It also gives the candidates a chance to prepare. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. Is that wrong? Pardon? She suggested that we read the questions for transparency and I suggested that it gives the candidates a chance to Oh, this becomes part of you actually have to do the questions of public comment and so this becomes part of your minutes today. Yeah. All right. Sure. Jess, why don't you go ahead? In no particular order, then we'll start from the top. How will you handle the balance of respecting longtime employees in the district's experience and familiarity with how things have always been with new ideas, changes, and perspectives? I like that. I do, too. All right. Anyone against? All right. So, let's keep that one. Um, I don't know if the next one's in. It looks like it's three paragraphs. It is. Oh, it's the Oh, all three paragraphs.
Of course. Yeah. Good. Okay. Um we move right along uh to strategic our strategic plan and the hope is to uh to complete that this year. We have uh board of education goal number five that's in your packet. And uh tonight I'd like to as we went through the uh the last several is to uh just to go through that and get your comments, suggestions uh and changes. So board number five is embracing equity, strive to create an inclusive and culturally responsive learning environment that celebrates diversity, fosters a sense of belonging, and prepares students for a global society. The opening statement.
But it seems to me that if if people are going to be insulating their homes and their you existing in existing structures and it's going to be um restricting the flow of air in and out of the house and then you have these heat bump systems that may be perceived as not um operating uh or you know creating the necessary comfort level in in the home and it part of that is the ventilation system. So, I just want to make sure that we're not leaving that out. It's just not just all about the heat pump. It's also about the ventilation. Just one more thought here um around the discussion of performance of heat pumps. Um I very much agree with Commissioner Mursky's um assessment there. You know, there are uh cold climate heat pumps that work at 100% uh all the way down to five degrees and sometimes even lower.
They chip away in pieces. And when we start chipping away at the people and programs that make a difference, a clear message is sent, not just to our dedicated staff, but to students and their families that we're willing to settle for less. I offer to you all a cleareyed perspective on the real cost of a 0% increase with rising costs in areas beyond our control such as contracted salaries, health benefits, transportation, special education services, and out of district placement typically increasing between 3 to 6% annually. A flat budget isn't maintaining the status quo. It's cutting into it. On our $300 million budget, a 2% increase equals about $6 million. That is not a cushion. That is the bare minimum needed to preserve the programs, support staff, and essential services our students rely on every day. It is the difference between retaining programs that support mental health, academic intervention, and enrichment, and cutting them to make up the shortfall.
Is there other items that you would say maybe as it relates to the safety of a student or or faculty in the building or um you know as it relates to uh long-term sustainability for our equipment? Um that maybe you would put before the parking lot replacement. Um because you know I was over at Deacy recently. I've seen the parking lot. you know, yes, it's got lots of lots of repairs that it needs, but um you know, take again, it's all about prioritizing is kind of what I'm getting at here. So, I'm curious, you know, if you have any input on that. Um, no, I think uh as far as the safety, um I think we would be okay with the equipment we have right now. Um and I think that the Macy parking lot and the rice parking lot are extremely important to um get done.
So right now we have deadlines that have already been set and a mail blasts over and over um for ordering so that we can ensure that everything the goods and services are received by the June 30th. So of course the closer we get to the date the possibilities of getting on time is going to be a lot less. So we already set the deadlines. It's already been it already passed and right now we're just going to be um waiting for everything to come in so that we can pay all the invoices. Okay. Okay. Okay. Go ahead. Miss Carlo, I apologize.
Thank you. Thank you Lauren. Thank you. Thank you Michael. So we have a motion then to accept item 3.6 6 which is the intergo the IGA with for dual enrollment and talent courses for the year 25 and 26. So have a motion from Michael a second from Sylvian. All in favor say I. I. I. All right.
So moved. Thank you, Mr. Brainer. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Dr. Robersonson. All those in favor of approving tonight's consent agenda as it is outlined on tonight's agenda, please do so by saying I. I. I.
So this is actually pretty informative and know that. Now there are some other numbers like how do they come up with the tax rate? That would be questions for the assessor more than it would be us because we don't determine that just making them understand the bill a little bit more I think is because people look at it and say my taxes went up because of you correct marginally because of us but not completely because thank you Jason Jason what I one this is a very minute issue that I saw that presentation so you had to determine your taxes was the assessed value times the percentage, but it's actually you said the tax rate is a percentage. It's actually a decimal. It's the tax rate. Yeah, it's a tax rate. It's a decimal, not a percentage. So, some people could be confused and say, okay, here's my assessed value.
Are we the red or the blue? We are the blue, I believe. Blue. Yes, we are the blue. Okay, but we Okay, there we go. Now, we're starting to make some Yep. So, now Yep. So now we've got him once you got to get them back to where that blue diamond is in the middle and then after that is when it starts. So okay, looks like Norwell has changed the hamster for their tank. I've not seen Norwell play the that character. Hey, he's somewhere rolling around. So they've got this character also Venture with Norwell's plane that kind of hides underground and they got that there's that there's that one dude. Yeah, they got that annoying character. Yeah. And I like how you can see him through the walls like the outline. So that's good. Yep. So now Norwell's taking back control. So up 4714 or 4719 on the distance.
All right. I will read it in full. I'm not sure if you researched our district, but in full disclosure, we're currently in the middle of a big shift. Our current superend interim superintendent has had to do much more than just his superintendent duties. is trying to make sense of last year's budget and finding things like job descriptions and professional practices that need updating or creating as some don't exist. He typically works well beyond 7 p.m. on weekdays, attends town meetings both Berlin and Boilson that often run till 9 or 10. He often spends weekends at central office. Do you feel you are equipped to continue this work? Would you be able to dedicate as much time to return turning our district around so we can attract a full-time superintendent next year? any strong opinions about that one way or another? I like it. Maybe some it's wordy, but she's trying to make a point.
any questions, concerns about the opening statement? Now, I'll I'll go to and you can stop me at any time. So, let's go to the priorities, which is a ensure systemwide practices and structures are in place to support implementation of the Canton Pools Canton Public Schools equity and belonging plan. Felicia. Um um that's fine to me, but I just suggest um having the link to the plan there. I'm sorry. Having the link to the plan there underneath a like what it references the PN public schools equity blogging plan. Yep. The link to the plan. No, the link like the actual go. Yeah. Okay. Any other suggestions? already enforced. Have we already implemented it? Yeah, that was uh believe it was last year brought to the board today. Y okay. It I guess it just reads to me are in place to support the implementation like that we're that we be implementing this not that we're continuing to have it.
Um and just um taking my commissioner hat off and just um talking about my day job at Elevate. Um uh we do electrification projects in like probably at least seven or eight different states across the country. And um in some of those um we don't fully electrify. We will do like a dual fuel furnace. And essentially what happens is once the heat pump like once it gets so cold that the heat pump starts losing efficiency then the gas turns on in the extreme lows. Um, but say a home or a larger building doing that can still totally be net zero or um zero emission definition, especially if it has any solar panels attached to it. Um, so just flagging like um we we brought this up earlier, the conversation around all electric versus zero emission. um you can have a dual fuel furnace or something of that nature um and still hit that zero emission definition.
0% may feel safe today, but it's like taking the roof off of your house because you're trying to save on heating. It may feel more affordable at the moment, but we all know how the story will ultimately end. I urge you all not to make a short-term decision that will undoubtedly have long-term consequences. A minimum 2% investment isn't excess. It's simply what's required to preserve the value we've already created here in Clifton. Thank you so much. And Commissioner Brunak, if you would please tell say hi to Melanie and Frank and tell them I miss them very much. Have a good night.
Now u you know I have a grounds crew we try to take care of the potholes. Um and anybody who knows you know walking across 180,000 square foot of parking lot. If there's a pothole to be found, somebody's going to find it and they're going to get hurt. Um even though we try to maintain them and stay on them. um that number that was there for the heat pumps that you had mentioned, the three to 5,000 I believe it was. So that's just for the district to buy that. That's not to that's not to have a company come out and and so it's more expensive than that's just for parts, not actual labor. That's just to buy it. That you know there's there's millions millions more costs that come in in play with that heat pump. Um because when we talk about equipment being replaced um as far as the heat pumps, there's a lot of other equipment that go hand inand with that.
Miss Anna, did you have any questions to the budget? Um I do. I actually mentioned an impact fee that is going to reflect a negative amount to we are overspending. Is there a plan of how we are going to not overspend but also what are we going to do to replenish the funding in that area if I know you said we weren't but yes well we're just going to have to adjust future year spending because the plan was to carry a certain dollar amount over and that's going to be reduced. So then that means that the expenditures for the following year should be reduced because we really need to be careful with that money. We just there's really no guarantees, right? So if if we overspend this year, then we have to reduce our spending next year. Thank you. You're welcome. And I guess I just want to make sure and I know I've been pressing on on the back end.
Next item on the agenda is 3.7. This is a superintendent report. Dr. Wright would like to hear. Thank thank you. I think the most important and I don't want to cover anything else because of the magnitude of this adjustment. It was recently brought to my attention that we have a conflict between the graduation date on Friday and the state track meet. And so essentially our kids are placed in an impossible position. Either you decide to compete in the track track meet or participate in graduation. To me it's not fair. Adults make changes. This for as long as I've been here the state track meet was always a week later. Our schedule has been in place for two years. But I failed to recognize the change and so I take that responsibility. But I'm not prepared to ask any of our athletes, even if it's only one or two, to say, "Well, you have to make a choice to either compete or graduate with your peers." So, I'm going to move graduation, and it will come with some frustration.
Any opposed? Perfect. Thank you. And moving on to our action items. 7.01, Appointment of Adam Stro as principal of Canyon Valley for the 2025 to 2026 school year. Is there a motion? I moved that we appoint Adam Stro as principal of Canyon Valley for the 2025 2026 school year. Thank you, Miss Humphre. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Miss Murray.
Let me multiply. They don't know how to may not know how to change a percentage over to decimal. They might multiply, hey, something's not right. Here is a assessed value and I multiply by 15% and I'll say 15 6% is like 0.06. Yeah, just move the decimal point over two points. I saw it on there. I look math score. Yeah. On here. Yeah. On here it shows the rate as a decimal but you had the rate tax rate as a percentage. That's all. That's all. Okay. Good job. We don't have is at the end of hours. Four hours of note. Um but we want to grant students out of interest follow that hours of service. So you mean it's a specific case. So it's not every student has they have to have a specific And it is on a case by case basis on the case by case basis.
So but it's a long time left. We going to 100 meters or I don't know. I think it's more than 100 meters. That'd be too easy. Okay. So it either goes to someone pushes it all the way to the end or until 7 minutes and 25 seconds. Okay. Run out. So Okay. And then whoever has the close wins. Correct. Most. Okay. Yep. All right. So again, it's going to last 7 minutes and 15 seconds. Unless we got going over here on the right. So it looks like there's something going on. That robot's pushing now. They're just riding their healers along for the ride here. We got to We got to get control of that. Yeah, we do. Yeah. You We got to get control and push them back. We got to push back with it. All right. See, I I I've got the gist of it now.