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If it's something sixth graders usually do pretty well on maybe it can go a little bit later in the year because we know that they're not going to need as much retach where if it's something that they are seeing for the first time. So, for example, the jump from fifth grade to sixth grade, you get whole new clusters of standards. Um, algebra is all all brand new ratios and proportions. They've been learning about ratios and proportions because they've been studying fractions since third grade, but the language is completely different and we're asking them to do much more complex things. So, we know that those two clusters in particular really need to be early and heavy because it takes all year. >> Got it. Thank you. >> Yeah. But unfortunately, we don't have a lot of wiggle room. Yeah, there are many standards and a limited number of days.
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Um first of all um upon approval or per if there is approval for these positions uh John Mikl is here with his family uh his uh 23-year-old son who's at Aurora University right is uh here with him along with his wife and then behind them he's got uh his brother-in-law and sister-in-law. You might see some resemblance in the two here in the crowd. I don't know. Um but uh you know with approval I just want to congratulate him and we'll give him a little little space at the end if you want to say a few words. Um the other part I want to say besides uh celebrating him joining our team as our director of facilities is I would like to uh congratulate Joanne Smith. Is she hiding back there somewhere? Where's Joanne? >> Joanne. >> Um she's hiding literally. >> She's uh she's going to be approved and will be replacing my position which obviously means a lot to me.
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So, did I miss anything that was of any relevance? I'm looking at our people here who were there. So, we're I'm done. >> Thank you. >> All right. The next up is our information items. Um, first one being our FOYA report, which is in the packet, and the other one being the 2026 school maintenance project grant, which I think Andy spoke about just a little bit. >> Just a little. Our next item is old business with the middle school schedules. >> Yeah. So, I just wanted to bring up that we are we've we've been having the conversations with that. I think we're in a good spot. The the committees have have been meeting. The principles have met um and shared some ideas with them about some possibilities of some schedules. Um that would allow for more of a straight kind of 50-minute period. uh would not get rid of all of the overlaps necessarily within the schedules, but would certainly allow for some consistency across the board.
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Uh she has recently helped East Noble, a neighboring district who went through the same process and uh I checked with them and they recommended her and said that she was just very good to work with and regardless of our decision, it's going to provide outstanding information for me to be able to bring a recommendation to the board uh hopefully by April but no later than June that we either stay recommending we stay in the co-op or if we leave and it's going to be based largely on uh information that we're collecting now, but through the advisement of Angela and working through all the legal parameters of leaving the co-op, the structure that we're creating or looking to create if we're if we're off on our own. Um, and already we're starting to have conversations with Angela, but this contracted service, and I was very pleased with just the amount of $2,625 to to get some expert um guidance through this process and work with us, but she she could also work with us if we decide to withdraw from the co-op.
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>> Do you know what I mean? So I think that that what this does is it it allows coverage for it as to be in the food product >> but >> because how else are you going to take it >> Dr. J like you know again then that that we need to check you know because the food court being very strict of anything that can be added right so now the gummies and all that that you know earlier it was coming >> that was coming all out of state right u like in Massachusetts that's not allowed you know uh we we need to reook uh like if this can be an additive to the food, you know, so that again that the products we saw, right, that we asked the vendor to take it, you know, off the shelves, right? That that was added to the food because it's it was in a drink form, right?
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So we wouldn't be able we don't we wouldn't have the funds even if we were to redescribe those vacant positions. >> And do you have the space for all of this to to show up a whole another program again? >> We office space we would we do have we we we would have space. Um but I would also say you know this process here is similar to 42F which is the grant and aid which >> my next question. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> How different is this from grants and aid? Well, you already have grants and aid. So, I mean, and like you said, other agencies do grants. So, are we duplicating all this whole grant process in every agency? >> You know, the duplicate and the agencies that currently do grants, we're not duplicating. Those are specific to like the Hawaii Technology Development Corp., which they have the federal manufacturing assistance program and the state.
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>> Hopefully, there's some consensus on the responses you get. >> I hope so, too. >> Um, some of our other next steps include using Edgeclimber. This Thursday at Leadership Council, the principles and assistant principles are going to be all learning all about how to use Edge Climber to set some thresholds to find out who are their focus students and then how they can communicate that with teachers so that teachers know exactly who are the focus students that they really might want to target for tier three instruction. Um, also we'll be working on creating a math observation tool. not something that is brand new out of the blue, but really just a more focused math specific tool that's aligned to our learning walk. One thing that Dr. Duds Karen and I have committed to is offering to walk classrooms regularly with principles for their middle school teachers.
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So I wanted to personally congratulate her with proper approval from our board of education. And then I'd also like to uh congratulate both uh Brad and Tony who's not with us for their new roles that are a part of uh our superintendent kind of uh restructuring of our leadership team. So I'm uh grateful for our board for supporting this. Um and uh upon their approval, I definitely just want to congratulate all them. So with that uh we will jump into the consent agenda. 5.1 and 5.2 is the approval of the January 20th, 2026 meeting minutes along with the close session meeting minutes. Um 5.3 is the approval of the destruction of close session recordings from August 1st, 2024. Uh 5.4 is the uh affformentioned uh approval of our monthly uh personnel report. 5.5 is the approval of our payrolls and bills. 5.6 is the approval of uh donations received.
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Right now, they're blocked and language arts and math have this blocked time and math or science, social studies have different time. So, kind of be evening all of that out. U we're meeting to kind of look at some of the language and look at how that impacts um both core and encore uh as far as their teaching schedules and that. Um, but I think that I feel that we're in a good place with a lot of common ground of where we wanted to go in order to have hopefully offer more um encore opportunities for students particularly at sixth and seventh grade. It's a little bit limited at 8th grade just with the language course that's in there and with the with the current schedule, but we did want to keep in line with the current transportation schedule so that we weren't adding extra routes which would have been um would have been costly uh and to ensure that we're not having to hire, you know, a lot of new staff across the board um in in all subject areas.
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Uh, we could extend our services with her, and I I would bring back something else for the board to consider if we do decide to do that. So, I think this is something that um we need to do uh to make sure that we're thinking about everything that's involved in in making this type of a decision. The co-op, we've been a member of the co-op since 1970. So, that's a that's a 55 56y year um relationship that we've had. Um but I also know that we want to do what's best for Decal Central and the students that we serve. And I think Angela's input will help us reach that decision that I'll bring to you later on this spring. So I would ask for the board's consideration to approve this uh contracted service agreement with Dr. Angela Bossley so that she can assist us in getting the information we need to make an informed decision about staying or leaving the co-op.
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>> So that we definitely need to do we we all together as a board need to look, right? Yeah. >> If Massachusetts uh or I to my understanding it's prohibited in food it anything, right? for for that matter cannabis or anything is not allowed to be sold as an additive to the food product. >> So it for cannabis as an example are the CBD gummies or cannabis gum uh like THC gummies are those not considered food? >> So that's not allowed sir you know >> what it's not allowed or it's not considered food. >> Yeah. If it is in food right then then it's not allowed. The sale of it is not allowed. That's my understanding separate. So, so the gum the gummy that you purchase is not considered food. >> It is food, >> but it's not allowed, >> but it's happening. >> That's 100% agree with you.
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So there's there's no duplication there unless the 42F awards an applicant who probably applied to that then that that would be um we don't have any program that focuses on this type of activity but then again yeah the question could be are you duplicating uh >> but they come in they can come in for right now for grants from the ledge right >> and you know the amounts in here no less than 10,000 no more than 50,000 Um I I'm not based off of the grant programs we've seen before and agricultural a lot of it comes down to infrastructure and facilities. Now these may be using this cost for specialized equipment and things like that which the manufacturing systems program majority of those applicants are in the agricultural and value add manufacturing. >> Okay. And the the time it would take to stand this thing up, >> rule making everything a couple years.
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So to go and do math, middle school math specific walkthroughs. Let's go let's go during small group time and just see how it's going. Figure out what's going great that we can celebrate and share and where are some areas that they might need some more support. or just feedback. Um, additionally, we need to make sure that everyone is on the same page as far as expectations for that instructional block. So, if it's supposed to be small group time, are small groups happening? And if they're not, how do we support? Um, small group time is a great way to maximize their instructional time so that they can move on when they've gotten behind. Like, okay, we've got 50% of students are showing growth on this. It's really important. I'm going to look at my data and figure out who needs to be in which small group because they all need different things depending on why they're not understanding it.
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We're grateful for the generosity of Office Depot, Betavia Wrestling Club, Beefy, the Betavia Rotary, and the uh HC Storm PTO. 5.7 is the approval uh of the review of our close session minutes. [cough] 5.8 is the approval of the updated service agreement for Boys and Girls Club. And then finally, 5.9 is the approval of our cons.
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So, um I think that this what they've come up with, what they what has been proposed at least um is in a good place uh to to move forward without a lot of costly increases for for the district more within the regular realms of where the district would be as we grow um just in general. But some further discussions on that are happening actually this week and then we'll continue with what we thank you. Next item is the agenda items for our March 16th meeting. So our next regular board meeting. On here we have the architect's presentation. First day exclusion. Um the nurses will be presenting on that. >> Any other circle back to those town halls that we were talking about? So, circle back to >> I don't know what we called them. >> Town halls, I think. >> Coffee. >> Yeah. >> coffee with the coach.
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>> Thank you. Steve asks or at this time I'll ask the board for a motion. >> I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> I have a motion and a second.
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But >> okay, >> that's happening. You know, that it's coming out of state. You again not allowed in Massachusetts, you know. So, >> but I'm talking about the gummies that are sold at your local uh recreational cannabis shop. >> No, I'm I'm not sure. Right. Like if uh because we don't have a cannabis shop here, you know, like there might be in adults use stores it allows, right? That might be a factor where with the other cities and towns that have allowed cannabis, right? >> That's allowed, you know, in in those stores, right? >> Yeah. >> But not generally allowed as an additive to the food, you know, uh that at least I know. And then we can check more into this, you Yeah, I think we should check because if if it's a state regulation um that this just isn't possible, then I don't understand how that House bill would be able to go forward, >> right?
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>> Rule making takes one to two years after you have the staff established which takes 12 to 18 months, right? >> Um we would have to go through the civil service process as these positions are within the department. >> Okay. So at the end of the day within the money left over and the amount of grants you're going to give, what kind of ROI can we expect? I wouldn't know that answer right now, Senator. It would we would have to look at what activities the grants would be awarded to. Even even on that, we track there's no telling up front. Even when we look at some of the existing programs, we have to survey the companies at the time of the application midway and then exit and then some follow up thereafter to see if it was the grant that sustained it and if they were able to grow or if it was frankly just a subsidy in that point of time.
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And then I can move on with core curriculum. And then part of those walkthroughs is to create a feedback cycle for principles and teachers. One principal that I met with said that she would really like to be able to do real time coaching with teachers so that it's not a meeting next Friday to talk about the observation or one more thing for teachers to stay after school for. Could we go in teams, one of us covers the classroom, the other person, the principal is able to pull that teacher out for 10 minutes and give them quick feedback and suggestions and next steps and then they go back in. Um, for professional development, I know we keep talking about our math cohort. It's because it is our biggest and deepest and most longgoing um, form of professional development for teachers. Based on our learning walks and what we've seen in classrooms all year, we know that we really need a big focus on student engagement.
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>> Any questions? >> You don't even want to make them sweat a little longer [clears throat] or [laughter] >> Okay. >> All right. Hearing no questions, I will entertain a motion to approve all items in the consent agenda as presented. >> So moved. So moved by Aaron, >> second by Katie. Cindy, please lead us in a roll call vote. >> Yes. >> Siger, >> yes. >> Meadows, >> yes. >> Gilberg, >> yes. >> Gonzalez Thomas, >> yes. >> Gerals, >> yes. >> Armando, >> yes. >> Thank you. Motion passes. [applause] education members, administration, and my family for coming out. I appreciate it. I just want to say I've been waiting about a month to hear that. So, that's awesome. I'm super excited. [laughter] Um I've been hiding it and holding it in. Um but no, I'm just really excited. Betavia has a tremendous uh respect and just reputation out in the world of the education out in the education world as far as the education process uh fine arts and also athletics.
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