Do they is the public supposed to see who voted for what at the time or is it Yeah, because the minutes I don't verbatim minutes. I don't do we don't do that. That's no. Um the only other thing I could think of is you guys could just like say after the vote like either the vote passed or the vote didn't and then the microphone will pick it up and then the public would know that way. They just don't get to see it. But as long as they're listening, they hear it. Um but I guess it matters. We're just trying to become legal here. So it's whatever whatever whatever we have to do legally. You can use the browser window to share the agenda in a video conference the agenda on screen through the agenda group members and visitors as long as it's selection. Okay. So presenting this is what?
And so before I could even get it out of my mouth, they were like, "We will." And so that was kind of our challenge and boy did they reach um that challenge. They finished sixth in the state. So very proud of them. So tonight we want to honor Adelina Cumbi Tegan Williamson. [Applause] You want to hand it to him? Nathaniel [Applause] Ham, Oliver Zolan, [Applause] Kaden Midler, [Applause] sorry, Serenity Williams, [Music] Amari Perry. Cooper Ashcraft. Come in. Cooper. And Cooper Ashcraft. He couldn't make it tonight. Round of applause. [Applause] You got to hold it up there, bub. [Applause] Christy [Applause] good. Thank you for having us here this evening and congratulations to all the teams and individuals that are being recognized tonight. Um, I am Christy Fulton and I'm going to be introducing Deputy Elementary's Science Bowl team, um, who placed eighth in the state this year.
So, unfortunately, some of the outdoor events had to be cancelled because it was too cold even for that. You know, the the teacher, Mr. Trudeau who was unable to be here tonight because he had a prior engagement um was he he has done this trip so many times and it's like a science like he knows exactly what to do and he is very good about communicating with parents and that's what I would be doing as well. Um and he was sending us updates about the windchill factor and it was pretty scary stuff. It was so cold. But he has these packing lists so that everybody knows what to pack so that they're going to be super warm. And I, you know, my son had a wonderful time. Even though they had to adjust the schedule and and do some more indoor things, they still got to do a few outdoor things, just not as many.
Thank you, [Applause] Hello, my name is Eric Leaper. Um, I'm here from the high school. I'm an English teacher. I'm also the boys soccer coach. I'm a drama club director. I'm the class adviser for the juniors. I do the trivia team. I do a lot of things there. And I'm also a PhD candidate at UMass Ammerst. So, I work a lot And I do a lot specifically because I think about these kids in this school most of my day. I I care a lot about what goes on here. Um I'm not originally from Greenfield. I'm from Chabe, but since I got to Greenfield, I have felt very welcomed by this community. Uh the parents are amazing. Uh the kids that I work with are incredible, Shane and Nate being two of them. Uh, a lot of I love a lot of my co-workers. I get along really good with them.
Excuse me, $417,181.52. And that's what I have for finance. Any questions? I got a question. So, um the the expenditures in the 10248A account Mhm. was like 800 something last month and it went to 9 grand. I believe Donna that's got to do with money's we we paid another um part of our contracted um amount to silver peticelli was 8 $8,300. Okay. On top of the $830. Sean, you look like you have a question. No, no. I'm just thinking. You have a comment? No. Okay. I'll I'll talk about some of the stuff for facilities during the American worker case. Did the sewer Are you going to talk about me? Okay. Is the sewer repaired? We'll talk about that. We're We'll talk about that. Okay. Um this facilities has a net. We're going to have an emergency. I I'll talk about that during my meeting. Okay.
Uh, does anyone have any questions, comments, or edits on these minutes? All those in favor of the motion, please say I. I. Anyone opposed? I'm staining. All right. Board of Ed committee reports and finance. We have a lot. So, we met yesterday for our finance committee meeting. RI and myself um back and so from a budget standpoint, we're 63% expended. Um that's just assuming full expenditures at this point. Um no reason to change any of those projections at this point. Um overall we're projecting a balance um of the budget of $435,000. So um if you can actually go to the third page of this long schedule wanted to talk about some of the transfers that are being requested um and what you know think about what we want to do in terms of um you know the give back for the next year. So you'll see there's 435,000.
I got to know about the CNA courses offered in school for free of charge and this made me want to try it out and apply for it. But this is where I encountered the limitations of the academyy's program. My counselor told me that I could not apply for it just because I didn't belong in the scientific innovation and medicine academy. They told me that I would have to request a change if I wanted to switch and so I did while also taking in the fact that I had to take an essentials class all over again when it happens. For a certain fact, most of my peers who face this problem are already skilled with these classes and don't feel the necessity in doing a course that needs a year to be completed. For all the resources in our school given us, we are thankful. But it isn't fair as to how we cannot even take one course outside of our academy just because we want to try it out.
Um, one of the actually two of the students uh submitted their work to American Reading Company and one student was chosen as an honorable mention for his story, Journey into the Arctic. And another student, Logan, was actually awarded with the award of excellence. And his book, Welcome to the Arctic, which you see here, is going to be published u by Ark and they're going to be including it in all future collections across the country. And uh what's extra special about this is we had the CEO from Mark here last week to meet with our principles and building administrators and she told us that in the last 10 years they've only had about 15 student books that they've published. So this is a real honor. They get tons of books all the time every year. So you know these two students and their teacher, Miss Pearson, have been working really hard and we're very proud of them.
Any questions? I had asked if either Michelle or Tara could share about the knowledge saves lives assembly. Yep. I can speak to that. So, we did that at um we had two presentations. One was at um OCI and the fifth graders from OES walked over and participated and it went really well. I think the presenters did a good job with explaining to kids how serious um fake threats can be for themselves and their families. And then when they were done with that um they headed over to Lassuma and did the same presentation for fifth through 8th grade students there and it seemed to go well. The students were really well behaved and paid attention. Um they had a lot of questions which I thought was great. They had a question and answer session at the end. So many many students raised their hand, asks questions, but just being safe online um using social media and the internet and um especially uh when they asked that question about how many kids had phones and seeing the littleer kids raising their hands and all the access that they have.
And extra water for the after school sports because there's no water outside for them to refill. Um, even without books, students still need a locker. I understand the concern for prohibited items, but these days they have lockers that you can see through. And so hopefully you could consider this um lockers for our students because you know when I see my son leave um the car each day to go to school and I see him carry that backpack I just cringe cuz I know I remember my days in school with books and just having to carry that all day without any relief is a lot. Thank you. Thank you Mrs. Sporma. Next to speak is Mr. Joe Herman. All right. Good evening. Good evening, trustees and cabinet. My name is Joe Herman. I am a second grade teacher at Brookree Elementary. I have been teaching in Beressa for 29 years and I'm the president of the California Teachers Association of Beressa or CAB.
And the other two kind-hearted people who did were David and Tessalesco. They were willing to coach even though they knew nothing about volleyball or had any experience but they wanted a sports season for these girls. Those are the type of people you employ. Kind-hearted, selfless people. Our volleyball season was played with false perceptions of coach Mills and I. I dealt with multiple calls throughout the season from parents that their daughters had issues with coach male. They complained about his personality. They the way he spoke, the way he coached and the perceived tough coaching. Even though we didn't, we had no form of crude or profane language and they see saw that as an attack. We walked on eggshells. I was unable to stay home with my sick babies, which at the time were only a few months old because I was afraid of leaving Coach Mills alone with the girls.
Carson Mason, please come up and get your blue apple. Thank you. Thank you. Who do we have next? I'll ask I'm not sure if it's Mr. Hill or Miss Loftess to come up for volunteer of the month and make that presentation. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] cute bag on the front of that. Watch the foot. Governing board. Dr. Wyman, it is a pleasure tonight to come and present the volunteer of the month. Granted, this was for March, but we didn't have an opportunity to honor Lori Morgan at that meeting, but we wanted to make a point of honoring her this evening. And I just want to take this chance to have anyone who is sitting in this space right now who Miss Lorie Morgan has supported, helped their program in any manner to please stand up because I think we need the visual. Nice. As you can see, Miss Morgan is a powerhouse when it when it comes to boosters.
9.61% growth. And then we project your growth thereafter. Again, we're using the 10-year historical growth average for a couple years. Looks like three years, 8.46%. And then we're going to back it off to six for a couple years. And then 2% thereafter. Now, we hope that you outperform every single one of those years. Okay? So, if you get above 8.46, which you did the last, you know, three, four, five years, then it makes all the the tax rates look better. Okay. Uh all thing everything else being uh unchanged. So if you outperform column three, which is what we hope you do, then your tax rates on the far right column there, column 11, will start to trend down even even more than what we're showing here. Uh before I get to talk about column 11, just real quick, columns four and five is your old debt service.
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Um and they uh are just an example of many, hundreds of thousands. So I I'm an advocate for you guys. even without sitting next to you, I will always be. Um, just to reiterate a couple things about the election. I think um, Miss Jetty did a nice job of explaining that the process by which we vote in our state and in our county is very convenient and should be taken advantage of. Today is the first day for early voting, even the day of. It's very easy to find your polling place and to to participate. You don't need a lot to bring with you. And um thank you to precinct workers who are there um and who are helping to run the elections. And make sure you're doing your research into um those who are running this year to make sure that they are serving in the best interests of your students and your community.
Um I have a few questions. So in this bid like there is one person at each school during the day. Correct. So in in this bid this would cover all of our custodial needs that includes the the head custodians which are in the buildings during the day. Okay. Uh and then our evening custodians uh and there is one evening supervisor who also does some of the the cleaning here at this uh facility. And when we had to um do the emergency contract in December, I think it was um and it went to RJB. Um how many of the people that were employed under Alpha were then employed by RJB? I I believe most of them were held over once uh the new contractor took over in that instance. Um Yeah, to my knowledge like uh all the employees were hired by RJB and will citywide uh do the same?
We're so happy that this is part of the eighth grade curriculum, especially since it was new. And we're so excited that we get to connect with other people. Thank you. One of the things that I really like that kids are doing these projects is that it connects them to some nonprofit organizations that when they're in high school and they choose to do service hours um especially when they join National Honor Society or Key Club, they're already connected with organizations and don't have to work to find someone to work with. So, it's been a really positive experience here in our building to see our young kids develop projects, their own passions. Um, we're not twisting arms to get them to do their work. Um, they come in and they're loving to do this. Um, it really was patterned after the 20% time that Google did when they first came in.
Okay. And then So now let's mouse back. It's over there. Okay, it's on. I can see Oh, it's doing something on the right hand side. Yes. So, that's the side that needs to be there is the presenting part. Something else, but that's not even our Oh, that's just a bogus one. Yeah. So, let's see something else. Oh, create a motion. I mean, it wouldn't hurt to have somebody, but it might just tell them what section we're on and not actually So if they have a library get books and it won't be renewed that way there's not the traffic of Chromebook searching for books I do know There's there's definitely options, but it doesn't necessarily have to be click on recommendation. What it is? Yeah, that's what I That's the attachment. Yeah, I think it's definitely something that You have to back. What was that? That was something you just added.
So, I'm very proud of them for that. Students put in extra time um, after school practices at home studying and preparing for the science bowl. They worked very well together. They were very supportive and encouraging of each other and I was very proud of them for that. I'm super proud of their accomplishment. I enjoyed um being their coach. It's been a great time. So, I just want to introduce you to our uh science bowl team. Holly House, Sophie [Applause] Caswell, Trenton Longville. I'm not sure he made it. Scarlett Milano, [Applause] Bentley [Applause] Johnson, Tinley [Applause] Crim, Joseph Summer, [Applause] Cecilia Ross. [Applause] And that would be our team. [Applause] Next science. Thank you. How are you doing? Hello, my name is Angel Trailer and I'm a third grade teacher at Lydia Middleton and we receive seventh place in the state in the yellow class. So, a great year.
But generally speaking, hopefully we won't have that kind of weather this time around. Um, and then uh the next day, Saturday, is a full day. So then, you know, they get their quason and their chako at uh in a quaint cafe in the morning for breakfast and then they go explore Quebec's old city, the Cartier Petite Champlan, and then they go to the Winter Carnival. It is the opening weekend of the two-eek winter carnival. So, the Bonom Des who is the the funnyl looking big snowman, you know, of uh Quebec, the uh he's the mascot of the whole event. So, if you ever go online, you can check it out. Um what is Winter Carnival? And then you'll see this big old snowman. He's enormous. That's the Bonham. Uh so, they get to take pictures with him. That's that's like a highlight. It's going to be fun.