We got it wrong. We need to figure this out." That's that's how I see it. So, I Anyway, I'm done. >> Yeah. And you know although this did not meet the threshold for design services I think if this is a path we want to move forward with you know we've talked about the turf a lot is like yeah we like at every stage we want to be approving it because this is a big request this is a referendum request and if we're not getting past the planning committee or you all aren't brought in like that's going to be the same conversation at the board of ed and I don't know what the town council will do but I didn't think that I that was my first experience right with the capital expenditure plan and things were added and so you know That's my only frame of reference.
Thank you. >> Financial report made a motion to accept the financial committee's report. >> Okay. Thank you, Glattus. Okay. Do I have a motion to accept the January 2026 financial reports as presented? >> Yes. Motion. >> Thank you, Sherry. I have a motion made by Sherry. Do I hear a second? >> I'll second it. >> Second by Cindy. All in favor? I >> I >> perfect. Okay, if we have nothing else, do I hear a motion to adjurnn? >> Yeah. Okay, Sean. Cindy, you making the motion? >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Thank you. Do I hear a second? >> Second by
Uh and really striving to be a model um to develop a model meal program. We have a unbelievable afterchool staff that has helped us grow our afterchool program the last couple of years and summer programs. Um we our our after-school program is now an integrated thematic program which aligns with our philosophy. Um we have our own staff for that. Um we have really good cohesion between our day pro you know our school day and the afterchool program which really really helps with um with discipline and behavior. Um and also um we've developed or our staff has developed an on-site six week summer camp which began in 2024. great after school staff. Um, outdoor education and adventure has always been a part of our wildflower culture. Um, a multi-day river trip down the Sacramento River is now a tradition in our school. Happens every two years and started around the the the second year uh this that the school was founded.
Any questions? Chair boats eye. Vice chair on 2374 passing with amendments. Chair boats eye. Vice chair votes I. Senator Decoy. >> Hi, >> Senator Awa. Yeah, Senator Wa excuse. Senator Rhodess. >> Hi. >> And then for in favor motion is adopted. >> And then uh >> thank you members. >> Uh committee on economic development tourism will be deferring decision making to February 18, 2026 at 3:05 p.m. in room 229. >> Thank you, Chair. Moving on to SP 2760. uh relating to invasive species clarifying the importation of any item or material infested or infected with an insect or other animal disease or pest is prohibited. >> Sorry. Sorry. Um I got to go back um >> yeah it's February not 18. What is tomorrow? >> 19 sorry um back to Senate Bill 237 for deferring to February 19 um at 3 5. No, not 305. >> 105.
And I will elaborate on just a little concept here. the community colleges have really focused on uh statewide access, the articulations and the alignments that we're working on. While right now the more immediate beneficiary will be Leeward and uh West Oahu, the goal is to realign so that all of the community colleges have that same pathway. Um and we've been doing that both in teacher education as well as in agriculture because of all of the work that we've been doing with our partner uh workforce folks. >> Senator, >> thank you. Um will any of these funds be used for administrative overhead or is it just going directly to the students like >> so so right now we didn't define how these funds would be used should they be appropriated. Uh right now we have existing capacity at uh West Oahu to grow the teacher education program and the goal would be to use existing resources.
Hearing none, Miss Lee, a roll call, please. >> Yes. Yes. >> Thank you. Item 9.1. Be it resolved that the Bound Brook Board of Education approves the resolutions as outlined in board action resolutions. These are items 9.2 through 9.29. May I have a motion? Motion. >> Thank you, Mr. Dawson. A second. >> Thank you, Mr. Zepo.
So you can see there to the right a kind of core example. A student would have a a period of language arts, a period of writing, a period of math, science, they'd have a period of social studies and then two UAS as well as lunch and win time in there. So that kind of is the makeup of their schedule. And so for our next steps, um we're going to continue working with our teachers to identify the value uh valuable components of teaming. Uh we're going to complete our MTSS framework and execute it with fidelity. Uh inform and collaborate uh with parents about student reports and or student supports. Um we're going to explore additional high school level courses. Um we're going to explore additional UA courses. um courses like advanced music or um expansion of our project lead the way things like you know biomemed or CTE courses um we're going to implement new structures in PLC and PD time and we'll be providing the board with and our community with a final report and then how would we measure our success so obviously student achievement data Um the number of students earning high school credit before 9th grade, like I said, right now we're at 40 and 42% and those top 30 performing schools in the state of Indiana are uh 70%.
>> No no the benefit and the benefits and insurance come out to like 1.2. >> Okay. And that's not like the contractual increases. >> Gotcha. >> And I think um so I think >> Do we know what the contractual increases are? >> We're calculating that. >> Okay. >> So between between both departments >> that's going to be a big that's going to be chunk. >> That's going to be a big chunk. Yeah. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Um so yeah, you know, and our 2 and a half% increase is only 1.4 million. >> Yeah. >> So 1.2 >> just in the increase in benefits and insurance just >> Got it. >> Pretty much eat all of that up. >> Yeah. So that's that's a huge Yeah. So the benefits and insuranceances increases >> Yeah. >> 1.2 >> 1 point uh 1,273,000 >> and the 2.5% is >> is 1,422,000.
So the staff has been engaged in that and then the next step for that process is to really look at our portraits of a learner uh and do some crosswalks between those to identify okay what are our air core values and how do they align with our ports of a learner that we've been developing for the last couple years. School climate section is smaller. I'll talk more about school climate later. This is kind of a hold over a placeholder. Uh we'll talk more about it later. Um but this just talks about the school climate committee meetings that happen monthly. We had our school climate meeting committee meeting today. Uh and then link crew is like a big thing that I'm really excited about in terms of climate and culture and building that sense of belonging and connection to the to the school. Linkrew is ready to go uh moving forward with our class adviserss and from that perspective uh student and family engagement.
But, you know, if we're not getting it done here, >> I don't think that, you know, we could have a repeat of the referendum, >> right? And I I I feel comfortable in that at least the board did their due diligence in, you know, kind of dotting our tees, you know, dotting our eyes, crossing our tees. I just I don't think we we move without doing the leg work that was again wasn't done by other parties. So >> uh Mark >> So uh I have the uh the proposal. Uh, I'll make a motion. Motion of the planning committee recommends to the Chesh Board of Education the approval and expenditure of $7,500 for SLR to complete preliminary design services for the track and field project. >> Any second? >> Second. >> Thank you. Any further discussion? >> All right. All in favor? >> Opposed? All right.
Uh we recently added a four school transition, excuse me, a four school transitional kindergarten program and we've also added forest days um for our elementary students. Um I put together a list of rationale which we're not going to have time to go through uh tonight. Um it would be fun to talk about because it's really interesting research um on the need for and benefits of outdoor education. Um and and those needs and benefits are very well documented. Uh we utilize these um needs and benefits uh to develop our forest school and outdoor education programs at our school. Couple different programs and we have uh our new TK forest school program is a transitional program uh established in 2024. Um we have 14 students, one teacher and two assistants out there. It is at 5 mile in Bidwell Park. Rain or shine. Uh you can see our TK kids in their um forest school rain suits on a rainy day.
Sorry. Deferring to 105 on February 19, room 229. February 19th, 2026. >> EDT. Thank you for the clarification. [snorts] And so on uh SB 2760, >> the chair's recommendation uh will be to insert the language under section six in the bill to add, and I quote, "Notwithstanding any provision of the Hawaii administrative rules relating to clean air, such rules are suspended to the extent necessary to permit biocurity quarantine treatments," unquote, as well as make technical amendments. amendments including defecting the date to July 1st, 2050.
If there would be any realignment it would be to support that pipeline and encourage more students to enroll in teacher education and in agriculture. Uh but right now from an administrative overhead we're not looking at investing in in those spaces. >> Okay. How much how many students would you say these funds could service? >> Um that that's a little bit of a difficult question to to answer at this juncture. I don't want to second guess. I could come up with numbers and provide more to the committee. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you.
Any discussion? me. >> Go ahead, Miss High. I >> just I wanted to say, you know, looking um there was the book vending machine, the uh the donation for Smallley School. How exciting. You know, I want I really want to see what that looks like. And also from Kim's bikes, six kids, six bikes for kids at um Lafayette. Just so nice to see. >> So, thank you donation people. >> Absolutely. Mr. Bell. Oh, actually I was gonna say the same. >> Oh, >> we're good. >> Very good. >> He stole my thunder. >> Um, I have a question on item 9.5 the semi action plan. >> Okay. >> Um, so I understand that the that the state applied rates are are lower than anticipated. So um you know the numbers are out of sync for and um what I wanted to inquire about was there was a a mention in there about variance and I wanted to just ask um based on what the what the purchasing participation rate should be.
Number of students entering and exiting two tier uh tier 2 and tier three supports. So we'll obviously really look at our MTSS data, ensure that our core tier one instruction is solid throughout our school and then looking at um how students perform at tier two and tier three. uh PLC artifacts and goal setting documents, observation data tied to instructional strategies, and then obviously the building climate and culture data that uh we often survey our students, families, and staff with. And then uh discipline trends and referral patterns. So currently we at middle school central, we look at the number of referrals that we have every month and then we also look at the number of discipline uh that we assign for that. So, um, we will continue to analyze that and see if we see any trends in that. I know just talking today with my dean that, uh, he's spoken with the dean secretary about even using using AI to take, uh, discipline logs and be able to formulate reports that tell us which students are at certain levels and what intervention is needed at that time.
>> Yeah. It doesn't leave you much room. >> Yeah. Yeah, that was the number that I was looking for the other day there. And >> you know, you sent me some additional, but I haven't had time to really go through it, but that that's a huge portion of our problem, right? >> Yeah. And and that's even after, you know, all that we've saved with the um with moving over to the GIC. >> Um and I think, you know, Katherine and I were talking earlier today. I mean GIC is looking at some plan design changes that might you want to speak a little bit to that just what they're looking at? >> Yes. So the plan design changes that they're talking about are increases um on the employee side. So we're talking co-pays, co- insurance deductibles, things like that. and um they're looking to vote on that at their next meeting on the 26th and then after that um a vote on the the rate increase >> and who so that's the group insurance commission that votes on that and who oversees them who gives them the ability to set those rates and says okay >> is the department of public health or actually the commission I think is a separate agency um and I don't know under what secretary it is it's probably af $700,000 deficit even if the override passes.
So we're still using parent square weekly communications um in the moment. I sent another Deb reminded me today could you remind everybody to to work on the school climate um surveys. So was able to send that out this afternoon. continue to use that. I think the one that's been the most helpful has been our um ILT connections program on Wednesdays. So, we've changed from what we used to be a mentor Monday to now a connections Wednesday. And so, uh what happens in those like today I said you heard from the 9th 10th and 11th graders heard from school counselors. We utilized for the time with 12th graders to talk about um the grad party which was a big piece that um was important. It was an important message to get out and so we're able to communicate that same thing at the same time to everybody builds community and the concept of grad party and community is important.
two to one. >> Motion carries. >> And hopefully Tim, we convince you differently once we get the facts in line. >> I mean, that that that is part of that's part of it. Yeah. But it's it's uh >> I mean, I think you understand where I'm coming from. >> Yeah, I do. >> Like this is >> the same. >> I do. But I think it's again I I don't think we just not do anything. either, you know, back to like our responsibility as a board um to make sure we at least put our best effort forward in fact finding, data collection so that we can have some sort of decision that's, you know, I hate to say it's got to be a data driven decision. No, I I I a data distri datadriven decision as to whether we send it back to the voters or to the council uh and giving them the ability to decide based on data.
Um and some of the outdoor activities you can see up on the screen and adventuring and healthy risk-taking are are a daily occurrence uh at our TK4 school. Uh forest days uh forest days involve individual classrooms spending the entire day in nature. Our forest days evolved out of a discussion about how to expand our forest school through the elementary grades. This was a board level decision, something that they really wanted to see a cohesion, not just a standalone uh forest uh forest school. And it it's been highly successful. Um each wildflower classroom has between five and six forest days a year, which are full immersion days. Um different places in the park. Um activities include, this is from the for school coordinator, tadpole saving, mud play, uh quiet reading. There are some academics that do go on out there. Um but mostly it's just um activities um uh in in Bidwell Park.
Any discussion? Chair votes I. Vice Chair on Senate Bill 2760 passing with amendments. Chair votes I. Vice chair votes I. Senator decoy >> I. >> Senator Rhodess >> reservations >> and Senator Awaz excused. Chair you have four in favor. Thank you, members. And then moving on to SP 2741, phasing in exemptions of locally produced produce food from the general excise tax. So, u the chair's recommendation on this one, it looks like uh the get exemption is limited to locally produced food raise. It raises constitutional concerns with the commerce clause. So, we'd like to amend the measure to delete the existing general excise tax exemption for locally produc produced food and instead establish a general excise tax exemption for agricultural inputs used in commercial a production to address tax pyramiding and improve the competitiveness of Hawaii farmers. We'd also like to make technical amendments as well as defer the date to July 1st, 2050.