By Linda Kor The Holbrook Unified School District Governing Board met last week and discussed the district’s offerings to students over the summer. For the month of June, Hulet Elementary School will be offering an art club and Lego coding classes. Holbrook Junior High School’s offerings include Navajo cultural experiences, STEM/science activities, music and art clubs, athletics and a basketball camp. At Holbrook High School there will be broadcasting, running and Spanish clubs. There will also be a variety of athletic camps available to students from every sport the school competes in during the school year. The district will be participating in the Final Mile Project agreement for SY 21-22 as part of a consortium of rural school districts that are underserved from an internet perspective. With assistance and support from the Arizona Rural Schools Association and the Arizona Department of Education, the member districts applied for and have been awarded grant funds to implement the program. The Final Mile Program is intended to partially address the lack of adequate and affordable internet services in the areas served by the member districts. Other districts in the consortium include Beaver Creek School District, Chevelon Butte School District, Hackberry School District, Paloma School District and Pima School District. In other business, the board: * Authorized acceptance of the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief II & Accelerated Academies grants totaling nearly $3.4 million. * Approved the district’s Annual Expenditure Budget revision and final budget for FY 21. * Accepted the Independent Auditor’s Report and the Uniform System of Financial Records Compliance Questionnaire findings for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020. Those finding indicated some shortcomings in accounting records pertaining to proper coding, supporting documentation and bank reconciliation. This report was not an audit, but a review for information for the district. * Approved the SY 20-21 Prop 301 plan and payment. * Approved the FY22 notice of appointments. * Approved the HHS, HJHS, Hulet Elementary School, Indian Wells Elementary School and Park Elementary student handbooks for the 2021-2022 school year. * Approve the Holbrook P.A.L.S. Daycare Handbook. * Authorized the district to pay any benefits associated with the Teacher of the Year stipends and any benefits associated with the Teacher of the Year stipends. * Approved the SY 21-22 Intergovernmental Agreement with the Northern Arizona Vocational Institute of Technology. * Approved the Food Service Permanent Service Agreement between the Holbrook School District and the Arizona Department of Education. * Approved the interagency agreement to provide child nutrition programs with the Navajo County Instruction for Success school. * Approved the technology device administrative procedure. * Approved the recruitment stipend administrative procedure. * Approved the Summer Food Service Program Coordinator job description. * Approved the Homeless-Parent Liaison- Impact Aid job description and hourly increase. * Approved the Technology Director extra duty job description. * Approved the updated Computer Specialist/Network Administrator job description. * Authorized Aaren LaRose to student teach at HJHS in the fall of the 2021-2022 school year. * Approved a 60-day review of the social and emotional learning curriculum, “Second Step.” * Suspended Governing Board Policy BGB related to a first and second reading, regarding policy adoption for the discussion and consideration of graduation exercises for first and final reading aligned to Policy BGB Policy Adoption for emergency approval in a single meeting. * Approved legislative initiatives to submit to Arizona School Boards Association on behalf of the district. * Approved the support staff employment of Benjamin Meeks, Isaac Martinez and Kyle Smith, each as student facility workers; Ashley Speers, computer services student worker; and Shivanna Jake and Theresa Ann Fewell, both as food services student workers. * Approved the support staff resignations of Alicia Burnard, HJHS attendance clerk/A-Team; and Joe Burnard, bus driver. * Approved the certified employment of Tiana Begay, transfer from first grade to kindergarten teacher; Danelle Garner, Hulet third grade teacher; Rasheed Hollins, transfer from Hulet third grade teacher to Hulet/Park behavior specialist; Ciara Analla, transfer from Indian Wells Elementary School kindergarten to Park Elementary first grade; Andrea Luna, Hulet Elementary third grade teacher; Maria Dehaan, IWES kindergarten teacher; Tracy Johnson, HJHS student services; Dawna Bitsoie, transfer from IWES preschool teacher to IWES special education preschool teacher; Hoby Wilhelm, IWES transfer from IWES fourth grade to IWES sixth grade teacher; Andrea Williams, transfer from IWES second grade to IWEW kindergarten teacher; Suzanne Powell, transfer from IWES kindergarten teacher to pre-first teacher; and Victoria Dawson, HHS math teacher. * Approved the certified staff resignations of Cale Allen, IWES teacher; Brandi Butler, HJHS AVID/SS teacher and HHS assistant volleyball/track coach; Dennis Preisser, HJHS ELA teacher; and Kate Zulaski, HJHS social studies teacher. * Approved extra duty for Callie Jensen, Ina Overson and Jerald Nez, each for the HHS Saturday The Learning Bus; Alicia Jimenez and Beth Plumb, both for HJHS student council; Jacob Baker, substitute bus driver; Kyle Gardner, HHS choir; Ina Overson, Ben Copollo, Erik Carlson, Callie Jensen, Ramie Hatch, Tobias Herndon, Cindy Percy, Shannon Knight, Nicole Warner, Cheryl Carlson, Cary Simpson and Melicia Thompson, each for HHS summer school and activities; Aaren LaRose, HJHS academics-athletics summer school; Pat Freeland and Katie Willis, both for Hulet/Park summer school; Cheryl Justman, Sherra Dunsmore, Jessica Hubbard, Chantelle Taylor, Peggy Reid, Kara Gardner, Courtney Sher, Nichole Tow and Rasheed Hollins, each for Hulet summer school; Brianna Allison, Park summer school; Daniel Orton, HJHS athletics summer school; John McDaniel, HJHS math and athletics summer school; Loren Silver, HJHS Navajo cultural experiences summer school; Karen Estridge, HJHS English Language Arts (ELA) summer school; Adicia Paschal, HJHS sports and social-emotional summer school; Byron Bateman, HJHS Summer Bridge (math and science); Nathan Adams, HJHS band summer activities; Kristin Manning, HJHS STEM and Summer Bridge (science); Alicia Jimenez, HJHS STEM summer school; Estefania Chavez, HJHS Summer Bridge (ELA); and Debbie Koerperich, Tim Eddings, Kris Taylor, Theresa Yazzie, Gypsi Gover, Lori Williams, Annette Rothman, Dawna Bitsoie, Athina Lewis, Chantel Taylor and Charlotte Begay, each for IWES Summer School. *Approved volunteers Cayla Serna, HHS assistant volleyball. * Approved expense and revolving fund vouchers totaling $475,250, and payroll and expense vouchers totaling $1,364,864. * Approved personnel pay for Patty Singer, IWES speech professional development $500; Karalyn Reidhead, Hulet speech professional development $500, Hulet/Park/HJHS/HS Title II Mentoring $7,500, Park/IWES/Hulet/HJHS/HHS fourth quarter class differential stipends totaling $16,689; Steven Santos, Hulet/Park professional development $500; Bus drivers perfect attendance for 13 drivers at $1,500 each totaling $1,950. * Approved fundraisers for HHS Swing Thing, Little Women Musical at estimated earnings of $3,000; HHS girls’ basketball, admission for summer basketball league for estimated earnings of $750; and HHS football, seven-on-seven concessions/food sale for estimated earnings $1000. * Approved gifts and donations including Not So Wimpy Teacher, for teacher Kara Gardner at Hulet Elementary School to include a mobile whiteboard, book, hot glue gun, portable document camera, felt letter board, jump rings, set of heart cookie cutters, set of necklaces, white Sculpey clay, set of metal tins and a magnet tiles sheet; Holbrook Lions Club donation to HJHS for $200; IWES garden grant in the amount of $500; NTUA-Dilkon, 12 boxes of 32-oz bottles of hand sanitizer to IWES; American Legion, Women’s Auxiliary and Sons of American Legion each donated two bikes to Park and Hulet Schools.