Emma stays safe by following school rules on campus and in the classroom. Congratulations, Emma, FOR MRS. ARNA. BELLA IS A PERFECT example of what a continental cult embodies. She's the first one to welcome you with a smile and a good morning. She is the one who will volunteer her answers and do so with such grace. Bella writes down her assignments and is totally responsible in and out of class. Congratulations, Bella. And Bella, you were nominated by all of the middle school teachers. CONGRATULATIONS. Tessa is such a kind young lady who embraces and demonstrates all the values we hold dear here at Continental. She gives her absolute best in the classroom and has become a wonderful role model for others as she is becoming more confident and sure of herself. Tessa can always be trusted to be kind, safe, and responsible every day. She's a delight to have in the classroom, has had a fabulous seventh grade year, and we are and we are sure we'll go on to do great things next year as well.
We also had a few allowances for data cabling um and uh a winter weather allowance that we didn't use. I doubt we used the data um allowance fully. So in total there was also an additional Wait for it one second. I think it was I'm still a little confused on it. Jason, you said we had a $380,000 budget, right? >> We had a a $380,000 contingency here. That's 10% of the total project. Inside these base prices was also some allowances. >> So total we're looking to expand on the flooring at the middle school. >> 364,000. So it fits within our contingency 380. >> Not a lot of wiggle room there. What I'm communicating and being transparent is the fact that inside these prices up here, we actually have about $270,000 of allowance. So, it's an additional buff. >> Okay. So, the so the bidder they bid at $320,000.
18. So, we'll have this recipe up. So, if you want to try and make that with a grownup, you can make your own matzah. It's very delicious. And do you know that way back before they had machines that would make the matzah? They would make it into cool shapes. Now, mostly matzah you'll find when you buy in the store because they have a machine. It's mostly um square or rectangle shaped, but they used to make it into fancy shapes or ovals or circles. We don't but the machines make it into squares and rectangles. I hope you like that story, the little red hen and the Passover mozza. And the little red hen is another character that is in many different stories about different things that she bakes and her friends don't help her out. Well, I hope you enjoyed our Easter and Passover stories today, and I hope you'll go to the library and see what other books you can find about Easter and Passover.
Um we need to develop, you know, more robust preventive maintenance plans for all of our capital facilities. We have 13 buildings on the municipal side. Um, all of those need some level of maintenance and some of them need need it more than others. We just don't have the capacity right now to do that and this would start us down that road. Um, the other thing is field expansion. We need to we need to find a way to take better care of our fields. our our folks are certainly doing it the best that they can, but uh this summer the school department is going to take over maintenance of the school fields. Um the buildings and grounds division would would be taking care of uh Stone Park, Ringel Park, Community Center. Um but then would also be looking at expanding those fields as well. That's another thing we heard.
Those are state aid and state transportation aid to a total Burla Memorial School assessment. These will be reflected later with along with the Tanto assessments. So I'm not going to dwell too much. Um excuse me. So as we get into uh Boilson Elementary uh instructional coordination, this is just the reallocation. We reallocate to um instruction and support. This is the additional um fifth grade teacher mostly. There's a little additional paraprofessional needs and and bus monitoring needs going into instruction, but the bulk of that percentage increase is that added um fifth grade teacher. uh health services there was a staffing change so a staff person moved from Boilston Elementary to Tahont you'll see an increase in Hondos um we have those happen from time to time transportation you will see a pretty solid decrease in total transportation costs um this came from my meeting last week with Janelle and Michelle I should give credit to as well who did a deep dive into anticipated costs of transportation what have you uh and they were able to to bring this down significantly based on sort of out of district tuition needs.
We had students visiting to read with younger learners to promote a love of reading. >> Okay, >> Jonathan Lucas. >> Okay, so I'm gonna start with the middle school because the high school um Mr. Bishop, I and Dr. Kwell had uh in our monthly meetings, we had a a discussion about um trying to change up the suit of course a little bit. So, got something coming for you guys. Uh a bit a bit a little bit of a switch up from what we're used to. If it goes well, we're gonna we're going to make that kind of northern reg. But middle school first, um a couple CMS musicians were selected to perform the Northern Regional Music Festival last Friday. The CMS PTO provided gifts to CMS staff as part of the we love CMS campaign. Some students have formed Relay for Life teams as part of community outreach to help fund raise money to help cure different types of cancer.
She is an active member of our school school site council, a proud participant in our paramount puma parent pride group and she has even taken the lead in organizing our upcoming konchas with the caregiver that's happening this Friday. Rayanne reminds us that when parents get involved our school community grows stronger. Her generosity of time enth her enthusiasm and her genuine care for our students and staff make a lasting difference. Please join me in congratulating and thanking our parent of the year, Rayanne Ramirez. And thank you for everything you do at Paramount. When I start Rodriguez, Muchench. Mariach, the Common Core. Mariach. fores. Double check. All righty. Me again. Good evening, board vice president Rodriguez Pena, board members, cabinet, and attendees. My name is Sam Predomo and I'm proud principal at Gladstone Middle School. It gives me great pleasure to present Josia Ayala as Gladstone Middle School's parent of the year.
Way to go, Tessa. We are super proud of you. And Tessa was nominated by all of the middle school teachers. CONGRATULATIONS. >> At this time, we can have all of our Colts come up here for a group picture. And if they can remain while we can choose staff or work. All right. HOLD >> STANDING. OKAY. You have a lot of people want to take pictures. Smile. Cheese. All different animals. Okay. Very. We have two awards. We have the Golden Horseshoe Awards that are given to staff members who are voted on by their colleagues. And Miss Mills, I don't Am I missing her? She was going to try so hard to make it. So, we will make sure that Miss Mills is honored at one of our staff meetings. And our next one is deputy sim is deputy simmer school resource. So, this is what was written about Deputy Deputy Sim.
That person that company's not getting anything. >> No, because they were um there was the lowest bid was $34,000. Okay. That did not include replacing the tile in the science classroom. So, this way the 364 were consistent with all the classrooms in the non205 edition. So, everybody was offered the same specs and all of that to bid. That company did not bid on that component. >> They did. They just weren't the lowest. Everybody bid on >> Okay. I didn't see it. Okay. Okay. Cool. >> You're good. Okay. Okay. I'm sorry. Believe me, it took me a little time to wrap my head around it, too, when when Keith explained it to me, but I made sure to have a good understanding of it. Well, I mean, I think I'm doing a pretty good job here trying to communicate that to you because I'm just saying if it was presented to me five minutes ago, I'd be in the same position you were, President Brown.
Thank you for joining me today for Calling All Kids. I hope you enjoyed our stories, and I look forward to seeing you next time. Bye, everybody. Happy Passover and happy Easter. >> [music]
Um measure number three uh talked about again very nent stages of conversation here the renovation of the Valentine school for school administration. We've all seen um the disrepair that happens and how quickly buildings once they're unoccupied can fall into further disrepair. This would allow us to renovate that property for a determined use that is allowable and it would give the school department potentially the ability to move their administrative offices from the middle school into um into a new home would open up that school. I know we're worried about expanding school capacity. There's many different options we have here. Um, you know, after talking to to Doug Scott, that would take about um he estimates about $2 million. Again, that's just by a walkth through. Um, but Doug's been pretty good uh on his estimates before. Um, it could potentially allow us to use Pitway uh in a different way too or think about reuse of that.
Uh custodian utilities pretty consistent technology small change. Um uh benefits insurance this is again big lift for um the elementary schools but a shift away from Tanto. Uh tuitions and charges. Um this is a move up to Tanto but you'll also see that Tanto had some um reductions in their tuitions and charges. So overall net good for Boilston and then a net good for Tanto. Uh same calculation uh school budget district share total budget less chapter 70 less chapter 71 for a total fiscal 27 boilson elementary assessment of 5,617,74. Now to Danto. So Tanto the curriculum director is gone. Moves to the central office as we shared uh in structural coordination. We had additional circuit breaker funds that came in last year um that are baked into this budget as well that allowed us to read that position. We are considering that level of service relative to what we were able to do um and our needs.
The Refor Life event is a fantastic community outreach event if you guys can sponsor in any way that you want. upcoming for CMS. Uh they're going to be presenting uh to sixth grade families, incoming seventh grade parents or uh for orientation on Thursday the 12th at 5:30. Parent teacher conferences are next week and the CMS play uh they're doing the witches princess. It will be evening of Friday the 28th and the afternoon of Saturday uh 29th. I'm sorry. Uh March. And then for the high school gonna highlight three big things and I'm going to go into one of it. Uh the play obviously freaky Friday this uh Thursday, Friday, Saturday. I hope you're all planning outside. The juniors have their SATs coming up on the bit which is a big event for them. Means a lot for their futures for sport and I'm going to go a bit more into NHS across America.
Ayala is joined tonight by her husband Marcelino, son and GMS student Noah, and daughter Aaliyah who attends Hodgej. Whether she is serving on the Hodgej Elementary PTA or handcrafting decorations for Gladstone Middle School's leadership events, Dula is always ready to step up. Miss Ayala's ability to balance community service with her personal goals makes her true role model, showing our students and parents what it means to be truly dedicated. Mrs. Ayala is the epidone of a committed parent. Her strong sense of direction and integrity is evident not only in her actions but also in the character of her son Noah. She consistently instills values of responsibility, respect and dedication which are clearly reflected in his behavior and attitude at school. Mrs. Yala is one of our most dedicated parents and is often among the first to volunteer time to support school activities and events. Her reliability, positive attitude, and willingness to help wherever needed makes her an invaluable member of our school community.
We really appreciate that Deputy Sim has been coming at the beginning of school and stays until the school day is finished. It's amazing that he even stays for home sporting events. He had only he has only been here a few weeks when he received a rousing applause from the student body. He was only here three days and he received arousing applause from the entire student body at our honors assembly. He just walked in the doors and they're all only here for three days from the student body at our honors assembly. He has obviously made quite a positive impression with our student body as well as staff alone. >> Thank you, Deputy Sim, for being a super school resource officer. And I'd like to also thank you, Deputy Sim, for all of the long talks that you have with our students who are hurting or having a hard day, who maybe didn't have a good encounter with a friend or classmates.
>> No, you're doing well. Good job. >> So, uh needless to say, uh we do have the option to replace the flooring in the classrooms and the corridors at the middle school and it can fit within the contingency that you guys see right now. That's it in a nutshell. And you're going to be bringing this to the board for an action item next week? >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. Okay. >> And just to clarify that the contingencies only on the middle school project, right? >> Yes, sir. >> So, meaning the the total 380 plus the additional 270 is in different items throughout just this project. >> Yes, sir. So he he's essentially reusing money that's left over from what we allocated for it still for the same school to maintain consistency >> and this is not increasing our overall budget and anything. >> No sir.
And finally, uh, four, I talked about, um, establishing a health insurance stabilization fund. Um, I think that's pretty self-explanatory. We need to develop a policy over how and when the funds would be drawn. That could look a couple of different ways. Um, we could look at it to where we want to smooth it out to where health insurance increases only 8% a year. you know, it it would at least help us forecast a little bit better. And so that is what I have right now for um if the override does pass. Jim, um would you like to take an opportunity at this point to um explain a little bit from the school department's perspective? >> Sure. >> What the passage of an override would mean? It is. I haven't said anything. Yeah, it's on. [clears throat] So, uh, thank you again, Michael, for that presentation.
Um health services this is that staffing shift. So that that staff cost moved from Boilston to Dhanto. Uh you will see very small increase to transportation overall. It actually is a reduction to outof district student transportation and an increase to McKini Vento uh and I believe some foster transportation um across the board that have happened across the district. So we are seeing more and more homeless student needs. we are seeing more and more uh foster student needs. Uh we are mandated to provide those services. So that's not an optional service for us. Uh then we get into benefits insurance. Like I said, smaller increase than in the schools um on a percentage basis as a dollar. It it's it's a significant benefit to Hondo's a bigger number. So there's more uh dollars in that percent. tuitions and charges. You can see that's a solid reduction to um tuitions and charges uh relative to um last year.
So, some students, some select students from the National Honor Society here at Kenton High School had the opportunity last Friday to go to CMS during their eighth period class and go to read uh books for some of the younger students in those classes at CBPS and to answer questions to them about high school life. And I have a testimony from one of our students as to how important they think this is. This is one student that came along with NHS and was able to do some reading. answer some of these questions. Uh he said being able to answer the questions about high school life for the CPS was a wonderful and rewarding experience and creating spawn throughout and across separate schools is very important to our holistic community. And I mean that's kind of the cookie cutter what you want to hear doing event like this.
Oh, everybody knows I have a fun fact. This is my fun fact. Hey, it works. You're going to love this one. This is a good one. Mrs. Ayala ran and completed the LA Marathon this past Sunday. We are truly grateful, maybe not, for her continued involvement and unwavering support here at Gladstone Middle School as an involved parent. Please join me in congratulating Jio Ayala as Gladfield Middle School. Good evening, board president Rodriguez Pena, Board of Education, Superintendent Ortega, Cabinet, awardees, families, and friends here tonight. My name is Teresa Peterson and I'm the very proud principal here at Sierra High School. It's my honor to introduce our Sierra High School parent of the year, Miss Cunningham. Miss Cunningham is joined here tonight by her mother, Connie, her son, Austin, who's a 2025 Sierra graduate, her daughter and current Sierra Jr., Isabella, and future daughter-in-law, Cello. Miss Cunningham is a dedicated and active member of our Sierra community and has been for a few years now.