Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So, it's been a it's been a roller coaster, but it's been a great year, folks. We've had a few rough years in the past with COVID and all that nonsense, and we're through that. We're I think we're going strong. So, thank you for the bottom of my heart for everybody for all your hard work this year. So, and with your uh patience and support for me sitting up here and running my mouth for all this time. Thank you very much. All right. Anyone have anything further? I just say it gets easier with the second one. I don't know. It's hard. I don't know. We'll see if I uh if I turn the water works on on Friday on the stage. I do apologize. Okay. Hearing no other business, we'll move it to a German. May I get a motion to adjourn? Motion to approve.
Um uh and it it seems to incorporate all of the needs. So it's it's encouraging and uh it's a first step. I would agree. Yeah. All right. So we don't meet before town meeting. So can we all look at our calendars and see that so that we can give them an answer before town meeting? I'm on board with what Mr. Non said 15th. Same uh Wednesday better than Thursday. But yeah. Yeah, we're talking. Yeah. I mean, if you you look at, you know, 16, 17, 18, 15. Are they looking for three separate dates? Oh, yeah. But just one for us. Okay. One date for Great. the schools, one date for public works, and one date for the other projects. Although I suppose that we need to be represented at the community service thing too in terms of the stadium. So, big deal. They have Wednesday up there.
Um I just want to congratulate all the uh as I said before the teachers of the year in the parish. Give yourself a round of applause. You know, I I brought up I don't know probably about 6 8 months ago that this uh agenda it's it's very vague. It's not transparent. You can't see it. I've had a very busy day today. So, I didn't get a chance to go online and and do my homework. You know, I hear abstain abstension 9.1 7.7. I don't I can look, but I'm not going to be told the whole story here. So my question is, was anything pulled off of the agenda this evening? Any employees? Um I don't think we can answer that now. We have to answer. Well, you know, that that's all I want to know. Um I don't have much to say right now other than, you know, I said this months ago uh about this agenda.
They're them and their alignment and their drive to be uh the best. So, team is amazing. Thank you. Part of that is your the the culture and the leadership that you bring though. So I know you want to discount that, but I I won't. Oh, thank you. Thank you. If nothing else, we'll move on to action discussion G1. Dr. Croto. Thank you, Madam President. Uh we are now u moving into the Steve Mattingly show um with a host of recommendations here and to welcome some new people to our district and we are very excited about that. So with that, I will turn it over to Mr. Mattingly, thank you, Dr. Croto. Madam President, governing board members, uh like Dr. Croto said, uh all six items are mine. The first five are recommendations to the board as far as our administration um recommendations. So, uh I'll say this in the beginning that uh the process uh is very thorough.
Um and the other item was when we had um sent in our application our calcul I don't have it in front of me right now but our calculations were about 54.48 if I recall in the ISP and the state um qualified us at about 58.5 and some change. So we our ISP qualification was higher than we had anticipated which was the factor we had given you um back when we had done this presentation a year ago. So and because of that increase that you that you asked about Mr. Schultz we were um able to um as you've seen add um now healthy and Richards which we anticipate to be at a loss but because of that offset it um allows us to do that. And then just from a transactional standpoint, one of the benefits that I recall us was talking about at the time was, you know, it helps with flow, right?
Item 7.06, 6 assistant superintendent Mr. Gffy. Thank you, Mr. President. Um, as Dr. Kina alluded to, there's so many things going on in the spring and every every night to be. So, I'm going to point out one I went to last week uh sixth grade parent night at Colonel Wheeler. Uh, kind of divided this with the super she went to TAP, they went to Colonel Wheeler. But just uh can't give enough thanks to our middle school teams for doing that for our parents. That's a big transition for parents and kids going to that middle school and they just they're very interested because both of those auditoriums are fairly full packed actually. Um and just great information and the biggest thing that parents walk away from that night is knowing that there's people there that care about their son or daughter coming into this middle school and they're going to take care of one other observation.
Have a motion. Second. Second. All right. Any further discussion on that? Hearing none. All those in favor? Any opposed? Any journ? Thank you everyone for being here. Just a reminder that on Wednesday, if you can't
Did they wanted want Wednesday or does do you think it doesn't matter? I mean, if if if another date is better, we could do a Tuesday or Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. I mean, I think we'd stay away from Friday probably. But yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, everybody's good for the 17th or Yeah, the Wednesday's fine. The 17th. Wednesday the 17th. Okay. Thank you all. I'll let them know and um let them know that you're encouraged by the progress. So I appreciate it. And ongoing budget FY26. Yeah. Okay. So um something that I think is important and it's related to budget is that we know we can't ignore that we have our faculty and staff who have been obviously outside and um holding signs and coming to town meetings, school committee meetings, and we just want to acknowledge and validate how important that we believe that is for our staff and faculty as a group.
It's not transparent. It's very vanilla. You can't really see what's really going on here. And I think the people, the citizens, the taxpayers that come to these meetings, it should be spelled out right here in this paper. Also, I'd like to uh you know, Miss Sterage, you you you go on and do your report and reference the buildings and grounds and what's being done. What you what you say is being done is their job. It's nothing spectacular. They're getting the the school ready for graduation. What is that? That's their job. And they do a good job, but you know that that flyer that you guys put out back in the fall or whenever it was, nothing's where's the water stations? How many? One, two. How many boilers were changed, Mr. How many boilers were replaced? Can you answer that? That's something that you should be talking about.
Uh these are very highly qualified people. Uh some of the best and the brightest uh we attract and we also retain within our own system as well. So, I'll start. The echo is loud. I'll start and just uh so we'll just have them stand up instead of come to the podium and tell a joke or anything like that. We'll keep it simple. So I'll start with Miss Ginger Richards if she could stand and be recognized to the governing board. Uh Ginger comes with us with 28 years total in education. Uh she is uh total 17 years and as an administrator, seven of those years has been with the district successfully at Simmeron Springs. Uh so and uh as the board doc say she has a masters in educational leadership as well. So, we're excited to recommend to the governing board your consideration uh to be the new principal at Valley Vista High School.
There's no checking out children in terms of lunches. There's no chasing down free and reduced application. Is all those benefits helpful and going as expected? I'm sorry, I did. So, as far as the some of the benefits to being on CP? Yeah. Um, one of the things that they advertise is that you will have less paperwork because the families don't have to fill out the free and reduced forms. Um, we didn't actually see that this year because they also then linked the the forms with the Sunbox and then um, so we had a lot of the families go ahead if they wanted to participate in SunBucks, they needed to fill out the forms so that we would know eligibility. So I don't it didn't really seem like a decrease in paperwork on that end for us. But then um Indiana has chosen not to participate in Sunbugs this summer.
It's a much nicer place to do that presentation in those auditoriums. I I used to do cafeteria. It was bit of a challenge, but you know, it's such a nice facility now for people to come in, get excited. So, great job to our middle school uh admin teams and staffs for doing that. And then finally, just uh a thank you, a public thank you to our our families and communities that supported us on the referendum vote. Um it's just it's great when you see the results of that vote just to know that you I live and work in a community that really values education and supports our schools. So, Thank you. For me, if I'm not mistaken, I'm showing our age here, but I think you had something to do with setting those types of events up at the high school and middle school. So, well, well done.
Um, and we also want to acknowledge that we really don't want you to have to do that. We shouldn't want our faculty and staff to have to advocate for themselves by standing outside of meetings and holding signs and having to come to um to public comment to uh make statements about why it's so important to value your educators and your staff. But something that I'm just going to focus on for a couple of minutes is related to negotiations in that we are continuing to emphasize the importance of arriving at a fair and a sustainable agreement. And this is an agreement that does need to properly value its professionals. And we need to acknowledge, and I think we do, that our professionals and our supporting staff, they are the backbones of our student success. And that's true every single day. And we did hear one of our ESPs talk directly to that this evening.
Not that they everybody here is doing their job. Thank you. Are there any other public comments? Seeing none, I'm going to ask the board members if they have any comments. Okay. Uh through the chair, through the president. Okay. U Mr. GTO, to your question, 9.1 and 9.2 two were abstained because we weren't here for that meeting so we could not vote on it. That went back to the April's meeting. We couldn't vote on it. So that's why the abstension. As far as were there any jobs, two were pulled off the agenda for further consideration. and oh, the name is on the agenda. If you look up the two numbers, it I can say the name. You can look it up. It's 71 and 304. It's on the paper. And uh some stipens were removed and we are working on it, but we just got we just reordered the 9th.
I am very excited to make this motion. I move to approve the appointment of Ginger Richards as high school principal for 2526 school year. Second. Motion carries. Congratulations, Madame President, governing board members. Uh the next uh recommendation I would like to recognize Dr. Michael Fowler. If you could stand. Let me scoot this way. I'm sorry. Uh we're very fortunate to make the recommendation as the interim principal of Simaron Springs. Uh with Michael's background, he uh he comes with a total about 35 years total in education. Uh what's really exciting is the 25 years in administration ranging from an assistant superintendent and a successful principal and everything in between as a director etc. So we're really fortunate to bring you to tonight to recommend to the governing board to uh as Dr. Fowler, the interim principal at Simon Springs. You [Music] I move to approve the appointment of Dr.
So if that carries over, you know, I think for next year that would be I think we would see less people applying and then you know this batically be getting the meals for free and that's very unfortunate. Yes. The one thing we also talked about was that you know this study increases achievement, increases attendance, reduces behavioral issues. At the time I believe Dr. Boseman, you mentioned that the entire district it would cost nearly 600,000 I think was the number at the time. Is there an updated number maybe just on the elementary side that you have? I don't have an updated number across all buildings. What we did to get where we are now is we um we took the next two highest um schools um for their qualifying rate from the direct certification rate and there's a few other factor numbers that McKinto that that factor into that um and we took those down until it was we what we predict to be a break even between those title schools that we were financially benefiting from and those that I mentioned would be at a loss.
Give yourself a pat on the back a little bit there if you put that in place. Uh, item 7.07, Chief Human Resources Officer, Mr. Thank you, Mr. President and board members. Um, I'd like to first of all just thank everybody who was involved in the nomination and selection all of our recipients tonight for teacher of the year, both levels, u employee of the year and administrator of the year. It is truly an enjoyable time. those folks that sat in those interviews with us, Sabrina, Nick, Mark, Heather, Kelly, last year's winners, um to close the door and listen to individuals talk about how much they love serving our school community. It is truly an uplifting experience to listen to these comments. I want to shine a light on two particular individuals because our nominees, our finalists um in our interviews with them highlighted two of our employees, one current, one past that inspired them to become teachers, inspired them to work hard and give back like they received a great treatment uh themselves as students and andor teachers.
The current health insurance infrastructure right now, it's just it's a significant financial hardship for most employees who take the insurance in this community. And this should be unacceptable. Health care should be accessible and it should be affordable. Um it's not only a basic need, but it's a critical factor and it does indeed affect recruitment. It affects our retention and our overall sense of well-being in our community at large. Educators and staff should not be forced to make difficult choices about healthcare. and we're fully supporting working toward a contract that is fair to our employees and fiscally responsible for the district. And that includes advocating for improvements to our benefits package, especially related to health insurance. Um we're committed to prioritizing this work in partnership with our school committee, in partnership with other town departments and the residents of the Dartmouth community as we continue long-term planning.
Today's the 19th. It's a lot of things to really read about, but we will stick to what we said. There's no doubt about it. I know. Yeah. Thank you. You're welcome. Oh, no. That's okay. We I can take a beat in that time story again. No problem. Yeah. I apologize. No problem. We can do a much better job if you call us out on things. And I mean that we could do a much better job when you call us out on things and make us be accountable for what we're doing. Any other members? Um I just wanted to speak because like I said I am on the personnel committee. Um, I obviously can't talk about everyone specifically, but uh, we spent several hours last week going over this um, whole list of removals. Um, some were removed from this prior to the vote. Uh, 71 and 34.
Michael Fowler as interim elementary school principal for the 2526 school year. Motion carries. Congratulations, Madame President, governing board members. The next person I'd like to introduce and recommend is Aaron Keeling. Did I say announce that right, Aaron? I'm so sorry if I didn't. All right. Sorry. I even went and asked him. I said, "Hey, give me your correct." Anyway, uh so uh he comes with a background of 14 total years uh in the education uh three years experience in the administration. He also taught for Daizart Unified School District as well for 10 years. So, we're excited about that and has a masters in educational leadership and it's cabinet's uh honor to recommend to the governing board uh Mr. Keeling as the assistant principal of Shante Asante Preparatory Academy. I motion to approve the appointment of Aaron Killian as elementary assistant principal for the 2025 2026 school year.