001members, guests, good afternoon, good evening. And to those joining us uh through the web, uh good evening um members of the board, I have I do have my report with you. And uh but before I go over the highlights, I'd like to take this opportunity to formally welcome some new of our staff members. um contracts for our administrators um besides our 12 year 12 months uh employees had started last week and uh for our teachers uh their contract will be starting next week. So um as as as I have uh informed the board before as far as our organization is concerned um we now have each of our school sites elementary, middle school and high school now have our new uh program administrators. Mr. White Michael White Eagle will will be our new high school
002program administrator. Mrs. Ben will be our new middle school program administrator. And then we have our new staff member, Miss Amanda Herman, who will be our new elementary program administrator. And of course, we also have Mr. um uh Eric Foster uh that will now be playing the role for the director of schools and students support. So we will be heavy on that uh aspect. Um we also have a new addition uh through our um IT uh department. Um we have um I have made a decision to hire a new um a network administrator. Uh our system has many programs and KB systems and uh we are relying on multiple contacts to service our network and we are dependent on their available time. So we are happy that we are able to uh bring on board
003a an experienced network administrator who knows how a school system work. So um his name is Mr. Brian Boss. So, first I'd like to uh have Miss Herman, our new elementary program coordinate uh administrator to introduce herself. >> Good evening everyone. Uh my name is Amanda Hermas and I will be serving as the elementary program administrator. Um I come to Hannah's Valley uh with over 18 years in education. Um, most recently I spent the last six years in Bernalo public schools. Um, I am a native Fidian, but I have been living in New Mexico for the past 13 years now. Um, I have served uh students in pre kindergarten through 8th grade as a classroom teacher, um, reading interventionist, instructional coach, and then most recently administrator. Um I would say my expertise lies in structured
004literacy. I am a national board certified in early middle childhood literacy. Um I have um Wharton Gillingham training as well as letter training and structured literacy and most recently uh cognitive academic language practitioner certification which is very specified um certification for students with dyslexia. Um, so I hope to bring uh some of the strategies and expertise that I have gained over the years uh to our students here in our district. And I'm just very excited to meet them all and get going. >> Thank you for having me. >> And we also have Mr. Brian Boss, our new network administrator. Good evening. I'm president and school board. Brian Boss. I come from small town up north, Lindred, but I've had over 20 years working with in schools with technology and working with networking. So, we've been
005um working at looking and revising um some of the things we've seen in the district to help better suit the needs of the district and working with uh the uh admin cabinet, working like with Dr. Kamada, Miss Cordova, as well as Mr. foster be working on see what we can do to better help to support both our staff and our students. The whole idea is we want to get more technology in with our kids. We're in a digital age so I carry paper and pencil only when I have to. Um everything else is actually on my cell phone. Um but we're wanting to work to see what we can do to help with the camera systems and door lock systems. Familiar with both actually both of the systems that you guys have currently most of
006the educational programs that Dr. Kamada has talked to us about I've worked with them in other districts. Um so we're really happy to get to know the staff, get to know you guys, get to know the dis the community is takes the village to make to raise our kids and so how can we help them and so that's kind of what our department want to work wants to work more towards as well as helping uh keep them safe. That's part of the reason for the security of the cameras. And then also on the other side of that, we're looking for the never been part of hemis as far as the warrior welcome. We look forward to that. Getting to know some of our parents, meeting our kids. Um and then also working to make sure
007that they're ready to start first day of school. Our teachers will have all of their devices ready to go, handed out for them. Students the same way. Um, I know they've been working really well with us as far as getting all the new kids that we're getting in so we can get them a device that first day so they can get started with their education. So, look forward to working with him public schools, the opportunity that Dr. Kamada has provided to allow me to take my years of expertise in education. I come from a small community, small school, love the small communities, love the kids. We want to see them. So, appreciate you guys' time. and um he comes also with the intention to provide training to our staff and our parents. So not just
008to help the students but if our secretaries if our EAS our teachers administrators parents who wants to know how to use technology he told me I said can I offer some TVs after school? Sure definitely. So so thank you. We do have uh we also hired a new um fifth grade teacher. Um he was she was here today preparing her classroom already but like I said contract will start um next week. Uh her name is Miss Pikito. And we've also hired a new elementary special education teacher who is also certified in certified language specialist. And um so that's our new hires. And of course we have a have hired um a occupational therapist. We are working on our uh counselor social worker. We've offered it to two unfortunately they chose a different path. So we're
009I'm trying to connect and uh with another uh social worker that uh has expressed interest to join us in the beginning of the year. So uh just some um highlights uh in your packet uh you would see on my report you will see the school accredititation status. Uh this morning I attended a conference conference with public education discussing the school accreditation status. So to our stakeholders, to our community, I am glad to report that uh the secretary of department of education um gave our status and for ele for elementary, middle school and high school, we are all approved and for accreditation. Um the each of the accredititation letter has two pages and I did not have a time yet to um discuss it with our leadership. So I just showed I just uh shared with
010you uh madame president the letter from uh our secretary regard designating us as approved for accreditation. But the second page actually has um all the elements of how we got approved and this is a pilot year. So m much of the information um or there are some information that has not been collected. So um during my participation this morning um next year so this is a pilot phase they they used the vista scores of 23 24 for literacy math um and attendance also as well as graduation rate. But they are um they they have looked into how we are um expending our finances, our audits. They are uh they look into um our uh board trainings. They look into um how the schools um completed their dash their uh annual plan as well as the
011district educational plan. And um just browsing through uh the criterias uh we we there there was nothing that says did not meet. So most of most are like met and substantially met and partially met but most are met. That means that I will be meeting with our leadership team and uh sub committees to look into each of the criteria because like what I said before our strategic plan for some reason we're already aligned to what the state are looking for. So now we have another data set that we can use as a team to work on and we're just going to use that also to guide our strategic plan and our annual activity for this year uh on how to meet uh to make sure that next year when they start having those collections of
012actual latest we will be able to meet those criterias. So, and then um I'm also would like to inform our community and the board of some new information or updates from our transportation department. So, our district had just received two new route buses. So, we are uh we will be having two new buses and um the camera systems for all of the buses has been upgraded [Music] and um that as far as our safety light updates. We are um we have completed uh we participated in a conference call Miss Randy myself and Miss uh Charlene and um we are um budget is already uh on the pipeline and we will be on the construction phase. Um what we have talked uh during that part uh uh conference was that there would be a transfer of
013ownership once it's constructed. It will be owned by the district meaning that we will be responsible for the acting of the veon light and Miss Charlene is continually pursuing uh funding opportunities so that we can continue to do our uh walkways. So I'm very very proud of the transportation department and activities that they have uh done so far and we are ready for our back to school. Um she already had all the routes prepared. she already have all the drivers. Of course, we are still uh wanting some drivers. So, community members, if you know of anybody, uh the district does help in uh getting them certified to become bus drivers. Um in addition, uh Madame President, members of the board, I am also sharing an update on on our uh copper lead and copper service
014line inventory. I'd like to uh bring uh Mr. Diano to give us some updates. >> Good evening everybody. Um so in regards to the lead copper violation recently that was a a general rule that has been applied recently as last year it was enacted around November um where if you did not submit a leaded copper inventory to the state uh you would receive a violation this year. So last year, um there was no inventory that was uploaded. Um so we did receive a violation, but it's solely just for not reporting the le. What's nice about our school is is that the whole water system is underground. So I can get in here with the facilities guys, get on a ladder, pop open a tile, and we can do a visual inspection of how much percentage
015is copper, how much is galvanized pipe. Um, the school was built in the 50s and 60sish and it's been upgraded a lot since then. Uh, we diligently look for anything that looks out of date and we try to replace it. From when I've been here, when I started in January, we've done a few line replacements and we always go to poly pipe. So, SDR9, which is the standard, it's phasing out most copper pipes. So, um, we don't use copper that uses lead. That was phased out. safe from drinking water act in 1986. So there hasn't been any copper pipes that were used because all the uh upgrades so to speak to the system has happened after that. So happened in the 90s. Now it's a three-year window in which a water system any water system
016will get called up for this PBC testing. Um and what we're going to do what I talked to Dr. and the admin team about was just maybe we're going to do our own angle. So that way we you know we'll flip the cost and that will just give everybody the piece of mind and comfort that we're not leeching lead or copper into the water for the kids. Obviously I don't think that's the case but peace of mind is everything. So we're going to put uh that on the agenda for next month and we'll submit our first uh lead and copper test for everybody's peace of mind. Um, and then a quick update on the disinfectant byproduct, uh, the DDP2s, which is when the chlorine is injected in the system and reacts with the carbon. And
017that's something that we've historically had issues with here. Uh, that problem, we're trying to mitigate it without having to go towards like a reverse osmosis because we're on a wastewater system here that is proprietary to the school. Nobody else uses that. And it's rated for a certain amount of flow. And so we start using reverse osmosis, that doubles our waste water. So that would be not ideal. So what we're going to do is most likely what's done in Sanro where they will have one chlorine injection point that would kill all the nasty stuff coming out of the water and then what they do is they add an additional injection point and that additional injection point will actually destroy the the byproduct. So the thing it creates from interacting with the carbon another injection point should
018mitigate that and bring it down to a level that is acceptable for the state obviously acceptable for consumption. Now, if we do that, that's not like what the only thing I would like to do. What I'd like to do is have um the proper filtration put in place at each water dispenser throughout the school where the kids are going to consume our water would be filtration that is proprietary for TTHMs, DHA5s, the disinfectant products that we're trying to keep out. So if we implement these methods, it will probably take some time because we'll have to send a state engineered plan of the additional injection point being installed because the state will want we can do it, but if they find out we did it, they won't be happy. So we have to go through the
019the process to the state engineers. Get that submitted. There'll have to be plans drawn up and it will be very simple because it's just literally a pipe that has an injector in it. Submit that to the state. they give us the clear then we can install it and start doing our we've already been doing additional sampling to see the levels and we've had good test results but we also have had bad results so it's not like we're out of the clear we still have to figure out how to mitigate this issue but we're on track and I think that within six months we can have something cleared by the state to allow us to do the second injection point and then bring us to a point where we can see some results. So any questions?
020>> And uh these are just some of the uh improvements and some of the initiative that our facilities and operations um officer have uh been pursuing lately. We have completed our preparations cleaning clean up of our Thank you sir. Um we have completed uh cleaning of our school buildings and offices. You would see also even in the district office it's more brighter now and cleaner. So um but they already had a plan. So things are things are getting done faster. Um classrooms are are ready for day one and then our uh facilities and operations are um now working on the yards to make sure that we are ready for next week and then freeing up a lot of storage rooms so that uh we can really use our classrooms as well as utilize our storage
021room for its purposes. So thank you for from our facilities and operations. um uh we already received delivery for our ELA HQ uh so ahead of time. So that means that next week when the teachers come in, we will already be able to have the instructional materials be distributed to the classrooms so that on day one our students will be able to access those instructional materials for uh ELA. uh our CLS CLSD team has already started their activities uh yesterday Monday. They are already starting to participate on the required trainings. Um as far as our federal grant monies as uh on the TED level, we have been approved as far as our title one, title 4 and um and then IB as of last week. our IDB is fully approved. Um but there are some
022informations going about regarding uh some um funding issues, federal funding issues. Uh as far as our title one is concerned, we are not affected by that one because um we apply for the title 1A application which is a supplemental funding. We already have budget authority for that one. Right now we still don't have budget authority for title two. Our title two is the one that helps us pay for a teacher's training, pay for uh uh assistance and retention and um retention and hiring of high need uh teaching staff and um but idea B I am I have not heard if there's any cost on IDB. Uh so but as far as approval uh we're just waiting for budget authorities on some of those. However, uh Miss Randy and myself has really been looking at our
023uh funding. Uh we will be able to do all the activities that we plan to do. So um there are some reimbursement that might happen in the later part of the year but um we don't have to wait for the budget authority later on like to purchase uh supplemental program for our kids to to send our teachers to training. We but we will have we will be making sure that we were able to support them all by with some different funding sources at this time. So that's our promise that there will be no break on the delivery of services to our students and our staff members. Um uh I have just gotten an information from our partner TMIA that they have approved the resolution that the board has adopted regarding the part-time uh part-time employee.
024So uh that's a good news for our part-time employees. Um next week our school year will offic students school year will officially start. So teachers um will start coming in for some pre-ervice on HQM on Monday next week. But officially our teachers and EAS and nurses will have their official start on um July 30. And we already have a a robust uh PD plan for them. And then on July 31, it's going to be our warriors welcome for our community, for our parents, our students, welcome back open house and we have a lot of um preparations and we are ready for that roll out. Uh that's uh the highlights and some of the activities that we have done in the last uh four weeks. Madame President and I stand for question. No, I don't. Thank
025you, Dr. Go to B. Um, director. >> Good evening, M president, board members. Um, so, uh, I'm going to be going through, uh, several, uh, just updates on the certain things that things that the WF plan for accomplishments. So, the first thing you'll see on my report is an update on our grants. Uh, I'm happy to announce that we were awarded the fellow grant. Um, and this this grant is designed just to support the development of new uh new educators through real life on the job training. And this program uh if successful will hopefully create a pipeline for future educators to make you know we we all know how difficult it is to fill some of our teaching positions. Well, through this through this brand we we get to provide job training to new teachers.
026that is funded through the state and then in addition to that uh uh hopefully it'll continue to grow and grow grow and if I may interject uh madame president for the Edfellow grant we will be adding an FTE but it's not going to increase our operational um grant uh utilization because this is fully funded through a state grant and then the second thing was here to honor is our CLSD mini grants. We've been awarded a total of 66,710 in comprehensive literacy development, mini grants, and high quality NHQIM funding. Uh these funds will enhance the literacy initiatives that support instructional resources. Uh next on the list is the bonus grant grant. Unfortunately, we were not selected for the bonus room grant. Uh PED stated that they received an over roming amount of applications and they are
027committed to to the funding of this and it will create other funding opportunities but this will not stop the uh the implementation of our wellness room. Uh we have been uh uh awarded funds through United Healthcare that will support our group for two years and then um there are two outstanding grants that we are waiting on. One is the school violence prevention granting in our outdoor learning group. Any questions on those? All right. Uh the next update I have is our uh school website. Uh the website is scheduled to be launched July 28th. Uh the site will have enhanced features to improve usability for families in the community. Um some features include easy access to teacher communication tools like class dojo email email links um simplified access for registration documents and then also a streamlined
028application process for new employees with the goal uh we will also uh uh have updated what's called SEO search engine optimization settings for to help our website have a broader reach and then also update with schedules and additional program information as well. So u madame president the idea with our with our improvements on our website um is to is to increase or invite the traffic to our website as our main information at dissemination. It's a redundancy level. Um uh the plan um is for our community members, our parents, guardians to be able to subscribe for any updates so that uh and it's a redundancy with our existing newsletters from the schools, robocalls and but we wanted to drive the traffic so that our website will really be a consumerfriendly website and so that's our thrust
029on the reason why we are investing on this one. >> And then in addition to the website, there will also be we'll be revamping social media platforms as well as we will have an app. Dr. Kamado already mentioned our new administrative hires. So I just want to welcome Amanda Herman and Brian Ross to our district. And then um Dr. Kamada and myself uh did a uh walkthrough in our school and we are uh we've made several changes to our to our classroom layout uh and it's in an effort to create a stronger sense of community throughout the school to eliminate for teachers and bring our our community together. Um so all of our core classes middle school, elementary and high school will all be within that same within the same hallway. Um and then uh
030again to increase collaboration unity and then this year we will be uh JVPS will be participating in an elementary sports program within the MD3 foundation. This program will be offered to generates three to five. Sports included in the program will be basketball, volleyball, cross country. And we already have some interest um as uh community members who share interest in coaching. So, [Music] one of the biggest initiatives that we've taken on this summer is looking at our instruction and uh and focusing on standards driven instruction. Um over the month of June, GDPS partnered with Dr. Williams consultant to uh to teachers on really how to break down standards into specific skills and identify resources that truly align with grade level expectations. Um the goal of this is to work uh the goal of this work is
031to shift from just a textbook driven instruction to a standardsbased teaching model that then ensures students receive appropriate grade level instruction while making learning more engaging, meaningful and increased hands-on interactive lessons through these and really driving the creativity not only for our students but for our teachers as well. And then um an update on our intervention programs. Um Valley Public Schools has adopted a comprehensive evidence-based literacy intervention initiative aimed at improving reading outcomes for all students. Uh this this move will is aligned with our district's long-term goals for academic performance, staff development, and compliance with state improvement mandates. And those programs as mentioned in prior board meetings uh were air reading and air. And in addition to these initiatives, um our new elementary administrator, Amanda Herman, will be supporting continue development and progress monitoring um
032in the elementary intervention program and she brings a lot of knowledge in that area. And uh to that effect, madame president, the the master schedules for elementary, middle school, and high school all reflects an intervention time, >> right? >> So it's not just going to be a passing fancy, it will be a purposeful activity throughout the district. So in designing the schedule, we in we built the schedule around the intervention times to guarantee that time to to so that can be a focused learning time for our students. And then um next is uh some really exciting news from our peer mental health support group. Um, as you guys know, uh, two of our, uh, members were focused in an article. Well, back in May, we had mentioned that we that we had a film crew
033coming in to, uh, document the progress of the group in our partnership with focused future focused education. Uh, so that video has been completed and we would like to share it tonight. [Music] Life is pretty calm and simple. It's honestly a very small town, so like everyone knows everyone. Last year, I was a part of a children's mission camp. And when I was there, there's a lot of kids and they had mental health problems, which was kind of a shock. So, when I heard about this, it made me want to join cuz I knew that the kids would feel more comfortable coming to me and talking about mental health problems than they might feel with an adult. We've been experiencing a youth mental health crisis here in New Mexico. Rural communities face uh unique challenges
034as it relates to the access to services and supports particularly related to limited culturally and linguistically responsive services, their experiences of stigma related to accessing and talking about mental health. And what I've learned a lot from our young people is also just limited opportunities for social outlets. Our group is basically to help students open up more about their feelings. In our internship, we got to talk about mental health and statistics in our communities. And I saw that mine were very concerning. So for the group, we're always here in case someone needs to talk to someone, but they don't have that outlet. The Community Care Collective is a statewide initiative that works to position young people as partners and leaders in addressing youth and community mental health and wellbeing. Both Jamaa and Abby were in the
035spring youth mental health career pathway group internship that I ran. Through those opportunities, having young people lead, they're being inspired to consider career paths in behavioral health. If someone is having a mental health crisis, we have learned not to push them, but to let them express their feelings on their own time, as well as if they are having thoughts of suicide, to reach out to people that they are comfortable with and tell them, hey, this person is thinking of suicide. I think they really need help. Teachers lead by examples. Teachers are often the first line of support. We see students every day and can notice when something is off. Beyond academics, we play a huge role in creating a climate of emotional safety, offering encouragement, and modeling how to manage stress and setbacks. Hey Valley
036High School is a school that's supported by a central region education cooperative. And so we have a partnership with the CRC to support their rural schools and school districts with youth and temental health first aid as well as opportunities to develop internships for their students related to mental health. >> Young students being involved in mental health work will really give them an insight on what people go through as well as learning how to help their friends or people who need it. There's a lot of different resources you could go to, especially if you don't know what you're doing, which could be really helpful. You don't have to go through anything alone. Asking for help is not a weakness. It's a powerful step toward healing. Your mental health matters, and there are people who truly care
037and want to support you. I believe in the power of our community to invest in each other and and ourselves. And I think that the solutions that we have are right in front of us. All we have to do is deeply listen to our young people because they know what they need. And these are just some of our initiative to really focus not just on the beauty of our school. And I have heard it from a lot. I mean from Mr. Foster uh when she when I first gave him a tour I was like trying to sell the district and then all he has said. Wow. you know, and now you can really see we we really have to uh bring the attention and the focus on the beauty of the students that we serve
038all from prek all the way to uh our seniors and that the potential that they that they can that they have and that uh the the expectations from us, from the board and from me, from our leaders, from the teachers that our students deserve better every day. >> All right. Uh next you'll see the summer reading program in the save that for the last and then um so then we have our shining warrior camp that Dr. uh mentioned that will take place at home music camp on August 21st. All grade levels will participate with high school students staying overnight. Camp activities will include a combination of art, music, steam projects, fun activities such as bounce house, archery, movies, uh, and shared meals. The goal of the Shining Morning campus provides students with a positive, engaging
039experience while fostering a stronger sense of community and connection across all grade levels. And then um, our warrior welcome as mentioned is is July 31st at 6 PM. Uh the event is opportunity for parents and families to learn about all the exciting programs that we have planned for their students this year. And then um one of the things that we're really pushing for this year is um creating and we're in the process of planning is for Fridaymies for students. Uh these activities will offer a variety of support and enrichment opportunities including academic intervention, steam activities, character development and social emotional learning, physical education and athletics as well as other enrichment programs. Uh the purpose of the Friday Academy is to provide students with additional opportunities to develop essential skills while supporting the district's strategic goals
040and enhancing students of enhancing support services for a safe and successful student experience and evaluating and elevating family and community involvement to foster more resilient learners. And then um we have our welcome back PD scheduled for the 30 30th 31st. um that will uh in addition to this we also have uh staff over that professional development for K12 teaching will be participating in the HQI curriculum professional development training on the right and then um going back to our summer reading program in June JPS hosted a New Mexico organized sponsored summer reading program approximately 27 students and eight teachers uh participated in the literacy intervention program. Our staff did an outstanding job engaging students and supporting their learning and reading development throughout the program. Now I'd like to bring up Jessica to share more about the
041program. >> Good evening president. Um this June I had the opportunity and the pleasure of being the site director for the summer reading program. Um we actually enrolled 33 students on camp on 27 days. This includes eight instructors which include in a licensed teacher, a special ed licensed teacher, EAS. We also have a community community member um one high school graduate that served as an instructor and of course Kathleen so we could have done it without her. Um within that time frame we had two assessments. one at the beginning and one at the end. Um I'm happy to report that four students um at the end at the end of the assessments moved up one level. One student moved up two levels. One student moved up three levels. Four students who moved up four levels
042and we had six students who are now at level five which is where they're supposed to be at reading. So, I'm very proud and >> in just one month. So, so um I'd like to thank the PBlo for helping with transportation. Um they brought their students to the program. So, I'd like to thank them. And um I also like to report that we had three His day school students and one Zia day school student. and we were able to enroll two of them to this program. Um, I would like to just recognize the instructors. They're not here, but Gina Gina, Amanda Hos, Jacob White, Kathleen Sando, Milin Magdalena, Miranda Romero, and Rose. Rose is actually here. She was great. Miss and of course Kathleen [Applause] TV representative actually came by and that did a walking
043observation and she has just positive comments and uh just very proud of your staff. I'm just very proud of your instructors >> because when I went into the classroom, they're actually not just letting the kids do something. So, >> the instructors are doing what they need to do. I'm glad to hear that. >> Yeah. But observed that she was really impressed how the kids were actually just engaging with the instructors and it hopefully we can do this program again. I guess that I enjoyed working with students over the summer. It was awesome to work oneonone with some of them and level up to a next level. I would ask that they enjoy it. [Music] Thank you. One thing that I've just heard now is that have a two enroll here at our school and I
044know that they really enjoyed our school and they were excited to see what we had here and what we did during the summers. I really enjoyed working. Uh, I just want to say thank you guys for everything. So, I appreciate that. Thank you so much. As you can see, the results was well worth it. So, >> thanks all the teachers. Yeah, I was pretty amazed when I finally [Applause] appreciate the detail in all of this. Um I'm wondering about the student attendance success act and how that's being implemented um in in interventions and maybe that's for a different time but it's just gone and thinking about the start of school >> definitely and because that is one of the area that is one of the rubric for our accreditation >> it's called um um the
045peed with the student attendant success act Now school especially our district we have to create what we call an AIT attendance improvement plan. >> We have submitted it and but uh that is one thing that we still need to uh address. Um at the same time uh that the changes that we're making this year like for example those uh uh cultural instructional days and things like that uh initiative as to um continually offering alternative mode of participation so that we can actually increase our attendance. And then definitely um from the last board meeting we already have crafted a plan as far as home visits. So um um we have already identified uh our uh rubric, our time frame and our reporting so that we would be able to really uh address our attendance uh day
046one. So um with additional worker definitely from our tribal litigation officer and our administrators that will really just be on top of and that's the reason that we made that we pursued this kind of organizational change so that support can really be uh implemented um right there on that level. So AIP each of the schools will be making it again for this year. As a matter of fact Mr. White Eagle and uh Mr. Foster attended um during June they've attended um the presentation on um uh attendance improvement plan the rubrics what are the expectations for next year how the reporting goes and so uh we have until August 30 or September 30 to submit this year's AIP but and usually with the AIP as as as presented before um they look at three years attendance
047and then they identify chronic absentism and total absence rate and then the schools are required to come up with layer of service. That is when the interplay of the student success uh student attendance success act is because now it requires those layer 1, layer two, layer three services. Yes ma'am. >> Thank you Dr. Quest. Okay, going on to the finance budget. >> I am going to turn it over to bear with me. I got this a cough that just won't go away. So, I apologize. So, as you notice, I submitted um one um bar, which is the CLSD grant, and I know Dr. Kamada and Mr. F have talked a little bit about it. This grant is specific in um allowing the district to hire a literacy coach and a literacy coordinator. Um unfortunately this
048grant is a little bit tricky and so when we initially applied for the grant, the state told Dr. Kamana and other superintendents that they had already received um a five-year approval. So that the funding was already available for up to five years. we'll come to find out. Um another um hurdle in in this grant is that it is also ran by the CRC. So typically we run um reimbursements through the state which is um OBMS but with this specific grant it would run through CRC. So we would submit the contracts and the um expenditure reports and then we would receive reimbursement from them. So initially the um conversations that we had with CRC was that we would actually um budget in our operational budget for these two positions and then we would get reimbursed um
049at a later time and so we would just input the money back into operational. Um then there was a change a little bit later and they said no actually um it's going to be over and so you guys have to get budget authority in OBMS which is this bar. Um and then um it will still be the uh reimbursements through CRC. And then a week ago um we got the surprise that we actually only have budget authority for this grant up until August 31st. So really it's they made it almost impossible to be able to to um spend down this grant in the time frame that we needed. Um we're hoping that we're going to get a second allocation um that will give us full budget authority, but that will come at a later date.
050So thankfully during budgeting season 3 to nine had already input those positions into our operational um budget so that the district will not lose out in these positions and so hopefully um the state will have some more clarification and we get the award um for for this grant. So that's what that bar is. So it's the initial amount intended for the literacy coach and the literacy coordinator. Um we will not be able to utilize the grant portion of it but it will be sustained through operational at this time. So the positions are covered. I submitted for your approval the final IBTS to close out our fiscal year. Um, and then you'll also notice that you received the June budget and so no line items ended in negative, which is great, which is what our IBTS
051um allowed us to do. So, we just moved some budget around. Um, I did um also submit the checklist for June. Um, some of the larger expenditures, uh, Mr. Foster explained it was the Amira and the air softwares that we purchased and those are to um provide um educational support services and then high impact tutoring. So um I think one of the main goals of our strategic plan is the um support services that we offer to our students to get them to the level that they need to be. um of other items on the checklist or expenditures are ancillary costs, um utilities, um our water sampling, um to keep them compliance with the EPA, um alternate warrior supplies and materials, so the incentive for our students to come to school, the attendance, um and then
052other just supplies and materials to spend down some of our grants. Um, aside from that, um, we're just working on finalizing um, last fiscal year, so our be working on our quarter for cash report and submitting those actuals to um, the state. I want to thank Freda for helping me a tremendous amount recently and um, while I have had to be out of the office. So, I just want to thank Freda for all of her help that she's provided to me. and we're on track. Um, Penny, you know, we've started our audit that's currently confidential, but that is on its way or on the way. And so, that's what I have right now. >> Madam President, just to let you know, we are I forgot about this one. So, we have printed already each of
053the each of the buildings. We are now waiting for the the copy of this is strategic plan and vision of our community strategies for each classroom and department even in the buses. So this is our saturation campaign and um so that everybody can really refer to it. If I write a lesson plan, if I am dealing with a parent, if I am picking up a phone, if you know if I am dealing we we have a reference. So, and I spoke with our leaders during our PD. We will be going into it again and this is our accountability and this is what we will be working on this year. So, [Music] M president, we don't have public comments already. >> Approval, >> Madame President, members of the board uh with you uh for your perusal
054and for your uh consideration for approval. We have uh our 2025 2026 handbook with an updated calendar. We have our one update that I could tell you is that we did receive uh the four-year grant funding for our prek. We now have a fully um a full prek program but at the same time we are uh increasing our capacity so that we would uh it will create a steady pipeline for our elementary and I ask for your approval for the 2025 2046 prek app. Um, second. [Music]