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so I estimate that we'll lose 150 between now and the spring just so that we're conservative from a revenue standpoint and then we usually pick up some students in CVP during the course of the year or two and so the estimate there is that we would have 350 in the spring and then and next fall I estimate that we will be flat from this fall to next fall from an enrollment standpoint so then those are the revenue assumptions on the education fund the expenditure assumptions are that we would have 11.5 11 and a half FTE more in certified teachers than what we had last year and that is where we are right now today but this is interesting because some of these things were not in our control particularly that first one so the state used to operate a separate grant that was separate from all other state Support called the non-english speaking Grant and it had pretty much no parameters on it you could spend it just like you spent you spend from your education fund you could spend on supplies or people salaries and benefits this last legislative session the legislature said you know what why do we continue to do that separately let's just make it part of the education fund and so starting this school year when this nesp grant that we have that runs I think through the end of September right now when that runs out all of the teachers and staff that were on the nesp grant are now part of the education fund and so for that reason actually either at the next board meeting or the one after that I will have an additional appropriation for you to approve for the expenditures that we did not expect when we passed this budget last year it's about six hundred thousand dollars per year so in this this year it would not be nearly that much because all we have is basically the second half of September through December for the the staff it's and it's 100 staff three certified folks and uh about 10 classified staff teachers assistants interpreters and so on the other additions as we we talked about um extensively during the course of this year there were six additional certified staff added for the high school team structures all academic coaches and one counselor so one out of a counselor and five additional academic coaches and then we also added some C4 positions due to enrollment increases we budgeted for no additional non-certified or classified staff positions but that's pretty fluid considering the number that we have edition of four administrators as discussed earlier this year for the high school team structure that are in place now so it's an increase of uh just under four million dollars in salaries we made an assumption of Health premium increase of two percent in the budget and I mentioned that Supply budget increase of eight percent and then the the last part there is another thing that was outside of our control so um there is a 250 000 built into the expenditure side of the education fund for curricular material fees these are the fees that were collected that aren't textbook fees and so if you were in a biology course and you paid your the family paid will say eleven dollars for the consumables for that course that did not go into the textbook fund it had to be paid for from somewhere some somewhere else we collected those fees from families and then purchased the materials for those courses as the legislature passed a ban on schools billing for curricular materials this year they somewhat funded the textbook portion of the um the money that it was needed for those curriculum materials but did not in our case fund any of the course fees and the average of over the last three years of those course fees was about two hundred fifty thousand dollars and so that's budgeted in the um in the education fund which is the appropriate fund to budget where to spend it from I'll get into where that money's coming from later on in the budget so here's a line by line by category for the education fund budget the largest portion of of our budget State support up seven percent from a revenue standpoint um also on the revenues there the other revenues uh reflect um a pretty big increase in interest earned over what we budgeted for from last year I don't expect it to go up a lot from what we actually will experience in 2023 but when we advertise we have advertised pretty low number for interest earned and then an additional 250 000 to cover the curricular materials that I mentioned earlier that are a transfer in to the education fund budget so from a salary uh standpoint salary increases reflect the new positions um that and increases for this school year as well as next school year because we'll hey basically the uh the first um 17 pays of next school year on this contract for teachers and staff and then the following the the last nine the first nine of next year's contract are on this calendar year budget again bridging noses somewhat difficult to wrap your head around when we operate on a calendar year from a budget standpoint but a school year for from every other standpoint um the decrease in the professional service line that you can see there is pretty it's a large percentage decrease but it's only uh only about fifty thousand dollars there so not a huge amount of money but it is a significant decrease mainly that's for the CVP platform they adopted a new platform you actually approved that earlier I think this calendar year and it also eliminated the K-5 portion of that since we did didn't offer CVP in grades K through five this year so that was a savings there on that budget line item I mentioned the increase in the supply line there being pretty significant between the eight percent increase due to inflation as well as the two hundred fifty thousand dollars for curriculum materials you see that increase reflected reflected there the increase in the transfers to Ops I dug into this one a lot the transfers to operations sorry for the abbreviations without thinking I sometimes revert back to those transfers to operations we'll get into the detail of those later but it's almost entirely due to the fact that we passed significant increase for classified staff you know a good year and a half two years ago and just continue to fill positions at a greater rate than we ever have before and so being fully staffed and paying the salaries and benefits related to that has really been a positive thing for for operations Department bus drivers custodians technology staff so forth I do like to point out what percentage the salaries and benefits make up of the education fund budget it's right at 95 percent so 95 percent of the education fund budget goes to salaries and benefits um and the education fund is restricted to those employees that work with students in the schools in the classrooms so that's excludes central office administration even technology that's related to Corporation level activities that are excluded from this and those are reflecting the operations fund so this is the last slide on the education fund budget happy to answer any questions you have about that portion of the budget at this time I've got a couple Dr Phil one of my questions goes back to the estimated enrollment slide and forgive me if I I thought one of the changes in the law this year you mentioned early graduates and I and maybe this was just kicked around and I slept through it and I apologize if I did but I thought as graduates as we lost them the first semester there was a change in the law so as to not be penalized for kids graduating early and they could still be counted second semester yes we're getting the Weeds now I'll just no it's a good thing it's a good thing so I mentioned one of the other the other lines of the part the education Revenue there's the number of students times the number of kids are the state tuition that's the biggest portion and then there are four other lines in there one of them is the honors Grant or now it's called academic performance Grant I believe and the the Department of Education is still working out the details of how that's all going to work but essentially a student earns a specific amount of money for one of a long list of items that they can achieve um they could they earn back to the corporation money a different amount of money depending on what they what they do from this long list that can be everything from earning dual credit to graduating with an Associates to graduating early at December and to graduating with a common core 30 Indiana Common Core 30 certificate and there are probably a couple of more but they can only earn one of those dollar amounts and we all assume that that will be the greatest dollar amount on that list I believe early graduate earns three thousand dollars but I could be wrong I don't have the I don't remember all the list of the details there but that will come on a different line item as part of the revenues and from a revenue standpoint I only budgeted for that honors Grant the same amount that we earned last year because there's no past performance for me to go back and say okay if we Project based on this new set of honors Grant dollar amounts we can project what we're going to do this year the state's estimates had us a little bit higher but really nobody knows how it's going to work at this point so I kept that line item flat from last year's budget but it is it is good to acknowledge that the state did say we understand that you're losing funds for students that graduate early when you're doing your job and getting these kids across the finish line and they may be going to college early or going into the workforce or going into the service and you're being punished because you you aren't going to eliminate any teaching positions for the second semester when those students graduate early so they did make up for it in this new model but we just don't have a good good picture of how much that's going to be one question I had was in the transfer to operations you mentioned it is it gonna be touched on in the next slide that am I getting ahead of you yeah there's a slide of detail about okay so this is the transfers between operations and education detail slide and essentially takes the money that moves moves from the expenditures that would normally have been in operations before would have been funded from the education fund so all of that money moves that was almost 13 million dollars in this next year and it's utilities and insurance property and liability insurance was another large increase for this year as the natural disaster just continue to hammer our property and liability insurance and everyone else's across the industry but anyway all of those expenditures move to the operations fund and then coming back the other directions any technology that's related to the classroom and the technology employee software hardware and so on so forth that comes back the net difference between that is that 8.6 just under 8.6 million which is just over nine percent of the education fund budget we're limited by law to transfer no more than 15 percent we have yet to ever hit the 10 Mark in our budgets for the five or six years that that law has been in place and you mentioned bus drivers and I see school resource officers weren't those also qualified under the operating referendum as well for those two categories that were acceptable there or is this just an addition to what's already in that referendum fund so the operating referendum fund pays for sros up to a certain amount the amount we have budgeted and then everything else comes over the operations fine represents about half of what we spend and then bus drivers we pay an additional two dollars per hour out of the operating referendum fund so the rest of their salaries all come from the operations fund thank you you're welcome um the drop in enrollment projected rough enrollment I think was 150 students can you translate that real quick just dollars funding formula of thirty five hundred who's got it Logan's got out his his about 3 500 times 150.

here's that tax cap loss slide I showed you for a number of years that we were hovering right around that one million dollar Mark then that started ticking up around 2016 and continues to increase very very quickly for this year you can see the dlgs estimate that's what this slide is made up of it's closer to the 3.5 million dollar Mark but um it's never as high as what they estimate and so I budgeted for 3 million in cap losses for 24.

for real proficiency and growth we have a 7 out of 10 for acceleration and Readiness we have a 10 out of 10. we have thought of 75.91 points plus we have two bonus points so that adds up to 77.91 and the leather grade is better what are the bonus points for special education inclusion that's only what we qualified for how does it compare with the last year's data so in proficiency we have 7.68 last year now it is 8.91 growth from 38.2 to 50. yeah proficiency and growth is seven points acceleration and readiness let us take the same total points last year 62.88 plus two bonus points 64.88 compared to this year's total of 77.91 so close to 13 points and this is all for what testing this is kindergarten through eighth grade so the proficiency we are talking about is aasa so this is the English and math test for students in grades three to each one was it done April and April yes and some of the calculations will involve like a SLR test for email proficiency that is English patterns taking the asset address and science testers and qualifies for Morris points and so on additional criteria for proficiency the points came this way like third grade 27.86 and math 25.88 so the Proficiency in Ela and math combined and the person percentage of all professions is 29.7 converting that into out of 30 points we get 8.91 out of 30.

in that 25 out of 25-25 25 possible points to get all acquaintance yes so that raised me the question like um debating on how much more beyond the 25 possible points that we have so this is what the state said how they calculated the numbers if they are long road no matter how they performed last year we get zero points and if they're of average growth then we get one point question and if the growth is high then minimally proficient students will earn two points partially professional students will get 1.8 proficient students will get 1.2 and highly proficient students will get one point so using that I calculated the points for our students in so third grade students didn't have a prior real test so we don't they don't have a growth component so students in fourth through eighth grade we had 23 students eligible in Ela and the fourth graders and 27.4 points fifth graders 25 points eligible then 20.4 6th grade 18 students were included in the head growth component calculation they earned 21.8 points 7 grade 33 and they earned 26.2 points 827 students eligible and 36 points in English language in math the fourth graders did again beyond their eligible points 25 students and 28 points and first period in maths 26 students and 34.8 fines sixth grade 19 students and 27.8 points and seventh grade 33 students and it is 6.6 and in eighth grade 27 students they were only 22 points so what it means is where we had 126 students eligible in all Ela and we earned 131.8 points and in math 130 eligible students 149.2 points what it means is 256 students eligible command combining the two and we had total 281 points if we were eligible for more points we would have gotten 54.88 but there's a cutoff of 50.

so that's the the factor goes up to 20 at that level so we have we're doing this mad minutes every day we're really killing and Drilling and we moved that a little bit higher so we could help third or support third grade going into third grade that they will be able to do it fluently and they're not thinking about it anymore fluency piece really kicks in so we have we have assigned minutes to ours state standard says that they can do it fluently but they don't give us a time frame so we kind of broke it down and have a time frame with that and how to get them to get them where we want them to be to be successful Amanda can I ask you a quick question second grade reading because that mean the child can see a book and read what he's seeing by reading out loud um yes the way we test it is literally read the words uh for the page absolutely that's great yeah thank you um at their level of course at the second grade level I can't give them well we can do kindergarten if you want I don't know I just read your second grade I just want to make sure I understood uh what your expectation was and all of these goals are for Kinder or for students who have been in attendance at least half of the school year we do get a I mean as you know we get a flex of kids that are constantly a revolving door if they have left us and come back we still count those as ours for the most part I'll be honest but the kids that come to us in April and May it's hard to get them where we want them to be at that point they're ready to roll but some or but I don't hold the teachers accountable for that we still push through a week we invest in them but they're not in our number first questions on the goals that we've set so how did you come about these goals no on the next page look at this so we took our data from the beginning of the year and we looked at where they test out and we are using a new program this year so our numbers are a little bit wonky this year we moved to a mirror which is an AI learning Avatar who does one-to-one correspondence but it's also a testing platform so what what we do is the kids read into the computer they have a screen when we do our testing we want the teacher sits with them and so it's one to one and the teacher is doing it but they read it to the computer it yeah there's all the information they're tested in all five area or six areas actually and then they give us a cut score for them and they call it their arm score which is a mirrors Mastery reading score so this is all when we take that 15 of our 2100 21 kiddos 15 of our kids are in the red according to what Amira says at this point um 87 are approaching the Benchmark and that's again the end of the year benchmarks so our kindergartners are doing pretty well right now we're pretty excited and 30 are at Benchmark does that mean we let them stay there no we keep pushing forward and we keep moving it um up but those are our numbers for kindergarten so that's where we took that data that we had and built off um actual these actual scores so we have first grade in there and then second grade is all in there and those are our students that we have tested now since we've done the initial testing these are beginning of the year testing we've had kids move in we've also had kids leave so the numbers are already a little bit wonky in there but for the most part it's pretty true usually we see a little bit higher at Benchmark but our cut scores are much higher in a mirror than what we were using in the original platform that's okay we're taking the challenge we're ready for it and then any questions on those before I flip to the map the math is scary math is scary but this is banked off of we increase we put time factors in there so when I throw that time in there everything goes up this is end of the year where I want them to be so I'm okay with the red right now because we're going to push them forward so you know I understand you just started the year but they're end of the year goal so it shows you your challenge is in this District as usual math and that's um our kids are able to do the adding and subtracting putting that time Factor so it's that fluency piece that they're just rapid fire or they can get them out it's a challenge and they're little and they're not ready for it yet and we know that but by the end of the year our goal is to have on there so questions on that all right so what are we gonna do all of our decisions are targeted off of data we have been focused our math and we have enhanced focus on our math instruction knowing that we want to really work on that we've done our mirror benchmark assessments we progress monitor every two weeks on our targeted skills so we're collecting data all the time we have esgi assessments which is a kindergarten platform that we use it's an educational software platform to collect data on that um all of our kindergarten assessment is done one to one so a teacher has to sit with them or we also train some parents who are regulars in there that can test our kiddos um monthly data meetings with in-depth data analysis so we're constantly looking at the data where our kids at why aren't they moving and we talk as a team as a grade level team what we can do making sure we're making meeting their needs we have quarterly assessments monitoring these exact goals that we're working on and then we have weekly and bi-weekly grade level meetings that we can talk about and discuss concerns or worries or successes we also get to celebrate a lot of successes in those so professional development instructional coach meets regularly with teachers we have wonders and Wonder Works reading for ELA we have on-site reading interventions intervention strategies by a reading endorsed by all reading endorsed teachers and that's we have pushing services and pull out Services we have a daily co-teaching with our sped teacher that's something new this year we're actually doing more pushing Services into the classroom which has been huge this year um Kagan active engagement strategies which all of our teachers are kagenaders we could call them and they're constantly and that's just getting the kids up and engaged in it not just paper and pencil so they're actually utilizing it and um moving around and not just sitting there we have our curriculum pacing guide with targeted skills we call our each grade level has their grade level Bible that is very targeted to what they need to what the goals are what assessments we're giving where they need to be it's a pacing guide what's a scope and sequence and we have daily phonological drills in all classrooms we use hegarty which is a chronological based program that isn't an enhancement to our curriculum that every teacher does the same thing and it's a constant kill and drill with them so that is some of the stuff that we're using in the classrooms [Music] and then we have our school-wide interventions which core instruction with active engagement school-wide we do daily instruction with our sped co-teachers daily Title One pull push in and pull out and what I mean by pushing is we go into the classroom a staff member goes into the classroom and then we pull out to do more targeted intervention where they come and just meet um in the title one room we have a dyslexic interventionist we have daily El services this year provided by a certified teacher which is super exciting daily cup time intervention that is our focus on our Target skills that we do every day for 40 minutes 45 minutes everybody breaks down and does something we have our mirror reading character education with the certified counselor our monthly positive action focus and assemblies and we are starting Friday school and after school tutoring tutoring and we also have that's cut off our parent engagement we have two big parent engagement nights which is our ABC Bonanza and our Games Galore where we work with parents the kids come in and play games and we provide parents with things to work on at home with the kiddos that are games lots of fun Ela stuff questions you have for me and territorial [Music] Randy I think you're doing an awesome job trying to raise the kids methods and the reading skills from the very beginning because there are children that really struggle with this and just taking the time to work one-on-one with them as thank you we have a we have an amazing staff that is dedicated to our kiddos itself I'm very blessed to get to work with the staff I get to work with it is dedicated for these little ones that are with us thank you so I have a question so just to start maybe instead of killing and drilling you start with drilling first right we have fun okay we don't drill we don't kill any one some of them might think it's a dreaded thing but we have fun with it it's a game seriously um these interventions um do those change from year to year do you think have they been is this a uh We've added to so our daily push in with the co-ed teacher we've never had a sped co-ed teacher who actually go in and goes into the classroom and co-teaches with the Jeanette teacher and so some of those kids aren't they're not getting pulled out of any Core Curriculum the teacher actually goes in she's another teacher in the room and the kids filter through her which actually gives the kids all of the kids even if they're not identified special ed they get extra time with another interventionist in the in the room so that's been fun um the El teacher we've had a para doing that previously this year we have a certified teacher doing that the Amira reading is brand new with us so with those are some of the new ones that we've had in our dyslexic interventionist she is um fully certified PD and we have all of our staff is not all we have 10 staff members getting letters trained right now which is another um foundational career yeah learning for mainly Ela but our one of our instructional coach actually is getting certified so she can be an in-house letters facilitator and trained all staff and we don't have to send people out for training so that is another one that's happening right now so we keep the ones that are working and we massage and move on with the others thank you we appreciate it did that answer yeah so do you have any opinion as to why we seem to have uh district-wide more issues with imprficiency in math [Music] no at my level it's pretty much the same where we're at at this level at the level I have I mean they're all learning their numbers they're learning to add and subtract we haven't ever targeted that that they have to get it done in a specific amount of time so that's that's the new thing for us is will that help out our scores if it's a little bit more fluent they're not having to think about it anymore so just to let you know it's not just the school district it's basically across the country so it's just you know and we have to make some changes for our children to learn so I I agree with you Brandy you know what you're doing is awesome so we're gonna see we're gonna play with it and keep moving forward if this doesn't work we'll try something different but the data right now teachers are excited they know they have their work cut out for them for sure but they're under the challenge thank you all right Dr Moody okay I won't even try the click it works it worked yeah um Madam president members of the board Ms Daniels esteemed to Miss Dixon um uh thanks for your time um and I think I might be able to answer or at least espouse some concept um towards Mr fogle's Question uh obviously Del Rio we're a testable School um for better for worse we're a testable School the aasa or whatever Incarnation or name it will take next year as as tends to be the the way we go but obviously we you've seen these numbers um Ela you can fast forward thanks sir and there's our math scores we're particularly lagging at the fifth grade level let's move beyond that because I don't like looking at it um so um with that said I'm going to break this down into three sections number one what are our overall goals number two how are we going to test those goals and number three what are we doing to get there uh first off our Universal goal obviously is to meet the state standard but that's a floating Target and that's not necessarily something we know what we're looking for and I've always been um partial to the old proverbial notion that my grandfather beat into me how do you eat an elephant one bite at a time and so our one byte is we're looking obviously on an individual goal for every kid our goal at Del Rio is to learn to learn and that is to say we take the kid wherever they are whether they're coming in halfway through the year full year um and and we got a kid two weeks before the end of the school year last year wherever they show up with us we're going to take them and and Advance them obviously in ela and Matt those are our two biggest Notions universally I'd like to see us have a five percent bump on our overall test scores obviously at the ELA level that would put us well above the these state standards and at the math level we'd still be below um below the state average if the state averages continue to be where they are though we're going to focus our attention on math that is a minimal goal and looking at the third fourth and fifth grade State tests as well as I'll mention some of these here in just a moment as well as some in-house assessments and and what we do at Del Rio looking at um what we've Fallen at specifically our biggest issue is number one operations that is to say doing the work the actual calculations and on longer term and larger problems be they were problems or multi-digit problems our biggest issue is just they didn't do the multiplication well they didn't do the division well and if they slowed down and took some time to do that that's operations um at the third grade level we're having problems with fractions um five-thirds of them are having a problem with fractions thanks I appreciate that and um and then at the fourth and fifth grade level it's a measurement whether it be specifically using rulers um or devices for the measurement or or measurement of kilometers to miles and things of that notion and so we're focusing our attention especially um later in the year that is to say February and March when we have multiplication tables under our belt when we have some experiential learning on the computers under our belt we're focusing our attention there so that when they do get to the state test they have a little bit of a a running start into it and so that's our that's our overall and our individual goals there you go there you go okay um how are we measuring that well there's a variety of ways we're we're doing this obviously um I'll start at the bottom and work our way back just as a side note in the background of this um I was told many many years ago never put backgrounds on slides so I always do um this is our new on-site armed security guard officer gronick playing football in the afternoon with a few kids while we're waiting for the buses just as uh a side note he's got a pretty good arm in comparison to Fourth Graders so um we're working our at the bottom and work our way back obviously the state assessment that's our that's our Our Big Goal um but then looking at both Ela and math AR scores are our most consistent gold AR is Accelerated Reader then that is how we measure um proficiency of students in the books they're reading so Mr Antonio referred to okay what are they reading we're measuring their reading levels on a consistent and continuing basis and then as they read books in those levels they're testing for competency and understanding of those books and then the more they read the higher their level goes and they set though they set goals both personally and we do it programmatically so that they can achieve those goals and progress through um so you know we have fifth graders right now reading at a ninth and 10th grade level and so that's a and we have one third grader who's reading a seventh grade level so um so we're continuously measuring their AR scores uh but then map and and Ela we um we look at um we there's some contention on our campus as to what to call them but collectively we call them daps and and um that's District assessment programs I like draps because it's Del Rio assessment programs but I'm the only one so um um we are measuring a variety of things at math we're using my math uh we're using uh the assessments uh within the curriculum once a quarter we're using I Steep and we're using classroom and they have to have at least four of those assessments per quarter at which we're looking at at grade level meetings for ELA we're using ice deep program again we're using wonders we're using star reading and again um just as as a notion if you don't know this kids universally dread this but then when we get to the state assessment they universally go wow that was great every quarter we have a day-long writing assessment where they spend the entire day mapping out the topic the concept doing the Reading Writing a rough draft and typing out their answer so that when they get to the state assessment that's what they're supposed to do and they have a day to do it we give them the same parameters and we use different texts every quarter so it's informational or or whatever scientific whatever it may be and so we're um I I say all that to say this we're not basing it just on state assessments though that's what the public sees obviously but that's not all we're using collectively as teachers we're meeting as a third grade level a fourth grade level a fifth grade level what's working what's not working oh look at the striving that they're doing here let's add this in let's progress faster let's progress slower so that we can still meet the goals and obviously Curriculum maps are part of that so okay they're progressing faster they're progressing slower what are we going to do to kind of help them along thank you um first off I've put those on every email to my entire staff there in the bottom left Semper Gumby always flexible um they'll have my staff doesn't know who Gumby is yeah um but um a lot of this is focused on what we're doing collectively academically some of this is focused on obviously absenteeism is an issue we want them to come to school I want a kid who's absent to come back the next day and go man I really missed being here I want a kid to wake up in the morning and go I want to go to school and and that's something we work really hard on so we have a variety of things a tutoring and I just think collectively and this is the way I speak on campus so it's the way I'm going to speak here um when I think tutoring I think anything after school um that includes math tutoring by their math teacher or at grade level that includes Ela and writing and reading tutoring um at their grade level by their teachers or teachers at their grade level it includes clubs that include student council um we're going to be starting a uh we have a gardening club that's literally meeting right this very second we have a chess club that's starting tomorrow that I'm looking forward to getting beat by fourth graders um you know we have uh yearbook and student council and ukulele and quilting and all these things that there's actually a waiting list for our quilting club which I really enjoy um and so we we have all these things going on that make kids want to be in school so they can stay longer at school as Bradley mentioned we have Friday school it's actually starting this Friday we have 60 of our kids who are going to be in that and if we need to expand it we need to expand it we have Friday school starting this Friday um we're using computers universally and ubiquitously in classes or any number of things a um getting into the curriculum and B obviously practicing those skills in computer class and in regular class that they're going to need to be doing at um at aasa testing time and there's been a variety of studies that have come out from any number of different places um I just jotted down two here from the world bank and then um from Brown University are the two most recent ones that show you can be well proficient at grade level and this is a study across the United States um you can be well proficient at grade level for Math and or science some states test that more universally than we do and fail the test because you have no idea how to approach it on the computer because you didn't know how to scroll because you didn't know to click and so we're teaching those skills specifically obviously we're focusing on operational computation in mathematics which is something that we're doing um I'm also this this is like that brings me the biggest smile every day I went in and was stretching with our PE class this morning and they laughed me when I tried to do jumping jacks it is what it is um but there's a variety of studies as well the most recent from Naperville Illinois and the CDC who show that there's a 14 to 23 percent increase in academic performance for schools that have PE and and I wish we had it every day but um we we've reinstituted PE kids are loving it they want to come to school for PE we're having a variety of contests between classes to for their not necessarily they're running the fastest but that they're they're participating the most um so we're hoping obviously and we'll never I think be able to fully say our test Rising our test scores Rising is because of PE but I certainly think it's going to be part of it um we're also introducing and and Ms Cox mentioned this as well we have a fully certified full-time um El teacher and aide at Del Rio and there's a variety of interventions and in fact we've even added a class for El kids at the end of the day that we're pretty excited about and I'll talk at subsequent board meetings about um but it's for kids who show up on our campus who speak literally no English um and at the end of the day we're having a just a conversational day to kind of teach them to be social and be part of the the community and maybe they won't pass the aasa but they'll be they'll be progressing and learning to learn and and be part of our community and Kids come out of that class giggling every day it's on my way to the buses in the afternoon and it's actually kind of a cool thing to see them come out excited um there's any number of different things Title One grade level meetings things I've mentioned um we celebrate every month with popsicles those kids that have met math and AR goals we're having kid you know teachers co-teach and we have any number of things I'd like to point out that this is all occurring on our campus in the midst of our front office being closed because our parking lot renovation the HVAC the the fire watch the fire panels I just wrote down a few of them um weatherizing the gas lines though that actually got done with one day it's it's a pretty big deal um but but kids are are jumping over things and and just they're they're happy to be at school it's good to see Smiles on their faces and so far um we we've noted growth of and let me just look at my notes Here if we're just looking at our internal data right now um 90 of third graders has grown Ela um 92 percent of fourth graders 92 percent of fifth graders have all grown Ela and for math um that is to say just um internal math scores we haven't done our quarter assessments yet um we've got 81 percent at third grade we've got 83 at fourth grade and 87 at fifth grade and so those are just our internal trackings tracking Apples to Apples so that's a lot I know we're all you know standing up here tonight but if there's any questions I can quick questions the Friday is cool is that voluntary or the teacher will tell the kid you were coming to Friday school right so Friday school is for students who are kind of on the bubble and need just a little bit of assistance to kind of make it to that next level they are invited by teachers to um be part of it and then it's voluntary as to whether the we provide transportation we provide breakfast we provide lunches from eight to twelve um but as voluntary as to whether or not the the parents want them to come parents can opt out I was a little worried about that because sometimes the kids who need the most are the kids who want it the least and uh yeah um and that's true um but kids are kids are jazzed about Friday School actually um we we um 60 our capacity is 60 right now and um of all 60 we asked 62 kids to come and 60 of them were like yep coming awesome great and and we have kids asking their teachers can I get a Friday school packet that's great thank you yep I just I just have a quick comment um so I understand that last week you guys had your um election for your student council president yes we do so my third grader this is his first time ever really dealing with student council and he came home and he was so excited because he's voting for this kid because he said he's gonna get an hour-long recess I couldn't shoot him down and let him know that that's not how it works but it was really hysterical that he had it so he's like okay that's fine yeah if he didn't win it's funny there was a lot of Tears on Thursday when we announced today [Music] yes so my question is going to be the same for every building leader that's here and that is uh um what's your theory around why we seem to have a persistent problem with uh Proficiency in math learning and if I heard what you said I think your answer is uh gave me a few ideas that you've already pondered one of them is that PE it's going to make a difference one of them is that they'll become more familiar with the actual tool at uh assessment time and I think those are great and the other one was and lots of students who essentially don't know any English and uh so so they're not English speakers at this point in time so if we attack you know those things and one by it at a time one bite at a time and one building at a time this might help yeah absolutely and I think I think another large part of it Ms Daniels spoke to it earlier is kids being in school it's hard for us to to test and I don't have the numbers literally right here in front of me but in the 30s for for Del Rio it's it's hard to test them on things that they're not there to learn and that's a that's kind of a difficult pill to swallow um so we're doing everything we can to to get them there okay yeah great thanks thank you anything else thank you thank you all right Miss McGill I'm here at HMS I am hello okay let me go the principal at Heritage Middle School I would like to say my daughter came home from Garden Club with a plant this big and a huge smile on her face um uh ditto and can I sit down no Okay so I had the remote I promise it works um so I'm at the middle school which had atrocious numbers which as you guys know you just hired me that was I don't want to say tears but a little bit but okay so the goals that we have so the Galileo Benchmark testing that's how we we test them out the goal is going to be 80 for um each grade level for sixth seventh and eighth grade that they will be proficient or higher as you guys can see on the picture right there in the green this is our pre-test scores so similar to what Brandi did is pre-test we can see the opportunity for growth positively important and the remote does work thank you and you can see a little bit better for the ELA our same same type of goal I'm just picking up what I was given and seeing what we can do here so it's similar to like this before so the goal is for students to have attended HMS for the whole Academic Year 80 their score proficient or higher I think this is a very attainable goal so my appreciation is a little shorter than Dr Moody so uh how do we know where to focus essential standards have been identifying and goals have been developed by each content team based on the beginning of the year benchmarks and these benchmarks with the Galileo benchmarks a professional development that I did have did hold we went through in each content area since went through this and we identified standards and where they needed to grow how will we know students learn the material the utilization of the assessments from the curriculum pertaining to those essential standards weekly formative assessments um to place in student and bi-weekly reteach extension class so we call that our interview of children and it's called the cat class uh it's amazing that the teachers do it's like a logistical nightmare but every two weeks they go in and moving things around and the students if they're weak in that area they're put in a specific remediation type of class and they're taught maybe that standard that they dip down in over those two weeks so we're catching them faster it's not the end of the quarter oh no what do we do it's catching them every two weeks which is really great the kids who are achieving already they have I want to say extension classes that are a little bit more fun but they still have the undertone of ela and math summative assessments are done three times per year in August November and March we do the star reading school-wide quarterly writing assessments Galileo benchmarks the digital and the eyes implemented this digital individual student data trackers to assess progress toward Mastery so we will be rolling out the digital version be rolling out quarter two last year uh from what I saw the problem was papers were lost middle so there's three of things blah blah so we will waiting that why are we waiting till second quarter just because there's a little bit of a computer are coming else just sit with that uh attend school on a regular basis in partnership with juvenile probation they touched on that so I've already met met with them we've already started this process we're reaching out they are driving to kids home them up and bringing them if that's something that needs to be done and of course there's this state assessment in the spring to achieve this goal the essential standards are identified in each contact area that's broken down a specific learning targets tied to the skills and it's been mapped up for each year as I mentioned earlier there's the cougar academic time that's the daily retouch classes based on formative assessment I'm going to be trying to start the cougar Academy for fright School individual tutoring tutoring the teachers are offering that before school um during during lunch time or after school we progress monitoring on the essential standards as you right there um we do data walk results based on leadership that'll be something I'm implementing a little bit more um data is as a teacher you have to come in and explain your data to me as we go a little bit more in that Weekly professional Learning Community meetings to review student data that is a big one that is on Wednesday There's No IEPs that day I've already told the staff and they're very rep they're very they love it it's if you need to bring your children sit there fine but don't be scheduling your appointments and stuff that day you need to be participating in that and they are and when I walk around and even talking to the academic coach we're seeing a lot of um PLC thing professional development on culture building and data and data analysis with solution tree that is coming up you guys approved a September 22nd PD and that we're gonna be working on that I was just talking to solution Tree on Friday about implementing more of that smaller advisory classes to assist with students support and goal setting that's already in place right now and we're doing quarterly celebrations in weekly character education with the certified accounts what is an advisory class okay sorry homeroom the easiest way to put that would be it's like a home room but I'm going to call it advisory because we're building in uh like in two weeks we have an entire a week of character and Community Building or they set um individ they build relationships with those students be like where are you at how do we help your grades and boost that themes during the year during this time period right and I've actually I was just talking miss Ann knows about this I wanted to start implement this just came to mind before after I made the slideshow um building in into that advisory period a little bit of the CTE a little bit of learning about different careers and stuff so they know what they're going to be getting more in high school but also you guys may be familiar something like 85 percent of women or girls have decided by the end of eighth grade if they're going to be in a stem field or not so why not start introducing them into those things and just that during that time no thanks that's my Anthony oh I guess I have your question I mean so what do you think any theories on persistent math prop issues alerting math yeah about that since July when I went so attend Ed them to want to come to school but if their parents don't want them become more is unable to come that's something different but um I would just like to say Dental on what those what they said but I really feel attendance is huge I'm coming from a background where um though Across the Nation we do see the large dip I I wasn't you know the probation officer wasn't needed as much so I do see the big difference being school to learn it that's my thing I'm new at this role so please ask me in a couple years I appreciate that so I have a suggestion there maybe um take away the attendance issues that seem to be a postcovid yes phenomena um these issues of having problems becoming proficient at math I've always been there so what do we do yeah I mean as a parent I'm over there like having my kids you know supplementing at home with the multiplication right a woman there are those engaging those engaging apps that get her on you know giving the quick recall I mean there's just those little those little things that I guess the teachers do during the especially during that cat time I would love to have you guys come look at a cat time I think it's amazing it's that really like intense and they're smaller classes and that times they can put for that but getting them to want to come to school wanting them to be excited to be there participate in the sports trying to build the clubs up a little bit but anything else thank you we appreciate it all right thank you all right Miss Crawford let's hear from the high school hello you save the best for last Madam president members of the board thank you um so a lot of this kind of been similar to Caitlyn is that I came in and had talked to Heidi a lot and my team to figure out okay where are we at where do we want to be and how do we get there um I kind of want to start with your question first but I'll wait to the very end Mr Bubble um we do use a system it's called Horizons it tests all it tests nine ten and eleventh graders only um on act based questions so in math English science and reading and so when we go over some of those results you'll see like big picture by grade level then I had my departments look at Horizon did a great thing this year where we could drill it down to the class so we worked with our it team and we were able to upload kids by class so that we could start looking at data at the classroom level before it was only at grade level now we can actually do targeted uh interventions within the class because teachers know exactly what their kids scored and and it's not just this big flyover data set that they're looking at so the purpose of it is to help kids prepare so at the high school level ACT scores are kind of The Benchmark of proficiency in those areas and so kids take that test officially their junior year and they have to they have to take the ACT whether they pass it or not is is not the issue but it's a requirement for graduation a lot of schools right now don't use ACT scores a lot of colleges have moved away from it but it's still at least a way for us to assess the four core areas so we're still going to continue testing in that in those areas so I went backwards because 11th graders this is where we're at right now these kids um the their average score right now as a grade level is a 13.

if you're looking at the strengths areas interpretation of data and locating information again later in the data we were looking it actually said that that was a low area as well so in order for us to really determine what a low area was we had to go to their results and look at every category and they break it down sometimes into four or five so we had all departments kind of look at that and say okay we'll pick what's the most efficient area and how can we how can we attack it if you look at the bottom so just to summarize our sophomores in English actually scored one point composite above the Benchmark so we're we're trending in the right direction I know right in math we drop where there's a four point deviation now it's a six point in math and reading there's a three-point deviation and then in science we're hovering that six to seven point deviation for juniors note these are our kids this year who are going to actually take the pre-ct this is the second year that the high school has had Horizon which is nice because just the formatting of the test just to give you a snapshot there was um I was looking at the reading or English test and it gives you a paragraph and they just have these little bubbles underneath certain words and then over on the right hand side there was a uh you there wasn't even a corresponding number you just had to know there are no directions you just had to know for number 31 .

so we don't have to drive Robertson half a million 3 500 because it's half a year exactly because it's half a year so and we're just talking about the 22 correct so it essentially is for that first semester the first six months of calendar year 24 we would be collecting dollars for 150 fewer students than we are this fall you may not be able to answer this question State runs its fiscal fiscal why do you think we have to make budgets on a calendar is a great question Mr standard one I wish uh would change dramatically we're essentially it's it's because of the tax rate portion of it and so we have to we have to tie in with the property tax assessment cycle and creating a exactly and so counties cities everybody else is doing it on is budgeting on a calendar year standpoint so that's the reason I'm assuming okay so on the operation side real quick oh sorry Miss America I was writing something down sorry um I do have one question and I don't I you're not going to be able to answer it tonight so just some time between now and the next time we meet um before we had the meeting today at four there was a lot of um concern from several teachers that might have had 15 20 years experience somewhere else they come here they maybe don't get the same equivalent as to what a 15 to 20 year teacher would hear would it be possible to look at what if we were to if we were to do a one for one so if somebody came here for 20 years with 20 years experience can we look at what that cost would be if we even that out we can't yeah we have that data okay yep we keep it updated so thank you you're welcome I could answer I don't know what the dollar amount is but the answer was yes to your question any other questions on the education fund before we move on to operations okay on the operations fund side you can see the revenue assumptions are up about 9.4 percent from last year that's 33 33.2 million and um that includes about 3 million dollars in estimated tax cap losses which is 700 000 more than we will lose this year in cap losses so that number is just going to continue to grow up you'll see us to go up you'll see a slide here in a second that shows the trend the history but the operations fund Levy is one of those interesting one the levy the amount of money that we can collect doesn't matter what the tax rate is or the assessed value is the levy can only grow by the maximum Levy growth quotient and I didn't put it in here conveniently like that it was four percent it was capped at four percent for this year by the legislature um so that's the the this right here the legislature said this year because of assessed values growing so quickly the legislature said your mlgq cannot grow faster than four percent no matter what and so your Levy was capped at that and so um interestingly this is entirely coincidental our assessed value went up by exactly four percent this year primarily That was supposed to be somewhere the assessor estimated between seven and eight percent uh but after the legislature took some actions to increase deductions um Homestead deductions this year it went down to an increase of four percent and so because those two the levy and the assessed value went up by the same amount the tax rate should be the operations tax rate should be almost exactly where it was for 2023.

that will continue to increase each year for now it's it's we're not in any danger today we have a healthy cash balance and the operations fund but there will come a time in and probably two three four years down the road where we'll have to start looking at what our options are from a from a tax cap loss standpoint to continue to be able to fund transportation bus replacement Capital Improvements and so on so on the expenditure side I apologize when this moved to uh the presentation the the alignment got messed up but um salary and benefits 1.1 million dollar increase over this calendar year which is just under seven percent um Professional Services was a decline of about four hundred thousand dollars and that is primarily I mentioned earlier we are hiring people like we like we have never done so or at least not in recent history um so we decreased the budget for um sorry up here we decreased the budget for contracted custodians and shifted that over to the salary and benefit line because we're just using them a lot less we've been able to hire and retain custodial staff at a rate that we had have not done since I've been doing this job I mentioned property and liability insurance insurance being a huge increase from for the last few years of this year we expected to to be even larger in the neighborhood of uh four hundred thousand dollars software this is a result of a couple of different items just inflationary costs on software but we also had a few pieces of software that we used to purchase we have been purchasing with Esser funds and they proved to be valuable so we use that for funds to try some things that that we hadn't done before and they proved to be valuable enough that Mr Williams and his staff wanted to make sure we budgeted for 2024 when the Esser funds expire and then there's also I'll add in here a really important I'm not going to go into detail Mr Williams can answer questions with you offline but we're investing in cyber security very very heavily as we continue to hear about public services agencies schools hospitals and cities and towns being subject to Cyber attack and we don't want to be standing up here sharing with you that that's us someday we're decreasing the electricity budget by six hundred thousand dollars that's not because we expect expenditures to go by 600 to go down by six hundred thousand we expect them to go down about 200 000 over what we budgeted last year but we also carried forward enough cash from the prior year unexpended that we're going to use those encumbrances as opposed to budgeting new money for next year and then we decrease the amount that we're investing in equipment and Facilities by about six hundred thousand but are still that was over the large amount that we invested in 2023 we're still putting in um a million dollars into small building level projects um 500 000 into district-wide roof and HVAC improvements and then this is the new line item that we haven't done in the past we're putting one million dollars in a line item for replacing the lights at both track football field stadiums they are almost unservable serviceable at this point Dr Bozeman can go into a lot of detail if you want that but replacing those with efficient lights that are functioning and cab replacement parts available for them when they need them is a priority for him and his group we were going to push that down the road and put it as part of a bond issue and when this football season started and an hour or so two hours before the east north game started the lights didn't come on at East he was letting me know we were going to put that on this this year's budget so we also at the same time as we're doing those lighting projects I think that both schools are ready for a scoreboard replacement and those both are more than 20 years old I believe so that's a pretty significant um investment in facilities there is that we usually wouldn't make from the operations fund but from a timing standpoint we feel like it's very necessary at this point and this is that same breakdown of line items for the operations fund budget the details uh which I already shared on the previous slide so I won't go line by line through that one for you but I'm happy to answer any questions you have about the operations fund at this time Phillips and the operations fund there are often some line items that um where we might benefit from some sort of a group purchasing organization I was thinking of the insurance premiums in particular who do we work with and are we getting the best value for a dollar we're still part of the cooperative that we joined about let's say it's about four years ago now the acronym is S Craft but there's about 70 districts that are part of that and it's a it's a group purchasing we go out and get all of our um property and liability and cyber coverage as a group and I have great confidence in that in that organization to make sure we're getting the best rate that we can possibly get um we also have really low deductibles through that group which is costs that's often not accounted for in the in the big picture of property and liability insurance but we're taking advantage of that in this case it's just the entire industry is getting hit really hard with the the natural disasters that you continue to see every week most people see those on TV and they think oh I feel sorry for those people I see them and I think our property and liability insurance is going on I just can't help it sorry summary sheet it is in it's strangely enough in Communications it's just the the categories of the state puts them in categories these are the five thousands and so it's right here in that line you're welcome all right I will move on no other questions on the operations fund um the bus replacement plan is pretty straightforward you'll notice unusually this year we're only going to budget for purchasing 10 buses that's because we bought 14 in this calendar year so we came to you for that approval back in I think it was January even because we need almost a year sometimes even more than a year of notice to order the buses before they can be delivered the um the operations fund will pay for 1.3 million dollars of that and then the operating referendum fund has 473 thousand or forty sixty three thousand budgeted for that line item already went over the transfers between education and operations the next largest portion of the budget and the impacts the tax rate is The Debt Service fund this is a property tax supported fund and this budget will actually decrease almost six percent from last year as we have a couple of bonds retiring you can see we made some refunded 2003 bonds are mature during the course of this year as well as the two 2016 Geo Bond so as those roll off even though this is an accurate number so I won't have to do an additional appropriation next year for this one but the Geo bond that we passed this fall doesn't quite make up for the expenditures from from the expiring bonds and the payments for next year you'll notice that we did we were able to we used to be able to Levy Against The Debt Service fund unreimbursed textbook rental from the state but we're not allowed to do that anymore under the new state law any questions on The Debt Service fund this is the the referendum Debt Service fund that is basically just made up of the bonds for the high school Renovations from 2010 the referendum passed in 2008 and those uh are essentially flat and will remain so through the end of 2029 when we make our final payment and then the referendi operating fund um you can see this is the budget that's been advertised with the exception of the last line item there that transferred to education for textbooks or curricular materials it just uh the teacher salary and benefit increases for experience the support staff are classified staff um one dollar or two dollar per hour increases are on the second line item and then there are each of the next line items have a slight inflationary adjustment made to them over the prior year and then the last line item there is the the new item which is the transfer to to the education fund for curricular materials so I'm going to go into that part really quickly I'm going to skip forward to the next slide and talk about each of these funds so the education fund is the appropriate fund to expend the curricular material dollar so what I'm proposing and what this budget reflects tonight is a transfer of dollars from the referendum referendum operating fund to the education fund to be expended from there so it's not taking the money that would come in from revenues into the education fund and using those for curriculum materials but it is the fund that is the most appropriate to spend those dollars from that so our options are we have to spend the money from the education fund for curricular materials we can only transfer funds for that purpose from operations referendum operating or the rainy day fund which is what is not on here because we don't appropriate any expenditures from that fund or we haven't at least in my time in this position so the operations fund is not an appropriate fund to transfer those dollars to the education fund it is explicitly for the purpose of paying for the operations of the District transportation technology so on and so forth Capital Improvements the rainy day fund is an option we could transfer 250 000 from the rainy day fund to the education fund to expend those dollars for curriculum materials but that money is not getting replenished from anywhere it's not the the rainy day fund does not have revenues that come into it every year it's it's a fixed amount of money that we set aside for an emergency so I'm not making the recommendation that we transfer dollars from the rainy day fund to the education fund so that leaves the operating referendum being the fund that has a consistent source of revenues coming into it each year and is allowable to transfer the dollars for the purpose of purchasing curricular materials so as I looked at the list of of what my options were for um for how to pay for that 250 000 in curriculum curriculum materials the operating referendum fund is one that has dollars replenishing it each year we are collecting more dollars than we are expending from that each year and so it has a slightly growing cash balance each of those years it doesn't take any money away from either the line items that are set aside for a teacher experience increases or classified staff increases that we um passed with a referendum passed it is an expenditure that was not part of the referendum when it passed it wasn't something that we obviously knew was going to exist at that time and we didn't know it was going to be a need but I hope that explains the reason anyway that at least from my perspective that's why I landed when you look at the people in the wrong direction um apologize when I looked at the options that were available to me there the operating referendum fund was what seemed to me the most appropriate for for spending those dollars for curriculum materials there will be questions here operating referendum if you can uh kind of gauge my knowledge I is close to three million dollars is what we've now over like collected versus expended over the past three years yeah so here's the I apologize I didn't here's the operating reference so we started this calendar year at about 2.4 million okay and we will end this calendar over three it'll be over three million dollars in cash balance um one of the reasons that we intentionally want to maintain a cash balance there I'll just remind you is that in in 2028 we will have to ask the public to renew this or it goes away we want to make sure that there's enough cash available in that fund to continue to pay at least through the the school year the 28-29 school year so something disaster disastrous happens and that operating referendum is not renewed we want to be able to continue to at least do this for that entire school year so you're targeting to essentially oversave 6.7 is Affair I don't have a specific Target for it but if it got to the point that I knew we could pay an extra six months of that then we'd start looking at do we need to Levy the entire maximum Levy that we could for the operating referendum fund but we're not to that point yet and then I noticed I mean and you went through the the Alternatives very well I know one that was brought to my attention by teachers was looking at we've purchased less buses right in the bus amount on the two buses was about the same for textbooks close and I believe looking at past history or on light against scoreboards that would have traditionally been a bond of some appropriation outside of traditionally using the operations fund so I mean would that have been an alternative considered given that you could reduce the transfer to operations possibly borrowed on I guess the lighting scoreboard and or the lower amount of buses this is am I factually correct on that normally would have been a bond appropriation for those kind of athletic upgrades yes it could have been I would the the one option you mentioned that I would be um more open to considering because it feels is right here in this line This is busted buses this is buses and it's from the referending operating fund um I would hate to go back into I'm not gonna I would hate to go back into the operations fund and start playing a shell game with those dollars which we sometimes have had to do and we had purchased buses with a bond before and so that is possible it is something that we can do we can issue Geo bonds to pay for buses and or technology which we've done in the past and vehicle replacement um but there is also the option is just to reduce this line to make up for this this 250 000 here and then issue a Geo bond for the bus replacement I'm curious curious about the rainy day fund I know you say not to use it but just approximately how much is there one million 10 million 6.274 million pulse roughly exactly yep right we would probably make two payrolls with that Dr Phillips so I I will avoid going into weeds again but could you get just a quick history lesson on the lull there 19 20 21 on the rainy day so um at this in 2018 we had um and we're back in this boat now I hate to to get too much into it but the um when we hire new staff new teaching staff um there is a time at which they didn't get paid until the middle of September they started working obviously we've moved our calendar a little bit in the last couple of decades as most schools have but we were hiring staff having them start two weeks into August and then not paying them for five six weeks and it was just a pay cycle and it was you know to the tune of 1.4 million dollars that would cost us to catch that up and so we did that in 20 2018 at the beginning of 2019 all teachers who were returning to us got two paychecks at the same time they got the last paycheck of the prior contract and the first check of the new contract at the same time in order to accelerate when teachers got paid that first time and we used the rainy day for that purpose and then in 2022 sorry 2021 we transferred money from the operations fund back to the rainy day fund to make that whole again we use just cash balance from that year um I think I know how to ask this question but maybe not when we talked previously about the change in textbooks and and the changes the state made we were told that for a couple reasons I think science adoption would have been this year but it got put off a year it's so with that 250 000 be greater or does that not impact us on this budget does it impact us at all we are the math adoption from last year cost 2.5 million and we have so far recouped zero of that and so I think the textbook Adoption Fund right now is somewhere in the neighborhood of nine hundred thousand dollars in the negative um we are expecting the state to distribute their first round this fall of um curricular material disbursement but we don't know exactly how much that will be at this point we're hoping it gets us back into the black but once we adopt science that'll put us right back into the red again it's another reason we're not adopting science today doe actually said hold off as we're looking at new standards for Math and Science don't do it don't do any long-term agreements for curricular materials for Math and Science until we finish our process so but it helps using what the state does in the future on that but that might help give us some breathing room for the next budget that's exactly right during the course of this year at least that one we we're estimating 1.4 million that we think we will receive in the curriculum materials from the state and that'll give us a year breathing room so that we can adopt science but we know science is going to be an incredibly costly adoption based on the same thing we experience with math this last year looking at the beginning year cash balances in the operations fund notice the doubling the size of the cash cash balances from 2020 to 2021 can you remind me of the story that goes along with that code no utilities no fuel we paid folks what their pay would have been to keep them afloat and keep them employed and make sure they came back to us but no overtime all kinds of those are the ones that come to mind they're probably more expenditures I actually have a spreadsheet from back then so it was essentially caught we still collected the revenue but our expenditures were way down due to the fact that we weren't running buses we weren't turning on lights I is that a part of the budget that haven't they said something about that the um the the dlgf and the state have looked at Cash balances not just ours across the state and notice the same Trend and they have asked us when I do are an annual financial report that I turn in at the end of August they've asked us to identify what dollars are allocated for future Capital Improvements and so um they're they're making sure are at least starting to to put a critical eye on those dollar amounts and make sure that districts have a plan for them and if they don't have a plan for them I'm sure eventually that'll be a top of conversation at the State House any other questions one more and I don't know if this is the right slide for it which ones are funded by property taxes the bottom four so the education fund receives no property taxes all four of these at least at some level collect property taxes the majority of each of these four made up of property tax revenues so I revealed early my my last slide about cash reserves there um that's again just where we started the this current calendar year and then a reminder of our next steps at the next meeting we will have a public hearing at the beginning of the meeting and I'll go over uh this similar presentation but abbreviated with any changes from tonight's if any changes in in ADM and so forth any other questions or comments on the budget tend to become [Music] beacons what are the elements of the budget you are the most worried about and why causes you the biggest heartache um the future of property taxes in our state are my biggest long-term concern I think for critical local public services property taxes are the most stable and reliable way to fund those services and that they don't go away if there's a shock to the system like we've seen in 2008 with a Great Recession and then again 10 12 years later with the massive covid recession when property taxes fund your fire and your police and your streets and your schools hiccups to the economic Peaks and Valley affect that much lesser and I think that is just my my my public policy opinion is that property taxes are critical in that way and the more that those things shift to the state and the more that those decisions about how our schools and our police and our fire and our streets are funded in Indianapolis I think that's less good for us as a community and so I worry about the future of property taxes I know people hate property taxes but when you look at the when you look at the big picture and whether or not you value those services that are provided in your community the dollars that come from your community that's the most stable way to make sure that not only do you get to make sure that those Services continue you also have local say in them as we're doing tonight at this meeting talking about all the dollars that we're going to spend with people from our community here here to listen and learn and ask questions because so sorry and this isn't probably a question this is just an expression of concern I guess and and I know there's different opinions out there but you know looking at that particular slide you know I know the operation you know the referendum operating fund continues to grow each year and the top two line items uh remain stable but again looking at um you know the last line there the quarter of a million dollars and looking at it from you know kind of a public um lands with an opera with the referendum advertised to increase teacher salary support staff you know the safety of students and stem labs to throw that on there and I understand the money is increasing there but that's also more money that could arguably be divvied up in those first two lines as well and so I yeah I just a concern now I understand and I just to to make sure it's clear those budgeted amounts haven't increased since 21 when we when we implement it at the top um but whatever our commitments to those dollar amounts haven't changed and there will be years including 2023 where we will we will spend more on that line than what we budgeted from um and I think that'll be the case in this in this calendar year certainly on the teacher the teacher line I'm not sure if we'll be close on the sports staff line but so as long as we continue to hire people and they continue to reach those Milestones of five years and 10 years and 15 years we'll continue to fund those even even if it exceeds that amount it may require me to come here and ask you for an additional appropriation based on where we're heading for the end of the year and we could be there by the end of this year but I understand your point I hate to ask one last question but I understood the criteria for Education fund of two pay cycles and now I'm understanding the criteria here for the operation referendum brain basically fund that you're trying to build up to basically buffer against 28.29 can you give me guidance on like what you're looking at for the operations fund just because of the significant size like uh it seems like that's also an easy move if where we move the 250 up for buses and then the buses come out of that excess fund that's available uh so I guess that's what I'm trying to think in my head just because of me again right the referendum was a commitment to the community and I know there's a struggle when we're seeing things that we're not interested on that question on those line items so essentially to your point the education fund the operations fund and the operating referendum fund are the three funds that essentially you as the board and we as the administration have the ability to do a lot of movement between those three funds and adjusting things and buying buses from here one year instead of here and vice versa the debt funds not so much the operations fund I don't have a Target amount but between the three and then you include rainy day fund in there and you look at the cash the cash balance compared to the 150 million dollar budget I still think that the dollar amount is a reasonable amount to have as a cash balance particularly when you look at the other public agencies in town relative to their annual budget how much do they keep in an operating balance from year to year and it's it's close to 100 percent in some cases and so for hours to be you know in that neighborhood of uh basically 40 I think yeah if you if you total up not the debt funds but if you total up the the first four across there from 25 that's 28 million against 150 28 million against 150 is still a reasonable amount I'm not saying and that's the reason I'm not saying that we aren't drawing this down and we have for the last three years brought you additional facility improvements I just think that with the number of facilities we have and the number of needs that we have that using that for the operations fund drawdown is appropriate and I do worry my my other concern about that 250 000 transfer is that when is it going to get fixed we don't know that this is not a budget year for the legislature this spring so they're not likely to open the budget up and say okay we need to fully fund that curricular material line item so it's at least a two-year expenditure um and we don't know if or when it would get fixed after that and so it may be something that we're looking at for the long term how are you you're proposing to deal with this um those who have operating referendums are looking at that I know um another District actually mentioned it to me when they were renewing um this fall which is what actually made me think that it was a possibility and look at that as a possibility for us but most are just pulling that out of the education fund because they don't have other options and so it's coming off the table for bargaining for for staff and increases for staff whereas this would would not be the case thank you Dr Phillips okay we are going to move into public comments I'll do a couple of reminders that are listed up here um speakers if you if you've come in a group you can define a spokesperson um to represent you if if your point has been made you may pass and or you may simply say I agree with whoever it was that spoke before you and you can relinquish your your time if you have a new point to be made you've got your three minutes please refrain from using the names of individual students and our staff members we've also gotten into a pinch where we've listed a specific role that we know as a specific person so please don't do that either be degeneric in your comments and then limit your remarks to three minutes we also have a policy that limits us to 45 minutes total regardless of of the number of speakers that have signed up we have exactly 15 speakers so tonight it will be perfect I believe um I think that's it and then if for some reason you're here in the room you have something on the tip of your tongue you didn't sign up but you still want to reach out to us all of us are available through through email and phone and other means as well all right with that I will start with Jahan Hoban hater I still didn't get it right Johanna I'm sorry but hopefully I'm getting closer okay thank you and your clock will be up here and I am a stickler I will cut you off at three minutes carte blanche okay well thank you I want to talk about book access and restrictions a couple board meetings ago several people from the community came and read from passages that had a lot of profanity and graphic sexual content trying to drive a point home the point that there are books available on our libraries that shouldn't be there um I want to start with reading a few passages that I found from a book there they do have some profanity they do have some graphic sexual content they are brief and they're only three he took hold of her and said unto her and come lie with me my sister and she answered him name my brother do not force me for no such thing ought to be done albeit he would not hearken into her voice but being stronger than she forced her and lay with her the second one says when Judah saw his daughter-in-law he thought her to be a harlot because she had covered her face and he turned to her by the way and said go I pray thee let me come into thee and she said but will thou give me that thou mayest come into me this the third one is a story of two women two girls seducing their father and I've I've done enough this isn't where they want to go I think most of you recognize that this these passages all come from the Bible and they all meet the criteria they all have a lot of profanity a lot of graphic sexual content in fact when I got here today someone handed me a stack of papers about with I think that have information on books that they found questionable right on the cover it says summary of concerns this book contains sexually explicit excerpts involving minors there are also Exodus containing explicit child rape and abuse illegal drug abuse graphic violence underage alcohol so and adult and child prostitution so the three passages I just read check most of those boxes and the rest of them are more exist in the Bible so this brings up a really awkward question do we want to restrict access to the Bible if it's all the criteria the page that someone was giving out today my hunch is that this is one thing that almost everyone in the room would agree it would be a terrible idea that all those passages that I read have a greater context around them they tell a bigger story a story that's very important to a lot of people and I'll show personally this is the first book that I remember my mom reading to me and she'd read a cover to cover multiple times and she knew what was in it but she read it to me anyway because it was important to her to share these stories with me and the same thing about those books from two board meetings ago all those all of those excerpts that were read have are part of the broader context all of those books tell the bigger story same thing with all the books in the handout that I got today so it raises a question should someone who doesn't value the Bible be able to restrict access to the Bible because it contains all this stuff in it I think that's an obvious no that idea is ludicrous so should someone who doesn't value a book on police brutality or gender identity be able to restrict access to those books why would we ever consider this what I'm asking you please is don't restrict access to these books please do not create a process that allows someone with an ideological bent to influence in an outsized way what books they read what books my kids read based on that ideology thank you thank you thank you sir hello Jack Jack okay uh I would like to clear up some confusion surrounding these policy debates in basic debate standards there is a fundamental difference between an objective disagreement and a personal attack the former merely disagrees with a position or policy where the latter attacks or insults a person or persons disagreements are perfectly fine in a debate but insults insults are not also known as verbal aggression name calling or ad hominem they are fallacious off topic and argumentative tactics these common underhand attacks that tactics are illegitimate attempts to reduce the credibility of the opponent but when exposed they only reduce the credibility of the user in debate credibility is everything another common tactic is to falsely accuse the opponent of making a personal attack this is also known as a straw man Distortion it distorts the definition of disagreement into personal attack of course making it easier to knock down like a straw man such tactics are commonly resorted to by the losing side the side that cannot support their claims so let me tie this together there have been significant accusations made here and about that disagreements with school policy or book content constitute personal attacks from what I have seen these accusations are entirely false but let me speak for myself I am not nor have I been attacking any Librarians teachers or administrators my disagreements including the information I provide to support them are entirely civil and objective so if the other side would refrain from such false accusations mischaracterizations and straw main distortions it would serve your credit credibility better let's keep debate constructive so let me add when I provide National statistics that show that public schools contain a higher percent of pedophiles than the General Public I I think that point has been made I'll ask you to move forward in your statements okay I've made the point of how I'm making the point that is those are National statistics it's just it's redundancer to the same statements you've made the last two meetings you may continue to but for get past I'm always supporting my disagreement with school policy not attacking or insulting or demeaning which policy are you doing or pulling three minutes any person or persons okay thank you Mr anymore we appreciate your input tonight sorry could I reclaim some time there or I don't think so but I'm happy to stay after I feel like I'm being censored a little bit if well if I may say so I will be happy to spend time with you after the meeting sir okay thank you I appreciate it okay uh Rachel hunt hi I'm very happy to be able to speak today my name is Rachel I am a mom of two bcsc students at CSA Lincoln a daughter in fourth grade and a son in second grade um plus they have two younger sons that one day will be bcsc students I also have a master's degree in library science um first I want to thank you for the time you did take at the end of the five o'clock meeting to very thoughtfully go over some of the conversations and topics that have come up about books and policies in the school district I'm also really encouraged by the idea that you share Nikki and the others agreed with to have Librarians come in to share how how they do go over the policies they currently have the reason that I want to speak today is because I was troubled by some of the things in the recent meetings I'm in the public discussion particularly one was the idea that it should be that there should be like the curation or the policies by a committee of politicians and non-life non-librarian parents um the reason this trouble with me is because there already are people who this is their job and that's obviously the teachers and Librarians who went to school for this to receive the training they are our teachers some Librarians and we need to trust them and we need to support them so I'm thankful for those here who do I literally looked up like how long it took me like I knew that it took me two years to get my Master's Degree in library science it was 36 credits 49 000 and two years the full-time study um this is something that can't be replicated by a team of even well-meaning politicians and non-librarian parents it just isn't something that's possible I can't go and pretend to be a lawyer pretend to have another field so I hope that we can trust those who did put in the work the time and the money to learn the skills and develop the training um second I was troubled not by things that the board shared but by some of the other comments again in the public session last time where they're suggesting that like all parents in the district feel a certain way like all parents are against Librarians or teachers or or like wanting these books to be banned so it's one of the reasons I wanted to speak so there were a lot of people that did represent many of My Views but I'm also I'm both I'm a parent in the school district and I'm a trained librarian so I just wanted to be really clear that there are people of us who have both that background and um are grateful for the work that the Korean Librarians are doing um I also keep thinking like this is a silly example but my daughter wanted to watch the Barbie movie she's only nine it was rated PG-13 so I as her mom said okay let me watch it first and I'll see if I feel comfortable with you watching it after I watched it I did feel comfortable so I took her with me and I watched it again that was my job as her mom to make that choice can I have 30 more years I have a letter from her it's like two sentences can I please read it um so that was I was able to make that choice as her mom she wrote a letter it's very cute handwriting I'm going to leave it with you it says Dear School Board um she names her Librarian Is My Librarian I don't think there's a single book that's inappropriate and she's great at choosing books sincerely her name age nine um so thank you I think you miss that uh Sandy Watts I want to say that it's commendable that you're all here 94 of the students in this community attend bcsc and I think that's something to be proud of I think that shows the commitment this community has to this school corporation hey Miss Watts you have a voice that carries but the microphone might be helpful for others yep just in case thank you um I'm here to address the question of procedures on books I found it interesting that this hasn't been a question until we had a candidate Forum at Columbus Learning Center a certain part of a book was read out of context and people were shocked it was out of context I don't feel it's fair to judge a book by its cover so I've been reading a whole lot my husband will tell you that so I went through and read that book I discovered yeah there was a rape of a nine-year-old that's horrible horrendous I also know there's a student in the school corporation that was being abused by a relative but because she read a book she realized that was a piece she had been told it wasn't she got help I also read that book and realized that in that book it talks about a boy that was nine that forever his life was changed because what happened to him also in that book it talks about a lot of other subjects it talks about how there are young victims of gun violence it is dedicated to those victims of gunpow violence it talks about racism anti-Semitism teen pregnancy white supremacy and children that are dying by accident by guns we didn't hear about that side that's an important component of that book another book that's been brought to my attention was said to have had 184 words that aren't appropriate I haven't read them somebody else I didn't go through encounter also it was said that 34 of those words are the same words I've seen those words around the community I've seen them on science I've seen them on flags do you think you're going to protect your kids from those words is a fallacy those words are out there you have the opportunity to discuss those words with your children what a great context that they learn from you what's right and wrong um also in that book a boy is beaten severely his mother's sees him for the first time in the hospital and when she sees him she says an expletive the boy is shot he says and I can hear him my mother never uses those words that's a lesson right there I think we have to be careful there's 94 000 words in that book I read every one of them so 16 hundredths of a percent are words that have been deemed not appropriate one small Iota that have been focused on I really believe that there have been books that have been put in our school libraries one was put in recently in all 12 of the elementary there's one expletive so now do we pull it because of that one there's a procedure that can be used please please use that procedure if you don't want to use it there's a list of books at every school you can take get that book and decide what your child reads thank you very much for your time and please be considerate of all the employees of our school system thank you thank you thank you [Applause] David Spencer foreign hi my name is David Spencer I want to thank the board for allowing the public to make their comments and staying here for this late night I spoke a couple weeks ago at the last board meeting and I talked about some of the literature I teach at Columbus North High School I'm the 11th grade American lit and AP English teacher at Columbus North High School and my wife's a librarian here in bcsc my main comment a few weeks ago was that the purpose of literature is to provide an antidote for loneliness and a counter to Despair and there's a lot of loneliness and a lot of Despair in the students in the school that I work in and probably all throughout our community in bscsc I appreciate all the comments from the community whether I agree with them or not I think having an open forum and a Democratic Society is very important and we should maintain that I also think the libraries are one of the last truly free and Democratic spaces in our society today and we should support that and support the Librarians who work very hard and have many different factors and multifaceted variables for what they decide not just to put on their shelf and not just the collections that they keep in their library but how they have to analyze those Collections and all the different student needs and student concerns that they have all the different values that the students have that they need to address I teach AP English so many of the students I work with are trying to get college credit and they take an AP English exam at the end of the year and if they pass that exam they earn college credit but they have to write three essays in two hours so as many people here tonight know that would take a lot of stamina and it it's created by the College Board who makes the SAT and they suggest every year what kinds of novels that uh these AP English students should be reading and it's a list of usually 40 to 50 novels that have a wide range of diversity a wide range of authors from Tony Morrison to Harper Lee from To Kill a Mockingbird to Dostoyevsky and War and Peace and these are novels that the College Board expects my students to have access to that these are novels that have all sorts of sexual content and rape and incest and adult subject matter for a class that students can earn college credit we have many students that take AP courses in our high schools and earning these college credit and I think all members of the board and Community promote the access to college board and AP materials and our numbers have been trending upward and our scores have been increasing the last few years and I had 80 percent of all of my AP Lit students passed that AP exam last year so I feel like I'm on the right path and I'm doing the right thing and I feel like my administrators and the teachers I work with have been supporting me so I would like to just readdress and reorient some of the concerns we have in our school with the loneliness and the Despair and the kids that are going into library checking out books are not usually the ones we need to worry about we have more important matters to deal with and I hope we can set a press incident that we will move on from this issue and on to more impressive issues thank you Adeline Hearn hi my name is Addie Hearn I'm a junior at North I started a petition to protect student rights to access information in school libraries my petition went live the evening of Monday August 28th and had over 500 signatures in the first day in under a week the petition had over a thousand signatures as of Sunday afternoon the petition had 1739 signatures and 75 comments more still coming in although there were signatures from all over the world a thousand and forty signatures were from Indiana and 853 from Bartholomew and surrounding counties I started this petition because I value having a variety of choices in the library and I wanted to make my friends aware that our choices might be limited if we didn't do something as school board members we know you play an important role in creating diverse and inclusive learning environment for all students all these students parents family members teachers and Librarians who signed this petition are calling on you to commit to the following to reject any form of censorship or restriction on Library materials to support intellectual Freedom by ensuring all students have access to a wide variety of books representing diverse viewpoints to promote critical thinking skills and encourage open dialogue within our school libraries and to provide professional development opportunities and support for professional Librarians and teachers tests with handling challenges related to our intellectual freedom thank you for the opportunity here is a copy of the petition results for your reference [Applause] I've never had a public speaker get a standing ovation you're quite an impressive girl Miss Hearn thank you Sunny curse and that is not right so sorry I am Sunny Currier um and I will do my best to tell a little story that I'd like to share with you I will try to be coherent I feel like I might be in a slight budget report coma but amen I'm just trying my best um not even kidding um so I have some roles in this community where I spend a lot of time with teenagers and have relationships with them um and I had coffee with a young woman that I've known for several years a college student recently and I'd like to just share especially with the board and Dr Roberts what what she related to me um she enrolled in Purdue wanting to be a high school math teacher she is so bright she talks about calculus 3 like it's her best friend and I don't know anyone except maybe Dale who would feel that way um she is she is super super bright she has helped other younger people with math and is really creative she understands how to explain things in different ways this is a very gifted young woman and what I'd like to share is that when we had coffee last week she told me that she was changing her major and I asked her why and she said I don't want to be treated the way I see teachers being treated and so it made me sad but with all the controversy that has been going on I've already shared my feelings of confidence in our school librarians and our teachers I think what I'd like to do today is to remind every board member Dr Roberts all of the administration that I hope you have and continue to have the backs of your professional staff because young eyes are on you thank you [Applause] yeah Steve Jasper my name is Steve Jasper and I'd like to start out by saying that I I come before you tonight not as a parent not as a parent of a student in bcsc but just as a member of this community and someone who cares very much about doing the best for our kids that we possibly can and based on the number of attendees tonight it seems that we have many people locally who are heavily invested in parenting their children and that's a good thing in fact it would probably be desirable if even more parents were as much involved in parenting their children as many of the people here tonight appear to be however there are some people here tonight because they want not only to parent their children but because they also have a an interest in parenting the children of other people and and they do that by trying to make decisions about which books are appropriate in our libraries in which students should have access to which books um and you know my feeling is if you want your children's exposure to books to specific books or to particular topics to be limited that is your prerogative as a parent but you should not have the right to impose such restrictions on other children and other parents when my son was in school and this was not a bcsc it was my goal and and I hope the goal of his teachers to develop an informed empathetic individual who would above all else be a good citizen I wanted him to learn that the world is full of people of different races nationalities economic classes religious beliefs sexual orientations personal and group histories and political opinions and I wanted him to develop an understanding of those differences the best way to do that is through direct experience with those opportunities are not always available therefore we offer our children the next best thing and that is exposure to diversity through Reading and as a somewhat biased parent I believe that this goal was achieved with my son but I do Wonder what would have happened and if his if his attainment of this goal would have been achieved if there had been parents in his school at the time who were interested in limiting his access to the books that he might want to read thank you Mr Jasmine Hewitt all right you hear me there we go all right good evening my name is Brittany Hewitt and my husband's name is Joseph Hewitt I'm here today to speak about reasonable accommodations we've lived in Columbus for a little over three years our daughter has started kindergarten this year at Southside Elementary School our daughter's a fighter she was born nine weeks prematurely and had three significant brain bleeds which led to our significant Visual and hearing impairment she has cortical visual impairment and due to this she has little to no lower field Vision this makes seeing curves on sidewalks very difficult along with walking up steps it's extremely difficult for her to know where the edge of the step is and where the drop begins one of the most common modifications that are utilized for people with visual impairments is taping or painting the edge of each stair with high contrast tape or paint this allows people with visual impairments to see where the step ends and the drop begins this allows them to walk up and down the stairs like every other kid Southside Elementary has been extremely accommodating to taping the stairs inside the school we've also requested though the exterior steps of Stop south side to be taped or painted my daughter utilizes those steps every day after Eye Care my husband I have seen the difficulty my daughter has experienced using those stairs we are told by the administration because there is a ramp they would not be taping those stairs but really all we want is for her to be able to walk those stairs confidently like any other child but the part that really troubles my husband and I is that my daughter's life should mean more to the administration than spending 38 dollars on a gallon of paint every now and then in actuality though we feel the real reason the administration will not tape or paint those stairs is because they don't really care about my child or about children with extra needs they don't want my child to be able to run up the stairs like any other kid they don't care to make it easier for her by just applying a little tape I want her to be different and feel different from her peers they want to limit her to just the ramp in life I know my daughter will experience trying times like any other kid but in her life she'll experience different challenges I don't know if she'll ever be able to drive I don't know what challenges she'll face because of her visual impairment but I do know there will be many it's because this world isn't built for people with disabilities I wish it were but it was just not but my daughter is five years old all she wants us to do is play dance and sing all she wants us to do is what other kids do she doesn't know she has or will have more challenges than neurotypical kids to you this paint or tape is an inconvenience an extra cost and extra work but to us my daughter this is everything it would allow my daughter to walk down those steps free of injury and free of fear if they can give us that with a little bit of paint I don't know why they wouldn't so we're requesting a school board agree to paint the exterior steps of south side and to hold the administration accountable to grant our request thank you [Applause] Carla Craig that clock makes me nervous my name is Carla Craig and Dr Robert Smith mentioned at the end of the last meeting that the Librarians and Library assistants had sent you all a letter and I just want to put a face to that letter my husband and I have been married for 43 plus years we live in ogilville we raise two sons I have two grandchildren and I have worked at the Mount Healthy library for 25 years in that time I think I've had one parent who called me and said you know I don't want my son to read books about witches and of course I automatically thought that you know she didn't like books about witches later I found out that wasn't true it was that the book scared him and so she didn't want her child to be scared um Dr Mr Nolan who had my son Adam a long time ago um mentioned that this is spark week and my spark has always been children I've always been interested in taking care of her children and being with children and um I babysat at an early age and I have I have a love for children um I just want you to know that these libraries have people who are running them I've done it for at least 10 years at Mount Healthy um I have a brain I have a face and I have a heart and I love those children and I would never purposely um let them have access to something that was going to hurt them I am also available so if if someone has a problem with my books in the library they they can call me they can come in and meet me they can talk to me and I I am certainly willing to look at the book and take the book to the principal I've done it um to find out whether or not it really is an appropriate book we have a procedure in place if you disagree with a book you can fill out a form you can talk to the principal and there is a committee of people in the end who will decide about the book If you if you really think it's a bad book so there is a procedure you can talk to me about your own personal child you can fill this form out um if you really disagree with a book um but there are a lot of people and a lot of words coming out of this microphone that behind this issue there are people there are employees and there are children and I feel like I want to do the best for the kids at Mount Healthy and again I would never do anything purposely to hurt them I make mistakes and I apologize for them and thank you for listening thank you Miss Craig Cassie Oren uh good evening I'm Kathy Orrin I live on 2880 West Carr Hill Road I had three sons that graduated from Columbus North and I just really want to make two very brief comments um one is I want to thank Kristen Marshall and Kelly McIntyre for their really heartwarming presentation of the great work they're doing in early learning our community has a real desperate need for capacity and spots in the early learning space so I'm truly grateful to to the two of them and to the entire bcsd team for all the work that's been done over the years to grow the capacity for Pre-K and preschool secondly I just wanted to say thank you to all of our Librarians and share my heartfelt support we have amazing Librarians in bcsc they're doing great work they're highly trained highly skilled very caring individuals and our kids love them and they're very lucky to have them so I just want them to know there are a lot of people in our community that that support them and I would like to encourage our board to engage with the Librarians as appropriate and to utilize the policy that we have in place as you've heard from others today I think it should work as needed and there's no need for anything different so thank you we appreciate you Nancy Mervis thank you harmful to minors can mean different things to different people I do not propose complete moral relativism but we must consider how we apply that standard the example that comes to mind for me as a psychologist arises from years of experience listening to people as they live through or remember living through adversity Hard Times bad events in their lives many books teach the just World hypothesis they tell children if they act rightly they do the right thing things will work out that is a reassuring message until things go very badly and we all know the terrible things that can happen in children's lives or even something less dramatic like a divorce or death of their grandmother you know the things that many of us can expect to go through children can conclude that they must have done something wrong or that something they couldn't help was actually their fault I'd rather not see children top that message but I'm not proposing to remove every book that gives us what I think is misleading account of how the universe works philosophers and religions have struggled throughout history to address the question of why do bad things happen to good people and it's corollary why do good things happen to bad people these are important questions and I don't think I can constrain what children read about the attempted answers even though some ques some answers May leave them vulnerable to anxiety and self-blame I trust our librarians to give to include books that give children the opportunity to learn what others have thought about the world and what happens to us in that world thank you Johnny Edwards it's me again I want to commend you first of all and say thank you for the opportunity to speak to you once again but I'm here today as a community leader elected Community leader even though I reside in district one being an elected Community leader I represent all my districts and everybody in my community one other thing I want to encourage you as board members and people that are supposed to follow the core belief it says our community school district are stronger when partnering with one another the more you're divided the more this community is going to distrust you now speaking as someone that represents the African-American community and while we're worried about books and other things I don't know if you guys know of your kids watch tick tock social media it's far worse than what you can imagine and the reason I'm saying that is there's a trend right now taking place in bcsc where kids are capturing kids on the phone paying them ten dollars if you go up and say somebody to somebody the n-word so while we're focusing on everything else understand there's an underlying message that's being going on right underneath our nose with our children that's not happening in a library it's happening on social media but as long as you're divided our community will not trust you and I'm hoping and this is why I commend you for supporting the Multicultural coordinator do you know how much of an impact that's made in my community alone to have that representative there but guess what he's being browbeat on social media for representing multiple cultures if you don't back that individual she'll continue to be attacked and it was just over or later we won't have anyone to represent our kids of color now as a parent I'm gonna give you an example of how I could be up here preaching a message about wanting to stand up against something I have a daughter in elementary that was being invited to go on a field trip to I believe it's the old school of the 1800s some of you guys as a parent of color at first I wanted to be upset because how are you going to invite my daughter to a school trip that back in the 1800s she never would have been able to go to but you know what I had to take a different approach as a parent I had to find something constructive and educational to help her understand who she is and what she was participating in can benefit her in the long run so while we're worrying about what other people can teach our children I have a responsibility to teach my own again I'm going to say to you school board members represent everyone stand together or you're not going to have a community that trusts you anymore thank you our boils Barb Wheels oh that's okay I am a parent of seven children and I'm currently in my 20th year as a bcsc parent I have five more to go um so um when you talk about limiting and reviewing books my mind goes to many many different places have even a little chart here that I did earlier but to many places but the main thing and I don't think I've heard really anybody talk about this is who is most affected by limiting books and it's the lower income families now if you limit a book at the bcsc library that they want to read or they need to read for a project they may not be able to get it my daughter who happens to actually be the person Sunny spoke of earlier had a friend when she was in high school she lived in Heritage Heights and her family did not have a car her only mode of transportation to and from school was the school bus so she could not utilize the public library because she wouldn't have had a way to get home so the only way she can get the books she wanted to read was the library or if she was lucky enough to have a friend that wanted that had the book and was willing to lend it to her [Music] um you know what I sped through that a lot faster than I meant it too but that's pretty much all of it have a great evening I'm Steve Wills there was a moment in time when we were about two percent of Southside enrollment between me and my brother and our seven and their five anyway a lot of my points have been made so I just want to make a couple of these one is that the actions of this board and the school generally are actions of the government and the government deciding content of speech is something that hasn't always gone well in their passes should only be done very seriously and very soberly and well the current board has Infinite Wisdom the next board that comes along may not so this might be the kind of thing we don't necessarily want to get into doing um I've also heard in here a couple of comparisons to movie ratings doesn't really apply movie ratings are entirely voluntary and they're done by a private organization and again this is a the acting of a government body and if we ban a book or whatever the proper word is it's gone it's not like the librarian can say well I know and in the movies they can just say no you can go on through so this is not the same thing at all um and then I think just uh um the last one is that I think the Touchstone should be educational value I hear a lot of you know this is the count of how many bad words are in this book or these are the topics that are touched on and so forth and I really think if you look at our mission statement is to educate kids and that should be where we decide what's in the library so we should be looking at the educational value and I don't necessarily hear that um when we're talking about things I hear like oh this shows something bad you know um so anyway that's what I would say is let's move very soberly because we are a government body and um yeah let's focus on the educational value of the books thank you okay that concludes our public comments for the night I just really want to thank everybody for sticking with us and taking the time it's very much appreciated okay move on to how requests for approval old business okay I'll take that Mrs Wilden um I do have recommendations under old business for minutes of the regular school board meeting our last one August the 21st as well as two of those four Neola policy recommendations we have four that are are holdovers from the last volume of the oil policies we're working on just because they needed some additional conversation we had some additional conversation tonight and we're looking at Wellness as really a new first reading given the the draft of that created by our Wellness team and the 5420 reporting of student progress you've given me some direction on on marrying a couple of paragraphs together with some thoughts so we'll work on those two so I would ask for approval of policy 5610 suspension and expulsion of students and policy 8400 school safety with policy 5610 I would ask that we change the school board to accepting all expulsion appeals and hearing those and his expulsion appeals that is different than we had talked about before so the board would choose to do that and under school safety we are adding entities within the community that we would seek out input except for Corporation police officers which was included in that list of of entities we do not have that are our school resource officers are contracted in conjunction with the Columbus Police Department and Bartholomew County Sheriff's Office so those would be the two policies that would recommend and the changes that we have based on conversation in those two policies thank you Dr Roberts you have a motion from the board I moved we approved the minutes of our last meeting and the changes to policies 5610 and 8400 as presented by Dr Roberts second thank you Mr grahamson Mr major any discussion or questions okay very good all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion passes thank you and and I would like to thank the board for taking the time during those policy conversations I think they are helpful to have that dialogue uh around the different thoughts and uh helps us create a good policy under the next one it is request for approval new business and I have field trips and professional lease supplemental contracts school fundraisers as well as claims in payroll for the claims dated today September 11th about eight hundred thousand dollars for our pre-run that was for the month of August August 1 through August 31 almost four million dollars then our payroll uh the last one August the 21st is a little over 3.4 million dollars I also have two resolutions uh letter G is a resolution regarding the vaping settlement Dr Phillips included information in your packet about that this is the second settlement that we were asking for the language is basically the same in that agreement the first one was through Jewel and this one is through the company that is over Jewel which is the Phyllis Morris group or Altria and this amount is eighty seven thousand two hundred ten dollars and as we indicated when accepting the um a few hundred thousand dollars we were to receive from Jewel we would like to turn this about uh back around and look at substance misuse and how our Wellness Council can take the dollars being received if you approve this and use those for the purpose in which we we sought them which was the issues with with vaping that we were seeing throughout our community and and communities across the country letter H our last one is the resolution that Dr Phillips talked about in the public hearing at the beginning of the meeting so that amount for a 2023 additional appropriation those are my request for approval under new business Dr Roberts do you have a motion from the board I move that we approve number four letter C through H as presented by Dr Roberts second thank you Mr Grimes and Mr major any questions or discussion okay all those in favor say hi hi all those opposed motion carries thank you Dr Blake I request approval of the HR recommendations that's presented this evening you will see that there are two recommendations thank you doctor please I move that we approve the HR recommendations as presented by Dr plea second thank you Mr grams and Mr major all those in favor say aye all those opposed thank you Dr Blake okay let's start on this end um well I want to start with two commendations accommodations to Keith Burton band director at Columbus North and Casey Mitchell director bands at Columbus East their staff students and band parents for a well-organized marching band Invitational this past weekend and for an outstanding performance by the sound and spirit of Columbus I'm a specially thrilled that that students and staff from both of our high schools and parents work together to put on such a quality program um commendations to Darren Johnson and Derek Gratz with C4 and the exhibit Columbus High School design team on their outstanding com contribution to the installations downtown and to the presentations that they have made about those installations they have done a impressive job of representing bcsc and C4 and further note I have actually had conversations with teachers and administration from Columbus East and Columbus North around the high school team restructuring and um and I it's been very encouraging they are excited and it seems to be going well but I would like to reiterate I think it's been said before but but I would like a report back to the board maybe at the end of the quarter or maybe at the end of the semester with some measures and also I would particularly be interested I think I think we can say that this was instituted without a hundred percent backing from the teachers and I would be interested now that it's being implemented to have a some kind of survey or feedback from the teachers to see if their thoughts where their thoughts are at this point and my last thing that I want to say actually um so it's been said in the past what percent agreement we have between these two groups that we hear from I'm not one to make up percent so I'm not going to say what percent agreement we have but but I heard two speakers say tonight that what we want is what's best for our kids and I think it's good for us to acknowledge that both sides of this argument want what's best for our kids we might not always agree what that looks like but but we are in agreement that we are doing this for our kids going over the last week I want to thank Dr hack who hosted us for the home built by C4 students to celebrate the 50th anniversary of barcon construction and it was a collaborative build in the Lincoln Central Family neighborhood so I want to congratulate that team and all the effort that they did and the students that put in the Blood Sweat and Tears probably to get that building up and the family that was very very humble to receive it so I want to send a kudos to Dr hack and his team over in C4 Kudos also to Columbus North High School for winning the Excellence in college readiness Awards a couple nights ago with a 250 000 award and the efforts that go there and also hearing similar positive feedback from the team's model and the ccic meeting um also kudos to Dr Roberts on winning the Indiana Wellness volunteer of the Year from the Indiana Chamber of Commerce this has been a critical aspect as we bounce back out of the covid-19 pandemic and the wellness requirements they're in that our students face and the challenges they're in and I know that has been a commitment by the administration and it's along it's very very deserving finally I would ask that this board seriously considered the inquiry by Miss Hewitt at Southside Elementary School I had the privilege of talking with both parents as they are members of my district and also with Southside Elementary School and I'd like to see a report of that as soon as it may be made available um thanks even though they're going now and probably getting ready for bed thanks to Mrs McIntyre and Mrs Marshall for their presentation this evening on vcsc Early Childhood bright beginnings and Pre-K thanks to all community members stakeholders that were present at our Public Work session prior to this meeting and all of you that have hung around to either listen and or speak this evening and lastly in regards to all this book talk I think one thing that everybody can agree on is the absolute vital importance of nurturing and developing young readers and I I saw I was kind of late in reading the newest newsletter on the 8th I believe but uh so this is for anybody out there listening book buddies needs volunteers um second you'd be paired with second third graders across the district to help them further hone their their reading skills and abilities and you can inquire at bookbuddies at bcsc.k12.in.us thank you um I love being able to serve on the board and and I'm just going to share something kind of off the cuff I was at work today and I left a little early because our meetings here started at four and and they're like but don't you have a school board meeting I say it'll be five five hours guys five hours and they all look at me like oh my gosh I'm so sorry and I'm not I'm not sorry I really I enjoy serving this way I enjoy the different perspectives I'm learning so much I hope I'm giving a lot so anyway I just wanted people to to know that second thing is um you know I I appreciate all the speakers but two stood out to me Miss Courier that budget comatose I'm going to use that at work that was gold that was gold um and then also to Addie Hearn it was great to get to hear the perspective of kids and I'm super impressed with you thank you again thank you I'd Echo the commendations that other board members have made in particular I appreciate the speakers and the listeners the folks who are paying attention to the work of the school corporation it's welcome speakers at the four o'clock meeting the folks that sat and listened through the boring five o'clock meeting and then the folks that spoke this evening but also the folks that listened I appreciate it and I'm sure it will help us to better work as a board yeah as rich just said I agree with everything everybody's already said so I will add that um this time of year uh there's Not Just Sports but there's other after school activities that are going on so I just wanted to give a commendation out to all the coaches directors mentors teachers everybody that's taken place or taken their time out to support after school activities it's a lot of extra work that people put in and sometimes that time is just given freely and then also just to highlight that you know there's a lot of bus drivers that are part of the make the late trip home with the team and custodial staff that has to clean up afterwards so I just want to tell all them thank you they don't probably hear that enough so thank you I'm Mr Bryant first of all I would like to invite Miss Marshall and Miss McIntyre back before the end of the year just to see how things I know that they need more space over there been in that school and yes they do then I would like for the people to look at that young lady that stood up there and read and understand that that she turned out pretty good and I don't know what books you read but I have for uh apparently it's been enough to influence not just self but your other students that are around you so and that young lady inside you looked like you too so keep it up thank you oh by the way we have two of our employees from Bethany County Public Library that have joined the bull Buddies just to let you know okay uh with that I think upcoming dates we have our regular school board meeting here September 25th at 6 30 we will again have a public work session just before that starting at five o'clock ending at six o'clock also in this in this building okay with that meeting adjourned thank you

so so this is by grade level students in grades three to eight to the aasa English language arts and math test so the proficiency points came from if they are partially proficient they get 0.6 points available total 30 points available okay and the numbers here are based on percentage so students who are partially proficient will earn 0.6 points per student and Minima proficient students will add one point highly proficient students will get 1.3 so they calculate add up all the points and then divide by the total number of students eligible and that is how the percentage is calculated so our fifth grade is beginning 40 out of 30 points fifth grade this is out of 100 points then average to 29.7 out of 100 then convert it into out of 30 points of it so out of 100 points our eighth graders are getting 9.3 yes so yeah 9.03 that's in math you can also say the details of like the growth component of it how the growth product s so the growth component based on how they performed last year if there were minimally proficients and if their growth is below average or low growth and average growth or high growth if they show high growth this is compared to strengths at the same in the same grade level in the same condition compared to other students how our students perform their improvements so this is calculated out of 100 uh I have a better slide on this one but the bottom line is like in English language arts 25 points eligible we are on 25 and in math we earned all 25.

curious from telegraphs it shows a decline with eighth grade math is that is there subject introduced in eighth grade math it's just that more students struggle with no this is the same that wasn't a change in any of the standards last year but it is sometimes like the 20 like after taking multiple tests yeah sometimes there is some slight fluctuation um is the same teacher teaching seventh and eighth grade and you can see that seventh graders and points but in eighth grade but in turn you know one point per student yeah the same students 27 students and 36 points more than the number of students for real proficiency are proficiency level for Azalea test was law but our students demonstrated excellent growth so we had five out of points Five Points possible shots growth 2005 for proficiency so total seven points for acceleration and readiness um categories eligible is like reducing the number of ela minimally proficient in third grade and eighth grade math increasing oh sorry decreasing the number of students minimally proficient chronic absenteeism subgroup Improvement special education inclusion and so all out of all these categories as a cutoff of 10 points so we are at 13 points where there is a cutoff fee and total time based on the percentage of students attending um special education program if it reaches the state average or what percentage of the state average we have a vegan bonus points so we have two bonus points and for the science test students took in fifth grade students in fifth grade and eighth grade to the Science assessment and based on if they meet the state average or increase close to the state average there's a 1.3 sorry 1.5 or 3 points eligible but we did not earn anything in the center of end of October there is one more science result that is supposed to come in I don't know if it is going to change anything significantly but uh as of now it is zero bonus points the same thing again um just to remind us like the total number of points we earned is 77.9 1 the cut scores for last year was like below 47.8 viewers Trading 47 to 60.1 was D and [Music] above 84.678 and does that change from year to year from the state yes they decide um they meet the State Warriors by the means in September and the Ade is presenting some suggestions recommendations for that in September and it will be finally adoption of job but if we use a scroll we have right now for last year it would be good received last year we had 64.88 so that was closer to the Lower Side of sea where this guy looking at these scores we will be in the middle of these but so even if they change it increase it slightly I'm expecting it to be a big step of the K-8 Elementary School sometime after being told me last year I presented I'm not sure if I presented this slide to the board but with the features I did present a plan for this year so I was projecting into reach 75.5 and this was the estimate management went below like we did not meet the proficiency goal of 12.

um we haven't really deviated over the last few years from a 13 in all grade levels 10th grade it's a 12th ninth grade to 13. now these numbers are a little bit skewed because the way that the test is designed so you'll see even in ninth grade there's assessment number two so one grade or one class accidentally took assessment number two and they didn't take out the data for that and then we accidentally had some kids take different tests like a ninth grader took the junior level one and and passed really well so I was like oh great um you're going to do really well but we had stuff it was the way it's just a test design flaw and so that's a variable that I think we can easily get rid of with the PD session can I ask a question about these charts just make sure I'm understanding them so this is 13 out of a possible 36 12 items so so it's only uh you know roughly a third of the desired uh level yes for the Perfect Score yes and Ms Daniels had mentioned earlier what I our normal cut score over like the five-year data Trend I didn't want to put everything in there otherwise I would take up I already told these guys I'm going to take up way more time but the five-year data trend is we have around like 16.1 16.9 composite score for juniors we did get our data and I don't know what it compares to the state I haven't gotten that but our average cut score for the high school last year was 17.1 the year before that I think it was 16.7 or 16.9 so we did have a bit of a gain now act says even though that's around the state average ACT says that you have to have a 19 to be minimum that's the bottom end of proficiency so we're not quite there but um a reasonable goal I think is for us to at least make a one point composite gain in each grade level I think that is very possible from now year or the quarter a year so we will do um we have another test in November and then we have another test in February but the ACT test happens in March I don't know what the official date is but it's usually March could be April we're doing it online so I think it might be April okay so to break it down a little bit more here's pre-act so ninth grade you'll see at the on the left side those are our areas identified as strengths which is a little bit ironic because um this is why I say there's a test it's a it's a system flaw it's not a irregularity on our part but they're like where it says word and real world problems is it like that's just cruel that's word that's a tongue twister but that also came up as like a lowest scored area so I couldn't as we were starting to drill it down per student and what the actual results were um we did department chair my department chairs looked at all of the data within their departments I had my teachers create their own Improvement goals for this year because what I really want is for them to own the data and then I want them to be able to go back into their classroom and do targeted interventions and so they need to get familiar with what the data means and what it looks like so right now in grade nine if you look at the graph The Benchmark this is where act Horizons program says this is where we should be right now they think okay if we get to a 13 we're on we're on track okay so we're good there for English in math there's a four point differentiation reading three and science there's a seven point differentiation so science for us right now is a division area all across the board you'll see that as we go across grade levels for grade 10.

you had to know okay 31 there's no directions where do I find 31 over here and then you had to figure out what was the problem without any direction and it ended up being a grammatical thing instead of a a comma it was supposed to be a semicolon so it's stuff like that that trips kids up and they might otherwise if they had clear Direction they might have gotten it correct or a better percentage but that's not that's not the case we're not the test creators um but we are trying to expose kids to these these tests so that they're more familiar with it by the time that they're a junior all right we're gonna keep going English Department said okay based off of the results we want to improve production of writing with an emphasis on main focus so we're talking about a thesis as well as thorough reading comprehension skills so a writing goal and a reading goal so reading comprehension is close reads are we able to extract information are we actually comprehending what we are reading and then grammar rules this was kind of a side thing but as a school we decided to focus on the the writing and reading because we can kind of do that at all in all content areas English is specifically going to focus on grammar rules semicolons colons and parallelism for math focus on algebraic skills the large majority of the ACT test tests algebraic skills second to that is geometry so for for us we said okay specifically the skills slope and polynomials we saw that that was an area where kids were really deficient the overall algebraic skills so even in Geometry they're going to make a better link so what you do is algebra and then you you use it in a spatial content and geometry so you have a cube and it's n plus three and then over on the side might be six and we have to that's an algebraic concept and so their job they're going to try and intentionally link this is an algebra skill we just added a shape so we're going to focus a little bit more on being more intentional with making that linkage there and then also word see word and real world problems so word problems that has that continues to be a trip up because if kids are proficient in Reading well if they're trying to read a math problem and they're deficient in algebra skills well it's going to be very difficult for them to set up an equation so the math department is working on ways on how they can even generate act tests like questions that they can share within their department and just have like ACT test prep Focus points during the day as part of bell ringers or warm-ups or closures science so scientific investigation comparing and contrasting figures in text so the scientific investigation point but then more specifically comparing and contrasting figures and types so looking at a diagram comparing and contrasting information and then interpreting data just locating so identifying things that might be on the paper that one I was we'll see how that goes because that seems like it would be a no-brainer but the test results show that the kids scored really well in that area okay interventions Mr Fogle a lot of the stuff is similar there are a couple of things that I'll point out as I go through that we've changed this year or added so Monday through Thursday before and after school tutoring we have English math science and social studies so science we have twice a week social studies once a week English and math we've got every day every day after school and then um Wednesdays are a protected PLC day for us or professional learning communities that's where departments get together it's a sacred time no meetings for IEPs or 504s or parent meetings that is time dedicated for them to be within their Department to plan um I'll skip to where it says introduced multi-tiered systems of support training so it's commonly referred to as mtss we started with phase one of that and it has to do with raising tier one instruction so if you think of a triangle it's the bottom and if we get really good solid tier one instruction that is going to help 80 of our kids in class which will then build capacity for teachers to address students who might be like on that first go about 15 10 to 15 percent of the kids where they might need additional help scaffolding a differentiated that gives the teacher more capacity to help students who are not at grade level um and then tier three at the very top of the triangle that's usually your targeted instruction where they're in um a more restricted environment it could be for Behavior it could also be an instructional academic but so we just talked about well what does good instruction look like so Mr Fogle I think it's twofold it's yes we need kids here but then it's we have to really clearly Define what is Mastery what does Mastery look like um because if the kids don't understand what masteries look like then it's like throwing a dart in the dark um so we're working on trying to build up the professional development within the school and getting teachers to do what they do best and teach the content without so many distractions so I know it's not popular opinion around here but like having the cell phone and earbud policy and having a dress code having things that are put structure in place for our kids has been very helpful for the teachers so if my teachers feel like they can teach gosh it's worth it if they're happy then my kids are going to be happy because we know that that passion transfers into the classroom so little tweaks to our climate and culture big big gains because it's a hard job so anything I can do to kind of make their life a little bit easier we're going to do within reason um three additional trainings will be held we have one coming up on October 20th that's going to be on differentiate instruction and Scaffolding because those are two very different ideas um and so we'll dive into that a little bit more we're going to do data on that day so we've scheduled a training with Horizon they're going to go over the data in detail with my teachers teach them how to break it down how to utilize it access it we did adjust some numbers in algebra one we were able to look at it and add two sections so algebra one is that foundational um foundational level at the high school so algebra one is so important to develop those skills up through pre-calcular Algebra 2 that they're going to get at their junior level so with smaller class sizes it's more attainable so we were able to add to a sec two sections we dissolved one section of geometry and that opened up space for us to have another teacher teach two additional sections of algebra one um grade level meetings we focus on standards department meetings we focus on standards so sometimes we'll switch it up on Wednesdays that's a sacred day for professionals to get together it could be at grade level department it's mostly Bennett Department we'll eventually get to grade level but right now I need them to look at the data at their Department level before they can meet within their grade level we have an El English teacher Miss karate which everybody I think everybody knows she's amazing talked to her just a couple days ago with Miss Daniels and we've hired an El tutor so she'll be coming in Tuesdays and Thursdays she's going to provide services in the morning and afternoon and then also our Friday tutoring she also has helped out with professional development okay I'll just kind of buzz through some of these so if you had some questions feel free to ask supplemental intervention so um they purchased some science and social studies textbooks in Spanish so we can make the content more accessible to our Spanish speakers math Excel is an online program that you can utilize in the classroom to help break down math concepts or get kids you can create centers have some kids working here while the teacher is working one-on-one with another student professional development three instructional assistants to work with small groups so we've got Diana with El we've got Miss karate and we also have Daryl right now has been doing a lot for us at the special ed level and then we've just got instructional coaches in general Helen is at the high school which I'm really grateful for so part-time she's there every day for three periods trying to help some of our teachers and then we have Julie Bryce who's been coming in and helping with our teachers who are coming to us from an alternative educational background because really the more that and I get fired up because later when I have some training with my teachers the better we get the the higher level of self-out efficacy the it is John Hattie um there's this this study of the Monumental growth you can almost make a whole two years worth of gain um if we get excited and and you only get excited when you see kids improve and so trying to develop the teacher so that they can then go back to the classroom and see the results themselves um that there's magic in that and so we're getting there biting one one little nibble at a time student support position it's Riley right now at the high school she pulls reports for D's and S we just notified every kid and their family uh that if they had a drf on their progress report they were notified and then we will do some pollance to track and monitor those kids say hey how are we going to get better a more streamlined attendance system okay so I won't go into great great detail right now what we're trying to do is just do what's in our handbook really really well for The Chronic absenteeism I do have a student committee I took I pulled um a large audience of not just my department chairs but of my athletic director and some of my after-school Club folks I said hey because I don't want the STK the same 10 kids I want to know okay I'm going to propose this problem to them I'm going to talk about it at site Council and say hey what do you think the problem is and what are some solutions because we could talk about the problem all day long but how are we going to improve it and get some input from other people and eventually take it to the community and maybe possibly build talk to the other high schools in the area because I think it'd be really great I know we're not the only ones struggling with absenteeism I think it's too easy for kids to miss school it's really easy for kids to especially at the high school right now the law doesn't help us at 16 they can we know with parent support they can opt out so trying to get them to see the value of a four-year high school education program is is definitely something that's on my mind but we also have to make it more difficult for them to just leave so we're going to try and work on that over the course of the year we incentivized excellent achievement on benchmarks we just treated them actually today it was supposed to be on Thursday but the person who read the announcement didn't do anything the date to be read so it was fine and we were prepared in the cafeteria so the kids got a tree treat and then other kids are like wait what yeah because I didn't advertise it ahead of time I just fomo gets kids fear of missing out so we announced hey we're we're giving you guys a free treat at the student store kind of or I mean the cafeteria um and they were excited and then data assessment to create shared goals generated generated by teachers we've already done that and plc's every week and then I do monthly department chair meetings that's actually tomorrow that's where that's where we're trending um improve 85 85 of our student benchmark scores decreased chronic absenteeism by 10 I think that's a lofty goal but we're going to go for it student data sharing so able to see the results our goal is to get the test results to the kids and and show them and do a little of a better job of revealing what it is that they well they get an instant test score but what does that mean they know what they got but let's break it down at the classroom level teachers can now see data at their class level first PLC meeting about the test was August 30th and we developed shared Improvement goals for each department thank you any questions you look like you're pondering yeah you know so this math issue has puzzled me it's a I just as a educator for a long time uh an administrator um and um I I guess I want to comment similarly to what uh Miss uh hilborn commented after I asked Brandy if you're doing all a great job clearly there's a lot of work going on I recognize all of that kind of work it's very similar to when I was struggling with these issues and then miss hilborn said we've really got to change the way we teach kids so it seems to me we need a Manhattan Project on math learning um and I don't I don't know what the answers are and I and I I met and I was not asking these questions to be critical um but maybe I was asking these questions for that maybe we think a little bit harder and maybe a little bit differently about it this has been a persistent problem and you know I grant you the the attendance issue is big but this was this persisted well before the kind of attendance problem we're now we're now struggling um so um at any rate um thank you for all of your responses you're welcome thank you thank you well thank you all of you we appreciate the presentations tonight and with that we're going to say good night adios

here's that tax cap loss slide I showed you for a number of years that we were hovering right around that one million dollar Mark then that started ticking up around 2016 and continues to increase very very quickly for this year you can see the dlgs estimate that's what this slide is made up of it's closer to the 3.5 million dollar Mark but um it's never as high as what they estimate and so I budgeted for 3 million in cap losses for 24.

in that 25 out of 25-25 25 possible points to get all acquaintance yes so that raised me the question like um debating on how much more beyond the 25 possible points that we have so this is what the state said how they calculated the numbers if they are long road no matter how they performed last year we get zero points and if they're of average growth then we get one point question and if the growth is high then minimally proficient students will earn two points partially professional students will get 1.8 proficient students will get 1.2 and highly proficient students will get one point so using that I calculated the points for our students in so third grade students didn't have a prior real test so we don't they don't have a growth component so students in fourth through eighth grade we had 23 students eligible in Ela and the fourth graders and 27.4 points fifth graders 25 points eligible then 20.4 6th grade 18 students were included in the head growth component calculation they earned 21.8 points 7 grade 33 and they earned 26.2 points 827 students eligible and 36 points in English language in math the fourth graders did again beyond their eligible points 25 students and 28 points and first period in maths 26 students and 34.8 fines sixth grade 19 students and 27.8 points and seventh grade 33 students and it is 6.6 and in eighth grade 27 students they were only 22 points so what it means is where we had 126 students eligible in all Ela and we earned 131.8 points and in math 130 eligible students 149.2 points what it means is 256 students eligible command combining the two and we had total 281 points if we were eligible for more points we would have gotten 54.88 but there's a cutoff of 50.

but even beyond the 40 points for growth acceleration in Readiness we got all 10 out of 10 as expected El proficiency here was a proficiency and growth I was estimating 10 points we did not reach that but still we stayed at the seven points and we did not end a 1.5 science bonus points but we did make progress on science so this is the high school 9th through 12th grade points and for proficiency 15.85 out of 30. this is based on the ACT test and subgroup proficiency Improvement 10 points so this year it was like the growth component they changed the calculation and it is the subgroup Improvement was previously calculation included into the calculation so out of 20 points possible for that component we received 18.75 these three combined real proficiency and growth seven points and graduation rate an hour of them for graduation rate but improvements zero out of ten and College and Career Readiness 6.8 points out of 20.

if you're looking at the strengths areas interpretation of data and locating information again later in the data we were looking it actually said that that was a low area as well so in order for us to really determine what a low area was we had to go to their results and look at every category and they break it down sometimes into four or five so we had all departments kind of look at that and say okay we'll pick what's the most efficient area and how can we how can we attack it if you look at the bottom so just to summarize our sophomores in English actually scored one point composite above the Benchmark so we're we're trending in the right direction I know right in math we drop where there's a four point deviation now it's a six point in math and reading there's a three-point deviation and then in science we're hovering that six to seven point deviation for juniors note these are our kids this year who are going to actually take the pre-ct this is the second year that the high school has had Horizon which is nice because just the formatting of the test just to give you a snapshot there was um I was looking at the reading or English test and it gives you a paragraph and they just have these little bubbles underneath certain words and then over on the right hand side there was a uh you there wasn't even a corresponding number you just had to know there are no directions you just had to know for number 31 .

curious from telegraphs it shows a decline with eighth grade math is that is there subject introduced in eighth grade math it's just that more students struggle with no this is the same that wasn't a change in any of the standards last year but it is sometimes like the 20 like after taking multiple tests yeah sometimes there is some slight fluctuation um is the same teacher teaching seventh and eighth grade and you can see that seventh graders and points but in eighth grade but in turn you know one point per student yeah the same students 27 students and 36 points more than the number of students for real proficiency are proficiency level for Azalea test was law but our students demonstrated excellent growth so we had five out of points Five Points possible shots growth 2005 for proficiency so total seven points for acceleration and readiness um categories eligible is like reducing the number of ela minimally proficient in third grade and eighth grade math increasing oh sorry decreasing the number of students minimally proficient chronic absenteeism subgroup Improvement special education inclusion and so all out of all these categories as a cutoff of 10 points so we are at 13 points where there is a cutoff fee and total time based on the percentage of students attending um special education program if it reaches the state average or what percentage of the state average we have a vegan bonus points so we have two bonus points and for the science test students took in fifth grade students in fifth grade and eighth grade to the Science assessment and based on if they meet the state average or increase close to the state average there's a 1.3 sorry 1.5 or 3 points eligible but we did not earn anything in the center of end of October there is one more science result that is supposed to come in I don't know if it is going to change anything significantly but uh as of now it is zero bonus points the same thing again um just to remind us like the total number of points we earned is 77.9 1 the cut scores for last year was like below 47.8 viewers Trading 47 to 60.1 was D and [Music] above 84.678 and does that change from year to year from the state yes they decide um they meet the State Warriors by the means in September and the Ade is presenting some suggestions recommendations for that in September and it will be finally adoption of job but if we use a scroll we have right now for last year it would be good received last year we had 64.88 so that was closer to the Lower Side of sea where this guy looking at these scores we will be in the middle of these but so even if they change it increase it slightly I'm expecting it to be a big step of the K-8 Elementary School sometime after being told me last year I presented I'm not sure if I presented this slide to the board but with the features I did present a plan for this year so I was projecting into reach 75.5 and this was the estimate management went below like we did not meet the proficiency goal of 12.

total 58.4 plus three bonus points and the total 0.7 is 61.4 my good friend when we read self-report college if we're ready points how do we obtain that those points to self-reported right we can report anything right if we wanted to all right the one who is reporting it has to certify whether they are license on the line that this is all true and we have documents to support them so every year during summer I go over those and collect all the information and enter that information on into the state side the subjective or objective it is objective it is based on certain criteria how many credits they um certain points and so on we did pretty well of everything except for for that right the graduation rate Improvement we got zero out of ten and yeah collagen career readiness self-reporting those are the two areas comparing to last year our total points earned last year including 4.5 bonus points was 46.19 looking at proficiency we went from 6.76 to 15.85 um last year we had out of 28.53 growth points here combining these three items out of 20 we have 18.75 El proficiency and growth we had five now we have seven so from 46.19 right now we are standing in 61.4 English language arts the percentage is 63.18 ACD math is 44.17 we didn't get any points from alternators as well and overall proficiency is 52.84 that's like a little bit over half so out of 30 figure 15.85 the subgroup proficiency Improvement they got Improvement visual Improvement in two of the eligible categories we need to have at least 10 students in that subgroup that's mostly by arrays and also by income eligibility and the two categories we had 10 or more students we showed Improvement involved work and graduation rate improvements one out of one category that was eligible we are short improvements or maintained and that is Five Points subgroup dropout rate Improvement 4 out of sorry out of four categories eligible three short improvements uh we got total 3.75 and El proficiency we got three points high school did better than Elementary in coefficiency English Learners proficiency yield growth was lower foreign [Music] and this is how the graduation rate points calculated and so this is from the year before it's like it is always lagging by a year and because I thought about 10 points from that and last year's elbow from last year's graduation rate was 88.89 and it is not about 90 percent and it is not higher than the year before so we did not get any points for that bonus files special education 1.5 out of two possible points we got 1.5 and for ACT Aspire percentage of students tested between 90 and 95 faster we get 1.5 we had tested 95 to 100 over 95 percent get a valid score we get three bonus points we did test of over 95 percentage of the students but some of them did not have a valid score that's why we got 1.5 I didn't have valid score leaders say in writing that's where mostly like we do not get a valid score for the writing if they don't write long enough then it is not sufficient material to create it they'll be considered as not tested don't do their balance so once again total points and is 16 1.4 and last year's credit scores where 48 and Below was it B and we had like a 46 point something and this year if they keep the same but this was like a way below the priorities course so up to 82 and about is a 65 to 82 that's a very wide band is B and 48 to 65 is a c and Below 48 is the and 31 and below is yeah protector organ BSC if the scores remain the same as and what will be last year we're supposed to be I used to be an eight like looking at our growth right now we're so close to B so this is one my projection or like what we wanted to set as a call to improve increase the proficiency to 13.

but even beyond the 40 points for growth acceleration in Readiness we got all 10 out of 10 as expected El proficiency here was a proficiency and growth I was estimating 10 points we did not reach that but still we stayed at the seven points and we did not end a 1.5 science bonus points but we did make progress on science so this is the high school 9th through 12th grade points and for proficiency 15.85 out of 30. this is based on the ACT test and subgroup proficiency Improvement 10 points so this year it was like the growth component they changed the calculation and it is the subgroup Improvement was previously calculation included into the calculation so out of 20 points possible for that component we received 18.75 these three combined real proficiency and growth seven points and graduation rate an hour of them for graduation rate but improvements zero out of ten and College and Career Readiness 6.8 points out of 20.

but we achieved 15.85 for the growth and at 15 and 18.75 and College and Career readiness the projection was 15 but we only earned 6.8 English learners we were hoping for a 10 out of 10 but we reached seven graduates and out of 10 I already knew that it was going to be a zero at that point because it is and spent bonus points we were hoping for two and got 1.5 science bonus will be drawn it is fire bonus I was not expecting it to stay but it is there and I was hoping to reach the 66 but we didn't reach quite there but we were at like Five Points you know and when you come up please where you expect us to be how do you go about doing that so look at it okay it's not doing this so for Kate we have earned all all the possible points for drugs 50 out of 50.

total 58.4 plus three bonus points and the total 0.7 is 61.4 my good friend when we read self-report college if we're ready points how do we obtain that those points to self-reported right we can report anything right if we wanted to all right the one who is reporting it has to certify whether they are license on the line that this is all true and we have documents to support them so every year during summer I go over those and collect all the information and enter that information on into the state side the subjective or objective it is objective it is based on certain criteria how many credits they um certain points and so on we did pretty well of everything except for for that right the graduation rate Improvement we got zero out of ten and yeah collagen career readiness self-reporting those are the two areas comparing to last year our total points earned last year including 4.5 bonus points was 46.19 looking at proficiency we went from 6.76 to 15.85 um last year we had out of 28.53 growth points here combining these three items out of 20 we have 18.75 El proficiency and growth we had five now we have seven so from 46.19 right now we are standing in 61.4 English language arts the percentage is 63.18 ACD math is 44.17 we didn't get any points from alternators as well and overall proficiency is 52.84 that's like a little bit over half so out of 30 figure 15.85 the subgroup proficiency Improvement they got Improvement visual Improvement in two of the eligible categories we need to have at least 10 students in that subgroup that's mostly by arrays and also by income eligibility and the two categories we had 10 or more students we showed Improvement involved work and graduation rate improvements one out of one category that was eligible we are short improvements or maintained and that is Five Points subgroup dropout rate Improvement 4 out of sorry out of four categories eligible three short improvements uh we got total 3.75 and El proficiency we got three points high school did better than Elementary in coefficiency English Learners proficiency yield growth was lower foreign [Music] and this is how the graduation rate points calculated and so this is from the year before it's like it is always lagging by a year and because I thought about 10 points from that and last year's elbow from last year's graduation rate was 88.89 and it is not about 90 percent and it is not higher than the year before so we did not get any points for that bonus files special education 1.5 out of two possible points we got 1.5 and for ACT Aspire percentage of students tested between 90 and 95 faster we get 1.5 we had tested 95 to 100 over 95 percent get a valid score we get three bonus points we did test of over 95 percentage of the students but some of them did not have a valid score that's why we got 1.5 I didn't have valid score leaders say in writing that's where mostly like we do not get a valid score for the writing if they don't write long enough then it is not sufficient material to create it they'll be considered as not tested don't do their balance so once again total points and is 16 1.4 and last year's credit scores where 48 and Below was it B and we had like a 46 point something and this year if they keep the same but this was like a way below the priorities course so up to 82 and about is a 65 to 82 that's a very wide band is B and 48 to 65 is a c and Below 48 is the and 31 and below is yeah protector organ BSC if the scores remain the same as and what will be last year we're supposed to be I used to be an eight like looking at our growth right now we're so close to B so this is one my projection or like what we wanted to set as a call to improve increase the proficiency to 13.

so we cannot improve that and we have a 10 out of 10 in acceleration and we are still about seven points away from an A Grade based on the prior years so to get to that 85 um the a grade will be possible only if we are able to maintain that growth momentum and move the students into proficiency so we have it okay we have to improve the proficiency and from 9 through 12 to get better on the proficiency last year that was the one set of students so this year we have a different set of students but still that's a good group of students and we have to maintain that like their short Improvement last year on map so we have to keep that momentum with them and at the same time we have to improve on the College and Career readiness that area how we do that is like students taking City technical skill assessment so students in their Career and Technical education program like culinary class digital photography and we have the Aeronautics program air transportation Electronics program those students at the end of year two they take a technical skills assessment and if they get a 60 most programs have a 60 card score so if they're on a 60 or better then they end points for us for that career readiness the same way completing FAFSA so that is a parallel financial aid application that's a preparation for college going to college so that will also bring us points students completing pasta passing the thing as workers that is the amp Services vocational aptitude battery preparation for military or other services so students earning 35 points or more will earn points for the school and taking dual enrollment courses college classes they earn points for us so their credits was there on carrier or college path and they also bring us points when they graduate and also students taking AP courses and passing AP exam will bring us credit s bring us points for the college tournaments so for high school short term what we can change is the College and Career Readiness and this is where we can work on and make changes preparing students for the as well test making sure students are completing FAFSA and preparing our students for the CTE assessment and also making sure that most of our students as many students are taking CTE program and completing it and being successful so that's all I had any questions I have a question for mostly so on scale one to ten how do you think we're doing about the Improvement we are going um a really good place I would say like a date or nine and proficiency um we are not there yet but if we keep the momentum we will be there so because some of our students have been performing so low and when we look at students who are staying with us over multiple years we are making progress so challenges here are students are not staying with us for all the time some of them they are new and they're here for a couple of years and then they go somewhere else and come back so that is one of the challenges another challenge is Teachers so we had the same teachers for multiple years um even though we do have very good teachers it takes some time for them to know the students and be able to work with them and make that and learn um all the Arizona standards and all those like teaching methods and so we are working on both of those like Mrs started with working on new teacher induction program that helped us with introducing all the teachers about the material and teaching strategies and all that um the other part of it is not within our control so there is no use of complaining about it so who is coming here willing to learn will do our best work for for our kids we have started with VLC last year and now we are we're in full course this is again last year we started with just the fourth in sixth grade this year whole team to help the LCS and what we do in PLC is so our Reading Writing and math and I think science is from CBC is having common formative assessments after each essential standards so after reaching an essential standard they they test for the common assessment everyone that does not pass should get more support we're still in the process of starting field Wednesday last week we had a training a PLC training for all our teachers so they'll understand how it works and from there we're going to just schedule the regular plcs and then add more support so that's why I think I think it's in the program meeting we'll have the after school tutorials for this meeting I'm not sure so that's for high school everyone that needs the extra support because they fail that they fail a common formative assessment or a benchmark assessment they will need um to join the after school tutorials or the before school tutorials to get more support and then can test again for better grade so that's a targeted support for for kids that's not getting it well for elementary the support will be embedded in their schedule so that schedule will be in the afternoon for for tears to read that we're still in the process of starting that they they started lastly the first PLC getting the norm set up was expected and then we go from there so that optional for high schoolers should come to that tutoring when they they mandated to come hoping it will be it will be not approved so we have what we call racing expectations document um administrators but they're still reviewing that and maybe at some point getting a review or and see if if it passes then they will reports that will be helping them right and for elementary you said I was gonna be tier three intervention there were three after intervention during school so there will be an after school and also during school because we've noticed that not everyone you know comes to the office and is it that you see this based on standards and yes business then is also for for grades came to two will be called as a foundation Health skills is it reading and math or just one of the other do you think we'd ever go to standard-based grading in the elementary you've tried if it's kinder so Kinder is not using ABCD app anymore but we still don't know how to incorporate it in our school but because I think that's so informative because then you focus really on those standards as Educators but then I think when parents get that information at home they know exactly where their student stands on each standard and it's a lot easier I think to um I guess inform your parents too where exactly their student is um we've tried using it I mean I think it's extremely valuable if we do end up moving over to a standard-based grading at our primary level just especially this is tried it last year so we ended up with using a paper instead of using PowerSchool it's healthy you know there was uh you noticing that there is growth because you really are Beyond textbooks last year the training but from around early in mid February to the tests in April the fourth to sixth grade related the leading plcs yeah but then also the seventh and eighth grade group started doing a performance assessment pilot and then also um uh even the high school got involved with the performance assessment pilot I know this year but they're going to give you the NTI the training at the same time this pocs are happening a lot sooner yeah and the growth really improved now like he said the proficiency now that's the next step right it started last year we just want to continue yeah and I think even pushing it down to those lower grades too so let's see yeah with K3 when you bet last year was K3 [Music] but this one now is going to be embedded in your schedule nice what's What's also new this year will be the performance matters so um The Benchmark assessment so we don't have map anymore Benchmark assessment will be every quarter to the last week of a quarter will be the Benchmark assessment and if we have the raising expectations to true it means that everyone who fails will be required to to attend after school tutorials or before school or that extra support for 12 sessions and then take the assessment again for a better grade how quickly do we get data back on this course it should be like instant right it's too easy okay 15 minutes that's why we went to Performance matters was um adaptive so it's not actually testing what the kids were learning in the classroom so with the performance matters but whatever essential standards that we're done in a classroom that will be assessed yes makes sense nice great presentation yeah as always thank you thank you very much and I have to say this thing for myself that congratulations are in order yeah we're proving so we're getting better that's what we want right that's one that's what it's all about and we're improving and so congratulations very please there's no more on that then our next item is classified additional compensation for Angelina voluntary Mr President Memorial 200 additional compensation for engineers our assistance to the finance office for the 23 24 school year reward actually necessary at this time this is an informational item only what are you doing yeah I mean what what are you doing what I know you're doing something because you more money but but what are you doing did you take over part of Venus's job or or what what are you doing so uh between the two of us the last time uh Lori and I worked on visions of doing payroll or any kind of a financial accountable mine was in 2015 and hers was before that so the the programs and everything have changed and so we tried it we had to figure out payroll just add the jump and then we had to figure out accounts payable and paying the bills and doing all the stuff we've had to um to work together um and like I said that I I have a more updated if you can call Ten Years flag being updated um the last time I used visions of payroll I took a workshop or anything it was 10 years ago so we've been on the phone to professionals we've been on the phone to human counties that tried they're really getting annoyed with us I know they don't but they're like hello every time they enter the focus we're like we don't understand what this is and we you know the lead is not populating on this or whatever so we've been sitting with uh with our heads kind of Knocked together trying to to get into a general Rhythm and work we're now finally trying to get into the Rhythm with them the gingers will be six hours and um and glorious will be eight I'm still they're still focusing on on payroll and getting everything to where they have to they can do it with their iPhones they're almost there but they're not there yet so then everything that kind of Falls underneath I'm just helping and shoveling and picking up and throwing into the cart so that they can do one thing at a time and then we'll throw chainsaws in for them to juggle but once they get the bowling ball struggles then I'm doing the chainsaws while they're not looking what we've also done it is really taking advantage of funnels who actually had their CFO and payroll manager Consultants came down just a few weeks back we spent the whole day here in the finance office so they were helping all three uh Miss Ginger Miss Claudia and Los Angeles Angelina and they're uh they're also available there for us especially Matt from a payroll so they're really walking us through step by step on a regular basis and we're going to have them make it a consistent plan to come down here at least one of them once a month and that's been indelible it's been very helpful just just to get more uh more feedback just how we can have the best practices and be more efficient so they've been a big help I'm not against Angelina getting a raise um an arm I'm not you know she's been a valuable part of the school for a long time but are you going to have to continue working in the accounting doing these or going to come a time when the ladies are going to get it and you're and you're going to be able to just resume your your regular duties or we're hoping by the by the end of the year so things will start this how do you do everything you do your own just eat a quick one there's been a lot of time and spent or late nights where we believe this is we get here before arises this morning so but things got to get done well thank you thank you next item on the agenda is extra pay and volunteer position employment Mr President there was the board of the individual expressive interest to be the corresponding positions for the 22-24 school year there's not board action necessary at this time this is an informational item only eating did Mr let's go get his um fingerprint card yesterday okay any other questions do not turn in his thing never mind never mind okay if there's nothing else on that the next item of business is the approval of transfer of land parcel from ausd to Vista Mr President member Ford with the curry school campus was sold by the school district to an investor and then subsequently to be sold to isda one parcel was inadvertently omitted parcel number 401-232-370 addressed as 441 West Esperanza Avenue Unified School District Remains the owner of record for the slot is the is requesting a transfer of Interest property from the awful Unified School District the school district's legal counsel is recommending a transfer of property there is no board action necessary at this time this is an informational item only railroad it's essentially one of the driveways Elementary School there's two driveways one of them is owned by the county one of them is currently owned by the school district and there's a wash right between them so I've been walking my dog on school property for years now yep this is the cafeteria I think that's the County Annex Building where they do the Ceramics class the cafeteria would be just off to the just off street now because the County Annex has two buildings it's right where the pressure is now as well because that's my office and then next door towards the gym okay yeah and I was surprised because Aaron called me about how to get it on the agenda and I was like oh that seems important to me because that's somebody gets injured on that driveway that's coming to us as a district and I was like I don't even think anybody in the district knows that we still own that okay when everything okay give me further questions on that next item then is the approval of a fee schedule agreement for Tender Touch Therapy Services Mr President members of the board attendant touch therapy services is requesting the approval of the attached fee schedule agreement for Occupational Therapy Services for the 2224 school year the agreement is attached and approved by ausd's legal counsel there's no board action necessary at this time this is an informational item only so what is this all about well this is pretty much uh Mr Guthrie Mr President Mr Guthrie destroying a proposed fee schedule for 23-24 on-campus Occupational Therapy Services in-person Occupational Therapy Services shall be provided it has the rate what what is included in the rate therapist travel expenses is time spent direct occupation of therapy treatment in accordance with students IEPs that's very critical um therapy testing scheduling students completing daily therapy treatment Corporation of student materials and treatment activities um those are some of the key components but especially it's going to help with IEPs we have to stay in compliance and have this services go ahead I'm sorry I always think of OT as like like zipping zippers like buttoning buttons like you know Itsy Bitsy Spider motor skills their motor skills but it's like you know uh buttoning buttons or a time that your shoes or you know balancing this or that so I would think of it as like Itsy Bitsy Spider like you're getting your fingers to match up and then turn and match and turn it's regular motor skills that they're teaching them so they send a therapist down here yes and that happens how often well uh to give you a definite answer to that to check with our special education department I was wondering the same thing too since it says it's 900 per day that's right once a week right it might be once a week every other week that's usually about that that's what I was a little bit worried if it was an everyday thing I was like oh that adds up real quick usually when they're down they try to get all the Care okay yeah I'd have to get that for you Mr country the exact number I would have to get to work so what do you think about 600 number it's valuable well and we're usually required to meet their IEP yeah we're really uh our special education department is really going through a transformation is very positive we have someone here a few days a week helping out our team our team so we're really just getting more and more efficient in so many different areas in our campus this is one and we never approved this before I don't recall it either right now we're doing it each year okay that makes sense then because then if it's a five-year contract it would have my first four years on the board just happened to be when it wasn't it had already been decided before yeah existed [Music] okay probably heard it called otpt in speech yeah yeah me [Laughter] make sure you've laughed so much the next item is the approval of the out of year invoice for Konica Minolta Mr President members of the board a list of outstanding invoices from Konica Minolta the district's copy machine provider or send to the finance office on August today it was 2023.

but we achieved 15.85 for the growth and at 15 and 18.75 and College and Career readiness the projection was 15 but we only earned 6.8 English learners we were hoping for a 10 out of 10 but we reached seven graduates and out of 10 I already knew that it was going to be a zero at that point because it is and spent bonus points we were hoping for two and got 1.5 science bonus will be drawn it is fire bonus I was not expecting it to stay but it is there and I was hoping to reach the 66 but we didn't reach quite there but we were at like Five Points you know and when you come up please where you expect us to be how do you go about doing that so look at it okay it's not doing this so for Kate we have earned all all the possible points for drugs 50 out of 50.

we have the invoices 7601 1205 and 8871 were built out of a different fiscal year 2020 and 2021 for usfr and the auditory General's office the board must approve the payment of any out-of-year expense the invoices are attached there is no board action necessary at this time this is an informational item only do we know why there were a lot of you like is it just the company failed to send it to us um I think just like uh to go back to what Miss Angelina said earlier we are we have a new team who's going through all the all the things that we have in place from accounts payable invoices everything else and so uh this was an outstanding balance that we need to pay to notify us yeah so uh we have to do it but we actually met today as a new District Office Team and we're going to make it a regular basis that before I was meeting here in the district office to go over so that we're on top of issues just like this one okay it's getting more efficient okay any other questions on that you bet you don't have anything to do is that is that two-bedroom everything to do all day long yeah okay there's no more on that the next item is the call for possible new agenda items for the next meeting and I have one I'd like to make we have discussed before on the board the possibility of including a member of the student leadership at the table at school board meetings I'd like to do that I mean they wouldn't be a voting member but we're here for the students and it's good to have them have a voice at the table it also in my opinion is good leadership training for the student leadership if they want to and I wouldn't require it of them but it's kind of a I would think we would let the student body government pick right who that individual is yep yeah that's I mean that's to be discussed I just wanted to put that out as an agenda leaders student representative so one particular class are we gonna do all four classes no I was thinking one strong student um you're probably a senior senior student if it could be but like I said I didn't want to like require the student you know as they have other things going on too and they're not even paid as well as we are for being here is there anything else people would like to see on the coming upcoming agenda okay and next item is I will ask for a motion to adjourn I'll make the motion I'm a second [Music] hi I'm being adjourned at 6 45 .

so we cannot improve that and we have a 10 out of 10 in acceleration and we are still about seven points away from an A Grade based on the prior years so to get to that 85 um the a grade will be possible only if we are able to maintain that growth momentum and move the students into proficiency so we have it okay we have to improve the proficiency and from 9 through 12 to get better on the proficiency last year that was the one set of students so this year we have a different set of students but still that's a good group of students and we have to maintain that like their short Improvement last year on map so we have to keep that momentum with them and at the same time we have to improve on the College and Career readiness that area how we do that is like students taking City technical skill assessment so students in their Career and Technical education program like culinary class digital photography and we have the Aeronautics program air transportation Electronics program those students at the end of year two they take a technical skills assessment and if they get a 60 most programs have a 60 card score so if they're on a 60 or better then they end points for us for that career readiness the same way completing FAFSA so that is a parallel financial aid application that's a preparation for college going to college so that will also bring us points students completing pasta passing the thing as workers that is the amp Services vocational aptitude battery preparation for military or other services so students earning 35 points or more will earn points for the school and taking dual enrollment courses college classes they earn points for us so their credits was there on carrier or college path and they also bring us points when they graduate and also students taking AP courses and passing AP exam will bring us credit s bring us points for the college tournaments so for high school short term what we can change is the College and Career Readiness and this is where we can work on and make changes preparing students for the as well test making sure students are completing FAFSA and preparing our students for the CTE assessment and also making sure that most of our students as many students are taking CTE program and completing it and being successful so that's all I had any questions I have a question for mostly so on scale one to ten how do you think we're doing about the Improvement we are going um a really good place I would say like a date or nine and proficiency um we are not there yet but if we keep the momentum we will be there so because some of our students have been performing so low and when we look at students who are staying with us over multiple years we are making progress so challenges here are students are not staying with us for all the time some of them they are new and they're here for a couple of years and then they go somewhere else and come back so that is one of the challenges another challenge is Teachers so we had the same teachers for multiple years um even though we do have very good teachers it takes some time for them to know the students and be able to work with them and make that and learn um all the Arizona standards and all those like teaching methods and so we are working on both of those like Mrs started with working on new teacher induction program that helped us with introducing all the teachers about the material and teaching strategies and all that um the other part of it is not within our control so there is no use of complaining about it so who is coming here willing to learn will do our best work for for our kids we have started with VLC last year and now we are we're in full course this is again last year we started with just the fourth in sixth grade this year whole team to help the LCS and what we do in PLC is so our Reading Writing and math and I think science is from CBC is having common formative assessments after each essential standards so after reaching an essential standard they they test for the common assessment everyone that does not pass should get more support we're still in the process of starting field Wednesday last week we had a training a PLC training for all our teachers so they'll understand how it works and from there we're going to just schedule the regular plcs and then add more support so that's why I think I think it's in the program meeting we'll have the after school tutorials for this meeting I'm not sure so that's for high school everyone that needs the extra support because they fail that they fail a common formative assessment or a benchmark assessment they will need um to join the after school tutorials or the before school tutorials to get more support and then can test again for better grade so that's a targeted support for for kids that's not getting it well for elementary the support will be embedded in their schedule so that schedule will be in the afternoon for for tears to read that we're still in the process of starting that they they started lastly the first PLC getting the norm set up was expected and then we go from there so that optional for high schoolers should come to that tutoring when they they mandated to come hoping it will be it will be not approved so we have what we call racing expectations document um administrators but they're still reviewing that and maybe at some point getting a review or and see if if it passes then they will reports that will be helping them right and for elementary you said I was gonna be tier three intervention there were three after intervention during school so there will be an after school and also during school because we've noticed that not everyone you know comes to the office and is it that you see this based on standards and yes business then is also for for grades came to two will be called as a foundation Health skills is it reading and math or just one of the other do you think we'd ever go to standard-based grading in the elementary you've tried if it's kinder so Kinder is not using ABCD app anymore but we still don't know how to incorporate it in our school but because I think that's so informative because then you focus really on those standards as Educators but then I think when parents get that information at home they know exactly where their student stands on each standard and it's a lot easier I think to um I guess inform your parents too where exactly their student is um we've tried using it I mean I think it's extremely valuable if we do end up moving over to a standard-based grading at our primary level just especially this is tried it last year so we ended up with using a paper instead of using PowerSchool it's healthy you know there was uh you noticing that there is growth because you really are Beyond textbooks last year the training but from around early in mid February to the tests in April the fourth to sixth grade related the leading plcs yeah but then also the seventh and eighth grade group started doing a performance assessment pilot and then also um uh even the high school got involved with the performance assessment pilot I know this year but they're going to give you the NTI the training at the same time this pocs are happening a lot sooner yeah and the growth really improved now like he said the proficiency now that's the next step right it started last year we just want to continue yeah and I think even pushing it down to those lower grades too so let's see yeah with K3 when you bet last year was K3 [Music] but this one now is going to be embedded in your schedule nice what's What's also new this year will be the performance matters so um The Benchmark assessment so we don't have map anymore Benchmark assessment will be every quarter to the last week of a quarter will be the Benchmark assessment and if we have the raising expectations to true it means that everyone who fails will be required to to attend after school tutorials or before school or that extra support for 12 sessions and then take the assessment again for a better grade how quickly do we get data back on this course it should be like instant right it's too easy okay 15 minutes that's why we went to Performance matters was um adaptive so it's not actually testing what the kids were learning in the classroom so with the performance matters but whatever essential standards that we're done in a classroom that will be assessed yes makes sense nice great presentation yeah as always thank you thank you very much and I have to say this thing for myself that congratulations are in order yeah we're proving so we're getting better that's what we want right that's one that's what it's all about and we're improving and so congratulations very please there's no more on that then our next item is classified additional compensation for Angelina voluntary Mr President Memorial 200 additional compensation for engineers our assistance to the finance office for the 23 24 school year reward actually necessary at this time this is an informational item only what are you doing yeah I mean what what are you doing what I know you're doing something because you more money but but what are you doing did you take over part of Venus's job or or what what are you doing so uh between the two of us the last time uh Lori and I worked on visions of doing payroll or any kind of a financial accountable mine was in 2015 and hers was before that so the the programs and everything have changed and so we tried it we had to figure out payroll just add the jump and then we had to figure out accounts payable and paying the bills and doing all the stuff we've had to um to work together um and like I said that I I have a more updated if you can call Ten Years flag being updated um the last time I used visions of payroll I took a workshop or anything it was 10 years ago so we've been on the phone to professionals we've been on the phone to human counties that tried they're really getting annoyed with us I know they don't but they're like hello every time they enter the focus we're like we don't understand what this is and we you know the lead is not populating on this or whatever so we've been sitting with uh with our heads kind of Knocked together trying to to get into a general Rhythm and work we're now finally trying to get into the Rhythm with them the gingers will be six hours and um and glorious will be eight I'm still they're still focusing on on payroll and getting everything to where they have to they can do it with their iPhones they're almost there but they're not there yet so then everything that kind of Falls underneath I'm just helping and shoveling and picking up and throwing into the cart so that they can do one thing at a time and then we'll throw chainsaws in for them to juggle but once they get the bowling ball struggles then I'm doing the chainsaws while they're not looking what we've also done it is really taking advantage of funnels who actually had their CFO and payroll manager Consultants came down just a few weeks back we spent the whole day here in the finance office so they were helping all three uh Miss Ginger Miss Claudia and Los Angeles Angelina and they're uh they're also available there for us especially Matt from a payroll so they're really walking us through step by step on a regular basis and we're going to have them make it a consistent plan to come down here at least one of them once a month and that's been indelible it's been very helpful just just to get more uh more feedback just how we can have the best practices and be more efficient so they've been a big help I'm not against Angelina getting a raise um an arm I'm not you know she's been a valuable part of the school for a long time but are you going to have to continue working in the accounting doing these or going to come a time when the ladies are going to get it and you're and you're going to be able to just resume your your regular duties or we're hoping by the by the end of the year so things will start this how do you do everything you do your own just eat a quick one there's been a lot of time and spent or late nights where we believe this is we get here before arises this morning so but things got to get done well thank you thank you next item on the agenda is extra pay and volunteer position employment Mr President there was the board of the individual expressive interest to be the corresponding positions for the 22-24 school year there's not board action necessary at this time this is an informational item only eating did Mr let's go get his um fingerprint card yesterday okay any other questions do not turn in his thing never mind never mind okay if there's nothing else on that the next item of business is the approval of transfer of land parcel from ausd to Vista Mr President member Ford with the curry school campus was sold by the school district to an investor and then subsequently to be sold to isda one parcel was inadvertently omitted parcel number 401-232-370 addressed as 441 West Esperanza Avenue Unified School District Remains the owner of record for the slot is the is requesting a transfer of Interest property from the awful Unified School District the school district's legal counsel is recommending a transfer of property there is no board action necessary at this time this is an informational item only railroad it's essentially one of the driveways Elementary School there's two driveways one of them is owned by the county one of them is currently owned by the school district and there's a wash right between them so I've been walking my dog on school property for years now yep this is the cafeteria I think that's the County Annex Building where they do the Ceramics class the cafeteria would be just off to the just off street now because the County Annex has two buildings it's right where the pressure is now as well because that's my office and then next door towards the gym okay yeah and I was surprised because Aaron called me about how to get it on the agenda and I was like oh that seems important to me because that's somebody gets injured on that driveway that's coming to us as a district and I was like I don't even think anybody in the district knows that we still own that okay when everything okay give me further questions on that next item then is the approval of a fee schedule agreement for Tender Touch Therapy Services Mr President members of the board attendant touch therapy services is requesting the approval of the attached fee schedule agreement for Occupational Therapy Services for the 2224 school year the agreement is attached and approved by ausd's legal counsel there's no board action necessary at this time this is an informational item only so what is this all about well this is pretty much uh Mr Guthrie Mr President Mr Guthrie destroying a proposed fee schedule for 23-24 on-campus Occupational Therapy Services in-person Occupational Therapy Services shall be provided it has the rate what what is included in the rate therapist travel expenses is time spent direct occupation of therapy treatment in accordance with students IEPs that's very critical um therapy testing scheduling students completing daily therapy treatment Corporation of student materials and treatment activities um those are some of the key components but especially it's going to help with IEPs we have to stay in compliance and have this services go ahead I'm sorry I always think of OT as like like zipping zippers like buttoning buttons like you know Itsy Bitsy Spider motor skills their motor skills but it's like you know uh buttoning buttons or a time that your shoes or you know balancing this or that so I would think of it as like Itsy Bitsy Spider like you're getting your fingers to match up and then turn and match and turn it's regular motor skills that they're teaching them so they send a therapist down here yes and that happens how often well uh to give you a definite answer to that to check with our special education department I was wondering the same thing too since it says it's 900 per day that's right once a week right it might be once a week every other week that's usually about that that's what I was a little bit worried if it was an everyday thing I was like oh that adds up real quick usually when they're down they try to get all the Care okay yeah I'd have to get that for you Mr country the exact number I would have to get to work so what do you think about 600 number it's valuable well and we're usually required to meet their IEP yeah we're really uh our special education department is really going through a transformation is very positive we have someone here a few days a week helping out our team our team so we're really just getting more and more efficient in so many different areas in our campus this is one and we never approved this before I don't recall it either right now we're doing it each year okay that makes sense then because then if it's a five-year contract it would have my first four years on the board just happened to be when it wasn't it had already been decided before yeah existed [Music] okay probably heard it called otpt in speech yeah yeah me [Laughter] make sure you've laughed so much the next item is the approval of the out of year invoice for Konica Minolta Mr President members of the board a list of outstanding invoices from Konica Minolta the district's copy machine provider or send to the finance office on August today it was 2023.

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we have the invoices 7601 1205 and 8871 were built out of a different fiscal year 2020 and 2021 for usfr and the auditory General's office the board must approve the payment of any out-of-year expense the invoices are attached there is no board action necessary at this time this is an informational item only do we know why there were a lot of you like is it just the company failed to send it to us um I think just like uh to go back to what Miss Angelina said earlier we are we have a new team who's going through all the all the things that we have in place from accounts payable invoices everything else and so uh this was an outstanding balance that we need to pay to notify us yeah so uh we have to do it but we actually met today as a new District Office Team and we're going to make it a regular basis that before I was meeting here in the district office to go over so that we're on top of issues just like this one okay it's getting more efficient okay any other questions on that you bet you don't have anything to do is that is that two-bedroom everything to do all day long yeah okay there's no more on that the next item is the call for possible new agenda items for the next meeting and I have one I'd like to make we have discussed before on the board the possibility of including a member of the student leadership at the table at school board meetings I'd like to do that I mean they wouldn't be a voting member but we're here for the students and it's good to have them have a voice at the table it also in my opinion is good leadership training for the student leadership if they want to and I wouldn't require it of them but it's kind of a I would think we would let the student body government pick right who that individual is yep yeah that's I mean that's to be discussed I just wanted to put that out as an agenda leaders student representative so one particular class are we gonna do all four classes no I was thinking one strong student um you're probably a senior senior student if it could be but like I said I didn't want to like require the student you know as they have other things going on too and they're not even paid as well as we are for being here is there anything else people would like to see on the coming upcoming agenda okay and next item is I will ask for a motion to adjourn I'll make the motion I'm a second [Music] hi I'm being adjourned at 6 45 .

administrative bodies and procedures by adding the following subsection to section 5281d fees the following fees are authorized by this chapter and shall be by resolution of the city council upon recommendation of the city administrator carbon pollution impact fee fee reflecting the social cost of carbon shall be assessed for all newly approved buildings with a connection to natural gas lines that serve the building's primary heating system one the fee shall be assessed based on Total Building square footage according to building type energy use as specified by table CZ 103.1 of the 2021 International energy conservation Code Zero code appendix two the conservation factor of 12 uh sorry 13 kilograms of CO2 equivalent per 100 kilo kbtus shall be applied three the fee shall be in the amount of 190 per metric ton of carbon emissions equivalent and the fee shall be paid prior to the issuance of certificate of occupancy then each subsequent year on or before that date in the absence of retrofitting to eliminate gas connection for primary heating purposes okay so um I would just as I mentioned um just wanted to kick off the discussion so uh I I heard the um you know the author Ken Garber call in at the beginning of the meeting here and kind of encourage us to um consider this because um kind of foreseeing that some of our objections would be around Taxation and sprawl and um you know uh hesitancy to to act on a new development and I would like to share that I don't think that those are the main objections that I have um currently um I would like to kind of um point to the fact that hold on let me just quickly bring up my notes um I'd just like to the point of the fact that um this what's being proposed here I think is a very important Avenue to consider when we think about limiting natural gas and new construction um but I want to be really um clear and um intentional with the fact that what's being proposed is actually quite a complex change to the way the city might run um it involves multiple it could involve you know not necessarily stated here in the resolution but as I see it playing out I think it could involve multiple Departments of the city and the complaining I'm thinking um the billing department um you know planning in in first you know activating that initial charge upon City certificate of occupancy and then the building department you know in um and how to kind of implement those fees moving forward um let's say over a year maybe through an inspection process um I also have questions around you know how would this fee be calculated essentially around energy use and um and so what I'm trying to say here is that you know this is um really important to consider but I think it it brings up a pretty complex potential new way that the city might operate in trying to regulate carbon this way and of course this has been done not only not in Ann Arbor but definitely um there's limited applications of a carbon infuser or carbon taxes I will say um similar to this and so um yeah I just wanted to share that that I think that this is for me a question a lot more process um and I think it's a really important one that I'd like to dive into and of course I want to hear any other questions that that people have um and of course we'll be recording them um but yeah I'll kind of leave it at that and say that I think this is much more so a question of process rather than should we or should we not move forward with it and then what language would we need to reflect that um how to make that a better process for the city to actually implement this and Joe can you stop sharing so I can see the paper yeah probably be easier are you opening the floor for comments yes thank you very much I'm opening the floor for comments and seven back actually probably what we need to do first is have a motion and a second and then open things for discussion and I think isn't that right Joe that's probably yeah prove a second and then open for discussion just to address the formalities sure can we have a motion to to open this for resolution for discussion thank you commissioner Beck and a second thank you commissioner Mercy all right the floor is now open for discussion uh I'm has anyone done any calculation of what this means for the uh how it translates to the cost annual cost to the average building in sort of the range of buildings we might have in the next 10 15 20 years and the second question is um is there any provision for being Progressive um or is there any feasibility of that yeah I love the idea is there anything else no okay I love the idea of being Progressive um I I wanted to share that I had an idea that maybe it could be um the fee could be assessed as a basically a Delta between like if the project we're going to move forward with natural gas then the fee could be assessed as a Delta against what the electrical heating emissions would be and then as the grid gets Greener um that Delta increases but right now it's it might be closer than we think and so that might be a way to you know minimize the impact right up front but of course build in um the ability to kind of um insert the wedge a little bit more um um in future years and just from from my end in terms of has calculations been done or whatnot this uh kind of came through a little a little later it was shared with uh some of the city staff who work in this area and there just hasn't been enough time or uh to get anything on that um in terms of calculations go ahead thank you I'd like to comment um in a couple of regards um first of all I think we should all remember that we passed a resolution and calling for a natural gas ban and um that's not going anywhere um I wanted them to highlight the fact that um Joe sent out an email uh yesterday with a list of measures that could be used um as incentives for Builders Architects and contractors working together to um build energy efficient all-electric buildings that are compliant if you will with the a20 resolution that was sent out to everyone I don't know people have had a chance to look at that it's roughly 25 to 30 measures I encourage you to look at that um just so everybody knows those were reviewed well first of all the entity that put those together is the wolf pack that is a group of Ann Arbor uh residents well Ann Arbor area residents residents I should say that are very involved in environmental issues in general including line five but also climate related activities um so this was a result of a multi-brain multi-meting brainstorming activity I encourage you to look at that those are potentially things that could be done in place of this resolution or in addition to the resolution or multiple uh measures in that list could be combined um to basically try to drive the same kind of behavior where we want to see new new development that's done with in compliance with uh the compliance with the assumptions at the age of zero plan so um I I encourage you to to take a look at that um and um keep that in mind um as we discuss this or potentially vote on it um I think that's all I'll say for now but I may comment on something later thank you councilmember rodina thanks chair McKenna um I have a number of I guess I would say concerns or cautions similar to to the ones that you echoed at the b or that you mentioned at the beginning of the meeting so I would Echo those um without repeating them I I also I guess I'm looking at this and have a few questions um some of them are reflective of the things brought up by the caller at the beginning of the the meeting I I am concerned about um kind of this continuing we have a continued a continual kind of battle between our our joint climate crisis and our housing crisis here in Ann Arbor and that and I do have concerns about the growing cost of housing in the city um and so I would like to see a bit more on what the expected average cost would be for for the average construction um that goes into Ann Arbor um also acknowledging that we are starting to see a bit more of a trend toward all electric proposals coming to council I think in the last uh few meetings we have we approved the um I guess a few months ago now the 79 unit North Maple apartment complex the 216 unit South Town complex and the 228 unit South Forest uh development all of which will be are proposed to be all electric and so we are seeing that that kind of trend and that shift away from um from gas although I will add that some of those are still requesting I actually don't know if any of these specifically are but I I know that I've heard some requests for continuing to have natural gas as a backup generator option um and wondering if that would be an impact of this as well that's a question that I have is if if a building is proposed to be all electric but has a natural backup a natural gas backup generator if that would assess a fee um and similar to to Peck's question I I have a um I guess I would like to know the average cost for uh and or I guess the cost for an average new building in the city um but also by my reading of this um this is only for newly approved buildings um and doesn't acknowledge the kind of continuing climate burden that older buildings have in the city and and I guess the the reason I raise that is because of the uh this isn't just a one-time fee that somebody has assessed when they build a new building but rather it's a continuing year after year fee until they retrofit and so it strikes me potentially is a bit odd that we'd be creating kind of a class of buildings in the city that are eligible for a fee um but some of our older likely less efficient buildings would not be subject to that fee um and so that that kind of strikes me as a bit strange and something that I'd be interested in learning a little bit more about um because as as we move forward with with trying to get our carbon emissions under control here in the city um I recognize that moving forward we obviously want to um do everything that we can but um by kind of creating this additional class of buildings anything new that is constructed having a fee assessed to them but the older buildings not having anything attached um to encourage retrofitting just kind of seems like a maybe a potential oversight here um but finally I guess I will just add that I want us to be very cautious about some of our work in climate consistently kind of being the Stick of the carrots and the sticks uh approach um it feels like often what we're recommending um are penalties and fees um rather than incentives for folks to make Transitions and to get on board and I do want us to continue to get the community excited about doing this work um and that just constantly the fear of being penalized by the city um and so those are just a few of my concerns I see other hand so I'll maybe continue thinking and maybe come back for another round but um those are just off the top of my head thanks yeah I think we should hold the kerosene sticks um that's a theme here and I'd like to hear what other people have on that too um Vice chair harp around me thank you um just to build on that thank you just to build on the exact point um I'm wondering about the commissioner's openness to um perhaps using this resolution as an opportunity to build on the previous resolution that was passed by by the Commission in part to help um identify a range of carrots and sticks and sort of more more precise uh definition or range of options um as as as options to to further explore with um different city staff and and others around the community um so I think I think uh a sort of broader list would be helpful for for a wide range of folks as well and an opportunity to sort of discuss and perhaps weigh in a variety of different options um in addition to that one thing that seems to also keep coming up is the sort of question about the perceived or apparent trade-off between affordability and and sort of move away from fossil fuels as a as a as a fuel source for for housing and I think that's something that the commission perhaps could take up either in the form of a sort of request for what kinds of analysis or modeling might be helpful to sort of explore that um that we might need to sort of ask for from elsewhere in the community or or from City staff or others because I think that's something that that has been raised in a variety of different forums and that's something that we could probably get some data on or a little bit more or intuitive ways of wrapping our heads around that um and and making some choices about what that looks like whether it's in the near term or the long term or relative to other uh price fluctuations and things like that that might be out there um and so that's a question that that maybe is also worth exploring as part of as part of the kind of work that we might do to look at look at some of this um I would say that I would also love to see um some intuitive examples associated with some of the the um uh whereas Clauses for example of what this might look like in terms of costs for like a single family home or multi-family homes or something like that and how that translates um and I think lastly this might be a question sort of later on the discussion um as we take this up what might be the sort of timeline for how we take this up into the future and future meetings relative to the other agendas we have agenda items we have and sort of when what might be the sort of um perceived process for how we might go about that and and maybe Joe or others might be able to sort of lend some insight into that so we have a sort of sense of what what that Horizon looks like and and how we might involve others in the process thanks thanks I didn't see who had their hand up but I'll go with commissioner mursky thank you a couple of other points that I'd like to make uh I think I failed to mention that this list was shared with the mayor uh and with council member Briggs and council member dish in mid-july um it was sent to Missy at the end of July she had already received it from the mayor um as to my understanding also that Derek de la Court received it um in July the one really significant concern that I have is we we all acknowledge and the city has declared that we're in the middle of a climate emergency the a20 plan was drafted in early 2020 it was approved in June of 2020.

in 2022 York um District came up with a budget and then added to it the tuition you expected to pay to Sarita and that came to 7.3 million there's a law in Arizona that school districts have to pay a minimum amount of tax and that 7.3 million didn't quite rise to that level so the state added another 200 000 250 000 um dollars to your guys's tax bill that they took and then put that money into the general Equalization fund to come up to the minimum qualifying tax rate then the state every year decides they're going to pick up part of the tab um and so the the less state aid for Education that's what we call basic state a they say we're essentially going to pay two million dollars of your property taxes and that is generated off of a student account in a formula and statute and so they picked up two million of it which left the taxpayers in the Continental School District to pick up 5.4 million dollars and so that's what got billed last year for the Continental School District this year you guys figured out your budget and it came to um uh 5.1 million dollars and that's what um what what you guys adopted as a a budget and then consequently the levy when you guys adopted uh your portion of the of the left and then the state said well we're going to multiply the number of high school students you had last year attending uh in other districts and multiply that by the average which is about eight thousand dollars so you owe another um two two million dollars which would have brought us right up to about seven and a half million dollars however this is where the catch comes in they didn't integrate this with all the other formulas so that two million dollars now doesn't count towards your minimum tax and so the state said well no you still have to pay seven and a half million so they're going to collect another two million dollars from continental taxpayers and put that into the basic state aid fund in addition to that because you no longer count those students as your students those students are now counted in other districts you get less basic state aid money so rather than the state picking up two million dollars of your property taxes they're only going to pick up one and a half million dollars of your property taxes which then brings your total tax bill for the Continental School District primary taxes to 7.8 million dollars that's a 2.4 million dollar increase and it represents 44 of what you guys Levy so triple Webby now what does that mean as far as the average taxpayer in the Continental School District um and I mean for that we do have the summary numbers on the page but if you turn to the last two pages of that of that packet that you had you will see a sample uh tax statement that just got billed um just got sent out in the mail um uh last Thursday of last week so they will start hitting mailboxes uh this week okay um so you will notice the average assessed value that's not the value of the home but that's the limited assessed value for primary property taxes in Green Valley is two hundred thousand dollars so I um looked through our records and pulled up the the nearest one to two hundred thousand that I could find um and this is the actual properties that tax statement for this this property and if you'll notice down the second one down the Continental primary you will notice that this this taxpayer has an increase of 126.74 to their Continental property tax um their total increase in their taxes is 225 so the entire when we say 17 tax increase the entire 17 isn't solely due to this new uh this new Levy but the vast vast majority of it is and the the biggest number that's going to stick out on that tax statement is is the increase to uh the Continental primary uh primary taxes but again that's not the total story because that was the increase on the primary property taxes but if you will notice if you turn to the second page of that is the state aid to education and you'll notice for this property the portion that the state picked up dropped by forty four dollars so now the state is is covering less of the Continental District school budget than they have um and then they have in years past so the vix if there is a fix and there is no guarantee there is a fix because the fix has to be by legislative action um as we said the legislature didn't really do the math on this and didn't really mesh it with everything and so over this summer as districts and Ade and uh County superintendents started to run these numbers they discovered this didn't work and there was massive confusion across the state amongst Treasurer's Office tax assembly offices at the at the county levels the superintendents the clerk of the boards and the school superintendents about how all of this this was going to play out and how this was going to work so much so that the legislative leadership sent a letter to the property tax oversight commission which is a division of commission within the Arizona Department of Revenue said oh hey we didn't really get this right we didn't mean it that's not what we intended please could you never mind well it's in state law you can't just never mind state law and so they asked the the property oversight Tax Commission to make a ruling on it um their ruling was um that districts would either be charged the levies is presented in law or the minimum qtr for a high school district problem is is you guys don't have a high school district you never paid the minimum qtr portion for high school students so that was the the X the X extra run me on that so it will take legislative action to fix right um however if they fix it in January first thing they do property tax statements have already been built I mean they've already gone out we've already started collecting the money it would be surprised how many people paid so first day they get the property tax statement but that property taxes have already been collected so whatever fix comes to mind it will not affect this year's taxes it will have to be accounted for if and again it's a big if if the legislature gets it right the second go around fixed in future years and with that I'd be happy to answer any questions to the members of the board like that so in a nutshell seeing what we pay to the state basic fund or whatever and we are also reducing what we get from that design that is correct cool so we're paying in 2 million more and we're getting 500 000 less that is correct is there anything we can do contact your legislator all right um since most of our students in our district that would be going to high school they go to the somebody the school district that would effectively increase what they get because now they have more students well yes in effect so Sarita the Sarita school district is now just going to count that student as an open enrollment and student and so they've added those students into their formulas for establishing their budget because they're just going to count them which is really a wash because we used to get that lunch yes yes so for them it's no yeah it is a washer so we have the high school tuition as part of our annual budget and now we don't but we will continue paying tuition for the rest of this school year I don't think of any intuition so in terms of contacting the legislatures do we do it now or do we wait until January or how are you collecting information or how will we be made aware of progress or not well there again there is um the property tax oversight commission is going to do their their review and the legislative session starts um in in January but I would suggest contacting them now because the the so that when the legislature goes into session and again because the Continental School District is uniquely situated both in its nature and its location right the um the property tax oversight commission did make a ruling prior to this that they presumably had authority to do when people were bumping up against the maximum tax limit right um but and that solved some of the problems for very small rural districts that were already struggling with exceeding the Constitutional cap on school districts right but it did not solve the problem for the Continental Elementary School Districts districts around the state like I said there are there are there are only six school districts by my county in Arizona that pay both this new Levy as being an elementary only school district and are subject to the minimum qtr minimum qualifying taxes and the Continental Elementary School District is by far the one with the largest budget athletic so originally um Justin Williams said that we could tell our families to contact either your office or his office and we are happy to answer questions but we do not neither of us have the power neither his office nor our office have the power to do anything about it um the the fix is going to have to come from the state legislature because they're the ones that wrote it into the state law so when they call us the worse the two million that we're paying in going that is a very good question we know we don't know yet um because the statute that they wrote referenced first of all putting it into State Equalization money but then they changed it to say you're going to put it into County Equalization part which was basically fed into the state Equalization fund but they passed to this bill in the 2022 session right before they passed the budget and then when they passed the budget in 2022 and when they passed the budget in 2023 they zeroed the levy for County Equalization and in fact the state told the school districts this year to remove County Equalization from their chart of accounts now this law directs it to go into the County Equalization pocket but the superintendent's office is not currently operating accounting Equalization pod because there is no Levy for either last year or this year we had 222 000 last year into the state Equalization so it seems to me it'd be a logical to take that money and sit on it as a means of potential reimbursement connection we are going to hold on to the money until um the state's uh the the county superintendent's office directs us with what to do with it yes so it is it is segregated it will potentially be used for that reason to if the legislature so Deans yes so the legislature Associates but if that's changed but the money's still in your hands right the money will the money until there is a County Equalization plot for us to put it in okay good yeah so at this point yes yes and what is your office going to be doing to push the legislature in the right direction um I'm not going to answer that question from this position given the fact that I'm a current candidate for the the position of Treasurer I I will leave those political comments to another day in another time for taking the time to come you're welcome yeah that really helps and I'm surprised that I asked everybody here nobody has called email and yeah and it was on the front page of the paper a couple weeks ago right they're just kidding mailboxes right now so um uh and it it is a substantial that is a substantial yes yeah so it it includes a big chunk of uh the Green Valley um very very and if I if I might add one of the other things too is uniquely situated there is a much higher percentage of residents in the Green Valley area that actually pay their own taxes and it's not paid by a mortgage company so they actually look at it that's about three quarters at least yeah thank you guys thank you very much maybe our tea director could take a snippet of his presentation loaded up separately so that yeah I can email you the documents all right thank you all right well thank you again and with that we'll go to Mr Greg for our district financial report got us all on the edge so I didn't know if you all heard of our taxes are going up thanks Greg um I would want to say it's not my fault it's not about roxanna's fault um so this report looks a little bit different from the ones that you usually see we still haven't rolled over from previous year we haven't finished our end of the year stuff but that all begins here at the end of the month we put our comfort s itself if you have any questions at all about the the board report the board Finance report please let me know I'd be more happy to answer those I'm sorry I moved to approve the district financial report ing yeah thank you go on page 44.

so this is a culmination of everything that happened most of the slides will go through pretty fast okay we're going to spend most of our time on the pictures at the end which are the most fun so to begin even though we would be presenting regardless this is statutorily required and so we are following statute we needed to have this done sometime between September 1st and October 31st so we're in compliance with statute and then today's report we're going to go through the m o override commitments talk about the override spend over time and then look at the bond project commitments also at this point in time because we are totally expended in the 2015 Authority we really thought it was a good time to figure out the the accumulation excuse me of all the bond projects that have happened since then so this most of the slides and graphs are reflective of the entire body of work that we've done here in Gilbert since 2015.