Uh if you look from FY14 through FY19, that's prior to the implementation of the Student Opportunity Act, which is um the uh the state legislation that kind of revamped the formula for how they divvy out the Chapter 70 funding. And we were for many many years being disproportionately uh affected by that. And where uh like and neighboring communities were getting substantially more funding than us. So, you'll see in three years, particularly years, in FY20, in FY23 and 24, large increases of a million and a half or more dollars uh as that got implemented. So, those large expenditures were allowed us or those those large increases allowed us to um, to continue to provide level service right through that time without asking, uh, for an override. Uh, but as now the Student Opportunity Act is fully implemented, you'll see that, uh, now I do and this slide have FY26, which is our current fiscal year, and FY27 data, uh, graphed.
>> Next question there. Sorry. I've got two more of the revolving fund questions that I'll get out of the way so we can get personnel because that's where people want to talk. So, um one of them is just I've heard a lot of concern about how low the sped tuition revolving amount is and um it sounds like in FY28 we would hit trouble there. Are we going to hit trouble in FY27 if someone new moves in or are we prepared? >> Well, there's a spent tuition revolving account is for students that come in that we charge for the programs that we have that that school district might not. So, it's if we have the space, we we end up, you know, charging them for it. So, um, as far as if if a new student, someone moves in from out of state, um, that is like similar to this, that is our go-to.
Um, I I think it's really important that we don't demonize anyone at this table or at the city council. We all care about uh our kids or else we wouldn't be here because, you know, it's such a thrilling, fun, rewarding thing to do. So I do think that we need to be very careful about the way we talk about this to make sure that we are not attacking each other when we need to be working together as openly as possible. But I support moving this forward knowing full and well this is not what we are going to be receiving. This is just the starting point. Here is status quo where we are. Now, let's figure out where the real numbers are, both from our side and from the city side in order to figure out how we can compromise and come to something that is workable for this year.
And hearing none, I'd like to make a motion that the camp board of education approve the 2627 board of education final budget based on the recommended financial reductions from the board from the board of finance in the amount of $200,000. The reductions reflected will be transportation $90,000. That'll be the reduction of two bus routes affecting all students, all schools rather, and $110,000, which is reduction of certified non-certified staff to be determined at a later date. I'll take a second, please. Thank you, Joe. Further discussion? How's the timeline?
Um so again, I understand about your concerns with the data, but I'm not seeing data that points in either direction. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. >> And >> [clears throat] >> Um and like I said, Ray can really attest to some of those national trends better than I can if you would like to speak with us as well. >> any other entity that could take this on rather than the school of pharmacy itself? So it is really hard for the state association. My position is only funded a couple days throughout the legislative session and it's a grant that's not sustainable. So we're hopefully hopeful that this is an actual sustainable model. Um the university, we don't want this to be an extension of the university even though the flow of funds goes from the DCCA to UH. This would be a completely independent entity. So to answer your question, no, the state association could not take this on.
Any discussion? Hearing none, chair votes aye. Thank you. For House Bill 2159, this is relating to the healthcare workforce development. Recommendation is to defect the date to July 31, 2020 2055. It already contains blank number of FTE positions, and the money is also blanked out.
What are What are the parameters of that reset refocus? So, first step was to make sure we had dedicated space and trained individuals because that sometimes was something that was holding us up from making sure that we did more than 5 minutes. Is making sure that we had adequate staffing and making sure that those individuals that are helping the students that need to de-escalate feel as though they have the time to do it and the training to be able to do it. >> And part of that training is to recognize this is going to take more than 5 minutes. Yeah. This is not something that most of of students that need the removal need more than that. Um what it looks like does vary based on the kid and the situation and we do have some limitations because of statute that we do need to work with within the K-4 range.
You'll see it leveling off uh, substantially. So, uh, obviously we know what our FY26, uh, numbers are, uh, and FY27 is preliminary data from the state. So, all that is down and, uh, can be sourced from the link down there. And that leveling off, if I were to graph that leveling off, or down in the bullets, I do say what those increases are. So, the FY26 increase is 3.6, uh, and then for FY27, the preliminary is only 1.7% increase of our Chapter 70 funding. Now, hopefully that goes up a little bit, but it's not going to be Right, significant. >> significant. So, contextually, so just so we put a number to it, it's a hundred So, in FY26, it's a hundred fifty dollars per child. That that's what gets us to the 425,000, right? So, a hundred fifty dollars per student. This year, it's budgeted at seventy-five dollars per student.
It's one of them. Now, there's nothing stopping us, even though again, we're talking about the ideal practice of using circuit breaker, you know, as as the other possibility if that should should occur as far as any potential movements. But sustainability, it's all driven on if there's interest in our sped programs that we have from districts around that would be willing to send a student if we ever capacity. >> Okay. And then the other one was um the transportation revolving balance is projected to be one of our higher ones and um does that mean that there is the possibility of leasing uh vans for our fleet replacement out of there? There is nothing stopping us. You know, it's one of those that normally it's used to offset the operating budget, but you know, it's one of those it could be a yes and >> so personal questions.
Now, that said, we're going to be in so much trouble if we don't make changes for next year. >> Thanks. Um, I think a lot of those same points were ones that I was planning to make. So, thanks for that, Member Childs. But the other pieces of this are is that some of the things that are being um put on the table about regionalization, about closing schools are definitely not happening for this coming academic year. That would be irresponsible of us. Um and frankly, I don't hear a lot of um clamoring from some of our neighbors to be neighbors with us in a regional way. Um, and like that is a both of those processes like it would be rushing for me to even do them for the following fall is coming, but the fall after that it would seem like pretty a really short timeline.
Hearing none, I'll ask uh for a vote. Again, it's to move camp board of education approved 2627 board of education final budget based on recommended financial reductions from the board of finance in the amount of $200,000. >> All those in favor? >> Opposed? I think we're we have all nine tonight. So, we're nine now. All right. Passes. Uh any other business come before the board of education tonight?
Right. So so how do you ensure that you know, it's not an extension of the pharmacy and it's its its own thing if if they're going to you know, the money's going to them? >> Mhm. Yeah, there's a couple ways we could go about that. Um nursing, they have a governor appointed board. I think with just one FTE, we didn't want to necessarily go down that road right now, but if that's something that you guys are interested in putting in to hold us accountable, that's fine. Um we would go through the typical UH higher higher uh process and we would include um stakeholders like the Board of Pharmacy, like the Hawaii Pharmacists Association, different stakeholders throughout the profession to make sure that it is an independently governed entity even though So under under the current proposal, who would have who would what would be the governance structure then?
Members, any questions? Any discussion? Hearing none, chair votes aye. And with that, we are adjourned pending AEM. Um good afternoon. We're calling the 1:40 calendar for the HHS calendar, Health Human Services, on Wednesday, March 25th. Present with me is my vice chair, Senator McKelvey, and also Senator Keohokalole. This meeting is being streamed live on YouTube. In the unlikely event that we must abruptly end this hearing due to technical difficulties, the committee will reconvene to discuss any outstanding business later at 1:00 p.m., Friday, March 27th, in Room 225, and a public notice will be posted on the legislator's website. To facilitate this hearing in a timely manner, we will be enforcing a lax what it's lax one one-minute limit on testimony. And it's lax because we have a American Sign Language interpreter. So, we request those who are testifying to enunciate. If, however, you can stand on your written testimony, please do so.
But we're in a good place by making sure that we have enough staff because we have RBTs, we have counselors, we have TOSAs, we have and adding the BCBAs, we have all of these individuals, that's a place to start and then making sure that everyone has the training in the de-escalation and then what it really looks like to successfully reintegrate and to not bounce back >> Right. Um in a couple of >> Using those skills that we should be teaching in those moments. Um at at my house we we refer to them as a as a redo. Right? Something happens and we don't like how that all turned out, well we can stop right now. We can just stop and let's just redo it. Right? I'm going to give you permission, you're not in trouble, I'm going to give myself permission, I'm not going to be angry, let's redo this how we would like to see it happen so that we get those practicing the cell memory of practicing that new way to help lessen that anxiety.
Okay, so the hope is as it goes through the legislative process, uh, and through, um, you know, the governor's budget and through the Senate, etc., House budget, that that number increases. So, from a perspective of the superintendent's organization, we're advocating, again, minimum a hundred, but we'd love to get up to 180. Uh, I So, to, you know, increase this would be significant. Um, this is where we were about last year, right? We were in that two hundred thousand dollar range before, um, town meeting. And then, again, we don't get that budget number until July, right? So, So, don't know. So, I always ask tell you know, folks are asking about our percentage increase. Well, because of our policies, that 1.7 million in in Chapter 70 that we received, we hadn't had actually had an adjustment at fall town meeting because we received heck of a lot more than we anticipated, right?
>> So, wait, back to transportation. So, we could look at possibly purchasing a van this year with what we have in revolving. >> Well, yes. So, the answer is yes. or leasing because I know that we've had some hefty repair bills come in the last >> consultant had talked about to your point leasing to try and get on a site >> and I've mentioned that to some of you prior to that because it was it's just kind of to me anyway obvious that we didn't have any type of replacement method and it's pretty I would say politely pretty simple with the amount that we have you could almost do two in every six years you know you're kind of turning went over and they were going upwards of 150 plus 100,000 miles. So yes, we could and there's no doubt that we should out of somewhere.
That's not to say we couldn't do it any I'm a firm believer that anything can be done if we really want it to be. Um, but I don't even know if we've had the preliminary discussions enough to know what we would ask our neighbors for and what we would be willing to do. Um, I don't even know if we've had the conversations enough within our own community to know which building we would want to close if we could um or what that would actually do for folks. Um, and so for me, I'm not saying that I don't want to have those conversations. I'm saying that I don't want us to do it in a way that is like a panic like oh crap our budget is falling apart, the sky is falling. Let's just do this thing. Um I want to do those things because we really believe that is the best path forward for ourselves, our students, our community.
Uh a board, a through In this bill, it allows for a board, but I thought you I thought there was no board yet or is it not gubernatorially appointed? Is that what you're saying? We didn't put it in the in statute, but if it's something that we want to include in statute to hold us accountable, we're happy to do that to appoint a board that has >> [clears throat] >> different professions and but absent that, what what is the governance structure you know, because you only you said you only have one FTE, so what how is it that you're going to hire this person in the interim Mhm. when we don't have that board? Mhm. Um I think Ray might be better positioned to answer that question. Our thought would be that it would go through the typical UH higher process and um I've been a part of committees, selection committees where you have outside stakeholders that are involved in that process as well.
Because we are also having another hearing after this. So, thank you very much. We appreciate your understanding. Remind you the committee does have your testimony. Apologize again if the closed captioning does not accurately transcribe the names. If you're interested in reading the written testimony, please go to legislator's website. You'll find the link on this standing page. First up, HB 469 relating to parking for disabled persons. First up, we have Hawaii State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Daintry Bartoldus, in support. >> We'll stand on our testimony in support. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we have DCAB, Disability and Communication Access Board, Christine Pagano, in support. Aloha chair and vice chair. I'm Brian McKeague on behalf of DCAB and executive director Christine Pagano in support of this bill. The purpose of this bill is to allow someone who only has one long-term placard and cannot or does not want to have special license plates to obtain a limited duration travel placard.