And I I I will push them on that a little bit. I'll get a hold of Kevin tomorrow, but thank you. Any questions for Mr. Bush on the finance committee meeting this morning? Okay. Policy, Mr. Sh. Uh we met before tonight's meeting. Uh we finished our review of the uh bylaws. Uh I can tell you we we read them all. We looked them all over. We are moving mostly to the shipment uh version of bylaws, but we're some of the K bylaws we currently have. We're going to keep some of those, combine some of those. Uh the Peggy, Jordan, myself, and Lou have looked at them very hard. We would ask you to uh look at them as well.
I almost thought of suggesting that we get her on the energy commission, but I'm guessing she's she doesn't want to mess with anything that could appear political. Um, that's a great idea. I mean if as you said that's going to contain a hotel right conferences. Yeah. I mean going right back to the beginning of our hotel and multif family. So I mean they're the the learnings and whatever they you do there should be applicable to other hotels um and you know multif family uh structures you would think at least. Yeah. Yeah. And I think it'll be the, you know, I don't know if it'll be the biggest hotel in town, but, you know, it's going to have a conference center, which is something this town lacks. And, uh, it'll be pretty cool. Commissioner Morris, I mean, I think that's an I think that's a really compelling um thing to think about in terms of bringing the different groups together.
Did you guys know that uh the robotics team just went in Philly, the regionals, and they're moving on to nationals? So, that's a wonderful accomplishment and that's one of the things I noticed on Mr. Shahada's list. Um, as well as the IC program, which is the enrichment summer program my kids do every year. Uh, where they play band, they do plays, they do all sorts of stuff. Speaking of plays, at the high school, have you guys seen what an incredible job they do every time? The Sweeney Todd show that just happened. and the kids own it and we do not want to take away from those opportunities. So I do ask as a member of this community as a staff member um and you know as a one of the many staff members that are here to please uh approve this budget uh so that the kids may continue to enjoy these uh extracurricular activities.
We have very large elementary schools that have huge ratios. And if you look around, you'll find assistant principles in schools that are the same size as ours in other districts. And by having them, you're actually helping kids and you're helping the staff in that. So that's, you know, it would be a rotation, but I I just I wanted to also kind of address I I hear what you're saying, Dr. Smith. Um, you know, my only concern there is I think that in EAM Township being the leanest district K through8 in administration is a great thing. That means that we are putting our money in places where it most benefits students. That being said, adding to that, right, between not just that, but also, you know, uh, restoring the secretary positions as opposed to clerk typists. um you know looking at case managers uh interventionists um we're we're talking you know more to making that less and less true um you know where I don't know necessarily the how we'd rank adding these things compared to the other districts still right but to me you know we're we're we're talking about again adding to administration when so many other aspects of our districts over the past seven years have had to you suffer an incredible amount of loss.
Uh we did have our hiking club take a field trip to the te Tucson Desert Museum uh this week or I'm sorry this month we have five athletes participating in middle school and high school sports right now which is great. Uh we have six student athletes that have been selected to attend the AIA uh leadership uh conference in Phoenix at Xavier High School on April 14th. Uh so five are coming from um the secondary campus and one of one student is coming from uh the accelerated campus. We uh are continuing to reward our students for perfect attendance. We are up to nine for this month uh which is an improvement from uh I believe it was seven last month. And then we have Isabelle Garcia uh has been invited to participate in the Arizona State Qualifier uh invention convention. She is doing a project on sustainability here uh on the reservation and if she makes it to the next level she will qualify to travel to Michigan for the national convention.
Um, is that kid friendly? Like little kid. Imagine showing up to like the ELC. I'm I'm just like to be like just as a as a So you remember Karate Kid the first one the where they had the I know what you're saying. I'm just thinking like is it we there I don't think they're allowed to have Halloween parties so they call them fall parties and they can't dress up and stuff like that. So I would agree with you on that. I there's not many things we can do. Like when we were kids, we drove, we went to school in our in our costumes and it was called a Halloween co, you know, party and it was fun, but it's not fun anymore. It's a fall party or whatever it's called, but I think Jamie's right on that. What's that? Do we need a physical mascot?
And only three minutes left already. I like it. Defend. Defend that objective. Yep. Don't let them in. Push them back. They do work well together. I like to see the teamwork there from Bluffton. The Cyber Tigers working well together. Strategy. I see them talking to each other. That's good. I like it. A lot of teamwork. Yep. Kinder did a great job. So he's playing Lifew Weaver here where he pulled the character playing Reaper and pulled him back in. So he was low on health and he you can see sometimes he'll pull someone towards him and now you're seeing Eli and Sigma Sigma again. Ah yeah, that's what you do, right? Big ugly guy. Big ugly guy's got a shield here and he's throwing some rocks or whatever orbs or whatever those are. Okay. Right there. Right there he is. Right. The other guy. Yeah. Now is he the most powerful guy out there?
So, I just want to make sure she gets down early. She's freaking out. We just found out. Yeah. Good time to see. I know, right? It's good. [Music] There is a hole, but she's been [Music] What's your vision? I know. Are you Mike. All right. Thanks everybody. That's just a quick minute to reset the room. Get Al back in here. Megan does have to leave to attend to family issues. So that's okay. We can move on. Now, next on the list on the agenda is our business office update. We get everybody. So, hold on. If everybody could uh try to quiet down, please in the room that's fine. Thank you, Aaron. Sure. Um, so update uh we've closed out the month of March, which pushed us to the end of the quarter. At the next meeting, I will have uh a quarterly report for you all as promised.
If you have any questions, uh please get them to myself and John. John's been a great great source here as well. Uh before the next meeting, we're hoping tonight that you'll endorse what we've done as a first read uh that still allows time for for changes. Um we have just a couple of undecided issues that we're looking for input from the whole board on. Uh when adopting a policy, Shipman suggests using a majority vote. Uh some members of the committee suggest using a twothirds vote. Our current bylaws require a twoth3 vote. Uh I give you the pros and cons of each of those probably figure it out. Happy to. And the same with removal of officers. We elect officers for a year and the shipment bylaws say well if you want to remove an officer uh five majority vote would do that. And and uh some of us are suggesting that should be twothirds as well.
Um, and you know, perhaps it's worth even thinking about how we might use the May meeting, for example, as a way to sort of surface some of those um and and and perhaps even think about some of those threads. I mean I what you know one brief comment I might encourage uh you and and the Wolfpack by by relation to think about it partially as a sprint and not a one-off event because I think one of the things that oftenimes happens is there's there's there's discovery that happens in in in some of these events in these workshops that then needs to be taken and worked on and and validated and sort of reflected back to feed it forward. And so you know the concept of a sort of how how do you take that and do work on it also is it becomes really important for some of the the collaboration coordination.
Thank you. of course my lights on on my phone. Um, good evening board commissioners. My name is Aaron Muda. I'm the K through8 math supervisor here in Clifton School District. I'm going to make this uh short. Um, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for continuing to fund our curriculum and our programs here in Clifton. Our students deserve the best academic programs that um we can give them. And I thank you guys for always funding uh our programs. To be honest with you, the current funding proposals that are less than what Mr. Shahada and Dr. Robert Totoy are asking for um are unsettling at best. Um while we have come a long way, we have a lot farther to go. Um so it is my sincere hope that you continue to vote for uh and fund our district at um the recommendations of Dr.
So, so I if I can just comment on that, I think administrative costs are like the easiest whipping boy for anyone to get upset about. They're the thing that is least seen by the public, but is most present in much of the staff's everyday lives. And to say that we can just keep reducing administrative costs and not having anyone in those roles and expect the schools to still run seamlessly and expect the the teachers to still be effective and the students to still maintain the same education. I think it's just a fallacy. I would imagine I've received emails from several people that talked about administrative costs versus the different ways that that trickles down into educational experience and how the decrease in administrative costs and the decrease in people who are in that pool of people that get lumped in with administrative costs directly ultimately affects educational experience for kids.
So we're pretty excited about that. Um so and then our and and those are our highlights for the month of um March. I just have a little tiny um how many graduates are you expecting for your A? As of now, we have three that we know for sure. Um we have had to go through uh a list of our credits and making sure that everybody was uh achieving 100% completion of their courses and credits. Um and so as of now we have three for high school, right? Yes, for high school. I just I just know the last time we had here it was there was a lot of people. Yeah. And family. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. It'll it'll be a little bit smaller this year. What about um your eighth grade? You know what? I don't have the actual numbers, but I can definitely uh send those to you.
That's what I was seems like we we're trying to come up with a solution in search of a problem, right? We're creating a problem for to try to create a solution. So, and I don't think we need a master. There are schools that have like the Stanford trees, right? So, maybe we could do just the arrow head. Yeah. What about a walking arrowhead? What about a I mean, if we want something, can we like a like a walking? I mean, I'm just Jason, did you experiment with it? Yeah, that uh I can let Andrea speak to that one. We did try it. All this working y'all talking about we don't need a mascot. I'm so sorry. No, no. Everything you guys said was actually brought to the table. None of this is like outrageous. It turns out Can you come to the microphone, please? So, because they need to hear you.
He's one of them. Okay. So right now, Norwell just used their ultimate ability and froze us a little bit there, but they still haven't moved. Nope. There you can see like in the A is filling up right now. Yep. So once they get that all the way filled up, that'll be the first part of the objective. So we need to stop them here. Otherwise, they'll move to the next. Oh, they got her done right now. They're moving. So now they're going to have a thing to escort like the robots. Yeah, that vehicle back there, you can see. Oh, and got they got four and a half minutes to do it. Yep. Got to stop him. Gotta stop him, Baker. Looks like a carnival float or something over there. I don't know. Look at that. Yeah. What is that? You know, um what what's that uh the hockey thing called?
We talked about providing quarterly reports, financial reports. Uh this report will have um uh all of the I think I had a note on the prior report that um Hold on. Hold on. You guys need to reset that. I hear com talking with interrupting a little bit. Everybody good? Mike, we're good. Less than paper. Thank you. All right. Go ahead. Sorry. So health insurance offsets were not included in the private budget. We're still working through some of that. those will be uh for the full year um up to uh the end of March will be recognized in that. So should be increasingly accurate. Uh you know I think as I shared uh the district is did not seem to have um uh encumbered payroll. So that's kind of still an ongoing challenge. we can kind of forecast will be three quarters through the year on our sort of 12 month staff and our teachers will be um you know shy of summer payrolls through so we can sort of try to interpolate for you a little bit on that.
uh if it's only a year, if you aren't happy with the vice chair, you know, either get twothirds of the vote for it to support that uh or wait till the following year and get somebody else. Um personally, I hate to see things decided on a 54 vote, but if we're going to adopt a policy that's controversial, we ought to be able to come to an agreement with at least twothirds of it. That's why I pushed two/3. Uh the downside to it being um we might not have enough people in a meeting. You know if we have seven people in a meeting it becomes harder to get six folks. U so if you have any thoughts on that share them now if you uh don't so so anybody want to chime in on that? Anybody feel strongly one way or another 2/3 versus a majority?
So you know however however quite well taken we haven't planned it this way but we this will be our third workshop so it's sort of is evolving in that way but to actually you know have this workshop with that designed in really makes a lot of sense. Gabber here is is is your school um the um architecture and and and urban design is there any role for them to play possibly in in this possibly I mean there are certainly folks who have participated and led um similar kinds of activities in the past and there's a lot of expertise um some of you may remember uh I'm trying to remember um uh synctici uh and Lisa so ran and the the um uh series of events um around Ann Arbor. I think it was the summer before last um for example looking at housing and a number of other things.
Roberts and Mr. Shahara. So thank you very much. Uh, good evening ladies and gentlemen of the board. My name is Jeene Carlos Gonzalez. I'm a criminal justice teacher at Clifton High School. Clifton is known as a city that cares. Today, I urge you to live up to that promise, not just in words, but in action. Just look around us. In Wayne, 40 district employees are being laid off. On top of that, 18 retired staff members won't be replaced next year. They're privatizing before and after school programs. Students may now have to pay fees just to participate in sports and extracurriculars. Even school security is being scaled back with police officers replaced by in-house personnel. In our neighboring town in Pake, they're eliminating 51 positions due to financial strains. These are not abstract numbers. These are teachers, mentors, custodial staff that are being taken away from children.
Now Kevin, I I I do want to clarify here what I'm saying, right? I never was calling for, you know, necessarily this drastic cut to administration, right? Because we are the leanest. What I'm saying is, are we going to go to the taxpayers to then again add on to that to make the fact that we are the leanest less true? And there's a difference there. Um, and and and what does that difference mean? Right? It's it's, you know, I want to put into perspective I and because I don't think we've fully recognized the weight of what we're talking about. Nearly 1,000 on the average assessed home. It is already the most unaffordable state in the entire country, right? I mean, that's it's unacceptable, right? And I I could scream from a mountaintop, as I did last year. I could do it again, right? About how an entire generation of Cherokee graduates is going to be continue to be priced out of this town, right?