So, that area is kind of towards the street. It's it's shaded by the nice trees. Um, we've just utilized it for lawn. Over the 13 years that I've been here, it's nothing's ever been there. So, to have a nice extension to the playground for the TK in kindergarteners, they I think they'll just love it. Um, so it'll go the large trees or basically where the red red outline is. So, a question that was asked last board meeting about the Vincy Park um window replacement details. So, this is basically a sketch of or a drawing of what that's going to entail. Um the double in or the insulated composite panels those will take part place of the actual windows that have been painted over over the day over the years um and aren't usually utilized as windows anymore. So, those will be uh insulated composite panels and then above that, those will be new windows that clear windows on top that will let a lot of the new light or the daylight in as well as a concrete curb that a brand new concrete curb that this basic storefront will sit on.
Right. I I I I I wouldn't say right, but we have if this is going to be another conversation, but [clears throat] >> so what we're trying to do is get the department to be consistent as they look at how they're delivering education, how they're spending the monies. You folks sent a testimony opposing the trip moratorum. These are all monies in which to to help us be more efficient. and you come in and the only time you raise fiscal constraints is on this fif this program. You don't raise constraints with anything else. >> Again, I'll stick to my oral testimony. We support the program. We support the idea. We just don't need it to be. >> You cannot just support it verbally. [clears throat] You have to support it in your actions. And so if you if you are actually implementing this program, fine. We don't need a law.
This bill, which is inspired by a long-standing California law, will provide an additional pathway for law enforcement in the judicial system to get people who are dangerously intoxicated out of harm's way and on the road for better days. Available for questions. >> Thank you. And I see Director Tommy Johnson present in support. >> Yes, in support. >> Thank you very much. Next, we have Will Kane, uh, senior advisor, office of the governor in support. Um, Hawaii State Department of Health in support. We'll spend our best. >> Okay. Office of Wellness and Resilience in support. Trevor Abarzua Wiki Business Improvement District in support. Trevor, are you present on Zoom? >> Not present on Zoom. Chair >> IHS. I think it's more comments than in support, but it says here in support. Connie Mitchell. Um, Hawaii Psychological Association in support. Alex Lton. Alec Likton. JC Mulan I see I he was here for Queens providing comment that Dr.
Any discussion? Signified by saying I. I. Any opposed? Passed. 26-117. Approval of contract renewal for Okay. Wide area Yeah. Yeah. Wide area network WAN services with SCI data, Dr. Brown. I'm glad I don't have to say that. >> Yeah, I'm glad you don't [clears throat] either. >> [laughter] >> I recommend the board approve the contract renewal for the wide area network services with SCI data to provide a one Okay. JBPS connection between the high school and Deputy Elementary School. This renewal is slated for the E-rate fiscal year 2026. It secures a 36-month term at a significantly reduced rate. By transitioning from our current monthly rate of 2,206 2,266 dollars to the new quoted rate of 1,850 dollars our annual total amount, the district will realize a monthly savings of 416 dollars and 99 cents totaling 4,992 dollars annually and 14,976 dollars over the life of the three-year contract.
>> I didn't use all my three minutes. Can I come back up? >> So, I don't know who said it. I think it was you, sir. Um, people were wearing it sideways and that kind of junk. Uh, nobody at West Valley wears up sideways. They're always facing forward. And and the few exceptions that a kid does bring uh like for example like a Kors hat like as a Kors brand they will be told to go to the office and take it off. >> That makes sense. >> Thank you. >> I don't have an issue with hats in the classroom nowadays either. Um, I see people even wear hats in church when I go there. You know, I think times have changed. So, I don't mind the kids wearing hats in the classroom and outside. And I agree with Megan. I don't think that hills we want to die on right now with kids.
>> Yeah. But that set aside is very concerning of that. It's almost 6 million and that's unconstitutional about when they pass Prop 98 those funds were guaranteed to schools. >> Absolutely. I hope they don't go forward with that. >> Yeah. So, I don't know how things are going to change in our state as far as leadership. Um, and you could advocate, you know, go to legislators, find uh people online that are pushing for, you know, the enrollment based funding or increasing special ed or the one-time funds. Like there's ways um, you know, people in the community and on the board can try to help advocate for that, too. The CSBA has legislative action week, which is coming up in March. So, it's virtual meetings with legislators. So, I am signing up for that to um how our voice is heard about the funding that we get, how how it should be tied to I keep cutting out how it should be tied to uh the amount of students that we have, not our attendance because we just always get dinged and it's too low.
So, I believe um Mr. Shinasan's question was if are we using double pane insulated windows and and the question is absolutely everything is state-of-the-art new technology or not new technology but energy efficient technology um so hopefully that answers his question and I'll email that as well to him. The next one was the bumper blocks at Noble. U there they are. I think we replaced 24 bumper blocks, not only on the street side, but on the school side, the other the side of the parking lot. And again, Mr. Shina, there's there was uh the speed bumps that all got painted at Somerdale to prevent tripping hazards. So that those two items uh were through at throughot, not the budget or not the bond. So, I just want to make sure that that that's clear that that wasn't a bond project. Um, again, here is our key for the schedule.
But you're not. And it's not consistent across the board. There's no school in K that's each individual child has has published a book. I know Kapalama is doing their their school book but not individual. You should have seen the pride on these kids' faces on Lana on Kawaii. They came and presented to us. >> I I did see that. It was wonderful. >> Yeah. So why why didn't that inspire you as as DOE to want to put something like this or something similar? I'm not saying it have to be the exact same thing, but there's no there's no creativeness. There's no bringing this to to the students so that they want to come to school. They take pride in the school and they and fifth grade is because they're at that age. They're going to go to intermediate school, high school. Very difficult at that point, but they build the confidence as they move on.
Ignasha Hawaii Medical Association in support uh Mike Goodman in support please proceed. I see you on Zoom. >> Thank you. Good afternoon senators. I'm an attorney and chair of the partners and care advocacy committee but I'm testifying as an individual because the membership hasn't voted on this bill yet. and I also serve as a guardian ad lightum for severely mentally ill subjects of assisted community treatment act cases most of whom are chronically homeless. I'm testing testifying in strong support of this bill and I also recommended a couple of minor textual amendments to help this bill withand constitutional challenges and make its application more practical which I explained in my written testimony and won't repeat here. However, there are problems with the civil and penal code that will make the real world application of this bill more difficult and were not mentioned in my testimony, written testimony, and which are addressed by SB2288.
Asking for approval. Can I get a motion? I make a motion we approve 26-117 based on what Dr. Brown gave us. >> [laughter] >> And a second. I'll second. Somehow for discussion I missed that when I reviewed how to properly say that. So, sorry about that. Okay, so signified by saying I. I.
I think if they're coming to class, we'll let them wear a hat. If they're coming, if they're not disrupting the teacher. So, I think we have other things to deal with. So we're making a motion then I'll make a motion to adopt similar language as what shops the Union High School District does as Mr. Gallardo recommended. >> Sure you can make that motion. Trusty Adam just made a motion to allow house in the classroom too. So make sure you have a clear motion so everybody understands what it is. We have that motion seconded. That's why I suggested to get it running so we can all know what we're doing. >> Okay. >> So then it would be number three with shock of language and >> I I say that we table this and go back to the drawing board, re-examine the language and bring it back next month and we'll vote on it.
So anyway, that's something that's upcoming. Uh all right. Uh any other comments, questions on the budget? All right, moving on. Uh, number nine, information items, the academic achievement report. Stephan, can we get this up there by chance? I can do it if I'm still connected. >> Oh, yeah. If Terra's still connected, she can throw it at her. You just finish as I >> Yeah. Okay. So, um, for this meeting, I thought I would focus on our English learners because the district's doing, um, some work on that and we haven't really talked about that much in previous meetings. So, I thought I would take the opportunity to go through that tonight. Um, so the title slide is a path to proficiency, English learner achievement. The second slide um I have here is um the u percentage the number of students enrolled that are English learners and then their percentage um over the years.
Um, and I am learning to actually do these now. And, uh, in the next board meetings to come, I'm sure I can we'll be able to explain a little bit more on them. But as you can see the the center line it moves at every every um every board meeting and basically those are progress bars in different colors and those will be the next two three slides questions. >> Thank you so much for the presentation and thank you for showing the photos of the speed bumps as well. I am sub I have been subject to tripping as well. So we I can speak on trust's behalf that we're really happy that they're there. So thank you.
You know, we have to build it. That's why we have early education. So we build these things at a young age so that the child goes on to feel empowered and their families feel proud and the families are empowered and the families want to get involved. See it's all connected and that's why there's a big disconnect big disconnect. And if there's one thing we're going to try to change here is we're going to try to change this disconnection and we're going to try to make it to be student centered learning that meets this age now that we're in. We're not in industrial age anymore. So you guys better come on board because otherwise we're going to have to do it by laws, you know, starting with this, starting with some of the other bills that we have. >> Yeah. I mean, I just see it as a no-brainer.
So, I encourage members of the committee to not only vote for this bill, but also to coordinate efforts with that bill, possibly even consider combining the two bills. Those problems include problems with >> Thank you very much, Mr. Goodman. Sorry. >> Okay. Next, we have um John Dudsman in support. David Fukuzawa in opposition. I see Director Lambert here for DLE in support. >> That's down on our >> testimony. Okay. Darcia Foster, Office of Public Defender in opposition. >> Aloha again. Thank you very much. So, um, our the Office of the Public Defender does oppose the bill. We have some constitutional concerns that we've outlined in our testimony, and so we're asking the committee to take a look at those constitutional concerns. Um, I'm not familiar with SB 2288, but I will take that back to my office and see if those if that bill addresses some of the concerns.
Any opposed? Passed. Uh we'll move on to reports. So, we'll start Yeah. Yeah. So, Miss Savannah Hall. Hi. Um there's a lot this month just because of all the, you know, pushbacks and stuff, but it's been just a phenomenal month for the students especially. Um so, to start off um congratulations to Juliana Davis for the all-time leading scorer setting the record at or 1,712 points for the season which is insane. She's phenomenal. Um and then also Juliana Davis and Miley McQuary were both named um IndyStar players of the week. Miley McQuary also had a triple-double against 4A East Central when they played them. And then congratulations to the girls basketball team for a fantastic season and for making it to sectional finals um unfortunately falling to Silver Creek. Um >> [clears throat] >> and then congratulations to the girls wrestling team, especially Maya Bullock and Maylie Skinner for a great state performance.
So it it sounds like you want to bring back two options. Kids can wear hats everywhere in the classroom, outside classroom, and kids can wear hats, but not in the classroom. >> That's the two options I want to bring back. >> Yeah. Yes, correct. >> Okay. Well, those are two options we have. Why can't we just do it tonight? So, we'll make a motion on one of those options. We can >> Oh, yeah. And then it gets shot down or not. >> Okay. Then I'll make a motion to allow hats in and out of classroom. >> A second. >> Okay. Moved and seconded. We adopt a motion similar sha high school but they be allowed in the classroom as well. Is that correct? >> Correct. >> So now I'm confused. >> I thought shesta shesta was just outside on >> Richard. Can you please bring that language back up here?
So the most recent year is at the top going down to the 1920. Um the second column says ending enrollment. Of course that's true for all years except for the current. So the 25 26 is like the current enrollment um total enrollment and then how many English learner students we have in the district and then the percentage in there. Next slide is um how our English learners are performing on um CASSP which is the um state test um in English language arts. And so you can see this over the years starting in 2019 um through spring of 2025. The 2020 and 2021 there was no data for that because of the pandemic. Um but you can see here that um our English learners are um significantly below meeting standard meeting or exceeding standard. Um we did have a a little bit of an uptick between the 24 and 25 school year.
But there are there any questions from the board? >> All right. All right. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> All right. And we have our superintendence report. Dr. >> Thank you. Uh just a few highlights. uh from this month. Uh first just want to share what a um wonderful opportunity our middle school students had to be able to be a part of the Super Bowl opening night down in the San Jose Convention Center. I really appreciate the city of San Jose as well as all those involved in coordinating that event um and East Side Education Foundation who actually did the coordination of our students to be able to prioritize um not just students for Beressa but 800 um spots for that event to go to students in the city of San Jose. So I thought that was very um thoughtful that you know they they took that moment to think about how can we uh give access to our students in our city in this you know once in a-lifetime type event.
HSTA supports, Teachers for America Hawaii support it. It I could probably count on one hand any time that I've seen the DOE submit testimony in opposition to a bill on education committee. So, I mean, either you guys are not intending on giving our kids a fighting chance or I don't know, maybe just I don't know. It's just very disheartening to see something as simple as a students book, you folks would oppose it. Um, and you don't need to give me your PC comment. We've heard it a million times. Again, we do support the intent of the bill, but uh again, you're you're not really giving our students a fighting chance. So, I'll just say that. Chair, thank you. Okay. Thank you. Uh we're moving on to Senate Bill 2793 relating to individual sports. authorize homeschool high school age students to participate as unattached competitors in individual sports available to the public high school that students would otherwise be required to attend.