I take that personally. The only thing I have to say is I have gone to the board and it did fall on deaf ears and then it got to the superintendent. I'm speaking for myself. I'm just telling you we're trying. Thank you for talking and especially to the students um that talk. It is
You can see the the water all the way around the track. So, from that building up here, even where we're standing, and I got another area, all that water the slope runs that water down. All the water up here runs down and this is usually a nice lagoon. And the tracks footprints us to come all the way around most of that curve. There are drains that I'll show you on here too for this water. But it's like right here. You can see the grass has washed just a half inch of rain is washing all that water down onto the track. Um yeah, this was that morning. And just another kind of a shot. So you can see how much water that's down there. So we don't usually get to practice outside unless we go on the streets. The asphalt if it's like this. He just had a lot of pictures here for you guys to kind of see that he took for his specs.
And two of the classrooms are for our most severe and profoundly disabled students that Nicole spoke about this evening. So, they have um showers, changing facilities, washer, dryer, um life skills, kitchen, and those things can't be replicated very easily in a portable classroom. And those are all part of their IEPs. So, what they're thinking now is that they may construct those 10 classrooms just north, which would be right kind of beh like right this way from here, just east of where we're sitting in the vacant space between the school building and the tennis courts. And that after the construction project is complete, then they would demolish the other classrooms. So, we're, you know, we're kind of taking it and going at the pace that they need and want us to go. But the exciting news is when we told them, they said, "What is your timeline?" And I said, "I really, really want us to be able to put high school kids in those classrooms when we open our doors in August of 27 for that school year." And they're like, "Doable." So, that's what we're holding on to.
This meeting is adjourned. Thanks y'all for all your hard work this year. Again, I appreciate it and I hope everybody makes it through the end of the school year in one piece and um take some time off this summer and get some rest. Thank you all. Jay and Hilda, I'll see you on Tuesday. Next Tuesday, not tomorrow.
I appreciate that. I you know I can't you know I think Dr. Katti said it um best that not all communities have that relationship with um you know police um police departments as such. Um one of the things that I think about when I think about the numbers of the the that you have here and and and other numbers as well like in schools we often will take like assessment data and then disagregate it so we can see are there inequities in that data. So are are black students doing better than our white students? Are our male students doing better than our female students? Our economically disadvantaged students doing not as well as some of our economically advantaged students. Do you all take that same approach to the numbers that you you have on students in our system? It depends on what it is. I can tell you I on the ordinance tickets because I'll use that as one of the best examples because we saw an explosion of ordinance tickets.
Okay. So, do we need a motion for It's not on the agenda because I didn't get it. Well, too late. I didn't It's You're just going to have to let me know what you want to do with it. Well, and you may not even need to do anything. I mean it's although you do have to provide a driver but sounds like a good yeah it's been good in the past we need to look into is it well received you have quite a few students we need to look into what we need to do I guess it to be everything you know the way it should be as far as we need we need to vote on an agenda item you know do we need to come in and have just a five minute meeting And this is beginning when patient. So it's the Thursday after we get out of school is the first date that I have kind of tentatively scheduled.
I want to buy one nice teacher Windows desktop that also have a docking station. So compute like a desktop but they can take it where they want to use it at home or conferences or wherever. So, I was looking at trying to find the best way to use um our budget to do that. And uh so I don't want to replace and eighth grade Chromebooks this year, but we will that'll be our long-term plan that next year. So, in order to save some money teacher devices so that we can do all year and not have to kind of point that I came up with and it has been difficult trying to get quotes from different companies. Um, and actually the Bloom quote is the one that had the lowest cost for the Acer uh C734T devices. Third grade devices next year and then every other year for seventh grade next year as well.
So I was trying to find some stuff from the thing and I can't see where it is in here. So cool. Other questions, comments? If you don't mind, I was just going to mention some of this at the end, but I think this is a perfect time to talk about it. So from the regional update, one of the things that uh ISBA was doing is just kind of giving us a a recap of that. I'm just going to do a couple other quick recaps. I know uh Superintendent Trout shared this slide deck out. I'm just going to talk about a couple of the early slides on this, but basically there were 1,229 bills introduced in the last legislative session. Of those, ISBA tracked 174 of those as having to deal with with um something related to uh education or something along those lines that they felt they needed to track.
Uh two two years. Yeah. So I'm I'm h it's you know it's your policy. You guys can kind of override it. I think we've tried to be a little extra generous on some of the time because we're not sure some of the proper things have happened. Um so I'm I'm happy to hold off on that. My recommend I would change my recommendation slightly if the committee I don't I don't think we need a vote but if the committee generally feels like that I don't know by a show of hands or something I'd be happy to just amend this to that. So that whenever you make a motion, it would be inclusive of my change. Is that it's it really just amounts to another $250 sitting in that account. Um you know, if we were doing it year, um you know, the auditor would give that as a you know, a concern, but it's fine.
So these micronas are produced from from a gene that encodes them and that gene can be regulated up and down on and off. So the microna can go up and then go down you know or some micrones start out very high and then get shut off. Other micronas be surprisingly steady and express in many many cell types and pretty much steady you know so they can be seemingly not a switch but maybe some kind of just sort of a buffer or damper you know they just go away or they have to get degraded or they get diluted by cell division or yeah that's a very active area of study um Katie McJunkan studies this you know and so it's Um yeah, not a lot of them about some micronese are very very stable. Others get shut off at a certain time and people are super curious about what are the machinery that can identify that microna from all the others and and turn it turn it off.
Any opposed? All right. Motion still carries. Thank you. Um, all right. We're on track here. We're going to go with policy 5141.25, students with special health care needs, food allergy. Okay. Um, again, another um recommended policy uh to be updated. uh not significant um changes. There's one I will highlight that was just added in yellow. Um but this really has to do with response to a food allergy um in the school environment. Could be known or unknown because we do experience both. Um meaning that you know a student may have a reaction to something that is a known allergen. Um but they may also try school lunch and have a response to something that is an unknown allergen. Um the the only thing we have here is we've added this will be um there's the cartridge injector or the EpiPen um which is kind of the traditional uh way that we have addressed food allergies in the school environment if a student is having an allergic reaction.
Um, and Scott, I got on here on the last sheet in here. Um, there was a request for a bit to bring that retaining wall out further to the north and kick it back at a 45. This 45 comes towards the football field and it funnels that water to the football field. So, he's got a bit in there to extend that retaining wall out and kick that 45 back towards the parking lot, back fill with a drain tile and rock and put a drain, which I don't know if I'm going to have It's not going to be I'm just got more water pictures here. I went too far back that way. So, this drain right here is on the west side of the track. It would be the one right here. He would have a concrete sidewalk basically from that retaining wall so that that water would come out of that ret that drainage and flow down into this drain here to get it away from there.
Um, we probably will start some of these early design phases and those things between now and January and then start on the next more intensive phases perhaps in January. So, that's where we are with it. SFB pending final legislative allocation. Um, if that all goes the way they're planning for it to, then the first $2 million of the project will show up in our account with SFB sometime right after July 1 to help us get moving. So, that's where we are with that. Um, and then we have I gave you a little bit more detail about that regarding food service because I know you want to be kept up to date on this. We don't have any updates. So, in fact, I checked again today. No, no updates for the community eligibility provision. And then you also may have seen uh two weeks ago that new legislation was passed in Arizona with a and announced also at the federal level by RFK about the reduction in certain dyes additives and things like that.
Mhm. Um what happened is we thought we were doing the right thing by saying, "Hey, instead of arresting, let's write a ticket. It's better than arresting." Um and then Illinois legalized cannabis. And suddenly it was very easy for kids to get um vape uh cannabis vapes. And I have a problem with kids that can't get through the school day without some form of self-medication or whatever you want to call it. There's something going on there. You shouldn't have to up at school to get through the school day. Unless maybe you're a teacher. I don't know. The teachers might need it, but not the students. Sorry. HR, was this Can we turn that mic off? Can we So, it's it it is a real issue we need to deal with. let that out, right? We we started writing the tickets and then exploded. We did we do not unfortunately on our ordinance tickets track race now arrests we would have that data.
Can't remember. I think the 29th maybe of May. Yeah. So I have three of them pretty well secured if we get approved. Um the other two I saw some planning um to get locked in. Three of them. So, what do we need to do to get it? Well, we'll have to look into it. I can't remember what we've done in the past as far as approval. Well, I'm not sure. I was on the board when they did that last time. So, and there would be a small um in the past what we've done is there's a small fee per per student. So, like $40 $50ish. Um but there's also like a lot of things that cause like if if money is your hurdle, then we come up with ways to help. get over that hurdle. Is there a way to go back, Vicki, and see what we've done in the past before?
I won't have to buy teacher devices next year. to buy all three. So for the student devices, Bloom had the best and for the teacher. I would add I want to thank Joe for working really hard on this because it's been hard to tack down a price and get a good deal. We've been very diligent with getting the best value that we can and our ability creativity and uh finding ways to reduce cost. Um being able to narrow down the number of devices that we need to buy for teachers by giving them a laptop that can walk into a station and act like a desktop um is is a really good solution to say um and being physically responsible in our technology. So appreciate that. It looks like the total spend is $34,595. Is that correct? 357. Okay. for the student or is that several ones?
Of those, 14.15% of those bills were related to K12 schools governance or something to do with children. Out of those bills, 240 of those, 244 of those became law. Governor did sign everything that came in front of his desk. So, they all knew 244 new laws were enacted related to that. Some of those laws were some reductions. I know one of those bills removed 30,000 words uh from title 20, which is the educational statute. But just as they were removing and cleaning some of that stuff, they added additional stuff in there as well. Uh but basically, there's a lot of stuff coming down the pike. Uh, and I know the legislative I know Mr. uh WY I'm assuming will be attending the law session update. We could not get through everything that in our aotted time that we usually do at the spring conference to go through everything.
I think it's fine. I think that if you reach out to the 2021 that person still exists obviously 2008 person might not even be in this area but 2021 hopefully the person is they're approaching their five years and they might be you know that's money I don't know right they're probably still in college probably they served I don't I think that's fine okay I I will make that amendment then so my consider my memo amended why don't we uh vote on it as is and want to amend it okay that's fine I we've got in trouble before without doing actual votes. Okay. Um I just have a quick question. So you've got this hundred and something thousands in the student activity account and I get they're all designated for these things. Um well I think you have an undesated account in here, right? Yes. Um all right.
I I heard that there's like refreshments somewhere. I think that's you probably should go. Yeah, absolutely. Because we can still talk and you can answer questions and so forth. Um, there are cookies and there's coffee and there's water. Um, tea tea in the cafeteria. I mean, I didn't know if this was a time for it. I just wanted to make sure we didn't forget. Let's do this.
Um some students have their own script but we also stock EpiPens in each one of our school nurses office. Um, and that is done, god forbid, if there's a life-threatening allergy or illness, we're able to give immediate care and our policy is to to call 911 immediately so that they can follow up um at the ER. Um, there is going to be uh July 1, so we're being a little bit preemptive here. Uh, the passing of this nasal spray, which will be an alternative to um the EpiPen. Um, so it's uh a little bit more kidfriendly. Um, and it will be an acceptable or allowable, permissible response if a student is having an allergy. Um, and so we would like to add that that wording into the language. Again, it will be permissible come July 1st and by the time this policy hopefully goes gets approved through the board, we will be at the end of the year and would be appropriate to add in the the nasal spray.