001e e e ready Mr yeah welome everybody here we had a big crowd tonight for our presentation so if everyone would please stand for pledge pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation indivisible andice for all iute the the stb CH United cultures thank you very much we go around and uh have everybody introduce themselves you can stay in your seat but speak loudly so that it picks up on the monitor Amy Robel superintendent Bar L Kern board president board vice president Randy GTO it Susan Robinson business manager chriso principal MIT Susan Al Russell Andrea French lizwi Ashley gcia grade teacher Shon thank you everyone um Mr Robble has informed me that we had not received the information necessary to address item
002number 11 so we will uh postpone that are there any other changes to the agenda seeing none I will entertain a motion to to approve the agenda as amended thank you motion by Mr Casper second by sh all in favor say I I I oppos same carries 4 Z do everybody have an opportunity to review the board minutes from the January 27th meeting there's no additions or corrections I will entertain a motion to approve them as presented second Mo by Randy seconded by sh all in favor say I post say consent agenda Business Report um so I've submitted all the reimbursement requests and I must say that ped is very quick at their turnaround this year I think everything that I submitted on the third has already been paid wow wow they're they're much better
003than they were last year um bank statements all reconciled with no problems um including the geobond um statements that come from nmfa they came in on Friday so had we not postponed the meeting they wouldn't have been here in time any questions on expense vouchers no okay so I had a few bars um bar 33 was a transfer bar um because we're receiving more um ADV Alor taxes than anticipated I want to make sure that we have enough budget authority to cover the 1% County fee so that we don't have an audit finding for being over um on our County tax collection fee so that one was for our s sp9 fund bar 34 is the same thing in our goo Debt Service Bond and bar 35 is our edtech Note bar 36 is an
004increase for new revenues um in our uh geobond adorm we had an additional 3261 above what we had budgeted for the year so we will continue to see an increase bar uh the rest of the year for our adorm taxes and bar 37 was a transfer from our Carl Perkins fund um moving a little bit of money out of indirect cost and back up into expenses so that we can maximize and spend every dollar that they've allowed Us in this grant that's it on the bars questions on the bars entertain a motion to approve present I'll make a motion to approve second say I say motion carries and I just had one um asset to dispose of we removed the um non-working inner right board out of the high school English classroom and replaced it
005with a TV questions on that if not I'll entertain a motion to approve moved and seconded all in favor to say I I post all right we'll turn it over to the fifth and six Madam president members of the board thank you for allowing us this opportunity to showe um a few of our students um and what they've been able to accomplish in the last three weeks we um received our five Mar's about a month ago and started teaching basic programs and basic uh coding skills we have five students presenting four presentations out of 11 students that are here this evening and I'm going to let them do all want to start Brave ladies introduce yourselves again I'm Al Russ and these are B students Rob while they're getting set up students have the opportunity
006to decorate and named their Ro robots whatever they wanted um they had the decision of either working in a team or working individually to um design a program there was no length given they were given free range and just do what you want to do with him um of course within reason but let's move this back a little bit so that we can move har Harper is going to be doing hey you [Music] that's nice job ladies okay I will be presenting for another person because he isn't here prob he sick or just thank you for filling in uh well me and axel work together on this three weeks and's not gonna do this but and what's your robot's name see hello teachers and friends how are you today May I a little unstable tonight
007there he goes let maybe try this Bob's like oh he doesn't want to perform stage friend hello teachers and friends how are you today may I sh your handsor hello teachers and friends how are you today may I say it'sing yeah it's not mine it's was it hard to it was just hard to agree on what the team [Music] easy it allows me to make my presentation a lot teachers and friends how are you today may I shake your hand awesome good job thank you for covering for your partner too they run batteries um so they run on battery and when we purchased the five they came with five pack of batteries to repl they last I think we've had to replace them what once each one maybe once in the amount two times it
008just depends they actually had to work if even the timing they would like start it do it go back fix the timing I mean it was a lot of his his timing wasn't so good but fine I forgot to disconnect I know your J what's your name is Ross hello School Board staff members and friends I hope you are doing well my name is Bob Ross would you like to see my moves absolutely nice thank you for attending our program with Marty have a wonderful evening that's awesome going to walk first okay [Music] okay walking forwards so our students had to share Marty so they had to really work cooperatively to take turns and practice on their programming then share with their friend and then go back and forth and kind of just work together
009whenever you're ready my name is that I can do more Stu I am very hungry Tak thank you great job you guys in about five weeks we'll have a science in the auditorium thank you guys that was fun thank you those are pretty cool you guys are welcome to stay for the rest and you're welcome to leave thank you for coming [Music] thank you you guys have a good night should have a a student presentation in every yes y we can work on that project update all right which project the project oh that that one um so we are now at the end of design development psfa confirmed today that we have turned in 100% of everything for design development phase it's currently moving up the chain in psfa for approvals the architect text came
010up our previous project manager from Decker was Janet Lacy she's no longer with the company so we have a new one his name is Damen and he and Juan came up on last Thursday and met with the First Responders they went through the site design the location of the fire Riser room the fire hookups the fire tank um all of the security what kind of gates they want on the property how they want to be able to access those Gates how they want buildings and doors and all that sort of thing um so the First Responders signed off on the design the next step is the full design team is going to be coming up probably two full days next week and going to do another thorough in-depth room by room um review of where
011we are with the design um back at the very beginning of the summer we had individual meetings with each group of Staff um the elementary teachers had the opportunity to weigh in on the design of their classrooms secondary teacher same thing um through every area of the of the building and the grounds so they're going to come back next week for two days and be here on site and go back through all of those areas with all of the staff before it gets submitted to psfa that phase is called the CD which is construction documents and they will have those submitted to psfa by March 14th at that point psfa takes two weeks to review all of those documents and then we schedule another one of those meetings in Albuquerque that they call a page
012Turner and that's where the Architects present to all of the different psfa departments and psfa signs off on the design they then take that to the psoc committee in Santa Fe um that would be on I believe it's the April psoc meeting we then go out for bid for construction and with the the intent of breaking ground this summer so as of right now we are still on track we're pushing hard to keep everybody on track and make sure that those timelines are met but as of right now we are on track for that and we will let you all know what days next week um Decker will be up here with the design team so that you can come through and and look through everything as well any questions on where we are with
013the project no okay next up last month we had the um kind of initial flyer for our grad profile file um a slogan and acronym we did go ahead and do a survey for staff and parents and community members to weigh in on the words that went along with the acronym for Bears we did actually have 39 people respond to that so I was really pleased with that um and this is the revised version that's in your board packet um some of the feedback that we got was the the phrase um seemed a little simplistic and folks thought it could sound a little more sophisticated so we changed the language and it now says where Cubs develop into Bears um the AC the the words for the acronym are now Brave empowered accountable respectful and
014successful so if you all are good with those then we will move forward with defining what what does brave mean what does that look like how do we know if we've if we've achieved that and do that for each of those and I do have the survey results if anybody wanted to see the only one that we didn't go with what the survey had we ended up with two words that basically meant the same thing so in that case we went with the second choice and I believe it was on a so on the a 41 % of folks responded for achieving but we thought that was kind of the same thing as successful for our s so we went with the secondary Choice there of the accountable which kind of fell into you know
015previously we had the word ethical in there so we got you know the accountable part so I do have the survey results and comments if anybody wanted to look at those um and then that brings us to the M SBA student Achievement Award nomination we did have one nomination last month I've not received any additional but I don't know if the board had any that they wanted to bring forward I don't have any I'm perfectly fine with the suggestion that we receiv received last meeting I thought it was excellent yep okay and we do have that as an action item at the bottom and that is old business okay jumping into new business open meetings after resolution or annual your packet are there any changes to this Tanya or was it just updating the justdating
016just updating the dates in it everybody fine with the meeting on the third Monday keep that way yeah okay and that's an action down below okay legislative update okay so last Thursday was the final day for bills to be introduced for this 60-day session a lot of bills were introduced right at the very end so many that they don't even have official names yet so if you go to the legislature website both houses have right at 600 bills each that were produced during the 60-day session and that doesn't count the memorials and the resolutions and all that's just bills um and there were so many that came in in that last 24 to 48 hours that in the house bill number 584 all the way down to 623 are all named right now the exact
017same thing because they haven't been given names yet so they went ahead and gave them a bill number they went ahead and listed them on the site but you can't even click in to see what they are yet they say not printed and same thing in the Senate so we'll be keeping an eye on that and see you know what last minute has kind of got introduced so far the ones that we are watching just today the house education committee heard the bill that places the um authority to say how many days is in a school day calendar with the school board that passed out of the house education committee today there are also a couple of different bills that deal with um salaries for schools one would give and I guess that's in the
018the house bill two with the salaries would give a 4% across the board raise for all School Employees there's also a bill that raises the minimum teacher salaries $5,000 so a level one minimum would be 55 a level two would be 65 and a level three would be 75 there's another one that I guess codifies into law and I thought they had already done that um a minimum $15 an hour for all School Employees I thought they had done that last session but apparently it wasn't specifically spelled out so they have that one in here and then they also have a minimum salary of $330,000 but the way that it's worded is it says $15 an hour or $30,000 there's no clarifying language in the bill as to which is which and is that $30,000
019for a 12-month employee $30,000 for a 9-month employee so that one we've everybody's kind of pushing for some clarifying W said there's a bill on minimum wage there is there's also a bill on minimum wage that would set a Statewide minimum wage of $17 an hour that changed the other one that would yeah but in that $17 an hour one they struck out a whole bunch of different categories of employees and basically it leaves in supervisory employees so it's it's not really a straight $17 an hour minimum wage yeah you [Laughter] me um there's also several bills dealing with um curriculum type issues one passed the senate floor today and is now moving over to the house side that would legislate requiring the science of reading and structured literacy as the only reading program for
020schools um this is one that the superintendent Association met with peed and the sponsors of the bill about and express concern that once you put the the name and title of a particular curriculum into law you know those of us who's been around in education long enough know that the pendulum always swings and new research new curriculums new things come out now you would have to go back to the legislature and actually change the law in order to enact a new curriculum um so we asked them to consider that it does look like it passed through the Senate today and it will now go over to the house the chair of the house education committee is a current teacher in APS so I think he heard us loud and clear with some of the concerns
021that we had about that bill um there's also one that's very similar that relates to math and as you know for the last several years our elementary teachers it started with Elementary and now it's moving to secondary next year they had to do a mandatory training it was the letters training they were having to do that outside of their contract Duty day um and it was required it was a 2-year cohort that they had to go through they're now talking about doing something very similar with math and so now elementary teachers would have to do the same thing it would be a brand new training program again that they would have to go through and it would be mandatory from peed so we also expressed some concerns about that you know we we all absolutely
022agree that math needs to be a focus area you know that's an area where we're testing low across the board um but I'm not sure that's the best way to achieve that and I really fear that some of our teachers who were able to retire that may be their last draw it's it's an incredibly timec consuming Endeavor for that letters training so there's a couple of bills like that that we're watching um and as we move towards the end of that 60-day session if there's anything that we need you know voices to be heard on I will absolutely make sure that you know announcements go out both to community and stff staff and parents and you are there any particular bills or issues that you all had questions about that's it for legislation okay any
023questions I bet 60% of those that were ined they won't make it off of the starting block more than like come close and as far as I'm aware there were no last minute bills that were kind of pushed through by ped they didn't have other than those couple of curriculum bills they really didn't have much that they were pushing this session most of them it looks like are under the um Public Safety heading okay nothing other on that we'll move on to other business and the superintendent rep field trips last week our elementary kiddos got to go to the theater in Trinidad and got to go see the dog Man movie it went really well everybody had a great time they got to ride in the bus some of them for the first time um
024and some of them had never been to a movie theater before so it was tied in with um teacher Carol did some lessons with them on the author of The Dogman books um and then they've many of them read those dog man books it's it's a series child series um so that went really well next week on Wednesday the 5th we're actually taking all students 712 to Santa Fe to visit the legislature so we're going to divide them up into groups of no more than 8 once we arrive they will go through and go and visit both the Senate and House Education committees that meet that morning um we'll go by the governor's office we we'll of course go by Senator compos his office and make sure he's aware that we have um a capital
025outler request in and thank him very much for our bus that we received two years ago um we will go and visit the Galleries at the house and the Senate side um and then we'll have lunch and head back uh basketball the last regular season games were played Saturday night and we're moving on to District tournament this week our girls will play tomorrow night in simmeron at 6: pm and the boys will play here on Wednesday night at 7:30 they will get the winner of Springer and School for the Deaf and then we will continue from there so I will update you and let you know when they play and um what happens with State seating that will be announced next Satur Sunday so District tournaments can you buy tickets at the door that you
026go online District Tournament you can buy at the door it's only the state ones that you have to go through the gam and they's $7 a piece until you get to the championship game in their technology um and then the last thing at one of the superintendent meetings they were talking about several of the districts who were on the nmsba policy service you know every time those policy updates come out and we adopt those new policies they go into our our policy group um some of the districts have discovered that over the years some of the policies they adopted were missed and were never included as part of the district policies and what some of the districts have started doing is taking a group of policies three to five policies each board meeting and just
027kind of going through and reviewing the policies that we currently have on the books making sure that they're still relevant making sure they were updated when they were supposed to be um and just kind of reviewing those as a practice so so I wanted to see if you all wanted to add that as a standing agenda item to just at the beginning and go through three to five each meeting oh so I'll put them first and we'll decide on the three to five based on how long the policies are you know some of them are a couple of sentences some of them are Pages um so we'll start that with the next board meeting that's it questions for do you have anything to add exp all right board call any questions from the board Casey
028anything yeah I don't have anything thank you um moving on to hearing from the delegation does anybody in the audience have anything they need to address the board about all right seeing none we'll move on to item 10 consent agenda approval of the nomination of nmsba student Achievement Award which would be Carol Martinez you have a motion second seconded by sh all in favor CI I post save uh I'll entertain a motion to adopt the 2025 open meetings after resolution second moved and seconded all in favor say I I both say Okay item 11 is postponed to the next meeting setting of our next regular board meeting this will be March 17th St Patrick's all right if there's no further questions I entertain a motion toj so all the fa say I post say 713
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