So very excited. We appreciate the partnership bring something you know fun into the community. They they would like to do more of us moving forward. We appreciate the support. I'd also like to give a shout out to um the person who connected us with them. So Dave, who's a part owner of a couple of game stores in town, not only connected us with Site Club, but the last two events, he's provided all of the drinks that get sold for consent. So that's included in not take a moment to figure out it's a pretty significant especially considering >> yeah that was the only thing that I was going to allude to and I forgot to mention in my board for is first of all yes big shout out to Jay we always talk about vertical articulation and it's amazing to walk in because I went I wanted to see sto it out see what's going on who who's renting their facilities what games are they playing I want to know and I walk in and Jay is handling the snack bar and selling all the snacks and the drinks to all the gamers so I just think it's beautiful that everybody in our institution shows up for our community and we're always working together which brings me to our second point that the last month Katie and I have been holding town hall meetings with their community members and that's with PTO's members, neighborhood associations, and how the beauty of how the community as a whole is coming together to fill the gaps that our families may need.
Uh so, we were very excited to hear that news. We have worked with them, and we are going to have an informational meeting for our Lake Station families only, and that's going to be held on Thursday, April the 9th, here at Edison Junior Senior High School between 6:00 and 7:00 p.m. And that's an information meeting to share information about uh Habitat for Humanity. They would like to build additionally nine more homes in Lake Station. So, if you're interested to get information about that, please come out to our April 9th meeting at 6:00 here at Edison. We won't keep you to just an hour, and representatives from uh Habitat for Humanity will be here to answer your questions. And that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? Motion carried.
They start exchanging messages to exchange pornography with other people by changing the kids face. >> Yes, that's another case. And that's why we always tell parents, be careful if your account is public because your case could be harmed just because you're sharing photos of death. To be honest, like I all my social medias are private. if I don't know you, you realize you don't need to have access to my information. And that's a thing that's happening a lot with AI or artificial intelligence is a lot of creditors are going to be taking those photos that we post of our kids and they're going to be manipulating them into being or doing things and they're probably studying them online. So even our accounts we need to be vigilant. I always say that we set an example. We by doing the right things with our social media we can give our example of what to expect how like be like mom like your account is public why has to be private.
Any discussion? Cheryl, please. Mr. Mercedes? Yes. Mr. Tyburski? Yes. Ms. Ferris? Yes. Ms. Disla? Yes. Mr. Jones? Yes. Mr. Mejia? Yes. Mr. Hayden? Yes. Uh cash balance report. Jerry? Mr. DeStefano, please. Hi, good evening, everyone. Cash balance report um for February 2026. Uh the account balance at the end of January was 665,000. We had deposits for the month of 6.1 million. Uh transfer in from MMDT of 250K. Uh you see the payroll um and warrant amounts listed there for the month. Uh and we have an ending GL balance at the end of February for three uh little over three million dollars. In the MMDT account, uh we started off with uh 12.5 million. We had interest for the month of almost 34,000. Uh we transferred out that 250 to operations, leaving us um with a balance in MMDT of 12.3 million. Um and a total of healthy total operating cash balance of uh 15.366 million for the month.
Any discussion? If not, Senator Chang, I vote yes. Chair's recommendation for House Bill 2033 is to pass with amendments. Chair and Vice Chair vote I. Senator DeCoite. I. Senator Richards. Is excused. Senator Favela. I. Recommendation is adopted. Okay, and for the Chair, Committee on Education, uh same recommendation to amend HB 2033, House Draft 2, to a amendments as stated by the Transportation Chair.
One of the biggest conversations to be had is that the school can only do so much. There's only so much that we can do for our families, but as a community together, we can fill those gaps when the educational institution maybe isn't open or there's only limited resources that we have. And just to continue seeing all those community members coming together, businesses and nonprofits to support what we're doing, I think just really shows to the work that all of us are doing and how we show up. You know, we see each other out in the community and I just think that's beautiful. So, it really speaks to the awesome things that we're doing, not only in school and operating hours, but how we're holding ourselves when we're out in other spaces and non educational hours. So, again, another shout out to everybody in the district as a whole because it's just beautiful to see in in, you know, these times that are a little weird and none of us know what's going on, but what we do know is that we have each other's back.
So we set for example do the right thing if we're going to be sharing photos obviously on to our friends and families because it is a big growing thing that we see it's AI and unfortunately since it's so new there's not many laws that are being regulated but still like even the face of a kid and so AI generated body naked is still a can still have the proportional consequences of having child. So it's always good to be careful in our own accounts to also be any other questions. Thank you so much. I really appreciate those questions. They were really good and I have some resources here. Obviously us um the student assistant if your kid has encounter any type of things that are around you can always call us right here just 10 minutes away. Um I brought some tours um some guidance and information.
Thank you very much. Uh does anybody have any questions for Mr. Di Stefano? He has another engagement tonight. Thank you, Mr. Di Stefano. Can we get a motion, please? To accept the cash balance. >> Second. Second.
Any discussion, members? Hearing none, Chair votes I. Chair votes I. Vice Chair votes I. Senator Granada. Excused. Senator Hashimoto. I. Senator DeCoite. Excused. Measure is adopted. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes then the trip that three committees, Committee on Transportation, Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs, and the Committee on Education. Thank you for your patience. We're convening our joint committee with the Committee on Energy and Economic Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs and our friends in the Committee on Transportation on this March 24th. We're on the 301 agenda in room 229. We have one measure on this agenda that is House Bill 20 22 HD1 relating to motor vehicle registration. On our testifiers this, we have the Tax Foundation, Alika. Uh good afternoon, chairs, vice chairs, members of the committee. Tom Yamachika from Tax Foundation. Uh we'll stand on our written comments and be available for questions. Thank you, Tom.
So, that's awesome. Thank you, Jay, for that. Okay, with that being said, that brings us to item four, which is our student outcomes focused governance um framework. In the fall of 2023, school district adopted a student outcomes focused governance framework to ensure a focus on improving student outcomes. This framework is grounded in six research informed competences. Vision and goals, values and guards, monitoring and accountability, communication and collaboration, unity and trust, and continuous improvement. Constante guided by the six competencies, the board created a set of goals and guardrails. The goals reflect the community's vision for student success. The guardrails reflect community values and set boundaries for leadership. Progress monitoring. Within this framework, one of the most critical components is progress monitoring. Progress monitoring is a structured conversation between the board and the superintendent where we ask does the student performance match our goals? Is there evidence of growth towards those goals?
Any discussion? Call the vote, chair. Mr. Mejia? Yes. Mr. Mercedes? Yes. Mr. Tarbox? Yes. Ms. Ferris? Yes. Ms. Gisler? Yes. Mr. Jones? Yes. Mr. Hayden? Yes. Consolidated cash, you have the handout and the revolving fund, you have it in the packet. Uh budget report is in the packet.
Tina Yamaki from the Hawaii Transportation Association. Members has submitted testimony in opposition. Is there anyone else wishing to testify on House Bill 2022? Uh no, sorry, chair. We have Tina Yamaki on Zoom. Okay, thank you. Welcome, Tina. I I I apologize for not being there in person, but I am on Zoom. I'm Tina Yamaki with the Hawaii Transportation Association, and we stand on our written testimony. We do want to point out that this is going to be a substantial increase in operations for a lot of our mom-and-pop businesses and all businesses in general. And what's going to happen is they're going to pass that on to their customers, which is the retailers, and the retailers will pass that on to the consumers. So, prices will go up possibly because of this. Mahalo. Thank you, Tina. Is there anyone else wishing to testify on House Bill 2022?
And is the strategy strong enough to produce that growth? When done well, monitoring supports the district by modeling reflective leadership, clarifying strategies and next steps, setting clear priorities across the system, and providing continuous feedback for improvement. aspos. This is how we hold ourselves accountable to the outcomes our students deserve. This is how governance truly serves its community. And with that, we will be going over goal two report three. I will turn it over to Dr. >> Thank you, Ros members of the board superintendent. I'd like to invite Dr. Doden and Marie Twist, our coordinator for math. I also see that we have Ria Guy, one of our math coaches. So, thank you for being here and all our preschools and directors. Um, I do want to share that this was the assessment that was given in December. So, since December, we have met with all of our principles.
Any questions on any of those? Budget transfers, uh Melissa, you're going to handle the budget transfers for us? Yep. We have two budget transfers tonight. Um the first was for technology. It was to cover 347,143 dollars uh for the displays. And then 265,000 dollars for Chromebooks, which was um approved by the superintendent and we'll be using some of the rollover money from last year. And then the second budget transfer is just an interdepartment transfer. So, machine tech is moving their hardware and software remaining budgets to their supply line so they can make some purchases. All set.
Please step forward. Good afternoon, chairs, vice chairs, committee members. I'm Megan Johnson. I'm the I'm the customer services city and county of Honolulu. We stand on our written testimony and respectfully opposing this measure. Thank you, Megan. Is there anyone else wishing to testify on this measure?
We've analyzed the data. So, some of the things that you see as next steps and some of the answers to the questions are things that we have been doing the last couple months. Um, I just wanted to share that with you when you're looking at this that we've been already uh revised our action plans to address what you'll see in the data today. Um, and this goal is increase our proficiency in math for black A3 students. And our annual target for the first year um we got 4% and then last year 6%. So our annual target for this year is 13% and then we have three interim measures that we're going to share with you today that we're using to monitor to see if we're on track to meet that 13% at the end of the school year. Um, tonight as we will be reporting out analytical context as well as Look here at inter measure 2.1.
Any questions on the budget transfers? We're going to need a vote on this. Vice chair. Yeah, thank you. Uh through you, um for the first item, can you repeat again? Was it a display? Displays, they're like video displays. I think they're classroom televisions, I think, John. The the first budget transfer. Yes. Video displays like in the classrooms? That are How many classrooms have >> in the classroom. How many classrooms have the new equipment? Uh I don't have that number with me. Do you know, Brenda? I don't have that number. I know we're buying 100 Okay. >> new displays. We've had um we've had to replace some this year that were sort of just breaking down from the beginning of the year. So, um we're purchasing them all now and we'll install them throughout the summer. Okay. So, they'll be ready for next year. >> September.
If not, members, any questions? Did you ever mention that Hawaii county sent communication? Uh Yeah, members have the testifiers uh testimony. The County of the Big Island County has submitted testimony in opposition as well as Johnny May Perry has submitted commentary. Is there anyone else wishing to testify on this measure?
This is specific to the percent percentage of 86 through 83 black students who scored proficient on the DNA post test and that we increase from 8% in May of last year to 70%. When you look here, just to reint ourselves with the graphic along the bottom, we have our preassessment inter benchmark benchmark and post test data from last school year as well as the progress we're making this year with our IBM one IBM 2. So then there is that correlation coefficient that has been calibrated comparing last year's results with this year's student performance and you can see that we have 90% of our sixth through 8th grade black students are currently showing proficiency as measured by IBM 2. Important to note is that the grade six average passing scores has increased over time throughout this school year starting in the preassessment from 32% correct on the preassessment to 35% on one and 42% correct for proficiency here on this is our beloved sinki graph and again this is a graph that helps to show movement and when we're utilizing this that point in time when the assessments are given, we're able to take a look at where are we seeing students demonstrating growth.