>> Do we ever get that kind of stream data from the actual um students to move the needle in? >> We have not collected that data at this time in that specific way. you have panoramic but we actually and I were talking about the one of the kids congress coming up to talk to our students about the goals so like math we did that last year that this year >> represents like this we'll transition to our board questions and I will go through them first How can we get more than three teachers to attend to the professional development sessions? So to clarify on the slide that was shared first as far as goal one, there were three sixth grade teachers that participated in math cohort. So we were assuming that that's where this question stemmed from, but also wanted to so to clarify, there are six three sixth grade teachers that participate, but 10 middle school teachers that participate in our math cohort, which is that targeted time for professional development.
These additions are aimed at improving student to teacher ratios, strengthening support services, and maintaining our facilities. The total projected budget impact of these new positions is just over 1.1 million. As part of the fiscal year '27 budget development process, administration carefully reviewed all requests for additional staffing. While the positions listed here reflect important needs within the district, we were unable to include all the requests due to financial constraints. However, the administration is confident that the current staffing plan will allow us to continue supporting student learning and district operations effectively. One of the key factors informing both our staffing and budget decisions is enrollment. Next year, we will increase enrollment by 56 students. In the past 5 years from fiscal year '23 to fiscal year '27, GLTS has increased enrollment by a total of 251 students. So, you may recognize this slide from last year and that's because our budget priorities remain consistent and focused on defined strategic goals.
It's 20 It's 20 for the on the county side. County side for 20. Yeah. And on in for the state fee, it's $40. 40. Um and and sorry, going back to Senator Inouye's comment about was there any earmarked funds in the registration, there's also a highway beautification fund for the both the for the city. And for the city, it's recently went up to $10 per per vehicle annually. So, my understanding, being that I came from the county council before is that the fees cannot be more than what it actually costs to process the permit application. Is that Is that correct? >> Correct. Okay. So, you're in opposition to it because this would impact revenues collected and how you do operations. Correct. To Yes. If I If I may. Yes. >> Um yes. 100% correct. Um we have concerns that So, annually right now for the state, the the per pound is less than 2 cents per pound for the state weight fee for a regular passenger vehicle.
out of 21 middle school teachers district. So almost um but this slide here articulates the balance between those varied opportunities for all teachers throughout the district to be engaged in professional development for content pedigogy and also teacher support for the cohort. Teachers were recruited last year to participate in this year's cohorts through an interest based application process. we learned from the SDI cohboard and their success particularly that it's really important when you're trying something new to have those early adopters and that enthusiasm and to build those bright spots. We know that you would like to consider benchmarking off of that SEI cohort and considering an expectation of cohort participation and then transfer into the classroom for more of our teachers for next year. Um recruit we will be recruiting and connecting this year's one for teachers coaches and also our site leaders and thes department to help recruit their colleagues for the new book.
This includes MTSS, staffing, technology, and student support, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. In fiscal year '27, the objective is to build on last year's priorities while aligning resources to student needs. This current school year, much of the work is centered on putting systems in place, particularly around MTSS. In fiscal year '27, the district will take the next step by embedding MTSS more consistently into classroom practice, and expanding supports for students who need additional help, especially in reading and math. There's also stronger emphasis on using data to identify gaps and respond more directly. The fiscal year '27 staffing additions are an important part of this work. In addition to core academic teachers in math, English, science, and social studies, um supports these supports um will improve our access to tier one instruction and help adjust student to teacher ratios. The new math position also aligns with the priority of increasing instructional time in math.
Currently in the city and county of Honolulu, it's 7 cents. So, if we if this passed, the immediately would have to go down to the 2 cents. And that would be a drop in >> to your >> [clears throat] >> funding. >> Yeah. And that is what we're concerned about. Um if that's the way that this this bill goes. >> Thank you, administrator. Thank you very much for the opportunity. Okay. Thank you. Any further questions? I just I just have a follow-up. I I I understand what you're saying about the revenue cost here. But, our land tax goes up every year. A portion of the land tax supposed to be helping with beautification and other things. Our ENV for trash pickup and everything. So, as that source in the air or all air area. So, it's in the area. How is it not possible that you guys cannot Not you, but I mean in general.
Today we had our final halfway intensive professional development session with our third and fifth grade and our sixth and eighth grade math teachers. So kind of hot off the presses um some of their feedback to share from this year. One of the questions was how has the math cohort impacted your student data so far this year? Just said I am seeing partially and mostly proficient from a large group of students more consistently this year than last year. There has been improvement. I like how my teaching has evolved and I had to get out of my comfort zone to improve. Well, she was really transparent, really honest, and said, "I'm not sure if I've seen it as much yet as I feel in data, but I've watched confidence, curiosity, and drive increasingly." Another teacher reported, "It's been really helpful simplifying my planning process yet expanding my lessons." A second teacher, second year teacher said, "This helped me simplify and also improve Another teacher said, "Math cohort has literally changed my teaching and I'm so happy I took the risk to join this year and look forward to and then a really wide variety of responses.
New teaching positions in early childhood, aviation, and environmental science reflect the district's continued growth in enrollment and programming. These additions ensure that expanding CTE programs are adequately staffed to maintain program quality, safety, and alignment with industry standards. The addition of a bright counselor strengthens the district's student support services and aligns with the MTSS framework by providing more intensive social emotional support for students who need it. Additional support and maintenance staffing, including school security and custodial positions, contribute to safe, stable, and well-maintained learning environments, which are essential to supporting both student well-being and overall school operations. In technology and student support, the district is building on fiscal year '26 investments by continuing to upgrade infrastructure and expand services that address students' social and emotional needs. The district also continues its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through ongoing professional development and continued focus on fostering inclusive school environments.
How can they not have be able to budget or I I I mean sorry. Let me I rephrase. [clears throat] I know why. Cuz they got on peer race, the city council and the mayor. Okay. Now, I understand. Thank you, chair. Thank you, senator. Any further questions? Uh I have a question. Um so, I talked to the author of this measure um and he expressed frustration because you couldn't answer the earlier question from Mr. Senator Favela about how much money is brought in, how much is itemized in all of your expenditures. Every other county except Honolulu is able to provide that. So, that's what this bill tries to get at, is right? Is to hold the city and county of Honolulu accountable, which you're not. You have no idea. The money goes into black holes. You get whatever the city allows you to get, and then that's that's how you function.
Somebody said collaboration is so beneficial for lesson planning and reflection which helps alluding to some of the systemic changes that really talk about Um, we'd also like to continue to prioritize funding and coordinate training to take place throughout mitigating the school day and the workday such as time and just definitely a challenge and a big ask this year for the teachers who committed to the cohort and then asked to participate in after school even because this particular question is important notes that in eight of our nine schools teachers will be fine with pace by two weeks since we are currently below target one. How are we balancing impression to get back on track with the needs for deep mastery of essential standards especially machines and metaphorical materials we support. So we created this visual to really show the interdependence and the multiaceted approach that we believe is so important because it's not one in isolation that is going to help us um ensure that our students are learning the essential standards for their respective grade level.
Overall, the fiscal year '27 budget reflects a continuation of fiscal year '26 priorities with a more focused effort to align resources, staffing, and supports to identified student needs. So, this slide outlines the financial impact for each sending city and town and is also referenced on page 30 of the budget book. It highlights enrollment changes and outlines the fiscal year '27 required assessment, which includes expenditures that count towards net school spending and are aligned with the Commonwealth's minimum spending requirements. It also provides a detailed breakdown of non-foundation expenditures, including transportation, OPEB, capital improvements, and long-term debt. Approximately 72% of the GLTS operating budget is funded through Chapter 70 aid. Chapter 70 is the state's primary education funding program and is administered by DESE. It's designed to ensure that all school districts have adequate resources to meet the state's minimum spending requirements, known as the foundation budget.
That needs to be fixed. And that's what this bill does. Okay. Thank you. Any further questions? Okay. We're going to take a brief recess before making decisions. Thank you. We are reconvening the joint committees between the Committee on Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs and our friends from the Committee on Transportation for decision making. The two chairs have conferred. We're going to make a few substantive amendments to to this measure. Being that only the city county of Honolulu seems to be rogue on how it budgets for our roads, we are only going to allow this bill to apply to the city and county of Honolulu. On page six, we are going to specific specify the annual report shall be submitted no later than 20 days prior to the convening of each regular session and make technical non-substantive amendments.
So here you can see that one of our um greatest assets are the coaches who have relationships with the teachers who are able to understand the classroom and work very closely with their teachers to see what can we do to adjust the curriculum in terms of content as well as instruction for that PC because our coaches teachers so they learn about those styles as well as the in the classroom that personalized adjustments to ensure that essential standards are going to be taught not through the remainder of the year. We also added to focus focus students identify via educ every day we get to come for you to share a little something new about educ and has shared with me and he has also provided professional development for our focus. So we are building where our principles are making progress and this is all integrated. personalized learning using digital tools.
The fiscal year '27 required net school spending amount for GLTS is 52 million 412,319 dollars. This pie chart is a visual representation depicting the percentage breakdown of our revenue sources. In total, the state funds about 75% of our budget through Chapter 70 and transportation reimbursements. Our member districts are responsible for funding about 22% of the operating budget, and this year we're funding about 3% of our total operating budget with excess and deficiency funds. The total fiscal year '27 revenues are estimated at 59 million 375,465 dollars, and this chart is also on page 27 of the budget book. Um this chart separates foundation and non-foundation revenues to provide a clear understanding of how our revenue is allocated. It also details the 4,339,559 dollar increase from fiscal year '26. This chart is a budget by function pie chart and it's a roll-up of expenditures into the DESE chart of account functions.
Any discussion? If not, Senator Chang, I vote yes. Chair's recommendation on HB 2022 is to pass with amendments. Chair votes yes. Vice Chair votes aye. Senator Gabbard. Aye. Senator Richards. Excuse me. Senator Favela. Aye. Recommendation is adopted. Okay. Thank you. For the Committee on Transportation, same recommendations to pass HB 2022 House Draft 1 with amendments. Any discussions for the Committee on Transportation? I do want to add though for um my personal views, I'm not one to raise taxes or um to raise fees as as well. I will however in this particular case because I think we're already specifying that uh the fees will be taken out of a certain um part of a registration and not an additional increase. Am I correct? Yeah. Yeah. So, with that said, um uh Vice Chair for the vote, um recommendation is to pass with amendments. >> Chair, just uh if I may for discussion.
We've had resources that talk with our assessment systems that utilizes some of these instructional resources that we have can also help. So what is in the classroom everything but small groups and the teachers be able to fully provide instruction to students while other students are working independently on personalized learning could be a spot to even teach when they are So again all inter so you look at the one that's the coaches working teachers just curriculum facing it's kind of like when Dr. always talks about like this is a game or football game and we're like towards the end the last quarter like really looking at what um what curriculum and standards do we need to teach this last part now that we're off track like we're not going to get on track in this short period of time but how can we be strategic and what areas should be teaching the rest of the this school year um to be able to have this the standards that are most important for that grade level and then for the focus students identified via edge climber the principles will when uh superintendent network and they were identifying students that they really wanted to um focus on and then we talked to Tyson I can make that easier and so it was but just a real collaboration between the principles and all of our conversations to say how can we do this um easier so people aren't spending time doing that and how we can have our systems help us with that um and then the other ones the the purple the pink and the orange those are things that are we're trying to do but I will definitely be transparent.
This helps illustrate the major categories where GLTS both budgets and expenses revenues. The actual expenditures in each category are reported to the state at the end of the fiscal year on our end of the year report. The 1000 series is administration. This category covers district-wide governance and business operations. You'll find expenditures for superintendent, human resources, as well as district-wide administrative technology in this bucket. The 2000 series includes activities involving teaching, curriculum development, and school level leadership. As you can see from the pie chart, this is the largest expense category for the district and is about 51% um of our revenues is used for these expenses. The 3000 series is for pupil services. These are non-instructional um services provided to students to support their attendance and well-being. So, here you would find expenses for parent liaisons and medical and health services. The 4000 series is operations and maintenance.
Yes, Senator uh Elefante. >> Yeah, it would be helpful curious to know from the city and county of Honolulu what that data is in terms of what your annual revenue is and how you use that fees. Um so, um that would be helpful as this bill continues to pro- uh progress along the process. Thank you. Okay. Yeah. So, for the vote, um My Vice Chair, um With the >> I can't remember his name, Brandon Elefante. We [laughter] have many of us. Yes, Chair votes uh Chair votes aye. Yes. Not not not Senator Chang. >> [laughter] >> I've got that, too. Okay. Chair's recommendation is to pass HB 2022 House Draft 1 with amendments. Chair and Vice Chair vote aye. Senator Kanuha. Senator Lee. Aye. Senator DeCourcy. Aye. Madam Chair, recommendations adopted. Thank you. You see what happens with a day like today? Where'd you go?
None of these are perfect and we have a long way to go with all of these different pieces. This is like the ideal thing that we want to do, but we still um have pockets of where it's not happening pockets where we're coaching and training and helping people. So, I just want to show this is like an ideal puzzle, but it's not perfect right now. It's not close to perfect at all, but we're trying. I just thought that was a question. Um, so mentioned uh previously about the walk to math. So I'm sure I'm understanding it correctly. So that's where you know they they the student if they're at different levels they want to teach your classroom for um is that strictly for eighth graders? Is that junior high or do we do that at all of our schools at all grade levels? So I don't think it's something we'd like to learn more about.
Here we have custodial services, maintenance of the building, grounds, and equipment, and it also includes heating and utilities. 5000 series is benefits and fixed charges. The biggest expenditure in this category is employee insurance and general and liability insurance expenses. Our 7000 series is capital improvement. 8000 is any debt service, long-term debt, and payment of interest. And lastly, the 9000 series is programs with other school districts, and for GLTS, that would be payments to collaboratives for special education and school choice tuition. So, the final major source of revenue for GLTS is grants. Each year, the school receives entitlement grant funding, which is allocated based on a formula or eligibility criteria, rather than a competitive process. This year, GLTS received just over 2 million dollars in entitlement grants. These funds must supplement, not supplant, local and state funding, meaning they enhance existing programs, rather than replace required district spending.