The nurse. We added the nurse. The nurse, the floating The floating nurse, yeah. Those are still in the budget. Yeah. It went from a point four to a a 1.0. >> So we're So we're taking the float nurse full-time. That's correct. Yeah. Okay. So all of those are included in this budget. So these cuts that you've listed here are affording us Yes, the ability to have those things, yes. >> Okay. To some degree. I just wanted that clarification. And make it that ELA coach is both for both Berlin and Bolton. Right. Okay, yep. So let me just know we have shift models. >> Oh yeah, just like the math coach. >> That's right, yeah. All right, but the reading coach is just high school. The reading [clears throat] specialist, right, difference between the coach and reading specialist. Sorry, I didn't mean it. But the reading specialist will be just at the high school.
>> Other questions? All you good up there still? Okay. Could I get a U board finance committee member to make this motion that can board of education approve the March 2026 financial is presented? >> I I can make motion. >> Thank you. >> I'd like to make a motion that we um approve the March financials um as presented. >> Thank you. Second. Thank you very much. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Hi Allie, you with us? Good. >> We have seven seven on. Thank you very much for that. All right. Uh we move on and uh last week we had a a great presentation at the uh at the middle school by Mr. Moore and some of the staff and u we saw some great things happening middle school. They continue to happen at the middle school. Mr. Morris here to give a uh quick update for continuous improvement plan uh at the middle school Mr.
So any of your thoughts you have or if you want to write down some >> notes or >> what you're supposed to do a little compass. So one that >> might actually go back and say or something that you think is real neat. What spect one of these circle which one you want to do >> is how much they're being allowed to create they still feel their work >> that all they saw doesn't matter And then you look at the at the I want to say >> you know they jumped up and they look great from the engagement and Yeah. USA middle school elementary say something, >> right? Right. And then a couple adds to it. And then so all that just kind of, you know, Many of them are. >> Yes. >> But as long as they contribute to school goals. >> Yes. >> And it's interesting because it does.
Yes, President Wade, board member Jarman. We are we have a capital plan and actually Miss Johnson and I were speaking to that earlier today. I guess she had been overseeing maintenance this year. We have plans for and I mean in their spreadsheets to support this so for these painting at the schools, carpet replacement at the schools, which cooling tower is going to need the most work next. Along with that is preventative maintenance. So what can we do ahead of time using M&O to you know, do some preventative maintenance on these things to keep them running so that it does not have to turn into a large capital purchase. Miss Rushcamp, can I interject as well? An additional part of this when you look at textbook adoptions, so we've met with Ed Services and mapped out what does it look like for textbook adoptions for the next five years because we do know that some of our curriculum is coming due and we've had some older curriculum that is no longer supported by their publishers and so that's kind of pushing to the forefront and we have to be strategic about how we can place those to meet those needs and yet not at the same time overwhelm our budget cuz in reality when we look at capital we're for just for textbook adoptions, probably 4.5 million over the next three years for textbooks going through.
Um so, I'm a little bit confused and interested to know more. That's the question. I just also want to repeat um lots of kids were told that the cameras were there because of things they did wrong and I and that is concerning to hear as a committee member, especially if that's not the case. Um so, I just like really want to emphasize that we be telling the kids what's really going on and that might mean equipping teachers with more information. I don't I don't know why and how that happened, but that's a concern. So, what I'm going to say is that after this um because that I don't know I I want to ask some follow-up questions to the statements that you just made before I look into it. So, after this I'll reach out so that I can adequately work with Mickey to determine what was said and who said what.
Our middle school high school. And the float nurse is the Tihanto budget or district? >> Float nurse covers all three schools. Okay. Yeah, yeah. All right, that's it for me right now. Aaron, do you have a last slide that you want to show us? Um there's one more slide and this is the rollover. So one final request is procedural, but is is the rollover. So I would be requesting in addition to the budget this will allow me to roll over these two items. Um and we realistically by the time we get this money approved often times in May things like the elevator controls are something that that take months to schedule out. So there's no way we could get it done over the summer as much as we tried and there's no other good time to get that done because it shuts down an elevator.
Mora. Thank you very much. Um so uh thank you to the board members for for coming to visit Kate Middle School. Again, it's incredibly proud of um what's happening around our school. Incredibly proud of our teachers and our students. is good to have you in participating in some activities and learning about how we have done with executing the plan that we set out to do at the start of the year and seeing some of the results that we have at this point of the year. Um we were very proud to to share those initiatives with you and again just kind of in summary report that as we look at our students we see that they are growing our strengths are getting stronger and our areas of need are accelerating in terms of their rate of growth and that's exactly what we can hope for. So I think that overall this continuous improvement plan that I can up that I will update on it is uh we have the data affirms that we are moving in the right direction and we remain committed to the work.
>> Yeah. >> It is. It is detached from we're not asking questions for one of our >> indirect indirectly do. I think about some of the actions that we've implemented through the ELCAT to present in response to some of the >> almost everybody social workers right So that students are so part of it all but we are seeing some out tasting, you know, I think just trying to build that one or two. >> What excites you? about the data >> or what are you >> what engagement is that the parents had% from 200 You would think that there's >> Yeah, someone else noticed students are feeling their parents different groups. So that that was that was some little >> surprises. >> The adults think it's great. >> I could add I consider >> I'll be here tomorrow. >> And and um to me the belonging and they're very safely engaged down and more connected you are a little bit.
Well, if you look at our contingency fund, our carry forward, that's 4.5 million dollars. And so we have to be very strategic about what we can do to make sure that we provide those resources. And so Ed Services is tracking that working with finance to see what kind of schedule that looks like. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Can you also expand? I really want the community to kind of understand the processes of the SFD? Can you briefly expand on that a touch? Either one of you, I apologize. Yes, so the school facilities division again was developed back when the funding was falling off again for capital projects as a way to support schools and to support the projects and it and it should be taking care of like the major projects. So for instance, we had the two cooling towers that went down at Williams Field and Cooley Middle School.
Um I will work with my IS team. Um I think part of it was if there's a camera facing the front door, they could can see straight down that hallway and it can also possibly, but I need to confirm, also see straight down the other hallway. So, placing a camera in between like in the inside of there wouldn't make much sense because we already have a range of sight based on the cameras that are there. If that makes sense. So, if there's a camera facing the front door, it probably and I haven't seen it, so I'll work with my IS to to give you that confirmation. But based on what I've seen so far like the other schools and the cameras that have been used, they have a range of sight straight down the hallway. So, if it's not it's not just pointed at the door, it's going straight down.
If we're without an elevator, the school shuts down. So Dan um will get those elevators controls done this summer for sure. Uh the BES playground And again, our our auditor said, you know, in the past this has always been multi-year, but I'm I'm making sure that we sort of perfect this going forward. Um the BES playground equipment I know I apologize. Someone's not going to see me. Um uh the BES playground equipment I know there's conversations about fundraising and getting some additional money and and you've been part of those conversations, Megan. Um that had sort of left us hanging on to that and knowing that we were going to work on that um ideally by this summer. So I want to make sure those that funding is available and no one questions the availability of those funds. So I would request the school committee to roll over those two items um for the upcoming year.
Uh overall we're celebrating our growth taking steps to continue uh down this path. Our focus areas for the year were on curricular and instructional alignment with grade level standards. We wanted to make sure that students are thinking deeply and thinking independently. And some uh focus areas for the year was on classroom visuals and resources, the way that we design tasks and questions and scaffold the supports. Those were our professional development focus areas for the year and uh executing a revised school climate plan. I'll just on this kind of summary screen. Uh there was a question that came after the board walked through about just the increasing student needs and how we're prepared to respond to that. Are we able to respond to an increasing student need? And I'd say that this type of plan is how we do that. Schools are called, teachers are called to be more flexible and nimble than ever as we respond to everchanging student needs.
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HVAC is considered an emergency in the state of Arizona due to the heat. It is something you have to have in order to continue to hold class. So that bumped us up to the top. Unfortunately, even the emergency funds that were there were not enough to allow. Now we were able to finally get Williams Field approved. So that we are still working on getting that repaired. But it was getting too close for the time for Cooley. I mean there comes a point where it was costing more to continue to rent cooling towers from contractors than it would have cost for us to just have gone out and fix it. So I mean and there's several several items that again fall in that category. And we're on for weatherization for a couple of our schools. We're on the list to be to have that approved and to get funded, but again, the funding just is not there and it's through no fault of SFD.
So, I need to ask what was the intention and get clarity, but to my knowledge it should not be to my knowledge, that's the front entrance, it should not be being used to monitor students during the day. So, I will confirm and find out where that came from and have that cleared cleared up. That all makes sense. I'm confused about the cameras in the other hallway. That's That's what would be helpful So, for me line of sight and security, right? If If we're If we're trying to make sure that things are safe and we want all all possible angles of what could occur. So, for me those hallways and I always get turned around, right? But that I think that's the we come down the the front and then That's the It's the first hallway when you're from the office. Right. >> They're like every 8 to 10 ft down that hallway.
What happens if we need to do the playground equipment before June 30th? What happens if we need the 30 What happens if we >> If you have to do it what? What happens if we vote to roll the 30,000, but we actually need it before June 30th? You can still use it. >> Okay. Yeah, yeah. You you have it for you have an approval for 26. This will give you the approval for 27. I think it's very likely you're not going to be able to get all the work done before the end of June at this point. I mean, you know, the ground's just thawing and and scheduling people and I know there's So we the best time is the summer. I mean, some I've done them I've done them in the the fall a little bit when you couldn't get a schedule them during the summer, but those are less impactful than the elevator controls, right?
Every cohort being different than the last. and with really great tier one instruction where we can know where our students are and meet their needs and then uh make sure that the school client with the school environment has the supports that they need. It is a challenge work that we're doing is how we're set up to to meet student needs uh but however they may present to us on a on an annual basis. So we're trying to prepare for all all our needs that may come before us with the work that we're with the work that we're doing. Specifically aligned to the components of our continuous improvement plan which is aligned with the board's strategic plan. We did a lot this year. Um we we did the steps that I talked to you about in the fall. Right? So I'm really pleased with how we are working together as a team.
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They're just not getting the funding themselves. Thank you. I think this is so helpful information. And I you know, AC towers certain things, you know, it's helpful to have something we're going through the hoops, we're doing all the processes we can and I'm so grateful for your foresight and your guys' strategic planning on really kind of helping the district just really kind of keep floating and I'm really grateful all the research and touching base with Higley High and I really I rest assured that these tax dollars are being spent very wisely in the district and I really want to point that out. Thank you. Sorry. So as far as the ELA curriculum, so even if it's still within state standards, we would consider getting new curriculum? Remember Van Hook. Yeah, what's coming up with the ELA curriculum is if the publisher is sunsetting it, therefore we don't have any more support for that curriculum anymore.
Okay. So, I will say that I will check in with my IS team um and then I will have a update for the school committee. Okay. I I have not been able to put my own eyes on it. It was my intention when I returned physically to put my eyes on it. So, until then I have to depend on what my team tells me. So, I'll get an update and I'll reach back out to you. I think a parent also asked and now I'm remembering, can you share where the budget where what budget this came out of? Is it central IS or is it from a Pelham budget line that we're Can you find that out for us as well? Sure. Um Shannon, I believe um it came from central IS. Uh yes. Thank you. It came from central IS. IS had um They have their own account lines in Pelham, Amherst, and Region.