And part of the problem is that we hire people um and and they either come and quit or we have problems with how we staff and so we tag it to the academic year so that we do the hiring in the summer and they come on and they go teachers go on the insurance right away. So that's why we've always staggered it because the fiscal year would have us putting people on the insurance in the middle of the summer and they won't have paid in yet or anything like that. So that's always the reason. So technically then it should end in what? In June. Yeah. Well, yeah. The plan year is September 1 to August 31st. So what we do is we take out their premiums in 20 pay periods. So we take out a little bit more rather than out of the 26. and that covers them for the summer months because we don't have paychecks for them in the summer, right?
Um I I know we've switched over to the ACT, but um the ACT format, like for example, the SAT, the way they changed the the question format to the way like one paragraph is one question. So it's easier for each student to like read each question and answer one question. The ACT hasn't done that, right? So you're stuck scrolling through a lot of pages of questions and it becomes non-time efficient, especially on a screen. So that's what I've been hearing a lot. You know, people have been struggling with that kind of aspect of the ACT. I think you guys should know that. Um, so that's where, you know, like the differences between the format between the SAT and the ACT kind of come into play. So, and then that format will change again next year. We'll do new version coming next year. So, we'll see if that is improved or if that that remains, but that's good feedback.
Whoops, sorry. Um, because I see that you guys are on the precipice of change. I see that there's a new hope and I'm really excited for that. I'm I'm just truly excited. So I wanted to share my perspective over the last number of years with district 301 in hope and the hope that I have for the future. Um the unique perspective I have is that I have seen past stumbling blocks and I hope that the past can inform the future. My first hope is for your choice of superintendent. There's some great research. There's some great stuff going on with the state superintendent association that talk about inclusion and how do we include students with special needs and my hope is that you guys choose wisely um so that again you have new hope going forward with this population. I've also witnessed firsthand your good staff do really great things and I was proud to see it.
Don't feel bad. And congratulations. Thank you for coming. Thank you. Okay. Do we have any discussion items? Says none. Get a motion to approve the minutes of April 7th, 2020, 2025. Approve. Second. Second.
Terrific. Have a redraw. The ball doesn't go over their heads. I was just going to say their shoulders. Yeah, I was just gonna You knew that. I should have called the retraw. Yeah, I'll write that down for next time. Addy Jordan will get that. She quickly scoops it up. Come on. Come on, White. Come on, White. Addy. Oh, nice move. Little one-on-one. Goes behind the net. That's Add's spot. Nice. Nice move by Addie. it in. Well done. Oh, no. No. No. Go out. They think they were calling that. She was in the circle. Oh, Conway with the ball. Conway is only a sophomore. Nice check by Kasich. And Mac Whiter is there to pick that up. Ball goes over to Mckne. She has space. How's that? No, ref gets the ball over the restraining line. East Meadow will set up their offense. Over to Marino.
So they have that learning curve this year that I anticipate will Wayne with our six um teachers previously and then the other thing we ran into as I read was in their pilot year um they had a whole text that students were able to access but not all their online and supplementary materials were here. So again, it was a little bit more leg work on the teacher end. I think those were primarily the only two real downsides we saw along the way. Some of the high school piece was really um positively influenced by a midyear session that we did with Iraq and kind of got rolling uh from there. So um I would certainly feel comfortable. makes a lot of sense from a pathway standpoint to have one resource um to kind of go through these middle primarily middle grades. Yeah, we'll have one year where we may always have some need for a little bit of algebra at high school, but for the bulk of our students, we'll have one year where we'll have a chunk of students taking it by high school primarily be a middle school resource director.
So, we take out enough to cover right through the summer and then um and then we start the payroll deductions again when they come back and start their payroll again. I was just thinking, but we still have to pay the bills after the fiscal year has ended. Yes, we pay it through the plan. Yeah, we pay the bills through the plan year so it leaks into the next year. Um, but otherwise we wouldn't have a way because we don't take premiums just by check. So, we wouldn't have a way to be getting people onto the plans. So, it's that's that's just kind of the weirdness of it. And I think what happened is for everybody else, and we could certainly change it, but like for 12-month employees, we we do the same thing. We only take the premiums out of 20 pay periods. So, we don't have premiums taken out all summer, which is a little silly because we're all working then anyway.
Thank you. So, it's still a time test, but you spend a lot of time scrolling. Well, so the ACT like has like you know how before on like a written um SAT test, you'd have you'd be given a big passage, right? You'd be given that big passage and they would make you answer a lot of questions about that same passage. Oh, okay. And the problem here is like it's on a screen. You're not on a page where you can like flip back and forth. You're like kind of like spending more time scrolling. So it's like kind of takes away time from, you know, actually doing the test. I'll definitely share that feedback though with Okay. Uh, it item number four, approving the minutes. Can I get a motion from the board of education to approve the minutes of the March 17, 2025 business meeting and the March 17, 2025 closed meeting?
Um, I've also seen good staff be stifled. It's almost as if their own job security is on the line and there appeared to be micromanagement that was like paralyzing them. I've also witnessed very very amicable, conflictresistant parents be put in these positions where they want to be collaborative. They want to come to solutions but for whatever reason they get to a point of frustration to tears and it's usually with administration or some unknown from above because of lack of transparency. I've witnessed frustration with teams of parents and teams of special ed or IEP teams and what we thought was going to be just a real simple problem-solving solution. And these teams have been stopped in their tracks. It seemed as if administration from above would dig their heels in on what I would consider from my perspectal perspective fundamental rights of human beings. I was never really sure if it was fueled by district 301 administration or by the legal council that was trying to protect you.
Any discussion? Vote. Dog. Yes. Carol, yes. Vicki, yes. Amy, yes. Jenise, yes. Okay. Motion carries. Action needed items. the recommendation to approve the donation of $400 from an anonymous donor to elementary school for the class of 2032 field trip to Kentucky Kingdom. I get a motion to accept. So move. Second.
Over to Lucas. Some lively feedback from the East LA faithful. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There we go. Nice. Y ball up in the air. Matty Jordan's there. It looked like shooting space. That should have been shooting space to me, but shooting space. Come on, ref. Where's the shooting space? And Spartans are down two to one after the end of the first quarter. Back and forth match. Both goalies having a bunch of saves. We'll see what happens in the second quarter, Steve. Okay. be looking forward to it. And we're back for second half action. Steve, uh, Law Meadow's up two to one. Lawn Meadow has a new coach this year in Kelly Gallow. Uh, I think their coach from last year after you saw Meadow beat him, he decided to no longer coach anymore or he went somewhere else. else I heard to be an assistant coach.
So, um, we certainly feel comfortable bringing that forward as a recommendation to to listen. I'm sure of myself or any of the people actually using it. Uh, can answer any questions? Yes. So they the spoke for the pilot the the lack of the online resources was that just because of the pilot or they weren't right. So immediately them they assured us that all those things are in development and they've actually been really good with give us feedback tell us like they really want to work with us and work and make changes and make updates. So that really and that'll those resources will be ready in time to roll out for us. And a lot of it is more a lot of it is um I don't want to say bells and whistles but it's not the the bare bones of it where that first year you're really trying to just make the instructional shifts, learn the resource.
But I think it logistically was just easier to do it all as one. But we could look at that. I was just thinking, you know, getting our books Yeah. done more efficiently. But what you say is more practical. Yeah. Yeah. The details. You're welcome. Let me go back to something. If you would go down to the bottom of the screen where you have the the reconciliation Mine's cut off. But essentially, mine's cut off. So, for some reason, the the problem from what I'm hearing in terms of health expense, which is probably the second or third largest expenditure we have, is in the estimating of the budget going forward. you know, in totality at the end of the year, we come up close with what we're projecting, the month-to-month swings are, you know, not not that important because it it's on an actual basis and it's it's on a claims, etc.
So moved. Second. Seconds. Thank you. Terry Pavisich. I. Ken Dawson. I. Sherelle Fuller. I. Jenny Hagstrom. I. Cara Casten. I. And Don Rener. I. Motion carries. Um, item number five, first reception of visitors. Do we have any uh No, sir. Okay. Item number six, turn it over to you. And I will turn it over to Jere. Okay. Good evening. Evening. This is our time of the year for our third quarter financial report. It basically just provides everybody with a an overview of where we are financially for the year. Um, we'll start off looking at revenues. We're basically right on target compared to like what we were last year. Um last year we were short on our replacement taxes. Um the state gave us that notice a little bit late in the year. This year they gave it to us a little bit earlier. So therefore we adjusted this year's budget.
I look forward to the future. I hope that you can empower your great parents and your great staff to be the best that they can be. Thank you, Michelle Duminoski. Good evening. I'm here tonight not only as a concerned community member, but also as a parent of two children who have had IEPs within this district. I know firsthand what it means to advocate, to fight, and to feel like you're speaking into a void just to get to the support your children are legally entitled to. I want to raise a grave concern about a student with disabilities whose rights were violated and who has been silenced, stonewalled, and retraumatized by this district. The student had an IEP. The district failed to implement required accommodations. The family filed a state complaint and the state confirmed multiple violations of the students IEP and their right to a free appropriate public education.
Any discussion? Thank you. Vote. Yes. Carol, yes. Vicki, yes. Amy, yes. Yes. Motion carries. and the recommendation to approve the donation of $500 from Zeta chapter to elementary school for invention prevention expenses. Can I get a motion to accept? So move. Second. Second.
So, uh yeah, it's good thing when East Sal Meadow does that force the coach out of law. Uh an old friend of mine because he's no longer a friend. He's an associate now that he moved to Long Meadow. He was the one that filled me in with that information. I like the distinction between friends and associates. That was If he moves back to East Law Me, he'll be my friend in the in the interim with things as they are now. Ball goes up. Fatty Jordan comes away with the ball on the draw. Looking to make quick work here. Tie it up with the Spartans. Scoots one by Miana Calib there to back it up as Calib will play behind the net to see Miana take her one-on-one. Miana Mo over to Lucasa. Lucasa goes around. Thought she had a look but was denied. Gets the ball over to Jordan.
Um now that we're in year two for middle school. So that's the only thing from the algebra teachers is that like we know how much that they have to offer and we can't ask like I wish we had it when if it was last year maybe we weren't even diving into that part of it. We were we were originally going to bring this in May and moved up for two reasons. One because we're doing CCC presentation so it made sense to have math teachers here. Two I we wanted to make sure along the way that the research was going to be ready. So all of those things in terms of affirmation am I ready that they're ready to go who come with the resource all they get all those markers earlier than than we needed them to so they should they're ready for full implementation for next year.
But if at the end of the year in total with what we've encumbered and what we've incurred, we're in a positive number in a relatively small positive number where we're not millions overstated. I tend to think that's more in in the budgeting of this particular expense. But when you first started out, the my comment was, as I recall, last month's balance was somewhere about $9 million and now we're down to close to $2 million. Are you saying that a good part of the you want to refer to it adjustment or to clean up accounts out of the general fund or into the general fund whichever way things went into other um other accounts being grants to to to get erroneous uh postings that that were done. Is is that the reason for basically for this large decrease? Yeah, that that's certainly uh a big portion of it was um people moving from general fund into alliance.
So where we are we're tracking right online to where we thought we would be. Um our interest earnings are a little bit higher. Other than that, everything else looks pretty much right on target for revenues.