I presented it to you in January and and as good as teachers are, we do have opportunities possibly to offer incentives. So we worked with the union and we worked with the board of education. great collaboration and we offered a retirement incentive and we received five retirements were submitted and the fiscal year salaries were reduced by $552,000 just based upon that. And the incentive will cost the district $55,000 because if you recall each one of them will get $11,000 each year. But what we're going on and you can see in this chart that the fiscal year 27 is 552,000 theou payout year one 55,000. We're anticipating the replacement being $258,000. So a net of $239,000 239,151. So that retirement savings, we're anticipating, as we spoke about this morning, of saving $239,000 as projected of what we may hire for um the fall. And I I'm going to explain that in a minute.
Uh but when we look at EL students um in the dual language immersion um program the DLI program 21% uh met the standard and this is significantly higher than the 5% rate of EEL uh students districtwide. Uh this data does suggest that maintaining a primary language um accelerates uh English language mastery. Uh so we'll continue to commit uh to providing um the opportunity to our English learners to participate in the DLI program. We also uh measure progress towards English language proficiency that's reported on the California school dashboard. Uh currently 39% of our EL students are making progress towards English language proficiency and our current uh reclassification rate is at 7%. Uh students get reclassified throughout the year. So we will continue to update this metric um as students uh show that they are ready for reclassification. Uh and we'll be able to dig into this data uh with more current data at our uh April uh study session.
Read this and take a picture. Then you can go sit back down and then we take a big group picture. We tell you what to do. Okay. >> A little bit. And then um there's a shirt for you. But if you need a different >> size I I'm kind of early. Yeah. Original. Put the suit on. I'm just glad tour. Okay. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right, welcome everybody to the governing board meeting for February the 10th. We believe that's February. So, we've already started the meeting earlier with a study session over some budget stuff and then it was a good time you guys and staff.
Yeah, it would have to be in a format that we understand these differently probably than the general public would. So, it' have to be something that highlights some of those extraordinary areas put together. >> We I know um to go even further, I we absolutely there's some ways to do that. But I will share that I know for like AP um our PR team works with us and they've done an incredible job putting those things together, but it usually comes um once those scores come out. And then um with some of our other more like growth in the numbers. So I know we didn't hit on them today, but even when we talk about like our GAMS growth and things like that, we've celebrated some of those. So I think that's a great idea and we can take that back to the team. U but they're always finding ways to like celebrate us.
Do we have any questions or comments from the board before I motion? President Wade. Um I just want to utilize uh just I want to make sure this is pretty cladlock and uh protecting the the safety of the students um in all the touch touch points basically. Um and communication is a big one. So I didn't know James if you can help me out with this or legal um but I just want to utilize obviously communication through social media, text message, stuff like that. I really want to make sure that we are utilizing this um document so that our staff and everybody etc know exactly what's expected. >> Uh sure um President Wade um Vice President Gar um this policy is actually in regards to the fingerprint clearance card criteria as uh indicated from the Department of Public Safety. Um what you're referring to about maybe misconduct through social media that's addressed through our employee conduct and staff conduct with students policy.
I think this is old business if no one else have anything. >> I'm sorry. I do want to say, well, this is kind of old business. Now, the other thing to look at is that was the boys schedule that I gave you because the girls, they are typically the week before, like the 21st through the 23rd this year. Then 20th through the 22nd, 18th through the 20th. So, so on and so forth. 17, 19, 16, 18. So, >> you might not be able to avoid it, but it's >> Yeah. somebody like get like and that's just track you have baseball, softball, you got, you know, other things. So, soccer. >> I'm glad we got that out on the table. >> Okay. >> No, no, that was good. That was good. Thank you for that information, Dr. Hall. Okay. I just anyone else old business and I think this is old business.
And if I'm not mistaken, you are related to a full-time employee. >> I am. I am related to a full-time employee. My husband is Michael Bla. He is the elementary school um multilingual learning teacher. Um he has been here for 10 years now. I want to say 10 years. So follow on to my question then given that position >> regarding the budget, how will you handle that conflict if a decision comes before the committee such as a financial decision regarding the budget that could impact your family directly? >> Well, I do recognize that there may be some times when I would need to recuse myself or it may not be um ethical for me to to to vote because of G given that. And I actually did because I was curious. I did email MASC prior to applying here to see if given that my husband is a full-time employee um if that would you know um be something that would prevent me from applying and per there you know they did they they replied within 24 hours which was amazing >> um you know just saying that there may be situations in which I would need to recuse myself so I feel like I would be very open with the members of the community I would certainly even Um, especially since I rebranding to this, look for advice on when that might be the best time.
Vogle particularly at the start of the year runs us through the drills uh back to school and I think to Brendan's point as we kind of develop and do some more exercises and practice it's only going to make us better uh on that too. So, um, it was a great conference to get a chance to come back and and kind of start to, you know, put some of these things in place. So, we're looking forward to continuing the work. >> Mr. Tox was highlighting that um whether it was and myself teaching here earlier on the students are very much in the community you know and things weren't as difficult those days as they are now but something you got to keep your eye on because a lot of the students are outside the building working on projects so you got >> yeah it's a It's it's a it's a big it's this is a wonderful campus.
Again, if you go to page 17, what does this mean? And going to uh Mrs. Svin's point, what is different from what I presented on December 9th and what I'm presenting now? And Mr. Daniels said when I before I started, you don't want me to spend four hours tonight. Well, honestly, folks, we already spent four hours because for the past four or five meetings, we spent about an hour at each meeting talking about the budget. So, there's nothing I'm sharing with you tonight that you haven't heard already. We're just drilling it down a little bit more. But what I did have to add to the budget is I had to add an EAC sick late leave payout for retirees. So anyone before in the EAC contract has a sick leave buyout. One is a five had the buyout that was 44,000. Their retirement incentive 55,000.
for goal two uh expenditures, actions and services. Our uh professional learning is focused on um support for English learners um specifically the Sabbr early academic language uh training which we often refer to as the SEAL training for our our schools. Um we uh will continue to support our dual language immersion program through um expenditures here. Uh we provide supplemental materials and programs that allow us to track and monitor progress uh in real time for our English learners. Um you will notice that expenditures appear lower than uh in goal one. Uh but this is due to the use of one-time funding um first strategy before um spending LCAP funds um to include uh the use of grants uh such as the educator effectiveness grants to uh support our professional learning. Goal three highlights our commitment uh to ensure that our students graduate prepare prepared for life after high school.
So, we've already done our pledge of allegiance um roll call and just overall stuff that you guys probably don't care about. So, with that, we will pick up to approve minutes from our last meeting on January 13th. I move to approve the minutes from our January 13th meeting. >> I'll second. >> Yes. >> Miss Peters. >> Yes. >> M. >> Yes. Mr. Ashley. >> Yes. >> And >> thank you for calling. >> We will move into the superintendent presentation which is done playing with Good evening, President Oy, members of the board, our wonderful chairs, and our amazing student leaders. Thank you for being here today. Just a few exciting things to present to you. Just a reminder, our mission and our vision is there for you. And as you know, all of our decisions are based on our mission statement and our vision statement. Building for the future, learning, cooperating, and caring.
So they'll be excited to hear that. I and I'd just like to point out again, I think as we came out of CO, you know, our our eyes were glossy, our heads were foggy for a lot of different reasons cuz we were going in a lot of different directions as was every district. And I think we took it as an opportunity to hit the reset button when it came to academics. and we dedicated uh ourselves to, you know, we talk a lot about culture and I think people think culture is all about people feeling good of where they're at and and you know, loving the space that they're in, but there's that academic culture and I think that was a big reset for for us. And as I sat in this uh district uh continuous improvement plan meeting today and and just listened, I didn't I don't do any talking in there.
This this one deals with being able to be uh cleared through DPS and not have any specific crimes in your background. And so this is our criteria before we hire um a a certificated employee that they have to have a DPS fingerprint clearance card that's approved in good standing. >> Okay, I appreciate that. Sorry about that. Um okay, and then obviously this is a rolling background check. like this is constantly rolling and in this um they have to if anything changes they have to be proactive in letting the district know. Right. >> This is correct. So we are in uh communication with the department of public safety. fingerprint clearance card is issued for seven years and if any of the crimes that are listed in the policy presented before you are violated then the fingerprint clearance card gets revoked uh or suspended actually would be the technical term and then DPS notifies us that there's an an individual with a a suspended fingerprint clearance card.
If no one else have any old business to state this one thing for me and I forgot to mention it as a board update. Alex, you still there? >> Yes, I am. >> Okay. Thank you. All right. Alex, I did uh I share with the board that I would go and attend a speed meeting a week or so ago. >> Can you go back on mute? >> Yeah, you can go back on mute, Alex. We hear the tires rolling. So, I did attend a speed me meeting and it was very very what's the word I'm looking for? >> Interesting. Yeah. Interesting on steroids. Okay. To say the least. And it was all of about three hours and it was very good. I thought I learned a lot there. They asked me, "Have I ever attended a speed meeting meeting before?" And I said, "Yeah, about almost 15 years ago when I first got on the board, I attended the board." Wow.
Um, but I feel like I am also capable of looking at the good of the whole over the individual, right? And I I know that the good of the whole will have individual impacts. I'm not I'm not immune to that. I have felt that in my own district. I have I have witnessed that in my own district, right? It's it's heartbreaking to lose colleagues that you care about and you know care about the students because of budgetary constraints but I realize there's only so much that we can work with and that at some point decisions will have to be made. >> Thank you. >> You touched on it a little bit but um how you balance your loyalty to your individual community with the need of the regional district. >> I think it really comes back to being able to to hold multiple truths in your hands at the same time, right?
We have a thousands of kids and uh we want them involved and interacting and learning in the best way possible. Uh and with that comes you know you know that those challenges to try and make sure we can account for everyone and that they're safe and that you know we're not cutting corners and that takes everyone. So you know I I couldn't agree more. >> Mr. Jones. >> Yeah. Once you get your practices all aligned, will you be doing some simulations in the school? >> Yeah. No, I think we we, as I said, do a few drills already to start the year. We do um you know, um, you know, we do our our fire drills, our Alice drills throughout the year. I think we're going to look to do some more additionals with different types of scenarios. One of the things at the conference and my takeaway is in hearing you know other parts of the countries have other challenges with tornadoes or flooding or things like that.
What we didn't know on December 9th is all our teachers that were going for advancement of their degrees of going from like a master's to a sixth year will cost us 49,000 and then other salary adjustments depending upon individuals that we hired another 29,000. So a difference of $179,000 I had to add in. And then there is that ECS revenue of $258,000. So the total additions is a total of $438,000. So what did I have to reduce? You can see the retirement initiative 70,000. On December 9th, I predicted that we were going to offer a retirement incentive. So I accounted for approximately $180 $190,000 of that on December 9th, but we got more. So we were able to add in 70,000 additional retirement savings of $78,000. Uh meaning that um additional retirement of people that are retiring, it's a little bit more than than what we're predicting.
Uh we specifically in this goal want to remove barriers um for students and uh increase access to rigorous uh coursework for our high need students populations. And you'll see uh in the next slide that in goal three we're also measuring academic achievement as well as uh graduation outcomes. And again we're uh basing this on the CASP uh assessment which is the ESPback assessment. Uh but specifically looking at 11th grade performance that shows that 43% of our juniors met or exceeded standards in le in English language arts. uh providing a a strong foundation as they move into their uh senior year. However, we do recognize that there's a math challenge for us um in 11th grade with a 15% uh proficiency in math. Um so, we're intensifying our supports uh and our credit recovery efforts uh specifically in mathematics. You'll also see on this slide that we've achieved an 88% district-wide uh graduation rate that is at par with the state of California.
Last month was governing board appreciation month. So, I hope our amazing board members did have a good month and I know we highlighted them on our website and we just really want our board members to know that we appreciate their support for for us at our school. We had our foundation. Did anybody in the audience get to our sweetheart gaya on Saturday? Okay. Yes. Nice. Yes. Okay. So, an extra spe special shout out to our foundation board members and all who helped make our sweetheart data a huge success. It was a beautiful day um with so many amazing and dedicated community supporters, staff and students that have listed there, our board members. And you'll see that um our officers and our board members, we have um Mr. Oernardi and Mrs. Alaras. They're board members, but they're also part of our foundation board. And um Miss Laura Peters used to be on the foundation board and then she became a board member and uh so then we had to only have two board members for in order to not violate opening law.
This is the work of all all of these folks and the others that are in there. It is incredible to see from the very first time we sat down as a group to where we are today. Uh the language is different. The first few meetings were very direct, honest about who we are, what we are, and where we want to be. Today, it wasn't we weren't drudging up the past. We were talking about how are we going to continually improve and what do we need to do better? And we continually add goals and markers to this. And and I'll say it, you know, in 31 years, this is this is the most and the most focused we've ever been when it comes to academics. And that's attributed to their department, all of our folks out there, all of our departments, uh, being lock step with what's important, our teachers in the classroom, understanding that, um, student success is paramount to Gilbert public schools.