>> Okay, thank you. Um, now I'm of legal has touched base with this and also HR has touched base with this and utilize this opportunity to kind of get as much in as we can. Right. I want to confirm that. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. >> I can confirm from legal. Yes. >> Okay. I appreciate it. Thank you. >> Do we have any other questions or comments before I motion? I motion to approve GCFC professional staff certification and credentiing requirements. >> Second. >> That would be Miss Schultz seconding. [snorts] Motion carries 5 to zero. This brings us to item 7.3, approval of GDFA support staff qualifications and requirements. Second read.
Okay. So, Alex, I have to give you a binder which basically states the State of the Union for speed. It's a big 1-in binder filled with a lot of information. Okay. I owe that to you. The next meeting will be in March. I don't have the date, but they're skipping this month. >> Okay. And the next one will be in Mar March. And they also elected another person for the president. I guess the previous president and keep his family in prayer that he lost his life. So you have you do have a new president there. Just want to let you know. Okay. >> Okay. >> And I'll talk to you offline when you and I can get together and I'll share more information. Okay. >> So I think we represented the district well. So that's about it. I have for old business. Thanks, Alex. >> Thank you.
like I can be sensitive and I can I can be fair and admit that I'm going to have certain interests and desires and drives as um the parent of an elementary school child, right? I'm going to have different ideas and concerns as an experienced high school teacher. Um but I'm going to always enter things in terms of curiosity. I'm always going to want to learn more about whatever the topic is. Um, I'm going to want to find ways to support my committee members, to support the um the entire district and in whatever um direction that we're moving. I want and maybe it's it's it's a bit um I don't I don't know two rosecolored glasses, you know, like I want the best for everyone and I'm very invested in finding the way to make that happen to make that as true as possible for all those involved.
We have our own challenges here. There was a gas explosion not too long ago. There's some other things that you know you can get people in and and try and and go through your protocols that we have and practice them. So I think for us it's you know we're a relatively new team over the last year and a half and a lot of new people. I think we we can get people in place to practice them and to then go and so we're better prepared and people feel safer. So that's part of it too. You practice it because you know in emergency it turns true chaotic scenario you revert back to your practices and kind of how well you're prepared. So you know um it's a it's a lot of listen it's a lot of information to go to these conferences and they there's there's someone trying to sell you everything and there's a lot of information.
Preschool tuition. what we are are working with the town that any revenue that comes from the board of education we're taking back that the town agreed to that the CEO agreed to that so this $44,000 has always been in the town revenue we're taking it as revenue to offset our budget you've heard this at our last meeting additional bridges uh revenue from the last time we spoke I'm able to add $108,000 more o of revenue into our budget. Small capital changes relative to some different numbers that we received. $50,000 special education 4,000. I do got to commend Mrs. Robbins for doing a census with our health insurance that she actually went individual by individual that it was always the town sharing with us. This is your number. Mrs. Robbins went through and said, "Well, let's look at what her number actually is." So, she did a line by line census on our staff, and that saved us $65,000 for a total reduction of $420,000.
Um, and I do want to highlight and recognize uh Sierra High School for reaching an impressive uh 94% graduation rate um for 2025. Um and our three-year graduation target for the ALCAP is to reach a 95% Okay, continuing with graduation outcomes and college and career readiness measures in goal three. Uh we have seen a significant gain in the college and career readiness uh the CCI indicator which is a table on the right hand side uh that's measured on the California school dashboard. Uh this measure shows a 10.2% 2% increase uh for students being classified as prepared for college and careers. Uh putting our current rate at 44%. U this is a comprehensive measure that reflects more than just one single test score um such as it could include calf scores uh dual enrollment courses CTE pathways or seal the seal of bi literacy. When looking specifically at CTE completion, uh those are the tables on the left hand side, uh we see that 24% of graduates are completing a full CTE pathway.
So, um, and what's nice is some of our parents have started out as parent advisory parents and then they move into the role of helping with the foundation. Um, so we're always looking for new members. So, if anybody wants to become a part of our foundation board, please let me know. You can reach out to Jenna or you can talk to Mr. Ost and Mrs. some ideas um because we really um want to continue to have parental involvement in the decisions that we're making for our school. Just a few highlighted pictures. There's Miss Bonnie Clar. You see her there on the left with the sight and auction donor Trudy Baker and Trudy um what donated so many beautiful jewelry pieces. And as I was looking at the sight auction items, I said, "Who is Trudy Baker? If you see her, I need to meet her." So, I was able to meet her and thank her and just amazing support that people who support that mental that we don't even know are.
And I think everybody's on board with that. So, I appreciate that. Thank you guys. >> Okay. Well, thank you guys again. Um, I love my data as well. So, I very much appreciated all this and it's it is exciting to see that the numbers are trending upwards. So, thank you guys so much for all of the hard work that you're doing. >> Thank you. Do I have? >> Yeah, just say the next one. Yeah. >> Okay. Okay. So, moving on to 2.02 monthly financial report for month ended December 31st, 2025 to fiscal year 2026. >> So, you just saw our academic data. Lot of numbers. Now, here comes some financial numbers. This is Bonnie's wheelhouse. And I know that you all would prefer to see the academic numbers and not so much of the financial numbers, but I am uh wor I was so worried about running out of power that I failed to turn on my computer and get my >> Well, good.
Uh do I have any questions or comments from the board before I motion on this one? >> I do have a question on page two. Uh I had requested uh at the last meeting to add that no administrator or supervisor may wave the fingerprint clearance requirement except as expressed expressly permitted by state law. And I noticed that wasn't added. But then I also noticed we removed the language that says the district may release the results of background checks and communicate whether the person has been issued or denied a fingerprint clearance card to another school district for employment purposes. And I'm curious why that was removed and why we wouldn't uh share that information. Uh, President Wade, uh, board member Van Hook. Uh, as far as the, uh, the first inquiry, um, you'll notice that language has been included on page one in the first paragraph that no administrator may wave, uh, the requirements.
>> You're welcome. New business. >> I have uh question for a new business. I guess this will go into new. How many people do we have that work at home? Work from home. How many employees do we have that work from home? >> Oh my god. >> I know. It's like full time. >> We have a few that work hybrid. They're here and then they have a few days at home now. >> Okay. Um >> so maybe just a few. Do do we is that because of still space because at what point are they going to return back to working full-time in the building? >> Well, there there's not a need for them to be here. The types of jobs such as transportation. >> Um she starts at 5:00 in the morning and she's there till she's working till 5 6 o'clock at night >> intermittently.
I don't know if that answer. >> Please briefly discuss how one of your specific previous work or volunteer experiences could be beneficial to serving on a school committee. Well, I'm an educator. I I know very very well what it means to to be in the classroom every day. What what if and when decisions are made to um cut down teachers, to increase class size, to to have fewer resources um or to have those things available to you. There was a time when I was at AB where um extra people were able to be hired and we were able to reduce class sizes and have that experience as well. on what that looks like. Um, so I can at the very least bring that experience and that perspective to the table to share. And I also recognize it's not the only perspective, right? It's not the only experience that is valid that would be valuable to the group as a whole.
So we come back synthesized it and trying to take pieces away that we can practice and better the communities. Go ahead. >> Yeah, >> I I heard the term, but what's the Alice drill? >> Um, it's for when um if there was an emergency out out loud, it's a it's a flow or program uh that you'd want to use um um alert, lock down, um >> test calm, >> inform, counter, evacuate. Thank you. On there. So, it's a it's an acronym that takes you through the process that empowers people to make decisions, teachers with students, so that given any type of scenario, you're preparing the safety of a of the campus. >> Thank you. >> Thanks for the help. >> Any further questions? Are you all set? >> The last quick point that I wanted to make was that >> um relationship building with students is critical and important.
So, that's where we land on that. Our operational is 5.92 and our with that education cost share revenue it brings from the 258 it brings us to the 6.67. You've seen this chart before relative to the open choice funding in enrollment. Nothing has changed with this. This is where we anticipate that we'll have 81 students next year and we anticipate bringing in a a total of open choice with various grants around $959,000. on slide 19. A, as you know, 79 to 80% of our staff of our budget is made up of personnel and uh benefits. So that that's important to know that this isn't there's nothing new in this budget. We're actually, as you know, reducing staff, certified staff by 2.2 1.2 out of the high school, 1.0 0 at the elementary school. And then you can see on page 20 what makes up our $37 million.
Um and for A through G completion, we see uh that 34% of our district graduates have met the requirements for a UC or CSU um college or university. Our um three-year target for A3G is to be at 50%. And for CTE is to be at 30%. For goal three expenditures um and actions and services, our uh professional learning has been uh focused on providing our our staff with the necessary tools such as AVID or AP training. um training training for tiered support for college readiness uh using the college board suite of assessments. Uh we have multiple uh course offerings uh including medical and engineering pathway courses, AP courses, early college program uh as well as CTE and RO courses um at our secondary sites. Um expenditures for this goal will continue in the spring uh to cover uh costs of uh items such as the AP exam fees uh as well as potential field trips uh to colleges and universities for our students.
Um, and she actually met a woman from the AAW women's group who helped fund our Chromebooks for our second graders two years ago and she had met her at the pool in um where they live and she talked about our school and that's why she has become a donor for us auction. >> Yes. You can see there our jazz band students, our amazing folks that um we're helping also sell raffle tickets. >> So, I'd like for you to mark your calendars for Jazz in the Desert. Our jazz band will be performing at Jazz in the Desert at the matinea. Tickets are $10 and it's Saturday, March 7th. And um you see a via Rotary definitely supports our school and you can see the big checks that Mrs. Guas and I have received. One of them was for um our mural project, our bottle cap mural project that we're doing, a plastic cap.
I'll add in while you're sitting there. Going back to what I just said and when I talk about every department, you know, our finance department is extremely important to the academic success of what we do. And when we go to Bonnie and her team about here's what we want to do, here's what we need to get it done. Can we do it, she doesn't say no. She finds ways to say yes to make it happen because she knows that even as a finance department, it is our number one goal is to make students successful. And so, uh, her and her team make that happen. >> Was that long enough? Did you power up? >> And I'm very proud to be a part of that team with that academic achievement. So, just so you all know, I'm almost there. Oops. A duo. Yeah. God bless John.
In regards to, uh, your second question, we'll be happy to look into that and and and give further clarification as to uh, why that language was removed. >> Um, thank you for the first part. I missed that portion completely. Um, but yes, if you can please let us know cuz I believe that that's um that was in there last time and that wasn't recommended to be removed, but it was. [clears throat] But what do we do for tonight since this is an action item? Yes. Um, Miss Van Hook, will you do me a favor just so I can write it down for so I can follow along? What part is it that you're talking about that was switched? Um, so on page two, it's uh where it says the district may release the results of a background check. [sighs and snorts] I'm just reading the second paragraph that's underneath it so we can see as far as language that is changing one way or the other.
So, you know, for her it works best for her schedule that she can work remote most of the time. >> Okay. And and anticipation of having that's not because of space. It's because of >> not No, no. I think it was just the type of the jobs that they have. It didn't necessitate them being here full-time in in the office space when they can do that job at home. >> Okay, that was my question. >> So, you just made me think of something. Um, and this may be for you, Jason. Um, do we track or monitor the bus routes and how late they are, how often they're late? Do they have to provide a report or uh just a call in, just a notification or anything like that? If they are late, >> we track it as much as we can. And then we also do um assess liquidated damages per the contract um for late buses without proper notification, combining of bus routes and things along those lines.
>> All right. Thank you. Thanks for coming in. >> All right. Our last candidate is Jacqueline Hoffs. Am I good on this? It was a lot easier when it was Murphy. >> Oh, David. >> Yes. >> So, for those of you who don't know me, my name is Jackie Hops and I'm a Tanto graduate, class of 2001. I came to Tanto through the School of Choice program and after graduation, I went on to attend my first choice university. When my husband, also a Tonto graduate, and I began our family, we made the decision to move to Boise, our number one factor was the school district and our desire to provide our children with the same outstanding education and opportunities that we both received here. For the past seven years, I've served as the co-chair of the Boilston Elementary PTO and more recently as the vice president of the Boilston Education Collaboration following our merger of those organizations in 2024.
We've had some incidents this year that we were made aware of because of strong relationships with kids who are willing to come forward because there's a trust between the staff and the students and that's really important. That's an important key point. We're very fortunate here uh that our students uh that we have good relationships between teachers and students and there's a trust there and that has helped us in several occasions particularly twice this year. So that's an important point of what security also brings security to the school. >> Brendan, uh, any other further questions? >> Brendan, you, uh, had mentioned major incidents. What are the major incidents they were most worried about? Well, I mean, one of the things about going to a national conference like this is that you get to hear from schools that you've pro some of those schools that were that represented there were ones that you would have seen on the news for some of the incidents that they've had, intruders in the buildings, things like that.