Um and uh again we're expressing that need >> and I'm I want to jump in again just I have a lot to say tonight. Uh human resources uh based upon in discussions we had last year around this uh we're bringing this back around uh it was originally presented at our budget subcommittee meeting. Um it's certainly we don't have a well we do we're we're looking at the HR people uh at the table here the HR department uh but we don't have uh for the amount of staff that we have we don't have anyone dedicated to HR uh town hall has I believe town hall does have an HR director uh that oversees the town hall staff but we do not have we are the biggest department in this town and we do not have anyone overseeing direct Correct. We do, but we don't have a dedicated person just focusing on HR.
The only reason we do that is because we could potentially ask for additional hours and amounts of work that could change the calendar. But could ask for additional hours and amounts of work that could change the calendar. So really that's the only reason we put down for gratification. >> Hold my breath. >> Uh last year we did like some preemptive declaration snow days or something. >> So that was complicated. It's just really to me kind of something all the other districts have done. We do that now. Yes, we can do it in July. >> Yep. >> Good question. >> Do you have a prepared no school till after Labor Day? >> No, we do not. >> This is to start the process over, right? If that happens, we're just going to start over again. >> If if that happens, >> so much for two weeks off of Christmas.
Those are all called satellite programs. That way kids from other campuses can come here and take them to because there is no like it would be a waste of money for Mountain Institute to build a large central campus to house all those things. This is a more expedient and coste effective way to deliver it. But we have legislators who think that that money like that if local districts value having that program, they should find the money for it >> and they should give us more money for other things. >> Well, there's that. But so I just wanted to bring that to everybody's attention because you've heard some pretty awesome stuff here tonight and to think that the funding that supports those programs could be completely wiped out for next year is deeply troubling. >> Thank you. Thank you.
that would offset a lot of the expenditures we have with uh different maintenance, safety, security, ongoing improvements, things like that. So for us, this is a very very big deal. Um so I'd like to think that it's something that we would let the county decide. Is this something that all of the districts in the county like have a time frame to make decision before >> everybody is shoot everybody's shooting to >> if their boards are going to approve it. >> We're kind of doing a straw poll. I'm not going to ask you that tonight. Wendy and I'll give you a call or reach out to you individually. Um, if most boards are going to try to do this in March, which will give the county plenty of time to get it ready to be put on the November ballot. And if it is approved, my understanding is those checks start coming monthly next year to districts.
And then of course recognizing recognizing our staff for their time when they have that dialogue. We also know we're transitioning into a world where we need to focus more on uh a student's pathway while they're with us and a pathway after they leave us and making sure that we're creating opportunities, intentional opportunities for parents to have those conversations with our adults in the building. Um and then we have as we've looked at attendance this year, we have noticed that Thanksgiving week is really bad. And when we started to look more into that structurally, we came to understand that only our district and district 58 have student attendance days the week of Thanksgiving. So, we have a structural problem with the fact that many of our families for the littles don't have attendance days and the bigs do. And families may be just like, well, hey high schoolers, you can get by and we're going to go that week.
So, we're trying to strengthen the program to support our our newcomers. Is that the reason why we're not offering ESL 2 next school year? >> So, >> ESL2 right now is the way it is presented. ESL1 is at one high school. ESL 2 is at another high school. So what we're trying to do is those students who will be going into ESL1 next or excuse me those students who aren't currently in ESL1, right? So that moving them up to an ESL uh 2 course and then ESL 2 to ESL3. I apologize because it's I'm sorry ESL1 and two are are not are are in that rotation. So those students will have that opportunity and then next year develop what ESL 2 will look like for our students. In addition to the ESL bridge work that will be completed um upon approval, we are also putting ESL one into a curriculum renewal to make sure that it is an alignment with our then ESL123 sequence.
Uh she started on Monday and by Wednesday we had an agenda finalized. So I told her, "Buckle up. We're going to do our first we're going to do our first school board meeting on day one of your employment with Avon schools." And uh she knocked it out of the park. So just excited to have her support and um thankful that we got got everything done we needed to to be ready for a board meeting and it's always a little bit challenging to have a board meeting not in our regular location with our regular things and u she adjusted great so thanks for a great meeting. >> Right with that we'll adjourn the meeting at 10:41.
And that burden could certain that person could certainly help take the burden off of some [snorts] of our our staff here to focus on uh other other initiatives and day-to-day operations. >> Yeah. And I would also say any business that employed 600 employees would definitely have a dedicated HR person. Yes, >> thank you. Yes, >> we gave last year but not this year. >> Uh we've also prop we also uh incorporated a proposal for an additional technology staff person um to provide support for students and staff. We uh in we added a stipened for seasonal athletic event coordination. So some of our largest events are athletic events um in terms of attendance and public uh facing events. So um it's it's very important to have consistency of coordination of those events. We have our athletic director who can only be at one event at a time.
>> Oh, very much so. Maybe we'll change your brakes. It should possibly change spring break. >> Yeah. So that we would be back to the drawing board with the administrative team coming up with a potential schedule, a potential calendar. Yes. >> Could we invite state legislators feedback on it? >> Yeah. I mean, yeah. >> Well, it it could it all depends on if you change the number of days. >> Okay. >> And it could, like I say, could be hours and amounts in a day, too. So, it >> we're going to hope that the legislature comes to their senses and allows us to put together a That makes sense for us >> and all the other 286 school districts in the state as well. >> Yeah. I mean, if you >> Yes. >> Yeah. If we had to take that second yellow week in December and turn those gray, I'm sure we'd have a lot of feedback.
>> So, any questions, ladies? >> Thank you. Um, this also is an action item. So, I will entertain a motion. Approve or deny. >> This movement and make sure I get the right one. I will move to approve Chino Valley High School administration and counselors are requesting the 2627 SY course descriptions be approved. Thank you. And I shall second it. All in favor? I. >> Thanks, ladies. >> Thank you. >> Item 10 AR revised, Mr. >> Oh, yes, Madam President. Um, this is the second revision then since the July 31st revision. If you can look at a couple documents, um, this one's on your clipboard at the back. It's called uh expenditure budget report. It used to be called the budget 25 report. And there's a couple numbers I want to refer to. On page one on this little report is our M budget. And on page two is our capital budget.
By the way, $5 million might sound like a lot to us, but I think Wkegan's 14 million. >> Wakanda Round Lake is in pretty high. These are these are real dollars that are going to help schools improve their >> school. >> Oh, all over Lake County, not just >> some of those that really need it. >> Yeah. >> And by the way, more than 51% of this of the sales and sales tax in Lake County comes from outofcount uh shoppers. There's a slide 13 that has the language and it actually says the percentage is blank, but is that determined as part of this ballot? Do do you know how this works? >> Yes. So, they they'll fill in a a percent >> uh the the regional office of education will ultimately come up with the language that will go on the ballot and it will probably read a 1% increase.
our attendance that week was was just really bad. So, [snorts] uh it's like we can either fight the structure or we can work inside of it, right? So, this proposal takes that into consideration as well. So, really the big overall changes here is that to make this all work, we're looking at all of our contact points with parents over the course of the year. So that's curriculum night. That is our October teacher conferences. It also factors in inservice days because we're looking at moving days of students attendance around so we can get no student attendance days during Thanksgiving week. So [clears throat] curriculum night becomes a new format of meet the teacher night. Same same night different experience. [cough] [clears throat] uh November has a a period of time, a shorter window for parent initiated conferences and we'll talk about what those mean in a little bit.
So that work will also be done in conjunction with ESL bridge for next year. >> So the courses are sequential. So the courses would be on rotation for what is currently one and two within an addition to three um which is the bridge. So a student could come in and be placed into a one or two and then a three or just be placed in a three. It's really dependent on um years in program or years in country in conjunction with um their screener scores. Okay. So really trying to tailor student need with language development. >> Hence the realignment. >> So is this additional supports like there are other supports that our Okay. >> Yes. You have to provide supports in content. This is a specific course for newcomers and it's viewed as an elective to support that language acquisition. >> I was going to ask are one and two are those also uh in content with studies.
And uh we we would [clears throat] really hope that we could incorporate this and and um have someone a stipen position in which um you know one of our staff members likely would would be employed in this role and uh have consistent coordination for our events. In addition to that, um, lastly, we have included a 0.5 FTE elementary instrumental music teacher to reinstitute elementary music lessons for fifth graders. So, this uh that opportunity was eliminated several years ago for kids and um we we hope to we hope to bring that back with this proposal. So in all um here most of our you know significant these are all staffing recommendations uh they amount to 13.5 FTEES that we are proposing added to our budget and I would say in the last 10 years how many people do you think we've lost We've we've lost and and reallocated many positions um because of the increase in our students with high needs.
>> I would imagine the legislators, but they should. >> Hopefully they remember they're up for reelection. >> I'm to approve the 2026 2027 calendar draft. to subject to the employ.
And then if you can take a look at the big budget, the big legal landscape one on the side, you see a couple numbers on page one, uh right the very middle of the page on the right, 19,350 for budgeted expenditures and M. And then 778713 on page one. This is our big budget legal budget here. And we're going to go back to page seven and just see where those numbers came from. Go back to page seven, thumb through the big legal one. And you'll see there's about six numbers in a row here that make up that 19 million 350. And if you just uh just kind of follow me, I've got this one straight up. It's a portrait side and this is the new money for the year. You see to the far left 17,204. That's the money that our students generated for operating the district.
law. It's the law that allows it, it looks like, um, goes from a quarter% up to 1% men. So, they think they're going for the 1%. >> Yeah. >> So, this is a decision that's made respectively by all of the boards, but it go but the referendum is through the ROE. >> Yes. The decision is only do we back it to be on the ballot. >> Right. Correct. And then the ballot is >> then it would go on the ballot. The ROE is just the vehicle to put it on there, right? To to write it up. They're just representing the schools. That's kind of what one of the functions of the ROE. >> They're just trying to help us >> represent schools. Yes. >> They're just trying to help all the districts get organized. >> And they're to be fair like Dr. Carer who's pretty good the superintendent of the he's trying to recommend it because when you look at the dollars of it all, it'll help >> schools that really need it.
We're also having these teacher initiated conferences that occur. So before it was just parent initiated conferences in October, we have these two different windows of communication occurring and then we need to move those inservice days around. So there's two at the beginning of the day of the year and then one gets shifted to November. not as much drinking from the fire hose in the first couple of days back for our staff. So, meet the teacher night, let's start there. So, this has traditionally been curriculum night, which is go through your kids schedule while we read you the syllabus, right? And uh we feel like that time together could be a little more more powerful. And what we hear from the parent surveys is the reason that they're coming in for curriculum night and for parent teacher conferences is to get to meet the adult that's spending so much time with their kids, right?
>> No, no, they do get support in those classes and they could be through cola, blended or self-contained model, but the new the foundations connections and bridge is solely to support language acquisition for those students that are eligible or qualify under newcomer. So, it's an additional support on top of content support. >> How burdensome would it be? I think I'm wondering if you know um if it's possible to get like a landscape of kind of like the different courses and how they impact. Would that would that be a possibility? I think that that's something maybe we consider for the board. As I'm thinking about the questions, I'm wondering if some kind of like a pathway alignment of explaining the differences may be helpful. I think a sample uh if I could add on like a sample of like >> a student like >> you know Amy Mario comes to Swiggo East as a newcomer.
Often times the only way we got through a budget process was by addressing maybe there was some declining enrollment in which we um you know eliminated sections at the elementary or middle school or high school level and as a result reallocated those staff to um provide services to to students with high needs. So we did that a ton. Um and we also eliminated positions along the way and uh unfortunately you know that has uh has has a toll on on our ability to provide the right services. So we're hoping that we can begin to address that with this proposal. This is one step of course in the process. This isn't the end but this is this is a step. There were a few positions that were proposed that we did not incorporate into this budget. We just weren't weren't able to. Um Dr. S Magcguire mentioned, you know, we're we're cognizant of fiscal realities and and we understand um we understand that there is a limited pool of resources.