PMPO provided them with around there's like if you can just work with your teachers on a few simple adjustments, it will make all the difference in the world on how they're doing on some of these items that we're walking classrooms for. And you know, obviously if we can make those adjustments, then students learn better and that'll help improve our outcomes. >> Um I had kind of a a wondering thought. you'd mentioned that um it seems like the freckle and waggle aren't necessarily being used as much by the teachers at this point. Um, and you know, coming at it from a parents perspective, I know I'm I'm not very fond of the tablets being used much in class. And having spoken to some teachers, I hear that, oh, you know, it takes about 20 minutes. You know, first they take about 10 minutes to all get their tablets out and then another 10 minutes at the end to put them away.
It doesn't makes sense to do that. So, once that 11 million is paid off, you could go back out and identify more. Let's say in five years from now when you have that done and do HLS [cough] bonds all over again. I've been in this position for a while, okay? And just a few more months now. But this has been something that I've talked about year after year after year. And obviously we tried other mechanisms. You know, we want the community. I won't mention all of that right now, but we are now into fund balance. So we're borrowing money to get all this stuff. That's where warm safe dry came. Well, warm safe dry really should be coming to an end about next summer. warm, safe, dry. When the initial plan, when we initially brought this, it's at least three to five more years before we get done what we initially wanted to do about four years ago.
This is just strictly approving some resolutions for the bond lease. Uh there's two ways that our corporation can borrow money in terms of bonding and that's through lease bonds and general obligation or go bonds. We just passed a go bond a couple months [laughter] ago. As you remember, we approved the backpack bonding process through a leasing process a few months ago. So the bond the board has approved. Okay. The spending of the money has been approved. Now we are in the process of getting to the sale of the lease and the bond itself. Okay. So we form what's called a building corporation which is comprised of three individuals from the community. Um they act as a board of directors to hold a piece of our property [snorts] and then make payments on behalf of the school district for our bonding process. Biggest thing I just want to point out to the board is just a reminder and the public is the bond itself has been approved.
We finally have got compliance with it. Uh so I did get a did a pest control report uh end of last week. We did an inspection couple of weeks back with the building fire and myself. Um there were a couple of items from our site still missing that they have corrected since but the building department have given them a list of things to do to bring the building into compliance, you know. So they'll be looking at that side, you know. So I guess uh the management team have addressed a couple of them you know or few of them already but uh that was a list I can forward it to the board in case anybody's interested. Uh 321 Land Farm Road this is another housing case we picked up uh uh last week that we have issued an order to crack letter Friday with our disease investigation.
>> Right. >> Yeah. Okay. Thank you. So, so just as a followup, where are we on the CEO? >> So, the um actually would you like to comment on or I know the board um is meeting uh the permitted interaction group has their next meeting? >> What what process are we in with getting the CEO on board? Um >> yes, the last time >> they are I mean >> yeah, >> I defer to our chair [laughter] You told us that the last time we were at the convention center, right? You gave us a timeline which is quite a ways away from what I remember. >> I just thought you can speak to it. >> Thank you, Senator. I'm the chair of the CEO search permitted interaction group and the chair of the administrative committee that oversees that. So, uh, we do have a calendar that was established in December.
And I just my wondering is, you know, I I I could see how like perhaps like manipulatives and paper and pencil could be more efficient at you know getting the kids learning the math than than perhaps like uh you know the tablet. But um I'm just I'm interested to see how once you do encourage the teachers to use it more and if they start using it more to see you know what what that outcome is. But I did want to put that out there just, you know, wondering to also see if from those who maybe who have used it what their feedback has been. Um, but I'm sure older kids are sixth and eighth graders are going to be quicker getting their tablets than like, you know, my third grader. So, um, >> yeah, and I think it really depends on the classroom. Some classrooms, even kindergarten and first grade classrooms, have really quick, really clear transitions and procedures for managing their iPads.
So again, as I've come up here and said a lot, Josh talked about it, every year it's usually about three or 5%. Now it's about 10 or 15%, sometimes 20%. That's what the expenses are going up for projects. Now, I have no idea if that's going to continue. I hope not, but it it could. I don't see any signs of it slowing down. It continues to increase at a rapid rate. So, I just gave a really long story, but really at RACK, what we talked about and we've been talking about is trying to find different funding mechanisms to help get these projects that list down sooner and sooner. But again, the buildings aren't getting any younger either. And I've also talked about a lot in my capital projects is this is what I call capital maintenance. This is fixing what we have. We really haven't looked a lot towards capital improvement and that's something that I really wanted to do.
Now we're in the process over the next two months of getting to the sale of that bond. So tonight is the formality of the board approving three resolutions for our building corporation that is formed with um Angie Lockwood John Good Tina Basset form our building corporation. That's a separate entity. I had meetings with them. I had a meeting this month and I'll have a meeting next month. Next month's board meeting will be the hearing to pass the actual lease um agreement with the building corporation and then that will be when we can sell the bond itself. Okay, with that I'll turn it over to Josh to go through the three resolutions that need to be approved by the board tonight to proceed. >> Thank you. >> Yes, there's three resolutions tonight. The first one um is resolution determining for the project. So before [clears throat] the the school district can enter into a lease with the building corporation, you first need to make a determination that there's a need for the project.
Uh we have one TV case that we was working from the last meeting. We did investigate one Salmonella case that came to us from Framingham and that the case was referred to us from Framingham. They was investigating somebody sick there with Salmonella.
As you know, the advisory board had to ramp up and, uh, we had to better understand the statutory language, how it's changed in terms of identifying the CEO. We then had to get a clarification from HR and from the AG regarding the classification of this CEO. They are now going to be an employee of the state of Hawaii, not an employee of the authority. That requires a different characterization. We identified to the search group that we were going to pay a certain amount and have a certain classification and reporting. All that's changed. So the the result of that original search uh 23 some names um they applied for a different job than the one that they might potentially be hired to. So the question is do we have the best pool of candidates given the existing or the current conditions rather than the previous conditions.
Um, so the like sometimes they're just they're stacked in the center of the table. It's like, okay, it's time to time to move into centers. Grab your iPad and you're going here. Um, ideally we would see a combination of centers, games, manipulatives, collaborative learning, and maybe one station where students are using freckle or waggle. Um, but one of the things that we know is really important is that students have the opportunity for differentiated instruction with the teacher. And a hurdle for some teachers is planning and preparing and managing the centers and the games. And if students aren't quite able to complete an activity or work independently on their own. So this is an option for everyone to be engaged in something that's productive and meeting them at their level for a short period of time. I would not recommend that students are spending 30 40 minutes on freckle.
Again, when you do capital maintenance, there are things that are improve, but really changing the spaces. So, um, I think that's really the big conversation is about how do we take and try to get these projects down as quick as we can and what are those mechanisms to do that? >> So, what's the next step? I'm still kind of confused. >> No, right right now they're my what I've heard is they're going to kind of rack is looking for a way of being able to present something to Tom bring to the board that they bring to the board. But there's other questions here, right? Like, so you mentioned it a little bit. There's capital improvement projects. So, as everybody recalls, went out to the community a while ago. The community did not have an appetite for what was being presented at that time. You know, there's considerations about this process because this is a way of leveraging someone's tax ability to essentially add another tax to their bills to be able to take care of the necessary things.
So that's a state law requirement. It's pretty straightforward and short resolution. Um the second resolution is um approving the form of a lease. Um so before the the school district can enter into a lease or conduct a hearing on the lease which will take place next month um you first have to approve the formal lease so you have some basis on which to hold the hearing next month. So that's another state law requirement. And then the third is a federal um federal law requirement that the school district must um approve or in this case reapproved since we're using the same building corporation. Um must approve the the building corporation to issue tax exempt bonds on behalf of the school district. So that resolution is taking care of those requirements.
So we have to look into one of our vendors food vendors and today we did pick up another TV case that we are looking into and I'm open for any questions for the board.
So we're in uh consultation with DBED director and we're trying to get to the quickest result we can. We I think we have a a able administrator in Caroline at this point, but we know we need to get to a permanent CEO and get that name to the governor to forward to the Senate. We are working on the fastest schedule we can, but we are an advisory board of volunteers and we do have limited uh understanding. Up to this point, we had limited understanding of who we were actually hiring. questions. Okay. >> Question. >> Okay. >> Um the 23 names that you folks got, was any vetting done at all? >> The names have uh that their resumes have been reviewed by uh myself for instance and some other members of the pig the permit action group. >> Um I I I don't see an immediate um savior.
But if it's one, if it means that the teacher, if their entry point is, I'm just going to commit to pulling one group per day. I can do 20 minutes a day. Everyone else is going to do freckle for 20 minutes. I'm going to pull my students who need the most support for 20 minutes. The next day, I'm going to pull a different group. That feels okay. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Um, moving on to questions. One of the questions we received was there are several important activities outlined in the report such as cohorts, lesson study, learning walks, pacing adjustments, freckle and waggle, newsletter amongst others. Can you walk us through which specific actions are intended to move which specific measures and on what timeline? So we made this graphic to show how how things overlap because obviously some things really most things are going to impact most areas but some of them are more targeted towards specific interim measures.
Now, the state is not all that they're pretty stingy with this process and it's takes a while to get approved. Um, so like that's the [clears throat] other reason I'm kind of rolling it out over time because there's >> two one one two or one people in the state that are approving these right now. >> There's one >> two people in the whole >> approve one for 800 and >> 56 school districts that could be [clears throat] applying for these things. >> So, it's not going to be a fast process. And the moment you put the fact that you're going to try to leverage something like this, they get much more critical about it when you're not using your own money. So it is a more challenging process. I've been through it. I filled out the forms. I know this stuff a bit. So the second question is right if we're that only takes care of like the high priority items of the warm, safe, and dry.
Any questions on those resolutions at all? So, I would just need a motion and a >> agreement to pass. I I believe I'll ask defer to Josh. I believe we can approve all three in one motion or do they need to do a motion for each one individually? >> We put it in. >> Okay. Okay. At this time, I'll ask the board um for a motion to approve the resolution determining the need for the project exhibit A. >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second. I have a motion and a second.
Now >> anybody have any questions for Raj? Uh, not a question, but just to follow up on the marathon. Um, yeah, I'm going to be in New York, but if um anyone from the board can do it, it's basically it's pretty simple. So, I I don't know. I know that Barbara has volunteered. Have you volunteered for them? >> I don't think I have yet. So, >> okay. It's the year. >> So, I usually sit at the um high school, which is, you know, a emergency evacuation site. A lot of people go down and they watch the marathon and they just make sure that they can get back to the high school and they go in and check. It's pretty easy. I bring homework. So, um, you got to be down there at six o'clock and they typically wrap up by 1:00 at the latest. So, it's not, you know, it's pretty simple.
So, um, if what we're looking for is a CEO that can, um, resolve all the issues that the new CEO will have to do, which I would argue are primarily [clears throat] communications with the legislature now that HTA relies solely on a funds, I think the interaction with the legislature about the ex uh, responsibilities of HTA, as Senator Wakai was alluding to, the complexity of destination management, this person has to have a different skill set than the ones that I've reviewed. Okay. But the position is ever changing, right? I mean, we have this bill in front of us. If the bill passes, that changes. If the bill doesn't pass, it stays the same. But I guess when you if you vetted the the the U names, isn't there anyone in there that has the potential? because I don't know that you're going to be able to to get somebody specific if now you're saying they're concentrating on working with the legislature because they still have to have tourism background so forth.