Equal. Well, it was separate but wasn't necessarily equal. But um there's we don't have obviously a lot of film of those players. We do know that um like a guy like Satchel Page who we never knew exactly how old Satchel was, but I think it was 1948 the Cleveland Indians signed him and he was you know in terms of baseball he was a geyser. he was, you know, in his late four and he was still mowing them down. They were amazing players and um and now of course the baseball hall of fame has included Negro League statistics and uh in along with the major the white major leagues up to 1945. Oh, interesting. Um there's a comment here that the Negro League started in 1920 when Rube Foster organized some independent teams into a league. Yes. Okay. There were a lot of barnstormering teams. Um the Yankees, I mean all the major leagues actually, they they would barnstorm and they would sometimes play these Negro League teams in in these they were pickup games basically.
Yeah, I'll go back in that time machine. Oh, well, that's a great question. That's a I I I have to do some research. I I don't know if anyone ever recorded that. Okay. Um Stanley wants to know it was something you said in your t in your u presentation. He said that Eisenhower saw the Ottabons after the war. No, he saw him before the war. Before the war. Yeah, he was there in the uh 20s. Okay. And he was he was extremely impressed. And he also he recognized what the value of being able to transport heavy, you know, things like tanks from one city to another. Interesting. Interesting that that was his sort of it it was it was and he's Yeah, he even said so many times. Um, Jeanie wants to know, "Why did they start in the north versus the south when building 128?" Because uh the north had was more populated and needed the um needed the the to get rid of get people off the that ad hoc uh roadway.
uh and um based on on our criteria and with our teaching staff only. Um but that was a a big win for us to be able to stick them all together and uh figure out where especially those frozen teachers. It was incredible to me to find people who had 12 even. I think the worst one I found was someone who had it may have been like 17 years of experience and they were on like a C schedule. They weren't even on a t a tier. So somehow they got missed in that last goround too. So uh doing it this way allowed me to find all the needles in the hay stack of the people who really have been compressed for multiple years. Yeah. No, I really appreciate the idea of simplifying it since you mentioned that um doing this work got us down to probably two schedules.
And I know the district would love to do more with their funding and budget and that that's largely out of control of how much you guys would like to spend. Um but but the slow and silent purging of librarians is something I would like to raise more attention to before decisions are made that completely alter the cultures of literacy and lifelong learning GPS aims to inspire. And as a final note, something interesting. Arizona requires its prisons to have full service media centers or libraries. And the majority of the county prisons choose to have these libraries or media centers staffed by certified at least. What does it say about the state? Thank you, Miss Eaton. The next speaker is Adriana Haapala. Oh, it's just one. Ha. Okay, got it. whenever you're ready. All right. Thank you very much. Um, hold on. As school board members, I am I am certain the people of Gilbert elected you because they believed you would serve the best interest of Gilbert's students in mind, that you want to improve the educational experience of the students in this district and make the best choices possible to see them to succeed.
And um you know the the white players they sometimes they would just shake their head. could not believe how good these guys were. Uh but there was never that again that momentum pre-war for uh for there to be finally allowing black players to uh play in the white majors. Um so just a quick reminder if you can put your questions in the Q&A that's a little bit easier for me but we're I am uh answering qu asking questions from the chat right now. Was the gentleman's agreement influenced by reconstruction after the Civil War? I I can't say for sure. It It sounds I mean again, black players were playing for a decade or maybe two after the Civil War, but certainly when uh with the with reconstruction and um it probably it sounds logical to me, but I'd have to look that's something I'd have to look up.
Again, as we saw on the southwest part of the state, uh it was a lot less developed uh especially before the war. Um, we're getting some really interesting comments in the chat and I want to let you know that I will share the chat with David afterwards so he can also read all of these interesting comments especially about the pig farm. I'm getting a kick out of this. Yeah. Yeah. I'm seeing a I'm seeing a few people mentioning it. That's Yeah. Just Anyways, Earl asks, "Is there any truth to the story of construction workers finding many rattlesnakes digging for 128 near the Blue Hills? Another Hold on. I'm writing that down. That's another new one. Nope. I don't know. I've not heard that story. Wow, you guys are flumxing him. It's Yeah. Yeah. I will send that question to you if you want to respond to him later.
Can you describe what those two schedules are? One is a regular teacher um play. So the placement what we call them I don't know what we'll end up calling them. Um but it's two groups of teachers. One is regular ed teachers and the other is STEM teachers. I I think Joel could speak to the differences between those two teachers types of teacher, but I think it's science and math and technology teachers versus the two salary schedules that exist currently for certified teachers. There's uh the STEM one includes dual language teachers, science, math, technology, and sped resource. That's what I thought. Yes, they were. Yeah. So years ago um well not too long ago but there was a market demand on the salary schedule for those hard to fill positions and the decision was made to move them to a separate salary schedule so that their base reflected the hardto-fill positions.
So, I wonder why, even considering budget constraints, you would cut a position as important as a school librarian, a valuable resource to your students and hardworking staff members in the district. Personally, I have not lived in Gilbert for a long time. The school district I used to live in only had one high school, limited extracurriculars, and no school librarian. that district was more focused on getting kids the bare minimum of credits and shoving them to the finish line rather than encouraging students to thrive. So I was delight So I was delightfully surprised when I moved to Gilbert and attended Campo Verde, a district that valued the arts, education, their staff and opportunities for students. It was there when I joined book club, a club that wouldn't be possible without my librarian, Miss Flarity, and became even more engaged and applied myself more than I ever did at my old district.
Okay. Um Okay. So, another comment. A terrific book, by the way, and unfortunately I have it on my iPad, so I can't hold up the cover, but there's a um a New England television host named Ted Reinstein. He's a terrific writer and he wrote a book about the Negro Leagues that it's it's a terrific book. It's also heartbreaking, but it it's a great book, and it it might be there, and I'd have to go to my iPad and bring up Kindle, but he might have the answer in his book. Okay, we'll have to look that up. He's a local speaker as well. I know a lot of Yeah, he's Yes, I'm sure you should. I'm sure you've had him. I have not personally, but I know he's hit a lot of libraries. You should book him. Giving you the giving you the plug. Yeah. So, another comment is the American Association of Major League at the time had black players until 1886 when the um National League forced the AA to agree to ban them in exchange for not rating AA rosters.
Yeah. Thanks. Um Ronald says, "Why did the new 128 end at Brain Tree instead of continuing to hull like the old 128?" Because it was connecting to the Route Three. Okay. Wow. Interesting. Just like the just like the 128 north, it doesn't go all the way to um actually go into Gloucester or up to the to the shore. It stops um which by the way, that's where our last signalized interchange is at the very very end of 128. Oh, somebody did ask somewhere, where's that last light on 128? It's up in It's up in Gloucester. Yeah. Oh, cool. Um, Beatrice asks, "Why did they change the merge right on ramps to be turned left with a stoplight before accessing the onramp?" I I I don't know. Why did they change the merge right on the ramps to turn to be turned left with a stoplight before accessing the on ramp?
Um and then since then market demands were added right so there was a market demand added for resource market demand added for self-contained. So that that's where the two salary schedules are. Um, and for uh Daniel has another question, but I just want to clarify, Vanessa, when we look at that number, the 261,000, 200 of that is money that was earmarked from last year's meet and confer process, right? So, when you're looking at that number, if you're looking at how much it would impact this year's allocated dollars for meet and confer, you're looking at the 61,200, right? Okay. I just wanted to make sure everyone was on the same page with that. Uh Daniel, um yeah, I had a question about the because a 5k raise to psychologists uh you guys costed out as 24,000. Does that take into account because we have to have the psychologists, right?
I read more during my free time. I pushed myself and I began to thrive. I don't think I would have made this much progress as this quickly without the guidance of figures like Miss Flity and the general culture at Campbo Verde that encouraged academic rigor and valued resources such as a school librarian. I'm sure you already are familiar with these statistics, but only around 41% of Arizona's students are reaching a proficient reading level and our state is consistently ranked on the lower side of education. What message are you sending by cutting a resource that could help improve this problem rather investing even more in district libraries and librarians? Think about why the people of Gilbert chose you to serve their children. Do you want Gilbert students to thrive or would you rather roll them to the finish line? Thank you very much for your time.
Wow. Okay. Yeah. Awesome information. That's that's great. Thank you very much. Thank you. Didn't the Red Sox pass on Willie Mays because of race? Uh yes. Y but you know Tom Yi was a Southerner and uh that's what some people use as a either an excuse or a reason your choice about why we took so long to uh to bring in a block player. [Music] Um, Jorah says, "There are stories that the Braves did not bring Maize to the major so that they could move the team from Boston." [Music] Well, the Braves weren't doing very well. Yeah, that's right. I mean, but they moved in 53. I think that's when they moved to or 52, moved to Milwaukee. Um, we have some fans of Ted Rinstein in our audience. Carlos says, "Read Ted's book. It's fascinating." And somebody else says, "Just looked up his book.
I'm not sure what that um I I if if if I get the question correctly um uh engineers or traffic engineers um they have a a way of measuring volumes of traffic. Uh they they label intersections and interchanges and merges with the numbers one through five. Um, so when you get a five or a four, uh, they have to figure out how to make that number higher. And those tra those literally a traffic light at a at a entrance ramp is just meant to psy to prevent cars too many cars from trying to merge onto the highway at the same time. So by metering it out, it also has a psychological effect for those people who are thinking about getting on the highway and they know, oh god, four o'clock on a rush hour to try to get on the highway. I'm standing in line.
There's no world where and I guess if it be a vacancy, what there's the number of positions, right? And it's a $12,000 cost to the district to hire a contract psychologist. So, if even if we gave $5,000 raises to all the psychologists, wouldn't that like if we actually ended up hiring a psychologist, wouldn't that actually save us like six grand? So, so would it actually cost anything to add $5,000 to the psychologist salary schedule? Well, I I mean again, I think we we handle budgets in a global effect. And yeah, there could be some savings if we hire from a contracted psychologist and then end up hiring a um an employee instead, but that's not typical as the way um we manage budgetary dollars because it's it's too there's no way to keep track of that on a long-term basis. So yes, overall and if you were trying to manage something to a penny, yes, I believe that you're correct.
I appreciate it. I have 47 seconds left. You're good. Unless you have something else. You don't have to go the whole 30. I don't. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Apollo. Our next speaker is Lizzie Stone. Whenever you're ready. Miss Stone. Good evening again. Yes, I am back because I want to reiterate and add on to what I said at the last business board meeting. While I was re-watching myself, I realized I spoke a little fast, so I apologize if it was hard to follow along last month. I am a naturally fast speaker, but I'll try my best to slow down. As I introduced myself last last month, I am Lizzy Stone and I'm the book club president, but I'm also involved on campus. For example, I'm in concert choir, link crew, NHS, and creative writing club. And that's just my extracurriculars. I feel I can make cample proud through all my many AP courses I've taken and excelled at.
It's called Before Brooklyn. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, it's everything leading up to Jackie's um uh being brought into the Dodgers. So, so Katherine says, "Did not mention curse of 2003." I'm not sure what that is for. That's um because I love Tim Wakefield. Knuckle ballers have always been my one of my favorite positions uh types of pitchers. There's just I I was a big Wilbur Wood fan and Wakefield with that flutter ball of his and he gave up the uh winning home run to Aaron Boon who now manages the Yankees in the seventh game of the 2003 World Series uh uh excuse me, American League Championship. I've always said um you can't really and can't really talk about 2004 without the heartbreak of 2003 because that we were so close and and listen when the Cubs had their own little curse happened to them in their playoff with the with the Miami with the then known as the Miami Marlins.
I'll just stay on the local streets. And it has a a dual effect of metering the number of cars that enter the highway and also kind of gets people off the highway, even thinking about getting on the highway. I like it. Um, Kathleen says, "How many vehicles was the original 128 designed to hold? Um, what has been done in the past decade to accommodate the increase in number of trucks and vehicles that use it to get to and from their offices?" I mean, you know, 128's crazy, of course, at any time of the day. So, I'm kind of interested in that, too. Well, again, they they built the original highway thinking uh 10 to 20,000 cars, but the capacity uh at full was said to be around 50, but they quickly ran out of capacity and that's when they started expanding the highway. The problem is, and I have to go back to that field of dreams quote because uh the when I spent a lot of time with engineers and the traffic guys at the big dig and one of the ones said to me, "Look, you could open up a 32 lane highway that goes into the city on a Monday and it'll be beautiful that first day, but that night everyone's going to call their friends, you won't believe how easy it is to get into Boston now." And on Tuesday, it's going to be jammed.
There could be some savings from going from a contracted teacher to a hired uh employee teacher. Um, and that's always our goal. Oh, sorry. All right. I was talking about the psychologist specifically, which I'm I'm I'm man I'm trying to do dollars and cents because I was looking at our options and we might be like 12 we might literally be like $12,000 over budget if you know looking at some options and for the psychologist that the reason I brought that up is because like like if we raise our psychologist pay rate it doesn't make a contract psychologist more expensive, right? That's not what happens, right? So I'm saying but I don't know that I'll be able to hire a psychologist in that's like an unknown right now. I'm dealing with the known dollars of how many psychologists we actually have hired in a salary schedule.
That's why I hope these words here tonight don't just feel like they're being flung around at whim. I hope to establish that I try to come from a place of logic and reasoning as well as moral integrity. While at the last meeting, I resonated with the idea of increasing student achievement. We pride ourselves in promoting academic achievement through gifted status and advanced courses. But what does it say about us when we are cutting down a vital part of our community? I find it ironic. The library is a place where we gather knowledge and increased our mastery of topics that interest you or me. But how would we even know where to look without a librarian? I would like to walk you through what I've noticed keep keeps the library functioning and thriving as I've spent my time there. The first thing that arises to my attention when I walk through those library doors is the front desk where the librarian sits.