So I bring a historical perspective from the process and for things uh that like if ideas come up um um I can u hopefully give an unbiased um uh perspective on it on like this is what happened before this is how it works and add to that conversation. So, okay. And I think in the past um three years um thinking back at this group, we've had some new members, but I I really do feel that people have freely expressed their ideas and um they have been well taken and conversations have been civil and I really appreciate that as the facilitator. So, thank you everyone for your showand tell conversations and items. Okay, our evaluation from last week, our question one was, did our options address the framing statements? If not, what were the reasons? We had eight people that completed the evaluation. Um, both questions, by the way.
Um, so this is the high school percentage of students working a job at least a half an hour a week. 61 61% of our black students are working some sort of a job. So that is kind of taking away potentially from hours of sleep that they're able to get in addition to you know possibly um, you know, for our Boston students that commute into work. Um, but that's kind of something that I think is important for us to bring to um, our staff's attention, just the amount of students that are saying that they have jobs. And when we're thinking about workload and trying to create balance in our students lives, um, you know, I think for all of our demographics, this is a sizable amount of our students that are engaged in some sort of working paying job uh, for at least a half an hour of week a week.
And finally, we'll have um we'll ask them to report annually to the legislature, to hta, to the counties, and then make technical amendments. Um and just for the uh uh record here, the idea is uh we can't compel anything to happen as uh I think some of the earlier testimony had said, but in this space um where Hawaii's experienced um about 50 fatalities uh over the last couple decades u uh helicopter crashes and other things. Uh we're trying to create a little bit of transparency here to give companies an opportunity to demonstrate that they're being safe or employing proper safety measures and best practices and making that information available to visitors who otherwise uh really have no idea uh and have a difficult time finding that kind of information so that they can uh choose whom to fly with accordingly.
Um, of those eight people, five just answered yes. That's okay if you just answered and you didn't comment, but there were three comments. Uh, someone wrote a comment that said, "No, I needed clarification on some of the options in order to understand the intention or purpose. I am concerned that many of our current options are not in alignment with student outcome focused goals." So, we'll talk about that today a little bit more. Um I think so but I am not positive because as we worked on rewarding them we were not also looking back at the framing statements to make sure and then someone wrote yes the statements have clarifi have clarified and easier to understand. Question two did you feel there was sufficient time for you to express your thoughts and opinions? If not, please suggest and change your and what changes you would like me to implement.
Is the extracurriculars tied to the school extracurriculars or just general? We don't know. I think I think it's just general. Yeah. Anything that is done out of school. So that could be like a Girl Scouts. It could cub scouts. It could be um a math club that they're a part of outside of school. Do we have a sense of the commute time, the average commute time or the the highs and um you know the range of commute times for our Boston students? So I think the first pickup is um for the bus monitor I think it's a five 45 45. Yeah, we we uh gained 15 minutes this year. And then the students arrive to their first stop in Dover Sherburn at the first stop is Chering at about 7:15, I believe. Um 7:20, then it's Pine Hill and then they come here and the school here, as you know, doesn't start till 8:40.
So with that any any discussion? Seeing none, vice chair, chair's recommendation on STR 150 is to pass with amendments with five members present. Any voting with reservations? Any votes? Measures adopted, Mr. Chair. Thank you. Uh finally on this agenda, uh moving on to STR 150 requesting the Department of Transportation to convene a working group to develop and recommend federal, state, and county programs subsidizing the transport of waterborne cargo. like to recommend moving us forward with amendments, just making technical non-substantive amendments. If there's no discussion on that, uh, vice chair for the vote on STR 150. Just voted for STR 150. That was SR 150. This is STR. I'm sorry about that. Okay. 180 uh chair's recommendation on STR 15. Oh, okay. Uh that was the Oh, okay. Yeah, we got to correct that then. Okay. Okay. Uh still with amendments. Uh still with amendments. Okay.
Sorry about that. Um, someone just wrote yes, someone wrote there is sufficient time. I feel that we should still refine the process because there seems to be a good amount of grandstanding by some. So again, just kind of monitor maybe the length of what you say. If you could be maybe more concise, that would help our group, I believe. Um, yes, change in groups helped everyone's voice to be heard. Yes, I feel like I have plenty of time to express my thoughts and opinions. Yes, adequate time to dialogue and collaborate. Yes, I like the sparkly talking sticks. Um, yes, I feel I have sufficient time to express my opinions. However, I'd like to ensure not the same people talk all the time. So, we will be posting like we have in the the prior meetings the list up there. So, maybe if everyone every now and then takes a look and if you see your name up there a lot, you might want to think about that.
Yeah. Um and you can talk also about some of the ideas that have been proposed to address some of these things that you've seen. But I say what we have done is that we don't have to have um before morning support really at the elementaryaries because we pushed that time. So they're getting there about at arrival time. There's like 20 minutes difference. Um but other than that they are we really took that um un unstructured time away and they're coming right in when when school starts for the most part. But the middle and high school students are, you know, potentially spending, you know, two hours, two, two and a half hours before school just getting to school. If they're picked up at 5:45, they're not getting to chering and I mean to the middle or high school until 8:30. Um, you know, that's a lot of time and the reverse is true on the way home.
Chair's recommendation on STR 150 is to pass with amendments. Any with five members present? Any voting with reservations? Any no votes? Measure is adopted. Mr. Chair, thank you very much. Okay, so that's the end of our 302pm agenda. Um, we have one more 303 PM agenda that we'll go into, um, which is a set of measures previously heard this morning, STR 222 and SR197 urging towing companies to have on-site automated teller machines to ensure accessible payment options for vehicle owners. Um, So for this one, I'd like to recommend moving this forward with amendments. Uh this was a joint with CPN, by the way. Um uh who voted that out this morning. So we're going to make the same recommendations which uh was to uh turn the measure into a task force. Okay. uh to look at the issues that were raised uh by this um uh uh discussion uh with uh office of consumer protection uh as the convenor and a report back to the legislature.
Um, and if you don't see your name up there, you might want to think about that as well because we want to hear voices from everyone. Um, yes, I appreciate small group time. Um, I think interruptions should be stopped. Anyone who wants to talk must use a mic to respect people who aren't in the room. And I also think a lot of language should be changed from teachers to staff. So, a couple things there. Just make sure that you know when you are speaking your mics are on and when you are not speaking make sure your mics are off because um it's picking up everything on the stream. We want to make sure that that doesn't happen. Ariel, did you have your hand up? I don't know. It's just bothers me every time we hear like, "Oh, I'm Oh, sorry. I don't have a um I know.
So, I think we need to be very clear about what the reality is for these kids. when they're doing homework, if they're able to do it on the bus, if there's Wi-Fi or not on the bus is a major consideration, if they have the space to do homework. Um, this is an incredibly long day for these kids. And there is an achievement gap between our MECO students and our our, you know, do students and we should be diving in. We owe it to these students. They go to all this trouble to come to our schools and to see that many disengaged is really disheartening. So I think they they would I'm more engaged when I've slept, you know, so I think we need to look at the actual effect of having that little sleep on students and if we want them to be able to thrive here, um I think we should we should really look at the transportation issue.
Uh there's no discussion uh vice chair for the vote amendments with amendments. Okay. Chair's recommendation on STR 222 and SR 197 uh 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. Um, take a quick recess. Thank you. reconvening the committee on transportation and culture in the arts on our 300 p.m. agenda. Um we were just voting on Senate Concurrent Resolution 222 and Senate Resolution 197 uh regarding towing. Um the uh to clarify uh the recommendations were to pass with amendments establishing a task force with the Office of Consumer Protection to convene a task force with appropriate stakeholders. [Music] Um, and that is it. Uh, I need to just Yeah. Uh, that that's that's all we got. We just voted on the measure. Um, so I think we're I think we're good.
It just bothers me every time I hear this statement that the same people are talking too much. Let's let other people talk. There's no one in the room saying that the people who are choosing not to speak out can't talk. And it's not fair that we keep week after week in these comments, penalizing the people who do want to speak, who do want to advocate for employees and try to make them feel bad for advocating and speaking too much. Everyone in this room, regardless if you're introvert, extrovert, shy, non-shy, everyone has the same opportunity to speak. And it's we're all adults and it's not the responsibility of other adults in the room to make sure that you're raising your hand to speak to be heard because there's nothing holding you back. Okay. I appreciate that. And again, we want a variety of speakers and that's why you're on this team is we want to hear your voice.
You want to talk about the superintendence advisory? Yeah. So um and it'll come up again in my goals, too. So, as you know, I brought together the student advisory committee um with Denny as part of the student voice initiative and we have 20 20 to 24 depending on the day students 6 through 12 that come together. At the beginning, Denny and I really asked that group for input on our initiatives which were around um the instructional practices that are happening in the classroom that involve deep learning um and developing a survey um for students to give feedback to their teachers at kind of the January mark so that teachers can take that feedback and kind of inform their practices. And then we turned it back to the students and said, "What do you care about?" And they picked kind of three top topics. One was um graduation requirements and how much flexibility they have in um choosing their classes.
Yeah, I think we're good. Yeah. Okay. Uh, and with that, uh, let me just, uh, first of all say I I don't know that we're gonna have any other Oh, we got GM hearings. Well, in any event, uh, we want to thank the IT folks for putting up with us this whole time, uh, for managing the Zoom and the testifiers and everything else. um and certainly our staff and our staff at our drafting agencies for doing the bulk of the actual work that we otherwise um I think uh too often uh overlook. So um we will have I think one or two more hearings it sounds like. Uh but until then u just wanted to really just send some mahalo and appreciation to everybody who's involved in the process not sitting at the table here right now. So with that we are adjourned.
Okay, we have our this is our updates time and we'll start with Dr. Lauren. All right, good morning. Um there just a couple of things. Uh let me get this going here. giving up on air parrot as a solution for Dells. Um all right. So uh for um the request for information I was able to complete the analysis of the separation data um by year. So if you link to this document um what you'll see is a longitudinal study. What I did was I went through our um visions program which is our payroll and staffing and budgetary program. Um and what I did was I did all employees from 2016 to 2024. Uh I gave you the end count so number of employees and number of separations and the percentage represented. Uh it is also broken out by groups. So certified non-administrative admin which includes those who are identified as certified and classified in the administration line.
The second was um more community building between the middle and high school because they had such a positive experience working together. It's not many times they get to be on committees together and they wanted more of that for everybody. And the third was a real concern about Boston transportation. Um and again within all three of those topics, there's things that are reasonable that we can do. And then for those of us who live in education or administration, unfortunately, you know, graduation requirements, you know, we have to remain competitive. So maybe there is some plate, you know, wiggle room, but but you know, there's not a lot. We can't just throw everything up in the air and change them. But relative to the Boston Transportation, um this the the students who kind of dug in and did some research and some thinking around that presented to Dawn and Denny.
Uh and then just classified. So and Lisa helped me out greatly because there are some reports that I couldn't get to because I'm still having issues with um accessing all the years prior to me being in this role. So thank you Lisa. Um I also translated that into graphs uh and charts so that it gives you a little bit more of a sense. Uh so if you read from left to right you're going backwards in time. So the closest to the axis I uh intersection of x and y axis that's the most current year. So and that's last school year. So we don't have complete data from this year about um terminations, separations, things like that because we haven't finished the calendar year. So this is based on fiscal year July 1st through January 30th. Uh so same information just shown graphically. So it's here um for us to refer to.
Um and that's what all three groups did. I I gave them the people that can make the change and they presented their proposals to them. Um and so they um you know, and it's interesting. It's it's with anything, right? When you get a new crop of students, it's a new topic for them. So, back in the day when we did the change in start time subcommittees, um I know Don and Andrew Kio, the superintendent at the time, did a lot of work with our Boston students and Mon'nique Marshall, the director, about looking at possible I mean, they rode the bus at different times to try to figure out what worked. Um, and they sat down with our Medco parents and our Medco students and said like, okay, what's the reality of this? Don, I don't want to speak for you, but at that point in time, that group of students at the high school, can you talk?
A couple of things that I thought were interesting just to point out. Uh if you're looking at certified the trajectory of resignations or or separations uh looks interesting when you think about where we were with ESSER funding and additional monies and things like that. So I thought that was interesting to note and then what that impact was the following year when we didn't have that. So we I think we had talked as a group about sort of a delay in retirees, a delay in people making different choices for employment uh based upon the fact that we had a $10,000 carrot out there, right? And then there was some retention, you know, based maybe a little bit on the the increases. Um, which if you look at the certified or classified, uh, you can see our rate of change for last year in the classified was much lower than it traditionally had been, which could also be a reflection of an increase in 10%.