HUSD to ask voters to continue override

The total override amount will be for nearly $1.4 million and will be used to serve the 2,000 attending the district. The break down cost per student is $690.84 per year, or $3.83 per school day.

According to Koerperich, the funds allow for small class sizes, competitive salaries, music and physical education courses, extra curricular activities, additional support staff, teacher retention and advanced classes.

At HUSD, the average five year graduation rate is higher than the state average, with an overall 92 percent graduation rate compared to the state’s 82 percent.

Koerperich emphasized that the objective is to prepare students for college, to contribute to society, provide career-ready graduates and facilitate individual success stories.

In other business, the board:

* Approved the district’s Performance Pay Plan for the 2018-19 school year.

* Approved Dan Nielson and the list of Risk Trust qualified hearing officers for discipline hearings.

* Approved the Game Officials Administrative Procedures.

* Authorized Holbrook High School Career and Technical Engineering (CTE) teacher Mike Burks to attend the ADOBE MAX 2018 Creativity Conference from Oct. 14-18, in Los Angeles, Calif., with all expenses to be paid by the Northern Arizona Vocational Institute of Technology NAVIT.

* Approved for first reading revisions to policies pertaining to conflict of interest for governing board members, the exchange of electronic communications among a quorum of the members, updates the voting methods of the governing board, updates the policy to include provisions for selling school facilities to potential buyers for less than an offer received from a charter school or private school, updates the policy to include the sale or lease of property to include the retirement of facilities and updates to the retention criteria for Move on When Reading in 3rd grade.

First reading of revisions to policies pertaining to requirements to notify parents of students in grades 6th through 8th who have not demonstrated proficiency in grade-level mathematics based on available local or statewide assessments, guidance on required opening exercises and school programs as they pertain to customs and holidays, requirements for kindergarten instruction, removal of the word “violence” and other changes in wording to the policy to include updated health and safety provisions, updated definition of recess, new information about stocking epinephrine auto-injectors, updates immunization requirements for students enrolled in school districts, and the elimination of tax credit fees from the list of determining factors for whether the educational activities can utilize tax credits.

* Approved the support staff employment of Samantha Larson, HHS ticket taker; Amanda Terry, Hulet/Daycare substitute; Dominique James, bus monitor and cafeteria satellite worker; Darlene Yazzie and Derek Bitsilly, both as bus drivers; Deborah McKee, Andreana Clark and Courtney King, as cafeteria substitute satellite workers; Richard Peterson, HHS Game Help; Josten Chee, student bus monitor; Meredith Huskey, student custodian; Lelia Demuth, HHS Running Club sponsor; Jason Brown, student facilities worker; Mayson Spencer, cafeteria student worker; and Larry Hayes, Park Elementary School special education high needs para.

* Approved the support staff resignations of Kendall Bakurza, HHS assistant football extra duty and Eugene Dixson, substitute custodian.

* Approved the certified employment of Ann Darling and Florence Trujillo, both as substitute teachers.

* Approved extra duty for Galen Knight, Holbrook Junior High School sports helper, HHS game help and HJHS general tutorial; Rasheed Hollins, Hulet Harmonizers assistant; Brian McMahon, HJHS sports helper; Kyle Gardner, HJHS sports official; Veronica Dale, HHS ticket taker; Tim Yazzie, Loriel Beck and Dwayne Hawk, each as HHS game help; Estefana Chavez and Adicia Paschal, HJHS general tutorial; Jeri McKinnon, HJHS special education Local Education Agency: Shannon Knight, HHS junior class sponsor; Donna Campbell, HHS Outdoor Club sponsor; Dwayne Hawk, HHS Drama sponsor; Cindy Percy, HHS National Honor Society and Key Club sponsor; Mike Burks, HHS Yearbook sponsor and tech cadre; Kyle Gardner, HHS Swing Thing; Sarah Meeks, HHS Band and Fusion director; Melicia Thompson, HHS Student Council facilitator; Nick Moyte, HHS freshman class sponsor; Ben Coppolo, HHS English Department head and senior class sponsor; Dan Mitchell, HHS Social Studies Department head; Ashley Mitchell, HHS Science Department head; Cary Simpson, HHS Special Education Department head and sophomore class sponsor; Jeremy Madison, Roadrunner Roost manager; Kevin Fosburgh, Hulet special education liaison; and Beth Plumb, HJHS head volleyball coach.

* Approved volunteers Michael Kennedy, HHS football; Kris Taylor, IWES football; Albert Ferniza, HJHS wrestling; Elizabeth Macias, HJHS/Hulet Elementary School classroom volunteer; and Daniel Moore, HHS assistant football.

* Approved the donation of a ping-pong table for HJHS from Tommy Romo.

* Approved professional leave for Jacob Boyle, Flagstaff, eCivis Training, Aug. 16, at an estimated cost of $2, plus use of a district vehicle; Charles Haussman, Mesa, Arizona Department of Education (ADE) CTE Administrators Conference, Sept. 5, at an estimated cost of $139, plus use of a district vehicle; Janelle Chee, Flagstaff, Indian Education Committee Conference, Aug, 21-22; Ray McLaws, Flagstaff, Food Safety Training, Aug. 23, at an estimated cost of use of a district vehicle; Julie Fields, Tucson, Every Student Succeeds Act Conference, Nov, 14-15, at an estimated cost of $510; Connie McPherson, Stephanie Peters and Lisa Billie, Phoenix, Positive Behaviors Interventions and Supports (PBIS), Sept. 6-7, at an estimated cost of $1,131, with the ADE to reimburse; Connie McPherson, Kevin Fosburgh, Stephanie Peters, Karalyn Reidhead and Amanda Remos, Phoenix, PBIS, Nov. 1-2, at an estimated cost of $3,007, plus use of a district vehicle, with the ADE to reimburse; Connie McPherson, Kevin Fosburgh, Stephanie Peters, Lisa Billie, Dave Wright and Sherra Dunsmore, Phoenix, PBIS, Jan. 10-11, at an estimated cost of $3,132, plus use of a district vehicle, with the ADE to reimburse; Connie McPherson, Kevin Fosburgh, Stephanie Peters, Karalyn Reidhead and Amanda Remos, Phoenix, PBIS, Feb. 7-8, at an estimated cost of $3,132, plus use of a district vehicle, with the ADE to reimburse; Stephanie Peters, Phoenix, PBIS, Dec. 13-14, at an estimated cost of $311, plus use of a district vehicle, with the ADE to reimburse; Stephanie Peters, Phoenix, PBIS, Jan. 22-23, at an estimated cost of $381.76, plus use of a district vehicle, with the ADE to reimburse; Charles Haussman, Phoenix, 2018 Arizona CTE Strategic Planning Committee, Sept, 12, at an estimated cost of $231, plus use of a district vehicle; and Brian Gohl, Flagstaff, Trust and Alliance Second Annual Regional Training, Sept. 12, at an estimated cost of use of a district vehicle.

* Approved expense and revolving fund vouchers totaling $38,720 and $537,059.

* Approved payroll and expense vouchers totaling $1,580,608.

* Authorized the HHS senior class to sell remaining T-shirts from last year for estimated earnings of $598 and Indian Wells Elementary School to sell school spirit T-shirts for estimated earnings of $80.

* Approved for final reading the policy revisions pertaining to changes to the “sick bank” to include the guidelines for requesting leave from the “sick bank” as per Prop 206 and as outlined in A.R.S. 23- 373, pertaining to students when using district technology resources, updating the requirements for admission for nonresident foreign students who are in an exchange program, updating the Section 504 plans to include new recess requirements for students in grades K-3 this year and for students in fourth and fifth grades beginning next year, and the requirements for admitting students in foster care into school.