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Hello, Tucson Unified School District. This is 
your proud superintendent, Dr. Gabriel Trujillo,  

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bringing you all the highlights from tonight's 
Governing Board meeting. The first official  

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Governing Board meeting in March. Before I get 
going, I want to thank all of you who came out  

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to support Jovert in their debut performance. The 
legendary steel drum band from Tucson High. Packed  

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the house tonight. Got us started as we got the 
festivities kicked off. If you haven't caught a  

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Jovert concert, you're really missing out. We 
also had some exciting items on the regular  

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business agenda. I want to sincerely thank 
the Tohono O'odham Nation for their generous  

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$135,000 grant to Pueblo High School to redo 
some of the bathrooms in the main building.  

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This money is going to be put to use to make sure 
that these bathrooms are 100% fully renovated,  

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modernized so that our Pueblo Warriors have 
the very, very best in restroom facilities.  

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We also welcomed a brand new principal. I want 
to say congratulations to Mrs. Michelle Weisbrod  

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for her Governing Board appointment this 
evening as the next principal of Johnson,  

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an amazing learning community in the beautiful 
southwest sector of our district. And tonight,  

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the Governing Board took action to issue phase 
two of our bond issuance commitment as part of the  

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$480 million bond package. The second wave of 
bonds was approved tonight by the Governing  

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Board. This means that $150 million in revenue 
generating bonds will hit the open market. So that  

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$150 million will flow into TUSD for another wave 
of these exciting bond projects. Want to thank  

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our bond management team for putting all of that 
together. And then finally tonight, we recognized  

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a couple of very, very important positions in 
the district who are being celebrated this month.  

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First, it is social worker appreciation month. We 
want to take this opportunity to thank all of our  

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social workers. Whether you're licensed clinical 
social workers, bachelor of social workers,  

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or some of our hardworking MSWs, master of 
social workers, you go to work every single  

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day for the health, the emotional health and 
safety of our TUSD community. And for that,  

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we're forever grateful. And for some 
of the quieter heroes of the district,  

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our procurement agents, this is also a month to 
celebrate you. It's National Procurement Month.  

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Those of you that stand as steadfast defenders of 
the public dollar and also steadfast defenders of  

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transparency and equitable processes for our 
for our local businesses to do business and  

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have the opportunity to do business with the 
Tucson Unified School District. That's it. If  

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you missed tonight's meeting, catch the replay on 
the Governing Board website and keep up with all  

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things TUSD on all of our social media platforms, 
Facebook, Instagram, and X. And have an absolutely  

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wonderful spring break. Be well, be rested. 
We'll see you back in the for the next meeting.