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You say take them back back home. Okay. in what fin we have currently have six scholarships. Um as of last month when I spoke with regional scholarship what they can tell me is that whatever they're giving us this year is most likely what they're going to offer again next year though the formal email should come out in May on how many allocations we should have. Every school site quality first school site will receive the formal email email in May. But as of last month, they told me most likely we're going to receive the same number. Okay. So, those scholarships are coming from the Department of What? Uh it's called uh regional scholarship. Okay. Um B SUW, Valley of the Sun United Way. Okay. So, it's it's a quality first basically smoking. It's uh the big umbrella is the first things first. So, it's one of the first and the United Way.
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Thank Thank you, Alex. And um thank you again for the time you've spent and your company has spent on this. I know um it's been a lot of work and some great information. So I thank you.
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So, we got them all in there all the way from bro call hiding down here at the bottom to back and forth to to all our schools going through to the high schools. This is a great format and and we wanted to show you what how truly big our district truly is. Mr. Sainty. Thank you, Mr. Queen. Hello, board members. I would like to take a moment to talk to you about our IIQ ticketing system. Uh since last February 1st of 2024, our team has been able to close out 400 or 4568 tickets. Uh we have an average resolution time of approximately 18 days. Uh on this first graph you will notice that as the tickets are submitted our team does a great job to keep pace to complete the tickets and close them out. Uh two things on this graph that I would like to point out is in the uh April and May months the uh tickets will increase.
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Any discussion? Vote. Doug, yes. Carol, yes. Vicki, yes. Amy, yes. Yes. Motion carries. A recommendation to approve approve the retirement notice of Paige Burton effected by the conclusion of 2024 to 2025 school year. This request includes the BEBA bridge. Can I get a motion to accept? So move. Second. Second.
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You know, match up Mora Healey's words with her actions. They never match. And you see that with Woo now as well too. You know, they're making Woo out to be a superstar. And it's going to be real, real interesting. Are they going to make Woo the next AOC of the Democratic Party? Because they quite obviously are marketing Woo to go on to national politics, which I strongly encourage because once the the bright lights get shown on Woo, she will, you know, melt away, I think. I mean, what do you guys think? hard to say that, you know, the the the bright light of publicity and uh and and the notoriety of it all. What happens on the other side is people start looking for things about you because that's just the nature of politics. It can only work in Boston and Massachusetts the way it is now.
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Yes. Right. So what I'm saying is that matches our practice. It was not listed in the regulation. So there wasn't a three and four. Correct. Correct. But we were doing three and four. Yes. Yeah. But that's partially what's correct. Right. I think I've got it down. Now, with these, is this something that we have to have three readings on or do we just adopt? This [Music] is really a conversation, you know. You're just telling us about Yeah. Just like your blessing, you know? As long you guys may you have good questions already. As long as you're not like, "Oh, this is crazy and here's why." I mean, I think it all makes sense. And with that sort of ease, there's nothing to stop us from day two of Barnum being open. we get this run on people who want to use it that we didn't foresee coming from you know god forbid southern say our arrival is not nothing personal but um you know we can jack up the cost to say well we didn't anticipate this sort of demand you know you see there's pretty significant delta between our charges and things you know we had the flexibility so I appreciate put a lot of time into this to bring it up to there's so much building up to speed.
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Yeah, exactly. Are we still looking at um getting having some sponsorship for scholarships from community partners as well? Increase that number. We sent out we sent out letters when we talked in like August and September. Um, and I got a lot of verbal like, oh yes, we're going to send a donation and we're real excited and we're going to send and I think I got $125 total from but so we can send out letters again in the summer, but I don't know how far those can can people use the donate button on the website to to donate to prek? Okay. So, but they just have to let you know we have Yes, we have to set parameters because like before when we said um we sent letters the letters were for the deficit for the the deficit that the district incurs because of the amount which at at last check was 26,000 um 264.
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This time we'd take any questions or comments that you have on this process. I have a question with regards to when you're saying, you know, this is going to be additional revenue that we can get in, but based on the 800,000 and you're saying if we wave the daily the rental rates and add that $3, it that would be like the first five years or until that's paid off. When will the school district start seeing the return on investment into the additional revenue? Well, you potentially would start seeing additional revenue just from increasing the rental rates and the reclassification of all your other rental clients. That capital improvement investment number offset that really just applies to the transaction between the district and the city. For the city's events, the Vista, you still do a lot of other rental events. So, those are going to make even more money on their own just by the rental rate increase.
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This is mostly due to our team focusing efforts on getting the uh air conditioning running in all of our buildings. Uh the second point of interest on the top graph is in August. Uh we have quite an increase in tickets and this is due to the staff coming back to the building. Uh finding all just the little minor things that we need to get back in order before the students arrive. Uh the second graph that we have there looks into our different types of categories that we have. Uh you will notice that over the last year some of our top categories are as follows. Uh maintenance and just general repairs. We had 1,290 tickets completed and closed. Uh delivery and security tickets came in at 1,127 tickets. And then heating and cooling tickets across the district we had 394 tickets. Um next we are going to have Amy Plant, our custodial manager.
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Any discussion? I'm really really really sad to see that. My kids both had um amazing experiences with burn. Any more? Doug, yes. Carol, yes. Vicki, yes. Amy, yes. Yes. Motion carries. Uh, consent agenda items, personnel. I'm going to start with separations from Brown County Middle School assistant cross country coach Dan Smith effective about October 3, 2024 down to the transfers of Brown County Middle School sixth grade boys basketball coach John Tierman to 7th grade boys basketball coach effective April 7th 2025. Can I get a motion to accept? Move to approve those consent agenda items. Can I get a second? Second.
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Yeah. And they'll they'll dig out stuff and you know, and then we'll have to deal with that and listen to the spin on again blaming someone else for the problem they created rather than taking accountability for it. Now, John, what's the story on the on the uh the new arrivals, the guests that we have in in the Commonwealth that from all over the place, Central America and Haiti who've been living in the hotels? What's going on with them now as Mora Healey claims to be reducing the population in the hotels? Where are they going, these people? They're not leaving. No, what what the public needs to do is they need to do a Google search on a a thing called Homebase. Homebase is an incentive that the taxpayers are funding through the Commonwealth of Massachusetts where the state is paying landlords up to $30,000 over two years to subsidize the migrant shelters uh rent for to get people out of the hotels and and into permanent long-term housing.
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Yeah, we have a ton of building use and most of it's like locals like I said beyond 95% is all our people. No, this is great work. So, it makes it clearer for them and tighter in terms of the costs and insurance and what's necessary. just needed to be updated.
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So 26,400 something dollars or whatever that the district shoulders that comes out of ML that comes out of our operating budget to um that and that's not including that's already factoring in tuition scholarships all of that after everything else is said in the district still uh still shoulders about 26 $27,000 uh to run the cricket program. So, um, we said, you know, hey, can you donate? Because we were talking about earlier, if we get a donation and somebody says, oh, we'll use this towards tuition. How do we pick which kid gets the the tuition or how do we pick which month or this kid is more deserving this kid or that kid's more deserving. So, we can't typically do that. We can just say we're lowering the unless like a company wants to say hey we're going to pay for a kids tuition for the entire year and this is what it is and then we can offer it as a scholarship and they have to qualify like they do all of the rest of them on top of whatever.
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All right. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. I I just have a comment. I I like this bullet point. Residents do not want to drive to Phoenix or East Valley for professional entertainment, which is kind of true. I had to drive to Gilbert twice last year for um Gilbert has a nice theater downtown. Um well, it's like their new downtown area, but just by driving, you know, taking the 202, it's like an hour. Um my family spent well over $200 just on tickets. Then we had dinner in the city. So, I mean, if you look at it, um, I appreciate the fact that we're, you know, we're having this coordination between us and the city because it's a it's a win-win scenario. Um, to me, I, you know, if we can have really good, you know, theater acts here, or even just shows, bands, um, bringing like AC/DC back or something, I don't know, maybe can get the city to bring Disturb, you know, I'm just joking.
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Good evening. As your custodial manager, it is important that we focus on professional development for our staff to enhance their skills and overall performance. I do four to five building checks at night to provide consistent support and guidance to our team while also ensuring they get proper training. I have set up training classes on chemicals, waxing floors, and proper ways to use our machines. That way, we stay on track with best practices and ensure our team is equipped to deliver high quality results consistently. I have Mr. Slide master facilities long range master facilities plan. This thing what can I say the word I I I have no words to to describe this this process is an amazing process that we get three phases to develop and hone where we want our future learners to track. Phase one was an ail fac facility assessment where we walked every the buildings me and Andre Siy inch by inch level by level uh which took up approximately two and a half to three weeks to get through that process.
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Any discussion? Glad. Yes. We're excited about that. Any more discussion? Doug, yes. Carol, yes. Vicki, yes. Amy, yes. Yes. Motion carries. Uh, we do not have a superintendent report tonight. Um, legislative update. Um, I forgot I was doing this, but I will I will tell you that and I don't know what happened today because um the bill that I've particularly been watching um was to be voted on in the Senate. That's the partisan schoolboard bill. Um it was passed by the House by a very close vote. Um and then it has to go back to the h to the Senate where it started because it has different language. And I guess I forgot to look this afternoon and see what the vote was, so I need to check that out. Um, but I I do want to uh thank both of our our representative Dave Paul and our senator Eric Cook.
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So, let's just for simple math, let's say the rent is $2,000 a month. Homebase will subsidize $1,000 a month. So, it'll make the rent a $1,000 a month for up to two years of subsidies to get people in. So, the landlords take that as like, "Oh, okay. Guaranteed rent. I know I will have it." And a lease is signed and it's a family of four, all of a sudden turns into a family of nine. Yeah. The water bills are going up. The electric heating bills are going up. The landlords feel like they've been misrepresented. So now Healey is now saying that we'll we'll do it for three years. But still, what's going to happen? You know, a lot of these migrant families are coming over here. They don't know English. So at best they're making minimum wage, right? Or they're working under the table. Under the table.
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So, any questions? Okay, let's go. Thank you, Emily. Um, so policies for a second reading. First one is electronic devices. Um, that you know we we got feedback from the community that was kind of the same as the feedback the first time around. To be honest with you, some people liked it, some people didn't, you know. Um, the only thing that we decided that we wanted to add and I want to show you a quick video. This is kind of like why we're being sensitive. The world is evolving so much. Uh, this is an Instagram video. This used to These are about AI glasses. Will detect when somebody's face is in frame. This photo is used to analyze them and after a few seconds their personal information pops up on the Cambridge Community Foundation. Oh, hi. No, wait. Are you a se? Oh, okay. I think I I think I met you through like the Cambridge Community Foundation, right?
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So then that's one way that we could do it. But then and the people or the company or whatever pay each month the tuition instead of the individual if that makes sense. But then when it it would have to be per income for their application because otherwise how would we say okay we only got $125. Who does $125 go to then? and then you say, "Well, that's my uncle's brother's and you picked him because he was whatever." And then you get into a whole different categor. So, we have to be really careful about if somebody says that they're going to have a scholarship, but they're going to donate if it it's easier to say, "So, we're not picking favorites or we're not being discriminatory towards A, B, C, or D with that makes sense. Okay. Are there any other questions on that? We'll go to the next one which is the first reading of governing board policy advisory 862.
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But um you say that but there were so many people that said we want heavy metal and we want all those that those genres. You would not expect that. Yeah. Well, I wouldn't recommend Disturbed. I heard that they at the concert in Chicago, they burned the uh Chicago Bulls uh that no pyrochnics on this one. Um but yeah, I I do very much appreciate the presentation and that bullet point struck me because I was like, "Yeah, I remember those trips to the East Valley. Nice shows, but I'd rather have it 10 minutes away from my house." So, yes, sir. just want to thank you for all the work that you've put into this. Um I I do have a question though about the the city events. Um and I don't know if that's been brought up in any conversation, but will the district have the ability to say no.
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