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, it's 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, it's going to say take it and run. Sorry, I just had the report up and it's missing. So, as of right now, and 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 it closer to the end of the year. In addition, we will get another quarterly payment from the state.
We talked about it a lot and we had a professional development last month that Marlene and Ran really I mean with bringing in folks from um at advance and it was really powerful for our staff to understand what the capacity was just in their own professional capacity. Um but I think they also better recognize what our students are doing and that'll help inform our policy. We focus a lot on creating what we call durable tasks. Tasks that are uh I wouldn't say AI proof but a lot less susceptible to being um easily completed through AI. So we're learning these things. Uh I think as we learn that we'll probably be looking at that policy next year. Is it possible we could possible we could just let AI write its own AI policy if we if we wait a few months? Next year's policy meetings are cancelled.
Nope, not here. Okay. Next we have a presentation specialized academic instructional SA model Dr. Frereded. Yes. It gives me great pleasure to introduce our director of special use services Lauren Klasker who will lead us I know with a colleague um through the great work that's happening out of SIS. It's actually I know they're going to talk about the SI model but I think they're going to talk about some other key initiatives that are having significant impact on student achievement in our district. So I'll turn over to Lauren. Thank you. I've never had to move the microphone up before. This is really exciting. Okay. Thank you, Dr. Cisai. Uh, President O'Neal, trustees, Mr. Matt Suda, Cabinet, thank you so much for allowing me to speak tonight and to share a little bit about the exciting work that we're doing in special youth services. So, I want to just quickly start with an overview of the leadership team in SYS.
Now, let's talk Skills USA and our CTE programs. The biggest event for some of our students. And as you know, Skills is happening the next few days. And we are so excited. We have about I think 205 students competing over 71 comps. And FFA just attended their state conference in Sacramento last week and they did a great job. Construction are at the CIE build since Tuesday in Huntington Beach. And this is our third year attending the build where we go against teams from different high schools, colleges in Southern California. And we have 11 construction students competing in those two full days, which is incredible. Our fair prep is still doing good and our students are doing well. Over 60 kids are raising animals from pigs, lambs, and to cattles. Another exciting news is that the Skill USA chapter launched the letters of love initiative. One of our students, Ronnie Davis Tolamantes, created a club this year called Letters of Love.
Thank you. Thank you. Okay, we'll scoot back to virtual. [Music] Hi, we have Cynthia Longley and your microphone is muted. So, if you would unmute uh you can you have five minutes. Uh we can't Hold on a second. Let me just uh make sure the volume's up. Um, can you hear me? You want to try again? Can you hear me? Now we can. Thank you. Okay. Sure. Go ahead. I'm I'm up. Yep. You're up. Okay. Um All right. So, this is my letter. Um, my name is uh well to the esteemed members of the Clifton Board of Education, my name is Cynthia Longley Richards and I am the seventh and eighth grade director of orchestras at CCMS. Uh, I'm dialing in tonight to speak to the budget and the important tax levy opportunity. While I am just a firstear teacher at CCMS, I am also a member of the Milbourne Board of Education, which according to our auditor auditors is one of the most fiscally responsible districts in the state.
Same thing. All right, there's a motion. Is there a second? Second. All in favor? I. All right. Thank you. Uh moving on to county community foundation restricted grant application for the spring cycle. Yeah. So here we would be looking at um submitting for some safety requirements um in our um childcare area, specifically our toddler room. So, through all the work we we did last year getting things up, we still have one piece that we need to work out with some um exit that would need to be out of every room for anybody any kids under the age of two and a half. So, one of our rooms currently, while it does have access through another room and then outside, it does need direct access out. Um so we are looking to apply for the grant for uh funding for that piece in our tug room.
And and approved means you have to come back for Yes. But they have most of the towns that had had a semi alternate process meaning not the full board meaning it went to planning department planning department and planning board rep. That's fine. What I'm saying is these things if you want these things changed you have to get someone to approve them. Right. I think that's how I'm reading. Well the so legally the dimminimus is usually like it doesn't get as much attention. So okay. So that's yes maybe but not exactly written. Yeah. So I think that I've been thinking about this a lot and reading like why would it be a harm to come back to the whole board like we can be efficient at our meetings. We're getting sorry to interrupt you Kate. I'm reading like the there's their their rules and regulations. The way I'm reading it is exactly accurate.
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.
Thank you. Sorry, Mr. Gripple. Um, at the risk of revealing that I don't really read any of my cave emails, um, is, uh, is there, uh, an opportunity for like a webinar on AI, like perhaps the presentation that the the staff received or or that Cab put out that maybe I just missed, you know, is there anything like that? I can send you the link to that we have on our web page that has all of the presentations from all of the presenters from that day and that might get you what you're looking for. That'd be fantastic. Thank you. I appreciate that. I'll send it to all of you. Yeah, I'll send it to the That'd be great for just our community as a whole. Parents, I don't think parents understand the the speed at which AI is growing and how that not only just impacts the school system, but even their everyday lives, too.
So, I'm Lauren, the director. My coordinator is Tess Melendres. She is out right now. She had a baby last weekend, so we're very excited for her. And filling in for her um in the interim position is Shea Paleo. And the other coordinator who works with me on the leadership team is Christy Gutierrez, who is the coordinator who oversees uh educationally related mental health services and our school psychology team. So, I just wanted to give you a little overview of the things we're going to be touching on tonight. I want to um just help you guys understand a little bit about the structure of SYS and then we're going to touch on some of the key initiatives that have really been driving the work that we've been doing in SYS and then I have some exciting news to share with you. So, a lot of people don't realize how big SYS is.
This club has created 330 personaliz personalized cards for children with chronic illnesses. I have attended almost every meeting, and it's such an amazing club to be a part of. They engage over 200 students. The project emphasizes kindness, teamwork, and community service. And it showcases students growth and impact of small acts of compassion and bringing hope. We are getting ready and gearing up for our CTE awards. These awards are to recognize our completers and the v variety of awards for our seniors. So, as you can see, we are very proud of our students for making it this far with all what they have been working so hard towards. We can't wait to see how they do at skills and we are praying for some good news. I would like to mention Miss Pat, our CTE coordinator. I know with all these programs and events, she's been very busy and I would like to give her and all the many CTE teachers props for going above and beyond to getting these students prepared for Skills USA.
I have had the opportunity to sit on our finance and facilities committee, and I work directly with our BA. As I'm sure you all know, when developing the district budget each year, the BA and superintendent work uh closely to align the budget to the district's goals. This work begins in the fall to be presented in the spring for approval ahead of the state budget deadline. All monies are considered in the process, including the 2% tax levy. While I understand that the idea of raising taxes in in a time like this where all costs are rising um and it sounds like a bad idea, I'm here to try to convince you that not levying the 2% is not only a bad idea, but fiscally irresponsible, especially this late in the process when the budget is due to the state to be approved. In a year when the district is opening a new school, which we just heard um a lot about, which is very exciting.
So uh we don't have the exact um precise budget yet for that but it will come in somewhere around $12,000 mark what we would be submitting for based off of what we've gone through so far with uh the contractor.
They're defining these changes to be the changes that you would have to request for rule to approve. So the word dimminimus is somewhat confusing. It might be. Those are several different ones. I think this is Yeah, that's Shrewsbury. Oh, maybe. Yeah, this is all Shrewsbury. I I guess what I'm telling you is I like the way Shrewsbury is doing it. Whether we want I mean I like the idea of it coming back to the board just like it's done here. Shrewsbury has this coming back to the board itself. But the problem where I'm confused is is this in their in their actual zoning. That's the part that I don't think I don't know if we can just do that. I think they're in a process like a planning board process. Yeah. Then is whatever if if it's part of the process and then if that's in the approval document um then yeah then that that's part of the process.
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. 1,3,598.98 with it. 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, thank you. Any other comments from board members? Okay, we move on. Um, if there are any outstanding committees, I know Mr. Perigeni couldn't make it tonight. He had a work commitment, but he did want me to um publicly congratulate um officially Mr. Lockheart, uh, Leonard Lockheart at CA, who has been officially appointed as president of the NSBA. So, congratulations, Mr. Lockhart.
And so, I really wanted to start out by highlighting how many people report directly to SYS. So, we have 142 people. I swear I did not do that. Okay. All right. So, um I'll just talk a little bit about that. So we have everything from program support secretaries who we could not live without um program specialists, speech and language pathologists, school psychologists and all of the other uh people that you see over there. So 142 people directly report to SYS. And then just to give you a feeling for how big our teaching and classroom staff is, we have 273 teachers in special education in AUHSD and we have 521 instructional aids. So we are a big team and I want to jump into the work that we do and kind of highlight a couple of things. So, there are a little over 26,000 students in Anaheim Union High School District and we have almost 4,000 students with disabilities.
And as for ASB, our students have been our seniors have been working every day during lunch for the past two weeks selling prom tickets. We have sold so many tickets filling out all of our buses available. Next week, we will be doing prom king and cringe nominations for the seniors during lunch. so they will have the opportunity to vote for whoever they like. April 19th is our prom day and as it is my last high school prom, I'm very excited, but also it feels bittersweet knowing that we only have a couple weeks until graduation. But speaking of graduation, April 17th is where our seniors will be receiving their caps and gowns. So, as the day p as the days passed, we were getting closer to all of our last senior events. Prom, senior awards, senior dinner, senior sunset, and all the graduation stuff. Our ASB seniors are going to be working hard this month and for in the next for sure.
I'm very excited to hear about the music suite. Um it's we're in a district that's underst staffed already. Um I'm not sure how this will be able to happen without the money to do so. Cutting the budget is counterintuitive to expanding facilities and staff. And not taking advantage of money that is legally leviable is certainly a miss. While it may sound good to say that you're not raising taxes, I'm sure that everyone understands. I'm not sure everyone understands what the actual tax impact would look like. And while um my district Milbourne is not comparable in many ways, um our BA provided a simple formula for the public to understand what the actual cost would look like. Uh in Milbourne, we actually applied for a health insurance exemption and we will be raising taxes 3% uh which will be a little less than 3% when all of the factors are considered.
So um there's any questions happy to take those. Other words, I would recommend approval for submission for that grant. Any discussion? Move approval. Second. All in favor? I must conserve approval for the technology advance from the common school fund. Yes. So, uh we do these loans twice a year. Um we did just submit these. This one was submitted last Friday uh for the due date. So, this is a formality to get it approved. Um the loan that we have applied for this round is 238,000. This will be funding for software purchases for student systems as well as um equipment and Chromebooks for student instruction. So I recommend board approve that would sign off on that. Yes. So just add in the recommend or reminder that we um qualify for a common school fund technology advances, construction advances and those sort of things all because we're such a low assessed value school corporation and our tax base produces you know a smaller amount of property tax that so then we have access to these funds.