>> Mr. Kurt Johnson taught me how to like actually think about what I'm doing. >> To Mrs. Fero, you have a rare ability to make connections and many memories with your students. The heart, time, and energy you put into teaching really has a great impact on many of your students. I'm forever grateful that I was one of your students. >> There's a lot of more teachers. If if y'all don't get a shout out, please don't come beat me up, please. I beg you. We love y'all.
>> [snorts] >> All right, good afternoon everyone. Obviously, I've got Mr. Horvath and Mr. Fry here. They're going to help me out. We were told we have to keep this under 15 minutes because that's the record we're shooting as it's 14 minutes and 30 seconds. So, we're going to try our best. First thing we've got is just celebrations, things that are happening. One of the most recent ones is I-Learn checkpoint. So, for us 6th and 8th grade ELA scores are above state average. Our ELA in those departments, too, are really a strong suit for us. So, we're definitely excited to see the growth of math as well. Fourth grade transition day. That's been a huge success and I'll show you that in just a moment. That will That again is going to be for us on March 4th. Cub Fest. So, we're kind of crossing the ditch and Cub Fest Day will also be our fourth grade transition day.
So again, urging our legislators to be active in that conversation is important. The third um area has to do with um what's going to come next after the MCCAST. The governor has ignored all of the data that her commission has collected. All they heard from um people in their in their forums and is pushing for essentially re reinstating high stakes testing. Um, this would come at the uh end of courses, but it would be entirely created by the state and scored by the state with no local input. Again, we need to let them know that's not okay and that she's rushing to get this done. And at the very least, we need to encourage them. I hope we need to encourage them to slow down and think about what they're doing because it's not only about assessment. When you're messing with this stuff, you're you're you're defining how schools are actually focused.
Billy is also a role model to younger students as he is a wrestler for West Valley, and they all seem to love him and look up to him. I could not agree more with this nomination for student of the month. That was from Melissa Golden. And those of you who know Melissa know she's she's a hard cookie. So, if you got her uh appreciation in the classroom, you've really earned it. So, good job, Billy. I think she was judging the book by the cover because of your biceps. And uh just because you're Jack doesn't mean you're not intelligent. I hope. Next up is John Greley. No matter how minor an assignment, Billy always takes his work seriously, even challenging himself to go above and beyond the assignment and learning more. During presentations, Billy pushes his lab partners to research the latest medical studies so that he can give the utmost professional and scientific and accurate information to the class.
Unless otherwise determined by the board, each person is limited to three minutes per item. Okay, so um our first person is Jacob Krauss. Um I my name is Dick Kra. I am an eighth grader at Wasuma Elementary and I would I came and decided to talk today because I heard talk about um the possibility of having to extend our PE teacher to more than one sorry to extend our PE teacher to more than one school and personally I don't think that's a great idea. I've been blessed to have Mr. Mechan as my PE teacher. She's been very beneficial to me and um all the kids in my class and classes been beneath me that I've talked to about it. Um we all love her. We appreciate what she's done for us. Um, and before she came to Wasuma, I would um take PE with my teacher.
Good evening. My name is Joe Herman. I am the president of the California Teachers Association and Beressa. Good evening, cabinet. Good evening, trustees. Tonight, my comments are in regards to BUD management being able to afford CABB's medical benefits proposal. But first, let me say that healthy teachers make for better services to students and happier students. Um, so CAB was pleased to receive management's proposal of a 2% onschedule increase effective July 1st, 2025. However, this proposal did nothing to address the ongoing concerns that CABB members have about the cost of health care. Cost increases have led to our members dropping dependence and selecting lower quality coverage. Currently, 40% of CABB members spend between $4,200 and $18,500 on health care for their families or individual dependents. If health care rates increase by the same percentage as last year, next year 60% of CATAB members will have to pay out of pocket for their health care.
So my question would be is we going to implement this? Are you saying $2 million you guys going to hold them collect interest whatever. Um how what is the guarantee that we're going to be able to keep these students that going forward? I mean yeah I understand you guys talking about how great this thing is but we're a small island >> with poor taxpayers with little money. How are we going to compete with the bigger colleges if they decide to put themselves in a port in a in a portal? I mean, we're going to spend money on these guys come and then they go leave. How is that going to be secure for the taxpayers um going forward? Cuz not everybody um is into taking their taxes and giving it to the university for something like this. And the reason why I say that because I have a lot of backlash in my community because they don't support it.
My name is Amy Jackson. I'm coming to you from the island of Maui. Um, I the Maui wildfire uh study literally saved my life. I barely escaped from Front Street with my life the day of the fires. A year later, I learned that my life was on the line again when I participated in the study for $100 cash to give my daughter her birthday present. I had difficulty with the breathing studies and my hemoglobin didn't even register on the equipment that day. Um, I was sent to the emergency room by the Maui Wildfire Study staff and was admitted for multiple blood transfusions and spent months in and out of the hospital at treatment. I was also um processed to get um help with my mental health because of the um study and the questionnaire that they asked. I didn't think that I needed medical treat uh treatment and as a single mom I was just out there taking care of uh myself and thinking that 50 was kicking my butt.
Up 52 530 left to go. Fast break opportunity just off the hands. Good defense there though by Clifton but the basket does count. Maji Stevens with the hoop nearly blocked there by number 24 Jeremiah Granadoo. Good defense there. And the ball will come out now to number 32. Here is Franklin Burnham inside. Count it. Nice pass to Granados and Granados knocks it down and cuts the lead to 74. Couple good possessions there on offense. Shot deep three off the mark. Rebound comes back out. Second chance opportunity again. Here is Fernham. Short rebound. Where is it? Farrell had a hand on it. Comes back out to Boomfield. And they'll reset. But number 10, Xavier Donis. Here is number five again. A shot. No. Off the mark. Farrell looking the box out. Good rebound there by Farrell. Oh, comes back out. Who's got it? Loose ball comes back to the Bengals.
The next one I'm going to skip for just a second cuz I'm going to go into a little detail about that. The other one is music production. Um our performing arts team is working very well together. I've never seen such collaboration with that as far as all Mrs. Bullock, Mr. Even Mr. Fagan in there, Mr. Bence and Mr. Navarro all working collectively together. Mrs. Gergis from the high school, Mr. Olrick, it's just it's amazing what they're able to do through that music production class as far as wiring and cables together, doing the recording through choir and band is is just something we're really excited about and we'll show some of that at Cub Fest this year. Um TBRI for us, too, is students being provided opportunities. We are doing a lot with nurture groups, modified incentives for identified behavior students with high needs. We have some students who have identified that are just really need a support.
What do we want? What education do we want for our children? That takes time to think about. So, they shouldn't race to um to make that happen um so quickly. So, the more our voice is out there, I think the the more leverage our legislators have. I would also encourage the school the city people to let them know about these things too. Um the more they hear from us the more likely they are to at least consider. Thank you. >> Thank you. Okay, I see uh Pamela Goodwin online.
Above all, Billy's greatest strength is the ability to direct his maximum effort into anything that he does and a refusal to quit in the face of adversity. That's from Mr. Greley. Next up is Mr. Weston. Billy's a great kid, an asset to our honors history class. He is very respectful and quick-witted. I appreciate he shows up to first period on time and completes his work in a timely fashion. He is not afraid to ask for help and advocate for himself. Most importantly, he is going to do great things in his future endeavors. That was from Mr. Weston. Um, so it's my pleasure to introduce Mr. Billy Smith. Where are you, Billy? NICE WORK. >> Here you go, Bill. >> Oh, yeah. >> Stacy Adams. >> Nice to meet you. >> You get a good picture with her, too. >> She bought it. >> Thank you.
I was in the lower grade, so I didn't have multiple. But the difference between us having a PE teacher with a degree on the matter of physical education and a teacher who doesn't necessarily have that or might not have that is very different. And I've noticed that the amount of physical education and care um of that class has gotten a lot better since we've gotten Miss McMin. Um and Miss Mcmeckin does many things for our school. She coaches boys volleyball and girls volleyball along with other teachers. but she's a very big role in that. She also teaches girls basketball and she helps with track and field which is a big event that takes a lot of care and um as well as cross country which I've helped in the past and it is a very chaotic thing. She also um benefits the ASB at our school very much.
This means that more and more CAB members will have to make the impossible choices our members have been faced with this year. The only solution is for management to agree to a contract that increases what management contributes for benefits and to cover a percentage of future increases. This is known as a floating cap. CAPB has proposed setting the floating cap at 90% of the Kaiser traditional 15 family rate. This is a reduction from our opening proposal of 95%. CAP estimates the annual cost of this increase in district contribution to be approximately the same as a 1% raise or about 48 $465,000. However, CAB's most recent proposal has this covered starting January 1st of 2026 for a cost this year of only 232,000, the cost of a 0.52% raise. The cost of management's last proposal was $800 $880,000 based on the based on management's own calculations.
because we have poor people in my community that taxpayers is struggling and we're going to fork out $2 million you just said now so clarify if I'm wrong you said you going to take the $2 million and participate you guys going to raise some funds and then get some interest of the $2 million going to sit there when that $2 million can help other programs and other places within the state that right now we're short that we're going to tell the taxpayers now we're going to reig on giving them their tax break because we cannot afford it but then we're going to give you $2 million that you can put on the side to collect interest. I mean, if that's what you just said. I'm not sure if that's what you said. Initially, you needed 10 million and 5 million, but now you guys will wheeling and dealing to just to take anything that you guys can get for us to do the startup funding for this program.
But going to participate in the wildfire study, I learned that uh my life was on the line and it literally saved my life. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Peggy Latari. >> Peggy. Hi. >> Hi. Good afternoon. I'm Dr. Peggy Latari. I'm a retired family physician and also a clinical adject and for the last 18 months >> if you're going to testify you need to come up here I sit down. >> Yes. >> Okay. Sorry. >> First time here. >> Welcome. >> Um yeah so uh 30 almost 40 years of healthcare experience as a family physician. I've been um volunteering for the last 18 months or so on Maui with the wildfire study. And the thing that I have noticed um several things but that um this the wildfires were devastating not just on mental health and physical health but spiritual health as well.
Shot deep. Rebound inside. Try it again. And it's going to be a deep three. Too strong. Rebound comes out. They're going to try it again. Rebound now. Comes back out. Good rebound there by Jeremiah Granados. He's looking for a teammate. He'll hand it off to Farrell. Farrell finds number 32. That's Franklin Burnham. He'll try it from six feet in and out. Rebound comes back out. Okay, so the long uh ride of the the horn goes off and looks like it'll be a full wagon change for both teams. Let's see who's coming out for Cookton. You got number one, Alvaro Rodriguez Bayz on the floor. You also have Angel Gonzalez. He's number 15. Number 25, Kyle Foul. He'll stay on the floor, it looks like. Number 22. Come on. >> Number 22 Shawn Hansen on the floor >> and nearly stolen there by Gonzalez. Comes back out.
So, our first celebration is actually going to be taking place this Friday where we're taking a group of students who have just met some identified targets to McDonald's and then also Gymnastics World. So, we've got a group of 11 students that are going to be doing that this Friday that are kind of have been working through AAA for us. So, they've just a more identified goal. Including staff, we're doing scenarios during staff meeting. So, every single day we're every single time we have a staff meeting, Mr. Horvath really taking the lead on creating scenarios. So, we're all on the same common page or the same common place and language that we are using as far as how we're identifying student behaviors and how we're handling those through the TBRI matrix. We're doing again a lot with restorative circles with teachers. We had another one today where we've got a conflict with a teacher teacher and a said student where we bring them together and have a really good positive outcome and usually those have really good success for us as far as repairing that relationship piece.
if you will unmute and please say your name, your address for the record, and uh you'll have three minutes. >> Thank you. Um first I want to thank you for all your hard work. I don't know why I'm seeing two myself, but anyway, I know you people work really hard. >> Can you can you name and your address, please? Just verbally. >> Oh, sorry. Um Pamela Goodwin, 54 High Street. And um >> thank you. >> I I guess I'm a little concerned about the agenda. When I looked at it, I said, "Oh my word." Um I will make a statement about I I I ran for school committee. I was limited in the preliminary, which was fine. And I really wanted a very democratically run campaign for school committee. And my attitude and some other people were like the more the merrier. I'm concerned when I look at this agenda after watching the organizational meeting that we are now thinking about having the need of a mediator.
>> Congratulations. Good evening board and our large audience this evening. >> Push the button. >> Okay, that's better. >> Thanks everyone. All right. So, this evening, yeah, I have the the pleasure, sorry, Tom Sav, principal at Anderson High School. I have the pleasure of introducing an awesome student just like Mr. Bixby did. Uh, so I have Jeannie McCracken and uh I'll if Jeie would like to come up now and stand in front of everybody, that'd be great. I don't think she's bashful. So, I have uh there was there was a lot of uh comments and I have three of the the comments for Genie uh from from just staff. We it wasn't just teachers that nominated Jeie. So, we have a lot of people that think very highly of Genie. And so, Marty Murphy uh who is the Cub uh Cub Connection, our project chair director, she says, "I am so excited for Genie.