001Approve agendas. Approve agenda discussion. I make a motion that we approve the agenda. Okay. [Music] Vote. Amelia. Peter Kathy and I okay approval of May 202 Peter and I vote yay okay moving now to reports um superintendent Good afternoon, Madame President, members of the board, community members, colleague. First of all, I'd like to introduce a new addition to our district formally. I'd like to introduce you to Mr. Eric Hoster, sir, if you don't mind. Sure. Um uh introducing yourself. Um my name is Eric Foster. Uh I'm now in the role of MLSS supervisor here with the district. Um prior I've got almost 18 years experience in education primarily in special education. I served as a special education teacher, principal, administrator and uh Mr. Foster comes in with a wealth of knowledge in terms of student
002support, restorative justice, literacy, and we we um I believe he would be a great addition to um achieving our fiveyear strategic plan. So, thank you for uh being part of our family. You're welcome. So, and then at this time, I also have my report. Uh Madame President, members of the board, we have received an approval for our title 4 application. This is for specifically for uh student support and for next year we would like to focus on making sure that our students are graduating with their cohort and this year we've graduated 30 of our students and uh Mr. Foster will already be working with two we have two dropout students that he will be working on dropout last year that will be that he will be working on so that we can graduate them within
003our sixth year cohort. Um, we will also be using our title 4 for well-rounded experience with academic health and wellness and skill based co-curricular interest based extracurricular activity. And specifically um our goals and objectives is that all high school students will receive at least six credits during school year 2526. That means that they will graduate on time and um they can earn more but at a minimum no students next year will earn less than six credits in high school. Uh by the end of oh sorry by the end of 2526 100% of our middle school high school students are active participant in at least one co or extracurricular activities that include sports at um clubs and things like that. And then for our elementary by the end of 2526, sorry about that, elementary students will
004participate in at least one college and career readiness activity and we have plans. So college and career readiness will start as early as prek and our title 4 we are also using this to support our elementary sports only. So um this year I've already approved our first purchase. We are purchasing already equipments and supplies for our uh elementary athletics program. So we're hoping that we will be able to um have some volunteers to start working with our elementary kids during summertime. Our summer reading program is um go and I was just informed just about 30 minutes ago that and it's happening across the state. school districts have more tutors than students. So we have uh we have 18 tutors so far and we have 20 students. We have some hiccup because when our family would
005log in they did not see hemis valley they are routed either to hemis mountain or to San Diego Riverside and then they told us that we are in. So we've been uh working with PE put us in put us in and they first of all peed was very gracious to allow extension for us that's very good and then of course the first times they said well yes down in the bottom there is others and they can specify so that our family needs to be informed but I'm glad that PD is working with us we are still accepting student as a matter of fact we have new students that will be that will be signing up in a couple of days so um but we really want to target are elementary. So we are still accepting
006elementary middle school students that is willing to get uh summer reading program. We will be closely working with our tribal membership because of issue of transportation which our drivers our employee drivers does need time to rest. However, we are working with PED and our tribe to see if we can uh through our summer reading program, we are able to create a satellite office in Zia so that we can capture and provide services for ZA kids and also in MS through our program. So um at the same time um we we will be offering free breakfast and free lunch and um on top of that uh that means that the kids would have one to um very small class size and they will have other um activities that they can do besides reading. So um I
007have our team, we do have our team, the instructors will be getting their training next week on the 28th and the 29th. And the program that that the PED is using for this summer program is the same program that our district built for next year. So it will create that continuity for the use for our students and um that is in line with our uh application. uh we have been uh we have been uh allocated another uh amount of money for our CSI for year two. So we will be budgeting for that again to to to provide support for our elementary school. I would also like to bring attention of the board to a very positive news. They I just had it an email as a report from our um from our um water um
008specialist and thank you for the work from uh Miss Randy and um the facilities team for really getting this done. Last January I reported that um we are working towards uh improving our water system and we have been very conservative that it would take three to five years to get our water back this report and I have a report I will share it with you it's a little bit so I couldn't read it but it's too technical anyway but the summary is that uh through our peed uh director with drinking water system. As of April, our water test met all the requirements so that we can already start making it drinkable. But to on the side of caution, the district is going to do a three months consecutive testing and that's the only time that
009we we can I'll bring to the board to say we cannot drink. So we are still not telling our community to drink our water. We are going to do three months of consecutive testing. If we have consistent very good result then we will also create um put together mitigating uh mitigating project like putting um faucet filters to make sure that it's really drinkable. So I'm very glad for the theme and that means we we were able to address our uh water system way uh earlier than anticipated. That means it can it can it can bring the district to focus on another important issues. We still have um we uh thank you for approving from the board. I've submitted our um facilities uh grant and we will be receiving that money um in order to plan
010for our five-year master facil master facility plan. So um and we will engage our community the board to identify those needs for our plan. So, and I stand for questions in this evening. And we have a lot of community um outreach. Our our I am very proud of the high school students um who represented us not just the high school but our middle school and elementary but specifically for the month of April and May. Uh our district has been very positively represented within the state. Um we have uh our uh u student senate who participated in in the visit to the last April visit to the legislative house. We also have our um high school students uh had or presented their arts exhibit in the Hemis Springs um gallery and there were a lot of
011community members and visitors who came by and appreciated the students work and um we also have um our athletics we competed and our track and field sports we were able to go to state tournament and Then um our high school students participated. Select high school students participated in a uh film a video and um the the idea for this video is to showcase the positive steps that our district is doing towards uh fostering uh social emotional support for our students and and Mr. Foster can say this more because I assigned him to do that and the kids did wonderfully. I was informed that it was only one take and the crew said this was the first time so far that they did the whole uh filming in one u in one swoop. So I'm hoping
012I'm expecting the end product. I will present it to the board and we can it's going to be published throughout the state and they are inviting us also to be part of a cohort that will continue to get that kind of support. So and then we also have our um uh leadership cultural leadership uh club that participated in different various cultural presentation throughout our local uh area here. And then we also have one of our uh diverse group of arts students who performed in in a play in um Laoya in Santa Fe. A lot of anxiety with two months to prop it up again. But what I gathered from that was that the host says I wish you could come back again. And then our student did phenomenally well. discipline wise they really carried themselves.
013Um the feedback from the from the volunteer instructor was like wow we did not have to do a thing. The students took it all themselves. They helped dress themselves. practice and um it tells me personally that that our students are ready to take on greater greater leadership role for their own benefit. So uh our goal for next year is to establish our middle school student body and hopefully our elementary will also have their own elementary student leadership group and this organization that we are partnered uh partnered schools is going to help us. Uh we are already talking about bringing uh instructors next year to teach coral choir um um what do you call this musical instrument. So we will have more opportunities for our elementary, middle school, and high school students next year. So I
014really just appreciate kudos to our students for that. And um I have a question. Sorry. Yes. Question Dr. Um as far as the graduation rate I mean u changes um for next year as far as the classes um when will we decide um what classes will be offered through our district for them? That is what we will be proposing by June because we will be uh we will be by June the goal is to present to the board the handbook and the handbook will create the new requirements for graduation and we have to create a graduation matrix for the current year and then because they are expected to follow what has already been approved and then the the incoming ninth grader will have a different expectation. as far as credit and by June we will
015be presenting to the board uh our uh the recommendation from your district leadership as to what would be that uh two elective that the board will decide to make mandatory elective for our high school students. So we will deliberate on that and ask input from the um community as to what would that two selected but it's required by by local uh board that we can the local board can say we want our students to take these classes so we will present it by [Music] Good evening board members, Madame President, members, vice president, and Dr. Kamada and staff and community members. I wanted to just say thank you. Um board members, you have um a copy of my board report before you. And also I just wanted to add a little bit to my board report
016tonight. Um we are looking forward I can't believe we have three days of school left and we um and so we I feel like our students have accomplished a lot. Our teachers are headed in the right directions. We are looking forward to next school year because of all the trainings that we've talked about and if you've seen in my reports and I've reported on where we are going back to the basics of teaching math, reading, everything from the basics and it doesn't matter if we're in prek or fifth grade at our school. Whatever the kids need, we're going to meet them where they're at and move them on from there. And so, um, the key word for next year for elementary is resiliency. is that is going to be part of our model for next
017year. What are we going to do to help our kids to understand what is resiliency? What does that mean for them to grow educationally? And I just wanted to share the um meaning of resilience for our kids is by next by the end of next year we want our students to have the ability and to understand how can they can bounce back from difficult experiences, adapt to challenges and to grow stronger and to always have that skill that helps them to cope and to have and to cope with things that may come against them. The biggest thing that we've heard from time to time is always bullying. What are we doing about bullying? So, there's the aspect of bullying. How do we get our kids not to be not to be victimized by bullying and
018bullyers, but at the same time, how do we teach our kids to stand up for themselves um positively and to make that grow within all of our students? So, what is going on? So, that's a big part of what we're looking at for the end of the year. and also starting the next school year. You've heard me talk about academics and all the plans and the goals for academics. We're headed that way, but the next one we want to make sure is that our kids need to be sound and to be ready and to be strong socially and emotionally. And so the key word for next year is going to be resiliency. So that's going to be our goal and it is part part of our strategic plan. And it was good to see like
019I said when Dr. presented the strategic plan and he had everybody participate. That was one thing that kept coming up. Yes, we have bullying that is a big issue that not just our district but districts across the United States deal with, but we need to also get our students to understand how do we overcome that? How do we become part of the solution, not the problem? And so I'm excited about the next school year. Um, I'm excited about um continuing with our school-based mental health services for our students and again all the training that our staff have participated in structured literacy and in early um skills and I'm looking forward for our kids to the elementary sports. So, I'm glad that Randy and Dr. might have really looked into it, looked at the money and
020looked at to see how that could be um be made possible and I think that's going to really help as well as part of that. And Dr. Kamada introduced Mr. Foster when Mr. Foster came out before he and I even met the minute I heard he was the MLSS coordinator, I said, "Your office is in my building because I need you there." And he's needed all over the district. My time with Mr. Foster, he's been here for two weeks, but he and I just rolled up our sleeves and today we even up till today and since he's been here, even before we had formal introductions, we were he was already helping me call parents, providing support. This is what we need. We're looking at kids that need sack, the kids that need 504s. He's already
021looking into children's folders and into what their needs are. And he's like, "Mrs. Ben, I'm here to help." And I really feel that a lot of weight from my shoulders have just left for just him being here. We're a great team, but we are a great team here at JBTPS, but we are a small team, but having him and having his background knowledge and I just want to thank him already to say thank you already. We've been just working really hard and what I talked about just a while ago. Um, just having this new team member is going to be really great. So, we're looking forward to the new school year. um board members and um lots of celebrations that we are having. You see that on my board report in the top. We're celebrating.
022We've already celebrated with the prek students. They had a wonderful ceremony. Um we had an ice cream social already with all of our students. We completed all testing and assessments. So, we're getting ready to receive the data and to review it and also to guide us on what it is that we also need to do for next school year. We also hosted a kindergarten and first grade parent information night already and now we're looking forward to our kindergarten and fifth grade promotion that will be happening tomorrow. So that's in the upcoming events here Thursday. Thursday apologize follow the upcoming event. So, we're looking forward to the new school year. And also, I wanted to I brought Miss Miss Dana Miamoto. She's been our teacher here for 15 years. So, you guys might already know her.
023You might have had students that your children, grandchildren, relatives that have gone through her class. And I bring her here tonight just to honor her because she's been here with us for 17 years and 15. Oh my gosh. Sorry. But I wanted her to come up with me and um and just to share um she is going to be embarking on a new journey and she will be leaving Valley Public Schools. And so I wanted her to just to just let her know we honor her. We thank her for all the years of her service here at Hus Valley Public Schools at the elementary schools. She's worked with our students in different capacities, not just as a teacher, but also as a mentor to the teachers. I mean, even like since I've been here, this
024is the beginning of my third year. Well, this will be the beginning of my third year in the fall, but just how much the kids just appreciate her. Even the kids that are graduating, they come back. Even the parents of former students, they always come back. So, I know she's been just just has just been a a treasure and a joy to have in our district. And so I wanted us to send her off on her new journey with all of our support and all of our our our gratitude. And I just couldn't let her leave without letting the board know that she that we really appreciate all the things that she's done for for for His Valley Public Schools and the elementary school. So if it's not too hard for her, I'm going let
025her speak. So I just want to say thank you boarding her. So I did not know I was going to speak. So I didn't prepare a letter specifically for read. So do you mind if I share that? So I'm going to be like I'm addressing parents. Okay. So I said their families. Part of the privilege of working in a small school district is seeing the students grow from year to year. I've known many of the students there in our district since preK, including the children currently in my class, who were my fifth grade class's little buddies six short years ago. Every student I've had in my class over my 15 years at Kis Valley Elementary holds a special place in my heart because once a child is a student in my class, they are forever
026my kid. Watching them grow and learn and shine has brought me immense joy and pride. Being part of the this community has been one of the most meaningful experiences of my teaching career. It's been a true honor to work with such amazing students and their wonderful families. Therefore, it's with mixed emotions that I I made the difficult decision not to return to Valley public schools next year. As we all know, change is a natural part of life. While it can be difficult to say goodbye, it opens the door to new growth opportunities for both students and educators alike. Though I'm excited about this next chapter, both my professional and personal journal journey, leaving a a place that has meant so much to me makes this transition especially bittersweet. Not only am I leaving Valley Public
027Schools, I'm leaving New Mexico as well. I'm returning to my home state of California. As you know, my father passed away last year and I inherited his house. My initial plan was to use it as an investment property to cover mine and my sister's retirement. However, in order to keep the same tax rate my father had, which was set in 1977, Proposition 19, California state law requires the transfer of real estate from parent to child to be the primary resident of residence of the child or be faced with the property rate tax rate based on their current market value of the house. I'm sure many of you know the value of California property today is greater than in 1977. To keep it as an investment as originally planned would raise the tax rate tens of
028thousands of dollars. Completely unaffordable for both my sister and I. And I'm sharing with you my reason for leaving because I want you guys to hear it from me and not through the break. I hope to stay informed about the many great things our children will go on to do. Their limit, their potential is limited and I look forward to hearing how they continue to grow and make their mark on the world. Thank you for your trust, your support, and for being such dedicated partners in their children's education. I'm confident that Valley Public Schools will continue to be a place where students thrive thanks to his passionate staff and fantastic families. Their heartful gratitude [Applause] Peter's um grandson in my first grade class. I had your grandchildren in my class. Um I was invited I
029had 13 seniors graduating this year that I had in first and fifth grade. And I was invited to 15 graduation parties. I don't know where the extra two came from because I didn't know them. But I guess they just hurt. My banana bread, whatever kick it is. But um yeah, I made many many um parents as are now friends too. So if you're ever in Los Angeles, what the 2028 Olympics and it is a large house, too big of a house for me. and and um I have lost pet rooms. So um yeah, it's it's way more than I I need to continue my parents legacy. I need to keep So my sister might not be too happy because she'd rather have the cash. I said, "But you'll spend the cash before you retire." So
030um you have a retirement home now. And what a better place to retire than 40 minutes from the beach, too. It's been weighing on me all year. But when I found out the tax rate change, I was like, um, okay, it's going to be my primary versus, you know, for all that you've done for our kids and, you know, just being part of this. You know, like you said, you know, it's hard, you know, but life moves on us and I just wish you good luck and the best for you. Thank you for all you've done. Like I said, thank you so much. Yeah. M amazing. So from first grade to like a different child. I I too want to say thank you for all that you did for us and you know with the
031children and um you know the school district itself. Um Allora is going to be sad because the other two had you and she doesn't. So I guess I'll take her to California to stay with you. Um let her went home on Thursday. The parents before I even got home I had text messages angry with me. You're supposed to stay this many more years. You promise you'd stay here until you leave the state. Well, I am leaving the state and I will be here every year for high school graduation at least, you know, through the fourth graders because the fourth graders may be promised. I'll be there for high school graduation. So, I'll be back. Be nice to see you then. Good luck. And maybe I'll take my significant other and um you know family is
032important. So I'm glad that you're you know doing what you said. You do it for your dad and I think it'll be a nice new start by the beach. I mean that's where I've spent every single school vacation since I started working here. So thank you so much. don't have board retreats out there. I don't know if I can h house the whole board, but you want to build up. So, uh, Madame President, members of the board for in behalf of the district, I would like to formally inform uh, Miss Miamoto that we will be honoring your 15 strong years of working with the district. So, I'm not going to tell you what what that is, but so uh members of the board, I would like uh to later on in June, but we're going
033to do our uh recognition of a 15 years strong. And of course, uh we have other employees that we would like to recognize for their longevity in our district and 15 years is 15 years worth of work. I was planning on like being the teacher that the kids wheel down. Thank you. Well, thank you board members. Thank you. Thank you for sharing that information with us. It really means a lot knowing, you know, the the reasons why. And um I greatly appreciate what you've done for the families and the students here. Um I only have one student, one child that graduated from here. Um but uh the others aren't a part of this district. So they you know I hear good things about you. So thank you for all that you've done. It's great. We
034appreciate it. Um, I mean, we haven't met formally, but I've seen your face in here before and I've heard your name several times and so that's so reflective of what you do here. And 15 that's a lot. Yeah. Um, but as as other said, the reason that you're leaving is just as honorable as your time here. So, best of luck to you. Yeah. I really wanted to stay because I want to see the changes that Dr. Kamar has will put into place. I think it's a really good decision making superintendent. I think he'll be probably one of the best that we've had. Um but yeah, I really did want to stay like it was like yeah and I I wanted to put the reason out there in the community because that's the only reason I'm
035leaving. I don't I know things twisted. So, thank you so much. Thank you. Um thank you also for your welcome. We'll go ahead and test. Uh Madame President, I would like to take the indulgence of the board to excuse uh Mr. White Eagle. I decided to let him rest. Um it has been I mean end of the year and it took um he needed a rest. Yes. So um I I would like him to feel better next week and I I want him to take care of himself and u I'm glad that um he he want he will take care of himself and feel better next week. But um I him and I had a conversation that uh he will be putting together an end of the year report for the middle school and high
036school in the June board meeting. But at this time I just would like to uh what because Mr. Foster has been working with the middle school and the high school as well with the elementary. Mr. poster if you would like to discuss uh the MLS's portion about the literacy plan for uh next year as this is preliminary until uh we provide you with our guidelines in June. Go ahead. All right. Uh thank you board. So one of the tasks Dr. models I knew from when I started was to really look at our literacy program and research uh intervention programs and really we we have the PE mandate that we basically got to improve our literacy rates and so and as Dr. I mentioned her earlier that is my that is one one of my areas
037in my background that I've uh really tried to develop. And so um when we would when we when I was researching programs we we wanted it to be evidence-based um and a comprehensive program that really focused on the individual students needs. And so when we looked we looked at three programs and what we decided to do was take a take that comprehensive approach and we're going to use two programs in different ways. So um so first as far as like how our selection went we reviewed multiple intervention programs evaluated them on personalization technological integration instructional delivery cost and then reporting capabilities. And in doing that really focusing in on that main personalization component of the literacy program. Every student is at a different level and um coming you know speaking from a teacher a teacher's
038perspective it's very difficult to meet all those needs in one classroom. And so um what we did is we've adopted two programs. The first one is air reading and we're going to target approximately 60 students uh that need our our highest intervention level and in that if I may interject the reason for that 60 is we're using the current allocated budget but knowing that we will be allocated another budget for next year that number of targeted students will increase. Thank you. Um so um with that program that that that air reading program it is a it is a instructional program where the group of two one to two students will have their own reading instructor virtually with them and it's not an AI it's an actual person um who will be providing that intensive reading
039instruction over a 10-e period and in that program we're going to really be monitoring collecting data and looking at okay what's what is working with the program, how can we tweak it and the representatives from air reading have been very very good about providing providing us data and the supports that that we need to monitor that. Um and again that focuses on intensive individual instruction that's also going to include our special ed students as well. And the progress monitoring actually includes parents receiving a progress report as to this week did your child can now produce this sound. So it's very specific. The parents would know what their children will be eating. And then that report also goes to that the student's teacher to help guide their instruction when the student is not in the intervention
040program. Um and then the uh second program is a mirror which Dr. Kamana mentioned earlier that that is our summer reading program that the state is using that we're going to continue that but we're going to continue that for all students. Um and so it's going to be made available to all K8 students and then spec as needed on the high school level. Um obviously our our high school students are at a much higher reading level but there are some students who are struggling who who would benefit from the program as well. Um and the some of the positives to that program is it provides real-time feedback adjust to reading level levels and supports you know our most struggling learners as well. And so for a lot of our take some of our of those
04160 students who we're going to initially target right they would be getting not only their ELA they would be getting their intervention class and then also some of the benefits of a mira so so they're going to be it's going to be a very intensive approach to building our literacy program. Um in addition to with the mirror learning most of our inventory is not new to this. So a mirror learning actually purchase isolation yes which is now used as an assessment tool for our district. Now we will just be adding a component that provides an additional support to the teacher and then additional support to the student and both of these programs and Mr. um foster uh we are mandated because we are a title one school and because CSI is a federal grant we
042are required to make sure that the product that we purchase is uh has a peer reviewed and scientific base and is and has a tier one strong evidence. So both of this program has a tier one in the ESSA evidence uh by the federal government. Go ahead. And then in addition to the uh the programs themselves, we are also going to be uh next year going to be conducting bi-weekly non-evaluative walkthroughs to look at how how we can provide the best instruction and how and how that that instruction also aligns with these programs. Um and I think one of one of the biggest changes is going to be in our master schedule uh which will have dedicated intervention time. So it's not going to be that that intervention time is not going to be inter
043intertwined with that regular like ELA or math class. It's going to be its own dedicated intensive time for students. Um and then basically what like why we're going in this route is it aligns directly with our strategic plan but also our state mandates. So uh literary efforts support broader district roles improving academic performance enrollment staff retention and program expansion. And then um these programs do align with our five-year plan and CSI PDB compliance requirements. So, we want to make sure that we're meeting all the requirements the state has laid out for us. And this will work in conjunction with our CLSD grant where we receive a CLSD coach and a CLSD coordinator. So, the these are all in alignment including the adoption. So, we have just adapted our ELA textbook and um across from kindergarten
044all the way to 12th grade. So we've adopted an ELA instructional materials we are now putting together. So now when we present in June we we will show you our tier one, our tier two and our tier three. And this program can be used in any of those tier. It can be uh intensified so that the students get intense intensive intervention as needed. The whole goal of the programs is to reach every student. uh we don't want any students left behind and so that's why these programs are designed to do that and they do it just based on the individual students and lastly is just a commitment um that our school district is committed to ensuring every student becomes a proficient reader. Um this district strategy the district strategy reflects a deep investment in literacy
045as the foundation of academic and lifelong success and without literacy our students will will continue to struggle. Um the approach combines high quality instruction data informed decision making and educator empowerment to close gap literacy gaps for all students. So thank you Mr. questions. All I can say is, "Wow, this is this is great. [Music] department. Madame President, members of the board, at this time I just would like to ask um our um athlet our athletics assistant um Mr. um Alonso Lovato to give us some positive highlights for the year. And by the way, you are all invited again. We will have our high school ban tomorrow. So go ahead. I do want to apologize. First of all, I was prepared for the speech, but um our athletics program really did see some highlights in this
046year. Um with the help of Dr. Ma and Randy Cordova, um we are getting the elementary program up and running and we're really shooting for next year um with this intent of bringing kids back um from because I know we've always talked about how to bring the kids back. Um and hopefully that this is a step forward to bring kids back. Um but some highlights. Um man, our girls team did amazing this year. The boys for basketball specifically, I should best fight. Um they didn't do so well. But the girls did amazingly. The boys still had every intention to win. It just didn't happen. Um our cross country team has done amazing. As we all know, our cross country team has always been a highlight of our school. Um, with that being said, I know
047in middle school, I think this might have been the first year that they did a state um, cross country meet. I think Janice can kind of help me on that one. Um, I didn't step in until January, but as far as I know, our kids for middle school did do successfully well in the middle school cross country state meet. Um, wing, right? first time that they ever had that and we took almost our whole team or not if not marble team. Yeah. Um volleyball did very well as well. Um I don't think I think the little changes that we had kind of hit some bumps on the road but I think towards the end they they realized what they could do and I think for volleyball we had a lot of returning students next year.
048As far as track, baseball, and all that goes, it went beautiful, smooth. There wasn't really much hiccups. Um, from there, I know now towards the end, I am working on the schedulings for next year. Um, so I'm working hard with Randy and the transportation to see what's available and everything for next year. We are seeing this 2A next year. Um we are on that two-year block of after next year they'll see if we're our numbers will stay as one year or stay as 2A or go back down to um and we have one more year um is that considered a block for our football team. So we have one more year of sit in and we should start being able to build our program again. Yeah, we do have I believe the last count was
04914 or 18 middle school and high school girls that wanted to do softball. So that's I mean last year I said we have some girls wanted but there's only three of I said this time we have I think 14 or 18 signed up. It was around 14 and 18. Yeah. So we are looking to see what it takes to kind of start that back up again. I know um from hearing from the community and everything like that that I think at one point we did have a softness. So it would be a great honor to bring that back again that comes back to bringing kids back here. And you know that's that's my whole goal is I want this school to succeed in not only sports but in academics and having more kids is just
050going to build that energy build everything. Um we are losing a lot a lot of seniors this year. So for the next couple years we will be kind of like in a rebuild. Um I know it's not only this year, I think next year we also have a big group of seniors that will be graduating. So I think with this elementary sports um so for elementary sports it's not just one sport um we're trying to bring in and actually not trying we are hopefully bringing in cross country um volleyball and basketball for elementary. Um the nice thing with that one is that we'll be part of a little group that will actually like whoever's part of that cohort will be playing against each other. Um so that is great news. I think when I first
051got here I wanted to start the elementary sports again and thankfully with the help of Randy and Dr. Kamada we are able to do that next year and I'm just so excited for that. And then tomorrow you are also invited. We will be honoring one of our senior student athletes who graduated. She will be signing in for the Ottawa University in Surprise, Arizona. So, we will do a a signing in here. So, you're invited for for that as well. So the the athletic banquet will um the eating and the dinner will start at 4:4 or 5:45 and the signing will actually the doors will open at 5 and the signing will be at 5:30. Um other than that we will be having Rudy's I should know about the dur graduation. I should have you but
052that's good. I think somebody did mention it at graduation. I I heard it after the I think I heard it at some point. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Good. Good. Good. Okay. Good. Good. And if I could just real quick, as far as I know, she's the first um girls basketball athlete to sign to a college. Wow. And as far as I know, I think that's a lot of her too is that first woman either a long time or at all. Um so big congratulations to her. Um so yeah we would love to have you guys there. Again everything opens at 5. We will have food there for everybody the guest and then after lunch time we will award the presentations and the All right. Thank you. We invited game day the game day. You know they
053have Oh yeah. Oh, my daughter was on that too when she play softball Colorado. Yeah, they they go to, you know, people. I think that would be a good thing for the school. Um, by chance it may be a little bit too late, but do you have any contact information because I will contact them um and see if they still have time. I I will do that though if if there's a contact. Do you have a contact? I don't know somebody to put together in our publications. Thank you. Thank you. Um, I am going to pass over. Um, so for this month, I submitted the checklist for April. Um, the budget, I did not have any IDTS. Um, and I did submit one bar. Um, the bar that I submitted was just recently received by
054PED. So that is um a combination of the final award for fiscal year 2324 as well as our final award for this fiscal year. So the amount as you probably notice is pretty large for that grant. So I was not expecting that at all. Um we typically only get awarded up to about $20,000 and the combination of the two is $124,000 um that we have to spend in two days. Two days. Um it's just it's not possible. We got it we got it way too too late in the year. Um so you know that's definitely a downer in and getting these award letters so late. Um, so hopefully we'll receive another letter next year and then that kind of will carry over, but we do have to get it into into this year's budget. Um,
055and so we'll see what we can do in the month of June, what we can spend out of it. Um, so uh that that is the bar that I'm requesting for um your call approval. um checklist as you noticed it's pretty large a pretty large list and I um had have been telling you in prior meetings that um you would start seeing the checklist getting larger as we're ending the year as we're trying to spend down on our grants. Um we did hit eight of our grants in this checklist. Um so we had um some classroom supplies and materials. Some of those were to our CTE programs which was um cosmetology and nutrition. Um so that the supplies and materials for both of those courses as well as other um classrooms. Uh we did have
056quite a bit of expenditures for our ultimate warrior program which was incentives for kids and and doing well in and being a student here. So attendance um grades uh things of that nature. So there was field trips, there was popcorn days, ice cream socials, um just definitely trying to bring in the joy of coming in and doing well in school. build this ultimate warrior program and it has been um run well. Um we did have uh facility um maintenance expenditures. Um we have some HVAC repairs. We did um contract for a smoke test up at the high school. There was a smell and that was coming through and were concerned that it may um be you know gas or or propane issues. It was not. um it had to do with the sewage line. So
057we contracted with them. They came in within I think it was about a week got it all um passed up and so the high school is to go at that point or after um the smoke test um gave us those results. Of course we have our ancillary um expenditures in there for our staff. We have um some professional development. um our nurse I believe received the first day CPR and um 80 80 training um we have the payment to orchid which is our pest control and we are doing a lot better with our our pest control situation that we're having at the district so that is um starting to um die down a little bit and I think that's what I have for you oh I did want to get you guys up to date
058on the NOVA. So, I had told you previously that the state was um moving towards a um state assist. So, the student information system. So, it was my u understanding that they were mandating this based off of the legislative session. Um I attended a training yesterday and they stated that it's not actually mandatory as of yet. So they're not making the school districts jump onto this um the state purchased um CIS and um the three companies that they're looking at is Infinite Campus, Synergy and Powers School. Um there are concerns with Power School and Synergy because both of them have seen multiple data breaches in the past five years. Um and there wasn't a whole lot of information on Infinite Campus. So anyways, the state is doing all of their meetings, their procurement, whatever it
059is that they have to do, but those are going to be the three um companies that they're going to choose from. I have not worked with any of them. So this will be a complete learning curve for for me if I'm only familiar with Skyward. However, I did tell you all that I would want to jump on um one of the school districts that is one of the first cohorts. Um looks like they've already selected for cohort one which will be um working with their current and wherever the state chooses for this upcoming fiscal year and then full implementation in 26 27. Thank you. And then the second cohort will start in the 2627 school year and then go on that. So I might want to jump on to the second cohort just kind of
060depending. Um but there were talks that potentially it may fizzle out. I guess this has been and I believe Rita told me that this is not the first time the state has tried to do a a statewide cyst. So I don't know what could happen. Um but I definitely want to jump on board if this is if this is towards the mandate and and we are going to have to change. But we will stay with Skyward for at least the next two years on our student information system and then um you know we'll let you inform you guys of whether or not we will be going to the same wisest. So I did want to just give you guys a little bit of information on on that that's to come. Aside from that, um I
061am currently working with our budget analyst on um some explanations um for our our budget that we submitted. So um they did notice which is what they requested the higher expenditures in the three functions which is direct support to our students in 121 and 22. So um we're Dr. come out today and just explaining to um my budget analysts that this is all aligned with our strategic plan and how um you know Mr. Foster and Mrs. Ben have all talked about it how we're offering intensive support for our students so that they can become proficient u readers and we get our kids where they need to be as far as um grade level and and whatever else support that we can offer them to be successful as students here at JBPS. That's what I have
062for you tonight. [Music] Public comments. No public comment. Uh members of the board, I have already um was able to go over the result of the survey. I at this time I am recommending calendar 2 with some revisions. So um significantly higher percentage of our community prefers calendar 2 but we significantly higher we're talking about 90% of our community um is also uh amen is wanting also to make uh the cultural day into an instructional day. So if you would look at calendar two December 22, it's one day of coming to school for the students. Uh it's going to impact our attendance for that one. So uh noting the noting the community's high uh high agreement to having instruction uh um cultural day into instructional day. We are going to make November 12 into a
063cultural day, instructional day and then 22 will be um a holiday already. So that and then that means that our students will start on August 4 and will end their instruction on May 28th. This calendar also has a safety net in it. If if we will have to call for um a snow day, we have a very good safety net. We don't have to make any additional things. That's my proposal for the board to consider. [Music] I was looking at both. Oh, no. I was looking at both. So, I just recommendations recommendations. Yay. Can you I mean application members of the board u madam present members of the board I'm here again asking for your uh support and approval um this is an annual application so that we will continue to be able to offer
064our program in uh the grant is to elementary. We've always used this to support our middle school and high school unit in it. So um it's a pro-formal application. It has been uh initiated and with the support of our art teacher MV and we appreciate uh her um action and time putting this together and I ask the board to approve this uh application. I will make a motion to approve. Peter, yay. Yay. Kathy, yay. Um, see, approval of IDA grant application. Madame President, members of the board, um I am asking for um the the approval from the board to approve the IDAB application. Um we our initial allocation that I have received yesterday was for approximately $94,000 of initial allocation. Um I was surprised because it was way less than what I have received from
065last year. We've received 100 24 last year and so I I am in conversation with peed to understand why there is a reduction in the IDB uh money. The only information I have gotten as of yesterday is that it's an initial allocation and um but I will continue to uh request some guidance and clarification as to what count uh or what information did they use to arrive with that and then um to make sure that we do not show change. However, I can guarantee to you that our district finances is able to provide all the special education services needed. no reduction to any of those services. So as far as that initial allocation um we are going to use our ID and we did have some carryover about 38,000 as identified by PE. Uh so
066our uh proposal for idea B for next school year is to pay for one FTE of a special education EA that supports our high need student and then we will also be using it to pay for the salary and benefits of a 37 special education teacher. The rest will go to uh child find as well as support for our students like supplies and materials and some PD for our special education teachers. and I asked the board for support and then we did uh reach out to our uh it one of the requirement for submission of the IDM grant is to get input from uh representative of families who have children with special needs. Uh Mr. Poster reached out uh to the families and uh we explained to them what we're going to use the money
067for. We also explained to them that it doesn't mean that we we only have 94,000. We also explained to them that we have operational money to fund fully all the special education and related services. So no services will be affected on that part. Yay. Okay. Policies and administrative procedures governing special education. members of the board. Um, usually every year we ask our partner uh through CRC and uh our our CRC partnership allows us to tap into the expertise of uh the Walls Diego's law firm to review and update our special education policy. Um I shared with you the handbook for special education together with the list of the changes from last year to this year and this is part of our IDMBB application. I asked the the board for approval for of the policy and
068handbook. Yes. Amelia. Yes. here. Okay. Approve. Um, districtwide parent and family engagement policy. Members of the board, the president, I have with uh submitted also shared with you a proposed uh policy for districtwide parent and family engagement. This is required for our title one application. We did have a 20 We did have a board uh approved 2021 uh district policy and I just wanted it to be aligned to the federal federal recommended policy. So I asked the board for approval. I have a motion. I make a motion to approve the district and family engagement. Do we have a second? Second. Kathy, yay. Ameilia, yes. Peter, thank you. Okay, approved. Um, update on 2025 board elections discussion. So I believe at this point in time, Madame President, um if I'm not mistaken, one or two of
069the board members is up for election for this coming November and uh just to inform and uh that we will assist in the process and uh that means we will have an election uh this November 1st, Tuesday, November, November 4th. That's right. um a discussion with the board. Of course, we're going to have any bonds today. Yeah, sorry. I was just going to mention we will be going out for go bon um but we will not be asking for edtech technos. Um we'll be doing the edtech in 2026 plus the uh for go um I think it was2 but our our bond advisors will be coming in July to present to you all about the upcoming um election as well as um I believe it's a policy um let me just pull it up really
070quickly [Music] Okay. I apologize. So, um the board will need to approve the election resolution um and um a tax rate resolution. And so what this resolution will do for our community is just inform them that their tax rate will not be increased due to going out to this additional bond. And so, um, the board will need to approve that and then it'll be made like public. Thanks. You should go on the air. Thank you. And it will be a 3.8 million election and then it'll do um it'll come in two different dispersements. Remember D used to be like 2 something. Yeah. So, we got the increase and it's not going to increase the tax rate, which is great. Yeah. With all of our projects, our facility project. So, these two. Yes. So, these two
071are Yeah. So we have um our representative from the ZIA and our uh representative from the hemis will be up for election uh this this November election and I would encourage the same I mean I think we've had a good support I mean our our parent board has well represented the communities and the constituency and um I personally believe that um you embark on a fiveyear strategic plan, you would want to see the fruits of that uh you know of that fiveyear strategic plan. So that means that come January we are going to have um we're going to open board uh re policy. Okay, any questions? Okay, moving down to F. First reading and serious um for policy. Okay. Uh Madame President, members of the board, I was I did not make it into an
072action item. Um we've had a chance to review. We already have a proposal for the changes that we wanted to do. Um however um when I was going through looking for the things that needed to be uh amended uh on page 110 of the policy series 100 uh fourth paragraph um I was always under the impression the last the second to the last paragraph says that the superintendent will recommend to the board of education which policies should be reviewed and revised on a rotational basis. is that was the idea when I first said we should do monthly review. Now when I was reviewing it now on the fourth paragraph of this section it says um it shall be the duty of the superintendent to recommend needed policy manual changes in the months of July and
073October. uh so that all the board's policies are in conformance with the state and federal law. So um to stay with this current policy, my proposal is to revisit that in July so that we can do a monthly review of our policy. So but uh in the interim uh the paging I've already uh our recommendation definitely is to conform with the paging. it's not properly caged. There are like 103 and it goes to 107 or something. So um and then I've also aligned uh with the in maso uh in masbor policy and then there are also outdated information there that says that we have to um uh publish our agenda to under was that I understand that it's no longer existing. So there are those specific provisions that is no longer applicable for us. Um
074including uh right now I believe our tradition is to post our agenda within 72 hours. Uh right now our board policy still says that 24 hours only. So those are and of course that's the pleasure of the board when we open it in July. Uh so I with your indulgence I beg to I will defer the first reading in July with the proposal so that we can decide from there and that would be my immediate proposal to revisit that part that will allow the board and to that will allow us to revisit the policy in a monthly basis as needed. So we go to the first reading and the second reading. Correct. And we approve it. And we approve it. Now depending on the simplicity and the complexity of the changes um in our policy
075does say that you know you could wave second reading if everything is okay. Yes. Because we've done this before too. We used to always update every year, right? And it just continues on because because of the legislature, you know, they chang they make a lot of laws or change and it's going to refer to the law. So every day it's going to be on including updating the required hours. Yeah. So we want to align it to the current requirements. So yeah, we're ready, but we'll start right now and we'll do it in July. So, I make a motion we approve the consent agenda. Kathy, yay. Approve. Okay. Advanced planning upcoming board meetings June 17, 2025. last year and then um board training school law conference June 10th it's going to be in Albuquerque that was
076yes we've submitted it for two correct yeshu and if there's any other training you would like let me know we are okay with uh um June and July so that we can get you all caught up with your required hours so we we have a lot of trainings in June and July we We are going to um we were going to go over that too because I know it's changed in the last time in the right now it's follow this but that means it makes our policy. Okay. Okay. And then Saturday we're supposed to turn our um schoolboard association national conference to them too and to also to miss Mr. Well, it goes to Joe. Yeah. So that we can make sure you're all good. Okay. To you. And then uh Madame President, members of
077the board, I um we had a a good and very fast negotiation with our CBA. And so um we we come to an agreement. I would request for a special board so that we can make sure that our uh employees get the contract. We have an approved salary but um I we we come to an agreement on article 19 and I would like for a date the soonest date that we could do a special board then we can prepare contracts for our uh CBA I mean our um employees for May or June um any uh anytime well this is last week now so I uh we've given agenda I don't know if today's Tuesday we could do Tuesday next if you're available. And that's the only item approval of the article 19. I mean, June
0782, sorry, May 28th. May 27th. May 27. Yeah. Okay. I may or may not be able. It might be late. Thank you. [Music] Yes. Go ahead. Hey I apologize. I don't have anything [Music] today. You know, do it.