Same as we did for M&O. Um one thing we are taking into next year is we are not making an inflation adjustment. We have been holding steady for the last 3 years with the same pupil ADM amount for capital. Going into next year, we will be doing the same. There is talk of one-time funds again. Right now, we are being conservative. We are not adding that to the budget. And the hope is for 2028, we will actually see an increase to our capital funding. So, when you look at the middle, the capital funding for next year, again, we've been carrying this for 3 years, $549.45 per ADM for grades K through 8. 9 through 12 is $600.86. And then also, 9 through 12, they receive a textbook um funding of $84.93. So, again, same dollar amounts we've been looking at the last last several years with the hope of getting a supplemental added again one time.
Okay, and then we also wanted to renew or kind of clean up the student union a little bit. We wanted to make more seating arrangements, make it more comfortable for the students to hang out, to study, and to also clean out a room to make it a copy room for teachers to set up and prepare for their classes. Our last option was updating the nest. We were going to add more seating, better lighting, and then just overall like clean it up and like the accessibility going into the nest. Okay, and then we voted on February 10th and we had students come out during their history classes, scan the QR code so we can make sure that everybody only voted once and we handed out the voted stickers after everybody voted. So after collecting all the votes, the winner was to revamp the media center and we announced that on Instagram and we posted and everyone was really excited.
To me that that's that, but again, we would need the districts to come together and formalize and determine how they want central office to operate because it's all about the shared cost. So so that that's for me. We don't like Jenny said, we don't turn around and say, oh, it's been 20 minutes of our time, we're done. No, if in from January till now like every day we account for what's happening in in all three districts and we put the same effort towards Pelham that we would put towards anybody else. This is our job is to make sure we support Pelham and it is able to function best. So for me, I serve three committees with the same energy um and each of you have your own different viewpoint of how you want to operate, how you want to do things, what you think is is is expectations and priorities.
Um telephone, there's a little money that as I was digging through, going through every single line item that I think we could pull out of that. Um Dan offered up a little bit of money um from some maintenance lines. It's not huge, but again, we're looking for every single uh little thing. Um we may not be able to do all the grounds maintenance we want. Um we may not be able to maintain some of the equipment in the way we might want to. Um we may not be able to paint when we need to. Um those are just things we'll we'll give up. Um again, the cuts to finance office staff, you'll see in all uh the net is a a 20% cut to a single staff person in finance and tech. Uh curriculum review, that is gone. Um so, you will see there was a page one and this is page two.
So we're monitoring that very closely. I'll take any questions out of superintendent's office. Questions for the superintendent? All you good up there? Okay. All right. hearing none, we'll move right on to the assistant superintendent, Mr. Bishop, please. >> Thank you, Chair Daniels. Uh we are squarely in the standardized assessment season right now as we step into uh spring athletics. Um we know standardized assessments that our students participate in are one constellation of student performance metrics for us. Uh and there are so much more than that, but we do recognize and and respect that that is a metric by which people view the district. Um again, Canton has fared extraordinarily well in the district performance index. Um I'll remind you that's the index of over 12 indicators that uh the state department of education utilizes to be able to uh measure the performance of districts. Um we're really excited to be able to celebrate the success of our students, our staff, and the community in this good work.
We're not sure >> that yes down by two percentage points which is insificant the other question we looked at 48%. This is one that obviously we are below a big jump up by%. So the third question I feel safer my child >> parents I can see there be curious to see what >> then another way to look values on my child's school and then this is a middle school we can again and that's what I was saying to amount of families there was significant growth there a lot more families >> with that increase yeah brought down the a middle school across middle school. Same question for parents. I feel valued by my child. This basically helped stay the same from last year in terms of positive and that wouldn't change. And then the other question I feel safe. So this is 5 to 26 >> that's the same one on the other >> you seen at your school >> if you look at it this way in terms of the positive responses my child environments in both highlight.
Hearing none, the measure is adopted. Thank you. Next up is HB 2505 relating to assist community treatment. Clarifies the community mental health outpatient programs that have agreed to provide mental health services to a defendant as part of an assisted community treatment order may prepare a a certificate for assisted community treatment and provide the certification certificate to the defendant and may file an assisted community treatment petition with the family court. Uh recommendation here is to pass unamended. Yes. Unamended. Unamended. Okay. Unless you want to change it. Uh the um the Department of Health proposed amendments that they gave it to me pretty late, so I chose not to put it in for this one. Oh. Um I don't know. Can Do you know what they are? Uh it it's listed on their um testimony. Okay. I mean, otherwise it's just going to go to conference and it'll be Yeah, that's fine.
For our major maintenance projects uh that are subject to the SFD funding, historically, HUSD has been transferring money from M&O over to capital to assist with any projects that we've had. We've had the override, so we have been able to do that. However, with our declining enrollment and knowing going into '27 that is the last year of our M&O override, we will not be transferring any funds from M&O to capital for projects for any major projects. We will be doing our um usual transfer from M&O over to capital to support the lease payments, and we had talked about that in the three different presentations for the uh M&O budget. Okay, so this is looking at the departments and the schools breaking down the capital budget for next year. What we do is each December, we meet with the departments to determine what they believe their needs will be going into the next school year, and then we build our budget from that.
Thank you so much for your time. >> [applause] >> All right. Well, first and foremost, can we please just give all the kiddos in this room, the teenagers, awesome job. >> [applause] >> It is not easy to get up in front of people and speak. Students, K-12, you guys did an amazing job. We're so proud of you. So many of you don't know that these projects are recently being purchased through our finance department and they are being delivered to campuses with the goal in mind that they be set up and prepared ready to go before kids get out for the summer. Obviously, there's some shipping and stuff like that that's taking place. So not everything is, but I will tell you all these projects will be installed prior to the start of the new school year. So we're super excited. Great job. Mr. Lotzenhiser, did you want to add anything?
The communities that we serve all have the same things and we don't have the option as a central office to say, "No, we're not going to look into this. No, we're not going to do that." So, in actuality, even if you think about 8-hour days, we do not work. Central office and the the main and the top individuals that would actually be if you were to use what Jenny said and say, "Look at the positions that you have to have." Your finance person, your curriculum person, your superintendent, your HR person. If you were to look across those critical areas and determine who in central office you were supposed to have, none of those individuals are hourly. None of those individuals only work 8 hours a day. None of Like, those individuals have to extend throughout to make sure they could support and do what needs to be done.
Total savings, $335,548. That's a big piece to have to cut out of our budget. And that's not as Al said, we don't want to cut a nickel of this, but we just don't really have a choice. We're up against a wall. So, Tahanto, recognizing that there was a lot of concern about some of the cuts that have happened at Tahanto in the past few years, um some of the staff that were lost there. Uh we really tried to be mindful of digging deep into the things that that weren't necessarily staff based and and trying to see what we could do though to help support the budget overall. Um so, we did as we looked at paraprofessionals and really tried to ask some of the questions and say we're going to take more risk. We said, "Well, we can cut a para." Um doesn't mean, you know, the problem is that everything with special education is IEP based.
My recommendation always though to students, wear comfortable socks. If your feet feel good, everything else gets better. Any questions out of my office? >> Very good, Bishop. Any questions? >> Thank you very much for that. >> Thank you. >> Um, we move to our student reps. Lucas Jonathan wants to go first. >> I'll take it. >> Go ahead, Jonathan. >> Thank you. Um, from Cherry Book, I'll start with Cherry Book. Um we had an u according to uh we had a recent all school meeting led by third graders um focused on our bare necessity trait of being a problem solver. This meeting kind of highlighted how students can think through challenges and make positive choices. Um uh cherry brick also recognized the jump rope for hard accomplishments and celebrated the efforts of I wonder participants. It honored student growth, effort, and community spirit. Tomorrow, April 8th, Cherry Brook Singers, a group of second and third graders um led by Cherry Brook music teacher Miss Card will have their spring performance for all families.
>> All right. And then we're on to yes elementary family service. same elementary school 24 went up 25 down from this >> and then the next by the median more >> total to an adult now >> child school >> they've done a lot% elementary school high school. Not that they're hands off, but then now it's shows that survey for high school. >> They also not they don't have a belonging theme. What I mentioned before this is from our school. >> I see that. Everybody this was the >> we talked about you know this culture the safety committee. >> The same that I think They have that means each staff person want to know and we want to know how we can improve it. All right. High schoolific% positive. So if you're at the work environment and that's 55 stayed about the same as last year.
Vice Chair, it's fine. >> Let's just go with unamended then. Okay. Thank you. Other concerns or questions? If not, Vice Chair. HB 2505 HD1 SD1 recommendation to pass as is. Any no votes or reservations?
One thing we did different this year well, going into next year is typically the software purchases have fallen under the information technology budget. So, going into next year, it was asked if we could move the software that pertains to a particular department into their budget so that they have their eyes on what the cost of the software is, all of the items included in that software, um just kind of had a a better understanding. So, that's where you will see some differences in that difference column. So, district-wide, that would include like the superintendent budget, the sped budget, human resources, student services, things like that. Um their budget, we are projecting 376,000. Again, the biggest reason for that is software cost. With some of the biggest software cost being in human resources just with the software we have to have for our application system, for Raptor, for our safety, and um all of the things that the teachers and staff have to take, the different classes.
So thank you again to all the parents who supported the occasion and did such a fantastic job. And when we see this type of leadership, it really gives us excitement and hope. So thank you so much. >> [applause] >> So I just wanted to say thank you to all of the participation that you did at each school. It is really helpful to us as board members for multiple reasons. A, it's just great to see students doing awesome things. So we're grateful for all of that, but B, I do also think it gives us ideas of needs. So we appreciate your perspective cuz it matters. So thank you and thanks for giving up your time in during testing season and all that jazz. Get sleep. >> [applause] >> All right, that concludes the presentations. Awesome job. Everyone have a wonderful evening. Be safe going home.
So, I'm not saying like technically, it's not about the time. The the the breakdown in how we are paid will never equate to how we service the district, right? Because we put the same level of service into each district and it is really honestly and truly how we move forward each and every day. Just to add, I think that the the size of and I don't know how this works, but like Amherst preschool or whatever it's called, I think it's the same about the same size as Pelham Elementary as far as students, I think. Who? Amherst The Early Education Center. The Early Education Center. It's about the same size as Pelham for the number of students? They have about 70 >> I thought it was 90. That was like 90 students, sorry. Okay. So, then does that roll into Amherst budget? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> where that comes from?
We could get an IEP tomorrow that says we need that para. We may have to come back. But every one of these items, it's in that category. Uh instructional technology, same thing as both other schools, we're taking a cut in that, hoping that um we're able to deliver services. Some of that occupational therapy, contract services, instructional coaching. Uh Joe dug deep into I want to say it was seven different supply lines. I'm not lining all of them out. Um but he really said like we can work with um these other lines and we can just eliminate these. We just don't need them. I I mean, we could use them, but, you know, we can try to live without them. Um the net net of unemployment insurance when I did it out by the numbers, actually puts a little bit more back into the Tahanto budget, but the net net if you look at all three cuts, is a total cut of $20,000 district wide.
Hopefully, you can be there tonight or tomorrow to support the Cherry Brook Choir. >> Do you have a time? >> Um I do not. >> Okay, we'll find out. Thank you. Um on Thursday, April 9th, uh Canton parent and bride life officer John Chigos will be at Cherry Brook to work with our third graders revisiting an annual visit where students learn about wildlife in Connecticut and connect to content covered in now moving on to CIS. Fourth graders had visited Serbridge Village and fifth graders vis visited the museum to support their social studies units on migration movement and Native Americans. Uh CIS had also welcomed Jana Marks. Miss Marks spoke with each grade level about her writing process and lessons as an author, helping expose writing towards our students. All right. Middle school. Uh just recently, the uh cast and crew performed the witches princess. They did a fantastic job.
That's interesting because we can feel positively, right? Right. >> Um so um responded >> especially I mean would you sayward from last year Lastly, elementary school. >> So wonky. It's fits down. It's up fits down. So I think this really would take a deep dive into particular elementary schools because we have seven districts or four different staffs all coming together. So there was >> we were doing so good at 25 >> again very positive >> all theove degrees. Yes. >> Thank you for point back and forth. Um but um yes above the 50th percentile nationally and um and if you look at it a different way positive responses my school creates a positive work environment elementary Now we can talk.