Cartwright School District #83, Arizona Cartwright Governing Board Meeting 2022, 20 Oct 2022

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Cartwright Governing Board Meeting 10/20/2022

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All right good evening, everyone welcome to the Cartwright Elementary School District governing board public hearings, regular governing board meeting for October 20th 2022. Let the record reflect it is 507 pm and the meeting is in session.

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All right so really quick before we do anything I would just like to give a huge shout out to our GLD principal Miss, Vivian Nash and our assistant principal Mr, Mike Dostal, for allowing us to have the special occasion here and also our first tour in the governing board, which is awesome we're on tour guys.

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So thank you so much and we are excited for the completion of the glenel Downs gymnasium. It's been a long time coming, but definitely um happy to have that dream come true all right. So let the record reflect that. We have governing board member Miss Lydia Hernandez present at the meeting Miss governing board member Denise Garcia present at the meeting. Vice president Pedro Lopez is also present and myself. Marissa Hernandez president are present in the meeting now. If everyone would please rise and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance.

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So I'd like to make a motion for approval of tonight's agenda as presented for the cartridge Elementary School District governing board public hearing and regular governing board meeting of October 20th 2022 do I have a second thank you. We do have a motion made by myself, Hernandez and a second by governing board. Vice president Pedro Lopez, we will do a roll call vote, Miss, Lydia Hernandez. How do you vote?

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Thank you, Miss Hernandez governing board member Denise Garcia. How do you vote? Thank you, Miss Garcia. Vice president Pedro Lopez. How do you vote? Thank you, Mr Lopez Ivory as well, and the motion carries unanimously and we have an approved agenda for this evening's meeting.

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All right. We will move on to item D, which is our call to the public due to the meeting being held at a remote location with potentially limited access to normal audio and visual equipment capabilities and meeting structure. The administration recommends the board move to suspend the call to the public for this meeting by motion.

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Second and majority vote for the board, so I'd like to make a motion that we suspend the call to public for the evening at the Cartwright Elementary School District governing board, regular public hearing and regular governing board meeting for October 20th 2022.. Do we have a second thank you Miss Garcia, so we do have a motion made by myself, Maris Hernandez and a second by governing board member Denise Garcia Miss Hernandez. How do you vote.

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Because technology access to technology- okay, only in that uh just wanted to make sure I.

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Dear vice president Lopez, how do you vote? Thank you, Mr Lopez Ivory as well, and the motion carries unanimously. Thank you all right. So we will move on to item e, which is our consent agenda.

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Our adopted rules of parliamentary procedure provide for a consent agenda listing several items for approval of the board by a single motion. Items listed under the consent agenda have gone through a review and recommendation process. Documentation concerning these items has been provided to all board members and the public in advance to assure an extensive and thorough review items may be removed from the consent agenda at the request of any board.

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Member with that I'd like to make a motion for approval of tonight's consent agenda, as presented at the Cartwright Elementary School District governing board public hearing and regular meeting for October 20th 2022. do I have a second thank you Miss Garcia, so we do have a motion made by myself, Marissa Hernandez and a second by governing board member Denise Garcia governing board member Lydia Hernandez. How do you vote hi? Thank you, Miss Hernandez governing board member Denise Garcia. How do you vote? Thank you. Vice president Pedro Lopez, how do you vote?

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Thank you, Mr Lopez Ivory as well, and the motion carries unanimously. We also have an approved consent agenda for this evening's meeting. Thank you.

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All right, we will move on to our item F, which is our action items.

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Our first item is a second reading for adoption regarding Arizona school boards, Association asba policy, advisory, 717-736 volume, 34 number two.

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Second reading for adoption regarding Arizona school boards, Association advisory policy, 717-736 volume, 34 number two dated August 2nd 2022.. This policy advisory consists of 20 proposed amendments. The revisions apply to policies, regulations and Exhibits. Each Amendment results directly from legislation passed during the 2022 legislative session regulations and Exhibits included in this policy. Advisory are presented to the board so that they are aware of the revisions, however, do not require board approval policy. Advisory, 721, immunization of students, regulation and policy will not be accepted in this advisory and will be replaced with policy advisory. 737.

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All right, so I would like to make a motion for approval to adopt recommended revisions from Arizona School Board Association for policy advisory, 717, JRR student surveys, 718 Ki, visitors to schools, 719 KB, parental involvement in education, 720 IH, amb, Family, Life, Education, 721, jlcb, immunizations of students reject. This will be sorry.

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This will be replaced with pa737-722 jlcc communicable infectious diseases, 723 gbgcb staff, health and safety, 724 Dia accounting system, 725, Iha, basic instruction program, 726 jlda, school counselors and psychologists, 727, jifca, hazing, 728, ikf, graduation requirements reject pertains to high school 729, new policy, jjia intramural sports and 729 jjib interscholastic Sports, 730, ee transportation services, 731 ee aea, bus driver requirements, training and responsibilities; 732 JF student admissions, 733, ijl, Library materials selection and adoption, 734, ijnc Resource, Centers, Media, Center, School, libraries, 735 IMD, School ceremonies and observances, and 736 IMB teaching about controversial sensitive issues at the cartridge.

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Elementary School District governing board. Regular meeting public sorry public hearing regular governing board meeting of October 20th 2022 do I have a second thank you Miss Garcia. So we do have a motion made by myself, Marissa Hernandez and a second by governing board member Denise Garcia governing board member Lydia Hernandez. How do you vote? Thank you, Miss Hernandez governing board member Denise Garcia. How do you vote? Thank you, Miss Garcia. Vice president Pedro Lopez. How do you vote? Thank you, Mr Lopez Ivory as well, and the motion carries unanimously.

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Item number two is our second reading for adoption regarding revised policy. Gccb professional support staff personnel I'm going to do that one over second reading for adoption. Regarding revised policy, gccb professional support staff, personal emergency, religious leave, the administration provides to the board the proposed revised second reading for adoption. Regarding the revised policy. Gccb professional support staff, personal emergency religious leave.

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Annual leave will not be granted, except with permission by the superintendent during the following periods on the day, immediately proceeding or following a holiday or vacation during the first week of school or the last week of school. On a day when a teacher is scheduled to administer an Arizona State mandated assessment unless prior to the scheduling of the ER, unless prior to the scheduling of the state mandated assessments, prior authorization has been obtained from the site administrator.

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The revision adds additional language to include or the superintendent's designee and changes. The language from agreement to policy exhibit gccb-e is a newly created, exhibit to support policy gccb and is presented to the board so that they are aware of the new exhibit. However, it does not require board approval, exhibit gccb-e will be added to the policy manual.

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All right, so I'd like to make a motion for adoption of revised policy. Gccb professional support staff, personal emergency, religious leave at the Cartwright Elementary School District governing board public hearing, slash regular meeting of October 20th 2022. do I have a second thank you Miss Garcia, so we do have a motion made by myself Marissa Hernandez and is second by Denise Garcia governing board member governing board member Lydia Hernandez. How do you vote.

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Madam president fellow board, members, uh before uh placing my vote just for clarification as well I just want to want to clarify the um the statement made prior to taking vote that it does not require board approval.

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It's a policy revision, but it's policy period is there a reason why it doesn't require board approval, whoever I.

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I think I can explain, I think in the prior one and this one um those were advisories. That's language that comes out of the advisory from asba. That's saying you can either accept this advisory or you don't have to accept this advisory. So it's asba saying these are recommended, but the board doesn't have to adopt these. It's not that we're saying if we are going to. In other words, if we are going to adopt them, you are correct that they are policy changes and require board approval to adopt. Does.

B

That does that explain just making sure that there was a policy change that that yeah.

C

Thank you that that was asba's language when they send those out to basically say here here they are here's what we recommend your board can either adopt them, but they don't have to adopt these advisories. Okay.

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Board member Denise Garcia: how do you vote? Thank you, Miss Garcia. Vice president Pedro Lopez. How do you vote? Thank you Ivory as well, and the motion carries unanimously I'd also like to clarify for the record. This is not a public hearing, my apologies, it was a. We were um oh my gosh. If I could get my brain to make my mouth go, it was a ribbon cutting for our GLD gym, so I do apologize for that. Thank you all right. So we are going to move on to item three, which is our approval.

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Okay, approval to schedule the December 8 2022 governing board meeting date and move to December 16 2022. Revising the 2022-2023 governing board meeting schedule, Dr Aguilar, Lawler.

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And thank you board president members of the governing board executive leadership, team principals and audience.

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uh The administration recommends the governing board approval to reschedule the December 8th governing board meeting date and move it to December 16th revising the 22-23 governing board meeting schedule, the purpose for rescheduling this meeting is due to the governing board attendance at the 2022 annual Cube conference. The conference was initially scheduled in September, was rescheduled for our governing board meeting date, December 8th through the 10th due to the extreme weather conditions. If you remember in Miami Florida thank.

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Thank you, Dr Aguilar Lawler, all right, so I would like to make a motion for approval to reschedule the December 8 2022 governing board meeting date and move it to December 16 2022.

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Revising the 2022-2023 governing board meeting schedule at the October 20th 2022 cartrid Elementary School District governing board meeting do I have a second we're going back hold on one second.

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Board president members of the governing board team, I am so sorry. uh It was brought to my attention that December 16th is a Friday.

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So um it should be December 6th 15th.

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Apologies, not sure how to remake the motion. Can you share how.

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We might yeah, you can amend your motion or just restate your motion for December 15th yeah. You could who Moved first Madam president, did you move? First? Did you make the first motion, so you can just omit, restate or amend your motion.

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Okay, all right so I am going to amend the original motion that was made and I'd like to amend it, to approval, to reschedule the December 8th, 2022 governing board meeting date and move it to December 15 2022.

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Revising the 2022-2023 governing board meeting schedule at the regular meeting of the Cartwright Elementary School District governing board for October 20th 2022. do I have a second thank you, Miss Garcia governing board member Lydia Hernandez. How do you vote aye? Thank you. Ms Hernandez governing board member Ms Denise Garcia. How do you vote? Thank you, Miss Garcia! Vice president Lopez. How do you vote? Thank you. Mr Lopez Ivory, as well in the motion, carries unanimously. We have moved our meeting. Thank you all right. It's time to pass the torch.

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We are on to item G report summary of current events presented by Dr Aguilar Lawler.

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uh Thank you board, president members of the governing board executive leadership team I'm, going to pass it over to um Miss hargi Emma. Let me give you.

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Good evening governing board president superintendent Aguilar governing board members and everyone here in attendance, I'm going to go ahead and introduce Minister rayapina. He is going to be doing a quick presentation to kind of answer a couple questions. They were brought up by one of our board members about sros and attendance with sros. Thank you, Mr Pina.

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Thank you Miss hardegy good evening Madam president Hernandez Dr Aguilar Lawler governing board members, executive team and audience members I appreciate the opportunity to respond to a question from our governing board about the role of our school resource officers in supporting School attendance and also truancy prevention.

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The school safety grants we currently have in place to fund our school resource officers. Our focused heavily on addressing school safety needs in reviewing the grant applications that were funded to help us secure the school resource officers who are currently at sites. It was clear that the priorities of the stakeholders preparing the Grant application were focus on School, Safety and Security at the time of the application, attendance or true or truancy, initiatives were not an area of need identified in the grant applications resulting in our current SEO rsro grants.

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Since truancy, initiatives were not an area identified, the school resource officers do not officially work in the area of attendance and truancy. However, sros are permitted to engage five percent of their time in other duties, beyond the scope of their work related to the school safety Grant.

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This five percent may include minimal supportive attendance and cuts home visits, welfare checks, Community Building, wake up, Club activities, some traffic supervision, Etc, our school administrators work with sros, and some of the sro's duties may vary depending on the school needs and like I mentioned, there is five percent of the work of the SRO.

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That is, has some flexibility to work on items outside the scope of the grant, as I mentioned earlier, the main focus for our school resource officers at this time has been school safety and campus security sros also provide a Law related education.

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Law related education is a large portion of their school day, lre as we refer to it as based on the individual needs of the school community, and it can vary also from site to site. One example of a relevant lre topic that has been addressed in our district at one of our schools is the recording of violence or vandalism on social media. That was is one example of a topic. The current school safety Grant team meets on a regular basis for training and also to ensure we're in compliance with the safety grants.

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Currently in place, we will be working on reviewing the current grants and also applying for additional grants to support additional sros, probably starting in December. As soon as the information is released on the website. During our application process, we will certainly take a serious look at our attendance and truancy concerns at the schools when we're applying for school safety grants.

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We do know that if Scholars are not attending school, they're learning and achievement levels will be impacted. Due to this lack of learning opportunity, average daily attendance is part of our school report card formula and school principals are leading those efforts to improve attendance in our schools. I wanted to share that. We've made several changes in 2022 2023 school year to support our attendance and increase average daily attendance.

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We've increased our attendance clerk position or changed it from part-time positions to full-time positions in 2223. In order to address concerns related to attendance and truancy, we created a Cartwright attendance checklist. The cuts checklist supports our court, unified truancy suppression program, which is a partnership with Maricopa County Court System.

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The checklist was created in order to provide guidance and consistency across the district on how to handle excessive absences and possibly truancy situations we ensure training is provided to attendance, clerks and assistant principals, and the training has been robust.

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I want to report that we have seen an improvement in our record keeping for attendance and tardiness in comparison to previous years. Due to these improvements and increased Staffing, we do look forward to improving improving this area year after year.

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We want to thank our team for increasing the hours for our attendance clerks and ensuring that each school has one full-time person dedicated to attendance. This has helped to improve our efforts, has ensured also that we have one person in the office dedicated to our attendance efforts, and this concludes my presentation. Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr Pina. Are there any questions from the governing board all right.

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Ahead, Ms Hernandez president fellow board, members Dr Lawler, executive team, those in the audience and well I- guess not watching right. um Just a question. I've been hearing a lot of conversation about um not only schools, but organizations that provide that are I. Guess are coming up with providing this kind of service like recruiting from this specific population. That's not attending schools, because it's happening all over the place and the rise in those numbers of the students just following by the wayside not going to school.

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um Is that something that that we've looked at or that you've heard about in education, Madam.

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President governing board members Mrs Hernandez. We can certainly take a look at that and do more research on what is working it is. We do know it is a concern at every grade level, but if you're looking at specific programs, we can certainly bring that back to you absolutely.

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And follow up and provide you with some of that information I'm just because I'm hearing it and it's prevailing, you know high schools and it's all over, but I wasn't aware of that. I mean I, know it's happening, but I'm, seeing uh something getting creative or established to address those so but I'll leave it up to him. But thank.

G

You thank you. We welcome that information. Absolutely.

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Thank you, Ms Hernandez. Thank you. Mr Pina.

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You're welcome.

D

uh Thank you, Mr Feeney I appreciate it Madam president members of the governing board executive team principals and those in the audience.

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um While we came back from fall break and by the looks of all of you, it's been a little challenging look at those faces, they're working so hard, but um again I do want to Echo. Thank you to Mrs Nash Mr dosto. All the glenel down staff are hosting the governing board meeting tonight.

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I feel like everyone's so far away, though it seems a little different um and, of course thank you to Dr Medrano Moss building operations, I.T for assisting with the coordination of all this yeah, the I-team they do that they have that thing: yep, yep, um beautiful Gem and, of course you can't make any of this happen without Linda and Christine. So thank you. They've been out here a lot and it's working see no worries at all. Okay.

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um I also want to thank the entire car wreck. Community, as I said earlier in my welcoming remarks everyone on the team for this. This is a huge celebration and even for all of our principals as well I'd like to say congratulations to Heather Brave, they have been named by Alliance for healthier Generations, the 2022 list of America's healthiest schools. Look how healthy, Mr Craig looks over there yeah.

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So um this recognition celebrates 406 schools Nationwide for their achievements and Heather brace school is being recognized for strengthening social, emotional, health and learning. Congratulations I also like to say congratulations to Starlight Park and principal Huntley from the community school. They had a couple. Events over the fall break, Scholars and teachers contributed to finishing the mural and helped create a community garden.

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Students also participate in a soccer Clinic with two players from the Phoenix Rising team. Vice president Lopez was there. He conducted several live interviews with Fox 10 3TV Arizona I'd like to say thank you to Phoenix Rising for your partnership, all the community members that went on all the families, principal Huntley, the teachers and the scholars from Starlight and all the volunteers.

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Please, if you have a chance to go by Starlight, to see how beautiful it looks, you'll you just will be so excited about that um also at Starlight park, because principal Huntsville Huntley didn't want to take a break. They actually teamed up with the Phoenix fire department to provide the local community with brand new smoke detectors.

D

The Phoenix fire volunteers were there to install throughout the community Mary Kate Gallego was there as well as the fire chief, unfortunately, due to the rain, it's going to have to be rescheduled, but thank you for that opportunity as well for our community.

D

Also this week huge celebration for Holiday Park trees matters was out there with principal Kinsley this past week and I'd like to thank trees matter for the partnership and 20 volunteers from Verizon bno staff, Holiday Park staff for the volunteers. It looks amazing again if you can go to Holiday Park the new drop off and pick up and now all the new trees that are around the playground is absolutely beautiful and I know.

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That's a big governing board initiative is planting trees, more celebrations on November 15th, Estrella Middle School where's Miss Janae over there Estrella Middle School social studies, teacher Lori Richards she applied and she got this we'll be participating in a live interactive, video conference event with her Scholars and Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor, it's very exciting yeah.

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uh This Civics event will engage approximately 500 Middle School Scholars and their teachers from 20 schools across Arizona. Please congratulate Lori for a wonderful experience. I can't wait to see that I'm gonna I think be there as well. So congratulations this morning, principal Huntley, Miss Emma and myself attended a Goodwill event.

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It was at the Phoenix Arts Center, it's a true honor for Cartwright to celebrate that Arizona has its very first Excel campus, serving adult Learners with many job opportunities. High School geds in Cartwright in the building right next door to Starlight campus I would like to thank vice president Lopez for bringing this opportunity to our district and principal Huntley has already made this a huge partnership for that Community, School portion and they're coming to speak to her parents at the cafecitos and I know.

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Dr H is somewhere up here, we're going to be setting up a meeting with you, an HR team, because we we have a lot of jobs in Cartwright and they're, preparing many adults for jobs, and we want the first. We want to give them the first choice, so we're really excited about that partnership as well.

D

Thank you so much everybody for all that you do my team and your print, the principals. Thank you so much for all you do. That concludes my update.

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Thank you Dr Aguilar Lawler, so we will move on to item H, which is our other information and discussion items. The first item is our district art display for the month of October.

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All right, so those of you who have been to the governing board room or at the district office you have most likely had the opportunity to enjoy this visual pleasure.

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The first school is Heather Ray, Elementary School, the teacher is Harley. Vasquez grades are fifth and sixth, our proud principal is Mr Craig horpedal.

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The title is intuitive line, drawing and the description fifth and sixth grader fifth and sixth grade Scholars explored mindfulness, creating different types of intersecting lines. Scholars experimented with patterns shapes and explored. How color creates a mood?

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I will say they definitely pulled it off beautifully with their creation of the different moods and, if you haven't had a chance to see it at the district office, definitely take the opportunity.

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Our next School is Palm Lane Elementary. The teacher is Andrew Tucker grades. Second, third, fifth and sixth, our proud principal is Mr, Scott and I, and the title is Matisse vases and Dragon Eyes.

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Our description and third grade artists explored pattern and 3D Elements by creating multimedia Interiors, based on Henry Matisse Scholars created wallpaper, using a wax resist and created 3D flowers to fill them. Scholars learned about the effective use of space, patterning and basic 3D relief techniques.

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Fifth and sixth grade artists explored pattern and unity and texture as they created Dragon Eyes in detail. They created Unity as they shaped and placed dragon scales. These textures filled the remaining paper surface and were then colored and shaded.

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Our glass display artwork will be available to be viewed in November, but the two of these, both Heather Bray and Palm Lane Elementary, did an amazing job. I was able to have the privilege to view these in person and they're amazing, and it would be absolutely wonderful if one day they decided to capitalize on it and start selling, it I'm sure they'd have a lot of offers really quickly.

A

All right, that's enough for me in the art display. Although I could talk about the art all evening. It's amazing um item number two is presented by Jeff stratman and is our first reading for information regarding policy advisory, 737-738 volume, 34. number three dated September 2022. Thank you.

C

You, madam president, members of the board Dr Aguilar Lawler. um This policy advisory is again an asba policy advisory um 737. This was related to recent Arizona law that came out that um says that the uh covet vaccine is not required in school districts, so that actually was an impetus for some change to the actual total immunization policy that lists all of the immunization requirements, and it's really just a clean up. It makes it look like a much cleaner format than what it previously was. So that's what 737 is about.

C

um 738 is related to records, requests and new legislation that requires the district to post prominently, a contact person individual in their contact information for those who want to seek public records. So it's just an update to that regulation.

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Thank you, Mr stratman, any questions or concerns from the governing board, all right hearing, none. We will move on to item three presented by Dr Aguilar, Lawler information and discussion regarding Arizona School, Board, Association, Cartwright, School, District policies, j, I c k j, I c k, Dash r j, I c k e, a j-I-c-k-e-b student bullying, harassment, intimidation.

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Thank you, Governor board, president members of the government board executive team principals and those in the audience um at the governing board meeting of September 27 2022. It was requested by the governing board to bring the policy regulations and Exhibits for our governing board members to review and discuss potentially.

A

Thank you, Dr Aguilar Lawler, any questions or concerns.

H

Thank you, madam president, Dr agler Lawler fellow board members, executive team and also in the audience it is uh I'm the one that requested these items to be brought for review and I I guess. My hope is that we can figure out a way how to improve the policies, or at least you know, do as much as we can within the ARs. So we have to implement more accountability with the parents as well.

H

I know that our policies indicate that whenever we suspend a child- or there is an issue with bullying I know the parent has to come into the school and on campus. But, given you know the continue our cases of this issue, not only you know in our communities, but you know throughout the state of the country.

H

um It is my hope that Mr stratman can figure out a way. How to you know, make this a little bit, not harder, but more strict and again, you know, increase accountability um on the parent side so that, once a child is set to return to campus, we can have some sort of you know, assessment or meeting or a meeting with the counselors or or some some something somehow and I know that we've had a conversation with this and I know that the ARs is specific and has limitations of what we can do.

H

Perhaps it's an encouragement uh to the parent to do either a counseling session or or something so that we can. You know, continue to not only do our part on the campus, but also encourage that to happen at home as well, so um for the board members, if you have any ideas, as in the past I mean again you're, you're more than welcome to reach out to district office and and provide some of the feedback. But I think this will be a drop for the um the attorney here that we have on the dice.

H

D

Board president members of the board, vice president Lopez, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to ask Mr, Pina and Dr Bettis to set up a meeting with me just to initially talk about this and and Miss Emma hotaghi. To kind of talk about this with the lens of what vice president Lopez said and we'll take a look at it before it even gets to um you know he usually gets the final, yay or nay so I'd like to give him some opportunities and also definitely involve our principles.

D

So maybe we'll create a little survey or maybe at our next principal meeting I'm seeing some yes, we can have a little discussion about this policy and your thoughts, and then we can bring that back. A future governing board.

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D

Would that be the will of the board.

A

Thank you all right, so we will move on to item four which is presented by Ms Emma hardigy. It is our zeropath creative Healthcare, Solutions update.

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Good evening governing Brook president Hernandez governing board member our superintendent Dr Aguilar Lawler audience this evening. We are going to be doing another kind of update and explaining a partnership that we are moving forward with Mr Lopez. Vice president Mr Lopez did bring this to our attention and him and Dr Prez did have a great meeting with this organization, so I'm going to go ahead and introduce Dr Price to give us an update. Thank you.

F

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You good evening governing board president Hernandez governing board members superintendent, Dr, Aguilar, Lawler, executive team guest here in the audience on Tuesday December. Excuse me: September 27th board. Vice president Mr Pedro, Lopez and I met with representatives from zeropath creative Health, Services, Miss, Colleen, Bart, Ruff, Chief, Operating, Officer and Miss Aaron Regan life skills director introducing us to their various counseling services.

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Our discussion focused on in-school support provided by zeropath that will help reduce classroom disruptions, on-campus fights and conflicts and reduce truancy and suspension rates by developing therapeutic relationships with Scholars and providing on-site services.

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They specialize in individualized counseling sessions that provide social and emotional growth for Scholars to thrive in school and succeed in life. They support Scholars that might struggle with interpersonal issues and are affecting school performance and they help Scholars process through events, situations that may be impacting classroom Behavior.

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We also discussed their life skills lessons they provide to Scholars.

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They provide individualized classroom and out of classroom skill development by partnering directly with youth, to enhance Independent Living skills and they assist with problem-solving and conflict management skills that will help with school and life success and they help Scholars develop relationships that are meaningful in and out of, the classroom, all at no cost to the district, we'll be moving forward with the partnership, pending attorney review and approval, and we look forward to providing you more information as we work with zeropath and continue the conversations with their representatives. Thank you.

A

Thank you. Any questions.

H

Thank you, madam president. Dr agler, Lawler fellow board members, executive team and also in the audience, as mentioned before on the previous board meeting I, requested that we as a district look at the opportunity to you know, build a partnership with this provider. One of the things that caught my attention from this provider is that they also follow the student in the work home, so they work with the families and the students at home after school and also on the weekends.

H

So again, the work is intentional and I understand that you know we can only do so much at a campus throughout the school day. But again this this provider has a a history and track record to provide exceptional customer service and services after school, as well as like Dr Perez, mentioned programs and support throughout the campuses. Counselors a behavioral specialists life skills. Again we know that as a district. We we have some of these things right now, but again these are additional services that can be provided to us at no cost to the district.

H

um Yes, you know it is a cost to the health insurance that the students may have. However, the the beauty of this this provider is that they are very intentional, as well working with families that don't have the insurance through a private Grant. You know to the governor's office, so they don't turn any student away for the lack of insurance, and it is my hope that they can work together with our district.

H

Our department join forces on the campuses, but also they'll continue the work outside of the school so that when our Scholars come back on Monday, there is progress happening throughout and I'm hopeful that within potentially you know six months to a year again, we can track progress over the incidents happening at the campuses, or at least the growth of the student of the child throughout the process.

H

So I think it's a great opportunity at no cost to us and I'm, hoping that you know our district office can make this work with the provider to provide services immediately to our families. Thank you.

A

Thank you. Mr Lopez go right ahead. Miss Hernandez, thank.

B

You, madam president, fellow board, members Dr Lawler executive team indels in the audience um a question regarding the organization Creative, Solutions and Healthcare is: um are they working in partnership with other school districts? And maybe you said it and I didn't hear that.

E

I believe they are yes.

B

Are you aware of any I mean our neighboring, the west side? Is it just in general,.

E

No, do you um vice president Lopez.

H

Thank you, madam president. Dr agler Lawler fellow board members executive team board member Hernandez. They they have a presence in in Yuma County, and they also have a presence here in Maricopa County, mainly with Charter Schools right now and they're entering the public school districts as well, so um uh under presentation, I'm, hoping that they can come to a board meeting and percent. Obviously our district office is doing their their work to check. You know everything with this with this provider, but um I I've seen some other model, they're they're huge in New York.

H

They they were established in New York and so in New York. They service, you know hundreds of schools throughout the public education system, but in Arizona, specifically, they are working with Charter Schools but are not moving towards public education. Districts are.

B

They currently working just to follow up with that currently working with Public Schools already, yes,.

H

They are working with Public Schools, not in the state of Arizona, yet they're, barely in the process of doing the same thing that we're doing here um us with us to neither enter in Partnerships with school districts. But they do have charter schools in Arizona that they service and they do have public schools in the East Coast.

B

Follow-Up question: is this a are they based homegrown out of Arizona or are they from another state.

H

From what I saw and the research that I did, the uh the providers are in the East Valley, so they they started in the in the east coast. They are now based in Arizona and they're, hoping that Arizona is going to be their next state where they do a lot of services and work. I met the uh the team as well, and so once they come they'll be able to share their story as of how they got started.

H

um The team that funded this organization. He was a child that needed a lot of services back in the east coast and he received those services, and so it was a life-changing experience for him and that's what led him to continue to do this work now. So once he comes and his team they'll be able to share all of those questions um with with the board members and the team for all of us to see the work that they've done uh back in the east coast, but also here in the state.

B

Thank you for that. I I didn't know whether is there any relation with the um with Texas Fort Worth creative health.

H

As of now, based on what I've seen on their website, uh it's only in um New, York and Arizona, so I don't have the answer for that, but once they come, we can head in with a bunch of questions. Okay,.

B

Thank you just wanting to know where the home base is and the uh you know the intention of spanning and growing I like what they, what I'm hearing um just just still wanting to know some of that background, but thank you.

A

All right, thank you.

A

All right, so we will move on to item five, which is our request for future agenda items as information or discussion at a future governing board meeting. Do we have any.

H

Thank you. Madam president, Dr agler Lawler fellow board members and executive team and I had commented that I was not going to do a lot of talking at the beginning, but here I am anyways.

H

So I would like to see if the board is willing to um at some point um before I would say the end of this year uh in December, see if we can convene at a future agenda item to have a discussion about our sros, the what opportunities do we have to increase the presence of them in our other campuses? I know it's a grant to the City of Phoenix. I know it's very costly. I know, there's a shortage of them.

H

What we know is that sros work in our district, the partnership between the parents and the students and the staff is phenomenal. I've had a chance to see five campuses with them and see the interaction with the parents, the students and so with the whole issue of safety uh happening um I. Think it's vital. We had a safe and caring committee. They put up recommendations two board meetings ago, I, believe we approve um an agenda item for security on our campuses. I say deterrent, however, we did have the conversation about the officers.

H

I mean the the agents being armed or unarmed. We know what the limitations are through the ARs in the state capital. Hopefully you can do some of the good work Lydia out there wants to take session. However, right now our only option to continue to provide a deterrent, a stronger deterrent to our campuses, I I believe is through sros or ssos, and so yes, it is going to be a cost to our district.

H

However, when we talk about safety, this is a cause that I'm that I hope that our board uh can make for the next school year. We're not my my hope is not to rush right now and and get into that conversation.

H

However, with the city of Phoenix, things move a little bit slower and the council offices I think it's important for us to have the conversation now to see what opportunities we have and so that this may be an agenda item that we can start to have a presentation and a conversation um as a district uh and probably from there, we can Branch out to either a study session or to a executive session to see what options we have so that we can provide some direction to our superintendent on this issue or not issue on this topic, so that we can gear up for the next school year that we have coming up and and talk about funding as well, because that's that's a major issue.

H

I think that the funding issue. It's it's a question, uh so I'm hoping that maybe um another of my fellow board members, if not three of them- can support this idea tonight to move into a conversation at a later time.

A

Are you going to okay go ahead, Miss Hernandez thank.

B

You, madam president, Villa board members, Dr Lawler, executive team and those in the audience um just a question to that, because I know we just discussed it and we did approve. Could you uh Dr, Lawler or attorney remind me of that? What we approved was the security officers, for is that for for one year, how long was it I'm trying to recall.

C

Yes, well, what we have right now is um we're Hiring, Our, Own, internal security monitors through our safe and caring team, and that will be for the balance of this year, but you know can be indefinitely. We we don't have intention to not continue that into next year, but we would have the opportunity to also consider other options as well.

C

If that helps answer the question. Yes,.

B

C

B

I'm, just thinking you know of the uh the upcoming conversation uh I know, we've had an opportunity to discuss and at the time um I just want to remind us that I know we're. We've approved something, and, and so what you were thinking of the SRO officers or discussion is to on top of that or to continue both or to have both at the same time or.

H

Thank you, madam president, Dr agler Lawler fellow board members, executive team and those in the audience. I recently was a district office and I had a question to Mr scrapman and so I got some clarity on that, because I did ask for an update. um It am I. Is it safe to share why um we did our hiring or can you explain why we're hiring internally now yeah.

C

I just want to caution. This is not an agendized item tonight, we're getting into some dialogue about whether you know what it means to move forward and so forth and okay. We just need to agendaize an item for you all to have a discussion about this, which we certainly can do. There's a request for a future agenda item that that would allow us at the November meeting or the December meeting to to have some further dialogue to see what individual board members think about this discussion.

C

Moving forward, I I, don't want to quash discussion, but it was not an agendized item tonight. Thank.

H

You, sir, thank you, sir and I, guess to answer your question board member lady Hernandez. This will be an additional layer. We do have the sros we do have our security team coming in. So we're having a my hope is a weekend again add another layer, because we only have seven campuses with the sros and we have 20 campuses right now. So it is another layer.

B

And that was my question and just just again just concerned that we I guess we're approving something and then coming back and thinking of other ideas. When we've got it, we've approved a contract or some you know, whichever it may be.

B

um You know moving forward, but I'm certainly open to the discussion without sharing any of the legalities of what they're going to be doing, but I think it's healthy to be having these open conversations. uh You know with with our parents, with our stakeholders and I know that Phoenix Union has just held one today so without you know going into implicitly, but thank you thank.

A

You, okay, so we'll just do our thumbs up if we're interested, if we're open to the conversation and when it is a future agenda item where we can fully discuss. Thank you all right. It made it all right with that.

A

We are going to move on to our item e sorry item I, which is our announcement, a future meeting date and other routine information concerning the governing board. The next regular governing board meeting will be held on Thursday November 17 2022 at five o'clock P.M at the Cartwright School District boardroom item J is our adjournment. So I would like to make a motion for adjournment of the cartrid elementary school district governing board. Regular meeting of October 20th 2022 do I have a second thank you, Mr Lopez.

A

We have a motion made by myself, Mr Hernandez and a second by vice president Pedro Lopez Miss Lydia Hernandez. How do you vote? Thank you, Miss Hernandez Mr, Denise Garcia. How do you vote? Thank you, Miss Garcia! Vice president Lopez. How do you vote? Thank you, Ivory as well, and the motion carries unanimously. Let the record reflect it is 603 pm put us in a gym and we got record time. Thank you. Everybody be safe. Thank you so much for being here this evening and we will see you at the next one.