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So, thank you very much. Thank you. [Laughter] Any any questions or I'll make a motion for the recommendation to pilot the K through Now curriculum with I ready and amplify in a second. I'll second. All in favor? I thank you. All right. Thank you, ladies. Okay. Moving along. Mr. Livingston, back to you. So, this is our last chance then to revise our budget. It has to be done by the 15th of May for the current year. Uh just a couple things to bring out a term I'd like to hit just a little bit. If you can turn to your your big landscape pages and it's u it's on page I believe it's page in your there I believe it's page three. There's pages that are blank that don't have a page number on them but if you can kind of fast forward to page three.
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And let's step into the future with purpose, knowing that all the best work is still ahead of us. Thank you. [Applause] It's about transformation. Um anybody okay? Um we have a policy and legislative committee uh report. Is everything um coming for information today or did you want to give a summary or uh we can do a quick summary. Policy and legislation. We discussed several policies uh lots related to title 9. Oh, did I lots related to title 9 uh changes uh and then a couple items that are coming uh before you as well. Did you have something to add Dr. Kate? I will discuss it when it comes for information. Got it. Policy. The only issue where we went uh away from policy was based on financ's recommendation or we considered going away from policy um which was um raising the capitalization threshold to $10,000.
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Um what you would need to be doing then is having um school committee members visit the home districts of that many people. Um, and it essentially just becomes a a big chart that I make of these are the days that the home districts can host and these are the days that have school committee members available. Um, it is it is hard if we if we have people who can't do it at all. It is certainly understandable. I get it right. It's a work day. Um if there are people who say you know if I know in advance I can say that I can take this Wednesday and we do our level best to use the fact that they have that Wednesday. So Tracy and I and and Nicole met and we're looking at calendars. You guys have not approved your school calendar for next year.
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You got a sheet on there on the last page, I think it was, was uh, I reached out to somebody and got some information. They said just cushions the impact on the runners's feet and legs, saving on the knees, more explosive power, reducing fatigue. They can go longer in practice. I've dealt with a lot of shin splints in the past 10 years on the dirt track. Um, when you got unevenness, you also get rolled ankles where things are big rocks. I think we had a kid over at Bushing before they started coming over here that stepped on a rock and broke his leg and then they started coming over here to practice. Um some dirt drawbacks to the dirt track. It's uneasy, bumpy. Um spring's usually the wetest season and we're trying to practice out there in mud most of the time when we actually do get some rain.
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Can you show them what it looks like? Yeah. It's got this funky little chart on the top. It's a landscaped Excel. You've heard us talk about this this fund, fund 010. It's called classroom site fund. I'm just so impressed that the state has had the the foresight to set aside these funds for teachers and related services that some other folks other than teachers sometimes share. And what I wanted to bring up is if you go down to the box on number 10 there, you see a number and it's called limit 3.06 millig. That's what our limit was last year. Now, we didn't have the cash to spend that and we didn't have the revenue coming in to spend that and we didn't have it in people's contracts to spend that. We spent just over 2 million like 2 million40,000. So, you can see uh well actually it was even it's going to be more than 2 million this year.
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The recommendation by Mr. Obami is to keep it at or above $5,000. Okay. Anybody with any questions? No, we'll move to uh board member comments. Okay, I'll start. Go ahead. Um I I only have one comment at at the at the close of the year here. Um last week we were at uh Murphy Junior High talking to some teachers and and there's one comment that um has kind of rung true for the past four years from certain schools and I and it's not anything that's earthshattering but I think it's something that we need to be a little bit more consciously proactive about in the future. Um one of the things that was brought up was that they felt they were sometimes they felt that they were on an island. Um, I've heard this from other schools, especially ones that are kind of on the outer perimeters of our district because our district is very large and and really what it says to me at least is that um we need to be more conscious about getting maybe some consistency across the board um so that all of our schools are not necessarily individual silos, but you know, we we truly are um a community unit school district.
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So made it hard for us those November dates but the the one pause that I said to Tracy maybe looking at that week before Thanksgiving. Does that work in your schedules as school committee members as well too? The week of Thanksgiving I think is to do you're saying that would we be doing in district visits? So the IND district visits one would hope would largely be completed the week before that which is the week of the 17th. Okay. Um the I like to be able to give the added flexibility of wrapping around to the Monday and Tuesday of Thanksgiving week if at all possible. Now remember you're going to be doing both things because the the calendar goes in both directions. So that also means that the district is going to be hosting the finalists during that time too. Um and again because if I say only a week that gives us five days to have you go to as many districts as there are and also have those finalists all come here.
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Um it's not really an all weather surface to to practice on. And again, just to touch back on the frequent draggling, leveling, and maintaining the low spots. Um if you haven't come down here the week before Pat has his track, you should really come out and see. Pat's not getting any younger and he's out there with a scraper scraping all the dirt and the sand and the gravel off of that curb all the way around that track and then he's got a leaf blower trying to blow it off just to clean it up so he can get to his line so they know where to start everything for their races and the hurdles. It's it's a lot of work for him. So, I just wanted to throw in some participation numbers to kind of give food for thought on the amount of kids that I'm talking that it impacts.
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It was 1,834. I'm just going to talk and look at so that's what we spent. So, that means we got to carry forward that 1,ion232. really powerful that we could carry that forward into the 25 year trainer plus we got the 40,362 of interest. So we really watch this fun and when we started this in the year 2000 the state could never bring in $270 per student. That's 610 of 1% of the sales tax. They never could hit it. So districts would budget as if they did and then spend as if they did, but they went into the into the red. So now we're to the point we're at over 700 per student coming in. So it's just really a real benefit to the district and we've really started to lean pretty heavily on that for teacher compensation which gives our operating fund a little break.
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So, um, just something to just something to keep in mind. Um, and that's my only comment. Anybody else? I have a quick comment. Sure. Um, this weekend on Sunday, the Special Olympics Wildcats teams are going to uh do regional soccer tournament and if they win their two games, then they would go on to the state tournament in uh, Bloom Yeah. Bloomington in June. So, go Wildcats. Go Wildcats. Um, Mary Joe and I attended the uh dual language um graduation. Yeah. So, um great speakers. Um BPAC is does a great job with that. Um you know, recognizing those students. Um I also want to to let the board know that uh Heather and I truly appreciate how this board has communicated so far. um we see your commitment to the current board agreements and we will look at them again during the upcoming meeting board uh retreat.
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Um if we can add the two days then if nothing else we get the added flexibility of those additional times. I do by the way also try to avoid the days before vacations because like no one's getting a realistic perspective on anything that day. Yeah, that's all I'm thinking is usually I know like our schools are like chaos and everybody's sick and you know it's just insane. We will we will certainly run into some of that in November regardless for sure. Yeah. So I don't know if it just makes sense to plan on like the week before Thanksgiving and then the week after Thanksgiving. I get that's the first week of December, but um I that's my only thought. Otherwise, the schedule works fine for me. Anybody else in the hosting here? Tracy and I will coordinate that. Right. So that won't be on you guys.
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This took a lot of research, too. And I had to bother Sherry up at Wilson to get me some numbers because when Bushon was I had to get these numbers after because when it was uh what was that 5'8, right, Jay? 5'8 used to be 5'8. Yes. I had to get numbers split so I could get just the seventh and eighth grade. So, since central plane, uh, the high schools average 32% of the kids out for track and the middle schools average 73%. youth track program. It started in 2015. In the past five years, you can see that it's really blown up. They average about 45 kids um since the beginning of Central Plains. Started that program in 2015 in those 11 years. So, we're averaging 105 kids that are using that track on a on a yearly basis. And I just want to throw a little light on the amount of kids that are using our dirt track with the facility in the in the condition that it is.
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If we didn't have this fund, it would be very difficult to to be competitive for teacher salaries. So that's just a quick look. If we take a look further down then on page 10, uh I just like to draw what a little attention to what you heard from Daniel and page 10. You're going to see some columns there and you go down a little bit. Is it this one? Yes. Yeah. Page 10. I think I got a number in the lower right. Yeah. Hopefully everybody got a page with that number on it. Hopefully. So, if you come down about an inch and a half, you're going to see a column that says average daily membership. And that you could kind of say is full-time enrollment, so to speak. Uh that's been adjusted a little bit for some populations. But you see in the 23 year 2253 that meant we had almost 2400 seats in and students in seats.
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So that's coming in June. So but I'm really appreciate it. Anybody else have I didn't think so. So that's why I went. Um so now we're moving to the uh to approve the consent agenda. C can I have a motion to approve the consent agenda, please? I make a motion to approve all items under consent, including 9.1 minutes from the board of education meeting on April 28th, 2025, open and close session and minutes from the board of education meeting on May 5th, 2025 open session. 9.2 to acknowledge the foyer requests received by the district. 9.3 to approve the field trips for overnight and or more than 200 miles. And to approve 9.4, for the joint stipen committee recommendations.
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You guys don't have to be here all those days, but we'll coordinate. You actually don't have to be here those days. Yeah. So, right. It's it really the the part in the November piece is really just about I can free up this Tuesday and this Thursday or I can free up this, you know, on Monday and this and I will, you know, be I will be in Massachusetts and I can actually do that. Um and then also that first week of December, I know we will be here. we can schedule either one long meeting or multiple shorter meetings to make sure that the interviews happen because obviously we don't want to be scheduling that and I did have a one of my colleagues had a search where someone went on vacation when they were doing interviews. Um and it would be great if that weren't happening because obviously you wouldn't be part of the decision.
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So I went ahead and did some projections. Had to get in get a hold of some more people get some more numbers with our enrollment coming up. Um if I took that 32% average over the last five years to go to the next five years these estate estimated enrollment numbers here you're averaging I don't know where my number went. right there should be on there. So, you would average 71 kids for the youth. I don't know. You're going have to do that math in your head. It disappeared off of my spreadsheet. I don't know why it's not on there. I just messed with that this morning. But the numbers come over here to instead of that 105, we're up to 140 kids in the next 5 years averaging using that track. So, just to kind of put it in perspective with the two bids that we have here today, that's the guy's information.
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Last year 24 down 21 to 2170. Uh about an 80 student drop. And then this year, our last report as of the 18th of April, 2070. So a full hundred down. Can you remind them the difference between ADM and actual humans because a kinder in preschool? So my understanding is if you have a 100 typical kindergarten students that are funded at half day, your count here will go up by 50. Whereas if you have a 100 typical high school students and they're here taking enough classes to be counted as full-time, your ADM will go up a 100. So there's no deduction. So yeah, kindergarten and preschool we only get half ADM for so ADM isn't it's always less than the actual number of students in lower because kindergarten preschool are only half. So I suppose high school districts, there are a few high school districts only in the state.
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Does anybody have any questions on the consent agenda? All of our seconders have moved on. Oh, no. I like you when Oh, yeah. for the seconds, right? Um, but anybody have any questions on the consent agenda? No. Okay. Miss C. I. Dr. Martin. I Dr. Mario I Dr. Pock I Mr. Cerrone I Miss Wenmouth I Miss Robinson I motion passes 7 nothing. Okay good evening uh board. We are bringing to you uh for information this evening. Um we have a presentation by Miss Mosley. Is that correct? transportation department update. So, want to thank you. Yeah. You want to please the clicker? Oh, it's up there. Okay, there we go. Good evening, board. Welcome new board members. Um, tonight we're going to present some information update about transportation. Um I came a couple weeks ago and we talked a little bit about our hazardous study. And so this is going to give you a little bit more information to the details that we dug into and where we're projected to go and um recommendations that we'll need for hazardous studies.
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Yeah. Questions for me. What's that? Works for me. Yeah, I'm free. All right. And so just so you know then what what I will do is I will first of all I'll send the updated one that actually happens when the position closes to you. I'm sorry. And send a non-green version um to the district so that this then can go up on the website. And this is also something by the way that goes into not the the input sessions but the rest of it actually goes into the brochure. So people who are applying already know oh this is when the semi-finalists are going to be selected. this is when you're going to be doing an interview. This is when you're going to be making your selection plan. Um I also will say that I think that it's nice to have that you're planning on interviews for the first week of December.
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If we went with phase one allin Mac and Connell McConnell, this was his bid and we averaged 140 kids in the next five years, you're spending $1,400 a kid per year, which that averages out to $282 per kid each year for five years, which when you break it down, you see the big dollar amount, you break it down per kid, I mean, I spend $300 a year for my kid to have a better place to practice if I'm a parent myself. Um, and I've got four of them that are going to be using it. Um, combination of local, Mac, and ice. Like I said, if you added in 20,000 dirt work in here, if it was possible, if we could get a proster to do it or somebody local to do the dirt work. Um, without adding the 20,000, you're $150 a year for five years for those kids to have a better place to to compete and practice.
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