And it wasn't that long ago where we had to borrow the money to pay the bills and the payroll. And we very much don't want to go back to that place where we had to essentially do a payday loan to pay our bills before the tax before the the end of the the tax season started and people were paying property taxes. So just wanted to point that out. So is it a matter of the timing of the payments from the taxes or is there an issue here we need to discuss? It's a matter. Yeah, this is gone. This is the typical pattern. This is just the timing of when we receive the vast majority of our revenue which is property taxes and school districts who are in the same physical position as we are follow that that same cadence. But historically, we didn't have enough cash in the bank in the bank to be able to fund all those expenses.
So, right now STAR does not assess I would say deep enough within those foundational skills. Um, Miss Potter, so we've not had a true assessment of to identify CBAMS um or STAR. I'm trying not to use acronyms all over the place. STAR, the STAR assessment that we currently has um only has kids identifying letter names and letter sounds. We want to know can they blend? Do they can they start to decode? So, Miss um Rivera talk about the assessment switch over that we are going to um that she's going to talk about next. So, I just wanted to caution when when you look at the STAR data, I still don't know if it's going to give us a true accurate measure of what our students are able to do because it's only measuring those two areas when I would really want an assessment that looks at all of the foundational skills to see how students are progressing.
So when they come back in August, we'll continue collecting these maps, but we will have one centralized hub where all of our curriculums across all of the content areas, across all of the grade levels will be in one centralized location. And that will be the makeup of the Carry 26 curriculum. So any new staff that shows up, they'll be able to access this website and know exactly pacing guides, what we teach, what the standards are, how many days we're spending on each standards, and that'll be across every content area across all the grade levels. So there will be consistency and continuity um across all of our schools. And then also that vertical articulation upwards from kindergarten to 8th grade. So they have been doing a phenomenal job with that. Our literacy maps will be done this year and our math ones are drafted almost completely done and we'll spend all of next year collecting feedback from staff as they implement those to see what tweaks need to be made.
Well, maybe three Oaks, too, but you're surrounded by residential, right? Do we have to inform those folks that are around the school, hey, we've got security cameras now? Um, we're not going to be looking in your windows, but like your property may fall under the realm of that. Is that something that I I don't believe we we have to notify them and I don't believe our our the scope of our security cameras are going to uh branch out that far to actually be able to uh see what's going on in the in the neighborhood. I I think if we're if we're upfront with that and just you know being proactive with it and saying hey these are going in however your privacy is still protected in this case and just being a good neighbor and reaching out to them. I know I got a little push back at Briergate with how bright the lights were and I'm like I get it but the school is safe.
Um, it just means that on that first day for transportation, she needs those names and students registered by May 29th. So, the problem you sound like you might have is traditionally people wait till the last minute or after the deadline. So, that's what causes some of the scrambling around trying to get stuff done because you don't always know how many students you're going to have, who's who's going to show up, when they're going to show up. Then they sign up after the deadline and everybody want to turn them away. If we turn away, they're gonna find somebody to complain. And I I will say for I mean again, Mrs. Cooper does a wonderful job of meeting those students and um we she gets you know those students um you know to school and uh works it out for even our our families that that uh accept the invitation late.
That's going to drop in. going to get a single out of that. But JP Duffy's going to make his way to go. I'm yelling go. Duffy able to make his way over to third. B went out of play. So runners uh were able to take an extra base. So Duffy scores and Silverman gets his way over to third base. going to get around to first. The uh right fielder threw down to third. Sil was able to get his way to second and then on the overthrow that ball's right through the middle too. Got right right between the third baseman and shortstop. Colton Gorman able to drive a run in. Nice job. Nice single there by Gorman. put got two runs on the board now for Ashlin. That ball low. It's Ben McKay about that ball high. Two balls, no strikes. Gorman at first. there for a strike.
So, I think going into next year, we're in a very good position where teachers have have grown tremendously in their knowledge of HMH over the last six months. Um, and I think feel a lot more comfortable with the platform, understanding how to adapt it for the students in front of them, how to make sure we're getting everyone what they need. So, we should be in a very good position for the start of next year for year two of implementation. Thank you. Just a quick question. Would you say that the new curriculum that we've been using, how does that compare to our past in terms of rigor and in terms of student performance, our students struggling? It's a it's a it's a very rigorous curriculum. Um there's a great uh a great variety of reading selections in there. One of the nice things about it is that there are parts in each unit that are fixed.
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He was very very helpful for me to understand the policies. But I just have a big concern with how the policy for like essentially room rentals is for our afterchool enrichment programs. Um because first it's like a a two-hour minimum. So I have some comments I guess and questions. Um it's a two-hour minimum room rental and then there's um a $40 cleaning fee and there's three different tiers of who can like what people are charged. So what that looks like at our school is for a small business which we want to support in our community to come in and offer something to our students. It's around $110, maybe specifically $108 for one session, which they only ever use one hour. I've never seen an afterchool program go more than one hour after school's out um for every session that they offer. So that ends up getting like passed down to us parents to pay and it precludes a good deal of the population of our our school from participating in those programs.
What if I could pick them up, make sure they were cleaned, and redistribute them into what's called Skylar's closet? Skyler's closet is going to house uh clothing from um the school age, which I think it's K um K here to six. And then what we're going to do is we're going to um package them into uh ziplockc bags, uh boys, girls, and then unisex. Uh, and it'll have a top, a pair of bottoms, a uh brand new undergarment, socks, and then they already have a great shoe program, so I don't want to interrupt that. Now, part of the thing is is with um Gilbert Elementary is that the Kuanis takes care of it, which is fine. So, I'm going to talk to the Quanis and see what I can do with them to kind of see if what I could do to kind of help bring this together.
And it's only been in the last I want to say five years that we have been able to. So, and that went back probably 30 years prior where we weren't we were borrowing money for about 30 years for anywhere between 30 days and 90 days so that we could pay all of our bills before those taxes came in. So, we think maybe like June, July, we'll see it. Yeah, we the money will come flowing in before the end of May. Actually, I I don't remember with the first release date. It can vary from year to year depending on when taxes are received by the treasur, but it very much is we receive almost all those payments before July. Some trickle in afterward, but it's a cash flow problem. Imagine in your household if you only receive your paycheck twice a year can create some cash flow issues.
We'll have that if the board approves. I ready as the assessment, then we'll be able to be able to do that. But we don't have we didn't have that data point to start out with. So, it is going to be hard to truly see all of their growth. Um, but it will be captured in possibly those two measures um that that star was already um measuring. Um, Miss Rivera, the the tier 2 and tier three instruction for benchmark, is that going to stop at grade two or the interventionist going to have them in the building? Let's say we have a third or fourth grader who's still struggling with reading comprehension or phonics, right? Would they still be having will they still have access to that plan? Uh, or would the interventionist have access to that plan even though they may be outgraded based upon the the the plan here?
Um I also want to thank um all of our specials teachers that attended um a PD that Dr. White and myself hosted. it was writing outside of literacy and it was just thinking about ways we can embed literacy into um PE or into art or whatever it might be. Um the specialist teachers that were present I was just and I know Dr. White you feel the same way we mentioned it. We were just we knew that they were amazing. We were floored and blown away by what they were sharing and just the connection. Something as simple as how they were tying early literacy phonics, let's say phmic awareness and there was like ball and it was bb as they were, you know, tossing the ball upstairs, you know, not upstairs, tossing the ball upwards. Um, and so just to see how they were finding ways to embed literacy, um, where it doesn't have to be writing, but it's tied into their art and their craft was great to hear.
Going one step further and being proactive with that I think would be helpful. Um and then the second question I have is regarding these cameras. Are they going to have the same uh capability to be patched into uh the the Kerry Police Department in the event of a situation in any of the schools like that we have that here? Yeah. I believe so I believe one of the advantages of of going with what we're proposing is uh it increases uh accessibility u right now uh you need to have a device or you need it it's limited who can access and where you can access the cameras from. Uh so this is going to allow say our building administrators to be able to access the cameras uh for their their their buildings uh say from their their home computer because it's going to be cloud-based. Uh so it will increase the accessibility that our administrators have but also uh the ability for uh say law enforcement to to get in as well in the event of an emergency.
All right. Okay. All right. Thank you guys. Thank you so much. Very good conversation. Thank you. All righty. That leads up leads us up to number seven, consent agenda approval. Is there anyone want to take anything out of the consent agenda as a separate item to vote on? If not, can I have a motion to There was um one thing that I noticed uh in the financial report. Okay. Uh I wanted to ask Hold on. Um do you want to take that out? Oh, and we can talk about it after we get the motion and moved. No, I don't. Okay, we can still talk about it. Let's get a motion. You wanted to take it out? No. Are you looking to take it out? I guess if I if you're looking to take Yeah, because we don't talk about the consent agenda, I guess. Right.
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There are parts in each unit um that teachers have choice to try and match the interests and the needs of the students in front of them. But it is a very rigorous curriculum. Not having been here last year, I don't want to, you know, I don't want to make any guesses as to where it it it compares. But it's definitely a very thorough, very rigorous curriculum. Thank you.
smart, curious, energetic. But in the future, it would not surprise me at all if this person becomes a truly exceptional adult. One that we all look back on and say, "I went to school with that person." You see, some cults on this stage have been Colts since preschool. And there's something undeniably cultlike about these students. They've heard the kind, safe, responsible creed and the colts rock, a call to assembly attention and the once a cult, always a cult morning announcement reminder since they were old enough to count to 10. Yet others here joined us later, some adapting more than others, to all of our cultlike ways. And I believe some here, and especially our most outstanding cult, was born a cult, even if they only joined our school a little less than three years ago. This year's most outstanding cult is a leader in the classroom.
Um or at least I feel like it does. I guess I don't have data on that, but it seems like it does. Um so Dominic told me it goes to line code I don't know 515 for the civic center. So, I looked at that when it was up on the sc the screen and it it's it looks like we have like $440,000 $440,000 coming in on that line, but I'm wondering how much of that actually comes from like after school program enrichment like room rentals. I can get you the actual percentage, but it is very small, right? So, if it's really small, I know we count pennies, and I'm supportive of counting pennies, but like it feels like this is just a little out of balance with providing our students with those opportunities to do those other things that like are important as like a student experience.
There's about 200 lb of clothes sitting over probably in that locker right now. Um, there's about 5,300 or so schools. You guys couldn't correct. You could do all your numbers math. That's like 16,000 lb of clothes that goes somewhere else that me as a parent has already paid for and I would rather it get recycled back into the community to the kids that need them. Um, so in turn, what's going to happen is if a kid has an accident, oh my god, tragic. A bird poops on them. That's the most tragic thing. days. They can at least get something. The parents will get called from the school nurse and say, "Hey, this is what happened. Can we supply them the clothes? Thank you. Friedri. And uh as you make your way to the podium, I'll remind you of a threem minute time limit. Thanks, Jacob.