The next school that we considered was Parkside. It was the next one on the list and that was um again at our calculations was a rather substantial loss. So um but as Miss Milsp said, we'll we'll do this for a year and evaluate it and and if participation rates jump at those schools as um as they have in the others, then then we're certainly eager to add more if we if we can. But to answer your question, no, I I haven't done a full comparison of all elementaryaries um this year.
So, one I'd like to uh just thank publicly Liz Hanland. Liz Hanland is an exceptional education teacher at Crown Point High School and she was noted in the interviews as somebody who was pivotal in someone's educational career. So, thank you Liz uh for all that you've done to inspire future educators. Um the other one is a retired teacher, Megan Ozarzac. Megan Ozarzac uh taught at Timothy Ball Elementary School. I happen to be principal there to uh witness Megan Ozarzac's greatness. And um I just want to thank publicly Megan uh for the great service that she gave our school community and inspiring future educators to rise to the level that these finalists have risen. So, just thank you again once again for everybody involved in your support in this uh this effort. We filled a lot of buckets tonight. I think you felt it right there during that particular commendation.
As you see, we're talking about long-term capital planning, but we're also talking about long-term planning designed again to support the education of our young people, which is of course of primary importance in any community. We have faced some adjustments this year, but we do want to focus on a path forward. Specifically, how can we work together to address these crit critical concerns over time? Because it does need to be over time. It didn't happen overnight and it won't be solved overnight, but we do want to work toward creating sustainable solutions. We share the same goal. All of us share the same goal and that's to create a work environment that values staff that supports our students and strengthens our schools and the greater community. We appreciate our educators for their advocacy. We appreciate our staff for their adv advocacy. and we support you in pursuing more affordable health insurance options and improve compensation as we move forward.
I know we don't have the list, but this is everyone in the district. Uh, there are some that are not on here. Uh, some stipens have been removed. Um, and we're still reviewing contracts. They're not up until the end of, I think, June. Um, and we're still looking at some of those to see what else is going to change between now and next month. So, that will be on the next vote. I'm sorry. [Music] Mr. [Music] I think Arlene, didn't you say that's the legal? It's legal. Yes, you have to do that. Thank you. [Music] Are there any other comments from any other board members? I want to take a moment to congratulate all the teachers and the power professionals. You guys are doing an amazing job continuing to inspire. Thank you for your service in this community district and let's continue to move the district forward.
second take. Motion carries. Congratulations. The next recommendation, Madam President, governing board members, I'd like to introduce Tammy Tracy. Thank you, Tammy. Uh Tammy comes with extensive background as well, 29 years total in education. Uh she's actually taught for the district for seven years as well. She has a masters in educational leadership and we would like to recommend to the governing board that she be appointed as the assistant principal at Kingswood Elementary. I motion to approve the appointment of Tammy Tracy as elementary assistant principal for the 2025 2026 school year. I second motion carries. Congratulations. And our final recommendation uh for administration uh madam president, governing board members, uh like to introduce you to Amy Lungberg. And Amy has been in education for a total of 13 years. Uh she's worked for the Daert School District for six years and we're excited to bring her aboard as an administrator at the at Freedom uh um traditional school with with your consideration there.
Any questions? I don't have any questions. I just want to say thank you. As a parent of a extremely picky eater who is no longer a picky eater because of school lunch, I owe you a debt of gratitude. Thank you for what you do. Appreciate that. Thank you. Other questions? Thank you. Thank you, Miss Ba. Okay, Dr. Boseman. Good evening. As is the norm, I have an Envision 2030 update for you tonight, although this is somewhat of a brief one. This this slide has not changed since the last time you've seen it. Um, but the only one item that we'll be speaking of tonight is the new elementary and the request to actually name the school. I'll talk about process here a bit. Uh this indicates completed steps that we've been through um and a snapshot overview back to when we acquired the property through some facility master plan studies that you all are familiar with.
So, thank you very much. Well done, Mr. 7.08 Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Reese. Thank you, Mr. President, members of the board. I'd like to recognize a few members of our food service staff. Given Friday, Thursday night events leading into Friday, uh we had about seven or eight individuals step up and empty out some walk-in coolers and freezers were a couple schools where the power had gone out. In short notice, uh, director of food service Christine Clarahan received notification that those temperatures were rising in those pieces of equipment and she organized Jessica Wolf, Michelle Builder, Caroline Bolt, Polly Smith, Lisa Porter, and Michelle Croll to come out, load their personal cars and take that food, uh, the frozen food and cold food uh, to other locations that had power. Two things that did, one saved us thousands of dollars in product that we didn't have to throw away.
That's a goal that we all have and I think that we can and I know our team I know in talking with members of the committee individually we all share the same goal and it's about how we have a put together a plan that allows us to get there. Mr. Kylie, I don't know if you want to add anything about where we are in the budget process because we are in turn grateful for some of the movement that the town has made to address some of the significant concerns that we had around the ESSER funded positions. Thank you, Dr. S Magcguire. No, I'm just pleased to report that the select board and finance committee both unanimously supported our um 4.4% budget proposal. So, that's great. So, and that's reflected on the on the schedule A for the town meeting warrant which just came out today.
Thank you for your time. Yeah. I'd also like to congratulate the um the student of the month and the uh teachers and pair of professionals that were um given awards tonight. Uh special shout out to Mrs. Wish and Mrs. D'Angelo. You guys were amazing when I was in your classroom. So, I thank you for continuing to be amazing. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations to the student of the month as well as the teachers of the year, the power professionals of the year. Uh want to thank the those who have resigned and those who are retiring from the district. We appreciate your service to the district and uh with that motion to adjurnn. I'll make a motion to adjurnn. Mr. Cruz, I second. Miss Peter, all in favor?
I move to approve the appointment of Amy Lunberg as elementary assistant principal for the 2526 school year. Second. motion carries. Congratulations, Dr. Credto. Would you like me to continue with the last action discussion item? No, you're good. All right. Oh, actually, hold on. Yeah, hold on. Yes, I will as soon as president tends for it. Ask for it. I was thinking number seven. Oh, okay. Um, moving on to action discussion G6. Dr. Croto. Thank you, Madam President. Uh, we are discussing theou tonight um and bringing that for the approval for the board and so I will have Mr. Mattingley introduce that topic. Thank you, Dr. Cotto. Madam President, governing board members, this is an annual process uh that the governing board engages in annually. I would like to just give a brief a brief background behind it. According to the records that that I have access to this uh memorandum of understanding between the board and teachers association has been going since 2001.
We do every four years data planning in calendar year 2022 with the board and the districting and facilities committee. Uh at the end of 2022, you may recall that the board had asked us to get feedback from additional stakeholders, which Mandy Keel from CEA and I did and some others. Uh we met with essentially all the elementary um staff members were invited, but especially teachers and principles. We had 20 we had 40 community feedback sessions, Dr. Phillips and I and some others. Um and then work with the school board on developing what that action plan was to address $36 million worth of work which we later tagged in vision 2030. 2024 um snapshot that you're familiar with the selection of the design architect for the new elementary metro school, the selection of the construction manager or constructor and then now we are finishing up design.
And the second part was you imagine having that much food we have to throw away that would make it difficult this week to feed some students. Uh so with that I want to thank them for jumping up Friday morning when most of them didn't have power themselves uh to take care of those issues for us as a school corporation. Thank you M. Thank you for all those interested that's incredible. We appreciate all the work and service 7.09 9 director of communications. This is Alan. Thank you and good evening. I wanted to take a moment to recognize some of our newer and perhaps lesser known clubs that we have in the district. We've been working on a feature in our communications department to kind of highlight just how many opportunities we offer for our students. Um we see so many clubs here at uh the board meeting who are repeaters because they just have so much success.
So, excellent. And and I would say I'm also pleased that our budget was um recommended um but being mindful that our budget requests were not all funded. We didn't ask for them because there was there wasn't the money to fund them. Um, and we the committee are mindful that our health insurance benefit package is not what it should be. Um, but I do believe that the high deductible plan that the town worked on several years ago is a real step in the right direction. It just needs to be more accessible to all of our employees. Um, so a hurdle is money and I don't think that we're going to solve all of those issues without money. But um, we are, as Dr. As a Maguire said, moving hopefully towards supporting all our teachers and staff, educators, um and hopefully we can get the whole town behind us with more monetary support so we can meet those needs.
Uh so that's whether it's gone further than that it may have. I just don't have access to that data. Uh so uh please know that uh myself Sarah Mendoza is here tonight. If I can recognize Sarah along with myself and Dr. Jane Widge have met since August starting in August reviewing this document uh for the board and um there's no um concrete changes that you've received. Uh you have an administrative uh document that allows you to see the changes and additions. Uh please know it's uh the updates pertain to updating accurate table content uh corrected titles that are no longer in use. So we're using correct titles. Uh that's not an a mistake. Just things change over time even in one year. Also u we did we're recommending that we change some of the vernacular that loosen up or tighten up depending on what we're talking about that uh when responsibilities are needed or flexibility is needed.
Um actually just uh today Mr. Sprrong and I and from some others were with Cso and consultants all day working on final selections and decisions on um construction documents before they are presented to the public and to you all for review and feedback tomorrow. Next steps. Moving ahead, we have an item for your consideration of naming of the school tonight. Tomorrow we have a public reveal event at the Westside Community Church. I'll speak to that more in a moment. We will we anticipate going to bid end of June, early July on this project over the course of two days. Construction starting in August of 2025. redistricting efforts late 2026, early 2027 in anticipation of the school opening in the summer of 2027. You may recall that our BCSC districting and facilities committee was interested in CSA students helping compile a list of possible names of the school um back a little bit less than a year ago.
We also have students who have very specific interests and I think our teachers really step up to make sure that all students have an opportunity. So in the last couple of weeks I've visited the railroad club at CPHS High School where students have a passion for model trains. Thank you to Sandy Specker and Mary Ree for heading that up. Um there's a photography club at Eisenhower and I'm actually going to miss an event there on Wednesday. So the students are going to take pictures for me. We'll publish those online. We have crochet club at Timothy Ball. We have an investing club at Taft Middle School. So, I think it's just um a really good example of our teachers again going above and beyond providing something for every student. Thank you, Mrs. Allen. Items 7.10. Superintendent Dr. Thank you. It seems like May 6 was months ago already because we moved on.
Um, and anybody else on the budget questions, statements? I said my pieces. Yeah, me too. Okay. Um, new business. Superintendent's update. Great. So, um, I'll mention MCCAST because believe it or not, I feel like I've been talking about it for a few a few months and I think that people, the educators and the students and the parents and the principles would say, "Yeah, it's been going on for a few months." And um, and I just want to thank Jonathan and his team for the support they are out there giving to the schools on an ongoing basis. Our technology team, our coaches, I know I mentioned this last time, but this isn't just a oneandone. This really does take a significant amount of time. I'd also mention the National Honor Society. Um I'm pleased to share that this year's ceremony was my first here uh in Dartmouth and it was um it was quite an event honoring the character, achievement and character of 70 outstanding students who were selected based on the pillars of scholarship, service, leadership and character.
Uh so uh we deleted groups titles companies names if they're no longer in use. We eliminated those. Um, also, um, any type of activity that's no longer in place or not our practice, we eliminated those as well for accuracy. And then any acronyms that weren't defined, we would define the acronyms. You'll see those changes in there as well. And then this is just a writing style. We eliminated using the first and second person in there. In other words, we got rid of you and we said the employee. Uh, so those are minimum changes. Uh there's like I said there's uh no uh dramatic changes that that uh that I can sit here in front of the governing board and recommend that you take caution. This is a process that I am going to recommend for consideration that the board consider accepting theou. Madam President, if I can add on to that.
So that's what we did. We worked with all three CSA, all four CSA schools, excuse me, and each had a different role and they spent September through December working on those, bringing that list back to the DNF committee, which they had filtered through. Uh the DNF committee had um some good feedback for that team and had asked that we put together a community survey, which you had as well. That was administered in February of 2025, was open about a month or so. We had a little over 1300 responses on that survey. Those survey responses were analyzed by UCSC cabinet back to the DNF committee as Mr. Glick mentioned just the other day. And now to you board members for your consideration. Our recommendation and the recommendation of the district and facilities committee is to name the new elementary school Maple Grove Elementary. Um this is a nod to a few different a few different items.