That wraps up my report and I don't have any other information to provide at this time. Thank you, Shaina. Any questions or comments for Shaina? Okay, moving on to agenda item um two um or 2.1. There's an action item, approval of the consent agenda consistent with board policy to include items 3.1 renewal of district agreements, 5.1 BPAC agreements, 6.1 salary schedule changes, 6.2 teacher contracts, 7.2 donations, and 7.3 meeting minutes. Um, I am open to a motion. I have a motion. Do I have a second? I second. Thank you. All those in favor say I. I opposed. We have one opposition. Um, motion still carries. Thank you. Moving on to agenda item 4.1 information item finance report Kim Bitrich director. Good afternoon board president Kifo Superintendent Reichman. Assistant Superintendent Cooper, Acting Assistant Superintendent Katchoff, members of the board and ASDB community. You have been provided our most recent board report that covers financial data for March 2024 and 2025.
I think everybody in the room would acknowledge that we want all 13,000 students to exhibit those skills. It's a student council trip. Uh it's much like when our when we approved trips for student councils to go to the Disney leadership experience, right? Like what we've done for our middle schools and our high schools previously. This is just a student council specific trip. Are there any other students at Mountain View who want who would like to go? I cannot speak for all of the students at Mountain View High School. I think they have a world traveling club, too. So there's another opportunity if they want to travel and they're not part of student council. Um, who o who owns EF tours? Any idea? I don't know. No. And the only reason I asked that is because years and years ago, um, Torita had a tour company that they worked with.
We have consolidated positions. Uh we have consolidated like our IT department. We actually share that with the with the school department as well. We're one of the few communities in Massachusetts that do that. Most communities, the schools in the municipality side have their own IT departments. Um and we're very fortunate that we have an excellent IT director and staff here who makes it work because that's what we have to do. But again, folks, the silver bullet um the silver bullets are all gone. Um like I said, this approach is unsustainable. Um and if we do not see revenue increases in FY27, we will look at drastic service reductions and potential bond rating downgrades, which in turn increases our borrowing costs, which are things that you borrowing costs are things that you have to pay for through your taxes. So the more it costs us to borrow, the more your tax money goes towards debt service and not for services.
And that that's what So if they're sticking to something like that, again, I I know probably even Deepa was like, I don't really love your design, but she could see that if I'm remembering that all correctly, but I think it did still speak to something. Um, and that might be or at least to like mention that, I guess, but not if they're going to come back with something substantially more developed or change, we've never seen maybe that's not worth it. That one I think that one had so much within the site context, but it was not going beyond the site to me. So that's where I think the story with the site and just that site, it had a lot of great design details, but when you look at it and step out of that site area, for me, I had that disconnect. But this one, it feels like there's something either the scale is off or there's something that feels like I I can't connect to this at all.
That should be it for the end of the third quarter. There's 10 seconds left. Spartans up 13 to nothing. Stay tuned for the uh fourth quarter, everyone. And we're back with fourth quarter action. Spartans up 13- nothing. It's kind of been the name of the game for the Spartans this year as Esau Meadows outscored their opponents 192 while giving up only 120 goals, averaging 13 and a half goals a game, which is where we are right now and only giving up 8.5 against. The Brownies on the other hand are scored 121, giving up 121. So they average dead evening 10 goals for and 10 goals against every game. That's all the stats that I got from LCAT stat guy today. So, anything you have to say? Well, I'd have to say that having um one kid who's gradu What a great job by Sorry to interrupt you, but Grace Howard turns around, gets a shot low post.
We wanted to do 10 15 minute visits and we were like, "Yeah, we're just going to we're going to do this. We're going to pop in and then every single one of us was staying for almost a class period and it wound up becoming untenable. So we were looking originally at two really short observations and two reviews of practice. The change we would like to make is to go to one formative observation of longer duration because that is what we were doing and keep the review of practice. So they can do you can do two observations or one observation and one review of practice. The review of practice comes in very um it's a very useful tool when you're looking for someone who doesn't necessarily have a traditional class. for example, a school psychologist, Mrs. Gdash. So, we don't want to put a square peg around hole.
The PAIO are stepping up to support mental health and build stronger, healthier school community. Lexington celebrates the well-rounded achievements of its students in academics, athletics, and the arts. Over 160 students joined the Millionword Club, a testament to their dedication to literacy. Their fourth quarter sports teams concluded their seasons with strong performances. While students also shined in the arts through vibrant showcases, choir and guitar concerts, dramatic performances, and their annual band concert on the green. As we approach the close to the academic school year, we reflect with gratitude on our incredible students, families, and community. Thank you for your continued partnership and support. Do we have a representative from PTA in the audience? Why don't you come forward? Good evening, esteemed board, members, cabinets, and student representative. My name is Daniel Martinez, and I am the Anaheim Secondary Council chair reflections coordinator. And that's why I was here.
These are high school students who have earned notable scholarships that were reported to us. We know that the senior awards event will have scholarships listed that are not on this list. They are going to be quite a few more. These are some um scholarships that are either connected to the district or reported to us as special. Our local Rotary holds a contest, a four-way speech contest. Winner of the scholarship this year from Grant Hills High School, Anmarie Bell. Likewise, the Rotary Dan Stove music contest, Apple Valley High School's Jameson [Applause] Pere. The following Rims AVID scholarships were given to students across both high schools and at the comprehensive level. Alyssa [Applause] Bright, Ana Credle, Rich, Ethan Kimy, Jasmine Lemus, Martinez, Valeria Paneiagua, and Jose Rodriguez. The Futurist Foundation scholarship. Two students, Fabian Carroll and Miley Taylor Oran. And this year we had three winners of the very prestigious Oro Grand scholarship from a local organization that's dedicated to improving students lives and providing them access to college.
The data was covered in more detail at our most recent finance committee meeting held on Wednesday, April 30th with board president Kifel and board member Gordon. Also in attendance were Superintendent Reichman, assistant superintendent Cooper, statewide director of itinerant programs Jason Lily, and director of region 1 and distance Greer Martin Parish. Jason Lily presented an overview of the itinerant services program staffing and student enrollment. The total student count provided in the board report for April 1st, 2025 shows 1,887 students compared to 2,178 students as of July 1st, 2023, a total decrease of 291 students. When comparing the April 1st 2025 student count to March 1st of 2025 of 1865, there is an increase of 2020 22 students, sorry. All areas have an increase while preschool decreased by one in the itinerant program. As of April 1st, we had 501 full-time equivalent position, which includes 8.5 FTE at Foundation for Blind Children.
And it turned out that one of the teachers at Torita owned that company and was, imagine that. Imagine this, funneling business into his company, right? on the backs of parents. So, do we have a similar situation? Yeah, I'm not aware of any conflict of interest with EF tours. EF Tours is a is probably the most prominent company that we use. Yeah. Okay. So, so the um the cost per student is $4729. So when I do the math, 30 * 4729 is the 141,870 that's that's listed as as the cost. Um so that's for 30 students, 30 paying members. So and 34 apparently are going. So teachers aren't the the staff members don't pay to go. Typically through an EF tour situation, your chaperones will will not pay to attend because the tour company wants to have adult chaperones on that trip. And then our district, our expectation is that we have a student to adult ratio that is is 10 to one.
So that's a very very important point. But before I move on to the next slide and really I'm just going to concentrate on two things. Number one, this one-time revenue that we're using and just kind of paint a picture for you of what that looks like after a few years. Um Oh, thank you. The slide is not up. Um fortunately it's just me talking so we're in good shape. Um, see I can even go on to the next slide. Um, but uh but yeah, I'm going to focus on the onetime revenues and then I'm also going to start focusing on the things that we're not able to do to provide the services that we need to do. These are are not extras. These are base level service um expectations that we can't meet uh due to budgetary considerations. And before I move on, I'm going to ask you one question.
It feels very fake for me. I'm not sure why but the narrative has some [Music] um like good notions in it. like they talked about um trying to remember where am I remember where I read it here that the um you know that that because there was a lighter a different or a lighter color like in the back area um that the building will look like it's kind of being broken up into pieces when it's not. Trying to think where that was. Um I'm on the project narrative here. Oh yeah, the building massing is broken by an inset fiber cement panel areas. So I think like like in this view it's that the part that is most in the back like you know um you know I think in the middle Alvaro the um yeah like back there that light. So, I think there's a different maybe a different color panel back there to give the illusion of a series of buildings being interconnected and the balcony's placed at every unit.
Great goal. I was saying having one kid graduated college, one in college, one shortly going to college. I think of you've learned how to do your homework finally. Yes. I'm a product of Esau Meadow education. So it's only the best. If only 27 years ago you put that effort into your college homework. This is rough. This is online. And there's thousands of people watching and listening as you're roasting me on live television. Fantastic. Just keeping it real, hun. Yeah. If I could, I'd say sleep on a couch, but that won't happen. I don't want to take your favorite spot. No. Addie Jordan with the ball. She kicks the ball all the way back to Ken Marino who goes through one. Angelina Trulio trying to one time it is ends up with a ball. And I believe but no was that shooting space. I don't know what the call was.
We want to look at how she's handling work with students, how she's handling possibly a crisis, how she is um helping a parent understand a report in meetings. So, that would be a good example of a review of practice. All teachers, veteran and new teachers, are having goal setting meetings, meeting mid year, and we are all getting ready to do our end of year meetings. So everything else has stayed the same. We are still having a feedback focused approach. We are still maintaining all of the goal setting per statute per requirement, but we were doing that before. So it's not a huge change. Um so the reason for this was our shorter visits were not giving us the information we wanted. We thought we would be able to see enough and we decided that it wasn't quite enough. So we would like to return to a longer visit with slightly fewer um observations continuing with pre- goal setting meetings and the benefits are enhanced feedback because we felt like I can't speak for my colleagues but I have a special gift for walking into a classroom when kids are taking a test.
I wanted to speak on behalf of our program, our arts program, the reflections program, which is a national arts recognition and achievement program that started in 1969. Um, we wanted to speak because of Abigail Hong from Oxford Academy. She got the award for outstanding interpretation in her in her grade level which is middle school from 6th to 8th. This program it has u many aspects to it. We have dance choreography, film production, literature, music composition, photography and visual arts. And this year we had 11 of the 18 schools participate. And then we gave our winners to fourth district because it goes from unit to district to state and then to nationals. And I wanted to just um congratulate Abigail. I wanted to read what she wrote because this is what she got her outstanding interpretation. Our theme for this year was called accepting imperfections and this is what she wrote.
They are Melanie Alexander [Applause] Wade, Bowsto Gonzalez, and Mina Augustine. Demonstrating excellence and not noted by all staff at their schools. The following students are the English language learner students of the year, showing great progress, dedication, and just overall excellence. They are from Apple Valley High School, Nancy Herrera [Applause] Hernandez, from Granite Hills High School, Areli Morales Orosco, and from High Desert Premier Academy, Liliana Smith. [Applause] The next category is our lead explainers. Apple Valley Unified School District operates the Apple Valley Center for Innovation. It's an important place where many of you probably had a STEM night that you got to participate in when you're in elementary school or you are participants there in some other way. We have um two staff members who work to create those events. But they also employ an awful lot of students to make that happen. These students have become leaders in that process and they act as dosent.
At that time, we employed 700 staff. There were 52 vacancies across the agency at that time, which included 19 teachers, seven instructional assistants, four interpreters, 10 drivers, and 12 support staff. the positions are opened that are required by student IEPs, those needed to reduce contracted staff or to maintain continuity of operations. The highlights of the March 2025 financial report shows the total revenue of 41.4 million was 214,000 higher than the March 2024 revenue of 41.1 million. The major difference is the decrease in the general fund expenditures offset by an increase in the voucher revenue, the classroom site fund, and the fee for service revenue. The vouchering the students and invoicing districts for services has occurred earlier in the year than last year. The budget fiscal year 2024 obligated expenditures of 48.2 million were 2.4 million less than budget fiscal year 2025. the obligated expenditures of 50.6 million.
Okay. Do the parents know that they're covering the cost of the staff? It's in the contract. It's it's in the it's in the contract. It's it's pretty standard. Well, the contract, but is that is that made known to the parents at the very beginning? It is. It is. I I parent meetings. I went on EF tours in 2017 and it was it's in the contract that discussed that. I think it's like for every six kids you get one chaperon that goes for free. Um, and so you signed the contract with the tour and you signed a school contract, I believe, that you're going to behave. All right. Um, so in in the funding for the trip section, um, it says there's a tax credit of [Music] $126,870. What what is that tax credit? Typically, students are able to utilize the tax credit to help fund the trip.
I'm going to ask you what just put yourself in the position when you make a call to DPW or, you know, the fire department or you try to go pay a bill at town hall and not being able to get the service or the response that you need, not necessarily that you expect, but that you need. I want you to put yourself in that position and think about that. And I'm not trying to do fear-mongering or anything. That is the reality that we are facing, folks. That is the reality that we are facing. Um, one-time funds. Uh, this is a little hard to read too because of my great shadow uh, shadowing technique. Um, I will not say this is about technology. This is all about my presentation skills, my PowerPoint skills. But these are some of the onetime funds that we're using to balance the budget this year.
Um, so I think there's some notion of trying to make it seem like the buildings like it's a it's a series of buildings instead of just one big building, but I don't think it's working right now. Um, I think the brown is really the whole color scheme is just very dark and heavy to me. I'm a little worried about. But and it's and it's also not the full picture. It's like it's kind of one 3D view shot, which is really not the whole project design. So, I think the angle of it is very zoomed in. So, I think this is also very deceptive. So, I'm not sure we should be judging this based on this one snapshot on a drawing set because it's not really 3D view of the full building. So, so that's interesting. Like I just went I I apologize if we were supposed to look at this because I don't think I got it in email, but if I did, I didn't find it.