If the board is willing to entertain any proposed changes to the 2627, >> then we will take a look and see what we can relatively quick. So, our next meeting will be on March 4th. Um, unfortunately, it's not looking we will have any statements yet, but we are continuing to uh be prepared. So, thank you all for being here tonight. And I will ask for a motion to close the meeting. >> Favor. >> Okay, very close. Thank you.
doesn't want to miss Please I you can sit. But now I'm gonna ready. Isn't it Okay, get started. So, the student safety data system is one of the ways in which we as a district report and monitor student safety. Uh the data that I'll be reporting on tonight. It captures from September 1st to December 31st. So, all of the reporting categories that we'll be discussing will be within that timeline. And really we use this information to gain insight into patterns and trends in the reported categories and also use it as a guide to develop strategies and interventions in terms of what we see reported in the data. So section A focuses on the eight categories that we report on. We have violence, vandalism, substances, weapons, confirmed hibs, other incidences leading to removal, alleged hibs, and restraint and seclusion. One key takeaway I'd like everyone to see is just the overall safety remains very strong.
>> Yeah. >> Yes. Yeah, I think I mean I think the argument has been that that's late and that that kids >> I think it was the 22. I'm not >> It's tough to compare those things because of how Memorial Day. Yeah, >> that's impact. So, I guess what it is, >> right? I mean, that's the other thing too is that this is like obviously this comes around, you know, however many years and it's an anomaly. I don't think anyone here at least and I would administration intends to be like, oh, what now? From now on, we start on September 3rd all the time, you know, or like prior to Labor Day. I think the intention is just to deal with the fact that Labor Day falls as as far back as you possibly can in this instance in this one time. So, I don't know.
So, looking at that process time, um as Dr. Taylor uh just shared we've really been looking at this, you know, across 24, 25, and 26. Um I'm going to spend a little bit of time talking about this process, uh because it has been a lot. Um in February, um there was a board discussion of strategic goals and it included uh middle school class size reduction following uh concerns shared from teachers and parents. And so we knew we wanted to address that. Um wasn't the main reason why we are looking at a new schedule. Uh but it was definitely one of them. Uh and then in April there was a board evaluation of the superintendent including uh discussion of team the teeming impact at the middle schools. Um and then July uh there were continued concerns were shared um with administrators uh by UA teachers. UA teachers are our electives, music, art, PE, etc.
Um Doug over the years has coordinated with Dell. We get uh 50 volunteers to come up the day before, help clean up the route. Uh volunteer their time and hours. Um they do an excellent job making everything look great. Um among everything, you know, we're just constantly meeting, making sure we're making improvements, anything we do to keep everybody safe. Um there's tons of traffic management. There's tons of detours. There's tons of barricades and preparation for everything, keeping everybody safe that day. >> Well, yeah. And maybe you could speak a little bit to just the coordination that goes in with our with just our police and fire departments as well that because that's a big part of your your take there. Uh so on the day of the event we have about 30 of our internal highway employees including all departments cemetery park and tree water and sewer all management all hands- on deck um about 99% of the Ashland police forces in and the fire department among with we farm out at least 150 additional police officers from regional towns to come in for additional support help blocking all roads helping detours etc etc I believe there's about 50 national guard agents that also come in and multiple other agencies.
Um, the folks next to me, uh, who have been wonderful, uh, some community members, and most of all, in the best part, some students. Uh, I still have many more to meet, and I can't wait to do that. Um, and really continue to get to learn Brookfield as best I can. So, with that, um, I have some updates that I'd like to share with you on the adventures that have happened over the past six days. Um so in the area of teaching and learning I had the opportunity to sit in uh on my very first day when visiting all the schools in the morning uh last Monday. Uh CLES invited me to join their curriculum meeting uh after a wonderful tour of the school. It was a great opportunity just to hear how uh they are grappling with improvement efforts uh some of which that you'll hear later this evening.
You know, over at Barnum, they've already put down the binder course of of pavement. They haven't put the final pavement down. So, they want to get all the trenching done this spring. and Rich Gussenberg, the school building committee chair, is certainly amendable to doing that. So, you know, we just need to dot the eyes and cross tees. We have a meeting tomorrow night with this with um OMG, the construction company, and Johnson Controls just to review their proposed plan for where that conduit would be laid out. So, trying to move this along as quickly as we can. But to that to that point though, Vin, didn't we approve the transfer of monies? I'm just thinking back to that contingency 250,000 or 200,000. Was that for the purposes of this or was that just set aside? >> Oh, no. The 200 the Are you talking about the $250,000 rollover?
Um, additionally, um, while we're only seeing about a 2.7% increase in consumer price index, which is what we use to measure inflation, um, we're we're seeing that the increases in tuition are much beyond that. Um, and there's really not a a tight um, policy in place at the at the state level to control what they're charging. I think there's something in the works now. Um so we unfortunately are seeing a rise in um in tuition for our uh special education. Um and again it was addressed for in the 27 budget. If you remember we had um a small increase for tuition. >> Um quick question. Do we know about how many students fall in that line? >> I don't know off the top of my head, Cara. Um I don't know if we have any >> No, I could get that. Maybe a hundred students.
Um he does he does this by having good relationships with our business partners. Um when I uh talked with Alejandra a little bit, he um also has said that um you know he's been with the district since 2021. He was hired on as nutrition services purchasing coordinator um in order to purchase all the food and supplies that the district may need with along with the help of delivery drivers um their store. They rotate all their frozen, refrigerated, and dry goods throughout the day along with coordinating deliveries to every school every morning. Um, he said he appreciates all the delivery drivers, the warehouse staff, and the production kitchen staff and all the kitchen managers and cafeteria assistants for working hard and supporting one another. And he takes the opportunity to thank um, everybody for this award on behalf of the whole department. So, um, thank you, Alejandro.
Uh people don't know but solar does take a little bit of water not a lot of water. Um and again that's why agriculture land is is so desirable because it has the features that the solar energy industry wants right mostly flat access to some infrastructure basic infrastructure including water. Uh to answer the question I I think there are others probably more better suited senator uh as I referenced uh Hawaii Agriculture Research Center is partnering and they may have done some of that research or have some of that data for you. I can uh follow up with with your office or with the chair's office um on that question, Senator. >> Yeah, I I appreciate that. And if we could get it to the chairs cuz this will be a recurrent question as we go forward. Thank you, chair. >> Thank you. >> Okay. >> I have a question for OPSD, please.
Any discussion members? Hearing none. Chair votes I. >> Chair votes I. Vice Chair votes I. Senator Fukunaga excused. Senator Hashimoto. >> Hi. >> Senator Deort. >> No. >> Measures adopted. Madam Chair. >> Thank you. We're journ like to call the committee on education to order. Uh today is Wednesday, February 18th. It is Ash Wednesday. Those of you, including myself, who didn't get the ashes yet, shame on us. Uh it is the 102 agenda that we're working off on. And uh any any persons testifying and we have technical difficulties, a committee will reconvene on tomorrow. tomorrow uh which is Thursday in this conference room 229 at 1 pm and the public notice will be posted on a wise legislative website and due to the number of measures we have on the agenda and the number of testifiers we are limited testifiers to one minute and so with that we will start off on Senate Bill 3286 which we have only one testifier Jan Goa for the University of Hawaii this is relating ing to uh or requiring the University of Hawaii to develop facilities student housing master plan and requires a report to the legislature.
I don't really know any other coaches, but I've interacted with them throughout the locker room during like wrestling meets or sometime and they seem like really nice people. I do remember uh Ross's dad a few years back. >> Good old Papa Ross. >> Yeah, he was he's a cool guy. I talked to him for a little bit. >> He's so great. Such an interesting character. >> Well, are you guys um excited for your uh senior year? Um and after your senior year, do you have any um plans to wrestle during college? >> I'm definitely excited for senior year. I I know it's going to be a sad day when it's our senior night. Um especially that this is my favorite sport and for my future, I am wanting to go to college for wrestling. I don't know where yet, but hopefully it's somewhere close home.
Very few incidences of violence, vandalism, and weapons. We do have confirmed hibs at Small and Community, and those are areas that we are addressing. We have our guidance counselors who are facilitating targeted character education lessons. We have individual meetings. We have targeted lunch bunches um taking place at Smallley and an activity at community called in your shoes where the guidance counselors are actually working with the offenders so that they understand how targets are the targeted students are feeling in those situations. at community uh I mean at high school we have incidents that are leading to removal and substances. Again we are looking that and we understand it to be an area of concern. Our guidance counselors and our student assistant counselors are working with individual students. We also took some proactive measures specifically with an assembly called the easy fix assembly where our students actually heard firsthand accounts of individuals who had issues with substance abuse and the impact it had on them.
>> So, that's a strong factor for many. >> Yeah. in adding I gotta take away or add at the end. I'm going to go with the 21st or I'm sorry, >> which is probably going to be more san >> September is >> the hard to give a long weekend. So you wanted kids to come into that either a private >> thing about like well let's extend it as long as we can for the kids and have the kids Friday off >> right and a lot of people around here especially like we stay because it's gorgeous weather and so one so kids just having a half day we're not going in like I would rather have my kids like having them home for four days seems silly after they started you know so I I like that compromise as far back as it possibly can be without pushing us well into that what is it that third week in June like school understand what you're saying.
um and uh regarding the impact of teaming on class sizes as well as inequities in prep time. Um and then August through December of that year, as a corporation, we worked to overhaul the student daily schedule and create more time for teacher collaboration. As you guys know, we started this year uh being able to meet uh job embedded time on Tuesday and Thursday morning with our teachers. Um so uh 25 uh in January uh last January, not this year, this January, uh the two middle school principles had um all of the middle school teachers in the um in in the innovation center uh during the January waiver day to explore the targets that we were uh trying to shoot for in a new middle school schedule and to gain uh input from that. And during that time uh we had every teacher um in one of eight different groups.
>> Yeah. >> And so maybe you can also explain just how you decide where to set up. I mean to the extent that you can. >> Yeah. >> Um you know where you set up like the barricades and and use the the vehicles and >> Yeah. So we use we used a lot of the bigger trucks and a lot of the major routes. Some of the main arteries like Main Street, top of Main Street Hill, um Cherry Street, all the major arteries that keep flowing traffic. So, we use bigger vehicles at that point just so nobody can enter to and fro from the route. Um, there's barricades on every single side street at the roadway and additional 50 feet back for any vehicles. So, that we create a little barrier for pedestrian safety and vehicle safety. Um, there's just a magnitude of detours set up around town to keep everybody flowing in and out of town, message boards that we borrow from all over the state and stuff like that.
So that was just a fantastic opportunity. So, I thank them very much for uh inviting me in and letting me uh hear a little bit about what's going on there. Um, equally, I've been working um with Deb right here uh to more deeply understand our current efforts in the areas of teaching and learning. Uh Deb does an amazing job of really focusing uh on what we are doing to help support our students uh in the classroom and all of our teachers be able to engage uh in effective instruction. So, it's been a wonderful opportunity to to get to learn a little bit there. I will say that's a a person I need to meet more with uh because I've been out in the schools and out in the buildings and having a wonderful time, but I'm eagerly looking forward to to meeting uh more with Deb and learning more about them.
>> Yeah. No, that that's for operating budget. >> Okay. >> You don't there's no board of ed budget or capital budget impact on what we're talking about. It would be the school building committee advancing the funds to get that conduit laid and then through the energy performance contract we would reimburse the school construction fund essentially. >> Got it. Okay. >> I'm seeing a lot of numbers such the numbers align. is that I just curious if you don't know Vin um that's fine but you said reimburse to the performance contract I'm assuming that the school construction budget will be done in say two years three years even if it stays open for like an extra 18 months after everything's done but the performance contract go on assuming we do it go on for probably 10 or 20 years so there's a disconnect is like a onetime payment coming out of the performance contract that would yeah >> okay yeah cool thank Yep.
Yeah, I can ask I can ask Kelly. >> Okay. >> Um, of the total, how many we have out of district? I I'm I'm I don't know why a hundred says in my mind, but I I could be wrong on that. I could certainly ask her. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yep. >> It's just good to know whether it's, you know, a thousand or, you know, a hundred gives us a better idea of pricing cost. >> Yes, absolutely. >> Next screen. or supplies. Um we're 1.7 favorable. Uh I know the schools are putting in their orders for the end of the year um almost every day. So we will see that um rise as they get their merchandise and we pay the invoices. >> That's largely out of um instructional supplies. Um Angelie, you're right. Um the the other two items I wanted to point out um and just today I had an update on so natural gas uh we are um favorable 492,000 uh year to date and it looks like um that the expenses are coming in much much less than we anticipated when we were preparing the budget.
He is a great guy. Like I said, I get to talk to him, too. who he works along with my husband and um it's just fabulous to have people who care so much about their positions at Chica Unified, but to be able to help feed children obviously is um um an amazing feat. So um thank you again, Alejandro, and congratulations. Um we appreciate you so much. Thank you. >> Congratulations. Thank you. >> Okay. At this time, um I'd like to introduce uh Professor Charles Zartman and Heather Hacking. They're here um this evening with the educators from across the country. Uh so at this time, if they'd like to come forward and introduce um the program and the attendees that are here this evening. >> Okay. And I'll spare you the one by one, but if if my people could stand up and maybe wave. Okay.