Um the violation of the administrative procedures act means that the money has been allocated already. Um it's spent as Dr. Robosi said in most cases we're just not getting reimbursed. So you cannot reverse such action without going through proper procedures which in this case there's there's administrative procedures state level office of administrative law federal level a little different but um it violates their process and procedures from stopping the payment of those funds. They didn't follow their own process for doing so. So that would in in the short term would allow the funds to be paid now and continue it through the year would be the the long-term injunction. Thank you, Miss Miller. So, it's important to note that this is a multi-state lawsuit because there were many states impacted by this. The last uh line of the of the email says uh we hope to know more next week about the timeline for a ruling.
Understood. I mean, I I'm here for another year at least. So, I could I mean, assuming I'm still on the comprehensive plan committee, which I am, I could certainly I mean, I think I'm just putting a plug for that because if if that waits, it's just not going to go well to keep moving because you don't want to pass the comprehensive plan and then be like rushing. Now, what are we going to do? they want to start working on those zoning changes or talking about and just general implementation plan like I how I have lots of ideas how that could work like but anyway there's no plan no I get it I I think I can kind of make a footnote for myself to think about that since I'm on the well it sounds like I mean before we get to bylaw changes it sounds like it's more about understanding what the implementation how that works.
So I just wanted your your opinion on that. Thank you. Any other questions besides for me? I have one. Um the amounts in our revolving accounts are in the reports you give us every month, right? Am I missing something? Yes, they are. Okay. So, so we actually do know how much is in the revolving accounts. It's not being hidden from anybody. True. Okay, that's what I thought. So, thank you very much for clarifying that. Um, I had another question. Okay, thank you. All right, let's move on to the report of the assistant superintendent of teaching and learning. So tonight's report just includes um two topics. One is again title one supported events upcoming. We have some vacation challenges. Uh at the elementary schools they're doing Busybe vacation challenges. At GMS they're doing um a bingo challenge and also a read naturally challenge. So, uh, Title One is supporting students both in continuing their literacy and math development even when they're on vacation.
Um, and then I just want to uh thank the board and ask if you have any questions for me. Miss Smith, do you have anything? Okay. Appreciate it and enjoy. Ron, thank you. Lauren, can you explain uh to the audience what wraparound services are? Sure. So we have students who have social emotional needs that impact their ability to come to school, function at home, function in their in the community. And what wraparound does is it is a service delivery model that literally wraps around the student and the family. So they receive inhome counseling. Um they have a parent partner who helps to guide the parent in being able to support their student. There's a student partner. there's a therapist that works with each of them. Um, sometimes the wraparound services can even be there in the morning to help a student get on the bus.
Um I can't begin to express to you how it feels when I I I come into town and I see a school bus and on the side of the school bus it says Apple Valley School District. I get so excited. I want to pull over and say, "Can I just ride?" Um because there's something about seeing that school bus and knowing that uh they come up early in the morning, pick up our children, and and most of them drive home after the children have already had their dinner. Uh because they're still trying to drop off that last kid who forgot to wake up on the bus and now the bus driver has to go back and drop them back out. Um, I I can't help but to say a special thank you uh to Sherry. I don't know if she's still in the room. Um, but Sherry is like that root that waters the plants so that the plants may look healthy.
So, I don't know if this is something that could take, you know, years or is something that might be expedited. We are hoping it's something that's expedited. the uh chief of staff says uh we know this is a matter of great importance to your district and we will continue to keep you updated. So as soon as I receive further updates uh I will let the board and the community know. That was one serious thing. The second serious thing that I wanted to discuss and I want to clarify, there is a resolution on the agenda tonight and I want to be sure that uh we all understand what this resolution means and this resolution is on finance um a resolution authorizing an application for expenditure increase. When I presented on Tuesday night, I spent uh some time talking about the uh the state telling Clifton that we are 44 million under adequacy or our local fair share.
Yeah. And then so that you can start looking at well are there bylaw changes? If so, what bylaw changes when you know kind of thing versus just saying we got to get these bylaws done really quick about engagement. I'm no so numbers 8, nine, and 10 are more like easy and 11 and 12. 8 through 12. I feel like we've been kind of doing it meeting with different departments and Do we want to maybe do some of that in the next couple of months? Well, I mean this with the zoning board of appeals in light of the 40B project. Well, number 11 almost gets like a green mark too because um they are forming a a historic district that that's also in process, right? Um and I think they're going to come back. You know anything about that, Alro? I think they're maybe going to come back.
We appreciate the interventionists and teachers for encouraging students to participate in those um, and supplying incentives for such. Also have a grants update. Um, pleased to report that we recently received a $35,000 equipment grant to support the development of our advanced manufact manufacturing innovation career pathway at June at the Greenfield High School. Um, I'm optimistic about a innovation career pathway designation based on that, but we have not heard officially about that. Um, I had hoped to be able to report on that out on that tonight. Um, we also received an innovation uh, I'm sorry, the investigating history grant there being there are updates being made to that HQIM in the seventh and sixth grade curriculum. So, this will support teachers in understanding and internalizing and implementing the changes to the curriculum. and we are about 10 days away from launching our second acceleration academy during the April break.
It's really about meeting a student, a family with significant needs where they are and to help guide them and give them skills, but it's expensive. Emry, thank you. Fantastic presentation. Thank you. Um could you uh tell me about average um how many? So that's a great question and it really is variable. We have students who have one to two goals. We have students who have 10 12 goals. It's really a the IEP is really based on student needs. So we every three years we do an assessment and based on that we identify what the needs are and we build a goal for each of those needs. Each year hopefully we're making progress and moving to the next level of that goal and then hopefully at the next assessment we're able to take some things off because they're not needs anymore. So it can change year to year.
So, she gets up every morning and make sure that our campus our buses are healthy to get out there and the bus drivers are healthy enough to know where to pick up the kids. and the bus drivers are healthy enough to come back and drop off the buses and healthy enough to go home. So, I I don't usually pick up on things like that, but those that know me know that I pick up on the littlest of things. Um, so thank you uh Sherry and of course the computer. There's somebody who was good at computers. I tell you, if I forget my passcode, I'm going crazy. uh but to see somebody who actually knows how to work the system, I am always in awe of them. I do look forward to a great um next month coming up. I have been very busy as a grandmother and a as a parent this last month and but coming this coming next month, I will be showing up at some of your schools.
And then I showed you an email that we received that for this year is giving the board permission to raise taxes, to raise the tax levy as much as necessary to bring our budget up to adequacy, meaning an extra $44 million. I did make very clear that was not going to be my recommendation. We did uh talk that night and there is a there was a deadline uh the deadline is April 14th to apply if we anticipate applying for any additional funds over 2%. So I'm recommending 2% increase in the budget. The administration's recommending a 2% increase in the budget. Some board members have expressed that they might want to see more. And again, you guys are the stewards of the public's money in the event something catastrophic happens in the next 3 weeks. And when I say catastrophic, I mean we got an email one day from the state that says we're taking the federal government's taking 11 million from you.
I haven't received any updates. I know that before Peter left, he did reach out, but I don't think he heard anything at that point. I don't know if the email because we had just requested some clarifications on the information like like an updated plan and like for them to tie up the loose ends like on that. Um but so far um they haven't requested to to come back. Um, so some of these like the fiscal impact tool I know Peter was working on and obviously once we have a new planner we can come back to um and then like number 16 again once we have a new board we can discuss more. Anyhow, my two cents would be that we keep this list um for our meetings and what you know seems like this is the time of the year while we don't have a lot of big projects to much more.
Again, it will be focused on literacy. We have approximately 20 students in grades one through four from across the district who are signed up to participate. So, looking forward to having them back. Thank you very much. Superintendent have an update on the restorative practice committee. Um, the director of behavior services, Sheri Picarski, has been leading the work along with the collaborative for educational services. The committee's had three meetings thus far and have been working really hard. They're also um going to be joining the Franklin Regional Council of Government's full coalition meeting this week and uh talk about all of the initial steps that Greenfield Public Schools has uh taken thus far and they are um being recognized for the hard work that they're doing. So, I just want to thank um Miss Picarski and the committee for the work that they've begun. You'll see an enrollment update from March to April numbers.
It can change every three years. It depends on the student and their need. mentioned that fly. So, I did not include flyups in the number of IEPs that we held. And thank you for bringing that up. I didn't even go there because I'm not even sure how I could count that over the past couple of years. Um, so our flyups, for any board members who aren't sure, is the term we use internally to refer to our incoming students who are flying up into our district. Our program specialists dedicate weeks, months, I'm going to be honest, of their time trying to support the sites and going out to all of our feeder elementary schools and holding individual IEPs with those incoming sixth incoming seventh grade families um to explain what junior high looks like, talk about programming, and make an offer of FAPE for them. So, no, that's not even in that almost 6,000 IEPs.
I'll let the superintendent know what my schedule looks like uh so that I may stop stop by and begin to see some classrooms uh because I get a lot of joy in seeing the classrooms. I thank you all so much for coming this evening uh to indulge us and um just in case you haven't heard it enough, we do hear you. Thank you very much. [Applause] Amanda. All right. Good evening, everyone. Um, as always, I'd like to begin by thanking our incredible student representatives for sharing their campus updates with us this evening. Uh, it's always a joy to hear what's happening directly from our students and I appreciate the families and school staff for being here to support them. Um, when Phoenix was up there, I kept looking at Natalie and I was like, I know her. She played soccer with my daughter on Allstars last season, so I was like, "Oh, that's her." Um, I know many of my fellow trustees and I attended some of the same events.
If we find in the next 3 weeks that title money is taken away or we lose all our federal money, that's an additional $21 million and primarily made up of staff. So what we thought was a rather easy application, we thought we just had to say we might apply for more money. When we looked into it the day after the meeting, we found that not only did we have to say how much we might apply for, but we had to list what we would spend the money on to bring us to thorough and efficient education that's in the state constitution, which is not a problem because we're 44 million under. We can justify it. and then said, "And you need a board resolution authorizing you to apply." So, let me be very clear. In order for Mr. Shahada to apply on the district's behalf by April 14th, this resolution needs to be passed tonight.
Yeah, for me the priorities are um the bylaw review and my Yep. my Yes. And what I term that is not necessarily what other people term that. So that's I keep my own counsel about what I think about, you know, those bylaws which mostly to me is about inconsistencies. Um things that aren't clear, things that don't like actually don't make sense. Not like, oh, I think this bylaw that should be changed. Residents feel differently about that now. Not what I'm talking about. You're talking about like cleaning up silly things that are like definitions that that clearly are that are I I think that's fine. My concern is if those are like not if the public doesn't see a work plan then it's like hey I just got this change and then it's like what where did this come from? Right. I I think we get ourselves in trouble when we don't bring the public along.
Um, and I just want to highlight that as many of you know, we have not had a um SIMS database manager for quite some time that our former person had resigned in November. Um, and we have recently hired someone who has really been a rockar, uh, boots on the ground getting things in order. And one of the things that we've been doing is just trying to clean up some of the errors that have been left behind because of no one in that position. So when you see the decrease to Greenfield High School, it's actually celebratory because many of those students were January early grads and they just weren't coded accordingly. So, I didn't want anyone to think that it was just a mass exodus. The other shifts have just been um we had a student age out and we've had a few that have moved out of state.
Yes. [Music] All together classroom set. Mhm. Absolutely. I heard yesterday uh it's the 50th anniversary of IDA. Yes. Yeah. Absolutely. And it it is amazing how far we've come in 50 years considering we had at that point in time students with disabilities were not entitled to a public education. They were lucky if they had any access at all to a school setting. And now we're driven by something called least restrictive environment. So our job is to find the environment that is the least restrictive for a student based on their individual needs where they can successfully access their learning. And that looks different for every single student which is why we have that continuum that I talked about at the beginning because the least restrictive setting a lot of people think well that's the gened classroom with no support. And for some kids, yes, absolutely. But not for all kids.
Um, the high desert breakfast, field day, um, the play at sitting bowl and granite hills, uh, present or performance of lay miz. So, um I'm not going to spend much time repeating what has been shared. Uh but I would like to highlight one very sweet moment from Lay. Um at the end of the performance that I attended Saturday night, uh there was an onstage prom posal between the two lead actors. Um and it absolutely stole the show. Like the show was amazing, but that was like a cute. Um the young lady's father did have a little bit of a heart attack. I think he she thought he thought it was going to be like a proposal proposal, but then it was promosal and it was all good, but it was a touching fun moment. Um, I also have to share that my daughter, my oldest, loves attending the Granite Hills Theater productions and I lovingly call her my great academy groupy.