And then as for our proposal advertising, we had a couple of our members go on our studio um which everyone watches on Fridays in their first hour class just to give people an idea of what we were doing and give them updates on what was going on and then we also had things like stickers for people and um for when they voted and other things of that sort. Okay, so the first idea that we had proposed was mister fans. It gets really hot in Arizona and a lot of our cafeteria tables are outside so we're going to put them around the cafeteria just to help students cool down either when they're walking to their classes or when they're sitting and and eating lunch. The second idea we had was kind of similar, it was the shade structures around where students can get picked up or around either the bus areas so they're not sitting in the heat especially at the time that a lot of students get out, it is very hot and directly in the sun at our school so we thought a shade structure could just help people cool off a little bit.
So I would look at it as either we have 61 ish students in Pelham or we have 120 28 28 students in Pelham. So when I look at how many kids are in the region, I look at how many kids are in Summit, I look at how many kids are in Amherst, I look at how many kids are at the preschool. We're like 5% of the total population. If we just look at our Pelham kids, we're like 2% of the population. So They're all your kids, sir. They're all your kids. >> paying the 4% cuz I mean some students are not going to need district help and some students are going to need more district help. So I don't think looking at an FTE is really a fair uh talk conversation piece because I think it's more what's the whole body of kids that we're servicing and then it should be divided up by the number of kids, which is what we do for the region.
Um there are already conversations about whether elementary students truly need to be one-to-one, particularly the lower grades. So, we thought this is a line if we have to really start digging for some savings, um we can look at this. And we will um really try to push the envelope in terms of how long we keep things like Chromebooks uh on the floor. I know um they did extend the licensing a little bit in the lifespan on Chromebooks recently, so there's a little bit of room there, but this does, like I said, this creates risk. All of these things create risk. Um as does cutting psychological consults and evals. Um we frequently have to do outside evaluations of students when their parents request them. Um this doesn't eliminate the budget, but it significantly cuts the budget and we hope we can work within the number. Again, risk involved.
So, it's exciting. But I know um you're you're wondering what I've been doing for the past month and I I give you the weekly updates. A lot of time has been honestly spent on budget meetings and staffing meetings in finance meetings and operational meetings and looking at where we are with our um facilities and the facilities in the finance committee. Uh received a a large update this morning on where we are and you'll hear that tonight in our financial report and our operations report. I know our students and staff are looking forward to our spring recess um next week. And next week when we come back on April 21st, you all have been invited to the Can Intermediate School volunteer lunchon. I would encourage you to go to that if you have not been to that before. It's a wonderful event that can intermediate school honors volunteers and you are certainly a volunteer.
So I really feel like a part of my school's community >> at my school. She won't talk too much. >> I have the shortest one% myself. So for Glaston Middle School one positive data and the third year and so questioning up in all of those areas and especially the feeling of safety which I know there's been a lot of work >> done in that area. So that's great to see that high school students are feeling. >> That's true. >> That's so important. >> A little bit welcome at their school and have collaborative relationship with a middle school. It's pretty much stayed the same. stat statistically significant in the difference there because it's just% statements again I really feel like a part of my school 48% safe and I can usually be around other students 53 um So elementary students and trend upward to note that maybe >> it's not really statistically but obviously we only want to see plus rather than minus So that's middle school.
Note that to ensure appearance by every arrestee, everyone should have to be held I'm sorry. To ensure appearance by every arrestee, everyone would have to be held until their trial date. Not only would this be very expensive, it's not necessary and it's probably unconstitutional as well. The general rule is that you're innocent until proven guilty, not that you must start serving a sentence before you've been convicted of a crime. I believe we I mentioned we do have a prior occurrence. Questions or concerns? If not, Vice Chair. Uh, HB 2413 HD1 SD1 recommendation to pass with amendments. Any no votes or reservations? Uh, Vice Chair votes with reservations. Measure is adopted. All right. Thank you very much. Next up is HB 2433 requires that priority be given to the language of a law that aligns with the intent of the legislature if there is a difference between the English and Hawaiian versions of the law that is material to its interpretation.
Orr. And congrats to Ms. Skinner. This brings us to uh information items. We have 6.1 first review of the 2026-2027 capital outlay budget. Ms. Rushcamp. All right. Good evening, President Wade, members of the board. Uh tonight we are going to take our first review of the capital outlay budget. We had done three reviews of M&O and received tentative approval of that so that we could get our contracts out. And now um we will begin looking at capital. So, what is the capital budget? The capital budget, it's uh technically called the district additional assistant. We refer to that as DA. Um but then around the school uh it would be commonly referred to as capital. And capital versus M&O, the two differences, capital would be used more to purchase items that are physical items. They would be an item that has a useful life of at least 1 year.
And then we had a third idea but it was denied so um our voting day, what we did was we sent a QR code to all the first hour teachers and we had them scan it so we got I think about like 600 responses and 66% of them voted for our winning project. Our voting day was February 11th and like he said, you had the voting stickers that we passed out and yeah. And then our winner was the outdoor misting fans so we are hoping to implement those into our school over the summer so hopefully we will have a nice cool August lunch time. Uh thank you everyone for coming. >> [applause] >> And then we also want to thank the sponsors of the SPB committee for giving us this opportunity. Thank you so much. >> [applause] >> Hi everyone, my name is Jayda Reedhead.
It's based more on the rolling average of number of students. And so I think that we should look at it in that way and in that way it's we probably if we're looking at how many choice kids we have, we should be paying 5% of the share. 5% >> at how many town kids we have, it's like two two and a half percent. So then four kind of fits in the middle. So I think maybe we should like figure out are we going to include the choice kids in those numbers or not and then maybe we should reevaluate the splits between the three towns. But I don't see that 5% is that drastically different than 4% and even at 5% you're only going to be giving 20 minutes of your time. So like it's like that doesn't work. Like the FTE piece doesn't work. It's my opinion.
Um this is something that could be covered. We could come back to school committee and say, "We'd like to dig into that circuit breaker reserve a little bit if we had to." So, there's some room to be able to to maybe leverage that, but with some risk. Um there are some instructional coaching stipends that have kind of lingered. Um with the addition of the ELA coach. Um and we do have a math coach in district. We were thinking those would no longer be necessary, so those are small. Um Janelle was willing to go through and say and and look at some items and say, "Like, what can I take more risk on, right?" Instructional materials, I can fight not to spend money on instructional materials. Technology. Um again, a lot of that technology is going to be IEP mandated, right? But we're really going to try and not spend on anything we don't absolutely need and isn't absolutely mandated uh by something like an IEP.
So I I would recommend that you would go to that. If you need any assistance, please reach out to Claudia. Um, it's very important, as Mr. Daniels has mentioned before, that on April 27th, you have the annual budget hearing. That's when Mr. Daniels will present your budget again to the the public. And my recommendation is for board members to be present that evening. April 29th, we have a curriculum committee meeting and April 29th at 7:30m. There's the CHS spring instrumental uh concert. And on Tuesday, May 12th, which we only have two board of education meetings left in the evening, we have our May and June. In May, we'll hear from Kinton Intermediate School and then in June, we'll hear from Cherry Brook Primary School. So, we're we're really getting to that. And I just want to remind the the board of our walkth through at CIS on May 7th.
>> Okay. >> So elementary a little different because you can see on their scale they just have a one, two, or three. So they don't have a fivepoint scale because it's too complicated. >> So they're either answering no, hardly ever, sometimes or yes very much often. Um so this in the belonging theme for elementary school that we have had positive gone up from the elementary who So they take it I mean it depends on this is third third through so can read and answer the questions on their own. Some of our staffs have tried created a little presentation to help students >> I don't understand the question that kind of thing. Um yeah, do they understand what that data >> that's why I think >> and this I would say also this belonging for elementary the same response in the survey similar >> percentile So that's nice to see that we're kind of strong.
Uh recommendation here is to pass with an amendment. Um We'll amend HRS section 1-13 to retain We'll amend this bill to retain the current um language in 1-13 that English and Hawaiian are the official languages of Hawaii. The The bill said that they would be the official language of Hawaii, but they are the official language languages of Hawaii. And then we'll [clears throat] also put on a different bad date, uh March 22, 2075. If Questions or concerns? If not, Vice Chair. >> HB 2433 HD1 recommendation to pass with amendments. Any no votes or reservations?
It would be repaired rather than replaced when it was worn or damaged. And it is an independent unit that retains its original shape, appearance, and character. These three criteria are set by the Arizona Auditor General. And so, that again is what all districts in the state use to determine what is capital versus what is M&O. So, some examples down here again, physical items, it would be athletic equipment, furniture, technology-related hardware. The one I find interesting is software um because that's not really something physical, but it is capital. And then also construction compared to M&O, which would be our salaries, benefits, supplies. If we were going to repair something instead of replace it, then it becomes M&O. I think we're good. Yeah. So, looking at some of the highlights, this is going into next year, and right now uh the of course, the legislature is still working on the school budget, so we are making assumptions.
I'm a senior at Loom School High School and then I was leader of this year's school participatory budgeting. Hi, I'm Britney Zo and I'm a senior. Hi, I'm Bradley Reedhead and I'm a sophomore. Hi, I'm Everly and I'm a sophomore. This year for our school participatory budgeting, our idea collection started as a QR code that we sent to every classroom on campus and asked students to fill out the QR code with ideas that they wanted to see around campus. For our proposal development, we took a list of all of the top picks from our idea collection and narrowed it down to see overlapping ideas, similar ones and what students wanted to see. Our first idea was to beautify the bathrooms which means we got new hand dryers cuz the ones we have are some of them are broken. And then we needed dividers in between the urinals in the boys bathroom and just to clean up the bathrooms a little bit more.
So again, the FTE is only about how how your salary is broken down in terms of full-time equivalency. It does not account for our time on task, right? Because we're like we're again, we're not hourly employees, we're salaried. We get our salary and this is how it's paid across the three districts. What I will also say is that I would strongly advise the chair of Union 26 to have the conversation and bring it forward and probably formalize it between like that and the chair of the like bring it together and formalize this because technically you are correct. First of all, to clarify, the choice children are our students because once we have accepted them, they are ours. So it is 120 plus students. It is about 5. 5 5.6% that would have to pay be paid. I think um region would be 52% and then armor should be 44% if we actually allocated it across the enrollment enrollment.
Um professional development conferences, again, um you know, the needs uh to attend conferences [clears throat] and things like that is very important for our staff. Janelle looked at that a couple more times and said I could take a little bit of money out of there. Uh you will see unemployment insurance showing up everywhere. Um I as long as we don't do additional cuts beyond anything on here, I think we can be okay with this unemployment insurance number. The challenge is, you know, it it it people can fight for unemployment for anything. Um I've had people who left of their own accord who then went and applied for unemployment and they got it. Um it's hard to to stop. Um copier contract, same thing. Um Joe worked really hard to renegotiate a little bit of that contract, figured out where we could eke out some savings.
Please try to put that on your calendar from 8:30 to 10:30 at CIS. So, we'll have two meetings in May and we'll have one night meeting in June for a board event and then we'll walk around Cher Brook Primary School also. And I do want to let the the board know that we are monitoring kindergarten numbers very very closely. And as I mentioned this morning, we had 83 students that are currently um registered for kindergarten. We projected over a hundred through our projection reports. So I'll keep reporting back to you that that number and to the finance committee on what we're going to do with kindergarten. If we stay at the A3 and we have two open slots for open choice, we will go to five sections. That'll be different than what we have budgeted for and we'll have to look at that. If we go higher than that, then of course we'll stay up at 86.
>> I I hope that's what you want. There's the question that students answer. So to your point, I also think that's really important like we'll start with the high school. >> What would make you feel? >> I like this. I like that. Oh yeah. Well, that's those are the kind of things you know and then answer the question right from there. We're not quite where a lot of are so >> and then just going back to that for a moment. So when when the survey was first done in January 2.7 and then a couple years later it dropped the >> wellbody and then 2023 was the year is basically stayed the same last year. >> These are the questions on the next at least I hope so. >> So the first question is exactly we hope so. So then um the reason we're actually pretty close to what a question learning environment start because this is just about that statement posit We are only about two points away from a meeting that I feel I feel that my child last year 25 slightly down from that.
Hearing none, the measure passes. Okay, thank you. Next up is HB 2503. This authorizes civil asset forfeiture related to fireworks offenses that can constitute felonies. Uh the recommendation here is to accept the AG's technical amendment clarifying that only felonies trigger forfeiture. Questions or concerns? If not, Vice Chair. HB 2503 HD1 SD1 recommendation to pass with amendments. Any no votes or reservations?