All right, we actually have two um well, we're going to do the teacher of the month next. And this teacher I'm super excited to honor because this teacher is one of the hardest workers in our district. Coming up, Miss Hunt. >> We'll let you hold this. >> Okay. So, tonight we are pleased to recognize Mrs. Tasha Hunt as our teacher of the month. Mrs. Hunt is widely regarded as a team player with a positive attitude. She maintains excellent rapport with students, family, and colleagues, contributing greatly to the culture and success of our school community. Mrs. Hunt serves as a site coordinator for our 21st century grant where she has taken a leadership role in designing and implementing our after-school tutoring program and Saturday school supports. And that's been a lot of work and she is tackling that and doing a fantastic job with it. her her organization and oversight have ensured that students receive meaningful targeted intervention beyond the regular school day.
Okay. Well, what happens if we call a bond election and we all hope that it passes? We then modeled in a couple bond sales. We broke it up into two sales. We would come out of the shoot pretty quick, probably sell bonds in the first quarter of 27. Bond elections November of 26. We come out and sell 15 million. So you could start awarding construction contracts. We could do it sooner than that. We can do it a little bit later with that. We just assume March of 27 out at 15. and we'd come out 18 months to 24 months later and we'd sell another 15 million for a total of 30. All good? Okay. So, we then uh layer in the debt service. We're assuming 5%. Now, remember, school districts issue tax exempt bonds, so the investors don't pay federal and state income tax. So, if you were in the market today, you'd probably be in the fours.
It it's >> it doesn't matter. >> They don't look at >> they just they don't look at your reasons. They just looked at this is what you did. Craig, has anybody from the public recently asked about this? No, no, I haven't had a single person ask. >> So then in the last two years, you moved money out of there because of major raises. >> I I moved the money out because we had more money in capital than than we needed. And by moving it into M, I use that money to fund raises and things like that. >> This year they're not getting a raise. >> No, they they they got it. It's It's not much of a raise. I mean, but the amount of money that we spent sent over, we moved over 180,000. It's that amount is like $20,000 more than we spent total with raises.
And you'll notice that highly proficient went up and minimally proficient went down. So, super excited. I've got to attribute a lot of this to the district impact checks that we did today. Um, our sites are doing impact checks. We have more data than we've ever had before and we're really taking the time to dive into those. Um, what pivots do we need to make um before the end of the year assessments come? Additionally, I have to brag our special education department. It came up so many times today. The collaboration we have with special education is like we haven't seen in our district before. We had an 8% proficient jump which mirrored our general education students this year um from 62 to 70. SPED also had an 8% jump this year. So it again it's that collaboration between all departments that we've previously been in silos.
We're very proud of that. And even more we are proud of our administrator Pam Simmons. Uh she does so much for us. She does so much for all the fine arts in the CTE and we really do we really appreciate you and everything that you do and I appreciate all of you and all that you do. Thank you. [applause] >> We're going to have to get a picture. So I need everybody to back up. Go to the front. >> [applause] >> All right, for our next uh Higgley happening, could I have uh Zara Buana come to the front, please? Let's give her a round of applause. [applause] [applause] So, we'd like to recognize Zara, a senior at Williamsfield High Schools who achieved a remarkable honor by being selected as one of the 10 health occupation students of America to serve on the Voices of Youth Commission.
So some good information there and I'll share that with you Dr. Lopman and can share it with with the board as well. They also talked about housing and um addressing issues in rural Arizona. So, while we're not rural rural um we certainly aren't metropolitan yet. So, lots of good information and it was good to hear um that our legislators are working on things that affect us here at the district. So, um those are all my updates. >> Thank you, Member Owens. >> Thank you, President Coutree. Uh I also was able to attend legislative dinner. Um, I had the honor of uh or maybe it was the misfortune of Rebecca BBE and Chris Lopez. Uh, we all kind of shared a shared a dinner table. Um, so connecting with those two and kind of hearing from both of them what they're doing in Phoenix at the Capitol.
So, if anybody hasn't seen it, um I know tonight again, they work all weekend. and they're at eighth grade open house tonight performing. So, and we kick off the season Saturday. Mantino. >> Wow. Great. I almost want to put that in the good news, right? Great. Um, and Bill, you don't look a day over 30, right? But good, good, uh, good report. And thank you for all you do and thank you Jamie as well for attending the event. Sounds like it was nothing less than a big hit. Big hit. So, thank you. Any other board updates? Uh, I just have a couple here that we are doing really well with the kids initiative with Dr. Perkins leading the team there and I have attended what two meetings. Has it been two meetings since the last board meeting? two both one live and one virtue and I I am just so impressed on the progress that's being made and to hear things from the teachers that say that they have really seen so much success from our three and four year olds and they're connecting the teachers of the three and four year olds are connected with our five year five-year-old kindergarten teachers and the results are just have exceeded their expectations at this point as far as learnings is concerned.
I mean you'll be 13 years old. Um that that would probably be one of our kind of backup buses and and again it's typically how we do it anyways right. Um and again like I said we might we maybe get to a situation where maybe we do one you know or whatever. Um it's also, you know, we talked about here at the end of 26, we'll have the availability from a geo capacity um to to establish an, you know, to do a geo bond at the end of 26. And so maybe that's part of that conversation too of do use some geo capacity to supplement your operations. Well, if buses are typically in our operations here, maybe we use that for some bus purchases. Um you know, that that is again I think there's different strategies to it. There are um some districts they they buy a lot of buses um from geo bonds or or you know you can't you can't do it out of lease bonds um or you'd have to really have ICE Miller really write it creatively I think but um but a lot of a lot of schools will buy buses out of um go um bonds um you know I I I tend to lean personally just towards buying them out out of operation so you're not using debt to buy buses you know but um but again um with with the SEA1 impacting our operations um levy pretty hard, having having that GEO to supplement operations is going to be critical.
The next one, BHC on the list concerns committee to staff communication. So this governs interactions with staff and visits to school buildings. And there might be many different reasons where in the school buildings personally. Uh school committee business should not be one of those reasons. It should not be conducted independently in the building outside of the committee or the superintendent. uh informal encounters like uh pickup and drop off, other volunteer events that we might be in the school for are not appropriate settings for discussing school committee business, complaints about school personnel, anything else. Our role as a committee is to hire the superintendent, which we've done, oversee him, evaluate him, policy and budget, and that's oversight of budget, not day-to-day operations, day-to-day management, or implementation of those budget items. That's up to the superintendent and his staff to take care of that. Uh so just a reminder that when we are in the school building whether we're there for any other reason or not we can be seen as a school committee member in a building and that air of authority travels with us wherever we go no matter what.
Can I get a motion to accept those three, please? >> Make a motion to accept those three changes. >> Any discussion? Thank you. Can we have the roll call, Cheryl? And please note that uh vice chair is on Zoom, please. >> Miss Ferris, >> yes. >> Miss Distler, >> Mr. Jones, >> yes. >> Mr. Mahia, >> yes. >> Mr. Mercedes, >> present. >> Mr. Tox, >> Mr. Hayden, >> yes. Present. Students report, please. We have Yeten and Leila, right? Who's going first? >> Um, this is the February 10th, 2026 uh district committee student presentation. So, first we have the writersite creative writing club which will take place every Friday. Um, it it is being hosted by Miss Dan D. Francisco in the library during win. Students can sign up using my flex. Uh in the club, students will uh learn about creative writing techniques, play writing games, and practice writing.
The board will not respond uh typically to any questions or comments, especially if it's not on our agenda. That's one of the main reasons. So, we will then go to the crowd. Anybody have a a question or comment for the board of education?
Hello there. >> Come on in. >> Hey, can I stand by you? >> Come on. So this double side here. two >> and relax your face and smile. >> Go for it. >> Are we doing a funny Thank you everybody. [applause] All right, back to business. >> Thank you. >> It's not too often you get a state teacher of the year. Go. >> All right. >> Yes. Here you are, ma'am. >> Oh, thank you. >> I know. It's >> getting worse every day. It's >> awful. >> It is awful. >> Vulnerable. >> I used to not put them on to like I was walking out the door now. I'm like, "No, that's >> I need them to like see my food." >> Like, >> what is that? >> I need them to put lunch together in the morning. >> I need them to just call order.
Additionally, we are grateful for the opportunity to recognize ISUSA's distinguished fall sports athletes from the Mont League. I would first like to invite Mr. Hyel Montes to say a little bit about the FTC robotics team this year as well as his robotics team. So, hello there um board members and cabinet. Uh it is my honor to to be here representing uh partially representing of course a robotics team. Um it's been a journey of a few years and we've definitely seen some growth. Uh it's a it's part of a CTSo so it it's mainly relying on the on the students being able to contribute and being able to lead and then go to competition. This year they did so well that they decided to expand to do teams for the first time. So I'm very proud of that. Um none of this would be possible of course without your support.
In addition to her leadership responsibilities, Mrs. Hunt is also committed to her own professional growth. She is currently pursuing her master's degree, demonstrating her dedication to continuous improvement and lifelong learning. Also, this year marks her first year teaching an AP level course, and she is excelling in this new challenge. Her thoughtful planning, high expectations, and strong instructional practices have created an engaging and supportive environment for her students. We are proud to honor Mrs. Hunt for the outstanding service, professionalism, and commitment to student achievement. She is an exceptional model of the values we strive to uphold in this district. So, thank you. Yes. Thank you, Miss Hunt. Next, we would like to um bring up Dr. Johnson to recognize we have two staff employees of the month this month. So, go ahead, Dr. J. Welcome up Avery Davis. Miss Davis extraordinaire. So, Miss Davis is currently um a special ed pair professional for us at the junior high.
Okay? Remember, we were in the threes for a while. Those days are kind of over right now. So, your cost of capital probably, don't hold me to this, uh, somewhere around four. We use five for purposes of being conservative. All good. So, then we get all the way over to column 10. Okay? And that is the estimated additional um, debt service on the 30 million. Okay? You see how we did that? and column 11 is the additional tax rate in connection with the 30 million that we show voters. Okay, so the additional tax rate in column 11 starts out at 26 cents trying to minimize it. Remember, uh we go to about 29. We got to kick we got to start kicking in some principal payments here. So we get in the 50 cent range in column 11. Go on down just a little bit if you could.
>> Do they have like a formula that you're supposed to adhere to in order to stay out of the high-risk area so that you should have that number of dollars in capital? >> So, it's not exactly a formula. It's they don't want you moving the money. you. They give you the option, but they don't want you to use it. >> So, how much money are you supposed to have in capital every year? >> They want you to have 3% rolled over every year. >> Just like we're going to get to that. Those are C, you know, categories we're going to talk about here a little bit. All right. Is there any more about capital monies being moved into M? >> How common is that with other districts? highly analysis. Greg, one more question, please. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Is there an expectation that you should have?
Okay. The next one I want to talk about is math. So, fourth grade math, while we're not happy with the numbers you see in front of you, um you can see that we're steadily improving. And I'm really optimistic about this data because we switched math curriculums last year. So, we hear about the dreaded implementation dip all the time, and you'll see we didn't skip a beat when you compare MOI versus MOI data. Our teachers have really taken the curriculum uh made it their own and they're providing engaging lessons for our students that meet the standards while they're learning it at the ex exact same time. We also have set a new bar for what implementation looks like in the history of Kilbert public schools. Traditionally, we've kind of been like, "Hey, here's your books. We're going to teach you one day and good luck. Um we'll check in with you later." i has been amazing and they have continued to provide uh professional development for our teachers even this year.
This national role focuses on promoting safe and healthy drug-free communities. Zara just returned from a conference in Maryland and will participate in another in Tennessee this summer. She will also compete and implement a capstone project in our community. This prestigious recognition is a significant achievement for Zara and enhances the reputation of our HOSA chapter, school, and district in the medical and bioscience pathways. Well done, Zara. We're proud of your achievements. Let's give a round of applause again. [applause] All right. So, we have Zara and we have Mr. Brock, our hosta sponsor. But Zara, can you tell us a little bit about your experience, please? >> Yes. So, I recently got back from my trip on Thursday, and it was in National Harbor, Maryland, and I went to CADKA's conference for that promotes teen anti-drug use. and I met with a lot of teens across the nation, mostly in the like e mostly on the east coast, but we went to some workshops to help us learn about how to uh look at community health and kind of like a holistic approach and that some people um like being healthy means different things to everyone.
Um, had a kind of a cool little connection with Rebecca BBE. Um, we grew up, she grew up in the same town where I worked. Um, so having, it was kind of cool to have a kind of a connection point there. Um, and um, just hearing how um, we have so many advocates for what we're doing, what our focus is here. um and trying to trying to help education um is really great. So, um we're able to exchange some information uh and that kind of thing. So, um I'm hopeful that we're going to see some positive things come out and uh the legislative session is here. So, that's all I have. >> Thank you, Member Garcia. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. Uh I too also attended the uh legislative forum. Um got to meet some uh city council members there as well and also share uh updates in regards to uh my very first meeting with on the school board and I'm still getting a little bit acclimated here.
So, and one other thing that was shared in that meeting that the state is really looking at Creek Monique 2011U as an example statewide our district. So, I don't know if I'm going to be around, but I'm hoping to be around when that three-year-old graduate from high school at least. Not maybe definitely not a board member, but on the other side as a great-grandfather. I would love to see that the results of the initiative that's going on. So, continue to do the good work and Dr. Cognice. She has really placed placed our placed this initiative into Dr. Perkins hands and she has taken it and ran with it. So I'm excited about that. >> What was the name of that initiative? >> You can say it better than I could. >> Sorry. >> Kids >> kindergarten. We have classrooms across the state that are being looked at spotlight.