001meeting to order. 6:31 June 16th, 2025. Everyone will please stand for the pledge. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. I salute the flag of Mexico. All right. Um, we'll start with the the board introducing themselves and welcome everybody here this evening. Go around and let the board introduce themselves and then I would like the audience to introduce themselves. Mr. Casper, Randy Casper, Bar Kern, Casey Dennis, Charism, Amy Robot, Daisy Paris, Shannon Pierce, Cruz, Rice, Junior, Ellen, Christina, Mike, call Susan Robinson. Good everybody. Thank you. Appreciate it. Okay, we have uh approval of the agenda. There's no additions or corrections. I'll entertain a motion to approve it as presented. I'll make
002a motion to approve it as I'll second. It's been moved and seconded. All in favor say I. Post say. Okay. Everybody had an opportunity to review the minutes from the May 19th meeting. There's no additions or corrections. I'll entertain a motion to approve. Correction. I have a question. I think the way that it was and so can I at this point or do I need to It's usually a board action but there's a motion on the floor. We have a second move. Moved and seconded. All in favor say I. post. Okay. Um I asked that hearing from the delegation be moved up because uh we knew that there was going to be several people here today. So um we have a lot of people that wish to speak as per policy. Uh the time allowed
003for this is 30 minutes. Um, if everybody would like to speak on the anybody that wants to speak on the coaching thing right now will be allowed two minutes or if you want to select a representative to speak on your behalf. I will allow them um 10 minutes to speak. What What's the allotment if if it's two minutes? Two minutes a piece. Subscribers. Yes. I think that would be better than than Okay. And that's the consensus. Then um I will open it up at this point in time for um discussion or comments on coaching. Um Miss Dinus will be the timer and she will warn you when you have 15 seconds left. Okay. And uh I want to hear from Mr. Carl Gonzalez first. And if you would come up here please so that we
004can catch you on the camera any better audio. Thank you sir. Hi my name is Carl and and I have a grandson that plays on his Maxwell Blair basketball team and this team was going somewhere. The coach had they went three years straight to state. They didn't bring the coach back. We you know we're we're we're here for the boys. most of these parents and we believe that coach deserved a chance, not three years and then get rid of him. You know, these co these players looked up to the coach. They wanted to play for him. And now that we got a new coach, none of them want to really play, you know, and it's not fair for the kids. They should the school um administration should have done better and let at least, you
005know, they were thinking about hiring a new coach or something. give these kids a chance to talk and speak also. You know, when when my son played here, they want to stay tight. And when we had an athletic director that was would pay attention to these kids, they were awesome, awesome kids. We had great kids back then and these kids are great here, but it's still I feel like the administration is not backing our kids up and we you know, you're going to hear a lot more of this and and we feel like we need an explanation, you know, about getting a coach, you know, why they did this. So, I got Just I would would like to say one thing. Um as for board policy when it comes to this discussion in open open
006public comment uh personal attacks upon board members uh staff personnel and other persons in attendance or absence of individuals who are addressed the the board are discouraged. Presenters are cautioned that statements or representations concerning others that convey an unjustified, unfavorable impression made be subject to subject the presenter to civil action or defamation. And that's per board policy. I think there was a meeting. There wasn't. I I meant to read that in the beginning and I I failed to do so. I wasn't wasn't making that accusation. Procedure on my part. So, thank you, Mr. Gonzalez. Appreciate your your commenting. Um, I would uh at this time like to hear from Isaiah T. Hi. I would just like to say that a lot of us on my team because I played for Maxwell. A lot of us
007grew with our former coach and you know really got attached to him. He would take us he would take us take time out of his day just to you know let us in the gym for a couple more hours or take us to AU or put in that time and effort and I feel like he was one of the best coaches in New Mexico. I mean that's my own opinion but some I feel like I was just really attached to him. I mean he was been here since I was in fourth grade. And I always he helped me grow like took the time out of his day to help me on the sidelines when I couldn't even on a suicide. But yeah, Floyd So, uh, I would like to talk on how Jimmy was probably
008the most dedicated anybody's ever played for me. And honestly, he would take he spent so much money and time and preparation to put a game to us so we could be successful. and because of what he did and then he just like kind of now there's no explanation on why he got fired. No one knows why he got fired. There's no explanation on that. But also I feel that rival rival schools, rival communities were also part of the committee that chose who the coach was. And I don't think that that's fair because some of them obviously had uh pass to Jimmy and some of them have known Jimmy and they're from rival schools and they might not like Jimmy. So that's pretty biased and that Jimmy he's probably the most dedicated coach. He's one of
009the most probably one of the most best coaches that Maxwell have ever seen. You know, he has he's gone to state three years running now and the year before he and no one we didn't even get close to state the year before Jimmy was here. Jimmy came in and he just dominated. We got the number four seed and freshman shade. That's all I'd like to say. Thank you. Thank you. I like to say Jimmy, he was a good coach. Um, if we did something wrong in games or practices, he would pull us aside, tell us how to fix it. He would tell us how to, well, do it better. He would help us um during practices we weren't having we having problems with the other our teammates. He would have us find a way to
010resolve it. He would um try and make sure we had good team chemistry. He would always like make us um he would pull his own time. He would during summer he would make us have us run during practices, have the gyms, bring us to games far away, spend his own money. He just really says thank you. I' I'd like to start by saying number one especially to Mr. She's she I wish her husband I wish Mr. because this is completely no disrespect the kids respect for Jimmy building state and I've witnessed it. I witness I won't go on further than that. I got to get my reading myself ready but I am so I'd like to make a short statement to the board. This will be the third time in a row that our school
011board has completely disregarded the opinions of the community and the students of our school. It started with CO restrictions while other schools in our district complied with minimum CO restrictions. Our board went above and beyond to appease our oppressive state government. Instead of listening to the concerns of our community and more importantly our kids. Secondly, our board installed feminine product dispensers in our boys' bathrooms without consulting our communities and blamed the state when no other no other school in our district complied with that. We're the only ones in our district that complied with that. So why didn't the state force their hat? Because their school board had a back. And I'm sorry and I'm not I'm not trying to be I'm not attacking but I am saying like where's our back? Why don't why don't
012we stand up for our community? So now we come to this decision. Unconsulted again with parents, children or community, we allowed our neighboring rivals to determine who our coach will be. A coach was ousted. We weren't explained why. A coach that has been the state three years running with no explanation to parents, kids, or community. I think it's time our elected members pay attention to the people that elected them. If not, maybe it's time for a change. It's these kids need to be heard, the community sphere. You guys are all elected officials here, right? And I I don't I don't feel like anybody in this room has been heard. Get my pens up. Thank you. Thank you for giving me a sec. Um, while superintendents have the authority to make hiring decisions and school boards
013role is typically consider and vote on recommendations, there are a couple of important points that need to be considered in this process. The first one is fairness and transparency. A transparent and fair hiring process is important for maintaining public confidence in our school. If there is a perception that less qualified candidates are being hired, it could lead to concerns about favoritism and lack of a clear process, which I feel there are examples of lack of a clear process. When the position was open to begin with, there were multiple reasons given why. Um, one was restructuring of teams, which I don't feel there was actually restructuring of the teams. They were the same as last year. Um, another thing is the committee of people from surrounding schools. And I know some of you might be rolling
014your eyes on that, but to me it's kind of important. And I know you guys know the history of Maxwell and basketball here. And uh, it's important to everybody. And I say I could sit on a committee for a different school and it would be hard for me to be unbiased. So um the other thing that needs to be considered is the impact on the school and the students. Hiring a less qualified coach in the eyes of the majority of the students and the parents in the community could potentially have negative consequences for the athletic program, student athletes, and the overall school environment. And we're seeing this already with some kids wanting to transfer out of here. And so um our goal for our sports program should be to our student athlete. Um, as a
015teacher, I agree that academics should come first. But as a parent of five boys and a husband that eat, sleep, and breathe basketball, it's important in my house. It's important in this community. Obviously, it's important to our kids and I think that they have not been heard and it saddens me a little bit. Um, I don't think it's been fair or transparent at all. on the table. I don't know how I live without those three. Um, the other night it was stated that it was supposed to be internalized with coaches at first. What happened to that? cuz I don't think any of them got asked if they wanted to take over each other's jobs. Um I think if you would have done that, we would have never got to this point. Honestly, you guys can
016sit here and make remarks to the kids when they go places. Make them feel like they did something wrong when they didn't. These kids have a right to be heard. They have a right to stand up for what they believe in and who they care about. And I know some people, oh, um, they're making folds of themselves and everything like that. And I know those same people sat there and did it when they didn't feel like their kids didn't play. So, let's all be fair and how you would really feel about your own kid and how far you would go to protect your kid and what they deserve. Like I like Isaiah said, they've been with him for since fourth grade. Some of these kids have been together since the kindergarten. And to have it
017ripped apart because you guys or you or anybody thought it was right without asking is very disrespectful. Like London said, you guys are elected officials. We put our trust in you to protect our kids. We put our trust in you to protect our kids. We put our trust in the teachers to protect our kids. Some teachers were like, "Let them go. Who cares if they transfer out?" One person was called and it was told where not even how can we change it? How can we fix it? That shows how much you care about our kids. That right day, that day and from then on has showed who cares about our kids and who doesn't. Cuz anybody would stand up for a kid even if they are not theirs and put their life on the line.
018And if I can't trust you to do that, then you don't need to be in the school system. That's all I'm going to say contribute. So, I just wanted to ask uh if you guys could listen to our to my teammates because my teammates thought that Jim was a really good coach and he wasn't just a coach during basketball season. He was a coach all year. Really like helped us all year. And I don't think there was a reason you guys fired him and just walked back cuz he's been teaching us since fourth grade. All of us here. I'm sorry. My name is Essie Kel and um I really I guess I can't really say much um uh other than my experience you know and you know where I've come from um in uh dealing
019with these kind of things uh like people have already said the lack of procedures the hidden agendas uh there's a lot of stuff that's, you know, not being answered and it's causing like discord and mayhem in the community. This is like all these people are here. So there's obviously some sort of dysfunction going on and um the you know like these people put their faith in you guys and uh I'm from Santa Fe so you know my kids go to school here and uh 8 years ago when we broke away from the Raton cuz that's where you know the mother of their children lives is in Raton and we broke away from the school systems in Raton to come here in Maxwell because you know things were being choices and decisions were being made for
020the community and the kids like to empower them. It's about connection and um you know I just don't see it like I don't uh it seems like it's been slipping away over the years and um you know I don't know I can't speak for what happens behind the scenes. Um and you know I can only say from the outside looking in and you know there's some discord and you know people's um choices are clouded and uh you know goes beyond just these kids and and the and the students or the coaches the coaching situation that you know has been going on. Um 15 seconds. 15 seconds. Okay. And I'll just wrap it up with, you know, that power or empowering kids can be made with you people here sitting here. You guys can change your
021ways. You know what I mean? Maybe uh think back on the choices that you guys have been making over the past years, you know? Thank you. Thank you, Sh. I don't need my glasses. It really uh my concern tonight addressing the board is in two parts um due to the recent decisions made by our administration. So I'm going to speak on the first one which is coaching. Um and then the other one let's deal with that when it's because it's on the agenda. Okay. and we'll deal with that one then. That's fine. Thank you. Um so, um at the last schoolboard meeting on May 19th, concerns about the listing of all coaching positions was brought up. Um during that meeting, there were de several uh reasons or excuses given why our positions were uh relisted.
022Um I've been a coach for three years and out of those three years, my position has been listed twice already. Um, last year I was told and I have the book right here that we were going to follow this handbook right here and we were going to be evaluated based on the evaluation system that Miss Roble came up with. That evaluation only took place once. I have my evaluation in here and nowhere does it state I was not performing my duties as a coach, but yet my coaching position was still posted. Um, I believe that um there is an ulterior agenda that does not include obviously the current coaches that were coaching. Yes, I got my coaching position back, but I was told by Miss Robo when she called me that I was selected. I
023don't know what that means. Um, if there were other people and I didn't have to interview, I don't know. I just she just said I was selected to continue my coaching uh position, which I'm thankful for because I do believe that I uh do my very best at trying to improve my skills of being a coach and trying to help these students when they need help at any point in time. Um and I do believe that the other coaches that were um in position did the same thing as I do. Um, I believe that if there is evaluation tool and you use it properly, um, then that's the tool that you should use to determine if we're performing our duties correctly. And that tool was not used. Um, I believe that yes, they said that
024there was a reconstruction of um the the teams. But again, I'm going to have to say what Becky said, no reconstruction different from last year, and we already had a meeting about the co-ed team. It was at the beginning of the year. So, um I just think that there are some things that again are being done that um have a a an agenda other than the agenda that you should have um for the board and for administration that it's about our fits and that's not the decisions being made. It's personal. Hey, Pierce. Um, I think the whole reason this coaching change is occurring is because it's been occurring since Dove let go. And I think they've been trying to work on it to get it done. and they worked on it and got her done.
025And the whole reason is because of that gentleman sitting right there. And if you would have got rid of him when you got rid of Joe, we would not be sitting in this position today. So, I think there's a lack in having a backbone and shining up what's right for the kids because you guys sat there and you listened to everything them kids said and what they felt about Joel and Blasma, not just Joel. No, please. It was both of them. So, I'm going to tell you that that's where I think this is coming from. And I've been watching it since Trist since they left. Well, they got it done. Thank you. Hope you have a great day. you. Um, I would like to thank the board for uh letting uh the people here today
026in the audience speak. I hope that you really listen to what they're telling you because what these extracurricular activities that these kids do has a lot to do how they perform in school. And what I'd like to what I would like to know is what experience the coach the coach that has been hired what experience he has in um to be chosen to coach the basketball team here in Maxwell over an experienced coach that has taken this uh school this basketball team to state for the last three years there. I don't know if the uh board knows that there was no criteria advertised when the contracts were opened up. So, I want you to know what exactly you're looking for. Uh I would like to directly ask the board to uh have Miss have your
027superintendent to readvertise the position for the maximum coach because I don't think it was properly Thank you. Like respond to all patients as we don't have that. Is there anybody else approaching 16? I I have one more real quick thing. Sorry. I will say one thing. I think you guys just made a mistake because on on both sides, boys and girls both, you let go of of individuals that truly care about these kids and went above and beyond what a lot of coaches do. Spend a lot of their own money, a lot of their own time. I think he has made a mistake which I put in a paper but I guess well you weren't very specific so but Deon go ahead Deon Cruz um I'm not I'm not up here for any given person.
028I just want to understand. So the area we live in relies on infrastructure. Business owners, ranchers, farmers, infrastructure. The boys run infrastructure. You change that, you change the infrastructure. You change what farmer has, you change what a rancher has, you ranch, you're going to farm. They were building, they were working towards the state championship. They're working towards more than one possible this year. Looking at Maxwell being on the map more than once. And I can say as a state champ, as a senior, it's it's fun and then it's not because you graduate and you need to take infrastructure away, especially as people that stand on infrastructure, business owners, ranchers, land owners, if your infrastructure broke, you have a break. So I understand why we would move the infrastructure off of the boys and start from
029the bottom and say better them. And if that question could be answered, I'd be happy. But I figured I had to bring it here. made the choice on that. I don't have any more thoughts on anybody else. I'm going to give each of the board members an opportunity to not really keep it pretty short, but uh if they have anything that they would like to Yes. I just want to say that as We do all the right to all the together. I have have a group here. I didn't understand if that was a question I didn't understand. [Music] Did we make the decision? on the board both. Did you make the decision? Did you make the coaching decisions? Yeah. As a group, as an administration, it was Yeah, it was it was discussed. It was
030discussed. They were also interviewed also. Were the people that got selected? Were they interviewed? All of them. All of them. All the people that got picked for coaching, were they interviewed? They had if they were they were all interviewed. I don't think there was if there was more than if there was more than one applicant then all the applicants were interviewed. There was only one applic. [Music] Thank you. All right. We we just returned from a school law conference and there was various breakout sessions in that during that conference and stuff and Casey attended particular one that dealt with open open meetings act and uh meeting u criteria and she has indicated to me that during during the hearing from the delegation/public comment that the board is not to respond to any comments. Um we
031do thank everybody for their comment and your input. Um this um board will take it under consideration and stuff. We we like hearing from the the public obviously um but we will not be making any comments other than that this time we'll be continuing on with our agenda. But we thank you for waiting. What? You know whatever. So what happens now? the plan. So, we won't know if they decisions or that you the decisions have been made and the board supports the decisions that were made and they will stand. Moving on to consent agenda, business agenda provin. So on the cash report, I have submitted um all of the reimbursements with the exception of our title 2 funds. Uh those are for professional development and you cannot seek reimbursement until the professional development has has
032been completed. Um and that will be August. So that will sit on the cash report as an outstanding balance. Um, the bank statements from the NMFA did not arrive until Thursday night at 5:00 and 8:00. So, they're not part of the packet. Um, but I did want to let the board know that um, we did have our fraud filter catch another fraudulent AC. It was an $80 payment to PNM uh, that we were able to stop. Somebody probably just put the account number in wrong. Um, so other than that, the two bank statements reconciled with no problems and I'll bring the NMFA uh to the June with the June reports. Any questions on the expense vouchers? No, I think I just had two bars. uh one was the final allocation and the carryover notice for
033title one and the second was actually voided because I did not need it after all. That's it. Um and then I have um completed our physical inventory. Um and we have identified and found all but I think it was 15 items out of,098. Um so I will bring the reconciliation and certification to the board next month. Pretty impressive. Getting better. Any questions? I'll entertain a motion for the uh budget adjustments. Second already done it. So seconded by all in favor say I. post. Same approval of the asset disposal list. Entertain a motion. Casey second. I can second. Skellyy. All in favor say I. Post. Same. Moving on to all business. Project update. In your packets is the project update from our project uh management company. We do have a page turner in Albuquerque with PSFA
034on Wednesday for the construction documents. From there, we should have a stamped set of drawings and be able to apply for our building grant and advertise the RFP for construction. That should go out the first week of July. As we did with the design professional RFP, we will require an on-site visit for any construction plan that plans to submit for the RFP just so that they can see physically what they're dealing with, where the plot of land is, what's available around Maxwell, where housing is for construction workers, all of that sort of thing. Um, that worked out pretty well with the design professionals and getting those bids in. So, we're going to follow that same process for the construction um companies. The bids will be due by August 5th and we will bring a recommendation
035to the board at the August meeting to approve one of those bids and then we'll go back to PSOC for them to approve that bid and actually award the phase 2 construction comment on that. Yeah, since it's an agenda item, keep keep I just I think that that's great that I again um that you guys are getting the funding for this school and I remember when Atkin went up to the capital to go talk to the you know for the bus barn and all that and that's really cool. But when you guys when I hear things like there's teachers not caring about kids leaving and my kids are some of them three kids that go to this school. This is community that's not very big. So like we should definitely be like promoting to get
036kids here like with programs like Kathy had, Jimmy had and the the you know that have results and that are compat. It takes a special kind of person to have compassion for their students, for their athletes, and that's what it is. It's a student athlete. So, a lot of like like why are you going to chase kids off and build a brand new school? You going to have a big brand new school empty? I mean, that just doesn't make no sense to me. Like, it's not rocket science. Like, why? That's all I have. Thank you. Thank you. Anything else to show on that? That was it. London riff. So at the last board meeting um I was asked to kind of explain a little bit more in detail about the reduction force. Um so as
037this is a live streamed public meeting I cannot discuss staff by name. So I'll only be referring to those as individual positions. Due to a projected shortfall in the budget due to declining enrollment and expected federal fund reductions, the decision was made to reduce by 2.5 FTEES. One of those was a part-time counseling position, one was a full-time BA, and one was an elementary teacher. Next year's enrollment is projected at 77 students with 38 students in grades K through six and 39 students in g grades K I'm sorry grades let me say that again 38 K through 6 39 7-2 when considering which positions to riff we looked at class sizes and program requirements from peed for district accreditation one of the factors in peed's accreditation matrix is whether or not a district offers all
038of the required courses at each level. Remember that for secondary grades, teachers are required to be licensed in their individual content area for students to receive credits towards graduation. After the RIFF positions were made, there are six full-time teachers in the secondary building for those 39 students and five full-time teachers and two full-time EAs for the elementary grades for those 38 students. Two years ago, the high school lost a teacher when she moved out of state and that position was not replaced. This caused a reduction in the FTE for the secondary building at that time. Looking at our child find numbers and the declining birth rate in Kfax County, we do not anticipate a larger kindergarten class coming in in the next few years. In the upcoming school year, even when considering the riff of
039an elementary teacher, no classroom in elementary is over 10 students. and this is still the lowest pupil teacher ratio in our region of High Plains districts. A community member spoke at our last board meeting suggesting specific positions that could be cut back in order to allow the district to keep an elementary teacher. While these suggestions have been taken under consideration, they are not feasible. One of those positions suggested is paid out of grant funds that cannot be allocated to another program and thus cutting it back would not result in a savings to the district. One of the other positions is needed to meet several required courses under peed accreditation consideration and also actually generates additional revenue for the district for that teacher specific lensure. Given the increased mental health needs in our community in the
040past few years, it is not in our best interest to cut both our mental health provider and our physical health provider. We did have a custodian quit and rather than hiring a full-time replacement, we are addressing that opening with other staff picking up extra hours and extra duties. However, when a position is cut, it does not usually zero out that line in the budget. There are still costs associated with those job duties. For example, the EA that was cut was also our in-house sub. While we are saving that salary, our cost for subs will now rise. We still do not know what will happen at the federal level with federal grant funds. We are told that Title 2 and Title 4 will likely be eliminated and other programs may be restructured and consolidated with additional
041cuts. According to state law, I cannot lawfully offer an employee a contract for the upcoming school year if there is not adequate funding to do so. And notice of non-renewal has to be given at least 15 days prior to the end of the school year. This is also best practiced ethically as it allows that teacher to be hired with another district rather than waiting until the beginning of the school year when positions in other districts have already been filled. A riff is always a last resort and no district wants to lose teachers or staff. This is by far the worst part of my job and a decision that I don't want to make. In previous years, cuts have been able to happen as people voluntarily left the district. It just so happened that this year
042we had no retirements and no staff leaving which left us with limited options to address that budget cut. Thank you, Mel. Since it's an agenda item, any of those individuals um that that had it on their form that would like to speak in reference to that, Mr. Pierce over the rift. Yeah. Um again, we'll get two minutes, please. Have to holler at me. I can't hear him. Mr. Pierce, that's why I'm so loud. Can I hear myself Casey Pierce? um on your rifting. I just I don't understand your risking on your elementary teachers when they teach one more than one subject, you know, and you already got two teachers in school that are going to be teaching two classes already themsel. So when you take you know you're not helping by getting rifting and state
043law what's the state law and teacher is teaching two classes do you pay them double salary or you just come here you go here's your job get her done I mean I don't understand that either. So there's different ways to get around besides getting one of your elementary teachers. That's where you That's where you start from. Start from elementary. And your teachers are very important. They're going to teach you in class. I don't I don't care who says that whether you fail on the internet or whether you're in a classroom, you're going to do the same. No. If you got somebody sitting there next to you helping you learn, you're going to learn. I know because I had hell learning. I ain't going to learn on a damn computer. So anyway, I just I don't
044know how you think you can put your teachers in that position to teach two jobs and make another job where it probably shouldn't be. So thank you. Thank you, M. Miss Rubble, you explained um your reasoning for riffing of uh the different staff members. Um and so I had a big speech prepared, but I'm just going off of your what you said with class sizes. Um, you stated that within our surrounding district that we're the district with smallest class sizes, but I would have to disagree with that. I looked up Roy or it was Roy. Yes, it was Roy and they have class size uh 70 students in their district. So, I don't think that their class sizes would be bigger than ours. Um, I also looked up Roy just their staff and um other
045duties were assigned to administration. administration was not only the administrator, but they were also a teacher. They were also uh um uh in charge of the special ed department. But you we don't look at any of that. Yes, I understand your job is important as a superintendent and I understand our administration's job is important as well, but why are you not picking up extra duties? Why is why is it always looked at at the teacher level? There's other you can I'll look at all the other districts too, but that was one I just pulled up and they do have their administrators doing other jobs and being teachers in the classroom. There's all kinds of alternatives and I really am going to say again, I don't think those al alternatives were looked at to try to
046save that elementary teacher when other people can pick up duties just as well as we can. Yes, like I said before, thank you for being very confident in our abilities. I'm pretty confident in my own, but I'm going to be teaching a combo class with no educational assistant. And how is that going to be beneficial to our students? Class sizes for our high school. I'm sorry. I walk into some classes and uh they have four or five kids just like I do. So, I I didn't think I had time limit being that it was on the agenda. I thought you said time limit only for fall off. I've been able to talk any other time of the schoolboard meetings and not been given a time limit. It's on the agenda. It's on the agenda. I
047didn't think so either. Um, but again, it it goes back to you don't want to listen to what anybody has to say. I'm a staff member. I have three students that I bring here to this school district. My brother explained to the to the point of three students coming here. Um, I know that um, you know, when they did come here, it was based on the fact that I supported um, this district and saying that they made good decisions that were based on our kids. And I don't think that's happening anymore. I How many of you have kids in our district? Just one, right? So, how can you base your decision on our students if you don't have kids that go to school here? You can talk for your children that were here long ago.
048I can talk for my son, too. He's going to college. But, but I'm not talking about those students long ago. I'm talking about now and what you're doing for our district now. again because it goes back to you are you are voted in and you're not making a decision that's best for our sta or students sometimes not even best for our staff and I don't see why not listening to us or I mean I guess I'm the only one talking but I know everybody else feels that but they can't talk because you want to shut them down in two minutes why would they come and express their feelings and then to be retaliated against after I do talk because it happens I have proof Lots of like Mr. Roel said, I mean, she explained, I
049think, in in great detail, why the choices were made, and nobody up here, that's an understand. No, nobody at on this board wants to riff staff member. That's the last thing we want to do. But when you are faced with tremendous budget cuts and declining enrollment and 85 of your percent of your budget is staffed, there's we don't have any choice. We don't have a choice. I think the manner of which they're being uh taken the yeah are being uh conducted is a big uh reason why the community is speaking up too is because you know programs that were just recently created um stayed and they cut an education an educator's position you know uh over physical educ education, you know, and that was just recently um made a position. It's a requirement for accreditation.
050Right. Right. And that could eas be easily resolved in an educator's position within the within the administration or the faculty or I I I appreciate your your input and I appreciate the fact that individuals are taking the time to educate themselves. really and truly do. The decision the decision's been made. Um the board backs the decision said it's not one we want to make but we are forced with or handed handed the cards that we have to make a tough decision and that decision's been made. So, I'll take my two minutes. Hi, I'm Ellen Gerard. I am actually one of the employees who was ripped. Um, I'm not here to talk about my own situation. Um, I just have a brief statement generalwise um about some things that I feel I've noticed my own personal
051experiences and observations in the last few years in the last four years being new to this community. My husband's not new to this community. I and myself. Um, we do have a daughter here and I just wanted to speak real briefly to that and for the sake of brevity and clarity so I don't go rambling. I'm just going to read it to you. Um, and this is just kind of in reference to both riff coaching situation. I'm not addressing coaching directly because I know you already went through that in this portion of the meeting. Okay. Um, as a parent of a student currently enrolled in the district, an educational assistant, a previous employee of the district, and a teacher in training, I want to express my sincere gratitude for the opportunity to work within a
052community that values education. I feel compelled to respectfully share my growing concern that in practice, students are not consistently being prioritized in key decisions. From my experience, choices around resource allocation, staffing, and classroom support often seem to reflect operational convenience as opposed to student well-being and learning outcomes. I deeply respect the challenges faced by the board and administration. But I urge us all to refocus on what's most important, ensuring every decision directly supports the growth, safety, and success of our children. They're the most important to me. Thank you. Thank you. I would like I requested to speak as part of the riff and uh name is Triio and um I believe that there if there there was other options that could have been taken that a um the teachers position that was ripped uh could
053have been handled a different way. So uh I'm requesting a copy of the uh curriculum for PE grades K through 12. Uh and I want to see the standards and benchmarks that are followed. Uh and then I'd also like to let this board know that at the time when my granddaughter uh as far as dean in PE, the youngest one um she got hurt in PE and my understanding is that there's no real um the PE is not anything that's uh actually uh there's anything followed you know that that the kids are just pretty much thrown out there. Go run and play and do whatever you want. If uh and it's my fault when my granddaughter came home and she had a big old knot on the head and she wasn't sent to the school
054nurse or evaluated for a concussion. So that's why I am formally asking for a copy of the curriculum for PE that was followed for the 2425 student. open to new business MSBA leadership retreat. We did include in your packet um the information on the school board retreat. Um, I didn't think anybody would be interested in attending, but I wanted to make sure that you had the opportunity if you're interested. Hi, this is the same request that I have brought before the board in the past. Um, the New Mexico Administrative Code says that we are required to um deposit funds received within 24 hours. Um and it says that if the distance to the bank is considerable or the cash collection is limited to small amounts and or low volume and it is impractical impractical to
055meet the 24-hour 1-day deposit rule, the local board may request an alternative plan from PB. Well, we've done it in the past because it is quite impractical sometimes. Yeah, we used to do it once and not again and then with our previous audit firm, they brought it to our attention that it is required annually. So, it's the same letter that we sent to PED every year. Title one LEA parent and family engagement policy. This is the same policy that you all approved um last year. At this time, the only update is changing this school year. Your board policies and procedures governing special ed that big binder was just highlighted changes. time start from the beginning to end here. That's for you guys to look over if you want. I'm just going to um highlight some
056of the changes. I didn't have time to point it out. Sorry about this. So um assist of technology um they just made some housekeeping and it's just going over the um free and appropriate public education. um in the d the diap um request they may ask for technology and the student will need that for their design. The next one is um this one I I kind of went through it. Some were changes, some were little word changes. One of the ones that stuck out to me because I know we have that we've dealt with that um who we can invite to an IEP meeting. It can be a It doesn't have to necessarily be a parent and we don't necessarily need um a legal document. If a grandparent enrolls, we can call the grandparent when
057necessary or uncle, cousin, whatever, whoever they're living with um for an IEP in a in order to get the kid their needs, their needs met. child find we have we have to reach out to a community and have at least one child find a year which we do in the spring. um we follow the state's procedures for that and um and we usually call we kind of I like in my mind I go down every street in town and we reach out to every family and try to get in get them here and that's the big changes that affect us which questions all of that that's all the changes some are like they changed is and and it's like a lot I was going through it and through and I'm like yeah you guys want
058to hear all those any questions What else? The application's next. So, actually all I have I don't know if you have anything specific on the pink. So, um I think she went over her information on that part last meeting. And so then all I have on my part is the signatures to be saying that I spoke with you about this. That's all I have. And then I have it right there. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Other business. Superintendent report. Uh Miss Wick has an update on science adoption. I'm really sorry I can't sit down. I'm having some back issues and so if I seem like antsy, it's because it doesn't hurt if I'm standing and moving. So, I'm not sure what sleeping tonight's going to look like, but um I can sleep standing up
059moving. Um so, a decision was made for 6 through 12. We're still working on elementary. But um even if they were to pick the same book, they can just roll right in or they have the freedom to pick the other book. But um Miss Andrea French and Denise Trio, we kind of went back and forth today and talked about some things and we'd had some time at a literacy concert or concert I conference to kind of talk about some things too. But we have decided to go 612 with the open sad. And so each student would have a consumable book and then they have kind of a like a lab type book where the instructions are given but then the material that they write in is here. Um there's a huge online component for the
060teacher. Uh this particular module how can sound make something move. It starts with like a um a vehicle with the base really going so the kids kind of relate to that. It's it's relevant to their world and the windows are shaken and you know um and so it's everything just seems really relevant and I think they've really done their homework on students. there would be six modules per grade level six, seven, eight. And then at the high school level, there's fif 16 modules to get through in the high school years. And so, um, if you kind of picked and choose kind of some things maybe not necessary in high school, um, but it's really a great program. Let me um state testing is always a huge thing and this particular publisher has really focused on
061claim evidence and reasoning which is a huge part of what the state test is asking. So if you claim that bounty really is the quicker picker upper, what's your evidence? Not just well I saw it on the counter. um tons of graphs, data collecting and things that really make science kind of overlap with math. And then finally then what's your reasoning? And so I think this program really teaches kids how to think. And so regardless of content, sometimes, you know, like having a child memorize the periodic table is the dumbest thing on the planet. can you understand how the periodic table is set up is far more important than knowing where titanium is located. Um, and so I just really think that this is a a good source for us. Um, great stuff from our
062literacy conference that we just got back from. Um, this program shows a great overlap of science, math, and ELA and all of the standards and benchmarks from the NextGen that are covered there. So, there you go. Thank you very much. I mean, I guess you could say no, like go back to the drawing board. Um, I did leave in the um, lounge old boardrooms like samples of all the other books and I'll put those in there too if anybody wants to take a look at them. But like all the biology are all open to photosynthesis so you could see how each one kind of covers it. For the science for the high school for this um, it's on my computer, but if anybody wanted to see it, I'd be more than happy to meet with
063anybody and show you what it looks like. professional. I'm I'm really excited. Takes a lot to get me excited about teaching science. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. So, I don't know. It'll be if we can make it if we can make it work, then it's going to be a great I think our kids are really going to be well prepared. science and math and ELA as it overlaps. And I will get with Tori tomorrow and start talking price and baking for deals and that kind of thing. Any questions? I know you've done amount of research and diligence and Thank you. I have. I tried and um and I just I think too that like even the high school are small books and I just think that's so less daunting than when you like slam
064that big giant biology book down and it's like we're going to cover all of that and already they're like but somehow like when I break down little projects of home into small pieces just makes me feel more accomplished when I get them So, thank you very much. Very good. All right. My That is all I have to make today. See [Music] Okay, on to item number 10, the consent agenda. Okay, alternative deposit request. Mr. Casper, second by Casey. All in favor say I. Say of title one LEA parent and family engagement policy. by Miss Galley, second by Casey. All in favor say I. Oppose. Say adoption of board policies and procedures governing special ed changes. By Casey, second by SH. All in favor say I. Post say IDA application. Scouting, seconded by Casey. All in
065favor say I. Next board meeting is July 21st at 6:30 p.m. Nothing further. Motion to make a motion. I'll second. All in favor say I. will say meetings