Yeah. About important things. Yeah. Thank you. Certainly very cool. Well, we want to thank you both uh for taking the time to come here this evening and for uh sharing a little bit about uh the podcast and what you guys do. So, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Shay. [Applause] All right. Uh next up, before we move on to uh the school improvement plan presentation, I do want to just turn it over to our superintendent of schools for just a minute and uh she has an important announcement uh to share with everyone. I do. So I want to invite first I want to invite Dr. Thomas up to the podium. I tried to give you the signal. Dr. Thomas tried to get you the Oh, are you coming? And oh I see Mrs. Mrs. Y y is also coming up and they're going to introduce our new assistant principal from the Quinn School who we're so excited to welcome here this evening.
If they're get maybe get their insurance through their spouse and they're on capers tier three, they might be a candidate to be come over to OPA. And the reason for that is um our 401k uh program is a lot better than K first tier three. Um they have to wait a year to join it. They're three they're vested in three and then we'll match uh up to 6% 25% up to 6% will match their contributions. So uh it's much better than capers tier three. So we give them the option you know to do that or you should I should say you would could give them the option to do that. Um the other one is through attrition which I talked about and the last one we've had some boards that have gone 2 years or so doing the transition and say you know what I think maybe we just ought to move them all over uh and and do it that way.
They don't quote me. I believe they had four. There was four in a straight line. No, there was two separate ones. Okay. Two separate ones. And then they added on to two of them and they added two championship courts which are just single courts right there. Okay. Yep. If you look up or if you just Google Smoky Valley High School, they're right there. You'll be able to get a little bit of a look at it. It's pretty dang nice. And because they have the whole thing is named after a coach that coached there for a long time, Ron Dalston, and he's a legend. So, the whole thing's named after him. And then, um, you have a Bella family courts uh, and Jim Olster Court or something like that. And then the shelter is named after someone as well because they donated to get that put in in their shelter is really, really nice.
Um, all sponsored by the Education Foundation. This year, Grace Church is partnering with the foundation to pack um macaroni and cheese, oatmeal, and red beans and rice. And what happens is um they need 500 volunteers all together. It's 2 hour and a half shifts, 9 to 10:30 and 11 to 12:30. and you come, you work at a table. It's very easy. Envision, if you will, outside Safeway, those pallets with those giant boxes of um like watermelon in them. Imagine that full of elbow macaroni. Imagine another one full of cheese powder. And so, you'll be working at a table to measure out elbow macaroni and cheese powder. But this project allows us to put meals in our weekend meal bags for students at about 25% of the cost if we had to buy the product separately. So, um, a lot of you have different groups you belong to.
Right. Right. Both of those. Yeah. Okay. And then what's that last one that is the national origin projection? That was the one that came from the board that they asked us to work. And did we work on that? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, we don't really need to have this thematic change yet. um that go ahead and leave it u because that's what Adriana was uh talking about uh about the Yeah. If we have an overarching theme, right? And we can always delete it later. Yeah. Right. Okay. Okay. Is there one that you're working on right now? I think I might be working on JIC. Is that the one you told me I should work on? I think it would. Whatever. I think you would change the the title of that one. Yeah. Okay, I'll do that. I still have the folder that has all the common forms that Adriana went over.
I think the agreement overall has been a is a good one, but I don't think we need to be out. Where's that Ash? It's section six. Six. I mean, honestly, if they at some point don't fund it, how are we going to still say we want Okay, I support I'm going to ask that question. I understand we're not allowed to go and sue them afterward or something like that if that's what all that's talking about, but Okay. No, that's a good question. All right. So, can I have a motion to table item 10? Motion. Second. All in favor? Any oppose? I have it motion table till next month. Perfect. Thanks. Other items.
So we speak their language. We understand uh um what functional capacity is and I think the outcome that they've provided in the report of functional capacity is probably the most conclusive piece that really helps us understand how much space you have in your buildings. The image on the left is just a page out of their report and uh they talk about functional capacity and at three of your elementary schools you're going to crest over that functional capacity in the in the upcoming years and uh we understand that that's going to put pressure on the building even more so than there is currently. We did a very similar exercise in St. Charles to understand not just the capacity of every building but also how does some of the things that Alison was talking about those inequities within the schools or between buildings that fall under there.
I mean it's it's night and day what it looks like. I mean, it looks chalky. And so, like I said, I don't know what your quotes are, but I think there's some things that hopefully that we can do just to to beautify our I mean, we want to be good stewards of of what we have, take care of it, you know, and I've, you know, if we can organize I've got some ideas of maybe some parent or some volunteer work to to do maybe some landscaping and and you know, because that that's I look at that stuff. So when I walk when I drive up and there's bushes that are twice as tall as me, I'm like this is, you know, and they're and they're people can't walk in the sidewalk because they're sticking so far out. Those are things that we can that we can do that don't cost a lot of money to make your place look, you know, you know, if somebody's driving around that they're, you know, we're we're competing for students.
Um but that's a huge deal. So any student that achieves at that level will gain automatic admission. Um and again, that was just released last week. Uh Cindy, if you don't mind to the next one. This next one gives a sidebyside comparison. Again, I'll be happy to afford uh the board members and anybody interested um this handout. It's really a front and a back that was provided to the state um high schools and central office administrators when the new diploma requirements were approved and agreed upon. Um this comparison I won't again go line by line or item by item but uh will show you the comparison. And so on the left side are the diploma requirements for students to achieve a core 40 diploma currently through our current freshmen. On the right you'll see those new diploma requirements starting with the class of 2029. A couple of highlights you'll notice um towards the bottom I mentioned flexibility and a little bit of autonomy as it relates to students electing what their four-year experience look like.
And so the 2023 bonds do not have one. 2021 bonds do have one, but we're still five years out or so. Um so still plenty of time before we reach that date, but as municipal advisor, just know that as that date gets closer, we look at any refunding opportunities for the school. Um so nothing to point out there. Just wanted to for clarification. Moving forward to slide three. Um won't dive into too much detail. This is just really the chart behind that data we just talked about. Um so again, that little bit of a decrease in 2026 and then a bigger decrease in 2027. And here in a few slides, we're going to walk through how the proposed bond payments just layer in with this existing debt service. Moving forward to slide five. So again, the purpose of the meeting is really to set maximum parameters and provide some current estimates.
Absolutely. And you'll see that in our next presentation. Outstanding. Thank you for all of your hard work. It's very exciting to see this. Mr. Noter, I do have a follow-up question to what Miss Dum was asking. Um you mentioned debate as being a potential for um fulfilling the comm's requirement. Um will we have a list of all of the one for ons that could happen? Um just as I think about myself as a parent who's planning um ahead for their students. How can we encourage extracurriculars that might be a a different way to free up their schedules or or things of that nature? Yes, absolutely. Thank you. Um board. Yes, Dr. Mahalland. I was curious um as situations that you might expect where parents or the students are going to request the course deferment. Um yeah, what have there been some thoughts about what might be, you know, the reason where where they want to defer?
So we have to propose our initiatives um by October. So it's really thinking in terms of being a business person and really having to balance that and really having to look at it. And you know, it's a very similar application to what you have to do with regards to a budgeted school district and particularly in a regional district. You really have to take a look and watch your money and see where you're at each month and ensure that you know your percentages aren't going over or you're not exceeding in any particular area and really resetting and reggrounding and bringing ideas and bringing that information to the school committee so that they're fully aware as well and that they can forward and make some decisions with regard to what we think are the best initiatives or directions that we have to do. Um so I do I have a lot of um experience in budgeting and presenting budgets at town meetings and presenting budgets to finance committees um quotes of directors all of that.
Good evening everyone. First and foremost, Mrs. Yermalovich and I just wanted to thank Dr. Sabre Maguire and Mr. Kylie for all of your support this year. We do still have three amazing retired administrators that help us throughout the week. uh Valerie Brower, Karen McCarthy, and Darren Don who have come out of retirement to help us this year. Um and they just jumped right in. So, we're very very and they've loved every minute of it. We've loved them, too. But we are absolutely thrilled to introduce Dr. Rebecca Hurley, who is um coming July 1st. And Rebecca has her doctorate in education from Northeastern University with a concentration in curriculum, teaching, learning, and leadership. Uh she's been in the Somerset School District and now we've got her since 2005. So she's been there quite a long time, and I know that's like family to her. Um but we're very excited that she's going to be coming here to Dartmouth.
The decisions are completely yours on how you do that. So, um, but the transition model because of of the flexibility it gives you, I could, if I had to recommend to districts, I would check the transition model no matter what cuz you don't have to transition anybody if you don't want to. So, and we talked to a lady today that is eligible to retire. Well, she could retire, come work for us, and double because we're an independent contractor. you don't have those rules of of having to pay the penalty of uh somebody that's already retired and hired back. That makes sense. So um I think I maybe done all that stuff. So um so other questions that usually come up. So what about meal prices? Well, you still control what meal prices you charge students. We don't get involved in that either. your revenue streams.
It has Yeah, it's pretty extensive for lack of better terms. So, one thing um that we would have to talk about as a board is that we do have a general policy that no facilities um facilities are supposed to be like namedostumously after people. But obviously, we did override that for the Gary Vents. So that would have to be something if we were willing to do as a board for Michael to move forward with seeing if he could raise funds for his proposed expansion. Do you guys have any more questions for me? because I would love to answer because like I said I know I missed a ton of stuff that I should have talked about. Is it just a corpse or is there like a a building in between there or that already exists that or the shelter that we have is right here.
Could be a pickle ball club, could be your workplace, could be, you know, church, a Bible study, your friends group, what your actual physical neighborhood. If you have if you want to put together a little team to to join up, I brought some things for you. All you have to do is is scan me back your list, my May one, and show up at the day and time. You'll get an email reminder. But it's a really super fun way. The schools are putting together teams. Grade levels are putting together teams. Um Heather's here. I'm sure I'll give you one for your real litters group. So, we've got there are a lot of people who will really enjoy it. It's a It's a super high energy, fun event. We got lots of super fun music going. And literally five years last year, Quad City Church that has a location in PB and in Prescuit.
That'll make this easier. Hold on. Adriana, are you still there? Yep, I'm here. Um, I'm putting the I I have the folder that you gave us at the AP meeting about the common forms. Um, and I only have two and I feel like there was more but I could be wrong. I have the students the student statement and concern form and the CSD parent concern form. Is there another common form? Uh I think what we are also going to do is um okay let me go through in my mind the um DC so what eventually we'll be done with is uh the DCS reporting form um the like DCS uh request to interview form then the student statement form the parent concern form the office referral but I would put an asterk like we just barely started talking about that um the office referrals form and then um isn't the office referral form isn't that already standardized?
Uh does anybody have any questions on the IGA with Gavin and Fox Lake? These are just repeated. We been reading them every year at this time. Okay. Please have a motion to approve the intergovernmental agreements with Gavin School District 37 Fox Lake School District 114 for shared servicing and food and transportation. Motion second. Tiffany and Vivian, yes. Peter, yes. Bennett, yes. Johnson, yes. Lions, yes. Patterson, yes. On item B, could I have uh uh Nicole Stra come up for just a minute to talk through our process for this if that's okay. Uh you have in the exhibit uh the board memo uh for our HMH into reading ELA curriculum resource. And I Nicole is just going to share quickly how she went through the process this year. It's been quite an exhaustive process. We started last spring with our coaches and interventionists reviewing six different products for a K8 adoption.
So we created a heat map that helped uh the community and the administration understand where are some of the challenge areas spatially not just from an enrollment standpoint but also from uh an adequacy plan standpoint. Another aspect we want to look at is operational analysis because as we make these decisions it's going to impact your operations. So we want to take a look at things like if we start to look at moving students from one building to another, how does that impact your transportation costs? Um, we're also signitories to the ALA 2030 challenge. Uh, which means that we're working with all of our clients and and facilitating facilitating conversations on how to provide sustainable solutions. So, we want to filter that into those discussions as well to make sure that we're finding ways to save on uh utility bills as well. We also uh know that uh Dan and his team are working on updating uh the capital facility improvement plan uh in the next year or so.
So if somebody's driving around these towns looking at schools, I mean, that that stuff matters. When you look at it, you're like, well, they're not even taking care of. They got weeds going in there, mulch two foot high. That That stuff that irks me. I mean, it get it gets me, you know, when I when I take my kid to elementary school and there's and there's, you know, I volunteered. I mowed the grass out there one time because it was I was just not happy about it cuz I, you know, before you came, but it's I volunteered. I'm going to mow the grass cuz my kids were out there playing grass that was 8 in tall, you know, and it So, I think there's some things that we can do going forward to to take care of what we got and not cost us a ton of money, you know, if we can get some, like I said, some volunteer help and do some things.