Ruby and keep in the future and they set standards for technology integration and education and they will drive a lot of this the state is not mandating the district's follow VST standards they're just simply saying that the state of Connecticut is looking at that for their districts in the state and that the state will support districts who follow the ISTE standards but there is no you know it's a symbolic like I said it's a symbolic adoption it's it's it's a big move to pick a standard but there's no there's no legal drive to say what we have to do it we are talking in the group about making recommendations that we would bring to Cape which you're on four capes consideration to recommend adopting standards to the board because we really feel that having a commitment to a set of standards st is one of them and since the state is kinda that's giving me their imprimatur to that it would be ridiculous for us to go and adopt other ones because the state will probably adopt them as a mandated requirement down the road but we're going to talk about that so happy to have you please you have input yeah next week yeah and and the reason and the reason why I bring that up is because in our work that's the most discussion that has happened on the state level in regards to technology and education is those histy standards you know other than that that's the state's input on it for school districts so if I just kind of go into the mechanics of the budget here what you would put in was for two departments on the high school and this cut it's one department and yes and your preference is to do pull Department roll out that is correct thank you one question the 46 uses for ten boards sighs yeah the 46 that 2020 board so each 14 board yeah today today's pricing with installation each sports coming in at approximately 2,300 dollars a board okay in the 69 to get I heard ten boards in the language no I feel here was losing ten keep tying the poachers County keep ten numbers okay and the two departments of that big difference in size so there's one department that has only needs ten and another department is needs 20 no actually so you're at I miss I miss answered your question before because you said two departments for 30 boards no it's three departments three depart yes so you do one out of three right correct so it's ten to ten effective yes yep cities are looking ya know in some cases Bob I use that um you know term loosely for example you know the art program is in a 10-person Department so I kind of do it you know you know art you know business learning so it's kind of like it's two departments and then to block you know the other is called to block the other needs you know in in the in the building that you know the whole mecca and and the other places that aren't part of a big team department but other needs in the district okay thank you I actually have a question about the VHS textbooks so so actually mister Glenda that's going to be for you so I see world language textbooks part of that so I know that our Spanish textbooks are incredibly outdated so I did that that's some of these okay we presented last spring to Cape a textbook roll out for Senderos really for our our Spanish textbooks in Spanish three I believe in four and it's we're running out we're getting to the close to the end of these licenses agreements that we have the books that we have are old and it's this is one of those things and speaking to dr.
Leonard is gonna give us an update on where we stand with the short-term rentals you're probably wondering what all these people are talking to you so the City Council directed staff to put together some information about the regulation of short-term rentals there wasn't specificity in what what or how or the goals seeking to accomplish to that end we worked with a consultant Karla workman to hold a series of workshops throughout the city where we they're just open opportunities to see sort of what was on people's minds regarding short-term rentals in the community and what their experience was some sort of preliminary discussion at those at those meetings about should the city regulate them should they regulate them significantly should we ban them should we not touch them so that infer the information from those sessions was gathered I think that the majority of feedback at that those sessions were that these are good for the community and if you regulate them regulate them in significantly to summarize there were other voices but I would say the majority it was in that for the former that information was presented to that we also looked at example ordinances from other communities that we were that we believed were representative of that some of the different approaches the way that they are that communities are grappling with this three options were included in that report staffs recommendation was option 3 which is sort of the most a aggressive and regulatory framework it would do things like probably limit non-owner occupied short-term rentals to non-residential zones it would require registration an annual permit of some on some basis that could be in addition to our normal rental inspection requirements for properties in the city those options represented City Council's to be honest had a lot of differing opinions even in directing staff to start crafting ordinance in response to option three that would do so so that's where we are now we do not yet know frankly how those ordinances are going to look or where they will be housed to the extent that they end up in the UDC from a zoning perspective you will be involved I think a lot of the registration and licensing will not be zoning and so you will not be involved in those requirements one of the things that had formulated staffs perspective on this is a notion of tenancy in residential areas is different for short-term rentals versus longer term rentals or owner-occupied and so the example was brought up that there are home occupations obviously we do allow home occupations in our residential neighborhoods those are premise Thanh a primary use of that unit as somebody's home be it as a rental home or as an owner-occupied home we are from a stabber speaking for myself I don't speak for staff from my perspective changing the tenancy of those units in a residential neighborhood has the potential to feel more like a commercial enterprise I'm not saying it always does but the nature of that tenancy and the occupancy and the tenure of those individuals in those areas is potentially differs from the intent of our residential districts which is about people residing in those neighborhoods and the services to live their daily lives those you can argue that those are desired for people on a short-term basis that's I think part of the benefit or to sort of appeal of these units in the marketplace but nonetheless from a land-use perspective I think that that is a distinction and so we will see how that manifests and the ordinance in any proposed ordinance as far as enforcement enforcement is I think particularly challenging it's I think there there are a lot of different scenarios in which we can successfully enforce registrations gonna be a help I think where it becomes more challenging is when we start putting guidelines as to maybe like a number of days or the like which is just very difficult and for us to ascertain so thus far the city's always really looked at these is is it an owner-occupied home is it a rental home the all the sort of balance of uses that would be available to those uses would apply so I think that there are different ways that we can enforce whether it's the full range of option one or two or three but that is where things stand so now staff is in the process of working to develop some drafts of those ordinance make some of those determinations as to what should be licensed what should be zoning if any and then will be progressing with that in the coming months just for some data points some of the data that we surveyed as part of that we counted about 1,400 short-term rentals in the city that were rented for at least one night the previous year and of those that reported financial data the average per night cost was about 96 dollars per night Shari Bruns so you mentioned that the primary sentiment from the public meetings was light regulation or insignificant regulation can you maybe provide some insight at then as to why staff recommends what I understand to be the most extreme regulation the nature of the use I think that I think that attributing home occupations or tenancy of a residential property is appropriate in neighborhood zones if you look at the intention of our neighborhood districts I think that's suitable once that occupation of that property starts transitioning to a more shorter term more frequent more numerous people's people basis I think that can be successful but I think it has a greater potential to have sort of less stewardship connection with a neighborhood which is values that typically the intent of our zoning districts in our neighborhoods have value traditionally and so that can occur through a traditional rental model it can occur through an owner-occupied model once the tenancy of that is more cyclical it's not to say that it's gonna be problematic but I think there's a greater potential for it to be problematic and I think that's more of a commercial type Enterprise than a residential business than a residential use I mean one of the difficulties that I see in this conversation is that it's so anecdotal so it's my experience versus your experience or I have a I have a nuisance next to me but I I have an air B&B next to me and I've never had a problem right so it just seems like data would help I don't know you know data points so I don't know if that's like serving people and asking them do you feel that your neighborhood is changing do you feel attendant a shift in tenancy do you see a problem I don't I just don't I don't know if this conversation is arising from you know some very vocal opponents to STRs who have had some problems or whether they're it's actually like a widespread problem that needs to be addressed and if there is the problem then I I would if anything comes before the Commission I would really want to know what the evidence of that is and I would want a lot of data I don't think but kind of I think this I think that conversation is gonna get us very far because we all does have personal experiences and they're gonna they're gonna be so different yeah Commissioner Mills and just in terms of process so to back up to the beginning of this this was initiated by counsel this is not something that staff initiated is that right yeah City Council passed a resolution directing city staff to start this process got it which end the and by this process that was both the public engagement process so then the the consultant and the staff recommendations about what the policy approaches might look like to move forward I think that their direction specifically was research potential regulations about how other communities are doing so and present present those options both from a legal and from a sort of a policy perspective I think city staff in performing that thought that by opening up that discussion to the public helped us why I wouldn't say that we have all of the detailed data by any stretch it gave us more feedback of some of the community experiences that's occurring with these helps us frankly learn a little bit more about the different ways they can manifest the different types of operational and ownership models that that can exist and so yeah to be clear I think my perspective is not sort of democratize accounting of the majority of feedback from those sessions it's my perspective it is I think it's a difficult thing to parse in a way and I think one way to do that is to to delineate it as a different kind of use depending on the different models of how it might occur I think I think that and again I think a 1,400 in the city the one thing I can guarantee you is we don't have 1,400 nuisance complaints about Airbnb or short-term rentals I just you know I do think that that the vast majority are operating smoothly my approach again is that I think the nature of that that use Wow I think that cases can be made that it is totally appropriate in a residential area I think the transactional nature of it and the turnover is it is a different use than the traditional residential uses and in our community just one follow-on comment to that in my mind what you said about like what happens in our residential areas I mean for better for worse this makes me think like it raises questions about what what happens like not just this use but other things in our neighborhoods this is this had come in before it in multiple places as we've looked at you know what we allow and don't allow in our residential districts so I think that's why it's like that that because we often hear about wanting to protect that and like is that is that really what we want to do and so for better for which that might open up a whole nother can of worms about what that's all about just to let you guys know the the where the committee as a whole we meet twice a month but there's a separate committee on ordinance revisions committee so some of that might be at the subcommittee of this I'm imagining yeah it's certainly if it ends up again though I I can't I can't say with certainty that there will be UDC if it is strictly if if the eventual recommendation is that it's more about registration and understanding the extent and sort of some sort of self policing if you will of these units that would have no place there you see and therefore it would never appear on on your table if it becomes sort of identified as a use and we do want to use zoning districts to say where you can or can't do it that will of course come for your recommendation Commissioner Ritz that's it it makes me wonder does my lift driver have a chauffeur's license what exactly all right any other Commission proposed business how do you have motion to adjourn move a Commissioner millisecond and back Meshuga Brando we are adjourned thank you you
president members of the governing board dr. Allison members of cabin this evening and we bring to the board for it to yearly monitoring a policy section eight administration has no recommended changes to either of the policies in Section eight excellent any discussion all right we'll go on to h2 this is a lease of land for the Catholic Charities community service DBA Westside headstart dr. Kellis thank you again mr. president members of the board this evening Ken Hicks would like to share some information with the board regarding a possible partnership that is forming within the district thank you very much good evening mr. president members of the board superintendent dr. Kellis colleagues community members so this is just an informational item but willing to just present it to the board just so that they know ahead of time before we bring back a lease with Catholic Charities doing business as head start and so we were approached just to talk a little bit about we were approached by them about if we had any desire to expand the program they offer some preschool services they currently operate out of El Mirage Elementary School currently right now they rent a couple of classrooms to provide their services there is no more room on that campus to do that so my first initial reaction was well we know we don't have any space so we weren't looking for that we actually provide a lot of our own preschool programs as well it's not a direct overlap they actually provide to a younger base and it's a little bit different clientele but there's no more room there and so then they said well they were awarded a federal grant for Ag for expansion and actually had some money to if we could leased them some land and I thought well we don't have hardly any land but we do have some space over as you can see on this map over next to Dicer Elementary and I start high school on there there's a little piece of land that's not being used and it's just sitting vacant in that sense adjacent to our schools and so we did a little site tour took them over there showed them where it was and get their feedback and they loved it so what they would like to do is to and if we could scroll down just a little bit you can see this is a not site adapted to that land so this is really where they have another piece of property that they've dropped some modular buildings on and so this is similar to what it would look like so they would modify this they'll have to work with the city of El Mirage make sure they get the proper permits and everything done and they would like to put this with a parking lot sixty seven hundred square feet of modular space and a playground to provide those space for sixty preschool students to provide that and then there's a couple offices for them to do some other outreach and some of their other programs and that sense surveys and they'll be serving our community and so we really like the idea of them providing expanding their services and providing more service to our community out there and using they would be improving the land it would be probably a 15 year lease they just sent it over to me so I haven't sent it to our attorney yet they're looking for it as free as possible but knowing they can't give it free it would be for very little money what it would do is they would improve the value of the land and when they leave they would leave the improved land from that vacant land to the parking lot we're asking we have not put this in agreement that we would be able to have access to the parking lot for afters after-hours activities and and so there'd be we would actually like them to improve some of the sidewalk and some of the flow to make it a little safer for students and such too so we think there's a couple wins in there as well that we would be asking them to do but this is really just to do a quick presentation so that the board's aware of our conversations and hear if there's any concerns with the board so that you're not surprised later date when we present a lease and so I don't know if dr.
Berlin talking about where we can make some cuts it's one of those things we really from my perspective we can't do anything about we're coming to the end of life some of these online things and we need to really update what we have so that's what that's where there's such a big ask and world language so the reduction yes well the reduction that's there is you know one of the things that we've been talking about was how do we develop as you know our French program is relatively small here at the high school we have one teacher at this point you know it's something what's the ASL program we certainly don't want to see French go away we want to continue to offer the first program what we find is what is what is gonna motivate kids to continue on with the language beyond the two years that we require what's gonna keep them motivated interested and one of the things we talked about was a French cinema program right which we haven't presented to Cape yet it's one of those things that we would look to replace our current Spanish four program with but something that's more like french cinema which would get people to be more interested but we haven't resented the Cape we still have the existing French for curriculum that we've been using so that's like that was an ass that we'd get down the road you know we plan to bring that in the spring and talk about how we do those sorts of things so that's why we decided to make that decision to cut that 1250 that's for a course that we would eventually propose so it's something we'd come back to Cape and talk about later on I think that's it thank you I would just say it seems like a small amount of money to cut out for something that could really peak student engagement but that's just my two cents and what were the other parts of the I'm sorry mark what were the other parts of the 60 to 50 make the board aware that even with these cuts these those departments are still increasing over this year's budget no right and so some of the things we were looking at in terms of the you're talking about the cuts you can just be clear the last item for ela social studies okay um ela so ela and that word you know what we're looking to do is expand offerings right now again it's an engagement strategy right to try to get students more engaged in reading instead of doing the whole class read what else can we do centered around a theme that kids could read and have student choice so the best way to describe it really is and giving kids more options so we will still give them options not as many as we would like to so that's where we're just cutting back some opportunities so like right now they're reading they read the whole there was a whole class read of born a crime which was Trevor Noah's book you know we would look to say okay what other things could we also what another title we could add we might add a one title as opposed to adding two titles you know for options for kids to pick from so that's it's just it's more diverse it gives kids more of an opportunity and and what we find at the high school level it generalizes contextualizes conversation we're not having you know kids get to apply it to multiple different themes in different books instead of always talking about catching the Rye and not always having that discussion or talking about Fahrenheit 451 there's a lot of themes in those books that overlap in other and if we only limit our literary analysis to one particular text you know we're trying to broaden those horizons for kids we still can broaden them just not as far as we'd like them to go so and if I could add you know when we look at the standards it's really am it is really important to have choice for students to see different perspectives to engage in dialogue where they're presenting making a claim about something in their book and a comparison to somebody while they're working around the theme and following the standards and you know I was very pleased that that's where the way that they were going and I think that it's your word of limiting it's really limiting and holding back our students from opportunities that could really open up other opportunities for kids reading the same book in the clout we all did it you all talk about the same thing but if you're teaching if you're teaching a theme and different students are reading a different book that they chose the the rigor is increased and the richness of the engagement in the conversations and the writing is going to be increased and I know I'll probably be on Facebook too but I think this is a small amount of money for what what you get so the return on investment for this amount of money that we're looking to cut is very high so I don't know just my two cents I'd have to agree I'd like to see the textbooks stay in the budget you know like you said the return on invest in this yeah they're huge I mean the LA is you know the backbone of everything we do I want to increase rigor and give our students more opportunities like we're trying to do with the world language where I'm then we have to stand true with that same mindset I agree with them I don't think we're gonna get any blowback on Facebook over that that's pretty I agree that that seems incredibly valuable it's not a lot of money exactly some is exactly okay so the only other item that we have not talked about is the social studies professional development I think we are which are so bad so I discussed that we need to keep that in you to move forward so does does the team feel comfortable with the three items the presentation stations the library books and the subscriptions is something that we could reduce I do reluctantly against the presentation stations but I'm I'm gonna go with it it's agree can I just ask one question of Eric is that appropriate yeah Eric could you explain you know I don't know the answer to this but could you explain what it is that you know teachers who aren't who aren't going to be able to avail themselves of the new presentation station what teaching tools they will then not have if they're continuing to work with with what they currently have is there any you know I mean that's that's your whole but that's like your chalk you know except we're not using chalk anymore so I just want to know what the status of what they have currently what what limitations they face by not having the upgrade in technology so in some of those cases in most of those cases the staff that would be getting these boards or the departments that would be getting these boards mostly currently have exactly what you see actually right behind me projector screen so for those of you know smart technology inside of them so you know for those of you who on the board who are teachers who might have one of these you know that the boards you know big LED screens bright clear visible for students to be able to see the teacher as Maureen put it actually perfectly it's the chalkboard so the idea to stand up here have your instruction have your entire computer right here you know versus standing sitting over at your desk or sitting at a desk or sitting behind a computer and explaining you know while you're sitting and using your mouse pointer and typing there's lost time switching between the two and there is a more interactive teaching platform teachers come up with it with new ideas you know right right from the board's they can display presentations do polls and survey with their students there's a lot of interactive abilities some that I don't even think about anymore of you know with our one-to-one program you know staff is able to manipulate data put up polls work with students write up in front of the classroom and then through that interact with the students that are holding their one-to-one devices right in front of them whether it be y ou D yep I just think it's important to know what the difference is as we're considering if I could just respond to it I'm all for putting smart boards in every classroom but we have a 6.8% budget increase driven by other things right and this may not be the year to do it right that's so I just the decision where I think we're making as a board is not whether we're supporting it it's a good thing it's a what can we afford to do in light of the special ed cost increases the population increases and all the other things we did so these this is these are choices right I've written that so to me this is a rate paced question of is this the sort of thing you'd slow down in light of this and accelerate when we might be on the other side of the curve so so I just I don't want to I see the value in it I don't think we're making a decision on value we're making a decision on affordability this kind of goes against point on what makes us special how many how many districts are you say they can happily have immense access to this type of technology we just say it's more than half Oh a zhilie it's more than ya so we're behind it yes yep the only other thing I would add is that back to the library books my original point on this was to just hold off on upgrading and expanding Huckleberry I would still like to be able to refresh the collection at whiskey air and the high school because I think that's important to you know replace the books get new books get more current books so I would agree with you for sure I mean favor of improving that I would I would like to see more data as far as how many students are taking out books and really utilizing the library as a resource before I mean you know I think we didn't we trim the library book budget last year I think that Dean do you recall the data we had looked at library book borrowing at whisk and ear right last year and and I don't have the numbers on the top my head they can tell you in terms of a trend when we introduced this kind of goes back to the choice thing that mr.
kaylis has any other man's comments or any comments from the board on this this is a unique opportunity this program has been recently housed in the current facility occupied by sundown when sundown moved in to move back into their facility the program was displaced and so we provide some space at El Mirage Elementary in some of their portable buildings this is not moving that program rather it's adding to it so they would continue to occupy those portable buildings and then also be able to use this as Ken mentioned this is a benefit to the district because right now that field has been sitting there empty for probably a hundred years and this is an opportunity where the district doesn't have to make improvements to it rather a community partner will but we can benefit from it so we'll be happy to answer any questions or more information will be coming along the way as we get more details put into place but we're happy to entertain any questions mr.
Blanda was talking about when we kind of moved away from having every student in the middle school be reading the same book and we gave them choice it was and it was a difficult change the we looked at what the circulation was in the library and there was do you remember this Dean there there was an increase in circulation because the kids were like really kind of enjoying the fact that like they were like we got to pick the book and I know that one day when Deb and I were walking through English class it was like really amazing because there were kids that had you know books in their hand there were kids at hat we're reading on tablets there were kids that were reading on their phones I don't know how they did it I would have a headache but they were and I was we asked them what they were reading and they actually were you know telling us about their book and then kids saying things like oh and she's reading you know XYZ and I'm gonna read that next which is kind of the environment that you want to have in the class so I don't know the hard numbers but I do know that when we we changed the way the books were being what the kids were reading and giving them choice that there was an increase in circulation but those numbers are fairly easy to get because it's just in the database is this number saying we're not buying any new library books or buying less library books and the budget actually for library books has gone up substantially in 1718 the district-wide was a little less than 20 mm and then 1819 was a little over 38,000 and the current year is about 47,000 and then our proposal was about 41,000 further sakata for next year what's the huckleberry portion of this 12a cut six thousand nine hundred thirty eight whiskey near was twenty nine eighty in high school was twenty five seventy so I would advocate for taking out the 6,000 at huckleberry but leaving the rest again not that huckleberry is not important obviously but priority although you expect that the motivation is higher that that level the love of reading going into a level I can't understand you're just mm-hmm I understand you're thinking I would just want to see if we could try to find out maybe very soon if the books that the they're planning to buy our books that are aligned with the unit to study and the science curriculum that you know those just if any of those decisions have been made because then there would be a negative impact over the next two years on the students that were in the building we're gonna make decisions on I guess out the Arctic good email we asked for so this question what the question was if the only concern I would have with really cutting the library books for huckleberry is if the intent was to purchase books that were aligned with the units of study in reading and writing and with the science curriculum because I know that the library media specialist there as the other ones do as well collaborates with the classroom teachers and I don't know what the plan was and so if the books were intended to be aligned with the student instruction that would have a negative impact on on students so I don't know if you know that or Queen well in the so a lot of the social studies text and science texts that you're speaking of is coming out of more of like the classroom library budgets that I propose for science social science and social studies I would say though even though we are getting a new school a new library those books are coming with us and you know the there are still we have such a high circulation of books at huckleberry because the children go once a week could they circulate books Dee Pearson our media specialist is really good at figuring out you know which books are being circulated often which books what new titles do we need to kind of keep us up-to-date so you know even though the you know the library budget may be cut there are still books that need to be replaced just because they're worn torn so I would hate to see it all go because at the end of the day even in two years those books are coming with us and students are taking out books a ton you know in the elementary level so with the reduction of that $6,000 berry there's still $15,000 in that account to purchase the lively I'm sorry there would be 9,000 excuse me just so it wouldn't be zero it out I just want you to know that and it's important enough yep there's there's about five thousand in the request for updating the center school library just for comparison there interesting I think it's reasonable to say we're just gonna get fewer books as long as we're still getting some new books unfortunately this year I think that's worth yeah I don't want to cut it at all but I think it should it should include all three schools if we are going to cut it so we are it looks like just talking about those three items is there any other areas of the budget wants to explore or ask questions about again after this number in order to get the budget down significantly it starts personnel unless you know there's another area of the budget that anyone wants to take a look at or ask questions about I had a couple that I came prepared to talk about so Ken and they're not by the way they're not personnel interesting way out and in the budget there's always been a savings in the last couple of years that I've seen where you pre paid the buff I think it's the bus contract yes I don't know if there's other things that you could pay upfront have you assumed that we could pay it all up front or have you assumed we pay it over time over time I built into the budget that we would take the discounter thing upfront okay so we have that all right yes we'd okay so that's was the first question I have the second question I had was actually about monitors in the in the enrollment you had two additional monitors that was tied to the three additional classrooms correct right do we really need two additional monitors we live with one I think I think that's a question we can actually ask mrs.
Hicks will there be any cost confer can that the district will have to incur mr. president members of the board no the only would be some indirect on attorneys cost but they would be paying all the fees filing fees permit fees and all the improvements they would cover all costs are there any tax implications here mr. president members of the board there would be no tax implications we already own the land so we would not be improving it would not have any impact on that the only other impact that we could think of was Luke Air Force Base and if they have any concerns about we've reached out to them and they are okay with leasing that and expanding that and putting modular buildings on that so as far as liability goes then who is responsible ultimately mr. president members of the board they would be responsible so they'll have to cover their own assurance to make sure that they're covered and insured at all times for their activities if we go on there and do something after hours or something we'd be responsible for hours okay so we have any access to using those buildings or those buildings would be theirs mr.
diamond to come up and talk to the need for that request did you hear the question Mary Rose about the two additional monitoring so the model that we have right now and we can obviously revisit anything is that each class has a monitor that takes them back and forth to lunch just for supervision purposes and for next year with the if we do wind up with all 20 classes we're gonna have to figure out how we're gonna fit everyone in the cafeteria right now we have three lunch waves there's no way we could fit everyone all 20 classes in in three lunch maybe get the most we could that would be 18 so that means we're going to have to have somebody else outside of that wave coming through so there's definitely because of the extra classes we're looking so you'll stress them out stress it because you have a deal with the balancing goes even if even if it's not more people it will be longer amount of time that will need them there during the school day because of the expanding over longer they everybody we kept area okay great thank you kids are gonna have lunch at 9:30 next was it was an increase in the legal budget yes is there any way we could live with that flat year-to-year and manage to it I know I know it was more of a feel of increasing things going on it wasn't driven by it was not driven by special ad correct right and it was not driven by you know negotiations right it was driven by known of history and experiences the question I would ask is could we find a way to manage with a relatively flat budget talk like 25 thousand a year to year came can you go over the history of the illegal the last couple of years last couple of years we've been around $200,000 per year yep and what are we budgeting and 175 right yeah so we're historically over so that's that's that's we've been doing yeah we've been going over and investing and then we manage that that's not something we would look for a special appropriation on it's in my comments last week these are the the ebb and flow of a budget and you find savings elsewhere where you're on where you understood so just spurred on board I mean I hadn't looked at the history it was 255 263 199 this year's budgets 145 because it was one of the items would cut if I remember after we got the the cut from the Board of Finance at the referendum and it's up budgeted at 175 and again those are those are issues that we deal with and again it's it's based on our experience and it has to do with running our organization as a high quality organization and and running it where all of us as staff folks and as students are held accountable for our behavior and at the end of the day that's where you need legal advice when there's challenges to that whether that's personnel which I won't get into it all or those are student matters sometimes they're family matters there's custody issues there's residency issues and that's a big topic in town I mean we pursue these things and the principals will call me with a situation and we will obviously try to solve it ourselves but there's times where you don't want to make a legal misstep and you have to check with counsel and this adds up over time but I thought the only questions I have thank you and unfortunately we had a table facilities committee usage so I don't know we have that number I think and reported on it in the last meeting didn't before to bed good you I mean our regular meeting so how much can we save if we cut out you know personal appliances and things like that throughout the district I think yeah I think what what you reported on was just the usage yeah why there were so many situations we would have to do like a like a honeywell type audit or something like that to get that measurement we couldn't do that ourselves i'm sorry i did have one other question this has to do it's a structural question so when you gave us the list of the items that you said would be the first items on the list to consider right i noted that you didn't put any of investment items of 270 k right so so their investments their investments that have improve our program if we were to not invest in those what are the impacts of those well cuz then if I just a recap for circle on the t-shirt it was a math and interventionist at the high school yes the high school and I ll teacher correct some math tutors and a cross-country coach were the personnel positions so then the rest of it was insurance for those people there was some security related stuff which I'm not asking about because I've been through that and I know what that is sure and then there was some small handwriting texts so I guess the question is as if we look at those positions right the interventionist the tutors cross-country coach and the e ll teacher you obviously chose not to put those on the list as high and Alyssa just like you here you're thinking of sure so so their investments for a reason and I can call each person up to you know talk a little if we want to go a little bit deeper on those are we we have been focused on improving language arts and specifically reading at the high school there are a lot of students that have significant needs and we've been working on that and I think we're making very good strides there mark put a proposal together for a math interventionist because we need it there are a number of kids who are struggling struggling with mathematics our scores are flat in mathematics when we talk about standardized scores and and we have a lot of work to do we make an assumption we have a math interventionist at the middle school and we make an assumption by not having one at the high school that magically they don't we don't need a math interventionist to help those those students are having difficulty once they leave the middle school and we're finding that more and more we have students that are coming to us that need intervention so it's a yeah and I have I have spoken to teachers about that and it's definitely something that is needed at the high school level and it's the tutors from the same ilk tutors is in the same ilk and it really when it comes down to with the tutors at the elementary school is for a very small investment when we properly provide professional development and orient those tutors to our elementary schools what's going to happen there is you really expand the reach of the teachers because you now have another body to take small groups and individual students that you just didn't otherwise have and that really helps break down we talked the significance of class size and the things we want to try to do for individual attention with kids so again that's another big area we do have a lot lots and lots of supports in the reading language arts area but we haven't had those additional supports in mathematics I'm not going to ask about the ll teacher because we spent time already on that thank and the cross-country coach cross-country coach that really has to do with interest in cross-country I think we said Dean I keep going back to this was it was it's close to 70 students interested participating I thought those photos from 1 to 2 this goes from one existing coach to to the other piece to that is the the existing coach is called the boys cross-country coach although we have girls participating we don't technically have a girls cross-country coach so one of the concepts is this becomes a title 9 issue and we want to make sure we don't want to get ourselves in any kind of trap like that so number one you don't want to have one coach for 70 students I don't think that's appropriate so we need another for just the sheer numbers and then we want to be able to make sure we're addressing boys and girls equally ok thank you thanks Rd ok giving you your extra stretch looking at we're getting a dead size cross-country going from that table over the podium for you thank you thanks sure it's actually really exciting to hear about this so when I first came to Brookfield I got lots of emails from grandparents saying please you know the kids in need they need to be able to sign their Christmas checks and their birthday checks and things like that so you know I looked into what we were doing and it we didn't have a what I would call a consistent equitable approach to teaching handwriting it was being taught but it was you know it depended upon what class you were in etcetera etcetera so we worked collaboratively the the centers school's principal Mary Rose was at huckleberry myself the some of the reading teachers and we we had a play catch up so we couldn't do cursive until we had everybody on board with printing so we did we looked at the materials that we had it that had been used in the past when there was a more consistent program we looked at what the language in the open court phonics program was how we were dealing with the letter names etc and we put everything together and developed a multi-sensory approach to teaching penmanship and we decided that we would implement that exact same program in K 1 & 2 we needed to close the gap and then we had a rule out plan where when the students when we got students on board with you know good printing then we would roll cursive in so I believe the cursive started last year right this year okay and we got books and it's happening and this is something that we need to continue and they you know rather if we wanted to make our own worksheets and have teacher standing at copy machines you know running off papers it'll end up being more expensive and more teacher work than buying the appropriate workbooks for the students and so that's um and I would call you know you got got us and want us that's a got it we've got to have that have that and I would add that there's plenty of research on the value of having students really learn how to write and actually write to take notes as opposed to only working on on a tablet on a on a keyboard and I've been I've shared that with the you know the previous board and I'm happy to share that with you but the research is very strong on the kinesthetic component of cursive printing and cursive writing and what that does in terms of brain development and reading and spelling acquisition college students that I am so and we're talking on this one $4,000 $4,500 for and it's just for the texts right no workbooks and things like that teachers have worked hard to like fit this in and make sure that we're teaching it and the principals are monitoring that so it's it's working what community values it because they want those Czech scientists my tenth grader print his name he attends a 12th grader who'd do that day they didn't have dr.
president members of the board we have not had any conversation about using their facilities only just the parking lot and parking structure we could entertain that if that's something the board would like to learn more I'll ask that question now that I've been asked that question I was just curious not necessarily but there was no intent for us to share the facilities because they would be using them for at least seven hours the only thing I've asked them to do is to coordinate with us for when we have our school beginning and ending and parent pick-up and drop-off so that's not interfering with our operations that they would work around that so they would not have theirs starting anywhere around that same time but they're using our buildings at El Mirage though right now they currently rent our facilities and they would continue to rent those facilities any other questions I'm just excited to see what you bring back yes thanks for them all right moving on ahead we'll go to i1 policy governance board monitoring of adopted policy section 7 personnel section seven point three three through seven point six five second read dr.
Ruby assistant superintendent um I would like to get to another part of the budget that's probably I know it's highly valued but that's athletics it's a very it's a not very big but it's a it's a big part of the budget and it's not mandatory and I think if we you know are looking at things that you know are at least questioning certain things in the budget then I think we need to look at all of the non mandatory things before we perhaps entertain in the near future future other reductions to this budget so if we were to eliminate middle school or freshmen sports do we have any kind of figures as to what that would be a couple pieces to that there's there's a transportation piece and then there's coaches and then supplies that go with that do you have that yeah for which skinnier there would be a little less than $17,000 does that include transportation that does not transportation I think might be included it's in the high schools in the high school so the 17,000 that's for just whisking here and that's with transportation not with transport not with transportation that number excludes Unified sports we did that was because the all the other sports and whisking your kids have other opportunities to play it field hockey feel like you do the list and transportation from I'm sorry that's money that's in the budget correct okay how much of a transportation pieces the total transportation budget for athletics it all is about under $25,000 so but that's with the high school too right yeah yeah so minimal okay and freshman sports where would we go with that coaches for freshmen sports would be seventeen thousand five hundred and fifty-two dollars yes what are our freshman sports aside from football we hold basketballs volleyball basketball and baseball okay so football baseball volleyball and both basketball soccer and volleyball used those moment s effort I just would like to make a comment about the freshman football team their popularity news it's always kind of split as far as some kids go to freshmen some kids stay behind played Pop Warner so that's kind of a that's kind of easy when they still have an option to play so I don't I'm not really sure about basketball as far as what the town offers or travel themes and sure there's there's that there it might depend on the age I think it depends on your age I think some freshmen would be aged out so I think some fresh we don't know more oh not anymore oh that's what the Patriot League where they do that with the 8th grader I understand oh yeah I sleep uh four I guess I'm updating my so no Patriots into the patriot division as part of I'm one right is this anywhere anybody wants to go tonight okay look sports I have the same feeling about sports as I do our world language is it's it's one of the things that make a school vibrant right you know I'll take art music drama sports language right there everything about it you know it all comes together holistically and I'll be frank I don't think our job here tonight is to take our programs backwards on these areas so I mean we may be back if it's not affordable by the town but it's but that's it would be would channel Eve she says a cry what you told us last year at the budget it's there's there's things that you would hate to ever lose out in your area in programs so because if it was just all we did was language arts and math and social studies in science and that's all they ever did we would meet the requirements but it wouldn't be a vibrant school exactly so that's what that's what these things are about oh my point is that there is opportunity for these kids to play these sports somebody my point is it's not the time to do that well I just want not disagreeing with you I'm not I don't want to cut I mean I played I played all these sports I wasn't there wasn't a semester I wasn't in a sport but so I'm just he you know it really came to it I think this is about efficiency whether we're talking about for a language or we're talking about sports or music why we wouldn't want to cut we don't want to cut any of these things but how can we make learning more efficient for our kids and how we enhance some things and we could we would much rather have it talk a conversation about enhancement sounds more enjoyable to me I don't like sitting here talking about coming you know freshman football or the world language but I think it's important that we talk about how we can enhance some of these other things that will benefit our kids along yeah we have let's don't underestimate we have enhancements in this budget they just happened to be in areas like that we just talked about the math you know the math work that we have it both tutors and up that's an enhancement you know it's an investment but it's a needed investment the handwriting's have needed investment small but useful and needed even the special ed investments are enhancements very pertinent for those kids right but but it's not as broad right perhaps so so it's it's a you know this is a tough budget I'm not wouldn't you brought it up that because we should look at everything yes yeah yeah so you know and to sort of connect to what you were saying I know we do have to have to be you know very responsible and very efficient with everything that we're doing you know one thing that I just want to keep reminding everybody is that you know unlike some other boards of education not in this state that I'm aware of but I think Jen may have alluded to this at another point but some Boards of Education are the type of entity that adopt a budget that's what gets sent to referendum we're not like that we have other entities that control our bottom line so the fact of the matter is that whatever we adopt it needs to be what we value without that sort of additional quite frankly arbitrary cuts to our budget chasing some imaginary number that we don't even know what it what that number is yet so I think you know ultimately if with these reductions I don't know what our ultimate number is but if it's a 6 point something increase sorry is that mine you might be mine that better yeah okay so ultimately I think if our if if what we adopt is six points something then we need to stand behind that but you know at the very in all likelihood we are going to be back here and we're going to be talking about some much more serious cuts but those will be from the perspective of the boards that were elected to do that job quite frankly too it is their job to sort of say this is what the town can afford and we can work collaborative at the point to to make those to have those discussions and and do what's necessary but so I think what we'll do now is just sort of we'll just go down the line make sure everybody has said everything that they need to in terms of this budget or ask any final questions so Debbie do you want to start with anything any other questions comments [Music] no I mean just just to quickly touch back on the issue of athletics I I'm not looking to cut athletics either or reduce athletics ultimately what I would like to see when I look at the number that we spend on athletics eight hundred and fifty nine thousand dollars and what we spend on clubs and activities is a hundred and seventeen thousand dollars I would like to close that gap a little bit eventually I'd like to see more programs more clubs and activities for kids who are not sports kids this year is not the year to do that but I think it's important to put it out there I don't want to say we shouldn't have freshman Baseball or anything else because those programs are important but I would like to see more on the other end for the kids like I said who aren't doing that but that's a different discussion I think I I'm still where I was initially I think we should maybe go with Bob's recommendation to sort of break these items into sort of the rate and pace categories and I think where we ended up was saying that the forty six thousand for presentation stations the twelve thousand 488 for library books and the 6065 for books periodicals and subscriptions are the things that we're willing to put off delay limit for another year but that's all I'm comfortable with at this point let's say you have to hand me the hat how are you hello Bob the I came here tonight prepared to support the budget as it was presented and and I say prepared because I've spent a lot of time staring at the numbers I've talked to Ken I watched how we go through the process and we do not have a lot of manoeuvre rooms without cutting things out of our educational process I take very seriously the charge we were given as a board which is our job is to advocate for education and a whole education for our students so I actually came here tonight prepared to support the budget as it was this has been a good discussion I think we've had we framed some things we've Laura I've learned some things tonight this was and I want to thank the administrators and principals that are here and I'm kind of where you are Debbie I think there's three small items that we could adjust here and it's just about rate and pace I'm not seeing anything that's a major sea change without affecting what we're offering as a educational program for the town and and you know what we've got three three months of discussion ahead of us then and the Board of Finance and the Board of Selectmen are gonna have to get very comfortable that what we're asking for here is not unreasonable and you go through what we have all of the growth is driven by inflationary factors enrollment and special ed with a little modicum of very needed investments 270k investments is about as small I think as we've ever done so like I said I would go with the three adjustments that Debbie just said and move on and see where we're going I mean and engage in those discussions we have some real engagement at whose 6-point will make it six point seven which is 0.15 percent okay so might get to six six different rounds right but it's still gonna be a very very challenging next three months thank you um I will agree with everything bob says your help oh thank you um and I think I've you know sort of said my piece so we can move along to join migrate now support the three reductions of those three items okay yeah reluctantly because I actually I do really believe in technology investment but I mean this as far as the presentation tation and also I I think Debbie made really good point Club investment should be a nice enhancement prefer just you know where the day I guess in future discussions okay alright so I think if we're all in agreement on those three reductions Bob can I ask you to make the motion you're good at that confirm the number can the number is 47 million Oh 24 164 when you make that adjustment I did the math I just want to make sure I did it right and you got the spreadsheet yes sir that's what I got you got it - yes right all right I'd like to make a motion that the Board of Education adopt a budget in the amount of 47 million Oh 24 160 for a second okay forty-seven million twenty four thousand one hundred and sixty dollars okay Ami's seconded is there any further discussion okay we will proceed to vote so all in favor aye the motion is unanimous okay thank you all for a very good discussion on that so just a next steps discussion has there been a discussion on a date one we would meet with the Board of Finance and the Board of Selectmen no no this time no but I will reach out to them now yeah I think it would if we autostart if we're gonna do that we should establish a date then you know just for the public we need to approve our budget adopt a budget by the end of January and submit it to the First Selectman the First Selectman gets a couple of weeks to gnaw on it and the board of the Board of Selectmen gets a couple of weeks to gnaw on it and they have to basically approve what they're carrying forward at the end of February right rough numbers I think it's in March there's a timeline but it's either end of February beginning of March and they hand it over to the Board of Finance and then the Board of Finance with public hearings and their process actually deliberates on on it until the middle part of April so that's actually a month and a half with the Board of Finance and then it goes to referendum and the first Tuesday of May so that's the general cycle so this is a long process that with a lot of engagement and interaction and historically we've had a joint meeting of the board of Finance and the Board of Selectmen where we can present and explain our budget and dr.
Kellis Thank You mr. president members of the board members of cabinet mr. Dean will introduce this item mr. president members of cabinet dr. mr. president members the board dr. kaylis and members of cabinet this evening we bring back the second half of section 7 for the board's yearly review that there are no changes from first read to second read just as a reminder to the board that administration does recommend a change to 7.4 3 to reflect the appropriate number of domains in the teacher evaluation instrument from 4 to thank you any discussion editor Tayna motion and with the governing board approve revision 2 governing board policy 7 point I'm sorry you're at seven point four three seven point four three as present a second reading second that was motion by Tracy source Inc Bell and seconded by mr. Pritchard vote carries we're going to move on to action or I to action item discussion recommendation for approval of the district recognize rick recognition plan I'm sorry reorganization plan I knew they didn't look right thank you dr.
bill you've got a good starting package here I think we will spend the next couple of weeks probably tuning that up and telling the story as thoroughly as we can and be able to explain that to our to our fellow boards and and share information with them as best we can but it's a they I'm gonna say this for everybody especially the listeners six point something percent increase is hard in a town that doesn't usually pass increases of that magnitude and so it's gonna take a lot of to get support here it's gonna we're gonna need a lot of help from the Board of Selectmen on the Board of Finance so that we can achieve this budget so that's part of what the challenge if the board is a part of the charge of the board is to garner support for you know doing the right thing for our students so I sorry I went on for a minute there but I thought everybody should know what the process here is this home there's a couple months left of work here okay so if we're ready to move on then we can move on to the new school building project but I think so three main points the new school project and the budget basically our whole agenda right oh no I think we ought to include four one one seven point okay um so now we have upcoming events upcoming events for January 23rd through February 19th all schools will be closed for professional development on Friday February 14th and for the president's holiday on Monday February 17th and Tuesday February 18th at Center elementary school kindergarten registration for the 2020 2021 school year is now underway Friday January 31st is a community meeting and Tuesday February 11th is a PTO meeting at 6:30 p.m.
Gillis Thank You mr. president members of the board members of cabinet at this time administration would actually like to broaden the discussion and collect more collaborative input on this topic and by doing so it asked the board to take no action on this okay absolutely opposition on tabling this item all right we'll go ahead and move on we'll move to action item i3 recommendation to approve the plan to distribute results based on funding for oh sorry about that let's go ahead and go back to I - we actually need to vote on that item so we'll go ahead and take a boat trigger-happy I move the governing board pull action item number H - excuse me table action item number I - second motion made by Teresa versing fell seconded by Jen Tanner kill me motion carries alright now I'll go ahead and move on to eye three recommendation to approve the plan to distribute results-based funding for fiscal year 2020 dr.
huckleberry Hill Friday January 31st progress reports go home Friday February 7th is a ETO meeting at 9:30 a.m. Monday February 10th through Wednesday February 12th Jump Rope for Heart during gym class and Thursday February 13th is a student council spirit day it's crazy hair day whiskey near on Friday January 24th and Saturday January 25th the WMS drama club presents WMS shorts an evening of original short plays written and directed by 7th and 8th grade students Wednesday January 29th is the end of the second marking period and there's also a PTO meeting that evening at 6 p.m. and Thursday February 6 is the principal's coffee at 9 a.m. in the seminar room which will include a presentation on vaping and Brookfield High School Thursday February 6 is one step closer which is an orientation for incoming freshmen and their parents that's in the auditorium from six to eight forty five pm yep it's this Friday January 24th or next Friday January 24th no this Friday this Friday yeah Saturday I wonder and Saturday yeah it's at 7:00 is it doors open at 6:30 30 shows at 7:00 okay thank you yeah okay is there anything else all right so this concludes the public portion of tonight's meeting and we will the there is an executive session yeah I have to read that I recommend a motion for an executive the board enter into executive session for the purpose of discussing pending litigation involving a former employee second okay all in favor thank you everyone all for listening him [Music] you
Kellis Thank You mr. president members of the board and members of cabinet Ken Hicks will present this item mr. president members of the board superintendent dr. Kellis colleagues community members thank you very much for allowing me to present on our results base funding so I'm clicking so what is this this is a new - Dicer even though this program is this is the third year of the program this was legislation passed three plus years ago allocating fundings your eligible school districts and charter schools based on statutory formula for those that qualify and so the method for qualification has changed a couple of times in that sense and so what we have now is the four main elements on how to qualify for results based funding is each school shall receive two hundred twenty-five dollars per student if the student count has 60% fewer than less than sixty percent free and reduced and if they performed in the top 13 percent based on the spring 2018 statewide assessment and analysis of that assessment is that there that is on the math and language arts and then that is just for third through eighth grades so they take a method to average it out between all of them to get what the total score was and then find out where they ranked between those two assessments and if you in the top 13 percent and your frame reduced is less than 60 percent you get two hundred and twenty-five dollars per student if you get four hundred dollars per student if your supreme reduced amount is over 60% or more and you still performed in the top 13 percent based on that 2018 spring assessment the difference on the first two eligibilities that has changed the this last year's it used to be just the top 10% so they expanded it to the top 13% and then they also have receiving $225 per student if you're at 60% or more free and reduced and you performed not in the top 13% but between the 13th and the 27% so now they've increased it but gave a lesser dollar amount for those with a higher free and reduced but this Cory is still scoring the top 27% in the state based on still that's spring statewide assessment the fourth way is alternative high schools can also receive four out of dollars per student count if they're in the top twenty seven percent and they're free and reduced count is sixty percent or more so those are the qualifications that the state has looked at it's changed a little bit over the years and so has the use of the money but that is the eligibility requirements and now just looking at the statewide data this is just looking at the data that they put out there on a des website and analyzing it by free and reduced banned so looking at free and reduced zero to nine percent if the school has zero the nine percent free and reduced how much money the school those schools were awarded based on their student count and so you could see those that are zero to nine percent received a little over 16 million the second most amount is 60 to 69 percent getting about twelve million dollars in those bands and so this is just a just so you can show the distribution of the results base funding from the state now if you look at the box it does show 38 million and 33 million which is between the two and if you add them up is a little over 71 maybe 72 million dollars this amount this program was only funded at 68 million dollars and so a de after the calculation has requested from the state an additional appropriation for the main that final 5 percent we have not heard I don't know if I've heard that that's been any men in anybody's budget either Republican Democrat or governor's budget that's been presented that would require a supplemental funding appropriation and this year's budget for that worlds will all have to take five percent reduction and the funding coming each school across the board this does show the distribution of funds so you could obviously see it speaks for itself on the lower free and reduced rate the higher funding meaning the more money that's going to that so it's correlated to socioeconomic status of the schools and just to show we had four schools that qualified this year and those are our four schools in what band they also were in so you have Canyon Ridge was in the 20 to 29 percent Kingswood in the 60s sixty nine percent and Luke and Dysart in the 70 to 79 percent now the statutory requirements for spending this money so it's approximately on the over-allocated 71 almost seventy two million dollars we received about six hundred forty thousand dollars that could come down five percent but we're required to directly allocate it directly to enhance expand to replicate the school site that generated the results-based funding without supplanting so this is a non supplanting state grant and the majority of the funds must be used at that school site and must be used for teacher salaries higher teachers for school leaders for classroom supplies and for other strategies portion may be used for the expansion and replication as a quality model of that site to others and use to sustain and replicate those results to serve more students on a waiting list at awarded school site mentoring school leaders and teachers from others sites to replicate the model or physically expanding the model at another location to improve academic outcomes and so this is the uses of these funds is modified a little bit over the years so they've changed a little bit but this is our current requirements that we have so the plan so that is what the program is results-based funding from the state third year funding how we generated it why we receiving the money why we have six hundred and forty thousand dollars potentially to distribute and this is our planned proposal this is also talking to a few other districts how are they using it then looking at a proposal trying to follow the intent of the legislation where the majority of the money is spent there for teachers for their success we also surveyed our principals and our I be a certified staff to find out how if they're ok with this plan and so what this plan entails is taking those eligible positions teacher interventionist reading coach the principal assistant principal instructional assistant and paraprofessional and providing some stipends that's following the intent of the results-based funding the criteria they must have been employed when the test was given so this is the 2017-18 school year so they would have to been employed at the one of those four sites during that year and they must can still be continuously employed with the district so they still must be employed with the district so those are the two criteria these are the amounts so this is a getting feedback from those groups on the dollar amounts and making sure that we with these dollar amounts are meeting the requirements of at least 51% at the site this provides about 85% of the funding is going through this it still leaves a dollar amount after that which we would recommend for professional development but this has two thousand dollar stipend for teachers interventionist reading coaches seventeen fifty principal and assistant principals seventeen fifty an instructional assistant paraprofessional $1500 so I've already mentioned that it's based on the AZ merit I've already mentioned to qualify so this is summarizing employees must have worked at the school and we are saying a full-share so even if they were part-time and maybe only a half-time teacher half-time ParaPro they're getting a full share so those amounts are fully for everybody who apply it worked there during that time and just a personal reminder they must be continuously still employed with the district at this time to receive that funding stipends as I mentioned are approximately 85% stipends and the benefits the remaining funding professional development we could also use it on some supplies at those sites and other strategies payments right now we've received 60% of the funding in December from based on this we will not receive the second 40% until May and so we're recommending that our payments to those eligible staff not be made until May so that we have enough money to cover all of the payments and so that is my presentation I'll stand for any questions you don't have to stand you can sit for any questions any questions mr.
Hicks just just curious okay so we're gonna use the 85% that's going to be at the sites and the remaining professional development and everything else you had listed what type of professional development that's going to be used um mr. president members of the board I have asked our curriculum instruction directors that they have been working on that so it has not been fully identified I would guess it would probably be some summer training in that sense so we do have some time before that either June or July we've talked about can we do some curriculum articulation Thank You Kathy and others to roll that out and do that other districts just talking to other districts people do various things because it depends on how many schools are qualifying how much money and doing that some of doing district-wide all-day training bringing back all staff earlier than their work calendars decided we don't have enough money to do that and still meet the other requirements and so this model could change a little bit going forward depending on how many schools are qualifying and I know in the governor's budget he was expanding the results based funding by additional funding an additional criteria so this continued to change as we go but right now that's to be determined because they're still researching what's the best method for that so that professional development and you might not know this is it geared towards those particular positions meaning the teacher the reading coach principal assistant principal and the pair approves mr.
president members of the board it is not going to be geared just to those it'll probably district-wide they're working on it we just need to make sure it still conforms to the requirements of the grant but we're able to expand it and not just at those sites and not just for those staff last question is next year because this was based on the 2017-2018 so the 2018-2019 i talked with dr. Kelso it's going to be hopefully more schools right yes mr. president mr. sink Bell the intent is that every one of our schools qualify for these funds not necessarily just because of their socioeconomic status but because that they are I'm all achieving within the top 13 percent as mr. Hicks pointed out in his bar chart it's an uphill battle when as I'll speak editorially here there's a lot of criticism to be honest about this fund the results base funding is very much driven by zip codes and the higher more affluent neighborhoods as you can see here are getting the bulk of the funds and those in the lower socioeconomic status neighborhoods are getting very little of the funds that's no excuse for die cert we accept the challenge to qualify for the highest available results-based funding but at the same time we we recognize that there's the intent here is perhaps a little bit different than what schools are actually experiencing last thing paraprofessionals yes so I know they are probably putting up their thumbs as well but the fact that it's not just teachers love teachers but somebody else that's also receiving some fun so thank you any other discussions so just to make sure I understand that those outside of performing outside that 27% and those those schools wouldn't be eligible mr.
president members of the board for this last for this last year that they're funding the 1718 so the spring 2008 spring 2018 assessment anybody that scored above 27 percent did not receive in the top twenty seven percent so of the statewide scoring they did not receive any funding okay so as far as like increasing the amount of schools some schools even if their scores are really are really good if they don't meet that free and reduced lunch criteria they wouldn't they wouldn't qualify anyway no it sounds like right mr. president members of the board depends so if there are over 60 percent they get if they're in the score in the top twenty seven percent they'll get some funding but if you're in the lower less than sixty percent free and reduced you have to score in the top 13 person I see so that that always applies it's just that the scoring does okay yes and it could change for next year because if there's additional fund that's adding how are they gonna change the other criteria so the line could move it could be 20 15 percent top 20 percent it could be all a and B schools there could be lots of different criteria changes okay and then just to make sure I understand it can you give an example because you mentioned it can't be supplanted what can be an example again of what supplanting um mr.
president members of the board supplanting would be that we give the teachers two thousand dollars but I reduced the mo amount that we give the teachers by two thousand dollars so on the books it would look like I spent the two thousand dollars but the teachers didn't really receive anything because I just supplanted it okay so we can't supplant it has to be in addition to okay and then one other quick question so you had mentioned it talks about the majority going to teacher salary higher teachers school leaders salaries classroom supplies but then you mentioned 51% is that something that we have control over because when you think majority going toward salaries I would think of much more than 51% yeah mr. president members of the board so the majority meaning 51% has to be spent at the school in those there is we're recommending 80 up to 85% it being go so we're going above and beyond okay so that was my cuz I remember you saying later that 85% of funding is in the stipend so we are doing more than 51% correct okay thank you excellent thank you all right so we gotta move for emotion all right all motion to approve the plan to distribute the results base funding for fiscal year 2020 second motion made by J Leonard seconded by mr.
Pritchard well Jen Tanner sorry motion carries go ahead and move on to j1 requests for future agenda items anybody have any all right go ahead we'll go to k1 and we'll go for a call to executive session % - ARS 38 - 4:30 1.03 for the superintendent the mid-year evaluation any other motion or I'll make a motion second motion made by J Leonard seconded by Jen Tanner let's go and vote motion carries someone will move to executive session thank you you