So I think it's more like what happens in bigger schools. Do you find the two systems are productive of each other? It just seems odd to have two systems to have to then ask your administrators to input possibly into two systems. So again, it's it's a use, right? Right. So one is to me, for lack of a better word, discipline, behavior tracking. That's not just bullying, harassment. Um and then BRIM focuses on in initially the the focus is on the reporting of be bullying, harassment, you know, or I I felt bullied. I felt like this happened to to me. I felt bullied. I need this investigator. That's brick. Educator handbook is a tracking for student discipline and behaviors that come up. So, I might need you to see the counselor today because I mean I think I saw one where a child didn't feel like the child had repeated like sleep like there's I looked at different examples not just here but outside of how it's used and so for me the best way I can explain it is all the school behaviors that all could happen whether it's a fight whether it's a curse word whether it's a you just didn't speak up to them.
Yes. So again, there there was a call, you know, so we we should have it and I'll for it to the board once we have it. You know, uh so with the housing cases, uh these are two uh another not not exactly housing, you know, the these are the uh uh issues at the dumpster at both 28 conquered street as well as 56 conquered street. You know, these both are comp complaint based cases that came to our attention. uh both both was issued uh order to crack letters and 56 conquered street this is an apartment unit they have complied with our order to crack letter 28 conquered street uh u I have one citation of $100 you know issued for non-compliance and I'll be following up uh on this again this week you know just to see where where we are but I did meet the owner of the building uh before I before my travel with Boston Marathon we we didn't had any event or issues with with the with the shelters we have set up.
I think it will continue to decline, but it won't be as steep as it has been. Um so, 7.9 is really not that much um from our our second revision. um you always go a little bit high on your adopted budget just so that you have your budget capacity. That's why that number's high like that. Um for your group B, that's um your K3 reading, all your special ed weights, your gifted weight, your free and reduced lunch rate, your gifted rate. You can see in the originally when we did the adopted budget, we used last year's numbers and then um when we did the group when we did the revised budget in December, AD did not have our K3 reading um budget approved. So our numbers were not um in our data. You can put the numbers in there if you choose to. I just choose not to.
The reason behind that is taking the market demand stipen that they're already receiving and moving it into their base pay is when many of our schools have had to share psychologist or not had a psychologist throughout many school years, my school included from multiple years we were there sharing or didn't have one. And so people from different schools were coming and supporting our school. And so when we're talking about moving that markets demand stipen to base salary, it's really going to assist in attracting and retrain retaining those qualified school psychologists. Really ensuring that our most vulnerable students needs are met. We're currently paying the stipen already and we're looking at um the potential when school psychologists are reviewing or applying for positions. They oftentimes just look at the base pay and they don't look at the market demand stipens. And our base pay for school psychologists is significantly lower than many other of our n almost all of our neighboring um school districts.
You know, that's fine. That is worth our time and it means they're listening. Right. So this time of year across school districts, probably the the country, that's a notorious one is we need gift cards for the end of the year parties, right? And it'll have the principal's name on it. And they're just not real, right? They're just not real. So um we're not going to talk about MCAST tonight. That's a program we have that scans all of our email and all of our all of our links as well. When you click on something, it scans that. Um all staff members do have a portal to go into in Mcast. So if something is held, they can go in there and actually say, "No, this is safe." Um, so that's very helpful. We're testing a piece of that product right now that will actually put a banner kind of like Google within the email and you can mark it safe right then and there because the system learns, right?
Approved addition to new classrooms at the middle school. Implemented best in class for our safety and security that we have. restructure the school bonds such as the taxpayers will receive a $2 million reduction in 2026. District operating at a cumulative budget surplus for the last eight years. And of course, you you survived CO. So anyway, those are just some of the highlights that have been accomplished here um with you at uh on the table and uh there's many many more, but I think for me personally as I got a chance to work with you as um as you were the board president, it was wonderful meeting with you at coffee every Friday to really talk about business. Um getting to know a little bit about your families and um just really getting to know you as a person and I just have high respect for you as an individual.
I need the counselor and principal to speak with you. Like all of those schoolbased behaviors that goes into that's tracked in educator handbook, right? Office referrals. Hey, a child may one day go to art and throw everything off the desk. That's not going. But that needs to be recorded and tracked someplace. So that's that goes into educator handbook. Johnny came in today. He threw everything off the desk. He refused to do what I asked him to do. He stole it off out of the classroom. But that's not the behaviors that we're tracking in group. So, and then educator handbook allows a teacher to kind of expand deeper and what they perceive and what occurred and give like a little bit of a write up. Brim is more of a like this is what occurred, this is what happened. Brim is like an interaction between mult like between people, right?
Um thanks thanks to the board members Dr. Jade or Barbara was there you know I appreciate that with the open go permitting software uh from from the last time uh we do have our permitting software ready uh the team at open go have also put the inspectional software ready now that we'll be testing and we have some training scheduled for them you know to get going on on on the software I guess we have one uh Laura and myself have one on next week right but uh we we have a meeting tomorrow as well but that that's with other departments so u we should be rolling that soon you know may maybe anticipated maybe in a month's time or even before so is that only for uh permitting the open gov or is that for are there other functions that that serves as well so yes both permitting as well as well as inspectional software you know so uh through that uh I guess we we have a good number of permits I guess we we issue different kind of permits like to the count of 15 or 16 permits that we do it from that so we did develop one uh permitting software with them and then some of the other ones you know uh we will we'll get it from the other communities right and then me and Laura will work if we have to addit some stuff in they have already had right like in in their database they have software has made it for different permits.
I just make it accurate. We know we'll get it approved eventually. Um, we submit the K3 reading stuff in um by October 1st. It takes the state board of education months and months and months and months and months to approve it. They eventually approve it, but as you can see in December, they still hadn't approved it. Um, they approved it, I think this year in like the end of January. It'll eventually get on there. So that's why the number um went up so much is because we added our K3 reading budget, we added our gifted weight and our free and reduced lunch weight. Um but just um overall in the state of Arizona, special needs um enrollment is going up everywhere in the state. So you will continue to see that number rise. And I'm sure you've heard the news or whatever, but we do not get enough funding to cover our needs for special ed, and neither does any school district in the state of Arizona.
And so adding that sipon to the base salary will make us more competitive with other districts and hopefully attract more school psychologists that want to stay and love Kraton as much as all of us do. Um the an additional recommendation is that special education case managers will be compensated at the extra duty rate up to 3 hours per IEP for taking on additional duties for vacancies or non-special education certified teachers. Uh the rationale behind this is really this oftentimes happens when a teacher goes out on leave or if there's a long-term substitute or a vacancy in a position. Other special education teachers support by writing those IEPs. This really ensures that those sped students individual need individualized needs are being met and that we are staying in legal compliance by following all strict guidelines, timelines and procedures. The next recommendation is just a revision in language in the in a professional agreement.
So yes, it can still be tricked, right? But it starts learning as well. So all those little things that we want them to be quick and convenient um that helps Mcast learn to keep us safer, then that's what we're doing. So, but it's an ongoing battle. Yeah. Um, I'm going to Is James going to talk about uh, yeah, our Cisco security agreement and kind of explain a little bit of that to you? Yeah, just to continue on John's point a little bit. Fishing is roughly 90% of how hackers start their campaign against an organization. It's prominent and education is the second most targeted industry in the world for fishing attempts. So, clearly we are the high target. We are the high target and uh it's kind of an inevitability, right? We have so many people. Someone at some point is going to click something. Is this recording?
You're high integrity and you will certainly be missed here on the board. Oh, thank you so much. We have just a Oh, do you want to add some? Yeah. Any board members? Any board members want to add? Yeah. Do you have your mic? I think we've been uh volunteering and doing stuff together for what 2010? Yeah. Long time. At least 2010. Been 14, 15 years. when I think your son Nick was in at the high school and Julia and then my kids are there. So, thanks for everything. You're welcome. Thank you, Nelson, for uh for being here and guiding us through uh uh through COVID. I mean, it was before I got here, but uh uh that was true that you were president uh through all that. So, uh thank you for your contribution. you will be missed. Uh I miss you a little bit already.
Whereas like educator handbook could be, but it's also like they walked in the room and flipped the table. That doesn't need to go into brim. Like sure that was very disruptive to the classroom and is not how you want a classroom to go but it is not targeted specifically at any one person. It it to me it's like how do I intervene with behavior? So it's like so Nikki is writing a report that Samara had a bad day. She did this this and this today. patient didn't have a book and now it's like how does how does Rachel as the counselor who might get alert or Mickey as the principal then refer her to Rachel and say hey Sam had this incident happen this is the second time she's done this on a Monday like even even to that point like she needs a counseling session she needs a I do know how uses it too um I do think it would be a great feature if educators handbook could say this is the third time that student A interacted with student B just for the larger schools.
So I just want to clarify like you know uh different uh applications right that we need to put it into the software to generate those permits right. So, but so beyond um like permitting or inspections like stuff like accounting and other municipal functions that because I haven't looked into it but I'm curious is it is it more than just inspections and is it a larger thing that you're just using it obviously that's true you know so the whole town whole functioning of the town is going to be going on open golf that yeah it's probably going to start with the building department right they're functioning and it'll be board of health and then it'll be everybody else. For right now, I guess it's all town departments who are working with the open go to develop whatever they need. Got it. And once once we get going, it's not going to everybody is not going to get on it at one time, but it'll be like kind of phased approach that few departments going to get and you know once we have success and then the other ones are going to roll out.
That will be an ongoing battle. All right. So, you can see here, I just put a little I just made like a little chart so that you can see um where our budget was at um at our adopted, our revision one, and our revision two. There's just a slight difference. We're up about $342,000 in M. Um that's for a couple reasons. one, we added our um extra group B students, so that increases our budget. We also, if you remember last month when I talked about our classroom spending report and you saw our transportation and it was a big red, very high, and I said we've submitted all the paperwork that needs to be submitted to fix that. Well, that got fixed and that gave us about an extra $100,000 in capacity. So, that's part of the $349,000. Um, so this is just kind of shoring shoring us up.
Uh most all of the schools have crisis teams. Uh but one of the things that is not occurring at this moment is that a full-time high highly qualified ESP is also part of that team. And so we want to make sure that um moving forward there's an insurance um that a member of the ESP classify 5 will be represented. Why? Because they bring other perspective that other employees that are not in the facilities part can think of it uh the same way. And so we want to make sure that uh when the students are in campus, every single angle to keep their sec their well-being and their social and safety is taken in consideration. And so we want to make sure that everybody who needs to be at the table, it's at the table to provide input. Can you please explain to me what an ESP is?
Yeah. Okay. Just making sure it's my first time. Sorry. Um but that's kind of where we then step in, right? Anytime you watch a movie like a heist movie, something with Tom Cruz probably, right? Walking through the front door getting into the building is just the first step. the, you know, the bad guys, the fortress, whatever, they always have their other security measures in place to slow them down or stop them. And that's kind of where their security EA with Cisco's coming in on this. So, we've had this for four years now. Um, so we're about four years into it, and we have a whole suite of products we've gotten from them. Um, part of this renewal is us moving some products over to this Department of Homeland Security through the state and their programs. And John's going to talk about that in a little bit.
Um so can I just add a few? Wait, we didn't get let we speak to you first. You speak you can speak. Um I I definitely thank you for your leadership that you provided us. Um I enjoyed the time on the board with you. Um you open you brought me in with open arms. We sat, we talked. Um, I really appreciate how you kept us on track and I thank you for passing the medal to me. Thank No, it it's really been a pleasure and I thank you so much. You're welcome. Thanks. I mean, I'm not good with goodbyes, so just know that I appreciate you and everything over the Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you so much for welcoming me. I've had a short stint on the board so far, but I've definitely always looked to you to look at your eyes and see how you're reacting to stuff just for the sake of knowing whether or not we're on the right track.
So, but Wildwood will have um weekly meetings and look at their educator handbook and it's with the counselors and they then you know what what does so and so need? this is, you know, the fifth time so and so has done that at PE or the second time they've bothered Joe. Um I know that Wildwood does that. Um and they love those meetings. They feel they're very proactive, which I would agree. Um I in this smaller school I talked to our counselor and some some I mean I actually had parents recently say okay stop asking like what happened like okay I will I'll stop but I do not know what happened. Um yeah so it's really hard to figure out what happened. I'm just going to say that it's like somewhere in the middle. I really I try and really label it what it is and think about what is needed next step.
So it's not going to be one time you know or every everybody's not going to get on it at one time. No. So but we the process is going on with all other departments right and they're developing whatever they need like you know the town clerk's department needs uh permitting software for dog licensing right so they have different software not not the different software or you know their stuff they're putting it in. So the the community members, you know, the residents will be able to apply online, you know, once we have it going and they'll be able to make the payments online as well. And so for for health department, what is the goal to be have this working 100% by when um Dr. J, it'll be a little difficult to say that right now, right? Like because the number of permits we issue is a lot, you know, or we have different kind of permits, you know, so we did develop with the with the team's help, right?