Um I encourage you guys to take a take the time to look at it um and to see those. And there were uh several areas that thanks to all of the evidence for the last 5 years that we were able to provide. Again, you may agree or disagree. Uh you may believe that maybe some grade levels they are four star, but we we are representing and getting a snapshot what does it look like as a district. Um there's several um standards that we we got 2.9. We were one point away from getting the three star. So that's also uh our bubble standards that what else can we do to be able to get to the next level. There's a lot of them a lot of them that are like, "Oh, we were so close, but yet so far." Um there were other standards that yes, they will need um improvement.
However, at this point Cognia believes that based on the recommendations, the one I mentioned earlier will give us the most bang for our buck. Having said that, I'm open to any questions, recommendations, um movie uh tickets, and anything else that you would like to would like to discuss at this point.
Uh I don't have any questions, Mr. Diaz, but I definitely um took some time to look through it. So I'm glad you kind of really put together something to kind of draw attention to what absolutely you want to work on and and gives us a gauge on okay, what are we doing and we're looking back at it, stuff like that. So, I appreciate it. One important um aspect that I forgot, it used to be every 5 years, now it's every 6 years. Thank God. Um and the second important aspect um this is how we score based on the new standards. Um we prepare for this review based on the old standards. We got it was like surprise. Um there's a different measure, different standard, but um it's still a great um um ontology of of areas that we need to celebrate or work on. Back to you, President Mondiat.
Any other questions from the board for the report? If not, let's go ahead and move on. Number 12 is the Bobby Duke Unified School District governing board members reports. Ms. Stevenson, your report? None. Ms. Hendrix? None. Ms. Diaz? And I also will submit my report next month. I have a couple I need to do anyway. I'll put it in writing though. Um with that, we'll move on to number 13, the Bobby Duke Unified School District Superintendent's report. Ms. Diaz? Lots of information, lots of shout-outs. Good evening once again. Um and thank you for staying awake, everyone. I tried to be as as precise but as well as detailed as possible. Um let me start by please join me, let's give a round of applause to our Bobby Duke Unified High School for the community day. It was beautifully organized. It was everyone that was there, they had a very engaging activities.
So, thank you all for your participation. Let's give everybody a round of applause. Thank you. The we did conduct a parent a It was not well participated, but it's the beginning. We We had some lessons learned, but I want to thank those that participated. We had the Department of Special Ed. We have District Affairs Manager. We have Ms. Gordon. We have our counselor from the high school. And a special guest was also Mr. Innis presenting a small workshop. And also the Sunrise House Director of of Family and Community Engagement. It was our beginning and it is also it was based on the feedback from Cognia that how are we getting parent feedback and and providing answers to to the parents. And and there's a lot of workshops that we've been doing this year that is going to help us in the next couple of years as well.
I want to also give a shout out to the Operations Department for all of the work that they did behind the scenes before the event and after the event. Also, I want to thank the intermediate teachers for engaging in a chronic absenteeism workshop. Thank you for the invitation, but most importantly, thank you for your engagement. I want to celebrate that as of March we completed our lease. We needed one letter our lease packet. It is off. It's no longer in our hands. It's now in the nation's hands. So, that moving forward. I want to thank everyone that that helped and supported because there were It was almost 2 years worth of of requirements that we needed to comply and it took many of you to be able to get to this point. From Curriculum Instruction, thank you for the Avid training. Operations, we are closing the project for the canopies.
Thank you. And also for the roof. It will be um, in the closing end based on on the report. Um, I also want to take this opportunity to promote, if you're listening and anyone that is out there, we're short seven staff members um, in in in operations. We need two grounds, we need two custodians, uh, we need three in maintenance. Uh, so please, um, your support is it is needed. Your skills are needed. Please join our team. Um, and I let's give um, Mr. Roloff also a big shout out and a big hand for um, bringing to Bobble to Wallowa Wallowa mom Shama culture exchange uh, over 40 million dollars worth of SFE funding. Congratulations and thank you, sir. Let's give a round of applause. Also, a big shout out to uh, our principals and and and teachers and and and and the in the efforts um, of promoting um, revive revitalizing our language.
Um, based on the post assessment uh, so far, um, we have over 120 students that are now in junior level, which is level two. Um, those are are are our primary and intermediate students. Um, it it's they're slightly you know, the tone of you continue our efforts. Um, the Autumn Yoc um, he has he has hopes that our our students they they going to normalize our Autumn Yoc. For the school and community engagement, um, 251 students were served in the last month. Thank you for that and also for the incredible um, na- um, beautiful workshop. Uh, for anyone um, again, um, we have another group coming up on April 16th. Um, I believe that one is full already, Um, but it's it's thank you for for bringing those services to the community. Somebody has been incredibly busy. It's a social emotional learning department with mental health series with substance abuse sessions, suicide prevention workshops, and abuse prevention presentations for this particular year.
ESS Again, we are proud that we are serving 194 students with disabilities. And Thank you for also the the workshops that you have been bringing to the nation. For transportation, thank you. I know you that you have board requests regarding the overtime with the details that were requested. Thank you for that and At this point, I have also a video to promote where the superintendent was for where Where's Waldo during the month of March. So, Aaron, if you don't mind supporting with showcasing the video. A as in baker cake. Ready to go? Hey, the story or what they said about it, and if you random, then you leave that out. Do we leave it out? Okay. All right. I'm still hungry. Have you eaten yet? I want to Wait, what did I do right here? What are we looking at? We're looking at the dolphin automation video, but we got You can see what they Cool.
Cuz right here is the dolphin automation. And they have like the different nations in there. Mhm. So, this is like And I told and I you know what to say. Be bold, be brave, BE BEAUTIFUL QUESTIONS, COMMENTS. Uh if there's nothing from the board, thank you, Mr. Diaz. Much appreciated. Thank you, President Mondia. I do have the section that you the board requested um on overtime. I have I can summon our director Mr. Kidby to elaborate on the request if you need any additional explanation. You going to go over it? Mr. B, please. And this will fulfill recommend board request 25 26-023. Good evening, President Mondia, board members, esteemed Mr. Diaz. So, basically what we did is in response to the board's request relative to the overtime associated with the district compensated drivers, we did an analysis and then broke it out for you specifically.
80% of that overtime is associated with their regular home-to-school and school-to-home routes. 11% is associated with the late take homes, which is really your after-school activities. So, that's 91% of the overtime right there. And then 2% associated with field and activity trips, 1% with extra duty, 6% associated with training of new drivers and aides. Is that is that structure and I just just a question. Feel free to tell me tell me I don't I don't know what I'm talking about, but the structuring for, say, someone who knows that they're going to be doing student routes or someone who knows they're going to be doing regular routes, broken up based on because it's as far as I know, as far as we know. We have 15 routes. Is there more? How many more? >> Yes, sir. 19 routes. >> 19. Those all have bus drivers, or at least a driver that can do those routes.
Correct. So, those 19 individuals are available to be able to help support those needs, or is there a certain amount of individuals that you're looking at that So, it's probably based on size of the bus and all that stuff. I'm sure. >> And the And the challenge is really the underlying theme of overtime is the geographical area that we're serving. Because there's just so much distance. I included in the report as well some of the mileages for our larger routes. Uh because of that distance, I mean, literally we have drivers leaving uh 3:30 in the morning. So, they're getting a four to four and a half hour block in the morning. Afternoon, they're covering the same territory, and so then you've got another four four and a half hours. So, right there you've got nine hours on that route. So, you have an an hour basically of overtime on that everyday.
And so the only way to adjust that would be to look at, you know, trying to split routes further, but then that's not cost-effective for the district either. So, I Unless the board has a recommendation on how they would like us to look at that differently, we have administratively done the very best that we can to try and minimize that, but I don't know that it ever is going to go away. Okay. Mr. Diaz? No, I was scratching my nose. I thought you were looking to like get my attention. Uh I understood. And and I And I understand 100% but I think that And I guess I'll look to history. Historically and Ms. Carlo because you were here. Is that 100% Yeah. So even especially is when we didn't have enough bus drivers it probably was even then the out the number of hours driving they have to make sure that they don't exceed that.
Right. So they're they have to have the breaks. There's there's just a lot involved now for the safety of the the drivers as well. Go ahead Ms. Hendrix. No, I just wanted to add I think there's been additional routes that have been added on. 19 I think I think it was half of that before. There has been quite a few additional routes because we're covering There was a time we were only covering certain areas but now we're actually covering the nation. And that is a true statement. We have expanded the geographical area that we try and bring students into this district and so we are covering more geography than we were in the past. So then is the goal in your perspective as transportation director to increase the amount of drivers you have or the amount of opportunities you have to be able to lessen the amount of need for someone to have to do 8 9 hours just regular route and then possibly do trips extra duty or take home practice good activities.
How I guess I don't I don't I don't The question remains for me if I'm driving a bus from 4:00 a.m. in the morning, why am I driving the bus again at 5:30 to take everybody home to get home at 8:00 to come back in at 4:00 in the morning? So that would not be a correct assessment then. So So what we try and do then to balance that out is the drivers that have the shorter routes. So let's say they have a 2-hour in the morning and a 2-hour in the afternoon. They're only doing four. Then we would have them do the activity runs which then they may Some of our activity runs are 5 hours. So then they would only be at nine for the day. So they're still in overtime, but we're trying to we we can't utilize the drivers that are driving already 9 hours a day I hope not.
to do an activity run because they legally can only driver drive 10 out of 15. So they can't actually drive more than 10 hours. So it's a complex balancing of trying to make sure that none of our drivers go overtime, yet we still are able to provide service to the entire community. And so that's why it's balanced out and it's true not only for the district compensated drivers, but also on the B Line side, it's no different. We have overtime every payroll. Again, just because of the geography. It's a huge district. That distinction that you're referencing there is specific to a certain amount of BOSD compensated teachers. Correct? You're not talking about B Line specifically. Like your other This this report is specific to our employees. the district employees, which is what you requested. Okay. Wait. I'm sorry. It's only because there's a there's a there's an aspect that we're forgetting is that there are district bus drivers.
How many? I believe we have seven. So that is just that is just them here or are you talking about employees? That's just Okay. Correct. So it's just those seven employees. There are 35 total in your transportation department including myself. Seven of them are still district compensated as drivers and I believe we still have two aids that are district compensated. And then when it >> How many um Go ahead. Go ahead. Then how many from your So that would be the difference 35 minus nine total employees. So Right. Some of the district employees have become a contractor compensated employees and some have retired. It seems like you train one and one leaves. Then you train another one and another one leaves. >> Just saw another one shift the last meeting or this meeting. Going to be shifting to something else. We just got one up and then we had one transfer out.
Okay. So and and then just for your entertainment you know we got new buses in 2024 and one of those buses again referencing back to geography has now exceeded 100,000 miles. This is halfway through 2026 and that was a 2024 model so just about two years and then we also have a 2025 that is almost 70,000 miles on the odometer. So you are very unique. We're not a Queen Creek with 46 square miles to transport our kids. We're the state of Connecticut. And so we I think the way it's structured, it's going to be difficult to ever completely eliminate over time. I I guess my my question still remains. And And again, feel free to put it down somewhere and show me. If you have 35 employees, I don't know how that how that is structured that we're still 80% of overtime in our regular routes.
I get that there's a lot of miles to cover. Um And if an hour a day times how many days of the year or the school year, well, not even that because we do summer school, we do all these things. Okay. Picture's coming together. But um I guess it's just it's just to look at it now from the from from this end and what we're doing in paying B line um to um manage the the transportation department. I guess I would like to see what systems and or challenges that we can actually look at to say, "Let's bring it down." Um and I know you're asking the board for a for a solution, but I think that's why we pay you to do that. Right. Um and to me this screams "Take a look at me because what are we doing with so much paying so much overtime to individuals that And I this is goes back to my other question that I'm thinking about now is, when are we getting the bus app?
Because if that is true then you could probably pull data from that to actually show us okay well here's what uh regular person at 4:00 a.m. gets up and goes and does. But why does it take that amount of time to do that? Shouldn't they be back clocking out or whatever it may be so that we're not having to pay overtime. These are just questions that come and and are raised because I think it's important for us to have those checks and balances especially for looking at a report to say X amount of thousands of dollars in overtime. Kind of And if it's And if it's simply um geography then then okay like But I would hope hope we can actually look at some information because the I don't know just for the sake of making sure that we're we're understanding as a board approving the budget, approving the the the responsibility of this.