75,000. >> Oh, you know the town account is 7500. Could you at some point and probably not tonight tell us >> how many staff positions is covered by each of these department? Like I look at town manager and obviously that's you, your two assistant town managers and who else? Um, you know, >> probably Susan Diane. >> Okay. If we could get a with this, you know, a staffed listing, >> I think it would be helpful for for me. It would be helpful. >> Okay. >> How many how many do we have at Council on Aging? How many do we have? And >> you know, >> Yeah. And a breakdown by the employees would help. >> Yeah, I can resend that. That's >> Yeah. >> And then one other question. >> Uhhuh. >> So, if I cor if I understand correctly, we're doing an override for the 2.7 2.750.
And so these are all things that are moving forward that we can better provide um identify kids earlier, provide the right interventions that are going to be helpful to support them. And then uh the S CSD sent out rigorous course letter works um letters recently the last last month um our school counseling team has really taken it upon themselves as a um as a department to really focus on getting the the right the kids in the right class that they need to be in. So they've done they've hosted a parent event. Uh we've done they just did today because of the snow day last week they did the counselors did a presentation to 9th 10th and 11th grade IT um where they talked about the course selection process. teachers are currently working on the recommendations at this point and having conversations individual kids to really place them where they need to be and also understand that students can actually override and go to a class at a higher level if they'd like to.
So anyway, whether we have a vote or not, that's where >> honestly there's an ex board member that's been texting me about are we moving this anytime soon. >> So we're we're getting the, you know, increase still. >> Oh, no. I get it. I get it. Um, yeah. Anyway, that's where that's where I am. But I do appreciate you bringing it up, Emily. I do. Ben >> is so happy right now. >> Keep my thoughts to myself. Tim, >> you know, as I said, I think this is a reasonable price and you know, you want to be armed with the information. You know, the one thing that I just want to remind everybody is what went in front of the council was brought forth by a user group. It was, you know, it was, I mean, John Perino, the athletic director, did speak to it, but it was the user group that brought it forward and they didn't have a lot of information.
And you might have already said that, but no, >> great question. >> I didn't catch it all. >> Sure. No, great question. Um, particularly when it comes to uh students with special needs, those needs range greatly. Um, the facilities uh range greatly. The prices uh that the facilities charge ranges greatly. There's a tremendous amount of variability. uh the distance with which we have to make a placement sometimes can be great. Also increasing the transportation costs for for for the district as well. So, it's probably one of the most volatile um budget lines in in the budget is is that area. And you could have, you know, two students that just move into the district and that's happened to us and you have to, you know, they move in and they have things that they're going on and and within short period of time, you have uh are you have to make a placement because you can't meet the needs within the school system.
Uh and we're back up on the rise again and um rebounding with our enrollment and at about 187 now. Uh and we plan to grow to about 210 students over the next couple of years. Next couple of slides just kind of illustrate how we have grown since our last uh charter uh renewal which was seven years ago, quite some time ago. Um first area is uh recently we realigned our classrooms at the beginning of this academic year. Get too far. There we are. uh realigned our classrooms at the beginning of this ac academic year. This was a teacher-led initiative. Um it was also um with full community support after a couple of town halls. We discussed the topic. Um we used to be a a kindergarten standalone a 1 2 3 4 5 six together and then a 78 middle school. Um and now we're aligned in this in this structure which is kind of the the same process that Chica Uni Unified went through uh a number of years ago.
Any discussion with a chair both side, vice chair >> on Senate Bill 2718 passing with amendments? Chair votes eye vice chair both eyes. Senator decoy >> I. >> Senator Rhodess >> I. >> Senator Owa is excused. Cherry of four in favor. Motion adopted. >> Thank you members. >> Okay. Continue operations. Same recommendation. Senate draft one. I vote yes. >> On SB 2718 for GVO. Chair votes yes. Vice chair votes I. Senator Hashimoto I. Senator Mori Watkins excuse. Senator excused. The measures adopted. Thank you. And that concludes the Okay, we are gabling in the 305 AEN deferred agenda. First up is Senate Bill establishing a blue economy working group to study how to develop and support marine-based economic activities that align with the state's decarbonization and restorative food production goals. It's the decision making on. >> So on this one here, it's just decision making on 2374.
Now, it's it's great that you are in you're wearing two hats because you make that transition clear now because you have both interests there, but what about all the other campuses? Because if this is continuing at all the other campuses where it is, they're having a hard time transfer not just that, but transferring their credits. Professors at the university don't want to honor the credits because they didn't teach it. So, you know, there's this disconnect in the system. Now it's hopeful that with this new president things are changing but for the past 10 years and such it's been going on and and poor students you know that have not had the benefit of this kind of collaboration uh which should be happening and again you know some of the higher paid positions are at the University of Hawaii and yet these things are not happening and then you know get criticized or I get criticized for being a bully for asking these questions when in fact or I have a vendetta.
Hearing none. Miss Lee, can we do a roll call, please? >> Sure. Mr. Bell? >> Yes. >> Mr. Dawson? >> Yes. >> Miss Gazino? >> Yes. >> Mr. High? >> Yes. >> Mr. Januzi? Yes, >> Mr. Manaz. >> Yes, >> Mr. Balmer. >> Mr. Zupkco. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> Thank you. We are up to item 8.1. Be it resolved that the Bound Brook Board of Education approves the resolutions as outlined in district education resolutions. This is items 8.2 through 8.26. May I have a motion? >> Motion. >> Thank you, Mr. Dawson. A second. >> Thank you, Mrs. High.
That's something we will continue to do for a long long time. All students would have the same home room or win what I need teacher every day. Sixth through eighth grade students would all have lunch with their grade levels. So sixth graders eat lunch with sixth graders, seventh graders eat lunch with seventh graders and so forth. None of that would change. All right. So next here is a sample um schedule of what it might look like. Again, the win time is what I need. And when when we say I, it means the students what the students need. So we have a rotation of uh really lessons and then we have teachers that have um intervention with students for math, language arts. Some students are pulled even for UA courses maybe to make up work or to to further extend their learning. But if you look at this schedule, um it consists of seven 45 minute class periods and then the additional period is combined lunch and win time together.
Mhm. >> And then we're shifting over 750,000. So the other difference between the 3783 and the 35, is that just coming from the 2 and a half% in our override in our um budget increase. >> Say that again, Yolanda. I wasn't. >> So if you look at the bottom of the pink, right? >> Yeah. >> There's a total of three 3,783,298.32. Mhm. >> So, is the 283 plus the difference between what we would have budgeted and what we're doing in the override, right? Because we're doing a total of 3.5 million between the override and moving over the $750,000. >> Correct. Correct. So the increase that we're seeing for 2027 is just the increase from >> Yeah. And so this is on the expense side, >> right? >> Yeah. Where where you'll see the 750 really more prominent is when you um when you look on the revenue side and you look at the excluded debt line.
Right. Uh moving on, uh the next section is professional learning, right? We continue to focus on professional learning here at the high school. We have multiple opportunities provided by the board, not just our PD days that are in the beginning of the school year, but also several half-day PLC days that throughout the year. And then we're also utilizing our admin directed meetings that are part of the the pea contract that happen on Wednesdays uh as well as our faculty meetings to use those more as a a leverage to have some of these in-depth professional learning conversations rather than just um sharing information about let me tell you these 15 things need to do in the next couple weeks, right? And so those conversations like the have some robust conversations about uh artificial intelligence and where the different teachers feel and fit is really an appropriate use of AI.
You know, if you if you do this study now, you'll have some really solid information that you can use. >> So, I I appreciate what you're saying. And ultimately, there was a vote that was cast. >> Yeah. >> And it wasn't the user group. >> Elected officials, they they cast votes. I've done it plenty of times and this was one that they got drastically wrong as far as I'm concerned. Um or they did they there wasn't a follow through on it at minimum where they where there should have been followth through >> and I I don't disagree with that Tim. I I 100% am with you on it. >> I guess you know what another thing is has there been any follow-through from them in the past three months? like, okay, I don't think we got an apology, but it seems to me like if I was the person who if I was the person making that motion, then I would have been like, "All right, I got it wrong.
Um we try really hard to meet the needs in the school system. Um and but sometimes you know that also results in more staff in in house as well. So it's kind of a fine line with what we can service and then what is um the right thing to do in terms of providing an environment that best suits the needs of the of the student. But it's it's it ranges. A student could need speech OT PT or heavy psychological you know treatment or part of that or all of it or none of it and just have a right. >> So it ranges Okay, thank you. >> Yeah. >> Okay, great. So, if I don't hear Oh, so my question, do we need to make a motion to move this financial report out of committee? >> I think it's you're going to approve the minutes in the board meeting, but you want I think you want a motion to accept the minutes or to No, not to accept the minutes to um >> accept the financial >> financials.
Our grade levels are now better aligned with the scope and sequence for reading instruction and other state standards. Kindergarten was a standalone before too and it now is grouped with uh first grade. Uh and so that gives uh those K students a little bit more of a a better um multi-age not graded experience too as well. Um couple of new programs that we have since we last were uh chartered. Um we're very proud of our our meal program which was developed in 2022. Um good food is always a wonderful addition to our school day. Um our staff I think our staff I don't know if all education staffs are mildly obsessed with food. Uh but we certainly are at our school. Um this is Chef Jacob who is a master of turning commodities into healthy and delicious meals. Uh we used measure K funds and kit funds to redo our kitchen in 2023 and we're now serving about a 100 lunches on site and 20 breakfasts.
[clears throat] Let's see here. The chair's recommendation will be to pass with an amendment to defer the date to July 1st, 2050. So, we're going on to wh uh they're having their hearing tomorrow on this verd.
Yeah. My vendetta is for the kids, for the students, for the people of Hawaii, and somebody's got to speak out for them if if we're not doing our job, and if it's business as usual at the university or at DOE for that matter, that you know, there needs to be an acknowledgement and there needs to be some changes that take place. So, does it take a a new leadership? Perhaps. And in this case, yes. So, I'm very hopeful that the new president is going to continue to look at innovative ways on how we make this transition happen so that we don't have to create more programs in every community college because that was never the intent, right? >> That's right. >> So, you know, it's people like you have to make this happen. So, I hope that, you know, we can see that. >> Thank you.
Any discussion? Well, I think I'll jump in. >> I I do love this whole section just because it it highlights all the field trips, the summer programs that are coming up. It's just such a busy time. But reading through the the high school programs of study, I was just so impressed with the amount of work that went into that. And it was very easy to read and the the graphs. I love colors. So, I see the colors in there and I'm like, "Okay, I can see it." you know, the whole schedule in there just very visual and um very well explained. So, thank you for that's a lot of work. So, thank you for that. >> Well done. >> Other comments or questions in section 8. All right.
So it's backed up after lunch and middle school north this year has kind of piloted a model where students eat lunch and then they have a little bit of free time. If they're obviously caught up on all their work and they don't need an intervention, then they might have the opportunity to whether it be go outside kind of like a a recess time. Obviously, it's shortened. It's not the same as it is in elementary, but that's one thing when we hear from sixth graders coming in or even sixth grade parents. There's sometimes concern there with my sixth grader has a lot of energy and we would really like them to have some time to get that out. And so what this does by putting it after lunch gives us opportunity to maximize that and give students opportunity for for some uh free time in there.
So that would be on the other page and you'll see about a $750,000 difference there. So then this numbers the 3.783 is is the 3.5 the 750 excuse me and the 2.75 right and how did you get there again >> should be the difference between 87528 and 83744 Okay. >> And when we look at the 2 and a half% that the levy's going up like just within >> plus the override plus the 750 that's that would be how you would get to that number. >> Okay. >> Yeah. It's part of the equation for sure. So the other part like I know that benefits and insurance have gone up and that's taking up a good part part of that two and a half percent. Um are there other >> big ones? >> Yeah. That that are utilizing that that levy amount >> um >> without the overright.
Um it's there's a I think it's great. I think it's completely wrong. And then there's a whole section about gray area, right? And so the conversations have started and we're having these conversations between departments and within within departments about the use of AI. We'll be working to hopefully develop a a district AI policy uh eventually. But the big piece we're working on is our core values and beliefs, right? And so they we're leading them through some exercises where they get a chance to reflect on the things that they value. Uh what we have here as uh building as our core values and beliefs and then in addition uh what might have changed since the last time we'd spent time really looking at that. That's something that NAS does talk about certainly but it's something that we hold to be really important particularly as the ever changing world in the 10 years that I've been here um that things continue to change and the world continues to evolve.