss Mo, >>
072good evening, Superintendent members of the board. My name is Adam and I'm the current transportation director. Lucky me. Um I come to you today because our current software route finder which is the transpider was purchased in 2015. While it served the district for many years is now outdated and no longer meets the needs of our trans transportation department. The system lacks real-time integration with GPS and requires a great deal of manual entry. So this makes route adjustments time consuming and less efficient especially when we need to make quick changes for student safety or um schedule updates. So to put it simply the system is behind today's technology and limits our ability to operate efficiently. In 2022 the district did attempt to update the uh software. However, it was a brand new system. So when they
073went to roll it out, it wasn't created for rural districts. So they had a multiple errors. So they went back to the current software. So what we are looking, what we are proposing is to purchase Tyler Technologies uh which includes the student transportation, Tyler Drive and advanced meat maintenance. And the software will combine our routing and GPA. We currently have onestep GPS. So, we'll eliminate that and eliminate our other um routing system and last year the board asked for our for an evaluation to look at our routes. So once they do the setup and take the map of Demy's and our current routes, it will automatically do the optimization and make the best routes that will be beneficial and save on time, mileage, and fuel. So we're excited about that because I think this is
074a long time coming and anytime we enter new students, it'll automat it keeps automatically optimizing. So that's going to be exciting. I think another key thing which is the current trend in transportation is we'll also have a downloadable app called my ride. >> So as some of our parents like I know my my children like to see where I am where I'm I I'm going but now the parents won't be able to look at their students. >> So each parent would be able to >> download Yes. download it and see where in live in lifetime live. Yes, it does have real time data. So, it'll help our dispatch. It'll help our schools and it'll help parents >> and it sounds like safety, too. >> Yes, huge safety. Um the other the other piece we're including
075is called Tyler Drive. And these are tablets. We're purchasing them for our activity drivers. So, it's going to eliminate some of the paper. They'll have the rosters. They'll have the agenda or itineraries on there. We'll also be able to message them. It's like an ITAB and it'll have turn by turn. So, I think it's like Siri. >> Cool. Cool. Um, then the drivers if they ever have encounter any kind of issues, mechanical alerts, they'll be able to input, I'm going to call it a work order because I don't remember what it's called, but they'll be able to put in a work order at like let's say they're right now on a trip, they can put the rover in. It automatically goes into the advanced fleet maintenance that we're going to be purchasing. So, this will
076give the mechanics an alert. they'll know right away instead of having because right now we do everything paper. So, we're going to eliminate that paper piece and um they'll be able to we're going to do preventative maintenance. So, we'll be alerted when we need oil changes or check the um don't whatever mechanical things >> and uh we'll have it on schedules. So I just feel it's going to be very beneficial. So again, it's going to uh combine our current routing system. It's going to combine the current routing system and our GPS. You can eliminate one of those. And then the last slide. >> Can I ask a question on this? we have part of this uh use is going to be in areas where we don't have a lot of technology or a lot of
077uh able to get on. What do we have a way of making sure that our drivers and our uh if they're out in somewhere where they're cannot get on to a online to talk to people or I say that because I lived used to live 36 miles up there and sometimes you didn't know when >> so I I don't remember exactly how he would explained it to me but I I want to compare it to what we have right now called Sam Sarah. Sam Sarah and Zonar, they do track these buses. So right now I can look on my phone and I can see where what the buses are going. I think it's Santa Theesa tonight and I'm able even in Rio I can track the fleet with one step. somehow in the technology world
078they are able to locate where these um vehicles are because our current I'm imagining our current system to do that already. I was able to track vehic our our vehicle that went up to cloudcraftoft and see where it was at all times. Um, but that's a good question. I can kind of confirm to make sure and get a better understanding of how they work a little bit. That helps. Thank you. >> I just want to make sure that we think we have it, you know, want to make sure what happens if we don't have it in that area and probably have something uh second what do you call it? second >> and we will um we're going to so this is kind of a one step GPS that's mostly for our yellow our white fleet
079our white fleet is going to be our school vehicles suburbans SUVs trucks and the yellow fleet is going to be for buses currently we have the buses on Sam Sarah and Zoner so we already have two other waves um I'm hoping that our SUVs and um suburbans are taking him somewhere that are outside of the location. But I'll definitely look into make sure we have a backup of some sort and get more information more with clarity >> or run and also maybe I'm sure they will is to run a trial on these areas like when we live like as I said living so far out uh to trial and if you cannot reach what are we going to do to make sure you know that because I do know that part of some of the
080areas up on the river it's still in Luna County and kids but you don't have always have the uh information you need to to call back to and forth. So, >> you're right. Thank you for that. We'll we'll take that into consideration to make sure we have that covered. Um the last slide has the cost. So, we have a onetime fee for setup training and our first year licenses. It's 147,826. After that, it's an annual subscription of 56,443. We're saving the cost of the current um we're eliminating the current uh software and then we are getting rid of the GPS and combining it all. It I forgot to also um state that we are it is we already have other Tyler technologies so it's something we're already familiar with. Um the cost sav the purchase
081will be funded with our existing transportation budget and the anticipated long-term savings make it a strong investment for the district. The implementation will happen in phases. So we'll uh get the training and support from Tyler Technology to ensure ensure a smooth transition. So we're going to be continuing with our current ch uh software the entire year while in the background running the new software so we can make sure everything's running first. That way we have it ready to roll and to go live by the next school year 2627. Um, in summary, the system brings our transportation department up to date. I think we're going to I'm praying that the app is going to work great and I think the families are going to appreciate being able to check where their student is in real time.
082>> Oh yeah. And I respectfully request the board's approval to move forward with the purchase of Tyler Technologies, the student transportation system, Tyler Drive, and advance of late maintenance. I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have. >> Questions by the board. Thank you so much. I think it's a great idea. And then like, you know, it's safety. There's a lot involved there. And I think it's a great idea. >> I'm excited about the optimization continuously happening. >> Yeah. It's always going to try to be better. >> That's good. Is there hardware or besides the tablet on the buses, is there other hardware that has to be loaded on the buses or is there any type of how do they track the buses? Is there component on the bus that's able to >> we
083>> that has to get installed? >> Yes, we'll have to install those devices on the buses. >> Okay. And those they can probably remote in and fix if there's an issue, I'm assuming. >> Yes, I believe we'll get an alert. That's a good question. >> Sounds good. Any other questions by the board? >> If none, I will entertain a motion. >> I will move consider uh to approve a quote from CES vendor Tyler Technologies for student transportation software of 147,826. >> I was thinking that Mr. C. Yes, sir. >> Mrs. Cameron. Yes, >> Mrs. PZ. >> Yes, >> Mr. Rosco. >> Yes, Mr. Crow. Yes. >> Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. >> On to item D, consideration to approve quote. Sorry, that was D. Uh, consideration item E, consideration of resolution authorizing the disposal of
084technology. >> Did I apologize again? >> Or I didn't know D. Maybe I skip from >> consideration to approve quote from CS vendor Spectrum Technologies for smart interactive displays at Denning High School $297,76.15. >> We have Mr. Glickler to assist us with this presentation. President Drosco, members of the board, Superintendent Waldmouth, if you'll allow me a very quick deviation from the agenda. It's October 16th, so happy bosses day. Well done, everyone. Okay. All right. As far as the rest of it goes, I'm looking to purchase 95 interactive displays for Deming High School. The reason that we're looking to do this is currently Deming High School for its projection needs uses projectors in the ceiling which are pretty good, but they were put in place when that building was built. They are now eight years old.
085In many places they work well. There's other places we're having a great number of challenges. The key challenges that we're experiencing is with regards to security because the projectors in order to have their optimal capabilities, you have to have a little wireless device that's bolted onto them. Those devices are no longer up to date and they can be compromised and they cannot be updated any further because they are end of life. So our proposal is to standardize every high school on the same system that the other schools are increasingly using. Almost every school in the district, every classroom has an interactive display. This proposal would get an 86 inch display, the GX86 model from Spectrum Technologies. It's a smartboard. It's also called smart. Uh it's the vendor name. And we'll put one in every classroom
086at Debing High School. >> We would also not take the projectors down right away because teachers really like the projectors and they are still working. >> They're still working in great part, just they have limited functionality because of the security concerns that we've had to address. So our plan for those is as long as they work and they are not end of support and end of life and presenting a security risk, we're going to roll with those as well as we implement these these interactive displays. We're doing something a little bit different with every high school. When it came to the Red Mountain implementation, one of the concerns that people had was space. Uh that these boards are large and they take up a lot of room, so they are mounted on the walls. uh
087with any high school that's just a little bit less feasible to do because they have that really cool wall that even without the projectors that you can write on in every classroom. So we're going to get stand instead and if the teacher doesn't like where it is because one of the things teachers like to do that is move things around in their classroom every single year they can move those board just fine. With that I stand for any questions. >> Questions by the board for you have none. Undertain a motion. >> I make a motion to approve a quote from the CES vendor Spectrum Technologies for the smart interactive displays at Denning High School for 297,76.15. >> Mr. C. >> Yes, sir. Mrs. Cameron, >> yes. >> Mrs. PZ, >> yes. >> Mr. Rosco, >>
088yes. >> Mr. Cole, yes. Thank you so much, Ben. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> And you're still up, Ben. Uh consideration of resolution authorizing the disposal of technology items through public auction. >> Thank you, sir. One of the things that I tasked my warehouse team with is every single month I'm having them give me a list of other things that they've managed to recover from schools that we need to dispose of. And we're continuing to find desktops, laptops, monitors, full pieces of technology from 2006 to 2015 that we're bringing back to the warehouse and probably for disposition. That prep work is a multi- uh prronged approach. The technicians are decommissioning the computer so they can be safely sold. They're being stripped of any demi technology information so that they can be again safely sold.
089And we're also identifying computers that we bring back to our technology warehouse that can still be used. Anything from 2019 onward we tend to look at to preserve so we can make sure we have enough computers just in case. Uh but the ones that we're looking to dispose of today are the older ones. There are on this uh there is on this list of items 582 583 I believe. Of that list, 12 of them were a purchase price of over $1,000. Uh but they're all generally old things like servers from 10 plus years ago that we're no longer using as part of our initiative to reduce the number of servers we have in the district. Um a large old version of an interactive display that is very purple and doesn't work anymore and a few
090large screens that have broken. We also have a very small number of items that were purchased in the last 5 years that were also requesting approval to dispose of and that's because sometimes students bunk into screens at Red Mountain High School and they fall on the ground and go boom. So, we can't fix those. We're going to sell all the scraps. With that, I stand for any questions. >> Any questions by the board? >> I wish I could fix things as quick like that as my home as you can. Right. >> If not, I'll entertain a motion. [Music] I'll move the consider uh resolution authorizing the disposal of technology item item items through public auction. I'll second >> Mr. Croll. >> Yes, sir. Mrs. Kennedy? >> Yes. >> Mrs. PZ? >> Yes. >> Mr. Rosco?
091>> Yes. >> Mr. Croll? Yes. Thank you so much. >> Thank you again. I'm I'm really intrigued by the idea of technology ottomans. That sounds very comfortable. I'd like to do one small deviation from the agenda. I would like to thank you all for the approvals we've done in previous years for our network improvements. We just in the last two weeks completed the upgrades at two of the schools that were funded in great part by the right monies that we accepted and in small part but still insubstantial funds from the school district as well. Those are done and that means that both those schools Columbus and Ruben Torres have new networks. Great. So, thank you very much. Thank you. Well, thank you for you and your team and the work that you guys do. It's
092it's phenomenal. >> Thank you. [Music] onto consideration to adopt amendments to policy GE G-9400 as recommended by NMBA policy advisory 246. Mr. President, members of the board, uh these next few items are all related to uh we our workshop we had last Thursday uh for the first read of these policies. I'll let you know that um as we move through each one um none of the there have been no changes to the policies beyond what we discussed on um last Thursday. So, as a reminder, this is a policy having to do with um updating some of our policies to be clear on the return to work procedures um in the state. >> Further questions or comments by the board policy? If not, I'll entertain a motion. I will move consideration to adopt of amendments to
093policy GE-9400 as recommended in NMSBA policy advisory 246. >> I will I will second that. Mr. Yes, sir. Mrs. Cameron. >> Yes. >> Mrs. PZ. >> Yes. >> Mr. Rosco. Yes. Mr. Croll. Yes. All right. On to item G, consideration of adoption, amendments, and deletions of policies as recommended by NMSBA policy advisories 247 through 260. >> Uh Mr. >> Yes, Mr. President, there's quite the list there. Just uh for the remind the the board um and the public, this is um uh the legislature passed some laws back in 2003 uh that required some additional language be added through our policies and uh deleting some policies relative to um uh tobacco and drugs uh throughout our policies. So um that's why there's such a large list here. But as mentioned last week, there are very um
094very uh minor changes and mostly um ramifications. >> 2003 or 200 Sorry. Sorry. 2023, >> not 2003. Not not 22 years behind the state. The state's only two years, not 22 years. >> Okay. All right. Any questions or comments by the board? If not, I'll entertain a motion. Go ahead. >> You want to read all that? >> No, just what I read. Just that that top portion. >> No. >> Someone that would like to read, you know, >> just that top portion where it starts with consideration and ends in specifically just just that piece. I'll move consideration of adoption amendments and deletion of deletion of policies as recommended by New Mexico State School Board Association policy advisories 247-2260 specifically. >> That's good. >> I don't need to as listed. >> Yes, that works. >> I
095will second that. Mr. Croll. >> Yes. Mrs. Cameron. >> Yes. >> Mrs. PZ. >> Yes. Mr. Rosco, >> yes. >> Mr. Cole, yes. >> All right. On to item H. Consideration of amendments of policies as recommended by NMSBA policy advisories 261 and 262 specifically. Charles, can you flip to the next slide, please? >> Thank you. This is just a reminder uh two uh two um updates here. This has to do with uh our our graduation requirements. Again, no substantial um changes were made to what you all adopted back in April of 2025, but this is to make sure from the policy advisory, we integrate key language relative to nextstep planning, graduate profiles um and references to specific state um state regulations. So again, doesn't really change anything specifically uh doesn't change anything in in its
096essence, but just to make sure that we are in full um compliance um with how our policies are stated. >> Any questions or comments by the board? >> No, I maintain a motion. I make a motion um to approve the amendments of policies as recommended by the NMSBA policy advisories 261 and 262 specifically um 11E student schedules and port loads 11 I mean 1KF graduation requirements and we'll second that Mr. C. Yes sir. Mrs. Camp, >> no. >> Mas, >> yes. >> Mr. Ruscoll, >> yes. >> Mr. Cole, yes. >> Thank you. On to item I, consideration of amendments to policies as recommended by NMSBA, policy advisories 263 and 264. Uh, Mr. President, members of the board, um this was also again um a policy advisory uh relative to some uh laws passed in the
097last legislative session, making sure that um uh students had the right to wear tribal regalia at school events for any federally registered uh students that are part of federal registered um indigenous or indigenous groups. Um and make sure that um they're not disciplined for uh wearing those um at school. Any questions or comments by the board? If none, I will entertain a motion. I think I'm the only one that can read this. Is that right? Okay. I will move the consideration of amendments to policies as recommended by New Mexico School Board Association policy advisors 263 and 264 specifically uh IKFB1-7450 tribal regalia at school events and JK J4600 student discipline read the other two. >> No. >> Okay, it stops there. Thank you. I second that. >> Mr. Croll. >> Yes, sir. Mrs. Karen. >>
098Yes. >> Mrs. PZ. >> Yes. >> Mr. Rosco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Curl. Yes. >> All right. On to item J. Consideration of adoption and amendments of policies as recommended by NMSBA policy advisories 265 through 269. Uh Mr. President, members of the board, again, uh this was u a collection of policies that don't have quite the theme. The other ones do, but uh this uh first one, EBC, is just a reminder that uh we have to start integrating and uh installing AEDs at our campuses over the next few years. Uh IIA had to do with making sure that we are instructing structured literacy in the early grade levels. Uh J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J I J J J J
099J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J Ij J that is just um you all had already passed a electronic communication device policy that was very good and ahead of the curve of the state. That was just a couple of minor additions to make sure um there was a couple of wordings from the state law we want to add in there, but does not substantially change anything that you all have already passed nor the expectation that that policy uh places um uh in our schools. And the last one, this was a law that was passed last legislative session about our responsibility to notify um local um the
100schools um notify our parents about um water safety training available in our communities. >> Any questions by the board? Comments? >> If not, I'll entertain a motion. I make a motion for the adoption um to I make a motion to approve the adoption and amendments of policies as recommended by NM SBA policy advisories um as read by Mr. Wman. >> Do I have a second? I'll second that. Mr. C. >> Yes, sir. >> Mrs. Cameron? >> Yes. >> Mrs. PZ? >> Yes. Mr. Rosco. >> Yes, >> Mr. Co. Yes. And just remember, we went over this last week, all these policies that had to be changed. >> I think that's good to know that we just didn't come that that we have these. We we've read them and asked questions before it's not the first
101time that we see it. Someone had approached me that once that why don't we really just study what I saw there. I said, well, we do. >> All right. On to cake. Consideration of approval of amendments to policy CB C-01000. >> Let's go to the next one. That one we did we wasn't on agenda. We did take out that AI. This um was a policy that was brought to you all in um August had to do with the superintendent evaluation timeline. Uh I had forgotten in the September meeting to bring this was actually the easiest one of all. I forgot to bring this one back to you for approval. Um and uh so uh there's a statement in the policy that says the board will take action on an existing superintendent contract no later than
102February of the year the contract expires. That is being removed from the policy. Right. Removes that requirement that you take action on superintendent contract at a certain time. So we did discuss that back in um August. I just put it back in September for um consideration for approval. >> Comments by the board. questions. If not, I'll entertain a motion. >> Make a motion to approve the amendments of policy CDC C0110. Superintendent, >> I'll second that. Mr. C. >> Mrs. Cameron, >> yes. >> Mrs. PZ, >> yes. >> Mr. Rosco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Cohen. >> Yes. >> All right. On to board announcements and requests for items. Any board member have requests for items information on the next meeting. >> I have a Oh, she keeps telling me I have to push this and do
103something. Uh, no. I'm going to wait and do this. I think I will. I'll retract that. Thank you. Okay. Um, important date, very important date. Tickets for Thanksgiving lunchon can now be purchased on the parent portal at the school sites until October 24th. It's my understanding that that is the deadline. After that, there is no ticket sales. Is that my understanding, ma'am? >> Yes. And the reason is we purchase food a week in advance to get it into our schools. So, it will give us the week of the 27th through the 31st to get it there and then we start serving the next week. So, please, the people are listening, the people are watching, please impress on your folks, on your people, because I guarantee there'll be somebody coming on the 25th asking if they
104can buy tickets. >> And this is this is a a reoccurrence. We've been doing this for the last several years of cutting that deadline off. Um because of that advanced order, um we want to make sure that we have enough food the date of the events. >> So, please parents follow that that date. Please get your your tickets purchased before the 24th or on on or before the 24th. The next regular meeting will be held November 20th, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at the EMTT Shock Administration building here at 400 Cody Road. And with that, we're going to adjourn from the board to enter into close executive session. No action will occur as close executive session. The board will discuss the following limited personnel matters pursuant to 10-15-1H2 of the open
105meetings act as amended for superintendent and deputy superintendent report on employee employees on admin administrative potential and or recent employment terminations. Personally identifiable information about any individual students pursuant to 10-15-1H4 of the open meetings act. Attendance for success act bargaining strategy preliminary to collective bargaining negotiations between policym body and a bargaining unit represented representing the employees of the policym body pursuant to 10-15-1H5 of the open meetings act purchase acquisition or disposal of real property or water rights by the public schools by the public body pursu to 10-15-H-1H8 of the Open Meetings Act NSA 1978 located at 2480 Hermon Southwest Deming, New Mexico 88030 related to the portion of the property occupied by a mobile home. And I will entertain a motion to go into consection. >> No, that one's been struck. >> Oh, okay. I'll
106second >> and I will entertain a motion to go to close session. >> So move that we go into close session. >> Okay, >> I'll second that. >> Mr. Crow, >> Mrs. Cameron, >> yes. >> Mrs. Ty, >> yes. >> Mr. Ros, >> yes. >> Mr. Crow, yes. >> That close session. Thank you everybody. >> Thank you guys. How are you? All right. Um, we're back out of close session and I will entertain a motion to come out of close session. >> I so move. >> I'll second that. Mr. Croll? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Cameron? >> Yes. >> Mrs. PZ? >> Yes. >> Mr. Rosco? Yes. Mr. Croll? Yes. Okay. And with that, we're back in open session. And um in close session, we will move to approve authorizing the superintendent in consultation with legal
107counsel to proceed as discussed in the closed executive session regarding the disposition of property located at 2480 Hermones grade southwest Deming New Mexico 88030 related to the portion of property occupied by the mobile home. And I will entertain a motion. >> Also amen. >> I'll second that. Mr. Croll. >> Mrs. Cameron. >> Yes. >> Mrs. PZ. >> Yes. >> Mr. Arusco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Croll. Yes. >> Okay. >> And with that, I'll entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> I second that. Or I'll make a motion. Second, >> Mr. Crow. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Cameron. >> Yes. >> Mrs. PZ. >> Yes. >> Mr. Rusco, yes. Mr.