Rose Hill won 66- 54 and girls won 4125. On Monday the 16th, there was no school and boys and girls played at Pratt for basketball. There was a cheer and dance at Valley Center and departed at 3. On Tuesday, we had boys and girls basketball at home and the theme was gray outfit. Today, there is a BL BLT meeting at 7:00. There's an FFA at Lions departing at 7:00. There's an XL FFA meeting. Dance team will try out meeting. And there's the theme, why is this not my in my closet? to Thursday, CTE career night and then ABC bowling at collegiate. Theme dress like a teacher. A lot going on Friday the 20th. Boys and girls basketball will play collegiate. There will be an XL pep pep pep rally at 2:30. Dismiss band and cheer at 2:10. White four will end at 2:25. You will go to your XL office will miss student body.
Any discussion on 1 through 13? Discussion. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. Yes, >> thank you. We do not have any committee reports for this evening. So, we will move on to item K, the superintendent report. We have five items. Dr. Paul, is there any discuss before we open for discussion? >> Okay. So, um I will ask for a motion to open on K1 through five. and a second from man. Thank you. Discussion on K1 through >> one is a voting item. I would guess the rest. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Good evening everybody. Um over the past several weeks uh we have really prioritized opportunities to strengthen connection with the school uh with the district and the community. On February 11th I was able to hold my second of three superintendent meet and greets. Uh the last one will be the 25th which is next week at middle school.
Please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. Miss Lee, a roll call, please. >> Here. here. >> Thank you very much. And just to acknowledge uh our swearing in of a new board member and item 1.4 Four is really just for Miss Musen. Uh who since she's not here tonight, we're going to skip over that and we will roll it forward to the March meeting. Uh at this point, we are up to item 2.1, Dr. Freeman, superintendent. Dr. Freeman's superintendent report. >> Well, good evening everybody and welcome to our February board meeting. It's good to see all of the parents and the smiling faces and the balloons so we can celebrate our employees of the month and our students of the month. At this time, I would like to call up Dr. S. to present our student of the month for Lamont Lamont Annex.
Um so reporting out for our reporting period from September to December 31st of this year we had three HIV alleged one HIV confirmed and we have no incidents related to violence vandalism illegal substances or weapons. All right, we have visitors business. Visitors are permitted to comment on agenda items at this time. >> One at a time. >> All right, then. No correspondence. >> Okay. District operations was to address probably source. We wanted to make a recommendation. office and show this district very much. Anybody could do a very good job. They're all proximity. So what was everybody? Sorry. We talked about a few other Great. Thank you. >> So, we met uh we met actually the same day that we had met for district operations. Um they ran over there review their district goals and how they're how they're doing with that. They're doing a great job, but I think the most important thing for us is we were discussing.
>> Any questions on 189 is what we have. 43 of those are virtual question on the column that says virtual. What is the virtual Y and virtual? >> Virtual yes, virtual no. >> So, oh, it's just no. >> Yeah. So, if you look, so 17 total students in grade seven, uh, two of those are virtual, 15 are in person. >> Okay. So, the senior class has five in person and 13 virtual. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Will all of those graduate then? >> On track, too. Yes. But I can't I can't here and say yes to go through graduation. >> Correct. >> Yes. Yes. >> Yeah. >> Any other questions on the right? Uh got the school calendar in front of you. Uh real real close to u what we had this year. The way the calendar fell, we do have room in there for a extra makeup day for a fourth.
Are there any questions? >> Do I have a motion? >> Mr. President, I move that the agenda for the February 20th 2025. No, I'm sorry. >> 2026. It's not the 26th. It's the 18th. February 18th, 2026 regular board meeting for the board be adopted as presented. >> Thank you, Mrs. counts. Do I have a second? >> I'll second that. >> Thank you, Mrs. Duncan Smith. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed. Motion passes 5-0. And tonight we have recognitions. The spotlight is on North Grove Elementary. Good evening. I'm Ron Siner, principal at North Grove Elementary School, and I'm pleased to be here tonight that we have a lot of stars and outstanding people at North Grove Elementary School, but we have three superstars here tonight that I want to take time to recognize and to introduce to each of you.
um here in person, feel free to come to the podium. If anyone is online and would like to speak, please use the raise hand function. I see Mark Don has his hand raised. We'll we'll start with Mark and then we'll come to you. Um Mark, go ahead and unmute yourself. Can you unmute Mark? >> Okay. >> Hi Mark. um is Mark Sony 119 Main Street. I'm just last couple of meetings there's been um when I was on the last one the camera part was not working. Is that still the case for tonight? So, I think Mark, we've limited the the camera for um for folks on Zoom because we had some some really bad Zoom bombs not too long ago, >> but we had some people show on camera last meeting. >> I think we have to make them a co-host in order to do that.
Each speaker will have up to three minutes to speak. Uh it be it can be on any topic at the start of uh at the start of each regular meeting. A maximum of 20 minutes is allotted for comment on any item included in any item at all. Um discussion of school personnel, individual students or individual members of the board is prohibited. So with that, I will welcome Mr. Mark Moresh. Good evening, sir. >> Good evening. I >> think by now I know which way this button has to be for this to be on, but I have >> I think I'd learned >> um Okay. First, welcome Superintendent Freezy. I'm glad you've chosen our little town of Brookfield to bring your experience, guidance, and vision. Secondly, before we get started, a thank you is in order for the assistance and kindness of so many from the previous meeting.
I pledge allegiance to the flag >> of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. So, let me pull up the agenda here. All right. Any public comment? Did you guys get anything? >> No public comment. All right. Uh I'm not sure who's taking this. I don't know if it's >> Yeah, >> Emily, you got it. >> Yeah, I got it. I got it. So, um, we're going to move to the energy performance contract and I'm going to give it to Vin Masiana to share some updates on our contract. I'll also let you all know that I sent I shared a Google folder just with some materials for tonight, including some of the things that uh Vin is going to walk through tonight. So, you just you have that available in your email since we are virtual paper.
As the year progresses, we anticipate additional items that will become in encumbered and drive the balance down toward a break even point. There will also be additional expenses that district will incur that will not be encumbered and therefore will also lower the fund balance. >> Angela, if I could just jump in for the for the benefit of anybody. Um when we talk about uh uh internal controls for procurement uh no one at uh the BOE is able to bind us to anything without first entering a requisition. That requisition then being reviewed by either um myself or Angela for the general fund um or Wanita for the grants fund and then final approval of the PO goes through me. Um but that last line is in there because there there are instances um where where we do encourage expenses where there is no prior um uh PO or incumbrance.
These teachers work tirelessly to create an amazing culture for our students. And uh time and time again in student interviews, they cite choir as being their home, their safe place on campus, the place where they are most them and most seen and most heard and appreciated. And I feel like that's going to come out in their music tonight. So without further ado, Pioneer Choir, Mr. Enjoy. having us get out of here. >> Thank you students. >> Thank you very much. >> That was awesome. Okay. So that was phenomenal. Thank you again. If anybody's still in the room, thank you. Good choir. We appreciate it. And ne up next we have Mr. McKay. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Can we get maybe uh >> What do you need? >> A mic check on you. That's really >> Yeah. >> I don't know what What do you want me to do?
We strongly support the intent of agropotics um within the agricultural district. We do offer amendments. Specifically, we have uh some concerns regarding the prevailing regional agricultural lease rate language. We believe that this could potentially make things higher than the existing requirement of the 50 below 50% below fair market value weakening the incentives for uh beginning and commercial farmers. We offer uh some or multiple amendments to codify agravalics in the state land use law. We also uh provide some amendments to make sure that the 30% agricultural area be leased at the current 50% below fair market value to maintain affordability for farmers ensuring that the lease appraisal is based solely on the agricultural portion of the site. And we also uh suggest strengthening the agricultural activities language to meet the state's local food production goals. I'm available for questions. Mahalo. >> Thank you, Danielle. Next is uh Johnny Tamur from Public Utilities Commission.
So what I'd recommend I think um to um kind of balance the ongoing conflicts is to um perhaps request a work group to be recommended um without delegating too much authority to the auditor. Um so a work group um with DOT, DHHL, DLNR, University of Hawaii, Hawaiian Practitioners and OHA and to facilitate the transitional period um where the authority will assume control from University of Hawaii and the Department of Land and Natural Resources um so that um in this transition um the university and um the other summarized your time is up. >> Responsible entities can jointly manage the aspects of the mountain. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Is there anyone else wishing to testify on SB2003? Seeing none, other questions. >> The auditor is not here. So, who would we ask a question of his office? >> Is there anyone from the auditor's office?
What was it like? You know, I'm already kind of practicing, so I'm just going to do it. Or was it was there something specific? >> Well, cuz from my perspective, um, like from the mat, like on the side, it just it looked painful. >> Like I did not want to hurt anyone. I was a very nice person. Well, when I wrestled Remy, it wasn't bad after all. So, yeah. >> Pain. >> Uh, I think I just kind of have a competitive side. So, I don't know. I always like to beat up my brother. So, it's like a legal way to like beat somebody up. So, it was fun. And I didn't actually mind like the conditioning. I kind of kind of like it. It's kind of I don't know. But I don't know. I like the running. I like the conditioning. It's it's just fun for me, you know.
Safe sad dance after game. State swimming at Lanexa theme white out. >> On Saturday we have forensics at Pratt depart 6:15. Boys wrestling regional at Winfield depart at 6. Dance at Witchah depart at 8. State swim at Lanexa. State piano Brian Lamb. And then Sunday we have FCCLA at H. Thank you for being here for the weekly smoke signal. We hope you have a good week and go CHS.
Shameless plug 6:30. I hope everybody comes out. Um I I appreciate the conversations that I've been able to have. Uh it to provide me with valuable insight on the work that we need to do. Um, on Monday, February 16th, the district had a professional development day for staff. Throughout that day, I had the opportunity to visit each of the schools and observe staff level training and collaboration and action. Um, it reinforced for me the high level of commitment with the staff the entire day with the exception of what Miss Glenn was doing with respect to CBI training here. And you can see some of the stuff buildings focused on reflective activity around student performance, student attendance, um identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities for growth, and I really think it was a powerful day. So, I do want to thank the building level leaders, the teachers, and the district level leaders for their time uh and for their efforts that day.
YAY! YEAH. And next up from Lafayette School, Miss Cahes. Good evening. Our second grade student of the month is Jasmine Hernandez Cruz. Jasmine is from Mrs. Mononttoya's class. She has three older siblings. Her favorite school subject is language arts. She enjoys reading, drawing, and playing with her siblings. And she wants to be a doctor when she grows up because Jasmine enjoys help making people feel good. Congratulations, Jasmine. Our third grade student of the month is Emer Corno Dianio. Emerch is from Mrs. Merllo's class. He has one brother and two sisters. Where's Judiel? Judelle here? He's home. All right, Jodel's home. His favorite school subject is math. He loves playing soccer and playing with his cousin. And when he grows up, he wants to be a professional soccer player. Congratulations, Emer. And next up from Smallley School, Miss Morgan. Okay. Our fourth grade student of the month is Matteo Aras.
Um there's a there's a tuition change for what we're paying going into next year. So, um I told them a little bit about why that's happening. Basically, it's because there's less students going than than were expected. So just to give you some numbers on that, there's a total of 841 kids in the high school. Um 240 247 from Masquerale. Um but the the high school as a whole received 35 less students from the Senate districts than they were expecting and 27 less from Manis. So that's 62 less kids. Change the numer the uh the denominator. expected. So that's what our what we say about% which is higher than it's normally and that that kind of that accounts for against us. increase >> it was it was up 5% higher the total cost not taking into account the change in the number so Yeah. So it's >> I think the 10% increase >> but we also we also did we get other that doesn't love you a long time about that.
Uh we need to as a corporation get a little bit better on when we need to prepare for weather a little bit better. um the synchronous days. I think we could have saved ourselves a little bit of of hassle on that. We just weren't prepared on two of those. That one on a Wednesday early at the year kind of come up and we just were not ready for that. Um, so we I did add I did find a way to add a fourth day in there, but we also can get synchronous days in as well. That will help us. So with that, do I have a motion to approve the 2627 school calendar? >> I'll make a motion to approve the 2026 27 school calendar. >> I have a second. >> I've got a question. Yes, I think I'm right here on March where the Spring break is that Friday.
So, first I'm going to invite up here third grade extended learning teacher, Mrs. Lanne Luck. So this is Lan. So we were trying to do the math and she feels like me, we forgot it's her 20th year in education, 20 plus years. But the last 16 being at Center Grove and in seven of those years, the past seven being at North Grove. And I know if I were to reach out to Mr. Kelly, he would take you back in a heartbeat, but he doesn't get you at Pleasant Grove. because we are very very very blessed to have her at North Grove um for these past seven years as she's making an unbelievable impact on our school community. Aside from kindergarten teachers, this is that one teacher that welcomes more new students to our school than any other student uh any other teacher, inviting kids from multiple elementary schools to be part of part of our gifted and talented program where she welcomes all these faces and makes them feel acclimated and a joy for being a Northro Viking.