Sometimes we don't get the utilities bills on time to make it into that month's um, uh, pay cycle. So you'll see fluctuations monthtomonth, but the the real fluctuations you're going to see monthtomonth are those um usually two months uh throughout the year where we have three payrolls instead of two. Uh you'll see that that's a large increase in um in that first line in the 51,000 section of salaries because we're paying three payrolls in one month.
Teachers and administration are to remain neutral on political activities. When any teacher administrator helps to organize protest, post personal views within their classroom or speak on such during instructional time, they are no longer following laws or rules of Chico Unified School District. These actions then become a part of the school culture. Administration, staff, and the school should be neutral. There are already high tensions surrounding political views with adults behaving recklessly and impulsively. Children and young adults are learning from these behaviors and instead of having constructive discussions, they are assaulting their peers. No one should ever tell another human to kill themselves and no one should ever try to justify why that statement was made. The response I re received from this individual made it very apparent why these codes exist and should be followed because even the adults in charge are biased and allow their political emotions to distort their thinking.
So, I'm torn between this bill on how we div this thing up to help the farmers have adequate water. As you know, water cutbacks within your systems and everybody else's goes into effect and impacts farms across the state of Hawaii. each each of the agencies that are mentioned in the bill have I you know I don't I want to I don't want to speak for it like BC or um >> speak on do me speak on y tell me what damages and repairs is needed on your irrigation systems >> so we do have a whole litany of things that need repairs we need uh for instance machai irrigation systems I think we've identified about $7.5 million worth of repairs on that system. That's rather um rather important. We have some additional repairs for uh our Kahuku system. It needs um new motor controls for the pump house and pump house repairs.
Um, not to mention the demolishment of the PBN building. Um, and yet we still haven't seen anything on that lot, any plans, definitive plans on what you're going to do once you demolish the PBN building. So again, these are all up in the air and I can see why this this plan has this bill has surfaced. >> Yeah. >> So with that, Senator Hashimoto questions? >> Oh, Senator, >> thank you. Uh, Jan, excuse me. What is the total deferred maintenance backlog today >> for the 10 campus system? It's uh about a billion because now we're getting to the point where University of Hawaii uh it it's become deferred maintenance but now it's turning into a liability, right? And so without the so safety issues, liability, those kinds of things. I just wanted to clarify my statement. Um but then also without University of Hawaii having a plan in place, a master plan in place, almost forces the hand of the legislature to give you folks an extension.
Mr. Dawson, if you're Petty, the floor is yours. >> All right. Uh, thank you, Mr. President. We had two items on the education committee agenda. One was the SSDS report uh that the assistant superintendent just shared. So we discussed that. We also looked at the midyear data from our benchmark assessments. Um so Mrs. Griffin was uh kind enough to introduce us to the Linkit platform and a representative from Linkit, which is the uh data software that staff in the district use to collect and analyze data and the assessments. So, we were able to compare the fall form A administration to form B as well as look at the the data from IXL and I ready. Um, we are excited that a lot of the investments that the district has put into professional learning curriculum is is paying off and we're seeing some exciting growth. We also took a look at um areas where we'd like to see a little bit more growth and it was nice to see that the district reaffirm its commitment to tier one instruction.
So we're very proud of both of those teams. I want to thank Mr. and Mrs. L for their outstanding coaching this season. Uh we have two retirements on our agenda this evening. Very long time staff members, Mr. Benadetto and Miss Dolan will be retiring after many years of service and we will have recognition for that. Um, it's already been reported that some of our PAC U components have been postponed until March 19th. And I really do appreciate everybody's efforts and pulling together everything that we need for that audit. Um, as Miss We're doing random acts of kindness week this week. So certain themes every day. Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Smith have been doing great job organizing activities for our students this week. Um, as Mrs. Baldino mentioned, we have the BF fundraiser on March 5th and encourage people to attend. We are really looking for updates.
Wiseman and I um are not seeing um the kind of data that we want to see. It's it's relatively stagnant. Um and we know that we can perform much better. Um on the next slide, just continuing to talk about student achievement. Um this is going to create a consistent schedule for grades 6 through 8 at both buildings. Um, and that's going to help um provide more flexibility to work with our center of high school schedule um for for students needing those high school credits. Um, and it's also going to line us up better for uh shared staff. We share teachers uh between our secondary buildings and so having a schedule that's lined up uh will help with staffing as well. Um when we look at um the other the next point there is is provides additional period of English language arts instruction for eighth grade.
Thank you very much. It's definitely takes the whole team for that. Thank you. >> And and just one question regarding all this. Now, does the BAA offer any financial support to us and how does that does that cover our expenses? Because it's expensive to have all our I mean, I know there's a lot of volunteers throughout the course, but we certainly have a a big piece that we have to have pull our workers in, right? Yeah, we um we actually, you know, for a while there it got to a point where it wasn't covering all of our costs and so we went back to the BAA and talked to them and they actually um Jack's been pretty reasonable in terms of upping that contribution amount. Do you remember what it's up to now, Susan? >> Sorry. Sorry, Michael. I had to unmute. Um I don't know what we haven't gotten our check for this year >> and last year all the additional expenses they paid them directly to all the vendors.
Uh we have identified and I've put in the report uh some bathrooms that we are able to reopen. Uh those would include uh two bathrooms outside of the culinary and music room area. Uh a boys bathroom in the mathematics area as well as uh two bathrooms on the third floor. So once those are appropriately cleaned, we will have those reopened uh in addition to the ones that are already available to students. Um we are working on a plan to continue those improvements uh for full accessibility if practical. Um but we do want to do it in a methodical and strategic way so that way we can ensure that you know there is student safety, there is enough accessibility to bathrooms with student safety in mind. And so we have to keep going down uh the pathway in that direction um so that we do this uh thoughtfully.
But we really never know what the design or the cost is going to be until we go out and for the design work. So >> yeah. No, I I understand that completely. I just uh >> I guess it's what I'm envisioning is you're basically saying Rich has a per square foot number in his head that might have been from 10 years ago and now it's dramatically changed and we have a new number per square foot, something like that. And it I mean if it was like if it was a number from say 10 years ago based on the last time we did a roof or something I I can't recall but yeah prices costs have gone up in the last five years. >> Yeah. >> Anyway, thank you. >> Yeah. >> Um >> any other questions about the roof? >> Okay. Um the next one is one that you all are uh pretty familiar with at this point is this Treasure High School track and field project.
Does anybody have any questions so far as we're going through? I can't see everybody. And this committee or non-committee, if anybody has questions, just raise your hand. Sean, you can type them in the chat if you have any questions. Okay? If not, we'll keep going. Um, if you go to page 11, this is where the grants are. >> Yeah, Angela, I uh I thank you again for creating this. I think you um I'll say borrowed it from another district you were at. I think it's very helpful to see uh the the grants um just in general are can be very confusing. Um we have many different types of grants. So we have grants from the state government. Uh we have federal grants. We have um grants that are what we call entitlement grants. Um and then uh grants that are competitive. Some of our grants are one year long.
Again, thank you to those who reached out without judgment and offered help. Thank you. >> Thank you. Okay, at this time I'd like to invite Gina Bax. >> Good evening board. Thank you for having me here today. I am the mother who has stopped the intersection last Thursday to exercise my own freedom of speech during the protest outside the PBS school. I'm also a PB parent. What happened to me there, including an old grown man entering my vehicle and physically and verbally attacked me, is now a police matter and it will be handled appropriately. But tonight is not about me. Tonight shouldn't be about me. It should be about approaching real issues that matter and is affecting all our children. Tonight is about supervision, safety, and the district's responsibility to students during school hours. During instructional time, minors walk off campus and gather at a traffic intersection.
Uh possibly a new tank, maybe a larger one. We always run out of water on that one. Um >> and Puo. Yeah, >> Pawo. Big Island has a whole list of things also. So, we definitely have a backlog of of irrigation projects that we could definitely use the money for. Um, >> so, so Brian, as you read the bill, how would you prioritize >> the use of these funds? cuz I know with ADC and some of the transfers, I just trying to figure out is these funds adequate to be sufficient so that we continue to grow food and double food production across the US and do our farm to schools and so forth. Does this bill does it put more of a heavier burden on how we divvy up with dad ADC and and the different DNR? I mean, how do how do how do we break doing breakout?
Meanwhile, taxpayers are being asked to front the bill over and over again. So I think we're falling into this place where there seems to be a delay in the master plan but then again it's becoming very fiscally um irresponsible for the department to continue to expect more funds. So uh how does a university plan on justifying the funds requested when there's when there's no master plan? Um and then you've got about a billion dollars in deferred maintenance backlog. Yeah. Um, so we we do have a master plan uh that there's a significant amount in the plan that addresses the deferred maintenance and the strategy behind it. Um, at a really high level, uh, the university needs about a hund00 million a year just to keep the status quo. So, um the the because we have limited funding um we try to be a little more resourceful in how we spend a dollar.
Um, so we're excited about things to come. We did have some discussion about uh the timing of the assessment and when is the optimal time to um give the benchmark tests. It's uh one of those age-old questions where there's no real correct answer. Um so these are tests that were given in December which can be a tough time in education right before the holidays. Um, so we hypothesized about what the ideal timing might be and concluded there was not an ideal time. So, um, so we're excited to see what, uh, the spring results look like and how that information can inform putting a budget together and allocating resources and looking at curriculum. >> Sounds good. Thank you, very much, Mr. Dawson.
You know, that's such a beautiful space here um and would like to continue to make upgrades and really make this um a learning lab where kids are going to be able to interact and work collaboratively. So, we're looking forward to making that report. So, All right. No reports. That brings us to history. Sure. Approve the following um let's see A1 through A4. Becker. >> Yes. >> Mrs. >> Yes. >> Mrs. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Walsh. >> Yes. >> Mr. W. >> No. >> All right. on your district >> exhibit. Mrs. Yes. Mr. Mrs. >> Yes. Mr. >> Yes. Policy Mr. Board of Education policy regulations that >> Yes. Mrs. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Mr. >> Mrs. Walsh. >> Yes. >> Mr. W. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Mr. >> Yes. Yes, >> Mrs. McDavid. >> Yes, >> Mrs. B. >> Yes, >> Mr. Mrs. Wolf. >> Yes, >> Mr.
And so um I I've been at North for eight years now and uh we have continued to hear from our eighth grade language arts teachers um that they need more instruction time in 8th grade. Um, our current schedule includes u two 45minute classes of language arts at sixth grade, two 45 minute classes of language arts at seventh grade, and one uh 45 minute class of language arts in eighth grade. And we felt like specifically our eighth graders need that additional language arts time, especially focused on writing right before they get into high school. and a lot of their work then uh becomes more of the written work um like we were used to in college. So um the other part of this is that um it provides the flexibility to to schedule additional high school credit um and advanced courses along with additional electives. Um you'll see that we're pointing out there Indiana graduates prepared to succeed or GPS.
>> Right. >> Oh well that's good to hear. >> Yeah that's good to hear. >> I was just thinking with what Foxboro is going through right now. >> I know. I was thinking that too. >> Well thank you again really for uh all your work. >> Yeah. No our pleasure. >> Great. >> Thank you. >> I don't have a question. And I just want to say thanks as well. And as someone I actually ran the marathon last year. Uh and you know I think that I think on behalf of the runners like I think you really do appreciate you know you go through all these towns and first off it was just wonderful to come through Ashlin but you know you see the level of coordination and support there and it you know just as someone who's watched the event, participated in the event and seen it from a couple different angles.
The last day of school is now 6:22. Just want to make sure that we're all aware of that. >> Okay. >> And it's a half day, correct? >> Correct. Mhm. Um we've had four snow days. Uh and we've just listed those for you. And uh in the area of climate and uh engagement, I had the opportunity to meet with many high school students uh especially throughout last week uh and it was a great opportunity uh and met a new one this evening which is fantastic. Um including an introductory uh new superintendent video. So, I had the good fortune of having Leah, who is a senior here at uh you know, Brookfield High School, um interview me yesterday and or I'm sorry, uh yeah, on Friday and we put together an introduction to the superintendent video. Uh we are still in the process. I am not but they are editing it editing it and um and once that is fully edited uh that will be distributed to all the students for viewing and uh the families as well so I can introduce myself to the Brookfield High School community.
Um so back in the beginning of January sent out some inquiries to six different firms that provide services for design for track and fields. Uh ones that we're more familiar with uh SLR who had done some design work a few years ago. Um some other companies like Banesh who has you know come to Casbo vendor shows and has built some of the the track and field systems in New England and high schools in in Connecticut. Um and Laurio, which is a company we do some design work with, not track and field. Um and there were three other vendors that this um potential proposal was sent out to. We had some specifications about creating a design for the turf project. Um, and ultimately we got the three proposals back. One from SLR. If you could just hold one moment. >> Is it Vin? Is SLR is that my LOA Mcroom?