Thank you. You >> Okay. And our last um speaker who submitted a card is Danielle Penning. Yes. Okay. She couldn't make it. Are there any other speakers? Okay. Come on up.
>> I understand what you're asking. I'm going to have to get back to you with the number because again, right, we have a couple things up in the air. So, I need to redo the numbers actually right now. >> Okay. But to fix stuff, not just put band-aids, fix it one time, pow, [snorts] >> we're actually in the process transferring our stuff, which is why I don't have answers for you. >> So, if you can get that and get it back to the chairs, please. Okay. Yes. >> And then finally, ADC Good afternoon, chairs, vice chairs, members of the committee. We're in the process of five different acquisitions right now. So, I would like to get back to you with an estimate based on adding those to our inventory. >> Okay, great. But we would like that in a very short timeline. >> You got it.
>> Thanks, Vice President, for being here. So, so I guess what what do you think we should be asking of you then in a plan versus if it's a little too much what because I think at the end of the day when you take a look at really what we're trying to get at is I think it's a little bit alarming right I think we did a lot of work on Monoa housing >> but then that's only one campus in the system right I think we're we're now moving on to you know Hilo and they don't have a plan yet and so that's a little bit alarming right so so what what is it I I think the bill is necessitating, you know, trying to push you guys in that direction. And so, you know, I think what is it that you're ready to do now versus waiting for the campuses to do their other master planning?
That's the normal way to do it. or some people thought, "Oh, let's start after and start on the 10th, which would have us in school until the 24th." Um, as a committee, we went through the whole thing. We went through the calendar with administration and we are recommending we prefer the calendar that starts on the 3rd. A lot of other districts in the area are. There are a couple who are starting later to be sure, but we preferred the calendar that started on the 3rd honestly because it gets out on the 18th and that let's be honest, June 24th is torture for teachers and students and administrators and everybody involved. So, we'd much rather get out on the 18th. So, again, any conversation from from the board as a whole is is great, but that's that was our recommendation and that's all we had at our committee.
Um, but it's just below that and looking to match that to more of what they're going to experience in elementary and seventh and eighth grade of middle school as well into high school. So, sixth grade math right now is a bit of an outlier with having two periods of math when throughout a student's schedule K through 12, uh, they typically only have one period of math instruction. Uh, one thing it would do too, it would give us the ability to combine seventh and eighth grade UAS. So, that could open up additional opportunities where a student might be able to take an entrylevel UA course in seventh grade and then repeat a higher level UA course in eighth grade. So it's again giving students a little bit more choice in their electives in seventh and eighth grade. Another change it would uh we would like to move computer applications to sixth grade.
So, you know, like Doug said, it's kind of my destiny to kind of take leadership and take role of it. You know what I mean? Been here 25 years, so you know, um, definitely passed on the torch time. >> It's pretty special to have, you know, what is it, 30,000 people run through your hometown. It's pretty special. It's a great day. So, >> you know, so thank you. >> Thank you. Nice work. Yes. >> But just follow up on marathon stuff. It's always interesting when you talk to people about that you are from Ashland >> and you tell them, >> you know, either they're from most of the time it's like for people out of state. I'm like, "Oh yeah, do you know the Boston Marathon?" I'm like, "Yeah, so we're the second route. We're the second town on the Boston Marathon and we're the original starting line of the Boston Marathon." And it's interesting giving them that history and most people don't know it.
But these banners are just impressive. And we couldn't end uh this report without giving a shout out to our gymnastics team who we found out late last week won the SWC conference. uh the Fab Five I'd call them and they did an amazing job. So, um I'm sure there are more shout outs to be had and I don't have them all yet, but um that has been my six days of a thrilling thrilling ride and I'm look forward to more and uh to continue to give you updates on the great things that are happening here in Brookfield Public Schools. >> Absolutely. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. All right. Um okay, move on to the uh subcommittee reports. Sorry. >> That's okay. Fine. >> That's okay. >> Great. Him up first then. >> Yep. You want to summarize both? >> Yeah. All three. Yeah. >> All three.
So, you know, depending on how we move, it could be could be less than that. Um, for the final design and construction documents, a lump sum of $12,500. for the bidding and phase services, a lump sum of $2,000. And for the construction phase services would be to be determined on an hourly or budget basis. So those were the five components of their proposal. Um and they proposed a schedule that would be 29 weeks in total. That would be assuming that if we designed everything that we were moving just from one stage to the next. It would not be assuming that we needed a referendum that we needed all the bud budget passing. But like the fastest timeline you're going to see would be about 29 weeks. Um, and so that's that's ultimately what we talked to them about. Um, and what we're what I'm coming to you tonight about is potentially engaging them for some for some preliminary design work for $7,500 because they have five different components, but we don't need to sign an agreement for the entire $30,000.
Mike, both of you. >> You're welcome. >> Yeah. Thank you. Any questions from any of the board members? Uh, committee members, non committee members, questions, concerns. Louisa, if I could just add in um one other item. Um, we we started the uh fiscal year 25 audit. So, I I feel like we've been in perpetual audit since I've started three years ago. Um but we are we're very uh up to date now. We're not three years behind. Um so we just started that. We're in the the first section of it uh which is the planning uh after all the planning documents are in. They'll start the fieldwork. Uh we'll submit um our our general ledgers and they'll come back with uh with questions um and ask for documents usually a lot of payroll stuff and accounts payable. Um but just wanted to put it on the radar that we we did start and Angela has been um chopping away at the requests.
Just to remind you, you have three minutes and there will be a buzzer when you have 30 seconds remaining. Can you please also introduce yourself? Nice to meet you guys again. Um, my name is um, Valyriia Torres Godí. Um, I'm here to talk about student safety from adults and parents regarding a recent harassment on both on and off campus. To preface, there was a protest, a peaceful protest on February 12th about ICE. Students were using their first amendment right to protest. I want to thank all of the students from PV that showed up to represent us. I'm one of the organizers that organized this protest and this is all studentled. Okay. Um we all made sure that it was a peaceful protest. We made sure to prompt other students to maintain safety and there was no teacher involvement. Okay. However, during this protest, a parent stopped during an intersection with kids still crossing and the crosswalk sign was still on and played the song Ice Ice Baby seemingly with intention to upset us and proceeded to leave her car out of out during this intersection to upset us.
>> Okay, thank you. Thank you, chair. >> Chair, sorry. Um, Wendy, without the acquisition, in regards to Senator Richard's question, what you have now, what does it take? What what is the the price tag? Don't I don't want you to count the acquisition right now. >> Based on the water systems that we have, which would be the WoE water system here on Aahu, >> it would be the Kaha and Coke systems that are on Kauaii. Um, that would be in the neighborhood of about 35 million just for those three. And the biggest fortune would be actually putting pipe into the cake haha system. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Thank you, chair. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Uh DLNR. >> Yes. This bill on page two with the appropriation amounts that's identified in the measure um that for your agency you have um $14 million.
Yeah, I I think it's a combination of um I think our new president um >> she is in the process of really focusing on the >> what I would say that the academic strategy >> um of a university system that incorporates all 10 campuses and finding their um each respective campuses um um I guess part of the overall system and the whole it would be helpful to have that u more established and nailed down um that because that is what should be driving then the facilities plan. Um, so I think in our testimony we did say it would probably take a couple of years um to take to incorporate those um strategies that will result in changes of of how uh classrooms are or the the educational experience on a campus is. Um that's a lot of that will be driven by what President Hensel is currently putting together as the AC the overall pen campus system academic strategy.
>> Thank you, Mr. B. >> Oh, one other thing. I don't know, Miss Lee. Did um anybody still have to do their disclosure or are we all all done? >> Yes, I was probably last. Okay, >> you weren't. >> I wasn't. Never mind. >> Okay, sorry about that. >> Uh thank you, Mr. Bow, for the report. If I can just add two comments. The first one being the school calendar that was referenced is actually later in our agenda. So, just realize that you will be acting upon recommendation of the committee. And then a comment on the uh policy regarding the safe schools. Um I think it's important to note that it's really a reflection of the current procedures that the administration already has in place. We're really just codifying them in our policies to send a stronger message about how firmly we believe that that's the right course of action.
Computer science is a standard tested on iLearn science in sixth grade. Currently computer applications is a semester course in eighth grade. So it only is logical that we move that to sixth grade. So a sixth grader coming in would obviously have their core courses. They we would still require a year of music. So, band, orchestra, choir, and then their other period, UA, would be a semester of PE and then a semester of computer applications. Um, and then once the students in our building in sixth grade, uh, makes a little bit more convenient for us to talk to them about their UA choice choices moving into seventh and eighth grade. Um, we are actually going to be starting building our middle school schedule here soon. We obviously don't have access to the fifth graders necessarily right at our fingertips, um, like we do the seventh and eighth graders.
They don't realize it >> anyway. Yeah, >> exactly. >> Yeah. Good trivia. >> Okay. Um, so moving on to old new business. Um, a reminder that town meeting warrant articles are due by February 27th, 2026. Um, Katherine, is there any updates and like sort of how it's coming along if we have, you know, what what how many articles we have and what it's potentially looking like. So I I can't say we obviously have the normal articles, the budget, consent, all those things. I I think we only have maybe two or three additional so far. So they're due um by February 27th, which is coming up and you can either email them to myself. That's it. >> Okay. Thank you.
I should say >> since uh since the last uh board of ed meeting, we came together as a finance committee uh on the 27th. Um and we came together on the 10th for our regular meeting. Uh on the 27th, we did have uh additional budget conversations before the formal submission. That was the point um in the agenda on that. And then at the regular finance committee meeting last week, we went through all our normal reports. There was no um nothing significant that came out of that discussion, but we did have time also in that meeting to talk about the request from the um first selectman Steve Dunn. So we chatted about that um some potential opportunities. I think the opportunities that were discussed were ones that we reviewed in previous subcommittee meetings around the different scenarios that we had asked the administration to put together.
We can do it phase by phase. The first phase being some design work. Um, and I would say, you know, why why do we need a design from SLR if they did the initial design when we had the turf is, you know, we really want to make sure that we're getting a the most up-to-date um, design possible. A lot of things have changed in the turf industry in the past 10 years. Um, and we want to make sure that whatever we are eventually putting out to bid is just the the most sound proposal and, you know, has been vetted and isn't isn't old. Um so you know although they like I said they have an advantage because they've worked with us before they're they did have the most um coste effective proposal. So um and I think what we have also what was also talked about is could they do different scenarios like the track and the turf just the turf just the track.
>> Awesome. >> Um can you just explain like it because I know we have a few new people on the committee like how much what's the time frame for these audits usually? What what does it entail? What's what exactly are are they asking of us and what is what is it that you're doing? >> Yeah. So the the um uh Danbury public schools rolls up to the city of Danbury and the city of Danbury is required to produce an act for it's an annual comprehensive financial report similar to um you know the the 10Ks and 10 Q's that uh public companies uh go through. Um so what they do is they come in and they get an understanding uh what they actually call it an understanding. So they look at our policies and our procedures um and they'll ask us to to define them to verify them.
Although although she has the first right amendment just like all of us do, she put herself in harm's way and same with us students. A parent ran out there worried about our safety. Us students asked her to leave and get off the road and so did the parent. She was filming us and harassing us minors. Us students have consequences for cutting a class or being tardy leading to detention. But what are the consequences to these parents? What are you guys going to do to protect us from all of this harassment and all of these comments from adults? These are our adults. We are supposed to look up to them. But how are we supposed to look up to them when they are harassing us? I'm a future voter, so I have the right and so does everybody in this room have has the right to speak up and use their first amendment.
Now, does this do you know what the cost would be for the W Pahu? Uh the the acquisition uh are you folks already managing the irrigation system we talked about in was it Wahoo or Wuwa on the dual lands? No, we're in the process of that right now. >> Okay. So, we haven't done anything. Do you know that's going to be under your kulana? Yeah, we have. >> Yes. So, we are going to acquire the Lake Wilson parcels for that. Um, our current irrigation systems on the other islands, right? Again, we're in the process of transferring some of those already to ADC. So, we haven't accounted for those in terms of cost for fixing because we're going to turn them over as is. Um, this money would help us with the Wahwa, >> the fortune meal. >> Yes. >> Okay. What l what are you transferring to other agencies?