So, I can I can definitely find some more information and >> do some more >> investigation work and bring that to the April board meeting for you guys. Is there any other discussion or is there a consensus to table that until next month? >> Item number 15. >> Mr. Mr. President, I move that the board go into executive session pursuit to the Kansas Open Meeting Act and that discuss non-elected personnel were topics of certified staff, classified staff, resignations, and supplemental staff to protect the privacy and the individuals to be discussed with M. Mr. Murphy present and return to open session in this room at still 20. >> Yes, please. >> 7:00 >> 7 o'clock. Second motion by Josh, second by Allison. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose? Same sign. We are back in open session. >> I move to approve the resignation of Cara Potter as third grade teacher at Central Elementary School Holler effective at the end of the 2025 2026 school year.
It's not just a basement to go down into once in a while to grab the Christmas decorations or do a load of laundry. It is our everyday working conditions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. In addition, our police headquarters is not compliant with mandatory standards in accordance with titles two and three of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There is no accessible public entrance into police headquarters for operations, report taking, or records functions. Likewise, there is no ADA compliant access for detainee intake or processing. In July of 2023, with more than 35 years of exemptions, the New Jersey Department of Corrections denied our application for continued exemption. Their findings cited multiple deficiencies including the absence of a sallyport area, unsafe stairwell access for officers and detainees, the inability to accommodate handicap detainees, proximity to an adjacent school, and quote deteriorating detention area conditions involving cracks, gaps, and water damage.
And and so, um, yeah, and I know you know that. I'm not telling you anything you don't know. And I understand you probably feel more passionate than I do about it, but I just Oh, the just it just breaks my heart, you know, and so sorry. Sorry about the rant. >> Anybody have anything else? >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Next item up is governing board action. Does anybody on the board have something they would like to see agenda? >> I do. Um I had a discussion with two members of the booster club and they would like to make presentation to the board in April >> about funding items they have researched. >> Okay. >> Um they had some concerns because one of them I'm not going to get too much into it just so as a little basic information was a partial accessibility to the campus if there were improvements made to the football field track area and they have some different grants they want to discuss.
So um over over what I brought to you in January um I'm we're basically bringing to you another almost $600,000 in savings. So just since January. So um Marty and I went to a meeting in Phoenix in February to learn about bond and override elections and based on the knowledge that we acquired and Marty can speak to it as well. Um we didn't feel that 2026 is the right time to consider it. Lots and lots of reasons. Um state measures for increased funding to education from the state level. Um that was a biggie. A short timeline to be able to get on a ballot, things like that. But we're certainly open to pursuing it next fall like um learning more about it, hosting um information sessions or work study sessions for the board so you can make an informed decision because we could run if we felt like we needed to we could run an override um at some like we're not time bound just to to do it right now.
We identify students for high ability in grades K 2 and five. And then once a student is identified for high ability, that identification stays with them until they graduate high school, unless there is some concerns. And then we would convene an exit conference with the parents and the teachers and go through a formal process for that identification to be removed. over a couple of these. Um, thinking about elementary and then having those classrooms and looking at the data. As you can see, when we think about math and we think about where our math students are in the iLearn, um, we really thought we need to kind of think about our current fifth graders now going into middle school and sixth grade and what kind of math opportunities could we have for them, especially those that we know we have a large amount of students that are very high performing.
So those are all all brand new. couple of areas. There's a VAV. This is just a picture of a VAV box. Here's your water heater. It's u what they call tankless. People put them in their homes now. Um they've had some struggles with those. So, uh may need to do something with those in the in the near future if we can't keep reliability up. But, uh you'll see there's no red on the middle school. It's a great building. Things are in good shape. And just kind of that scorecard again for the middle school. A very similar score to the high school. Uh good mix of um kind of newer finishes, areas that have been upgraded and then some areas that still need some attention. Going to Deli Community Elementary School, uh DCES in here. Um very efficient, uh classroom units for the air handling in the in the classrooms themselves.
And that last section where it tells us exactly how many questions are on the summitive, that wasn't available to us six weeks ago. It really is it's brand new and that's why we met again. And I said, "Hey friends, we got new information which made us happy." Now Lauren's going to walk you through the details of the checkpoint and how we use these three charts in more detail. Go ahead. Thank you. All right. So, what are the checkpoints? They they are short assessments. So, as Mr. Brimberry said they're formative assessments and they really are for teachers to be able to drive our instruction. Parents do get the reports and I'll show you what those look like. So parents starting this year with the tests this year will be able to track their students all the way through ECAS in one spot which is really nice.
It's how we um, as adults see it. Um, the skill is, you know, like how the students are, right? And then the structures are how we teach those skills. So for the power of perception, like it's how we perceive them, right? And for the students, we want to teach them the skill of composure, being able to take a deep breath and like I can handle this, right? Like I can do hard things. And so the way that we teach them that is through these structures. And we won't spend a ton of time because I know it's warm out. So we'll go quick and we'll kind of show pictures and move through. Okay. All right. So brain um smart start is one of them. And these are just a few examples of these things that we do to um unite to connect um to safekeeper ritual.
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>> Yeah. >> Right. As Sarah Best said, I think we can't because we have no responsibility or ability to say anything about who choices out. We really don't have any way to pro project what that might cost. So I think at this point in time there really isn't an answer to that question. >> Can I just add to that? So you're right. We there is no answer to that question. Um but just to just to some information that might be helpful for you David is if right now if the nine school choice in students that are in fifth grade choice into Amherst that's not a cost that Pelum would bear because their choice in their sending district would send then Amherst $5,000 per student plus any special needs. So the maximum if we have 14 Pelum residents 14 times say all of them decided they wanted to choice and go to Amherst 14 * 5,000 is 70,000 so the maximum in this point of time for just regular choiceed out 5,000 per student however if they have special education needs that Amherst has to support them with then the costs could vary drastically depending on what the needs are of that student.
Um, so any questions? >> No. Thank you, Craig. Anybody else? >> Thank you. Okay, I'm gonna hit on Lindsay's information. Hit that number. >> $436,700. >> Yeah, it's general fund money to fully fund special education at 92% which is the legal obligation. Even if they cut from 67%. Even if we just went to 92% that's 25% difference. So if they would just cut that in half, we could get another 218,000 approximately that could go into general fund, increase teacher salaries. You get the idea. It's a real number. Anyway, I'll stop there. Um there's a number of different uh videos there take about 10 minutes to watch total uh from COI and Stacy Brutin. So again, just information again following up on curriculum leadership institute. Again, the the work that our staff and our administrators do with is just tremendous. The alignment we have here is excellent in terms of curriculum.
>> There's a motion by Allison and a second by Josh. All those in favor say I. I any opposed? Same sign. Passes 6. >> I move to approve the resignation of Jennifer Vandenberg as fourth grade teacher at Central Plains Elementary School Hollywood effective at the end of the 2025 2026 school year. >> Motion by Allison and second by Josh. All those in favor say I. >> I. Any oppose? Same sign. Motion passes 6. I move to approve the resignation of Aaron Davvel as sixth grade teacher at Wilson Elementary School effective at the end of the 2025 2026 school year. >> Motion by Allison, second by Josh. All those in favor say I.
So, while we're on this topic to address a common question, why are other police departments operating without Sallyports? And the answer is those facilities are still being granted exemptions because they don't require detainees to be escorted down multiple flights of stairs, nor are they located immediately adjacent to a school. It has also been suggested that detainees could simply be transported to another municipality. That is not a viable option. from from a liability standpoint, no surrounding agency is willing to assume responsibility for our detainees. Why would they? We wouldn't. From a manpower perspective, transporting detainees out of town to another police department would require removing our onduty patrol officers from Belle, leaving the burrow without police coverage. Additionally, neighboring agencies do not utilize the same records and processing computer systems and platforms that we do. Whether we take in one detainee or 100 detainees, the law requires full compliance with Department of Correction standards under Title 10A, Chapter 34 of the New Jersey Department of Corrections Administrative Code.
Okay. >> Anybody else? Okay. Anything else? >> Just real quick, I just wanted to point out for the Wednesday meeting, we're going to change the salary schedule and then we're add the uh pair pros to the >> Yes. >> Uh spring inter session. >> Okay. Thank >> those should be the only changes. >> Okay. >> Nothing else. I'll make the motion to >> second. I motion approve 5 to zero.
So um the other thing is regarding goals for safety and communication in February we rolled out our new parent communication system and so far it's been pretty seamless and this system is a cost savings to us. Our newsletter went out to Chino Valley and Palm residents and this just this afternoon I was working on our application for a three-year renewal for our school safety grant that helps pay for officers council art heritage things like that. >> Question. Yes. >> Are all of our re are all of our officers on grant? >> All but one. >> And what one is not? >> Um the one that's currently at territorial. >> And why? >> Because he is you have to be postcertified. That officer came from corrections and has um a couple of decades of experience in law enforcement but in corrections not and has not been through a police academy.
And so in sixth grade now, starting in the 26 27 school year, we will be offering three math courses in sixth grade. We will have a math six class which is um on grade level. Then we will have a math six honors which is one year above grade level. And then we will be offering a pre-alggebra 6 which will be two years above grade level. So using that cogap data, using the I learn checkpoint data, we will now be able to place our high ability students in two different math courses starting in sixth grade. And then when we think about high school, even in middle school, our students, and this is um majority or high ability, can obtain up to 10 high school credits in middle school. Now, so if you look at kind of our sheet, when you look at seventh grade and eighth grade, starting early with those higher level math courses gets them their algebra credit, gets them their computer science, their geometry, biology honors, um, Spanish.
There has been masonry repair work done on that building um called tough pointing is what we refer to that. So you go in and you repair that damaged mortar, you fix the the damaged brick. A lot of that work has been done here at the elementary school. Uh new carpet has been recently installed and there's good security at the front door. So before you can get access to the elementary school, um someone has to visually see you through an a system and buzz you in. mix of cosmetic issues. Um we do have some rusting uh metal restroom partitions. Uh gaskets are missing or coming loose at some of the windows. Um restroom finishes are a bit dated. Um parking paving just kind of more cosmetic. And then some things that are a little bit more serious like the lentils above some of the doors are are starting to rust out.
So parents are given those um reports but they really are for teachers so that we can find where students have gaps and fill those gaps. So, we have three of them. Um, and they all have windows. Um, so I'll talk about that in a second here, but each checkpoint has two opportunities. So, the numbers get a little confusing. It'd be nice if they said form A, form B, really. Um, but we have three checkpoints and in each checkpoint there's two opportunities. Uh, the state requires everyone this year. Last year was a pilot year and this year everyone in the state has to give opportunity one. You have the choice to give opportunity to. and we at Huntington are choosing to give opportunity to and that helps us show growth once we retach. So these windows um the first one opens around September 9th and it goes to about the beginning first week of November.
>> Disengage stress >> disengaging stress and >> commit commit. So we try to do those at the start of each um meeting. Um some classrooms do it in their classrooms now in their morning meetings to start their day. So, um it has been you can come in and be in a really bad mood and leave the meeting like you know you wake up on the wrong side and you leave the meeting in the morning and you're ready and fresh start to go for your kiddos. So, this is the safe place. Um we talked about what safe place means and what um some components are and these are just some examples of safe places that have been put in friends and family board because of that connection piece. Um, we did a friends and family board. The top one is like our big one at school and then underneath are some examples that were from classrooms.
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