I believe Mr. Capano recommended them through Pamis and thus far they've done a real nice job very uh very responsive. Bottom of page nine we continue to use CJ Vanderbeck. They do our annual inspections and cleaning and all our repairs for our boilers and they do our uh combustion adjustment for the high school because the high schools above a certain BTU range which we have to do what they call ACA test each and every year based on the recommendation page 10 on the top from Mahonian we have moved on from Harima and we're going to be using a company called Dr. ice to maintain our food service equipment, coolers, freezers, ice machines, walk-in boxes, milk boxes to include two inspections per year, plus filter changes. Um, Ponttonian was passionate about moving on from Harma and using Dr. Ice. They know a lot more than I do about the business.
It's going to be for the freshman team. And then our senior team is called a maker class. They have to make the car from scratch. So that's what they're doing next year. They're going to build their own car. So again, I want to give a special praise to this team and this teacher, this coach, and all the people that supported it. It's amazing. So please, please support engineering. And with that, purple and gold, let's protect the hive. Well done. Well done. Come on up for your picture, please. Come on up here, kids and sponsors and coaches. I'll add to the school board, too, for a couple of you that are newer, that's the only Fab Lab in the state of Arizona that a that a public school has. And so, great things happen in that program. And Mr. Lefront's been doing a lot of work in addition to this team with the Fab Lab generally.
So, thank you so much. Yeah. Thank you so much for sharing that, Mr. Man. And that's exactly what this district and what Kids Congress is all about. It's empowering our students because they're the ones that have the most powerful voice that historically get left out. So, I love that she took that leadership and that's what it is that they start making their own decisions and become these great leaders that will be the best authenticelves they can for whatever leads after 8th grade when they leave our system here. So, much graci to Yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Perfect. That's awesome. We would love to recognize um do we do we have the name? Marisol. Come on up. Yay. Marisol. Thank you, Miss Huarez. She can come over here. So cute. We can take a picture with her. Yeah, she can come right here in a picture. Thank you, Marcus.
And then our um our provider of that tool, they rolled it over and then they added another 3% inflationary on top of that to make sure that our costs are updated to reflect the current year. We will do that annually. Great. Thank you. Great. Any other questions there? Um it's a great segue to the next slide. So um as Miss Bets Betts mentioned, our allocation is 18.5 million. Currently we have 36.93 spent and encumbered in capital. So we wanted to share this detail with you. So 49% of spend is in building and land improvement. Um about 13.3 of that um total 18 million was at the schools. There was a portion um just under 5 million at the district office. Um that included HVAC replacements um 1.3 million for the fuel tank replacement um and transportation. um other miscellaneous expenses, asphalt, roofing, paint. Um and just a note, there are 350 FTE here at this district office complex.
Give kudos recognition to Mo. When it goes to the year prior, which is 2016, uh we had once again outperformed each of the other four elementary schools in the district and by some of those other schools quite substantially. So this next one right here is a pie chart that represents how many times we've outperformed the rest of the district. And please pay attention, out of 18 tests that I had on my data, 14 of them we've outperformed them. Four of them they've outperformed us. and that would be Mon'nique. Okay, so needless to say something's going right and this data is taken from 2016 to 2014. Now the other set of data that we have is of course from the um from the five essential survey. The five essential survey measures five different areas and in those areas um they measure effective leaders, collaborative teachers, supportive environment, ambitious instruction and involved families.
this Saturday I'll be attending a town meeting just to hear both on the budget front both as superintendent of Helen but also as a superintendent of the region and so if need be I can ask answer any questions or provide support um in terms of curricular shifts and trainings um the district team is going to be meeting next week to talk about a professional development calendar um we already have the approved calendar for the upcoming school year so now we're going to go into that calendar and identify ify um district dates versus school based dates so that we can have that at the end of this year as a sharing tool for example for Miki so she can adequately plan next year for when PEL has to host their own professional developments so we're working on that as a district team um in terms of leadership PD we're trying to identify funding to provide professional development to all of our instructional leaders including um Nikki here to support some of the leadership shifts and changes that she feels that she may need. So this year I'm going to be doing a principal evaluations um as well as staff evaluations at the central office.
Does any any other board members have any questions? Yeah, I will. Um hi Todd. Um good evening. I have a question about good evening about signage and actually I was I was over there I was um just taking a walk over the weekend. It looked nice just from the you know as far as I could get into to see the pool. Um I was I didn't even know this was on the agenda actually. I just happened to be in the area. So um but what what is the plan for signage? Because as I'm reading the uh state codes if no lifeguards are required by the board of health uh warning or no lifeguards are on duty. I I didn't read that in the waiver or variance request that you had sent. We certainly will put that up if uh if we're granted the waiver to meet all signage requirements.
So, we're moving on from ARMA and we're going to be using Dr. Ice in the middle of the page. Uh we each and every year in the summer we do fire extinguisher uh certifications and and inspections from Allied Fire and Safety. They've been with us for several years. They do all the schools and they do the buses. And on the bottom of the page, Cotine Associates who were actually recommended by the burrow several years ago. They do our bidding for all our energy contracts, gas and uh therms and gas and kilowatts electricity. So uh they really monitor when we were going off our contract for kilowatts and therms/ gas and then they go out and bid. So we get really better much better pricing per unit than we would from PSEG. Very good. Very good bunch of working out very well. They're very good. They've got one guy, his name is Jason Markhamm.
Courtney Hoffmire has also done a lot of work in scheduling and supporting that effort. And so it does give us a unique a unique uh offering for our kids. in in addition to the Fab Lab. I also want to give a little bit of a shout out to our auto program and our construction programs. We brought those back about six, seven, it's been almost eight years ago and both of those programs are thriving and they have tremendous outcomes. And so our CTE programs, if you're if you don't know, are among the best. And so we're grateful for the teachers that and sponsors and for those that invest in those programs and put in time. It really fills a unique and important need. So thank you. So now we'd like to go on to the students of the month. If I have the principles coming up, uh Mr.
I need Thank you so much. All right, thank you. And I was finishing in Spanish. Thank you very much. And you guys can stay. This is your house. We're going to continue with the board meeting, but if you guys have to leave, I understand. [Music] Um Muchimas gracias. That brings us to our second agenda item for this special board meeting study session and it will be 1.3 which is the meet and confer recommendations. And with that I will turn it over to Miss Shapiro to get us started. No. Yes. Dr. Lauren. Dr. Lauren. My apologies. Dr. Lauren. He was like, "Go ahead. Go ahead. It's uncool. we often get confused. So, uh, madame president, members of the board, we're here tonight with our interestbased negotiation process. Uh, we have representatives from the meet and confer team that will present to you the recommendations coming forward from the process that is has occurred since December.
Uh we thought that was interesting to share. Um you know, people say, "Well, you should spend all the money at the school, but we do have 350 FTE just here, not counting the other district office areas." Uh so we wanted to show um to Dr. From Accords Point, we have the security 2% that includes the weapon detectors and the software. 1.7 million in auditorium for rigging and stage curtains. And then the district-wide technology is a very large slice of that pie that includes Chromebooks, laptops, um software, um things like uh the software that we use, the software that PD uses, etc. And that is it.
Now I have this data that I've collected since 2015 when Mr. Maine came in and by the way all those years were when Mr. Maine was with us. Uh now this is the data that's ga gathered over the course of a number of years and there are 180 data points uh with the other schools and 30 data points with us in five different categories. What I want you to do is I want you to let me just say this all these signs that are being held up here these dark green ones those are a very strong designation that's a score of a five. You might say how do you get a score of a five? Well, representation uh by certain groups of people. The one staff, two, our students represent us. And three, the parents represent us as well. So, there are three different comm three different parts to these uh scores right here.
Um we do have a training a virtual training what uh we're piloting this series of putting everything in the power school performance platform. who launched the platform and so we're going to start off with the leadership team and so there's training Thursday morning HR is going to do that for our leaders um so that they can see the platform understand how it how it works and then we'll go in and do a pilot a little switch this year going start with the rubric rubric and then from how we reflect on a rubric then have the leader go in and reflect create their goals for next year so it's going to be a little reverse um there were some conversations that the um chair had asked me in our planning meeting. One of them was updating the committee email link to make sure the correct members are on the link.
Um we've uh we've got a signage company we're utilizing now that they make signage for everything. We've worked with the building department and the fire department has requested additional signage in various locations. That's not been a problem at all. We we're happy to put up uh any additional signage that you might request or require code or beyond code. We're fine with that. Okay. So, I would recommend that you just take another look at the um state regulations because as I'm reading it here, uh warning, no lifeguard on duty is one of them. Um another one that should be visible is children under age 16 should not use the swimming pool without an adult in attendance. Yeah, we have a couple other pools that we do this with and we don't have lifeguards and we have all the signage. So, I'll also double check to see if there's additional signage.
He's a savant. He knows everything and anything about the energy futures and stuff like that. Really, it saves us, I would say, tens of thousands of dollars on the year in total energy, uh, for gas and electric. So, uh, kudos to the to the burrow for recommending them. Um, top end of, uh, page 11, we have Interstate and Tomms, who we continue to use to service our buses. Tom services our smaller buses and vans. interstate services are 54s. And on the bottom of page 11, we continue to use critical response group. And Teddy and Joe, I think you remember when they came in, that gentleman who was a Marine uh was in Afghanistan did great pitch, very pragmatic. Um uh they update our digital floor plans with the help of the CPPD and the CPFD. um really a really good company uh in regard to uh engaging them through in developing and maintaining our digital floor plans.
Grace, Principal Hoffmeer, and Mr. Webb, you can come up please and announce the May students of the month. Good evening. Our May student of the month, Giana Sparrow, come on up. All right. All right. So, Gianna is a fourth grader here at the elementary school. Um, her teacher nominator for student of the month and her teacher or uh wrote, "Janna is a wonderful child and an outstanding student. She consistently demonstrates respectful behaviors, works well with her peers, and always puts forth her best effort in class. Her positive attitude and dedication to learning make her a joy to have in the classroom. In addition to her academic efforts, Gianna is also a participate are also participates in choir where she continues to shine as a committed and enthusiastic member. She has shown notable academic growth this year and is finishing out a fantastic fourth grade. Gianna is truly a role model and an excellent excellent example of the kind of student that we hope to have throughout our schools.
So, very quickly, we will review um some general information. So what our goal is for this evening's presentation is to overview the process uh have the recommendations and ration presented to you and then we would also like to seek feedback from the board regarding this process this year since it was a little different. Uh just a reminder that the work for the interestbased negotiation is grounded in policy uh for the scope of the meet and confer work as well as what the guidelines are. Uh members of the committee are listed on this uh on this slide. Uh as usual, we have representatives from the Kraton Education Association as well as representatives that are selected through the district process. You should have a copy of this Hilda. That's right. Yeah. I was looking for the It's in that folder that says PowerPoints on the first page.
Any questions on this pie? Um I I just have a question to clarify for constituents. Um when we pay for for textbooks and curriculum is that come out of unrestricted capital. It is. Yes. Okay. Mhm. So that's pretty important that I mean if we're going to have great education, we need updated materials for teachers to use. Thank you. And then finally, we have action item 6.01. 01. Uh, that requires your signature. So, please hang out for a moment. I I like how you end your presentations now with the reminder that there's an action item and you need signatures. That's really good. I like that. You know why? I would say it's subliminal, but it's really direct. I like it. It's in your face. I like direct. Any other questions? Okay. Best budget revision discussion ever. Ever. Good job, guys. Thank you. Thank you. [Music] Thank you again.
These dark ones right here are a very strong designation. This one that's a little light. It's a strong designation. Let me just sum this up to make it very clear so I don't go through every single little piece of data. How many of the other schools last year had gotten a very strong designation? because I'm certain that everybody knows this. Zero. Over the last six years, how many times did any other school in this district get a very strong designation? That's a big zero. We had gotten four very strong designations in one year. If you look here, out of our 30 data points from the last six years, 10 of our 30 data points were very strong. That's a third. That's a third of our our numbers that have been gathered over six years. We have 57% that still got designated as a strong label.