She's our clerk. So, we're very proud of all of our staff and just wanted to highlight these two tonight. Um, and in addition to the strengthening our school culture, which was one piece that we wanted, we also felt like it was important to refine our systems and align our arrows. These guys are going to talk a little bit more about that tonight. But what we have done is we've been very intentional with our behavior and our academics through in tier one, tier 2, and tier three. They're going to talk about this. Um, and this has happened through our MTSS process, through our PLC's, through coaching cycles. Um, and we are very, you know, proud of the work that they're doing with that. And again, they're going to talk about that. The other piece is that we've res refined several of our systems. And I'm not going to share all of those tonight, but I did want to highlight our dismissal procedure.
It's here, folks. It's here. Uh it's here. Thanks, Mark. Um reduction of an EL teaching position. We have again, we have movement across the district every single year in terms of the number of students uh who are in um English language acquisition. Well, we have a retirement and because of that retirement, we don't need to fill that position. We can we can move people within the district. Uh so it's really in effect a retirement savings. Um we have a retirement of special education inclusion teacher. Again, I talked about um that position. We had someone who was uh in the middle school who can take on that role. So, we had already accounted for their salary, but we're now we can back out the salary of the person who's retiring. So, so there's a lot of, like I said, there's a lot of moving parts to this um that, you know, I sometimes will call the principles and say, you know, are you sure we've got everybody accounted for?
So when you say reclassification or reclass, what does that exactly mean? It goes again the practice here in Greenfield for when we've been here and when Mr. Barber was here and Mr. Number was here and stuff was that they charge everything. We put everything to the local budget first. Okay. And then come periodically two times a year for circuit breaker, we reclass expenses that were put to the local budget into the circuit breaker revolving account. So that's what we do. Okay. Okay. And the sped revolving account, not the circuit breaker. See, I always knew about circuit breaker, but I didn't know there was another special ed revolving account. So how much is in that one? There is1,1,91.15. Then again, just a we are planning on as of right now $73,934 of expenditures to come out of that that have not yet been charged to that.
So just grateful for the stuff. It keeps us busy. Um, but it's a good kind of busy, you know? I think it's the stuff that like makes the memories, builds the community. Like happy kids are kids that learn. You know, it's what I said to the staff in my weekly. Like, this week's gonna be a mess literally sometime soon. But it's going to be a fun mess, you know? Like the kids are going to remember running around the track. The kids are going to remember the, you know, the kids who really laid a pie into somebody's face or dripped the green slime on the principal. Like, that's something you're not going to forget. And that joy is going to be what gets them through the door and makes something like Smarter Balance tolerable and gets them through the day. and, you know, keeps them learning and working.
other cheap vendors. Again, I've not committed to pricing, but I do know I know exactly what you're saying. Yeah. And I don't think we've come down from just thinking about like five years ago when a lot of things shot up for supply chain. They didn't really come back down. Yeah. My flooring went up same the same as yours and they still cost that much if not more. But this is a little unusual. This is this is just people speculating because of very very uncertain times. Things will stable out if it goes that way. But um I think my only concern is that it's going to go up. It is. Yeah. Yep. As I see it, we have two options. We could approve spending 86,000 and allow them to get what they can get for that amount. Um or we can approve the higher amount what do you think the if the higher amount is is some funding that we already have that we won't necessarily have to spend.
Is there anything um and open up to any questions or comments? Thank you. Jen, I just wanted to say thank you to both of you for being such a great partner. I wasn't really until this year I fully understand the understood the depth and breath of just what the SABC did and just the impact they were having not only on kids but in scholarships and partnerships. Um I'm so proud of the work we've been able to do with getting these flex presenters in every week at the high school. Um, it's been just a such a great on-ramp to sort of getting getting everybody ready for, you know, the big launch of the the academy next year and I'm really excited about continuing to work with you all and uh making sure that we were able to keep that program in place for next year. So, thank you all for everything you do and it's it's an absolute pleasure working with you.
We had KSI. We spoke about K Street Intermediate. Um did you talk about anybody else? The strategic support schools where people have provided the most intervention within the district of working with staff and students is really at park, Ellsworth, Statley, and King Street. kind of just if I could just end back where we started in in many uh ways an infographic just talking about the the way to improve schools in a school district is through building capacity building um efficacy but also replicating success stories and sharing stories of success so that you build believers, you build those who are buy into a vision so that you can be successful. And I think when I look at this, this is K5, but I look at seven instructional support staff and you can see just in the visual, they're supporting a lot of places, right? And so we had to make some targeted decisions.
um we're K6 and so when they get to seventh grade if they're in your attendance area they come down to OCI so last year we sent about three there uh most of our kids do not come from Baselic District we've got kids that come out every day from YOP uh we've got Malona families uh we've got a Mariposa family and so we do have about four kids that would technically come here but they won't come here because they're homeschooled families So really it's not any burden on the district at all. Uh you know we we do everything that you do. We have board we had a meeting last night. We do the LCAP. We do our budgets. Terra has been a tremendous help for us as we've struggled through this year because uh not only did we lose our teacher but her son does our books and works at the school.
And here's the schedule of what we have going on. And again, this is a picture of Piedmont when we took the screens off. So it'll the windows at the multi-purpose purpose will look similar to this when we're done. I mean, it actually it doesn't look like this, but it actually looks pretty good without the screens on [Laughter] it.
Any opposed? Motion carries four to zero. Next item up is approval of the 2526 prek childcare director for Mr. President, members of the board, the administration is posted interviewed internally for the position of prek and childcare director. The committee is recommending as the prek and childcare director with a start date of June 1, 2025. recommend the approval of the employment of Leiato as a prek and childcare director starting in June 2025. I will make a motion. I will second. If there's in favor say I. I motion carries 4 to zero. Next item is the issuance of classified notice of appointments for the 2526 academic year. Mr. Brendan, members of board, the administration is requesting board approval for the issuance of notice of appointments of the following support staff. You have them there listed under facilities. Custodian bus driver office staff cafeteria staff air teachers aids recommends to classify noticeable appointments of the above individuals for the 2526 school year.
And you'll see this come back in the data time and time again. Uh further in their education or further in their um in their workforce, closer to retirement, not likely to have kids under the age of 18 at home anymore. They're just overall the most pessimistic audience. So that's just something to keep in mind as we look through it. But the other audience with such a big portion over the age of 65 that we're looking at is you've got a little bit of optimism in the 65 and older category. We asked would you in general would you say K12 education in your community is headed in the right direction or wrong direction. Now bear in mind less than half of these folks have kids under the age of 18 at home anymore. So this is a lot of folks being educated about what sort of they perceive in the national media and other news.
So, it was not a surprise to us that we still have some um inconsistencies when we look at those programs outside of tier one and we know that's on our road map to continuously improvement. Yep. What are you say you're going to monitor the progress of students? What specifically do you monitor? Sure. So, actually I have a slide towards the end um that just talks about what our monitoring specific steps are, but great question. Um so again um going into that wanting to kind of hone in on what those um findings were around that program effectiveness. I promise I am not going to sit here and read every single slide to you all this evening. So I have highlighted or or bolded what those key takeaways are. The board um and the community we implemented what I need time in the beginning and that is really taking hold in our schools.
Um I think we should practice the policy as well because after a discussion here and we do most of our discussion during the committee of the whole meetings but anybody in attendance at our meetings may view a presentation and they may have great questions following the presentation or that we hadn't considered. So I would suggest then if that's the case and that's what the board feels that we move community input to after the end of our discussion instead of having two community inputs we move it to after discussion I assume we're only talking are we talking about just at the cows because and obviously this is where we tend to have more robust conversation this would be a great time for more community questions I understand community may come to the meeting and have questions too but when we send everyone went back to their work for a week and we want our questions answered.
Okay. We're we're in the direction that we need to be shifting and moving towards. But there's obviously change doesn't what's the phrase happening in Rome. Yeah, that too. That too. I get that. I just I it we talked about it. We we talked about some hesitancy with teacher buyin and then we haven't really talked about it for a few months. So, I didn't know if this was a result of of that work or if that work is progressing as we meet across the district. Yeah. No, I would say as we have been walking around schools, even just doing the um the PD that we did with the the principles last week, you see a difference within our classrooms. You feel a difference within our classrooms. the interaction that's happening amongst the students and the level of engagement that's happening. Um we can walk into a classroom and know what standard is being taught across the grade level.
Um, because safety is one of our number one priorities in our school. And we changed our dismissal procedure from inside or excuse me, outside the building to inside the building. We had a team and we felt that was very important. So, that was just one system that we changed that we're proud of and the kids took part in that and um we just wanted to share that with you tonight. So, we'll jump into school goals. For sake of time, I'm not going to read all of these to you. You've got them in front of you, but these guys are going to share. So, I'm going to jump right to Miss Lydia Rearden. Thank you. Hello, everyone. Thank you so much. I'm excited to highlight how our team is building a more responsive, compassionate, and safe environment for all students, especially through the space that we have created.
And call Chris the same way. But we feel really good about this. Um, but there's the savings for that. The one thing I didn't talk about on the the slide with all the positions was a a staffing proposal at Pitway, which we've we've talked about here publicly. Sarah's done a heck of a job uh at Pitway. Uh but it's a job that really after what how many years now? Six. Yeah. After six years, what we know is the needs of our community, the needs of our kids, the needs of our teachers, um is just too much for one individual to be the special education coordinator in that building to do testing, to do training, to to teach, to run meetings in addition to being the principal, if you will, of the building, uh and evaluating staff, managing the day-to-day aspect of it. So, we sat and this is one of the proposals that Sarah had given us and we think it's the the right move.
Okay. and the school choice revolving account just for I I can read it off to you but it is in a report the so but the school choice just for everybody as of right now it's $97,78.76 with again projected use of $300,000 for FY25. Okay. And transportation revolving account. transportation or revolving account 1,3,598.98 sentence with so the math teacher in me the number person in me sees you know $4 million in revolving accounts which are going to be I hear reclassified to there are things coming out of the local budget that are going to be I'm getting that. So, I guess I sit here as an educator and as a taxpayer and I wonder why people are worried about losing their jobs and I wonder why people are hearing about cuts when there's $5 million that is sort of floating out there and that's why I'm asking this question for you.
So, it's a lot of good stuff. You going to have a bathroom on the bus? Well, listen, there's there's uh So, most memorable thing at the last graduation. Yes. Yeah. They kept talking about it. Yeah, they loved it. They were very excited. That is that is one of the anchor points of the of the fifth grade experience is taking the coach bus. They were all fired up about it. So, you posted it, Tom. You forgot one important date. Oh, no. Which one did I leave out? The last day of school. Oh, well, that is not my decision to make. So, I I you know, I I see I see right now it's June 13th. Yes, the last name school. That's good. That's good cuz I scheduled something on the 13th. But assuming it doesn't snow between now and then. Oh god. Don't say that. So So whatever happened to that that reading challenge?
So it's smaller amounts. It's money that we had put aside for repairs and repair equipment that we didn't need because of our accidental damage plan. So the devices that we had that happen to have issues happen to be covered by that plan and they weren't older devices. So we saved some money um and some other so that's why the amounts are different for the transfer and the bid waiver. Um we also had money put aside for cases that for the students but our vendor for the Chromebooks which where was placed a while ago so we're good there. Um they were coming precase with a slim case on them. So now we don't have to spend that additional money on cases for students. So some of that in that gap is savings from those items. So we already have those sitting in our budget range for technology, hardware and materials.
Thank you. Yeah, I will also say that those opportunities often spark interest in somebody becoming a mentor. So, thank you for letting us help you with that because it's a great way for people to learn about it's intimidating sometimes to ask somebody to start mentoring somebody for possibly 12 years. Um, but they'll say, "Oh, I can come and speak to the class about, you know, about what I do." So, so thank you for that. Thank you. Does any board members have anything to say? Again, we appreciate you. We know how important it is to have a mentor. Uh, long time ago, I mentored for 12 years. So, you know, I know and I enjoyed when I did it and I enjoyed the students that I came in contact with. So, thank you again. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you again, Jennifer and Alexis.