We researched and we really don't need by law to have a second rate if the board chooses what we're asking the board to approve as this is as an emergency. as one motion or yes it can be it doesn't have to be first and second because we did it one time before if you recall last year but this time it can just be one motion I will make a motion to approve the first reading and adopt that revised policy I second Mr. Bever. Yes. Mrs. Yes. Mr. McKinnon. Yes. Mr. Oley. Yes. All right. Enough of all that serious stuff, right? I want to thank Mr. Payton for everything that he does. It's assistant principal week this week. Yes. So, thank you for all you do. Thank you. It's it's nice to hear we only have one page of it sometimes on the ground small right but it's nice to hear because as you know a lot of times in our leadership roles and in admin we hear what we're not doing right and we have to support each other and um celebrate all the good things that we do behind the scenes that a lot of people are not aware of how the magic happens.
Keep moving on so we can get to you guys. This Rico's probably got an hour presentation. So next is to approve the meetings from our March 18th meeting. I move to approve the March 18th governing board. Second discussion. Yes. Mr. M. Yes. Mr. And with that, we'll have um our superintendent's presentation and then we'll get to you guys. Good evening, parents, students, president of the board. Thank you for being here tonight. And we're so happy to see a full house of our cults that are going to be recognized in a few minutes. We have a few items to to share with you today. And sticking to our friends theme, we have season 8, episode nine, the one where testing is in the air. Everything that everybody's worked for all year. So, we are very excited um that our students are showing what they know and we've had great attendance.
all finances and it's that time of year uh when we talk a lot about spending and get ready for next year. So I'll turn it over to Miss Betts and her team and they will roll through these presentations. Uh thank you. Good evening governing board members, President Thompson, um Dr. McCord, very happy to introduce uh Miss Jackie Maten, the director of finance. She will do the heavy lifting on this uh district spending report this evening. and of course Lauren Torska who provides a great deal of support in uh putting together all these presentations. So I just wanted to share that this will be the very last presentation we make about last year. So moving forward we will be talking about the current year and next year. So just so you're aware and I'll go ahead and drive for you Jackie. Great. Thank you. Thank you Miss Betts.
No, we have none. Okay. All right. Jumping right to action item. Item 4.1, personnel. Steve, would you please walk us through it? Yeah, this is uh uh just like a normal personnel report. Um because of the fact that we have the special board meeting, I took advantage of that. And you can see we have some resignations um and retirements and we also have some hiring. So we are asking you to approve that as presented. Okay.
Let us stand for the pledge of allegiance led by board secretary Mr. Ghagos followed by a mission statement statement led by our vice president board member Dr. Hall. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And our mission statement is to engage and empower our students to positively impact their community and future. Thank you both. Do we have any public comments? Okay, we do have a reason to go into close session both at the beginning and at the end and we are going into close session for the reason to the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees specific individuals have can I have a motion to do as such read so moved Second. Moved by Nelson, second by Bill.
Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to the semi-final round of the IHSN Overwatch 2 doubleA league. My name is Scott Riich. I'm the technology director here at Bluffton Harrison Schools. And the man next to me needs no introduction, but the page says I need to, so we need to. Mr. Baker. Oh, thank you very much, Scott Rich. And glad to be here, everyone. Principal of Bluffton High School for uh 26 years, 40 years total in the corporation. And people don't know this, but uh Scott Riich and I are cousins. Cousins uh by our hairdressers. So yeah, there you go. I didn't know that either. Oh yeah. Yeah. Just wanted everybody to know that. So today people, we have an exciting match between our varsity Cyber Tigers and our Norwell Knights. Norwell is the only team to beat us during the regular season. So we are anticipating this rematch for quite some time.
Each individual public comment is limited to three minutes. Uh and this is based on our public comment at school committee meetings policy. Uh public comment should only be made on items from tonight's agenda. Uh, and the agenda is on the screen there. If you could scroll down up and down a little bit, Joe, that would help us a little bit. And, uh, also from our policy, improper conduct and remarks will not be allowed. Defamatory or abusive remarks are always out of order. If a speaker persists in improper conduct or remarks, the chair may terminate that individual's privilege of address. Also, speakers may offer such objective criticisms of the school operations and programs as concern them, but in public session, the committee will not hear personal complaints of school personnel, nor against any member of the school community. Under most circumstances, administrative channels are the proper means for disposition of legitimate complaints involving staff members.
So, I don't think we have a meeting next week or the following week. So, that's it. So, if you'll all stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. As customary in our meetings, we have time uh for public comment. Uh, anybody is uh is is available that would like to speak in public comment uh we'll ask you to uh to to state your name, give us your address, try to limit your your comments to about 3 minutes and we'd appreciate that. So, we'll go with the first person. Who would like to speak your public comment? Mrs. Luch. Okay. You can. Yeah. just fancy my car. Name name and address, please, for the record.
I don't think we need or want to reward residential developers at public expense for doing something that they were going to do already. And it appears that this has now become the norm. Um but not for hotels and we have a hotel boom going on here in Ann Arbor. Um, on another subject, what took place last week with the new DTE gas franchise agreement or heating franchise should not have happened. I spoke on this at council last night. Unannounced posting on Legisar 5 days before the first reading and vote at council. I was lucky to spot it. Instead, there should have been a prior public meeting or the agreement should have run through energy commission or both. This deal was negotiated for two years. There was no need for immediate action. The current franchise doesn't expire until 2027. The franchise terms are incredibly consequential in terms of reducing fossil gas here.
So that's the basic organizational game plan for this evening. So Dr. Artosi, I will leave it up to you. money, you're the man. Good evening, Mr. Paris, members of the Clifton Board of Education, faculty and staff who are here in abundance tonight, which is so nice to see, members of the community, students, and all watching our live stream. Tonight I'm going to give uh what I think is a really important presentation about the state of the district and the state of the budget. But I want to preface it by addressing the last meeting we had here on March 13th where we were administration was voting on administration was recommending a preliminary budget to go to the county with an increase of 2%. And I visibly expressed frustration with the way that night turned out, which is very unlike me. And I was frustrated um upon reflection, I was frustrated for two reasons.
He is doing very well academically in all content. He is eager to participate during lessons and he is a great friend to all his classmates. When Jacob grows up, he also wants to be a police officer. [Applause] and mom come stand with him. Are there any family members? I saw siblings. Wait, wait for Emily. Go ahead, Emily. [Applause] Our next student is from Miss Hernandez's first grade classroom, Isaiah Sam. [Applause] Isaiah is from the House of Alurismo. He is excellent in all academic areas. He is reading at a second grade level. He is mastering all first grade standards and most of all comes every day ready to learn and do his best. He is a hard worker and always makes sure he completes his classroom tasks. He participates during lessons and has a positive attitude toward learning. Isaiah is always enthusiastic when it comes to getting good scores.
Although some subject may have come more naturally to him than others, River's commitment to always giving his best effort has been unwavering. He has also been a big part of our fine arts program, singing with harmonies and participating in our drama productions. His humor, talent, and positive spirit made him a joy to be around, and we have all enjoyed watching him shine. His combination of academic excellence, athletic leadership, artistic talent, and outstanding character make us proud to recognize him, and we're excited to see the amazing things that he's going to do in the future. So, congratulations, River. Thanks for letting us have you at Blue Ridge. Thank you so much. Picture time, right? I'm going to take liberty and um embarrass River just a little bit. I knew River years ago, you mean many years ago, when he was just a little bitty kid. He used to come jump the fence in our backyard and steal raspberries off our raspberry plants.
So yes, thank you Steve for our district. Couldn't do it without all of your support. Thank you. I have a question about this event school event. When is the senior walk very important for somebody? Yes, it is. That was just yesterday. It's the last Tuesday of our Tuesday, May 20th. We just heard back from the Rolling Grove principal who we're in communication with Tuesday, May 20th at 11. And there will be information going out on that. That was just determined this week. And Mrs. Aas, if you want to help us like be in charge of setting it up and decorating because I know you have heck to that. It's usually the parents um um and we cannot so do we have staff parents who have do we have staff this year who have hello she's like and still you're the parents that it should be like somebody else so we set up a lot of the walk and we have all the students and we have the music set up in here the reception area where they come back.
So, thank you parents and students. Uh tax credit update, our newest update, we received 191 donations totaling 54,516 and total amount in tax credit is $180,889. And just a reminder, parents, our tax credit funds cover all of our clubs, sports tutorials, um our civics group, um also our drama club. Uh we pay for we use tax credit funds for that as well. So, please make sure that if you haven't submitted tax credit, every dollar counts and you can put it towards the clubs and sports that your kids participated. Okay. registration and open enrollment. We are accepting registration. So there's information. Our kinder registration is going well with 49 students to on open enrollment. And our goal is to have 60 kindergarteners. So we're at 48 right now. And open enrollment I you may have seen our signs at the gates and on our buses that say we are now accepting open enrollment.
All right. Well tonight we'll talk about the FY2024 district spending report. This is a report that is put forth by the auditor general's office. It is based on spend from the district's annual financial reports. So today we will uh look at GPS spending and operational area local districts or neighboring district spending comparison to us peer group spending comparison and then also FY2024 average teacher salary. So this pie is from our um ACT for our annual comprehensive financial report. This we receive earlier. Uh this was presented to you in December I believe. Um and so this is typically um indicative of what the district spending report will look like although there are it's slightly different. There are different funds included here. So the instruction piece of this pie is typically lower than what we see in the district spending report. Next up is the Gilbert public schools district spending report for FY2024 spending by operational area.
Anyone have any questions? Okay. I will entertain a motion to approve the personnel report as presented. So moved. Second. May Raquel, second by Sue. Please Cindy, please lead us in call vote. Arandu, yes. Gonzalez Thomas, yes. Meadows, yes. Sligger, yes. Matthysse, yes. Lock, yes. All right. Item 4.2, resolution of honorable for honorable dismissal of teachers. D, would you please walk us through it? Yeah, this is uh something as uh if you've been on the board for uh past one year, this is something we do every spring at this time of year. Um, state requires that this is done by April 15th. And the uh the staff that you're seeing on this honorable dismissal list are staff who are part-time uh who have been hired uh after the first day of work. Uh many of them like mid-year hires as needed. Um or there people who are hired on a one-year contract.
Roll call, please. Or any questions. Mr. Albert, I. Mr. Gos is an I. Mr. Salish. I Miss Zumbers. I Miss Wolk. I Dr. Hall. I President Brown. Hi. All right. Okay, we're going to be going into close session. How long? 45 minutes. And we will be coming back. But this meeting, we will not take any action, but we will continue on with our agenda as laid out. Okay. I'd like to resume our committee as a whole meeting. We're picking up with any board updates. Yeah, I had one. Mhm. So, Saturday, um, our choir director, Mr. Alphantis invited Vander Cook College of Music to come here and work with our students um our choir students and they came and he brought two sections. So I wasn't really I'm not really familiar but he brought they came up and sang as a choir and then they brought up another group with part of their choir and they sang.
Overwatch competitors are a best of five matches going through the following game types. We got control, you got your basic escort, you got your push, and don't forget, you got your hybrid. Those are the five types. My my job tonight, Scott, is to kind of inform you and educate you into what we're doing. So, just stick with me. I'll get you through. All right. Our first control map is Elios. So, looking forward to that. I think this is based in the country of Greece. So, it'll be very beautiful uh oceanfront property and a good And what is what is Elios? I don't know, but it's a control map. Okay, that's what I do know. Okay. And also a little known fact, you remember this? This is the second time we've announced together. Second time. Second time. Yeah. Way back 2007, Norwell Evansville Modern Day Baseball State Championship with Dick Simpson.
So, if anyone's here to make a public comment, please step up, state your name, and address, and let us hear what you have to say. Hi, my name Hi, my name is Laura Venus. I'm here to talk about the team uh special education coordinator position at Tonto. So, dear members of the school committee, administration, and community members. As a member of the Tanto special education department, I'm running to ask you to reconsider the elimination of the special education coordinator position at our school. As an educator with more than 20 years of experience, I know that this decision will do what this decision will do to negatively impact our students and the ability of our department to operate as it should. I have had the opportunity to work in two other districts during my career and have worked with many coordinators. Since starting at Tonto 5 years ago, I've now had six coordinators and for the last two years, we have essentially had to manage our department on our own.