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4 days a week, six hours a week from July 7th to the 10th and July 14th to the 17th, 2025. Students who may participate will have a chance to get a head start of the classroom routines and procedures for the upcoming school year. Aside from getting targeted support in math and ELA, six teachers from K6 plus three pair of professionals will work with students in July for eight days, six hours per day. You have Mrs. Fitus, Srano, Aae from Andes Macario, Mr. Peda pair professionals, Miss Monday, Miss Sanchez, Miss Guran, and I believe also um we will have for you for Wednesday, right, Miss? We will have uh Chief Tivot. He's also going to be part of this group. So, we will have that for Wednesday's meeting. Okay. Next, any question or discussion? Go to the extra pay positions. Mr. present members of the board and follow individuals that have expressed an interest uh in the corresponding extra positions.
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And so what this is is a little bit of a bump in funding to account for those extra years of experience that were not previously being captured. So it equates to about $25,000. So it's a nice little um chunk of money that wasn't previously being accounted for. So when you take all that into consideration, you get your revenue control limit, which is your basically your state approved uh funding limit of 3.5 million. And then we get to add in a budget balance carry forward. At this point in time, we're not done with the current fiscal year. So we're estimating a very conservative budget amount carry forward. Um we anticipate this ending around 800,000 where we historically have been over the last year or so. Uh but just in case we are estimating low uh just in case we have any more last minute or emergency expenditures from now until June 30.
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It makes my heart sing that this is a program that we're able to offer everybody in the community for parents, players, buddies, um, and and volunteers like myself. So, it's it's a feel-good part of the week. Sounds great.
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Ava's the constant con consumate pro. She got up here, said the first words, and stepped back and let me take care of the rest. So, on to the class of 2025 department scholars. Each department of Brookfield High School recognizes a 12th grade student as their department scholar. Each of these students will receive a departmental scholar pin to wear at the graduation ceremony. So, our first one is humanities, the English department scholar. So, I'm going to ask, believe Dr. Spencer's pride. You want to hand that out? There she is. Ready to go. And so the English department scholar for the class of 2025 is Andrei Hela. And that's Andre. I told her I was going to mess up her name first right off the gate.
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Um and it does reference you will see here the previous policy um in its contents. Uh so I will turn over to Mike to go through the specific details. Um, so I I think the first thing to note is of importance is that first paragraph where we actually have the the dollar values listed. Um, 15,000 uh is the amount you're going to want to look at and 25,000. So I'm just going to um I'm just going to read it. All contracts for purchases of supplies, materials, equipment, and contractual services in the amount of 15,000 or more shall be based when possible on at least two competitive bids. So, anything 15,000 or more will require two bids. Anything over the next amount, next threshold amount, 25,000 will require three. Um there are uh in the next paragraph you'll see there are some exceptions for professional services.
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There's no such thing as a perfect administrator. There's no such thing as a perfect staff. It's there's no such thing. Um, I could stand here for a minute and a half and tell you all the reasons why she's great, but that's not why I'm here. It is a little bit, but I was lost 10 days ago, and I'm still lost. I'm lost about being lost and confused because I chose to not disappoint 30 student athletes and attend a meeting that I was given 24 hours notice. I'm lost. I know nothing. So those of us who on a Thursday, the collaborative time which we're told to use wisely, those of us who were had prior commitments and made the choice to put our kids and our activities and all those things first, we were left in the dust. We don't know anything. And that is the biggest concern.
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We have our our chair coaches and we have our athletic uh uh our athletic director team led by Mr. Y athletic director. No board action necessary. This is a study session item discussion. Next item then is the 2425 performance payout. 2425 performance pay. Mr. Hopkins members of the board uh has been calculated by the leadership team. The board is being asked to review and and award the attached Prop 2011 funds to qualify teachers for the 2425 school year. Uh no board action necessary study session item only. We will make sure to have the uh the numbers for you. Okay. You know what we can do? Yeah. You can have them as as early as possible. We were on the hearing. I said, "Oh my goodness, do you have 301?" And then he text me back and said, "I'll email it to you tomorrow." So he just Okay, sorry about that.
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We still got another month to go. So that gives you your total general budget limit at $4.3 million. Um again note there's no add-ons this year but we planned we pre-planned for that knowing that those 25 funding sources were going to be removed in 26. When looking at capital much simpler formula, but your state approved capital allocation is uh in this proposed budget is the $269,295. Um we are anticipating carrying forward into this budget 776,000. Again, uh historically has a large carry board showing the contingency and a conservative uh outlook towards uh any sort of future capital expenses that may not be planned such as emergencies etc. um you get to add on your interest earnings and so we are capitalizing on on holding a large balance by by capturing that interest earnings of 10,000 and that gives you a total capital budget of 1 million 56,510 in this proposed 26 budget looking at the the budget initiatives um one thing we are proposing in this 26 budget I mentioned at my last uh meeting when I came out We're researching a compensation increase.
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Carrie, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for all the work you do for this wonderful program, wonderful for the community. So, thank you. Thanks so much for being here. We appreciate it. Okay, that'll do it for us here from Carrian Field in Hopkin. Oh, go ahead. No, no, no. Please, please go. So, that'll do it for us here at Carrian Field in Hopkin. It's been the Hopkin Medway Challenger Little League World Series. We'll see you next year right back here at Carrian. [Music]
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No. Everybody watch. Everybody watching what she's doing, right? Turn it over. Shaking hands. Good. It's always hard being that a last name. End up being the first one. Up next is the humanities social studies department scholar. Congratulations to Brook Sanford. [Applause] Up next is the STEM department. We have the math department scholar for this year is Arjent B. [Applause] Up next in the STEM department is our science department scholar, Alvina Bal. Moving on to our visual arts department scholar. Congratulations to Ahmad Hosp. Ahmad is also a recipient of another award. Uh in addition to being the department scholar for arts, Ahmad is also receiving an academic excellence award for the outstanding work he has done throughout his years at BHS. [Applause] Congratulations. Moving on to the fine arts department scholar. Congratulations to Daffany Max. [Applause] Up next, the career and technical education scholar goes to Maline [Applause] Trace.
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Professional services are uh any services performed by a profession, right? So any consultants, attorneys, accountants, um doctors to the extent that we we have those um and the other exception is if it is a sole source vendor. So if there is a vendor and they the the only vendor for a particular item uh which believe it or not does happen from time to time, uh that is also an exception. um in in that case uh and we had one recently. What we do is we ask the vendor to supply us uh with a soul source letter and that soul source letter is the vendor just saying that yes uh I am acknowledging that I am the only vendor and then in turn uh for audit purposes uh we or I would also prepare a sole source letter and that's the letter that the auditors are looking for is the letter from me saying yes we had an exception to our policy because it was a soul source vendor.
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When we went through all of the shuffle last year, Caesar, I appreciated so much how often you came, you and others came and had a conversation with us. And when we came here last time, that's what we asked for. I don't know what's going on. I mean, I will take the the politics of my eighth graders over what you guys have to do. My hats off to you. It's just a horrible, horrible, horrible feeling to be this. invested and feel completely lost and I hope that there is a plan to help us feel better and our families. Thank you. Any further public comment? Okay. Um any trustee comments? Go ahead. I don't have a comment, but I would like to ask uh if we can bring up uh council so that uh council can explain as to what are the limits on informing the public about personnel matters because as somebody who's an educator, I know that I'm protected by the ed code, by state law in having my personal information, personnel information being disclosed in public.
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We on to the interdimenal agreement with Beyond Textbooks. Mr. President, members of the board, in July 2022, the Aqua USD entered into an agreement with Beyond Textbooks Unified School District to increase student achievement and align classroom instruction to state standards. District will need to annually agree to an IGA. The agreement is attached and has been approved by USC legal council, Mr. Huford. No board action necessary. This is a study session item only and this is well worth this has been a very solid foundation and and guide for all of our staff. Curious how did we qualify for the discount? How did you qualify for the discount? Well, on that first page, it's the annual fee is 11,000 and then 400 students at 11 bucks each gives us 4,400. Subtotal, it says subtotal $15,400 discount. We can look into that, but probably because we're district loyal customers.
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Um with some of that research, we have proposed a certified increase from classroom site fund of $1,000. Um so the classroom site fund not recognized in this kind of presentation here, but um if you remember that's from prop uh 301 and that appropriation is is based on sales tax that has continued to go up. Um the appropriation next year for 26 is up to $842 per student. And so this uh bucket of money separate from MLM capital um again has continued to go up. It's only eligible for teachers. And so one way to utilize those funds uh is to um provide the compensation increase from those funds. Therefore saving M to provide compensation for others and other employee groups who are not eligible. So $1,000 is roughly around a 2% increase uh for all teaching and certified teaching staff. With regard to classified and admin, um we're proposing an increase from M to 50 cents for classified hourly.
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I wish the audience can see the sheer look of surprise on Maline's face that she was the department scholar. It actually kind of looked like that when they were Up next is the physical education department scholar who runs the family. Congratulations, Andrew Genevies. [Applause] Up next is the World Languages Department Scholar. Congratulations to Quinn Pinto. Up next, I'm going to talk a little bit about the Connecticut Seal of Biiteracy. It recognizes the value of students academic efforts and the tangible benefits of being bilingual and biiterate. These students are prepared to be 21st century global citizens in a multicultural, multilingual world. This seal acknowledges the mastery of two or more languages as a valuable asset for both individuals and their communities. It also provides recognition to English learners for the great value of developing English fluency and maintaining their primary language. These seniors will receive the Connecticut Seal of Biiteracy on their diploma and a pin for this honor.
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Sure. An example I can give is sometimes we'll have a child um that requires a specific technological device um you know maybe as a communication device and there may be one uh vendor that makes that product. Um so if we know that there's only one vendor that produces that item, we are we are not going to go out to bid because there are not other vendors that we could get a competitive price from. Um so this acknowledges that there are instances and circumstances in which that occurs. Um but we have to show and prove that in fact only one company makes that exclusive item. And then uh you'll notice the very third uh the very next paragraph is she's talking about the uh third exception and that's if uh the the vendor is on the Connecticut v uh vendor list. It's already been vetted through uh through the state.
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Much like we talked about last time, we are all many of us here work in education. We know that that's something that you don't do. So I think it would be it would be beneficial to have council in inform us here as to what the limits are of letting people know about personnel matters in a public setting. Thank you. Uh Mr. Roelio, can you please? Yes. Uh good evening board. So unless um uh any individual's personnel situation is already the subject of an open session agenda item, which routinely happens uh in open session and regular meetings. you all approve personnel matters on a regular basis. Uh but unless something like that is on the agenda, um any uh any specific personnel issue relating to any specific employee uh is not appropriate for response in an open session and those items should be strictly limited to close session uh personnel matters because of the confidentiality and privacy rights of employees in the state of California.
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I'm not sure. We'll look into that. Yeah, I'm not complaining. Sure. That's a positive. Yeah. Anything else about that? We will go to the inter intergovernmental agreement with Veil Expedition. Mr. President, members of the board, uh, AUSD enters into an agreement with a EDS outreach program, Veil USD, which provides a USD with staff development and training to ensure accurate student data is being submitted to the state through Powers School. The agreement is attached and has been approved by AOC legal council. No board action necessary. This is study session item one. The only thing I'll say about that and the one before is that both of those partnerships have seen very beneficial for Absolutely. Anything else on that item? I don't believe so. Okay. Then on to next item. First reading of governing board policies. Mr. President, members of the board, section D revision are due to a reorganization that similar policy content and maintains comprehensive information for effective board governance and district operations.
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And again, uh 2% which is about the the average um for admin the 50 cents for classified hourly is is well above 2% averages about three three and a half% increase uh for your classified hourly employees. And then uh lastly, we're just continuing to work on a five-year capital plan with Miss Cotay. We're looking at leveraging several grants to support the safety and security initiatives that I had. Um one grant in particular working with is called the cost grant. It's issued from the the federal bureau and uh we're currently working on a proposal about 150,000 with a 25%age. So that will significantly put a head start to a lot of the safety and security initiatives that have already gone on that are currently in place and continuing.
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Students, a little bit different for this one, so listen up. When you hear your name read, please come for to the front of the stage to get your certificate and wait for other recipients. We'll take a group picture and then you can return to your seats. So we'll start with Hindi and English. Congratulations to Sigma Sima [Music] Amed. Read that as Sigma meant to say. Up next in French and English we have four students. Mia [Applause] [Music] room. Up next is a triple threat of Chinese, Spanish, and English. Congratulations to Isabella Oang. [Applause] Now to Portuguese and English, Matas Alves and Rebecca Ka. [Applause] And we have three more triple threats of Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Congratulations to Andreelli Almeida. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and always. Come on. [Music] Excellent. Thank you. [Applause] We have a significant number of students who have earned seal of literacy for Spanish and English, which is why they have their own separate page.
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