I like that. It's nice to see Kenna Marino taking the ball to the the cage. Kan facing Vanderhof straight on. Oh, trying it in and Matt Whitw is there for the rebound. Well, well, nice take by Kenna Marino. Vanderhoof with the save and M. Whitwer there to back it up to quickly put the ball on the back of the net. M Whitler now on the board number five Mac Whitler as within 50 seconds. Steve, the Spartans have now tied the game 66 with just under seven minutes to go in the third quarter. Get your popcorn at home, folks. This is going to come going to come right down to it. Terrific. Hard-fought battle on both sides of the the field. Mac Whitmer. Oh, Addy Jordan on the draw. Whistle blows. And that's empty check. Yeah. Oop. Turn. O. So that's an empty check, Steve. You can't hit it like completely not even hit anything.
Y So, how long is a school day? Oh my gosh. To some, not long enough. 13 hours they 7:32. So quick math people somewhere just over six and a half hours and you said 68 minutes. Yes. So how many sessions a day per day? So from instructional minutes it is pretty similar although slightly more than the this year it slightly increases. I mean minimally it's not what I would it's not what I would advertise as a reason for doing this but construction minutes do go up a little bit but it's more about the redistribution and what's passing time in between five is that really enough time to get all your messages on your phone too much time plenty of time for that plenty of time for that we're thinking about things another thing that came up was locker use and students really haven't used lockers since co.
Mike, did you want to move to Does anybody have any further comments on the operating statement before we move to the grants? If not, then let's just quickly look at the grants. Uh Mike and again I want to thank Angela for her for a great job in the presentation and the board voting to adopt this particular format. Zoom in a little bit. All right, let's see. Yeah, this is kind of small. Download it. Actually, Mike, when you're bringing it up, if you could focus, my question would be if you could focus on the the alliance grant. I just had a question that I wanted to direct to to Cara. Is that too small? Yeah, I think it's best. Is there a way? Yeah, I got my copy. I got my copy. It's okay. Are there page numbers on them? 11. 11. Okay. Yes. Good job.
My son's a freshman who's 15. And I said, "How was your day?" He's like, "Oh, yeah. We watched this movie." And I I thought to myself, "You watch that movie?" And I even had to look it up. The Motion Picture Association labels it as Rrestricted. And I understand, Dr. Theal, that you feel that these items are not pornographic, that they're not vulgar language, but the F-word and the MF word, if given to a student by a teacher, is deemed acceptable. I, as a parent, don't deem that acceptable. Again, my freshman, I had many emails with his teacher asking her, "This book is inappropriate. do not give it to my son. My son came home and the teacher gave him the book in literature. I I I get it. Teachers are going to do what teachers are going to do. Parents were not able to do that.
I think if the firm that's going to do I I think we're to the point we need a facility master plan. I think that's in our best interest moving forward. The the group that does that process, which it should be one firm that does that, that probably is going to take a good year. They're going to definitely, if we were to go the route of have two different architects, I think it's going to make it very difficult for a second new architect to be able to learn at that same rate because I think it's going to muddy the water. If we're going to go that facility master, we want one firm to put all their resources into that, their planning into that. I think mixing two firms to create that process and create that plan is is going to be it's going to muddy things too much.
That's what the law me did. So she hit M hit Kenna's stick and Esau Mel comes out with the the ball. Calibri with the ball up to Mckne. Mckne over to Jordan all the way over to Matt Whitwer. Clear it out. Let Mack go one as they do. Mack goes in, turns around, takes a shot. Ball bounces. Calib there to back up the back of the net. Calib behind the net. Think they see him clear out like Calibies go one-on-one. She's very very shifty. Go by. Turns around. Scoots it in. There we go. On Q with a call from the announcer. Had it going. Great job by Ma Calib. Way to make me look good. Ma drew it up from the booth. Like I said, Calibris has been on a scoring tear the last couple games. [Applause] Come on, keep it going. Spartans taking the their first lead of the game.
So all these little things are playing around in people's minds, right? You know, some of the students report have been novel like a day bag and a and a day bag and even an even period day and period day bag kind of thing. I guess it's not even thought one through four and and five. So they'll have to manage those things. We'll have to figure out how to help them manage those things. Those were some of the wheels that got turning through the conversations that we had for both students and the adults. Even people were like our link crew are like how are we going to coach up um freshman coming in when we had to figure this out ourselves kind of thing. So those are all the good conversations that are happening and you want those conversations happening because when they happen then you start feel so each class would be on each day.
I love the page numbers. Thank you. Uh there you go, Rich. Alliance, that top one, right? Okay. Okay. Um Carrot with all the adjustments that we had talked about earlier in in this particular discussion that were made to and from the operating into grants in general but perhaps principally alliance. Um, is this going to distort or create issues with you in terms of what the use of this particular grant is going to be in the future? Uh, when I say in the future, I mean once the final appropriation is is set. Um, we always utilize alliance to to go back to my suggestion Rob Peter the pay Paul we we have to be mindful of leaving monies in here for the incremental increases in the cost of living but with the big adjustments that I'm sure have been made to this account. I don't have comparison from the last month.
Um when teachers give students these books, do do they have like a sexual feeling about that? We we know what happened with the arrest with the sexual assault and that's completely unacceptable when teachers give student I mean my children are young. Again I only show this to you expired because your time is expired. Thank you all for your time. Thank you for everything you do. Thank you. All right. Item number 12 and announcements. Um my first meeting. Do you have any update on lend? I do. Um the meeting was on March 21st, so it seems like a while ago and we're going to have another one on Friday, so some of it is probably already out of date. Um we had just some general notes from the March 21st meeting. Um there were there are just a lot of bills moving through the general assembly and you know they're trying to keep tabs on the ones that are you know most relevant to um the schools in our county.
I think we want one firm to focus on that and that firm is definitely going to have the leg up on learning the district and understanding through that whole process. I'll make a motion and support Dan and his decision to move forward with the two architects. I think he's done the leg work and I think it's, you know, it's his industry and we have to trust that process. So that was a motion to to accept the bid of Larson Derby and partner. Yeah. So if is there a second? Doesn't sound like there's a second. There's no second. So, if there's not a second Yeah. Thanks, Dan. If there's not a second, then the board has the has the right to call another motion um to name another architect. Another architect. I do have one question before we get to that. Um is the question is um when we make uh when we pass a uh motion for uh selection of a firm At that juncture, we're saying we want to negotiate a contract with that firm.
They're up 76 with six minutes to go in the third quarter. Kind of like, well, this is a good groove. Let's keep the pressure on and pour on as many as we can right now. Things going the Spartans way, seeing if they can win this draw to continue to keep that pressure on the visiting Lancers. It's all about the draw. Addie Jordan and the ball's loose. Conway ends up with the ball. She's met by [Music] Good job by Kenna Marino to hold her up. And yep, Addy Jordan with the check, but little little too close for comfort as Conway will start off with the ball. She gets the ball into Goodwin and Long Me looking to stop the bleeding. She goes around the corner. [Applause] Who's that? Seven. Den. Uh, that's what it looks like. [Music] Tough eight meter on the sideline. Yeah, false start.
Five periods five periods a day. So the way that works out is over an 8 day period you're you're going to have five sessions. See that class five times and that's an increase of one from now over an 8 day period. Okay. So go from 90 sessions on a year to 112 sessions on a year of a given course. Of a given course. Yeah. A full year full credit course. Questions? Good. I just want to say Kevin's done a really nice job of jumping into that and really relaying it and how it should move forward with the different groups and just very people don't like change students teachers staff. Yeah, I didn't notice that. I did notice that in my even though you don't we do joke that if we could have changed that we could have changed from 84 minute period to 83 minute period probably having you had to have a lot of conversations.
It's just a matter of are you are you worried about the sustainability of this particular account is helping us sure in the current year. you know, we're we're likely, you know, if our allocation holds at at the the the number that we were um told, um you know, we we will have to use all of the 9.1 or pretty close to it to bring in the high school staff and everything related to the opening of the the new satellite. So, you know, we are allowed to put operational, you know, Alliance is our ECS. However, we have an an additional I'm going to call it a burden additional burden to um create specific strategies that are bound by the the guidelines of the grant and to fit within those. Um so this heading into this year as a strategy and this is this is again you know how this is the volatility that we deal with here in Derry is that you know coming off the heels of of a big reduction last year we had to I I crafted a strategy in alliance uh to incorporate the DHS staff uh DHS west staff that were likely scheduled to go over there.
Um they're paying close attention to and continue to look at the bills that um address the schools as polling places, uh cell phone policies, dual credit policies, seat belt safety um and 403b plans for tier 2 employees. Um there was one sort of not noteworthy item about uh legislation to allow community colleges to offer four-year degrees. Um there was a lot of opposition from four-year universities um along with the House Higher Education Committee. It's so for now that bill is on hold, but just kind of an interesting development. Um and then we had a speaker who um addressed the English learner program effectiveness which is also something that um they continue to look at and is kind of a topic of legislation. Um there was a brief update on the effects of um dismantling the US Department of Education. Um in general the most affected would be students that are um in the IDA program.
Is that correct? Dan, do you want to talk a little bit about what that looks like? Now that you sit down, so these professional services for school districts, you do an RFQ. So, we're selecting qualifications. at the point in time the board chooses a firm then we would be talking finances and contract with that selected firm. Okay. And then um if we we we we pick a firm um and then uh Dan you and the the the administration you enter into negotiations with them and if you're not able to reach terms then what happens because the board has to approve those terms right well the board is board is approving the architectural firm right and then as you're going through you're doing it now you're working on projects right throughout there. So, one of the projects the board has asked for and which we have asked for as well is looking at the getting a master plan.
Uh what it was. Yep. Oh, Esau Meadow Little really early on that one, but Esau Meadow gets away with it. Balls up over their head. Ball goes around. Oh, still on the ground. picked up by Mack Whitworth blocking. What? [Applause] I think that call was against Sabina Mckne with all 100 pounds of her charging through the Long Meadow defender, knocking her down. But I don't know anything about the sport. That didn't look like a good call to me. Yeah, I I think when Sabina ran into the other girl and knocked her down, that's when it happened. Law Metal throwing the ball away again. That's it. That's it. Ball Ball don't lie. See, it's going be my line right there. Ball don't lie. Ball don't lie. Yeah, that's it. Justice is correctly served. Kylie Marino has space. She can get by one. There she goes. She goes by everybody.
So we we know we know that's part of it. So that's why we're trying to have the conversations and we think it's going to strike. The last 20 minutes must have been terrible. Well, thank you. This has been long time in the works. Thank you, Mr. Hanlin, for your handling of it. Anything else on the schedule? Anyone want to add? No. Okay. K12 math cheshure curriculum council covering we have the whole team here today and Mr. All of our administrators take on one subject area sort of help to shepherd this through and that's been Mr. Jeffy's role this year. And these are our our leaders from elementary, middle, and high school to really give you an executive summary of the plans. And as Kevin's pointed out, we've really talked a lot about that over the last couple of years. So I don't think there's a lot of this that would be new to you, but you will hear sort of um an overview today from the entire team.
So we we you know our alliance now is a big strategy now is the opening of the DHS academy the innovation that's behind it the transformation component and so approved by the state that those staff members you know that that's a bonafide expense um so we'll continue now that that's been approved and I did get pre-approval for that last year and they approved our grant um you know we the the staff that's that we need to open up the campus for 2526 six, we are likely going to have to put all of the staff um you know that we budgeted for in the new with our new budget into alliance and we probably won't be able to to write any more new strategies in there uh or intervention or anything like that. Um but we'll probably have to fit just about everything related to the academy in that grant for next year.
of students with disabilities, uh, students from low-income backgrounds in all all communities really, rural, urban or suburban that rely heavily on title one funding. Um, and then yeah, the next meeting is Friday. So, um I don't mean to put you on the spot, but um where where do we stand on the governor's um proposal about um having a statewide cell phone policy in schools? I'm not sure. Yeah. Still working its way through legislation. Okay. Okay. We're monitoring it closely as the board is aware. Any we've considered changes internally, but all of that's on hold until we find out the rules that come out from the state. But we know that's a governor's priority and something likely will come out uh from this legislative session. We're just not sure of the the details and don't want to get ahead of of whatever is decided. So monitoring closely, but nothing has been uh finalized or approved by the governor yet.
Let's use that as an example. So, there'll be a basically here's they're going to give an estimate of what that is going to entail and then for transparency sake we want to make sure that you know what that's going to end up costing, right? Or a range of what that's going to end up costing. And then that's where that would come out um for board approval of yes, this is the plan that we want and that's we recognize the cost that that's going to to be of this board wouldn't do that part, right? Obviously, but then the next board would do that aspect of it. So what I remember seeing from previously was we there was like a a very extensive contract with Larson and Darby and it had like rates that were uh entered into it and then presumably because we've had that relationship for a long time there were addendums that were added maybe to change the rates as the you know the their costs went up with inflation and things like that.