July 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM - Regular Board Meeting

1. Call to Order
Agenda Item Type: Procedural

2. Pledge of Allegiance
Agenda Item Type: Procedural

3. Roll Call
Agenda Item Type: Procedural

4. Call to the Audience (The Board will listen to any comment from the public but will not respond except as permitted by A.R.S. § 38-431.01 (G). The Board may refer the item to the administration or request to have it placed on a future agenda.)
Agenda Item Type: Procedural

5. Reports:

Superintendent: Back to School Update

Board Reports:
Agenda Item Type: Informational

6. Consent Agenda
Approval of Routine Orders of Business. Documentation concerning the matters on the Consent Agenda may be reviewed at the Kingman Unified District Office, 3033 MacDonald Ave. Any Board member may request an item be pulled off the agenda for further discussion.
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

6.A. Approve Minutes: June 10, 2025 - Regular Board Meeting
 

6.B. Approve Vouchers:
1. Payroll Vouchers: 36, 38, 1041-1044
2. KUSD Vouchers: 2065-2069, 2000

6.C. Approve Personnel Hire Ratification List:

6.D. Approve Personnel Term/Leave Ratification List

6.E. Approve or ratify the requests for employee contract/work agreement adjustments for changes in position

6.F. Approve or Ratify Current Active Substitutes

6.G. Approve June 2025 Financials

6.H. Approve School Fundraisers 

6.I. Approve out of state travel for Victoria Trujillo, SPED Director, to attend and speak at the National Forum to Advance Rural Education conference in Salt Lake City, Utah from October 13-15, 2025

6.J. Approve qualified evaluators for the 2025-26 school year: 

7. Approve District Representatives who will participate in Special Education Plans for the 2025-2026 school year: 
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

8. Second reading of changes in policy as recommended by ASBA:
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

9. Possible action to approve IGA between Kingman Unified School District and Mohave County for use of the Mohave County Fairgrounds to provide shelter for Kingman Middle School students and personnel should safety emergencies arise
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

10. Possible action to approve MOU between WACOG Head Start and Kingman Unified School District regarding the provision of transition services to Head Start children
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action 

11. Possible action to approve MOA between WACOG Head Start and Kingman Unified School District regarding the provision of pre-school special education services to eligible children
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

12. Book that has been on display for the required sixty (60) days starting May 13, 2025
This novel will be used in the following courses: English 4, Cambridge AS/DC English Language, and Cambridge AS General Paper.
Title: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Book published by Vintage, (is part of the Penguin Random House group)
ISBN# 978-1784701994
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

13. Education Lifeskills Early Intervention curriculum courses that have been on display for the required sixty (60) days starting May 13, 2025
This curriculum will be used at the Upper Elementary Grade Level (3rd-6th)
Published by ACCI (American Community Corrections Institute)
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

14. Book that has been on display for the required sixty (60) days starting May 13, 2025
This short story will be used at the 10th Grade Level
Title: “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut
This short story was first published in “The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction” in 1961 and then in the book Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut in 1968.
ISBN# none given, this will be downloaded for free
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

15. Book that has been on display for the required sixty (60) days starting May 13, 2025
This supplemental material will be used at the High School Level
Title: U.S. History – online free by downloading OpenStax’s United States History textbook
ISBN# 9781947172081
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

16. Films that have been on display for the required sixty (60) days starting May 13, 2025.
These films will be used as part of the curriculum for the new course, Films of the 20s through World War II
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action 

Film Title	Production Company
DAFFY DUCK - Daffy The Commando	Warner Bros.
Doctor Seuss goes to War	Warner Bros.
Duck Soup by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby	Paramount Production
Gold Rush with Charlie Chaplin	Charlie Chaplin
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck	Twentieth Century Fox
It’s a Wonderful Life by Frank Capra	Liberty Films
Modern Times	United Artist
The Great Dictator with Charlie Chaplin	Charlie Chaplin
The Jazz Singer	Warner Bros.
Video of Our Gang/Little Rascals	Hal Roach

17. Approve select vendors as district-approved vendors for fundraisers
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action 

18. Approve recommendation to renew contract RFP #24-03-29 for Athletic Trainer Services to Banner Physical Therapy with addition of amendment to services agreement, third year of a five-year award
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

19. Approve Margot Jones as the Authorized Designee to approve the disposals and sales of assets for fiscal year 2026
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

20. Approve check signers for district bank accounts for FY26
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

21. Approve Margot Jones as Student Activities Treasurer pursuant to A.R.S. 15-1122
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

22. Approve extension of contract with Compass Group SSC as contracted provider for facilities, grounds and maintenance for the 2025-2026 school year
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

23. Request motion to adjourn the Regular Meeting and go into a Public Meeting for discussion of the proposed budget for fiscal year 2026
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

24. Public Hearing for the purpose of discussion related to the proposed budget for fiscal year 2026
Agenda Item Type: Discussion Only

25. Motion to adjourn Public Meeting and reconvene into Regular Board meeting
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

26. Possible action to adopt proposed budget for fiscal year 2026
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

27. Approve Listed Donations:
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

Cerbat Elementary School:

• The Moose Lodge #1704 donated 1250 pairs of Bombas socks

Kingman High School:

• Barton Properties donated $1500 to the Auto Club
• Martin Swanty donated $500 to the Auto Club

28. Possible action to approve a Memorandum of Understanding between Klassroom Teacher Preparation Program and Kingman Unified School District
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

29. Possible motion to move into Executive Session per A.R.S. §38-431.03(A)(1) to discuss requests to be released from employment contract by Kayla Handyside, Teacher at Cerbat Elementary School, Oscar Cavazos, Teacher at Mount Tipton Elementary School and Wendy Davis, Teacher at Manzanita Elementary School
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

30. Possible motion to reconvene into Regular Session for any actions resulting from Executive Session
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

31. Possible action on a request by Kayla Handyside, Teacher, to be released from her FY 2025-26 employment contract, effective June 17th, 2025
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

32. Possible action on a request by Oscar Cavazos, Teacher, to be released from his FY 2025-26 employment contract, effective June 11th, 2025
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

33. Possible action on a request by Wendy Davis, Teacher, to be released from her FY 2025-26 employment contract, effective June 30th, 2025
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action 

34. Possible action to approve the reclassification of Victoria Edwards and Jesse Grimm from Student Information Specialists to Classified Coordinator effective July 1, 2025, and authorize staff to issue revised at-will notices commensurate with the reclassification
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

35. Possible action to approve the reclassification of Classified Coordinators from School Support 7 to District Coordinators at the level of School Support 9, effective July 1, 2025, and authorize staff to issue revised at-will notices commensurate with the reclassification
Agenda Item Type: Discussion/Action

36. Board Comments
Agenda Item Type: Discussion

37. Adjourn
Agenda Item Type: Action