001[Music] Oh, he's here. [Music] What happened? It should be over there. [Music] been here since way back. It is 5:30 and we'll start with the To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. [Music] President agenda. I will make a motion that we approve the agenda with a change in the reports from the C middle school and the um cherry I mean the elementary principal switching to the order. Do I have a motion? I have a second. [Music] How about the U? Okay. The senior. Oh, I need to amend that. Okay. Okay. So, the C and B and you and the business. We're going to um move the the B and the C and business to the
002report. It'll be in um and Dr. After after you students need to catch with I voice happy. Peter approval of March March 18, 2025 regular board meeting minutes. [Music] Peter and I'm going down to report um Dr. Kam. Good morning, Madame President, members of the board, students, community members. Good evening. Um you have my report with you. U Madame President, members of the board, but I just would like to um bring to your attention that this report today has the um my monthly report, but I also added my first quarter report uh as a superintendent. So, I'm adding here my first quarter report as far as the goals that we've agreed on and what we are um making progress towards those goals. Um I would like to uh present to you to this evening our
003high school students here and some of our staff and volunteers. Um because uh in my report it said that we uh we actually partnered with the Sandal County Treasurer's office. They reached out to us and asked if they would like to uh present to our high school students es especially for those incoming 11th and incoming 12th grade next year because they would like to offer an internship opportunity for students and so uh the high school students did meet with the county treasurer and then they've given them out they've given them an application for internship and um they are the Santaal is serving seven, six or seven schools and they will be choosing I believe two but they're hoping to choose four and they came to our school and uh I spoke with them about our
004students already some of our students are already taking business courses and they would like to offer an internship opportunity wherein our high school students will be there uh every Friday interning in the uh um treasurer's office and that they will they will help us award credit uh as part of their uh work-based learning. Um there's a lot of information that has uh that I have gotten through the through my attendance with the uh new um United States school boards association as well as the New Mexico um school I mean official school official uh uh nimaso. The the first one is on the AI. Um as far as the uh the state or the United States school boards association, they are already in the foreground of addressing AI and the next generation skills for students. Um
005they reported that since the study that Lynn conducted five years ago uh and you you cannot quote me on this because I'm trying to remember from memory that there is a misconception that AI is already taking over the jobs. Well, there is some data that would suggest that 33% of the current job is already done by AI, but the layoff is not happening. They the the research uh that they presented showed that there are there are what we call um skills um that will be very much needed that uh for the for our students to learn now because these are the skills that will not they call them the durable skills that will not that is not yet replaced by AI. One of them is communication skills. So we want to and it's very important
006because uh last year um I presented to you the portrait of the graduate and that was one part of our portrait of the graduate resiliency and problem solving. problem solving, communication are durable skills that we want our students to learn as they undergraduate with because uh the workforce is very competitive and now AI is there that can do the job but it doesn't mean that they they will not have a job when they graduate from high school when they graduate from college but that is very uh true uh with our strategic plan because uh the board has just adopted a strategic plan and has adopted a portrait of the graduate and we would like to uh in in May and June I already spoke with our uh leadership team to start looking and incorporating those
007durable skills in in our curriculum. Uh and then um I've learned about CTE during that uh uh schoolboard association that um the core classes will not be replaced because they are needed but there are skills that cannot be replaced like being an electrician or construction trade and things like that. So I am engaging our our leadership team uh leadership team to think out extra layer of being outside of the box and to come up with a plan wherein we can teach our core classes around CTE because that's a durable skill. So if our students are taking phbotomy, if our students are taking uh electrical classes, we want our English, math, science and social studies to plan around the skills that the students are learning or taking. So those are just uh some of the examples
008that I've learned and I've also adopted a copy of a it's not a policy but a policy guidelines that school board can adapt in as far as AI is concerned and um and then with nimas they presented the different bills that had just been approved and signed by the governor. Uh one of those is uh there will be a new uh graduation requirement for next year especially the incoming nth grade. So this will not impact you now but the incoming nth grade it's uh it's powerful because one of that is uh algebra 2 is not required but we are we should still offer it. Students who are taking CTE courses or work-based learning can use that credit towards an English, a science, a math or a social studies. So if they are if they are
009learning phbotomy, they know they can use that phbotomy class as their science class. If they're doing like uh business, they can use that as a as a math credit, computer science and so on and so forth. That's powerful because it allows the board local autonomy on identifying what at least two two elective classes uh will will need to be adopted by the board. Then uh another uh law that is going to impact the districts and the state the New Mexico is the no distraction no distraction in school policy and basically is the cell phone use and um I would like to present to the board a um a balanced uh presentation on how um that that will impact us as far as reviewing the policy. uh in May. Um we will be presenting the first
010uh policy review in May and we are going to present the uh series 100 and series 200 which is the board uh structure as well as the uh curriculum instruction which part of it is the cell phone use and I believe there are some wording in there and it's important because the requirement in the law says that by August one board should have adopted a policy already. Um those are the major uh adm uh funding wise uh prek funding had increased uh graduation option and then our SG funding sixth graders are now consider are now has a different calculation. So that means that we really need to improve on recruiting our sixth graders. So usually we get our influx of students seventh graders but now we are working with our elementary and the middle school
011team to uh plan for a recruitment drive to recruit sixth graders and of course elementary um and the most important and most crucial is accreditation. So I I understand Dr. Pel at the time and Dr. Mrano bring about accreditation and but we we stopped it because we've heard that the state is going to adopt their own accredititation. They have adopted an accreditation. They have a 10point accreditation criteria and they are going to start it June and they are going to make the determination in August. And the good thing is well it's not a good thing. So they they are doing there they said that there's not much that they need that the schools need to do because most of the work or most of the of those 10point agenda can really be accessed like the
012Nova report attendance graduation rate safe uh safety plan which we already have and then um as far as the board is concerned they're asking for board credits. So I I will be working with Miss Ajanis so that we can create binders for each one of you. Yes. What's the number? I believe it. Yes. I will have to now that it's a requirement for that. I will have to get the official memo from the board and then we are going to create binders for each one of you so that one of that is proficiency in reading in math and in science. So um the the duty right now of of your administration was to make sure that just looking at the rubric we will not be able to meet some of those specifically in the math
013area and then with this accredititation that they're going to it said that the secretary will deliver the the result to the student to the school by August then there will be an appeal process but and then they enumerated what would One of that is that to ask the to replace the board, to replace the superintendent, to to to close schools or to combine schools and and but one of that is the ability uh to ask uh for the state for the P to ask the school to come up with a plan. The good thing is we have a strategic plan already and we are and that's why I put in here my quarterly report that we are trying to make progress towards that. So my personal hope is that if we will be put on
014some sort of an action plan we have a baseline that we can use and then we will comply with okay oh your your number of percentage is not enough bring it up then I will bring it up. those are the most crucial right now accreditation because they're not waiting for one year they're going to make the determination right now for that um and then of course our graduation uh graduation options for the following year uh CTE and work-based learning is big and another thing that I learned from uh that's the schoolboard association I'm trying to share this because this is our students are here uh the durable skills talk about oh yeah that's right talk about yeah I'm talk about remote learning but we want to prepare our kids for that kind of remote learning
015because most of the learning in college is already remote I think we are we are already able to provide that kind of experience to our students but that means that recruitment wise we should capitalize on that and create a very good remote learning options for our students in the future and having said that uh madame President, at this point in time, I have three things that I'd like the board to consider. Number one is uh I would like the sponsor of the student council um Mrs. Low to present to the board and have the board uh uh help administer the oath of office. These are the new newly elected council members. Go ahead. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen of the board. evening uh to our superintendent, to our school principles, everyone. Uh please allow me
016to share uh to uh to present to you uh JBPS student council for uh school year 2025 to 2026. Once I call your name, please uh grade 12 representative Khan. uh peace officer please peace officer uh Adam Gupin he could not make it but uh we are very fortunate because uh the mom is very supportive she is here public information officer Hyru Luiz treasurer Amy Sando secretary Ayana Chinana external vice president Amadeus seor internal vice president Joseph Loero. I would also like to acknowledge that the parents are here tonight. And for our president, we have Leilani Romero. I would also like to acknowledge um the mom, Miss uh Nicole. She's also here, very supportive. And they have been elected through a general election. Correct. [Applause] Madam President, I would like to indulge to uh to
017give them their oath of office. Good evening. I and I am very proud of you for your positions that you guys are in. um just remember that you're here for the student and you're the student body and the voice for the whole school district students in your school. So with that um raise your right hand and repeat after me. All of you have been selected have been elected of the All of you have been elected of the Haymon Valley public schools in the election process. Last February 21st, [Music] volunteer responsible. [Music] [Applause] thinking of a project before. So uh at this time also madame president I would like to ask again the at this time the senior sponsor president [Music] sorry one of the speaking in front of people. [Music] We have we have a
018lot of work to do. Okay. At the end of the school year, the president of the council actually just attended a statewide conference of student leaders. in Santa Fe. So and uh Madame President at this time uh I would like to ask again the this time the sponsor of the senior class to present to you the graduating class. We have selected some students here to formally Hello everyone. As the senior class president, it is my honor to invite you to our upcoming senior graduation ceremony. schedule. To kick off the celebration, we will have welcome speeches in different languages and Riley Aragon and Caris and Sebastian Wilson English. [Music] Hello, my name is We are proud to announce our keynote speaker will be sharing an inspiring message. everyone which will feature our baby pictures. Good evening
019everybody. Once again, I'd like to once again we like to invite everyone on May 17th, 2025 at 10 a.m. at the JPS High School gym. So, we're all on your calendars. I want to see all of y'all there. What you have certain positions? I know you're a So what roles you all played this past year? Are you in a certain position the council or the [Music] person city I am internal and external vice president I'm the vice president I'm the 10th [Applause] I just want to say thanks a lot to you guys here too long. But I just wanted to uh you know thank you for being here. appreciate this and your best. So, I just want to tell you that and just take care of yourself and you're number one. We all care for
020you guys and we all wish you the best like I said and look forward for you to you go to college or you trades military wherever. also here about supporting mother and kids. That's why we're here. I've been here for a long time. Over 20 years I've been on the board. So I've been president, vice president, secretary, member for a very long time. start really young. So, you know, do your best. There's always a potential for you guys. It's up to you. You're the hands of yourself and we're grandparent all the time. Okay. And uh last uh madame president, members of the board at this time um I would like to uh recognize also through the board um who have been uh gracious to recognize staff members who have uh and a lot of staff
021me all of our staff members and a lot of our volunteers and a lot of our parents are really stepping up helping our school uh serving lunch being in our after school games a But uh today I would like to uh ask the board uh to formally recognize two of our uh volunteers who had uh helped the district improve the literacy of our students. These volunteers uh they're not getting paid but they have been in the classroom. One of them is almost is daily and then the other one is twice a week serving special education students serving our pre-k students and even serving our uh if they need to you know take care and sub in another capacity. So today um the board uh through your uh through your uh state board association have uh
022requested that the New Mexico school board association recognize two of our volunteers for excellence in student achievement and they will be receiving an excellent in student achievement awards tonight. So I would like to recognize Miss Dolores Garcia and Mr. Jason Low to please come in front and uh to the community member. Uh basically the the school board unanimously would like to recognize the two of you for excellence in student achievement presented by the New Mexico School Boards Association in cooperation with the Heames Valley Public School Local School Board of Education in recognition of the outstanding role played in improving student achievement this year 2025. But they have been volunteering since last year. So the president Thank you. [Applause] and uh this is being published in I believe in newspapers. So um we would like to
023recognize each and everyone of our community members who have in one way or another improved the lives of our students and we welcome all of you and we uh for in behalf of the school board. You are all recognized and thank you for your dedication to our school community. And that ends my report for the president. Thank you everyone for the meeting and I thank the parents for always being there for your students and for your children to support them in any sports that they're in continue to do so and all the athletes and the graduates. Please continue with um your education and never give up. It's going to be challenging. There's going to be a lot of obstacles but never give up. continue to do what you do. I sorry, Madam President. I just
024would like to take this opportunity in public with those listening on uh the YouTube or online that the district is actually going to offer free reading camp for incoming kindergarten to incoming ninth graders enrolled in our school. We will be offering four hours of tutoring services throughout the month of June from June 2 to June 27th. And we are asking community members you will be trained to become a tutor and they will be assigned maximum of four kids at a time and then any only requirement is 18 years old and that you can that you will pass the background check to the state and it is a paid tutoring services $35 an hour for our tutors. So uh anybody grandparents, parents if you have time uh you will be provided training and then you will
025be serving our students in the elementary and the middle school this month of June. [Music] Just real quick, I know some of the kids are asking. It's a good time. If you need to leave, you can like Thank you guys for coming. You're almost there. Good evening. Good evening. Um, Madame President, good evening, madam vice president, board members, Dr. members of the community, parents, staff members. Um, you saw my huge report and so actually for this month it's kind of like it's kind of like a aside before we get stuff going for the last month of school. So there wasn't too much there. I just shared out the things that we completed for the month of March. And so now that we're rolling into the end of April and into May, next month we will
026be having um events as promotions. We'll make sure those get out in the flyers and the newsletters. We've just um completed the final um just kind of the final details for some of them so that they weren't not a lot was put in the board of pro. I'll make sure that you all receive it as far as like the promotions for prek, kinder, fifth grade. So, if you can make it, that would be great. Um we also have an ice cream social that we finally have a date for for elementary. So, I will make sure you all get that. We won't wait until May to share that. We'll share that um probably the Monday we get back from the break. And so, but other than that, board members. So, when we come back, we're just
027going to be closing out. I just want to say we had a very successful um testing for um uh ina Mesa English and math for our third, fourth, and fifth and then science for our fifth graders in in our school building. And so we'll see what the results are. Um we'll know that by this summer. And so but as far as that, we've already begun planning on what we need to do. So with the strategic plan that this board has um accepted and also voted on, we are moving forward with that. So we are kind of revamping. So, um, for in order to meet the new requirements for especially coming from legislation, looking at what we now have to look forward to even though we're elementary and there are new graduation requirements, that also helps
028us to know what we need to do so our students will be ready to graduate. So, the work does start all the way down elementary. So, we're looking at that. We're looking at even just what again, we're always looking at curriculum. We're always looking at things that we need to refine, but it seems like more so now, this is a crucial year for for not our school, but for the district. So, but I'm very glad and I was very pleasant um not I was pleasantly surprised and happy because the strategic plan that you guys approved and adopted it. I was looking at it and I was even sitting here look telling Dr. come out. I was like, are you guys all like, you know, do you are you all seers into the future? Because everything
029on that strategic plan aligns to what the state is telling us we now need to implement. And I was like, wow. So that was that was as a school leader that made me feel good like, okay, we are on the right track. We do know what we need to do. And so that is what we have been sharing with our staff and now we want to share that with our parents for the upcoming new year. But other than that, board members, I do stand for questions. Thank you for the board. [Music] Okay. So, I'll just go ahead and start going down briefly here. So, you'll notice um students enroll for middle school. I broke down the the number of 73 by how many are in each grade on the top of the first page. Our
030staffing hasn't changed. school. Um, going towards the bottom, high school enrollment at 103. Again, broken down by grade levels for you. Staff in the high school, nothing different since the last full report. Uh, to the second page, middle school academics. This been already touched on that testing was conducted really smooth. uh the makeup testing for students that are absent is is happening right now and also the eighth graders to to the the science test also through the state. Um as far as operations, uh teachers now have to start fulfilling the rest parts of of canvas showing the professionalism and professionalism and and planning. um for the for part of their evaluation. Uh today the walkathon is the highlight of the highlights that start with that. Today the mid school conducted or completed 538 laps a
031total of 134.5 miles. Um five students attended American Indian Science Man society conference center of Texas um which was just on the second through the 6th on there. Um really interestingly when we come back oh look at that April 29th April 29th um our science teacher Miss Higs uh through collaboration through the Cub via Caldera and some other people that she's worked with acquired funds to uh pay for the transportation and a whole bit of activities that it's going to happen in the Caldera full day activities. So this is a great opportunity for we believe all three grades are going to attend this on that day. Again ultimate warrior trip is going to go on March 14th. We got preparation for 8th grade promotion coming up. We'll get the date to you that come back
032uh from spring break. Uh we going to be having visits from the incoming assistant seventh graders from our neighboring schools schools just down the valley there. And then we still have do our end of the year I test for English and jars and math also high school academics. Um year pure tutoring still continuing which is our high schoolers coming down working with elementary students to help with leadership. Um the 11th grade state science test was also conducted and just today um sorry this test sorry thank you I'm sorry um today the uh the sat test was conducted SAT test and so uh there will be some makeups following with that um operations again teachers need to finish inputting information into the campus program highlights for the high school. We had 12 students attend the Skills
033USA New Mexico State Leadership and Skills Conference on March 27th to 28 Albuquerque. That's tied in directly with our CTE programs. Um, our students are just observers at this time. Um, but what it is is our students are saying, you know, we got electrical students. um there there would be a contest there for the electrical students as far as doing some wiring or something. And so this is actual state competition where all the schools from Mexico who have these similar CTE programs compete against each other. Um one of the biggest ones I heard about was the culinary um seeing the students who are culinary trades that are in front of all these people and stuff. So it was a really interesting thing for them to attend and the idea was to get them the interest
034in it. So next year we will attend full as participants and not um see next we had two students attend the YMCA annual youth government state conference in Santa Fe. That was this past weekend. Um they saw government in action there at the legislature. Um walk on today. high schoolers 386 laps, 96.5 miles. So that was was a good day out there. I understand it was a little chilly this morning for the Al tree. It was chilly and cloud covered, but by the time that I knew what day they showed up, it was just like um I don't remember exactly what miles was, but the elementary, but the elementary did out outpace the school. I think the the farthest was five miles. Wow. That the kids walked. He's a winner. You got the bike. Congratulations.
035Yes. They had prizes. First prize was bicycle prize volleyball. The elementary broken into two different categories and middle school high school. And tomorrow we either time tomorrow. No, sorry. Next. Okay. So, next month activities and priorities for your trip preparation graduation, the incoming high graders to visit and the the blood drive is when we come back in spring. I want to say the 29 Monday or Tuesday. And you had a successful prom. Yes. Yes. time. Um it was just the 11th and 12th graders this year which some students especially grad was promising high school. It was really special. Any comments? We have some middle schoolers are in quad right now. Senior day for the baseball Saturday. Saturday. [Music] I wanted to follow up on the use of our website and yes yeah that's part of
036my goal is to Sorry. Thank you. Mr. Davis, I believe he is in the trap. We're having a our middle school. We're hosting a middle school. [Music] Okay. So the um expenditures um the March checklist consists of utility expenses, professional development, classroom and athletic supplies and materials, tech purchases, ancillary costs and fuel. Um the there was Randy did not submit IBT this month and did not submit any bars for this month. Um, and I'm actually let I mean the from the legislative. Okay. Um, I discussed during our budget meeting that I just recently attended the spring budget conference which is hosted by um, public education department, myself, Dr. and my bookkeeper Jessica Ggo are all in attendance. Um I just wanted to get on a couple of the key points that were brought up during
037um during the conference which is going to affect um the upcoming budget. So one of um the areas was discussion about language um with an average% rate. So that was the language going all the way up to the governor's desk. Um however just received we would have received word that she vetoed that language and so essentially the language of the average is no longer standing and so the 4% is just going to be across the board. So it won't be an average which essentially that would have meant with the new minimums of 55 65 75 that could have essentially on its own brought the district to an average of a 12% increase. So that language is veto and now it's just a straight 12%. Um head did release uh the unit value which is an
038increase of about $200 from this current fiscal year. So that that did go up which is always a good thing. Um as mentioned last month the factors for our six the sixth grade um increased for the upcoming budget season as well and so it had been currently at 1.045 045 for I believe they told me about 10 years and it increased to a 1.3. So that's a that's a big jump for the factor which is again great for um the sixth grade membership. Um there is also or has been an increase for our three and four Y students and that increases a factor of two or two. Um I'm sorry. It's a two, a factor of a two. Um there is going to be an increase to um the insuranceances, the NICU insurance. So they
039didn't state what that increase is going to be in regards to the medical, dental or vision. Um but in regards to our risk risk insurance, that is going to be just over 12% raise with the district. So it it went up quite a bit. uh the district unfortunately we did deal with a significant decrease in our membership from when we built this budget. So we're looking at a decrease of over 20 students. Um thankfully we have all of these increases and the factors in the funding formula. So that's going to be good for us. Um, I had mentioned previously as well that the at risk factor is now changing to where they're including family income index and that was going to also be a hit for the district because we never received those funds. It
040strictly went to the charter and so I had a feeling that it was going to affect us and it would have um it would have been a decrease of about $57,000 for the district. However, um the state didn't understand that that would be um a huge impact on the smaller school district. So, what they're going to do is hold us harmless for for this year. And so, we won't feel that decrease. However, it is going to true up in the next couple of years. So, depending on how that factor is going to play out and how they're going to get um the data in order to generate that funding, we'll just kind of have to play that by year. Um so the district again we Dr. Kaman and myself the administrators and and the entire
041district is working really hard on a campaign to bring our students back and so um one of the things that I had mentioned is and I'll let Dr. Kamada elaborate a little bit further but um the potential of bringing back elementary sports. So, I know that has been something that has been a big buzz in the community and and and really wanting elementary to have some kind of athletics and so Dr. Kamad and I have met and and you're really um working hard to try to to be able to bring that back and Dr. Kamada. Yes. Um um we have this NV3 foundation requested to to to use our facility but then the conversation transformed into how can you help build our program in elementary. So we would be able to send up our elementary
042sports. We are looking at uh creating a basketball team uh for all grade levels as well as our captain team. But then just today I got an invitation for the volley state cup for the June. So we are going to fund and it just fall into place because if because we are offering uh reading uh what do you call this reading tutoring during summertime so we would like to create that into and then um during the schoolboard association I was in contact with a an organization there that will hopefully if it push them to show they will come over here from Arizona to offer for a free chess summer camp for our elementary students. But we're hoping to capitalize on it. Um when we are looking at those students, we are trying to analyze why
043our families are the movement of our families. Um unfortunately one of our and it has been of course we got killed with COVID and everything else but because the uh our community our family wanted to see growth in our students literacy growth. So that's why we are going to offer that summer program to really focus on reading and then offering sports programs so that they can feel that it's not just all reading they're also enjoying and uh hopefully beginning of next school year we are looking for a fund that we will be able to provide um a partnership with this organization uh our element and when we say they will participate in the MV3 It means that we will be our own team. H Heis Valley public school. So we will have our own uh
044what do you call this uniform and we will have our own um attire for them and but there will be some games wherein they will be competing with together with other schools but we will have our own uh identity so to speak and um the rules is different but our students will have fun but we will continue to support our elementary as far as they are their drive to improve their literacy as far as creating after school program that is not just academics but also uh and they will also help not just the sports but also life skills and health and wellness after school program. So that's our some of our initiative that we are um going forward to to increase our growth. Our goal is it's in our strategic plan. We want to grow
04510% from last year. So we we've uh we've experienced a decrease. We need to recover that gap and we need to increase it. So I think that's what I have. I'm going to start you know working putting numbers together working salary schedules and then I'll be presenting on the budget a couple of um community meetings and then um more than likely we would have to have a I'd ask Dr. I wanted to get you guys in for a special meeting to approve the the budget. The due date is the 16th of May. Any questions? She did not tell me any comments. Okay. [Music] Sorry, I just had to clarify. Yeah. So, I make a motion we go into executive session. And waste.