That is a general thing about committee of the holes in general. They are generally laidback with give and take. Um I am not I don't want to hide from the community if they have comments um questions or anything. I do think we can get more insight that way. Um that's why I'm suggesting we move the discussion we move the community input to after our discussion topics. Yeah. Instead of in the beginning of the meeting moving it to after discussion. I believe that I believe that when we first we got on the board at the same time. When we first got on the board, there was, it was strange to me at the time, at the beginning of the meeting, there was community input and at the end of the meeting, there was community input. Um, if we're going to ask for community input at the end of the meeting, then yeah, then what Miss Hartman is asking or suggesting would mean that we would have to change the wording of the policy.
Um just one um the teaching and learning department as well as I've been involved in those conversations and brought in some administrators and some some teachers are reviewing various benchmark assessments and project um project um progress monitoring um assessments because although the district's used the star um assessment for a while, what we want to make sure is that we're giving teachers the data they need to make informed decisions for students. especially during the win time. So I think kind of to um some of the points I heard here, one of the things that we're definitely looking at is how can we capture growth of individual students in those students making adequate or above growth. We want to start to also look at that, not just the achievement piece. And then also one of the good things that we're discovering with the phonics program is we we went into it thinking one was going to be better than the other and they're actually kind of playing 50/50.
So we have created a program essentially that is grounded in principles that has a consistent way to respond to behaviors, a calm and supportive space to reset that emotional regulation, a relational approach to address the why behind the behaviors. And that's where TBRI has become a major asset for us. And we want to provide skill building to help those students reenter class successfully and learn the skills that they need for the future. So why does restart and behavior coaching matter? First, it's an intervention. It's not a consequence. Students don't need punishment. They need connection, coaching, and consistency. Restart was created with a clear mission to provide a calm, supportive space where students can reset emotionally and return to learning. It's not about removing students from the classroom. It's about helping them re-enter a classroom in a regulated, ready to-learn state. Whether a student needs five minutes out to breathe or have a structure structured problem solving with an adult that they have rapport with or they're building connection with, we're meeting them where they are.
Uh I will tell you Hollist uh they're below us. They will move ahead of us next year. They passed an override uh this past year for the first time in a while. Um a number of those districts have passed overrides. Uh obviously we have not and we're not looking for one. I'm just I don't want to belver the point, but every year I we've hovered in that same we have been in the bottom 10% per people spending um since I've been here in 16 years. And just for anybody who's sure presentation later, the the chart you've got up there, FY23 numbers. Yeah. Yeah. Again, are these the most current? These are the most current that that the Department of Ed can shares with us. the FY24 numbers uh will come out in the fall um because all the stuff all the work Chris is doing with the audits and making sure all that data is is into the department before they can calculate it.
So here's the confusion. I just want to you can help me understand. So in the budget for this fiscal year, there was a request for 1,714,846 for transportation out of local funds, but in the revolving account for transportation, there's a million dollars. So you're asking for local funds of a,700,000 but in that revolving account is a million dollar. So I guess to me and this is just you know as a a person who looks at numbers I'm seeing you asking for an amount a million7 and then holding on to a million in a revolving account. So, as a taxpayer, I'm going, you know, yeah, I want to give the children and the teachers everything they need, everything. But there's still this money that why are you asking for it when there's already money that has been generated somehow for transportation by ch transportation? So, if you're asking for the 1.7, you receive that in the budget from local funds.
Uh so they've been going through and reading up on like old mother goo stuff and Asop's fables and you know, all of that stuff for the last couple of weeks. Um, and then now this week we're getting them to do some uh book clubs over the April break and then we'll probably do another run of like six book clubs that rotate through the groups. Um, so no, they've been doing great. We still got a huge contingent. We a couple of kids like they were like this is a lot of reading like we said it was. Um, so we lost about four kids but we still we still over 20. We got a bunch of kids and we're I mean we're making them read, you know, an extra 20 30 easy 20 30 minutes a night keeping up with this and they're doing it independently. It's great.
Um, does anyone have any questions or comments about this figure? appropriate at this time. Yes. And I suspect we'll be happy to hear that tomorrow for discussion. Um we're comfortable with this number. I guess the same question we ask every year this time. It still leaves $85,000 in push right now. So I'm sure the number will go up. And we're not going to find that some computer program is going to be irrelevant in a couple months, like a couple weeks from now, and then next month need like another $100,000, but then 200,000 because we have 150% tariff. Yeah. What what is the biggest remaining risk? Um is it school facility kind of maintenance type something from John type of risk or I would say probably yes. Okay. Um, okay. Anyone have any other questions or comments about this? All those in favor, please say I.
Um, now that we are ear uh nearing the end of kind of the snow season, we are able to finalize our last day of school. Our last day of school will be Thursday, June 12th um for all schools except for Broadview Middle School. Uh the reason for that is Broadview did need to have one day that they were closed um and students were unable to attend. So those students will need to finish on Friday, June 13th. That will be their last or final day of school. Um so we are go moving forward with setting our graduation dates. Um Wednesday of that week will be the high school graduation uh which would replace the originally scheduled board of education meeting and Monday of that week would uh be our middle school graduations. Um so those dates are Monday June 9th for middle school graduation and Wednesday June 11th for the high school graduation.
I'm sure there will come back some successful alumni. Any other question so neither. Thank you. I appreciate the presentation this evening. It's very very helpful for us to sort of understand the work you guys are doing. Um just sort of on the other side of things, there's been a tremendous amount of success this year and I thank you all for the work that you've done to create that. Are there areas of this pro of the ARC uh core program that you feel maybe are not meeting the needs somewhere or that you have to adjust or or amend? Yeah, it's I'll just answer that in in in that I don't think any program is enough. I think no there's no program that's a panacea it we teach students we teach students to meet the needs of the students in front of us and we have to teach those academic standards and the progressions thereof but to the extent that it's lacking I don't think so but I think what what has to happen is much like a master teacher you need to know where to go if the child's not at the grade level I think art does an exceptional job of that but no program or curricular resource because that's really what we have never should something be viewed because we're locked up using this.
So any questions I'm just probably confused. So your school is in Maraposa County, right? And so would wouldn't you be talking to Maraposa? So, do you want the long story of that or so? Years and years ago, we're talking back in the late 80s, early 90s, Mariposa County closed Wona School. Yeah. The superintendent at the time, Angie Bazello, said, "We'll take that school into our district, which was fascinating at that time." And so, you are a joint district. That means you have schools in two counties. We get taxes from Maraposa and right. And so now they're considered part of Bass Lake. And that was back in the late 80s, early 90s. Okay. It just seems like an odd It's an odd It's an odd thing. I won't lie to you. It was before I was here. I you know, I'm still kind of learning some of this.
Our district office will remain open for business during that time. That's all I have. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Poentes. Any comments from or announcements from the board? None. All right. Thank you very much. We shall go down then to item number 15, review and action. Superintendent, please. So, item A1, um, it is recommended the board establish the board of trustees regular board meeting dates for the 202526 school year as proposed. Thank you very much. Any any comments from the board? Could I have a motion? Move to establish the published dates. Second. It's been moved and seconded. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion is carried. Item number uh numer Roman numeral 2, board policy 1260, educational foundation. Dr. Fuentes, please. It is recommended the board review and approve board policy 1260, educational foundation for a first reading. This um policy has been updated to incorporate language regarding um proposition 28 arts and music funding and um the provision that it is not to be co- uh uh don any donations that are utilized um from foundations towards these types of programs do not uh cannot supplant the prop 28 funding.
Yeah. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Four to zero. Next item up is the approval of volunteer pair professional Bethany Mor. Mr. President, members of the board, Bethany Morau has requested permission to volunteer in the prek classroom as Miss Mar worked as a parent professional in prek from October 2020 to October 2024. Her interview is unnecessary and her IEP fingerprint card is current. Recommend approval of the volunteer employment of Bethany Bar. Second discussion for all those in favor say I. I.
So, to the best of your knowledge, what public school district do you believe provides K12 education to your community? We did not give them the answers to the test. I'm sorry to say we asked them and this is what they think. 38% correctly identified your district. Another 20% think it's Queen Creek. And then you can see a variety of folks. 28% don't know or refuse. Certainly this is an opportunity to uh improve awareness of of who's serving this community, especially with those folks that don't have kids at home. Um the awareness is just simply not there. They do believe that the schools are underfunded, but there is a little bit of confusion of where they're receiving the education from or what what serves their general community. Uh so we give them a little bit of background. Then this is the first time we've mentioned the district.
Um again that collaboration between what's happening in the classroom and making sure that there's a connection to what's happening in that gifted and enrichment processes need to happen. So we really need to focus on strengthening collaboration between our gifted teachers and our classroom teachers. Next um the school inconsistently utilizes a variety of instructional strategies and materials to support students and diverse learning needs. Again, some of these were kind of startling, I think, to community or maybe to board members, but one of the refreshing things is these were things we already knew through classroom observations and through conversations with our teachers. So there was nothing that shocked us when we started to look at this. But we know we're in currently working on shifting from a teacher centered teacher directed instructional model to a model that includes direct instruction, guided practice, and independent practice. So seeing 43% of our classrooms demonstrating limited use of instructional strategies honestly in year one of implementation I don't think that's a horrible um data point but definitely gives us room um to grow.
So, I just did a quick um I think to capture what Mrs. Darling and maybe Mrs. Hartman I'm trying to capture. Um it was saying a so if that third that same bullet after board discussion of agenda items community audience comments are encouraged because that would capture then after the discussion items take place then we would welcome and encourage um community and audience comments at that time. Community input. No. So this would so but then going to um that point that would be moving the community input part to after the discussion like this evening um if we looked at the agenda for the committee of the whole we were requesting community input right after the acceptance of the agenda that committee community input portion would then go to item seven yep section six which would be after discussion topics that way to capture what Mrs.
But I think that really goes into um the teaching and learning department um and Miss Rivera leading that team to really beef up how we identify what to adopt. um we only do things that are researchbased that have evidence that they are effective with 80% or more our students. So I think that is paying off um because it doesn't matter if it's UFly or benchmark we're seeing growth and gains and we see teachers who use benchmark like benchmark and teachers who like who have UFly like you fly and so there's lots of conversations ahead. So thank you Mr. No problem. I mean, I'm going to build off of that as well, right? He alluded to, it's coming in your we can review this this week. Um, he alluded to that we are looking at different benchmarks. Um I think STAR has served uh its purpose as an one of the things that we're recognizing um with our review committee is that it does not provide the rigor um of knowing a deeper level learning.
Restart is designed to meet their needs. So, what happens in Restart? It starts with a referral. A teacher reaches out because the student is exhibiting behaviors that is disrupting the learning of their peers. The team responds. We help co-regulate. We reflect together and we repair that rupture. Then the big piece, we reenter and we restart our learning. This is the whole purpose is to give them a fresh mindset and an opportunity to restart. We've seen students that use this who need frequent breaks, begin to self-regulate, and then learn that they have the opportunity to use their voice. One student noted that recently restart helped me calm down and I figured out what to do next. This is the kind of growth that we're fostering at Anderson. Emotional intelligence, independence, not dependence. I hope to continue in my role, partner with teachers to implement consistent strategies and also help them co-regulate with students in the moment.
It's a year behind two years behind. I talked about that special education number. Um again, we have we're decreasing the number of students. It's just the cost of some of these programs are are great and that's I mean that's the reality. It's it's up 19 and a half% from the previous year in terms of the cost, but our student population went down. Um and and we're really, you know, looking at this. We're constantly looking at this. You know, I can tell you Britney emails me every single day about this. Uh and we're working hard at at again identifying and making sure the kiddos that we have uh are in the proper place. Some belong with us. Some we we can't do the best for those families and those students. And you know, we just have to recognize that. Um, this is the slide that scares me every year because we are heavily relying upon one-time funds, right?
I guess I'm seeing every year there's like $4 million left in revolving accounts and I'm hearing you say you're reclassifying it or taking money from there. Um, I did ask the mayor to look back over the last couple of years and I was very proud that she didn't charge me $25 an hour for information. Um, and I found out that there's always like in circuit breaker and I understood your point of view which is you kind of pay it forward. Are you close to your question? I need to to finish this. So that there's always over a million dollars in circuit breaker for the last three years in the revolving account. There's always been $800,000 in this bed revolving account for the last three years. There's been $500,000 in the school choice revolving account for the last three years. And in transportation, we've gone from 261,000 to 723,000 to over a million dollars in the revolving account.
So what's it what's the reward at the end? So knowledge. Knowledge. No prize. They don't go. So we're going to treat it kind of like we do in conventions. So they're going to work through and then we're going to have a school-based competition between the groups kind of just like a healthy kind competition. Uh, and we're going to send the top three scoring teams to the state competition in January. And the other three teams are going to be quiz masters for the three that we're sending forward. Okay. So, we're going to kind of get them set and prime midfall, we're going to do a little in-house competition. Um, quiz the daylights out of them on everything and anything under the sun. Uh, and then send top three teams on up to the state, which should be kind of mid January of 2026. Do they does a state have any type of challenge like that for math stuff?