We'll also renovate the finishes and floor coverings. Do some um cosmetics in the west gym and some reorientation of the of the floor to make that more a better usable space. Add an additional restroom in the lower level. uh rework the office area with a no major renovations but just give it a facelift and a couple new offices and then touch up the exterior paint. That's the first project. The second project in the package this evening is something that we've done since 2009 and these are reoccurring district projects. We use these to keep up the maintenance and equipment and technology and security equipment throughout the corporation. We also recently started using this to purchase student technology devices and for the purchase of school buses and I wanted to indicate that out. Um we don't purchase curricular materials out of this fund. We do however purchase the device that a student might access a curricular material on.
Where are you, Sandy? Give us a wave. There you are. Um, she was nominated by Darcy principal Kim Dessert. Um, so Chester Public Public Library has been a part of the Darcy community this year. April and Story Anne come to Darcy to read to the children and share their love of books. They also engage the children in songs or rhymes that are related to the stories they share. These visits get the children familiar with the staff at the public library and our goal is to also encourage families to visit our town library together. April and story share books at that are relevant to children. One that April shared was about hap what happens when a mitten goes missing and that it is okay to wear mismatched mittens. Storyan has an amazing way to engage children in the silly voices of each character. The children love when there's a special guest reader from the Cheshire Public Library.
They had to look at how maybe scaling back certain parameters affected their robot as well. So the programs to the right there are actually three different programs that we had the students run in which they changed the angle90 180 and -360 and they had to observe how the robot moved and by changing the scale of this angle they would have noticed that their robot moved to the left a little bit halfway in a full circle. So, this allowed them to complete the challenges that we gave them because it allowed them to see that pattern. One of my favorites was really looking at the structure and function of the robot. So, we had the students build the robots and as we progressed in our challenges, they often found out that something was wrong in their build through running a program. So after we had them build and move the robot for the first time, many students discovered that the robot went left when it should have went right or forward when it should have went backward.
So if it was in if it was a project in Capo then we'd have to use it for capacity in Capo. Okay. So in Klehi how are you going to use the the small amount of money that you're going to collect there? I think they allow us to do like renovations add more capacity to existing schools. I think the amendment Yeah. I think in 2021 they amended the law to allow for that because all of this time you weren't being able to use that. But again, you're hitting the small guys, which is exactly what the audit says. We're own people said that the land use planner remarked that there was a strong desire by the development community to pass the school impact fee law to catch the small guys. To catch the small guys. And to me, that's ludicrous that we're going to look at impacting all the small guys and letting all the the big guys.
So tracking sheets have changed. Everything is changing with this. So when you're making these vast changes, you're going to see these kinds of dips and trends, but we've tried to really adjust to it.
This is not the region I was thinking, Mr. Wolf, and I am absolutely blown away. Wow. You know, I think it speaks volumes as to how good of a job we've done with Den. The students apparently like it. It's moving on to the final four as the four seed. Let's see if it can make it all the way to the championship. All right, Wildcats. I'm here with Ro. We are in our final four. We made it to our final four. The students versus the stadium to make to the championship or den versus prom. Which one in your eyes reign supreme and deserves a spot in the championship? Students. Students. All right. They're moving on to the championship. Number one, they were the number one seed for a reason. All right, Wildcats. You can feel the tension and the pressure building. We are in the final four for birth in the championship.
Um and so that's the use of this. Um this this both these projects come in um at a total of then 25,000 or 25 million. It's 17 million for middle school central and $18 million for the reoccurring projects. Um also just real quick, Miss Dober, if you'd slide down just a couple more slides for me. I'm just looking for property taxes. Right there is good enough for me. Um both these slides contain all of the necessary information along with the resolutions for the board's action this evening. But the biggest thing is in the box of red. This will not come into any tax rate increase um to fund this project to something we're going to be able to fit right in our current tax rate and continue on. And we plan to pay back, especially the 8 million portion quickly like we have every time um when we've done those um those maintenance and technology projects.
We are extremely fortunate to call Cheshure Public Librarians friends to Darcy School. So, come on down, please. [Applause] You want to picture Congratulations. [Applause] And then next up, Dr. Solen, we're giving some German student awards. So obviously as you guys are aware we have a very robust uh German program in the Cheshire public schools and uh something of of personal pride for myself is you know actually my family's from Dublin but my brother took it upon himself to become a a German teacher uh and I know I get to rub it in with him given the incredible success that we have with our students. and Fraasa is a incredible part of that. Uh it's been really the backbone of our German program for many years and uh tonight she's here to recognize a number of students who performed incredibly well on the German exam. So Fraasa I'm a little shorter.
And the reason was there was these ports that wires plugged into. And if they didn't plug the port into the correct motor, then it made their robot do the opposite thing. So if that happened, we had to say, okay, let's go back to the drawing board. Let's figure out what's wrong. So thinking about how that structure of that robot affects that function. We also wanted to make sure that we were aligning with the state. So these are the next generation science standards. This particular science standards is asking students to define or design a problem. Right? I don't want to read it verbatim. I just want to list maybe some key components. Students were able to recognize a problem or opportunities for improvement. They def they define what a successful solution would look like within their design and what goals was must be met. They also considered considered criteria and constraints.
Oh, I don't know who made that statement, but I don't I don't know if it came from you folks. It's in the audit. This audit was 2019. Yeah, I read the audit and the people who were running the program, most of them had left already. So, I I don't know who But you guys inherited and it's not a lot that changed except now they have the law that allows you to use the monies for other things. Yeah. I don't know if they went back and looked at what the impact like what you're talking about in Khalihi where we we're heating up people who are renovating or building an ADU on their house and whether that should be the basis to generate an impact. Right. But that's what you guys should be doing and that's the and that was the um the concern raised in the audit that you folks are not looking at your program and how to implement it.
Any questions on that part? I'm having some real problems with how come you're talking about this is this is when you walk around. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Or or your instructional coach walks around or your your assistant walks around and they they go into a classroom and they say, "Are they doing number 13?" All right. Is that what I'm listening to? And that line is the gold line on the the chart. Well, are you with me? Am I reading this right? Because otherwise, we need to start over. Well, it's multiple. I'm so sorry. It's the only problem I'm having with it is my uh my rigger walk trend lines are different because they were updated and somehow what I gave Kathy is different than what we're seeing. Am I reading am I reading the lines correctly? But but what I tell what um what you're saying is this trend line data is consistent with um the rigger walk information.
Who am I here with? Angel. You've been a part of dad throughout high school. Did you go to prom last year? I didn't go to prom. I didn't. Are you going to prom this year? I'm going for sure. For sure he's going. Tickets go on sale Tuesday. You excited about it? I'm very excited. He's very excited about it. Well, let's see though. If you had to pick some of the greatest things here at WeGo, they've made it to the final four. Both strong competitors. Prom versus Den. Who's moving on, Angel? I say uh Prom's moving on. Prom's moving on. Moving on. This slipper does not fit. Den's run is over. Prom is moving on to the championship. I mean, we're talking about students versus prom. The energy between these two hitting each other, this could cure the energy crisis in our country. This is amazing.
Um that's all the content I feel like I needed to rehash this evening, Mr. Daniels, but I' have to entertain any other questions. Just a point of reference You said 17 million and 18 million. Thank you. Yeah, I just want to make sure people knew that it was 17 and eight. Yeah, I apologize for going a little too quick through that. You are correct. 17 million and then 8 million for the reoccurring. That's the same number for reoccurring that we did this prior year. And for those at home that might be not be able to see the screen, I like the capital maybe put in all caps next time, but I like the red in the upper right hand corner that says no tax rate increase due to this project. That is correct. which we are going on what 11 12 years pretty well stated.
Okay. Um just to give you a little background, this is the American Association of Teachers of German, National German exam. So this exam is given all over the country. Um and you can see how you score with everybody else in the country. And this year 112 students in Connecticut took this exam. 74 students won an award, 15 of which are here in Cheshire. Um there were two um two of the three people that scored gold in Connecticut are here tonight. Um that's Hayden Wang and Isabella Huvong. And for the first time ever, we have two freshmen who scored who won an award. That's never happened before. So I'm so proud of these kids and they just work so hard. We do have a lot of fun in class, too. Um I hope. But um these kids are really dedicated and um I thank you for honoring them because they certainly deserve it.
That was just breaking down what our state standard is and making it completely accessible to our students, right? Because again, we have 12 days to focus on this problem. Along with having your um your performance expectation, we have the science and engineering practices and we have the crosscutting concepts. The three of these things, the your disciplinary core idea, your science and engineering practice and your crosscutting concepts, they make up your threedimensional learning. It's like you have a stool with three legs and the stool is standing strongly on those three legs. It's the foundation. So in the earlier grades, students start with basic inquiry and exploration. But as students move to grades three through five, they begin to ask more detailed questions and specific problems that can be solved with a design or a system. We chose robotics. Robotics combines science and engineering to create tools that address specific needs or problems.
You're so busy looking for new new things. I I can find a statement that they make in there. I agree with you. Yeah. So you want to keep this program but yet you guys aren't making the effort to or revising it so that it's relevant. Well, it's it's transferred to SFA now. All we're saying is that because of the land component, we're mainly concerned about the land component because large projects might need a new school. So if that's the case, then you should not be charging these small landowners or the small um residential areas from the impact fee. It's really impacting the small guy. I agree. So, we can go back and take a look, but SFA is responsible for that the impact fee right now. So, okay. Thank you, Sure. Yes, sir. So just just a couple of things I I understand and I when this impact fees came about it was never ever and I'm going to be clear was made for somebody who building one extra room in the house or billing with extension never was the intent and I was there from the beginning because our community was growing beyond belief and we wasn't keeping up with the schools as I expressed before Capo was never there.
So it's what Miss Sharpet sees and she goes and looks at the math teachers. It's what I see when I go look at the ELA teachers. Now it's a little sporadic because you're not looking at all teachers each and every time. So one day you might look at four teachers and it's a shot and it's shot. Mhm. Snapshots. Snapshots. But And it's multiple. And what I'm seeing, is it I'm sorry. So each of those dots, Julie, is not one teacher. It's several teachers. So it's the it's the data for several teachers. So yeah, it's a culminating. So if I saw on 8124, I thought maybe that was part of it. They they could range from strongly disagree to disagree, but they landed in the middle as an aggregate as an average of those. So, but what what's happening is with the just go with the number 13 the gold line okay on this data and I understand that your data is different because snapshots are snapshots and it's just a period of a short period of time but if I'm looking from at August no 8 is September yeah August it's August August and I'm seeing the the gold line starts right in between the disagree and and strongly disagree, right?
Without students, there is no prom. It is one of our biggest events of the year. Huge amount of responsibility to pick the champion of our we go madness. Looking back, you know, students started as the number one seed, destroyed auditorium, took down the science labs. Had a tough match with stadium, but they took care of them, too. Prom, I really thought RAS from the cafeteria. That's my darkhorse pick out of that region. No match up against Prom. Prom took down homecoming. Prom takes down Den the Cinderella story out of the Northwest region of leading. Who am I here with that uh has the privilege of picking this championship in legal madness? I'm Dylan. I'm a junior. Julia Junior. You guys know each other? You do know each other. Are you going to prom? Yeah. Are you going to prom? Are you guys going to prom together?
Yes. Very since 2009 we we've maintained a rather flat tax rate eb and flowing. We did raise it two years ago for the energy savings project. That's the only increase really of of major note. It was two yeah it was 4 cents at that but that was and that brought us to the average and that was an investment in the future. I mean we're going to see the savings from that. That is 100%. We are seeing those savings. I did present that in January. Thank you. Great questions. Thanks for the correction there Dr. Any other comments or questions as it relates to the uh 1020? Well, actually, first let me open up the uh to the members of the public if they have any comments or questions. Uh Hopper may want to want to bark on this one. Um but if if anybody in the public has comments or questions, this would be the time.
I have awards here from the AATG as well and Dr. Soul and you have one too. Yes. Oh, okay. Certificates to go around. Yay. Okay. Um is Bisma here this evening? Oh, Bisma, come on up. Bisma. certificate. Sure. Okay. So, I don't know if you heard that, but we'll give everybody their certificate as we call you up and you guys can assemble up front. We'll do a a group photo real quick. Bisma, congratulations. Then we have Carly Cahill. Congrats, Carly. Sadie Icebach. Congrats, Satie. Merade Hall. Thank you. Oh, Colin Harkkins, but he's not here this evening. We have Isabella [Applause] Huang. Wyatt [Applause] Yalovix. I know. Can I see the cheat sheet? Claire isn't here this evening, but it's Claire McManis. Oh, she is here. Oh, Claire, I'm so sorry. I'll I'll find yours. Claire McManis. Yay. I should look in the back before I say sorry.