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Now, all of us are on the same page and on the same team of wanting to get the grant, wanting to move forward, wanting to be able to do these things and offer these things. But just to put it pretty bluntly, if we had $85,000, okay, are we going to want to use that to run the daycare or are we going to want to use that for reasons for faculty and staff? It doesn't come from a different pot. It all comes from the same pot if the district's running. So, those are just things to be thinking about, you know, as we get going through these next two months. Again, we're all on the same team with this because we want their grant. We want to run the daycare. But again, you know, we might have to institute some of these things if they're not for years.
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Motion. >> Second. >> Miss Hendris. Second. >> All those in favor of this motion? Catherine Vance. >> Map. Mazapo. Item number four, discussion and possible approval of the Babe Unified School District 2026 27 district administration renewals. >> Governing board. Um it is with uh great pride and and endorsement that I recommend the Bubble County Fire School District governing board to approve the 26 27 administration renewal as presented as well. Motion by Sylvia Hendris. >> Second, Miss Dion Leonard. >> All those in favor of the motion >> number five, discussion and possible approval of job description learning support coordinator. U governing board uh members um and and me members of the staff. This is a previous um job description that we had in place um by reviewing um also the new configuration for accelerated. Um we would like to bring these uh previous learning support coordinator job description with some changes.
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Any questions? >> I have question. >> Thank you. We'll move on to uh student financial reports. >> Thank you. Okay. to continue. I do have one piece of just information. I'm not sure how many I think it's 13 schools, Brian, you might know this, that participate in the mile high wrestling over Christmas between Christmas. >> More than 13 schools. Yes. >> Probably one of the top three largest um competitions in the entire state for wrestling. >> So maybe pushing 20. >> 30 pushing 30. and we see the revenues on the student activity $11,753. We've got I've gotten calls from uh Xolo and Hull Brook high schools. At one point they had the wrong address to send their registration fees over. So schools all over the northern part of the state want to go to that tournament. We know that and it was I think really well done.
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I mean, I I'm explicit with it. I mean, I teach my kids what learning looks like. Um, the fact that you need constant contact with with subject matter to make a long-term memory. And I talk a lot about, you know, memories, you know, learning strategies. And so, yes, I'm explicit with it. I take time out of the curriculum to directly instruct that. Do you mean explicit about how to do a specific strategy or do you mean in that review day that we are making sure you're doing the thing that >> not the latter? No, I mean just the kind of utility and value of these different strategies because I feel like, you know, >> it's as I'm sitting here thinking about, >> you know, how students might respond, I'd be curious to know like how many more are engaging with the chatbot and not doing their home, you know, like what kind of decisions are they making?
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So that there's [clears throat] a lot there. >> So to that point, have we made that easier with Infinite Campus? Right. Yeah, one of the benefits a burden on the one of the benefits of infinite campus that we're seeing is that um so like Hank referenced these are all CS interventions that you're looking at right now on this slide um but what um infinite campus allows us to do is in the past years using um ehchool we were our teacher blast department couldn't see the teacher interventions and so we were having that was one a big difficulty of like trying to engage of like okay well did the teacher call home? Did they do this with office hours? Did it you had to reach out, which is fine, right? Collaboration is good, but like Hank said, it's really nice to be able to see it quickly and then you can intervene just faster.
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Um and that in itself is really an education. And so I encourage all the adults in our community to whether or not they agree um with the students or not that they take an opportunity to think about how they might use this as an educational moment uh outside of the school walls. Um and I'll just leave it at that for now. >> I just got sandwiched in the middle. But I'm going to I'm going to piggyback actually off of what you said. Um, I truly believe that, um, although I personally am not an educator, I I truly believe that education happens both inside and outside. Um, people will often bring up math and and and reading scores, and those are really important. Uh, but so is learning to be a well-rounded individual and and I I refer to the events that have happened, but I but there are other things, too.
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So we can do kind of a speedrun on it. At high school, too, you're at a different developmental stage. And so we think that we can move that information a little bit differently to kind of help you see some of those long-term choices and effects that it may have. >> And then I just I wanted to applaud using that uh Avon instructional model uh in another way. Um bringing it from the heart of a teacher. You know, we've often said that behavior is another form of communication. So they're identifying their own gaps with us. Um maybe not in the most pleasant of ways. and then teaching the skills as we would with anything else. I just love the intentional approach and and using our faculty in a different way to bring on those skills. >> Thank you. >> All right. Next, we'll move on to item seven, which is the consent agenda.
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Some students don't do well in the school and they do really well outside of it. So we have to be able to rise to that. Uh, obviously the aquatics kind of made a little snicker earlier, but I mean that that pool is a big deal. So to have it clean and to have it functional for everyone from the outside as well as the students, we want to make sure we keep that going. We are a community school. Um, and also things like uh, you know, those parking lot lights, you know, they may go out, but uh, we were lucky that we they were covered and taken care of. So, um, yeah, I mean, we do always have expenditures, but this the new business is is where we make our steps forward. So, I I just want to thank everyone for all the effort that we put into that.
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I just uh I really I really am impressed with what we have here in Loganport. >> And one example of that involves a principal who's here tonight that we got an email about or you know it was a what do you call the reports that they send out? >> Just the facts. Yeah. >> It's all it is. There's no opinions in there. Facts. >> Just the facts. >> Um I mean having a a student with a seizure >> and riding to the hospital in the ambulance, you know, with that student, spending an hour and a half until a parent could get there. Um, that Mrs. Nicholson did that. That's that's an example of what we're what we're talking about here. U, Mrs. Nicholson, thank you for the presentation tonight. As importantly, thank you for the cookie. Now, I almost I almost I hardly noticed that people on each side of me had cookies that were bigger than mine.
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So, think about that. we were $2,752 below the state average. We're now $3,824. So, we're significantly significantly falling further behind in terms of dollars. Um, and I I didn't expect to see that to be honest, but um the gap is widening and we'll see that through as a trend through some of these other categories. So, we're $592 per student below average in in teachers. Um, of the 319 districts, we were 187th. Um, we we were $276 per student below average in teachers in in the previous fiscal year. So, again, falling further behind. Uh we're 38% or $1,418 per student below average in insurance and benefits. Of the $319 districts, we are $33rd. In the prior year, we were similarly 38% but we were $1,264 per student below average. So, not as dramatic a change from year to year, but still falling further behind with the gap widening.
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I mean, somehow we be able to get that information out. Oh my goodness. >> Yeah. Like I was wondering that like >> I don't know. There's a couple ideas, but um Deon supporters the school. So I think >> Yeah, they're big. >> Yeah. I would think having you know cards or Bongards rec might catch it person. >> I think the C we'll get it we'll work on trying to get it out to as many people as possible. When we did the survey back uh this year we had close to 400 responses if I'm not mistaken. So, we got a fair amount of information. So, we'll we'll try to get it out there to on edge people or people >> and I can help go those things around or whatever. That way it's not on you. So, >> some of them if they drop them off in places and it's paper copy, especially for um like the less technologydriven demographics, we may have to go pick them up afterwards.
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>> Correct. We won't run the >> CL. We will help with lunches and breakfasts, but we let you have to determine what that's going to look like. We'll we'll we'll see what that's going to look like probably after spring break. Um their hope is to have that open. Um but you know, just to be clear, that's an option, but we're still hoping that we're able to run this and do this and just cuz the daycare here in Hollywood is full. I mean, it's completely I mean, I think they got one open spot, but the amount of folks that are going to be in there next year, I mean, it's going to be full. We want to still be able to run it and run an efficient vehicle. um you know, but those are all just kind of worst case scenarios looking down the line of what that could potentially look like if we're not working.
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Um and I would like um Miss Mason to come back to the podium to share her vision based on this position and she's running. Good evening again. Um where should I pick up? Uh >> how we want to use the learning support coordinator um under the new configuration of um accelerated and what services based on the background that we want to provide and some of the recommendations for for this job description. >> Well um as you can see here the background uh for this position um currently at the moment um Middle and high school um funds the following positions. Uh one FTE, one full FTE for ELA teacher and 20 for um JDC. And um with a goal in mind of increasing the support needed by our students, Indian's middle and high school would like to bring back the learning support coordinator at Indian Noises Middle School.
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I've heard good feedback about it. A lot of planning, a lot of district time went into that and kudos to everyone involved in high school sports for that. >> Probably really kudos to Darlene Rock. She's the brains behind that these days. She's the one who leads that and heads that up. So, a lot of kudos to her. >> I I get involved in getting insurance. So, if a student athlete is injured at that event, it's covered as if it happened in our own campus. And that's about where I end. Well done. That's all I have. >> Thank you. Any further questions? All right. Seeing none, we're going to move on to item 7A, tonight's consent agenda. I'll entertain a motion. Um I'll motion to accept our >> Consent agenda. I'm sorry. >> Do we have a second? >> I will. >> Fantastic. All in favor?
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What's the kind of, you know, most attractive or least bad option? If they are concerned about that academic piece, where are they going to level up? I have started I've categorized the level ups now into um need to learn and need to practice which I think like just especially around the formative time being like if you were in the one to two like you're probably still in the need to learn zone and then like it's it's not going to help you to sit down and do a practice that you don't know how to do. Um so again like being just explicit about where those things might split in terms of where you are at in your own need to learn versus need to practice. I see my students using that mastery tracker more with that frontloading of this is the I can statements and you know this is your academic goal.
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So, Infinite Campus now is is set up where um the CS department can see all the interventions that are done. So, we don't have that disconnect. >> But to answer the other part of your question, it's not always easy to enter those. Right. So that's one of the things that we are working on >> is in what ways can we streamline that so that entering that data >> is a less of a lift right now it's the first year you're learning system all of those things but as time goes on you know as we talk to teachers goal one is documenting and get in the habit of doing that then goal number two is to make it quicker more efficient you know to to get those in >> we we've figured out one automation if student choice if that occurs then that is automatically added as a contact log.
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Um, I think the goal of education is is really to raise people to be raise students to be our future, to be freeth thinkers and and to be able to, um, assess information on their own and and to go for the truth. So, on that, um, in the in the past couple weeks, um, I would like to recognize some of the events that I've been at, speaking of freethinkers and talented individuals. Um, we have so many in the school district. Um, first of all, I I wanted to quickly shout out um we've been to continue our tour of schools. Um, I'd like to thank the teams at Grand Park, Trrowber, and the Wheatlands that we've been to in the past couple weeks. I'd like to thank them for their ideas, for their thoughts, um, for their openness, um, as we try to get kind of a feel for where each individual school is at.
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This includes a number of items that the board receives uh in advance and we study. Um so meeting minutes, claims, payroll, claims and payroll uh transfer memo, uh personnel reports, disposal of equipment, donation reports, any overnight field trip requests, programs, camps were included in this one, uh ECA equipment purchases, and financial reports. So, um, with all that, board members, I'll entertain a motion on the consent agenda. >> I move that the board of school trustees approve the regular session minutes on January 12, 2026. Board of finance special meeting minutes on January 12, 2026. working session minutes on January 26, 2026 to January 26 and February 20 26 claims regular payrolls for January 16, 2026 and January 30, 2026. uh the January 30, 2026 mini payroll, December 31, 2025, and January 2, 2026 mini board claims, the personnel report, January transfer memo, ASCS 2025 year-end financial report, the disposal of equipment, the donation report, the overnight field trips, programs, and camps, and the ECA equipment purchase as presented.
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So um other than that and just need one more motion and that is for >> all in favor. >> [clears throat] >> yourself. I'm just breaking all the hair.
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>> I was doing an ABC fell in the boot pattern. Sorry. >> Noted for next year. >> The saving grace was this has chocolate. >> So, that that bailed out the smallalness of the cookie that was covered in chocolate. But, u but thank you. Great presentation. appreciate that. Um, we had some, and I don't know if you were going to mention, we had some sizable donations that we approved in our consent agenda tonight. I'm not going to mention who they're from, but some businesses, some individuals, but they were sizable. So, I just want to thank those who who contribute to our corporation in in the ways they do. And then, um, Chris and I just finished up being co-chairs of the United Way uh, campaign. >> And, you know, of course, want to thank everybody who donated in any way. Yeah, we made it. We made it through I said that at the celebration.
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