And again, it's it's it's so chaotic that I think that it just to me I I I I don't know what I would do if that was our situation. As a parent and as a member of the community, I know that I know that ultimately we're still very early in some of the actions that may be that may be happening even within our own state government, which I here nor there. I'm grateful that we do have some opportunities, I think, as a school district that we're not that we're able to lean on um and work with us as community members in in the effort to be I don't know, I guess as best as we can. So, I just want to say thank you and and again express to the to the community that is not beyond this board that we're asking for that information so that we at least we are prepared to be able to to speak on and support you know what needs to happen for the school district and the rest of students throughout the nation.
Okay. So what are the options that we're giving the kids to choose from? I think I thought we were saying just the name. We're deciding the animal costumes, right? You said names and costumes. You want them? Yeah. Okay. You mean like a home a home concert or costume like shoes, capes? Oh, accessories. Accessories. Not necessarily his outfit, right? Accessories will also be either gender neutral or or we'll have accessories for both or or for neither. You know what I mean? Or neither. Correct. Same thing. We're gonna leave them universal. That's why I'm like I don't understand why we needed costumes with a plural, right? That's what But but okay. Just want to make sure it's all universal. All right. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. You gave us more than we expected, but that was good. That was good. That was good. Very informative. I appreciate it.
So close. But yet, we're killing them so far. No, I think we're getting it. I think we can get rid of that. They're hamster. We got them. I think we're going to get it. Yep. Oh, I like it. Hear the crowd. Did you hear that cheering? Yes. I like it. Well done, Cyber Tigers. Well done, Baker. Are we cheering over there, Baker? He is. Yes. Doing some cheering, Baker. The highlight of the game, Aiden's. Yes. Probably when we're playing defense. I was Yeah. Look, we Baker's clapping back here. Yep. Yeah. Oh, crowd is going wild. Hey, we got another we got another fan on here. Owen Sheets. All right. Owen, celebrating. Take a little breath. Man, that was a big win. Wow. That was big win. Now, now what do we got? What do we got? Game five. Wow. Down. Do or die. This is it.
Um I get that some families would like it after Labor Day as well too. We just could shut off pushing into June and Junth as well too and just bring it up. You got you got two days. You're going back on a Thursday, Friday. Yeah. So that cuts my vacation down. Okay. But I also think and then you start you got Monday is a holiday which is and so that you got a two-day week where you got a four day week. We're coming out of a year where I think we went for from October to February without a full week of school and now we're starting off two weeks two days and four days. It's easier to ease the kids in and teachers and teachers and parents too getting up the five days we did that one of the past years. It was awesome. All the kids were dead and they slept like babies at night.
Have you second any questions for the superintendent? any concerns standard. I have a question. So, does this mean that in the event that we need to fill a position that we cannot offer it to them? Oh, no. They they they would be offered the job. Okay. So, this is just for that exact position is being eliminated. But if they want what this now what this is being used for is let's say and I'll just call out the class size is let's say our third grade gets we discuss that we that we get a $100,000 cut and we decide to cut a third grade classroom the one of the third grade teachers or someone at Cheroke would go to CIS where one of these individuals are. Gotcha. Okay. Thank you for sharing that. You got it. Any other questions? I have a first and a second on the motion.
If you have any questions, let me know. Uh or I guess direct to uh some folks in our OSI department as well. So, thanks. Council member Alec, would you um do me a favor and share what you shared with me in uh a small distribution uh email exchange that was really helpful about the involvement of the energy commission. um the difference between you know typical policy recommendations and contract u negotiations and things like that. That was that was really helpful. Yeah, sure. So, uh Commissioner Murski Murky had asked um why didn't the gas franchise agreement come to the energy commission for instance and uh in public comment uh Mr. Garber also echoed some of the same sentiment. Um, essentially what the gas franchise agreement was um, a contract negotiation and it's pretty standard across the city not to go to commissions or other bodies during a contract negotiation.
But thank you to everyone. Um, but that was an aside. Um, my question, thank you Dr. Robertsi earlier for describing what we said no to. I thought that was extremely important to express. Um I noticed I tried to jot down many of the things as you were um naming them and I noticed most of it was to support our special education students. Um what number would we need to go up to in order to and and to be quite honest, I don't see this even as a wish list. I see this as how can we best educate our students? Um, wish lists to me are, you know, I would like to paint over all of our walls kind of a thing. But, um, what number do and and Mr. Shahada perhaps can answer this as well. What number do would we could we go up to to meet the needs of, um, what we said no to?
That goes exactly to what you're saying. We don't know what's going to happen in the future. So, we need to take every step available to us to increase the amount of funds that the school district can get. And if that that should absolutely include continuing our advocacy efforts at the state level, increasing our advocacy levels at the state level, getting more of the public to go forward and testify every year, every time that there is an availability to do it, we as a district should be publishing this. We should be publicizing it. We should make it our mission to have every person here get in front of Trenton and speak our case and state our cause. All of those things will go towards making us solvent in the future so we don't have to cut people anymore. Yeah, Mr. Pman, just one thing there about the 8 million growing by 2% every year.
Mr. Darin, if you don't mind opening my report on page seven. superintendent sometime. Let me just scroll down to page seven. And President, I want to echo um and and reiterate um but most importantly, I want to um provide some comfort to the community that we are thinking and knowing that we are one of the options in the in the nation and one of the institutions that provide access to education. Um we believe in our mission. We believe in the the services and that we provide to our students and the way we are reinventing um learning for for our children. Um I believe in my team and I believe um in in their thinking. Uh we have what we are doing is being uh good neighbors um uh to the nation um and and highlighting what uh Babok Unified School District can offer to all students.
All right. So, new business, right? Any other new business? was doing this more. All right. Can I have a motion to go into close session? Our second close session for the appointment employment compensation, discipline, performance or dismissal of specific employees, specific individuals. Can I have a motion for what was just read? Move by Bill, second by Jamie.
All the marbles in Busousan I believe heading to South Korea. Looks like there's it in the background there as you can see with all those crazy things on the walls. Game five. Oh man. I tell you what, coming down to this I'm I'm nervous. I got to be honest with you. I'm a little nervous. I'm I'm I think we can do it though. I know we can do it. I mean Joe Mo right there. Let's go right there. Seeing it. Let's go. Win this. We go to state. You know what I think the team needs right now? A joke. Thank you very much. Or a song and a joke. A joke then a song. So, you know, I I I got an email before I came over here to want you to know. And it and it said at Google Earth, we can read maps backwards.
It was great. I like this because it's two days for the It's two days for the kids. Yes. The other part the other part you look at is is the there is no additional half days this year, right? So we could talk a little bit about that as well too. um John and myself and Sally um well with Janelle um really have been getting some targeted professional learning this year um so that we can tell I know one of the questions that people asked is is what's taking place on those days when teachers have professional learning um so um Sally John want to jump jump in a little bit about some of the work that we're doing um for those targeted professional learning days currently or next year for next year for next year Sally wanted to go first first year yes so we are um focusing ing on a theme of UDL which is universal design for learning.
Take a vote. And the vote is to um that we move that the contract of employment of Ashley Cart, Aaron Herszog, and Veronica Sullivan not be renewed for the following year upon its expiration at the end of the year current year 2425 school year and the superintendent schools is directed to advise such persons in writing this action. All those in favor I opposed one oppose. Okay. 71 71 um I don't have the exact time and um on the district calendar so I want Claudia to check out when the annual budget hearing. Yeah, sorry. I have it up right now. I I had it that's on the town. It's the community calendar that says 6 p.m. Okay. Just want to make sure. I'm I'm going to backtrack. Uh move the camp board of education uh I'm sorry. Move the camp board of education approve the board of ed education bylaws as presented on the memorandum of understanding dated April 1st 2025 is the first read first Mr.
Um, the only commissions that maybe would do this, it is explicitly stated in their charter that that's what happens. So for instance, the green belt advisory uh, commission has that for their uh, acquiring of development rights for instance. So that's a contract negotiation. very clearly with that body. Um I'm trying to remember what else that email said, John, but that was the gist of it. Yeah. So and essentially, you know, the energy commission's role is more on the policy and previously they have directed uh city council who then directed our city attorney's office and OSI to negotiate kind of these end outcomes of the gas negotiation, gas franchise negotiation. So it while it didn't come to energy commission you know in the last few months energy commission did have their hand on the scale early on to direct you know city council and city staff to do just what just this what it was came before council yesterday.
So, I um, Miss Morris, thank you uh, so much. I do have that number in my papers here somewhere. So, Matt, if you find it before me, um, see that um, you want to borrow it? I don't mind you take I don't mind you answering the question. So I think just to reiterate the question is of those things that I listed as needs that we said no to what what's that total number and what would the budget have to be increased the tax have to be increased to get those things? Uh that's very uh tough just because special ed positions those were mainly special education positions. I would say 90% of them um they are coming at a premium nowadays just because they're a dime a dozen. It's very hard to I think I use that phrase wrong. They're very hard to come by. Um I don't want to lie and guess but comfortably I'm not advocating for this.
We can't speak for future boards. Obviously, the board in the future could choose to take 0% tax, right? That's true. I have to say something. Oh, Dave, are you sure? Okay. Um, as an individual, not as a board perspective, right? Um, and I have to speak the truth, right? And I know a lot of people might not like it, but if we find ourselves in the position of every time we are faced with a budget shortfall instead of trying to balance a line, I want to be clear here. I'm not advocating for nothing here because there's a lot of items that we had to cut that I walked out of that room a month ago and I did not feel very happy about. However, if the answer is every time to take the full amount possible, when that deadline eventually does come that we do have to address a budget issue because the full amount that we took runs out, there's a strong chance that me, my peers, we won't even be able to be on that other side of the this conversation.
Um and we want to make sure that in the event the parents have any uh have to make any decisions or they need options to make sure that Baboku Unified School District lays down a path in which we can support our students, our parents and our community as members of the Tohono Autumn Nation serving the Tohono Autumn students and families. Um we have uh included as part of the report um how we have put our best thinking together and we are looking forward to presenting to our governing board through a special um um study session. Um what is our best thinking and ways in which we believe we can provide and support our parents, students, community um and and breathe comfort in moments of uncertainty. That's it. Thank you. Anything else from the board for Mr. D? If not, thank you sir for the report.
Any questions, comments? If none roll call, please. Mr. Ober here. I Gos is an I. Mr. Swallish. Hi. Miss Zumbers. I Miss Wolfful. I Dr. Hall. Nay. President Brown. I motion pass. We will [Music] be before midnight. About an hour and a half. That's That's close. About an hour and a half. always put your cookies.
Google Earth. They said they can read maps. Maps backwards. Okay. And I thought, well, that's just spam. Yeah. Tech joke. I I got those on, you know, the computer. I got that one. Now the Google maps. All right. Kind of funny. Yeah. Think that'll motivate the team? I think they're hearing. I think they're ready. Yeah, that's got to motivate them. Looks like lining up. Same characters. Mr. Morrison, just real quick, get text said, "More jokes, please." More jokes, please. More. I can't believe it. She just keeps encouraging me. Tell more jokes. She's not the boss of you yet. Uhhuh. Nope. Not yet. But soon. But soon. But you know what? Give the people what they want. Yep. So, I'll be giving more jokes here soon. Yep. This is the last game though, so this is it's it's now or never. Not for the Cyper Tigers, for you.
Um which is basically a framework that guides developing flexibility and allowing students to have access to equity in their education and and addressing individual learning differences. That is a big umbrella. So there's actually more specific um strategies under that that we will start off with focusing on. And one of those things is formative assessment which John was that's my queue. Uh formative assessment is there are two type two types of assessment. There's formative assessment. Summitive assessment. Summitive is the one you do at the end of the unit. It's the big unit test. Formative is ongoing and it takes a wide variety of forms. It's a simple as thumbs up, thumbs down, thumbs sideways if you're not sure. um two little pre-ests before you start a unit so you get a sense of your students and what they do know, what they don't know. Helps you form groups and we'd like to get better at that part.