the governor's um proposed 20 by 20 which then was put into our funding it well exceeded two percent per year but the formula for the aggregate expenditure limit still was capped at that increase level so that's why one of the many reasons we're exceeding it by so much so you know I don't know how many people are still driving their car from 1980 um you know maybe if it's a classic Mustang or something but um but you you typically wouldn't and yet the the state insists on maintaining a financial maximum for school districts so last year the state legislature had to have a two-thirds vote to allow us to spend above the two percent and we got the passage at the state level this year they have not made that vote so in March we could be set up for a big Cliff yeah the the legislature has to act prior to March 1st if they do not it is taken out of their hands as well and the and the um School finance department is required by Statute if that legislature hasn't acted by March 1st they have to notice By Us by March 5th of the Final Cut amount so that way the governing board can take action as Ms dumeline mentioned prior to April 1st to reduce our budget mid-year so this isn't a future budget cut this is something we've already allocated that's for funds we were already allocated by the legislature funds that have already been expended for three quarters of the Year by that point and now we have to take an 18 budget cut with only about 22 to 25 percent of the school year remaining and and it's important to keep in mind that 80 to 85 percent of our budget is in our staff so when you have to take a budget cut that deep you know you always want to keep things away from staff it would be physically impossible to do so so Governor Ducey was asked to call a special legislature to uh lift the the cap and the aggregate expenditure limit he has said he would not uh although he's willing to trade off some things if he was to do it in the next what 11 12 days left in this in the in the what is 11th of December yes uh so you know we're we're thinking there will be a series of of efforts with Governor Hobbs uh once she comes on board so we'll see how that goes yeah sorry and thank you so much for the clarification and I since we do have a lot of people here I just wanted to for everybody to understand what the aggregate expenditure limit and basically that it's the state legislator that's tying your hands there's really nothing that we can do um and if they don't if we don't put pressure on them that's what's going to fall back on us on figuring out what we're going to have to do with seven million dollars gone so I just wanted everybody to be aware that that's the situation that not only this district is facing but every school district in Arizona is facing to like summarize in one sentence essentially we have the money and we won't be allowed to spend it that's the but thank you for the clarification because I think it's important and and my ask to to anyone here in the room and anyone watching is to share that information and help raise the awareness about why this is an issue not just for Creighton but for all of our Public Schools thank you I didn't mean to take you off I just wanted us to be as transparent as we could and I know I don't understand a lot of this language unless it's broken down to me so yeah thank you any other questions because we really are at the question stage here so that's it I don't have any questions I think we kind of discussed everything that what we're facing so thank you and we didn't have any public comments for anything okay all right so that ends the discussion and the hearings so we go back to our land acknowledgment crane school district understands that our community of schools is located on the ancestral land of the hodam Jude and accumul Odom people who descended from the hohokom and have inhabited these lands since the time immemorial the hodem who's in translates literally two people or vibrant culture and Community spanning countless Generations into the past continuing to thrive in the present and carrying a powerful Legacy of generations into the future with this acknowledgment the crane school district formally recognizes that the traditional care in keeping of these lands by indigenous people is an inspirational model of community stewardship that we are committed to honor with practices policy and human relations and Dr Lewis can you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance thank you Miss Jeffrey are you still on the phone yes yes okay perfect so roll call Miss Mick Jeffrey Miss McCaleb myself and Miss Ayers foreign and we want to welcome everyone to tonight's meeting and remind the audience of the request to address board cards that must be completed and submitted to the board secretary if they wish to speak to an agenda item board policy provides two cards White cards to be submitted in order to speak to an agenda item and Bluetooth cards oops blue cards to be submitted in order to speak during public comments due to the open meeting law board members are not allowed to address the items that are not on the agenda and that's per reference policy bedh [Music] um and that brings us to my computer's Frozen I moved the governing board to approve the agenda as presented second all those in favor aye perfect um and that brings us to the adoption of the revised number two budget I move the governing board adopt the revised number two total aggregate School District budget per ARs 15-905 and specifically 15-905 E1 for fiscal year 22-23 all those in favor aye perfect and that brings us into the Sarah swearing end of new elected governing board members um so we have two newly invited board members who ran and received their signatures and without opponents both will be our newly elected board members in January we'll be swearing in Miss Korea doll today so she can begin the meeting in January as she then swears in our new uh Katie uh McLean to be our new uh board member joining the team in January so Heather Ayers will be as clerks doing the swearing-in so you guys can stand right up here next to roll your chair on over she has a hurt foot how you doing hi Sophia doll so almost where do Solomon swear but I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution in love and the Constitution all enemies foreign and domestic foreign and domestic and that I will faithfully and impartially I will thankfully and impartially discharge the duties of discharge the duties of the office of Creighton School District governing board members of Creighton School District governing board members according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God the cheerleader one laughs all right well we'll look forward to Katie being sworn in in January I know she wants her family here all right do we have any public comments okay that brings us to our superintendent report well good evening what a lovely turnout it is it's so great to see all of you here tonight thank you so much the first of many things I have to announce are several people we want to recognize and I'm going to ask uh Dr Susan Lugo to please come up here where the president and the clerk just were to receive a recognition this is her last governing board meeting after 24 years of service and we want to thank her in admiration of her devotion and commitment to all the staff students and families of the Creighton Community join me in congratulating her fish all right and uh there are many uh opportunities to celebrate with Dr Lugo in her own special way wink wink there's also another person I we you know uh Scott Wells who's been invaluable to this district and all the ways in which we've been able to improve and make marvelous changes to our facilities thank him so much in his absence of recent there was a person who stepped up and you wouldn't know a beat was missed and it was amazing I'd like to please have Aaron Wilkinson come up here and be recognized for holding down the fort and keeping us moving forward in an amazing trajectory your kindness and your hard work and your relationship with each of us at the buildings has been duly noted by everyone please join me in congratulating Eric two late night third and not by any means last uh Leticia Acevedo has been a stellar Transportation manager and done an amazing job in her relationship with our bus drivers in her ability to navigate when we have people out or when buses are not fully at capacity and if we need to adjust she can if she's the queen of adjustment and she does it through the love and sense of true family that she creates in her culture in the transportation department so much so that the Arizona Association of Pupil Transportation has recognized her as the transportation manager of the year for 2022.
and you'll that you'll collect the taxes in 23 but we don't know the final number on your new property new construction for 22 because but we can capture all the way up until that date at least go into April right I'm next year Oh you mean as far as whether you can Abate no for a new bit for a new construction County determines the values by calendar year so the number that estimate is what will be the new new construction in this taxing District's boundaries during calendar year 2022. so through December through December 31st but I think what you're asking is where did you come up with the 1.1 it's low yeah because the amount of houses that are in Monet going in that's here for the county assessor and here's something it's just my subdivision alone so let me let me explain this this is a number that came from the assessor that's the question is who does it come from okay from the county assessor that said so far as of September of 22 this is what's on the docket is new construction so when you go ahead and balloon a levy when you balloon 11 the reason you belong to Levy so you want to make sure you capture all of new construction things of that right right all right because you don't know the number of the new construction or you don't know the new number of the current eav either and here's the answer I think Mr Brown it's coming from the assessor the assessor doesn't know that that's going in until it's completed so 1.1 is completed construction even if there's jobs that are going on that was the answer that I was looking for course if it's coming from the assessor they don't know about it till the till the job is done and it goes through their office so there's probably triple that two two to three times I don't know that yet right I I agree it'll actually probably come through 23.
okay so we're looking at tejanto's Food it's 74 of our students are in the advanced category uh 25 so we're doing pretty well and then I get the 2019 results and I'm literally my first comment was what happened um that's crazy like did I stop learning how to teach in one year and so that was the year that I really started looking at all right what happened with the state literally we moved the goal posts do you have clarification on quantitatively what's changed such that results that would have landed in the advance now land in media but that's on one of my last slides and I provided a bunch of links that's why I gave you that stuff hopefully like I gave it to you last Tuesday to look at it I'm not sure if anybody got a chance to look through this stuff but again we'll get more detail of this in January today is more just to let you know where we're coming from and the different types of reports like we only look at achievement analysis it's easy to see the school's not doing as well as it did the year before if you just if you only look at that we can come through a lot of bad conclusions so changes in state testing since 2014.
I'm learning like during school hours how will teachers handle the situation like how will students like say they're going through something and they want to contact the people how will they be able to like leave class or where would they go to do that that's a great question um and you reminded me that if the board did approve this program we would have a meeting with all of our staff to inform them what this is all about meetings a meeting set up but I'm thinking that you know you could ask to leave class to go to the guidance Suite or to the nurse's office and find a private state the number of students that are in there are certain percentages of students use it or not correct that's correct okay and then if you have any data on similar size districts on like how many um students what percentage of students are utilizing something like this I don't know I'll pop my head I don't um keep in mind these programs are relatively new uh it's they really so um although patient Jose and mental health programs have been around for years programs that are focused on middle school and high school program or age students are fairly new students the statistics would be pretty young even if we had it but I can say that in general or if I look at our general population which is not just students again I'm talking and we do a lot of work with business and organizations you know all over the country um it's about 25 of the utilization of the program meaning oh and these and what they tell us is about 40 of any given population hasn't really helped me so which if you translate that because we're we're probably reaching out and helping about 60 of those in need I don't know if that answers your question but um I know it's new and the data may not be there yeah but it's because population is very smart and we don't have a lot of stats on the children um what we do know and I have a lot of data in that report um the Mental Health crisis almost younger age adults in the shoulder is it's enough of them right now um and if our feeling is and what a lot of those school districts believe is a good catch it early before it escalation be something more serious that's what you want to do um you know things particularly at a younger age what might be something that might be fairly simple or domain to us when we can deal with it if we have you know many years of coping skills to a young younger person it could be very dramatic uh and it could escalate with something bad very quickly so that the goal here is to identify an issue work-up plan help that student work through that issue and try to resolve it in an early stage before it comes to crisis management scenario but overall mental health is is across the country is it's an epidemic right now and then um for parents signing waivers I know this is a question for you having or for you at the program like how are they signing is whatever and when is that taking place yeah well I mean either way after the program was announced the a waiver or a discussion called the parental consent is given to the parents to sign but we know you know that every person is going to sign one right away sometimes they're going to sign them and return them right up some population will go right away but others will have good intentions to do it but we'll just forget we're not do it and others May resist it altogether so the situation and Kevin alluded to it earlier is they cannot proceed without a parental consent unless it's a an immersion situation however one student is enrolled in the program which they all would be and they're eligible for the program but they call in that and the counselor will know if that consent form has been completed if it's not a crisis scenario which they take a different direction um maybe we've been notified that student people understand they can help them kind of for a moment or two and then they'll say well we need to get that consent so we can talk to your parent are they are they getting 80 right now can we email you a copy of the email can send it whatever they'll work with that student they're prepared to get them considered back but that'll be the last call that consent doesn't get completed they won't be able to get the council thank you is any other board member any questions I have a question about like mandated reporters sort of stuff like if uh if a kid's getting bullied I mean that's really that should be addressed at the school isn't there like a three strikes and so let's say somebody calls I mean is it completely confidential or do you have some sort of link with to know that this child is the same child it might be calling a second time saying this is happening again to me I mean because yeah that's a great question so if it's again it depends on the severity of the situation but if you will again if it's an emergent scenario or aggressive scenario they're going to take immediate action and jump into into action if it was necessary we they do report back orderly and we can get uh monthly reporting that maybe if you can't decide that one of the reporting we were doing that their standard reporting importantly and then we'll talk about what type of situations have occurred um it's there is a strong emphasis that to get that student to go back to any school services or Talent services that are available you can coordinate with that now they can't force the child to do that but when they're done with their counseling they're they're always attempting to get that student to reconnect with whatever local services are available work with us with their principals work with their counselors here locally um again it's a matter of it's kind of forging them and managing them to do that they can't they can't force them yeah it sounds like my understandably confidential they can't go and call the school up and talk to a counselor it's strictly confidential other than giving them the resources and tools to go to they wish they're not supposed to be calling talking about it with the school correct thank you if I'm understanding correctly right you're kind of asking are they going to talk to the school they're I don't think they're going to talk to the school at all it's confidential they would give the student the information encourage them to follow that's correct yeah because otherwise you're violating confidentiality with Facebook triangulating and talking why is it confidential okay what's the uh what's the rollout plan we adopt this uh so that the students and the parents have the accurate information so what it is so Joe I am I am wondering if uh you all might be comfortable to vote on this tonight so we can get this rolling out in January we would have a specific timeline for each week in January with when information would be distributed we would set up a parent meeting a virtual parent meeting in January to let them know about this we would also meet with our staff to let them know what services are available and in particular our mental health support staff so that our school psychologists social workers so that they'll know that they can refer students to this service if they're not comfortable talking to them individually so we have a specific timeline we will rule this out the first month that it is implemented and are there any neighboring schools that have used this or something like it that you're aware much of this mental health support is provided for colleges and universities we would just be one of a few school districts using this which I'm very proud of it would give us a year to try it out to see whether our students took advantage of it and I think it's a perfect use of grant funding um you might be thinking well why don't we use the money to um to hire us an additional social worker Mike next question or an additional um psychologist well we know there would be a funding cliff so we as much as we'd want to do that we know they would have a budgetary impact this won't have a budgetary impact unless we decide to continue however my hope is that it's going to be very successful and there will be other grant funding out there to support programs like this moving forward I'm pretty confident there will be is arpa just for this one year it is I guess so if the the issues that we've determined if this is Superior or is a necessary supplement to what we already have and I can see that argument would make a lot of sense but if we're going to fall off a cliff either way the fish or with hiring at some point I want to make sure that this is superior to hiring someone else I don't think that the budget clip argument is as applicable I think I'd want to say well have we determined that this is more effective for our students in hiring another psychologist right and if he answers yes great but it shouldn't be the bunch of Cliff though I don't think I think from the student's perspective have we have we done that yeah I would like to having him we only have two we have a psychologist and a social worker right now in the high school and like this you say is like uh unlimited or whatever so yeah so it's like I think that's nice like on weekends so I think it is almost better this program than hiring I know a lot of students struggle with face to face like having to verbalize their concerns to someone just like in person so I think that could be helpful alternative to people who struggle more like with in person like social interaction because that was like what's like blocking them from being able to advocate for their issues so Ryan I do think that is the benefit it's Anonymous and all students would have access even on the weekends in the night at midnight where they don't have access to a school profession historically 70 of the calls come in after normal workout so that's that's when you know their kids were in sports they're in school they're busy they're home they're on social media something happens they get upset that's when they need to be have the availability of somebody to speak to whether it be seven o'clock at night you know 12 o'clock at night on a Saturday or Sunday on holiday that's when we see the highest levels of anxiety stress depression going on with the actually with all the populations but specifically the students I have two questions sorry but Kevin what um what did the social worker counselor principal I mean obviously I'm assuming everybody is aware of this what was their feedback the feedback is this is this is another benefit for our students this is this is terrific so they were so very important and then it's it talks so much about in short term like it's a short-term thing so what happens I just want to understand the process better like it's short term they call they have a concern they're struggle and they give them limited short-term feedback that and offer support but then what happens if they need to call again or again that then they direct them to counseling but then that's when the parent they have to find an outside counselor and the parents pay for that separate because I think that's the part I'm not understanding my understanding question so the way the program works is so for the coaching part there's there's two major component versus the Koji and there's the the capital is called the councilman especially a little bit more than that but we'll follow that there's no limit to the coaching that goes on development as name being for every student whatever the need may be on the counseling session they try to limit it to Pride quote so they don't it's not a harder to stop um recovery if you will and they needed individual counselor and felt like that succession was really what's going to get them there and they'll be certainly a lot of the Gratitude have it um but they generally focus on five and it's per incident so uh and the reason for that is they don't want this to become a program that's one of them some students are going to need long-term therapies they're gonna they're gonna need more in-person longer term sessions usually within five sessions if they can determine if that's the case and if that's the case there these counselors are going to work with their parents and the child to find the local Council they can continue that therapy with that child luckily that's less than five percent of the cases um but if a child is let's say in January having issues with school and they're upset because they failed an exam and or they're not ready for whatever it may be and then in March they're having trouble because they're getting bullied or or they brought their their girlfriend boyfriend or maybe they're I'm just trying to think something up if that's considered a different session a different so they could they would then be given five for that incident and so forth and so on okay thank you hey Ryan to your point your place a good one I think uh whatever you put a few more pages the reporting page I think after a couple of quarterly reports would get an idea yeah I think so too but the question is who who are the coaches and what are their qualifications these are all born sorted by counselors um most of them have a minimum of 10 years of experience they are again most of them are not all of them are specialized in working or whatever youth um they're all over the country so because of the the staffing issues they might be in Detroit but they could be here in Connecticut it just depends on where they're called it's a free program that is sort of phone call and we touched on it but one of the things that I think makes the part of also you know what you make is beneficial is the students are a hmsa has a student at that they would download to your phone your smartphone as we all know we all live in our smartphones especially the students right on their in their apps so that's how they're going to get access of the service primarily through the phone with performance when you say board certified American borders I get what what's what they are um I'm not sure I mean that's a reward certified if you don't know which sport right I mean come on yeah these are all licensed I understood well I think these are appropriate questions to be asked oh no absolutely uh I'm just not sure of the organization that license them we deal with a lot of other let me see if I can find that very very shortly is this this is just Middle School in high school and what about parents is there a your parental piece or no police students and the only reason why a parent would be involved is if the parent were contacted by this by a counselor yes exactly I noticed that on that website there is all these um like like information and informative stuff do the parents have access to those um the mobile app 5 000 articles videos and resources or adjust students bill I believe parents would have access to the website as well they do absolutely that's not they're not going to call Council absolutely could you just go over the course again five dollars per student five dollars that's how many students or 722 students okay a month it's a zero cost to the family zero across the families so the grant would be funding this for a year it's forty two thousand dollars and we quite a day can I or is it a one-year commitment it's a one-year commitment um I think it could be great I don't want to say that it couldn't be great like personal opinion it seems like big you know we talk about a couple thousand dollars here or there stuff that we know is good it's like I'm offer a lot of money to prevent to something that a isn't proven in our district but it sounds like it's not proven for the age category work targeting either if it's really for more utilized in college age students and Kevin also do we have um I mean I assuming just to check we have a demonstration of waivers for you know these kids get advice through our program and one of them to go is not as well as we would hope and something happens board blisters are identified yes we are absolutely so if a parent doesn't sign off on this and the kid can't use the the service that's correct that's important parents need to be able to give consent yeah I think the rollout if we choose to go with this the rollout plan is is critical because we're only as effective as we are community and communicating and you know encouraging those I think we would leave on you guys too to tell us how to encourage kids to use an event seat as like one more thing that we don't use you know I'm thinking about this and I was thinking like um I'm part of um and I think that like that club could help encourage this because we were actually thinking of like and this is perfect because we were thinking of doing like an anonymous reporting system and um having way students can report like things they're seeing because the whole thing the whole thing about the same Club is see something say something and so this kind of solved that issue and maybe like we could have um student leaders maybe learn like or get trades in some way on like this program and like how we can enforce it with our friends and you know someone should ask me like hey like have you tried this like this is a great resource like maybe you can have a certain group of students who are willing to like really understand the program and talk to their friends about it when kids call on the phone and talk to a voice on the phone yes I thought there was a virtual thing yeah no I think would you text like if it was text I think that would be like probably easier and I didn't know if that was that that's an option or these are just calls so the call center is banned live with people in live individualism people 24 7 7 days a week texting is an option and it's not something that it's getting selected there's an addition cost to that and that's a brand new service that they just brought on in the last six months so um and the reason they did that was because a lot of the students requested I think but there's more expenses involved in that but you're always talking to a lot of body you know a live version of things wrong not it's not like they're falling into words the computer or something but I don't think that's what you know well I I the question I have like I have two young adult daughters and they're like don't call me you text me you know like I don't talk to me I think that's like weird so that's what I was just wondering if the kids would actually feel comfortable talking to a voice I think it really just depends on the person and that's like the hard thing like I know I wouldn't mind talking to someone on the phone but there's definitely people that maybe have like social anxiety and then that would like further in recent but if you don't know the person on the other end of the line and can be easier because you know there's no judgment you don't know who they are they don't know who you really are it's like there's not going to be judgment they're an adult in the train so I feel like the kid's not going to be thinking oh this person's gonna judging me or what are my feelings they're specifically trained in that way so like I don't think parents wouldn't care that right but maybe that could be another step like having students telling people about it and saying like oh it's not that bad like I've done it before like you know what I mean so I do want to add just one thing but it's not a I don't want to get confused we're not spelling but it's actually the program or like that not part of this package but if a student has a relationship with the council and that student says can I text you in other words that counselor and that student once the first session takes place it's up to the student in the counselor the scheduled future future sessions uh and this goes for the coaching as well if a counselor and the student want to text back and forth that certainly allowed but it's not part of the program that we're providing today so that's up to the council and the student who will make that Arrangement and so we'd have to be mutual and readable and readable would that cost money for like parents then if it's outside of the program only if there was an additional you know texting data charge to the full service of that nature is this all communication sessions in texting whatever you use is through that portal and through the the app or the site as opposed to an actual phone number no no on this whatever the student is comfortable so there is an 800 number they can call on a regular rotary guy on the employee Pages they can do it on their computer there's you know a website on your computer where they can schedule a virtual session again the counselors are available either telephonically or do a video chat so if the child wants to have a video chat with the counselor do they most likely to get abusive in a laptop computer to do that is that as a Polish well you I mean your phones have a camera um so that works as well or if they just want to use the app on the phone that's perfectly fine when I when I call uh you know 99 of the time I get through to somebody right away or am I frequently you know on the 12th one in line or if you know when you call and you're yeah you're not busy yeah yeah no they're usually there's someone picking up immediately but this is it actually is not only a price system but also as a Counseling Center so they want somebody to be there right away dance on the phone it's not it's not a callback service you know but it more often than not counselors are available immediately they're gonna they're gonna speak to somebody um this is not the right term they're going to kind of trade out of the situation understand what that student's needs are because it can go down the coaching path we could do it on the counseling path and that's the only connect they'll have but they're not gonna they're not going to disconnect from that student they're going to learn the student what they want to put their the topic of course now they can always call the 24-hour crisis limit as a different as a difference today because whatever Services they need but future counseling sessions go are scheduled with the counselors and the students and whatever time is convenient with them and then in crisis there's open 24 hours a day a week thank you any other questions did you find out how their boards are certified are they psychologists or social workers there's I will get back to the with you on that I don't know what the it says they're counselors so they're probably the national nbcc the national board of certified councils I know they're all licensed counselors more certified um I don't know who who accredited but we'll get back yeah that's what I wondered how are they vetted like did your company vet them or there must be is there some program that creates the list of possible candidates for this yeah no it's not mine it's not my domain is investment hmmosa goes to the betting I mean this is what they do thank you and they've been they've been I mean I think they've been in business a long time and they've been doing a lot of government agencies and so forth so it's not your first rodeo um it is yeah yeah I mean unfortunately and it I mean the study showed that there's a lot of issues and depression before Covenant but that put a little Spotlight on it and it's just exacerbated the issues um you know when I started in the business seven years ago you can get a counseling session that you could schedule a meeting with the council in a few days maybe a couple weeks today if you and you schedule if I had to go see somebody privately on my own I'll probably look at it eight to ten weeks before I could get a scheduling session you know they're they're a great demand so that's why our program has become so valuable Kevin were there other options considered with this funding and this is made action so thank you for asking that because that addresses Russell's Point too about the cost um we were looking for a program such as this one that is innovative and unique something that we didn't and couldn't already offered so that's why we thought this was a great use of the arbor funds to do something Innovative and unique to um to see how successful it could be some of the other ones that just wanted or like other ones other other ideas there's no other programs for mental health that we compared this to or is that what you're asking this was the only program that would be open 24 7 to to all of our students versus putting this money toward a curriculum program that would only be offered during school hours yeah this would support the whole child which really isn't is in alignment with our mission of our school district we've always talked about how academics are important but we truly believe in the social and emotional well-being of our students and I think this would be putting our money where our mouth is where we believe this is really important especially now two years after all right still as we're struggling with post-candemic issues um I'm going to go over a report with you tonight that shows that over the last two years we've had more students absent from our schools than we had previously and that's called chronic absenteeism and we're working hard to address that now one of the reasons students are absent is because of depression and anxiety this is another way that we can support students yeah not just a good question so um you said that it would just be for the year because we're using those are funds that we have now so then and then um I'm curious about how would we know or would we know how successful the program is meaning like how many kids are accessing it and and so forth and so on and then if it is successful and we have it only for one year then what happened you know I know Mr Bishop will be looking for grant funding yeah uh to continue the program yeah currently there are Grant funds that we're applying for uh to get additional social worker support we see these grants continuing into the future the grants that are becoming available are for mental health support so I'm confident that a year from now there'll be other grant opportunities and Cindy as we said before I think if we look at the monthly we can request monthly reports how many students access the service each month yeah and we'll keep track of that data moving forward I think that will let us know how successful the program is right and and maybe to our students who might be willing to share their experiences anecdotally that would be really helpful also or even like an anonymous survey or something like just you know reporting back on their experience like is it is it good is it you know is it helping you yeah it's how long does a graduating senior go to use it for six months January through June I have a good question yes I just got it when you said the parents waiver if a student calls this number the confidentiality do they notify are they notifying the parents that they've contacted these people or is that just is like the waiver just for one and I guess the captain's plates like obviously let's say um my daughter's the mom by the way because we'll let you know congratulations we're talking about this year if she calls the number let's say my thought about calling you up let's say a student calls a number does the counselor have to what comparability receive the phone call from the student or is that no I mean because since been been signed then no they're not going to be talking to the parents that's part of the confidentiality okay so just the HSN number so so let's let's just say one call to call let's say a third call comes in for a certain issue and they make a determination whether the parent gets contacted or a school or if if okay to prepare has signed the consent form okay then the dialogue is going to be between student and the council the parent will be involved unless unless there is a need for the parent to be well they want that child to be able to speak openly to that possible no no I I I completely yeah I agree with that I mean there's some things obviously that he could say to some people something I just just wondering that it it at what point does it become a you know the scale does it become if a student continues to say you know they keep calling I mean you put the service in now they know it's there they call two three four times before time well let's say well there's something here that's bigger than just however you're going out so okay if the counselor determines that there's a deep I don't know I'm using the right terms or um but we'll say a deep-seated issue that we use a long-term counseling and they're exhausting the five or six sessions that they're allotted for that Incident That's when they're going to work out but they're going to the the H of those a stat is going to work with the school with your parents to say they're will identify the student they need to be more than we can provide for services and they're going to try to and by the way at that point they'll shoot if if it's allowed if the student's permits it they'll share the notice with the new counselor that they would be if they go down they would sure those are that in the counselor so that student was not starting to explore one or whatever yeah that's what I meant to say I'm just saying is it but you know to use the term loosely but you know just so it doesn't become a crutch and it's something that someone will use repeatedly let's say that soon for whatever reason calls five six times or an issue that seems could be a great issue could be just yeah I I really can't address it I mean the council has been trained to identify the issues I guess and if they feel like I really don't know what at one point they may say that the student isn't really using sort of properly that perhaps is another reason they have an item of it okay yeah I I just why I I guess I didn't understand what the wave and parent thing is so it is a confidentiality once you sign the waiver between that counselor this service and the student bill yeah yeah I think I think part of it like when we do if we do move forward with this like the rollout in the parent communication and the questions from the parents I think that's a good time to kind of figure out how all that works but I think what you're saying correctly if I'm wrong that once the parent signs the waiver the student then has the opportunity to use everyone inside and they're not reporting back to the parent or doing anything like that unless there's like some emergent situation where they need an appearance or the school should know like my daughter made that point Bell they've said it you know if they're at school and say I got to make this phone call to this thing and I guess the school would at this point once this if this is we go with this program they say they'll know and then you know the nurses off at their attend high school middle school they'll say okay this is you know whatever you know called whatever you're going to assign a name to is I got to make this phone call and this place so they would know ahead of time what they mean by you know and I'm not saying that I'm not trying I'm just saying it not to be a crutch every time someone said you know I mean I just and just just say that if if a parent then is informed that this was once you sign this and if they go past five calls like he said I think that we didn't even save that for when we get to that point and I just like take too much time on it but I didn't understand like how it works um from that point on but thank you for your coverage yeah I just had I think there's like two questions um first is it like taken into consideration about what finals maybe would look like if they're gonna kind of all the counselors would be like bombarded was there any like risk of there being a shortage of counselors from like a big like Peter you know like I mean his final speed for example is like coming around and lots of students are stressed and think they need an outlet are there enough counselors for this scenario that they're just like all at once just kind of you know right so um the answer is yes they every time we bring on a new group they they make sure they have an adequate number of counselors um they're familiar with the seasonal beings that they go along to be a holiday students still investing and so forth so they would staff up for that um you know they just brought on a large school system out in Nebraska and so but it was considerably larger than n it was in a thousand so they had to actually stop looking at for that immediate and that's why they generally want to ask you the head count so to make sure that they have enough Staffing on them involved that's a good question thank you I also had a question about the reporting so it's it says like counts um are given the quarterly reports and is that and apply to that the schools would be receiving a report about you know where that they're like our issue areas and could that be used to like then moved to the school and be like if there was like a notably like pretty like big issue like oh we see like a lot of students are reporting with you know severe like feelings of depression or signs of depression maybe then address that in school with everyone or Implement any like changes to the school or try to address that like aside from that absolutely it would be it would serve as A needs assessment for us to know what kind of programs possibly to bring in for our students absolutely Noah you're right and so um I don't have that roll our account rollout calendar in front of me but Bill can attest that we've spent several hours taking a look at what that rollout will look like so we put a lot of thought into that Joe hoping this program would be improved billboard questions um on how many if you can answer this how many schools of a similar age category is are using this program yeah so I think it was said middle school high school yeah like as opposed to how many college level schools are using this program like are we the guinea pig I'll ask them yeah I'll ask the question are we paying guinea pig paying full free and having to lock ourselves in for a year or something that hasn't been proven for the group that will go I don't know the number of how many schools are in the program I don't want to answer that I know you're not beginning but you're certainly not at the first program in the program loving School in the program but I don't know how many they have we've just so I should probably explain who political Moses and the relationship following action plus is for lack of better terms a broker or Telehealth Services that's what we do we are an independent company that works with a whole bunch of different Telehealth services around the country tell the dock you've probably heard of paladakoo the biggest so we're one of the biggest Distributors with all of that but we also do the MD live me MD I'll Advocate hmsa dial care and others so um we work with all of those companies as well as any others because we're independent like an insurance broker would be independent but we're not part of parcel days like so when a prospect your client comes to us and says this is our needs what we're looking for and we go out and do a canvassing on try to find the best solution for that particular need whatever that salute that challenge was that was presented to us but when we did that we identified two programs in this space that works specifically with high school or middle school students that's a challenge I mean the big School a big program with colored activities before they really don't want to work in that age bracket that would be so pressured and they're talking about maybe having to do that in the future but there's a lot more it's a lot more complicated to put it that way to do it to deal with the Adolescent age groups it is paid adults right so um there's very few companies that are in that space that are doing that we identify too that medical criteria that can they gave to us one was hmsa the other one was the company called dialed here in the order the prior to be more expensive so but I don't know to answer your question I don't know how many schools are on board with hmsa at this time and then the second part of my question is if we said go and we voted since this is a telephone number call-in thing can we just get the number tomorrow and people can start calling and the reason I ask that is if we were looking for a little bit more of a detailed plan on the rollout or maybe some of the information that couldn't be answered tonight about you know how many other schools are doing this age bracket or what board is certified that could we wait until the next meeting vote and not impact greatly the rollout time frame since we don't have a rollout plan right now well I have a rollout plan okay we have we do have a roll-off plan um if you waited to vote on January 10th then truly the rollout would need to wait until afterwards yeah I'm just saying the obvious right yeah you vote on January 10th if you approve the rollout would start later than the first week of January which if you approved it tonight the rollout would begin the first week of January we begin communicating this before the holiday break it then send out January dates for the parent meeting I appreciate having two students here who actually seem like they think this is a great idea so I mean that's that is nice I know I definitely use it like if it was a program I don't know about you guys Russell did you have another question all right um no I mean I'm just gonna keep hammering down on the same thing like this one-year commitment seems like crazy the game we just say guys let us try it for six months it's still twenty thousand dollars if in six months we we have 10 students using the program or none or 300 then I think we get a better idea but we're not just giving away twenty thousand I just feel Guinea very guinea pig I think it's great I think it's very important topic I just it feels very much like a program for employees and older kids that were that were I think we're trying to get down to younger folks and that's great but just you know I want to make sure that is really kills them and and so I think the trial period is awesome whether it's a year or six months bill is it a possibility to do six months I don't believe it is in our discussion well I'll ask your questions but the contracts um you know I've been doing this business for a long time I don't know that I've ever worked with a operation that didn't have that's pretty well it's common in our in this industry um just if as if you were working in Blue Cross Blue Shield and a signal or like Aetna your scientific when you do your medical renewal there's like you know one year every goal right that you're signing a contractors and we're agree into these terms and so forth there's a lot of expense involved with these companies with a lot of startup expense on their repellent um slow curve as far as thousands of the success of the program goes how well we roll it out you know I so I'm not trying to be defended contract so I'm trying to have you understand that I'm working clients over the years for days before they've been playing and say yeah we're going to do everything but we're going to sing from the highest knowledge and raise a little program and then they don't or who's that fault for the success or failure in the program under a contractual world we all know when we can make a great contract right and my company called Dr plus would never try to enforce a 12-month contract for anybody they have 11 working for both parties so if in six months or seven months it was a disaster and nobody was using it and we said we got to get out of it but we you know without any legal but if you wouldn't want anybody to be unhappy that's our reputation and so that wouldn't that wouldn't benefit anybody um you know in our company has a 16-day cancellation we've never enforced that because there's somebody who's on that unhappy we don't want them right as a client so that's just good practical business you know practically business tactics that you're building um but on the other hand it is a volatile contract which means you're going to you're putting people down and they're going to do their best to make the program successful over the next 12 months and I don't know that really anything sort of qualifies would be a feared best exactly we have to think about the seasonality that's going on you know one of the and I'm just talking off anecdotally one of the biggest areas of my times of the year is coming on us right now it's really trying to do that if you don't have the program in place now because statistically there's going to be a lot of stress over the holidays right this is when the program can be used so we're going to go through a period of time kind of like the closing to work on a general telemedicine you know it's coming and going so who knows what's going to happen in the spring would have been event worldwide events could take place to get escalate and ask in the stress and names but then we come into the solar lights and so forth so I think it's fair to have a 12-month contract and I think that's the true test for the program um you have to think of it this way also but now I'm trying to be really understandable as well but you're making a five dollar per month times twelve you're gonna get a 60 investment eight or spoon that's it sixty dollars per year for your students to provide all of the services that are being available to them so it may seem like a lot of money when you make 5 times 12 times 722 but if you break it down as a parent you can just think about what was sixty dollars be able to provide to a student for a year I mean that's that's not a lot Kevin what would These funds be spent on if they weren't spent on this so they were slated to be used toward um social and emotional support for our students that's the category okay so if they weren't spent on this they would just until we determine how else to use the funding okay in that category okay okay we'll we'll come back to this later on the agenda under um since we do have a motion does anyone have any questions at this time Bill thank you so much for being here tonight we appreciate it I appreciate everybody hope you have a nice holiday thank you and I'm always available for the future meetings you know thank you and thank you to everybody for your great questions a couple of other um items I wanted to let you know about One um we're just so pleased with our latest um visit by the New England Association of schools and colleges so last week was the the serial visit for the ass team they came to Canton High School as part of the niac accreditation process so I believe it was 12 years ago they initially came because of the pandemic but decennial visit was put off for two years a team visited five years ago and then two years ago um to look at what the recommendations were for our high school and how much progress we've made toward those recommendations so a team visited our high school last Monday Tuesday Wednesday several of you met with team members on Tuesday morning thank you so much for taking the time to do that normally when a team visits we don't get immediate feedback um but we did receive immediate feedback um John and I in particular when we met with them as district-wide administrators um they were so pleased with the progress that they've seen at our high school so um the message I'm like YouTube have is thank you for your support um to make our our high school one of the strongest in the states uh and those were their words and it's nice to get that affirmation that for a small high school we offer such a comprehensive curriculum the committee was impressed with the rigor of our curriculum members of the committee visited every classroom at least once many classrooms they visited a second time they were able to talk with students I don't know if the committee members talk with yes talk with you what kinds of questions did they ask you um I think most commonly what they would do is they would come in and just check in with students whether you know we currently working on and then after explaining it they would say you know what is the objective of doing this what is this like working towards and what's next on goal or final product for work right now yeah I I gave them a tour on Tuesday morning of the school and then I did the student panels the next day and they asked like what's our favorite thing about Canton and then um what areas do we need to work on and they seemed really happy so I was getting fun the team was very impressed with the quality of work that you were doing that all the students were doing the quality of teaching that was taking place and also very impressed with the camp projects and also with um uh PLT time that uh Dr Kidwell and Mr Pippa worked hard to create professional learning times professional learning teams to work during professional learning times in small groups multi-disciplinary so and our teacher would work with the social studies teacher who would work with an English teacher who would work with a World Language teacher to get different perspectives surrounding different topics it's Unique not every High School allows those professional opportunities so there's so much to be proud of and the committee will write up a report which I'll be happy to share with you in a few months but they they wanted me to pass along to the board um congratulations to all of you and you know especially to our staff and our administrators and our students who are such hard workers really making our high school the flagship over the community which it should be and as I look on as I look back over my 16 years here to see the amount of growth that have been made in our high school I'm very proud of so I wanted you to know that and I wanted you to know the visit went very successful and thank you to those of you who took time to speak to the committee members and then thirdly I wanted to let you know that we're planning um for um the first um Community gathering this year you'll remember we had four Community Gatherings last year focused on Equity we have a gathering plan for January 18th you'll recall well most of you will if you were on the board when we adopted our Equity policy as far as the implementation of our Equity policy um is concerned one of the areas that we said we would focus on is having Community focus groups on the topic of diversity equity and inclusion so this will be the first in a series of focus groups again January 18th we're going to send out information to the entire Community this week we're going to ask folks to register ahead of time so that we know how many parents will be joining us how many students how many teachers how many administrators because each of those stakeholder groups will be a different focus group with different questions asked of them we have a tree that Collier Dickinson and Shannon Boulder and Olivia Hussey from grec who will be helping to facilitate those groups on January 18th so it's going to be at 7 p.m from 7 to 8 30.
foreign so the other forecast that we always hear about is the UCLA Anderson School of Management forecast instead of one this year they're actually proposing two separate forecasts so even the top economists in the country have a split they so about 54 is indicating that there will be a recession in the middle of 23 and the other um 46 percent don't believe that there will be one at this point so the two potential forecasts that UCLA uh forecasted for the first one is going to be a balanced budget that's where the Federal Reserve would actually pause on the interest rate after December right so then the idea is then this would actually help with the inflation it was uh for for that then in that scenario then there will not be any recession however the other um economists within UCLA is forecasting a recession budget meaning that the Federal Reserve will continue to increase the rate to drive down the inflation and so at this point the biggest driver at this point um would be the Federal Reserve whether or not they continue to adjust the rates and obviously that will affect a lot of different things for example um when people are buying a home how much it costs to borrow right as well and so these are the numbers that we are really focusing on right now to see what the releases are for the overall economy so we're now going to the indicators for our district um so the biggest one here is we all know um our enrollment you guys have seen this figure I always updated this every time we have some new numbers and so uh as of um October of um current year our C bets number that's the data when we collect our data we were at 27 786 students um that's the preliminary numbers um but if you kind of go back to even back in uh 2011-12 which was not that long ago we almost had about 33 000 students and so looking back at the data from last year to this year we dropped about uh 600 and 600 students or so initially we were project projected to drop more than 700.
we would we do have the monies in there so you'll see the negatives on the last column but don't worry or it's second to the last column don't worry about those because we do have funding and that's coming in um there was a question on the instructional Improvement which is about five down and from one of the board members and as I explained to them basically it is a cash controlled fund it's a high negative but not to worry about that either because at the end because it's cash controlled fund we're able to move money's in there to zero adapt other than that uh if you scroll through there are 10 other pages and it's a breakdown of each of the schools and it's broken down by schools and if there's any questions I don't know any questions as it could use um if you don't mind that I've already known impacting thank you for that so on the impact date back to that first one we have budgeted 10.3 million dollars you're going to see a negative about 335 000. now keep in mind on the column in the encumbrance into the encumbrance cost that basically means is we have encumbered funds some you know our departments and our schools if they're funding uh something out of the decade for example if I'm going to do a purchase order for Home Depot I'm going to put in a PO for ten thousand dollars we have to put that ten thousand dollars aside in that bucket so that's our encumbrance bucket even though at the end of the year we might only spend a thousand dollars well we kept nine thousand dollars in there that we could have used for something else so just keep in mind that encumbrance is basically a pot of money that we've put away to make sure that we have enough money for whatever that PO was listed for same goes for teachers and so on thank you for that any other questions when when does that gonna be cleared out when is I'm sorry convert in convert the incumbrance period doesn't happen until the end of the school year what we try to do though is during the school year itself we start looking at some um and I should take that back if purchase orders are done and let's say there was a purchase order done in July 1 which is the start of the school year we're now in December anything in July August September any POS that were done to vendors those have already been received this schools and departments would send in the invoices to Sherry she would go ahead and close them if there's any encumbrances let's say that Home Depot purchase order was done in July they're done with it they've used it all there's nine thousand dollars left once it's paid by Sherry then it disencumbers that fund so there's it's it's a process throughout the year at the end of the year that's one of the things that we try to do too once June 30th ends for our school year what we do is we've got three months basically to clean up all our technicals because each one of these lines is like a checking account for us and we've got to make sure that everything zeroes out so and one of the things also that we do is that there is some expenses that are able to be funded out of a grant then what we'll be doing is we'll move Journal I will journalize expenses into the the other learning steps to throw them out as well and move the expenses into the grants but some of the brands you can't carry over the funds most of them you can but we try to expend everything down thank you any other questions um [Music] no it's good that it's good that the board is looking at these two it's and questioning this uh but overall no we're pretty much saying okay and the good news is you know uh we just received our FY 23 half a payment of our infected just a couple days last week that's money I didn't want to say that too loud because you know that I need I want and can I have the money came in right exactly okay School District doing another uh revised budget before the end of the school year yes in another revision um that I don't know when but we usually I want to say that we always do a main revision that's for sure so we're going into you know now that we're ending half on the first semester opening up the second semester it'll give us time to clean up a little bit but come April March and April is when we start looking at all our funding all of our expenses and everything and then we decide okay you know what under maintenance and operation we have 8.8 billion dollars we might need a little bit more we might need a little less what's our final by the state you know when we get our funding from the State state's going to stay here at your final location that's when the main revision comes into play so we'll be doing one and we'll bring it to the board okay thank you you're welcome board members and Mr Diaz every year we do a revision or a just an FYI public hearing um our titles our title six are uh esea and are impacting all required they want us to inform everybody the community we have two public hearings uh unfortunately we don't have a good turnout but you know it's one of those things where we still have to abide by by the grant so uh and what I try to do is kill one purpose on Stone and do all of those on tonight's meeting the other thing though is and from prior years of talking with Ford uh not just having one public hearing but we have another one set up for the evening so that way in case you know some of the folks in the community can't make that one at five o'clock we have one that's scheduled later so hope being that you know anybody that wants to come out and basically we go over the programs that we have that we we have to offer but also have recommendations as well we also meet with our thumb author Nation education department and go over what we're doing as a district and what do they feel that we need to be doing as well and and that's tribal consultation that we do as well so go click on the next one so we did talk about the two the next uh public hearing is scheduled for the 15th and that's in the evening uh from six to seven o'clock hope amen you know somebody will show up or we can have some it is posted on the website as well I'm sorry um no but I could make that one virtual so yeah we can do that yeah I'll put I'll make sure to put that move on there but yeah thank you for that um go ahead so let's see here increase so one of the things going back because of covet and everything we hadn't been able to do our public hearing so the last one we did was back in 20 uh physical year 20.
so at this meeting we're just raising those people that were at 1380 to 1385 so that they meet the minimum wage requirement for the next um calendar year okay any questions regarding that pretty straightforward I have a motion then to accept item 3.4 I have a motion from Margaret a second from check all in favor again unanimous okay item 3.5 a recommendation to approve the school year this would be proposition 301 funds first portion of the payment and it looked pretty substantial I you expect to talk to them is it roughly two thousand dollars is the first payment and there there are three goals if the teacher met the first goal then they qualified for the two thousand dollar payment of the total of I believe it's 6400 this year yeah it uh looked like a lot of teachers did that so congratulations that's awesome so can we have a motion to accept item 3.5 of a motion from Diana second from Chuck all in favor that too is unanimous okay I'm at 3.6 recommendation to approve the early graduation of four high school students Dr Wright Lauren Webb maybe yeah Mr Webb has that there you go we have four students that are requesting their new graduation Administration recommends that request that they've they've completed their what they need to do to meet their standards for graduating early and so that's our request to you is to approve their request for any graduation do have a couple of them here we have Ashton all there and down Rigsby as well if you have specific questions for them they know they love to get up and talk if you don't have questions they've worked hard for what what they are doing and did here in high school and they have some plans to move forward with the next adventure tonight go ahead if you want to come up we'd be interested in hearing what you plan to do with your early graduation and also uh if you could sing Jingle Bells it'd be great too no I'm just kidding with the Christmas theme now I have mixed emotions when it comes to this because uh you know High School is such a great can be a great time and you know you enjoy that time we're there but you know I hate to see somebody get held back when they're ready to move on it's uh it's kind of six more and a half a dozen together with my emotions there [Music] and because I I really love helping people and I like I don't know how you miss her but I like seeing people happy and seeing the way that I can help them and I want to go and travel the world I want to see what there is all in the world and while doing that we can help people good deal you're gonna look old enough to graduate we graduate kids at 13 or 14 now that's supposed to be a compliment that means when you're 40 you'll still look 20.
Leticia come on up I love this stuff thank you for showing up tonight um I just want to slip in a love and appreciation prayers and thoughts for our Hilda and the experience that you're having with your family so just know that we love you um asba conferences this week and Katie will be with us for the new board member training and I think there's about half of us attending this coming week right Sophia great okay so we'll look forward to that this week and we'll share out once we get back from it and uh then I also know we have our Dental visits are coming to all of our campuses I think we had one start on the 12th already with our partners with smile America so we're so grateful that all our children are having access to some dental care I appreciate everything that Ivan Carvajal and his team Leslie and the team got that going and um you're Rosie we also are appreciative of the gift cards to families that you were able to provide and we are up to a 500 gift cards through the American Rescue plan act to help people get food clothing baby food diapers so 500 gift cards did I get that number right I just think it's great congratulations on that we also had 36 people at our strategic planning meeting last night and we got tons of feedback and engagement and validation and some continued efforts to see what do we do to keep making sure safety is at the top of our list so that was really beautiful and then my final announcement for tonight is after 40 years of service these last eight years in Creighton have been some of the finest and most exciting development of co-constructivist transformation in education I've had the privilege of leading with that immense sense of service and stewardship tonight I am announcing my intention to retire at the end of the school year I want to thank the community for allowing me to serve this amazing group of hard-working and playful children you're going to hear from them tonight who still need time just to be kids this talented and creative staff who are willing to take risks and partner with children in their learning as they choose to learn with children this supportive neighborhood and Beyond of families who Advocate and alongside all of the things that we do together and our outstanding Community Partners who contribute in hundreds of ways to make us better as winter break comes upon us it will allow our community to begin thinking about the attributes experience skills and qualities it would like to see in its next superintendent this allows the governing board to begin its search process in a timely manner I know the input of all will be valued I am committed to active engagement in the continued focus on learning for all and the ongoing best business practices for this final semester in support of our anticipated transition I wish everyone a Happy Hanukkah blessed Kwanzaa and merry Christmas as well as a peaceful new year as we welcome 2023 with another adventurous collaborative and kind-hearted year thank you thank you so much Dr Lewis I appreciate it all the years of service that you did Dr Lulu I I know that being at a job for many years I can I don't even think I've held a job more than five years consecutively let alone plus 20 years so thank you so much for that thank you for stepping up when we needed it I really appreciate the staff and Dr Lewis thank you so much for all your years and Creighton you have really established a great vision for the district and where it wants to go so I appreciate the years that you put in um so now we move on to the board reports Ms mccheffrey would you like to start us since you're online um yes thank you um thank you Dr Lewis as well and Dr Lugo for your many many years of service um I will be very brief I was at the cube conference um and although I was very sad that no no one for Creighton was able to join me guess what you probably would have covered right now if you were there so that's a blessing in disguise um my state I went to a session that I really enjoyed called why Legacy instructional systems are bad for black and brown students it's also bad for kids of low FCS so it was I'm not going to try to explain what the presentation was but um the presenter will present to our district virtually for free so I would love to bring that to the district um in the near future so you all can experience the things that he said because I think it's a very different and unique perspective that has sounds like he has had a lot of success with so that is all thank you thank you Miss mcsheffrey Miss McCaleb um first of all Dr Lugo thank you again so much I remember sitting with you in 2014.
right yeah that's right the assessment starts when the uh Habit the the permit for habitation is issued by this Village right okay so if they're in the middle of working on a building the assessment is zero okay okay yeah when they get the permit saying okay somebody can now live I as soon as the occupancy permit is issued then the assessor picks that up they'll prorate it for that year so if the occupancy P permit is issued on November 1. so to get them it'll only be one-sixth of the value added in that calendar year okay and then beginning in the next year it'll be new property for five six for the next year that makes sense so you can't definitely you'll capture it all oh but you may not get it all in the first year okay that makes sense too okay thanks guys so let's talk you'll see this column in yellow here so this is my recommendation on the levy now again I do want to emphasize is a district only levies in the operational funds not in the bonded interest that is set by the county clerk already so that is all set so my recommendation is that Levy would be 49 million two hundred and eighty thousand dollars you'll see historically what we have done in the past these are actual numbers of our levees in the past so last year it was 48 114.
uh the ELA standards changed in 2011 again in 2017. I'm not quite sure math will file and biology with Francine will get into this is from a slide presentation that I did about 2019 2019 was the first year for next next-gen MCAS exam for grade 10 first year to test the 2017 standards Legacy impasses from 99 to 2018 so Jess would have taken this test grades three through eight have taken next gen since 2017 uh testing on the 2017 standard stuff grades three through eight took Park exam in 2015 and 2016. that screwed up a whole bunch of stuff we won't go there um and all grades took the Legacy mccast ER just some of the changes that have happened and there are more changes to come and I'll get it so that's something else we want to talk about is the states constantly changing things so it's really important that we're aware of that so then we're looking at data we have that in mind that things now are going to be very different in two three years strong so the class of 2026 this year's freshman the graduation requirements are going to increase and the current fourth graders they're going to walk even higher after that more difficult for students to graduate high school starting with a freshman and again even more difficult for the current fourth graders that's confusing to me can we pause there yeah sure um so I'll jump right to that slide if you want I guess I I maybe I might have made a bad assumption which is that um the scores of the scores we're just dropping them as different buckets yes but they're also changing the buckets loves the expectations right so this slide which is the last one I have here I had to put this together based on a couple of different pieces of information the state gave us because they don't the state doesn't have something like this they have it in two different places and you have to kind of put it together I was like I can't do that so I made my own chart yeah um next-gen achievement level classes you know 23 um 25 if you score in this category you're not meeting expectations these categories partially meeting and these are meeting expectations and exceeding expectations while the old test okay the Legacy test you can see this was just a small area would have been failing this area would have been needs Improvement this area was proficient and this area was advanced okay so what was used to be Advanced is now meeting and it's a very very small percentage of students who are going to get here as far as raw score is concerned I'll pull that up chart for you in a minute I think on the English test they have to be within five points of getting a perfect score to be considered exceeding it's it's the it's a tiny tiny window that kids are now in the exceeding category so this is our current uh where kids will currently be as opposed to how things used to be okay um whether or not students Pass High School if they score in this category they did not pass the exam therefore they have to continue to take the exam until they pass if they're in this area they are um considered past but they have to be put on an educational proficiency plan which is the district that gets together to say all right what do we do to ensure that the students have met proficiency Levels by the time they graduate these District gets into trouble so students in that area that's what they have to do and this is considered past so you can see the classes of 2026 through 2030 things are changing again okay the whole did not pass is now a bigger area this is a smaller area here past will still be and then it changes again for class of 2031 so this is where we're headed so we have to make sure we're all on the same page we're looking at our curriculum we're talking 12th grade to kindergarten having that conversation because what the third grade teachers are doing now is going to impact what I'm doing to 10th grade so that conversation is happening I think we're having good conversations about that now and so we're heading in the right place but that's the stuff we're going to need to make sure that that those current fourth graders are hitting these marks and it's going to be more difficult for them than the current seniors current Shooters in the current stockings I'd love to see the scale like from when we were in High School I remember taking the MCAS I think it came out back right when I was and I didn't take all of them I remember taking them towards the end but it was like a past fail I think I guess I'm just wondering like 20 years ago what was considered past versus not passed okay this is a Roth it's on one of the links to them um this is the raw to scaled score chart that the state gave to us and then I added these things over here just to give myself a better visual of how things are changing so you can see here's the old MCAS if you were in these scores you were considered failing these scores needs Improvement and it's all based on the percentage of Ross or raw points that you get like the English test is based on a 51 points the contest the former test used to be 72 but that was because they had a couple of different essays and we changed the test entirely with the English test as well so that lets you know over here what's considered not passing passing requiring competing what was passed and if I scroll down so essentially less people are passing now correct but because of how to change the scale that just makes sense what's your opinions it's a good thing a bad thing I have no problem with standards increase and asking more of our kids but to be realistic too about what we expected because high school should be more than this yeah does that make sense like we could become an MCAS craft School I hope to God we never did because that's just looking at this is one test done for English it's two days kids sitting there if any of you have taken a practice test sure see this is why I wanted to do like a full executive session I wanted I was going to make you take these they have to write three essays in two days based on reading it's not easy and then that's the sophomores bad in a third grader sitting there trying to type in a little stuff one bigger one and once you're like sick or not I don't have an off day I mean like that's it I thought colleges were going through moving away from sat or just the the happy emphasis on this standardized test it just makes no sense to me right I'm lost is the emphasis on the test changing or we're just moving the bar and changing what it takes to achieve a certain way so just curious um you know if a student can can learn let's just say anything from zero to 100 in their academic experience right whenever being the most uh to oversimplify uh you know let's say a student learns 70 of their potential um you know that will send them off into the world prepared at a certain level it comes with a label right meeting expectations partially exceeding whatever religion you know in your opinions how how impactful is the label as compared to what they what they're taking away from their academic experience let me go first on the elementary yeah I have to choose my words carefully yeah I do yeah um I'm not a big fan of labels I'm not a big fan of tests it's just the reality is this has been this is my 30th year of teaching 27 at Toronto and 25 of them have been dedicated to this exam and I would rather be doing anything else than that does that make sense sure sure I understand the need for standardization and making sure students are hitting the benchmarks we have to have that we have to have rigor obviously we want our students to be the best we want our students to go off to school after this is this the best indicator for success that's all for today I think it helps but I think there's way more to a child's education than this that's why I don't get I try not to get caught up in what are the scores this year how are they last year as schools failed that leads us to a place that causes animosity and distrust certainly pointing fingers and that's not the best of our kids because then the teachers feel it and that is not a healthy environment in my opinion right the other side of that's not the other side of the other keys to this especially this test was designed these tests not just a high school the talk of mcasking is um in the original intents were good and they look at how we were performing how we were getting our students ready for college and careers and you could see if you looked at the big picture certain places were doing it very well certain places we're doing a bus well certain places are just like doing whatever they are well please and that was a problem so they started they wanted to do something identifying specific standards at each grade level and all of that happened with them before it started there and moving on so that we could start to stay all right in mathematics we are strong in numbers and operation but our kids need some help in geometry and when you looked at a big picture and big subjects it became productive I was a new teacher the second year they did this experience and I can remember sitting with my teaching team not bringing you um but they the English teachers and the science teachers of myth we all dug into this and they had fabulous discussions when we get lost by Mr just I was going to say inappropriate work not workable telepathics read my mind not worthless not worth the discussion but and we have had this experience we'll sit down and talk about how my kids come to the Middle School how prepared are they or are they now and what one of the data points is how do they do one of these accounts they're standard everybody takes it the same way at the same time with the same questions to see how we're going to do right and then we're in high school here we have that same kind of discussion because we're talking apples and apples is it a perfect measure no does it ever indicate the quality of the child never and we tell her the kids left it's just two years we've never had practice tasks we don't do it against crap it's just cats over there and I think that's where we want to take this away from the civility we need to see is Advanced proficient are we doing our job for kids you know when we come to you and we say we need money from x y and z part of our range now it's going to be we need it because of that when we talk about rocket manthazone's budget it's like it's not a huge money but it's like seven thousand dollars but why do we need it because our kids aren't fluent in math facts and that's going to help them be more proficient we know that they're not sufficient because we watch them on the end test house but our response is a deeper student-centered kind of response it's the same thing with typing I share this with you guys a couple months ago I realized finally they were getting terrible scores because they can't capitalize letters those are the kinds of things that we do got but when we get lost we got lost in Austin seats it'd be applying ourselves that way we're just wasting time yeah so John Carroll Maybe how is this all going to fit into our new plan your idea for the portion of the graduate right it sounds like what you're talking about is more a picture of how the kids learning not necessarily how they're scoring scoring is important for colleges and after school and whatever emphasis that you put on when we how is all going to fit into this next year I think that um what we're looking at is a comprehensive based approach the students a whole a whole portrait of a child as they move forward how they approach learning not just the field of learning facts but they're learning how to learn and they're learning to apply those skillful strategies for the future so that's it that's the approach of the portion of the gradual type of work that we're doing this is a great measure for us to make sure that we're giving students the standard hitting the standards that we need to for those students but as John and Peter said this is a piece of the story of those and so we want to make that available to them every possible type of learning opportunity a lot of experiential types of learning project based it was a Peter's class the other day philosophy and they're they're doing a project on Aristotle and those kinds of things that get them to be big deal or some problem solver so that's how this work I think ties in it's a piece of pieces I it's just a tag on to that and just took that up for a second when Carol first started talking about unfortunate for graduate 500 here we go Carol and her fancy ideas again but as we learn about that and learn about what this district-wide approach would be when we talk about what we want kids to look like at the end of their careers it unifies the whole thing from the little idiots okay to deeper things like expressing themselves developing critical thinkers and support them fifth graders so that when they get to Aristotle or the outermost house which is not an easy book to read it and as well it should be um they're prepared for that because if we do our jobs if we teach them well the test isn't going there they're going to be prepared right they're going to do fine but we get together and so if you don't mind I'll jump in a little bit because again this is just achievement analysis and again I've just taken from Ela for the last couple of years how our students have done we just look at that that leads us to one conclusion I think is better for us to look at we want to really get a better look as a more accurate look at it's a piece of a piece of the puzzle for our graduates what they look like we want to look at the growth model which the state did put out in 2008.
so please save that date so we're moving forward in there that area and I'm really excited I'm hoping to get great information uh that we can use for future Community conversations [Music] yeah it's gonna be virtual so we can have as many people join us as possible The Guiding Coalition the group of approximately 45 community members um they're each going to get a personal invitation to um to attend because I really value the expertise of that group and want to build upon what they began working on with us in our Equity policy and our Equity statement that's part of my official report and the last thing that I'll talk to you tonight is listed on our agenda under presentation I want to give you an overview of our Statewide accountability index and where we are um and how we are doing as far as that code but before I move into that does anyone have any questions for me about anything within our district okay in your packet um you have a presentation I'm going to go over with you tonight um I'm calling it an accountability index report and this is out off the press which is why you didn't get this with your agenda if they just released um the latest accountability index report on last Friday thank you very much our students have a good night keep up the great work we'll try thank you Mr Mason thank you so according to the state statute um superintendents are to present to their Board of Education this information on an annual basis I always like to try to do it in November or December um because these were just released I wanted to give you an overview tonight and again we won't get deep into the weeds tonight um this is meant to be an overview for you each of the principles reported on their specific school scores um so we're not going to get into specific scores but I'm presenting to you a 30 000 foot overview if that makes sense of the district and where we are at this time so the first page talks about what the accountability index is it's a broad set of 12 indicators that help tell the story of how well a school or school district is preparing students for success in college careers in life it moves Beyond just s back scores and graduation rates and the state tries to provide a holistic they call it a multi-factor perspective of district and school performance incorporating student growth over time that's the key student growth over time there are 12 indicators that we are measured on and I listed them for you here on the next page you can look at this when you um when you have some time to do so this next page accountability index talks about the percentage of each indicator that makes up the total score for our elementary schools middle schools in high school so it's color-coded so for example at the elementary level the green indicates academic achievement the red area 42 percent is weighted on the academic growth of students looking at the same core cohorts of students the same group in their growth over time so I thought you would be interested in this we won't spend a lot of time on this right now but I hope that's helpful and Page four this shows our accountability index over time and what you're going to see tonight is a dip in performance um over the last two years so we did not get performance grade zones for the year 1920 or 2021 because of the pandemic you'll see the last score we have is from the year 2018-2019.
so this is that better news for us right we were able to pick up some more kids um but the overall indications um it's it's that we are continuing to drop and that's with a lot of different factors um birth rates going down house thing is it's really expensive especially in Orange County at this point so the projection is to drop another 700 or 50 or so that year after and then over 1100 students um that they're out so I'm going to share with you obviously we have where drop is not as much as compared to other school districts within Orange County even comparing to our feeders our numbers are much much better we have like you've seen the Google Certified program we have different uh programs we have cyber security we have the AI program we have the biotech at Anaheim high school we have all these amazing programs our students can come and and do and so our numbers are not as bad but overall we are still declining and that's something we really need to work on and this chart here will I will show you the monthly enrollment of where we're at so we went back about three years to see how we're at um so the blue bar at the end this this is the current year as you will see um just even back in um May of um 2022 we dropped about 421 students so as we will see here we continue to drop and um and the thing is as we all know our feeders also continue to drop and and so these are the numbers that we actually grabbed the data and for example around this time we do call all the feeder um Elementary districts and get their numbers so that we can project for the next year so we started this process extremely early so that we we know those numbers early on so the next number here this is the average daily attendance um so we get paid not by the kits we have but the but when they come to school right so it's important to show up to school when you're healthy of course um and so based on the current projections um we are projected um the occurring years um p288 which is on before April 15th to be about 26 um thousand four hundred thirty students and we are continuing to monitor some of the attendance rates since um all many of the neighboring school districts are letting us know that attendance rate is lower and so we are also um our attendance rate it's a little bit lower at this point uh compared to what we had in the past and so we'll be collecting the information at P1 and so when a school um month ends in the next two weeks we'll be collecting those data and then we'll be um populating those data into our projection to see what our P1 number will be like um but the the lower enrollment at the lower attendance rate is due to uh flu RSV now and then as well as some of the equivalent numbers that's what we're tracking those cover numbers are coming back back up again a little bit so those were tracking in um in our office as well next slide here is the unduplicated people account so this is based on a three-year averaging and so uh with this um population so students who are um receiving eligible for free and reduced lunch English language learner as well as Foster youth uh we do receive an additional dollars for our base funding and so current year we are projected um is at 78.66 percent and the next slide here will show us our retirement this is the stirs and pers contribution the district contribution not the employee contribution but as you will see we have seen a extremely increasing in the um overall and that's part of us because the the um the Investments are not doing well at the state level as well um so as you will see from last year 2122 to 20 to 23 our stores contribution at the district level went up by about 5.4 million dollars so that's the service that's all people who are certificated in that group and for the pers unless People are classified people like me and you know all of my staff um that amount went up to by um 4.6 million dollars so together just on the pension alone our increase was 10 million dollars so that's whatever we get we pay for that first so um but the good thing is moving forward we're not a good thing moving forward the rates are stabilizing uh for stirs it's a 19.1 percent um and then but if you think about not not that many years ago the district contribution was only at 8.25 and so if you see how much of the increase has gone but the idea is overall this is projected for the next four years this third number are not going up um and then but the pers um it was at 13.02 percent uh back not that long ago in uh 2012 2013 and it's now at 25 so if you can see just the employer rate has gone on significantly the next one here is the Health and Welfare um expenditures as you will see from 2020 to 2122 that's how much we close the books with uh those at Orange bar we spend about 49.8 million dollars in 2021 and in 2122 we spend 59.7 million and that's a 10 million dollar increase so just between the pension of 10 million and then the health benefits of going out by at least 10 million dollars already at this point that is quite a bit of increase for uh to our budget and in current year 22 23 we're projected to be about 62 million dollars and for health benefits we do put a about 10 increase to the overall budget since there are years are we do better and there are years that we don't do as well but the industry standard is between 10 to 12 percent and so we do put the number in there and we do want to thank all the different bargaining groups for helping us with on the health benefits committee the committee has done really really well and thank you to our board members um Mrs Piercy and Smith for sitting on the committee is extremely important committee that we all come together and to make sure that we have the best benefits for our staff and they are also very cognizant about containing the cause as well and so I was able to see that firsthand uh this past year so thank you so much for everyone that participated in that committee so now I'm gonna I'll run through our first in trim these are some of our assumptions and our multi-year projections and as you will see I'm here the current year um Cola is still at 6.56 percent and the augmentation is a 6.28 so that was on top of what we are receiving um and then as you can see next year the number is 5.38 but that number already has been adjusted operating at this point but we'll see what the governor uh proposes in general and then we'll update that number for the second interim report um and then but the other programs including special education is only getting the base Cola and not none of the augmentation and you see the stairs and purse rates on there so that kind of gives you an idea it's kind of at this point we are stabilizing so that's a good thing and these are the assumptions we use um to create our revenues for example the enrollment as well as the P2 numbers and so um once we have the numbers uh when um the school are finished in about a couple weeks and then we'll updating the P1 then we'll also update the P2 numbers at that point and currently our funding Ada is a little bit different that the method now is we are able to use a three-year averaging and in our district for example that helps us since we've been have been declining so that at this point we are using a three-year averaging number for the funded Ada so at the 2223 first interim our um overall revenue for general fund is a 667 million dollars and you'll see this is a huge increase from what we've presented initially because of all the additional one-time dollars that's coming in and I'll be showing you a slide of how much categories those are and so but still the bulk of our income is coming from the base dollar of the local control funding formula about 60 right there federal revenue is about 15 and the other state revenue is coming at 23 percent uh due to all the one-time dollars are coming through for the um expenditures uh first interim our total expenditure is about 571 million dollars and as you will see here in this chart here bulk of our expenditures um is on the uh employee so you will see the certificate of salary cost by salary as well as the employee benefits this is our multi-year projection so we have we have to present current year budget plus the next two years in our district we've always done a four-year budget current year plus next three years as you will see here um we do have the um 667 million dollars of Revenue we'll see on there and then you'll see the 571 million dollar for expenditures and our board has also mandated to have a six percent Reserve so you'll see that line item in the reserve for economic uncertainty at three percent as well as the other commitments and I'm going to be showing you that um in the next slide so together at the board has a six percent total Reserve plus any of the additional Reserve that you will see for all the current year plus the next three years for the commitments for 22-23 that's the the dollar amount that we are sitting aside for future obligations we have the pension so you have the purse increases the stir increases uh we also have the uh classify summer assistance program and once again do you want to make an announcement here um or District the board thank you to the board to allowing us to continue with that program we are one only one of three districts in Orange County that is participating in the program and our employees have been receiving almost a dollar for dollar match and so last year we had almost 900 employees that signed for this program so it's super amazing um that there is some culture districts so we're sitting aside that money for the payment we also have the CNG fueling station we also have some buses we're leaving some uh carryovers as well and so you can see we are line item a line item amazing um the expenditures right here and then this is the update for the uh pandemic funding summary how much money that we're receiving from the one-time dollars as you will see um those are the resource code that's code that we use in accounting all the different funds um as you will see we have added now the learning uh recovery emergency block grant that we talked about um back in the 45-day update uh 47.7 million dollars that's in the current budget now we also have the Arts and Music Block Run 17 million dollars as well as some of the other one-time dollars there so overall um our district allocation for all these one-time dollars are about 233 million dollars and as of on November 30th of 2022 we still have 142 million dollars left but just be aware there are a lot of projects we are currently in design uh some of the um projects are the HVAC system so we'll be using the Esther dollars they're already in progress so thank you uh Patty and your team um for for that so there here those are in progress at this point so we'll be updating a lot of our HVAC system through that so we do have projects that's already in queue and that will be spending um hopefully by the by the fiscal year at this point and so uh tonight we are bringing you a positive certification report for first interim that means we can meet our current year obligation plus the next two years um so we'll be taking that to the county and really um in January we'll see what the governor proposed so this um Cola and how much the state can fund does will be a big factor and we'll be updating our second interim based on the numbers that were being proposed then we'll be taking the new numbers to the board in March and then in May we'll hopefully get a um you know a good May revise at that point and then bring into the budget uh the adult budget to the board uh in June and so uh that concludes my first interim presentation and I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have anybody have any questions yes I have one question uh first off thank you so much for the report and to your team for the report uh it's my first interim budget so thank you um I did have a question on page four of the first interim budget um in the estimated funding Ada I know it declines a little bit between the years 20 23 and 2024 and then picks up uh 2024-225 and 2025 2026.
and one of the things that continues to go into our concerns is School Readiness you know the career Readiness skills which is our CTE our cultural enrichment and uh decreasing the attendance I think we've been slowly moving in that direction um this information we got from one of our community days you know when we filled out we had uh it was one of the book ones I think it was right before everything hit it so those are some of the key things that that kept being mentioned thanks Helen okay so just to give you a quick overview and I've got this listed also in another um upload for you if you wanted uh more information on a spreadshe on not a spreadsheet but a Word document on our title one so our Title One basically has and continues to support um instructional support we have teachers funded we have uh paraprofessionals funded out of there we also fund most of the um summary sounds as well as the folks of the family um oh my gosh each of the schools have them apparently thank you apparently hey thanks there's a hickey so most of her programs are funded out isn't it too um we also have non-certified title one overall this year we're actually getting 1.4 million dollars That's not including the carryover monies that once we finish closing out the completion reports there's going to be some carryover Mondays that won't have to revise also so um next so here's just a breakdown pretty much uh what we've done in the past and what we continue to do this year some of the ftes that we have High um we have paid for out of uh title one we have in Supply so each of the schools get a small budget the rest of like for instance the supplies some of the schools the way it's budgeted out is on a per pupil allocation so depending on how many students you have in each of the schools we have certain appropriate qualification now the other supplies this is lumped with Central Supplies as well as District supplies so that you know we have currently about 68 000 in supplies uh our 6500s is our purchase Services which is any travel that we do out of Taiwan we can pay for we also have done in the past also with the 6300s which is registration what we've done is maybe we'll use and pay for one or two teachers out of title one another one or two teachers or staff out of impact a and so on so we split on everything and you'll see that throughout the uh the different grants the next one so our Title One D which is our neglected neglected and delinquent uh Grant basically is to assist any of our students that fall under that category some of that funding goes to the alternative education uh the middle school and high school some of that goes over to the sunrise house as well our overall allocation right now is about 19 000.
all right [Music] how's it going um my plans after high school um my brother he gave me a really good opportunity to go into Atlanta and work for a company called moxie it's a summer sales company where I'm going to be doing summer sales with them um so after I graduate I'm going to be working full-time at Lowe's making a lot of money so I can live like before you free there like I just have money for like rent and for basic necessities to live and then May 1st is the starting date for the summer sales so I probably have to be out there like a week before that so I'll have to go out before which is during school so I just thought it'd be a great opportunity to end school early work a lot make a lot of money and then they have a great training course that you have to do before and it's like 100 hours worth of training so I want to be able to finish all that and I have my sales pitch already perfect for when I go out so I can just do great and make a lot of money wish you the best with that any other questions from the board comments or anything we have an eye can we have a motion then to accept these um early graduation requests for these four students item 3.6 motion from Chuck I have a second I'll second the motion all in favor that's good that also is unanimous all right next item on the agenda is item 3.7 that's just a general District update from Dr Wright yes it should only take about an hour so we'll be fine yeah actually there are a couple of things the first one is that our Christmas break begins Friday after school and we do have another delay tomorrow to make sure the campus is ready and we get the ice off of the the walkways and we have time to spread the senders in that also gives the town I wanted to give a little bit of a shout out to the town of Pinetop Lakeside for since Sunday they've been out on the roads making that road as good as well prepared as they can they spent time at Porter Mountain Road right before school opened up today again to make it possible because Porter Mountain was in tough shape but Matt Patterson his team really did a great job for us we gave him a little bit of a shout out on the Marquee today but I wanted to thank them publicly as well and if there are no other questions that's my report do you have a question it was really cool so it's right before the school got out the trucks like left the school area and was dropping Cinders like on the way home so the way to school slippy disaster but the leg going home was great so they took additional time to make sure the kids were safe on the way home I thought thank you and that's the other purpose is we have our drivers already get here very early they have to get here super early when it's 12 degrees to start those diesel vehicles those are the late degrees tonight yeah eight it was warmed up then today then a colder tonight they have to get the buses started and running warmed up and it takes time to do that so transportation and our facilities folks are here early 30 getting us ready to go but we do have a two-hour delay and if there are no further questions that's my report okay next item on the agenda is call to the public if there's anybody that is here that would like to address the board now is your opportunity to do so we'd like you to limit your uh comments about three minutes and uh keep them as unpersonal to the members who Administration or staff or board members and uh anybody would like to do that we'd invite you to come do that right now doesn't look like anybody's rushing to the mic so next item we need is a is a motion to adjourn this meeting can I have a motion a motion from check and I'm sure a second from Margaret all in favor that is unanimous also okay thank you the next board meeting will be January 10th at 5 PM in this location
when I finished my principal internship at Gateway um and I said I wanted to go back to the classroom and get more teaching experience and you looked at me like you just got your principal's license but um you found a place for me immediately I that same day went and interviewed at lck with Andy Gutierrez and the next day interviewed at Monte Vista and ended up teaching at lck so um thank you for for that memory and finding a place for me in Creighton when I decided that's where I wanted to be and I know that you've been here for all of the staff for so many years so I wish you the best in your next Endeavors and you will be missed um Dr Lewis um I got to see you come on as superintendent while I was here and um continue to grow in our professional relationship as I became a board member and um I think Miss Korea doll said it wonderfully that the vision that you've set and the groundwork that you've laid for our district um really transforming what education should look like and encouraging others to be creative and not stick with things just because it's the way we've always done them I've always really appreciated that about you so wishing you the best as well um and to all of our staff um one a week and a half you can make it um but I really hope everybody takes this winter break to reset and relax enjoy time with your families um try to say stay healthy I know everybody is getting sick out there so please take care of yourselves and come back rejuvenated for 2023.
this year I'm recommending we go to 49280 again this number is set by the county um automatically so we don't even touch this number and so our actual Levy will be the 49 280 is what my recommendation would be Levy for our debt right there is uh it's a different cap that's a different camera well no when you say there's no cap well you know we don't touch this at all that is already set so we don't levy on this number we're limited on how much we can borrow right so and then you Levy as much as needed to okay if it's non-voter proof bonds and there's limited things you can do with that but the amount is that you can live in each year is based upon that they call The Debt Service extension based yes they sell yeah and that that was what what your D sub was in 1994 increased by the rate of inflation so that's your basically your credit limit okay and so that's the that's the limit it's not the it's not subject to pick out an intense cap get it but it has its own cap and that's the D7 and that can be over five percent it could yeah it could be and that's again those are questions that were asked to me before so it's good to bring it on in public okay all right so again this is the ask 49 280.
one was the growth model is and I think that's a better way of looking at how our students have done long time this is just a chart that I pulled off a data a spreadsheet that I've been creating because the state used to give us these reports and they don't do it anymore this is looking at how graduation graduating class has done over the years this is a better picture if we will of watching growth because every graduating class is different they're just different they come with different skill sets they come with different emotional issues and so every so we need to really look at how has this grade done from third grade to 10th grade not how is the 10th grade done this year compared to the 10th grade last year because that that can lead you to very screwy differently thanks and this is just grade love and what we really wanted to look at as well is break this down even further is look at how has a child born since third grade that's really a way more accurate representation of how we're doing with our kids where was this kid in third grade where is that kid like 10th grade have they grown and we're doing something right and that kid could be on a totally different plane than another classmate so that type of assessment I think is more important to me to look at I think um I know Franny feels the same way with math we want to look more at that growth model so these next couple of slides just show us how these graduating classes did in sixth grade 7th grade eighth grade and 10th grade class of 24 obviously didn't take out a pass in 2020.
so there's a two-year Gap and what you're going to see as we look at these graphs are dips in performance as most school districts are seeing and I don't want to say the pandemic was an excuse because it's an ad but we have to understand what the factors are more students were absent students were working remotely from home in math classes students were not allowed to work in groups or to use math manipulatives in groups as our curriculum was designed to teach so there were mitigating factors that I think we just need to acknowledge when you look at our district accountability index over time the Target that the state is looking for is 85 in 2018-19 we were at 83.4 we've dipped to 75.3 so we are working to get back up to that mark the next page looks at overall English language arts performance and we're looking at all students which is the top line and then the bottom line are students with high needs so it's very important that we want to see an increase in performance with all of our students and also students with high needs and students with high needs is defined as um students who receive career reduced lunch and students who have individualized educational plans so we see special ed support or have 504 plans and that's an area that we're going to focus on um throughout our new director of pupa Personnel Services Barbara McLean this is something that she has started looking at and addressing right away but you can see we did from 75.5 to 70.7 and students with high needs we did 60.
um can you explain [Music] um uh the projection from our feeder districts and how that works yes definitely well thank you so much so we do use the software it's called forecast5 and that grabs all the feeder information so they go back um they take the latest numbers from um the uh numbers and um that's certified from the state and basically they roll up all those numbers for us so based on that projection we are projected to decline from the feeder districts 300 378 students during that period of time additionally we also have a decline in our eighth grade and ninth grade students as well so that contributed overall decline at this point and these are the numbers we will continue to Monitor and hopefully in a couple months we'll get all those numbers from the feeder and then we're hoping to um to update those numbers as well thank you for your question thank you along that those lines with the new TK programs that are that are coming up are those helping our numbers or they they not necessarily because um that only helps the school districts who have those TK population uh because those kids basically they will come in for two years instead of one right because yeah it helps it helps yeah but depending on I mean you know hopefully kids are going to get to school earlier and then they'll stay in the system or longer right so that will be the goal but but uh but well hopefully because that's new right so we'll kind of see the numbers um in well I was talking about in the projection of when they come to us yes and those will be yes those numbers um once they come up then we will project out for those numbers those numbers right we can't we can't rely on them it's a little further away students will will move out I understand that um I had a question you did answer um uh about the pers increase and stirs increase um what is the reason that it or I mean I don't you probably don't know exactly but um what are they saying is the reason why it jumps so much what the Investments have not returned as well and so when they can meet those obligations then they would either have the employee pay for example stores members went from paying um 8.25 themselves to 10.25 so this already has occurred uh with purse it requires specific legislation so they're not able to do a steal only for the people who um started after pepra so after the pension reformed back in 2013.
next our title 2 basically covers our PD this year though we dropped to thirteen thousand we were like up in the 75 to 80 000. I've got a call in already to add to find out why we drop so much um which is very strange um though we do have carryovers that are coming in but I'm still curious as to why we dropped so much and hopefully once I get that information I'll pass that along you guys are kept aware next so the rural and low income I kind of like this one because it doesn't have full-on restrictions most of that money the 33 000 is given between again the alt the schools as well as um the sunrise house and we have about 33 000 that we are receiving this year next CSI I see this time we did receive CSI funding this year we just got approved for it uh right now these are our locations that were approved overall about 722 000.