um exterior sighting that'll happen this summer at Vincy Park and then the fire alarm that's al actually started at Vincy Park and that's ahead of schedule and that's actually moving real well. Um also we have the solar projects at the central kitchen. We're just waiting for a time to actually hook it up with P Gen and then they'll be completed. So we're hoping to do that over break but we still haven't gotten a date from P Gen to do that. And then the contractor has actually ordered all the steel and everything for all the remaining projects for solar that are going to happen this summer. And then things that are in design again the security projects. I think we have five schools left to finish. Um public the PA project again we have Noble, Sieront um we're getting actually prices in the next month. So once we get that we'll bring that to the board and hopefully we'll have all these finished by January of next year.
I. Any opposed? Opposed. Motion carries. Three. Next up, we have a certified reassignment for the dean of students. Mr. President, members of the board administration is posted to interview internally for the position of dean of students. The committee is recommending Rald Dan SOA as dean of students with the start date of May 1, 2025. Recommend the approval of the employment of Rald Dan SO as dean of students with the start date of May 1, 2025. Okay. Do I have a motion? I'll make the motion. Second. There is no discussion. Call for all those in favor say I. I.
We have about 57% total right compared to about 31% total wrong. We measured this for you in 2020 and it was closer to 74%. So, it's down slightly, but I will say it's actually quite optimistic for the community. Wait a minute. Is this the question you asked? Yes. Oh, okay. Okay. I'm on it now. This is the first question of the Gotcha. Okay. So, we do some warm-up questions at the start of a survey to ensure we get people to start talking about the issues and let them know sort of where we're going. It's a benchmark. It's a canary in the coal mine. It lets us understand where folks are at and ensure we get reliable data. And so, first thing we do is ask them to talk about their community. And the first thing we see here is about 57% think that the community is headed in the right direction.
And that is um general education, intervention and enrichment, IEP development, and IEP implementation. So the setup of the next probably eight slides will look like this. So again, I would ask the community board members um this copy of this presentation is public. So please take some time to review them. If there's questions, feel free to email us and we will try to get answers. So that first area that we had um school works look at was general education intervention and enrichment. And the underlying um question under that section was does a school identify and target supports for all students including those who are at risk and those who require um enrichment. And so what the initial finding was though is that yes, we do a great job of our identification, but what we need to work on is how we monitor program effectiveness. That is not something new.
Makes sense because we call it the strategic plan. We don't call it our long-term strategy. Got it. That's great. All right. for 2150 committees. Um I know that we talked about in the policy committee we were going over this how it needed to be this policy the way that press has it. It needs to be rewritten because we have a we have this we have a cow um a committee of the whole structure. I tried to explain this to President Darling and she was gave me the grace and the time to draw it out for her. Um, how I believe it should be written and I am so sorry, but I I am willing to provide or put together a prototype of what I'm talking about here on how I believe that these policies need to work together. Um, but I don't have that with me today.
Um again using the STAR assessment. And so again, we our goal when you look at MTSS and tier one instruction, um the goal is that 80% of your student population would be responding to tier one instruction. So that's why we say our goal is to get 80% of every grade level demonstrating proficiency because that shows that then your tier one is in motion and it's effective based on star data currently right here. It's telling us a narrative that we are headed in that direction. Right? So that is a celebration um for us as a district. Everyone has either grew or maintained. I think seventh grade was the only one that maintained at a 78, but every other grade level showed a an upwards trend and upwards growth, which then gives us also input and feedback based on the the literacy um initiatives that we are implementing, right?
So we're very proud of them. You got to meet all of them tonight. And our archery team we're so proud of as well. Hopefully we'll get to celebrate them later as well. But they are ranked they ranked fourth in the state in Ibo and 10th in the state in bullseye and they are heading to nationals. So we're super excited about that. Um we also have other teams that we celebrate and we just uh love the work that they're doing. Our math bowl, our spell bowl, our gardening club, running club and robotics. These are all things that we are doing um at Anderson. Of course, we're also very proud of our staff. Um, and two special staff members that we wanted to celebrate uh were Alyssa Bronner, who was our uh Anderson teacher of the year, and then Lynn Neil, who is our operational employee of the year.
$63,000. $63,4. Well, that's our contract. And so, we we sort of slide in the numbers that that we have based on master's degree 2. That's what that right, Chris, that's the number. Okay. Um, so we've got two positions. Well, we also had a reduction of two world language positions at the middle school. Um, we have we have a retiree who's been working with us. Uh, and then the way we're working with world languages, if people were following along throughout the year, uh, we've struggled filling these positions. So, the schedule itself will move to uh, the ability to take some have some French experience at the middle school, but 8th grade will become primarily a Spanish one like you would get at the high school. um that curricula. So, we're moving in that direction. Ban moves to full-time. How does this impact That's the That's the Mendes band position.
But also, if you were to look at and this kind of your a sneak preview of the um the chart that I showed. So, hold on a second here. So, are you saying the state paid us twice? No, I'm saying that the town posted the town posted two monthly revenues and so it's a it's a misposting. They're too they So, I was going to say take it and run. Sorry, I just had the report up and it's missing. So, as of right now, and it's $1,415,112, but then if you look at the cover memo, there's still another just under $600,000 that's going to be reclassed as we normally we do two reclasses of special education tuitions. One time sometime in the middle of the year and then one time as we get closer to the end of the year. And in addition, we will get another quarterly payment from the state.
But I'll make sure that I get that um out to you all just so you have those events. Um you know so if there's something that you want to attend by the way throw a dart at the board. pick a day, you can show up and we're probably doing something as you can see. Um, and all of that is to say again, every single one of those field trips is organized and planned by a teacher. Every single one of those events is organized and planned by a staff member. You know, it takes multiple humans to make that work. Um, a lot of times going well beyond any kind of contractual hour. And I think just the joy that it brings kids, you know, and I think along with that, like ridiculous amounts of support from the PTO, like there's like six things coming here and the challenge that we have is making sure that we're not crossing up the PTO on the amazing things that we're doing, they're doing with things that we are.
And like we got fear-mongered and now we just like have all these shingles sitting in our driveway, but they're going to be there for a month because we have so we have our chimney ripped on like but now it wasn't a thing but they went up anyway and they're not going to come down. I guess I mean that's what everything does that once a company makes the increase. I don't see them bringing bringing it down regardless of circumstances like with shingles. I was in construction and every time the price of oil would spike, the price of shingles would go up. But then when oil went back down, the price of shingles didn't go down. But when they spiked again, they went up again. I asked him this morning about said, you know, is this stable? Like, is this a stable cost at this price? And yes, but they would probably order sooner rather than later.
that I can share at the end as well for everyone. Um, so if you are interested in attending, um, Cara will be, um, handling RSVPs for that, so you can reach out to her directly and then she'll make sure the list gets to me. Um, and I'm really excited to have you all there. It's a beautiful morning um, celebrating our graduating seniors. We celebrate our mentors who have achieved um, various service milestones this year. We have 51 15 years. And then we also have um Chef Sean Obby who is a graduate from our mentorship program from the class of 1998 will be speaking um as well.
Thank you for that. if you could uh just go to slides 34 and 35 and yeah just pause for a minute and ask if anybody has questions. Yeah, sorry about that. Well, I just want to say we don't have that slide, right? That's what I just said. Like we changed it a little bit before the presentation just so you had a little more information. Happy to We'll PDF this and PDF and send it back to you revised. Thank you. Sorry about that. Does anyone any other um any curriculum committee members have questions? Any other board members have questions at this point? Okay. Thank you. Thank you. One question. One question. Um what are the schools that have have presented? Can you just uh reiterate what's the schools who are presented tonight? Yes. That's Mr. Serick is Stanley Ruff. We had um uh Ian, Mr. Lundo from Park.
So, thank you. That was a big help for us. Um, so we are looking for a teacher now and we've already had several good applicants and so our plan is to have that filled before the summer starts. Um, we finally have a commitment from the national park that there is a teacherage up there so they'll have a place to live. Um, and uh, it's just a magical place. We've got 13 students right now and two adults. And you're the teacher. Right now I'm the teacher. So, and the superintendent and the superintendent. It's keeping me busy. The custodian 5 in the morning I leave my house. I get home about 5 in the evening. So, um that's retirement for you. Yeah. There you go. Um we run a good program and our goal is to turn out good kids. Kids who are responsible, kids who take care of business and do things.
Um, and then Vincy Park modernization, that's actually in DSA right now. Um, we'll bid that out. So, we'll do that work during the summer of 26. Um, and then the fire alarm replacement at Northwood, that's actually been approved by DSA. So, we're going to bid that in August and do that work during the fall. And then these are all the comprehensive infrastructure renewal and utility assessments, basically all our energy projects. So, a lot of these are still in DSA. Again, like I said, the solar ones we've actually started on. Um, Brook Trail happened this summer. Toyan will happen this summer. And then additional storage. We have a recommendation for the board for the additional casework at these schools at this board meeting. Again, the paving projects were out to bid and then this kitchen assessments the architect's working on and we're just waiting for a report.
Any opposed? Motion carries four to zero. Next up, we have the classified reassignment for ESS office manager. Mr. President, members of the board, administration is posted internally for the position of ESS office manager, spread secretary. Five internal applicants applied and were interviewed. The committee has recommended Reese Nunes as the ESS office manager. Training with Emma Vasquez and Mr. Delar will happen as soon as possible. Recommend the approval of the employment of Reese Nunes as the ESS special education office manager. Okay, may I have a motion? I'll make a motion. I'll second it. If there was no discussion, we'll call for all those in favor say I. I.
If I were to ask the direction of the state right now, uh, or if I were to ask the direction of the country, it'd be in the 30% range. If I were ask the direction of the state, it's in the 40% range. Direction of communities right now is somewhere in the 57 to 60% range. I have seen one community as high as 70, but for the most part, what we have seen is over the last three or four years, most communities are down in the sort of 57 to 60% range. So, it's pretty optimistic. In fact, a little bit more pessimistic than it was a few years ago when we measured it for you. But overall, you can see pretty much every age group with the except exception of 50 to 64 is pretty optimistic about the direction of the community. I point out 50 to 64 year olds simply because they're the most pessimistic audience.
We have come to the board before and had that conversation. And so a common theme that you will see this evening in terms of of individual student progress is that the district does have those systems of monitoring individual growth, but we are lacking not only in special education and gifted programming. But across the board in a lot of our programs, we've done a lot of work, however, in tier one classroom instruction. We've adopted branching mind. So we are building the systems and and the structures and then also um reshaping and retooling teams over the last two years to make sure that we can be able to monitor the um the progress um of the students. And we also know that we continue to have some areas where we've really focused this year on making sure that tier one was consistent across the um across the district.
Uh, Miss Hartman brought up one of the bullet points on this. Um, I'm sorry. I have to move back over to our meeting. I've got it. I pulled it up on a separate screen. So, it was um, yeah, something that we don't practice is where it says after board discussion of agenda item, community audience comments are encouraged. And that is not currently our policies or our practice. So, we either need to update our policy or our practice. One of the two. I'm going to recommend now I sit here you guys and I recognize all of what we aren't doing and what we are supposed to be doing because I read the policy for fun. Um I am going to recommend that we practice the policy and this is this is why um we do have rules and stuff of decorum here and we try and follow them.
We want to see this trend upwards based off of all the things that we are implementing. Are we seeing positive results from the horizontal articulation that we're doing at tier one across the elementary schools, especially one through five? Like, wasn't the the objective to make sure that if a kid comes out of Deer Path and gets plunked into Brierggate the next day, they're pretty much at the same spot at the same time. Is that working? Yeah. So, that's the beauty of branching minds is that we can um pull data based on individual schools. Now, I wasn't going to put individual schools up here. Um, but but is that is that so at the beginning of this presentation, you talked about the tier one work for literacy, right? And is that working well? Are we are we progressing to the point where we want to? Are we a little behind, a little ahead in terms I think we're on the right track.