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A Summary Report of the November 8, 2016

C F S D Governing Board Meeting

top three to five percent of more than 1.6 million

students who entered the 2017competition by taking
the 2015 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship
Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).
Superintendent Mary Kamerzell shared the following
student achievements.
Catalina Foothills High School
Brooks Fail, senior swimmer, set a new meet record in
the 200 Free with a time of1:40.78 at the High School
Classic Swim and Dive Invitational at the U of A
on October 1. He also won the 500 Free. CFHS also
won the men's 400 Free Relay with swimmers Brooks
Fail, Jack Hadley, Sam Mulay, and Scott Pekarske
(3:15.86).
The CFHS Speech & Debate Team took 2nd place
overall at the Red Mountain Lost Dutchman Invitational
Tournament on October 7-8. Individual results were:
Varsity Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Meena Venkataramanan, 1st Place; Sylvia Zarnescu,
2nd Place; Gabe Cohon, 3rd Place
Varsity Public Forum Debate
Hunter Ackerley and Haley Chen, 3rd Place
Prose Interpretation
Meena Venkataramanan, 1st Place
Poetry Interpretation
Meena Venkataramanan, 2nd Place
Program Oral Interpretation
Josh Cohen, 2nd Place; Gabe Cohon, 3rd Place
Expository Speaking
Sarah Cho, 2nd Place; Andy Liaupsin, 3rd Place
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has named
the following CFHS seniors as commended students:
Sruti Bandlamuri, Kacie Bauer, Rebecca Bauer, Deven
Carmichael, Bryson Contreras, Elizabeth Ketcham,
Junghwan Min, Ashley Pittner, Megan Wiese, and
Justyn Zeider. Commended Students place among the

The Foothills Falcon Band received an excellent

rating at the Canyon Del Oro Invitational on October
8th. They won all available caption awards including
awards for outstanding musical performance,
outstanding general effect, outstanding visual
performance, outstanding percussion and outstanding
auxiliary.
The Band was also one of only two bands out of over
40 schools that received the rating of "Superior with
Distinction" at the U of A Band Day on October 15.
Approval of 2017-2018 Calendar
Assistant Superintendent Denise Bartlett reviewed the
2017-2018 school calendar. This calendar was
preliminarily approved by the board in November 2015.
Highlights include August 10 for the first day of school;
parent-teacher conference days the week of October
9-13; no school on Friday, November 10; a Winter
Break that includes three weekends; Spring Break on
April 2-6. The full calendar can be accessed on the
districts website (CFSD16.org). The governing board
approved the 2017-2018 school calendar as
presented.
Initial Review of 2018-2019 Calendar
Dr. Bartlett presented the preliminary 2018-2019
school calendar. The draft is very similar to the 20172018 calendar to includes 90-day semesters.
Highlights include a new teachers report date of July
30; August 9 for the first day of school; parent-teacher
conference days the week of October 8-12; no school
on Monday, November 12; a Winter Break that
includes three weekends; Spring Break on April 1-5.
Board members discussed possible revisions and
requested additional information. A second reading of
this calendar will be on the November 21, 2016, board
agenda.
Report on CFSD Climate Study Survey
Dr. Bartlett presented the Climate Survey results for
board discussion. She reviewed the definition of
climate and its connection to school effectiveness. The

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survey instruction, Organizational Climate Description

Questionnaire (OCDQ), has been tested for validity
and
reliability.
The
OCDQ
measures
have
differentiated questionnaires for each level about
Principal Behaviors, and Elementary, Middle School,
and High School Teacher Behaviors. The OCDQ
results indicate the degree of principal and teacher
openness correlated to the overall school openness
rating. The survey results for CFSD can be accessed
on the district website under Governing Board for the
November 8 meeting. Dr. Bartlett also reviewed next
steps and the benefits of assessing climate.

CFSD

Please welcome new CFSD staff members:

Melissa Merrill, Third Grade Teacher, VV
Guadalupe Ibarra, Security Monitor, CFHS

Consent Agenda Items

The governing board approved the following consent
agenda items.

October 25, 2016, regular governing board

meeting minutes
Expense voucher memorandum
Field trip request memorandum
Personnel memorandum
Gift and Donations memorandum
Approval of Architectural Engineering Services for
Orange Grove Middle School Renovation and Field
Improvements Project memorandum

Upcoming Board Meeting

The next regularly scheduled governing board meeting
is Monday, November 21, 2016, 6:30 p.m., at the
Professional Learning Center at Valley View Early
Learning Center.
The tentative agenda is:
Recognition of a Super Volunteer
Approval of 2018-2019 Calendar (second reading)
Fiscal Year 2018 Draft Budget Process
Selection of Arizona School Boards Association
(ASBA) Delegate(s) to State Conference,
December 15-16, 2016
Consideration of Proposed Changes to ASBA
Bylaws

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