We've had one um local resident who typically requests every year a copy of our budget and our AFR and all the backup documentation. And even though it's available on our website and the auditor general's website, John was very kind and center 120 pages of our information. So I wanted to um John's going to talk a little bit about our SFB projects just a little. Um, but the one thing I'd like to address is the end of useful life that we've talked about off and on since the school facilities board determined that 10 classrooms at the high school had reached the end of their useful life. And those classrooms when they were built were never intended to be used as classrooms. Those spaces were originally sheds. Um, when we had rapid growth in the late 90s and early 2000s, they were converted to classrooms. Um, those are 10 classrooms we cannot put air conditioning in because the roof is not designed in a way to hold the weight of an HVAC.
So it's just it's helpful I think for the committee too to have those inputs from people who are actually implementing these policies. So it makes sense to wait. Yeah. And and this is something that thankfully happens infrequently. Yeah. So, I think it really requires a lot more thought and discussion and and almost like, pardon the expression, but um like uh I don't want to call it roleplaying it, but like thinking about, well, what if this scenario happened and what if that scenario happened? Because, you know, some of these things we've been able to have conversations and people at the table have said, well, when this happened at my school or we've got a lot of this right now, but nobody at this table can say, "Oh, yeah, I've been involved in 15 expulsions." Right. got it. Um, in the air, thank you, Adriana. I know it's been a lot lately.
It calls me to account um and it really you know the expression iron sharpens iron. I really feel that and you've really demonstrated those qualities this evening in the way you frame your presentation and your challenge to yourselves as a challenge to me as I think about my leadership as a as executive of this district um and supporting the board's vision and ultimately the board does have a mission for championing justice for our children and dignity and so you really demonstrated that in your presentation and really opened up an ability to have an honest and honestly a restorative conversation and I want to just underscore one last thing and then uh I'm sure board members will want to add something um or raise questions, but uh the the the leadership of wanting to introduce station adjustments is truly remarkable. Um that cannot be overstated or understated.
I don't know how it's set up. So um in the past my daughter was the last one to go on the trip before they had to close it for 2020. But um in the past we had uh some day trips and we did overnight camping trip. Um, fortunately, our camping supplies have they're gone. So, um, we would potentially, so in the past, Mr. Thompson would send out letters to different specified businesses, which I have that list, um, requesting money to support the program. Um, I have Amazon wish list already ready to go of the supplies that I quickly have put together on what we would need. Um, so if to make it 100% we would do uh the four day trips, one day trip with an overnight camping adventure and then we would come back home. So it' all be done in one week? No.
Um, and then the front entry area is for the elementary $49,171 and that is for second and fourth grade classrooms along with three additional um classrooms that are outside of the grade level for the middle school. two, three, four, five classrooms in the teacher lounge for cost of $20,000 $20,994. And then for the high school, $44,000, $44,94 and that is six seven classrooms. Um, plus the nursing station and teachers lounge. in uh in the nurses lounge or in the nursing station and the teacher lounge that would all be binding. So classrooms carpeted and then some of those areas. So this uh tallies $140,745 all um we have spent very little of our 2.2 million. So this will be a very small percentage of that. This is actually the first major dip into that money. Yes. Oh, fuel line. Okay. So good. Even better. Okay. More questions, comments.
Um and I think it's just a shame quite frankly. Um, I get, you know, if you're exemplary plus exemplary recognition, you're going to be thrilled. But how do you pick one out of every five teachers for this criteria that the state's going to be putting up here is is concerning to me. It's quite concerning to me. Um, and so we're still learning about this. Um, as soon as I know, you guys are going to know. But on the on the first look at it, um, I'm I'm just I'm just disappointed is the words I would use. Well, usually in politics, if you don't know, they're still if you're still learning about it, that means they don't know and they're still trying to figure it out, right? So maybe they'll come to their senses. Yep. But here's what that's what I'm sharing. You know, I think Pat did a great job of sharing with you this evening, but we're sharing with you what we know today um about what's going on here.
So, those are the moves. um as well as sort of um approving all of those accounts just to make sure we get them all approved and in uh the second action is I have no idea what this school committee has approved at any point in time in regards to the total balance of that student activities agency account. So we have one big bank account right now it has about $134,222 in it. Um what we'd like to do is have the school committee authorize a maximum cash balance of 150,000. That way if if additional money goes in um again we're hoping to move some of this out into more appropriate venues. Um at which point we might take that down but at least for now we'd like to um put that in and make sure we have some wiggle room to work with. So uh you'll see below I have a recommended action uh in two parts.
They eat they eat their way out. So no killing yeah maybe there's a less uh maybe there's a more benign word for it anyway. Um yeah they actually yes I don't know too much about um different types of cancer but for my is cancer just the um just the jeez is it the duplication of cells but it doesn't normally stop. So could we could micro RNA turn whatever is duplicating it off? Very good question. Yeah. Yeah. Um, super good question. Um, could micronise in cancer? So, there's actually a lot known about this. Um, but there's, you know, huge amount still to know. Um, certain micronas have been identified as what's called tumor suppressors, which means if they're expressed, they can suppress the tumor. But what happens in the tumor is the tumor evolves a way to silence that microna gene. Right? So these would be micrones for example that are expressed during normal development when this when your tissue differentiates.
Um but certainly just wanted to highlight that for conversation and I'm just striking it through because it's not part of the policy. It's just if we wanted to add someone else Kelly, I assume you're comfortable with that those designations based on what you've said. I am. Okay. Oneita. Yeah. Here I go again. So um at the end of school um social workers and school counselors as well as any other um school personnel designated by the board by the superintendent by the board by the So Wayne just understand so you would recommend just adding in after the word counselors and any other school personnel as designated by and then either board of ed or superintendent I Yes. suggestion. Yeah, it's it sorry. No, go ahead. I was just going to say I would certainly uh I would certainly be okay adding uh uh anyone else designated by the superintendent since I don't think we would appropriately designate the person responsible for that communication.
Yes. I don't really We're working to set our first meeting in late May or early June. It's just been busy here at the end of the year. So, uh working on trying to narrow that down to a May 22nd meeting. I think I sent an email to you all on the board that are on the the negotiations team. I'm going to hope we get some feedback for that. Maybe we can make May 22nd work for that first meeting. Uh I would like to say something that's going to be the fifth Monday in June. But so that won't tie into that. We'll stay off of that day for negotiations. Thank you for that information. Uh debriefing. Thank you everybody for coming. It's I know that we see you out in public too and talk to the public but sit across the table say it doesn't fall on that.
I got this on here as well since they put in this retaining wall with the new bleachers. And I I'll get to another picture here. All the water from the concession stand up to the weight room runs down onto the track. And this part right here washes out. Um, and this actually I took this day. This came from the engineering company for the track company. Um, this was a half inch rain when this came in. And all this heavy rock, which I think Chad might have brought his bobcat in before to try to clean that up for Tim, washes out onto the track. Pat had his track meet last week and he has to go out there and shovel all that rock off the track and get it on the outside and there's nothing holding that rock off coming off of the track. So, here's some more pictures.
So, what we know now is we've entered we've had several meetings with school facilities board and later on in your you approved tonight in your consent agenda the ability for us to take the next step and to gain um a general contractor to do the RFP for general contractor services so we can move forward. So then that person can work on hiring architects. We can work on forming our community committee. Um the general of course will be responsible for subs and all that stuff but to it's being um viewed by school facilities board as a new construction project and we know that the 10 classrooms will be demolished. what they're trying to figure out is, and I explained to them how we use the classrooms now, right? Two of them are art rooms with kils and water and, you know, all that kind of stuff.
Good everybody. Hi. Bye. Um, anything else for the good of the order before we move towards the end? Oh, I thought you were going to say something. A bug flew in. I'm trying to make sure it's no longer on. All right. And so this is the final meeting. Uh, we did not determine that there were any other additional meetings. Thank you, Jesus. Um, uh, I motion to adjourn. Can I get a second? Second. Second. All right. Uh, we got a second. All those in favor say I. I. I. Motion passes.
One of the overstated um that is truly remarkable and it speaks to that next step. Um the ticketing was one thing, but to go that next step in recognizing that the impact of an arrest can have on a child's life when they're 16, 14, 12 years old is so substantial. And for you all to take a lead on that when that is not the public narrative, right? And so I want to thank you all for your courage because it does take courage uh for not being afraid to do what's right for kids. And so thank you all for that. Yeah, I just have a couple comments and then um I think just one question for or two questions. Um thank you for the approach that you're taking in this pre presentation regards to what you're calling community policing and really putting the serving over you know arrests and and things like that.
No, no, it it it we're going to use the last week of May. There's one trip on that Thursday. Okay. And then the month of June. And we're kind we're we're behind the eightball right now. So, we're at the mercy of what these um state parks have availability. I'm trying to get the park rangers that are there to give us some programming. We need a Since he's chaperoning, I would assume since he's chaperoning, I would assume Mr. Smaltz would be the driver. So, in the when I went in the past, Mr. Smalls, the bus driver, I have mentioned it to him in passing. Um, and that's as far as we've gotten. Okay. That way, he said he would be interested. He We haven't been in communication to know how far we've got the dates or anything. kind of just at a stand still. I don't want to get too far ahead of the Aball, but then I don't want to not plan in case it is a go.
Okay, motion carries. Uh, nearing the end of new business 6. I'd like to get a motion to discuss. Okay. Okay, so these are somewhat late additions and there is an unfortunate reason for that. Um, we spoke last month about defering a a request for refreshing devices because we had trouble getting quotes that companies would fulfill. Um, they would submit a quote and then it was clear. uh global political news would come out about tariffs and then they would resend that quote. Um so Joe got a proposal at 4:00ish on Friday for student devices in about 4 o'clockish today for teacher crisis. So Joe, do you want to talk a little bit about the proposals that before the board? So our teachers currently a lot of them have Chromebooks and desktops that Chromebooks are starting to fail. So looking at a creative way to solve this problem instead of buying teacher Chromebooks and desktops.
And I would believe that was that legislation was put through by Representative Benning, I believe, and he talked at the legislative update, the legislative update ISBA had, and he was his main point of contention was that we had a bunch of teachers getting the TAG grant. uh they were all rated highly effective and yet the the scores did not bear out what he felt needed to happen. So that's why he put this change through. Um so and it if you what we heard from the regional update is there's a lot more requirements to be able to get these different stipens, but yet it doesn't guarantee that if you follow everything in this that you will actually get the dollar amount because if more people put it in there, there's not. But he really did put the clamps down on this the tag grant and stuff like that.
Next questions. Um, so like the class of 200 uh 2008 and the class of two 2014, I understand moving those, but I feel like the class of 2021 maybe should also be reached out to. Okay. I don't know what other people feel, but I just feel like that was a odd time of our history. Mhm. A lot of times these class reunions in previous dishes they they I'm sorry the class money they put to their own they move it and then they use it for their reunions like the 50 or even the 10 year reunion. So there's options. We just need to let they just need to let us know. We shouldn't be hanging on to their money, right? And figuring out like us and also managing that. Our treasur needs to look at all that stuff as well too. Um what's the policy say on the years again?
So they are driving differentiation and controlling genes involved differentiation. So the tumor you know just evolves shutting off these genes like that that tumor suppressors and the micronates are some of them are tumor suppressors. So the therapeutic notion would be let's see if we can deliver the microna back in some synthetic form you know chemically synthesized or or otherwise and to try to override the proliferative machinery you know by putting a natural repressor in there. Yeah. You want to shout? Yeah I'll just shout. Oh yeah. So when a gene sequence starts producing a micro RNA that is a suppressor of another RNA is that microRNA producing perpetuity or will eventually that shut down because some other process on other phases the microRNA exists right as part of development but then eventually it goes away because it's just no longer yeah yeah your insight is really spot on lot some micronese will be turned on at a particular time to drive differentiation say certain tissue but then later it needs to go away to permit something else to happen.
So, okay. How does that feel? That looks good to me. Do other uh committee members have any opinion on this? Okay. Uh any other feedback on this particular uh policy from committee members or non-committee members? Okay, seeing none, I will ask for a motion uh for to recommend to the board for first read policy 5141.2314118.231 psychotropic drug use. I'll make the motion case. Thank you, Al. Is there a second, please? Second. Thank you, Ananita. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I.