that we have at OCI, which I have two flat roofs that still need to be addressed that have leaking concerns. So, that can knock things out of one. And then as well as the AC units that are up on those buildings. So, that's something I'm working with them. I have a meeting with them March 2nd to do a thorough walk around and audit and then they can go back and see if we qualify for something like that. >> And they do that through on bill financing. Yes. So you have like a credit on your bill. So there's no cost to the district and then from because of that savings you get a credit then and it goes back to PG&B. >> Yeah. So zero cost per. >> So essentially what it is is it's our bill what we have our monthly bill is now they do the analysis they come back and they say okay this is what we can save and then your bill stays the same and you are going to pay that off.
Thank you. >> Thank you, Board of Education. >> The board stands on its testimony, chair, >> and your testimony is >> Would you explain your testimony for the public? >> [laughter] >> You got to stand. >> You have you have the written testimony in front of you. Chairman, put the people but don't know what your written testimony is. >> Yeah, the testimony is posted online as well. But um to summarize the testimony from the board, thank you. >> Um the board will u is in the process of amending its bylaws as you know and in order for us to create any any standing committee it requires um amending our bylaws. The plan right now is to propose an amendment to the bylaws at the board general business meeting tomorrow and then if the board passes that that um recommendation to amend the bylaws and it would stand up an audit committee at the March board meeting.
And so that's something that needs to be taken into consideration. And the other part that's missing from anybody's testimony is approaching this problem from the issue of enforcement. How many times have you gone into a parking lot to watch somebody who can run around a block or run a marathon and then gets out and put the parking permit on? So there are a number of approaches to enter this and I appreciate the you for the opportunity to make these comments. >> Thank you Peter support. >> Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Um, is that Maurice? >> That's Peter F. >> Peter. Okay. Thank you for um your testimony as well. Appreciate it. Is there anyone else wishes to speak to SB 2850? Okay.
>> It is new with this school. I think they're trying to compete with UC Davis. >> I actually went on their website and watched a lot of their student testimonials and I think it's a really good opportunity for our students. >> Cool. >> Got a motion to approve. >> A motion to approve. >> Second. >> Move to second. All those in favor? >> I unanimous. >> 66 agreement with Sha County Office of Ed for attendant support services. >> Any comments? >> Um that's a chargeback, isn't it? That the way the the payment works. >> Oh, wait. I'm on the wrong way. Never mind. >> Okay. >> So, this is a free service. They used to charge us for free. It's just the we have two. >> Motion to approve. Second. >> All those in favor? >> I did you vote on that, Jackie? >> Yes.
And if it's a five-year, let's say, projected loan, you pay your same amount and they're taking the savings at that point and making that your your payment. And then once you once the bill's paid, then you are at that point at your savings mark, not your what our astronomical amount is at this point for anything for the monthly. So, and that involves all interior lighting here, which needs there's some addressing. It's all the interior lighting at the OCI GM. So those are things that if we can get that done or something like that and not have to try to pay out of pocket for something in that regards, that's big. So those are my few things. So maybe in six months I'll have another laundry list with a few things. So thank you guys. Appreciate it. Um, I wanted to mention just uh how much I appreciate what you do um trying to keep all these facilities, all three going and your willingness to do work that sometimes we would have to hire people to do.
So then that would mean that the board would have four standing committees. As you know the board has a finance and infrastructure committee, student achievement committee and a human resources committee. um over the past few years it was the finance and infrastructure committee that had the audit responsibility. So what this would do obviously is take that responsibility and create a standing committee for audits and um with that sole responsibility to receive and review all audits external and internal to the department and then make recommendations to the board um for action if necessary. Okay. So, you folks are t doing ex what what the bill is asking for >> at least partly. Uh but the it doesn't address the um in our testimony, we don't address the um testimony from the department regarding the timeline and you know um how that would result in a some gaps perhaps if there's a transition and so on.
Hearing none, let's proceed then with the next U measure and this is SB 2851 and this is relating to deaf individuals. It authorizes deaf motor vehicle owners to register their vehicle as being owned by a deaf individual so that a deafness designation appears when a law enforcement officer accesses the motor vehicle uh information. Okay. First up, Department of Consumer Customer Services uh since uh testifying with comments and this comes from the city and county. Uh, Hawaii Disability Rights Center. >> Yes, thank you. >> Good to see you, Lewis. >> Same here, Senator. Nice to see you. Uh, and members, I think we can all envision how a an encounter with a deaf individual and a police officer when the police officer doesn't know that that person is deaf, >> could could get pretty pretty bad, right? I mean, getting stopped and put, you know, get out of the car, put your hands up, whatever.
unanimous 6.7 midyear local accountability plan LCAP for Anderson Union High School District and Anderson New Technology High School. >> Fantastic. Well, certainly uh I thought everybody was here for the midyear. >> All right. So, all right. Uh a little bit of background for the midyear elcat. Um, this is uh something that came out of Assembly Bill 114. It requires ELEAs to present a midyear update for their LCAP and a budget overview for parents annually on or before February 28th. The LA LEA must include two key elements, right? that has to be uh that we have the uh metrics have to be presented as well as the midyear expenditure and implementation. Uh more on that to come. Tonight we're going to be really hitting uh the top one which is the outcome data or the metrics for for our actions. Um, at this point in the school year, uh, it's kind of hard to get the outcome data, uh, because we're halfway through the year that some some outcomes are unknown, some are in progress and and some, but very few are known.
You in your last report, you talked about demolishing a deck. You're talking about tearing out concrete. All those things cost money. And so when you and your guys have the skills to do that and you're willing to do that work, I really appreciate that you do that and also looking into these grants and other things, it's really necessary and it's hard to find, you know, it's time and everything to do it and so I appreciate all your efforts. >> Well, I appreciate it. Thank you. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> All right. 9E, the local control and accountability plan mid-year monitoring report for the 2025 2026 LCAP and budget overview for parent. My favorite thing in the whole world, the LCAP. So, um we're obligated to do a midyear report and then share that with the board. And so, you have that as the supporting document um with the information that needs to be in the report.
So, um, but if the Senate and the legislature in general would like the board to, uh, work with all of you to work out that it's a surmountable problem. It's not insurmountable. >> Okay. Thank you. We have questions. Uh, Johnny May Perry in support. Um, Megan Blazak also in support. Anyone else here wishing to testify on this measure?
and the driver has no idea what what the police officer is saying and the police officer doesn't know the driver's death. So, conceptually, this seems like a really good idea. Some way of at least whether it's this method or some method that would at least flag the issue so that so that it's obvious what the condition of [clears throat] the person is at the time of the encounter. So, we think this is a great idea. So, thank you. >> Okay. Thank you very much. Uh, Elanor McDonald, >> deaf and blind task force sends communication in support. Um, PL Fritz on Zoom. >> I'm back again. >> Yes, proceed. >> When I read about the bill, a bill in New Jersey that did exactly this. I brought it to the death time task force and they drafted a bill. And I'm in support of the bill with two amendments.
It's more like you're looking back. In this case, what I've done is I'm starting with goal LCAP goal number one, which is Anderson Union High School District students uh will be college or career ready upon graduation. And as you'll see in those metrics, I have kind of like a I have an issue with lots of color coding. In in this case, what you're going to see in the in there's a red category which is not progressing to the desired out uh outcome. Um there's a yellow like you'll see on the top two up there that is we're making progress too, but we're not at that desired outcome. And then the green is the desired outcome. Great illustration of this in the first three metrics uh for LCAP goal one you can see calling the career indicator we are progressing and with the uh career indicator with students with disabilities you'll see that progressing as well.
So I can take this is just an information item. So if you guys have any questions about it, I'm happy to answer them. >> Yeah, I I asked questions through an email and most of the questions that I had had to do with just some what I thought potentially were cleanup items and missing information or something that I thought needed to be brought over. So, I did read through it and so I don't have any additional questions. Yeah. And I think um just an effort for transparency. Some of your questions had to do with um the there was the metric for the chronic absenteeism with the like um the projected like desired outcome at the end and that was a typo. Um it said that our that our goal was to have 31% chronic absentee like no right. Um so what happens sometimes well often right because it's a very lengthy document.
Hearing none members questions. I have one question Roy. So external or internal audits would that include the state auditors um audits? >> It's not clear for me for from um as you know um the department we have a office of internal audits, right? So um whenever there's an external audit audit generally is generated from the legislature that's usually farmed out to the state auditor's office. So I'm not clear as to whether or not shifting existing staff uh under the direct um purview of the board will mean that the current internal audit office will be delegated to do program audits, performance audits and things like that. Yeah, as you well know, Senator, the uh audits come in many flavors and so the internal audits basically are fiscal in nature, right? The uh for example the internal audit has a hotline that anyone in the for the public or can call and say oh they have some concerns about a school's lunch money fund or whatever the case may be that would trigger the internal audit office to take a look at that.
First, that the original New Jersey bill set the decibel level at 41 dB. This bill sets it at 82. And for me, as a heart of hearing person in traffic, somebody comes up and wants to talk to me, I'm never going to be able to understand or completely be aware of what they said. So, I'm suggesting that the standards that were put forth in the uh New Jersey law be the standards that are used in this particular bill. Um, I may even be able to find some committee reports that would help this committee with the amendment. The second issue is I agree with the Department of Taxation referencing the income tax uh as a standard of proof. really isn't a standard of proof as I know from hearings that I've had when I was with the Department of Taxation about disability. I will wind it up very quickly.
We want to hit that 70% and 25% but we're making the uh headway in the right direction. Fortunately, we're doing fantastic with our five CTE pathways at both comprehensive sites. We're meeting that desired outcome uh for the for the following year. LCAP goal number or goal one, we're moving on with metric 1.4 through 1.8. Uh in in the majority of these uh the graduation rate, we are increasing there. we are making some improvement not quite to the 90% actually like to see that even even higher uh the English language arts performance and the math performance we're doing great you see some improvement there uh but then our science or cast testing there is a slight decrease I will tell you I think what's going to help is our move to an integrated science program whether that's integrated a integration ated one and two or in the regular general sciences we have integrated one and two that gives more of that uh that that thread between the physical and and bio and and life sciences that includes some earth and space as well.
So that information is in the LCAP and then what happens through document tracking they populate this document was with what's was in the LCAP. So, when I did the LCAP at the end of well, in the spring of last year, um, you know, I there's a lot of things to populate and so I probably copied and pasted so that some of the verbiage was the same and then I accidentally didn't change the 31%. Um, cuz that was like what the actual percent was, but clearly we didn't want that to be like our desired outcome. So, I I made that change to 15%. So, um there was that and then um you had a question about the suspension rate because currently at midyear our suspension rate is actually a little bit higher than it was at the end of last year and we're in differentiated assistance for that.
The office also does on a regular scheduled basis audits of every school in the system. But given the capacity they have, obviously they cannot complete all 250 schools in one year. It's usually on a five to six year cycle that they get to every school, you know. So I, you know, it's really no different than restaurant inspections or, you know, all the rest of it. You know, obviously the government doesn't have the capacity to inspect every restaurant every year. sort of done on a cyclical basis. >> So would this committee then possibly uh review external audits and then recommend the the board as to taking it up or >> Yes. Yes. Because the for example as you well know because um you get a lot of audits not just from the state auditor's office but ex other sources as well.
>> Your time is up. Uh we thank you for your uh contribution in your testimony. Thank you. Uh we have Lynn Akatsuka in support and the rest of all of these are in support. Uh Nikki Ko, Miley Po, Johnny May Perry, Sher Shimizu, and Laura Safransky. All in support. Is there anyone else? [music] Oh, yes. >> Did I miss you? >> No. Sorry. Sorry. This will be quick. Um Brian Mick on behalf of um this building communication access board and our acting executive director, Christine Pagano. Unfortunately, our legislative committee was scheduled to meet on Monday and this was going to be one of the bills they were going to review and take a position on, but first we had the council meeting. Um, so we don't have an official position, but we hope if this bill stays alive, we hope to have one at its next ter.
Um then on one point uh 1.8 uh we have the AP passage rate. If you look and we're looking at last year, I mean that 60% that's a pretty good jump. That is fantastic with our kids that are taking uh uh AP exams 1.9 through 1.14. Uh you'll see a lot of yellow here. We're making great progress. We're not to that desired outcome when it comes to graduation rates with students with disabilities. But take a look at the the year prior year, six 61.7% and now we're up to 80%. That's great. That's great. One-year jump. We need to keep going. Uh in in the English learner progress rate, this comes from the what we call refer to as the LB, English learner progress indicator. you'll see them uh in general overall we went from a 23.9 to a 26.7. However, in 1.11, you're going to see even something more impressive.