So, we're saying the ninth and 10th, but we want to make sure that we can get because she has a database to send those emails out. We don't. And so, that's where we have to work with her in in that regard to make sure that the principles get it, the parents get it and all that. But the board will recall, if I don't, if you don't mind, how critical that position description is for us to to to uh develop that position description. Your approval allows us now to have that on our website so that any interested applicant can begin to see is it a match and fit? Am I, you know, what are some of the characteristics that they're looking for? That kind of thing >> for for students. Um, so the survey is it going to be the same questions for for teachers and students?
Thank you. Um, okay. Are people who did I just see two people walk in with request to speak? >> They have to come. >> It has to happen later, right? Begin. >> That's what I thought. >> Um, they have they'll have to wait till next time, the next business meeting, and then they can they can speak, but you have to put your request in before the meeting begins. >> Thank you. Yeah. So, if you guys want to do that, we can have you come back for the next meeting or >> they'll need to bring it next time, >> right? That's what I mean. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Um, so we're going to have to move on to agenda item six for reports. Um, we have 6.01, the proclamation for National School Social Work Week, March 1st through 7th, 2026. >> Thank you. Um, as I said earlier, I'll have a second proclamation I'd like to read to everybody.
>> So some of the reason why I asked Jennifer and Dennis to bring Jennifer in is because since we have the flat portions of our roof that need to be replaced, it's an opportunity for us to look at solar if we're interested in it. Um I don't know what do concern point I know it's not a 100% replacement. It's usually what a 70 or 80 or maybe 60% replacement >> utilities offset. Yeah. >> Yeah. So, so it's not a complete, you know, replacement of energy cost, but >> and we can run a simulation so you know exactly what u what your avoided utility costs uh can be out of your operations fund and and so you have a little information to be able to make that decision. >> Do most of your panels go on the roof or you put some in the field? >> We're um you know, we were We're based in Indianapolis.
So now we have to use the same system we use for the day with the lottery. And so each uh city and town gets a certain lot a lotment of students that can be accepted into the program with Lawrence getting the largest number of percentage of students seats and then the food and then end up in North. Uh so if if for some reason um like the numbers are small it's like Lawrence if their a lotment is um I think the numbers are uh total 80 we take in 84 students into the program. So if Lawrence aotment is let's say 60 and they have 58 students that apply then they'll all get in. uh if it's 65 then we do a lottery and five won't get based on the percentage of kids we're going to get. >> So yeah >> uh on page two on the homeless students it looks like they automatically get in without the lock.
>> Yes, it is. >> And parents. Okay. So, it's going to be all questions across the board. >> That's pretty straightforward. >> Okay. >> Yeah. It's an instrument that we've used for many years and uh we're we are we are again finding that people are preferring to take that survey rather than come in sometimes. that may have been a little bit of a phenomena of COVID as well where people were, you know, inside and utilizing their computers to provide information or get information, that kind of thing. Um, the next item on the timeline that you'll see there is just generically the month of March. That's when we will begin to identify potential candidates, uh, the development of the posting and the recruitment materials and that position description. That's really very very critical. Many people will be interested. In fact, I don't mind sharing with the board and the public that we've already received uh conversations, I'll put it that way, of interest for ISUsa.
Uh whereas school social workers serve as vital members of the education team playing a certain role in creating partnerships between the home, school, and community to ensure student academic success. And whereas school social workers are exceptionally skilled and uniquely trained in identifying and providing services to students who face serious challenges to school success including poverty, disability, discrimination, abuse, neglect, addiction, bullying, mental illness, homelessness, uh familiar stressors and other barriers to learning. And whereas local educational agencies, community support agencies should continue to work in partnership with social school social workers to address and access resources and support services in helping to meet students social, emotional, physical, mental health and environmental needs so that students may achieve academic success. And whereas school social workers maintain knowledge of school climate which are necessary for responsible school safety planning. And now therefore, I, Shane McCord, Superintendent of Gilbert Public Schools, do hereby proclaim Sunday, March 1st through March 7th, 2026 as school social worker week in Gilbert Public Schools and encourage all in our district community to observe this week by highlighting the vital role and contributions school social workers make in the success of students in our schools.
So for a long time we had a larger percentage that's ground mount because it typically seems land available. Um we when we moved into Illinois and it's a little bit more street rooftops we're about 5050. We do also do car canopies and bus canopies. We're actually working on our second bus canopy project right now for the transit center K12. So we did um Our first one's active in Illinois under construction and we're kicking off one in Missouri for a school there and then we've done we've done campies before as well elevated and provide some more protection and operating cities >> and we and we work uh with the manufacturer so all warranties are intact so we don't do anything to any warranties we that's the first person we reach out to at East Washington I put in 2.3 fields, the biggest in Indiana at the time in 2017.
>> No they also part of the lock they're part of the locker. Yes. >> So, um I mean I won't discuss this more. I'm I'm voting no on this, by the way, because I'm going to stay consistent with my position on the lottery. >> That the lottery stuff is just not going to work. Um and I've been against it since day one, and I'll continue to say against it. Playing with our kids like numbers. uh especially with an afterd dark program when these kids don't even come to school here. Um so that's all I had to say. So I my opposition is not the after dark program, it's >> the lottery itself >> with the program. >> Yeah. Process. >> Can I get a motion to approve the admissions policy for the after program, please? I'll make a motion. >> Second. Any further discussion? >> Mr.
So, this wonderful reputation, there's a number of people who are already interested in finding out more as we go forward in this process. >> Question. >> Yes. On this timeline, we have um the deadline for applications in bold. Could you please guide me on where it says uh when the applications are open? Am I not seeing it? >> Uh that will be so it's on our website. >> It's on everything that we send out. And so when someone requests for an application, request one, it'll be on there. and and they also we send that email out to everyone so they know it's an opening they know when it closes is that >> but in addition if I may >> yes >> you'll see that one portion about advertising >> when we have our advertisement which is statewide through AXA the assoc the administrators association in the state of California that will also indicate when the deadline is so twice we're going to plan to send that out >> so if If I'm understanding correctly, just ju just just because I'm still I don't think I I got the the the >> the answer that I was I was looking for.
Thank you. >> Great. Thank you so much. Um, okay. We're going to move on to 6.02, teaching and learning academic spotlight. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'll turn this over to Dr. Ryan, and he has some people presenting for him this evening. >> Dr. McCord, Madame Clerk, governing board, thank you so much for the opportunity this evening. I'm going to introduce Lisa Kaser, who's our coordinator of our alternative certification pathway program. Um, this program came to be a few years back and has turned out some of the strongest educators you'll find across our school district. And we're incredibly proud to share with you this the story kind of behind the scenes. And we have the incredible team here with uh, Miss Kaser tonight. And we're so uh, just proud of their work and and honored to have them presenting to us this evening.
But I had I had 130 acres. We needed about 10 that we would never do anything with. And so we took 10 acres and do that. We just put them the roof systems. Plus there's also um you know when you change you have panels on the roof, you do have less wear on your roof because it does shield UV light that tear breaks down roof. So, um, you know, and we typically you get, you know, you take your warranty out, uh, you know, your panels are you're panels are, um, if you're still rated at 85% efficient at your 30. So, yeah. >> What happens? What happens if one of those panels is somehow damaged, a hail storm or whatever? >> Yeah. So, there is um a hail rating for them. So there could be like an RA right to manufacture depending on it or you know your system would be added under your insurance as well and then we would swap out.
Mia, >> no. >> Mr. Mercedes, >> no. >> Mr. Tox, >> yes. >> Miss Ferris, >> yes. >> Miss Dler, >> yes. >> Mr. Jones, >> yes. >> Mr. Needle, >> yes. All right. Travel request. Once again, Mr. >> Um, overnight travel request. >> We have Yeah, >> chair. These might be the ones we approved the last meeting. >> This particular one wasn't. >> No, >> this is a new one. This is not for out of this is not for out of state. They're going to be in state, but they're going to be staying overnight. >> Oh, okay. >> Yeah. And it was >> Okay. This one was to Virginia Beach. >> That's what it was. That was the last one, but it's the same individuals. That's why I wanted to make sure. >> Okay. >> Yeah. This is to go to Springfield, but they're going to stay overnight.
>> Okay. >> Um what what I'm hearing from you is that um March 16th people can go on to your website and um look at all of the requirements and so forth. So that's kind of like the the opening of of this um application. Correct. >> Well, actually it'll open up tomorrow. So tomorrow we put it on our website. We send 1,500 emails >> and and so and people look at our website all the time. So immediately then and then then we put it in EDCAL and so EdCal has it's clear the position when it closes. And so we we don't have an issue we've ever had in terms of people getting that information out through our website and and through the the email blast and throughout. >> So John can go onto your website tomorrow. Let's just say a candidate apply tomorrow. >> Yeah.
So, Miss Creaser, >> I don't know that I really need this. >> Yeah, you you do. Is everybody in can hear you? >> Oh, okay. >> It's on. >> Is it on? Yeah. Okay. Thanks. Um, so Dr. Mor, Dr. McCord, and Miss Murray and members of the board and cabinet who are here. Um, thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to be here to share about our alternative certification pathway here in Gilbert Public Schools. We are passionate about the impact that we believe we have had across the district and we're really grateful to be able to share this opportunity with you. So what is Pathway? Pathway is really the story of students who deserve great teachers. That's been the goal since its inception and that's what we work toward every day as we're working with our teachers. It is an opportunity for professionals who want to change careers to become teachers in Gilbert public schools to begin a meaningful career and we hope to have a meaningful career for years to come.
We do typically recommend um attic stock. Now we also know the modules have to be stored a certain way and it can kind of get in the way too. So for some of our clients we store the attic stock. We have it on hand. and staff would just be a small percentage of >> and I can say I had 6800 panels and never had one and we were use I don't know if it's here as well but we're in that corridor of Hail City and everything else and we never had one we had to replace for damage we had we replaced three in the seven years six years we had them before I left three was just they were just warranty issues Um and we do prevent we scan those. There's drone we go through do thermal scans. So we know before you know if something is not and most of the time I found it most of the time they'd already fixed it and done before I even knew there was uh knew there was an issue because those are those are monitored and then you know I don't know a lot of there are opportunities we had some schools where every time you generate a thousand kilowatts you get one uh SRE or renewable energy uh credit certificate which are they're managed by the Security Exchange Commission.
>> And so, I felt like the committee should vote on request for them to stay overnight. >> Okay. Thank you. I'll make a motion to approve. Second further >> discussion, >> please. >> Mr. Jones, >> yes. >> Mr. Mahia, >> yes. >> Mr. Mercedes, >> yes. >> Mr. >> M. Ferris, >> yes. >> Mr. Islam, >> yes. [snorts] We have a second one. >> There's a second one on the bottom. >> The first one was the All State Wrestling Tournament. And then the second one is Mass Mutual Center for the um or it's the same thing. I'm not sure. >> Both the same thing. >> It was a duplicate. >> Yeah, it's Yeah, it's the same thing. >> Oh, I see. I see. Okay. All right. It was >> actually a kind of >> I did look at the paper >> a flyer for the event.
Request an application. >> Request an application, right? Request an application. They could certainly apply, but we would not suggest that they apply prior to seeing the position description. >> Okay. Right. When I say tomorrow, our our staff will be getting up sometime tomorrow. So, yeah, that that's exactly right. And and we'll we'll get with it by the end of this week, we'll have 10 or 12 requests easily just on our website. >> They'll contact us as partners or consultants. What is it about? What can you share with me? Um and we obviously tell them to do their homework kind of thing. Um, thanks. Thanks for clarifying that. >> If I may, you'll see the deadline for applications. We're actually going to change that, if I'm not mistaken, now to noon. >> Yes. >> Yeah. So, April 6th at noon, not 5:00 p.m. Part of that aggressive timeline, if I may, is as a result of what we believe is competitiveness.
That's important to us and we instill that in our teachers. It's more than just the 2-year training program. We hope that it's a relationship that goes on. Before we get started, I do want to introduce our team to you and tell you a little bit about them and thank them for their efforts because they are really pretty phenomenal educators. They are experts in their craft and they are also passionate about helping our teachers become as successful as they can be and help them then support our students student achievement and student growth. So, we're going to start with Miss Tiffany Bodman. Tiffany is our elementary expert as well as keys to literacy. Those are the two initiatives that she leads and she works with teachers in both of those situations. Next, we have Connie LRE. Connie is our elementary special education specialist. She works with teachers in all of our elementary specialed programs.
There's a value to that. There's people that buy those. Uh you can't use them. A school we couldn't use them, but other entities can instead of if they've got carbon offset publicly held companies, >> they don't want the infrastructure, can't afford the infrastructure, then they'll buy the wreck. So, we're one of the few that uh that's her >> that's her her expertise of getting those things >> getting those things sold in the community. I know mine T-Mobile uh so I was leaving um T-Mobile for five guaranteed five years buying all of our our wrecks at East Washington and we were going to get $135,000 a year guaranteed for five years so of buying those. So, not get that down. But at the time there's three schools that they they bought those from and that that was a you know it's a huge impact to a small school.
Yes, this is okay. >> The paperwork is all there except for the students names and that's >> to be community and project. >> Yes. So, I just want to inform the committee that we're looking to April 10 to do a legisl we do a legislative breakfast every spring. So, uh, like to do it on April 10th this year, but I'd like to add something new to the, uh, event that we haven't done in the past. And I want to recognize all our, uh, legislative and community leaders with some kind of a plaque outlining the work that they've, uh, C, uh, their support that they've given GLTS and the impact it's had on our success. So, that they uh, they feel as though we do truly appreciate what they do for us and that they can uh, uh put that in their office or so I just feel like you know we have them at the breakfast but it's nice to really recognize them for each individual and I'd like to recognize them some kind of >> what time is it going to be >> it'll be in the morning probably uh typically I think we start them around 9 >> will send out invites >> yes who will send out an invite soon yep Um, superintendent, why is your recommendations?