Do we have, you know, should we keep going forward with this? We're just moving forward. Um, you know, and and the the other questions around some of our other grants is we don't really see anything in there that's that says that we are making decisions based on race. So, we think we're we think we're good. I mean, you know, we have a policy around equity that we might need to, you know, tweak some language and and but, you know, we we can talk about that in policy next time we get together. I I you know, if we ride this wave too much of the changes, you know, it'll drive everybody nuts. So, we're just trying to breathe through it as it comes and um you know, just at least know where our exposures are. Great. So, in that when it becomes more of a deep breath, correct?
Um, but when that does come, we will decide on best use for it. And Mrs. Reynolds did reach out to Voya to determine the process for cling. Yes, she did. Yep. And that's it. I just um have a question where um under old business under the two three four down and where it says it's reported that the board of finance has earmarked an additional $200,000 in contingency for unanticipated special education costs. Yes. So I mean when I was at the meeting I I thought that there was $200,000 for the school and the town and it wasn't really earmarked for anything. We had to go through the process. So, I did reach out to the board of finance today and um it was, you know, it was confirmed that there is nothing right now currently earmarked for special education moving forward. So, yeah. I mean, when I say earmarked, I don't mean like it's it's ours.
Okay. Thank you. The next item that we don't have on the agenda, but I wanted to add was a quick update from Dr. Casemra on the the budget. uh as to the budget update which may meant what timetable or what date we have to make presentations perhaps the possibility of a board workshop to to understand her presentation now and to have more talking points about us as board you talk a little bit about that character sure so um so we have you know at the board's pleasure we have a date that's tentative for March 26th is still a hold date. We have a board meeting at 7 o'clock and we have a tenative hold which is a community conversation um at six o'clock beforehand. If we wanted to continue to utilize that to do a presentation in the community perhaps maybe a broad view might be a great location.
It's sort of we always have to go through sort of process. I was surprised that it's $200,000 on the town side and the board of education side. So, that that is a good clarification to make. Yeah, it's not a lot. Yeah. Anything further with finances? Okay, then um let's move to the consent agenda. I move that the board approve the items on the consent agenda as recommended. The resignation of Dr. Dr. John Burrell, Superintendent TSO, effective 62925 and February financials.
Um then maybe we could have the board meeting um you know have the board meeting at Broadview in the library. We've done that before convenient site and we can invite the public in for um to hear the presentation, you know, in a live format. We've certainly done um we've done that live in in a board meeting. We've done a couple of um some video. We did to do a PTO. So, there's a video that has been circulating around. So, um we could certainly do one um on the 26th at the board's pleasure. Uh we also um oh just for timeline sake that would be just prior to the mayor releasing his his his overall numbers for for the entire city and then we would be presenting at ad hoc uh I think the third week of April. So timing wise um I think you know we would be presenting before the mayor presents his budget which would be probably one of the last opportunities to do so.
Any discussion on this? Okay. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? Okay. So, uh that's a unanimous vote there. And then we move to new business. So, Mr. Roland, you're up. We're going to hear um a uh the update regarding the special education strategic plan. It's all ready to go. Be patient during our technical difficulties. Please stand by. There we go. Okay. Not yet. Ready. It's called the boot cycle at this point. The anticipation builds. There we are.
You know I thank you. I'll leave that to you. I'm glad to and we're going to talk about that in community conversations I believe. Okay, great. Uh, thank you. That being the case, that concludes the items that were up were on my amended agenda. Are there any to the committee members?
Good evening everyone, members of the board, Dr. Burrell, Dr. Man, Mrs. Dat. Uh, I just want to start by saying thank you to everybody who's who's supported me throughout the the almost two years I've been here. Um tonight I'd like to give you an update on the strategic plan, some shifts we're making, and also some um pieces of reviewing where we've been, where we are, and where we're going. Um to begin, just thanking the committee members, but there's not just these committee members. There's been um parent calls, there's been uh conversations after PPT meetings. I've been in uh conversations with parents on the phone. And so the input that you're going to see tonight again is a a a short overview of what we're planning next. I'd also like to thank um Miss Fitzgerald who's here from Septto this evening. Thank you um for for uh helping with some of the input as we met a couple weeks ago.
Are there any questions that the committee members had for any of the administration report? If not, are there any questions from any of the non-committee members that want to make a comment or have any questions? Uh, I just have a question and it's either for superintendent or Angela or Mike. Uh and going through this um the documents that were sent out uh could you explain to me the difference between uh looking at page two, page four, and page seven. The difference in the those three accounts that's as identified as curriculum development. Yes. Are those are those same are those the same accounts? Page two. Page two. Okay. I think it's up at the top. Page four. Okay. And page seven. We have curriculum development. Pull it up. Yes. So, um, let me share my screen. And I'm anticipating I thought curriculum just came up under one umbrella and that that's why I need you to enlighten me.
Um when we met back in November, when I presented to you in November, we talked about a theme of stability and consistency. That's been the theme certainly for the first year and on into the second year. Tonight, I want to review some of those pieces, reflect on what those pieces mean, and then start to reimagine and start to dream about what might be next and where we will go as a as a special education and a learning community. Before I get into that, I just wanted to review, and I brought this up in November. Um, there used to be things called a desk audit where the state department of ed would come in and go through our files. Since the CT saids implementation, uh, compliance is checked through the CT said system. So, we got a report back from CTEs that we were in good shape.
Yes. So this is uh page two curriculum development um is right here. You'll see this f um maybe you can't see it. It's very small. Yeah, I have the copy at home. Okay. F uh 51021. Um this the wording curriculum development is something that we put in there. Um that's just kind of a description. The 51 indicates that um this particular account is a salary account. Okay. So there must be a position um that at the time that they set the system up, they wanted to call that position curriculum development. Okay. Um, if I go to page four, I think you said it was. Yeah, page four. At the top, the first one, you'll see um 53. So, um, this is curriculum development as it relates to a professional service. Um, so perhaps we pay um um a third-party vendor for some curriculum development. Um, so it's not really a a W2 employee, but it's a person that we hire as maybe a 1099.
Uh, the only areas of growth might be to be a little more precise in our present levels of performance, um, which we're certainly working on and and working on with our IEP compliance teacher, working with our teams. What you see before you is the the total number of students in the district and our compliance. Now when you see 1% uh 99% is is great because there are districts that are not reaching 99%. This is in terms of the goals and objectives and the structures of the IEPs. The 1% could be construed as people who are in the students who are in the the referral process who are having meetings who are in the process of having meetings whose meetings haven't been finalized yet. So when you see those numbers, that also includes 504s. But I'm very proud of our team and I'm proud of our our IEP compliance teacher who has helped to work with our our uh teachers and staff in all three buildings on making sure that what we write is um smart goals and implementable goals.
Um, they would fall in this 53 category. Okay. Okay. And then you said page seven. Page seven. Good thing they're numbered. So page seven, um, curriculum development. This this list is a summary. So um curriculum development you'll see again this is the 51. So this refers to the salary of curriculum development. Uh the double0 is indicating that it's um a summary across all district. So this is um for the entire district. It's kind of just restating it. Okay. And you'll see that that so this should be also you should see the 53 if you go further down. You'll see it again. This so this is the summary for curriculum development by so this report is just a different report. This is showing it by month as opposed to total. But the 51 is salaries and the 53s are professional services. Okay. Thank you very much.
So when we talk about strategic plan, we talk about special education as teachers, as community members, we want to know what's our why? Why do we do what we do? What what drives us? And to talk about ensuring students with disabilities achieve academic, social, and emotional success. The key word, and I've said it in every presentation, inclusive environments. And inclusive means in all environments, partnering with all of the teachers, staff, students, families, community members, community stakeholders, um in making sure that that's why we do what we do. I could present statistics, but at the end of the day, why are we doing this? To make sure that our students with disabilities are included. Speaking of inclusion, um this is just a quick snap from our uh unified sports tournament last week that we hosted with um some area districts joining us. Um very proud of this.
Yes. Thank you Mike Cooper. Just before I I call a motion to to adjurnn, I just want to say how good of a job I did because I'm four minutes over the one hour mark. Rich, can I just add one thing quickly? Sure. You're going to ruin my my record. Go ahead. I I'll keep it under 59 seconds. Um so a as we go through the financials and we're trying to determine um what our our positive and negative variances are, we are um looking very closely at our purchase orders. So our um our accounts payable system. Um Teresa, this is something that you've brought up um at least twice. Um and I I couldn't agree more. Um as we were going through the audit, in fact, we found that $1.4 4 million. That was a purchase order that should have been looked at and closed.
This was the middle school uh from Wiskanir, the Wiskanir team, unified sports. I always like to highlight one of those in each my of my presentations. And tonight, Whiskanir is the is the one I wanted to show. So, we thank them for their dedication and for the kids who did an amazing job as usual. So, just to review the CRE report framework that Dr. Corville presented about two years ago at this time. The four domains were resources, organizational structures, student learning, and communication and collaboration. So, tonight I'd just like to give you an overview of that, where we've been, where we are, and where we're going. Um, when we talk about resources, what are we talking about? We're talking about allocation of case loads. Making sure that that students are in classrooms with special education teachers in resource settings and in specialized program settings and that the case loads are allocated appropriately so that the students can meet their goals.
So we are now going through the exercise um I believe for the first time um in in the district where we are looking at um all open purchase orders making sure that um one that they're um that they're valid um and if they're open standing purchase orders that um the the amount that's in there is still the best estimate that we have. Um we're going through that now. Um and any purchase orders that um can be closed are going to be closed. And we're gonna we're starting that right now. Um Dr. Casemiro has given everyone by the April break to get that done. And following the April break, then I get to I get to drop my hammer and go through the list and make sure everyone did it. And we're going to do that then on a rolling basis perhaps quarterly to start. Wonderful news.
Uh, I also want to shout out Wiskanir again uh for our specialized ELC program which has really been transformed this year thanks to Mrs. Jyn and Mr. Renda, Miss Fontana and the the team at Wiscaneer um the Paris and the related services folks we have seen a dramatic increase in um inclusion and being a part of the building and just it's just great to see uh when we looked at what we could improve across our district ELC at Wiskiner was one of the areas that we wanted to make sure that we took a look at and I'm very proud of the the structured collaborations that are taking place our targeted professional learning which has included paras and teachers Partnering with Ed Advance, we uh brought in in-person workshops on assist of technology, dyslexia, secondary transition, and continuing our IEP quality training. And this was in addition to our 321 insight um online training.
Thank you. Thank you, Teresa. That's something that has been, you know, practice that has been loosey goosey. So, we're put we're tightening that right up. Yeah. And it goes to express the point that we know in the past there have been some differences, but as we learn the these particular issues, we look to correct them so that we are moving in the right in the right direction. I I I realized the last couple years, you know, I came in on co everything was topsy tur and I understand it's getting back to normal now. Good. So, thank you. Can I get a motion to adjourn? So, moved. Second. Oh, wait. Hang on a second. Before we move that that motion, can we make a motion to recommend the February finance report uh to the full board? Second. Okay. All in favor? Hi. Hi. Hi. Thank you.
But I felt and our team felt that in-person professional learning is really at the heart of being able to have conversations about things like dyslexia and assisted technology. Our paras really enjoyed it. our teachers are always eager for more training whether it's Orton Gillingham, uh, Wilson, things like that that are on on our radar. So, I wanted to make sure that we talked about that. In addition, for those of you who've been around special education for a while, you might remember MAPS meetings, which are kind of transition meetings for where um students are going to be, their hopes and dreams going forward after high school. Well, there's been a shift into um a program set of u meetings called charting the life course. Again, partnering with Ed Advance, we have brought in um Laurel Scott who is one of their uh transition folks that works with the state.