Good evening everyone. You have in your packets the monthly report as of for April 2025. Um I'll walk through again the highlights that we have now as we continue especially a hard push on end of the year review of encumbrances and purchase orders. And you have a summary as to what it is that we're looking at for a balance to cover any other end ofear expenses that are not necessarily encumbered as of right now. Uh just as an FYI, for example, we had a meeting with special education director Messing. Uh there are going to be coming down the road some special education expenditures primarily in the area of equipment and materials that he needs to purchase in order for us to maintain what's called our maintenance of effort. So those are going to be forthcoming that are not necessarily reflected in here as of right now.
So, what if we work together and trying to help kind of organize and plan field day as we approach for that?" So, when that person comes in, we're not like, "Hey, welcome to school. Plan something big for us." Um and so they've really been working with Mrs. Hubard, who um had previously been in that role, has all kinds of amazing plans. Um, so shout out to them. Not something they ever had to do, but it's really helping the school be prepared for that. Um, and also helping um, so that um, you know, we're not bringing somebody in and then just hitting them with it. Um, and then we get into the super fun. So, sixth grade awards night's going to be Monday of the last week of school. That's the 9th in the evening. PreK graduation is the afternoon of the 9th. Uh, your HM High graduation, if anybody didn't know, is on the 10th.
Uh, does anyone have any questions about this? Why Why did the bid go up? You Monica, I think you better What's up? It's It's a price increase and we're making as much as immediately as we can to avoid any further price increases. Yeah, it's just I mean it's in Yeah, it's been all over the place even today. And the other two Yeah. And the other two vendors um and I think part of it's partially what companies are doing. The other two vendors haven't even been able to commit to a price break. We've been asking since late February. Could we go back even after today to see if their price will change just because I'd be very nervous that it's going to go up. The original expectation is we were told to expect a possible increase of up to 30%. Um, and this is not anywhere near that yet.
Um so I want to thank the board because they've done a lot of work establishing um that structure for us and coming up with an employee handbook and finding um healthc care for our uh employee. We have a very small staff. We've got Alexis and two part-time people. Um but you know we did we've done a lot of work. Um Jim has done an RFP for um our investment services for our um scholarship funds. Um so there's been a lot of work done, but now you see um the budget instead of having those expenses be in kind that didn't show up in the budget before, now they are a part of um our budget. So that's the reason for the change really. And then here's our revenue sources um predominantly from this year. So those that joy does come from corporate grants and of course the technical services provider fee that Jen mentioned.
Uh this is what we're trying to really establish both the from a climate culture standpoint to a practical application of what we're finding in terms of the action research that's going on during these instructional rounds. You want to add anything to that? I was um I was just going to say we sorry we've done this work for several years. it it really began as an idea of like a systematic approach to how to um address problems of practice in the district and identify them. Um I've never seen it um work so well as it did this year and I think I would like to point out Chris Roach and Dr. Barco, I think she's here as well, of the work with the chiefs around um how to bring departments and buildings together in order to action plan appropriately for the needs of the staff and the students.
I think that's what that was at OAS. Yes. Because we got um some not all not a lot of new students, but not they're not all from the apartments right now. We're actually not. I would say only a third of about the 25 students we've gotten are well when I ran this this has been a couple weeks so maybe the number has gone up more because there's only four we've had more but we've also like had some leave but act like really the it's a small handful it's afternoon apartments it's kind of mindblowing. Well I don't think they're filled up yet. Yeah, they're not. They are not. All right. So, we move on to item number nine. We're opening up a public hearing regarding and our district has already. Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry about that. That's okay. That's a quick one. No movement. Okay, there we go.
Um, the monument signs have been completed. Um, we actually just walked all of them today. I'll have some pictures for next month. Um, interior door replacements at the sister schools. Again, those are the double doors into the pods. Those will happen over the break. Uh, again, PA replacement for Ruskin, Brookree, and Somerdale. We actually received all the PA devices about a week ago. So, they're going to start installing them over the break and that'll take them about 3 weeks to get them all done. Uh modernization of the portables at Majestic Way, that's the least portable we actually or the uh county portable we bought um for a dollar last December. That's going to happen over the April break. Um the Vincy Park portables that were leased, that's where Sunshine School, those are almost complete. Um they should be done by next Friday at the latest.
President, members of the board, Mr. Casey has submit his resignation to the principal and the superintendent effective April 30th, 2025. Recommend the resignation of abundant as of April 30th, 2025. [Music] I have a second discussion. Um, hold on. I just had a question. is um was he teaching any classes or um not necessarily this he was training Mr. Espanetta for the programming like T's program. That's the only thing. So he classes that he was teaching. He didn't have like a set like a period where he was teaching it on his own. I just wonder because I know with some of the teachers they do have the penalty for breach of contract and I didn't know if that was going to be applicable to this resignation. We can look into that. tree should be fine. Then I'll call for the all those in favor say I.
There's no independent party in the state of Arizona. um they the whole reason is because they don't want to be a party. So what they're actually registered in the filing is uh PND or party not declared no party. Secretary of State also considers them sort of that uh no party preference as it were. Other is you know no labels green party libertarian any of the other ones. So when you see any of these numbers where you see Republican, Democrat, PND, PND in this case means uh independent. So we balanced it based on age, party, gender and region. used your local precincts to ensure that we had a representative sample of the overall voter turnout based on what we anticipate a a potential 2025 election to look like. So, a couple things to start. We asked in general, would you say your community is headed in the right direction or the wrong direction?
We want to communicate with those summary evaluation findings, provide some context in relationship to what were those findings and what is the current state of special education services and gifted programming in the district and then begin to illustrate next steps on improving based um on those findings and takeaways. The goal is not to display our entire plan because we wanted to um have this conversation this evening and then we will come back at a later date to talk more about what the um work looks like moving forward um after we share these findings publicly. And so the so the district first began um working with um school works using their protocol that identifies three areas that we really want to target in on when we look at program evaluation. You'll notice though when I go and um and talk about the findings, they go deeper than this than these true um three overarching areas.
It just says strategy development. I would almost recommend just for my um type A personality um to have it be say strategic plan. I like the suggestion to add the year of when we adopted it as well. But when I'm in there searching the policy and I type in strategic plan and this will come up. That's just why but I do like the suggestion of when it was last adopted as well just to keep so accountability. So are we looking at 222 community guidance and strategic plan development? That's a beautiful title. Yes. Okay. Okay. So that would mean changing the title. Yes. And then adding the link to the strategic plan to that. Yep. I got so I have um add link to current strategic plan connected to policy under connected to the policy under paragraph two make adjustment to title to include community guidance and strategic plan development.
Okay, perfect. I think it's a probably confusing to a lot of people like just looking at this graph to say, you know, you come back with only 30% of our kids are passing whatever and it's like no, that's not like that's to give that explanation that you're giving is much better and it makes more sense. But it we like I would like to see that on graph things so that people that are looking at this from home understand this is a national comparison. This is not just our district. This is nationally. So, absolutely. Yeah. So, next up we have reading. So, again, similar to what we were just talking about, how many students population are demonstrating proficiency? Again, as defined by that 30th percentile. And so when you look from beginning to middle of the school year, let's say second grade for example, 81% of our second grade population is demonstrating proficiency in reading.
Um also whether it's bringing in therapy drugs for our students to read to or the petting zoo or the local fire department, um our students are always engaged. Another celebration for strengthening our school community that we were proud of is our book blast opportunity. And this year we raised over $20,000 in the book blast which equated to over $3,000 um in books. And every single student in our school ended up with a book and that was really important because that's what we we wanted at our school. Um last year I think it was what about $15,000. So we were ahead of the game on that. So very happy with that celebration. Um and also as we got to celebrate earlier tonight, we want to celebrate our teams at Anderson. Uh our science bowl team, as you know already, placed first in the district and sixth in the state.
The numbers in that block do add up to the 337. Yeah. And so I just want to make sure that the final final number is correct. Yeah. Okay. It's.5 currently. So essentially it's a 1.0. If you look at the the 92 it's the movement within all that is four different. Okay. So when it drops to the bottom Yeah. And I'll show you that in a second. And that's why we moved it out of there, Chris. It's in the next slide. We moved it out of that new personnel as part of the scheduling change. Yes. Otherwise, we added it there. It's right more money. It's right here. Right. Right. It's on this slide. And and I, you know, knew I always count for everything. It's there. Why do I doubt myself? No. So, um, but so because of the new schedule change at at the middle school, um, we're adding a wellness position and a unified arts position, uh, and again, folks would be like, how do you why do you get so granular?
So that balance that you see at the end will be reduced by those purchases as well. Um, I can answer any questions you might have on the report. Uh, and then I can go through there was another chart that I included in there for information purposes as well. Member Goodwin, did you Yes, I just have some questions about revolving accounts, Sandy. Yes. I'm hoping you can answer those for us. Um, one of the things, um, can you tell me how much currently is in circuit breaker? Uh, that is an interesting question because I'm, uh, we do have, there is an error on the circuit breaker revenue. Uh, the town has posted two receipts of $317,213 has been posted twice. So, that needs to be reversed out. We've been in touch with them regarding that. So, if you give me a second, I will tell you once I back that out uh how much is in there.
The middle school is going to be on the 11th at 9:00 am. Our kindergarteners are going to have their moving up ceremony on the 11th. You have a board of edet meeting on the 11th. Um, and then we have the sixth grade graduation at 9:30 on the 12th and then the ice cream social for the sixth graders on the 13th. How big is your whiteboard? It's Listen, this kind of like really cues into the rat's nest that is my brain. Um what we've done so so this was something that was gifted to me and we've expanded it since I've been here is so I I hit staff with this. So we call it the last eight weeks. It's the like oh we need to make sure that we've got everything set to the end of the year. And so we just add this through. Um what I can do is I'll take this and just kind of strip down the unnecessary stuff.
Yes, it just it's it's interesting. It's a it's a large item for us. Um, very uncertain times, but at the same time, I'd like to give it some time to shake out. Um, yeah. I mean, that's a very fluctuating situation, correct? I mean, most of the tariffs were put on pause. So, unless they come from China, then Yeah. Wish I could control that. It's a $7,800 difference. Yeah. Currently, and we have to commit to the full amount right now. Um, if we could break it up, but I don't think it's going to result in much greater change. I don't see anyone cutting your phrasing right now. Correct. Right now. Right now. So, we're going to be looking to move if you if we immediately. And if prices do go down, then too bad for us because they go up. I mean, like I just I'm have my roof done for instance.
We did receive a onetime donation from city of Danbury last year that was um part of a fund that they had excess money from that we were able to um that funding. We also of course get some funding from our fundraising and our individual donations. Um but of course we provide our lead um mostly on the corporate grants and helping and we are using that that one time donation from the city to grow. So we're using it for some advertising. So this was for those ads on the radio. So we're excited about that. Um and we did actually um use a portion to start somebody to work more closely with the schools on a part-time basis. So our goal is really to try to use those funds to grow um those mentor mentee matches mentors. And then last but not least, we invite all of you to be a part of our scholarship awards breakfast this Tuesday, June 3rd at the AM room um at 7:45 a.m.
And so I think this is a very intense um on your slides, I believe it's a little it's not as um outlined as this. We changed this a bit before the meeting just so you had a better glimpse of the amount of work that this is. We're hearing great results and how everybody had such significant changes in their practice and things like that, but this is incredibly deep work being done by both the building leaders and the department folks. um this is hours and hours of prep being in the classroom and then following up with PLC work with with the teachers and then also on an individual level. So I just I've really seen collaboration in a way I haven't seen it before. Um and it's been incredibly productive and only the students and teachers are benefiting. So I do want to call it out to everybody in this room who's done done a fantastic job this year.
Okay, so item number nine, Mr. Glenn Reed is here. He's our administrator. just starting to fall asleep there. He's going to be We're opening up our hearing regarding a renewal petition for the Yusede Walona Elementary Charter School. If you have questions, I could share with you a little bit about the charter, what's going on if you'd like. Um, and I'd be happy to do that. But first, I would like to thank Michelle and her team. We had a tragedy this year uh when our teacher passed away and she was kind enough to immediately get us up some counseling help for kids. Um and they came up twice. They came up once when we had to announce that the teacher wasn't coming back and then when she passed they came up again. And I can't tell you how supported the whole community felt because it was a quick phone call or email and on they came.