So until January, and that was a concern. That means that they don't have as much time to practice, to retach. So, we moved a a good number of heavy-hitting standards which meant that module one like module one is now taught in quarter 3. And thank you for clarifying that because at the beginning I I did hear some things about parents like oh my god this is so much harder but this is exactly why because we give students more time in order instead of putting it in last quarter. So, thank you for clarifying that point and why some of the changes were made and why we're seeing a little bit of difference in the homework that's coming home, right? Because I I've seen it and other parents have seen it. So, great job and thank you for doing that. And again, this is the Seni graph for our eighth grade students.
So, I'll voice my support even though we heard everybody else. Um, more on sports. As we know, Betavia is great with our sports suite. Have so many wins all the time. The track season is starting up and is always rapidly growing. Um, they just had their first meet on Valentine's Day. So, just last weekend, we had so many wins. I'm going to be honest, I don't know what most of like the different terms mean for what they're doing in track and field, but we had a lot of wins. And I was debating on whether I should like say all the names or not, but a win is a win and I think they all deserve to be recognized. So, our first place wins. I have a ton of names across all four grades. We have Elizabeth Wendy, William Houston, Aiden Punio, Jeremy Schiller, Avery Hacker, Jabari Buckley, Edward Pilowski, Yavin Pecor, Andrew Colada, Olivia Graham, Thomas Contrarus, Darren Ashiro, and Charles O'Brien.
Um we are looking at um some some new um HVAC over at Lily Lake. Um together with that, we'd be looking at some finish updates um and electrical work. Um it's pretty common when you update um HVAC systems that you're getting into some other things like electrical as well. Can't just plug the new thing into the old thing. Um some paving projects coming up at um Country Trails and um CMS. Um we are almost complete with um putting new generators in um all of our facilities. So um the last piece of that coming up is um our generators at um CMS and here at the district office. And then a future project that is just starting to be studied that we'll hear more about as plans are being developed um is the possibility of replacing um bleachers at the high school um football field. So, we'll be getting more information there.
uh she's been willing to help give some ideas and guidance on that. We have some other people who have came and said get that going. So again just a tool kit. So yeah, some excitement again. We're slow and steady. >> It It's nice. We have a wide variety of students who get involved, so it's nice to be able to see them find their niche and their skill set. And then when you pair that with our upskill program, you pair that with Twin Rivers, you pair that with how Vincent's University has expanded their programs, I have a daughter who's going to opportunities and I feel like when I think I've said and we just keep talking great for them and then electronics opportunities. Is this kind of ongoing or do these teams change or do they >> fluid? If somebody decides that they want to off of it and if somebody that at any time at the beginning of the school year is whatever we did let them but they usually meet on our teacher work days and so if somebody would Okay.
Um, and the re one of the statistics they said was the female suicide rate is up about 60% and the male suicide rate is up about 35%. So, they're trying to protect our students um from social media as much as possible and hopefully have the parents um working with that. And then lastly, the one that stood out is there was talk about the $1 law that if a school shuts down, the building could be sold for $1. Um they do feel like eventually that's going to go away. It's not going to go away during this session, but that is in the plan to um hopefully it will go away fairly soon. So, and I'm sure Wade can give more details on anything else. >> You got it covered pretty good. >> Good job. >> How do I follow that? >> I don't have too much to say.
Any discussion? >> Yeah. When I got hired in 2001, I was very lucky to have two people as my neighbors to kind of tell me what I shouldn't do at the middle school. Steve was two more two doors down and Brett was one door down. So if I had a question or if I was doing something I shouldn't do in a middle school setting, I had two role models even though I was I'm still older than them. Um I I had two good guys that could help me if I had questions and and I think I can't think of a better person to fill this spot than Brett. I've known Brett for a long time and I think he's probably more excited than what we know. So, I think this is a great fit. >> I hope so. I know he hit the ground running with that role.
Good. So, um so I one of the action items from the last time we were sitting here was that I would go um speak to Jack Lewis just to find out more about what the current legislation was in Massachusetts. and um as we had um determined that there were several bills kind of moving their way way through the state um and so he brought me up to speed. We didn't talk about all of them. Um we focused on one um which he said was the furthest along in the process. Um so he was aware of all this and this is House Bill 4394 which has um kind of an interesting history to it. So, it used to be it originally was House Bill 1631 um which was a total ban onratom products and I I forget who sponsored it. I I don't have the name.
Um so I am going to defer this bill uh indefinitely. With that we are adjourned. Thank you. Hi. Uh, welcome to the hearing with the Senate Committee on Economic Development and Tourism. This is our 111 PM agenda. We have a 1 minute time limit for all testifiers. We have various agendas to get through this afternoon. This agenda has four bills. Up. First is Senate Bill 2716 relating to cooperatives. Uh first up uh Department of Business and Economic Development Daily. >> Thank you. Next up, Konyi Def Franco with Hawaii Co-op. >> Aloha, chair, vice chair, and members of the committee. My name is Ki DeFranco, managing director of Purple Knight of Foundation and co-founder of the Hawaii Coopi. I strang stand in strong support of SB2716. Cooperatives are businesses owned and democratically governed by their members, including workers, producers, and consumers. They operate on a one member, one vote principle, keeping decision-making and profits local.
This graph illustrates 130 students increased in proficiency, 262 stayed within the same proficiency band, and 81 students moved down in proficiency. The data shows significantly more upward movement since our second progress monitoring report indicating academic growth by our eighth grade students. This is a comparison of how each school performed on um each indicator. 1.1 on DNA sixth grade, their minimal proficient students. You can see in the different schools, Fastbridge, and then also our eighth grade DNA scores. Something that we wanted to highlight on this is the schools that have teachers that are participating in our math cohort, professional development series throughout the entire year. It's been a huge commitment from them. It's been changes for their students, asking them to take risks, um being away from their students occasionally to participate in that professional development. And so something we wanted to highlight particularly when you look at eth grade because eighth grade did have a significant amount of growth um of our eight schools that have eighth grade students because of course Kennedy doesn't have eighth graders yet.
So, those are all of our first place winners, and we had so many across the charts. And then for Triple Jump, Abby Worth just set another record for indoor, which is awesome. She's a junior, so she has another year left. She's on the top right. We have a nice little picture. She's awesome. I do band with her, but our track is doing great. And I noticed that people really are drawn to that community. Just like how everybody treats each other is a great space. So, I'm glad that we're fostering that in Battavia. For basketball, that's still happening. Um, boys basketball, they won the Battavia vers Geneva meet, which um love all the wins, but Battavia vers Geneva is extra special. So, congrats to them. And then girls basketball Dukane Conference Senior Awards. We want have one for Payton House and Ally Thomas, which great. Our girls basketball is wonderful.
Um Dan brought us um information on the track bids that we just approved this evening. As I mentioned, um we um we're we're tracking very close to budget here. Um it's hard to get contractors to bid site related work when it has to happen in those two and a half months in the summer. Um so I thought it was really important that we proceed with that work and get it um ready for kids um in um in late summer. Um talked a little bit about um the the farm lease of the pro of the mouse former mouse property on 47 coming up to bid. We're looking for the highest responsible bidder um not the lowest responsible bidder to um to be farming that land for us. And then um finally, Dan um talked about some projects that are um going on um with grant funding um updating security and um specifically classroom door locks um at the high school.
>> Thank you. You're welcome. So if they don't want to do it then they have to give you a note somebody. So a good relationship if they needed >> to accept anything on that part. No, I was listening to it. I thought I want to share because I really was questions or items from patrons. Pretty unique. I have a motion to all in favor say. I >> thanks for coming out. >> And then I will just on the 23rd at 4:00 and then the next regular board meeting will be on Thursday, March 19 at 6 o'clock.
Um, it's just really great to see uh project 27 up and started. uh anxious for that to be all over with 2027 to where we can start using it. And another thing, you know, it always amazes me and it it's it's such a blessing that we have so many people that want to sign up or volunteering to be coaches, assistant coaches. Got to commend them for that. I mean really they they're really thinking about the students and I believe so that's about all I have. >> Thank you sir. >> No just uh not a lot on the same page as as Gary. Great to see that project get started. Um hopefully the the amount of interruption that it has with day-to-day school activities isn't too much. Um but uh it's just nice to see all the work that we've been doing over been a couple years now um actually starting to come to fruition.
So, [laughter] >> we appreciate him. >> Okay. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion passes. Item H3, the demographic study proposal recommendation. Um, I've communicated to the board in recent updates and just through conversations uh about our demographic study proposal that I was planning to bring uh this evening. The most recent demographic study for DCAP Central Schools was completed in 2021. Since that time, a number of factors have continued to influence our our enrollment trends. housing development patterns, long-term population projections within our district, and to ensure that our strategic planning and facility discussions to which we've had many facility discussions um over these past five years and more discussions yet to happen. We want to make sure that we have a good understanding of our demographics and what the enrollment trends might look like. Um, the district has received a proposal from McKibben Demographic Research L LLC to complete a comprehensive population and enrollment forecast.
It might have been somebody on the Southshore, but um Jack told me that it went to House Ways and Means or it went to committee and it was rewritten um to be more of a regulation than a ban. And so um in the s in the sense that we had talked about previously which was to regulate crowatum products to remove uh or to um ban synthetic products or concentrated 7 hydroxy metroine products um to ban analoges um and I forget the exact wording but basically it was to put on you know age restrictions um and things like that. Um, so he told, and I can go into a little bit more detail because I kind of uh sketched out a straw man for what maybe a regulation might look like in Ashton if we were to go that route. But he said that this is the furthest along.
SB 2716 establishes a cooperative development program within DBED to provide cost sharing grants to support 10 to 20 local co-ops annually with startup conversion costs such as feasibility studies, legal services, and governance design. I would like to address comments about funding and staffing raised by DEBED which we appreciate and align with. When Hawaii has supported emerging industries like aquaculture, the state invested early and assigned dedicated staff recognizing long-term potential. We hope cooperative development can be measured the same way. Last May last May we convened the first cooperative development gathering with over 60 co-ops, emerging farmers and community members. Today we have over 80 members meeting by monthly for peer-to-peer learning on co-op models without any current funding. We're excited to spark renewed interest in this uh economic model. Mahalo. >> Mahalo. Thank you. Next up, Hunter Heavlin testifying. Hoy Farmers Union in support. No, you Hunter.
Five of those schools have teachers that are participating in the math cohort. Um we also have two seventh grade teachers. So, of course, not only are they getting that development that they'll need to be extra successful with our current sixth grade cohort next year when they're the seventh graders, but we know that the work that those seventh grade teachers are doing is going to support the eighth grade teachers as those students roll up next year. Um, we also have two schools with teacher with sixth grade teachers that are in the cohort, although to be transparent at Builtmore, they teach all of the grade levels. So, it's the same two teachers that participate in both eighth grade and sixth grade. >> And we can't determine if this is a correlation, but we do have better results in eighth grade and and the teachers that are uh more like in the cohort, but also that was also where the curriculum was adjusted.
They just had their senior night and tonight actually is their regional semifinals. So, I'm rooting for them. I'm sure we'll do great. Wrestling is kind of in that mid to end season. Uh there were sectional wins for both the girls and boys teams and they're off to state soon in Bloomington. We have qualifiers Lily Enos and Kaenos. They're siblings. Uh Lily is graduating and Kaisen underassman. So we'll have some great wrestlers. That's all for sports. And then for clubs and events, always big things happening. The winter dance is coming up in the next two weeks. I think uh the theme is City of Lights. So like a La La Land theme, I think. Um that's one of our new dances and it's a great community. Everybody's talking about it. It'll be super fun. Tomorrow, National English Honor Society is off to Chicago. I will be there during school.
It's and at the middle schools. And then we'll also be looking at replacing some exterior doors at some of the buildings. Um strengthening, hardening those. Some we've got some that have seen better days and um we'd like to replace which we're able to do with grant funding. So um Dan or Dana, have I missed anything? All right. That is the facilities committee report. >> Thank you. 12 DT district leadership team uh met uh February 12th. We had a virtual meeting but a couple of topics on there. U some is it was a little bit of the superintendent search update and kind of how do we prepare for a new superintendent. What's the work that we do as as leaders in there so there was some work done with the team. Uh we also heard from Joyce Turnup Seed who is one of our district nurses um on first day exclusion.
All I got is >> I will not repeat everything by the time it gets to this end. Um um I too am very thankful to see the project moving forward and um you know seeing light at the end of the tunnel for this and I'm thankful to all our staff for all their hard work. >> Melissa, >> yeah I would agree it's good to see that project get started and um also thank you Price for their donation to the high school and I don't know staff and kids hang in there. breakfast coming. >> Mr. Bey, >> well, I want to thank Monica for her very detailed report from the state house today. Uh, it was an interesting day, probably one of the less colorful events we've had at that day. This was uh the schoolboard association's eighth uh what they call a state house day where school board members and um legislators eat lunch together and uh have an opportunity to discuss uh issues uh and we listen to the panels of uh it was funny uh representative representative Delaney uh Senator Ross and uh Senator Deodor on one at one table and all of them were civil.