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okay okay we take a few minutes break okay did we leave the meeting or just leave this on i would just leave it on and if you want to turn off your microphone and the video okay thank you um and i'll i'll try not to keep us up as late as the uh as the union negotiations so um so the first slide this is just a quick intro dr sal just asked me to talk to you briefly about this uh what we're calling cares to funding um we've had coronavirus relief funding we've had cares one funding and now our cares too we're really pleased um to get in there's a lot of restraints like dr sal mentioned it's not to be used to supplant operations and we'll kind of reiterate that as we talk through and i'm open to questions on that i'm going to talk about the current year so rich kind of wanted me to put in context because it was so unique that we braided that funding so i'm going to talk about the current year very briefly and then the upcoming year maintenance budget rich and i kind of put it side by side so you could see what happens when the money that we had this year kind of it goes away um and so just the takeaways i was hoping we would all walk away with our what's our base budget and maintenance needs what are dr selling cabinets district priorities and then what are our next steps for us to get your feedback um as a cabinet respond to any of your questions in this week so that we can set up a nice presentation that looks similar to what we did you know last year um which would be similar to this that we did last year but with our updated priorities and our updated information given what we know so with all that said just very quickly um so asked me to just walk you through this new coronavirus response and release supplemental appropriation um you know cssr the two funding was 492 million dollars for the whole country which um brought it up to 603 so before it increased what had formerly been about 100 million up to 600 um um and so the csde is holding back 10 percent of the funds just like they did originally so we expect to see a little bit potentially more funding and then the 90 that's the 10.1 that we're getting is that lea based funding they released it on january 29th and um the grant application is open on february 22nd um and um it'll be open for a good month they're going to work with us but sal's got us already you know starting to talk to you about it today so that we can get our plans in place it is not at all intended to supplant it's um intended to support um the activities that i'll describe in just a moment and um kara kevin kim and kelly as well as dr sal will work with you and our administrator community to understand how we're going to use the funds but essentially as we knew the first cares money which is called sr1 is ending december 30th 2022 so we have our plan in place for spending that down and then this ester 2 extends one whole other year beyond that and it's it's retroactive so things that were eligible that we already started to do we could utilize the funding to offset those activities and it goes into the future so it's pretty flexible and then very briefly the priorities are academic supports learning loss learning acceleration and recovery i describe it as being like very broad and also a little bit specific so it gives us a lot of um leeway um in terms of things that we might identify as being needed family and community connections um school safety social emotional well-being the whole student and staff so a lot of the things that we're doing in care is one but they've learned some lessons so based on those best practices they're identifying a little bit more broad use of the funding and the remote learning staff development bridging the digital divide for our students um courtney i think your slides if may not be advancing i don't know if you were presenting from a slide just now oh i was okay okay i just wasn't sure okay thank you i was karen thank you for telling me that that's can you see the what's next slide or no not well you know what i'll eat i'll email you all the slide show i'm not sure why it wasn't showing um um i can email it out to you but essentially it lets us do all the things that we did with the cares act one but in addition now we can do some also facility repairs and safety improvements if we if we saw fit to do that um okay you want to share it now courtney and i'll i can i can post it up if you can't no don't do it there you go i'll go right into the into the budget presentation since you know we're a little bit limited on time and um you know just know that if you have questions about the careers funding um there's some documentation about it i can answer questions and cabinet just got it you know this past friday so it's about 10.1 million for for danbury um and you can you see this slide what i'm showing now it's a bunch of numbers um can you see the no the number slide yes yes yes okay so i'll try not to be boring um it's a revenue and expense slide so this is looking at our current year and you'll probably remember from this summary way back when um when we asked for this much money and we only got this much we asked for 146 and we and so we did this braided thing that got us to 145 504.
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it gives me great pleasure to celebrate leslie jones as ellington's 2020-2021 parent of the year leslie jones is one of the most dedicated parents that i have ever met she has five children all of whom have attended ellington leslie has always been involved in every single aspect of all of her children's education even throughout this pandemic leslie continues to virtually volunteer in the classroom and is the driving force of our pto leslie is as concerned for all students at ellington as she is of her own during her time on campus leslie eagerly helps students getting little ones to their classrooms and setting up for the book fair every year ask any student at ellington who she is and they kindly refer to her as ellington's pto lady she's cool leslie is also actively involved in multiple activities with her church the entire arlington community thanks you leslie jones for all that you do for all eagles and congratulate you for being ellington's parent of the year congratulations good evening my name is victoria velasquez principal of victor hodge elementary it's my honor to present to you our parent of the year mrs sonia friesar smith wife mother of three busy working mother she always finds time to volunteer volunteer in the classroom for each of her three children get her hands in there and do something creative with other people's children because really she has a heart for service she's humble she's collaborative she wants to see the greater community involved in every way but also she quietly looks on ways to form partnerships an active member of the pta mrs smith has also put her heart to work saying even in the pandemic virtually anything is possible a listener a collaborator someone who wants to see membership grow in pta and active participation she's often found listening to others inviting them to be a part of things especially our children in fact she even facilitated with the collaboration of the pta virtual parties for our kids please join me in honoring mrs sonja smith good evening i am diana rojas principal of charles h lee elementary school and it is with great pleasure that i present ms lucia bob rodriguez as our parent of the year mrs babraduce is a proud mother of two children her daughters in the armed forces and her son ian is a fourth grader at our school mrs bob rodriguez's passion for her son's education and advocacy for all students in special education is to be admired along with her positive nurturing selfless parenting for the last two years she has served as our school's parent rep on the district's parent advisory committee in addition mrs balbrodicas went above and beyond for our lee and azusa community this year when the organization that she works for fiesta ducati inc collaborated with our district to contribute a large amount of ppe supplies for our students and their family as a mother mrs bell rodriguez is an exemplary parent she is soft broken has a heart of gold and her desire for ian to grow into an independent productive citizen is always evident therefore at lee elementary school we are blessed to have miss lucia bell rodriguez as a parent and partner and are honored to recognize her as our parent of the year for charles h lee elementary school i'm jenny lee director of ece and i'm honored to present to you long parent of the year mrs melissa wilson perkins mrs perkins is a natural in the world of education she's devoted to her children's education and immerses him in knowledge she fosters her children a sense of independence community gratitude and thoughtfulness mrs perkins not only volunteers in her own children's classroom she also volunteers on behalf of the entire school community as well as the district community currently she's on the district's preschool advisory committee a pta board member a spirit committee member and a diversity equity inclusion committee member at hodge and she's also on a usd reorganization team her energy positivity selflessness and solution-oriented approach is contagious she recognizes the strength potential and area of growth of the district and acts to make ausc the best place it can be for her two sons and all the children in the district good evening my name is jeanette flores and i'm the proud principal of murray elementary tonight i'm honored to introduce to you murray's parent of the year ms karen padilla karen is the mother of three healthy fun and active boys they are ivan 8 max 7 and dominic who goes by mickey and is 5 years old the ruiz boys definitely keep karen on her feet at all times during the day karen makes sure her boys are connected to distance learning and is there to help whenever they needed when the day is over she spends time with them outside watching them ride their scooters going on walks and taking them on hikes karen is one busy mama she is very present in their education both in person and in distance learning she always takes the time to get to know her son's teachers she is not afraid to ask for help and in turn is always willing to help when she is needed for these reasons we are honored to recognize miss karen padilla as murray school's parent of the year congratulations karen my name is antonio forest director permanent in my name is of powell school of the arts and it is my honor to introduce amanda spencer powell's parent of the year amanda and her husband braun have three wonderful children kenneth louisa and sandra when i met amanda it was crystal clear this mom is highly invested in her children's education she approached me right away to let me know that she and her husband were willing to serve on any committee and asked me to call her if there is anything that we needed as we began distance learning she has been an example to other parents setting up a classroom-like space for each of her children at home communicating regularly with teachers and supporting her children with their learning as you can see her excitement and dedication rubs off on her kids as they put their all into their school projects amanda is an encourager sewing masks for staff and dropping off homemade treats to lift our spirits she helps to create the supportive family-like community that we strive to be paul's strength is in our people and we are stronger because of amanda spencer the valley dale community is excited to recognize miss priscilla pantoja as her parent of the year although this year there have been many challenges we continue to be blessed by the kindness and support from priscilla pantoja she is a person that you can always count on and who is willing to lend a helping hand last year she was often volunteering in classrooms and helping out at school events and this year is no different it's just done virtually priscilla has stepped up in so many ways and has become a staple of support for teachers students and parents she's worked alongside teachers to learn the tools that they're using in distance learning and has shared these tools with other parents she has supported parents with technology issues and has become an advocate for the dual immersion program and she does this with a heartfelt smile as a former viking she's motivated to make anyone who comes to our campus have a wonderful experience whether virtually or in person we thank priscilla and her family for their commitment and love is good evening my name is sam perdomo and i'm the proud principal of foothill middle school it gives me great pleasure to announce gloria del vr as foothill middle school's parent of the year whatever activity meeting event that is occurring at fms you will be certain to see gloria at one of those functions gloria participate and attends all the coffee with the principal in elac meetings and she plans and facilitates all the families and schools parent workshops transitions to high school and college knowledge moreover with respect to gloria being involved in her children's education gloria feels that she must always be involved with all school activities in addition gloria feels being present at her children's social and emotional development is of the utmost importance finally gloria also promotes healthy discipline and feels it is a key to productive decision making in particular where shared intelligent and responsible decisions should be practiced fms is so lucky to have maria del vr here at fms as a parent volunteer and we will be lucky to have her for another year congratulations gloria delviar hello i am yvette walker principal at slauson middle school and i am proud to present mrs rosa ramirez as this year's parent of the year what an honor it is to have mrs ramirez as such an involved and supportive parent at slauson mrs ramirez supports and assisting students parents and the community whenever possible she takes an active part in her children's learning and schooling by dividing her time between schools she has participated in providing support in the pta student council meetings and educational trainings she has also volunteered her time in after school programs such as think together homework house and district events such as mariachi of azusa she is caring hard working and has followed her roots by embedding her beliefs of continuous growth through literature parenting classes and trainings in the community thank you mrs ramirez for sharing your time and your positive energy with us at slauson congratulations to you as lawson's parent of the year hello my name is martin gomez and i am the proud principal of azusa high school go aztecs i am excited and honored to celebrate and recognize azuza high school's parent of the year mr jason de la torre high school thanks mr delatorre for everything he does for our school and our ass team mr de la torre is an active parent and member of the azusa high school family along with the community he has coached in azusa american little league participate in district committees he's also the baseball coach member of the aztec football boosters and he provides a unique perspective not only as a parent but also as an educator and a professional in law enforcement because of people like you you improve our azusa community and the lives of our children thank you for all you do for our aztecs he is always willing to support our students staff and our community congratulations my name is gabriel fernandez and i am proud principal of gladstone high school on behalf of the students faculty and staff we would like to recognize our nominee for parent of the year ms leslie jones to borrow from amanda gorman's poem the hill we climb one thing is certain love becomes our legacy and change our children's birthright miss jones is an example of a gladiator parent that is leaving love as their legacy at the happy rock her steadfastness her selflessness and her commitment to her daughters is evident even in the darkness of this pandemic through the past two years she has supported the ghs music program the athletics department and been a strong advocate for the medical academy with other parents ms jones compassion for all children is apparent as she works for the change that will become all of our children's birth rates i'm kent stout principal at sierra high school and i'm proud to announce our parent of the year mrs lupita casteron mrs castrion has been married to her husband roberto for 20 years she has three children stephanie kevin and carlos and two grandchildren frankie and sarah yi mrs casparian has always been willing to help out at sierra she attends our parent meetings served on school side council elac and the model continuation parent panel her dedication has been greatly appreciated as a parent she motivates her children to always try and believe in themselves she believes it is important to set an example of being a good citizen she helps neighbors by taking them food or walking kids to and from school this year she has taken a high school student under her wing providing him support and treating him as her own she has a kind heart and always cares about the azusa community we at sierra high are lucky to have her as part of our parent group congratulations mrs lupita castron on being sierra high school's parent of the year good evening azusa unified board members cabinet and community my name is marcela fonsica and i am the wildly proud principal of magnolia school because tonight i have the distinct privilege of presenting to you the azusa unified school district's parent of the year maria samaniego maria is a wife and mom of five children and now she gets to add parent of the year to her resume her youngest son emanuel is a sixth grader in mrs wright's class and when asked to describe his mom he wrote my mom is great and never gives up she is very humble amazing so loving and nice maria's passion is raising her children in a loving home and helping them grow into the best versions of themselves she models for them the value of becoming a productive contributor to the community while emphasizing the importance of education and cultivating an informed view of the world in which they live her desire to be an ever-present and positive influence in her children's lives is what allowed us the privilege of working with maria as a valued partner she faced the challenges of the pandemic and turned them into opportunities to serve as secretary on the school site council donate supplies participate in district and site-level meetings and volunteer in the virtual classroom maria's servant heart shines in all the thoughtful ways she contributes to our wild community emmanuel you are absolutely right your mom is nice great humble and amazing and now she is officially wild maria thank you for all you do for magnolia school we appreciate you and the entire san maniego negro family and we are proud to have you represent the wild mustangs as azusa unified school district's parent of the year congratulations again to all of our parents of the year we are grateful for everything you have done to support students and staff and families and now please join me in recognizing and congratulating the ausd 2021 district parent of the year magnolia parent maria samaniego hi good evening can everyone hear me okay um good evening i feel honored to have been nominated and selected to represent magnolia elementary school and the asusa unified school district i would like to thank miss angie wright my son's fifth and sixth grade teacher for her perpetual support of not only our children in school but of the parents alike also miss fonseca the wild mustangs auspicious and delightful principle thank you miss wright and miss fonseca your enthusiasm and hard work are truly appreciated in addition i would like to thank our school board cabinet members and magnolia staff this past year presented many challenges for our families our communities and schools we've had to adapt to a new normal which included being physically apart from family and friends to virtual meetings and learning remote work for those of us that are fortunate no work for others any pandemic that has devastated the entire world who would have thought that via zoom teams google classroom we would quickly recalibrate into virtual living this is the right moment to join and support our schools by logging on to board meetings school meetings community meetings and truly understand the impact of our new normal by doing so i found that we as parents have a voice and responsibility to advocate for our children and collaborate with our teachers and administrators in the decision making that impacts our children's academic education i invite all parents to take an active role and partake in the committees that impact your schools and ultimately shape the future of our children thank you everyone before we um open that up and uh have our board members say a few words again maria congratulations um on being named our district parent of the year we do have um we do have melissa alcantar here and so she is from uh foothill federal credit union so i i believe she has a little presentation yes good evening um thank you so much for allowing me to join these are my favorite events and i'm so happy to be here on behalf of foothill just to show support to the school community and i just want to congratulate all of the parents of the year um everything you guys are doing is so important and i think it's awesome that you are leading by example for your children and i think it's it makes a huge difference for the whole district and it's so amazing to witness the community that azusa has and all of the passion that everybody puts into the district um so on behalf of foothill credit union i would like to award the district parent of the year um mrs samaniego with a 50 gift card just to show um recognition and our appreciation and her dedication to her children and to the school and to the whole district so congratulations mrs samaniego and thank you so much for all your hard work yay thank you thank you so much and now i will turn it over back to board president arianis thank you dr mitchell would any of the board members would like this is the time you'd like to say anything any last words yeah just again want to say thank you um and and congratulations to to everyone um congratulations to you maria on being selected as a district uh parent of the year um if ever there was a year where where being you know the parent of a student um and being committed to that student's learning um just was you know as challenging as ever this this was that year and so for for those parents that that stood out and that that that continued to to you know either continue to to shine in the ways that they have or maybe even saw ways and saw new needs and and so therefore shined you know through in in and in the midst of and in spite of uh the the pandemic um just want to say want to say thank you and again recognize that those parents who are being highlighted um it's because the the care and the concern that you have um yes is most certainly there for your child but it's clearly also there for you know the the those students throughout the school and throughout the district and so on behalf of all of those the you know those within the district and for all of the work that that you do um to to make us a stronger community and a stronger district just want to say thank you very much and i like i like to um ditto what i said earlier regarding the parents how important you are how important your voice is in in in the community and in your child's school i want to thank you for volunteering your time i want you to uh thank you for your passion uh coming to the schools and and i miss seeing everyone person to person i do see you on um on zoom meetings and and i just can't wait to all get back together to have a little coffee together and you know have a great time thank you very much parents kudos to all of you thank you thank you to all the parents recognized tonight mrs samaniego especially i offer you my congratulations and appreciation and always i think that parents um parents are our children's first teacher and we remain with them throughout our lives so appreciation and thank you to thank you all and i just want to echo my colleagues um to thank all of you um just a couple things i'm really excited to see that the gender diversity and i think a lot of us you know stereotype think about oh the parent volunteers are all mothers but it's so great to see that that's really not true and then in our district all parents care about their students so that i'm really excited about that and money i just want to say i really appreciate your message that you just delivered i think i think under pandemic we've seen a lot many more people engage in with the district and some of our official committees and different decision making um and i hope that that we can continue to spread that word about how it's so important for everyone to be engaged because we want you to be engaged and we need you to be engaged um and so i'm glad i'm glad i hate to hear you be that messenger for the rest of our community because it often it it comes but it's it's it's more it's better received from peers from other parents than from maybe the district so really really appreciate your message thank you thank you thank you i also want to echo my colleagues uh maria semego congratulations um just like board member greer said during this pandemic you're still out there and volunteering and just trying to do whatever you can and congratulations to all of our parents i i also wanted to point out um i i've never seen a parent be nominated for two schools at the same time and i want to bring that to light miss leslie jones i i was you know when i saw that i thought i was a um seemed there was a mistake but obviously it's not a mistake um so um we really really appreciate all of you um and just like board member cruz gonzalez said you are your your children's first teacher and we thank you for allowing um our teachers to to serve you and for us to be able to serve the needs of your children thank you so much um do we um miss mitchell is there anything else that we i just wanted um i just wanted to say thank you again so much to all the parents um and i want to um also thank the the panel uh we have a district uh parent of the year panel lori ray um last year's parent of the year denise lopez anna quack sandra banuelos thank you so much for serving on the panel and it was truly a joy and a privilege to be part of of this process here and process this year and getting to know each one of the parents and meeting them and i'm just again i was so incredibly touched and i'm just so grateful for um for everything that they're doing in it it they truly truly are all just such examples of community and we couldn't do it without them so thank you great thank you and as we move down to our last item of our our agenda we moved down to 14.1 and this there's no more items um on this agenda to to um there's no more items to to keep moving forward so um at this point right now we are actually not a journey we are going to actually be going to in back into closed session and therefore we want to thank all of you guys for joining us today and this special day for parent of the year award celebrations you guys all have a great night and we as the board and cabinet will go back into closed session take care
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i'm going to guess 130 dollars uh thirty dollars from aaron and amy rosine uh a hundred dollars from ron ron and rhonda bear all in the memory of kathy seif for northville athletic department to approve a 75 donation from tim quinn for northfield girls basketball and a recommendation to approve the 40 donation from wabash county farm bureau for northfield ffa my is that a lot of money i'm going to accept donations yeah a motion and a second to accept all those very generous donations your health has been greatly appreciated all in favor say aye bye-bye school recognition all right well thank you we'll start with uh mr martin who's on the list that'll be first appreciate the opportunity to tell you a little bit about some good things kids are doing on shark creek elementary first we'd like to recognize the shark creek elementary spelling bee winners uh which mrs nguyen provided fifth grade winners for the kiwanis contest uh the winner was colin beal and runner up nate hudson hodgson i'm sorry hudson sixth grade kiwano winner was nicole fisher and the runner-up was emma wilson and the journal connect because that winner rihanna poe and runner up keon stevens so congratulations to all those kids we'd also like to recognize the hard work and the effort and skill and ability of our sharp creek elementary paw print newspaper staff they produce a newspaper once a month under the guidance of mrs pam campbell and these students are allison edmonds ashland macy sage martin dawson tashera and hayden copeland and we just appreciate what they're doing they electronically produce that goes to all of our students and staff through electronic mail i also want to mention one staff member mrs becky mast just want to thank her for her extra time and help in providing homework help opportunities for our students two days a week after school and it is taken advantage of and parents and students and teachers appreciate her time with our students helping them have success okay thank you mr martin mr mcdivitt thank you mr keith faber i'd like to recognize gary the grand champ who will be retired at the end of this month gary has served as our basically we call the transitions room where kids are getting close to exiting campus we put in the gary's room and gary's there to help him earn any final credits they might be able to piece together so one of the things all their kids tend to struggle with is math gary is a math list bank and there's a lot of kids that would not have graduated that had not been for years health and math so one to wish very well for his retirement he's done a great service for our students and uh we hope he enjoys his january uh we've tried to help we've tried to make that honestly we've tried to help make that possible for him so thanks to gary and then a student i want to recognize his name's quincy uh as you may know for really about four weeks end of november start of december our students were on quarantine in their colleges and so we were able to deliver all their all their computers to their colleges so the house parents could have school during the day i'm sure it won't shock you some students don't thrive in that setting quincy did quincy was one of the kids and he kept his nose down he kept his uh he kept you know shooting off questions the teachers which they can do with an edmonton and he did a fantastic job so uh quincy has been now moved to mr d's room uh because he getting he's getting close to graduation so we want to recognize quincy for for doing work when it's it's it's not easy to do work when you're just you know quarantined for college you would think it would be but it's not so so questions done a great job a lot of distractions it can be in homes and cottages wherever so it's great that he did that um mrs boone had a conflict tonight so she um is not here so she will not be mentioning anything right now except i think i will say something later um mrs moore is here she's more to talk a little more about our new business with our preschool uh but she also put some things down so mrs moore won't you go ahead and share i wonder um we just like to thank the bachelor creek church of christ they contacted me right after thanksgiving break but there are members in their congregation wanting to adopt some families for students that may not have the resources that they need and they adopted four of our families that were not getting any other type of community help so they hadn't signed up for christmas spirit and maybe missed that deadline or i think that deadline comes out right after school starts so parents whose situations may have changed they adopted four families and 1911 kids and we're just very thankful they were there for our kids and their families and the responses that i had from parents whose children received was just overwhelming um just super appreciative that they're able to help provide for their kids that's great yeah thank you um andrew mcdaniel had a few or a couple here says the southwest community would like to recognize alex farr grade 12 for selection as a rising star for white's residential family services by the nba all-star legacy committee this award comes with a 2 100 scholarship to college of alex's choice only 21 students in the state of indiana were awarded this honor recipients were judged based upon their leadership through community service academic achievement and extracurricular achievement where they go alex we are proud of you mr mcdaniel also mentioned the southwest community like to recognize tom finickle and carrie aidcraft for the work on the county tournament this year there was a great deal of planning and revising plans but students had the opportunity to play basketball over the christmas holiday thank you mr finical and mrs haycraft a lot of people involved to make that all work and make it happen and we're glad it happened mrs boone with the car program we wish to recognize and express our gratitude to kylie broman transition coordinator for the car program for the exceptional work she does conducting the onboarding enrollment process for all students and parents as a program that offers open enrollment we are continually enrolling new students from across the state of indiana the task of onboarding new students and orientating parents to online learning is a heavy lift miss roman does an excellent job of connecting with and engaging new families additionally she carries a large caseload of students with whom she facilitates their learning ms roman works harshly to encourage support motivate and connect with students who might otherwise fall through the cracks educationally we sincerely appreciate miss roman's passion work ethic and commitment to the mission of the carr program mr snyder at northfield northfield is very proud of senior emma brainerd who was recently announced as the 2021 lilly endowment community scholarship recipient this four-year full-tuition college scholarship is given to one walter county senior each year who ranks high on 11 criteria including academic achievement measures financial need volunteerism and work ethic school participation leadership essays and an interview congratulations emma nhs is very proud of you for this awesome accomplishment that was an excellent choice there are other excellent choices but they could only choose one so congratulations to emma see what else we have mr snyder also uh would like to thank jason lyons and sharon gray for all their time and dedication to helping get the robotics team up and going this year they took our team to their first competition on saturday just last saturday january 9th these guys do an excellent job of not only teaching students for competition but also thinking through building and programming in regards to careers having two professionals like these um that two that work in the engineering field is an awesome resource and wealth of knowledge for our kids and mr snyder also threw another one out there north would like to congratulate the lady norrish basketball team for winning the 2020 wabash county basketball tournament a special shout out to the seniors on our team on winning the tournament each year of their four-year high school career i don't know how many that could say they won the county attorney each year their high school careers congratulations on the fourth county tournament went to seniors in the hoover kirsten stout kenzie bear addie baker ira kennedy and jenna crum addie baker emma hoover kyrah kennedy made the all-county team kyrah kennedy was named walrus county attorney mvp good luck the remainder of the season if you were there and watch those games they made it very exciting that was i think i don't want to miss anybody um yeah mr boone didn't uh put something down uh he um was also going to be here for the preschool but he was unable to come his wife is actually delivering a baby she's not delivering but she's helping deliver got to be careful what i say there but we'd like to take this opportunity to thank our elementary coach sports coaches for the 2020-2021 school year for girls volleyball gina deaton and drew gentry did a great job working with our young ladies to help them come together as a team and improve individual skills for our current basketball season sean hunger injured and jesse high are coaching our boys teams adam weiner and randy pershing our leading our girls teams we appreciate all of them for juggling work and family obligations making it possible for one more voice who is encouraging and challenging our students to reach their fullest potential and so mr daisy i believe that's all i have for you well we're to the point for the public comment we're still doing facebook live so we'll do the countdown until they catch up here scott you're in charge of finding some sort of theme song to play at this point and that's fine okay so we'll move on to the consent agenda items um approval of the minutes from our last meeting on december 8th motion in a second to approve the minutes from our last board meeting on december 8th all in favor say aye aye opposed claims um okay end of year and month balances uh table oh yeah i got the yeah there's two other things there payroll we have two payrolls it looks like yeah we have two payrolls uh the last two of the the calendar year um and so you can see a difference between the uh december 15 december 30th payroll and that's due to the fact that we issued those teacher appreciation grand dollars that we received from the state out and then also the eca's for the first semester for both high schools okay we'll stay on that line and go with financial summary right now okay um i gave you a lot of information so i'm not going to go through all of it uh just an opportunity i'm going to try out some new things just to see what you thought about some of that not necessarily that i need to do it every month but i thought since we were at the end of the year it'd be good to just kind of show some of those things so the first is the cash balance report we usually typically for you new board members we showed this report on the first for me of the month so it just shows you the imbalances from the previous month so for example this would be not only the imbalances for december month december but also the end of 2020.
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you got that height on shaw nice stop spartan's definitely still pushing that pace yeah carter brings it up plays around with it for a little bit dishes it to cam back to sweeney back to carter back to cam no look pass into gemara's brady with a shot oh it's bouncing around the rim but then those are the most those are the worst ones nice picks right there chalk breaks that press brady hustles out there to get to four but it's just oh it's off for four that doesn't happen a lot good rebound by spartans kamarus with the three strong yeah we're definitely missing donaldson out there for the rebounds [Applause] trying to get their offense started here yeah taking a slow start shot with the good defense not leaving much options for four good switch no shot foul before the shot let's see who that's on all right it's gonna be on shaw with the push while the kid went up for the layup i didn't see it but i'll go for it all right 11 and bounce the ball to 10.
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so i'm just reminding you here we are with this current year 145 million 504 000 and that's made up with that additional alliance increment which is something that erica just spoke to us about that's the funding that we get additional funding each year that care plans out for that has to meet certain requirements of closing the achievement gap and other details um we did use that to fund new things that we were going to do that also happened to be alliance eligible or meet those criteria and then we have cares money grant carryover funds these are all one-time funding the cares is going to expire in september and the carryover was because we underspent a few of our grants last year because of the nature of the pandemic and at the time we had what we thought a city fund balance of two million and then this is the city allocation the matrix development funds and that got us to the 145 million and this year all things being equal something that rich kind of asked me to do is say okay we're going to get another lens increment we don't yet know what that'll be i just held it flat but it'll be a little bit more the cares is not going to be available for the upcoming fiscal year with the exception of the 10.1 that we mentioned but i'm not accounting for that here because that's brand new and we'll talk about that outside of this process it'll be part of probably our braiding brave conversation like dr sal said after the february 14th deadline um and the grant carryover money we don't we don't have that this year that ends um so our available resources if the city were to just hold our budget flat would be 141 million when you're comparing apples to apples now does that make sense to everybody i know that's a little bit odd with it think about it the city fund balance went up because at the end of the day um you know when it's unaudited but this is basically around where we landed with what we had left over and the city put that in reserves for us about 2.6 million does that make sense so far there's some confusion i might i need to pause well courtney just got you know if there's hands up if not we always come back to it we can come back to it so and then it's a little bit of detail but then there's a projected expense or a budget and this is like our day you make that a little larger it might be helpful yeah yeah and then this is basically looking at like last year versus this year you know how we there's a lot that's behind this but this is just rolling it up for our salaries what we're projecting our retirement savings that you're used to seeing um our part-time salaries our benefits you know servicing fees repairs all the general categories the cost of doing business goes up we have contracts in place even when during the pandemic when we called all of our partners and said okay give us a break next year you know there's still an increased cost of doing business just like everywhere else and the way that i'm showing you this is last year if you remember these were all the new items that we funded like of the things that we asked for we were still able to do some amount of the school climate social emotional special ed curriculum program needs um you know the student support specialists and the esp requirements esl all of this stuff we did with that braided funding and you'll just kind of recognize it if i go back here and show you you know the school climate social emotional that's 485 000 and here's how we afforded it special ed that was 732 000 here's what it's for and here's what how we afforded it and this shows you what we originally requested and then what our proposal was for that year and what we how we ended up funding it and we're going to do the same thing this year um so you'll recognize these numbers now when i get down to the bottom there's some items that we spoke about before that carry forward from the grants that if we want to keep keep funding them we're going to have to account for them in our budget so the one-time things of funding that we used for for example student support specialists for some of two of our counselors um as well as i'm just going to scroll over because it's actually stored on the side of this document social workers and some of our teachers and substitute teachers we have to put that back in the budget because that funding goes away so i'm accounting for that so in the bottom line and then this is just showing how we're gonna we propose to the city to spend the reserves so the city allowed us to get up to our insurance corridor just max it out because you know the unpredictability of where we are with coronavirus we want to be really careful about funding the insurance um because you know and because we're self-insured and we just want to make sure that if there's any one-time fluctuations um we're accounting for them in holding aside a reserve technology it's a new reserve that the city council voted on letting us put forward so if there's any one-time technology products projects that we're doing that gina needs to do or software you know when you're doing the the training or the development that's set aside a special education reserve that kelly's been um needing for fluctuations that happen with the population in spite of um you know just because of the nature of special ed you could talk more about that and then just a general emergency contingency so that's that 2650 that you see up here this is just showing you on the budget and expense side how we're planning on spending that so what does that mean that means that once again we're at this magical kind of 10 percent number that we're asking for and that's made up of a carry forward budget of 7.5 which i'll explain why it's a high carry forward budget and then new asks of 6.484 so that totals 13.9 or about 10 over the base of these different funding sources um the carry forward maintenance you would normally think well it's probably about three percent right normally things increase every year by about two and a half or three percent but what's happening is because last year the city only funded us with if you'll remember the one one two seven five million um it left us short of being able to fund our you know base kind of like collective bargaining and bus increase and all the things that happened to increase the budget so each year they rely on us to go to alliance or the other funding streams to kind of take care of business it puts us further in the hole for the operations budget so we want to be really careful when we go to the city for the ask that not only do we need this and we'll get to you and explain why but we also need this because if this doesn't get funded we're going to be another three percent in the whole next year and it's just going to be that much harder for the city and for us to climb back from that and so so that's 10 and i'm going to go through the new asks but i'm just going to pause there and just ask if there's any questions on this first page of a lot of numbers courtney i have a question can you go back to the revenue side sure [Music] um jeez let me look the the the matrix thing is always it's becoming confusing to me i thought the matrix was a 10-year deal that the city had worked out with the the the corporation and that the 550 000 was to be given to the city for the impact that the matrix would have on education um did we ever get that money for the 550 for the 2021 year and what's happening for the year 2122 yeah thank you it's a it's a good question rich so um mayor bowen did commit to it and we do have great partners at the matrix we did not get it in 1920 i believe it had to do with the delay in the development that wasn't anticipated we do anticipate that we'll get it in and we do anticipate that it should be available to us for at least those years of the deal of the agreement the reason i didn't put it in here as available funding is because in an accounting sense in a normal sense if i had the revenue receivable i would have kind of a document stating what it was that i was getting and an agreement in writing the city is the receivable on their books so i'm not comfortable putting up the appropriation like we did in the past and leaving the hole in our budget you know and until we received the cash so it was just a decision there to leave that um you know you all can give me the feedback if you think we can we should put it back in but i just i don't have a document that supports the agreement so i just don't want to leave us at risk yeah i could understand you know you're not willing to put it in but conceivably if they didn't pay for 2021 would you be expecting 1.1 million dollars in 2022 and 21 22.
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and you can see like i mentioned earlier education fund had a 6.1 million dollar balance and then that little negative 500 000 uh will eventually have a zero on it after today so that just kind of shows you all of our different funds and what those balances are in those funds as you get down towards the bottom a lot of those funds are federal grants so typically you will see negatives in there because those are always paid in the rears we pay those out and then once we pay those out then we have to seek reimbursement from the government to get those monies back so that's why those are in the negatives education fund we usually do a cash flow sheet usually give you a cash flow spreadsheet on the second board meeting of the month to reflect the previous month as well so this obviously since it was the end of december would reflect all of this all of the 2020 school year so you can kind of see how funds change month-to-month in what categories and what areas and then we use those trends and so forth to make projections for 2021 so currently i am working on projections of the education fund for 2021.
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sweeney playing tight defense on him pushes him out of bounds that's good for the spartans good defense for sweeney right there that was an important stop it was not ready for that passer sweeney pushes the ball up right to gemara's kamara swings to carter he definitely has that nice strong pass right there carter for the three but it's off rebounded again by number four on falcons yeah definitely missing some strong rebounding having a great game out here lots of fun yeah lots of rebounds lots of shots travel oh oh with that fire okay i thought he was going to call a jumper i thought he was going to call travel oh not too either one all right so child can bounce the ball [Music] goes up to 30 handoffs to three three is a really fast player he always goes in for that drive oh 11 with the drive and a nice two-pointer scores now 26 27 with four minutes and 30 seconds in the third quarter shot with the pass to carter oh to sweeney sweeney with the two it brings the game to 28-27 spartans yeah that was good teamwork right there nice way to see the open pass defense on brady's definitely playing smart right now trying not to get any fouls but 10 with the putback yeah again we just keep getting out rebounded shaw bringing the ball up scores now 28 29 falcons back and forth game right now oh good save guy bye kamaras cam with the long three that's awesome oh we got a rebound on those ball's dead with 30 passes it to 11 again to four and a nice drive by 11.
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um they said that that's not the way it was structured you know and again i'm not having a paper document to support it i don't know how do you know that they said they weren't going to do that um for the 19 20 years so we're just going to continue i think we better get clarity on it yeah that has been you know first they were uninsured unsure about uh the occupancy and the pandemic i think we better get clarity yeah then we'll ask the cabo uh regarding that and dave that's a lot of money and theoretically i think it's just a pass-through you know it's coming from one source directly you know to the city you know for earmarks for something so yeah and they didn't get it in the first year but in your typical world if they gave us an appropriation for it and we don't have the receivable we should still be able to spend the funding but you know i think we just need to put together a memorandum of understanding so that we can be clear in the budget yeah in addition to the accounting i think dr sallar something you should throw away with uh you know mayor cabo uh is you know what they look to deal with that money and how much they want to give it to us i mean a half a million dollars here and here you know and you double it has a nice impact on us particularly when the city gave us 1.2 last year yeah it certainly helped yeah thanks courtney thank you rich okay courtney then we have a discussion last year about that 550 000 so uh what is the discussion there did we get um a part of that last year or now because that number is still hanging around about that 550 000 it's still hanging around so we have it in our current budget of appropriation um i just we haven't we left in fy 19 which is the not our current year but last year we didn't receive it we yeah we put it up as an appropriation so in other words we said instead of 130 million our budget is 130 million 550 000 but we were they never gave us that money so even though we had the appropriation we didn't have the cash and it left us short now luckily we had a surplus last year um but this year i'm a little more concerned so we're really we're pushing sal and i should just have a conversation with joe and dave and get it in writing and then i'll be able to put it in and feel comfortable with sharing with you that we have that as a resource um but it's contingent on the city receiving payment which they haven't yet okay yeah thank you okay thank you and you'll just see also just to note that um sal was able to negotiate a good deal with sta when we were in our closure to carry forward a credit for this year which was nice for us this year but we don't have it next year because you know unless we do another negotiation with them okay i have a question sure rachel um and just to add to that the um i'm sorry to harp on the matrix funds but i remember asking mayor mark about it this time last year and the project hadn't been approved by zoning yet so i think it's just the delay now with the pandemic but you know don't quote me on that don't you know hold me to it but i know for last year it was you know just waiting for the um project approval um so i have a quick question about under new items what do you mean by maintenance budget with the carry oh sure sure so basically like this is there's some backup detail in here and again i'll shoot you out this whole spreadsheet but i wanted to be able to talk through it first um but essentially for a maintenance budget we're saying when you have your salaries there's bargaining agreements that you assume are going to happen so every year you know depending on you know how kim and and sal and my self negotiate it could be two percent it could be two and a half it could be three percent depending on how those bargain agreement agreements come out for the new ones and then we're committed to previous year ones you know because they're multi-year agreements for future growth in their contracts in addition their steps that they move up so on the salary side it's just the cost of you know bargaining and step increases um and similarly like i'll give you an example in the transportation budget uh i mean um contract when we negotiate that contract they negotiate into their contract like uh increase every year you know um it's kind of standard with the transportation contracts in connecticut maybe we can revisit that in this new world with an rfp but so for example they get three percent increase on their costs every year the same thing with a lot of our um you know service agreements and things like that some things are held flat and some people have agreed as we've negotiated during the pandemic and said listen can you can you do us a favor we're continuing to do business with you can you keep flat and they have so this just reflects that yeah rachel we defined the the maintenance as just as we were you know the cost of just opening the doors without any you know wishlist for us to to move ahead so it's the same basically the same staff it doesn't include any increase in staff relative to growth or anything like that it's just the staff and the incremental increases so as if we did nothing and and had no additional uh no additional money it might be that's just that to open the doors on the existing uh components and the existing staff we have now yeah yeah yeah it's exactly and why is is it such a high percent it's because you really have to kind of go back two years because the city really didn't fund us last year and we did all the shifting to the one-time funding sources so really we're kind of catching up for that okay and um can you tell us how much is in the reserve for all of those accounts correct currently oh um there's no reserve right now for technology the special ed is also new and the emergency contingency is new i can get back to you with the insurance reserves i might even have it in the back up here there's so many documents there um no it's not in this particular so i will get back to you this gets us up to we have a um partner that works with us um to do an assessment on on our insurance costs you know that we negot we work with um and they recommend a percentage it's called a corridor that you fund which is a percent of your overall you know previous year's expense with a growth factor to set aside for risk and you don't have to you have to meet a certain minimum you don't have to meet that maximum this is just getting us up to the maximum because you know it's prudent to do that and it helps us to budget for our health insurance more appropriately thank you yeah especially in a self-insured world you know you want to kind of take care of that so so but yeah i think we're probably up to about four million in reserves oh i but don't quote me i'll i'll get you at one time they were saying you have to have about four months right so oh so that'd be a lot more than four million yeah yeah right so so you know but but there is a standard they they've asked us to maintain yeah we've been able to put so much in there each year yeah i kind of remember 5 million but that was probably a few years ago oh so it's got to be a lot higher than that so again don't quote me i'll get you the number i just know we got up to the max with this amount of what we could do it might have been seven million but i think we could check that yeah yeah it's like broken into two it's like ibnr which is the incur but not reimbursed cost so it just means you're setting up for future risk and then in addition this what they call the corridor that gets you it's like 25 of your total you know yeah it's four months it's probably like 25 of your total bill so we're probably up to 10 million now i would say maybe i don't know so these reserves are funds that are really expenditures on the board of edge part that are then given to the city correct they hold them aside correct yeah yeah we transferred over to the city and they have an account that they identify for for us that holds these funds and we can request them if we were to need them is the emergency contingency is that broad base to be used for whatever we want or is there limits i mean are there restrictions as to what you can do no there's no restrictions on that except for that it be one time um and initially we were going to use that for um ppe and desk shields and all of those things but then that crf and what's what's called the crew advice relief funds became available from the state so the city allowed us to just keep that as a category so it could be a building emergency it could be you know anything that's one time in nature that we would need to take care of we can ask them for that funds so courtney i i'm just trying to rick as remember this i think even though whatever it is that we want to do they still he still has to get approval by the council correct correct yeah yeah but i i watched that council meeting and they were pretty amenable but i just so the board knows that it's somebody could say okay but it does go it it does have the light of day is what i'm saying yeah yeah yeah yeah it's not just anything we're not buying uh i don't know bubble gum with it yeah okay um so would you like to move on to the details of the new funding yeah i think that's important the other stuff as i said would be like it's kind of yeah and the new it's this 6.484 here um and it's not really new in that you've seen some a lot of these things before as they'll said so i'm going to make this bigger and we're breaking it out in those kind of categories and i'm going to ask my colleagues to help me talk through because they know what these are much better than i do but the first category is increased k-12 enrollment and it totals about and twelve thousand and i'm just going to clarify that this is a special ed and so for elementary it's for six teachers and i'm gonna have kevin talk to this um rationale why we thought that we'd put aside six teachers kevin if you don't mind sure good evening everyone so uh for elementary and high school i'll speak to those two yeah uh for one and sal spoke to some some of these concerns earlier uh one we were down about 130 140 kindergarten students this year um and we're certainly expecting our typical enrollment numbers if not more for kindergarten for the 21 22 school year um and you know we're still waiting and then we did open up kindergarten registration but we're certainly waiting to see what the impact is going to be uh for the 21 20 22 school year um we have we we did not lose kindergarten teachers last year so you know to be transparent about that we did not reduce sections necessarily um and so you know hopefully hopefully we will um come even from this but we quite frankly we're really concerned about a significant bump at the kindergarten level um and you know with 140 students across the system being moved up it's not necessarily concentrated in two or three schools it's kind of spread across the district which means we can't necessarily reduce staffing at the first grade level so that is to be determined um we will have some kindergarten numbers hopefully the next couple of months that will give us a better sense of what that growth is going to look like but we're certainly anticipating it as other schools as we understand are across the state and just to clarify a lot of families one of the reasons why the kindergarten numbers were down a lot of families chose to keep their students home this year um you know for remote learning you know part of the unknown is will they reappear as kindergarten students or elect to come back as first grade students so those are some things that we will learn over the next few months um again as part of our continuing high school growth and also increase in graduation requirements um we you may have you may recall you saw some of these requests last year i mean that is an additional business teacher for the uh business finance um finance graduation requirement in addition to health these studies were all these are both additions to the graduation requirements and the social studies teacher was also requested from the school and so that's where you see those nine additional ftes for high school and elementary and i believe kelly is going to speak to the special ed piece sure so the special education teacher request is for four ftes and that is very similar in pattern to what kevin just explained for general education uh the first is as you guys know we've had a large preschool incoming cohort and that means they are matriculating to kindergarten um so we are anticipating the need for additional staffing there and then at the secondary level with the increase in graduation requirements the expansion um potentially of servicing students until age 22 we will also need additional support at the high school level as well so it'll kind of support at the two bookends the incoming kindergarteners kindergarten first grade depending on which grade they matriculate into and then at the high school level as well and the next cat so that's about that's 910k and then the next category is school climate and some of these are familiar to you from the past we're uh requesting 940 000 and um kevin do you mind talking through the school climate piece or dr charles you'd like to answer yeah yeah sure i i can would that decide you want me to take these two yeah go okay so we have um in the request this year we are requesting an assistant principal for shelter rock in stadley elementary school as well as ellsworth you again you might recall seeing these requests for the 2021 school year i recall i believe is my first or second year in district um dr sal talked about kind of a standard uh for when it's time to consider an assistant principal in the building um at the elementary level and that number is typically 500 for school districts we have shelter rock and sadly both and over 500 students in each building in ellsworth right now around 470 and given that they are growing at a rate higher than any other elementary school in the district and quite frankly we are anticipating a bump um you know as per um as per the demographic demographic study that we had done uh we we are requesting three assistant principals for those three elementary schools in addition um and and to support the social emotional lacrosse across all of our schools we are looking at creating a school climate specialist at the elementary schools wilson which will kind of serve as a restorative position to help to address address the varying concerns that might come to the principal's office um this person would be skilled enough to you know restoratively get this child back in class um you know reach out to the families um refer them to a social worker if appropriate um they wouldn't this would not be this would not require a dis disciplinary response if so you know the principal certainly would have to be involved but that's what this climate specialist essentially their role would be and so we are looking at this type of position throughout all of our elementary schools to support the principal and to address those very needs and the social emotional concerns that we've continued to talk about and so similarly for the middle school a climate specialist to support the middle school principals at the at the three buildings in addition uh we currently have a principal lee at our elementary school and we feel like it would be appropriate to have a principal lead at the middle school to also help with um to help with uh i'm sorry corey according no it's okay i made the mistake of of trying to follow why you're moving around which is not really necessary i apologize okay but but it's really uh in an attempt to try to um restore as you can see the language here restore previous funding for middle school coordination but it's really about having an opportunity to um have coordination amongst the middle school principals and allow for them to have the ongoing dialogue that they need and and try to make sure someone's compensated for leading those discussions and then last but not least with the high school um you have seen this before and so we feel like it's really important to have a school dean climate dean at the high school um to help with academic and social emotional concerns that might you know take place at the building this will also lighten the load a little bit on the assistant principles as well and and and often times in schools and we're not we haven't talked about we haven't decided specifically where they would land but oftentimes these positions um the ninth grade is oftentimes the grade level that experiences the most need and so that's probably where our dean will spend the majority of their time um you know for the rest of the school we can have our climate specialists similar to the ones that we have talked about for the elementary school again this is this would be a group of people who would have the skills um to address you know restoratively get kids back in the classroom and address those social emotional needs that we've been talking about over the last couple of years and then last but not least uh we have parent liaisons amazing ones um at morris elementary school and we want to duplicate that model um at our high school and frankly we you know we've been talking about what this could look like district wide but the high school you know with over 3 000 students really should have these type of resources in their building to reach out to families and students when they're not coming to school when we have concerns about engagement you know right now we don't have these positions in place and it's unreasonable quite frankly to have social workers knocking on all the doors giving the numbers you know over 3 000 students in the building i think that's it for me kevin i got a question the climate specialist but are there special or do they have to have any specific training or academic credentials to fit that role so i i believe in in kim i don't want to infringe upon you know any negotiation or i don't know if this is a position that's already existing in the contract but i believe this group similar to our power line paraprofessionals it's on par with paraprofessionals in terms of um academic you know academic college credits so i believe it's a two-year degree or at least 60 credits to be eligible for this type of position thank you you know i mean just the board knows what we came through two years ago one of the things that the findings that we had definitely was that um getting to youngsters in a timely fashion uh and we really think that putting this team together we'd have the ability now you met me have your assistant principals dealing with all the other kinds of things and and difficult um disciplinary kinds of situation but some of that other stuff that just allows to permeate creates conflict and issues and we really think by putting the dean in putting the support specialists in and also getting the outreach workers that we could create a synergism that's going to get out and hopefully get ahead of a lot of these things uh i'm very i was very concerned with the high school and the number it's only growing as you all know right going back there so i really uh think this is something that's it's really needed particularly at that high school and the outreach workers uh as has been very successful moving out and getting to parents putting parents in line with support in the community so it's a it's a 360 kind of uh support for a family not only dealing with the youngsters behavior but supporting um the family and that would be the model that i would like to endorse and see us move towards because it has helped us at the elementary thank you can i ask a quick question as well please go okay um kevin i just wanted to ask you real quick um you know from your perspective when you're looking at this you know these additional supports we're trying to put in i mean i think part of my concern is that we've known for that we're kind of behind as far as the socio-emotional supports we need you know to to help our students um and i recognize that we're trying to play this game of catch-up you know from your perspective do you think that this is going to be enough support you know for our students or would you anticipate continuing to grow this over the next few years or you know i'm just trying to you know get a sense of like you know if that's something that you would you would want to be expanding or if this is sort of like where you think things are just going to land if we were able to do it so yeah okay thank you thanks to that question so so one i think you're going to find as we go through the the next few categories um that this is kind of coupled with you know an effort to increase school counselors um at our middle at our secondary level you know and continue to increase and and include more social workers and psychologists in our schools across the levels um i i am a big proponent of climate specialists um in that type of position um i think we will find um i think our principles are fine i think our teachers will find and into sal's point dr sal's point it it it creates an opportunity for us to respond to behaviors in real time um and so you know if if you speak to our middle schools or secondary principles even elementary for that matter you know when we have um a a case a one of our children who are in crisis it takes up you know it can take up half the day for you know for for our kid for our family and the staff member um and so when we have these climate specialists and we have someone who you know has the skill set to address those behaviors you know they would be trained in going back to mr janelly's questions about training um you know certainly we would want this group trained and the same training that our support folks went through with the restorative practice training um you know certainly i think i believe kelly does uh you know kind of uh you know where i don't know if i think it's kelly's group that does it that does training with our um with our support staff to talk about de-escalating skills so like all those things would certainly be part of it um to answer this is my long way of saying i feel like this would be just kind of opening the door for addressing uh the social emotional concerns we talked about i ideally i think we would you know have more guidance counselors in our buildings um and we would have more social workers in our buildings and frankly this is our way of a less expensive way to to try to find more skilled people to address behaviors in our schools um and and again i i think as a as a cabinet and as you know administrators in the district as we're making these recommendations um and after you know so many years knowing that seeing that we can't get the assistant principles as an example in elementary schools well the climate specialist can help you know and so if i'm a principal at one of the elementary schools and i have a kid in crisis one of my kids are in crisis i'm i'm alone right and so this means i can't i can't be available for teachers i can't be available for other parents it's just me and that child potentially um and i i think this would be a great resource for our buildings um kate um and and but this is coupled with other things but this is not a standalone you know social emotional support um so okay thank you for that clarification i appreciate that especially because you know i'm i'm looking at this um and you know i what i hear from you while you're talking about this is that you're you're doing the you know you guys are doing your absolute best in terms of the planning to uh use our money wisely um which i know has been a complaint um i've heard from folks um before but it seems to me like you're you re we we all recognize that there's there are things that are happening in our district and you know based on um you know the response to previous requests you know you're sort of going back and you're finding a more you know a more efficient way for the district just to really address these underlying issues so uh i just want to say i appreciate that thank you yeah thank you kate to your point kevin i think you've explained just incredibly great the the i'm going to use the word the impact of what the funding for at least this category is courtney and i have talked about a maybe a subsequent um a meeting to address the impact of what we're looking at on these new issues because i think the verbiage and the understanding as to as you've explained here is very very important so that people understand what it is that we're looking to try to do you know as opposed to just schlep it off as preventive maintenance you know which is a very rough way of saying if you just want to slash money it's preventive maintenance however the way you phrase it it's totally different so i think in another presentation the the significance and the meaning of what we're looking to do and the impact it has on on our students and our education is something that we've got to put put across to make people understand why we need these funds and to enrich to your body i appreciate it yeah and and that as part of what we're going to take away from here and rich and also kate has asked as part of the finance committee reps to us to do is once we get get this into this nice powerpoint presentation uh that we're going to present to the board and also take out the community and say well what would happen if we don't get these funds so they've asked us to also look at so so what does it mean if we don't have these for our school community so we can we can do that as well exactly and it's it's equally as important that the public understand it in our presentation to the the city government you know they have to be aware as the escape put it the catch-up that we're trying to do and the increased importance as to what the effect of these particular elements are on education if we don't get it you know conceivably what impact it has and so embedded in the climate is social emotional and kelly does have a multi-year approach um that i just asked if you could talk about these uh this piece kelly sure one quick question for kevin kevin uh climate specialist it sounds a lot like guidance counselor are you saying that our guidance counselors are overburdened and we need to increase them also uh well i'll say yes and this way the guidance counselors maybe i can run for mayor and all of them would definitely vote for me uh but but but mr russo the truth is they are overworked uh you know we had knee ass come in and do a study with the district a couple of years ago uh we learned you know from that from that from the nes visit um that that our count that we were on demand in our counseling counseling ranks which is why in the next section you're going to hear you know kelly continue to recommend that we continue to add school counselors you know to the high schools i believe their ratios are over three well over years ago as an assistant principal i worked in norwalk high school and they were you know comfortably at i should say comfortably but they were they're you know 225 250 per um and you know there's there's a reason why you know districts like norwalk are outperforming us um we we need to make sure the counselors have a reasonable case load so they can meet with students and families and talk about planning and you know and continue to work with students to make sure their grades are where they should be um and i think this is also the reason why you know it's like you know we continue to have leaks and we try to patch from left to right and so you know because dan can't get his guidance counselors he continues to ask for dean every year um and i think it's important for us as a district to make sure that we can address these social emotional concerns um and and and miss russ i don't know if this is what you're asking also but this the school climate specialists will help you know some of those challenges that our schools are having uh you know they they may help you know some of these issues not go to an overburdened social worker office because in real time the climate specialist could be available for students and families overburdened assistant principals because the climate specialist obviously under the direction of the administration in the building you know can help support um and you know restoratively restoratively get kids back in class and you know that's another thing we our kids perform well i think we've demonstrated over the years that when kids are in school that we do well but we need our high school kids our middle school kids in classrooms in order to benefit from the instruction and the climate specialists will be positioned well to make sure we keep kids in school and in class very well stated sir thank you and thank you sir okay um i will kind of piggyback on uh what kevin had just added i'll start with the school counselors uh mr russo as you brought up our school counselors certainly need more support the recommended national guidelines from asca are 250 students per school counselor and we are well over at our middle and high school levels um and so um in order to further support our students and their families we need to add additional school counselors um and that was also highlighted in our neask accreditation as an area of significant need and so we are proposing over multiple years to add to the secondary level so for next year to start by adding two school counselors to danbury high school and one to the middle school and then a similar recommendation would come in years to come to add additional school counseling support to both the high school as well as the middle school level the board was very supportive last year and adding two additional positions which started this process to start to reduce some counselor caseloads in certain areas one of them in the general ed uh population the other one to provide additional support to special education um so this would be three additional school counselors at the six through twelve level um in addition another area of social emotional support that we need is in relationship to pembroke which most of you are aware pembroke houses one of our special education programs for students primarily on the autism spectrum although there are a variety of different children with needs there and their number of students has grown substantially over the last handful of years we have the largest number of special education students at the elementary level at pembroke elementary school it's currently over 120 students which is a significant portion of the population and for that reason we do need additional support services there for the special education students as well as to support support with the general ed students and supporting their social emotional needs so we are proposing an additional uh either school counselor or social worker to be added to that school building um to support in those areas thank you kelly yeah okay and i'm just gonna glance down at the bottom line and go back up to the details so as we're talking through just from to be mindful this is the 6.84 and it's about 80 head count um you know so i just want to be mindful of the overall need that we're expressing here and so i'm going to move into the area of curricular programming and support which is um cara casimiro dr casmiro's expertise but first i'm just going to ask if kim because kim worked through this with kara and gina and although it's a curricular support it's it's because of our new world it's reporting into our new director of information technology gina jasmine um and it's a way to use existing resources she really did a good look at her organizational chart and re-prioritized a lot of the positions there to support our new world kim do you mind just talking briefly about what's going on there and how that's going to help enhance the curricular programming and then care can go into the detail sure so so some of what we're talking about about reorganizing technology comes at the point in time in the calendar now where we're turning to negotiate the contract with um the secretary's union who embodies the technology people so part of gina's planning with me over time has been in anticipation of those negotiations that are going to start in the next six weeks or so so some of this is kind of forward planning but what's been great about gina's vision from hersey is that we have taken a tremendous amount of new assets so all of those new laptops that we've deployed all of the things like the hot spots and the wiring in the buildings to make sure that everybody could log on at the same time all of the troubleshooting and all the problems that would come along with that that include maintaining a help desk that's going to actually help our staff to be able to use all of this equipment some teachers are going to have multiple screens so that they can toggle back and forth with kids who are remote and kids are in person all of that is a combination of both hard assets infrastructure and soft assets or people so this first line that you see here is part of a much this is sort of shorthand for a much larger plan that gina's got that will start to grow over time the technology asset kind of maintenance and supervision piece um you might remember that we have sort of a student data wing and a hardware wing of our technology asset and gina sits on top of both of those the other thing she's trying to do is over time build in sufficient um kind of liaison so someone who can bridge the gap between the technology and the educational software that we're buying so that's another piece of that so what you see here is kind of the beginning of the rollout of that plan that will continue um hopefully over two three and even a five-year plan of growth thank you and then um just briefly kevin this is the k-12 applied arts um health and special area lead um is that you talking about that and then cara gets to this big piece here or how are we dividing up that part i apologize i don't recall no that's okay yeah i apologize you're all it's okay yeah just hold on here yeah i'll try to i'll try to move through all these um so i put your um language up there's um under humanities and support there's some components that we'll also get to for you because that's what i've got your literacy coach if you want to talk about it now or there i just wanted to show you that's where it's perfect okay okay um so we'll just go in a linear fashion and we'll we'll get there when we get there so the cape um so as you know we have uh curriculum administrators for our areas like stem and humanities and then um esl and world language um we have um at one point had a k-12 fine and applied arts um curriculum administrator um but we did lose that during one of our budget cycles and that was several years ago and we've been um limping along ever since we've had some great people who have all been working hard but that broader centralized visionary planning and coordination really needs to be had um and when we got our nest report we had some um some some concerns about the curriculum development in the fine and applied arts uh needing to be updated and refreshed and coordinated and so um we definitely it's time to bring back um this position so that would be a fine and applied arts curriculum administrator and for special areas so that's a pretty broad bucket there's a lot of different um courses that fall into that this will be particularly helpful as well as we move forward with vision planning for academies and all the different themes that will uh fall into there and and the uh and the careers and the integrated curricular work that's going to need to happen so this is going to be a key position as we as we roll forward um last year we did include some student support specialists if you remember in the budget last year they have been phenomenal the timing of hiring them has been crucial given what's going on and they have been actively running all of those uh intervention groups across the k-5 spectrum we'd like to continue to grow that out and to add 13 interventionists to work with them to coordinate intervention in the srbi process happening in the k5 buildings um they come at a they're around 10 000 a piece actually this should be about i think 130 courtney um i think we tagged them around 10 000.
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the next is just the previous years cash flow if you wanted to compare you have that option this is something new uh i thought i would throw it out there because a lot of it's more visual just kind of gives you an idea of what those trends have been in the past compared to what actuals are for revenues and expenditure and expenses and then it kind of gives you a picture of what those fund balances were uh each month which kind of see that from the cash flow but this is more of a visual perspective that compares it to the previous year from month to month for the education fund this is a dashboard that this one represents the revenue and so the thing i like about it is it kind of shows your comparisons uh of appropriations to expenditure to forecasts and actuals it gives you a top of what your top 10 revenue sources were for that year or that month if we did if this was something that was done on a monthly basis uh and then it kind of gives you that comparison of what the budget was to what the actuals uh are and what the uh current was if you compare that from a month-to-month basis so that's looking at it from a revenue standpoint this shows this also this is also being shown as a revenue standpoint it kind of gives you an idea of where your trends if they're favorable or not gives you a comparison from previous years if you wanted to look at month-to-month from a previous year or a year to date from a previous year kind of gives you that breakdown the next one is the same dashboard except this is for expenses so it gives you the top 10 expenses out of the education fund for that year with those similar comparisons to appropriations and actuals for that time period in this case that would be the whole year with a similar graph here that shows expenses you can look at you know december expenses and how they compared from month to month from previous years and so uh that gives you a little different perspective again maybe not something that you care to see from a a month-to-month uh relation but something that i look at also helps me make my adjustments and then this was something that kind of just explains that report all broken down gives a little bit of analysis of what some of the variances were in the education fund related to revenues and expenses from what we budgeted out to what the actuals were and what uh some of those areas of increases or decrease decreases occurred in so just something to add to that the next one is operations fun uh so similar thing here give you a representation of a cash flow from month to month and where those expenses and revenues flow in and out of uh each month and that will lead to trends for projections the next one shows 2019.
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laid that in nice and easy yeah that was a good sweet way to see that number four shaw's bench getting a little loud now score twenty eight thirty one oh brady with the save and one let's go brady great defense i mean great offense by brady right there score is now 30 31 falcons but you're going to make this on the line cut by sean yeah pass a little off but brady was there to save him yeah definitely abed just took out gemara's and put in mazza all right and the techniques one is good donaldson comes in yes we got some height 31-31 with seven with three minutes and 17 seconds left in the third quarter [Applause] eleven brings the ball up the court good defense by luke mazza showing off his handles there yeah a little push off but that's all right three by number four for the four in the club again four is just on fire tonight having himself a knight yeah is that like mata stepped over the line that was pretend yeah he was definitely moving back and forth but i don't know if his the reps close on call yeah all right that's hard for the spartans to give up that and cardio by seal definitely makes up for that and a nice lay-up right and we stay through that that was great that was a nice lay-up definitely got a lot of height on that oh almost got a hand on that yeah carter's bringing a lot of aggressiveness right now and energy yeah he's doing great donaldson with the rebound again shaw pushing the ball oh trapped and stolen by number three but it's turning into jump ball little tension on the court right now but child coach is not happy about something yeah he wants the possession his way because they started with the ball a little back and forth but let's see if the rest stay on their ground child coach is not backing down very angry some commentary from the parents right now the rest are discussing and it's going to be green's ball now yeah that coach definitely got what he wanted [Applause] eleven brings the ball down gives it to ten let's see what ten does with it trying to get their offense started here as i read that thing completely oh good defense that was good be all around by yeah it doesn't matter if that's green file that was that was great defense right there way to cancel out that drive and time out by green i think spartans are doing a good job on not giving up on plays they're staying and fighting i think their defense is a lot better this quarter they just definitely seem more into it they keep up with the rebounds i think it'll be a good game just when they shoot the threes and no one goes in for rebounds that's when they lose their it's when the falcons get that fast break yep it's a long rebound every time yeah hopefully the spartans come out and bring a lot more energy two minutes left in the third quarter 33-34 falcons are on top at the moment both teams strategizing right now how they can get on top let's see what spartans do with yeah that's this picking up a great plan right now yeah let's see all right timeout's ending spartan's first on the court green always takes that extra time right there use it up to the last minute all right good morris carter ah nasa and sweeney all enter the court let's see what these five can do hopefully they can get some rebounds in here now that donaldson sub back out [Music] all right 11 is going to inbound the ball all right so nasa has to say six feet away yeah that is a coven rule and 23 is open dead ball dead ball let's see how they pressure 10 again with the ball shocker there oh nice open past oh like good players good teammates they're all rushed [Laughter] definitely good sportsmanship right there for you guys mars inbounds it to mazza carter back to mazza shaw back to nasa oh he tried to get kicked off but aunt gets that back three by carter just off again child with that rebound number four and gemara's jamar's takes that charge but nothing there chag with that easy two 33 36 chag with a minute 30 left in the third quarter mazda with the ball at the point swings to shaw sweeney that's an open shot right there and he got it yeah that was a great look right there way to get open sweeney what happens when you move the ball creates wide open shots oh good good defense tough pass right there that that was definitely a good look 23 was right wide open underneath the hoop all right so 33 and 44 come in for 11 and 23.
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yup just look i'm just noticed that now um i only had 12 because one moved over but that's not true so okay that's okay yeah i just noticed it um and they work for about 10 months and they are 100 uh you know non-union employees so they are very valuable in our intervention planning and programming and so we hope to add that particularly as we know that we're going to need a little bit more support in that area going into next year there's about 70 000 in there for some additional supervision over the over the summer we are in the process of planning out summer school and the scope of what that could look like given a couple different scenarios and so that is for um some anticipated supervisory additions that we'll need as far as the curriculum goes about 31 000 we have several areas that just need refreshing um but also in those fine and applied art areas that we spoke of so we definitely need to get moving in there we've also have some revisions in our esl programming as you know we've implemented the el achieve program k5 that is going really well so we'll be adding um some additional uh rolling that up and we'll be going to be starting to revise our middle school programming as well so there's some curriculum development money in there it's professional resources those are things like uh training related to some of the programming that we have as we bring on things like kits for interventionists and programming that we need to shore up some of our learning loss there'll be specific training and and programming and kits that we'll need to support that learning curricular resources are sort of your hard goods your consumables your supplies um last year we were really hoping to make a huge dent in our library if you remember in our initial ask last year and with sort of everything that was going on that fell to the wayside a bit and we were only able to order very small amounts um so we're really hoping to replace our libraries i apologize for my dogs making an entrance um and our phonics program which we have rolled out this year in the pandemic virtually um has been going really well and we would like to purchase decodable readers to continue to support that so those are kind of two big um hard replacements uh that are needed we also gave away um quite a bit of materials in this environment in the sense that we sent home individual books to students math manipulatives and things like that um so that students had materials at home and so as much as our students i'm sure will be trying to bring those back into our schools we we know that many of those will will not return so some of those are to replace um some of the resources that were distributed hardware and software those are things like dot cameras different different types of technology that's need to replace um stem discovery tech book is a is a large component of this this line item as well and that's to continue to roll forward our science curriculum uh that we're implementing in the k5 and there's also some software music curriculum there as well and that is mostly as a result of our partnership with um save the music which has been wonderful but we are keeping up with all that needs to happen there to continue to grow that program out um let's see well cara had her staff identified this is like 1.2 as i'm highlighting just on these categories what was new versus ongoing which meaning you know when you look at the curricular budget compared to other districts and just like even in general like what we had in our identified as four curriculum in our budget she really advocated to set it aside because typically we would kind of like find the money at the end of the year which is not a way that we want to operate yeah we do and i and i appreciate the way that we've been able to do this particular planning because it gets down to the details there's things that we need on a regular basis and then you know as we try to bring new programs down and as we just try to refresh things and and bring in new resources um it may be the same program but better resources to support it um you know we were able to break it out into these in these categories here so happy to answer any questions if you have those otherwise i can move down the list any questions on the curriculum piece and seeing seeing them we're really happy to have a gusto here to talk about the sll request which um you know august i've just we've summarized it a little bit uh but this is your your ask for 915k if you could go through overall that the need and talk through the vision here sure well the first line item it's the easiest one because um it's not a new item it's just restoring what we used to have if you remember we had three psyop coaches at the middle school we are down to one uh two positions were eliminated during um difficult times so now we are asking for restoring the three full-time positions i would like to highlight the fact that it's pretty much known throughout the district that our psyop coaches instructional coaches have been playing a crucial role especially during this learning environment they they are our worker bees they they do everything every teacher every everybody uh wants a little bit of each one of them and we unfortunately cannot clone them so last year we expanded a little bit at the um elementary level i think now is it's time to restore uh those workers at the at the middle school so this is not new it's restoring what we used to have everything else well the second one the certified special student assessor comes strictly from a compliance requirement from the home language survey guidelines clearly indicate the need for an l specialist our reception center as you know has been commanded and now the central registration is a safe haven a one-stop shop for all the new um families coming to danbury with their children to register for school so the esl component is definitely the core the majority of the work performed on a daily basis at the center so this is a basically a compliance um issue we we need to comply with the guidelines that clearly indicate the need for an esl specialist if you remember the last time a few years ago i i shared with you the um the title three compliance review our esl reception center was um one of their commendations so we we are really proud of of having become a model for for the entire state and then everything else works from compliance legal compliance and also we are way beyond the compliance status in terms of needs we are now looking at student-to-teacher ratio um you know kevin mentioned the the fact that norwalk is outperforming as i'm not sure if that's the case in esl but um i wouldn't be surprised because they're looking at a student-to-teacher ratio way down way below what we have in mind so again these new positions are required by law by connecticut bilingual law every school any school identifying 20 or more english learners who speak the same language is required to offer a bilingual education program in that language so our schools are all required to implement bilingual programs across the board k-12 this is just trying to bring some common sense to what we have determined as the achievable and realistic student-to-teacher ratio that's possible again compared to other school districts we we are still way above everybody else as usual but we are moving in the right direction uh we are way down from in some cases one to over 100 students in some schools to something close to one to 65 that's the goal the third item the parity between esl um programs at the rogerspark in in broadview this is something we contemplated last year but for obvious reasons we stopped short from doing it we didn't think it was appropriate we're moving ahead again it's a compliance issue both both middle schools are required to offer bilingual programs we have been housing bilingual programs at rogers park now i think we need definitely to implement them at the at broadview because we have so many students it's not manageable it's not appropriate not pedagogically right so in addition to the compliance issue there's the pedagogic uh pedagogic um argument to be made um [Music] dr casamir alluded to the elder chief that's the bottom line item professional resources and then the curriculum development we are expanding next year the elder chief which is a new english language development program that we started for in grades k through two this year it's it's it's giving us tremendous uh results again especially during a distance learning environment where we are um definitely seeing kids using a language much more at the higher level than they used to before so that's a natural expansion of the program moving up to grades three and four and five and then exploring the possibility of starting looking ahead to uh to the expansion um in terms of moving to the middle school as well so again in in a nutshell i would say that as usual from my perspective we're looking at compliance legal compliance review and and we are looking now at also a decent acceptable student-to-teacher ratio to see if we can address their needs in an adequate and and fair way gusto mr genelli had commented on impact just just give us i know you can go on for nine hours on this but just give us give the board the flavor of of this systemically how this is going to impact teaching and learning and academic success for kids yeah um well you all know that um our ells have had some um challenges throughout the years and and we are now um in what i believe is the the optimum track we are providing explicit direct instruction to these youngsters um and they are taking advantage we are seeing improvement um for many years we have seen what we call long-term else students who have been considered and labeled as as english learners for many many years and the reason was uh you know you know in all honesty because we were short in terms of staffing we were not um able to provide what we consider adequate language support services so we are now moving in the right direction we are also looking at something that is good for all students uh whatever we do from an esl perspective is good for all students it's it's good teaching plus as i usually um characterize these approaches and that plus is the language component the focus on language explicit uh direct instruction that is provided to these youngsters so that we can accelerate we cannot uh perform miracles but at least we can based on research we can accelerate their english language acquisition so that they can become successful within the regular classroom environment and we are providing a dual approach um implementation let's say uh direct explicit instruction and then the psyop coaching component and this is paying off across the across the board and and again this is good teaching for all students and it's essential for ells but it's also um very useful for all for all uh students that's why we are seeing the need for these instructional psyop instructional coaches because everybody's benefiting from their know-how and from their ongoing job embedded support thank you courtney can i just ask a question for clarification on the el achieve uh under the curricular re because it's a curricular resource that the the rollout of those materials is a bit more than that i know that we talked about i know that i know it's somewhere i'm just one on this sheet where do you where do we have that captured is that in the curricular resources so the way that we've done it and we can we can change this when we talk about the braided funding or or however we we like to do it right now this is just the incremental additional cost so because we have the el achieve funded and alliance in what i call like last year's cary ford alliance budget i'm not showing it here but it does exist it exists on augusta's uh very detailed document of all his names exists under the alliance funding okay okay so um the the next category is humanities arts and literacy um i'm so sorry oh i'm sorry yeah sure of course i was just wondering if i could ask um uh a couple questions about that at the elf funding um thank you so much for for the update on where things are at um and and i certainly especially appreciate um your emphasis on the psyop positions um and i know so so it looks like you know we're trying to put two additional psyop coaches in which is going to bring us up to where we were but obviously we've seen a huge increase in the number of el students coming into our districts so where we were is probably not going to be adequate for where we need to be if you you know we're talking about um you know trying to to come to a more um and i recognize we're we're just you know we're looking at this from a um a cost savings standpoint to some degree but i i want to kind of get a sense from you as to how many psyop coaches you think really we need district-wide if we're going to move the needle on uh you know the the goals that we have for our el students you're putting me on the spot i mean i'm sorry well um i i i would tell you uh that we we have made significant progress at the elementary level right now because of the implementation of the i'll achieve with with the board support and and central office support we have um hired a couple of additional psyop coaches at the elementary level we now have four coaches which is a little more manageable than before we had nothing so uh each psyop coach is assigned to three schools three four schools so obviously would i like to have one psyop per school of course but okay it that's that's the long long term goal right right uh the same thing for the middle schools and i i appreciate your um you know highlighting the fact that this is not new it's just restoring so again if we uh get disapproved we will go back to having one coach per school per middle school which is again much better then at the high school um we haven't mentioned that but a few years ago a couple years three years ago we had two coaches and we are down to one so hopefully next year we will ask another one at the high school so little steps you know okay but i think i think i think we we're moving we're moving um to to uh to a point where we are start starting to feel more comfortable okay thank you i mean i guess what i'm trying to to get a sense from because you were you were very good at um you know sort of pinpointing the the student teacher ratio looking for like a one to six you know a 65 to one ratio for um you know the teachers themselves and so i just was sort of trying to get a sense from you is to you know are we talking one per building that would be you know best are we talking about like maybe multiple psyop coaches per building um you know in an ideal world i recognize we're not there but i but i just want to kind of get a sense of you know what level of support they have to provide you know because like when we talk about counselors for example when we talk about what is an acceptable workload for them it's certainly less than the total student population of a school so again again we contrary to other school districts across connecticut we have been increasing our student population and particularly our ell student population right yeah so again coming down from one to over 100 teacher to student ratio down to 1 to 65 it's it's already a significant progress when i mentioned before uh using kevin's uh comparison with norwalk norwalk for example is looking at a one to fifty we are looking at one to sixty five so right there you see that there's no there's need for improvement again if we keep moving at the same rate we are going especially during the last two three years we'll get there but we definitely need to to hire additional teachers esl bilingual teachers and definitely additional psyop coaches it's a it's a it's a process it's a it's a process and i'm sure that with your support we'll get there every year if we if we can hire a few additional ftes every year we will we're getting better we're getting better and and okay thank you you're welcome thank you augusto uh-huh you're welcome thank you that was really great okay and then humidities are in literacy we've got 315 of an ask this includes um some specials teachers so about 3.5 at the middle school and high school combined and so i'll just have kevin briefly talked about that and then the humanities literacy coach i apologize that wasn't up with the curriculum care and then we'll get to that thank you courtney so the three the three specials one music one art and one pe teacher that you see here um are are are aligned with the potential growth at the elementary schools so we are projecting that we would need at least one additional special teacher um and so if we get to the point where we have more students in our elementary grades particularly the k-1 grade levels which could mean additional sections um we are anticipating that we would need at least one additional specialist teacher in these areas um in fact in fact our i believe it's our meet yes it's the music and art um this year we we needed to we in both areas we hired a 0.4 position and so part of that request is to make them full-time not only to address any potential growth but it's just actually the growth that we have now um so we really need the 1.0 just to in each area to hold firm and then if we don't have any significant bumps we will be okay if we have any significant bumps in enrollment we may need to revisit the the special areas um and then the special teachers the specials are used for um our prep periods for our teachers um which permits them to meet and do that things of that they have to in terms of teaching and learning and and and instruction for uh meeting purposes and as kevin says we've been able to spread them out among the elementaries but i think the point he just made if we do receive more students we're going to have to figure out how to uh increase it because not only we have to service the youngsters but they do provide the backup service for planning periods for our teachers at the elementary so that's why they were they've been bumped up we'll have to watch that closely as kevin just mentioned and currently our specialist teachers are shared in some of our schools we have a music teacher at danbury high school i believe there's two of them [Music] we need to upgrade the the position at the high school so it would be a 0.5 and so that this way they would no longer be shared between the high school and the middle school they will remain at the high school give us an opportunity to continue to grow that program at the high school um and that's why that 1.0 music is there because that's um compensating for the 0.5 that they're going to be losing at the middle school so just a quick sum of 0.5 increase for danbury high school that gives us an opportunity to continue to grow offerings um at the high school and then that is reflected in a 1.0 for k-8 because they're going to be losing a 0.5 person to the high school full-time in this in this um in this recommendation so 1.0 music 1.0 art 1.0 pe and then a 0.5 actually music for the high school thank you kevin okay any questions on that be amazing okay okay and then cara the nice rounding out for the curricular part for the humanities literacy coach so so this is a literacy coach for to service the three middle schools um and we have had this in the budget in the past it never seems to quite make it uh very far but it certainly is needed this is one literacy coach to service the three schools and again you know more so than ever small group instruction and intervention is going to be key to um helping to shore up some of the learning loss and to accelerate um students as they move through the middle school so um we are hoping to this this position is key because it helps to teach teachers how to do that work best um and so we're hoping that that uh that that we can um get that back into the budget uh for for next year and then just uh for just to kind of continue on so that we um i'll i'll just pop down to summer school he's gonna pop around a little bit and then wrap up wrap up that piece that's all tied together and that's just 250 000 uh is the ask above our typical summer school um expenditures uh and we are again working on for what that what that plan looks like but that's sort of a ballpark um uh tbd on our expected expenditures in that area considering that we were likely to spend more and expand on our our former offerings yeah and that includes the special ed component and it's also kelly mentioned um you know we're gonna probably need to who knows what this new variant's gonna look like and so you know we're just holding inside a placeholder that will likely need to continue to distance the children in this in the schools so there'll be additional you know operational costs and busing costs as well as the academic costs for expanding to the students last year were able to invite many more students because it was virtual and it worked out well so but the community conditions will will dictate um what our plan is as we get closer to the summer and so it's a good subway into the pupil services and support kelly um for these additional items about 424 000 um and if you could just talk about these needs yeah so um i think uh we've talked about the speech and language pathologist many times before so very similar to the conversation related to our school counselors the need to reduce their case sizes and their case loads so we can provide adequate services to our students still exist we have added approximately two slps our speech and language pathologist over the last three school years which has very much helped uh with us providing the appropriate services to kids that is needed and so while we're still seeing some increased enrollment at the pre-k level in particular we do need um an additional slp to sure up um and make be able to make sure that we maintain the appropriate caseloads that we've been able to create over the last few years so that is the reason for the request for one additional speech and language pathologist the other area and again relates primarily to preschool is that we we are seeing increased enrollment pre-k in the early elementary levels and earlier on many of our students require support in the area of occupational therapy or physical therapy those are services that are provided to help students to access their academics and again the case loads have slowly been creeping up in those areas uh hence the request for an additional support person these are two different certifications and positions so it'll look more like a 0.5.5 or 0.6.4 but overall will be one additional full-time equivalent to support in that area next is uh the assistant director for special ed and pupil services this was a request that was made last year and due to the need to reduce the budget there is a need to more adequately support the 1700 or nearly 1700 special education students and numerous support staff that work in the department to be able to monitor provide appropriate supervision of staff professional development liaison with families create the strong programming that we've been able to to maintain students and district and an additional support personnel in that area would surely help to be able to ensure that we're able to provide services that our students require and provide that appropriate level of monitoring and professional development for our staff then you have the school nurses i think this line probably speaks for itself particularly this year i cannot say enough things about our nurses they have been absolutely phenomenal this year um cathy o'dowd in addition you've heard her at all of our board meetings and other community forums and they need additional support this they needed support before covid and certainly in these times they need support um so this would provide you know one one additional nurse uh to be utilized district-wide particularly when we have an absence or an outage or we need more uh support at the parochial schools we are obligated to provide support in those environments um as well as to support our ever-growing high school population where the nursing support services have not been adequate and so that this was something also highlighted in addition to our actual facility at the high school as a need at that level in the niask report and so that would be two nurses district-wide and then lastly as all of you are aware we have opened a new preschool site so we are now currently operating at two different locations and we need a school secretary for the building that we just opened right now it is operating without um which means that the administrator for special education as well as some of the support personnel are kind of fulfilling that secretarial role and duty um and so we are requesting an additional school secretary for the preschool in particular so i think that speaks to those areas but if there's any questions i'd be happy to answer them okay yeah sorry i just have a quick question um and this goes to the this actually goes back to the summer school piece when we're talking about the additional funding coming down um we're not factoring that in here if when and if we make the application for these funds from the state because we do have to apply to receive those funds if i understand correctly that will cover especially students as well as standard standard uh students is that okay yeah yeah it's it's it's really nice and we actually it's uh alex was on the title one um um um rules of distribution rules so we do actually have the funds i mean we have to make the application but the funds are available to us they're not going to be redistributed they're earmarked for us yeah and so does that play into uh the the attempted sorry the line item for the the nurses as well because that's an expansion that we that may be related to our increasing needs because of covet or you know like sort of standards changing as we go forward because of coverage okay one of the things we need to be careful is this this month this what we're seeing in front of you here is what we're going to need to sustain and go over no matter what happens with the grant and i was going to speak at the end of this so but i'll do it now um i think this the eastern ii money as long as it's related explicitly to uh i'm going to call it mitigation of academic loss and also of dealing with the coronavirus of which uh and social emotional support we will be able to braid funds to um to um to run programs but my worry and to worry is that with the city looks at this as a way of getting into the budget when these get into the budget and their one-time infusions it causes us as you know it will double and triple the amount of money that we're going to need down the road so i'm asking for this up front now you know down the road can we use that money for that yes but it needs to not to be um supplanting what we're doing and that's my worry so yes some loss part of it nurses part of it even technology part of it facilities improved ventilation part of it but again some of these are a one-time cost and that one-time cost will come back um to to to hurt us if we don't embed it into the operational so that's that's the challenge with the money i think i mentioned tonight to the board and all of this can potentially be used and i i will say right now um i i prefer not waiting i think our kids need help and if we can implement some things sooner rather than later we will attempt to do that um but if you would take the care's money away i'd say to you between the psyop folks the nurses these are all things that ought to be operational yeah yeah that that really clarifies thanks dr salan and and you know that's sort of why i asked the question was to just sort of assess that a little bit because i you know um part of my concern is that you know and courtney mentioned this at the beginning of the presentation because the way that the the municipal funding was managed last budget cycle you know we're further in a hole than we normally would be um and to count on this one-time funding again you know that is one-time funding it's it's you know it's not there for positions it's there for you know maybe building repairs is a one-time event you know that they that it could cover and not make a huge impact for us but my concern is that um you know folks are going to see that money that's been earmarked um you know for for the for us as you know okay this is fixing your problem and if if we don't work on that municipal funding stream then the positions that have to be paid for every year are just not going to be we're not going to be able to maintain them yeah and that's the last thing that we want is to be able to build that good synergy and not have it available and not be able to extend it yeah thank you yeah and so the an easy part for me to talk about is just a few little operations items so bus with the enrollment growth i mean we're already behind with the buses that we need we're already overcrowded um so you know asked me to put in one bus um a temporary rental line for the facility um for the reservation staff they're going to be housed over at um right up from bbac on beaver brook um so this is until i called it osbourne i shouldn't have called it osborne i think it's the ellsworth construction we'll talk about that tomorrow night at the facility meeting um i will change that and then um furniture and supply so we're always behind in furniture supplies i put that in the budget given that we're looking at a potential you know uptick in the in the little kids and we kind of want to reassess what's safe for furniture so small amount in there for furniture supplies and network maintenance this is a big ask um this is because our network is um you know defunct the contract runs out we need to upgrade and move the servers from the high school to beaver brook and come into the 21st century with that and so this is the ask for us to be able to do that um and so that total there for operations is about 695 k and that brings us to a total um ask of new items or items that are restored typically through the asl that's a couple buses yeah um it's actually not just one bus it's a couple buses so i was asking you my text he's correct um and so that's about 80 head count and 6.5 million for our i call it new but not new it's restoring some old things that we had that worked well that we want to do and and just continue like like um augusto mentioned you know the good work that we had in the past um seeing what we need to do curricularly and all the good explanations in the climate that kevin gave you as well that we should be doing for the district so i i'll be really brief um i just wanted to go over two more tabs i know there's a hundred tabs on here but very briefly this is what you're used to seeing this all ties out to the other numbers but it's just showing it to you in a slightly different way i'm gonna send this along to you this is the base budget for personnel with the increase and then showing you all the new items you'll recognize the 6.5 number and folks were asking well how did you get to that um growth budget well this will show you how if you're interested so for example if you look at the employee benefits this is our current budget it's saying if we grow social security by three percent which is just the historical trend if we grow our health and dental insurance by 4.8 which is the historical trend and the workers comp by 3 so for example that's what this is showing you and then that gets out to that nine point nine percent um increase and then i'm not going to go through this because i know this makes people cross-eyed but this was last year how we talked about that complicated braided funding i'm just going to send it back to you again and if you're interested in looking it over and asking questions about it please please feel free to do so this just shows you how we did it and then i'm suggesting that we build it again like this so as we work through we'll build up a powerpoint presentation that will be presented to the board next week rich generally has suggested if we need another finance committee between now and then we're happy to set that up and or if you have questions for me or any cabinet members on anything we talked about we'll be open at the end here today to do so but also throughout this week as we build out in this powerpoint presentation and this is what we'll visit when we get what we get from the city how are we going to braid together the funding to do what we need to do i i'd prefer not to talk about it as braided funding this year because really as dr cell said we got to pull this out and it's a total separate planning document and and cara and kevin and sal and our team are meeting on that starting on friday to start to talk with administrators oh even tomorrow i think um tomorrow and then again on friday about uh planning out for their cares money and so i welcome you to look at it i can send along the documents for the categories that the um federal government and the state of connecticut outlined for the cares money and so with that i'll pause whether i see kate has a question thank you for the presentation and everybody for their uh their contribution speaking that this is so voluminous um i i think to the board members my suggestion would be is to digest and look at these spreadsheets that's courtney sending um any questions you have relevant to to the presentation email courtney dr salman gladys your your questions on it and he'll get back to you i'm also going to as courtney uh mentioned uh ask if it's okay with uh gladys and dr sal that temporarily as a date we meet again on tuesday of next week before the board meeting to go through this presentation so it's refined a little bit more again some of my concerns are dwelling down on on the impact um there's information that came up relative to a restorative type of costs and and other other costs that are mandatory such as the nias and as augusta were saying so i think if this information is is brought out we can identify those those items and those costs as to what's absolutely necessary and what's your story and then basically you know we could get down to that that six million or seven million dollar new ask maybe if you drill down there might be a lesser number um so that would be my proposal whether gladys and dr sal agree on on next tuesdays and leave it up to them and whether it be a finance meeting or a workshop i'll leave it up to them as well to to decide but we're trying to as i said put this together as as we did last year so you could see the flow keep the same continuity and the rhythm in there uh and then hopefully by next year we can have more information on that uh 10.1 million dollars so that again i think that is a very important subject so that somebody doesn't look at this and say okay they're asking for 14 million dollars they got 10 million dollars in the state you know all you had to do was fund them four million dollars and as sal mentioned that being the case that means next year you know we're 10 million dollars in the hole so it it it's a lot of explaining a lot of education for a lot of technical stuff which i think is important and i think the time is necessary so that we're all comfortable with what's being prevented so again we could advocate for this as well and to the general public and to uh the parents and as well as to the city government we'll get back to you on on a another uh you know another presentation on tuesday for that sounds great okay do you have a question yeah i i do have one more question and rich i rick i i certainly don't want to um uh take up too much more time because i know we're getting close on nine o'clock here and everybody's been very patient um the other area i just want to bring up um and ask about and i'm not sure if you know if i missed something anywhere in here please correct me one of the issues we've been talking about is minority teacher recruitment bilingual teacher recruitment and you know i know that there are a number of different ways that were working on that issue um my sense is that it would be helpful if we had funds specifically set aside for that initiative and i don't see them outlined here so i just want to ask um you know if if that's something that we are working on i've certainly heard from a lot of people about it so yeah yeah um i i can speak to that okay every year we do have a budget we have a marketing budget that we use to do things like um expand the places where we go to do recruiting that kind of thing but where we're seeing the most bang for our buck has been with these homegrown programs that we we've been using so you've heard us come and talk to you a lot about um using the kids that go through kind of the teacher prep and into wescon and then filter back in through our um through our hiring and also this new alignment with nyu so all of that is already built into the current budget um the other thing that's kind of come out um in the last couple of days is there's some grant money out there so we're looking at um doing some funding that way also to kind of shore up the the teacher recruitment piece um but i'll tell you one of the things when we were looking at the numbers just this week is that our new what i would call our new class so we bring in if you call it about 115 teachers which is where we were as of november we were running it um just under 14 percent of latin latina latinx staffing in that pool and another four to five percent of other teachers of color so our numbers are they're about where they've been but they're running ahead of the state numbers so we're kind of happy with what we're seeing obviously we can do more and that's what we'll look at this grant money and our harnessing kind of our existing marketing money but it's less a matter of having the money built into the budget than it is finding the places where we're able to kind of recruit and do that sure so can you can you talk about the grants a little bit kim and just give me a sense of what what they how they make a decision about who they're going to award that to right it literally just came across my desk and cara casemero i know you forwarded it to me as well and i i know kevin popped it out as well so we actually have just started looking at it okay we have in the last couple of years though i want to say it was maybe two years ago that we also were able to get some state department of ed money filtered our way for the minority recruitment project as well so um i guess i say i i proffer it by way of saying that i don't think it takes a lot of money for us to really put a good um expansion into the efforts that we've already put in um and we're also working a lot with our existing staff like for example our paras and tutors to see if we can't urge them into the teaching ranks by getting some additional schooling so there's those kinds of pieces in the work so um i think that you know there's certainly a lot of priorities in this budget but i'm pretty comfortable with the money we've got that we can continue to kind of do our three to four to five year plan on how we're going to continue to bolster those numbers okay i mean it sounds like the numbers are increasing which is great to hear yeah um you know and that's that's really the goal so i just want to make sure we continue to you know do that the best way because those teachers are in demand everywhere i mean that's the that's exactly right and there are a lot fewer people going into teaching so i think that you know it's you're you're you're trying to play this game of like how do we make our space more attractive for others um and that's something that you know i've i've done a little bit of looking around online and you know some of the things that we could be doing you know offering certain incentives for for teachers that move to our district um you know those i'm not sure how those can show up in a budget whether it's here or whether it's at the city level so and don't forget a lot of those things have to be bargained yeah right so any kind of disparate pay or incentives are going to have to be bargained as well so there's definitely lots of layers to that but great comment thank you kim appreciate it yep kate the grant is called minority teacher recruitment graham thank you kevin i did catch that in the chat there i appreciate it okay that's a very it's exactly your question the name of the grant we and just so everyone knows we had actually applied for the grant last year um actually two years ago and last year uh two years ago um i'm sorry just before the pandemic that we were going we had an opportunity to join a job fair um and that job fair actually ended up not happening because of the pandemic and then last year we had applied um also and i'm sorry two years ago we are recipient of the grant it's five thousand dollar grant it's certainly not a lot of money but you know it certainly was some monies that were afforded um and then we headed up and i think we have received maybe 2 500 or 3 000 and then year two we applied again um and then we were told that they were looking to grant those monies to districts that were not our recipient years prior um but they did make us aware that they were looking to hold a this is at advance ed advance was looking i believe it was that advanced because the um was the rest and ed advance was looking to host a minority teacher fair uh which certainly we would have been a participant in um but it ended up not happening and so i'm hoping you know that that is something that will happen this year and certainly we will have a table um and you know be be one of the districts that will be looking to recruit thank you karen okay uh future and rich has just reminded me that we do have a placeholder here for a multi-year budget we did not get to it today which includes the growth that kelly talked about when um uh her special ed teachers and in the counselors and in the climate specialist that kevin spoke about as well as enrollment projected needs we sal has me also working with rebecca um and if you'll recall she was a partner with glenn yackel to do the demographic assessment so um you know pandemic we're just a little bit lagged on that but i hope she'll have something for us next week that we can share with the board that will help for future planning as well um [Music] and so all of that said are there any additions i want to thank everybody so much because this was such a collaborative night and it felt really good for me to hear from everybody in more detail about the good work that they're doing and they're putting forward so i want to thank all my colleagues and and thank the board for bearing with us for this long time um are there any final questions i have a couple of quick things sure um so i sent you an email about um the cares funding and the sr um funding that's not and you know you can get back to me whenever about that um we have to discuss it right now but last year's budget um there was you created something you know after the whole braiding thing that was new to us last year you had created i think i think we just called it like an index for the future like what was next year going to look like after all yeah yeah okay i couldn't remember but that made sense to me last year and that it doesn't really fit with this yeah yeah yeah so i mean and maybe i just have to go back and remind myself but if you have that somewhere and you're sending us things and also um could we get the our usual budget binder yes yes certainly um and so budget binder because the detail is in there and i know that people like to see the detail the powerpoint and the cliff so the clip i should be able to send out by i would say thursday i just have to review it over with dr sal now that there's new info the budget binder i'm hoping to have two by wednesday and the powerpoint will definitely have by wednesday next week for the board meeting um and so for tuesday's presentation i'll have a draft of the powerpoint for those of us that would like to come attend we'll be able to have you know feedback on and be able to see a preview of the powerpoint um does that sound good well we're voting on wednesday now yes so would you like the binder earlier clear okay i can get the binder cube by friday so you'd have it over the weekend yeah um and so the powerpoint i won't have the presentation until next week because i need to i mean it's we're essentially just dusting off um last year's presentation and updating it with current information because it's everything we're familiar with um and so um we that won't take us long but i probably wouldn't provide that in advance of the of next week's meeting i'd have that for next week and a draft on tuesday but i can certainly get you the binder by friday oh yeah yeah and look i'll get you the cliff this week also the cliff document if you'll call that was saying if we had five million dollars that we were spending on cares and at the time we didn't have corona of irish relief funds but cares act and the alliance carryover and the one-time the reserves from the city um what would we still need from the city to maintain um that funding and that was about a million dollars um and so that was um saying that we were going to shift all the existing things that we could into alliance for this year um and so yeah i'll just dust that off but i've got to review that with cabinet before i send that out to everybody yeah good point okay any other questions are you anticipating another meeting yes i will on a court meeting yes i i would like what on tuesday i think it's important that we polish this up and go through you know some more issues to refine it whether you want to do it as as a workshop or a finance meeting i'll leave it up to you my preference would be as a workshop because it just saves us a lot of time at board meetings and i think the input of the entire board going through this is important as we get everybody's questions at the same time uh just a quick quick uh question for courtney you're sending out the presentation to everyone tomorrow am i correct or carol whoever does this you're sending that presentation that you just did tonight tomorrow yes that's right i can send it out to you tonight i'm just going to pdf and send it over so the first i guess five tabs of this document i'll be sending along and then it sounds like richo follow up about um next tuesday all right that would be my suggestion i'll leave it up to gladys and to dr sal you know and and whether it's i'll finance or workshop the prep my preference would be a workshop next tuesday if we could do it at six o'clock that'd be fine um that's fine with your committee members that you have here and the members that are here if it's okay we'll move forward with it you know is everybody in agreement with okay with me yeah well if everybody just wants to signify by saying aye that that's good okay so we'll schedule a workshop board workshop over the budget at six o'clock yep yes okay okay thank you so much for everybody courtney thank you thank you courtney uh excellent job thank you thank you okay thank you everybody for your patience thank you
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if you wanted to compare how 2020 look to 2019 you can always go back and forth and do that and then again similar graph here you can really see a spike in certain times of balances and that's because when you're dealing with your taxed funds the main source of revenue in our operation is our tax dollars and so we only get our tax dollars twice a year so we get them in june and we get them in december and so that's where you see the spike and increase so essentially those tax dollars last us for the six months because you start to see it decrease because we don't have as much revenue coming in but we had still have all of our expenses and then you get a spike increase because we get our tax draw so that's where you see those that's why you see those jumps in there and then we don't again we don't have to go through all this dashboards for revenue and expenses compared questions with the cash flow slides i know it's a lot of information something that you can look at on your free time or call if you have questions about any of it i don't think i'll give that large amount of information from a month-to-month perspective but it is available and it is something that i look at each time and make adjustments accordingly uh when we're going through our projections shout out to you and chris and you guys should pick up on that you're in projection in line with the finals our contract agreement with whites that we rent a part of we don't own that facility that they educate the students in so we rent that facility and so that's the the cost there and so that 210 000 is now we may have some other things but they're not even closely associated with that that's the big chunk of it that make might go all the way back through carpal tunnel okay uh one of the things that we'll we'll approve tonight is a resolution that determines the amount of money that we transfer from our education fund to our operations fund and this all occurred uh for you new guys this all occurred in 2019 when they changed our fund structures and they they got rid of the general fund and they created the education fund and they got rid of the capital projects and bus replacement transportation and they created the operations fund well some of the same expenses that were in the general fund they moved out of the general fund and put into operations without any revenue and so because of that they allow school corporations to transfer money out of their education fund to cover those expenses that used to be out of that fund and so um they allow schools to do that but they cap it at 15 so you're not allowed to transfer more than 50 15 of your revenue into operations and so this document then just shows that breakdown of the different categories that used to be paid out of education funds so like the support services used to be paid out of education fund the central service used to be paid at an education fund the operation and maintenance services used to be paid out of education fund now they're paid out of operation so we transfer money out of the education fund to cover those expenses because that's how it was working beforehand and so that maps that all out and the bottom line is is this year we transferred 12.48 of our education revenue over into operations to cover those costs does that all kind of make sense as a comparison that is that's a very good figure there are schools when dr says that it's not allowed to go over 15 some schools will go over 15 but then they will be basically documented in saying that they were they have to document if these documents of why they're going over how they're going to fix it those type of things so they can maintain 15 so it's not like that's a punishment but you have it's kind of like a audit you have to get your problems fixed to some degree and so where they came up with 15 nobody really knows but that was the magic number and so and originally when they did this it was supposed to be flexibility for schools and it was flexibility but then they actually then put this and they kept it regulation so yeah uh the other slides that go with that are just a similar breakdown this would be if we transferred the exact amount of dollars from month to month so if we were to transfer the exact amount to cover those costs it would have been 11.4 but what we do is we just do a monthly amount uh and we set that monthly amount through that resolution and then we just make our adjustments as needed so that so that we can just manage it a little bit easier and then that's just the entire number breakdown by each category you don't really need to worry about that okay that's all i had as far as my financial end of the year summary moving on to personnel under employment we have danielle renberger a paraprofessional at metro north uh effective december 15th shelly grump paraprofessional at sharp creek elementary the beginning of this semester randy pershing southwood elementary fifth grade girls basketball coach for the winter season under leave we have number 115 believe to continue through the end of the school year and retirement danielle snyder teacher at south of high school uh that would be effective at the end of this school year and if i can just mention something about mr snyder mr snyder put his uh retirement in um i think it was just monday it was after this already came out that's why we put the revision i asked him if he wanted me to go ahead and put it on now or later he said it was up to us so i thought i'd go ahead and put it in there but just a great teacher but even more importantly a great person a great person that works in a community builds relationships and going to be a really tough person to you know for somebody to take his position because he's done a great job and we appreciate him and all the years that he served um at southwood also south of alum and we'll miss him and wishing well in retirement football program's done this weekend motion and second to approve personnel fred all in favor say hi i did one thing i did i did ask him he um does some stock car racing so i asked him if i was gonna see him at the the brickyard but he's probably not the brickyard i think his racing kept him employed for one or two more years it seems like there's always a transmission that needed appearing moving on reports heartland career center do you have anything man uh no before we'll have uh meeting next week okay guys mike's got something about now we'll they'll give us some more information about the funding but but there is a lot i guess i would say though there's a lot of excitement with that moving it's going to take some time but but there is a lot of excitement a lot of excitement with the donations that have come through over 800 000 of the million dollars that we needed to raise so there's just a lot of excitement um for the community and for all of our students and for adult learners too to be able to participate in that so with a federal grant there's a lot of things that you have to follow and it's going to take some time but it'll happen is the funds that are raised matt does that decrease our commitment as a district then yes yes because we're kind of guaranteeing that yeah yeah and we still may have to do some of it not to extend yeah i think we were on the hook for 27 percent of whatever was left that wasn't raised and some of the donors are like four or five years out too so we'll have to figure some of that out also um as far as yeah but the largest donation i think is just the one time so that that's good but there's other smaller ones that said that they would do a certain amount like i said four or five years so they're working on that too so mr keith i think everybody here knows this i've served as a high school principal in three different districts with all three different vocational schools and i can tell you the leadership of carlton career center is is by far the best leadership of any person i've ever worked with they do a fantastic job and they are to be commended and they're working with weiss to you have to do a welding class yes they are starting this semester i don't know what his name is he's coming out to campus after school hours at heartland to work with the cohort of kids at weiss to work on some welding skills that's right really excited about that and they like to add a lot of different programs it just takes time but it's nice they also have not through which they're not through heartland career center but they have another program that they're doing since you brought that up um is the cna program that they're doing too so yeah magazine health yes i think there's a connection that ron evans has with somebody in indianapolis but we just had our first cohort of kids last month that did some cna training with magnolia health and then they'll also do their contact hours as well with the idea that once those kids leave whites because magnolia health has nursing homes all across northern indiana i'm told and so they would offer all those kids that get their certification a job they might return to so it's really a it's a great deal with some of our kids superintendents report what's your key favor yes um so last year started with the review of 2019 and this year i just want to do a review of 20 20 have some slides here i haven't shown these to you yet because it is a presentation i'll go pretty quickly on it though um one thing i was going to do is just say cover 19 and just make it one slider but just just to go back and recap there's a lot of things that we could say as far as the schools this is not necessarily school related uh but it's more or less um so maybe the corporation this first one is in january one thing i put a highlight josh moore was approved as athletic director at norfolk junior senior high school uh february the tim tebow's night of shine if you remember that that was really a neat thing that used to be at honeywell and it was at northfield it was going to be maybe at norfolk or south with this next year but because of cover that change well i mean yes it has changed because they haven't done anything with it and then the strategic plan update of course we had those informational presentations in february right before copenhagen southwood and then we had swimmer grant dale placed 29th in the state meet in his events in march um i guess i don't even read all these to you but i will the six robotic teams that competed at lucas oil stadium and that was right there really on the verge of of the pandemic right before we close everything down of course the kindergarten roundup was the last community of really community events for the school year prior to the shutdown coba 19 friday the 13th wow unbelievable day started the meal program donated needs needed supplies to health care facilities i know mrs moore went through some other places i took some different places because we weren't in school we had a supplies um that was the big situation they needed the ppe and they didn't have it so we were able to donate you saw the donations that we get all the time but it was really nice to be able to reciprocate and and be able to do that also for other health care facilities the 160 school day rule i put that down just because that was really just unbelievable as far as what happened because it's a 180-day the last year was 160.
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23 was giving them a little bit of hug out there yeah these tall bees got long arms too yeah definitely all right nasa brings the ball up looks like they're getting a play started out here good pass carter we got 10 seconds left on the shot clock [Music] foul on the falcons oh you made the shot after well number 33 with the hold it looks like it's gonna be spartan's ball there's 42 seconds left in the third quarter spartans down by one with a 35 to 36 score abad takes time out hopefully we can get a nice shot up and go into the fourth quarter with a leading scorer ava's definitely cooking up a good play right now yup you're ready now let's see how the coaches over there definitely hit four then there's the girls team with isaac that's it he does a great job don't get me wrong but it's just isaac all right looks like chalk's cooking up a plan when they get the ball back all right spartans end their time out and they're back on the court first again hmm looks like it's white ball out of bounds on the side all right ray's at the point with the ball can i get this offense started kamara's in the corner for three and it's good 30 seconds left and the score is now 30.
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um of course in in april just the first of april that was very early on how many meals that we served 30 521 a lot of people doing a lot of things with the meals everybody got involved and then when we went to the different nine location or eight delivery dates or that that those were eight delivery dates up to that point but there were nine different locations of course then because of the pandemic we had the uh required the continuous learning plan that we had to complete and it was approved and then if we i don't know if dr coons gonna spend a lot of time on it oh no don't tell me this isn't gonna work what just happened he took over that too oh well what just happened i'm supposed to push that and it's supposed to play because it did but basically i'll just say that we're so we're all in this together this was just um a teacher at shark creek elementary actually put this together and it was just kind of a a really combination of a lot of different things that were happening as far as saying that we miss you and there are a lot of people involved in that and it's a video i'll probably throw it out to you on an update so you can see it because it's not very long but it's pretty neat uh the homeschool policies um were actually approved by you as a board for heartland career and athletics and that was the first time ever that we had that situation uh in may of 2020 the new event new events passed out caps and gowns we had drive-by delivery kind of something new staff and senior signed secret distribution that was fun student device drop off and pick up of personal items we had to do that because of coven and then of course we had the 27 member covet 19 pandemic re-entry task force team that's hard to say met for the first time getting ready for school and then of course um the board started approving all kinds of re-entry plans you started out with the athletic reentry plan we had the senior parades that was really neat in july you had the msd county re-entry plan then it was revised jay snyder was approved as norfolk principal joel martin was approved as a sharp creek principal norfolk and southwood finally had their graduations in july and then of course they had proms msd we went to the fair again but it was a lot lot smaller um probably didn't know we were there because we were tucked in that it was a nice place but that's all happened we went to the virtual option face coverings was a big topic we had the vigil for dakota who was killed and one of our students just a tragic thing 85 staff members participated in ip ipad training in august you could see msd re-entry plan revised again then right away right when we did it the isdh released new data and we had to do something different you also did the event management plan we did start school in march or in march in august the second refresh of student devices ipads ninth year to be one one-to-one school district that's kind of hard to believe but this is the second refresh refresh but the ninth year we received 4 200 masks that was the first time we had the distribution we actually had it again so we we've received 8 400 masks uh six percent of our traditional student population started virtual education msd uh started being on this week in wabash and we've been there every week we're the only um school district in walmart county that does that on a weekly basis 31 teachers provided instruction for virtual virtual only students from august to december this is kind of interesting all seventh grade students for a first time participating at wall base river defenders wild river wild field trip usda offered free breakfast and lunch to all students so pretty big there october the teacher contract we appreciate everybody working on that that was approved brain suite ran across country state meet placing 30th south football team broke a trc record of 27 consecutive wins for the in the trc uh november implemented the health care assistance program with the united fund community foundation walrus county challenges continue with coven 19 as you know live event streaming started so um not just here we do this we've done this for a lot of years now but in the in our gyms and in december we invited uh senator anderson representative snow we're invited to attend a meeting with the administrators our advocates and also teacher representatives we had the reception of the outgoing school board members uh also challenges improved by the end of the semester uh virtual for second semester i say 26 students it's really a little closer to maybe 30 students but some of them are students that are in our rice classrooms and anyway that's kind of a highlight unfortunately a lot of that is about covid i went back to 2019 if you guys remember we did this in there are a lot of things that we began in 2019 we didn't have to react to something like we did with kobe but we hope to see more things coming in some additional highlights we talked about the funding i actually went back last year was like 75 000.
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supply pressure let's see if this barnes keep this lead that was a great play we knew about had something going there we go ten with that three and that's good ten again he's just that was almost from the wrestler yeah that was a nice shot right there chag had something cooking up too all right 38 39 with eight seconds left let's see how spartans take this is going to take that three oh and a shot tomorrow oh it's off that was a nice quarter though they definitely were all worth their butts off came out strong yeah let's see how they do in the fourth quarter both teams only have two fouls 38 39 chag on top by one those are both two great plays by both coaches i mean back to back threes that was awesome you can't ask for a better play than that yeah four and ten from chag are definitely keeping them in this game right now they're going to work yeah they definitely have some good chemistry out there they just work really well together yeah all right well definitely weird not having fans yeah it makes it a lot more quiet yeah there used to be like music in between coordinators yeah everyone that was just for our games well yeah dj luigi shout out luigi seems ref's complaining about the child coach a little bit right now but that's all right mr mad mr mac's a great guy it's always the goat always dedicating his time to do the scoreboard for all our sports yes all right ball comes in it's going to be i believe it's white ball spartan's ball after what just happened last quarter so yeah gamar is going to inbound the ball to carter hopefully there we go all right and 20 with the pressure on carter taking his face i feel like carter's going to break that easily like that there we go to cam nice outlet swings it to mckechnie back to cam cam with the drive beautiful left-hand layout all right and the spartans take the lead on this here we go sparta that was a beautiful drive for cam shaw right there mars with the d 10 with that drop over great digital 44 we couldn't finish nope that was a good day tomorrow's brought that ball down should have balls should have been a foul on 33.
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it was 28 000 but most of it was just the first three months because of the year before the pandemic there were several work sessions to discuss strategic planning of course all those grants that this year i say 2021 but it's um really in 2020 i don't know why i put 21 there but all the ones that you've already seen a lot of competitive grants that were earned also probably people get a little tired of all the messages but about 140 messages to parents through school messenger um in 2020 and typically we don't do that many unless it's about fog ice or snow but there's a lot about covid fund balances are improving and stabilizing self-insurance uh to ourselves is falling off by early 2021 and debt uh and dr cuny talked about all that msd is moving forward and continues to appreciate learning um and there's our plan there i'm just going to skip those two for time and 20 21 here we come so a lot of things happen just to recap pretty quickly all right that's all i have thank you mr drake hurricane instruction report i think mike pretty much covered all the stuff i would talk about so okay i'll forfeit my time okay we have a lot of items under new business and i think each of them deserve their own time so we're just going to vote on each one of them independently recommendation to approve the 2021 budget reduction resolution from our 1782 notice so we kind of went over that in our financial reports um we just kind of have to approve that 1782 notice to some degree so we have to approve what those new budget appropriations do we go back to getting what we asked for yeah [Music] budget reduction resolution okay motion second to approve the budget reduction resolution for our 1782 notice all in favor say aye recommendation to approve the local income tax distribution resolution so the state we receive local income tax dollars from the county uh the state requires a state board of accounts requires us to determine where that revenue goes and how it's distributed and so basically what we do is because it's a tax related revenue we do have the operation equipment for the option of putting into our education fund but we usually keep it in line with our other tax revenue funds which means we split that income tax distribution between our operations and our debt service and we split it based off of the percent difference between the tax rate for operations and debt service and so that local income tax distribution then gets put into those two funds the resolution for the local income tax distribution here's the one i like recommendation to approve the rainy day transfer to the self-insurance fund i almost put 500 000 and one dollar great pleasure i approve the resolution of the transfer rainy day fund second no motion on second to approve the rainy day transfer to the self-insurance fund hang that thing off i mean it will be at some point we can inactivate it but it's just a fun that we have and it'll always be in our history so recommendation to improve to approve the disbursements from education fund to operations fund so um this year i anticipated a 2.1 million dollar transfer which would equate to be about 175 000 a month and that's just the cap of it so it's not to exceed 175 000.
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it went a little back over the back yeah mars with that rebound though just definitely fighting hard on yeah definitely should have been his ball with that pal but it's all right play through it yep oh four with that three and it's off look at that with that fast break cam shot with the oh but stuff i'm braiding with the reef there we go brady score is now 42.39 spartans definitely came out strong good job pushing it by spartans 100 oh it doesn't matter if they miss the layup it just provides opportunities for others all right kamaras gets that rebound slows down the tempo just a little bit so spartans can set up and catch their breath gives it to carter and carter to sweeney mckechnie up on the three-point line back to carter carter takes that shot and it's off oh bounces around not it all traveled that was awesome for brady right there there we go went into that rebound with four other child guys and we ended up coming out with a good defense for brady right there offense yeah buddy good offensive rebound yeah there we go carter with the layup oh but it's locked by 10 10.
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we're currently doing 165 000. i actually probably will even reduce that a little bit more so i'm looking at starting at maybe 155 uh for monthly and then just adjust as needed not to exceed 175 000.
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that was great defense for 10 right there kamara's with the three but it's off and cam shaw with the two underneath the hoop cam's really killing it out here with those layups right there he's a nice spin on the ball yeah scores now 44 39 spartans number 10 has the ball and the three points sweeney's playing great defense right there but he blows by ten has jackson being up on number 10. oh gamora is a nice hefty hi now the spines are locking up awesome awesome defense right there with the spartans falcons didn't have anything to do they had to call time out nope coach is definitely over there sweating about typing all those guys up as they come into that that was a great way to start the fourth quarter 100 that was a good two minutes yeah the score is now 44 39 with six minutes left in the fourth quarter both teams have two team fouls came out and just scored a quick six guys are looking pretty tired over there but i'm sure they're going to keep coming out strong hopefully end with this win but we'll see good time out get them some water in the fourth quarter yeah we definitely had chag you know shaking over there they didn't expect us to come out that strong coach seems a little frustrated but that's good d right there all right spartans coming out again again first on the court yeah always abad keeps those talks short and simple short and sweet yep all right chugs out now each team only has two fouls still all right so there's 10 seconds left on the shot clock and chag is taking the ball out oh sweeney and ten getting into it right now what is going on jack's like no not me i didn't do anything hands up jack here we go jack be up jack d up all right 10 with those oh 10 blows by with a nice zero step and it's good we got to do a lot more healthy things yeah that was great on number 10.
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if it ever got to that point then we would have to do another resolution of resolution motion and second to approve the disbursements resolution to disperse from education to operation fund all in favor say aye recommendation to approve the resolution authorizing the treasure to play to pay claims so we our board memes are the second and fourth tuesdays of the month we usually approve claims uh on those board meetings but in the rare occasion that we cancel board meetings or don't have a board meeting this would just allow us to continue our our operations and then you would approve those claims at the following to approve the resolution authorizing the treasurer to pay plans all in favor say aye okay recommendation to approve the covet additional lead resolution yeah so the family first act um expired on december 31st 2020 and so we wanted to make sure that because of uh quarantine and things that happen with our staff members that they would not have a pay loss so this basically um outlines that and so if we go down to their fours it talks about it but i'll just read it so everybody knows and make sure we understand all this so it's not renewed in the second semester of the 20 20 21 school year the msd wall bridge county shall be entitled to additional um sick leave days for absences which are attributable to exposure arising during the employees performance of his or her his duties on msd of walrus county schools campus and to meet the following guidelines so it's determined that the employee contact contacted kobe 19 virus or was exposed to the coba 19 virus at the school the school district places employee on quarantine isolation due to the school contact tracing and the staff members has exhausted all of his or her cumulative lead days if the staff member has no leave days then the staff member will receive 10 days in the second semester for absences outlined in this policy and then that would be expire on june 30th of 2021 and so basically if they're quarantined by us because it's a close contact and it happened at school then they would use their lead days if they don't have leave days then we would give them up to 10 days and you have to recall now that we have the 10-day quarantine instead of the 14-day quarantine it would really never be 10 days because the weekends and things like that so but that doesn't mean they could not be quarantined for the second or third time like some people understand have had those experiences unfortunately but it has to be determined that the employee was exposed at a school or school function yes yeah if that's the intent you probably need to clean it up a little bit because it does just as that they were exposed at the actual school yeah so that's the intent of cleaning some of that up and i think mike the show that you read is not actually in there so should we shall be entitled okay i should have blown it up a little bit the font was pretty small i saw my screen when i was reading it so so do we want to have um a motion to accept it pending slight revisions to um make sure it's it's it applies to employees performance of their duties not limited straight to the campus i think that's probably the intention of yeah resolution upon revision from josh i'm just going to say it easy so i just have a question then josh so is it all right for us to implement this then until we get the until we get a sign like we'll need to get a new paper back and sign but is it okay to go ahead and implement it yeah i think with you um resolving to just pending these changes that should be fine okay so tonight we will not be signing this one because it doesn't have to change but we will sign it when yeah when you bring us the new one all right recommendation to approve an overnight extended trip for southwood seniors to pigeon forge gatlinburg on april 20 are april 18th the 21st and just to talk about that a little bit we don't know for sure what's going to happen in april and so when we start talking about these field trips we i did talk to mr mcdaniel and the sponsor and just say that you know number one whatever if you approve this tonight um it is approved but that doesn't mean that we can't cancel it prior to the event and we'd also have to follow all covered 19 protocol that that's been given to us so those would be the stipulations with that they just have to know that it can be cancelled and probably we always know it can be anything can be canceled after last year a lot of things were cancelled so but they're looking a lot of it would be outside um of course they would be on a bus so they're not gonna have social distancing but we don't have social distancing on our on our buses now so that's why i went ahead and approved it uh but of course um you as a board have to officially approve it also if they go so i moved to approve the field trip for celebrities motion second to approve the field trip for southwood to pigeon forge all in favor say aye all right recommendation to approve the little norse of little knights three-year-old school preschool program yeah so put the proposal on the goal there's a lot of information here i gave you and also gave you a little bit about the 2018 the dashboard for the walrus county profile i basically could go over all this or you could ask questions i have mrs moore um said that she would come to be able to answer any questions too that you might have tried to outline a little bit more in general we gave you some ideas of what we were thinking um and we started some of this conversation but we started several months ago but more officially in october and then putting out some of those surveys to find out if there's any interest because if there's no interest obviously we would not pursue anything but there was interest in that and so try to outline all of the different things that would occur because of this um and just if you have any questions open up for questions right now what's our goal for number you guys have a number that you'd yeah so we we did say like the minimum um right now uh the ratio is one to ten for the three year olds so we were we're still hoping for 16 to 18 would be a goal for a classroom but what we said was do we start and that's a question that we have too kevin though um would we go with with 10 um and that's something that we'd have to determine but that's we were talking about if we had that minimum of 10 then we would go with it so i was thinking how does that space work out yeah so at metro north elementary some of the discussion would be if we needed extra room then there would be a possibility of shuffling some students from metro north elementary in other words uh even doing possibly a third grade going to sharp creek to shark creek so moving to third grade as a possibility yes we can move around kindergarteners i mean what kind of room you're looking for for you got you got these um we would definitely look at both buildings what are the needs of our students and then make adjustments we have three different free feed structures the full pay and then if they're on reduced lunches on textbook assistance or if they're free you guys know where i come from all the time it seems like it's kids that can't go to some other place you know yet they can't prioritize that you know you have to be open across the board right right and that's why when we talk about the financial part we don't know necessarily are we going to get all of them at the the different is it going to be a combination of all the different fee structures or all the lowest ones the middle ones are high ones so uh chris did put some of those things together as far as what what it could look like but we wouldn't know until we actually had those students that would enroll or apply i guess and we do pursue all kinds of alternative funding um both buildings are a part of the on highway pre-k grant which just applies to our four-year-olds families and they've opened up their eligibility a little bit more this year if i meet eligibility requirements and i have a job outside of the home then my child goes to metro more if i've done all the paperwork and it pays us in full and then some and when you say when you say in full and then some know what's higher than the rate that we've corrected so higher than our a little bit more than our highest rate and the other opportunity that we have in addition to the on my way pre-k and our three-year-olds would also qualify for this is that we would qualify for ccdf funding which is a voucher program and that again is based on income has those same sort of requirements that parents have to be either working and staying for on my way pre-k working or enrolled in some sort of continuing education so those are also available and we help connect parents with that in fact i send that to a parent this afternoon that they've had a change in their income structure at home and so she was applying tonight to help which would offset our costs for this current school year because her child was enrolled at mature month in preschool um the community foundation has offered a couple scholarships to students in the past that has helped offset a bit um as well they have opened up that eligibility in the past for on my way pre-k it has not included grandparents raising grandchildren and they um now make that available which i think is huge and we have several i have two of my on my way pre-k kiddos whose grandparents are raising them who would not have been able to attend preschool because of what financial strange financial stream so we're all aware that gap you could say between those kids that had the opportunity to go into preschool in our kindergarten that's like just disadvantaged and we pursue those um you know those that we know typically are with younger siblings we you know call them to get them connected and then you know through the great fun find other kids that may not have that opportunity we know in the community our early childhood opportunities are dwindling and it's because of the costs it it there's an immense cost with running a daycare and just early childhood programming the expense is huge and they are typically the most underpaid employees that you will find that's pretty well the way my son who's involved in this sums it up he feels like you're over charging and underpinning at the same time tension and conflict all the time and we don't have enough spots in our community we i think on average in the county bring in 350 kindergarten students there are 250 early education spots and so we know it's even more for our three-year-olds i tell you that you're excited for the task of adding more to your management i think at one point my office has a restroom so i think we need to 10 of them so how does transportation is that is that all parents on this one three-year-old three-year-olds it would be yes okay four-year-old no four years we transported we transport we give them that option i guess because obviously that becomes you know usually some of the disadvantaged you're probably not gonna you know especially if someone's at work and going to work you know they don't have two vehicles that's probably not going to happen yes that's why i was wondering about them and our four year olds are also i think it's important you know buckled in they're enough i've seen that again a special seat so i thought that was have you seen the growth from those kids going into kindergarten being more ready yes and i wish our kindergarten teachers were here to speak of them because i mean just from the first day in the cafeteria alone is huge because they know how to carry a tray but you think that's not a big deal it's a huge deal if you've never had to balance something before but our preparers by the end of the second week have got that mastered and then you throw into this here they are sitting every other seat in the same spot every day um they've had that master within the first couple weeks as well so just navigating the cafeteria is huge and it's time that our kindergarten teachers don't have to spend where they can focus on academics in the first few weeks of school and getting to know more importantly getting to know students but yes greatly impacts their academics good you would think so yes yes our first group right now is in second grade and so it's exciting to watch how they've grown yeah this is a recommendation that we would want you to go ahead and make a motion if you so determined to do that the final decision based upon final interest yeah yeah and we're doing this kindergarten roundup right yeah well it'll be separate but it'll be similar to what we've done last year with the fourth grade um four year olds so yes and the timeline would be if if you would approve it tonight we would go ahead and start advertising and then in march we would get those numbers just like we do with the four-year-olds just like we do with kindergarten roundup uh kindergarten roundup we're looking at you know we used to have a community kindergarten roundup because of codewood and other reasons we're going to be in the schools this year but then that will give some more flexibility with with our preschool programs too so i'm not sure if this is an information something but i think it's something to also note that our staff with students of that age group are also involved and i think that's an amazing benefit to offer our teachers and our support staff and it's just a great benefit to have well that wasn't in there that is good thank you i'm able to approve the little norse lights through your program motion and second to approve the little knights and little norse programs to the three-year-olds this year all in favor say aye all right no one finished business board policy and we'll go to public comment and here's where scott's going to provide us to do this there are actually two questions and since he had and while we wait though i do want to say i have sticky note and i put it on the wrong device here but on the um on the update or on the 2020 we did have the car graduations um uh where the first time in the in that year and so we had one in february and august and not just the graduations at norfolk southwest credit alternative recovery program um and those are very special too and we made those happen in august two during the pandemics but it was done outside and a lot of fun so maybe i stole a little bit there i was gonna sing if scott didn't have the music i was actually going to ask you to dance so my first question tim has a couple questions on facebook the first question was where can you find the documentation of districts that went over the 15 transfer rate uh right now they're still uh i believe they're gonna start collecting that information when we submit our form nines they haven't really decided on where that information is going to be located there has been talk that it would be added to the do ab fiscal indicators there has been talk that it might get added to the interview which is that breakdown of all the school districts uh they have talked about putting on the indiana department of education website so there's not been really any uh distinct determination at this point uh i think they just really right now they're just into that phase of starting to track it and so that's we're reporting it on form nine and that type of stuff now so ask us again in a few months the second question is what percent of students are virtual now percent well i think you said well six students yeah well we'll say the 30 because of the rise program both those questions came from the ridgeways and they wanted to also list though they were celebrating when they say they're said they said they're celebrating this i think they need the insurance so i and self-insurance share that too that's it one point four two one seven five four i know so it's easy for them to celebrate oh yeah all right uh items from board members we'll jump back into what uh mike had suggested could be under other in our reorganization meeting on whether or not you know what we think about leading times and six o'clock still works okay for me but my thoughts on uh has always been a hybrid some kind of heading into the start of the school year we needed to make more approvals maybe stretch out the june july time period not very frequently you guys know the business as well it would as anybody required the it would just require at some points or sometimes we may have to have special meetings for certain things there isn't a law that you have to have based on a frequency that's consistent no it just has to be able to wall for that you just have to advertise it whenever you have you can have as many as you want or well we've discussed this in the past we always felt like more often we met we thought we were more engaged and we stayed current with stuff we've got a good information low transfer but i don't know where he at all through two he's coming up quick that's not about us i mean it's whatever's gonna get the information that you guys well i mean obviously i always like to be efficient with our timeline too so if we're not if we're not accomplishing anything in our meetings that could be done on a monthly basis then you know i'm for less meaning you know too so that's if we if you guys see a time of the year obviously you guys have been in longer than we have there's time that you know that you need to have two then let's schedule that but if we can go down to like planning yeah so may april may september october november i could see that but i also think especially because of the two new guys that they're i remember i been six years ago now and i'm just not really starting to feel like i got a good handle on what we're doing so there's a a a decent learning curve so i i'm going to suggest i've got a ton of dumb questions yeah well i at least especially had to relearn it once we in 2019 when we did this the new uh operation and education fund but i can at least understand the terms now when we're starting to have these discussions i personally don't have a problem with every two weeks but i know it increases preparation yeah i guess what my my position would be is that i agree that uh um you know there are some times that it probably could be once a month but if we need to you know if the schedule permits that we feel like we've got a pretty good handle for that one then we can go ahead and take the second one off but i think it's important as many times as we can at least for this year to go with the two can i throw out a proposal with a little bit about what kevin said about what you said and everybody has said as far as maybe looking at one in june or july and december we typically only have one two and in october we used to have one if um just depending on where fall break landed if paul brake landed even though we're still sometimes here sometimes we're not here but we would have one and not have one so you know how far out do you have to schedule the whole year we schedule out the whole year but then you can just cancel i mean that's as easy as canceling one it would be nice to cancel though a little bit ahead of time too though for those planning purposes too so but i'll put something together and put in an update just and then we can put it on the board agenda too if we want to if you if you don't want to talk about it we don't have to either i don't care i'll throw some things out that's okay i'm not opposed to going to one one a month but i think more often than not we probably should still do two yeah i would hate to do one a month for the whole year yeah yeah yeah an occasional month here and there i have a problem with one month i hope there's something there's six months okay i mean whatever works best o'clock still work okay or we want to go to 6 30 we want to go to 4 30. [Music] [Laughter] all right anything else welcome to the new guys welcome look forward to working with you yeah a little longer than that this is more
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