I don't think we need to Yeah. >> Okay. All right. Very good. All right. Thank you. Thank you everybody who uh spoke on behalf of WACA. I appreciate it everybody. Good luck. And uh I know Mr. Silva. Go Pats. >> [laughter] >> Thank you all. Thank you very much everyone. >> Those were great comments. Thank you. >> Thanks.
um and also look at if there are other ways we can support the station um as they look at their needs for space capital and potentially if there's other things they need to do. So I just want to offer my support as well. >> Thank you Makita. >> Uh yeah thank you Mr. Chair. Um I just wanted to chime in. Uh you know uh WACA is not just a nice resource to have. It's a vital community resource for all the reasons that everyone stated, but also um you know without WACA I I I completely believe that our community would not be able to remain informed. It is so vital especially in this time when we see lack of loss coverage in major newspapers. Everything's drying up. you know, when we have a community resource like WACA that can get vital information out to the public, allow um a certain amount of interactivity uh and allow people to participate as well as uh making sure that young people get some vocational training and communications as well.
And I believe that is the question that the report that we're receiving is really addressing >> buying both bus actually looking at that even though we didn't necessarily ask but he's doing it anyway. >> Wonderful. >> Um and then uh this fed transportation both what it is that we currently do ourselves um and also because of the fact that we don't have the capacity to the problem. So what we have to outsource with so >> I don't I don't think we outsource that much. >> You have to worry that much. I don't mean outsource. >> I understand we do outsource. I'm saying it's not like we're talking like 20 vehicles we're outsourcing. Probably a handful be my guess. I could be wrong. >> I send a lot of pickup lines. >> So a lot of pickup lines. >> I guess I'm just questioning the efficiency.
And one of you know we so we looked at things like where was reassessment part of the process. So we pulled together a working group of of teachers and parents and kids and we put together just some guidelines of what stays and what goes. And so we did that for for a year. And then the next year we said, "Okay, so we lived with that for a year. What did we learn?" And we pulled together another group of um teachers and um got some parent input. And where we ended up after a couple years was kind of putting together a more comprehensive pilot and then rolled that out with teachers. The timing on it wasn't as early as we would have liked it to to have been. So we, you know, presented that to the board after working on it for quite some time. We rolled it out to the board probably in April or May, April.
Are we okay with striking out this section on the alternate language? Mhm. >> And then you're looking for a date of no later than May 15th. Is that correct? >> Yeah. I even if we did April 15th, I could we could be flexible on it. I think just a little bit more room would be helpful. >> Okay. M question. >> Yes. Go ahead. may >> uh through you K Kelly uh is is that alignment with the four start of the fourth marking period is that why you want to do it I mean I'm more for it as a former teacher >> yes it it does coincide with the end of the third quarter start of the >> right I think it's a great idea >> I think there's an additional benefit there in that um giving it a little bit more room uh maybe a little bit less cause for concern on the part of parents who are getting notified, you know, months in advance of a decision actually being made.
Um, do we have to make availability payments for that because there's no revenue coming in? um are the uh you know is the project going to have these other elements that generate revenue you know that's possible it's it's kind of an experiment to see if this is going to work which is why I think it's a pilot right >> thank you chair >> so you mentioned the three schools east co the cam placement hely so the soonest you're going to even have one building could be would be three years from now >> soonest >> that's a long time the other two are going to be another two three years down the line It takes time. Yeah. >> Yeah. But how long ago have had you guys identified these areas? >> Well, the the list of schools you've uh talked about um you know, we have that list and some of them have design completed and they're waiting funding.
>> Clarification, it was just because of time, not because of an >> Right. Correct. Yes. Miss Pap is is as of January celebrating her third year anniversary on the board. >> Good clarification. >> Thank you for that clarification. That would be an important ethics so far. We're good. Come back. That's why >> I knew I earned that. >> Careful putting that one on there. Seeing no further discussion, I will ask for a motion to close. >> Thank you, Miss Glad and Miss Nasik. Thank you. All in favor? >> We are close. Thank you, everyone. Lift up.
I'm sorry I could go all day on this stuff. All right, so let's go uh to the next page. And this really is just saying with those increases, here's what it's looking like. Here's the change. And [clears throat] so the top top half, just looking at the top half, that's your current plans and how they're designed in summary right now. Um what the current rates are. Um and then yeah, and so that's where your total is showing the premium generating 5,60,000. Down below is what it's projected in increases. And really the only thing changing is the increase in the premiums. Uh we've talked about some looking at some plan design changes. Um right now the only thing that would probably if you wanted to reduce this rate down there could be a change in your maximum out of pocket. Right now it's at 4,000 um when on your um buy plan.
Um I I see this as not a nice to have but a vital to have and I wanted to uh speak on those supporting WACA and everything that they do here for Ashland. >> Thanks. >> Thank you Makita. >> I'm up. >> You're up. >> Yeah. First uh Mr. Silver I just want to say I remember Jake too and uh I just want you to know a lot of people remember him and I on u my computer I have a little video. we made videos uh at one point for him to send to him and uh every now and then I come across it for whatever reason but um anyways we remember him. >> Um so I just was really going to say a little bit of what Makita said in that um I remember many years ago being on the school committee and when we met there was a newspaper reporter in the room every single time and the next day there was an article in the newspaper and you know that's been long gone and so it's just such a critical way of informing our community and um I won't repeat what Makita said so eloquent eloquently but uh it is so important for informing our community.
I just parked and there are 10 vans sitting in the parking lot in the church >> and as somebody who you you know our taxes just went up major. Um we all got hit. And so when you see vans sitting in a parking lot not doing anything, you wonder like is there another way? Could GCC be using them? Could FRTA be using them? The senior center be using them? You just wonder. And then you see a a van that's only got, and I'm a Honda girl, so you see a Honda that's only got 20,000 miles on it needing repairs because it's just sitting somewhere. Um, you know, >> that's, you know, don't get me wrong. I mean, these things get, you know, I I we were talking about it earlier. It's like the vehicles that we use for the transportation, even though I understand they're sitting also time of day, >> you know, nobody's leaving school, you know.
And so then May, June, it got rolled out to staff even and even though they had been um that was for the that was for the actual um policy. So we we rolled it out to the board in June for the pilot is when it got rolled out to staff. So we had the whole summer to kind of roll that out, but we know summer is not the best time to roll things out because people are coming and going. Um, so we started our first year uh or a year back with PD those first couple days with just the pilot. Thought things were going great. Went through our year and by the end of the year after doing surveys and focus groups, we thought everybody was on the same page and when the policy passed, everybody was not on the same page. And so um that was a huge learning experience of we thought that the communication the board thought the communication was great.
That can create a lot of anxiety. >> Do we have a want to do April? That gives us a little bit more time, but not too long. >> Glattus, did you have a question or a comment? I just want to say Kelly has made a super recommendation for all area of this uh that we're looking at and I think we need to move forward on it instead of you know we changed things a lot of things to our lacking but I think she's made excellent recommendation for us to accept and we need to move on. I have one other question. >> Go ahead. >> Um, so down in the alternative language, um, I'm sorry, I wasn't able to pull this up. So the last sentence, um, I think many had addressed this. The administration in the event of a retention, the administration shall determine a remedial assistance for the student.
Some of them are in design and the ones we're asking for some of them in construction. Um but you know we we the way we figure out what are we going to do is based on need right so where's the need because these developments come up over time >> but the need for these been there the needs for have been there it's not just now >> right so the other thing I was going to say was the second thing is money so we come in and we ask and >> right but you could have come in earlier and asked too right >> I mean again that's the concern >> yeah we asked >> yeah Okay. So, the Kihei [clears throat] school, when you guys built the Kihei school, what did it cost? The final cost for the Kihei school. >> I I have to get back to you on that.
when we look at our kind of like our um 24 different districts um through our UHC plan with our contract um I think the average is closer to 5500 on that. So, there's an opportunity you could do that. You guys know what does that mean? When you increase it out of pocket, you're just transferring the cost. The cost didn't go down. It's who's playing the cost is where it got changed from. So, it saves the plan a little bit. Um, but it doesn't save money. It's just who's paying it. Um, and so that is probably the only area that we saw anything that would be there's been a lot of plan design modifications and changes to put it in a good position and that's where we kind of are right now. Um, and so I know uh on the sheet so and this yeah let me just keep going to the next.
So uh 100% my support and I do know several students too who have have gone through uh the little whacker training and ended up in uh following it as a career path. So thank you. >> Are you ready? >> Sure. I know that pretty much my colleagues have have covered a lot of this, but um I did want to just say that, you know, I mean, we've been postcoid for a little while, but it hasn't been that long since since CO and just to add that WACA was literally our lifeline during CO. um we had, you know, whether it was videoing of the sports, whether it was um our town government, which was always in uh conversations about what was happening during COVID. Um it literally was our lifeline to the residents of Ashland while while we were trying to make the best of a of a really crazy situation.
So, um there would be a reason why they would be sitting there at this whether or not they could use alter. There are some legal things regarding the fact that we are have the school bus signs on the school busy on it that I know and because we tried to do that was our buses for private things and time state police said that it is not appropriate to use it for anything other than 70 transportation etc. So, we're checking in if there's a vehicle, what do the people want us? But at the same time, um it's no different than I mean, how many times a year do when when the police vehicles come? >> It's part of the capital. I think at least two two police cruisers are on a replacement cycle. We don't have a replacement cycle. we beat these to the left >> and so and then also we were just talking here whether or not we whether whatever comes out of Rich's report does the pendulum swing to fully outsourcing or does the potent pendulum swing to bringing it all in now I don't think we all have the the appetite to do in the house I'm with you I don't want to busting through this either um but at the same time I just signed a purchase order increase because or vehicle repairs because the DPW he who's supposed to be doing our vehicles don't have the capacity.
We thought the communication was great. Um communication was not um it didn't land. So apparently it wasn't great. We can think it's great all day long but if it doesn't land then it wasn't great. So, the response to that ended up being I spent all last summer, the principal and I, meeting with kids and parents and teachers. I just had open office hours for a good chunk of the summer sitting down and listening to, you know, where where are we with this and, you know, where where did it go wrong and what was your perspective of where this was supposed to be and where is the actual pain point when you when you look at the policy and what it involves as far as, you know, preparing for lessons or, you know, where does reassessment fit in? And you know there was there were five major points to the policy and that was really it was really helpful for for me and for um the principal to listen um and to hear and those conversations are sort of ongoing.
Is that up in the other document? as the next step of a retained student. >> I'm just confirming, Wanita. I don't recall that exact sentence, but let me give me one second. >> I know many had asked. So, does support kick in place automatically? >> There there is a reference to any student that is in danger of of being retained in a consideration of multiple opportunities. It reads um opportunities provided for supplemental and remedial instruction to assist the student in overcoming academic uh deficiencies which may include but are not limited to and then goes on to list a bunch of different strategies that could be. So it's it's not that exact sentence but I think the essence of it and probably a little bit more detail. >> Yep, I'm good with that. >> Just want to make sure you have that language there. >> It is there.
I wasn't here for that. Sorry. >> But that's the most expensive school ever built in this whole state. >> Is that right? >> You're asking me. And yet, you're the >> I was I wasn't here for that one. Sorry. >> But whether you're here or not, I mean, your head was not in the sand. I mean, I you know, I did I wasn't DOE. I didn't build the school. I don't live over there. Yeah, I still I'm aware that the school costs a lot because there was red rock. So, it would be helpful if you're going to be in this position that you know the history of what's going on with facilities because if you don't understand the problems that we've had and what the um the obstacles have been, how can you go forward, >> right? Because you kind of know these things. So, that's the one more expensive Hard Rock.
So this is also then looking at first side on the left side is the 2526 that's the current year with these changes uh with this increase you have the middle is the plan year and so you could see what that would mean with a even proportional split of the 13.4% being applied to the employee and the employer both. And so you can see just on the the plan where we have the most people on the choice base, you [clears throat] still have an employee um option where 436 the majority of people are um that's at no cost to the employee. So that would stay that way. But for say the nine people on employee plus spouse um that's going up from uh currently they're at uh they're paying 665 it would go up to $754. So you could see if you follow that line over that's an $89 a month increase.