So, once we know the students that are enrolled, that will determine the amount of staff members. Dr. Thank you. Any questions? Thank you. Um other questions, Board? Dr. Mulholland. Thank you all so much for for walking us through the summer learning academy. Um just a question about the the supports that are provided um in the period after 2:00 p.m. So, I understand it runs from 8:00 to 2:00, and then there's the aftercare period of time. Are there additional um supports or, you know, strategies or interventions offered during that time, or is it primarily during the 8:00 to 2:00? The interventions will be 8:00 to 2:00 with that elongated time that allows for them to do tier one instruction and to do intervention support, and so 2:00 to 5:00 is primarily just child care. Okay, thank you. Okay, that sounds great. I love it. Thank you.
The so principally what we've done and this was sort of a foundational uh design element was to raise the building above as much of that bedrock uh layer on the site as possible. that that's why the site entrance is where it's located along Waverly Street and that's really the chief way in which we've minimized the amount of uh any kind of bedrock removal at the site. So what this uh plan demonstrates is the blue lines are uh what you were referring to as being the utility trenches where we expect some bedrock removal that can be done without blasting. Those can be uh hammered or um or uh removed mechanically. Um and so in general we don't expect uh much of any blasting uh to occur on the site. Having said that, as part of the uh conditions within the ZBA comprehensive permit, we have to provide a blasting plan uh that has to be sent to the fire department and the police department and approved by both of those departments in addition of course to to the town um to review uh any blasting procedures um that would be taking place on the site.
Um, that's going to represent aboutund70 or what? >> 149. So that it's a potential loss of $149,000 there. Do you want to jump in on potentials? These are all whatifs right now. >> Yeah. Um, so it is a whatif. I think we're we've been asked by the department to plan for about 85 like a 15% reduction. Um so I think there's a couple of things that we could potentially do. One of it is monitoring how we're spending um title one funds for this current school year, right? and anything in excess could potentially be used. Title one, two, three, and four are 27 month grants. So you have a 27month cycle. So any savings that we have from this year's could help offset anything. But as you know, if we do that this like you start to kick the can down the road. So, we'd have to look at um potentially some changes to our approach to title to what we pay for out of title one.
Yeah, but Okay, let's not belabor this. Thank you, Dean. We appreciate the good work you're doing, Dean. Again, you know, we make the hard decisions on on what are we going to prioritize and what are we going to fund. >> Thank you. And we really appreciate the what you do, too. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Okay, Senate Bill 2171, House Draft 1, relating to the University of Hawaii, authorizes university to engage in enterprise-related activities for educational purposes under certain circumstances. Uh testifying, Denise Yoshimori Yamamoto. Denise, you're online? >> Hi. Hi, Chair, Vice Chair, members of the committee. This is my name is Denise Yoshimori Yamamoto. I'm the Associate Vice President for the Community Colleges, and we support this bill.
Trans women are women in the month of March should celebrate women from a wide range of backgrounds and identities. Sarah won the general election in November 2024 with 58% of the vote and became the first openly transgender member of the US Congress on January 3rd of 2025. a historic event and one that helps those in the trans and broader LGBTQIA plus community feel seen and represented. The post and the inclusion of Sarah doesn't take away from but rather enhances the broader picture of the contributions and achievement of all women. It showcases the diversity of women and helps paint a complete picture. Recognizing another's right to exist, treating them with dignity and respect doesn't diminish your own worth or value. It's not a finite resource that we can run out of. Nor do we have to understand another person's joy to appreciate their happiness. So, thank you for being inclusive, teaching understanding and respect.
And then she'll have lunch with some students and other little stuff too. So, it's going to be a big day. We have student tour guides walking her around all day long. Not the same ones. I love the writing workshop idea. Yeah, you're welcome. She will be there all day to meet them. What day? Wednesday. From 9:00 to 3:00. Any other questions? Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. >> [applause] >> Okay. And now we have uh Principal Harris to give us an update on your goals with uh South. Thank you. Good evening, Dr. I am Eileen Gordon of Education, and this is Principal South Elementary School. Thank you so much for this opportunity to share a little bit about how South is working towards the district's five-year strategic plan. Um in the area of goal one, student achievement, our teachers have been working currently this year on learning strategies as we shift to structured literacy.
Um one of the things we need to look at is what what are the kind of uh cutoffs that we are establishing, and do we need to rethink how we're recruiting for that program? Um what typically has happened I'll speak to our side is that there is some attrition from that first year to senior year in general. Um and there's not often a lot of replacement in the middle of the year. It doesn't mean some students as sophomores couldn't potentially go in, but it doesn't happen that often. And then when we had that precipitous drop from that freshman year overall, um it it had a a big impact on the total numbers. Um but it is something we are talking about and we'll be talking about just trying to to see if we need to rethink what it means to to be in that program and and how we can keep it strong.
And it is aligned to college boards course exam and the foundations of scientific practices for this course specifically. Anybody have any specific questions about any of the four textbooks? The costs again cuz I don't know I [clears throat] don't know if it's my version isn't but I thought you said 5,000 for heritage. This says 151 so I'm just wondering what the difference is. Yeah, so heritage speakers one so that's Spanish for heritage speakers one is 5,500 and $66.21. For the hard cover? For the one year license for 42 students to have the electronic version and us purchasing a classroom set of 30. So that both sections they have different periods have access to it in the class and also covers the professional development required and the teacher resources that the teacher resource materials that come with it. Okay, that's what I thought you That's all encompassed in the 5,000 561 dollars and 50 cents.
That was awesome. Thank you. >> Thank you, Sandy. >> Number one. >> Ah. Okay. Okay. >> So, yeah. news and then go to close and then we can continue >> the consent. Okay. >> All righty. So, we going to go back a step in the superintendent uh update for number alpha number one. Good news. >> Yeah, I've uh got two uh little videos to share with you um which Don will bring up in a minute. So, I always say a picture is a thousand words. So, this goes back a little bit towards February. We did a lot with uh celebrating Black History Month. So, um I wanted to show some of the things that were going on in our our district for that month. And then the other one um is school improvement. I think it's good for our families and our community to see what goes on around here on school improvement days to see the types of activities that are doing uh the speakers that we have and the rich engagement we have with our staff.
Um, when we when we took over the athletics budget this year, it was it was pretty bare bones and right now we're up um And again, as I said it now, we have about 40,000 dollars in our account, so um, we've done a good job of done gathering sponsorships and good revenue concessions and ticket sales and auctions and clothing sales and we're really boosting the budget, so I'm not concerned about not being able to cover everything in the ordering. >> Does Does Does that staff boards live there? >> Yep. >> So, the one side that has the big scoreboard >> side will be fixed like it is now, like it'll look similar to that one cuz it's digital, so you can control you know, we're playing Woodland and [snorts] say Woodland and play So, but the but the video board actually has will have the stat components on it, have the stats, you can have live video that goes with it.
So, that has been a tremendous plus for us. In addition, Mrs. Golden, our testing coordinator, listened to our concerns about the testing process over and over again. Because of her efforts, some students were able to be tested one-on-one while the rest tested in very small groups. She even arranged for substitute teachers for the four of us so that we could personally administer one-on-one testing to students who needed that level of support. We truly believe that without these extra supports, we would not have seen the passing scores that we did. We understand that budgets are tight and that things may look different moving forward. However, we want everyone to understand just how critical instructional aids are to the success of our students, especially at a grade level where the stakes are so high. When a third grader's ability to move on to fourth grade depends on passing IREAD, the extra support provided by our aids is not a luxury, it is a necessity.
I mean, how engaged and just how much they've absorbed the manufacturing curriculum that Mr. Simmons has brought forward. Like, they are doing a tremendous job and um you can tell that they want to be there. It's it's a lot of fun to see. >> Yeah. This morning they had Bill Norman was there for an hour speaking. So it was >> Bill is our Bill is our president over North America operations um you know so he's he's got a big responsibility and look at the end of the day you know someone like Bill started on third shift in an operator role and he's able to explain that to these kids and talk about his career path and and they've just got unique access to these individuals in in key leadership roles. So you you may be in the infancy of the program, but I can remember several occasions when um different instructors from uh Southern Technical School would suggest that a student go talk to so and so or whatever.
Um certainly our top top 10% dinner that's in April. Um so just a lot of busy things, but it's definitely a fun time of year to celebrate alongside our staff, kids, and recognize their accomplishments. So just wanted to share a few. Lot of good things going on. Okay, moving on to old business. It looks like we have none. Moving on to new business.
Um Did you have a question, Ms. Paget? Oh, okay. Okay. Mine, I think, goes along with that slide that we're on currently. Um I noticed that they're going to offer Friday care for two of the Fridays. Um In the past, I think it was Was it all four Fridays? It was. So, um a couple of things. One, we're not starting summer learning academy until June 8th because of that Memorial Day difference, and so we have a shortened time. And then the Friday in between is Juneteenth, and so we won't have care on that day. Okay. Okay. Thank you for that. Any other questions regarding summer Okay. Well, thank you, team. This is always a great opportunity, and um you know, it helps our students a lot. So, we will move on now to 3.3, results of the RFP bids for the student devices. Mr. Harsha.
that would include a survey where we'd notify people within a certain radius and kind of all the the uh very detailed standard uh requirements for that. >> Okay. I would just suggest um that if you have to deviate from that plan at all that that the conservation commission be involved in in those further discussions uh so that we can revisit what we've already talked about and see if that uh potentially but would change anything as far as uh any uh storm water runoff or groundwater breakthrough from that. >> Is that agreeable? >> Yes. Yeah, we're agreeable to that. >> Okay. I guess my other comment is a comment and not a question. I um I know that you're tired of me talking about storm water, but uh it is it is a concern. It is a big issue and we want to get this right.
Um but it's tough to tell based on information that we're getting from the state and federal level if this is going to be long-term or if it's a blip. Um so I think we're looking at a couple different scenarios. >> Thank you. And then my other question is for Andy. Um, thank you so much Andy for making sure we had enough money at the end of the year to weather this storm of additional special education funding that we needed to give the services we needed to give to our students. And then I remember you telling us that the uh federal mandated minimum effort was 9.268, 268 right for Greenfield >> maintenance of effort out there. Yes. Go ahead. >> Okay. So, what is the total amount that we're spending um for special ed this year? Do you remember off the top of your head? >> Uh >> I was just trying to think of how much more we're spending than our maintenance effort compared to last year just so that I have the number going forward.
We're and I'm here for any questions you may have. Thank you. Okay, anyone else wishing to testify on this measure cuz Denise is the only one that signed up. Nobody else. Members, questions? I do. Who is this? You want to explain it? Uh Denise, again, what are the circumstances in which um you would do you would this bill would help? So basically, you know, it would allow us to really um bring hands-on experience on into our um onto our campuses. Um we we do things uh we do this already to some degree with culinary arts. Um we want to do this and expand it with hospitality. Um it's really creating these lab environments, and our students would have it almost like the next step before they get out into the workforce. Um our Hospitality Academy at Maui is a really good example in that with CIP, we did renovate the building, you know, we did the shell.
And please don't let the close-minded change this moving forward. There are students who saw themselves in this post as well as a district that saw them. Thank you for your time. Our next speaker is Kan Clark. >> Sorry, can you hear me? Okay, great. Cool. Hi, my name is Kaya. I am a resident of Betavia. I moved here four and a half years ago. I'm a young professional and I was nervous to move here. I am a lesbian and I was terrified that moving to a smaller town would be scary and there would be no LGBTQ people and that I would have to drive an hour and a half to Chicago to see gay people. Luckily, that was not true. People in this town put up signs and flags and stickers on businesses and in a way that made me feel so welcomed and so safe to hold my partner's hand and not feel scared even though sometimes we still get looks.
Our K-2 teachers have primarily focused on word recognition, sight words, phonological awareness, and 3-5 teachers have been focused on vocabulary acquisition and background knowledge. And it's been really fun to see teachers go to these trainings and then come back with all the strategies that they learned and be able to use them next day or next week within their classrooms. Um something unique to South that we're working on this year is um knowing the correlation between vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension. We decided to look at the explicit teaching of the word protocol and um have our all of our content areas work on that protocol. So, whether you're in math or um health or music. Um, all of our teachers are using that protocol to teach, um, our students new vocabulary words. Um, in the area goal two, learning environment, we continue to improve our tier one PBIS systems, and really our focus here is re-invigorating our, um, reward and celebration systems.
>> Yeah, it's such a successful program. >> [clears throat] >> Really impacts those kids. Hate to see the numbers dropping. >> No, 100% we're in agreement with you. >> It is a topic we had a discussion and focus when we were doing sectioning, and we're definitely keeping a close eye on it for future years. But I'm glad that on both the north and the south side of town, even though the requests are below that 20 cutoff, we're moving forward with offering that program. I just it's something important. >> Oh, yes. And you know, we're we're excited. I just I just had the student come and find me in the middle of a meeting cuz they they have to hand deliver the invitation for the senior banquet, which is just one of the the best events of the year. And I'm looking forward to that coming up.