And uh without them uh I don't see how this would be successful. So, it's been with Amcore and with the kids and um we're growing uh as quick as we can. We have applicants every year and we look to expand um in the future and possibly go out to other plants. So, it's been a huge success and it's been a tremendous opportunity for myself. Uh, and the kids uh have bought into everything going on and and the life experiences that they will um learn from is is just tremendous. >> Got a couple questions. >> Yeah. >> Are you guys done? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Do you know are they get I don't know if you guys know if they do they get concurrent credit when they're doing this through the in the K12 space their junior and senior year. Will they get concurrent credit with higher ed?
Any questions on all right 11 through 12th grade, that's where it gets fun. So their key outcome is the diploma. What kind of diploma do they earn? Did they earn a diploma? But then they also added the graduation rates of the cohort and then also the SAT proficiency of the cohort. So they added those two layers into it. So because they pulled the SAT out on its own, they added in ACT and then the CLT, which is the classic learning test. Um so if a student takes that outside of um school, they can give those results to their guidance counselor and those success indicator. They also added proficiency on the US government ECA. This is something that has been optional to schools for many, many years. Not a lot of schools do it because most US classes take a push, so their US history class.
Those students don't don't have to come all 12 days for the whole time period. They might just have a little bit to work on. So, it's individualized per student. >> Okay, outstanding. Um and then this is yet another question that I know the answer to, but I think it's imperative that our stakeholders understand, like many other things that the state is reimbursing, they do not reimburse to the full amount that is required. Um and I don't need an exact number, but just um could you give us like a ballpark of what actually the state does reimburse in terms of percentage? Mr. Miles helped helped the team out. >> of our cost for summer school? Yes. Typically, it's uh right around 50%. Um that changes year to year. Um and they with the with the 3rd grade reading requirements that just passed, they now prioritize 2nd and 3rd grade costs.
Carter, would you like to come off mute? Yeah. >> Good evening. My name is Mike Carter from GCG Associates. Um Will has described things very well. Uh basically they've they've addressed um our comments with respect to the storm water, increasing sizes of things, adding things. Um they have demonstrated that there is no net increase in the rate of runoff leaving the site during a 100-year event. Um, we do recommend a couple conditions and Will just mentioned the one that's with respect to the infiltration system and I think there in our letter there's another condition that references I'm just verifying the some test holes when they construct the um these infiltration bases just to confirm more confirmatory test holes than anything to make sure that it's um separated from the water table or the water table is what we believe it is which we have no reason to think differently but I typically recommend that And especially in these big infiltration systems, it's kind of it's very important.
And there are four um Discovery, Newton, Greenfield Middle School, Greenfield High School. Total $424,000 for that and and a tutor in there. Nursing services um one nurse in every building 6.0 FTEES $436,000 for that. Your special education department. Now we have departments from administration, therapy specialist, psychologists, and admin assistance. $1.6 6 million to run that department with 22 FTEES superintendent's office. Oh, 504 coordinator for a minute. I got I got stumped for a minute. thinking I knew there wasn't one, but potentially that's a category where somebody's in there for $413,000. Assistant superintendent, $213,000. That's not all for Stephen. Um technology department, six people there, $435,000 in that department. custodial and maintenance. Um the central office part of it is 204,000. Transportation 981,000 for that 22 people in transportation. The business office and staffing as four for 276,000. the school committee secretaries members stipens etc. 50,000 eight people on that and then you have a budget summary at the end FY27 district budget summary all school and total departments grant total of when you add those departments 21 million 299150 and grants on the right hand column go up to 1.2 two million for that.
Um maybe some of these things might come back, but you know, it'd be good just to to understand, you know, what what what are the options we might have, but um I I think 12 seems a lot. I understand you lost 13, but I think we got to we got to think through what what what what can we give you in this in this tight budget year, right? Yeah, in the tight budget year, if you can give me those remaining ones later, I could live with eight for now. Eight, no, that's still a lot, but okay. Well well hopefully we can continue looking at that. All right, thank you, Chair. Really appreciate it. This is, you know, for for our people. How long have you been you've had um SNAP Ed from the feds? How long have you had the program? Over 20 years, I think.
Betavia has always felt like a close community and this willingness to stand together in support of LGBTQ people. And as a parent of former students and an activist in the suburbs, I feel great hope in seeing the school board stand with all. And I just want to thank you again for that post and for your support. Next we have Heather Delaso. >> Hi everybody. Um, thank you to the board and the district for all the work you do for our kids. I'm Heather Delmaso. I'm a Betavia parent. One of my children's is a graduate uh children is a graduate of BHS and the other one is a freshman in the high school this year. Um, they both started at AGS and have been at Betavia schools their entire school uh career so far. Um, I've gotten to know many of the students in their lives and their friends, their teammates, and the kids they spend time with are very special to me and to the community around us.
Uh lastly, we are so grateful for our parent-teacher council. They are incredible active partners in our school community, organizing events like Fall Fest, talent show, family movie night, multicultural night, while supporting classroom needs and school-wide initiatives. In the picture, you will see just some of our PTC members hosting a holiday shop, where students could shop for small affordable gifts for their families [clears throat] around the holidays. Um in the area of goal five, uh so far this year, over 84% of our students in grades one through five have participated in one or more activity. Most students are in several. Um some crept up into the double digits last year. So, throughout the year, students have access to a wide range of opportunities, where they can explore their interests, build connections with others, and ultimately develop a stronger sense of belonging in our school community. We're excited to expand these opportunities even further next year with the transition to full-day kindergarten.
Our staff has a lot of flexibility and diversity in what they can do. We've got teachers who are certified to teach in multiple areas. We've got teachers who are certified in English and music, in math and science, in math and art. We've got social studies and EL. We've got it across the board. And what that does, our ability to bring in those high-quality staff members who are able to teach in multiple departments gives us the ability to not only uh teach great things within their core content area, but it allows us to keep really good people in the building when we need flexibility within our schedule. And this is one of those years where we had it. And I we're just really proud to be able to have those types of people working for us in this district and with our children and and teaching them on a regular basis.
Um that was something that uh uh our friends in CBA uh said that they would be supportive of. Uh so we are are going to use the extra time that we have to work out an arrangement with CBA and some of our other partners and uh the the goal would be to bring back the facility usage fee increases for the following year sometime in December for the board's approval. But for now we're uh requesting that the rates stay the same. >> Thank you. May I have a motion to approve the 2026 2027 facility usage fee as presented? Good.
And so, the nice thing about that is then that goes directly to the nurse office at the school that they're And then um then we will also be lined up with academic uh I'm sorry, athletics. Athletics does everything through their new It was our school, but I think it's different. What is it called? Arbiter Traiter or something. Arbiter So, they will not accept a hand-in. This is my understanding, what I've been told that it has to go through that program. And that if it's not uploaded, not reviewed, signed off by whoever on there and does it, then they cannot participate in sports. So. All right. Well, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Have a good evening. You too. So, what we'd like to do is um that we think about that was presentation day in April we'll have on the agenda just to approve moving to a first day exclusion policy.
And we want to thank our prekk team. And we wanted to make sure that not only do we have K teachers um and preK teachers, we have instructional coaches. Uh we wanted to make sure that we have representation from um special education from bilingual. And so we have the whole gamut um in this team uh that meets at least once a month to look at uh the study of this work. And so again, we thank you um for allowing us uh the time and the space to do this work. Thank you.
Yes, project meeting tomorrow. Yes. At the elementary school. >> [clears throat] >> Taking shape and looking good. Okay, D, old business. I don't see where we have any old business needing to be brought up [clears throat] again. So new business, E, E1, consider staff report and other personnel items. I'll make a motion to consider the staff report and other personnel items. I'll second. Have a motion and a second for the staff report.
>> Yes, sir. For those of you who I have not had the pleasure to formally meet, my name is Aliyah Zobers. I am the new transportation director. Um through my my short tenure here thus far, what I have noticed is that we are at a critical shortage for bus drivers. As I reached into our neighboring districts and then even outward, I contacted 18 districts. They're all at a shortage. So then I looked even more outward. I contacted the state of Florida all the way down from Georgia, Tennessee, and it is a national bus driver shortage. So it's not just a Central Noble issue. However, through our three neighboring districts, our extracurricular pay rate is astronomically lower than theirs. So there has been an issue with retaining experienced drivers, recruiting new drivers at a fair rate, and just being able to simply maintain our I guess competitiveness for our pay and fairness of our pay.
So, >> Awesome. Great. Great. Great. Great. Good job. Awesome. Good job. GOOD JOB. SO, >> [applause] >> WE JUST WANTED TO TAKE A MINUTE TO JUST RECOGNIZE UM, every this truly takes a village of all the people. So, our second grade teachers Katie Richards, Amy Stowers, Lane White and Angela Hale obviously putting in a large amount of work. Our third grade teachers are here Christy Unger, Elizabeth Parkinson, Megan Dunn and Maggie Henderson. Um, appreciate all they do as the third grade team. We make jokes how obviously you know, everyone's busting the door down to teach third grade with this being double tested and everything else. So, yeah, so we we definitely appreciate all [clears throat] of their hard work and special shout out to Christy. She um, has done the last couple of years a bulldog club um, group of IREAD remediation. So, we sat down together and created a list of students who we really think are those bubble kids and they're they're close and they're you know, they're just needing a little bit extra um, to be poured into and so she's done a great job of leading that.
Do you know? >> Uh, so right now we're looking to expand to do a dual credit. Is that what you're referring to? >> Yeah. So, right now we're we're doing a Sacka certification. Uh, they do OSHA 10 certification and we're looking to team with IvyTech on doing supply chain logistics type work. Uh, right now the kids have the opportunities. Uh, we have two that going into maintenance department. So, they're going to further education going into IvyTech. They've already been accepted to that. Uh we have two in the fork truck driving fork truck logistics uh press tech quality. Um we're looking to expand that uh with with just more opportunities. >> That's great because you know while we have control we want to I say control while we have their attention during the K12 we want to get them in my mind as many credentials as possible.
Um, so this is something that the high school team and I will be looking at to potentially give to them this spring um to get some success indicators for those students. >> Questions on those three? So the asbad removed completely too. >> It has. >> That's ridiculous. >> So a little bit more about Go ahead CC. Um how they're calculating it. So for grades three through eight their I learn and then all their indicators are together as 100 points. For 11 and 12 those are indicators are only 80%. So their diploma and the indicators are 80% of that cohort score 10% then will go from the grad rate and then 10% from that cohort's SAT proficiency average. So that's where it's a little bit different to calculate that um for the 11 and 12. They wanted to give some meat to the graduation rate and the SAT proficiency.
So, we're reimbursed Last year, we were reimbursed 100% for the those grade levels and then different percentages for the others. And total cost, just rough again. We're rough Roughly last year, we were um we got back roughly half a million dollars from the state. Okay. So, the district is encumbering about half a million with through those other funds. So, I just I think that's important for individuals to understand, especially as we know that we are getting a reduction in what we're receiving from them. So, thank you. What about Dr. Smith? And that number vacillates year to year. Depending on what the reimbursement is from the state, which we don't control. Okay. Mr. Miles made a very important point. The 3rd graders, it's required for them to be here. Okay, so we'll get full full reimbursement. We typically get pretty good reimbursement on the high school So, we'll see.
But they have addressed our comments and um our letter basically says they resolved all the issues that we had outstanding. >> Thanks, Mike. >> Uh that's all I to say. I believe Israel uh additional did you? >> Sure. Go ahead, Jean. >> I have a couple questions from what you said and what what you put in your report here. Uh the the the trash racks that you you discussed, are those on the outlet from the infiltration systems? >> Uh one is in the outlet control structure of the surface basin, the only surface basin um in our design. Uh GCG acknowledges and we agree that a 20 there's a 24 inch diameter pipe at the bottom of the basin that will have a trash rack but those are typically you know quite large like one inch diameter maybe one and a half openings. So if something were to get through that leaves animals whatever they could then clog a one inch orifice in in the structure.
I'm going to send the school committee. You have it coming to you this presentation. So, you can look at that and um ask any questions. And and I do know that I ran through it.