Again, we are here uh we are dealing with what we need to deal with moving forward. We know for for the next future boiler makers um and the future boards and the future superintendent and students and staff. We need [snorts] to make sure that we have a um a very well scripted maintenance plan in place. Okay? And that doesn't mean that we don't have qualified people here, but you know, we have our people here doing so many things already that a true maintenance program on a brand new boiler is important. Just like at your house, I'm sure you probably have a yearly maintenance where somebody comes and they clean it. Well, there are companies that do that. So, I think this is really important. That's going to segue me into what I need to say because these next few weeks are going to be very critical in my office and in Mr.
And um they had decided it as a team like, no, like if you're not like obviously, I think that's part of the rules too. Like if you're not at school, you can't play. Um but we had him, he ran the scoreboard and he, you know, facilitated in some other ways so that there was still like we don't want him to feel like you, you know, you've come here. He was eligible to play, but he had been absent. Um So I don't know. I I love the idea of something that's a little bit more restorative and a little bit more like encouraging for our kids. There are kids that are only coming, right, cuz of these sports and these opportunities. Um So I think um I don't know. Maybe James and I can can get some answers from the APs on on Friday when we meet.
And I'll let Dr. Barry speak this. >> So, as with any curriculum, we know that no one curriculum can do it all, especially when we're looking at elementary and foundational skills. Um, Spalding offers a unique approach to build um, reading uh, instruction uh, cognitively in involving the students mind and and looking at details and it does it so well that we thought it would be or you know u it would be a great addition to any curriculum any mainstream curriculum. Um so I think having um the integration of Spalding to be uh the foundation of not only for students but also for teachers. Uh the pedagogical approaches in Spalding are phenomenal and they can really help students acquire um uh the skills and the strategies needed to tackle any text. Um and that's why we adopted it. >> Gotcha. Works for me. Thank you. >> Um, Dr.
Usually, he just changes to Mithra to build up that damage since since she doesn't have nearly as much lag, but he's just doing the job with Pyra and a forward smash on top of it. You can even see people clapping in the background. Heck yeah. I mean, why wouldn't you? He is freaking destroying. And another up special. Oh, but goes for a side special, but he misses. Oh, but he does a dash attack. That doesn't miss. And a forward smash. Oh my gosh, that is six stalks. That is six stalks. That is absolutely crazy. Congratulations, Scott. Oh, man. He's looking real real happy about that. And why would he be? Look at that. All righty. Nodding his head in agreement. Not in his head in agreement. That is freaking awesome. It makes you wonder who they're going to choose now. Who are they going to choose?
Um employees will be able to see their time cards in real time. They can make corrections. They can request time off. And another great advantage is for our principles and our supervisors. Say we have a snow day, they're not on campus, Katrina's ready to run payroll, and they haven't approved their paytime, they're able to pull up their mobile app, they can approve all their time cards and everything right here at home if they're not on campus. We don't have that capability now. purchase orders, everything will be pretty much the same. Um, content manager is that's housing all our documents. So, teacher contracts, POS, invoices, vendor contracts, everything will be housed in one central location where we're able to find easily what we're needed. And was just going through my first audit here at Macakawa. Um, auditors come in and they request samplings of voice invoices and POS.
You'd have to have five more educators. Doesn't make sense. We've looked at all the faculty and staff that we can reduce as we get to here. Now this being said as we continue you'll notice here that there are additional positions those extra you know the second literacy coach for instance the another teacher at Warren the reduction in potential opportunities at Ashlin High School with regard to chorus band a math teacher those are opport elective opportunities. Um those are increasing class sizes. Um and at the middle school, the UA unified arts, the librarian, those are all added positions here. There will be a tremendous amount of of impact across the district with these reductions. So that will impact scheduling. Aaron Lashappelle has done a heck of a job creating a new schedule. She came to you all the year last year numerous times to help create a better schedule.
That's by state law in that if we don't utilize that $300,000, it would go into a non-lapsing account. So that would be a a discussion that the board of education would have to direct the superintendent to or the administration to say on the average put in $320,000 or $300,000 on top of your budget and then it would be for projected three or four students that we haven't anticipated that that's a discussion that we certainly can have and it's also a discussion that you certainly can have with the board of finance. Okay. And I think it points good one and Mr. did start that conversation. >> Yeah, it's on it's on the you make a great point and it's on the table to see how we should resolve this to to the superintendent's point. Um we just have it to your question about trend line. If that is the case, should we be somebody needs to be putting more into the budget?
Leoo's office, the business office, and with the board with regard to budget. Okay. Uh the governor uh because it is her first term uh has the ability to set or change the budget calendar uh for us. Um which did extend a little bit, but they really didn't help us because we're in April April election. Um because she probably will not give her speech until is it March 10th? March 10th. So, we won't know until March 10th the funding that we'll be getting in aid, right? It's very difficult to budget that way. We can cross our fingers and hold, you know, hold our eyes closed real tight, hoping that that we do um continue to get the aid that we've been getting here, especially since I've been here. Um, however, [snorts] I would be remiss as the chief school administrator and I would be remiss as a representative of this board if I didn't tell you what we're facing right now.
Yeah. I have a feeling um me personally, I have a feeling what most if you were to pick a top issue for sports, this would not be it. To me, the the top issue is safety at games. And honestly, it's not safety, it's I'm not worried about the safety of kids. I'm worried about the safety of people in the room from adults. Yeah. Um well, and I think too, if you don't get to it, that's fine cuz I mean, we've already played two seasons with these rules. So like what's one more? But I do feel like of all the stuff you guys are dealing with with sports, like let's make this one less thing personally. Um Okay. Um Let me switch the tabs. So the next two, I didn't copy and paste cuz they were so short. So I just like a officially agree on this makes sense to everybody.
Barry, don't go away. [laughter] Go back. So, right now, our current curriculum is for K through five >> wonders. Okay. >> And >> but we also now use Spalding to supplement that. So, um I happened to be on the board 10 years ago when we made this um commitment uh for adopting curriculum and making sure that we were current and I will stand by that. Um uh price-wise, because I'm also looking at the dollar and the invoice that's going to go along with this, >> we're not now buying two curriculums. We're buying three. If we're buying a set of we're buying two K through five curriculums, Spalding and McGra Hill, and then one for the sixth to 12th, grade, which I get that I mean, because yeah, it's totally different. But can't we just continue just going with McGraill and using the Spalding that we use?
Especially with such a stock lead. I mean, even if Scott were to lose his stock, we would still be up by quite a bit as well. Alrighty, so it seems like they're selecting. It seems like they're selecting, trying to figure out. Oh, and it looks like they're sending out the Lucina again. All right, so it's going to be Py Mithra versus Lucina again. Now, I'm pretty sure the Lucina was the one who actually took out Scott Sephro, so it's time for some revenge. But first, Scott has to jump off the stage twice. So, there's one. And there's another. Oh, changes to Oh, wow. He's just changing midair. That's kind of funny. All right, it's time to taunt. And time to begin. All right, sending off a sidebe. He's got plenty of ranged attack, so Lucina is going to have to try and cope with all of that as she tries to get another hit on Scott.
I spent several hours out in this lovely dingy garage pulling through boxes and plumbing out documents and paper cuts and then giving it to auditors. And so we're hoping that will lessen the time with them being here and also make things more efficient to give them the information that they need in a timely manner. Electronic procurement is pretty cool system. So basically this will allow us to put on the system exactly what vendors we want everyone to purchase from. So those that we have contracts with, those that we get the best deals from, teachers, principals, anybody can go on there, look at the vendors they want, find their best prices, click on a button, and puts in a shopping cart that goes directly then to our ECA treasurers, and they will approve, principles can approve, they'll be able to see exactly what is in that line that they're wanting to spend that money out of.
We're seeing the fruits of it. There's still tweaks that have to be made to it and the faculty and staff know that. But that being said, if we go to this level funded budget, it now will impact her schedule again and she's going to have to create another schedule. We have in this scenario Ashlin High School potential reduction say in in band and chorus in those electives that's going to impact other schools as well because we have bumping rights seniority rights for teachers and that means now you've got teachers going back between you know the Mendes school, the Warren School, high school, middle school. So there's complexities there as well. So on this one, I like this one the best of the three options just because it's clear by school. But um one thing I would suggest is that those things you're talking about, you know, increased class size, loss of electives, schedule changes are getting lost because the print is so small.
>> Yeah. >> Should and we budget for what we know as you said. Does the board of finance want to put it in rainy day funds? >> It improves the rainy day fund >> knowing that we may have to come back. Yeah, >> great question. >> And when you say we've gone over budget the past 10 years, that's on special education. >> Oh, yeah. I I can't think of the time. >> Okay. Thank you so much. I appreciate that >> question. You good? >> I'm good. Yeah, >> Michelle. >> Um, no, I I really appreciate the thorough proposal. I thought it worked together well in questions tonight and I don't have any other questions. Thank you, Kim. >> Um, feel the same as they said. I do have a specific question may not be able to be answered now. So, we're in this budget cycle.
And Mr. Loo and I, he's been here more than I have this past week, but been scrubbing all the numbers, um, doing everything we possibly can to put scenarios in place because our main thing right now is to maintain programs, is to bring things in for our kids because that's the that's the mission of this board. Okay? Bring programs, bring bring equipment, bring all these things our kids need to make sure that we are on the same and above par than any other district in the state. I'll say even the country. Okay? Our kids deserve the best. Um, and you'll see some of that stuff on here tonight with with some creative things that we've done with leasing um for computers that we that are necessary. Okay. But but I I need to make it very clear the wall that we're running into right now without even knowing what the aid numbers are.
So if you want to take a second and read this one. There's not Oops, sorry. So this is like if a an outside organization wants to use our field for something. Is that what this is? No, this is literally just our clubs. Just like any like extracurricular um >> Oh. >> thing. This was the policy what we were just looking at right now was the procedures, what used to be called regulations. Um so this is like the the philosophy of clubs and activities, basically. And the part that's odd is the grade levels. Like why it's 7 through 12 instead >> Yeah. like K through 12. But I think it's because the the statute refers to grade 7 through 12. Oh. I mean, I me personally, as long as long as it's not something that's required to have, I would I would like to cut that.
Now, >> sorry, I'm gonna answer this one. >> We are. And that's so the cost for uh for Spalding is spread out over that seven years. It's exactly the same as what we are currently doing. So there isn't a change in that piece. It's not an additional cost to what we currently have. It's just now moved it from our from being that supplemental piece to that core piece that we still are bringing to you. So that it's not that additional cost to what the total amount is going to be for the adoption. >> Oh, thank God. And if I could add that when we think about uh the difference between these two programs, when uh with the McGra Hill adoption and purchase, which is millions of dollars, >> um that is a textbook and some site licenses for online access, um a workbook, you know, it's it's the things that you that last more than one year, but also some things are consumable and will have to be repurchased every year if we choose to adopt to buy those.
All right, does a side be. Right. Doing plenty of up tilts at a low percent. Those are pretty good as comboing into each other. Does an up smash. Woo. Scott's at mid% already. And a dash attack as well at a funny number. Oh, but the funny number goes away with plenty more attacks from the Lucina. And an up smash sending Scott all the way to the top. All right. And a forward smash as well. Changing changing to Mithra. That leaves her vulnerable though. But if she were to go below the stage, she she would turn into freef fall mode, which basically means you can't use your upbey to recover. Oh, just like that. Unfortunately, Lucina tries to counter on the stage for some reason. Ah, speaking of counters, let's see what the JV team, the Cyber Tiger's JV team switches to, what they counter to.
If they have the budgeted money, sends it over to us, we get an alert, I can see it, approve it, it's done. Um, and then we have up-to-date budgeting information on exactly what's in each account for um, our information. Our ECA treasures are currently on a different platform. We don't even have any access to what software they use. So, their ECA software will also be included with us, which gives us a little bit more internal controls and watching over what is happening out in our buildings with our ECA um, contracts. So, as far as budgeting goes, right now it's pretty much pride spreadsheets. Um, there are some efficiencies through voice, but not in the way that we need to be able to forecast um and to show a more up-to-date budgeting um with how things are going these days. It also gives us um the HR I think is really cool is like a positioning tool.
Like you could have a slide what this means to us with those like big bold. >> Yeah, I >> you just don't if you're disseminating, you don't want to lose it in the fine print, >> right? No, agreed. But I'm thinking in part, at least at this moment, this is more for our benefit. Correct. The hope is that that is not the budget that we're going to be voting on. >> No, 100%. But like if we're articulating to the community, what does this mean to you? Cuz they're saying, "Ah, 25 people like 25 people is a lot of people." >> Absolutely. Well, it would pull it would also pull out the athletics budget. So, what's the impact there? Like, are you >> So, you're going to see that in a second. >> Okay. And I apologize. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, it's it's a great question.