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How are we going to pick up if Michael's losing 105,000 in title one and we know we have three title one teachers that are being paid out of that and we don't get those funds. How do we then absorb those costs in our budget? If we don't have the flexibility, meaning school choice, I I don't want to I don't want folks to think we're never going to have to use school choice as a funding mechanism for operations. We're going to have to do that. It's less reliance is the goal, right? We may have to pick up a title one salary of a teacher if we can't put it in the operations. That's just the reality of it. If we lose those federal funds and we value the title one teacher at, you know, any of the schools, I don't want to name one school because they'll think, oh, my name's on the chopping block.
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Um, some person can make a motion to call the question. That actually does need to be voted on and needs to pass with a twothirds majority before you proceed to the vote on the motion itself. So, that needs to happen and there's a good reason for why that happens. It's so that if you have a majority of people who have, you know, who look like they're going to vote in in a majority, that they can't artificially stifle a minority set of opinion. Um, everyone needs to at least have the ability to be heard, even if they don't necessarily win the day on the main motion. Um, so that's just for our for our notes uh for the future. If that situation comes up again, uh we will better be equipped for how to proceed. That's my report.
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Um, some person can make a motion to call the question. That actually does need to be voted on and needs to pass with a twothirds majority before you proceed to the vote on the motion itself. So, that needs to happen and there's a good reason for why that happens. It's so that if you have a majority of people who have, you know, who look like they're going to vote in in a majority that they can't artificially stifle a minority set of opinion. Um, everyone needs to at least have the ability to be heard even if they don't necessarily win the day on the main motion. Um, so that's just for our for our notes uh for the future. If that situation comes up again, uh, we will better be equipped for how to proceed. That's my report.
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So, if we could just kind of step back and just look at, you know, what's happened to date. Um we uh presented a 4. 86 budget. That is what was approved by the Board of Education. Uh 58 million 133 955. That's the total amount. It was reduced to 3.96% which is an overall reduction about 497 500, right? So that's kind of what this shows here. So now we are charged with trying to take our budget and reduce it to achieve the 3.96 level or close to a half a million dollars, right? So that's what we have to do now. So I want to go into this with a couple things being shared. First, I think it's critical for us to understand like why we do what we do. We do what we do because we are here to provide a rigorous, relevant, and comprehensive comprehensive educational experience for our students.
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I mean, I I it's my assumption that every child in the in the in the school district has a parent. You know, I'm just assuming that and and so we would really like to to get if everyone participated, that would be ideal but I I know that's never going to happen but if you could all just encourage people to take their surveys I know it takes us a few minutes. Some of them are multiple choice, some of them are short little essay two sentence two sentence questions. That would just be um in instead of you know, reacting to decisions that are already made, you'd be really participating up front in the process doing that and I I think a lot of people don't understand that and uh so I just like to encourage everyone, you know, push it out there. Tell them to take take that survey.
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And under B, we'll say one parent of an elementary Kaiapuni program. Okay, and I think Oh, one more. Um on page four, uh on line six, uh under five, we will put statewide and up impact on current Kaiapuni schools and programs. Okay.
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Moving forward, I plan on attending a Arizona State University through their bear honors program. I will be attending WP Kerry their school of business and pursuing a bachelor's in business, majoring in supply chain management, and minoring in food industry. I know all the skills that I have learned throughout the district will stick with me, but the memories I made will definitely stick with me longer. I have no worries for the future of ACP, though, especially with the rising student body president who has also joined me here today. This is actually her first district meeting and I hope I helped with any nerves she has for her future. I know that she'll do an even better job than I did. I wish you all a great rest of your night and thank you all for what you do for ACP and CUSD. Have an amazing evening in the district.
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So we might say I'll go back to my example one more time. We might say Great Gatsby is a perfect novel for 10th grade, 10th 11th grade. We give grade bands. Um I know we have a couple at least one you know a couple teachers in the audience. What I will tell you with especially high school English teachers and I will you know I'll bet money on this they are very possessive when it comes to their novels. So if you know if we say here's the recommendation and Great Gatsby aligns with 11th grade and 11th grade loves teaching the Great Gatsby they're going to be really peeved if anybody else teaches Great Gatsby like that's ours you know and so we do try to massage that a little bit so that but they have something that's appropriate for them. Now, they may have Great Gatsby and four other options and they may rotate.
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It's not. It's just the point is we have to pay for that salary and so you need flexibility. Um so that's the reality of of getting us to a position where we have flexibility. We've talked about our enrollment basically plateauing uh and it's going to continue to you know NASDAQ projects a little increase here and there but nothing significant like it used to be. uh like go back to you know well before 2024 um 25 we had one big big jump you have looked at the data more recently than I did um but it was probably that 2021 school year uh coming out of COVID the year after COVID we probably like a 100 plus student increase and it and and it coincided with the student opportunity act where they had adjusted the uh foundation formula which also benefited number of students uh and uh the formula being adjusted.
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Um, any questions on that? Sweet. Uh, let's move on to budget and finance, please. Okay. In the packet, you've got the short report and also in the packet, you have the minutes from both of the subcommittee meetings that have happened since our last full one. Um, I won't go into the one in between the budget hearing and budget vote because I think we're budgeted out for at least three more days. And um the next one was about warrants. Um most of the questions were pretty simple. Here's a question. Here's the answer. The two places where we're still looking for more clarification. One of them was a discussion about district landscaping options that we are waiting to hear back from the administration for how much flexibility we have. So we're just waiting for um info there. Then the question that we really wanted to raise was about our social media expenses and communication service subscriptions.
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Um, any questions on that? Sweet. Uh, let's move on to budget and finance, please. Okay. In the packet, you've got the short report and also in the packet, you have the minutes from both of the subcommittee meetings that have happened since our last full one. Um, I won't go into the one in between the budget hearing and budget vote because I think we're budgeted out for at least three more days. And um the next one was about warrants. Um most of the questions were pretty simple. Here's a question. Here's the answer. The two places where we're still looking for more clarification. One of them was a discussion about district landscaping options that we are waiting to hear back from the administration for how much flexibility we have. So we're just waiting for um info there. Then the question that we really wanted to raise was about our social media expenses and communication service subscriptions.
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That's our job. That's why we come here in these meetings. We talk about it. What can we do to produce that? My administrative team, teachers in the building, all of our staff. That's why we come to work every [snorts] day. And we try to do that by inspiring, challenging, and preparing all of our students to be able to meet that criteria. So we need to put together a budget that allows that to continue. Our job is to try to figure out how do we reduce a half a million dollars and still maintain that? Right? So with that in mind cuz I think that's the most important context of the night beyond the numbers because the numbers are just numbers. But these folks that come to our schools every day are the most important things that we have. So we want to achieve that. We also want to make sure that we get to that why by focusing on the improvements that we've been talking about for the last couple of months.
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And let's get that going and that's my what I wanted to talk about. And also the mission statement I'm not real happy with it. I mean, it's a work in progress but we could use we could use some help with that so and I would really like to see some participation on that as well. But my that's my two cents for tonight. Well, I like the mission statement said every child is destined to succeed so I think you know, a lot of it is really good so everybody had their input and I appreciate that. I just wanted to say that last month I was on webinar with Capitol Advisors regarding budget and they were very they had some very positive things to say and then the last proposal that our governor gave did not include the December and January revenues for whatever reason, I don't know but they're expecting they're pretty positive that things could look a little better in May when they do the revise so I also signed up for the budget perspectives workshop coming up and um there was a lot of legislative action during legislative action week which was last week uh they had quite an agenda and uh I think people are going to have some progress so just hope that everyone could just be a little patient.
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So, with those technical amendments, is there any discussion, members? Mr. I don't have Okay. Okay. We'll We'll go ahead and take our vote then on this side and then discussion?
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So all we're going to hop over campuses over here um about Basha High and student body president Lizzie Kangas is with us on her last presentation with us as well. What's been going on at FASHA? Good evening. Mr. Narduchi, board members in all of CUSD. It's truly an honor to be here tonight for one final time. Uh serving at Basha High School as a student body president has meant so much to me. So, I'm so excited to tell you what Basha High School has been up to for quarter 3 and quarter 4. To start, we had our spring sports assembly right at the end of quarter 3 where we able to honor all of our spring athletes through the game snatcher relays with balloons and movie trivia as well as our prom reveal that everybody was really hyped for. It was so much fun to be able to play the game sock snatcher where you had to have a pool noodle out of your back and a sock at the top and people had to run to grab it.
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Great Gatsby may be historically the one we read every single year or we may do Gatsby one year of Men another year because we want to keep it fresh for kids. I mean, there's lots of options. >> It looks really neat to further um them being able to have that freedom as a teacher to select which books that they're using. there is an AI bot on HMH into literature that you can go in there and so if there is a book the Great Gatsby and you're a seventh grade eighth grade nth grade teacher and you want to find out how can I have this align to the standards for this grade level and you're picking a book that's not necessarily from the three options you can input that and say can you help me create lesson plans for this book so it's actually giving them more freedom and less restriction >> we can and we can give a lot of autonomy in that.
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So, so again, you can see out a 5-year projection, we're staying pretty flat. Um we talk a lot about our per pupil spending. Um I don't know what else to say other than the community uh gets a lot of bang for their buck in this here, right? Um, we do more with less. Some people wear that as a badge of honor. They really do. And it's a catch 22 to ask a community for more funding when you're performing at a high level with what you have. Um, it's just not sustainable. It's not sustainable for them, for our administrators, and for our educators. Um, we've talked about this number fluctuates too, but we had about 127 students who were served in district uh in specialized programming that we've created over the course of 15 years, 10 years. Um, and again, we are a firm believer that we want all of our students to remain with us, that we believe they're better off in our community than somewhere else.
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We wanted to make sure that we were paying for a what we're using and b what we need and what our families need. So, uh, the budget and finance and warrants subcommittee would like to request that the, uh, enga community engagement subcommittee work with the administration to obtain information on our family expectations, needs, and engagement metrics so that we can make sure that we are paying for what is best for the district. Okay. Um, thinking through our order of operations for just a minute that it sounds like a formal request of another body and that means that we all have to agree and task that that separate subcommittee with doing that work. So, is that in the form of a motion? >> Sure. >> Can you can you please state it in the form of the motion for the benefit of our recording secretary? >> Okay.
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We wanted to make sure that we were paying for a what we're using and b what we need and what our families need. So, uh, the budget and finance and warrants subcommittee would like to request that the, uh, enga community engagement subcommittee work with the administration to obtain information on our family expectations, needs, and engagement metrics so that we can make sure that we are paying for what is best for the district. Okay. um thinking through our order of operations for just a minute that it sounds like a formal request of another body and that means that we all have to agree and task that that separate subcommittee with doing that work. So is that in the form of a motion? >> Sure. >> Can you can you please state it in the form of the motion for the benefit of our recording secretary? >> Okay.
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And those are looking at the systems and structures that we have in place and making sure that we shore those up so that they're so optimal that they produce the results that we want to help students get. Which goes back to the first slide right here. So we want to continuously look at those, analyze them, audit them, improve them, optimize them. Right? So that way students are coming to a place where they can engage and get that best experience that they deserve. We want to make sure that we capitalize and leverage the educator and leader evaluation systems to be able to support those structures and systems that we know we need to to improve. And we want to make sure that we focus on early readiness for schooling so that way we can be proactive instead of reactive in the services that we provide. Hence the full day pre-K start.
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