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Um he his idea was to create this game. So, the little screenshot that you see is a game of life that he coded and when you look at the code, it's insane. And what happens is the little um like food or the implement will fall from the sky the little wildcat has to catch it and he opened a new level every time either the the trash was picked up or all the playground equipment was picked up, he would open a new level for all the kids. So, that was a pretty cool thing for him. Um our leadership class, one of the students in the class had a wonderful idea that the month of March is kindness month and so they presented the idea of doing kindness bingo for the whole school. So, the one with the pictures is for K3, one with the words was for eight and so what students got to do is when they did those things they would mark it off and have their parents sign and then they would earn PBIS points for every box that they did.
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>> good teachers who would be willing to teach online. So, I think we should look at all various opportunities. Thank you. I can see the challenges online cuz you would have to have somebody that can teach that and also create the online and online is a little bit different in It is. the online like um could possibly you know, have some challenges with the technology and and their language. >> Mhm. Yeah. This is a very specialized course in a specialized expertise. Even many Hawaiians don't speak the dialect. >> Exactly. And there is even within that um area where there's controversy as to how certain words are pronounced. Mhm. The words are Mhm. Um yes. Mr. Chairman, uh Yeah, that's a great segue into what I was just going to say. is it's it's got a special unique need based upon this and I get that.
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And it's really fun to watch my peers compete. Baseball is currently 125. Our varsity softball team is 136. And our boys beach vol and our beach volleyball team is 54. Finally, our track and field team are having a great season with numerous personal bests and school records being broken. Our spring sports are making us proud and we look forward to seeing how they do with this year's state's tournament. I'd like to take some time to recognize achievements that our students and staff have received in these past months. I would first like to recognize ACP DECA for their efforts at the 2026 state career development conference. They took 125 students to compete at the SCDC with 45 of our students qualifying to go to the International Career Development Conference this month in Atlanta. Our academic decathlon team had finished in third place at their state tournament, but second place overall in individual trophies.
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Um, but we would do any of that through a parental permission slip process and make sure the parents are aware. And as is always the case, we always have an opt out. So if somebody has an objection to the bread winner >> and then there's also plenty of other options for them. So should they choose the parent choose that that's not appropriate for their child, we're just doing our due diligence um in this office that we have taken um to make sure that we're just following the law with parental rights and so forth. So we're all on the same page, >> right? So what you'll see on these lists um for example, the the book that board member Horn is referencing is in unit three of sixth grade, the one that she mentioned earlier. Um there are three different novels that are part of unit three and sixth grade with Lexile levels of 610, 710, and 870.
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We may have to look at it. I think we should. I think it's the right thing to do. But I don't think I could in goodness ask athletic parents to pay more of a tax for them for their kids because they want to play a sport. Um, we've reduced and and actually eliminated Kelly, what was was it like $50 a kid for activities um years ago? Um even like even like student government was charging like when I was first principal um to participate in um the drama program. It was $50 an activity or for the year for an activity. But we got rid of that. We're like why are we charging kids to participate in those events? Um so so this again relies heavily on on the on the use of revolving accounts. I talked about that we we highlighted this the school choice um how how it's negatively going to be impacted.
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>> Yeah. >> Sure. >> All right. Then I look for a motion for that. >> Are you Are you making the motion? Great. >> I move that we continue to engage with school choice and follow the superintendent's recommendation for number of seats per grade. >> Excellent. I would second that. So, we have a motion. I We have a second.
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>> Yeah, it would be an affirmation. >> Sure. >> All right. Then I look for a motion for that. >> Are you Are you making the motion? Great. >> I move that we continue to engage with school choice and follow the superintendent's recommendation for number of seats per grade. >> Excellent. I would second that. So, we have a motion. I We have a second.
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[clears throat] Any questions, Emily? All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. >> when are you off crutches? Oh, I have a week and a little bit till I'm off crutches, so it's exciting. Good break for spring break. >> Right to Akai. Get them off early if you can. Enjoy that spring break. All right. Thank you, Emily. Thanks. Thank you. Consent agenda. I move that the board approve the items listed on the consent agenda as recommended. New hires, transfers, and resignations.
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We had a lot of a lot of field trips now that have been happening in the spring. So, in fact in February our third grade students went to Monterey. Um just recently our fourth grade students went over to Mariposa to the mineral and historic museum. And then our first first graders got to explore the pizza factory, make their own pizza, see how it's done and they got a behind the scenes look at Riley's and how it operates. Thank you. >> [applause] >> Thank you, Cherry. My goodness, that's great stuff. Thank you. Uh next up is number 10, superintendent's report. No report today. All right, then [clears throat] we will move to board member comments. Seeing none, staff comments. Um yes, this is a little bit out of order but uh let me uh uh I I couldn't help but notice that a lot of the conversation tonight was about uh participation, being heard and uh involvement and when I started on the board six years ago we I learned this about this thing called an LCAP and I asked and I thought, "Wow, that's how we make all our decisions based on this uh local control and accountability plan and uh I I was looking at looking at it and Randy was the superintendent back then and we were making decisions for the whole district based on these numbers.
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But in my experience with Hawaiian we have regional dialects all the way across all the islands and pronunciations, just what you were talking about, different words. Um how do you address that? And if we're addressing that, I I can't think if there's a more standardized Hawaiian taught but then we have regional dialects like you'd find in any other language. >> So you're going a little bit beyond my expertise in how we teach Hawaiian, but we do have Hawaiian language taught at University of Hawaii Hilo, University of Hawaii, well, at all of our universities, I believe. And so there are faculty who have been trained in different dialects and then are teaching according to their training. So yes, there are active conversations at the university over how to teach and how and what constitutes the teaching of Hawaiian language, but I can't say more than that because I'm I I just intrigued that this brings up the conversation like for instance, in Kohala we have the rain Naulu which um on the what do you call it, west side of Maui, they they know Naulu but Kahului doesn't necessarily know Naulu.
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This year is the first year they've qualified to nationals as a team. I'm also extremely proud to announce that our speech debate team was crowned 2026 AIA Division 1 state champions. In this year's tournament, the team had eight individual state champions. This is the team's sixth state title in the last seven years, which is absolutely wild and an amazing achievement. ACP also has a ton of upcoming events. the first Wednesday this week with our annual international nights festival where students volunteer to showcase their culture to the student body to celebrate diversity and unity. Every year there are always amazing performances, delicious food, and so much community involvement that comes together to learn more about one another. This Monday, we had a fashion showcasing different types of cultural clothing and it was a lot of fun to watch. Our nights theater company also has a new show coming up next week called Let Me A Tenner.
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So if the collective board said we don't want that book used, no biggie. We got two other options in there. You know, what I think we have to be careful of is if we say we don't like any of them, and then we have this dichotomy of we're saying we're not happy the kids aren't reading, but we took everything away that was aligned to the to the text. You got to decide as a board what you want to do with it. >> Also, I just want to make sure that so we approve these novels. >> Then the teachers, they can use these as they they so choose in their in their thing. We're not telling them how to use this. And what's really >> I think that's a little different than what you were kind of saying you were when you're doing your >> telling them what they can do.
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Um, initially our conversation was about a level funded budget. Uh, and that would have wiped everything out in every one of these accounts, right? Um, because we we would have to reduce our total staffing by um, another 20 people probably if we didn't utilize the funding. I talked about about 14 and a half million dollars of of capital needs, deferred maintenance needs. I don't list them all here, folks. Um, you know, individually, but they are listed in my budget book. Um, if you want to go look at that, uh, we haven't really, you know, highlighted, you know, everything that needs to be done Chromebook replacement, like how are we budgeting for that? Um, what about safety features? Uh, if something happens to the alarm system, uh, how are we fixing those? Um, do we have flexibility to do those things? Um, federal grant limitations. What's happening to federal grants?
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Any discussion? >> Great. Uh, will you please call the vote? >> Secretary Webb, I'm Yes. Vice Chair Childs, >> yes. >> Member Dene, >> yes. >> Member Dyman, >> yes. >> Member Goodwin, >> yes. >> Chair Ston, >> yes. >> Excellent. Passes unanimously. Uh, you're very welcome. And now we are moving on to item nine, school committee reports. Um, mine's pretty short, but at one of our last meetings, we did have a bit of a a question came up about how we do this particular procedure. Um, I did do some some research about exactly how this happens when you are trying to wrap up a discussion and and you know um proceed to a vote. you actually when you are making this, if you're in discussion and you're noticing that the same point is being said again and again, you're like, I wish we could just wrap this up.
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Any discussion? Great. Uh, will you please call the vote? >> Secretary Webb, I'm Yes. Vice Chair Childs, >> yes. >> Member Deniv, >> yes. >> Member Dyman, >> yes. >> Member Goodwin, >> yes. >> Chair Son, >> yes. >> Excellent. Passes unanimously. Uh, you're very welcome. And now we are moving on to item nine, school committee reports. Um, mine's pretty short, but at one of our last meetings, we did have a bit of a a question came up about how we do this particular procedure. Um, I did do some some research about exactly how this happens when you are trying to wrap up a discussion and and you know um proceed to a vote. you actually when you are making this, if you're in discussion and you're noticing that the same point is being said again and again, you're like, I wish we could just wrap this up.
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Any discussion? All right. All those in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Any nays? All right. Moving right along to unfinished business. This time I got it right. Um Mr. Frisi, I'm going to give you the floor to kick off our discussion on the adopted budget. Thank you. >> [clears throat] >> You're welcome. All right. I think this is on. All right. Um I don't know if a few people need to to move, but if you need to, please please do. Um I just wanted to give an update and um share it with you this way, just so you could see what I'm talking about, and we could kind of put context to words. Um so, I I do want to share a little bit of an update now that we know where we are with the budget and what will be going out for vote.
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We got 70% of parents like this and uh and 60% like that and I said, "Well, what are the what are the actual numbers on that? What does that mean?" [laughter] And he said, "Well, we got 25 survey responses back and so 70% of that would be like 18 people. That's what we were making our decisions with, the opinions of 18 people. And so we're talking about involvement and we like hearing everyone says, I like it and we take that into account but the the actual numbers that go into the what's important and what's weighted on our LCAP is is up to the parents and the people that take these surveys. And and I realized that was important and so the second year I talked to my neighbors that had kids and they talked to some of their neighbors and we got the response up to 84 people district wide and it should be like 300.
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And so it just how do you deal with all these different regional differences and this obviously is a special need because of the uniqueness of Nihao. Absolutely. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Chair. >> Thank you. Any other questions, members? Now we are going to go directly into um decision-making. Is that okay with you, Chair? Okay. Members for Senate Concurrent Resolution 162153, this is the question the department convened a shared decision-making committee for Kaipuni School in Kapolei. Recommendations that we amend Senate Concurrent Resolution and this is current Senate Resolution. Starting with page three, members. Um On the top line, lines one, principles from relevant, we're going to include elementary, middle, and high schools. Right now, elementary's not there and and they should be. And then followed up by designees, uh Nanaikapono Elementary, Waiahole Waianae Elementary. And then further down on the same page, around line 23, under number six, we'll say instead of three community members, do four community members.
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They've been working long and hard and I'm so excited to attend a show. Opening night is next week, April 16th at 6 p.m. I would love to see some of you there. In only a few weeks, we will have we will be having our junior senior prom at the con lakes with a theme of a midnight midsummer night stream. Our student government has been working extra hard to create amazing decorations for the campus as well as fun activities throughout the week. This includes our prom assembly, lunchtime activities, and spirit week. We are so excited for this year's prom. I would like to thank my advisor Nora, the administrative team at ECP High School, and the district board for providing me with the opportunity to share all the wonderful aspects that make up ACP's culture and community. It saddens me to know that this will be the last time I will be sharing news about my school and campus with you all, but I'm so incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity to represent what it means to be a night.
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No. >> And how they shall use it. >> I can read it back to you back. Um, so I just want to make sure that that's exactly that that's what we're doing. >> Point of order to make clarity on an accusation that is actually not true. Um, what I'm actually asking for is for them to be able to have the freedom to choose novels. That's right. >> And for them to >> for school policy to be able to not be stifled into a lane that they have no choices. So I'm saying the opposite of what you are >> saying. Um >> we would always provide it as recommendation and guidance. Um again taking into account those key factors of where does it align to the core adoption. What is the Lexile level? What is the appropriateness of the content? We do typically provide guidance on that.
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