And so all of them are a little bit different, their action plans, but they all are doing what's best for their campus and what where they're at with their teachers. I mean, the fact that our print our schools even have action plans and by December they're pivoting and changing because of the feedback that you guys are giving me is amazing. I I haven't heard that happened before. So, I am I'm really thankful for this team and for actually, you know, going out there and making sure that not only you guys as coaches are supported, but the principles and having all these action plans. Like, this just makes me so happy. So, I'm I'm really appreciative for all the hard work. >> Um, real quick, I just wanted to go back to something that was mentioned on slides 13 and 14, Edgue Climber. So, it sounds like you're going to have a meeting with the principles to kind of go over using that more.
Uh, and so just we got to make sure we're transparent and communicative as we go through this process. >> Okay, great. Thanks, guys. Don't go too far, Mark. [laughter] >> Any other committee updates? >> Okay. Uh, award bids for the HC storm site work improvements. Mark, can you lead us on this item? >> I will. Um, and I'm going to try to do a better job this month because it's two separate items and I'm going to try to keep them separate. Technically, that's what you have to do. So, I did my slides that way too this time. Um, so at the site improvements, if you want to go on the next one. So, this is HG Storm site. [clears throat] This is a Google image. Um, it's actually on GIS system that I use. Um, if you notice something about the storm, it's very close to Van Norwick.
Any discussion? >> I just think it's great that we can get local companies to help us improve our community. So, I want to thank Tyler and FCI make sure that we don't use the same concrete contractor. Let's [laughter] see what we can do. >> Any other discussion? >> All those in favor signifi. Signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oppos. Motion passes. And now item H10 is the request of permission to advertise for the CMC backpack. >> Okay. Again, now we're switching gears. We're going to our 2026 backpack bond. Um, again, Quick reminder, we've approved the bond. So, if you think we're getting ahead of the game, we still haven't sold the bond, but this is going to allow us to get the advertisement out for the CMC of this big project um to get somebody hopefully in place for me to bring to you in the March board meeting.
Uh, next up, Trevor Abberuza Arbarzua, Wiki Business Improvement District. >> Yeah. Thank you, chair, vice chair, and members of the committee. Trevor Arbzua, president, executive director of the Wiki Business Improvement District. I stand on my written testimony. I'm very happy to answer questions, but we have been short of time. Thanks. >> Thank you. Next up, Winston Welch testifying for Outdoor Circle on Zoom. Go ahead. Yes. Aloha chair and committee members. Uh the outdoor circle um stands on its written testimony just very briefly to say you know this bill uh is contrary in a very negative direction for a hundred years of history prohibiting billboards and off- premises advertising which are designed to protect our scenic integrity, roadway safety, economy and character. Mostly this uh you know these signs are designed to distract drivers. They're designed to distract pedestrians in an area that's very dangerous uh to drive in, to walk in.
H have teachers been trained already in like using Edgue Climber? Um because, you know, I I understand I know very little bit about it, but it seems like it's going to be a really awesome tool once everyone's tapped into it. Um so, I'm just curious to see where where we're at on getting everybody using it. >> Uh Edu Climber is a tool that we are currently using with administration. So, every month at our leadership councils or our leadership seminars, um either myself or Tyson or together, we are able to provide additional training. We've been kind of doing a little drip method, if you will, introducing new um features within Edu Climber for our leaders. When we meet on Thursday, we will talk about thresholds. And what's really neat about the thresholds is they autopop populate. So, anytime there's changes, if there's changes in enrollment, the thresholds, the number of students will change.
That causes some issues as some of you HC storm parents here know. Uh, there's only one way to get in there and one way to get out and it's a very small circle. Okay. So, I'm not going to really go into much detail what it looks like. Um the other piece on here uh is right now it's also in an intersection that's very tight just because of kind of how the curves are too. We have tried, we myself, the city, worked with the police department, um, traffic studies. I mean, over 10 years, I have done about every different thing I can think of and others putting no parking in different spots on different side of Illinois. Nothing really works well. Um, we even, that's why you can see those lines on there. Those are sidewalks, by the way, the like neon green ones. Um off to the west the subdivision there's a path there.
That's my goal. I'm going to get this advertised if the board approves it to tonight um immediately. I'm going to make a due date on any applications that come in for the CMC role by March 10th. That gives me about a week to get things around, meet with Steve a little bit and go over things to bring somebody to recommend to the board in March. Again, this isn't approving a CMC. This is strictly for me to get the advertisement out to advertise for them to bring their proposals into me to go over. So, I would ask the boards for the lease. >> This is for the lease bond. Correct. Backpack >> for a CMC. >> Yeah. One area bond backpack. Which one? Sorry. Same thing. Those are synonymous. The lease bond is the backpack bond. Apologize. >> Okay. At this time, I'll ask for a motion to for permission to advertise for the CMC backpack.
Uh well, we'll just say it increases complexity. The Wy Ki neighborhood board representing residents most directly affected by this has also testified against it. Visitors come here in part because of our protected environment. because it's not Las Vegas or Tokyo. Our laws are very carefully uh crafted here in Honolulu and uh we don't need additional signage for kiosk. They are already allowed under this bill. So for this and many other reasons, we strongly oppose this and urge you to hold this measure. Thank you. >> Thank you. Uh just for correction, I believe that um the Wiki Business Improvement District is in support and he just testified in support. No, no, no. I I just wanted to correct that. [clears throat] >> Neighborhood board. >> Yeah, >> that opposes. >> Oh, it's okay. >> Yeah, the neighborhood board. >> Uh next up, Stanford Car. Uh Stanford Car Development in support.
Um so that'll be their their latest and greatest uh learning this week. But then um in terms of teachers, teachers are more familiar with um DNA. We do expect that we will be able to begin introducing Edge Climber to our teachers next year. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Well, that's all of the questions. They were really good questions this time. >> Board members, do we have any other comments or questions? All right. Awesome. Thank you so much for the presentation. I appreciate you guys. >> Thank you all for being here. >> And with that, I move the governing board adopt progress mon report for goal one report three. May I have a second? >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I Any hearing? None. Motion passes. Thank you guys so much. That brings us to item 4B. Um this is just a discussion um on our governing board guard rails.
We did that a number of years ago. Um it's a walking and biking path. Uh lots of kids use it. Again, we're at a point now where um it becomes we are really this is the only school that has bus and car lane traffic together. If you want to go to the next slide, this is more what Craig sees all the time. So this is just a current uh site layout drawing. This is what it currently looks like. So you can see trees and you know different things like that. I just want there's a reason I put this on here because if you go to the next slide, this is the very clean new site layout drawing. So what this is is basically what you have to do is you have to make sure a firetruck and a bus can turn around anywhere in the curves.
>> Motion. >> I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Oppos. Motion passes. Okay. Item H11, school cash payment portal. >> Journaling along here. So, we're looking to make a change um in our parent payment platform. Looking to go to a company called School Cash. Um this does integrate with our current ERP system, which is New World, which is a is to me is the biggest bonus of switching from Ryore, which we currently use. We also use EPES for our extracurricular funds. Um, this is going to allow us to house everything in one nice little bucket. Um, this will save us enormous amounts of time as a staff. Um, school, excuse me, school cash is also in the United States, which Reichor is based in Canada. Nothing against Canada, but it does create some delays sometimes.
Diane Harding, president, Outdoor Circle in opposition. Um Scene America in opposition. Gia Hutchinson in opposition. Jack O'Neal in opposition. Uh, as well as three others in opposition. Anyone else wishing to testify on this measure? >> See, go ahead. >> Discrimination. >> No, no discrimination here. One, >> just kidding. Aloha, Angela Melody Young. Um, actually, I was reading my testimony for this legislation when the >> If you can sum it up, it would be super helpful. Angela, >> what's going on? So, um, okay, there's a little confusion. Um, okay. So, I just want to um say that I am in um strong favor of this um legislation because um the businesses to be supported by outdoor signage um helps to develop the um economic development in our communities and um the Aloha Stadium um district um for it to be anticip anticipated that it will um bring a lot of visitors, tourists, and um gather people for the University of Hawaii games.
I would like for us just to go over them a bit um again and if anybody has any questions on them. I know that we focus a lot on our student outcomes. We sometimes talk about even our district guard rails, but we as board members up here also have our own guard rails that we need to adhere to. So, I just think it's an important thing for us to go over them. And on Saturday, we we're going to be having a deeper conversation on guardrails as uh as well. But for right now, I just want us um to go over our board guard rails. Our first one is the board will spend no less than 50% of its meeting time monitoring progress on student outcome goals starting at zero today, which was in 2023. And oh, we we need to update one because this has 2024 on it.
It can do that. So if you look north is up. So if you look to the north at a like northeast point that is going to be a new entrance right there. So that will be coming off and Nordwick and it will be a oneway in. Okay. So this will be the parent drop off. So obviously the staging area will be much bigger at this point. Um so they come in off of there and then they go out the current exit which is [snorts] not changing at all. And then to the south um with the new development we are connecting that um basically another and that's going to be two-way another way in and out from the development to the south that will mainly be used for not mainly that will be used for bus traffic and also that will be a staff parking. The other piece that this will do is um to the west there, the fields are used for the high school, the soccer fields.
Uh, again, I'm not going to butcher too much. So, I have asked my right arm, Gina Burr, to say a few words on school cash and answer any other questions that you may have. If you wanna I did try to tell her to limit her conversation to five minutes, so we'll see if how fast she need. >> Thank you.
Um if there can be more supportive policies to help with flexibility for economic development in these zones, it would be really helpful to supporting the middle class families. Thank you. Okay. >> Anyone else wishing to testify on this measure?
but um that we would go up from zero um in 2023 to 50% by the end of 2024. We have been meeting that goal. Um we haven't got fully to 80 90% but one of the discussions that we've had before is that what's going to help us keep getting our 50%. Is that we submit more questions and that we're all contributing to the questions and and the back and forth conversation.
Um they play games there under um like freshman sophomore level games. So that will also be used for parking um for those contests as well because that's after school um when those games are going on as well. So now there will be three ways instead of only one to get in and out of HC Storm. Other improvements, um, a lot of improvements within, um, the hard surfaces, so where you walk, where you bike, things like that. There's a lot more strategic locations for, uh, bike racks, so that way you're not crossing through the parking lot. The other piece that, um, we are including in here, um, you can kind of see just to the north, um, it's kind of a darker area. That's a trash enclosure. The city of Betavia passed an ordinance, I believe, two years ago that they're giving um like us school districts and other um businesses through town, they have to have trash enclosures within a 10-year period.
>> Um, I don't know if you guys have any questions, but let me just say one of the things that I've found over the years through school fight through school finance is we're so disjointed. We have a program to do this and then we have a program to do this and one to do this. I've always said the billion dollar as idea is to get a program that can handle all the things that happen and need to be tracked and reported in a school district. Well, that hasn't happened yet, but I truly believe that school cash is a step in the right direction. So currently we have like Mark said we have Ryore which is our student fee management system. That's where we put the fees in you guys. Back when we had student textbook fees that's where you would go in and you would pay.
Seeing none, members, any questions? Quick question. Senator Wai, >> um just want to point out some factual inaccuracies by the outdoor circle. [clears throat] >> Um this digital signage is not for drivers, right? It's for pedestrians, right? So in terms of there's not going to be distracted drivers. >> No. And I think that uh even the way the bill is it kind of leads with advertising. I think that's sort of a misconception as well. And what we're doing in Wik Ki is we're studying other downtowns really metropolitan areas around the country. and what are we lacking in Wy Ki? And we specifically did that during the tsunami scare we had a few months back where pedestrians didn't know where to go. There was a lot of misinformation on whether to evacuate, whether to not. And we've studied that other cities like Miami, like Berkeley, California that has some of the strictest signage laws.