Board, any questions or comments regarding that? I just want to continue to express the gratitude to the work that you are doing along with the team. This is an extraordinary amount of work that needs to be done as we're reinventing again uh what graduation looks like and so very proud of Lawrence Township for being um on the forefront of making these changes so early. So well done. Just uh a note for members of the public, we had extensive conversation on this in our work session. So, if they're not seeing us uh ask questions back and forth about some of these items, they were discussed a lot in our work session and that they can um that's also available online um from our April 14th meeting. So, um if you want some reading or watching on what was discussed, it is out there thanks to Dr.
Yep. Hart now is going to pass it up to Fowler. Fowler on that 30 yd line. Foul looks like he's going to go in. Fowler quick shot pass over to Atwood. Atwood rips and Kelly with a nice save. Kelly's got the ball. He's going to walk it up a little bit. We got 439 on the clock. 6 to3 is the score. Raiders are up. Nice pass from Kelly all the way to Dice. D's going to roll past this one right to George Ellis. Georgis. Quick passing back and forth from Duncan and Georgis. Yeah, Georgie Ellis. Georgie Ellis. I just saw the phonetic thing. Man, this is Georgie Ellis. So, excuse me. Yeah, you can thank Arabella for helping. Thank you, Arabella. Anastasia now dishes it off to Mloud. Mloud Newarker picks it up. New Marker with a fantastic breakout play, finding Whitesman in stride. Perfect pass.
Addy Jordan scoops the ball up. Gets the ball over to L. Kasich. Kasich back to M. Whitward. Matt. Whitward goes by one. Nice feed. Oh. [Music] Ball gets knocked away trying to get the ball to Kasich, but good hustle by M. Whitward to get the ball back. M Whitler going behind the net. Nobody there. Turns around, takes a shot. Another one off the post. I think we got to be up to like six six shots off the post this this game for the Spartans. Addy Jordan goes around, flicks the ball at Calibri, and nice pass. Nice finish by Calib. Spartans up 104. That's Yeah, Addy had an assist. Nice ball work by the Spartans. Number seven, Jordan with the assist. It's always tough for any Western Mass goalie to go one-on-one with Mana Calvary. She's really shifty with that stick. Fake high, throw low. I don't know.
They will finish the driving portion over the summer. Chance Heg, Tagger Ish, Casten Payer, and Kent Stoie. [Applause] The following students earned their serve safe food handler certification while in high school. Payton Bernie, Shaye Buck, Tori Burbridge, Deja Dolinger, Braxton Gamble, Sarah Gford, Llaya Myers, and Addison Van Patton. Congratulations, T. A vocational concentrator is a student who has completed three or more credit hours in a single vocational pathway with at least two credits being a combination of technical and application levels and achieving 80% on the course competencies or better. They have not obtained an industry recognized credential in the vocational pathway animal science pathway. Haley Potter and Deanna Rmmer web and digital media production pathway. Tyler Coulter, Leo Hawksworth, Gavin Jinson Jenkins, and Olivia [Applause] Lions. Business finance pathway. Nvea Sharp, Health Science Pathway. Grace Burke and Tabitha McKenzie. Teaching and training pathway, Hayden Castle.
So, we've budgeted for an additional $250,000 in this number. As I said before, we're going to restore fund balance. To us, it's an expenditure because we have to put that money in. That's $200,000. And then we are depositing the maintenance reserve of $500,000. And of course, our capital projects number for with the that's assigned from the withdrawal capital reserve has not changed. It's 283,000. And here's your year-to-year comparison. So, you can see where in which categories the numbers have gone up. And our most significant cost here or increase is going to be in our district costs because that's going to include the roughly eight million or seven and a half million dollars we're putting towards capital improvements. And then here's the tax levy impact for all of the residents. So you're going to say, "Well, what does this mean for me?" And here's where you will be able to gather that information.
Um so that's what you see there tonight. There are several uh positions that the board and I have been talking about over the past uh 10 11 months um with regard to some of these changes that that may be possible here after a new board reorganizes etc. Um and we we have a new personnel committee uh and we talk about moving forward for the 2526 school year. Uh right now what you see tonight just to kind of clarify these are not additional positions. They have additional position controls, which means that the board has the ability to fill them if it wants. So, what you're going to see hopefully tonight with an affirmative vote, uh you'll see these job descriptions and these uh position controls now become part of the board's um purview. Um so, you may may remember 101 15 years ago, there may have been a position that somebody had that they don't have anymore, right?
And I just want to say congratulations to Freedom boys basketball game. I'm hearing they won tonight, so they will be going to the playoffs. So I wish I was there, but congratulations guys. Good job. I went to the Daart Heroes Awards also, and it was a great event for all the winners. shocker. I also attended the Desaart Hero event and it was just it's always an amazing experience to be able to recognize all of our uh incredible staff that go above and beyond. Special thanks to public relations and uh that whole team that made the event truly incredible for everyone. That's all I have. Next up, we have the consent agenda. And I will move to appro approve consent agenda items as presented. A second. Motion carries. Okay. Next up, we have item G1, information discussion. Dr. Croto. Thank you, Madam President. Um, we've been asked uh earlier by the governing board to present a process um on how our committees our committee selection process.
Many have now begun expressing that they do not feel safe at school, which is deeply troubling and indicative of the severity of the situation. This is this not only hinders their academic process but also contributes to emotional strain as they are expected to adapt to conditions that should not be normalized in any educational setting. This situation has reached a critical juncture. Our children are being affected both academically and emotionally and the urgency of this matter can no longer be minimized or deferred. We need immediate, transparent and effective action to restore safe and productive learning environment at Foxchase. This is not merely a matter of inconvenience. It directly concerns the well-being and futures of all students. Thank you. Thank you. Caitlyn Place. Good evening. My name is Caitlyn Place and I am a parent of a first grader and third grader at Foxchase Elementary. Since my first grader began kindergarten, she has been in a classroom environment marked by frequent severe behavioral disruptions.
Buck because she told me to do things for myself and not for others. Hi, my name is Jonathan Rook. I plan to major in engineering at Purdue University. My favorite PCSE experience is playing volleyball here at East High School. And I my favorite teacher is Mrs. Hamling. Even though she's retired, she made physics fun and exciting. My name is Grace McMahon. My future plans include going to IU Bloomington to major in biochemistry and pursue a premed pathway. My favorite BCSSE memory is winning the state championship with the team that I helped found and captain this year, my senior year. And my favorite BCSSE teacher has been Mr. Walls. He's been the most passionate teacher that I've had. Um, he's very passionate about teaching and he taught me anatomy and biology in my freshman year. My name is Alex Duncan and my future plans are to go up to Purdue and study electrical engineering technology.
We tried to delay testing a little bit, get more instruction in before we started the testing this year. Therefore, we are half halfway point testing window right now. Uh and then uh we do uh I learn biology and this is for any student that's taking biology and that can include high school students as well as students and currently we are uh at 31.6% of our students that have completed that and there's a total of tests. So it gives you a little bit of update of our I am testing. We actually will be completed in a couple weeks. I think we start testing coming actually next. Uh two grants that are going to be coming. One's already been alluded to. Mark talked about it was the digital learning grant. This is due on the 16th of uh April of May, excuse me, and we'll be meeting of course on the 19th for approval.
If we move to Latin honors, students will have fulfilled their role. They will fulfilled all of their obligations for graduation. and they would have those two courses but still be able to play sports that they want to play. Um it's important for our entire staff. Um you can see from the last slide the timeline our staff on board for it. Um we've been having lots of conversations. We're a little ahead of the time frame. We thought we'd present in May um but we were ready to present in April um wholeheartedly about our decision. So, we're just hoping that our board and our community will also support the need for Latin honors as it will drastically impact and help more students. Do you have any initial questions for Mrs. Good Pastor or her team at this time? What was the initial reasoning for looking into this?
That's all in the board packet documents. Um, like I said, I went on one of these. Um, it was with my high school, but I did it my after my freshman year of college. And like I said, the cool part was you got to see all these European um, cities. You got to experience the world outside of what you grew up in. Um, but you don't have to take the time and energy to plan out every second of the trip because I also did one of those trips by myself after college and it was not as fun because you had to plan everything. Um but yeah, um if you have additional questions on this, um Mrs. Kindler has been the one kind of planning the majority of it. She just had a softball game, so she wasn't able to be here tonight. So if I can't answer it, then I'll direct those to her.
Altmire and her team. Um so, at this point, thank you for the comments. We will move to the approval of the curriculum advisory committee um recommendations and we will move on to Mr. Noter again. Thank you Madame President, Dr. Smith and members of the board. I recommend approval of the curricular advisory committee recommendations as submitted. Thank you. I'll entertain a motion for the approval. So move. Second. Properly moved, Miss Lawrence and seconded, Miss Pucket. All in favor? I I. None opposed. All in favor? All right.
Whitesman, they get a shot and insane save from Kelly. Very nice save right there. Quick stick. Weissman had some speed on that too. Kelly now. Casually bringing it up. Fantastic pass but somehow didn't connect and they got a speedy Gez with it. Gez bringing it towards the net. Gezen hits Kelly in the mass. Still bouncing and Kelly able to get it. Great play though from Gizen. Better save from Kelly. Yeah, Kelly's keeping his team in this for sure and and trying to tell him what to do. He's throwing great passes out there. Yeah, he sure is playing it fantastic. He's definitely keeping him in the game. him. Now you got Georgeless passing it to Mckeligot on that 40 yd line covered by Kramer. Look at this. He's taking his time. 238 on the clock. Meligot trying to get in. Fantastic defense from Raiders for a second.
I'm always impressed with Mian. Good job, Miana. [Music] This time West Springfield ends up with the ball only for quickly for Addie Jordan. Knocked the ball out. Addie Jordan making headway. She gets the ball over Lucasich. Kasich looking to go by a couple people's. She knocks down the westside defender. M Whit goes in through four of the girls. She turns around. M Whitler gets herself a nice little goal going low post, low far post on the goalie. M Whitworth's second goal of the game, her 33rd goal of the season. Both Westside and East Law Meadow are both high-scoring offenses with East Law Meadow scoring 144 goals allowing 96 goals and Westside has 117 goals while only giving up 74. East Law Meadow scoring 20 of those seven of those 74. So Westside's not giving up a lot of goals to these Western Mass teams. Having a tough time stopping East Esto's highowered offense as it has been the last few years.
A vocational completer is a student who has completed three or more credit hours in a single vocational pathway with at least two credits being a combination of technical and application levels and achieving 80% of the course competencies or better. Additionally, the student has obtained an industry recognized credential or passed a third-party end of pathway assessment. Agriculture animal science pathway Madison Kim Agriculture Power Structure and Mechanical Pathway. Emtt Hazen, Chance Hay, Tagger Ish, Braden Riggs, Ty Stephins, and Kent Stuki. Production Technology Pathway, Casten Payer. Health Sciences Pathway, Zaye Allen, Olivia Bangs, Lara Codney, and Khloe Gossy. Family and Consumer Science Pathway, Payton Bernie and Restaurant and Event Management Pathway, Laya Myers, Mrs. Bolan, and all of you who just stood, you'll uh get a packet here at the end of the evening, and all your certificates are in there. Next, we're going to recognize those students who have completed the NCAA curriculum.
The highlighted bar across the middle is going to show you your average assessed home value for Eve Sham Township. Remember, these are assessed values, not market values. It's not what your home's worth if you were to put in the market and sell it. This is what the tax assessed value of your home is. In Eve Sham, the average assessed home is $272,785. Our increase is going from $3,6547 from the prior year to $4,5645. It's an increase of $99 or almost $910 per average assessed home. You might say, "My home isn't valued at $273,000." So, it's a sliding scale. If you go all the way up to $100,000 at the top, for every $100,000 of assessed value, your increase is $33359. Some things that impact this. On the far right, you can see the net value taxable from 2023 to 2024. The net, that's all of the ratable base of the township of Eve Sham and all of the collected dollars that they have to generate in taxes is about five billion.
It's still on the books, quote unquote. Um so then moving forward uh if if that does get approved tonight then uh we'll look to possibly reconfigure this as we sit in new committees uh and then we'll post um for certain jobs. Uh and hopefully uh some of the plans that we have will will work to the best of our students um contentions and also uh provide with provide our staff um with an enhanced uh description of their jobs uh and possibly offer um some promotions uh from within um and also uh really talking we're really talking about articulation articulation both vertical and horizontally. uh we're adding a lot of programs. I know we're going to be be continuing to add programs here. So, we like to see some programmatic uh directors working with some of the principles, etc. So, there there's more to come. Uh but I just wanted to clarify that these aren't like seven new positions that are going to cost a billion dollars.
So um we are here. So DAER schools is involved. Uh we like to seek involvement from a lot of community members on some of our committees. As you can see here, these are the committee opportunities available to the public. So we have the calendar committee, the curriculum adoption committee, the employee benefits trust board, handbook, menu advisory, and it goes on. So you can see there um this is also part um of where to sign up for. So on our uh website you can go and see a description of each committee along with a link to sign up for each committee and that's found in the parents and community sections of our website. So that is there for everybody to view and sign up even if we do not have um any need you can still sign up and that way when we access those uh committee selections they will be there um the committee selection process.
These incidents have included flipping tables, throwing chairs, objects, ripping items off the wall, hitting, spitting, taking personal belongings, running from the classroom, yelling, and using profanity. These disruptions have caused a constant state of chaos, stress, and disruption, often resulting in classroom evacuations. Last year, I raised these concerns with both school and district administration. The responses I received were minimal, often dismissive. I chose to give the benefit of the doubt last year. However, this year, now in first grade, the same environment persists. Her class regularly experiences level three and four crisis calls and evacuations, which are now sometimes labeled all classroom bathroom breaks. This this renaming doesn't change the reality of what is happening. One recent incident made it painfully clear that the situation is no longer tolerable. When my daughter heard her first grade classmate tell her best friend that she they were going to get a gun and assassinate them, despite the gravity of the statement, the school's response and followup was deeply insufficient.