Any discussion? All right, hearing none. Can we have a roll call, please? Lee, >> yes. >> Thank you. Whoops. I went too far on my agenda here. We are up to item 7.1. They're really happy turning pages. Be it resolved the the superintendent recommends for approval the resolutions as outlined in district personnel resolutions. This is item 7.2 through 7.38. May I have a motion? >> Motion. >> Thank you, Mr. Zupo. A second. >> Thank you, Mr. Minhas.
One um for teacher concerns and then another one is concerns from parents. Um you can see here some of the concerns our teachers have is a loss of that teen prep period. So their day would change from two periods without students to one period without students. um time to attend then to discipline case conferences, 504 meetings, um attendance meetings, a variety of meetings that occur and then uh team celebrations as well. Um these have been identified as some of the biggest concerns that I've heard from uh the teachers throughout this process and not all not all feedback has been negative. Um, I have I have personally received feedback from core teachers that currently have a team prep that feel like the time would be better utilized um elsewhere within the schedule rather than having that team time as well as uh UA teachers as well.
>> Yeah. Or or maybe their their formula changes and and they are based on the formula change getting more potentially. Um but that's that's more of a state decision than a local discretionary one.
So, this is not like the captive many many many years ago for those of us that remember that. Um, some people don't know, but we'll share that educator test bank that's on uh college board. Uh, Mr. Hill has come to Cape a couple different times and talked about some of the tests he's doing. Doing the same thing in the English language department, right? And so this educator uh testing bank allows they can pick by different score bands, level of difficulty, topic, and it gives sample. Um you can actually send it right off to a PDF. And so they're giving these particularly um as we get closer and closer to the SAT in April, which is April 8th for the 11th graders. Gives us leveled on demand assessments for areas that kids are weak in. Um additionally, as part of that, so we have this academic that's a that's a bigger higher piece.
>> I agree. I think this is a start. I think there there's going to be a large part population that's going to ask for the most up-to-date information um so that they can support it moving forward. Um because there was other I mean Tim you know there were other variables outside of it just showing up on the referendum. We just didn't have the facts and enough time to really educate the public on it. So I think moving forward if we take these incremental steps you know hopefully when it does get to the referendum people have already been aware uh you know of the pre work that is happening right now. Yeah. >> So, do we need to have a vote to bring this to the board to vote and amend the agenda tomorrow or >> Yeah. So, how it would work is if you want to do a motion um to recommend the expense for the $7,500 um you could approve that tonight and then bring that motion to the board of ed.
That's the purpose of the reserve. So, we can run tighter right on the line. uh with this budget and and as a result of that, I don't think we're going to see any surplus unless we can't hire the the other staff that we you know that we are anticipating. Um but that's where the monitoring comes in. I feel like there's a much better as a flashlight on the work. We can kind of see where we're going now. Laying the budget out as clearly as we did is helpful. Um, also utilizing some of the tools that we have available to us, our our financial software. You know, we're learning how to utilize that and to greater degrees. So, that also helps with projection and predictability within our budget. >> Thank you. >> Welcome. >> And just for our new people, once once that budget gets adopted, um, it becomes the board's budget.
And one of the most comprehensive themes that I've seen in recent memory, uh, our fifth and sixth grade teacher did a year-long longitudinal study of women's suffrage movement um, on the 100th anniversary of um, that movement, their uh, right to vote amongst other things. Uh Wildflower loves its surveys. Uh and we do survey quite a bit. Um we have I'm going to show you two surveys uh this evening. Our student survey and a parent survey. Um the overall satisfaction percentage on these surveys is uh an average of the 15 questions that are sent out to parents and uh kids. It's an average of u of the clim climate survey questions. Um overall um our student survey results are demonstrate solid satisfaction and a significant increase from 2425 to 2526 of about 16 percentage points which I think is great. And I'd like to highlight too uh one question um I believe my teacher cares about me.
So a lot of times they'll be working with distributors who have food safety certification or and also may require it from um the farmers or the food hubs or the aggregators. Uh and that's why you yourself senator has pushed forward legislation to help the small farmers because it is a challenge to to achieve certain food safety certification levels. Um and your second question I'm sorry senator. So my second question was on receiving of the um so if all these small farms would would those small farms put together be able to help attain the goal of 30%. >> Yes senator we believe so and and that's why we are supportive of the food hub programs because they act as aggregators mostly for small farms. So they'll help the small farms as far as with aggregation, with food safety certifications, with distribution, and allow the small farms to kind of focus on the farm side.
um if you end up going to the other institution uh it adds on time it adds on uh cost to to completing the balora degrees over time that drift has resulted in bigger barriers for our students to make it through and so right now the focus is realigning it starts with general education additionally the programmatic requirements so that it becomes a true 2 plus two where the advising is clearer and the tools that we have to promote the students going from one institution to the other are in better alignment right now. Those are some of the technological investments that we've created to facilitate some of that advising. The vision over this idea of having me oversee both Leeward and West Oahu is for a student to see the light at the end of the tunnel rather than right now it's blurry. You enter at the community college and you may have options but it's not always very clear.
Any discussion? >> Please go ahead. >> I just wanted to say um looking at 8.5 the the high school programs of study. What a lot of work went into that. >> Are we on We're on eight. >> We're on seven. I'm ready for eight. >> I can't wait to get there. >> Ready to go. I'll let you know. Hold that. >> Any other comments or questions on the uh items in personnel resolutions? >> Question. What does he mean by what he does is he will make sure everybody knows the amounts, work with them, the people who write them in order to make sure it meets the qualifications. So that's what he works in coordination with the curriculum. >> Will that also include like expanding grant capture as well? >> Well, we're going to do that with the administrative team. So different grants in different departments, a lot of them come from curriculum of the supervisors and Robin uh work together to write grants and hopefully we'll secure it in the next couple months.
Some of the parent concerns um that I've received and I've received around a dozen emails from parents. We've received about a dozen emails or less from parents during this process and um support of of uh their student middle school particularly in sixth grade as they transition from elementary to middle school and then things like student of the month field trips things of that of that nature and concerns about students getting lost at the middle school level. I would say that getting lost at the middle school level would would have been a concern maybe at middle school central in the past when we had um sixth graders not separate, but now that we have the new addition on the north side of our building, the northwest side, sixth graders are now downstairs isolated to a hallway and a loop. Um and I know at middle school north, their school is obviously newer and was designed in such a way that sixth graders are separated a little bit more from the seventh and eighth graders.
So, any questions? Any >> Yeah. So, so up at the top, the town manager line. >> Okay. I I thought that was the staff accountant number. >> No. >> So, so how >> So, only 7500 is in the additional staff accountant. >> Yep. So, it went down because of when we did the restructuring. So, it went down and then when we added back in the position, so that brought it up over the 70 $7,500 more than the previous year. >> Okay. Because when we talked the other day, I thought the you the number was 75,000. >> Yeah. And so >> 50 I guess it was 50,000. Do you remember what it was? >> Um I want to say it was in in the middle there like at 60 or 65. >> Yeah. No, it was I I have it but Okay. All right. But that's that's why it's only 7500 now, >> right?
Um, MTSS, the multi-tered systems of support is also a process that looks at both academics and behavior for those students that are struggling. Uh, I'm thankful to have Miss Bianca Nello uh who chairs my MTSS committee uh and she has gone out and started looking at different resources and supports in a district our size. It's always nice to be able to communicate and work with other uh agencies. And she found a grant, the Connect Four grant. It is called the Connect Four Grant. That is not a typo. It's hard to say every time I say it. I just picture it. Um but connect four grant that we were awarded that allows us to partner with a couple different agencies locally that provide will provide some parent support uh as well as training for staff. So we're in the process of doing surveys for that uh with the faculty that is coming up at the faculty meeting next week on the 25th.
And then additionally, we just have to amend the agenda to include the motion. So, >> okay. >> I'm just curious, do we have to make a motion on this? Because I thought your threshold was like 30,000 or something for consulting services. >> You don't we don't have to for this, but I think given everything that has happened with the turf in the past, I am trying to go through all of the channels. >> Yes. >> No. Ca. Great idea. >> Totally. Totally. But if we if we vote on it, I'm gonna I think I'm going to probably vote no right now. I'm just not prepared to go down this path yet. And I get it, but this is um the truth is is the turf has sort of fallen off my radar in the last couple months, but as it comes back to me, which I appreciate you putting it, you know, back in the forefront, I'm just not prepared to spend money on something that the voters just spoke on.
So, you know, oversight falls on the board of ed. So, you know, that's why we have these committee meetings. That's why we talk about it. That's why we have these reports in front of us because that's, you know, that's why finances are so important. Um, so it's can't, you know, we have the training. We'll talk about, you know, understanding a little bit more about that, but it's really important for us to to kind of oversee um all of this. So, that's that's why we meet. That's why we do this. Go. Um, anything else from anybody else on the call? Mike, Angela, Cara? >> Oh, Sherry, go ahead. This is kind of going back, but um I was just wondering when you do have to outsource a student, do is it it does it depend is it the same price for every student or does it depend on each student's needs?
Um and 97% of the students answered yes on that. And I think that is supremely important. Um on to the parent survey. Um parents are surveyed twice a year. Um results drive alcap and school improvement uh goals. Uh we also take our our our survey results very seriously and act on identified areas of need. Our parent satisfaction results have been historically consistent and high over the years which I believe is a very good sign and is also representative of our great staff up in the high 80s in the parent satisfaction. I thought it would be interesting just real quick because we are uh renewing our charter uh to just take a look at our enrollment trends. Um we started in 2011 2012 with just 52 students uh and then made slow growth up until around the time of COVID where we received kind of a sharp decline.
So we believe they can contribute to helping achieve some of these these this uh agriculture goals that we have >> because I noticed it also um allows for the value added. Yeah. Which would help I think get to that 30% goal. >> Absolutely. And that's why we're encouraged with value added um being included in these percentage goals. >> Thank you. Thank you, Chair. >> Okay. Sure. Brief recess. Okay. Reconvening the 3:02 PM on joint with AEN and GVO. Chairs having conferred. Uh the decision will be to pass with amendments that are incorporating the Hawaii Alliance for Progressive Actions. >> I'll start again. pass with amendments incorporating the Hawaii Alliance for Progressive Action suggested amendments to streamline the measure, remove barriers, and provide flexible support for food hubs. We're also make some technical amendments, including deferring the date to July 1st, 2050. [clears throat] I'm going to blank the appropriation amount and insert it in the committee report for consideration.
We want to clarify that and ensure that that student knows where they're moving, the progress that they're making, and that their advising plan be set in stone from the day that they metriculate, and that it doesn't evolve over time. That's what the realignments and curriculum and having the removal of some of these administrative barriers will allow us to do. >> You know, I'm always told that those at the University of Hawaii people right in the state. And yet to see that we've had these issues and we have had concerns about West Aahu. We've had the concerns about the promise of what it would bring for the for the people on the west side of the island. And yet to hear finally what we've been concerned about that there doesn't seem to be that kind of transition, that kind of connection, that kind of working together to assist the students coming out of the community college so they can feel welcome and feel good about moving on and know that they're going to be moving on.
Hi. Now when I said that I was thinking that this person working involved in here talking different types of grants like corporate uh expensive idea grants um you know try to use it for more. >> Yeah. to kind of to kind of get revenue, we would uh you know use the grants. >> Yeah. >> Any other comments or questions on section seven. All right.
Not that that is not a valid concern, but um it's something that's definitely less than maybe it was even in the past. >> So what what would change uh with this proposed uh schedule? So students would have additional opportunities to explore UA courses. Teachers would meet with social workers and counselors during teacher prep and PLC time, similar to elementary and high school. Uh teachers would meet with special education and ENL teachers during teacher prep and PLC time similar to the elementary and high school. Uh teachers would plan field trips, celebrations, etc. during their teacher prep similar to elementary and high school. What would not change? This is the next slide. What would not change? Sixth through eighth grade classrooms would still be clustered together by grade level as Mr. Weisman just uh talked about. Sixth through 8th grade students would keep the same counselor for all three years.