You have a six, a five, a four, and then three threes and three twos. What were the threes again, Tracy? Yeah. Can you threes are flarity and I found that two people had votes to no confidence. Um, sounds like you want to eliminate those. I would eliminate if I want to make a motion to eliminate any names. Do we have to make a motion? We could. Susan Kuska or sorry, Ricka and Kuska both had votes of no confidence. Rick was pretty publicized. Raise your hand if you'd like to eliminate both of those names. If it has a vote of no confidence, do you want to eliminate it? Okay, that's six. one of them and human. Other than the three that have four above and the ones very eliminated, how many does that leave us? Um, so then you would have Lego and Lindberg and you would have flarity.
Uh, our our staff is working hard. There's some exceptional things happening. Uh, none of it would be as wonderful and none of it matters without our wonderful students. So, I have there's plenty of students that we could highlight. There's lots of wonderful things happening. Uh but I had the honor of uh thinking and working with the staff over the past couple of months to nominate a few students for some of our highest distinctions and we're pleased to have them here this evening. So we will start parents just so everybody knows we'll have plenty of time for pictures after. I don't want you to have to rush. You could take what you got but after we'll do individual pictures with the board and everything like that so everybody knows. Okay, Mr. Moore. So, um, I have a few groups and I'll call them up and maybe they can join me in this area and I'll tell you a little bit about what they're recognizing for.
So just noting that is a thing we're thinking of and happy to and that that's all that I have from my side of things outside of continuing the conversation but I will swing over to Larry. Yeah. No, that's great Joe. I appreciate that that mention. Um just uh want to follow up with a c couple of things. Um what the language we've adopted in the Wolfpack is uh is to get away from this all electric thing and say the objective is zero emissions. Okay. So zero emissions you know there is a government definition of what zero emissions means and it covers site and source emissions. Uh and the other term that we have adopted is passive house standards and passive house has to do with efficiency. Okay. Energy efficiency of of the building and it applies to both residential and multif family and commercial buildings.
Now, as Dr. Roberts stated earlier, this is the list that was asked of us by the board on March 13th. So, with a 1% a 1.5% increase, what would we have to cut? I'm just going to let you guys just take a look at this for a moment. for a a for a non-teer that's excellent use of wait time. Mr. Shahada, I picked up some from Janina. What would a one 1% increase? What would we have to cut with that? Just going to let you guys just take a look at that as well. And what would we have to cut with the 0% tax increase? Everything combined on list one and two, but we are adding an additional amount to about $1.8 million. Thank you guys. Yes, Mr. Paris. I I said it, but I need to repeat it. staff. I'm not I'm not worried about reducing staff because of the budget.
So Tom, could you or Brian talk to the board since you mentioned heat pumps a little bit about what heat pumps are, how many approximately we have, where they're located, uh the age of them, um and where you're now sourcing parts. Yeah. Uh the heat pump is the same thing that a lot of people in Marlton have. They have heat pumps. A heat pump is a an air conditioner and a heater all built into one. Uh we have over 700 heat pumps in our district. which means there's a heat pump in every room, hallways, rooms. Uh so, you know, it's a system that works. If you have a big system in a building and it goes bad, everybody's got to go home because you can't stay in the building. It's cold. When a heat pump goes out in this building, we take it out, repair it, put it back in.
Again every 12 months your frames allowance is $130. After that you do get a 20% discount toward that and then you can get contact lens in lie of glasses. Basic life in AD and D is a rate pass through 630 of 27. Again recommending renewing with Sigma. Again all your active employees get a flat $50,000 of life insurance benefit. does have age reductions which apply and short-term disability is on a rate pass through 6:30 of 27. We recommend renewing with signal for the disability um benefit voluntary life. There was no changes in the rates. They issued a rate pass through 630. Again recommending this allows your employees to um get additional life insurance and also additional life insurance through their um dependent, their spouse or their children as well. And then section four is our communications that we currently send out open enrollment materials via email and printed for all employees.
Uh there were some uh discrepancy at a school in a valley in the valley about whether the a board had seen the audit. Um and so the legislature decided that they were going to um enact a law where the board would uh have to do a roll call vote saying they did accept the audit. So you're not approving the audit, you're just accepting it. Um it is what it is. Whatever the auditors say, that's what it is. Um so I just present it to you and then you accept it or don't. Either way, the audit stands. It's like purple. So, uh, while they're pulling it up, uh, so you either get a modified audit or an unmodified audit. So, an unmodified audit is good. So, we have an unmodified audit at Blige. Um I just also want to thank our team, the district office team, the principles, their team.
So the base level amount is the um the base amount per student that we receive. So she's recommending that we increase that by 2%. Um I'm adding the district additional assistance which of course goes to fund in our unrestricted capital. That particular amount was one time for the current year. Um but she's put in her budget that she wants that to be ongoing for next year and well beyond next year. And then there's an increase to the free and reduced um price lunch weight which we have not adopted. We don't know what it is yet. So we have not put it into our budget projections. So that's an advantage that where we if we once we get that our budget capacity we would expect would go up if we did lose the 1300 students um going into next year. So then this is Gilbert public schools budget parameters.
And we we had discussed that if there was something major like I think at Tawa a couple years ago, there was a door that was bad and we replace it, right? kind of like we're doing with elementary roof, right? But like I said, I went in there, he had everything all they had everything already broken down and figured out. So, it was very, very good. Good job. Continue, Jason. Uh, moving on to u the high school sports project. Um, some items have been added to this. As with the other projects that have been approved, I up the contingency from 7 and a half to 10%. But in addition to that, I did add the utility work into the the project. So you guys see this middle section here, that's the uh utility work to make sure that we have a function on stadium and concession stand.
Maybe that wouldn't help out your game. No, I mean, no. What are those uh blue little uh uh objects over there by the on the hand? Blue there and then they change color. Uh right now he's um throwing this is Yeah. What are those? That's the dam his damage. He throws those to do some damage. So, yeah, they're not mines. There just little uh just a different character than the uh one he usually plays which is a hamster character. We've not hamster in a ball. We've not seen him. Hamster can do some damage, huh? Yes, absolutely. Okay. Yep. Yep. This character is called Sigma which if you have a middle school child that's they talk say everything is sigma. Could be good, could be bad. You know that's a Greek letter, isn't it? Yeah, I believe. Yeah. Yeah. It's a fraternity or sority something like that.
Oh, and Dwire, excuse me. Dwire is two. All right. So, that's four names. Would you like to discuss any of the four names? Could you say the name? Yeah, I'm sorry. Let's start with flarity. Say them again. Let's start with flity. So, yep. So, flarity has anybody Let's discuss flarity. Do we want to take flarity? I thought she had a great resume. I don't think it's a good for what we're looking for. I think that's a dangerous path to go down. I don't think she has the experience. That's the collective one, right? That's why I didn't choose her. I think she looks really great, but not for this specific role in my opinion. I liked her resume. Um, I thought that, you know, um, I would be interested. I I'm not saying I'm ready to hire her, but I I think in the spirit of hearing like meeting people and hearing what they have to say, I feel like when we did the principal searches, I was part of it for both rounds.
Then I have individual certificates and I think we'll do a photo opportunity after each after I say each group before we move on to the next one. Okay. No, we'll do it at the conclusion of every all at once. That sounds right. Okay. So then with the members that are here because they were nominated performed in the Northern Region Music Festival come on. So can we get our musicians and our our choir? You did Northern Region Music Festival. Come on and join me up in this area here. All right. Thank you very much. So, the Northern Region Music Festival is a prestigious m music event. As you know, Canyon has a long and prestigious history of supporting music and having some exceptional musical talent. This year, we are once again named one of the best communities for music education. And uh what I mean by that is that the talent pool here is deep.
So um you know we want to to focus on the objective which is no more fossil fuel use, no more emissions into the atmosphere. And um I think that you know the issue of cost is one that's important that you know people have the impression that it costs a lot more to build to passive house standards. It turns out that those numbers are, you know, becoming closer and closer together on the order of 3 to 5% more to make it a p building a passive house standard versus a a a to code standard. And so, um, you know, we're getting to the point where it it doesn't make sense to build something that is not zero emissions passive house. So, I just want to make that uh point is that that's what the Wolfpack is focusing on right now is zero emissions passive house standards.
Yes, based on those numbers, we're going to cut a whole bunch of things if necessary. Staff is last. And it's absolut my word. Barring any new surprises, right, that come from on high, staff will be the last thing that we ever cut. And I won't speak for the board because they speak very well for themselves, but I I'm very confident that they agree with that sentiment. So, thank you, Mr. Paris. Okay. Thank you, Dr. Robert Toesy. Um, so before we go to public recognition, let's do a round of questions. Anyone like to start? Commissioner Basser. Yes. Um, I don't know who's going to answer this question for through you to administration. Um I heard through my colleagues in the state that a district can actually go past the 2%. Correct? Um so say we wanted to go 5% 6%. I know in Paramis they're contemplating 4% increase.
So, you know, we make sure that every classroom has heat and cooling for the time that they need it and the the temperatures that when it's needed. And, you know, I think we do an outstanding job at what we do in our department because we got all this equipment. We got equipment 35 years old that we still have running. And, you know, it's it's a point where you can't get the parts to fix it. You go to aftermarket. The aftermarket is triple the price of what it would have been. But the manufacturers stopped making parts. They don't make parts for these anymore. They moved on to their newer models, their new additions. And unfortunately, it gets more costly to fix the old than it does to replace it, believe it or not. So, it it's it's bad. And it's it's not a good situation. Well, first, thank you.
Um CBIS representatives do attend open enrollment meetings here within the districts at all the schools. These are samples of the presentations and the booklets that have been provided to um the district in the past. And then if there are no questions, we appreciate your continued partnership. Questions? I don't have a question specifically to yourself, more so to the administration. Um but thank you so much for all of the due diligence and the effort. Um, and I I only want to ask Mr. Diaz specifically, um, I think regarding benefits and what we've been able to see, and I know you guys are very much aware of my feelings. Um, I don't I don't mean that. I don't I don't mean that personally, but in the effort for our employees, what we've been able to do as a school district to try and attract and retain employees.
This is a um concerted effort when the auditors are here to get them everything they need in a timely manner. They come out twice a year. So they come out um the third week of August and then the week um the first week of December. They issue they try to issue our audit by December 31st. That's the goal. Um but legally they have to have the audit issued by March 31st. um we got it, it was um issued and everything was fine. Some of the things that they use our audit for um is our federal funds. So that's our title money, our idea basic, all of those things. Um we also use it for our bond rating. So when you go out for a bond, um one of the things that the bond company looks for is our audit and how well we did on our audit.
So we do have the um teacher experience index. So I I think I shared that we use October as our as our recalculation for our average salary. October 15th, is that when it's due? The school district employee report is due. And they use that information to calculate our teacher experience index. And so just a reminder, the teacher experience index compares our teachers years of experience against the average of the state of Arizona, regardless of which school district you're at. So since we're above one, that indicates that our average teacher experience is higher than the state average. They give you the state formula gives a little bit of extra money for that because it directly translates to your salaries. if they have more more experience, generally speaking, they're paid more. So, there's the student count decrease of 1,3 ADM. We did go ahead and just split that evenly between K8 and 912.
Those are firm quotes that I have obtained from Burns and Jones to get that work done. And then the other item, thanks to Don over here who's been very instrumental in helping map out the technology aspect of the course. You will see that a server has been included for the amount of $88,000 into the concession stand. So we can uh provide ample Wi-Fi for staff and uh everyone uh properly not only at the sports court but also at the baseball and softball field as well. And so this is the list that you came No, to the board. A couple, but some of these items was from that list. The the major utilities I I included those. Now, um you know, I acknowledge the fact that those were overlooked when we had the initial project. And Jamie pointed out that, you know, they are a necessity, so I placed them in here.
Yeah. Are we still in Greece? Um I believe so. Maybe. I don't know if Greece, you know, part of the Greek. I kind of like it. Yeah. Sigma making a little tie in. Yeah. So, right now we've got if we could hold Norwell for another minute 19 before they get to that diamond. This is a kind of like a choke point on the map where it's tough to advance because we have some cover with that that wall. And we're doing a great job holding this. You can't really see it super well, but there's a character called Bob right now who's a a character. Yep. So, um Aiden put him out. That's his ultimate ability. Just jumped off the screen. Okay. He's just like a character that goes out and just shoots everyone, hits everything. He only lasts a little while. That's his ultimate ability. Sounds like a bob.