Do I have a motion? I was just going to ask the motion needs to does it need to include the correction? No. No, they already put it in there. I don't I just didn't find a place where it's already there. All right. Madame President, I would make a motion that we approve and adopt the management and use agreement between Bullhead City Middle School Athletic Field and the city of Bullhead City as it's been presented to us this evening. I second it. All those in favor? I Melinda Subraki. I Charlene Diaz. I Fred Rushton. Hi Barb Zarziki. Hi Chitty Reed. Item 7.4 2026 political agenda topics. Um these are for ASBA, right? I want to put those up. Yeah. I make a motion we accept the 2026 political Agenda topics from ASBA. I'll second the motion. All those in favor? I. Melinda Sabraski. I Charlene Diaz.
So, we would work very hard um in monitoring our finances and expenses monthly as we do always and currently so that we would make any adjustments. Um there's lots of different choices that we can make in food options and offerings. If we can increase our participation, that's really going to help that shortfall be less. So, some goals that we're looking for is increasing our meal options. like for elementary, we want to have two hot options for next year so that there's um a vegetarian hot as well as a hot uh that has a meat or meat alternate available. So, we're hoping different choices and meal patterns that we can put out will boost the participation and families will be overjoyed with the choices and more meal sales will help us um alleviate all of that. Yeah, that and this is not a an unusual activity for food service to manage to their bottom line.
I Fred Rushton. I represent Ziki. Hi, Judy. I I think that we didn't really need a motion for that. I think we just needed to direct Cassie to to turn in our recommendations. Oh, that's why it's kind of waiting. Yeah. To see whether you guys had any other recommendations. Do do we have to also have give Cassie a delegate because we for this I don't think at this at this time. Not at this one. That's that's a November. That's a September one or whatever. Okay. Um I know that I've been placed on this committee for ASBA. So it's going to be interesting to see what happens. And we are directing you to turn them in. Okay. 7.5 Revised Evaluation instrument for the EL director and hearing officer. U Madame President and board members, um a year ago when I did the evaluation for our director of EL and hearing officer, uh we had a very generic uh very generic evaluation.
I you know the one thing that you have to talk about too is the labor. So you know if we have a we in the assumptions we have a 5% overall pay increase and then in the sensitivity analysis we said it could be 3% pay increase. That doesn't mean we will necessarily give lower pay increases. It means that we can reduce the number of hours employees work. So if our participation rate is not where it's expected to be, you know, Erica can and often does reduce hours so that we don't have excess staff and that is a way to reduce expenses. So, you know, I I'm I'm confident in Erica's ability even though we're raising prices and we're still showing a potential loss that Erica will manage to that try and minimize that loss. Thank you, Vinnie. And yes, I just want to say thank you for all of your efforts.
Um, and at the time we talked about we needed to create one that was much more focused on what it is that that person actually does. So, uh, we worked on this, created this evaluation tool that's very specific to this particular role. Uh, I'm recommending your approval for this instrument for use for next year. Do I have a motion? I make a motion that we accept the revised evaluation instrument for the EL e director and hearing officer. I'll second that motion. All those in favor? I Melinda Subraki. I Charlene Diaz. I Fred Rushton. I Barb Zerziki. I Judy Reid. 7.6 Classroom site fund plan for 20 school year 2025 2026. Madame President and board members, each year we bring to you from the classroom site fund committee uh a recommendation for uh the following year's plan. This is in accordance with uh the law ARS 15977 that authorizes classroom site fund and um in red you see the changes.
Um I appreciate that um that there is real maple syrup in the schools and not the high fru all sugars are not created equal and um it's a it's a actually a really big step to feed our kids real food. Um so thank you for that. I appreciate all the efforts that you are doing um in terms of collections, but um I would like to recognize that you are not the police of of getting money from families. Um and so your your job is to feed our children nutritious foods. our job is to um try to get this the finances stuff. So, I really appreciate the package also that you've put together um with the increases.
There are very few changes in the proposal uh from the committee for next year. uh mostly just dates and um that kind of thing. So they would like to keep the same plan. Um just a reminder that uh this plan is written uh for classroom teachers and uh as we've discussed that definition of teachers uh changed last year and changed for this year in our budget. Uh so it is classroom teachers. Um uh and I will address the other piece in the next item. So, um, uh, I recommend that you approve this, uh, plan. Is this kind of up in the air because of what's going on down in Phoenix? No, the classroom site fund money is, uh, you're talking about Prop 12, 123. Okay. Uh, that is uh, a different proposition. It has to do with uh, expenditure of funds from stateowned um, land.
So, um thank thank you for all the information tonight. It was great, Mr. White. Thank you. And this is intended to be really quick. Uh but I think there might be a budgetary impact next year. This is just in relation to this the uh composting in relation to either the town budget or state law. Is any of that changing next year? Will you continue the two schools that you have or Yep. So currently um the goal is to continue the two schools that we have. Um we haven't gone back to speak with the town council yet. We are um still composting at Chapman and Doolittle this year. Um and I do have those numbers. Oh, thank you so much. Look, you're very quick. Um so Chapman has composted so far this year 6.8 tons and Dittle has composted 7.6 tons um of food waste. Right now we are looking at we just started a pilot of them stacking trays to help reduce the amount of volume of the waste that's going into the recycling bin so that we can try to lower the cost as much as we can.
I'm sorry. This one is for sales. This is based on sales tax. And it has it was renewed by uh it lots of people call it Prop 301 because that was the proposition number when it was approved in I think it was the year 2000 or 2001. Um and I've tried I've been trying to educate people to call it the classroom site fund because who knows there might be another Proposition 301 somewhere along the line and we don't want to get all confused. Uh but it was it was initially approved for a certain number of years. it was renewed a year ago or two years ago uh for 10 or 15 years coming up. So um uh you know it's it's in place and and each year we receive an amount of money per student um uh based on the previous year's sales tax. So the current year this the current year's plan is funded at $792 uh per student in our district.
So when we go back and review the pilot after this year and give our findings back to the town council, um we'll be able to have done everything we could to maintain the um program as it is and having it be easy for students, our staff um and uh students and staff really. So we're trying to get those costs down. So the stacking started at Chapman on Monday and it will start at dittle next week. Um so right now it does cost about 20,000 for the two schools and we're looking to reduce that as much as possible so that the program can be sustainable um going forward. So the law requires us to compost starting July 1 of 2026. So the following school year as wherever we have 26 tons or more of compostable materials per year. Mhm. So, right now the schools where we're composting wouldn't qualify.
The new plan for next year will be uh will be funded at $842, an increase of $50 per student for next year. Do I have a motion to approve? I'll make a motion to approve the classroom site fund plan for uh 2526. I'll second the motion. All those in favor? I, Melinda Subski. I Charlene Diaz. I Fred Rushton. I Barb Zerziki. I Judy Reed. Item 7.7, proposed supplemental plan for student support services personnel for 2020 2025. No, 2425. That's it's correct because I have two here. Okay. Okay. 2024 2025. Madame President and board members. Uh the the law was changed a year or so ago uh to allow uh personnel who are student ser student support services personnel to be included in the classroom site fund plan. Uh our committee um uh opted not to include them in the current plan for this year. Um uh however uh those folks serve uh those folks serve our kids on a daily basis and the truth is that they are teaching students at least 75% of the day.
We would like to, if we can get the town council to agree to continue to provide NIP funds, we'd like to try DOD next DOD next to see um middle school, you know, as a middle school, do we have less materials or less food waste? Um so that's our goal. We'll see how it goes. It's been going very well in both of test schools right now. And just as a reminder because you mentioned the $20,000 cost, there is a cost avoidance as well, right? So you mentioned about 14 14 tons that have avoided the waist stream and that's redirected in it. So it would depend on the the town's um waste contract, which I'm not familiar with. The tipping fee, which I'm just taking a guess, it's probably at least 100 bucks a ton at this point. It's around 125 now per ton. So yeah, there's some offset but not enough.
Um their coding had to change when all of those uh things were directed about coding uh changing codes. Um you know that I try to find any way I can to increase the money that we give to our employees particularly our certificated people but all of our folks. Um, and we can legally use uh a piece of our M funds that's called um other benefits uh to do this kind of thing. And we use other benefits for things like um uh currently we use it when anybody's when a teacher is on lunch duty in our cafeterias and they're giving up their own lunch to do that. um they can have lunch uh Chartwell's lunch um on us and so it's considered a benefit. It is a taxable benefit. Um so we pay for those lunches for those folks. They've given up their 30 minutes of duty-free lunch to do so.
No, it's small but directionally if that cost continues going up because we're already shipping to Ohio. It's just something to have in mind. Thank you. Is there any way to renegotiate that contract? I still don't understand how composting works since we're paying them to take their free input to then take it and make money on it. Um, so that is a great question. The contract I don't know if it's necessarily negotiable. So we do combined our compostable trays in with our food waste. So, it was just brought to my attention. I just became aware that our compost does not go to Southernington. It actually due to having the compostable trays mixed in with it, which are acceptable composting material, it has to go to Massachusetts to a facility that does accept when the food organic waste is mixed with a compostable tray um waste. So, we are working with Blue Earth um who is our hauler currently to negotiate that contract for next year after we finish off um this year to see what we can do and if we were to bring another school on um how that could better help the financial aspect.
So that's an other benefit. We also use that fund uh to pay for the health club memberships uh that we do for our for all of our employees um if they choose to join. We don't just, you know, we don't just automatically pay for everybody, but we do offer it. And we have probably whatund, I don't know, over a hundred of our employees who take uh take advantage of that of that benefit. So, we have this item in our budget. Um, I would like to uh recommend that we um uh that we offer a parallel supplemental pay to I'm sorry supplemental pay to our certificated uh student services support personnel. So that means our counselors, our um speech therapists, our occupational therapists. So we're talking about 11 people. Um and uh uh we use the same uh school and and uh the same activities kind of page for uh for them.
But yes, they do have a great business model because we pay them and then they get paid and then we buy compost for the greenhouse from them and it's a great business model. I can't I can't fault that at all. And we do use Blue Earth Composting. Um they do give composting for our greenhouse. So, it's a nice full circle from Chapman. Yeah, there I mean I'm pretty sure our town counselors know that there is some cost savings with not all of all of that tonnage. It's not a lot right now, but it is going to grow and it is going to be required. So, we're on top of it. And I feel good about that. Even though it's not making money, it is saving money on the other end. It has to be because we're not sending that much material off to wherever where are we sending Ohio garbage.
And then we also use the a very similar um uh piece that has to do with their evaluation and uh and then u their professional growth plan for a set amount of money. So the classroom site fund amounts that our employees get uh fluctuate from year to year dependent on a the money we get, b how many certified teachers we have actually employed and c how they do on this page that uh is up on the screen right now. So, uh if we have uh any teacher who has um uh distinguished or proficient on their evaluation uh gets a full piece of the classroom site fund. In this case, because I'm working with a finite budget, uh I'm uh recommending that these folks, if they are proficient or distinguished in their evaluations, get $2,000. uh if they uh have if they're put on an improvement plan and they meet that improvement plan that they get a thousand and if they don't or if they're rated as developing or ineffective uh and don't meet that plan that they get nothing.
Yeah. Our garbage gets sent as far as western Pennsylvania. This is what it is. So, um, you know, I'm all for this composting project. And I will say the town council's been very supportive financially. Yeah. Um, they don't have enough funding to cover all the schools, so we'll have to, you know, we have one more year when before we're required to do it. So, we hope not to have to increase our budget next year just to compost. And you know, Adam, to your point, the cost is all in the hauling. You know, that's the sad part of it. U because it is a separate hall that Blueart does. Um but, you know, hopefully those dynamics change because we're not the only school district. All school districts are going to be subject to, you know, the composting requirements. We're ahead of the curve because we've been doing it, you know, well ahead of most, but we'll see.
Currently those employees are not required to have professional growth plans. I think it's important that all of our certificated people have professional growth plans. So for this year, no one would get this little piece of money because we have not had that.
Hopefully there'll be some either state support. Yeah. Or there'll be a better there'll be better efficiencies along the way too, right? Yeah. Thank you. Thank you ladies. I mean just for the record I always this is coming. You know we do have families that have insecurity, right? Um and you mentioned it earlier when we increase I worry about the deficit account that already exists that's going to go up. So, I just hope ultimately it's a longer conversation. Obviously, it's more involved than what we're trying to figure out here. Um, but I do I the the long-term impact that I appreciate with the composting is that hopefully our generations to come will understand how to and make sure that, you know, we're obviously sensitive to the environment as well. So, thank you for that. Um, but we do have to approve your requested increases here. So if Dr.