>> Absolutely. And um Keith, if I'm not mistaken, we've actually started to work on some of those in-house that we have from from those six of those eight bills. Yeah, we have been working on those inhouse to save the money and and leverage funds to the maximum of their ability. >> You know, I told Dr. Coglin the other day, she sent me something and I replied back, "Doc, you always one step ahead of me." That goes for you two guys, too. Okay. >> Thank you, sir. >> Thank you. >> Just for clarity, I think I'm understanding what you're saying is that if we identify something before 2028, we may >> for the two buildings before 2028, we may have an opportunity to fix it outside of this process. Is that what you're saying? >> Yeah. We may have an opportunity because we don't know where our finances going to stand or whatever what's going to be identified that if we can look at it and capture we have opportunity to borrow life safety go out and and obtain life safety bonds to sell to address the current life safety issues that we're looking at take advantage of it now if we identify things because now when the life safety survey come in 2028 >> that will not be on the list okay >> and we're going to have to address it anyway.
We we've made um I would say tremendous strides in the last year and a half um with with school safety and and a lot of things that we've put in place and um met with our entire high school staff on Friday. Met with our entire elementary staff this morning before school. Certainly appreciate just the feedback that that came from those two groups too and and questions asked. And so um certainly I I would you know um also want to say thank you to the Clinton County Sheriff's Department. Um so for their support um just you know I I had a conversation with Lieutenant Farllo just a little bit ago and just again just reiterating um our thanks to them um for for supporting us as a public school um and and the way that they partner with us and and um so again thanks to them but um you know I want to assure families um that you know as a father and as a parent or as a father sorry and as a husband uh both my kids go to public school My wife teaches in a public school.
I'm sorry if I pronounced anyone's name incorrectly. or >> uh no that's public >> I don't think anyone's ever pronounced my last name proper >> sorry terrible I barely get my own name I call my kids wrong all the time so um >> feel free to make an opening statement and then we'll ask you some questions >> sure yes I do have an opening statement prepared and I am mindful that this is a very long meeting so if I do look down at my notes because I have lots of notes and I want to make it as fast and as efficient for you guys as possible. So, um, good evening and thank you to the school committee for the opportunity to be considered for this seat and to everyone for being here tonight. My name is Christina Maderos. My family and I have lived in Boilston for about seven years and all of my children attend district schools, two at Bees and two at Tanto.
Um, the options include a text message code, a phone call, or even a physical um, security key that they're able to use to authenticate. Um, and this not only protects their Google account, but also all their data scored in stored in their Google Drive and then their login to other applications that use Google login. Uh the big one would be p school our student information system that is also now protected behind uh multiffactor authentication. Um another big project is a scale computing migration. Um we utilize virtual servers at GLTS. Um so it's one big piece of hardware that uses software to divvy up that hardware into in our instance over 30 virtual servers. Um that hardware was aging and it needed to be replaced. So we took that opportunity to switch to a different software provider as well. Um so we replaced all of the hardware with brand new hardware.
So, go through the presentation, develop your questions. If you have a a clarifying question, certainly, uh, you can ask it. But if not, as you go through the budget, you have to really go through it, let it permeate through. Um, you'll send your questions in to Claudia and we'll at the next session, he'll be answering those questions. So, with that said, Dr. Silver, >> thank you, Mr. So before we get begin, Mrs. Nardy is passing out a a presentation to you that is on the screen. It's also posted on our website. All our materials will be posted on our website. They're on there now for any of the public to get and all the recordings of our meetings will be posted on our website so people can also follow along within the budget process. Before I begin, um, I always like to thank people that were involved to to make this happen.
But anyways, um who they were, it was the um ASB students from Wuza, Bowen Park, Sierra Vista, Dwarte, Ngales High School, all those schools together. They spend it they I hear they do this every year and they go to different schools. They switch different schools. um they spend the day together to develop leadership skills and do activities and school spirit. They were all having such a great time. This is a great opportunity for our students which I didn't like I said I didn't realize it was happening but it was they h had the um the gym all decorated for the incoming students from other school sides so they could see our beautiful school. It was very nice. I went to the St. Gabriel High School academic decathlon. Um and that's my alumni. That's my school I graduated from. Uh I I was um honored to be a judge in the speech contest academic decathlon 2026.
I'm glad to answer any questions that that anybody has. All good. >> Okay. >> Um, >> let me say it again. >> Is it common for bond and override elections to be in the same Yes. >> November ballot? >> Yeah, they Yeah, they have to be in November. Now, some districts may say, well, kind of complicates things, right? You could do them in in different years if you wanted to, but um >> cost us more money. >> It does. It does. And you lose a year, but it's pretty common for districts to do both. I mean, >> we've got to decide. >> That's right. >> Yeah. Or both. >> Okay. Yeah. >> They're not and they're not tied together. Like for for example, the bond could pass, but the override might fail. >> That's right. Okay. That's right. >> So, thanks for having me. Uh we're here to help and look forward to continued conversations and I'm sure we'll be back in front of the board relatively soon.
We get they are a zero FTE as far as the states, >> but there's zero FTE, but they count on the data for the state assessment 100%. So they do look at one category of full academic year kids, but all the kids still count. So, it's not like we can say, "Well, we're going to just ignore the ones that came in after the 40th day or the 50th day." Um, because all the kids, regardless of whether we get funding or not for them, count in our data for points for >> which we get and when they leave, we don't have to pay it back. >> No, no. Right. So it's >> right with the child. >> Do we have any guess of how many kids are in charter schools or homeschool getting that 90 grand a year? >> Wasn't that like 78 kids that are in that homeschool charter?
So, um, it really is a celebration, but it's all attributed to our faculty members, our teachers and support staff and our administration on campuses and their openness to to work in this direction together. >> Yes. But I mean sorry but when you see 2023 in chemistry 44% and now 3 years later 75 almost 76% or 81%. That is a huge jump. So I really you know I really appreciate the hard work. I mean others are similar but that one jumps out to me. >> Yeah. >> And and sorry can you tell me what what these numbers are? Are these the percentage of students or is this the actual score on the test? >> The average score on the test. >> Average score on the test. >> Thank you. >> And I I had a question for So there's significant growth, but what does it look like across the schools?
I have a lot of stories that my mom had to fight for in the Gilbert public school system. Another thing is Democrats are here to stay in Gilbert and Higgley. And I hear you out here and keep standing up for what is right in your school system. It is a shame that the public schools of Higgley gave these students an unexcused absent for protesting their rights on campus. Shame on you Higgley public schools. I know not all of you guys, but whoever did it, shame. Mahalo and thank you for listening to me tonight. That concludes our request to speak for today. This brings up uh consent agenda items. I motion to approve consent to sorry consent agenda items 5.1 through 5.12. Second that would be Miss Garman is seconding. [clears throat] Uh all those in favor I vote I for the cons. Oh wait wait wait no mine came up.
In fact, she's actually using our district as a model for a couple of the districts that are looking for that. So very very pleased with the work that we put in last year to prepare these documents and we're just asking for your support once again on the language. >> Yeah, please. When you when teachers sign these contracts or any staff really, do they ever have come back with questions about it or do they have an opportunity to ask questions? >> Yes, we issue as we issue. Thank you. It's a great question, Member Lopez. When we issue these contracts, there's always a buffer time between when they receive them and when they haven't turned them in. >> So, we we've fielded questions before. Typically, we don't like to do it after they've already signed, but even even at that point in time, we we'll be able to go back.
way. >> Then you take the present value of a dollar, it probably be cheaper now than five, four, five years from now. >> Thank you. >> And it's not only what we identified as gotate that this process needs to be approved by the regional office of education and also ISB. So >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Okay. >> Thank you everyone. >> Thanks Jason. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. So next up is Let me see. Dr. Perkins and teaching and learning for the update on the 2026 2027 school calendar. I'm sure that has been vetted pretty well. >> It's ready to go. >> Lots of feedback on this. Good evening to uh Dr. Koglin East and to the board. Uh we are bringing um the recommendation for the 2627 uh school calendar. Uh we will be submitting that for your recommendation for next uh week when you vote.
I work in a public school. Um, you know, it there is nothing more important than the safety of our students and staff. Um, you know, I I I met with a great couple uh this afternoon. Uh, we kind of got sidetracked and we we talked about some other stuff too about HVAC equipment. So, I I certainly actually going to be making a call tomorrow. uh but um got sidetracked a little bit but um really appreciated their feedback and and getting to hear from them you know their perspective as parents. Um but you know I want I want wanted to share you know um that um you know my kids go to school every day. You know I want them to be safe. My wife goes to work at a school every day. I go to school every day. Um we want to be safe. We want our students to be safe.
So, this district is very much part of our everyday life. I'm originally from Hudson, Mass, where I grew up in a working-class family with strong ties to the community. During that time, Hudson was a place that believed in invested in public education. The schools and teachers were deeply invested in students, and I always felt supported to explore whatever path I was interested in. I also have fond memories of the kinds of experiences that make public school special. Art fairs, science fairs, chorus concerts, drama clubs, and musicals, and all those moments that made school feel like a community, not just a classroom. In particular, my teachers encouraged young women to explore math and science at a time when that wasn't the norm. And that made a lasting impact on me. Being the first in my family to go to college, that support was foundational. It shaped my confidence, my career path, and how I see the role schools play in opening doors for students.
We switched to a new software provider and we also took the opportunity to invest in a cloud-based disaster recovery. Um so in the future if any breach were to happen, we wouldn't be out of school for 7 days anymore. we'd be able to spin back up our most important servers instantly um and be able to get students back in the classroom uh so that they can learn. Uh we were also upgraded our physical security in the form of a new camera system. Um so we were able to replace we kept all the same physical cameras but we replaced the software behind it which enables advanced analytics on all the existing cameras. The main takeaway with that is uh we we can receive notifications when people are accessing parts of the building that they shouldn't be in. Uh for example, a network closet. If somebody's trying to get in there, we'll get a notification and we can respond accordingly.
I'm the one and it says superintendent's proposed budget, but putting this budget together, it it's completely a team effort. And I I I got to say, and you know, you always miss people when we thank, but our staff with our teachers and our non-certified staff and working with our administrative team, with our principles and our directors of presenting to the administrators a budget that was presented to me was one that was responsible, thoughtful, and really looking at our district. And what's really exciting is that they were able to ground their requests in the strategic plan. It's the first time that I could say presenting to the Kant board of education that our budget is grounded in the strategic plan of what we are looking to do over the next five years. So, I commend you as a board for having a vision of where we want to go within the five years and it was filtered down to everyone within our district.
It's a rigorous rigorous uh scholastic team competition that tests the knowledge and skills of high school students who compete against each other each other school's team for gold, silver, and bronze medal. This was the second year that Isuza High participated. 11 students from Isuza High School competed. I was so proud of the they look so spiffy in their new um jackets because they didn't have jackets last year. That was the first time they participated and this this year they had a jacket with the Zuza High School logo on it. So I want to thank Mr. Principal um G Fernandez and also teacher Vicky Davis. I went to a Victor Hodgej community school site visit. um this uh community specialists and leazison from the St. Gabriel Valley parents students actively engaged with the visit visitors Michelle D. that walk through walk them through the community school and what it looks like at Victor Hodgej.
Thank you very much. >> Okay. Thank you. stand up there with me. >> Next, we want to invite Bob and Russell so they can talk a little bit about Now, we asked them to come in and do a facilities assessment. They did it completely free to us so that they could take a look at our facilities and look at some of the needs and get a deeper deeper look at it. And so, we're about to hear it now. So, thank you, gentlemen. >> Good. Um, good afternoon, good evening, but thank you for uh allowing us to spend 10 minutes with you and go through some of the findings. And then Mike, um, thank you. Russell's been here four times. He's done drone footage. Uh, you're going to see some of the PowerPoint presentations, the status of your ceilings, the status of your mechanical units, the status of showers, and um, you are a great help.
when I call the Puma County Superintendent Office at the beginning of the year for one of the um submissions I have to do. Um this year I think it was closer to 90 were homeschooled but that doesn't I look for a special ed population but that let's say 90 is what is reported to Puma County Superintendent that doesn't necessarily mean everybody. So, >> are those the ones that are getting like the 8,000 or so a year? >> It it could be some of them. >> It could be it could be that the families use the ESA funds, >> ESA. >> Um, it could be just homeschool families and they don't utilize those funds. Um, so there's another report that just came out that has some scatter plots that shows our enrollment trends and compares us to other schools and it's the same where we can click and see where what zip code is generating the most of our students and where they're going.
Is it are all schools steadily growing or is it certain schools that are um you know, hidden out of the park? You know, how does that >> Yeah. So that's part of our our district improvement um planning um and why we have these regular impact check meetings and we hold our campuses to that as well and they're individually doing that. So we're giving you all the overarching district trends. Um we do dive into that and we we put so many different things into place. I'll just share a couple of examples. I know that uh Miss Taylor and Mr. Canon have started principal collaboration meetings this year where they get to come together with their data and the principles that maybe on whatever data point we're talking about there's um maybe two principles that are off the charts with it. So they'll share what their process is for that if it's academic in nature culture attendance data like you name it and then the other principles kind of just steal ideas and try new things.