So, the ones that he is buying, they'll be two per bathroom. So, this won't fully set you up, but it'll it's a start, but it'll be two per bathroom, which will um detect bullying. It It also detects THC and it detects crowds in the bathroom. So, it does multiple services. So it it will and he's had experience with these at another school. So he has tested them and knows how they work. So and I have a good question about um are you educating them on the consequences of driving here and by the time somebody 18? Yes. Because that's been happening. Yes, we are. If you go to any of our elementary schools and ask fifth graders about baking, they'll start talking to you about popcorn love. Popcorn. Popcorn mom. What you get from baking. It's been a joy to work with these fifth graders. They're very smart and they've been very respectful and it's been a wonderful class.
Yes. High pressure, high stakes today. We're back. All right. Sorry. But yeah, as we were saying, uh this is single elimination bracket. Best of five matches. One will be played for each player today. If anyone here loses their best of five, they are out of the season. So very high stakes can't lose a single game. And we should have the uh the bracket. There's two different sides of the bracket. All right, walk me through the brackets here, Jaden. All right, so this is one side of the bracket. We have three of our four remaining players in it. We have uh one of our matches. I mean, I should probably introduce the players before I actually say their names. Go for it. That's how we usually uh give them their entrances. Yeah, there's both sides of the bracket. Uh you'll you'll recognize your player if you see him there.
So that's a lot of money. Okay. Added to the federal sales tax is six and a quarter. Correct me, gentlemen, if I'm wrong on any of these numbers. Six and a quarter% sales tax, which by the way sends a lot of money to New Hampshire. Yeah. And out of the revenue stream of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts property tax 1.04%. That's an ongoing and that's also based on how much do you how much do you own? What's it worth? Mhm. Uh corporate tax, John, is it 8%, right? I believe. Mhm. 8%. Y the millionaire's tax if you get over a certain amount of money. I can't remember the I'll never hit it myself personally, but it's an additional 4% and that's why we're getting nothing but the worst athletes coming to Boston. You know, the athletes make the big money. The inheritance, I believe, uh is if if your inheritance is worth over two million, then you get hit, right?
Those are like direct services for our kids. So think about chaser junior football, chaser basketball. Um, but we always charge those groups for the custodial wages. We don't always charge groups one and two for the building use. So, we're looking to update the uh wages and the building use fees. There is some comparable data if you're interested in that. There's a comparison here of other districts. You have appendix B. In that comparison of 10 districts, five of them are in B and Cher has the lowest average cost for rental at $42.95 an hour compared to the group five average of $181 an hour. Yeah. So it's it's a lot lower. Um there's is that apples to apples though? I don't know that anything is really apples to apples when you're looking at building usage like um I would say but is it all to I mean might they have the custodial built into there?
Thank you. Moving on toformational items. First item is to certify the contract assessment for the 2425. Okay. Mr. President get to see. Okay. Um Antonio Rodriguez is now certified CTE and eligible for a contract adjustment for 2425 school year. There's no board action necessary. This is a study session item only. you see some of the content there for your information and um that's all. Well, um I'll have Miss V talk about this here working closely with him and AD and his previous uh employer. Right. So, with the CE certificate, it's there's there's two or three ways you can do it. Usually with an elementary certificate, even a secondary certificate, you have to have the the teacher path or the the teacher BA the BA in education, a masters in education, that sort of thing for a CTE, which is essentially a bulkhead. you can do um the subject which he has master's degree in architecture and then so much um so much experience in that field and then they give you a provisional three-year certificate and within that three-year certificate you have to start your um your educational educational side of of your of a additional degree or additional credits.
Next we have item D1. I'll entertain a motion for the consent agenda. Motion to approve consent agenda items as presented. Can I can I ask a one question prior? Um on the uh the recommendation for approval of the job order contract of excess of a million dollars. I just have a question. I call it RFP process, request for purchase. You guys probably call it something different. Um, in that process, do we um do we have to go out and for bids for like multiple um vendors or can we only do like a s sole source is what we call it. I'm going to turn it over to Maryell Spedel for that. Madam President, members, um that's correct. So there is multiple options for procurement. You can do an invitation for bid, a request for a proposal, a soul source procurement, etc. Job order contract is another one of those options, especially as related to these construction related ones.
She's a senior and she got second place in state. And now we have members of our business professionals of America. All students from Asiggo East High School received first place at the state leadership conference. First of all, we have Ava Car Jr. She got the presentation as an individual award. Andrew Madano Jr. for extemporaneous speech. Kisha Majundar, senior for small business management. And Anushka Wanjara, senior for small business management. Also in small business management, Shria Mani and in visual design team, we have Abigail Hins, Hamida Bellow, Nina Fatima, and Lauren Fox in the FQL database categor category we have Aren Bra and final Cricelle Bautista sophomore for medical codings representing the valleys group we have McKenzie man Asiggo East senior she was the valley's region graphic student of the year. And we have three National Merit Scholarship finalists. First of all, Steven Balin, John Kellogg, and Jessica Vanvan.
So, we're going to expand this into the middle school and high school hopefully next year, too. So, part of this is Also, we have to provide the state with feedback on the success of the program. So, Steve is going to um give us numbers of referrals during this time to report back to the state and numbers of citations. We would expect citations to go up first, but then eventually we're hoping to see it go up and then slide down. So is this likely like hopefully install up and running by beginning next school year? Hopefully. Yes. So it was actual $42,000 project. You want to talk about it? Yeah. You talk about still we'd like to hear. Yes. Yeah. So So those will be happening at the middle school and the high school. So that's the pro the scope of the project. Um so the 20,000 will get us started in our main access bathrooms.
All right, there we go. I think it is time to introduce the four Cyber Tigers that are playing today. Everyone's favorite part of the stream. Yes, yes, yes. I'm looking forward to it. The part where they have to lower my mic because I go too loud. there. Perfect. Okay, hit him with a jad hair. Introducing first Barollo aka X Dark Ninja. That was everything I wanted it to be. Nice way to hype up Bartolo there. Uh he tied Jordan for fourth place this year and we'll be facing off against him today in our last Canon event for the season. If you don't know what that is, it's just our fancy way of saying Cyber Tiger versus Cyber Tiger. Makes sense. Makes sense. Introducing next Jordan aka Stricksie X1. Stricks X1. He tied with Barola for fourth place this season. Can he defeat him today and move on to the state finals?
And that's not hard to do with property being the value that it is inh in Massachusetts. There's a restaurant meal tax. There's uh cannabis tax which is 10.75%. Wow. Plus a local if your local municipality, you can add another I think 3% to that for the dispensaries in your locality. Gambling tax 5% of anything you make over five grand, right? On a gambling basis. That's what I've heard. there there's really nothing they're not reaching in your pockets for. Uh as a matter of fact, Massachusetts statewise there are 50 states. Massachusetts is ranked 41 out of 50 as far as tax liability for the individual. Only and listen to these states that are behoos. This shows you the kind of league we're in here. Only Hawaii, Vermont, Minnesota, Washington State, Maryland, Connecticut, California, New Jersey, and New York are worse. Now, what do you notice about those states that I just listed?
No, not really. I would say the one thing that I had to level set was Some of them have daily rates and so I assume five hours. Like ours is a daily rate of five hours. So if that was the case, I just divided by five hours. But most of these are all put into hourly amounts. So you'll see it's it's pretty across the board. Um and that's why I wanted to provide these the comparison of local districts, but also DUR B. So you can see and also see the number of schools that they're operating. But there's quite a differential. But the unifying thing is Cheshure is charging lease when we look at all of these different schools. Uh and there's also if you want to see like the cheshure town of Cheshure rental fees that's appendix C. Uh just there there's outdoor spaces and we currently don't charge anything for outdoor spaces.
So like discipline in the classroom, adolescent, you know, uh psychology, that kind of stuff to where our teachers that started off as teachers have that information built into their VA. You can get a provisional CTE for three years that and they'll say, "Okay, start your your teacherled program. it's 15 semester hours taking one of the teacher educational exams the they used to call it the ADPA but now it's the NES um given by Pearson they have to accomplish that like this first step in the first three years and then AD will reevaluate and say okay now here's the second step and the next three years and then as you go and as you go so that they don't have to cram a four-year degree into you know however long it is but they're also getting the experience of teaching at the same time. So it's it's to get teachers into classrooms but qualified teachers into classrooms and he has the architectural part.
And so in this instance, um we did piggyback off of I believe it's a Paradise Valley cooperative. So we did our due diligence to ensure all those terms were appropriate that we can um support. And then um the general contractor then goes out and kind of gets the subcontracted quotes. And so they outline and give all of those specs and they give us all the different backup that shows that they ultimately went with their lowest um vendors that can still support that. So that is just one of the various um purchasing methods that we have available. Job order contract. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Seconded by Mary Jane. motion carries. Moving on to information discussion F1. Dr. Croto. Thank you, Madam President. Uh, tonight we're here to um have a presentation on the Vista Center for the Arts. Before we start, introduce our guests. Um a as you know about six years ago uh Daert Unified went into a venture with uh Vista City for the Arts uh which is a facility located on Valley Vista campus uh performing arts center um to provide the community uh a resource to to bring entertainment um into the surprise area.
All right. At this time, if we have any faculty or staff that are present that would like to come up for one group photo, please make your way up front. No, no. Everybody stay there. We're going to let parents come up real quick. Yes. At this time, if any parents would like to come up, let's come up for some pictures. [Applause] Congratulations students and families. One big picture. They did before. I don't want to charm. Okay, we're moving to public comment. So, on behalf of the board of education, I would like to thank the public for attending tonight's meeting. We value the feedback we receive from the members of our public and encourage everyone to take an active interest in their public school system. Residents interested in speaking to the board of education this evening are asked to have completed a comment card and presented it to the secretary to the board.
Um the whole project covers all restrooms, all locker rooms across both buildings. Um this will be a great start. So we will with this with tonight's acceptance of this then we can get started on getting things purchased and getting on a list to get everything installed. And I just thought came in my head. Are the students going to be informed about this? Absolutely. Okay. Yeah. So the whole the whole thing is not a got you type of mentality. It is to provide access to services that kids need and we have more and more kids that you know when when they are caught they have conversations with us that like I am truly addicted and I I want to stop and I I can't. Um, and this allows us to reach uh more kids and have conversations and get resources in the hands of families. Would you come up and accept the check and hopefully accept it?
I guess we'll see. We will see. It's going to be a very close match, the Canon event. Probably one of the last of the season, maybe. We'll see. I don't know. Looking forward to that one. Introducing next the favorite to win it all. Number one seed, the captain, the man of multiple gamer tags, Hunter aka Lazy Soul 7, aka also Sugar Lords. Man, how you got to that's a lot of hype there. Well, he ended the season in first place overall and will be challenging Yeetstroke tonight. Yeaststroke has already taken out two of our Cyber Tigers in the tournament. So, we're looking forward for some justice tonight from Hunter. Can he bring it? I guess we will see. Yeah, captain's got to get revenge for his fallen players. Introducing finally, we have Clay. He also has two gamer tags, aka Firestorm, aka also Nightwalk. Nightwalk.
They're all democratically run. That's right. They're kind of blue, aren't they? Very blue. Very blue. So, we're at the top of the stack of blue states at position 41. But that doesn't mean we're not getting screwed on taxes on an annual basis. What do you think? Well, I think if you look at 41, you say, "Oh, we're not the worst." But then you add in tolls. You add in trash bag fees. You add in bus fees for your kids. You buy all of your kids school supplies that the schools used to provide. You add in, you know, a sports fee if your kid wants to play, you know, basketball or or wants to be in the chess club. all of the fees and taxes, we shoot probably to number one. You know, I mean, you know, we we're probably right at the very most expensive state in the country to live in.
So when we think about the turf the stadium um especially as we think about like turf replacement we're not charging anything for that space right now any of our fields. So we haven't been charging anybody for the 12 years the field's been down. Not that I'm aware of. Not yeah we because everybody who's using it is our local people. So this was a function this is a byproduct of you know so like cheshure youth football cheshure junior football we don't charge those groups. This is a byproduct of when the council originally said, "Yeah, no, we're not funding it." And then the community just went out and fundraised all the money. So, Chester Junior Footballed a lot of money for the installation of that turf. So, it's kind of been that sort of quid proquo since that installation. We haven't been charging our local folks to use it.
So we're good to go. He just within the next three years has to get the educational background under uh individuals like Mrs. Conan and then some of our other PLC letters that will help them be the teacher part. Any other questions or comments on that? If not, we'll go on to item B, which is approval of the 2025 recruitment statement. Mr. President, members of the board, this goes to May 2024. The governing board approved a recruitment and retention cycle for new teachers from title two monies. New teachers correctly certified are eligible in December and May of their first year. So, Mr. Rumo Rodriguez is now eligible as a result of being CT certified and will receive half of this stipen on pay period 2021 and half on pay period 2425. you see there at the bottom regarding the uh web page period where it might actually take place but um not as eligible for that recruitment and retention step.
Um through that we held shows for numerous years went through a little thing called COVID which uh challenged us a little bit. um but then emerged and and had some good shows. Um with that at last 18 months um we've really realized that um Daart Unified is about education um not about providing or contracting shows and doing those things. With that said, I approached um uh Councilman Jud who's here tonight. We thank him and Bob Wingroth um about the possibility of having a partnership with the city to continue to offer uh shows and and provide a service for our community. Um they were very receptive, very cooperative in listening to us. Um you know, we have the building and we just needed somebody with expertise that could um help us out to provide this for our community and support our community. Uh so we set out on this path.