We've also been the recipients of generous BAA grants. These efforts have raised about $14,000. Our budget to transform the the current land into a 1 and a half acre dog park and on-site parking is estimated to be over 500,000. We've been approved to receive the Stanton grant that has funded 25,000 for a design grant as well as 250,000 in hard construction costs. Previously, the Ashlin Community Preservation Committee unanimously voted to award the dog park $215,000. We are now asking for residents to vote to appropriate up to 60,000 for the Ashlin Bark Park site improvements. The CPC funds will cover many budget items such as fencing, gates, benches, and a storage shed. We need your vote. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Hi, Lori Armenti. Can you hear me? Chestnut Street. There we go. Um, I love dogs. I think it's a personal choice to be able to afford a dog.
That just doesn't bother me. So, my to-do list is uh, that's not going to make it to my to-do list. So, no, there I mean they're just inaccuracies that are unfortunate to the public when you say the planning department oversees the planning board. um and the design review which is overseen by the planning department. So it's it's just a disservice to the public. I mean those kind of inaccuracies. I I understand that you are bothered by this. I'm not um you know maybe we'll say hey next year can can we take a look at and write our own blurb? And if I don't have time I'll say put in what you got. Right? So, um, so yeah, it's just I I think it's I think it's um I think we have we have bigger fish to fry than than getting a a bee in our bonnet bonnet.
So some of those kids may be counted twice within that kind of number. Um and then math we service 28. Um and so that's between tier two and tier three. And then on the middle school level um grade six throughout the year we service about 15, grade seven, 13 and then grade eight and nine. Yeah. So that's the percentage of kids actually in the program. Yes. But those number you think about the whole school. There's some kids that just don't go through. Yes. About 80% of our kids just don't kind of hit that tier one and they don't need that extra support. I will say because we are Bolton and we are so fortunate in having interventionists and teachers who really want to pick up their kids for sometimes you know that tier two the smallest things we don't we don't push anyone away right so um because we are such a fortunate district we do encourage if you want to pick them up for a tier two because you really think they do need some more help with this particular goal go ahead whereas maybe in you know a different situation we wouldn't have the resources to do that so we are fortunate in that way that's awesome yeah and at at the high school level again very fluid our tier two tier three.
They have a a a position. Sean Fleshman very soon will be um officially that role. He's going to be connecting to the Westside for supports. Uh there's two positions. ILC coordinator, the communal coordinator in Crystal is going to be tapping to support the Westside schools as well because our ILC's are expanding to the to the westside communities. and and finally a community school teacher lead tied to our ILC as well also will be helping support the westside school. So that is critical um because I know that's important to to all of us here and all of us in our community. And with that um that is the work that we are doing a short shorter glimpse almost made the the timeline um uh to to help thrive thriving students and families in our communities here in Anaheim Union. Thank you very much for the time.
Um, but they don't always tell you and you don't know it until far into the future and somebody walks up to you and those are the times and it's whether you're a teacher or a principal or a classified staff member. Um, people in education matter to kids and it's what makes them continue to um, thrive and survive and we love that. So um, real appreciative of all that everybody does for the kids in this district. Thank you. Mr. President, can I add one more thing? Excuse me. Can I add one more thing? Okay, go ahead, Maria, please. Uh, I just wanted I didn't want to miss it because we went when we went to Washington DC uh the student who the person who took us on the tour of the cap um when when we went to the cap on with the uh from the invitation that u uh representative Obnalti had extended to us after we were done with our event.
Dogs are extremely expensive. They are annually costing an individual oh in the range of $500 a year to own a dog. Uh we've the town has already given these folks public land. I'm strongly against additional money going to a personal choice to have a dog. And I know that people love dogs, but having lived here for 25 years and dealt with the folks at the state park who let their dogs run without leashes despite the leash law and are belligerent about asking them to leash their dogs. I'm personally have an issue with giving them more money. That money could go, as we've heard, to another teacher, English language support, raises for the librarians, raises for the town employees. So, I'm strongly opposed. And I don't know the details about the previous votes where the money is already allocated, but at this point, given what we've come through with the rising costs and the threat to federal dollars, please consider not giving more money to dogs, of which there are 90 million in the country.
It's about such small small items. So, um, that's my opinion on it. Um, but if anyone wants to find out where it came from and ask Michael Herbert or whoever put it out, that's, you know, as an individual, you're obviously uh very welcome to do that. So, so here's a thought, Kate. If you're willing to make some couple word edits on it, I know you're not going to be a member shortly, but if you're willing to kind of change a couple of words and send it to me, I am more than happy to take it upon myself to forward it to Michael and just say, "Hey, this came up on Kate's last meeting. It was discussed. The planning board is not taking a position as a board. However, as we kind of regroup and whatever, I can share my own views as a one member, not speaking for the whole board, but sharing that this came up and it may be helpful in the future to coordinate more together, whatever.
Um, sometimes it's hard. Even Lee and I will have conversations. Is this more tier two or more tier three? Um, when we were talking through some of our students, uh, recently, we feel we probably have four high school students who are genuine tier three, really receiving very targeted instruction. Um, and another 13 or so that are like board like the tier two, sometimes three depending on the month, the week. Um, kind of, you know, fluctuating. That's over the course of the year. some that we worked with in the fall have graduated out and you know are up and running and don't need our support anymore. Um we've added additional ones in. So it's a very fluid process. Um we have as kind of an ancillary part to our MTS program. Um one of our math teachers has sort started um a math center of sorts during some periods throughout the week where students can come for additional math or any student who happens to have a study hall that period.
And I know that the we're here uh and open for questions. Anybody have any questions? Mr. Hernandez, I would just like to thank you for uh considering the Westside Schools and leveraging the work of the community schools. We're looking forward to having and creating resources and working with you. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you, Bon. Anybody else? Yes, MJO. I just want to say thank you for a comprehensive report. Very kind. Thank you very much. Helpful. Thank you. I really appreciated um seeing the data here on the slide about the snapshot by the numbers. um we always talk about what we're doing, but actually seeing the service um u you know the community that we're serving in numbers uh really helps us as a board um you know grasp um the work that's being done. Um, I wanted to ask and um I apologize for for bringing bringing you back up here, Jesse.
Um, the young lady that gave us a tour around the Capitol found out we were from Apple Valley and it turned out she was a student at Apple Valley High School and that blew our minds because obviously we started asking who was your math teacher, who was your principal, what year did you graduate, who else do you remember? And I have to say it was such an honor to know that she knows some of these people sitting on this day as right now. And and to think that somebody from Apple Valley will go to that place and be the tour person working under a a representative for California. It was such an honor and I wanted to share that. Thank you, Maria. Okay, we'll move on to item six, reports from union representatives, California school employees association, JC Scott, are you here? Okay. Uh, Apple Valley Unified Teachers Karen Sabers.
It's too many dogs, too much money. Please reconsider this allocation. Thanks. Uh before we move on, I'm going to ask town council to speak for a moment and explain the limitation on use of funds out of the CPC. Oh, that's what I was going to say. Go ahead. So, the the CPC funds can only be used for the projects that are defined um in the CPC. So, open space uh open space acquisition, parks, things of that nature, historic preservation um and affordable housing. They may not be used to support the operations of the general town of the general town operations. Thank you. Council Laura Irwin, 251 Winter Street, dog park committee member. The dog park is in need of an additional $60,000 from the community preservation committee for the storm water mitigation so we can budget other money to go toward opening the dog park with the amenities the dog park needs.
And I can see Trisha and we can just kind of close this issue out more as a let's work better together in the future type of comment. You can't hurt. Sure. Is that does that sound reasonable? Deepa Trisha as a Yeah, it's fine. I mean to me like this is said this is just a littleformational thing and I think we're making way way too much of it but um it's fine. If someone else feels strongly about it then you have a right to pursue it. It's just I I don't think it's just a reflection of of anything really. So um I just don't agree. So it's fine. But yeah, yeah. So, if you guys feel strongly about it, obviously you have every right to pursue it. So, all right. So, the only thing then if unless there's any other updates, um I I don't have any.
Um so they're not students that we're identifying or saying you need to go to math center. Um but she has been tracking data on that and has been seeing about this 12 students on a regular basis are her frequent flyers that she sees once a week popping in and then others here and there as as needed. So but yeah similar to what you know the tier you know you want fewer in that tier three that's where you want your smallest percentage to be and everyone's receiving tier one. So, and as we broaden our scope of skills that we're looking at, that number will grow, right? It might change. Yeah. The the other group that we, you know, next year as we grow, we'll probably take more advantage of is you think of those students uh where life happens. Maybe they're hospitalized. We had students who had to travel out of the country for funerals, those kinds of things.
Could you talk about the a voice circle and what that looks like and um for anyone that hasn't done that and who runs that and Jesse can start? Yeah, I'll start and run it. All right. Um, so the community voice circles are run by our coordinators and our teacher leads. Okay. Um, and it's really kind of jumping from the comprehensive needs and assets and taking it deeper. Um, and so it's bringing in uh families or students um into a space um or classrooms. Whole classrooms have also we've also done it with whole classrooms. Um with classrooms it's a lot of uh building up to the voice circle to build trust in the classroom. Um and in the with the parents and the students um you know there there is like a model that our teacher lead or our coordinators she can probably speak more to the technical parts of it you want.
[Applause] First of all, I want to say I have video of the dancing. If anybody wants to see her dancing, I have video. Karen, you might want to pull closer to the mic. It's not coming through real good. Can you hear me now? No. Is it on? It's green. We've been having issues tonight a little bit with it. Can you hear me? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Um, good evening, Superintendent Nelson, board members, cabinet, CSA president JC at home, and members of the audience. My name is Karen Sabers, and I'm proud to stand before you tonight as the president of the Appalata Unified Teachers Association. First, I want to extend my heartfelt congratulations to all the students who have gone home that received awards tonight. You should be incredibly proud of yourselves. Your hard work and the achievements do not go unnoticed. We also want to congratulate Eden and Hannon Hannah for the graduation and wish them the best in their future endeavors.
The Ashen Dog Park Committee has been working for at least nine years to have a dog park in our town. We have funding from the Stanton Grant for $250,000. In addition, we applied to the CPC in November of 2023 and we were generously awarded $215,000. We are now in 2025 and bids are higher due to inflation and particularly because of the required storm water mitigation that we need to do on this parcel of land on Memorial Drive to get a permit for construction. This is based on actual bids on estimates. Please vote in favor of an additional $60,000 for the Ashen Bark Park and let's bring this amenity to Ashland. I also wanted to add that as a committee we are looking for subcommittee members. Not tonight. It doesn't relate to the article in the warrant. Okay. Can you put the microphone back in the stand, please?
Um there's any other updates we can there's just a well I'll I'll I guess there is one update um in administrative matters the um ongoing search process for the town planner um Beth Reynolds in in her new role is organizing some uh interview of candidates early next week for the I don't remember what the exact title is anymore but would be the the town planner position. It will be the director of planning and economic development. Okay, that's right. Um, so those are a new title because it sounded like a very is that common title as well? It was like town planning and economic development. I believe there's positions in other cities that they do connect both of them. I think you know when you look at a project mixuse a lot of things most of the time we had to have meetings where there will be everybody in the room.
So when they return with the flexible program that we created, we can support them maybe in the very short term, maybe just for a matter of weeks as opposed to all right, you've been out for three weeks, welcome back. Go get them, Tiger. Right. Um, so we hope to to the numbers wouldn't be represented to your question, but there's another pot of kid that we hope to service. And some of this year, some of our seniors who were maybe struggling with the last little bits of capstone preparation for that presentation, we pulled a handful of those kids just so that they could get, you know, once or twice, you know, meeting with the teacher to kind of make sure they were good to go. So, we didn't count them in our numbers, but there's still students that, you know, we used our supports to support.
Um so community voice circles is really rooted in restorative practices and um what we use them for is really to gather a lot more street data in an informal setting that really helps us understand the numbers and really helps us understand the data that we get from things like surveys, the chick survey. Um it a lot of the time the information that we get it brings up a lot more questions and this is just a really beautiful uh community building way for us to answer those questions. So they are often um informal and it's a no pressure uh situation for our parents um and our students and staff as well to be able to come together to be able to build community to share their experiences um and to also offer us the information that we need in order to make impactful decisions as a whole.
Ava once again was able to participate in the International Children's Day, handing out books to all that came. And this is such an enjoyable event and we love doing all of the events, community events. Um, this morning we had a very successful negotiation slash meeting session. We engaged in productive dialogue and were able to collaborate on joint on a joint personal communication that will be sent out to certificated staff regarding the classroom management plans. I want to thank everyone involved for their cooperation and focus on solutions. It's always meaningful when we come together and resolve issues collaboratively and leave the table with mutual respect. Together, we can accomplish so much more. Teacher appreciation is upon us. We haven't forgotten you. I will be coming out to schools with donuts and presents this year. It's a little different than normal. I apologize to classified and principles because normally we're able to feed everyone but we've kind of changed it up a little bit this year and gone with plan B.