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Yeah, sorry. No, I was just gonna I just think like the next two are just like key maybe you start with those or you like why are first like it should be why are you interested in this position? I mean that's just a a basic question and then what are your greatest strengths and weaknesses because if somebody isn't able to speak honestly about you know or acknowledge what they're good at what they're not good at that's important yeah I think how they sorry I personally think your greatest strengths and weakness is one of the worst questions because are they gonna my weakness is I care too much profession but I think that then talks about their character getting to know them better It's fine. I don't care. I don't care if we get married. I just think it's a waste of time. But the other ones here are good.
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That if we're looking at global citizenship, it all comes into B. That if you take out D, I think B really comes within global citizenship and looking at awareness and talking to kids about what our world is. I think they can be combined. Well, I had a um ending to that statement peri just wanted to share see if anyone go ahead. So I have um promote awareness and action on global challenges through educational initiatives, collective integrity and community involvement. Well, that just Yeah, I was just going to say that that changes nicely. Can you say it again? Yeah, I'm sure. So after challenges it would be through educational initiatives, collective integrity and community involvement. So what if you took out because I think we combine those and D using some of her words and maybe F as well cuz you're kind of touching upon F with the I don't know.
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Um, so I I've talked to a few folks who are nervous to get rid of their natural gas furnace and, you know, they would love to take advantage of the home energy rebate, but it's almost like a little bit of a disincentive. um in that sense because you know they still want it for those uh deep cold spells and stuff like we discussed. So I don't know if there's any you know future flexibility on that front. I I think I understand why they would maybe want to not make it available for dual fuel like obviously you want to do the all electrified uh home instance but uh you know flexibility in some of those cases perhaps. I'm not sure if that could work or not, but something to maybe consider. Morris, did you want to add something? Yeah. um we I think keep on coming back to and you know I even do in my head too um this whole idea of education and good information.
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The Clifton and custodian maintenance teams work hard every day to make Clifton a wonderful school district and we only can continue to do this with appropriate funding from the board of education. I thank you all for your time. Have a good evening. Well, good evening. My name is Lori Lama and I'm the president of the Clifton Education Association. There is a growing concern that without a minimum of 4% increase in our school board budget for the 2526 school year, Clifton may not be able to meet the basic demands of operating effectively. the cost of running our schools, including the new middle school, utilities, transportation, insurance, instructional supplies, and paying towards charter schools, as well as PCTI, have all continued to rise during due to inflation. If our budget does not keep pace, our school district may be forced to make difficult decisions which will impact our students directly such as cutting programs, increasing class sizes, or reducing support staff.
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That's just that would be our cost. Like, so we recently bought them to do this building, which we're doing in house, and that was our cost. Anybody who contractor buys buys anything, you know, you you pay list price. So if we pay $3,000, you know, list price is probably 6,500. It's going to be at least 100% markup on it. So that's just for us to buy it. We use that as a as a figure um when when we're trying to figure out what we think a contractor might charge to to do something like that. and just for little things that we have to do uh where we have to get a contractor to come in. I mean, you know, you know what the the rates are. I mean, I don't I don't get get away from $150 an hour for a contractor to come in here and do something and he's a 4-hour minimum.
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So I feel like what people may or may not understand is that what drives all the budget. Yeah. You know, so um we work, uh Allison and I work really well with um informing the superintendent, this is where we're at. We need to cut back. We need to, you know, we need to just keep an eye on it. We're okay. Like I said, the cash is there, but we do really need to be very cognizant of what the budget balance is and that we are fiscally responsible, correct, in our spending. Mr. President and and uh members of the board and staff. Um one of the goals uh as a superintendent was that we were going to have $12 million by the end of the third year plan. Um we are currently at uh 9 million um and we should have been or I wanted to be at about $10 million by the end of this year but we had to overspend to be able to make some adjustments.
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So, we won't push that item any any further until we hear from Jonathan. Okay. Next item on the agenda is call to the public. If there's anyone here that would like to address the board, we'd invite you to do that now.
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I hope to make you proud. Congratulations. We are proud of you. [Applause] All right, we'll take a a brief recess. Okay. All right, we're going to go ahead and come back to our meeting. I want to give uh Dr. Accord Dr. Accord. That's okay. Dr. McCord a moment before we jump back in. Just wanted to introduce from our Aspire program, Erica Crowley over here. Wave to everybody. Congratulations. Thanks for being here. All right, that's it. All right. Thank you. and Erica, welcome. Uh, moving on to 7.02, recommendation for a 2% pay increase for fiscal year 2026. Is there a motion? So moved. Thank you, Dr. Robersonson. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Mr. Brainer.
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But what I am saying he thought that 25 was applicable to all students regardless of your grade. Is that just us not knowing or has that been clear? Is that okay? It breaks it down for them. Okay. I was just wondering what falls under uh this community service like what kind of things what kind of projects have they done? I know. And sometimes hours So, you're bringing this to the board for approval. We're going to have the language change in policy for next week. The second page is we had some language that was took out that was old but no longer appeal I think it was a open So with that language changes Notific. They have kind of Not enough. language other parents that If if a seat was vacant mid year, do we transition that student that's next on the list to that vacant position?
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Blue Jay just threw his ultimate ability, which is a spaceship that is beaming down heels. You can see on the screen there. That's what I would do. Yep. Yeah. There's no reason to save your things right now cuz it's now or never. Go all in. You know, don't leave anything out there on the field. Yep. Gentlemen, ladies, get her all done. Don't leave it all. Don't leave anything on the field. Give it all you got. Come on, Gavlin. Exploded blue jay fish. Lazy soul. Get her done. Yep. I'm getting a little jacked right now, Scott. Yeah, we moved the the robot back, which is good. He threw his javelin, moved him back off the got their tank off of the robot so we can gain a little more distance here. Now, we don't want to shoot the robot, do we? Yeah, he's he's he's tough.
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Yeah. Why are you interested? How do you handle conflict? So, we got enough of that going around. And how do you bring the biggest one there is the strong relationships? That would be the one that you want to know. Right. Lisa, you had a question. You did you ever put it into words or I I didn't have time to actually go through, but it's a question about the budget and what their skill is in the budget. All right. Why not? So, are we Let's Hold on. Hold on to that. But for these, so there's four. You want to keep all four? No, there's one, two, three. No, no. Those last ones that group that we were talking about the last. How do you build strong and greatest? Why are you interested? How the last four questions? Yeah. I mean, if Lisa has a question, Tracy, is this going to be too long?
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I like what you're saying for D. Um, but I'm worried that some of these are going to become redundant. B and D talk about students. Yeah. And and and instruction and activity. Okay. F and community involvement talk about your community. We don't use the word issues in B, but we use the word challenges instead keeping challenges in B. Maybe B is more about what if you can add Felicia's what if we go back and take B and D put them together in the B but combine um what Felicia said through educational initiatives collective integrity and what was it involvement and community involvement and give us some time to take B and D and combine them but get Felicia's line and words in there through educational initiatives, collective integrity and community. I think as we're going to come back for final reading of it, you'll see that it's all combined.
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Um, I I just want to sort of uh repeat a call that Larry uh made earlier just before he left with some additional specificity and maybe lean even on Commissioner Burkowitz. Um, and that is this this session that we're planning in November for developers. Um, we're trying we we almost uh we I think we already have a commitment from somebody from passive house institute USP hi US to come in for Chicago for that. So on the envelope side we're going to get um somebody that's going to be addressing that. What we would really like to have is um a developer or an engineering firm that has done multiple buildings that are essentially zero emission buildings. Um ideally, you know, all electric buildings um that can come in and speak to developers and say, "We've done this. We know it. We've done it just not once or twice.
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There are out there are outcomes Clifton does not want to face, especially when the goal is to provide our students with the best possible education. The situation is further complicated by the state's continued implementation of the school funding reform act which is designed to bring fairness and adequacy to public school funding as what Dr. Roberts has discussed. While the state is increasing its share to school districts, it is expected that the local boards will also do their part to support educational growth. A budget increase of at least 4% is not only prudent, it is necessary to match the state's investment and meet the needs of all students, especially those requiring additional academic or emotional support. Falling short could risk undermining the progress districts have made under this guidance. Our concern is even more imminent as our district prepares to open a new middle school. The initiative brings with with it a host of financial responsibilities from hiring teachers and staff to outfitting classrooms, maintaining the facility, and providing transportation.
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So, it becomes it becomes very pricey. Thank you. Seriously, a lot of insight there. So, thank you very much. Can I ask this might be for for Danny? You you guys mentioned getting a grant. What is the likelihood and how many opportunities are out there to apply for grants to cover some of the need for the infrastructure repairs? Yeah, not a Danny question. I'll feel that one. Um Danny would be grants like program grants, right? Yeah. So Ben, I'm sorry. Nope, that's okay. So, uh Tom, would you mind talking about the direct install program that we use? Yeah. We got a direct ESG. They pay 80% of the bill. We pay 20%. We get it put into our electric bill and we get a fiveyear considered a 5-year loan for what the 20% is and we don't pay no interest on the money. Okay. Uh this is how we do a lot of things.
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There's a couple of things down the line. Um there's still a list of safety issues that we need to address. We still need to purchase more buses down the line based on on all of the old buses that we have in place. Um and uh the operations um we don't know in the uncertainty or the the next couple of years, but um one of the um strategies that we are using the the decisions that we're making, we plug it in and we try to see what's going to happen in the next three to five years. That way we know then what adjustments need to be made. Um and definitely um we will continue to operate. However, we need to continue to find ways in how to do more with less. Right. No, I agree. Thank you, Miss Silia. No, I was just going to mention and and we appreciate that because that really actually is one of our oversight also ensuring that you know we are you know we have the funds available to do the work that needs to be done.
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Uh, invite you to just use three minutes or so and not yield your time to anybody else. And, uh, I don't see anybody that would really like to do call to the public here right now. So, everybody's shaking their heads. All right. So, we don't have any items for call to the public. Our next meeting will be Tuesday, May 6th. Tuesday, I mean Tuesday, May 6th. Um, other than that, we have nothing else on the agenda to cover. So, can we have a motion to adjurnn? I have a motion from Michael, second from Sylviana. All in favor of adjournment, say I. All right, we are officially ajourned. Thank you.
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Uh, is there any discussion regarding the presentation or the recommendation andor the presentation that we heard tonight? Well, I think there's been a lot of work put into this and I'm really proud that we can offer this kind of an increase this year. I mean, we work hard to get there and I wish it could be more, but I'm really happy with this. So, yeah, I would just the the same. We we talked about how great the numbers were from the presentation um earlier in the evening, and it's it's because of all these people, and we really do appreciate it. So, thank you. All right, then I will call for a vote. Uh, all those in favor of approving the recommendation for a 2% pay increase for fiscal year 2026 say I. I. I.
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Yes. So, as soon as it is dropped from the CFK list and there is an open spot, we contact that family, you know, within a few days of knowing that that seat is open and that parent has a right to take that seat. Um, and sometimes, you know, they're waiting on siblings to get in or it's a set of twins and we only have one seat open, but we always offer that seat to the next family that is up. Okay. Good deal. Thank you. Thanks. Uh, another thing for the CSK, uh, because I have a preschooler, uh, next year will be a kindergartener. Yeah. Uh, and we were thinking about, uh, putting in for the CSK lottery. Yeah. Uh, the only thing that, um, our reservation is right now she is in a like a bilingual preschool, right? So all her classmates and the teachers, they all speak Spanish, right?
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All right. Just thinking maybe the robot wouldn't like we're we're we're still not uh Oh, looks like we got control of it again. Yeah, we've got control of it. Looks like we're pushing it back a little bit. Little bit. He's dropping down their hamster. That's not good. Yeah, looks like we lost a few there. So, looks like pretty quickly here. They're going to they gain back control of the robot. Oh, boy. We still got four minutes. Okay. Plenty of time. Plenty of time. Plenty of time. We got a lot of ground to make up though. We do. We got to We got to get control and Yeah. Push it back. Push it back. Way back. All right. It's time. If we've been holding anything here in our reserves and now's the time. Any secrets, you might want to just let that out right now. Ker right here.
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