001To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible and justice for all. [Music] remember. two public school. >> Uh Madame President, members of the board, I just would like to bring the attention of the board to the uh two most important updates in the last month. Um this month of August, we received a letter from our contractor who did our uh fire alarm system and that is part of of the report. Um I'm happy to report that uh we have completed all the installation. They have completed all the installation and right now at this time we are just waiting for the final acceptance inspection from the fire marshall office. So, um this is uh part of our uh long-term plan in uh updating
002our fire alarm system at the same time making sure that it actually worked and that uh but however we've already completed uh one uh drill for the month of August which is required uh for uh new school year and so moving forward but this also verifies and uh clarifies to to you and to our stakeholders that uh we are pretty much on top of making sure that our fire alarm system is working. So since uh the beginning of the second semester of the year 2025, if you would have noticed um some people the Johnstone uh Johnson control have been coming in uh during weekdays and during weekends um but during weekdays uh no instruction, no classroom instruction has been impacted. Instruction continued on and then during weekend that's the time that they work inside the
003classroom building. During those installation and update, there were no live electrical wires that uh that uh put any of our students in danger. So uh this is a a verification from the company itself. And then uh Miss through the work of Miss Charlene, we are now approaching the completion of the uh project for the beacon light. So, I'm very happy. Of course, we would have been happy to get the the grant to to do the walkway, but here you would see uh the plan and right now we can use this already to get codes and we are just waiting for the from from the New Mexico Department of Transportation is uh we're just waiting for them to give us the final approval because at this point in time they still have ownership have the or
004right away. Um once the construction happens, the ownership of the beacon light will be transferred to Hemis Valley public schools. So I am waiting for that to happen so that we would have a a formal uh turnover ceremony. But having said that once the beacon light becomes for owned by the district then it will be part of our operational expense to do maintenance as well as operation uh for it. So but I believe that that is a that is a good way for the district or a good investment for a district because it does help keep our student secure. So um in addition to that um I have been part of uh I attended I think the second meeting regarding transportation about the push for from the state of New Mexico on electric bus. So
005um I know I'm very much aware of the complexities of these electric buses especially in our area here. So um but at the same time I wanted to make sure that um our our constituent as well as our policy makers understand what will happen if we do that in our district. you know it it might be a cost saving in the future but will it really be as far as our uh service area is concerned and so um I've been speaking with one of the representative I I did uh express to them um my concerns as well as some my questions especially with okay if we're going to have this will will the state support updating our electrical system because it would require a different a different electrical outlet. How about training? And how about
006school district that do not have their own maintenance facility that rely on contract uh uh contractor to do maintenance. So I'm hoping to get um receive back some new answer. At the same time I asked for some rubrics as to you know who could qualify and what would be the qualification what would be our part as a district if this becomes uh if this becomes the trend. So having said that uh we would like to make sure that uh our voice are heard and that um our stakeholders are heard as far as will it be uh doable, will it be practical, especially during winter season, you know, things like that. So I I'll give you some more updates as I get from the PE. So at the same time um this is our 33rd week
007already of our school school year and we still have some hiccups uh in making sure that our high school are taken care of as far as their uh classes is concerned. But we've already completed our first two week that allows them to make changes to their electives. And so uh we should uh after the hummingbird uh war a shining warrior camp uh we should have a complete uh slate of elective courses at the same time no more for the final part or there should be no more changes of classes by then. Uh as far as our CLSD is concerned um we are full on in that we have uh the elementary, the middle school, the high school and the CLSD team has already started working with the LT process is basically um another part of
008need assessment root cause analysis. Uh um I explained to the to the state that the district had just recently adopted our five-year strategic plan but part of the CL CS CLSD and CSI process is that the district is also required to have there is specific literacy plan district literacy plan uh the goal is to align it because we have we already have a very good foundation with our uh fiveear strategic plan. It's more about creating a literacy plan that will be inclusive uh from prek all the way to 12th grade. And then it also addresses all the subgroups. So um by the by the September uh board meeting, we will already be able to share with you our beginning of year data as well as the the the full K12 um master um academic master
009data that would include the uh that would include the tier one, tier 2, tier three materials as well as activities for ELA, math, science, and social studies. So, um but I'm happy to report that as far as um our elementary is concerned, um elementary science is now part of the curriculum and is now being taught as their own core class. Uh middle school and Mr. Foster will expound on that later. Um last in the last two years we've concentrated in our eighth grade for their um literacy improvement intervention and enrichment. This year we were able to provide those support services for each grade level not just for literacy but also for math. Uh the same thing for uh we are working right now for um the high school um starting with our ninth grader. They
010now have their own um literacy improvement uh class. At the same time, the 11th graders are taking their SAT uh prep classes. So um hopefully by second semester once our CLSD is in full swing um the ELA curriculum is already being um used in the high school. Uh as soon as we have data uh beginning of year data we are going to start calibrating our activities and then hopefully no later than October we should also start our after school program sooner this year. So, um that's uh and of course tomorrow it has been a a hectic week because uh our district is preparing for tomorrow's shining warrior. So, you're you're definitely more than invited to see our uh students once again. Uh this has been our fourth year and um every year we try a
011different So as Dr. mentioned the year's off to a fast start exciting camping it cool weather but maybe not thunderstorms. So all right. Um so um first uh we are going to continue to put an emphasis on our social emotional learning. All uh throughout our uh throughout our schedules every uh every grade level has a block of social emotional learning to start their day off. And then as far as you guys remember from our last board meeting, we did launch our new district website here for you. So, uh, since August 1st, we've had over 10,000 visits to our website. Our daily average views have increased from 391 to 852. Um, I found this to be very exciting. Our job page has had 439 views and given the size of our our community, that's a large
012portion of our community. So um hopefully you know get some quality applicants from that as well. The other pages that have gotten high views is district news with 796 and resources. The biggest traffic driver for our website is actually the app. And so we've had over 96 downloads for the app. And then we seem to be getting the message out. And then so next a couple staff updates. We did hire a case specialist, Marissa Hughes, who started yesterday. And then this year we also do have a new fifth grade teacher, Mito. And then we just now are on boarding a new middle school English arts teacher, Miss Cortez. And so our once that hire takes place, our middle school will be 100%. Our shiny warriors camp is scheduled for tomorrow and Thursday at Hburg Music
013Camp. Our high school students will stay overnight. The goal is for some fun activities, social moments, learning, literacy, sports, art. Um, our speech therapist is a very good artist and so she has uh decided to do a painting outside painting event for the students and each class will rotate through. So that will be very cool. And then uh really the experiences kind of bond camaraderie just the beginning of the of the year can be crazy and so to kind of get everybody off on the right foot now that we've gone through a couple weeks of shifts and stuff like that. Okay, now let's celebrate that and we can be off. Um our peer support mental health group has continued meeting. uh meet up meet on Tuesday and Thursday and really this is an opportunity for
014students to connect, share, support each other and also push that out to the campus level. The other initiative that we are and I'll get into the reason why a little bit u but we're we are in the process of getting staff train crisis prevention prevention. What this is, it's a trained to help staff deal with those crisis situations for students, whether that is anger, behavior, throwing things. Um, so to allow uh staff to be fully prepared to handle those situations instead of not quite sure knowing how to handle them. And then in our elementary school, um our elementary school has chosen a theme to start the year off with of better together. Um student staff have created puzzle pieces symbolizing their contributions to the school school community and part of the focus this month is
015collaboration. Elementary is doing Monday assemblies to start their week off with uh which feature discussions, team building and recognition of collaborative practices. Uh and then the family community engagement, the Oregon welcome provided students uh interested with backpack filled with books to to start building home libraries and really push the literacy meaning that doesn't just happen to happen at school. U and then our elementary academic assessments. Uh every student has completed a a one-on-one literacy assessment. An individualized literacy plan has been developed and we have begun to roll out our air reading program which we have talked about in previous uh board meetings as well as at the end of the day throughout elementary they have what they're our administrators calling wind block. So it's what I need targeted small group instruction based on students. uh
016they meet twice weekly for PLC using the PLC plus framework and uh they've also form had a formation of a site based leadership team um and uh so kind of jumping back to the CPI thing. So a couple days prior to the start of the school year we got influx of a few students which is great. However, um the students do require high high levels of and so we are in the process right now of building what we're calling a resource room, but it is really focusing on an autism program. Um so, and our team is also actively reviewing IEPs uh and schedules uh to protect core instruction. All right, on to our middle school. Um, so we've had an increase in our enrollment in middle school as well. Uh, beginning of the year we
017were starting in the low 60s, approximately 63, I believe, and now we're up to 7. Um so um the academic updates uh teachers have been focusing on establishing instructional expectation, reinforcing literacy and math foundations and ensuring alignment with grade level standards. Our CLS intervention program is actively supporting multiple students through target small group instruction and intervention and that student progress is being tracked for assessments to help guide the instruction and planning for students. Um, one of the things that, uh, you know, gota give a shout out to Miss Ben here, um, when it comes to how she scheduled, um, she created blocks for for our large classes. So, we have an A block and a B block for seventh and eighth graders to keep those class sizes small to help with student engagement and meet
018the needs of our students. And so, um, And then also students have benefited from these have achieve 3000 and I excel in their intervention. All students have 20-minute block with in addition to that our middle school all grade levels have a study skills block to re to reinforce what's being taught also to provide those skills to develop in those positive study habits that they can carry on from middle school into high school. And then for our high school, we are at 105 students and classroom walkthroughs will be conducted to focus on attendance monitoring, instructional rigor, and student engagement. Our CTE program offers five programs of study to prepare students for career skills like culinary arts, construction, traders, computer science, career exploration, and agency response. Um, additionally we have a partner partners partnerships with federal college
019and CN president in regards to our CP program you will notice that is based on a area study. So each every year the Pin and the CTE have different areas and we meet and they and we study the the economy of the area and so we belong part of the Sandal County area together with our delivery and then it's a study as to what is the high paying jobs what are the high demand jobs and these are um most uh these fives are part of those that are high demand and high paying jobs that are also aligned with the uh expressed uh interest of our students. So that's why when we apply for the CTE grant, we focus on this three on this five grants, but we also u provide a individualized CTE program if
020they do decide. But we are uh we are hoping that uh our goal for this year is that 50 of our high school students will be initiators and 20 will be concentrators and about 15 will be completers. The idea is that if we start them in this program of study that when they graduate they graduate not just with a high school diploma but with an associate degree or a trade certificate. So um it's it's it's a lot of conversation with students you know and but I'm very glad that our ninth graders are already starting with their uh career exploration so that we as if they start as 10th grade then they will be initiators 11th grade they will be a concentrator and when they graduate they will actually be a completer. So I'm very glad
021we are completered because I don't know how they're looking or what their rubric rates are but now we have Sandoval County water treatment uh program is offering or contacting our district to offer an internship a paid internship for our high school students who can become a water treatment intern. and we they don't have to go anywhere because we actually have a uh a hired uh water treatment person and so our high school student will have that opportunity. So Mr. Foster and Mr. Steve and Mr. Bangu is working on getting information on that. I've also received invitation uh Mr. Foster is already finalizing our uh internship with the uh future focused education not just to offer the youth mental health but to actually create a POS for mental health provider. So uh at the same time
022uh and this is very important in our area because with uh the federal government have some changes for their prioritization and but one of the area that we would like to be self-sufficient especially in our district is in the mental health services. We so having a pipeline of our students from the community in the mental health realm would be very beneficial. Uh we've also have an increase of interest on military but they don't need to learn skills when they're already in the military. They can already learn trade trade school I mean trade skills uh here. So we are able to hire additional substitutes and a lot of a lot of local uh community members are expressing interest. Hey I am a licensed in this. I can teach that. So I'm trying to find a way
023so that we will be able to use the skill of our community members that are willing to teach and our students are able to benefit from that and we have teachers. Uh it's a matter of creating a a system wherein we have our licensed teachers working with our community members who are licensed in their trade so that we would be able to offer that kind of opportunities for our students. just for CB specifically. All right. So as Dr. want to mention we have uh we are in the finalization process our future education internship which will allow two two students to create an internship and the benefit of this is that they'll actually do the internship right here on campus by working so it focuses on that about about 80 hours working on this room and
024then two hours working and again this is all about creating opportunities for our student program here my career so excit for that next step after they leave here and they don't go now what they know exactly what we're going to do and then our special our high school special education staff have been working with students on their transition plans to support their pathways after graduation uh plans focus on preparing students for college career and community opportunities So we do have um short goals to our high school. Uh so it's worth investing different instructional learning parent teacher conferences and really increase participation in the classroom learning the learning experience should be more than just and then We also have a high school and then we have our CLS intervention program support campuses. Um the goal is
025really supporting teachers implementing research based reading interventions, analyzing assessment data data and providing professional development to coordinate to coordinate schedules targets specifically. Yes. Yeah. What is the follow? So at the end of the year, so that's why you have an initiator, concentrator, and then so they're building every year on those skills. um some of our programs maybe they may leave with a certificate some with the skills that they can document um I think a big part is also the second part of this is providing the resources in the community as well >> so then how do they obtain the certificate >> it depends on the program because so like for example we are this year we are doing an ocean 10 program where once they completed that for election but we can address that. Uh
026there are some students who for those uh for those students that are enrolled in a specific CEO if they completed the course and the requirement for the certificate course while they are student in the in our high school. um we provide the certification through the company or through the resources like in this case OSHA or uh through NOI those are the different certificate uh courses or if they are enrolled in dual credits um they get the we we work with the college to make sure that they get their dual credit certificate as well as their high school certificate for those students. Uh and we do have students that uh took uh that they still have opportunity to complete the certification even after they graduate high school. They've already earned their high school credit and they
027would continue to be able to um finish the the finish the the course. But that's a very good question and um I think that's going to be an initiative for us that for those students who com who completed high school but still need additional time to complete their certificate coursework that we that and that is part it we do it in special education. We do our postsecary part of our post-secary transition. We call our students 3 years after graduation. So every year in the next 3 years we call them and this year like we said we've established our um what do you call that uh oh homecoming not homecoming uh those who graduated from here alumni alumni association so that's going to I think uh and that's a very good point I think we have
028to create a program wherein the support and and my my students hear that that even after they graduate high school that they can still contact the school through through our administrator or through our alumni for additional support because I do have students who who still contact me and to say can you check my can you check my essay you know I yeah I have one just one kid I also have students who just want to say hey I'm doing good in my school so we'd like to capture those but we would like to I I I will work with our leadership team and our administrators to make sure that we reached out to those students who completed our high school and that asked what other supported they needed post high school. That is part of
029our postsecary uh goal. So postsecary support [Music] I'm curious in the middle school there's the peer support mental health group and then the high school has the internship. >> No the peer support mental health group is in the high school. Oh, okay. Maybe I have my pages messed up. Are they the Are they one in the same? >> No. No. Well, it's so the internship is different. >> Okay. >> So, our peer support mental health group, although our peer support, our students from our peer support group can apply for the internship. >> Okay. >> Right. And they have do have a lot of the training that is required for the for internship. So, but um but they're they're similar but different. So like you can be in so like you can be in the mental
030health support group and not the internship. >> Sure. >> And and I can add on that M president um as far as our peer mental health support group um our youth our our high school students who completed their internship are now consider considered youth mentors. So as part of the program they are actually able to mentor uh high school and middle school even elementary but for this year uh our focus is for them to be able to mentor their other high school peers. >> Okay. >> Yes. Because uh uh so our partners we have about five Okay, he's not here anymore. I think we have five completed but the one that is uh working right now towards the additional internship are two students. So uh based on the capacity of these two students, they will
031be uh working with the focused educ uh focused ed to establish first and to take care of our wellness room in the high school. And because that is established program in the high school, we're going to uh pursue that first. Um we've applied unfortunately not granted. we've applied for a grant that would have allowed us to offer both middle school and high school. >> And so, um, we've received a a an email from the program, uh, director that said that, um, there were a lot of applicants and unfortunately the money ran out fast. And so I asked them um you know we did not know you know if if that's amount it could have been divided appropriately. Um of course we know that it was competitive but I know that we've made we've made a
032solid uh application >> and uh I I did ask the director I said are you going to have additional funding because we do need this service in our school. We would like to supplement what we're using now. They said that she said I forgot her name that as that she and the department is working to look for additional money because they see the need throughout the state and as soon as they're able to locate a fund we will be in the pipeline. So anything on that sir? Uh no the the other thing along with the mental health thing is that this year we are we have partnered with the Cook Institute um to do some research and um this year we are control group. So we're just kind of on standby and then next year
033we will get into the research study as well. Um we met with them at a conference and when they heard what we were doing they were actually bombing up it for a control group this year instead of so um but you know it is it is something that that we are continuing to push forward for and it's really based on the student need you know um so you know with the internship you know I wish we could offer you know five 10 internships you know and maybe down the road that'll happen >> so we're starting with two um throw it with our partners future focused and um you know and we're just going to see where where it goes but you know I was even talking with our with our partners and what I would
034like to see is the group itself not necessarily the internship but the group sort of expand a little bit to provide support to middle school and elementary. Um, and what I really feel that'll do is that'll create that internal pipeline. Like you have, you know, a second grade student who does some, you know, spend some time with a sophomore in high school, you know, even if it's just doing games or something, right? >> And that'll be like, oh, that person was there just to hang with me, comfort me, make me feel good. So when I get to high school, I want to do that to somebody else. >> Yeah. Like a big brother, big sister. >> Exactly. Uh we do we have a mediator program? >> We did not have a mediator program >> at
035least since I've been here. However, as the administrator, it was not a program. That's what I have just been able to do. >> Yeah, >> we've tried offering a conflict resolution class. We've tried that. uh it was viewed as a as a class. So we wanted to make that more of a of a support services. >> And so um we've >> um we have a plan. We just could not get the appropriate personnel to oversee it. and hopefully um our partner with CRC right now and they're also they're also impacted with the funding um funding issues. As a matter of fact, our title 4 is still on on still hanging on balance there. Um our partner from CRC is actually able to in uh to continue to provide us with a social worker. Last year
036that social worker was helping us two days a week but this year CRC was very happy working with us. So they've increased that service to three days a week. >> That is in addition to us hiring our own full-time social worker. Sure. >> So with the submission of our wellness uh health and wellness grant middle school and high school, the plan was supposed to have that 0.5 social worker that will be specifically assigned in the middle school to offer that wellness program in the middle school. So but knowing that we have this flexibility now once we do have our full-time we're just waiting for her to be on board. Once we have our full-time social worker, it will augment the social work services that is offered by our partner and it's just a matter of
037we are already good in the high school. So now we're going to focus in the middle school. Yes. Uh hoping that when we become the experimental group next year with the Cook Institute, we will get additional support. So that's our plan right now. getting a an appropriately licensed person to help us in the middle school. >> Sure. Um my thought process is of course like oh you you apply for so many I can't even keep up with how many you apply for. So I mean that's wonderful but when there isn't money how do we become creative in getting services for kiddos? kind of been thinking elementary school. In the fourth grade, I was a recess recess mediator and so kiddos even at that age have the ability and capacity to provide that. >> Um, so
038I guess I'm just wondering how do we tap in even >> Well, I think one of the things that we can do is, you know, looking at historic justice approach, right? Maybe we can even bring our sport mental health group with younger kids. Let's say there is an argument on the playground, right? To help mediate that. >> Yeah, that's exactly. >> Yeah. And so, um, and that is something that they have been trained in is that those communication skills to do that. So, that was all part of their mental health first >> aid. [Music] Go ahead. Um going back to mental health um training and stuff, is there any staff that's certified as an instructor to teach the youth here? Because they offer they do offer courses like that through UNM. If you guys want
039information, I have contact people. I have contact information and it's pretty much free. you guys don't have to pay for, >> you know, whatever because I think it's important for staff to have that structure certification in order for them to um teach the students for >> So the other thing that we started to look at is curriculum to to use during that time. So we've met with one one company so far want to meet with a few more uh really find that the best fit for our for our students are we have certain that as well but anything that is close to free will we do have that so we did have so we've offered the youth mental health first aer for all our staff members and it was also offered for anyone who wants
040to become a trainer. It just takes time. >> Yeah. >> To become a trainer. So we have two of them who started it but then they are also tied to other heavy work. So >> how much time mean does it take because it only takes one week to get that certification >> every day. It's an intense course to get that certification because I have I have the instructor certification blended. So it's that it has the youth, the adults and the um the middle age. >> Yes, it that's that's the hard part there. The the a lotment time required because relying on our current staffing, they're already uh fully utilized. We actually have one that is certified in uh polyogal uh uh therapy s music therapy and she already had planned on how to do this
041and then but we needed her on another program. So it's the but the good thing is uh despite uh some uh roadblocks with grant funding issue as far as being creative that's where we are looking right now. So for example, we have issues with our food service. So we we work Miss Andy and I talk with our uh contractor and say, "Hey, we have high school students." Instead of you, you're having a trouble finding bodies to help. We have students. So now we are creating that pipeline. So with this in particular so yes yes we are focused on the high school as far as the mentorship but these three students that that two of them three students but two of them are there fortunately hopefully we don't change their mind already told me that they
042wanted to do child care services so that's the one that is going to be for two periods they will be in the mentor so that's our support right uh middle school, we needed to get a uh right now um an appropriate professional to to service uh a unique need of the middle school group. Yes. But but as far as being creative, I think that's the that's the only way or the best way we can address our situation because we have to be very we have to be self-sufficient. um we're being self-sufficient with our safety and security um even with our um like for example for our maintenance and crew you know before I was telling students no I will not allow you but now there's three of them who wanted to you know who wanted
043to be in that trade and I said okay so I'm searching landscaping so I asked Mr. proposer. I said, "Okay, let's look for a let's look for a landscaping company in Albuquerque." I think I know somebody in Albuquerque. So, it's trying to say, "Okay, how can we make something that is that students are interested and it's not taking advantage of our students. It's really self-sufficient and ownership also because this is their school anyway. So just that the the complexity of of finding the the sweet spot and also uh trying to be in compliance with what's allowed and what's not allowed. But I'm what I'm happy is that the our students are stepping up and our community members I have many community members who already said I can teach. What do you need to do? So
044um we're hoping to tap them and um be able to start those service even even though if we could not offer it like daily but um we are going to start looking at after school of course we're um if we could not tap our title for money we have other funding that we can use we are going to start offering our Fridaymies so that even if we could not offer it during regular school days then we can offer it during after school. So uh we were not able to submit a grant for outdoor learning but we submitted a grant for innovation is innovation zone and finger crossed that would really really allow us that's a sizable amount of money that's a sizable amount of money that if we are approved we can really be very
045creative with our after school our Saturdays and our Fridays. So, we're hoping that and but I have contingency plans just in case it does not pursue. We might not we may not be able to implement our five uh activities that we put in our innovation zone grant. Well, maybe we just focus on two out of five. So, we still we should still be able to offer after school and Fridaymies at the very least. >> Yes. And we still as far as our mental health we continue to have partnership with Blue Haven. We continue to have partnership with uh Five Sandraal. As a matter of fact um Five Sandal actually extended invitation to our high school student to participate in their five sandal youth summit. Unfortunately our timing did not match because they had the same
046youth summit tomorrow and Thursday at the same time. But we did I had a chance to have a conversation with Mr. with Miss Romero uh when when we were planning it. Uh at that time we were looking at supposedly next week but of course they are also servicing other schools. So but the invitation has been there and Miss PBLO also extended the invitation to us for their own youth summit. So um just pray Lel uh actually Lel um I am sending a delegation to Espanola on October is specifically on college and career coaching and this is through Lel um Lel has u made some revival so to speak and they are also uh Lel is also scared heading the Yasi Martinez uh for the PED and I believe Miss Mr. Joe uh sent some invitation
047for any of us that can go. So we're just tapping on resources and our partner from uh Future Focus has been has really been very gracious and network us and hopefully they could help us with the community of practice. And um they wanted to help us revisit and uh and uh better tune our um graduation uh portrait uh graduate graduate profile which we already had but they offered to uh work with us to say how we can better align it. So they've already had a copy of our strategic plan and they were very impressed of the support that uh the community, the board and the school with our strategic plan and they are willing to help. Uh but now we just have to be very um creative because um they used to have they used
048to be they used to enjoy support from a grant. Now we'll just have to cost share. So the same thing with our internship, we are working on finding ways to be able to help with the cost sharing so that we can continue with our internship. Yes. And another thing as far as reaching out to, you know, community partners and things like that. Um actually a chance to leave this just happened today. Um so you guys remember last year students? Uh, so the lady that helped organize that reached out to me today to schedule a meeting to see how she can bring local artists into our school to provide lessons on different art strategies, different types of art and things like that. And it's it's really it's at no cost to us and it provides something
049for our students and the artists are using it to build portfolios and working on their strategies and things like that. >> That's it. Thank you. Thank you for your report. Moving down to see finance budget reports. I'm gonna let Mandy go ahead and get the report. >> Okay. So, I submitted our July checklist. I'm sure you noticed that um the total amount of checks um sent out in July exceeded a million dollars and that is um typical for July that it is delegated and that's due to our bond principle and interest payments as well as our um risk insurance premium that was due all um at the end of Octo July. Um, and we also received a grant uh to replace two of our buses. That was also a payment that we process in July.
050So, we uh were able to um replace the Z buses, two Z buses, and that's just because the state puts the the schedule. They have this uh schools on a certain schedule, so they tell us which buses that we're allowed to replace. Um and along with those two buses were um security cameras or camera systems. So those were also um placed in the the new buses as well. So on top of those big expenditures, we had maintenance and repairs for our cameras and our key access um contracted services and uh legal fees and then some uh typical uh utility charges. So electricity so on and so forth. Um I did not submit any IBTS for this month. I did submit uh two bars and that was for funds 24154 and 24189. And both of these
051bars were for carryover um awards that we received. And these carryover um awards go back to fiscal year 22. So we hadn't received carryover award letters since then. So we got hit all at once at the end of July. Um, so a couple of things with that. It does make it a little difficult for the districts. Um, I'm sure you saw for title 2, uh, which is 24154, it was over $80,000. And so a portion of that is for fiscal year 22 and 23, which all of those funds need to be obligated by next month. >> By next month. >> So um, >> and we only and we don't even have budget authority yet. >> Yes. So we do have a plan to Dr. Kamada and Mr. Host looking in uh to professional development that
052we could offer and to be able to spend down those um funds. So there is a plan in place. >> What we don't want to happen is to give any scent back. >> That's right. >> Yeah. We don't want to give any money back to the state. Um, one of the issues, um, that I was discussing during the budget meeting with the high amount of carryover in title 2 is that after COVID, it seemed that the majority of the professional developments that the teachers and principles were taking were free. >> That's right. So, I mean, you want to think that that was, you know, it was great for us that we had all of these opportunities, you know, for these professional developments and at no cost to the district, but it did make us have
053carryover in in a high amount of carryover. So, that was like a double-edged sword for the district and now we're seeing that. Um, so like I said, we do have a plan in place to try to get that spent for the fiscal year 24. We do have a little bit more time to spend that amount. Um but the state just asked that we u input the bar for the all three years and so that that's basically what I did. Um just some other updates is uh our quarter 4 actual was submitted to for approval um at the requested deadline um along with the quarter 4 actuals were a new report which is the final report. Um, so that was also submitted and at this point in time just waiting for approval from our budget analyst.
054There's the update I have right now. Again, in regards to that resident members of the board, we are Miss Randy has really been working with PD. Um even they are also experiencing uh different departments different grant uh administrators are also experiencing some difficulty because of this. So like right now you need to be able to complete some some purchases by this amount and we're still waiting for budget authority. Now I have um I have vendors saying will you still accept unfortunately we cannot process that yet. Um there are some you know we could have we could have supported it. However we want to also make sure that we tie it in that if we have a budget allocated for this we want to use it um as much as possible. We don't want to have
055some realignment. So we want to just stay with what we say we're going to use the money for. And as Dr. Kumal and Mr. Foster like to keep me on my toes with all the grants that they're applying for, you guys will start seeing more and more of ours. >> No, I just want to say thank you to Randy and Freda. Um, you know, they have to do the end of the year and the start of the year and they just, you know, we have some really good um, people in there and they're close to doing a great job. So, I really appreciate them. >> Going on to public comments. Do we have any? >> No, no public comment. >> Going down to more business for concept disposal and travel for students. Um so, every
056year we request that the board um approve our um asset receipt. So, we were able to um not compact it, but these were our um added new assets along with all of the fixes. So, that's over 5,000. And so, um every year we come to you requesting approval of um our assets. Peter >> Kathy both and then a for travel for students. >> Well, president members of the board. Um first of all um we have students here with us. I invited them because uh this would be our third year uh particip our district has participated as conferences and ASES uh conferences really allow our students here to have the same opportunity that anybody else from the city would have as far as college and career readiness. So this year Mr. Bobby was successful again in
057applying a grant and uh he plans to bring six high school students, three ninth graders and three 10th graders and I would like to acknowledge them and if you could introduce yourself and say your name and your grade. So >> hi everybody. My name is Nathan Jason Low and I'm from and we have one of our student here. He has to ride the bus. So Clinton Salazar seventh grade and we also have Madison Madison >> Pino Pino from ninth grade. Huh? Benson >> Benon say Madison Ben Madison and Nathan were our aces uh recurring. So we wanted to create a pipeline and so we are hoping that our ninth graders batch and our new 10th grader batch will stay with ACES until they graduate. They all wanted to go to college and um Mr. Higuio
058in fact and Miss Mr. are low here who already are taking advanced classes and we have nursing to be and we also have college bound students that will be playing sports and running in college. So, so we're very excited with them and uh they will be going with some chaperone and um if any of the board member is interested, let me know. But I do uh I did already uh ask for the support for the help of Miss um uh Miss Oh Lord, Miss Katy only because uh she they already have her they already have her information in aces. So uh but if anyone else of you that are wanting to go just let me know. Okay. So uh again I ask for your support and for your approval. The travel will be uh the
059the simple I mean the event will be October 1 to October 4 but they will be traveling um and I'm still going to work with the company. Uh the proposed travel is September 30 to October 5 from Tuesday to uh Sunday. >> Yes. is going to be in Minneapolis. The first year they went to Washington State. The second year they went to Georgia. [Music] >> The second was San Antonio. >> San Antonio. The Georgia was the competition there. Okay. And this year they will be moving to Minneapolis. >> There's no question. >> Any questions? No questions. I don't have a question but I do have my phone. So thank you guys and um you know good luck with this and um I have attended it before and there are so many resources out there and
060if you guys are really set on going to college and you know and there's other career things there too. So really take advantage of it and um continue like Nathan has because there's some really good things that can happen from this and I know you guys are all smart. So >> and the president if you don't mind I also would like to recognize their parents because Mr. Bobby had to talk to a lot of students but we needed the support of their parents because this is really going to be for to our college. So we also would like to acknowledge the parents. We have Mr. Kru here. Uh Miss Madison Benton is supposed to come with the dad and mom the last time but they have already been they have to go somewhere else. And
061of course Miss Kosa right here our parents. >> Oh Mr. I'm sorry you're being blocked by the podium. Apologize. Yay. >> Peter. Thank you sir. Thank you. [Music] >> Who second the motion? >> Okay. Thank you. And then the back planning board meeting September 16, 2025. [Music] >> Thank you. >> Yes. [Music]