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No, no, we can talk about it. Just the pipe under the building you're talking about? Yeah, just the pipe under the building. The the the committee meeting, the facilities committee meeting is mostly about the stair. This is something I want to bring up to the board because it should be discussed by the board. um the pipe under the building. Um Kevin came back with the idea that maybe we could just leave it for about $20,000 or uh we have a proposal from uh Griger Excavating to replace the tanks, fill in the tank under the building, put in a new pipe, which is correct way to do it for approximately $83,000. And the question was, what should we do? And based upon my own experience, since I do a lot of this for a living, uh, get the tank out of the building, get the pipe installed, and do it right and do it once.
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I make a motion that the board of education set Wednesday, June 11th, 2025 as the 2025 graduating date for the Damry High School. Motion made by Aaron. Could I hear a second? Seconded by Lauren.
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It's awesome. So trying to keep everybody engaged and embracing the chaos. We're playing a scavenger hunt on campus of where is wildfire. Mrs. Mack and I hid 100 little pictures of wildfire all around campus. You'll see one at the bottom of that fire extinguisher. And every time a student finds one, they get to bring it in and we do a whole thing. I think there are 13 left to find. Um just trying to keep people again coming to school, getting excited, being there, right? Being pumped to be there for Dr. Seuss day. Some of you were able to see our uh Mrs. dance theater elective. They put on a performance of the Lorax and it was amazing. Uh OES brought over their primary kids and it was great. Our kids loved playing to a packed house. We got to see some of our old friends who we haven't seen for a while since the SDC classes moved over to uh OES.
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Thank you very much. Could I have a motion, please? Move to approve. Second. It's been It's been moved and approved. It's been moved and seconded. Um, all in favor say I. I. Oppose. None. Um, motion is carried. Let's continue on to Roman numeral number six. I think this is pronounced Sudas. I'm Relocation Systems of Northern California, Inc. Agreement to provide moving services for the school consolidation project. Superintendent, please. Um before the recommendation, I just like would to make a note there is a correction on this item. Oh. Um when there is under the pricing listing for the third item Sudath relocation systems under unit pricing it currently reads $39,000 plus the actual figure is $21,411. That also then adjusts the total amount which currently reads 302,000. There you can see the figure and the actual number is $283,79487. Sounds good. So it is recommended that the board approve this agreement with the correction.
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And the thing about opposition is they're never limited to the truth. They're not limited what they say, but we need to know if it's impactful or not. You know, you don't go to the doctor. We say this a lot. You don't go to the doctor to find out what's right with you. You don't say, "Oh, this arm feels good. Feel this." You know, check this one out. You have them check you out all over. And so that's what we do with these types of questions as well. We ask all the tough questions and put those phrasing there just to see what the vulnerability is like. So after we measure them, basically what we find with the exception of taxes, tax considerations, but truthfully uh all the reasons to support whether it's school security, quality of life, making critical repairs and it not being a tax increase far outweigh or far uh the voters are much more inclined to believe those statements than they are in the opposition statements.
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Um I think it would I don't know next time we have this conversation I would love to know what all of these different things are all the different ways. I know that we're limited on resources and we have to be realistic on what we can provide and we want to provide the very very best but it's after reading this and seeing this and thinking of all the different possibilities um I think it would just be helpful for me to understand all the different ways and all the different needs that the district has to address with all of the students. We're we have a slide in here that'll talk a little bit about all the services, programs, and things that are available across the district and some of the specialized programs and things like that. But for students to qualify for an IEP, they need to be identified with a disability, there are 13 disability categories.
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When this was written, it was written by a person that was it had very different political views than are popular right now. Um, and I just think in today's climate, this this is a can of worms um waiting to be open. As far as legislative issues that affect the you know um us as you know whether it's state funding or like a couple years ago they mandated we had to have three days of PE. We had to hire another PE teacher. I think that could be the superintendent or his design's responsibility to say, "Hey, Springfield's got this in line." But and we deal with what Springfield is giving us or Washington is giving us. But, uh, you know, having I I just think this could be a can of worms. And that's why I remember, you know, it it's the the political climate is so charged right now.
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I apologize, I'm tired. Slide 27. It does have the information there. Slide 27. um outlines all of the changes and recommendations that we have as um this part um as this year's staffing plan. Again, I broke out the interventionist piece and had a separate plan on that just because it involves some program programmatic changes as well as normally we don't include non-certified staff in in the staffing plan, but I did include it in this table. So, you could see that it is we are being able to do this as a net neutral situation. We're bringing on the 8 and a2 um FTE inter certified interventionist will not increase cost to the education um fund for the 25 26 school year. Okay.
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Uh we want to create we this year we've been working on creating a baseline for um student engagement. uh the school improvement uh plan committee uh when we kind of drilled down the accessibility um affects the engagement affects the desire to be there affects attendance um and then to maintain an employee retention rate of at least 90 which is right at the indust industry standard. So how are we going to do these things? Um so to ref reduce the failing rates of course cores of core courses by 10%. Um we have these targeted interventions um data analysis uh through the PLC's um addressing external factors that are affecting students which is the TBRI approach and then the classroom strategies to support struggling students and again we'll go into more details of these things. Uh the creating the baseline for student engagement. Uh so the goal is then going to be for the 25 26 to increase student engagement by 10%.
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So that's what we get. We get one one bid. And what what were the results of spending that million dollars compared to the balance? That's all it was. Yeah. Yeah. It wasn't anything. Yeah. It was nothing nothing special. We didn't we didn't have to cut anything. It could have been teachers. It could have been um other other things for sure or more um utilization of spe uh school choice money but school choice is something we can always move forward in terms of any again you got to be strategic in how you utilize funds transportation is only for transportation I can't use that those funds for anything else so every year to keep things the way they were the year before it's called level service so to have the same amount of teachers and the same amount of services doesn't costs the same amount of money.
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It's not on our agenda. We're currently on the item on your agenda business manager fiscal year 2025 year-to- date budget update budget reports review. So questions should be related to those items. Um I guess Mike I just have a question. Um Mr. Pquette if you could um remind us uh whether you are available for us to ask questions to you in advance of uh public meetings. I'd be more than welcome to. Okay. So if we have like good faith questions about revolving accounts and the ins and outs of them and how they work, we can pick up the phone and just call you. Absolutely. Okay. Thank you, member Goodwin. I guess we put a budget forward. The superintendent puts a budget forward every year. Um, for the last three years, there's been 4 million in revolving accounts. Each time that budget is made, when that budget is made, I think as a taxpayer, I have the right to know that there's four million sitting in a revolving account.
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Because if we just sleeve the pipe, even though it's a $28,000 versus an $83,000 fix, it's still going to come back to bite us in five or six years. The tanks have to be tank has to be replaced. The tank in the building has to be filled in. A new pump has to be installed. And so my suggestion to the board is that we bite the bullet. We spend the $83,000. Now, where would that money come from? Well, proposed budget surplus is around $95,000, and we know that's going to go down. So, the odds are we will have a budget surplus of x amount of dollars. We'll know better next month. That will pay for part of it and then the rest of it will come out of the rainy day fund. That's exactly what the rainy day fund was designed for. So my suggestion to the board is it's okay with you guys will pursue having everything done and we would do that after school is done.
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Any questions? Shouldn't be any. All in favor, could I hear I? I I oppose the motion. So car action item B K. I have a motion that the board of education accept for first reading policy 5114 suspension and expulsion/due process as recommended by the policy committee and in accordance with exhibit 25-56. Motion made by Kate, seconded by Al. Any question concerning that policy? Seeing none. All in favor? Could I hear? I oppose. Motion so carried. Action item C. Michelle. Policy 5125, student records confidentiality. Motion that the board of education accept for the first reading policy 5125 student records confidentiality as recommended by the policy committee and in accordance with 25-57. Motion made by Michelle second. Second by any question seeing none. All in favor I hear I oppose. Motion so car Louisa action item Z motion that the board of education accept for first reading policy 5125.11 health/medical records as recommended by the policy committee in accordance with 25-58.
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And so it was nice to get some of the kids back together again. When those two saw each other, I cannot even tell you the squeals. And then they raced their chairs at each other and we were all yelling, "No, slow down, slow down." But they were just squealing. They were so happy to see each other and um it was it was really awesome. They're all smiles. So um so we had oh my gosh, so busy garden lessons. Kids are learning about photosynthesis and how seeds travel. Our garden volunteers are amazing. We did actually have two nice days. They were able to be outside um celebrating Dr. Seuss fun. Everybody likes to get in on it because that's got to be there, right? Our middle school kids are super busy right now. Uh getting ready for high school. They did their tour at YS for FBI day.
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Thank you very much. That's even sounds better question. Yes. So I just wanted to uh clarify. I think at the last uh meeting the the presentation was to uh there there was a there there was a statement that said we will go with the uh optimal price you know the person the company that is best suited for this uh project correct not just based on cost uh also based on experience and correct it was based on best value for the district best value for the district so I just wanted to point that out that you know I know there's like different numbers over there. Just point that out. The reason we went with this is because we wanted to make sure we we select the best optimal um uh you know service provider that gives the best value to the district. Correct. For this project.
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I would want mind and I should always say that, you know, taxes are certainly a concern for the overall electorate, but making sure that you adequately adequately communicate uh that it would potentially not be a tax increase could help mitigate that because the believability of that is higher than the tax concerns. So we do that and half the folks got the positive statements first and half the folks got the negative statements first and then we switch again to not allow any bias but also to ensure that everybody gets the same questions and they say the same thing. And in fact what happens a lot is I'll get calls and someone will say boy that survey was really super positive. I can't believe how positive it was. And then 10 minutes later I'll get a call and someone say I can't believe how negative that survey was.
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Um they uh need to be having some kind of academic or functional deficit. That could be a behavioral deficit. And they have to have a need for specialized instruction or related services. So, if a student just needs accommodations only, they don't need specialized instruction, they would potentially qualify under section 504, whole different set of laws. But if you need um specialized instruction, direct teaching andor related services, that is how a student will qualify for an IEP. So, in a minute, I'll talk a little bit more about some of the services and some of the programs just very briefly, but I do also have a presentation that I can forward that has I think the information that you're looking for, all the different ways students qualify and what that means. Yeah, I'd be happy to share. It's fascinating because it is very specialized for each student and it's just it's a lot.
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I hate to see it brought into um our schools. So when we go to the IASB conference, one of the activities of the IASB conference is for delegates from every school district to vote on legislative issues as part of our job responsibility as a board. Um like it or not, legislation is part of our job sitting up here. I mean and it it has nothing to do with political party. It has to do with what legislation that is going on in the country in the states that affects funding that our school districts get that that affects our day-to-day operation as a public school district. And I think it's important that we have we we have a legislative committee. We have legislative le um board members that are on a legislative committee. I think it's important that we have board members that are keeping an eye on things that are going to eventually affect our funding.
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Are there any questions? So just to confirm Dr. White Deer Path and Briargate uh specifically fourth grade at Bargate and fourth grade at Deer Path um we have or Mr. Shephard has should that tip over to 27 like we're we're going to be really quick on the trigger with with posting that position. I just So we really are going to take um a really good look at that after registration opens which is March 10th um which will still be in time to align with the staffing plan if we need to increase um those those sections. I think right now we just want to want to see do we have you know a large number of moveouts or perhaps because if we were to allocate a teacher at this point it would really bring those classes even smaller than some of our kindergarten classrooms or or the first grade that we like smaller.
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So what does that mean? Right? So we're going to provide u viable access to curriculum resources which was when we drilled down that was the baseline for all of these issues right is student engagement. Um we're going to do that through student surveys uh participation rates and then through our classroom observations. Every observation that we do focuses on uh Schmoker's uh basic elements of instruction um that u that then lead to uh the engagement piece. The student the teacher retention rate of 90 uh% this year. We we have two teachers that are going to leave us um both by retirement. So, we don't have anybody who's running for the door and um we've already started the process to um to interview and replace uh the areas that we need to but other than that we have no um speculation of any sort of a turnover there.
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