I'm sorry. I added the bill number so that you can look it over. I hope everybody looked it over. Um I'd sure love to do this, you know. Um so that's my motion. >> I guess I need a second. >> Second. >> Yes. Member Goodwin. >> So I've been writing to people. I'm all over this this I feel like I dream about chapter 70 formulas. Um I just think there might be a different name. Does it have a different name? Like the the group that's saying redo chapter 70. I thought it was more I go with it if that's what you think it's called. But I just wasn't sure because I thought it had the title like it was more >> down with chapter 70. It was sort of like >> oh >> a little more aggressive. >> I don't know. This is what prompted my resolutions thing because I was talking to member Dyman about it and we were like we got to write a thing >> and I sent a letter to Senator Cumberford and she's like please write a thing.
I wanted to let everyone know that before I signed it. And on that I will move to the three main points. Thank you. Um no, upcoming events. Um The three main points is first. Sorry. It's uh My papers are all over the place. Sorry. Um All right. Well, I would say budget update for one of the three main points. School calendar Well, we don't have a final Yeah, I like the upcycling maybe um Maybe we can get a recording of Mr. Roland on I I think it's really important to say that the superintendent presented a proposal for a reduced budget. I definitely think the budget should be in there. Okay. Well, I mean we can link the budget but budget a ton of questions asking us what that is. That's why I think I would refer to Yeah, to link this. Could work. Oh, yeah, we could actually, right?
>> I'm I'm sorry. I I didn't mean it that way. I was just only talking about the deferred maintenance. And if there's issues other issues with work orders and things, I we want to help and make it better. We really do. I do. Intending on helping and executing are two different things and you folks have proven that you are unable to execute. So, I'll just end the conversation there. Thank you, Chair. Okay, members, any other questions?
The documents are still there. It's the revision of the budget, but it is formality and you still need you need to post that. So, that was One finding that we had um again district oversight double check on that just to make sure it gets done and it gets done 10 days prior. The second finding was on student attendance reporting. Um this one was related to our elementary and our junior high students. So um they uh reviewed three of or five of 15 elementary and junior high students um that were reviewed for partial day attendance. Absences were reported incorrectly um resulting in an overstatement of absences. So absences don't impact our funding, but you still have to report them correctly according to the uniform system of financial records. So it doesn't it used to when I first started for the first handful of years attendance actually impacted your then um how much you got for average day of membership.
So if but if there's another name that you're used to like send it over or if you want to write the resolution >> and or do this labor great. >> Um I just would love the word equity after budget because that's the whole issue that chapter 70 is not equitable to all school districts. Um so it's an equity issue for me. Well, it would be great if you were interested in writing it or like um adjusting it. Uh because we've done a lot of this. >> Well, let's just go with what it is. And I will continue to write things to everybody about the bad math they're doing. >> Um and I think it's also important to lend our voice to this because we're not a rural school. >> No. and we're that in between district. And so we're not going to benefit from the rural schools built, but yet we go and we support our sister districts who will benefit because rising tide lifts all boats, but we also need to advocate for ourselves.
>> Write the thing on a formal thing. put your like header on it and GPS on it and like do the thing and we had no like formal way to do that. >> So I was like okay so here we are trying to do this stuff we don't have a way to do it. So this is the very first one that bumped me up against that and but when I wrote to them I used foundation budget review com commission and they wrote back and were like yeah the foundation budget review commission and in public comment they use that. So if but if there's another name that you're used to like send it over or if you want to write the resolution >> and or do this labor great. >> Um I just would love the word equity after budget because that's the whole issue that chapter 70 is not equitable to all school districts.
Steven? Can you link that? Sure. Yeah, okay. Even better. Uh I That's what I used to do. I used to put links to all the documents >> Perfect. So we got budget, um up upcycling and and autism awareness. All right. Now you can do upcoming events. Upcoming events. All right. So spring break um next week. Um CLES uh the variety show is on April 9th and 10th um at 6:00 p.m. Oh my gosh, I can't even believe we're in April 9th and 10th. I just can't. Time by. Um and then uh April 28th and 29th is the art show. Um I think I have this wrong. No, that's correct. No, it's Okay. And then Mm, I think I have the wrong month. So maybe it's May 6th for this the K-2 science fair? I wrote it down really quick as I was leaving the house.
Hearing none, uh we are going That was the last item on the agenda. Oh, goodness. Uh so, we are going into decision-making. Members, I'm going to go right into it. Um starting out with Senate Concurrent Resolution 14132 urging Department of Education and University of Hawaii Manoa to adopt the energy savings performance um contracting uh recommendation. You know, I was just rereading the the Hawaii State Energy Office and they did state that the of Education previously initiated an invitation for proposals, an IFP, for an ESP project in 2024. However, the procurement was canceled due to expiration of the State Procurement Office, SPO, vendor contract list. So again, you know, these are kinds of things that it's it's it's they started and then it didn't get finished. So I'm glad that hopefully we're going to get this going. Recommendation is I don't think there's any or technical amendments.
Um so there was a rate if you were underneath a certain percent back then it was 93% then you got impacted and they reduced how much money you got. Then they got rid of that um and so now we don't get impacted by it but it is used for a lot of different things at the state and state superintendent report. So it reported in. Now, it is a calculation. So, for example, if you have a kindergarten student who comes, they're only funded actually at half time. They come a certain part of the day and they're gone for half the day, your your register has to go in and manually calculate how much time they're there and what that absence should be. And if you're off by that, if you calculate a half a day and it's only supposed to be 0.25, then you get a finding for that.
And so that's going to come through chapter 70. So that's my rationale. >> Um Senator Comfort today sent an email that said she had gotten money for Greenfield, >> right? The supplemental budget of 250,000. I was going to ask you about that. >> My question was that go to us or to the mayor? >> Okay, just checking. >> We love that. >> Um, member child, >> I remember just a few months ago, uh, Commer invited us to a big event, Greenfield High School. Um, it was packed. I was there with member Goodwin and we both spoke on this topic. The auditorium was packed with people from schools all around Western Massachusetts. I think it's important that we keep the pressure on them because if we ease up at that gives them uh an excuse to stop looking at it, they're not going to do anything unless they're forced to.
Um so it's an equity issue for me. Well, it would be great if you were interested in writing it or like um adjusting it uh because we've done a lot of this. >> Well, let's just go with what it is and I will continue to write things to everybody about the bad math they're doing. >> Um, and I think it's also important to lend our voice to this because we're not a rural school. >> No. >> Yeah. and we're that in between district and so we're not going to benefit from the rural schools built but yet we go and we support our sister districts who will benefit because rising tide lifts all boats but we also need to advocate for ourselves and so that's going to come through chapter 70. So that's my rationale. Um, Senator Comfort today sent an email that said she had gotten money for Greenfield, >> right?
Is it this month? And the band concert. So, the science fair and the band concert are the same night. Um the band concert is May 5th. >> Okay. Right? Well, they have it May 6th on the website. Okay, so May 6th is the science fair for K to 2 at CLES and May 6th is a band concert at 5:30. Okay. WMS, um we still have our students in France until the 16th. Um I've had a couple phone calls home uh to my son and the kids are having a ball over there. So, uh the 21st um of April WMS has their PSATs. The 24th um unified um unified has a yard goats um field trip uh for baseball and education. The 27th PTO meeting at 9:30. May 1st um is a zombie night sponsored by PTO at Escape at 6:15. Um And then at the high school um the 18th of this month is grad party PTO clean out your closets and I think your wife is fostering that, too.
Um distinction distinction between energy performance and energy saving performance contracting per the Hawaii State Revised Statutes. Not sure what that means, but to make that distinction. Okay, great. Thank you.
So, you're we have 49 register registers and they have to manually put that in. We do have some bindings on that. Um, so again, they go in there's a calculator chart that they have. And what we're learning as as those positions turn over, just constant training in those categories because they have to go in, use the calculator, and go back out and manually input when somebody comes in like you have a dentist appointment and you come in at 9, 14. Does that mean you're off for a quarter of a day, three4 of a day, full day depending on half day, full day, those kinds. So calculation of that doesn't impact finances, but you're still supposed to have that accurate. And I think almost everyone in the state gets that finding, right? and might be a couple that are perfect data but not too many. Um the next finding or below that is they took high school students.
So, we need to make sure we force them to or if anything, it's the threat of more emails from me, which hopefully will scare them. >> Great. Further discussion? >> Yes. to to be clear, um the the Foundation Review Commission, I'm learning about all of this, right? Um it existed, it did its work, it gave a report in 2015. >> Is that all correct? >> 2014. >> Okay. Um >> No. Yes, you're right. 2015 it issued its final report. >> Mhm. >> And there has been no such commission since then. >> They have not revisited anything since then. Right. >> So what we >> Roland's got it. Well, that the speakout you you're all talking about that people went to I believe November it may have happened in that since they did four across the state and we were fortunate to host one here that is a review commission that is the first time in the last 11 years I think we mentioned this as well before that by the time they even do any of this and produce this report they're they're hoping from what we heard to produce it in June >> at some hoping >> to take everything they learned from any emails that you may send, from what they heard at the public speakout, etc.
The supplemental budget of 250,000. I was going to ask you about that. >> My question was that go to us or to the mayor? >> Okay, just checking. >> We love that. >> Um, member child. >> I remember just a few months ago, uh, Commer invited us to a big event, Greenfield High School. Um, it was packed. I was there with member Goodwin and we both spoke on this topic. The auditorium was packed with people from schools all around Western Massachusetts. I think it's important that we keep the pressure on them because if we ease up at that gives them uh an excuse to stop looking at it. They're not going to do anything unless they're forced to. So, we need to make sure we force them to or if anything it's the threat of more emails from me which hopefully will scare them. Great.
I guess. So, uh clear out your closets, clothes, unwanted >> Oh, yes, she is. That's right. She is. Yes. Right? So, um they're donating to Savers. So, they they are collecting that um on the 18th 11:00 to 3:00. Thank you, Jacqueline, again. Yeah. Um the 21st is at the high school is a PTO meeting at 6:00. Um as Emily said, May 1st um is decision day for our seniors um for college and uh May 1st is senior prom at the Waterview. Um May 4th is the AP biology exam. May 5th I'm telling you I had to look. Um is uh the 5th is AP chemistry and geo exams. The 6th is AP English lit and comp um exams and then um the following day is um AP physics. Scary. Um and then I totally forgot one um but at WMS, which I would assume it's district wide, um we can't forget this.
Members, any discussion on any recommendations further than what's already in the resolution? Hearing none, the chair will sign. A for SR 132 and SCR 1 10. Chair votes. This is unamended or amended? Um with with with technical amendments. With amendments. Chair votes aye, vice chair votes aye, Senator Fukunaga sent Oh, yes. I'm sorry. We are It is a proposed SD1, so we are adopting the SD1 with further amendments, uh technical amendments. Great. So SD1 is the latest deal. The latest The latest version of the bill is okay. Senator Hashimoto? Aye. And Senator DeCoite? Aye. Measure is adopted. Thank you. Uh we are on SCR 197, SR 185. This is asking the auditor to conduct comprehensive performance and financial audit um for the Department's Education's capital improvement backlog. Uh point well taken. The definition, I think we talked about the definition. If there is a CIP project and the legislature approves money for it and there's any kind of appropriation as a CIP project, it's a CIP project.
So if you were to look at our high school students, three of our students that are reported in that finding again um are reported uh by again an FTE or an absence calculation. So for example, if a child comes two periods out of four because four periods is equivalent to full time. They come two out of the day out of four, they're really a five. you take half a day of of an absent, but if that kid came in in the middle of that period, but they were there for two periods, but they came in the middle of one of those periods, they're really absent for three out of four according to the state. But for CUSD, if the child is there for more than half of the period, we don't mark them absent. That's an internal thing that we do based on what our parents working with our parents because they drop their child off, they think they're there for the day.
any studies that they've done, hoping, you understand what I'm saying, to produce it to the legislature in June, legislators in June, who will then go on break for two months. >> Mhm. >> And then not touch that until the fall >> 28 >> at that point. Um, and should anything happen throughout this coming fall and winter, many believe you would not see any action in a change of any type of review even for the FY28 change. Would not see it. Maybe the slightest possibility of that happening for that next cycle, but this current FY27 that we're starting to budget for, no, you will not see any review or any change in that. >> Yeah. They said FY 29 or 30 at the earliest on the Zoom. >> Like I had mentioned probably not not even 28. So yeah, you are correct, member Denise. >> Yes, but to be clear, this is just one opportunity that we have to continue to show our support >> for us and our neighbors to get what we deserve from the state because they need to pay their what like they need to pay the lion share of education um if they want to keep their preeminent place.