>> Like us to review that because it hasn't been an issue recently. And >> for presenters, we we'll Thanks, Katherine. So, so sorry Mark, we can't we we're not able to to see you tonight, but do you have do you have something that you w want to share with us? >> Um, uh, yes. I I read the um latest town manager uh online, what you want to call it, Mr. Mike management. Mr. Mike, >> is it his newsletter? >> It was it was your um lead in Okay. >> How about how you been with with the town for so long and the mindsets everybody how they how they work together? >> Yeah. >> And uh how how it was supposed to as a vision. >> Yeah. >> This was in your newsletter. >> Yep. I'm Yes. Now it's coming to me. >> Yeah. I'm I'm trying to remember because I did I read to do the weekend and then I deleted over the weekend too.
I wanted to have a stack of paper and joke that I was going to pass out a thank you letter, but as the kids say, too soon. But that kindness is a good theme for a public comment that underneath it all, we have the seeds of a culture that in moments that are important, people can come together with care and concern. That's the culture we need to foster in our schools. We're neck deep in budget season, and that's important. It too often though overshadows what it is to create an environment in which kids not only learn but want to learn. Kids don't care about where the adults spend the dollars only that it gets spent wisely. More money does not equate to higher test scores. Higher test scores is a metric but it doesn't define the value of learning. Maybe while we reexamine how our spending needs to be reallocated, we need to remember that how we reallocate time and care needs some mention on the agenda.
>> All right. Well, thanks Emily and good evening everyone. Hope everyone is doing well. It's a little strange to be in a planning meeting kind of not doing the role in all that. So, thanks Emily. Um, I'm gonna start with just a couple quick things having to do uh with electricity and energy before I get into the energy performance contract update. And this this will be brief, but Emily and I have been working with Rachel Bogger, who has been our consultant for electricity purchase for many years. We have a an electricity supply contract that uh runs through October of this year. We're uh locked in our supply rate at 10.35 cents per kilowatt hour. So, we've um reached out to Rachel to put together a bid knowing that there's a couple of elements here. One is that we know that Chapman uh and Darcy are and the existing norm building are coming offline although we will have to keep electricity on at Chapman and Darcy for a period of time.
Um they're usually relatively small. Some of those things um I give the classic example of graduation. Um so toward the end of the year um Dan Donovan will have some expenses for graduation. He doesn't necessarily put a PO in before that. Um, and I I think some of the um some of the stipens uh for for coaching as well, they're small and they're they're not frequent, but I just wanted to um bring that to light. >> Thank you. So, really quickly, so I know we're talking about the one-time expenditures that we're looking at. These are um specifically those items that you have listed here or is there anything else that we're looking to um to use some of these uh funds for one-time purchases? >> Yeah, we're going to continue to draw down and Cara, I don't know if you want to speak more to that, but >> um you know, as we have um that uh what is essentially $4.4 million of ARPA funds um that are that are going to cause a favorable variance at the end of the year.
Further away. >> How about this one? Is that Oh, no. We're still getting some cool. Is that better? Okay. All right. Sweet Caroline. Hey. All right. I appreciate it. All right. >> No problem. It's a great encore. Uh for this portion of the uh superintendent report, I'd like to invite my colleague, Mr. Dan Lynville, up here, who is here under false pretenses, thinking he's going to talk about one thing, but really he's here to listen to me talk about him. Mr. Dan Lynville is the superintendence award winner for a certificated side for the month of February.
Alohair, chairs, members of the stand. >> Okay, good comments. Uh, Brian Emoto, Hawaii Farm Bureau. >> Thank you, chair. The Hawaii Farm Bill was on its written testimony supported intent. >> Thank you. Anyone else wishing to testify on this measure? Come forward.
>> Okay. Um, Mr. Chair, I'm just going to paraphrase some of this that's written in the uh for the record. Um he says that they have strong reservations and they're the ones we're asking to do the to do this um audit with strong reservations about this bill as it relates to the office of the auditor goes on he says we note the bill that the bill does not include any criteria or other information against we should assess the authorities's performance to a base determination and then we request that the bill be held or amended to remove the requirement that the audit include a recommendation about the authorities's fitness to continue management of Monaca Yeah. Um, so I mean if someone we're asking to do the audit, I think they should be here so we can ask them questions. Um, but that's the gist of the bill.
>> So why why no other why any other sport? Because there are many other sports that have to do with conditioning. So what was it about specifically I guess wrestling, conditioning, and just wrestling. >> Um >> other than like basketball. I think I like that it's also an individual sport because basketball was the other option for this season, but you know, um don't hand me a ball. I I'm not a baller. I I I'll stick to wrestling. It's a lot easier for me personally. I don't have those skills. Ask my brother. He's a He's a good basketball player, but that's not me. I just I don't know. I like the individual sport. I like the competit competitiveness of it, you know. >> Would you agree with that? You are you do play basketball? >> I'm definitely not a basketball player. I mean, middle school basketball was not it.
Uh our February CPA meeting will be held on February 26 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. uh here in the district library. There will be additional messaging going out tomorrow just to remind families that there is a uh Google form out there to collect information from our CP community to see what they would like presented at future meetings. We encourage you to uh fill that out. Uh and we look forward to seeing a strong presence again uh next week. Um we're pleased to officially welcome Mrs. the principal here at Child Regional High School on February 9th and she's been working diligently to ensure a smooth transition uh and has already been engaging with students and staff and families to support the ongoing success of the school. As a reminder, planning for the 2627 school budget is actively underway. We now know that the governor's budget address will be on or about March 10th.
Matteo has three older brothers. His favorite subject is art because he likes to draw. His favorite hobbies include playing board games with his family and drawing. And he wants to be a chef when he grows up because he loves delicious food. And he likes helping his mom with the eggs in the kitchen. Right. When you cook. >> Thank you. You ready, Judith? Come on up. Our fifth grade student of the month is Judith Chicone. Come on here. Want to come here? This is for you. All right. So, Judith um has one big brother. Her favorite subjects are art and gym. She likes to draw and she likes sports. Um, she has always wanted to be a police officer when she grows up. Um, but she's been thinking about being an artist and I forgot her other favorite hobby is editing images on the computer. Right.
I feel like this number. >> Yeah. You know, I think we are going to have to explore some options and additional questions. The total seven. >> Yeah. >> It's like they are our students right here. That's always what we have to remember. And so, you know, with the kids going and then a larger percent, it becomes, you know, challenging to put in ours. So now that we have that number, >> that's what I build at I know the maybe I misunderstood what you were asking the their their costs went up by 5% student in general and that additional 5% is because of the insurance. So that's why >> or some of the other sending districts for whatever we can send a bunch of extra kids >> all right any other questions or anything else from States start. >> All right. >> Warriors. All right. >> So, we just met this afternoon, so I will go over some of the notes.
Is spring break also Good Friday? >> Yes. Yes. Yeah. That's just a and that's how I think that's how we ended up with that fourth. I mean, we always used Good Friday, but the way the calendar fell, we we get another one in. >> Okay. >> But yeah, um yeah, Good Friday will be on that Friday break. Okay. All >> in favor? All right. >> All right. With that being said, are you Did they get this meeting? They have it already. All right. You have an email in there about the waiver. Um, we requested a waiver from the state. um on the days that we were closed uh which were actually the 21st, 22nd, 23rd of January or the three days that we were closed. We had asked for a waiver for those three days. They did grant us two. Um, so going along with that, right now we have one makeup day left and that will be Good Friday and then we'll we be caught up and we're back on track and our our calendar we don't have to add to the end of our calendar.
Lannne helps our students transition to a new class in school, nurturing love for for learning. And while academic rigor is definitely a key focus, her relationships with her students and families can be matched by very very few. Um we are so she's so respected throughout our entire community and we are blessed to have her as a huge part of of our students lives making huge impacts not just now but for many many years to come including in fact she happens to have two students here tonight because um well I'll introduce who they are in a moment but yeah they're here also so and I know that you are definitely one of their favorites so anyways Mrs. is Lan Luck. Next, I would like to invite uh one of our English's new language instructional assistants, Junko Wantabi. And this is Junko's fourth year at Northgrove. And she also has her daughter Marbel here tonight.
>> Must have left an impression. >> Wanted to say that >> I'm sorry. Go ahead. >> Left an impression. That's what if left an impression. That's why that's why I'm that's what I'm going to ask to say about it. >> Okay. >> Is that the town is is somewhat grown. But then again, it can grow in in better ways than what it's doing. But I'm not complaining. I'm just saying that what was said once you look back on it wasn't all true about what the town and how you vision 10 11 years ago when you first got here how it kind of worked its way through the town hall bodies to the streets and how it is today. >> Yeah. >> So I'm positive and happy how it was. But I'm but I'm still looking at it as if we can get more business economic and stuff like that.
Thank you, superintendent, for immediately tackling a problem that had festered for years, that of the bathrooms in the high school. How do we expect kids to learn when they're worried about having to choose between going to the bathroom or being late for a class? A comment we often hear is building level decision. But something being left to a building level decision is why we find the bathroom issues on agendas as far back as 2018. They're discussed, they don't go on old business, they disappear from the agenda, and then the conversations disappear as well. When I was knocking doors, a common question from parents was, "Can you do something about only 20 minutes of recess?" I don't know. Can we? It's like the middle school. On the schedule, it says they get 30 minutes for lunch. But really, it's only 15 because after 15 minutes, they're forced into recess.
Um we also know that we're adding new Norton and New Barnum which are bigger schools. The other thing that Rachel we've asked her to take into consideration is that we are looking to add solar uh at six of our buildings which would change the overall energy consumption. So that's a lot uh for Rachel to digest and and put together a bid. Um but that is what she's she's working on. So I'm sure that you know Emily or Emily and I will give you updates as that rolls forward. But that's kind of something that's out in the background for us that we have an electricity supply rate that is expiring. Um, if you've been, you know, watching any of the news, and I I know Tim would know this even better than I do for sure, but, you know, there is an expectation that electricity supply prices will continue to increase in the future.
we were taking that opportunity to um fulfill some requests for next year so that we didn't have to ask for it in the 27 budget. Some much needed uh uh updates for for the district as well. Um most of those are um revolving around our information technology infrastructure um in it led by Gina is putting in um purchases now. So you'll see month over month that there'll be incremental expense that's unbudgeted to bring that um that amount down uh as well as some facilities projects uh that are coming through uh Dr. Seig. >> Okay. Can is it possible to keep like a separate um just a balance of what those one-time expenditures are just so we kind of have a better idea up against our regular operating budget um how much of that is really just one-time expenses that we're that we're drawing down on.
So you don't have to answer any questions about Lego robotics or prop 28 or anything like that. I tried to keep it like real like hey yeah you can talk about anyway. >> No, you got me. >> So it was hard. It was hard. Sandy got assist from Sandy. >> Thank you. >> There you go. So uh Dan, he's been a rock solid teacher in Chico Unified for over two decades because I know we're about the same. You're younger than me though I think. um at elementary and at junior high. He was one of the the people that came up to Bidwell when the sixth graders moved up and has been a rock solid member of our science team ever since and definitely like the glue, the big motor that kind of keeps everything going. Um the last few years, um you know, our community has seen lots of adversity.
Seeing none, members, are there any questions? >> Question for Deb. >> Dab. >> So, so as of today, what steps have you guys taken to um uh encourage the development of solar farms on egg lands? >> Encourage. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Any encouragement to do solar farms on egglands? Have you guys taken any steps at all? >> Encourage solar [clears throat] um if you're or if you're speaking of the the 166 of our egg park and non-aggricultural park plan. >> No, no. Speaking in regards to this bill with the aggrav. So in this case, have you guys taken any steps to encourage solar farms on your guys egg lands? >> No. >> What is the level of interest and demand for solar farm development in Hawaii? >> Solar farm development in just in general right >> in general because you know people are moving into egg solar farms and so forth.
>> You can make a comment. Sure. >> Okay. Thank you. Um reason for this measure is that the Senate version of this um Monaka authority bill, the act deleted the Senate version of the bill at the last minute during conference. And so at the request of Senator Dela Cruz, this revertment language should be back into the the chapter into the act. And so hence um the revertment clause mentions that if the auditor during the period of transition is not to the uh act purpose uh that it reverts back to the University of Hawaii and that uh that's the reason for this measure and that was the Senate's version of the act that was deleted during conference. And so on behalf of uh Senator Dela Cruz, uh the introduction of this bill, hence is SB20003. >> Okay. Further questions, discussion, >> just discussion. Um I'm reading the bill.