>> Sure. So, for example, it would show that we would have a budget and we were somewhat under this assumption, maybe wrong, but that we were going to kind of do this anyway, that we were not bringing like to the school committee next week a budget knowing that it would be the next month because the mayor had already really said we don't want to see that like capital improvement was I just met with capital improvement last week. >> So, those were pushed off on purpose is the point being in that sense. So, what we can do is I can have You're fine with that. Um, Becky go through this and kind of look at dates and slide things off where appropriate. That's fine with you. >> Sure. >> Um, do you think we should make a motion for that update? >> I think so because we voted on this.
I've had classes and training at USI to do that. It was really nice to get hands on to work with the kids to start teaching form because a lot of the athletes are coming in with no weightlifting experience at all. And then I presented and organized on sport nutrition and sport psychology, but on the sport psychology side of things, I have help from Natalie Price, who is a counselor at middle school. She was a D1 athlete. She knows what it means to struggle as an athlete, especially when you're hitting plateaus. So, it's nice to have her perspective and to learn things from that and to just get the athletes started thinking like it's okay to struggle a little bit. It's okay to get frustrated, but here are the tools to get through those things. And then from the nutrition side, educating them on you need to eat.
I said, "We really need to break this out." So when these kids travel over to the elementary, even over to the middle school eventually, they have an individual sheet that follows them. Now, we don't do this for every student in the building, just the students that come in MTSS. Uh, we can put their cougar time data on there and track that information. We put their NWA results, their reading fluency from NWA, uh, what their dyslexia, if they screened or not or flagged for dyslexia. Again, more current NWA. This follows them from kindergarten, first grade. List any tier one, tier two supports that they might have. Amplify information whether they have speech or special ed. So, there's a lot of information here. It's also useful if a student leaves us because we'll put this in their perm file and send it on to the new school so they have information whether they went through the MCSS process or not.
But he is going to IU East, correct? >> Yes. >> For cross country and track. >> Yes. Um, so we're looking forward to him doing great things in the future. And I asked Mr. Bulling Game if he had any comments for you, and of course he did. So he said, "Carter exemplifies what it means to be a student athlete. I appreciate his leadership, hard work, and example he sets for his fellow classmates." So Carter, here's a certificate for you. And here is a gift for you. >> Thank you. And our employee of the month is Kathy Williams. Kathy, want to come up? So Kathy's a bus driver for us and I think that that's a job that doesn't get near the amount of credit that it deserves. Um, and I got an email from a parent of a student who raised your bus. I've taken that student's name out, but I want to read what she wrote because it was a very nice email.
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>> So, can we have a motion? >> So, moved. >> Okay. And the text of the motion is >> is to move um our submission, our FY27 budget submission to um align better with the mayor's >> um budget probably midappril. >> Okay. So, the motion is indeed to direct Becky to update it to reflect our reality. >> Um do I have a second on that motion? Um what I wrote down was move R 2026 to align better with the city budget. >> Okay. >> Which in turn just for your information would be almost like one month one. >> Yes. >> Should we add that to motion or >> No. >> We don't need to. That's justeneral so that we understand what >> second. >> Okay. All in favor? I. It passes unanimously. Then um thank you. In terms of the budget itself, we have Andy, I be superintendent Sullivan have met with all our principles, all our department heads to go over their requests.
Even though you think, okay, I don't want to eat that much, but you really you don't realize how much you're going through when you're an athlete and how much you really need to put in your bodies to perform the best. And that coming off of the summer, I really enjoyed working with the athletes. Um, it kind of solidified like, yes, I want to continue working in exercise science. And I ended up kind of taking that this past semester of like is there anything I can do? I want to keep working on this and a perfect opportunity came up in one of my courses. We were learning about different technology specifically in the exercise science field and stuff that we had available at USI which I am extremely fortunate to have high quality top-of-the-line exercise equipment and body composition stuff. It's amazing to think like this is what I have available to me as a student.
I wish we got this kind of information when students come to us from other corporations. But this is going to follow them in their profile like I said as they go through uh each grade level here at Central Global. But looking at the big picture, you know, we use these meetings to focus on students and learning patterns across classrooms and grade levels. Our grade level teams look for trends uh that might help guide instruction and support systems. And in January, our first grade meeting, teachers kind of start talking about a concern that they have been seeing with reading fluency in the classroom uh instructionally and kind of a lack of that through the amplified curriculum system that we have. Uh, so some conversations happened and it led to some focus progress monitoring over the past five weeks. Uh, and that's why I've invited Paige here tonight.
So, she said, "I wanted to let you know how much we appreciate Kathy Williams. She's the bus driver for our daughter. School is very hard for our daughter and it can be hard for her to um get her day started. I can't tell you how much we appreciate her starting her day with Kathy on the bus. I think the busyiness of our days, we sometimes forget how important and impactful bus drivers can be at the start of the day for our kiddos. I have no doubt that Kathy prays over our daughter daily. She always has a warm and friendly smile and is so patient and kind with our daughter and all the things she has done for her at school and after practices. They have developed such a special relationship. Kathy knows the things our daughter is involved with and doing after school. Kathy also goes above and beyond.
So we're compiling those right now. We were fortunate to Andy has rolled over and I say rolled over. I know some you may not want to see this or hear this, but we will go through line by line. But if you were to take this year's budget and add in the raises that were already negotiated, we also have some four upcoming units to negotiate right now that will take effect potentially for July 1st. They are the custodians, the cafeteria workers, the bus drivers, and administrative assistants clerks in schools. So that'll be happening some point this spring. If you were to take all that, roll those up people over with raises, steps, you know how people move down steps, etc. And I'll just give the basic list of Thunder >> Andy, but the it would come to a 7.2% increase and that is $1.7 million. >> Yeah.
I get to use that in my research. I get to do anything I want with it. It was really nice. Learned about how to use it, how to operate it, how to administer a test to a member of the public because we have a program where members of the public can come and get body composition testing or exercise testing done and the students are there to assist our professors in doing that. But my professor is also my adviser, so I've gotten to know him much closer than I would with anyone else. His interest is student research. This is what he loves. He's absolutely passionate about it. He presents on it in multiple conferences throughout the year. And as part of our coursework, he's like, I want you guys to practice writing a research proposal. It's a big thing in exercise science of if you go into the research field or you become a professor, you're going to run into like you're going to need to do research.
She really took this and ran with it with her students and she's going to show you some data that she's collected. And you know, it's kind of one of those things what you focus on, you will achieve. And you're going to see what she has done with reading fluency and uh, having her kids track words per minute being read and the results that she's gained so far. So, Paige, I'm gonna turn it over to you. Um, so this is just talking about repeated reading intervention and why it's so important. Um, it builds reading fluency. When first graders read the same short text multiple times, they become faster and more accurate because they already know the words and structure. They can focus less on decoding and more reading smoothly and with expression. So I give my students a short passage on Monday. It's just a cold read and then throughout the week they have the chance to practice it at home and at school and then we retest on Friday.
Our daughter left her glasses on the bus one day. Kathy called to let us know and I said we could get them the next day, but it was a break. So Kathy personally delivered them to us on her way home. You know who I'm talking about today. Our kids have had different bus drivers over the years in school. Kathy is extra special and we can't say enough great things about her and how much we have appreciated having our daughter start her day with Kathy. Kathy told us today that she's moving to another route, but wanted to make sure that to let you know what a great job she does. So, I'm going to give you the actual email. Okay? And here's your certificate. And here's something you can have dinner on us. Okay? AWESOME. >> We appreciate you. Mrs. >> Okay, I will start with Mrs.
So that is without that is not adding anything new. What was the >> what was the percentage again? >> 1.7.2.2 >> 7.2% >> 1.7 million. >> Okay. >> Oh, maybe I misspoke a little. The only thing added I say only is >> spent tuition of >> we have if you remember we had several move in that have resulted in place tuition rate increase also back >> and that was about degree. >> So barring the increase of move in people who moved in and attending out of district placements in that increase there. There were no other right now positions added or increases to lines etc. holding those. I think that when you look at that right at 7.2% increase of $1.7 million, I think we probably can assume maybe incorrectly, but probably correctly that we will not be getting that money from the city side and it's not any of our first rodeos doing this.
How do we go about that? So, we learned how to identify a topic, develop the topic, and then ultimately write the topic down. I chose to evaluate our athletic development program here because it was fresh on my mind. Wanted to be like, can I give back to my community and as an optional part, we could submit it for a research grant for undergraduates at USI. And my professor and I decided, you know what, let's do it. He really liked my proposal. He's like, "I think you have a shot at this." So, we submit it and I end up receiving uh the award. And the award is just $1,000 for undergraduate research. It can help purchase equipment, material supplies. Uh if you have to hire like professional services, or if you're like public, if you're publishing your report, which I'm not doing, that's not the research that I'm doing, but it's there.
Um, and I'll get more into that in a second. It also strengthens word recognition. So the repeated exposure to the same words help children recognize high frequency and site words automatically. Um, so they finally get to a point where they see a word and they don't have to sound out the word again and again and again. They already know it. Um, it improves comprehension. As decoding becomes easier with each rereading, students can better understand the story or information. They start to notice details, sequence of events, and cause and effect relationships that they may have missed the first time. When they read slower, it's harder to comprehend what they are reading. So, the faster they get, um, the better they are with their comprehension. They build confidence and motivation. This is like the biggest thing that I'm getting out of my classroom, I feel, is the the confidence that they're getting um as they get better and better towards the benchmark that we're trying to hit every week.
Campbell and then you have slides. >> Mrs. Campbell, come on up, please, if you will. I always write notes because I don't want to forget anything. And this year is extra extra special because she has the privilege of having my own kiddo in her room. So, God bless you. So, um it is uh an honor to recognize Tammy tonight. Tammy is someone that um we've worked together for years and both various roles together. Um she goes above and beyond in every single way. Um she's now one of our early kindergarten teachers and I would say kind of the epitome of what early kindergarten should look like. Um it's not anymore just about learning letters and numbers, but it's those basic foundations that kids need in life. Um again, I've seen it myself this year. confidence just that the daily routine um and just growing that love for school is so important at that age and Tammy does such a great job of doing that um all at the same time very beautifully.
So, we we know that. But you do have to when I say the word start even if it's a loose start there just so people get an idea hey this is the budget that just is rolled over barring a couple of ads right there but not even adding new bodies that people think they want or new paper or >> so would this be level service >> level service Okay. >> Wait, say that again. >> OSD, which is >> operational service. >> So, they set the rate as a state agency that sets the rate for students who are attending a special day approved day schools and it's 34 >> 3.04% that those rates went up. So that number went up in the line and then the additional move in people which were so 400 something. >> Yeah, I heard that. >> So we we did it as I mentioned we met with all our department heads, principal, etc.
Um and it's an entirely driven process. The faculty is just there to support. If I had any questions, he helped me with like the budgeting and filling off the necessary paperwork and he's covering the university side of stuff. So, my research topic is like you can't really measure success like what does success mean? I want to put numbers to that. So, I learned how to do that in my classes and I'm going to be measuring uh athlete body composition, muscular endurance, and muscular strength. pre-program and postprogram to see, okay, with our current schedule, with our current regimen of what we're doing each session, is it improving our athletes, are we gaining muscle mass? Are we getting faster? Are we getting stronger? What more can we do if we're not meeting our goals? And I chose these three components because they're so important to building a better athlete.
And then support struggling readers for students who find reading difficult. Repeated reading provides structured practice in a low pressure way. Um to me, it's not a test. they I really just call them up one at a time and I say, "Okay, you know the drill. One minute and I'll tell you when to stop." And they don't even know that it's for a test. Um, and then reinforces expression with familiarity. Students begin to read with better phrasing, annotation, and attention to punctuation, important markers of fluent reading. So, when I first started week one, they didn't know what to expect. So, what you'll see here is my cold read on Monday. The blue line is going to be how many words per minute they were able to read, and then the red is how many errors that student made in that text on the cool read. So, you'll see really they're not making a ton of errors for how many words that they are reading.