Auditors will present the full report tonight. We reviewed the January financial treasures report. We discussed the impact of the state budget on district financing and administration proposed an emergency contract amendment with Safeway transportation bus services to ensure continued service for Andrew High School students. The board will vote on this tonight. And then we also reviewed um policy and adjourn at 8:15. The next meeting is at is on March 16th.
No, that's fine. I just didn't know your schedule and I was trying to make sure to get this done quickly for you, but but I think if you want to wait till after the 34 meeting. >> Is it on our agenda for Wednesday? >> Is it Is it >> If not, we should add it. >> Yeah. >> On the fourth. >> We have one next week, >> right? We have a meeting next week. We You guys had an agenda setting meeting, right? >> Maybe not yesterday because of people traveling. >> Correct. >> Yeah. Okay. Okay. So, if it's not on our agenda, we need to add it to our agenda for next Wednesday. >> Yeah. And for us, it would be the 12th. >> We need to review the housing production plan draft at our meeting on Wednesday the 4th. >> Today's Thursday, so I can >> She can update it tomorrow.
G is to approve the January 2026 listing first source for teachers and the corresponding rates are listed. H is to approve the cafeteria dispersements for the month of January in the amount of $57,5547. I is to approve the care dispersements for the month of January in the amount of $11,35160. J is to approve um a contract for the 2627 year. Um so we just did our audit from last year. We're talking this year and we're talking next year. It's a wonder I can speak. Um for Camd County Ed services, this is to provide some OT and PT services. Um K is to approve travel and professional development for some of our staff members. L is to approve some tuition contracts. We have them a couple for this year. One for Cal Clement Elementary. These are Mckin Vento um determined students. And then there's one for Burlington County Institute of Technology for a grade 12 general ed student.
Congratulations, Shang. >> [applause] >> Commissioner Penna. All right, for middle school we have Anthony Lanzarone. Congratulations to Mr. Anthony Lanzarone on being recognized as middle school employee of the month. Anthony has dedicated many years to teaching music to students across all grade levels at Woodrow Wilson Middle School, leaving a lasting impact on both students and staff of the district. A wonderful and passionate music director, a music educator, he is deeply loved by his students, many of whom return to visit him after long after leaving his classroom. His leadership in the middle school band program is evident in every rehearsal, performance, and hallway conversation as he creates a positive, supportive environment where students are encouraged to take risks, grow through challenges, and discover their potential. Always cheerful, helpful, and collaborative, Anthony elevates the music department through his consistency, care, and his pride in work, leaving a lasting experience that students carry with them beyond middle school.
>> Any questions? Next we have the teachers association. >> Well, good evening earlier tonight. Today at Stag and Andrew, we had the opportunity to bring civics to life. At Stag, we conducted lessons in the media center and students who turned 18 by November's election day. They were able to vote for the first time in the primaries as per new Illinois law. We had over 50 choose to vote and three of our own worked as election judges. It was a cool experience to see their reactions, especially my student who said she needs way more time to do research. She didn't realize how many candidates as well as issues would be on the ballot. As you know, we have many wonderful things going on in our schools right now. In fact, my wife is at Stag with our three kids, hopefully enjoying the opening night of the winter show.
It's still time. >> Update it tomorrow. That'll give us 48 hours. >> And for us, the it would be the 12th and the 26th would be >> would be our meeting dates. But as far as the comments for Monday, those are also individual comments, too, right? It's not necessarily to be reviewed by the group. It can be if you're reading through and you have some comments, you can send them forward. >> Correct. >> sorry. I I just have a question. So, this will help me when I send my comments or not send my comments. Um how realistic do these like I like our goals. Um how realistic do they have to be to be to be goals? Um, like we, you know, you mentioned about the secure affordability, especially the deep affordability. But if you try to zone something where you say you want that much affordability, then the builder has to have much more expensive units in there to make profit.
Um the McKin Vento obviously was not budgeted for as those are hard to budget for, but the Burlington County Institute of Technology was. We just got the contract though. And then for 2627 school year, we have the contract already for Camden County Technical Schools um in the amount of 137,562 and that's for um approximately 45 students. May I have a motion and a second to approve the business and finance items? >> Motion. >> Second.
Is Anthony here? >> [applause] >> Unfortunately, a lot of our players got delayed because of the weather, so everything's pushed around. So, I appreciate everyone being gracious to us and understanding that God's keeps on snowing. Um with that being said, Commissioner Brotz. All right, and last but definitely not least is the high school awardee, Miss Cara Fine. >> [clears throat] >> Congratulations to Mrs. Dawn Fine for being recognized as high school employee of the month. Dawn, a CHS alumni alumni, demonstrates an unwavering commitment to the school and community through her roles as senior class advisor, pre-med club advisor, and member of the Clifton Community Band. Mrs. Carifio worked tirelessly to bring back the Red Cross blood drive to CHS, helping save hundreds of lives over the past several years. And she crafted and implemented the anatomy and physiology curriculum, which has grown into one of the school's most popular electives.
In fact, I haven't received a phone call yet as a good sign that my three-year-old has not tried to insert herself into a performance. I do mention these two examples from today to show that it takes all of us working towards common goals to make our schools a better place. When I addressed this board about a year ago, I referenced the importance of collaboration with our teachers. And I didn't just mean it as a talking point. Tonight, I want to share two concrete examples recently where collaborations between our teachers, the administration, and our school board is leading to positive outcomes for students. The first is the finalization of details pertaining to the tuition reimbursement component added in our last contract. This pathway will encourage a variety of upper level coursework and additional certifications pursued by our teachers. It in turn fosters a grow your own component that allows our district to create these opportunities for students.
Um, and they're not going to build if they can't make profit. So, how do we like how do we balance out that goal? Because I think it'd be kind of weird to have like, you know, this really deep affordable housing and then like luxury penthouse type suites on the top. Not that I think Ashley would pull off a luxury penthouse type style, but to get the builder to make profit, they're not going to build it if they don't make money. So, like how like how accurate do these goals have to be? >> Yeah. So what we suggest when you when you get a chance to read through the strategies um let me know if you have questions about it still but but what we tried to do is um think about what kind of incentives um would we would we need to allow for private development to encourage them so that the numbers work so that it pencils out.
>> Any questions? Mrs. Allen? >> Yes. >> Mr. Phillips. >> Yes. >> Miss Route. >> Yes. >> Miss Dorian. >> Yes. >> And Miss Helma. >> Yes. >> Perfect. Thank you. Um, old business. I don't think we have any old business. Um, new business negotiations. We met with BTEA last week. Um, our next meeting is April March. March. >> It's in March. >> March. Um, so we in our first meeting, we exchanged some proposals. So, we're kind of going back and forth on that and then we'll we'll reconvene and and discuss and hopefully continue to move forward in that pro process. Um, nothing for the BTPSA at this moment. Uh, finance committee, we did have that um went over the budget budget report, the revenue report um out of district special placements, we didn't have any new, however, we did have the updates um for those Mckin Vento placements.
Her passion, dedication, and impact makes CHS a better place for students and staff alike. Dawn truly embodies what it means to be a Clifton through and through, and is a deserving recipient of employee of the month. CONGRATULATIONS. >> [applause] >> I'D LIKE TO TURN OUR PORTION TO SPECIAL recognition for PBIS. This is Mrs. Espinoza. Sorry. Thank you.
It's possible due to the creativity shown by all sides during our last negotiations. The second example is the smart pass pilot program uh that we have here at Andrew. Our teachers wanted to have our students, we always want to have our students in our classes learning. And so when this idea of an electronic call pass system was brought to our attention a couple years ago, uh we're happy to have have seen that getting implemented and we're working with admin to make sure that roll out goes smoothly. As we move through the year, there's going to be more decisions, more challenges, and more opportunities to engage our teachers in the policym process. Being the guy standing up here wearing the vote shirt, I think it's only appropriate that I encourage you to continue to hear our voice. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. ESPs Christie.
But the other thing is if you are doing an a request for proposals on your own town land and you're basically giving the land for free or for a very um low amount. Um you can ask for, you know, you can potentially get a 100% affordable, you know, missiondriven developer to create deeply affordable units. Um uh because you're really subsidizing the land cost. So that's another creative way, not just asking the private market to respond by giving them incentives because you would have to give them pretty big incentives to do that as you as you know and as you said, but when you're the owner um you can actually get, you know, more deeply affordable units in a way uh that's a little easier than relying on the private market because you have the land and that's worth that's worth a lot. Does that make sense?
They're on that spreadsheet now. Um, I did kind of go over a little bit of our budget. Um we have quite a few increases um this year that are really impacting our 2627 budget. Um so I'm not sure where our state aid numbers are going to land. Um state aid usually comes out this week, but because we have a new governor, they've pushed back that date till March 10th. Um March 10th is the state of the union address by the governor. Um and then within 48 hours, we'll have our state aid numbers. Like I said before in multiple meetings, um our ASSA numbers are up from last year. I still don't know that that will be enough um to cover all of the increases. We have a lot of increases in um different tuition lines um as well as um a lot of money in benefits.
Um, hi and good evening everyone. Um So, tonight's section on PBIS, positive behavior supports in schools, uh we're dedicating this to our family engagement and a very special parent liaison. So, here we go. Strong family partnerships are essential to student success, as we all know. When families and schools work together, we strengthen the systems that support every child. Within our PBIS framework, family engagement is not an add-on, but rather a critical part of our tiered approach that helps create consistent, supportive environments for students across school and home. Tonight, we are proud to recognize Ms. Debbie Guzman as our PBIS champion parent members. >> [applause and cheering] >> So, here is just a small portion of how amazing Ms. Guzman is. Debbie serves as the PTA president for School 9. Is a dedicated PBIS member to the member of the PBIS district collaborative team, as well as the district collaborative team.
>> Hello. Good evening. Um, I'm sorry I'm a bit off my game today. I really don't have anything funny or witty to share tonight. Um, but as the current president of the ESP association, I always like to use my time tonight to acknowledge uh the ESPs that work in our district, approximately 240 of them that work throughout the district in a variety of capacities supporting our schools, our students, and uh our community. And I just like to always say that I'm very proud of them and I'm very proud to uh stand up here and be the current president. and uh we always look forward to continued collaboration with the district and um we're just very proud to uh of all the things that we we do and that we can do and we look forward to many future collaborations with the district. So, thank you very much for your time as always and I appreciate you having me here tonight.
>> It does. But again, I was just want to understand the feasibility of these things. So, do you have examples maybe of like where towns have given up portions of their of their land to have an affordable housing? >> Yeah, I mean there's a ton of there's a ton of examples of towns issuing requests for proposals for deeply affordable and all affordable projects so that there's not even any market rate. You know, you can have a mix of incomes with middle income 80%, 50%, 30%. Um there are I could certainly send some examples if that's helpful, but there are lots of towns, especially lots of old schools have been converted in that way. Um there's been um other lands that have been developed like into uh smaller like Habitat for Humanity. the um there's been a lot of like examples of tax title tax foreclosed properties that that housing trusts have taken on uh to to to basically select a I'm going to say a developer like Habitat.
Um big increases there, 19% and 30% proposed increases for some of our health benefit plans. So um as we get closer, I'll roll out some more information and kind of let everybody know where we land. I don't know where it looks yet, but I can only can't change. You can't control what you can't change. So, we're just going to roll with it and see where we are and I'll keep you all posted. Um, with regards to the grants, we budget 75% of that for our future year um in the budget. So, that has all been done. All of our monthly reimbursements are up to date. Um, everyone reviewed the bills list and signed off on those bills. Our school bus inspections are on March 18th. Um, and then again, I just have to shout out to Chuck and his crew. Um, another snowstorm. Um, and he did a stellar job.
And not to be outdone, but certainly outdone by being a full-time working parent. She represents the very best of the authentic partnership in Clifton. Debbie's a true reflection of a mom balancing it all. At the center of her work are her two elementary school-age children, and through them, her commitment extends to every child in Clifton. Her voice helps us co-create spaces that nurture students while strengthening strengthening the connection between families and our PBIS tiered framework, ensuring family perspective informs our universal practices, our targeted supports, and the culture we build together. Her actions inspire us to remain involved, which is critical. She leads with optimism, always promoting a si se puede mentality, that always reminds us that everything is possible when we work together for our children. Ms. Guzman, thank you for your leadership, your partnership, and for modeling what family engagement truly looks like in action.