Are you still planning to do a walkthrough? I have concerns about some projects and the solutions that are in place. I hope you will do a walkthrough sometime soon, if not tonight. It matters. Item number eight, the administrative reports. >> Okay, so we uploaded administrative reports. Our principles are um in their buildings right now helping with um parent teacher conferences. So I put those on there. I'm going to give you guys a few minutes to look through those if you'd like to. Uh, Central Plains Elementary School is the top one, so I'll give you guys a second to look through that one. And then Wilson Elementary Schools after that. Give you guys a chance to look through that one. And then the high school middle school one is after that. Now item number nine, the box modular groundwork bids. >> Okay, so number nine and number 10 do go together with open enrollment numbers for next year and then also number nine are box modular groundwork bids.
Thank you. >> Anyone else? >> Move the resolution. >> Council member Salone. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Resolution 26-63 to pay bills. And I'll turn that over to our finance chairman, Councilman Michelle. >> Thank you, mayor. Please resolve that the following bills be that the mayor or president of council be authorized to draw orders on the chief finance finance officer in the amount of same for payment of the bills of March 9th, 2026 in the amount of $53,51.82. >> Second, >> yes. Yes. >> Yes. >> Thank you. The time has arrived for a hearing and further consideration of calendar year 2026, an ordinance to exceed the municipal budget appropriation limits and to establish a cap bank NJSA4A 40-45.14. I need a motion to open the hearing. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> All opposed. Hearing no opposition. Motion carries.
>> Any questions? Next up we are reports one report being the J. >> Yes, Mr. President board we have a JM report as requested I believe by Mr. Guthrie a few months back. Cory Williams will make a report to the board on the Johnson grant and the JM committee and I believe you have the attachment in front of you and also on the board. So turn it over to Miss Williams. Miss Williams if you can approach the podium and the floor is yours. >> Good evening everybody. Um this is just a brief recap of what we have completed so far and what are our plans moving to the towards the end of the second semester of this academic year. So um at the moment we are in the works to get a couple of things completed um namely submission of 506 forms as well as the JM eligibility form.
>> Yeah. You want to say what it was? >> You got to miss your camp. >> I can't remember what it was called. >> Yeah. So, we received the ESPN honoral um for unified sports. So, on the west coast of the United States, um Heritage was picked as like the best school um for this. And essentially it just shows that we are very inclusive. So sped and Jenned um that we it was inclusion, it was uh leadership leadership and there was one more there was three things that we had to meet. Um but yeah, we ended up meeting those. So we were like the top dog on the west coast. Um so that was the ESPN honor roll. We got a nice little banner that'll be hung up in the gym and then a plaque. >> A huge banner. >> That's cool. You'll see a little push out on the social media too soon.
Anybody have any questions? >> I we did not have a finance committee meeting on this, but I I was just recommend we just couldn't get one scheduled, but I was just recommending keeping the fees the same for next year. Um, and so yeah, it's up for discussion though. >> For PE uniforms, yes. Are we making sure >> we're taking note of who's actually getting one and who's not or are we charging all students? >> We're not charging. >> I don't believe we're charging all students. Did you do you is it okay? I need to check that then because >> I didn't know if it's an automatic fee on there because you're probably paying before you register. So I don't know. Okay, I will check on that, Ash, because I I don't 100% know on that, but yeah, we shouldn't be because they're not all getting them.
Thank Thank you all again for listening to the student voices and supporting the programs that exist across our district. I would like to hand it over to Dr. Pelgotti. >> I think uh I think tonight speaks for itself. Uh my comment would be what an incredible investment of care of our our teachers, our educators, our parents, um our school leaders who really support our students. So first and foremost, I want to thank you. Thank them. And then secondly, I really want to thank our students for showing up with such strong voices. Yes. Let's give them another round of applause. I I can't begin to tell you how deeply and profoundly personally and just professionally inspired I am by tonight. And I want to thank all who helped organize tonight's event um and and and the public form that the board I want to thank the board for their leadership and ensuring that we make sure that our students come and opportunity to speak to the board in many different ways.
No? Okay. No worries. Moving on to the fourth question. What is a problem you faced and how did you fix it? Can I please have Thompson Junior High School Student Council, please? Hello, I'm Student Council President Adeline and this is Vice President Alexi. And one issue Thompson had before the Student Council was brought back was our morning announcements. They were done over the PA, which made them very boring and hard to hear because we didn't provide a visual aid. A lot of students were complaining about how difficult it was to know what was happening in our school. Now, for our morning announcements, we present a slideshow with all of the school news such as fundraisers, club sign-ups, and sports information. This way, students are able to see all of the information and not just hear it. Ever since we've had two student council members rotate weekly to present the announcements.
She'll be all right. I'll fan you if you get too hot. And then Mrs. C. And Mrs. Raider wanted to be here tonight, but she is out of town on a prior commitment. So, >> All right. Like she said, we're going to showcase some of our uh instructional practices that we utilize for our curriculum OG, which is Wharton Gillingham. We prefer the acronym. It's just easier to say. But you're going to see three different drills tonight. You're going to see what's called a visual drill where they look at a flash card and they have to say the letter, the picture, and the sound. Then you're going to see a blending drill where they have to tap sounds out in isolation and then blend them together to read the word that's being presented to them visually. And then you're going to drill called words to spell.
She brings it to life. Her passion is evident in the exciting hands-on lab she creates, most notably the pig dissection lab that has become a hallmark of her classroom. From the smells and the kids talk, she holds high expectations for students, pushing them to think critically and excel beyond what they what they thought possible. But her impact doesn't stop at the lab at the lab bench. Miss Dennis is always eager to do more than just teach. Consistently stepping up to support the school community in any way she can. Miss Dennison, thank you for sparking curiosity in our students and for the tireless commitment and excellence. Congratulations. Jennifer Doyle. Miss Doyle consistently goes above and beyond, ensuring that no student is left behind in in a subject that many find challenging, which is math. Again, she possessed a remarkable grasp of each student's unique capabilities, allowing her to tailor her approach and push them to reach their true potential.
Um, so the companies came, the teachers talked, the teachers didn't stay all day. Biology teachers came in and went back and taught. Chemistry teachers came in and went back and talked. And so then we came up with a list of books. Cindy, I think it's on the next slide, but I don't remember. Go one more for me because I just said those things. Go one more for me because I just said those things. Um, for high school, we also wanted to make sure that we had a balance between um the chemistry lab and the biology lab and what actually was in the textbook. So, if you would advance a slide till it says high school textbooks for consideration. There you are, Cindy. You're perfect, Cindy. So, you'll see we're looking at a lot of companies. Jay has a lot more work in his horse trading for high school than he does for elementary and middle school.
So you've heard me talk a little bit about myself. Uh you know coming from coming from a smaller school going to probably have some some hiccups on on managing more students, but we'll get over it pretty quickly and we're we're really excited to get to it. >> Very good. And who did you bring with you this? >> I brought my whole family. So this is my wife Riley. >> Hi. Uh my stepdaughter Taylor, she's uh all my kids are at Tri County currently. Well, two of them are transitioning to Tri County tomorrow. Uh Taylor's in sixth grade at Tri County. And then I have Arlo and Aya, their six-year-old twins. They're in kindergarten. So, >> we love the color coordination. >> More my wife than me. >> I got to get used to the red thing lady. So, those are all the items that we have.
That's it. There's plenty of resources available if anybody has any questions. >> So, what kind of supply would you keep on hand? How many how many epic pens do you try to keep on hand when you can get them? >> And you're going to keep a similar amount of the the nasal. >> Every school, our elementary schools will have the lower dose and the um adult dose and then L junior high and high school and the academy will have the adult doses and up to two doses at each school which at that point you're calling 911 and they'll come with the rest. And how long would it take you to get more in if you if you have a bad day and you've distributed your two doses that day? When when could you be recent? >> I don't know. That would come from school health connect.
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So, at the from what I heard from the last school committee meeting um was that we were going to use additional school choice funds of 109,000 um to support the pelum budget and not take any reductions at this time. Um so I have under budget adjustments, we would use that school choice and it's a change in funding source, not a not a reduction. Um, so that would put our overall school choice supporting the budget to $69,074. Um what's not on here which is I think something that we'll be talking about um or that I hope is part of this discussion with the town of Pelum and the Pelum school committee is it was um a conversation that myself and the superintendent and Margaret had with John um that um whatever re the regional assessment is for the town of Pelum which is the regional school district is um >> Shannon.
Um, a big change next year that I mentioned a little bit earlier is moving away from the computer applications class. Um, which Lee and I actually met with Mrs. Vanderpool who will teach the business essentials class. Uh, we've we've [clears throat] we're going to provide her the resources that she needs as well as this time for any type of curriculum work that she would be paid for. So [clears throat] we get away from just the the one uh pathway to when we change to the business essentials, we open up four different pathways when students at high school. So I think that will be a a good way to expand some of the opportunities for our kids within pathways. Uh dodgeball for art again uh very well set a little over $7,000 um there. And then there's quite a few of individual awards um from the of the American Revolution that will move on.
Um, so I'm going to go through these uh kind of in detail a little bit. There are a couple of them that we will need recommended motions to move forward with. We are still on our timeline of having launched or brought in for more space uh towards the end of June. Um just this week enrollment numbers did increase in Hollywood at the elementary school by five students. So um that'll kind of be going into our open enrollment numbers and also the need for space. Just remember that our second grade class and our sixth grade class at Holly River right now is not split. They're all in one big group and I think it puts our sixth grade class down there at 26 or 27 sixth graders in one room. So, um I taught sixth grade for about 15 years and I had 17 sixth graders and 17 sixth graders in one room was a lot.
The hearing is open. Tom, can you explain that please for the public? >> Yes. Uh, every year the state sends us a sheet which basically tells us that our cap is 2%. Is a and this this year it is one is 2% but we're permitted to go to 3.5%. So over the past years we have always taken advantage of the 1.5. And what happens is I mean this year I think we're probably going to need it. I we were still developing the 2026 budget, but at this point uh by doing this, we'll be able to add an additional amount of money that we'll have in our coffins to try to cover the cost of the appropriations that are considered to be within cap. And that would uh basically come out to a uh increase of 144,000 to 7438. Now also too, you should know we we can bank money.
Now the 506 forms are a longstanding form. Most families know about these forms, but most families do not. So, fill them out and submit. Um, as it is right now, we have a little over 70 students who have submitted their 506 forms completed. on file in enrollment. When I check enrollment, we have over 100 students who have indicated that they are under but only 70 of those students have actually submitted their 506. >> And what is the 506 form? The 506 is a federally um issued form that we have to keep on file so that the office of Indian education and um the board of educ um Arizona department of education has to indicate that these students are Native American heritage. They are registered. They have identification whether from parent, grandparent or for themselves. So, and that is the form that is used to determine um funding for the different programs that the we get for the Native Americans because the only students who are eligible for funding are the students who have the 506 forms.
We're building a little thing. All right. So, we have had also with all these positive changes we're having, we're also seeing a reduction in out of school suspensions and inschool suspensions. So, we've rolled out the schoolwide trauma-informed practices, right, with Tessa Brock. With that, all staff, all staff has bi-weekly reflection cycles. This is my front office staff. This is the janitor, I mean, not the janitors, but the dayer um admin. We all have this. We've have a stronger classroom interventions that keep students learning, right? Mr. Campetelli and I are trying to keep them in the classroom. There's clear behavior expectations across campus. You're not going to see the difference when you go in from classroom to classroom. Um, when we had a counselor, we had collaboration with the counselor and safety team for student support. We've also increased our restorative conversations between adults and students.
So, okay. >> Is that on the registration form? >> Yes. >> Would you like a >> I don't know how it looks? Uh Matt, do you know on the on the registration form when do they do they select PE uniforms? Is how do you know how that works? >> Okay. Just Okay. We have to find out is if she puts it on everybody's. I don't know for sure because not all kids get it. >> What do we do with >> It's optional. Now, >> so is there some kind of way to question? >> There is. >> Okay. Okay. We'll make sure we get that right. What what happens to the kids that don't pay it >> for the uh PE uniforms? >> Registration fee. >> Oh. Huh. So, we are well, if they don't pay the registration fee, they can't play athletics. That's the one thing we can hold over them is extracurriculars.