Come back. And then and when this has been done in the past, you worked that out and it's at seven. So is that and I would not have a problem with meeting time. In fact, prior to starting this meeting, we're kind of talking about if we had delayed if we delay this meeting till 6:30 start time, Barbara might be able to get here um more often on time. You know, I know it's not an issue, but that might help you Dave and but I don't know what your sit 6:30 works fine. So, is this We should table until we can get Barbara in his we know. Has the governor the governor has signed? Okay. So you can continue. So we could continue. Yeah. Right. Yeah. How long was it extended for? We know. Not sure. I thought it was years. could be wrong, but some reason I thought it was of 26.
So our school resource officers will be there as well. So, I encourage you to come April 30th at 6:30 if you want to hear kind of the practical side of how these things can play out in school and play out in the community. Um, another followup um is around the challenge success um information. So, in January uh you'll remember Kate McCarthy and Ellen Really came and presented the challenge success data 10 years into the program. Um and Colleen, I think it was you that asked us to go back and and look at subgroup data. Um, so we did a deep dive and Denny's going to present some of that information. Yes. Uh, before I say that, one other event that I'll mention that has happened recently is our Battle of the Bands. Um, it was a fantastic event that, um, I think nine different bands that played at the region um, benefiting JB's Keys.
Hearing none. Um measure is adopted. Mr. Chair, thank you. Finally, um last on our agenda is STR81 and SR51. Uh I'd like to move this forward um with amendments. Uh we'll clarify the intent to prioritize safety and saving lives on Hawaii's roads. Uh we'll ask the uh group to examine Hawaii data on alcohol-related fatalities, injuries, and risk. Um include the office of the public defender. uh also include the other neighbor island prosecutors. Um we'll extend an invite to the National Transportation Safety Board, assuming it still exists. Uh we'll also invite a representative of um Hawaii establishments uh involved with the sale of alcohol um as well as a representative of Hawaii uh restaurants and a representative uh from an organization doing work on reducing alcohol uh related fatalities. And then finally, we'll adopt the recommendations from the testimony to add in any other members as uh may be appropriate.
um thinking it was just kind of like a current problem, looking at data and finding it's kind of been systemic for Kraton for well over 20 years. Um and so that kind of really shifted where my focus will be in the options and that's great. We have student government. That's, you know, amazing. But um we've been broken for so long that for me to kind of be positive on any outcome we do, it's really going to have to improve quality teaching in our district because at this point I feel our district is predatory because it's been happening for so long and we're hurting generations of people and that just it doesn't sit well with me anymore. Okay, thanks Doris. I'm Eve. Um, I brought a Claire's gift card because I have a seven and a half-year-old at home and this is the best negotiation tool I have.
So, I mean I mean I think the in-person meetings would be good, but and also, you know, if there's a board member that can't make it, they could still join us by Zoom. Yep. If Right. So, as long as we have a quorum, right, it doesn't matter what person, right? Just the only thing is if one of the board members is not here, we have to do roll call vote, but that's really um so again, should we wait and talk to Barbara or because if Yeah. So, we we can, you know, maybe send out an email comes tonight. 6:30 is a better time. Yeah. Okay. All right. So, that's at least a start to the conversation and I guess we'll follow it up maybe at next meeting or with an email or something. Okay. All right. Thanks very much. All right. So, we're going to take a brief um break um and then we'll be presenting the uh Mary Mortonson award.
It was a great event, um, and very well organized and very successful. So, it was another great event. Um so again just to follow up on the last joint school committee meeting in terms of a breakdown by race and ethnicity of some of our challenge success data. Um so you can see here the breakdown in um this is students selected self- selected and selfidentified their race and ethnicity at the middle school and at the high school. Uh you might be wondering why are there so many more categories at the middle school than the high school. Um the high school is a survey that has been given for you know more than 20 years. um and to kind of preserve some of the comparisons that you can make in that survey. They've kept the demographic choices the same. Whereas the middle school survey is a newer survey.
Uh and then finally, um uh we'd like to uh just recommend the group takes a look also at the data to look at the numbers of alcohol-related fatalities, injuries per year in Hawaii, the numbers of expected fatalities and injuries per year. Um uh were the or should the uh legal limit be reduced to 0.05 5 based on real world results experienced in other places. Um also take a look at how alcohol and food revenues uh are uh affected um in other places that have adopted or established a 0.05 uh threshold and how much revenue could potentially be expected to be gained um or lost uh here in Hawaii. uh as well as make recommendations for any mitigating steps to help bars, restaurants or others uh adapt um that have been successful in other places that have uh change their threshold or have a 05 thresholds or any other options that might be recommended to address uh any issues uh as the group may see fit.
This is like her currency. Um, but the connection is is that first I was an educator before I became a mom. And I think that being an educator first made me a better mom. I then I became a mom. And I think that being a mom made me a better educator. And I bring the perspective to this group of being a mom of a young child who's currently in elementary school and she's in second grade. And when she was in kindergarten, she came home after the first day of kindergarten and said, "I'm going to be reading books by October." And I was like, "That's cute. Yep. We'll keep trying. We'll keep reading." She was reading books by October and when she was in first grade, she um was getting ready for one of the dibbles benchmarks and um the teacher had sent a newsletter and said, "Hey, make sure they have breakfast.
We're just waiting for a couple more people to arrive. So, we're going to take a break at this time. Um so we're back into um our open session. Um we've made a decision uh due to some people that were unable to be here tonight for the presentation of the Mary Mortonson Public Health Award. So, that is now going to be done at 6 PM on April 15th. Um, people will be will that will be in person at town hall and by Zoom. Um, and there will be a new agenda coming out from the board of health um for that item. Um, with that being said, um, the final thing on our agenda is so our next meeting date is April 15th and I would need a motion to adjurnn. I will make motion to adjurnn. All in favor? I. Great. Good night everybody. Okay.
Um which is why you can see that there's a lot more options broken down for middle school in terms of uh race and ethnicity. Um so this is kind of the current breakdown of how students uh selfidentified. Um when we take a look at average hours of sleep by race and ethnicity, you can see that it's sorted by the most at the top. Um, so if you take a look at the middle school, you can see that it is our South Asian or Indian and our Asian students who are getting the most sleep. Um, an average of 8.6 hours a night. Um, then you can see going down the list, um, our white students getting an average of 8.2 hours a night. Um, and then at the bottom of the list, our Hispanic or Latinx students at 7.8 and our black students at 7.1. Um, at the high school, um, our white students are getting the most average amount of sleep per night, 7.3 hours.
And finally, u we'll ask for recommendations on how to engage with public awareness and how to phase in uh any potential recommendations for changes. And I'll just say um you know, I think it's been five or six years of various bills that have attempted to uh dive into these issues. So, I think getting everybody at the table and seeing if there's uh something else that we've missed or to answer questions that have otherwise not been answerable in the course of uh the legislative process uh seems appropriate and hopefully this can move forward and we can have sometime next year uh as a legislature convenes uh something that might be passable.
Make sure they have are well rested. Like this is going to be the week of testing." And so I talked to her before she was going to sleep that night. And I said, "How are you feeling about dibbles? You just have to try your best." and she said, "Oh, I'm going to be totally fine. Mrs. Bner has taught me everything I need to know." And for me, that's so powerful. That is the kind of educators that I want in my daughter's life. The kind that empower her to do her very best and to set her up for success. That includes having rigorous goals, holding her accountable, and making sure that they're giving her the tools that she needs to be exceptional at everything that she does to her best potential. And I think that those are the kinds of educators that we want to um nurture here in Kraton.
Um, and then you can see at the bottom, our black students are getting, uh, the least amount of sleep, uh, per night. Uh, so I know that there have been some questions about, you know, our Boston students and the impact that their commute has on their sleep. Um, and there's some other data here that will help make a little bit more sense about this difference in sleep as well. Um, that I'll get to. Um when we think about engagement, so we've talked about the different types of engagement. Um there is being disengaged, so really not having any connection to what's going on in school. Uh doing school, which is kind of just going through the motions, being compliant. Um purposefully engaged, so kind of a higher level, and then being completely fully engaged, understanding the meaning behind everything you're doing, applying it to multiple situations.
Uh so, any discussion on this? Well, maybe we'll pass it this year. Never know. Okay. Never know. Okay. Chair's recommendation on CR 181 and SR51 is to pass with amendments with five members present. Any voting with reservations? Any no votes? Measure is adopted. Mr. Chair, thank you very much. So that's the end of our 3001 p.m. agenda. Um I'll just note we have uh two other uh agendas with deferred measures to vote on. So, take us out of our 3001 and go straight into our 300 2 p.m. agenda. Um, these were measures previously heard uh in this committee. Which one? 3:02 p.m. Uh, we have uh three sets of measures, three sets of resolutions up um beginning with CR12 and SR8 uh recognizing International Dark Sky Week. I'd like to recommend moving these two measures forward with amendments and we'll add uh the convening of a task force on light pollution and dark skies.
And I want to empower our educators to have high expectations just like my daughter's educators do. Okay. I can't believe she's in second grade. I know. I remember when she was born, James. It goes by. Yes. And takes all her numbers. Um so, um I I I never get ideas from myself. I always ask other people that are way smarter than I am. So, I'll start off with this is not my idea. Um, I think it's a it's a level of high-mindedness that I'm not really capable of. I think you don't give yourself enough credit. Thank you. Uh, so uh the so uh I I always consider myself a like a common sense. I think there's craziness everywhere. Um and uh one of the things that I feel like that I try to work for is to um think outside of the box. Um so that's what the box is supposed to represent.
Um this is the middle school data that you can see broken down by race. Um so you can see that in terms of our students being fully engaged um our South Asian or Indian students report being the most fully engaged. Um and then our black students or students that declined to answer um were showing the lowest amount of full engagement. Um and you can see the breakdown by purposely engaged, doing school, and disengaged. Um, and again, we can share these slides because it's hard to see up on the screen. Um, this is the high school data. Um, so again, it mirrors a lot of what we're seeing at the middle school with our Asian students saying um that they are the most engaged and then our black and African-American students saying that they have less uh levels of full engagement. Um, another area that we want to break down for you is extracurriculars.
uh hopefully some recommendations for ensuring dark skies were and when appropriate and technical amendments. Is there any discussion on that? If not, vice chair for STR 12 and SR8 with amendments. Okay. Chair's recommendation on STR 12 and SR8 is to pass with amendments. All those uh with five members present. Any voting with reservations? Any no votes? Measure is adopted. Mr. Mr. Chair, thank you. Uh, moving on to STR 150, uh, requesting the Department of Transportation to convene a working group to develop and recommend federal, state, and county program subsidi Oh, I'm sorry. Excuse me. Uh, I skipped a set of measures here. Uh, we're on STR 180 and SR 150 requesting the Department of Transportation to submit an annual report to the legislature summarizing specific safety related information for general aviation and commercial tour operators. uh and making those available online. Um like to recommend moving us forward with amendments um to address the uh some of the comments that were raised and testimony uh when these were heard like to recommend changing uh and clarifying the scope of the problem and intent to provide residents and visitors with safety and performance related information to enable informed decision-making.
Um and come up with ideas uh that I hope will satisfy um the needs of everybody. Um sometimes it's been successful, sometimes it's not. Uh but I that's just the way that my mind works. Um, and I try to present those ideas. Um, so that's what the box is. And then inside the box, um, is a book. I know originally I was looking for just like a regular history book, but this is a book that is on my list of re reads, a compact history of Mexico. Um, because I'm often fascinated by that. Um, and the reason I chose this is because I feel like I also bring a historical perspective uh that is unique uh in the sense that um trying to embrace the the ageness of things. Um I I used to be like one of those person that's like no no I'm not that old but now I'm embracing my age.
Um, so this is at the middle school level average number of hours that students are spending per week on extracurriculars. Um, and I think that if you look at these numbers, you can see their students are very, very involved. Like this is a ton of time. Um, you know, at the top are um, our white students spending an average of 6.9 hours a week on something extracurricularly. Um, going down the list, you can see the breakdown by race. Um, but then I think it's really interesting to look and this is the middle school at the percentage of students working a job at least half an hour a week. Um, so we have our Hispanic and Latinx students at the top of that list and our white or Asian students. Um, and you can go down. But the point that I was making earlier about when we see our black students at the high school level getting um lower amounts of sleep than some of their peers, I think some of it correlates to what we're seeing here.
Uh we'll change the title to requesting the Department of Transportation to share information on the safety and performance of commercial tour operators to help residents and visitors make informed decisions. Um fourthly, we'll request DOT and uh HTA, the Hawaii Tourism Authority to make information available in an easy to find and understand format online. Um, we'll ask the uh uh ask excuse me u ask D to work with the National Transportation Safety Board to identify relevant safety performance and operations criteria uh and solicit voluntary responses from commercial tour operators uh with with respect to those criteria. Um, also I'll ask them to work with other agencies to collect other relevant publicly available information and also establish a system of uh transparency and scoring to provide the public with information on which companies are taking which steps uh related to safety uh and other considerations as may be appropriate may be appropriate to provide for safety and best practices to enable residents and visitors to make informed decisions about which companies they would like to fly with.