Um the subsequent plan that is the next item on the agenda, this would take effect. And so I'm recommending uh when that takes effect. For this year, I put $1,000, but right now we would not have anybody who would get that because they don't have growth plans. So, in this case, these folks who work with kids all day, every day, um would h would benefit up to $4,000. Um and and so, uh we're recognizing that they are working with our kids just like teachers do. Um but they don't have some of the they don't have some of the same responsibilities that our teachers have. So, it's not close. It's not all that close to what the teachers are getting from classroom and site fund, but it is a way for us to recognize that they are continuing to do good work with our students.
Herrian, can you please read the proposal to increase motion? Happy to. I'm looking for Oh, here it is. I move that the Cheshire Board of Education approves an increase in the school meal prices effective the 202526 year as follows. Elementary, middle, and high school breakfast 25 cent increase. Elementary, middle, and high school lunch 50 cent increase. Is there a second for the motion, Mr. White? Any other further discussion? Mr. I just uh figured this this was a good point time to say it. Make no mistake, I'm not opposed to compost. It's I I love the stuff in my gardens. I just uh I highly question the business model where you we're paying someone to get stuff that they make money off of. That's all. Thanks. Agree. Any public comment for the motion? Mr. Hanlin, you're welcome to make any statement you like. Okay. Thank you.
If I didn't do as good a job explaining that as you'd like, I'll answer any questions you might have. Does anybody have any questions? So, most of those people that you um discussed, they move from school to school. So, they're going to have to keep track of If they're participating at Desert Rally and then they go to Diamondback and do something else, they're going to have to keep track of that. Okay. Yes. Yeah. And I will tell you that none of them will have any trouble getting those points for that $2,000. That that won't happen. Uh and the people that we have employed right now are not going to have any problems getting uh proficient or distinguished on their evaluations. Um you know, but we but we need to build in the same kind of plan. And I and I thought it was really important that this be parallel to what is happening with the classroom site fund.
All those in favor of the motion that is on the floor, unanimous. Thank you. Thank you. I think the last item for for this Miss Sano has grant activity. Okay. Happy to share an overview of the grants. So, first up, and I think you all have this page, correct? Yes. Okay. Sure. So, when we're looking at title one, I want you to know that that money is spent on reading support personnel salaries. You can see the the money we were allocated for in title one was a little bit more last year than in this current year. Went from 137,000 to 117 thereabouts. Um, same is true for title two, which is for teacher support. We defay the cost of um curriculum coaching there. It's also what we use to defay the cost of consultants that we bring in for things like social emotional learning. There's also a significant um chunk of change for supplies.
Do I have a motion to approve the proposed supplemental plan? I make a motion to approve the supplemental plan for student support services personnel for the 2425 school year. We'll second that motion. All those in favor? I Melinda Subski. I Charlene Diaz. I Fred Rushton. I Barb Zarziki. I Judy Reed. Okay. Item 7.8, proposed supplemental plan for student support services personnel for school year 25 26. I get it. And I'm sorry, I forgot to attach that one, but it looks exactly the same except for the dates. Um, so uh it's setting us up for next year. Do I have a motion to approve the proposed supplemental plan for 25 26? I make a motion to uh approve the proposed supplemental plan for the student support service personnel for the school year 2526. I'll second that motion. All those in favor? I Melinda Saraski. I Charlene Diaz.
In title three, we also use that to defay some salaries. In addition, that is used to pay for um a multilingual learner enrichment program in the summer for our youngest learners, those multilingual learners who are um entering first, second, and third grade. We use some of that money to pay the cost uh to ACES for a consultant who has been instrumental in helping us craft our multilingual learner supports and has provided training to teachers in grades K through 12. About $500 of that is in supplies and another $500 goes to St. Bridget School. I should also say that in each of the grants there is a a small portion that um is allocated to St. Bridget and that's by that's by design a requirement. Um title three immigrant grant some of that money is going to defay the cost of um coaches who work with our multilingual learner students.
I Fred Rushton. I Barb Zerziki. I Judy Reed. Item 7.9 title one funding specifically designated for an additional of one prepare professional at Desert Valley and Sunrise. So that's actually two. It's two. It's one for each site. Okay. And um Jen can correct me if if I'm wrong, but part of this comes about because title one part of title one funding gets um designated by the the number of students at a site uh at at our sites um who are title one qualified. And so, uh, there's a portion of that money, a portion of title one, uh, funding that gets designated per site and then, um, we determine how we're going to use that funding. So, Jen recommended to, uh, those principles the addition of, uh, the addition of a pair of professional. Did I get that right? Okay, sure. Do I have a motion to approve the additional paraprofessional at Desert Valley and Sunrise?
And this year we also used about 3500 for transportation at the high school level. We took our multilingual learner students to local colleges on a trip and our middle school students went to the state capital for a youth legislative experience. The ARPA school mental health specialist that you've heard us talk about during the budget process. It defrays the cost of a school counselor who is at dittle school. the ones that that I skipped over um idea part B transition and extended support para educator those two grants are ending and they're not available to us next year so that's why you see that they're grayed out the school mental health specialist will also be ending I think this is the last year of that grant if you ne go to the next one adult education that is money that we get awarded to us and that pays pays the cost that we contract to Wallingford adult ed services for title four um in the amount of about $10,000.
I make a motion that we approve the prepare this where is it title one funding specifically designated for addition of one pair of professional at Desert Valley and one paraprofessional at Sunrise. I'll second that motion. All those in favor? I Melinda Sabraski. I Charlene Diaz. I Fred Rushton. Hi Barb Zerziki. Hi Judy Reid. Item 7.10 recommend additional night custodian at Desert No Desert Valley, excuse me, Desert Valley for 2025 2026. Madame President and board members, it was pointed out to me uh a couple of weeks ago that um uh there was some concern with the night custodians at Desert Valley that they weren't getting the job done. Uh I counted classrooms and uh areas that have to be done. Desert Valley has about 50% more rooms that have to be done per day than uh than the other sites. Varies a little bit among the other sites, but they have 44 rooms that they have to do and we only have two people doing that right now.
That grant helps us with a number of things. It helps defay some of the cost of teachers participating in summer curriculum writing institute. It also goes to um folks who help give us feedback on those units. And then about $700 is go is allocated to St. Bridget School. And then the idea grant really defays the cost of special education teachers, para educators. Smart start defrays the cost of supplies that we use in that program as well as um defrays the cost of teachers and pareducators over at Darcy. And lastly, the Perkins grant. That grant is used for a um a multitude of things out of the career and technical education department at Cheshire High School. One of the things that we pay out of this grant is a stipend to the future business leaders of America and also DECA, the co-advisors. DECA, as you know, is a club for emerging leaders and entrepreneurs and focuses in on marketing, finance, hospitality, and management.
Um so that's a heck of a lot of area for them to be responsible for. At the other sites, u there they are 30 or fewer rooms and the same two people. So, we're talking about a difference between 15 rooms or fewer per per night custodian and 20, you know, right now 22 uh uh for these other folks. So, I think it's a legitimate request to add another night custodian and take part of the load uh share part of the load for uh Desert Valley for next year. The funding's available. We have it. Okay. Do I have a motion to approve uh a new or an additional night custodian at Desert Valley for next year? I'll make a motion to approve an additional night custodian for Desert Valley for 2526. I'll second that motion. All those in favor? I Melinda Saskki. I Charlene Diaz. I Fred Rushton.
And then the other things that that helps to defay is the cost of supplies, particularly some um small equipment and training. and especially when we had a new teacher spearheading the CTE department, he has used that to be trained up on some of the equipment we have in the lab there.
I Barbara King. I Jody Reid. Item 7.11 202526 trust proposal acceptance form. Madame President and board members, every year we have uh we review what uh what we need to do, you know, to pay the trust and and um so they give us um the summary sheet and then uh and then they give us a comparison sheet as well. I think isn't that the next one? Yeah. So it shows uh what they are adding or not adding for us relative to uh relative to each of the items on uh on our list. Um so you can see several of them are have gotten gone down a little bit. The employee one has gone up uh because uh and and no we have not added 75 or whatever employees. It's just that or 92 employees. It's just that we are now including in uh trust coverage all of our employees even if they only work uh two hours a day for us.
Any questions, Adam? Um, so for 2526, yes, it all the federal grants. So that looks like that's title one through four and the idea grants because ARPA is going away, right? Um I'm the uh at least from a state level, a lot of money is at risk because of uh uh positions that state government is taking on certain positions. Is that same money uh for us um subject to the uh positions that the public school that this system takes or are we subject to let's say the positions that the uh the um state department of ed takes? So is is any is all of this money at risk? Uh, is it potentially out of our control or is it in our control to make sure that this money remains intact? That's a great question. I'm pulling up an email that I got just yesterday from the person who manages the title one grants at the state uh with it was an update.
Um as opposed to just our full-time people. Uh and then you can look down at the other things there. There's not anything much other than that employee piece that has uh that has gone up. The others have stayed pretty stable or have dropped slightly. So you can see that our total actually uh for next year will be less than the current year uh dropping from 381,000 to 367,000. Is that because of ADM? Uh it may be partly because of ADM. I think the other because you see a drop there, but part of it is also because we no longer have uh we no longer have Mountain View on our insurance. You know, we have no li other than the third. Other than we used to say the third street, we don't anymore. The Lee Avenue facility, which is that building at the bottom of the hill that we kept.
Basically, the update was we don't have any final word for you yet. we will be in touch this summer to give additional information. So that's that's what I I have as far as information. Jeeoff, I don't know if you have anything additional. It's tricky because there's a continuing resolution on the federal budget right now. there's not an adopted budget and typically the executive branch issues the draft budget in April uh late March early April. That hasn't been issued yet. There's been a lot of conjecture obviously that there would be reductions in a variety of places but nobody's ever seen any of it. Um I believe that the current allocation would be good through next year but um things are always subject to change. Now the question about whether it's through the individual district or the state I believe the federal government allocates directly to the state and we brought our portion out of that.
Uh other than that, we don't have liability for the rest of that campus because we sold it to the city. That's right. Okay. Do I have a motion to approve the trust proposal acceptance form for 2025 26? I make a motion we approve the 20 202526 trust proposal acceptance form PAF. I'll second the motion. All those in favor? I Melinda Subski. I Charlene Diaz. I Fred Rushton. I Barb Ziki. I Judy Reed. Item 7.12 202526 Alliance Coverage Acceptance Form. Madame President and board members, this is the corresponding form for uh for our uh workers comp um that we have through the trust and uh and you can see that uh this also is dropping um slightly uh for uh 2526. Madame President, I make a motion that we approve the 2526 Alliance coverage acceptance form CAF. All those in I'll second that motion. All those in favor?
So we're like a sub we're a subgrantee. Okay. You know but You know, it's so hard. I think one of the frustrations that many municipalities and and school systems have is there's just no predictability and there's no clarity around what the financial forecast will be, which I mean, you see volatility in markets and things like that as a result. So hopefully soon it'll be forthcoming and we'll know kind of where we stand better, but like Marlene said, it's probably not going to be till July. I think I forgot the PC Jones and what I wanted to say about PC Jones is that we did not draw upon any funds for this year but um as I've told some of you meeting with um department leaders and also really looking at what comes out of the curriculum writing institute it's very likely that um because of some some things that we're doing that we'll be looking to purchase some science supplies from that for fifth grade.
I Melinda Sabraski. I Charlene Diaz. I Fred Rushton. I Barb Judy Reid. Item 7.13 approval of list of trust approved hearing officers. Uh, Madame President and board members, uh, trust the trust trains, uh, hearing officers and, uh, and so this is a list of, uh, the ones that they have trained throughout the state. We're fortunate that we have, uh, one on our own staff. Uh but the fact that she's in this list indicates of course that she's been uh approved by the trust and uh that she might actually be called uh to function as a hearing officer in some other district if they you know if they needed because you can see there's a pretty good list here. Lots and lots of schools uh school districts can't afford to have their own uh hearing officer. And uh so you also notice that Gina Covert who's from our area is on this list.
We're we're leaving an online resource for science um that I've shared with curriculum was never um never a resource that we thought was the beall endall but got people through some some time and gave teachers a resource. Now with our science coaches and the work that we're doing this summer, things will be much more hands-on, but we're going to need materials. So, it's likely that um after this summer, we may be asking the town to look at some of those Pec Jones funds. So, I didn't mention that one, but that's the reason why it's gray right now. So, it's gray because it's not sunsetting. It's just that we're in budget this year. Exactly. Questions for Miss Lo? I think that's it. Thank you. We move forward because we amended the agenda. Personnel has already been done. Um, next committee, Mr. Eki is not here, but I believe Dr.