D. M just add something about the process. Go ahead. So, just so the the board knows, we're at board goal number five and I believe we have one more or goal number six, which is workforce development. We will bring that to the the June demand meeting or force development and then the goal would be to bring the book like this that we got in the beginning. We're we're going to change a whole bunch of this book around now that I look at it. Not the words. We we'll put all the words that you wrote, but some of the pictures and some of the things that I want to just take it out and just focus on the words. I think that's most important. and to bring it to you in June um with a possible vote in June or a possible vote at your retreat whenever we do your retreat in the beginning of the year so we can look at it one more time if we're ready to vote for it in June which you may be because we'll have everything in there from the May meeting.
Um there's been some that we found just in like you know a very small lo like a small town that you would never have thought of where this might make sense. Um and so it it just everyone looking out for it is kind of the big thing. And then I think similarly um who having those conversations with the developers to understand again what they need um because you know I I can be sitting here with my local government hat on and being like well I think this is the most important decision-making criteria for a developer but I'm I'm not a developer. I don't know what's the most important thing for them. Um there are, you know, inherently benefits to being someone coming and asking a question from a local government being like, I'm just trying to find out information. Uh but also times that can be a barrier.
And, uh, Dr. Robtos, you took the the wind out of my sales with that when you when you spoke just now. Um, I noticed on that schedule that there were 39 expected doubled classes in the health and phys department. Uh, that that to me is not the norm. It's not the expectation. It's not what I would want for our students because I know that puts our teachers in in a situation that uh doesn't allow them to build the relationships that they would we would like to see within my first year. I made that my my top priority. Um, with that being said, uh, with enrollment changes for year number two, that number, if we, if we did the math, ballooned up to 69 doubled classes for the 23 24 school year. With the support of this board of education and our central administration, by the end of that summer, my first summer doing that schedule, that number came down to six doubled classes for the school year.
Um, so I'm just going to add right on to that. Um, I didn't mean to interrupt you if you had any more thoughts. Um, you know, it it looks like if you're asking me right on this list here, um, you know, again, heat pumps look like a very complicated process that would require a years'sl long plant. Uh the the other item that that kind of seems most urgent here is the roof replacements at Rice and Deacy, right? I mean, you know, that you can't have kids in a room that's, you know, leaking 24/7 whenever there's a rainstorm or, you know, I I think um you know, I don't want to put you on the spot, Kevin, but you were telling me the story the other day, you know, the one of the rooms just completely was, you know, unusable at Vanamp because of the situation there, right?
Are there any questions to the report from the board? Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate you. Please help me welcome Miss Alon Constance representing the Buri Middle and High School. Let's give her a big hand. Okay. Okay. Let me try. Okay. So, um I did. Okay. Let's start this all over. President Wendia, board members, Superintendent Diaz, and everyone who's still here. Okay. So, I did submit my board report in writing. I hope you had the opportunity to take a look at it. Um the big highlight for March, it's a simple one, is we did not have any incidents on the middle school side. So that was huge for us. Like yay. Um it's it's already changed in April, but March, we can celebrate. Um the seventh Oh, no. 11th graders took their ACT test. Um and thanks to um our our good um food services department, they did provide them a special breakfast on the ACT day.
And every warrior you've ever thought of in your in your mind as a little kid all the way up to now is what is a Native American chief? someone a warrior that no that and that's how I look at it. When I think of warrior I think of Native American. Okay. I generally think it's depicted as an indigenous correct. That's exactly what I think as a kid. What is what is the name of the basketball team? Warriors. What is it? Golden State Warriors. Golden State Warriors. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I was going to ask is that I know that Warrior as a mascot is I don't want to say it's common, but I don't want to insult anyone, but did we just go online and look at images for Warriors and just copy it? I'm just asking. Yeah, but I I know the Warriors for this district was connected to uh Indian.
Oh boy. Our best one, but that's not push was the last one, so we're okay. So this one's this is again this is so that we're done with that. We're done with that one. So got that. What happens if Norwell Let's just start. Let's stay for the pod. What happens if Bluffton wins this one? Well, then we go to a winner take all game five to get us through the state championship. I like that. And what if we lose this one? Then the season's over. Sayanara no that's not going to happen though. So we don't want to lose. We do not want to lose. So our strategy is to win. Is to win. Yes. We should go over there. You should go over there and tell the kids they need to win. Maybe I could just have a few minutes and talk about the strategy to win.
So, how will you handle the balance of respecting longtime employees of the district's experience and familiarity with how things have always been done with new ideas, changes, and perspectives? We are currently in the middle of a big shift in this district. Our current interimm superintendent has had to do much more than just his superintendent duties. He's 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 in both Berlin and Oilston that often run to 9 or 10, and he often spends weekends at the central office. Do you feel you are equipped to continue his work? Would you be able to dedicate as much time to turning our district around so that we could attract a full-time superintendent next year?
You'll get it literally probably within a week after the May meeting but you know it could be June or September. Well, the reason why I like June is because at your convocation, I'd like this to be better. So, um there is a closing part, too, that we should go over. Yeah. And I don't know if I'm going to have that like that. That was just kind of like architectural type of things just to show you what it um strategic plan looks like. My gut says I'm going to take a lot of that out and just make it what you all have done already and then a letter from Mr. Daniels in the the beginning. Our vision of a graduate and then that's it. That's all it really should be. I was just trying to make it that's more like a mission statement which each school has.
Um for, you know, for us, like people don't trust local governments for, you know, fair and valid reasons in some cases. Um and so, you know, having those kind of questions come from folks who aren't like directly involved in the process at times can be helpful as well. Um, so like I said, I think it's just really kind of that all hands-on deck approach um that we're all working at to try to find out that information where we can because I think similarly as we've talked to people, everyone kind of has a different answer. And so being able to find out by talking to enough people, you you get that kind of common answer. [Music] I can jump in. Go ahead. Just continuing the the thread here, I I'm wondering if this is an opportunity for a number of entities to come together um around the idea that the Wolfpack has.
I want to thank you even further that I'm very proud to say that with this support and obviously the tough decisions that you have to make. Uh we are now currently at zero doubled classes across the district which is a tribute to the relationships that we've built to the work that you do up here. Um it is a very difficult decision but we support obviously we thank you for your support and we understand it's a difficult decision and um we obviously have been the fruit we have been receiving the fruits of your labor and I thank you for that. Good evening commissioners Dr. Robert Toy in central administration. I'm Aaron Jagger. I'm the supervisor of math and business at Clifton High School. Um I'm coming to speak to you today both as a supervisor and employee and also as a a Clipton graduate. So as a Clipton employee, I want to thank you all for all that you've done in the past and all that you continue to do for us.
And that's not even on the list here. So maybe preliminary thought. Obviously, we have the final budget meeting where we're going to approve the final numbers. Uh, but you know, maybe you look at approving through this L tax levy a small portion of what we need to cover our most dire maintenance needs. So that way we could still educate kids, we could still use the facilities. Um, you know, and we're not in the situation, you know, where again rooms and buildings are just not usable. uh as opposed to taking a full $8 million tax levy, which again, as we kind of established here, we don't know if that's going to cover us the full way. And I just want to jump in just to kind of guide the conversation. When you're talking about this, are you talking about it in addition to the other half of the money to restore?
Um they got special burritos fed to them right before they took the test to show them that it was important. Um our parent teacher um conferences were a success and our third quarter awards assembly had the biggest turnout it's had and we just keep growing and growing the awards assemblies. Okay. And then let's go ahead and take a look at the data. I can figure out how to get down. I'll Oh, wait. No, no, no. I was gonna just show the data because Yeah, I just I'm trying to scroll down. There we go. Um, so when we're looking at our data again, the third C um the quarter three benchmark is the one at the very bottom. And if you take a look at our ELA seventh and eighth grade, the red is minimizing as it's supposed to be at this point. We're getting fewer students in the red and we're still growing and we're still hoping to continue to get that as low as we can um for seventh and eighth grade.
Yeah, but I guess that's my point. You know, I mean, we used to have we used to have the emblem and everything with an Indian headdress type thing and all those references have been removed. Okay. Right. But the warrior still exists. So Jason, you were about to say something. And now we just use a Don't we use like a the arrow head? Arrowhead, but that's all we've got. So Jason, you want to jump in on this? And then we've got Andrea Powell wave over there. She's been working on this project as well. So she's got some more information if we have it. But literally, we need some direction. Uh, and I think that's why we don't have a mascot here, obviously. Can I just say one thing? I just looked up what the Golden State Warrior is. It's just a guy. And it's not a guy.
Do you think they know that or should I I don't know. Okay. It's a good question. Baker, what do you think? Do they should win or lose? Win. Okay. Baker thinks we should win. So I feel good about it. Yep. I think we're good. I feel good. And what which one which one's this coming up here? Espiransa. I thought we just did Esparansza. Oh, you're right. Parisio, you don't know your games like I No, it it took uh 59 minutes for you to be the smartest guy in the second smartest guy in the room after Baker. I am now the expert. Yeah. All right. So, what's this one we're playing again? This is the hybrid picio. It's this apparently Brazil. It's in Brazil because do the flag there. All right. You know that. You've been to Brazil. I've been to Brazil. Not Picio. or if I did, I don't remember it, but Okay.
How would you create an environment where staff felt safe to approach you with problems? How do you build strong relationships with parents, teachers, your admin team, the fincom select board and capital committees of the towns and the school committee? What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses as a leader? Why are you interested in this position and this district? How do you handle conflict situations within the school district and speak to your skills in budget proc your skills and experience in budget process? Please address your uh experience with regional district budgets if applicable. We have a question about principles. That's a that's a that's the motion. Is that moved? I ask for that motion. Lori, is there a second? Lisa. Okay. Jess, what were you saying? Um, should we have a question specifically about principles? Suggest. Um, should there be a question about principles? I mean that's you're asking them to are you asking about specific principles?
Correct. Correct. I was just trying to get this out there, give Claudia more work to try to do with my vision. But now that we're going now that we're going through this, I think all that needs to be in there is your board goals, a letter from the um the board chair and then we're putting these all over the place and then you're having them at your meetings that when people are talking about your their continuous improvement plans, you could just check it off. And I agree with Mr. Jango, if we could get it done by June, the continuous improvement plans will have in there board goal 1A, board goal 3B, board goal for tonight 5D. So, you can actually see to uh Cindy's point, if somebody's working on wherever it went, if somebody's working on the one that Cindy said, let's say it was H and it was 5H, we'll be able to say that's what the principal is working on.
It doesn't have to be specifically tied to our idea and that date, but for uh the Wolfpack. Um, by the way, Jan Culbertson is a member of the Wolfpack and is a member of the climate action team and a member of the subgroup along with me and Larry and Doug Selby that's going to be working on planning this workshop. Um, but I'm wondering so the 2030 district directly through her is tied in. I'm wondering if the city andor the energy commission might play a role in the planning and staging of this. And I'm going to pose a question to Commissioner Pek whether or not the university could potentially be involved in this. Um, Pek was uh an author of the uh PCCN report that included uh recommendations that the city um collaborate with uh entities um uh locally and regionally on these kinds of issues.
I know that it's a lot of time that you all spend here discussing this and worrying about our students and our staff and this community. Um, and that's something I wanted to come and say thank you for in our programs that we have here as well. Thank you for helping Clipton to grow. It's something I've seen in my 16 years here working as a teacher and an instructional coach and now as a supervisor, but it's something I've also seen as a resident and my mother has seen as a resident. My husband, my mother-in-law, we're all Clifton graduates and we've seen our community and our schools grow and it's something I'm proud to say that I'm part of the Clifton community and I always mention that because I'm so proud of that. Um, so I want you to take that into consideration. Something I always tell my husband is, you know, follow your dreams.
And like I'm just to be honest, okay, I'm just trying to guide the convers. I think we haven't even touched part of that conversation yet as as to that list of items that was kind of prescribed to us. Um, you want my personal opinion, I'll I'll give it. you know, there's a lot of that seemed, you know, very warranted as far as, you know, um finding a middle ground between, you know, taking what we need to continue to provide the level of service that, you know, parents, uh, expect and that students deserve. Um, and then there was also some aspects of that. For example, I'll just throw it out there, an assistant, two assistant principal positions where I'll be honest, I'm not entirely sold as far as, you know, the educational benefit that that provides to to students at the cost of an additional levy to taxpayers, which let's just assume we took everything that was prescribed on that list totals up to almost $1,000 on the average assessed home.