Oracle Elementary School District No.2 board approves 3% staff pay increase, multiple contracts and personnel actions

ORACLE, Ariz. — The Governing Board of Oracle Elementary School District No.2 voted June 13 to give eligible hourly and salaried staff a 3% wage increase effective July 1, 2025, and to approve a multi‑item consent agenda that included vendor contracts, financial vouchers and personnel actions.

Board Vice‑President Edie Crall called the meeting to order at 5:00 p.m. in the Mountain Vista K‑8 School Growth Room; the meeting was also held by Zoom. The roll call in the minutes lists Crall, Sean Borland and Joy Reid as present; Jeri Taylor and Wendy Odell are recorded as absent‑excused. The minutes contain inconsistent entries on officer titles and motion makers (see audit below) but record each motion as carrying with the board voting "all in favor."

The 3% wage increase was approved as a board motion and is recorded as effective July 1, 2025. The minutes attribute the motion on the wage increase to Mrs. Crall with Mr. Borland seconding; the board record states the motion carried unanimously among members present.

The consent agenda approved a broad set of routine and contract items. Among them, the district ratified payroll vouchers (including V55 through V63 with amounts listed in the minutes), expenditure vouchers (V2535–V2537), financial reports for May FY24/25 and April 2025 account statements, the out‑of‑school suspension report for 2024–25, and multiple service agreements: Guided Oaks Therapy Services, LLC (virtual speech‑language pathology services for 2025–26); ProCare (in‑person occupational therapy services for 2025–26); Ampersand Therapy (purchased special education teacher for 2025–26); and an IT support and consulting agreement with Vail Unified School District for 2025–26. The board also approved the 2025–26 district calendar (instructional hours, contract days, holidays and planned teacher workdays), an engagement letter with Heinfeld Meech for audit services for 2025–26, a land use agreement tied to Cody Fire 2025, a combined Pinal County Treasurer’s resolution for FY25/26, sole source vendor authorizations for 2025–26 and several hiring and salary schedules.

Personnel actions approved by the board include new hires and position confirmations for the 2025–26 school year: Tiffani Webster (Kindergarten teacher), Sheldon Ham (5th/6th grade science), Amy Hinton (preschool, 4‑year‑olds), Kayla Parker (preschool paraprofessional), Catherine Harchick (bus aide and special education preschool paraprofessional), Victoria Cazarez (Title I paraprofessional), Brianna Looney (Accounts Payable Clerk II, effective July 1) and Frank Gallardo (bus driver substitute and maintenance, effective July 1). The minutes also record years‑of‑service base salary adjustments (Tara Garcia, Denise Fisher), a professional growth base‑salary adjustment (Mark Parrish), an ELL coordinator stipend (Tara Garcia) and other routine personnel items such as sick‑leave buyback requests and summer curriculum professional development schedules.

On policy matters, the board conducted a first reading of Arizona School Boards Association (ASBA) Policy Advisories 876–905 and 906–908; Superintendent Nehrmeyer recommended tabling those advisories until the July meeting. On a separate matter, the board approved ASBA Policy Advisories 866–875, Section C, on second reading; the minutes record the motion as carrying unanimously among members present. The minutes contain an internal inconsistency on who made the motion for that approval (see audit).

The board set a special, Zoom‑only meeting for 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, July 2, 2025 to approve the district’s proposed 2025–26 Annual Expenditure Budget, and scheduled a public hearing and adoption of that budget for 6:00 p.m. Monday, July 14, 2025 at Mountain Vista K‑8; the July 14 meeting will also include a community discussion regarding the Oracle Ridge property, listed in the minutes at 725 N. Carpenter Drive, Oracle.

The meeting adjourned at 5:27 p.m. after a unanimous recorded vote to end the session. The minutes record motions and approvals as "all in favor, motion carried" rather than providing individual roll‑call vote tallies.

Notes on record inconsistencies: The meeting minutes list Edie Crall both as the official who "called the meeting to order" described as Board Vice‑President and later in the roll call as "Board President." The minutes also record a motion made by Wendy Odell on one item while listing Odell earlier as absent‑excused. These contradictions are noted in the board minutes themselves and are called out in the audit below rather than being resolved by this article.