Nice save by Jenna Holly. Save. Help her out. Clear it out of there. And yep, it gets in that circle. Nobody Nobody can get their sticks in there. Quickly get the ball up to Kylie Marino. Kylie Marino's got her wheels. Just keep going. Keep going. There we go. She gets the ball over their straighting line. They'll slow it down. Set up the offense. Nice work getting that ball out of trouble in the back. Yeah, you saw M's got two freshman that play around the back of the Kendall Reed and Kylie Marino doing a good job back there. That's good to hear. Nice to see young players coming up contributing to the program. Move with Mack with a move. Kicks the ball over to Marino inside. Nice. Feathers it in. Lucas. Good grab by Lucas. Over to Marino as he somehow looks to set something up.
So um so we're excited about the the new resource but also some of the leg work we've been doing as a department to advance our curriculum to reflect the idea that you know the starting point never changes right post civil war but we keep adding on years right every year we advance another year so um so I think we're in a good place as far as curriculum development and this textbook like is interwoven in into that you know um curriculum development so Any questions? And so we'll put a copy of this at the library. We'll put a copy of this in the CHS library and we'll have a copy here. It will be put out on display for two weeks. We'll let everyone know at the next board meeting that it's on display. And then the following meeting that we have we ask to bring to the should you all approve it here.
Uh, first are we still is did we have the consulting give us the figure for what we anticipate for health benefits? Sorry, Teresa, if I still can't hear you if you're I I'm I've got audio. I I'm on Teresa. I can hear you. I think this is an issue on their end. Yeah. Yeah. I I was plugged in. I can hear everyone now. Okay, there we go. Cons um the figure for the health uh cost for the year. Are we still going to a consultant to give us that estimated figure? Didn't work. Uh yes, we use um Gallagher Health. Uh they give us the um the basic number and then we book based upon that. Okay. My second question is [Music] um the number of employees in the district does that fluctuate wildly? The ones who get the benefits and all? Actually, I should just say everybody.
Does anyone have any questions? Thank you so much for coming and have a great day. Thank you. [Applause] As always, you're uh welcome to stick around. It's a public meeting, but if you'd like to head on out, you're also welcome to as well. Thank you for coming. Thank you. Thank you. All right, our student board members, tough act to follow. Who's up first uh this month? All right, so it's been a while since we've seen each other. Um, so right now currently what we're looking forward to is actually tomorrow to celebrate culture week. We're going to be bringing about six different food trucks all filled with different cultures here at DGS where we can go outside um just right into the parking lot by the West event centrics. And uh we brought it back last from last year. And it's really fun for the students, but it's also really important to take into account that it represents all the different cultures that we have here at DJs because we do have a large variety of inclusion and diversity that we like to represent.
we have a swim team, you know, they're like all itching to get going on that stuff. Same with orchestra. I think that's just so important for the art. So, anyways, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Oh, thank you. Thank you. [Laughter] All right. Next up, Dave Chapman. Uh, good evening. On behalf of CA, I just wanted to first start by saying thank you to Jay, Mark, D, and Jennifer for your time on the school board. I know it's an unpaid position and takes up a lot of time. So, definitely appreciate your your service on the school board. Um, and then on top of that, I want to congratulate Ryan, Micheline, Scott, and Andy for being elected to the school board. Um, we look forward to working with you and the entire school board. So, thank you. Thank you, Dave. All right, next up, Virginia Romano.
So, it's a pretty thorough postsecary plan. Um, additionally, they had to complete a mock interview with either a boss or a staff member here in the district. They also had to maintain a 2.0 or higher GPA throughout the year. They had to demonstrate that they follow the school rules and that they show respect for our policies here. So, they could not have any more than one discipline referral. They had to complete at least six hours of volunteer work. The majority of our students completed far more than that. Um, around the community. Many of them volunteered at local school events such as helping out in the concession stand. Several of them volunteered at like the Hilly half marathon, Mother's Cupboard. So, they were all around our community this year. And then they also had to meet an attendance requirement. So, they could not have more than four unexcused absences throughout the year.
Set playing a little twoman, feeds it into Trulio. Trulio turns. Nothing there. Nothing there. No, nicely turned back. It gets knocked away. Oh, it's a good dispossession there. ball. Good wrench. Don't know who's that. She's got some more room to operate. Point blank and tough. [Music] ball number 22. [Music] It's really been a very even first quarter in terms of style of play, possession, things like that. The Spartans have had a couple of terrific opportunities that have just been turned away by some great goalkeeping. The Lancers have been very opportunistic with a couple of shots that they've had they've converted to goals. So, the two nothing score a little bit. I don't know. That's looks like it's a wider margin than it actually is at this point. This is the one sport very it could change very very quickly. Two two of you saw me losses we've been up in up three or four nothing.
So I have to ask the next question. Um in the budget you know we're looking here you can see how many hard copies we're asking for how many digital copies meeting actually tomorrow afternoon to look through again every subscription that we have to see where we can cut it back. What what can we what can we ask teachers to do without this year? I'm sorry, next year because there's just not going to be enough to go around. So, we're looking K through 12 at everything. Um, you know, we don't want to lose anything in core areas like US history this course, but then we're also, you know, we're looking at that in math and we're looking at that look at everything. So this quote right now is like 49,000. I mean I'm comfortable with this recommendation. I think we need it. So So we typically do motions to move potentially that the board of ed committee um recommends US history interactive by Leinsky warning to be for the full board for approval after two week period.
Does that fluctuate that much? It can change, but not much. So, I don't understand why we can't get a better handle on that number. Let me share with you Yeah, I'm just reverberating with yours. I think I got it. So this is the um reconciliation that uh I've created. The number that we get from Gallagher is a placeholder and that's automatically booked when payroll is run. So the to get the best uh number or the truest number when that's run, we back that out. And then this top period is what we pay out of accounts payable. And then every week we receive a wire uh we get a wire taken out of our account um in these various amounts. So they they swing weekly, you know, sometimes they're 400, sometimes they're um 600 700,000, sometimes they're low. Um the most recent one we see jumped up to 825,000.
Additionally, um right now it's kind of a celebratory phase in the school. It's like the calm before the second storm um when the finals are coming up again and then AP tests. So, it's just right now it's a really good time where field trips are happening, awards ceremonies, and just overall a positive time for donors go south. That's it. Diamonds food trip. What are what time are those food trucks? They're going to be fourth, fifth, and sixth periods. Okay, I got to look that up. All right. Uh, hello everyone. Um, I hope everyone's doing well. Uh, this school year is, you know, coming to an end and, you know, students are students are largely preoccupied with the end of the year festivities. So this spring, students at DGN are wrapping up the year with a vibrant mix of events. You know, the calendar is packed with highlights, including the spring art show May 5th through 9th, where student creativity takes a center stage and a full state of music performances, choir, band, and orchestra concerts.
Hi there. This is Virginia Romano. Um, I just wanted to address the the outgoing board members. Um, that Oh, what do I want to say? um that even though I may have disagreed on a lot of things with with some of you that um nothing personal and it's just business and you know public comment is what it is and um I hope that you guys stay engaged at some capacity because you obviously do have value and you know it would be nice to um keep going with it and like some of the people have addressed it. Um maybe this is more for the new board, but um I myself have been trying to figure out how to create engagement with people um for a lot of different reasons and I think having um yeah, like with you guys probably doing mailers for some people that don't have internet or aren't on the social media thing and Um, yeah.
Again, these these competencies these requirements were developed with feedback from business partners. So they kind of clarified to uh the governor and the developing team that these are what they wanted to see in future employees. Attendance is very important. It's important that you're putting in work each and every day, that you are staying safe and following the rules, and that you are showing up and working hard and doing the job that's asked of you. So by meeting all of these competencies, students are awarded the governor's work ethic certificate, which is a way of saying that they have worked hard throughout this year and they will be excellent employees and members of their community going forward. So that is what we are here to recognize tonight is our students who have earned that. As I said, we had eight students earn the certificate this year. They are a mix of Actually, we have one early graduate junior and the rest are seniors.
False start on Marino and then the other team will come back. So looks a little tough. Conway with the ball. [Music] Nice save by Holly. Holly gets gets a piece of it. Gets the ball over to Jenna. Jenna quickly up to Kylie. Kylie sees space and terrific acceleration in that open field. not yet. Over to Marino. Yeah, sometimes uh Kylie's very good at getting the ball up the field. Sometimes they can see to a shot by save. The other Marino in a save by Vanderhoff. Oh, nearly intercepted. Oh, moves up the field. Has space. Grace Howard looking to make an attempt. Grace Howard. O. I think Grace Howard's got a piece of it. They didn't call that. I think they ended up calling Grace Rayold with the check check afterwards as Shoulick is on the eight meter. Shul kicks the ball out to Conway. Conway gets the ball the post off.
Okay. All in favor? All right. Thank you. Absolutely. Appreciate it. Okay. Next is I read classroom mathematics algebra one presentation recommendation. Yeah. So what we've got here is that in um last year you recall that you all had approved high for use in sixth, seventh and eighth grade. And we had a really unique opportunity once we pulled everyone together over the summer and we were looking at algebra for all. Um Kevin was able to work working closely with the um the representative to get us a pilot for this year which he's done such a nice job of sort of making sure you guys were aware of along the way. And so tonight he's here with his team. Um he's also here for the math CCC, but he's got a lot of reinforcements to talk about this um request for an algebra one resource which would be an extension of what currently is.
And that's because as we progress through the year, our health care benefits are not on a calendar year and they're also not in a school year. They're on a plan year which starts in September. And as uh the the year moves on and people meet the deductible, um we see that the last three months uh really start start to creep up. Does that answer your question? Yes. May I ask another question? What? Why can't we get them to operate on the same yearly schedule as we Sorry, one more time. Why can't we get the instead of starting September, starting July to June? Um, I think we probably could do that with working with the broker. I'm not sure if there'd be any benefits. You know, it would just maybe shift the uh more expensive months forward a little bit. But can can I I actually have something to add to that because we do talk about that periodically, Teresa.
And you know, these people have been rehearsing for months to bring these to life. So, I'm pretty excited to see those. Um, seniors are especially excited with the senior award ceremony on April 30th, as well as many milestones like the cap and gown pickup and uh senior prom on May 3rd and an overnight trip to Six Flags on May 10th. And then graduation preparation is in full swing with the senior spotlight assembly and rehearsals on May 12th. Uh, followed by ceremonies on May 18th. Clubs like Latin X and uh, book club continue to meet, keeping students engaged strong throughout throughout the final weeks. And you know, final finals exams on the horizon May 19th and 20th and the last day of school being on May 23rd. Students are feeling a mix of focus, pride, and anticipation as they close out another school year. Um, another thing I wanted to add was um, you know, as as we know, we just went through the ACT uh, test week and a lot of things that I've been hearing about the whole ACT test.
And I find it interesting because even though there's a has been a lot going on in social media things and that, I kind of heard from from a couple of people that were up here that like I don't think they really knew what was happening. So, I don't know. It's just kind of just a comment and something I noticed. But anyway, I wish you all the best on um on your endeavors and thank you for your service. Thank you, Virginia. Next up, Lori McDev. Good evening. My name is Lori McDev and I'm a long-standing community member up until COVID, then I had to leave. Um, I'm also a certified special ed teacher and I've done advocacy work in the district and in others in the area for the past two decades. So, I come because I have a perspective because I've been in many schools and in many districts and I'm here today to welcome the new school board members.
Uh, so I'm going to call their names and if you're here because some of them joined us tonight. If you're here, if you could come up front and stand with me, I would appreciate that. Okay. So congratulations to Juliana [Music] Gallagher Freddy Ella Jackson [Applause] Tyer no Lewis Sophie Matis [Applause] Schultz and [Applause] Eli. So these are the 2025 recipients of the governor's work ethics certificate and I believe the board has a little something for you as well and they will also be recognized at senior night and with the big banner that will congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. All right. Well, excellent work and thank you guys for all of your hard work this year. Um, you can go ahead and head back to your seats if we want to give them one more round. And thank you for your time. Thank you, Megan. Um, you guys are more than welcome to stay for the remainder of the board meeting, but I will also give you an opportunity to head on out if you have dinner plans or something else on your agenda for the evening.
Good gets it. Good with a nice shot. Get bounces off the net. Spartans look to turn and go. Whitward up the field. Take it right at her. Nice look. There we go. Well done. Nice look by M. Whitward to get the ball over to Mana Calibres who fires the ball into the back of the net for the Spartans. We're finally on the board with a minute 35 left to go in the first quarter. But a turnabout and change of fortune there. Long Meadow does not convert on their own eight beater. East Lo wins the possession back and brings it down and scores their own first goal of the evening. Calib has been on a little bit of a scoring tear lately. She scored three goals in the last two games or three goals in each game the last two games as she puts the Spartans up on the board today.
We did get the opportunity to fully pilot this this year, their pilot version of program. Um and as um we've shared over the course of the year, some of the same things that have been positive about I read as a resource for 6 through 8 have been also positive in algebra 1. So those are namely really um the rigor of the program, the tasks that they're asking students to do and the instructional design by itself, the program itself, but also how it matches with um what we've been um our district definition of HQI, high quality instruction. Um the one of the major things that our previous resource is in mathematics did not do um how it was aligned to the standards but did not it gave equal weight to all the standards no matter what they were and did prioritize the mediest things and the most important things so that's not the case with my ready they get it right in terms of what the priority standards are I would say from the team probably correct me if I'm wrong the two things that we ran into this year as part of the pilot one was uh for the high school teachers it was their first time using the I read resource so there's there's a ramp up time period to get used to a resource whereas the DA teachers have one year under the belt.