It basically removes all of the surplus land act pieces and you remain governed by the education code exactly as it was before the law changed in 2020. So, that's what the resolution accomplishes. Um, I did want to clarify adopting this resolution is not a decision to sell the property, to lease the property. It's not committing you to anything. It's just removing you from one step of procedures from the state. All right. Thank you. Any comments from the board? If not, could I have a motion, please, for the resolution? Move to approve resolution 2418. Second. It's been moved and seconded. Uh, this is a roll call vote, please. Miss Gomez. Yes. President Bak. Trustee Jimenez. I. Trustee W I. Trustees Trinasan I. Motion is approved. Thank you very much. Um we shall continue to see Roman numeral 1 resolution 24-1 2016 declaration of February 20, 2026 as observance of Abraham Lincoln's birthday.
Any opposed? Okay. Motion carries. Four to zero. Okay. Next item we have is approval of governing board policy advisory 819. Mr. President, members of the board, um I can do the same thing as far as for the second read just as as was stated Monday. I can just read the policy number and like for example 819 BA and then the title and where it says deleted I would just read the number 825 deleted not even read the the title. So that can count as our second read based on what we talked about on Monday. You guys want to do that the same way? Yes. Okay. So number 819 policy BA schoolboard operational goals 820 BAA evaluation of school board self-evaluation BAE evaluation of school board exhibit 821 policy BB school board legal status 822 BBA board powers and responsibilities BBAE board powers and responsibilities 823 deleted 824 BBA board member qualifications 825 deleted 826 6 deleted.
They just do. Voters understand what a school bus is. they don't necessarily know what a people transportation vehicle is. Um, modern technology typically does better than laptops despite the fact that sometimes we think, well, those are pretty much the same thing. But what we see is that some things just work better with the electorate than others. So using that strategy to measure different phrases or different words can be incredibly helpful as I mentioned. So in this case, we saw uh modern technology at a 4.17, computer replacement 4.04. People want modern technology. Modern technology to me generally means computer replacement, but there's a difference in the language there that uh people care about. Um exterior improvements uh is at 3.20. So I did give you the bus example. In this case, in your district, student transportation and buses did basically the same. In other places, there's a vast difference between the two.
I'd be happy to explain. And I'm sorry I'm talking fast. I know I have a lot of slides. So I'm trying to make sure I keep our pacing along. Um and then the last area um or the last domain was IEP implementation. And again this looks at is instruction intentional and engaging allowing students to access learning per the students IEP or their identification as gifted. And what we're seeing is again we need to again build capacity, build our teachers up. I believe in setting an expectation and then asking people okay what do you need to meet that and what we need to really kind of focus on um across the board classrooms gifted education special education services are are we differentiating and providing specially designed instruction I have a I have a slide that will talk about specially designed instruction differentiation how are they alike and how they're how they're So, because I know those are educational jargon or educational terms, I'm going to go through what specially designed instruction and differentiated instruction looks like.
But boards must establish and maintain a behavioral interventions committee and to develop these procedures with ISB's guidelines. Um so basically where everywhere I was reading this was saying that this belongs under the board and not the superintendent. Um further I looked to ISAB for more um under their um little snippet here called clearing up the confusion on board committees. And one of them specifically um brings up this topic and the question is does a board have to establish committees? And it says in some instances the law requires boards to establish certain committees including the parent teacher advisory committee and behavioral interventions committee. So my suggestion here would be that these two appear under board and um that down the line then we can have the discussion of what that actually looks like. Simplified. You're just saying add a number four. So superintendent committee is three with the superintendent advisory committee put a four.
Um I I just would encourage your team to continue uh to reflect on ways and bringing parents in, right? And you know, we get we were just looking up here um for the star scores electronically, right? And so I know you guys sent them home paper copywise, but like even on infinite campus or something like that, we can't find our students scores or some type of score that the parents could access. Um just to kind of keep track of that because I know my wife looked at it, but I didn't get a chance to look at look at ours. Uh and then also continuing to educate the parents. we've been working on that like what does this all mean to Julie's questions about like the percentile within the national norm and all the like I get these numbers and I don't know what it means so continuing to grow in that area too so we could have the the parent partnerships and they understand what they're looking at um and they understand how their son or daughter is doing I I would appreciate that I appreciate that feedback part of the we developed a rubric as we're evaluating different benchmarks and one of the sections of that rubric does include um the reports that are AAIL or the platforms that are available to inform parents and get them to be a part of understanding that as well.
So, it really has improved that collaboration and created a nice team within the grade levels which has been just tremendous for us. Here are some quotes from our teachers sharing the success and excitement of the partnerships through PLC's and coaching cycles. And here are some more. As you can see, these partnerships have led to deeper and more meaningful conversations and collaboration within an and I'm so thankful to be the literacy coach and be a part of those PLC's and those conversations with our staff members. Thank you, Jesse. And thanks to all of you guys uh for allowing us to present tonight our future plans at Anderson. Here are the next steps. We hope to refine and strengthen our tier one instruction in all areas. We are going to prior prioritize self-care for staff um and deepen our TBRRI knowledge and Boytown knowledge. We hope to expand our student centered coaching.
You know the story we had at the beginning of the year and many people don't know it about the fire alarm or fire at at the high school, right? Failing throughout the summer and trying to figure out how are we going to open the building. It's $425,000 to replace that this year. Unexpected costs. That's what we're doing this summer. But those are those are things that we have to be thoughtful of. we couldn't open the building otherwise. So budget timeline again uh it is a um quick turnaround for you all. Um but I feel comfortable because we've seen the numbers we've been through the numbers with uh the tri board with the select board with the finance committee. They're fully on board with the number I'm asked you to approve tonight. So I will sit down and take questions or stand and take questions. But if folks want to have questions, I should probably sit.
I need to state that over and over again as statutoily allowed to do what school committees can do with these funds. We did and it allowed us the flexibility to again have the beginning balances in these accounts that we had for FY25. And I'll be perfectly honest with you, come the closing of FY25, some of these things may end up looking differently as well, either up or down. But it's the nature of ed reform that gives school districts the flexibility to do this. And that is exactly what it is that we are doing. It's sound fiscal management under the opaces of providing the best education we can currently and going forward into the future. So yes, previous years absolutely there be changes but again I it is worthy of repeating and it's this is Andy on repeat. It is worthy of repeating that this has been the practice of the district even when we haven't been here to fully expend the local budget.
You remember that survey? I I do cuz it was pretty resounding to me sitting on the board. Okay. Where do you think we would stand right now if we did the same thing? I I would hope a lot better. Um we're going to give that spring survey. So what we've tried to do is we've tried to um each year we give the comprehensive survey in the spring. Comprehensive meaning block the climate survey. So it's okay. Yeah. It's it's the big the big one that we've seen. So we give that one every spring and we try and do year over. We try and keep those questions as static as possible. Sometimes we shift them a little bit just because like you get data from it and you're like this isn't really actionable, you know? So you you modify the question a little bit here and there, but that's been pretty steady.
Yeah. But you know, from a from my point of view, for the last 20 years, we've been saying that we've been underfunded. I can't understand why we haven't encumbered any monies against this $7.7 million or haven't found anything to to spend it against. Why does it take so long to to spend money if we keep complaining that we're underfunded? Uh the the there was a spending plan for the original 7.5 that's still in effect right now. um we were keeping all of the expenses in the general fund um until we needed to move them over um because we found that we can actually use that 7.7 into next year. So we were seeing um how much we could absorb in this fiscal year to move that um for the next fiscal year. Okay. Thank you. Yes. I have a question just on the busing again.
There were 19 individual medals that included five golds, four silvers, and three bronze. Um, some fourth places, some honorable mentions, and they just it was super fun. They were so involved. It was great. So, um, kudos to, uh, Donna Springer and Becky Amati for all of their work with those kiddos. That was three afternoons a week that they worked on that. They had like three 40-minute per they did. So, it was great. So, when spring hits, everybody wants to be outside, including the kids, so it's the best place to get them engaged. Here are Mr. Ponita's fourth graders. They went to Millerton Lake last month uh, to observe bald eagles and their natural habitat and to learn about their migratory patterns. Everybody had to sign a waiver, Terra, and everybody had to wear a life jacket because they were on boats. Uh, and this is the second time they've done it, and we haven't lost anyone yet.
Dr. Fuentes, it is recommended that the board adopt this resolution as described. Any comments from the board? If not, could I have a motion? Move to adopt resolution 2416. Seconded. It's been moved and seconded. Again, it's a roll call vote. Miss Gomez. Yes. President Boak. I. Trusty Jimenez. Hi. Trusty Nuin. Hi. Trustee Shinasan. Hi. Thank you very much. Um motion is carried. Let's continue on to resolution um two resolution 24-17 declaration of need for fully qualified educators for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. Uh Dr. Fuentes, please. It is recommended that the board adopt resolution 2417 as stated. Thank you very much. Could I have a motion, please? Move to adopt. Second that. It's been moved and seconded. A roll call vote again, please. Miss Gomez. Yes. President Boak. I. Trusty Gimenez. Hi. Trusty Nuin. Hi. Trustee Shunasan. I. Thank you very much. Motion is carried.
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Um so it can be really helpful to just understand all the different phrasing and what voters find important. So I do all of that in this section for this slide. This slide is what's really helpful. As I mentioned, voters find every single one of these items important, but there are degrees. Top tier importance, school safety and security, heating and air conditioning, career and technical education upgrades, and instructional improvements. Those are the really the top tier items. Sort of that next tier, modern technology, electrical and plumbing repair, roof repair, computer imp placement. Those are sort of the second tier, but still incredibly above four solid support. You fall down a little bit, front office security upgrades, buses, student transportation, infrastructure improvements, and I'd even put extracurricular facilities in there as sort of the third tier. And then your lowest would be restroom renovation, exterior improvements, and synthetic turf fields.
One of the things that we've been working on, and I'm super excited about what next year looks like, is I truly believe in technology as a tool. I don't believe it in it whatsoever as a replacement for good instruction. And so Miss Rivera and the technology committee have been doing great work on looking at our applications alongside a rubric alongside our instructional framework to make sure that the tools we have are tools for learning. Again, not a replacement for instruction. And so that's kind of going to that um right now we we're relying a little heavily on technology, but that is not coming out of a surprise because teachers we learned a lot of new things around technology and instructional technology during COVID and a lot of those are still lingering over from that time. We want to again the last bullet point is just get some consistent practices and understanding around differentiated instruction which will lead to better and and more enhanced individ individualization when we talk about those students individual um education plans and then looking at how we can align our current goals around specially designed instruction and researchbased practices.
But the other two committees that we don't actually have right now. No, that's well yeah what I'm saying is that we need legally it's sounding like to me we need to move the committees out of superintendent in into board. That's what it's legally sounding like to me. But um I also think that we need to arrange rearrange 2150 and bring back 2150e. Um um yes. Yep. And this is where I am apologize that I have not developed a prototype, but I promise you it made sense when I used a highlighter and I showed President Darling. Um, can I I don't really know what to do. Can I develop something and maybe have it submit it to Dr. White and have them put it? I don't know what to So I think um for now we table that um we and we bring it back once we have a a prototype of what that would look like.
So I agree with you as a parent myself like that's important. How can I contribute and be a part of my child's education? Great. So thank you. Is it possible to get the electronic are we able to publish those for the parents on like infinite campus or power schools? Sorry Andy. Um I would say let us look into that. you know, I'm a person who wants to say, "Of course, anything's possible." And then Andy humbles me um to be like, "Okay, hold on." But I'm gonna say, "Where there's a will, there's a way." I'm sure we can find. But again, looking at um some of these platforms, looking to see what they offer to parents as well, um and how to make the information accessible to parents. Some some of these other platforms have something already built in. Um, but I do like the idea of it being an infinite compass.
Uh we hope to share the work of our behavior coach with other schools, not just oursel. and we've that process. Um, we hope to review and refine schoolwide procedures. We intend to provide professional development opportunities to all staff. And we hope to continue building a strong, positive school culture at Anderson Elementary. And that's our story. So, thank you so much for allowing us to share. On behalf of the board, we'd like to thank our Anderson family for coming and speaking with us tonight. I think your enthusiasm for what you're doing and your school came through loud and clear. Thank you guys. Very good. Yeah. Thank you very much. Okay. Well, uh, we did have the air down, but we turned it back up because Mr. Lawhead was getting a little chilly back here, but we would like to invite him to the podium. Mr. Lawhead, our high school principal.