So we're kind of looking at that as well. The data on benchmark across the country and I I know John's on here at SL is they they they drop in the winter natural progression for kindergarten kids. Um, and I wish I wish I could tell you the exact reason why. My previous curriculum director could tell me the reason why that takes place. And then you see that surge back up again in the spring every winter. Back up when we haven't even done everyone. But there's a lot more skills in the winter benchmark versus the fall market. So somehow there's a dip in the winter and back up again. Well, my team doesn't want to see them dip. They really attack that why they're dipping and they look at everything, but it's really interesting to see their progress monitoring because the progress monitoring is up here and then and they're like why?
Any opposed? same sign. Motion passes. Seven is zero. Item number 15, the flooring rotation. Okay, so on our flooring rotation, we have we do have some bids from Millers and from Winces that I want to go through. Um I want to talk more about the the high school and middle school. Um the entryways that we're redoing this summer from taking the asbestous tile. Millers gave us a quote. um you're looking at about $6,497 for them to do a hard surface in those entryways once those are done. Wentz could not he came out last week and was able to um measure them, but he said it'd be at least two other two weeks from last week before he would have us submit for those. Um so he's running a little bit behind on that one. Um, but just so we know kind of what we're comparing for um, both places at Wilson, we're talking about the preschool room, the first grade room, the third grade room, and the boys restroom.
Um both the surveys, our inperson and our town halls. um and then data that's collected um both at the state level and the local level uh from our buildings and our district. In addition to this um as you saw in the consolidated district plan, we have to do intentional um combination or alignment of both our district goals and our state initiatives. We have three state initiatives being student learning, learning conditions, and elevating educators. Of which then in each of the sections related to our federal grants, we not only had to align to those three state initiatives, but also to our uh strategic plan, which we aligned it to our five priority areas of future ready, systems of support, academics, wellness, and systems management. So throughout this process um not only did we want to coordinate to our goals and objectives but then also our services.
Um, so they're very excited about that. They're really looking at that. Um, a highlight of one of the teams went up 20% in both ELA and math. That was huge. That was the first grade first grade team. So, we're kind of I want to see their scores this as well, too. But, they're just not done yet. But, they're they're really jumping into seeing what what what can we do to bring these kids to where they need to be in student success. So, that um other than that, events at the bottom. Um, you're welcome to attend any of them. Um they're coming up and it it's a very busy time of year there. So this week nature's classroom, John's gone early part of the week. Jar there on Friday as well too. I don't stay over. The kids come back. The kids come back Friday afternoon.
Uh, the boys restroom was added later cuz it's it's pretty bad. The the laminate laminate the vinyl's coming up off the floor and it's not replaceable and there's it's a it's a safety problem right now. So, W's came back and rebid that one um, separately from the rest of the bid. Uh but you'll see those prices on there. And then at the um at the elementary school uh in Hollywood, we're talking about a sixth grade room, the music room, the conference room, the title one office, and then the counselor's room um for their flooring rotation. This does move us a little bit further along in the flooring rotation than where we're currently at. Um, but I think with some of the expenses we know we might have to add going into next year with the um, expansion of having some more classroom space at places, I think this is a good time to do that with where we're sitting at in our capital outlay.
So we met with our non-public we do have two non-public schools um that will participate this year um from outside of our attendance boundaries basically serving some of our resident students um and then our foster care transportation. So these are the grants that are included to included and referenced throughout the strate uh consolidated district plan. So the federal grants that we um are awarded are title one, title one school improvement, which both of those two we will uh talk about in 10.3 and 10.4. Title two, title three, um both our language instruction and um additional funding for our immigrant students. Uh Title 4 and then IDA of which we receive funding both targeted to preschool and um our K12 learners. So this is the amounts that we have received across the years. Uh some of the changes that you'll see depends on the different um school improvement cycles.
They come back around 2. Perfect. Excellent. Thank you. You're welcome. What time is you? That is Sure. Um, so I had um three topics in the report that we submitted um having to do with our new special education determination rating from DESIE. Um an update on our bridges program as well as talking a bit about our special education coordinator role in the district. I'm actually going to start there. Um it's a great segue to the other two topics. Um and I added this to the report just based on the attention um in recent months that the special education coordinator role has received. Um and wanted to take the opportunity to share some information about the essential nature of the role in our district. um given that you know some of you may not have interacted or maybe um a handful of families or a majority of families haven't interacted with the special education coordinator.
So, um, looking at the two, um, Miller's for Wilson was 12,82. Um, and then W's was 15,158. Uh, Central Plains Elementary School Miller bid was $12,142.50. Uh, Wes had it at $11,690 for those classrooms at Central Plains Elementary School. So, um, I know in the past it seems like looking back to last year we split those apart a little bit. Um, so I don't know if the board's still interested in doing that to split it between Wes. I think last year Miller's got the high school bids. Um, and then Wes did the um, elementary schools at Wilson and elementary schools at Hollywood. With the bids as presented, I would entertain a motion to use Millers of Clin for Wilson Elementary and Central Plains High School and Winds Interior for Central Plains Elementary School. Also move. Motion by Chad or Josh, sorry. Second by Allison. Any further questions, comments, discussion?
So in 2122 we were in in 2223 we were in one school improvement cycle. Uh the district came out of that actually the whole state and we entered another um school improvement cycle of which we will uh talk about shortly. So that's the change that you see especially from school year 23 to school year 24. Um in addition we have seen changes in title three due to the funding per student allocation from the state has decreased from $100 per student to $90 per student. Um in addition our overall number of EL students has increased. So um we do see some changes in funding uh due to that. We have currently not received our funding allocations for the 26th school year. So once those uh do arrive, hopefully by the end of this month, uh we will start the process um led through our schools or diverse learners department uh to work with our buildings and uh create the grants.
Um we have two in the district. We have one at Tahanto and then we have one that is halftime at Berlin Memorial and at the other half at Boilston Elementary School. Both are certified as special education administrators by DESIE and average 20 years of experience in special education each. Um, and as you're going to hear in my subsequent reports on our DESIE rating as well as our Bridges program, there's a great deal of technical compliance and interpersonal sensitivity in special education across the board. And both of these folks are really critical to all of that work. Um they have highly nuanced set of skills and responsibilities that are really critical to student well-being, family engagement, staff support as well as legal compliance. They're both um in very busy positions. They participate they coordinate participate and facilitate about 200 meetings per year each. Um and in Berlin Boer I'm sorry in Berlin Boilston our special education coordinators are also our preschool coordinators.
Hearing none, all those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Same sign. Motion passes 70. Item number 16, the water softener at Central Plains. Okay, so yeah, our water softener line had a break in it. Um, it was one of those little lines that hooked into the valve and the front of it came loose. Uh, that water softener was really old in there and it fried the line. Um, it fried the the computer at the top of it um to the water softener. It does need to be replaced. Um, I wouldn't classify it as a major major emergency, but if we don't have that fixed, then we have the hard water coming through there, which is going to mess up the pipes and mess up the the faucets and those sorts of things. So, uh, Stutters came in for all-in price to replace comparable to what's in there now at $4,375.
So, any questions before we move on to 10.3? No, she answered my question. Okay. In terms of alignment with the strategic plan and you call it out earlier. Great. All righty. Thank you, Dr. K. Moving on to Wonderful. Thank you so much. Moving on to 10.3. Um with us tonight we have four of our wonderful principles. Uh Pete Meismer from Boulder Hill. Um he is here related to our title one schoolwide and title one SIP. Uh Phil Murray from Long Beach also um related to title one schoolwide and title one SIP. Jeff Raldi from Fox Chase for Title One SIP. And Mike Mitchensson from Old Post for Title One SIP. Thank you for sticking through guys. Yes. Um, so with our schoolwide plans, um, in order to even qualify to bring our board a, uh, schoolwide plan, we have to demonstrate a, uh, free and reduce rate over 40%.
Um so if you know if any of the families are coming in oftent times the um the special ed coordinator is their first point of contact in our school system. Um and there's a whole set of work and compliance and interpersonal skills that go with preschool as well. that's fairly unique in our district that um the roles are overlapping that way. Um so really this position supports families during some of their most vulnerable moments, guides staff in complex instructional behavioral decisions, helps maintain balance and functionality of classrooms across the districts. Their work impacts all students, not only those with disabilities. Um and as I like to say the role is really greater than the sum of its parts. Um in my report I had shared with you a couple of dozen you know almost bullet points of tasks that the special education coordinators do very specific to their roles.
Um, if the board would like me to would like to table that to corre get some other bids, we can do that as well. Um, but it does need to be something that we we get done this summer. Um, if not immediately, that way we don't reap the benefits of what that could do to our lives. Do we know how old that is over there anyways? Um, we looked into it and I don't remember. I hate to tell you. I did ask that question and it was I mean it was it was old. I mean yeah we asked Brent that I remember what I thought he said 2013 life expectancy is under 10 years on those usually. So 2013 or 2015. I would entertain a motion to approve the bid from Steer Contractors for a new waters at Central Plains Elementary School as presented. Motion by Kayla.
All three of these school, Boulder Hill, Long Beach, and Plank, had previously demonstrated that as you see in the plans um, that you have for tonight. plank as of our data pull on 51 has fallen slightly below that. So we will be uh we did consult with the state and we will be applying for the waiver to continue the utilization of schoolwide plans. Um the reason why is um of all of our eight title one schools, five of them do not meet that 40% threshold. So they have to run what is called a targeted um title one program. So they can only provide services with title one funds that are targeted to our um atrisisk student population. So free and reduced um e special ed title one funds are considered supplemental. So we can't use those funds to supplant what we're currently um funding locally.
Um but really any of those um the importance of the of our special ed coordinators is much more than just those bullet points. It's it's really a collective nature. So, I want to just I I appreciate the time um to be able to talk about that role. We don't often do that in our committees, but again, I know that there's a fair amount of folks that don't have experience with the special ed coordinator or maybe even this preschool with them as a preschool coordinator. And there was a lot of conversation during the budget, right, about the special coordinator. I'm not sure if people really fully understand what the the responsibilities of that job were. So, we felt it was important to make sure we got that out there. Thanks. Thank you. So I just you're advocating for the to one not to be cut. Is that the Yeah, I mean it is really an essential role as I wrote in in my report.
Okay. Second by Josh. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Same sign. Motion passes. 70. Item number 17, the Claflin daycare. Okay. So, um, they did, when I say they, ABCC, Advancing Barton Childcare, did pick a contractor. Brentwood Builders, um, Chris Cely works with them, and he's the they're the company that did our air conditioning unit at the high school. So, we did finally get a chance to talk to them. They came out this past week and visited with us a little bit. Um, when we met at the last board meeting, we discussed maybe having to put some funds with that to get what we want it to be. And since that happened, we actually um had something kind of turn out in our favor. So, been talking with uh Miranda Carpenter at the Kansas uh State Commerce Commission, and she actually took the job over from Sarah that was there before when we did the tax credits a few years ago.
So in our schoolwide plans, what it does is it gives us a flexibility to use these funds for any student in these schools. So both Boulder Hill, um, Long Beach and Plank have taken the opportunity to pull together a team to write their schoolwide plan. Um, in addition to the plan, there will also be a deeper dive into the budget activities once we get our allocations to then support the plan goals and objectives. Um, in terms of why we want to move to schoolwide for all these three, one, it requires board approval on the plan. That's why we're uh bringing the plans forward and it really is focused on that flexibility. As you can see through the plan, it really is focused on academics, behavior, social, emotional um and parent involvement. Due to the total amount of funding that we get for f uh title one, we are required to spend at least 1% of our total allocation for parent and family involvement.
Um we've had both of those special education coordinator positions for at least as long as the 15 years that I've been in the district. And I don't think that they, you know, just appeared that year. Um you know, they've been here in some iteration for a very long time. Um, and I do think that it's really critical, um, you know, to the success, the compliance, the quality of our special education programs to be able to keep, um, that special education coordinator position at Tahanto. Um, so, you know, looking at some changes in out of district needs at Tahanto specifically may very well give us a segue to bring back that position. That's what we're looking at and that that's our hope as well too. So, we're still working on that. Um we're we're we're at this point because we're in the job market right now.
So, there were a few entities that filed for those tax credits that didn't end up using them once they were sold. So, those tax credits got returned. There's still three um building projects from that year that are still raising funds and we're considered one of them. So, filled out the paperwork and I called her today to see where we were at on that and they're sending us a check for $198,000 to help with that cost in addition to the 252 we have right now. When I talked to her today, she said it's 100% done deal. Contract will be to us this week and we'll have the check to add with that. So, the conversation we had about having to add some of our capital outlay funds, I think that my my recommendation is I think that's something that we're not really going to have to consider with this because of that fortunate um conversation that we had with Miranda.