I do all the special education at Howard B. Thomas school. I've trained two new nurses this year on top of the CNA classes. So, to have that done before um instead of me coming in and supporting multiple buildings because just the compliance was so low this year and hearing a lot of stressful nurses. Um and noticing that it increased over the last This is my third year here. It would be very beneficial. And then that way nurses can just focus right on we get all the medications coming in the first week. We support the social workers as children have issues transitioning back into school. Typically the younger ones. Um but we see it in middle school. Some in high school. My only concern is those doing all of the month and a half of work in three days of tracking people down who don't get it to you guys.
But you are so much further ahead than other districts because we saw this >> back in 2017 when the kids survey first came around. >> Also, uh Sammy, I think we are the only board, right, that have representation. >> Yes, we are >> only board only board in the state of Illinois. >> Illinois. >> So, we do also the board. I represent the board. >> So, what has been amazing and this is just one small uh investment into those spotlight classrooms, but the state has given us and spent $85,000 this year in um putting together the needs uh that are meant uh for those classrooms. And so, again, we thank the state for that investment. Um, I do have to say, uh, Dr. Mockr, we we absolutely love you for leading us, but Mr. Mockimer has been around the school district putting the furniture together that has been going into these classrooms.
And we can do that through NWEA. Um and then um plan interventions for those students. So we're working on plans We're working on how that will what that will look like for us. Thank you. Mhm. Thank you. Thank you. >> [clears throat] [cough] >> So item C4, we have an updated 25-26 school calendar due to changing the end date. Is there any No, we just we were you know, there was a waiver that you could apply for. A lot of the Indiana schools it was that I don't want to call it blizzard, but inclement [cough] weather than that one week in January. We did not miss any school because we transitioned to synchronous learning. They were only granting waiver days for inclement weather if you missed during that period of time. But I did mention that we had our well water issue and they did grant us that.
Our kids love Prodigy and once they finish extra math, they're able to do it and they this is one thing they fight fight over to continue doing. Um one thing we've done to increase throughout this year, we do Friday rubber duck riddles. And if you've seen our Facebook page, we try to pass them out. Mrs. Alderman was actually our first rubber duck riddle uh winner for the year. I actually also hide ducks throughout the school and the teachers have to go find them with their students and then they play rock, paper, scissors competitions throughout the day to see who gets the most and they get a prize. Mrs. Alderman got a gift card and something else. So, um they really love their rubber duck riddles. And then we have Cougar Cub Shout Outs that we started this year. That is our early uh so August to October kids.
And so, when we see that success in this sped world, we also just want to take time to recognize that. Um, three of our students with IEPs in second grade are on track to pass in third. So, some really great sped results overall in second grade, too. In third grade, this is the biggie. [clears throat] So, third grade um, yeah, the any got up to last year when we started to have to have conversations about retention when students don't pass IREAD um, with the new state accountability model that has come out. Students cannot get more points if they don't pass IREAD. So, obviously huge for our third graders. A lot of pressure on our third grade teachers and our third grade team. So, we were very nervous going into this year. Mrs. Unger's going to talk about that a little bit more later, but we um, were we were very nervous overall.
Okay, >> the difference. >> Vice President Moore. >> I >> President Duckworth. >> Hi. >> Trusty Kefir. >> Hi. >> Trusty Hollingsworth. >> Hi. >> Trusty Ragland. I >> and Trusty Gamblin >> I >> with uh that many votes and we'll try to get Amy back on and maybe we can record her vote. >> We have a not present at vote which would potentially apply maybe. I don't >> she has to be seen in her. >> So we'll show her as not voting. >> And with that result that passes. Thank you. >> Next we go to the district spotlight. Dr. group. >> Yeah. So, tonight I'm excited to have two representatives to talk about Amcore link program. We have Jesse Simmons who is an EBSC teacher and we have Scott Harmon who I believe is the regional director of human resources at Amcor. Welcome and thank you for being here to share with the board and the public about the AMOR link program.
>> Hearing none. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Pass. Thank you, M. All right, moving on to reports on Mrs. >> Yes. Um, Mrs. Robinson, do you have our slideshow? >> Thank you. Um, early on the year, I introduced and shared information about the first and second draft of the accountability model that the IDE has been working on. Um, as of March 4th, they have finalized it. They voted to approve it. So, now we are in that mode of making sure that we're doing everything that we need to do. that we have all of the points that we need. So, I'm going to go through this and mainly focus on the changes between the second draft and the final draft. Thank you. So, it was approved March 4th. Um the it aligns with our GPS dashboard and the new diploma requirements. Those are the two main focuses.
It ends in July, July 23rd, and that's for our students who want to get ahead of the game, earn um more credits before they start high school, um try some other things. That is open enrollment, and that is going to be primarily virtual and asynchronous. During the summer school time, we will be offering resource support, which will be provided at all grade levels, and the support will be aligned with classroom instruction as well as interventions. We will also be offering life skills programming, and those are for students who qualify based on student recommendation. At the elementary level, life skills programming will be at Beth Amy Beverland, Brook Park, and Oaklandon. And then we will have a secondary life skills program, which will be offered for grades 7 through 12 at Lawrence Central High School. The team will be supporting our school leaders as they choose their staff for this summer.
Uh some of the comments uh in their last letter were duplicative or all um or overlapped quite a bit. So, our latest memo dated um March 6th. We kind of grouped them into um four buckets. One has to do with the mass um D stormwater handbook standard 2 related to peak discharge rates. Uh as as it's been mentioned, um we reviewed the hydraology model one more time and by adding a trench drain um towards the bottom of our uh driveway, we were able to capture more area and as it's been mentioned, the subsurface detention system at the bottom of the access drive has been uh was increased roughly eightfold. um four four times the footprint and twice the depth. Uh and that was the necessary storage to get the 100-year um peak discharge rate uh below existing. Um it was already satisfactory in the two and 10year storms, but that's what was required to hit the 100red-year storm below.
There's a reason it's down. It's not really down. Um I think it's being funded. >> Yes, we are using more school choice and we use our school choice at the high school. So that's why the all funds would actually be an increase, but the local is a decrease. >> Thank you. Um if you go to the those so those are the schools. If you go to the next page, you'll have some different categories. The budget has lots of categories. Those of you can see it online. Um, in EL, athletics, nursing services, superintendent, admin, technology, assistant superintendent. Um, I'm going to keep moving if you don't mind going through that. There's special education, 504 services, custod custodial and maintenance, transportation, personnel, school committee has a line item and the business department also has that. Some estimated other funding sources through grant funds. You will see some of our grants there.
Sometimes it may not be just food, but the people do not have a transportation to get there, or the access to food is not there, or the access is such that it is not healthy food. Sure. So, I think the concern I have is right now Department of Education is not meeting their own goals um of having local locally pro- produced foods uh 30% by 30 or something, 2030. Um, and then also uh I think we have a supply shortage here um with the amount of uh healthy selection of foods um to be able to supply families that would choose to have a better uh nutritional meal. So, I think that if right now the bill is calling for 12 positions uh and if I recall, uh there's no real data to see where local communities are at currently so that we can have a project a projected goal of this is where the community is at, 5% in this particular region is not eating healthy and that's reflected through all diabetes rates or heart, you know, conditions and and those kinds of things to be able to justify the bill that says by the end of 5 years we're hoping to increase the nutritional rate.
I think that's probably why everybody's here tonight for the RSP enrollment analysis. Um, that will address things like uh program and grade adjustments, uh, facility additions, and long-term investment. Uh, our district has been given a sandbox to play in, and I think we've done a pretty damn good job of playing in that sandbox by getting creative. Uh, as you may know, our buildings across the district are currently reviewing and beginning to implement staffing plans for next year. This is the time of year when the district must examine enrollment numbers, FTE allocations, and overall financial health to determine potential staffing and program changes in many cases in order to live within our means. Uh living within our means requires difficult decisions, and we should always be focused on serving the students of Battavia School District, but we must never lose sight of the impact these decisions have on staff, especially our BEA members.
We've also continued our shift toward structured literacy practices, where kindergarten through second grade are focused on explicit phonics instruction, and grades three through five are focused on building vocabulary and background knowledge. In the midst of this shift, even our students are getting involved and taking an active role in building vocabulary across the school. One way that this has come to life is through the word of the week, which students introduce and explain new vocabulary words in our daily video announcement. Our students and staff are working really, really hard, and it shows. Um one direct result of these systems and a huge celebration is that fewer students at Forest are qualifying for tier three support, which is telling us that our tier one and tier two structures are working. To support the learning environment, Forest continues to strengthen classroom community. In order to do this, all classrooms have time embedded into their daily schedules for morning meetings.
>> those courses this upcoming year in 2027-28, you're likely going to offer them is what you're saying? >> We Typically we have opened those courses every year for students to sign up or register to take. Um but we have had conversations not just with our fine arts department chairs, but in some other areas as well, about offering things every other year, so so students could plan better. Um because we hate to cancel courses when there students who want to take those courses. Particularly when those students are rising seniors.
Uh which is why we see that uh cost going up. uh for debt service and capital projects. The item of note here is you'll notice there's a lot of red on this, but uh that is taking into account all of our construction projects. Uh it is saying that uh um we are going to uh run roughly a $9.9 million deficit compared to the revenue that we take in. Keep in mind, we don't get revenue uh for construction projects. That's all coming from the bonds that we currently hold. Uh if we did have a devoted revenue stream, you would see that deficit not be so large. Hint hint hint. Facility sales tax. Uh our cash flow slide. Uh you'll see again not much change from last month. We're still projecting a slight surplus of about $760,000 in our operating funds. Uh we do anticipate this is going to continue to come down, but we are anticipating running a slight uh surplus.
So, Well, if you think about it uh we average I can only really speak for HBT this year. Average about 40 to [clears throat] 50 office visits a day for um sick ill checks. That's not including they have 11 prescribed medication administrations and three diabetics. So, that is a lot of time focused there. Then like, I got I was able to process through three physicals in this little bit of time where that's all processed. We can just focus on what we need to do now that the students are in the buildings. Yes, yeah I understand that. So, any other questions? Do we know how many parents actually get their stuff in before the first day of school? >> There is a large chunk. We really do. We have Each building has a box. Um if the if the building is staffed over the summer with um office professionals, secretaries, that they could put it in.
So, um, I would be remiss if I did not thank him for that. >> Um, so we have received that funding again so that we can serve as the model um, for instruction. And I want to say like eyes are on us where people are coming and saying you know we want to learn from you. >> Great. >> You are the talk of the state right now. I have been in meetings truly with big stakeholders and advocates and is you are the talk of the state and like uh Dr. Perkins said, "Dists are wanting to come see truly see and have conversations about what is happening in your district and how you made it work, how you're going about it." And so again this partnership that we have uh it is I will say I do like feel I am part of this family when I come to Cit Monique all everyone is so welcoming and I don't feel like an isby kids coach I just feel like one of the community so I thank you for that and thank you Dr.
So having said that, the last student day is now May 27th and I believe the new calendar is out on the website and is is available. So it's one one day that we don't have to go. You know, yeah. So did we add any extra days then? We did. >> How many how many We added two more. Yes, we added two. That's right. I didn't think it was a lot. Yeah, no. So >> [clears throat] >> Cuz originally we were going to end >> [cough] >> four more days until we Students, yes. Until we had those inclement weather >> [clears throat] >> And and I'm just going to say that the inclement weather waivers the state only offers that when the big Indianapolis schools are affected. And so even though we had our winter weather blast, what was that right after Thanksgiving? >> Yes. It didn't seem to take care about that until everybody was affected.
I haven't taken a picture of the other students yet for the year. Those are all kids that either are noticed doing something great, holding the door, kindness shout outs, just all the things that they're doing for each other and for our staff and our community and things like that. So, they really love to have that as well. Um what we also started this year, I got a Girls Who Code Club grant and we started that. We do it I do it during lunch It's girls, but I also have the boys come in as well. And we learn coding, we get online, we learn all of those sorts of things, we build robots. This is actually a little coding kits. There's a few books that the girls have been reading and they really enjoy that. On the on that same path of science, the loveliness is not helping put this together.
I felt the the tension and anxiety from the third grade team and and we shared um, some different, you know, thoughts about how we could do the best for our kids this year and we were so so so excited with this data. So, I hope you are, too. So, we had two perfect scores in third grade. So, two students that received scores of 650 and again we'll recognize them officially in um, the board meeting next month, but congrats to Cohen Horho and Billy Brant who received perfect scores. We had six scores in the 600s, which again is a big deal. Um, four additional students on top of the perfect scores were in that um, 600 range, which is awesome. Again, just wanting to highlight our special education population and our multilingual learners' success. So, we have one ML student in third grade who passed. Um, he's our only ML student in third grade.