So, I'm honored to serve and happy to answer any questions. >> Thank you so much. I appreciate you sending in your extensive uh resume. Uh very impressive. Um certainly uh enjoyed also reading your questionnaire. And one of the areas um that caught my eye on this is um where did it go? Okay. Sorry, I've got to find it. Members, you want to um questions? Anybody? >> Senator Kedani. >> Thank you. You stated that the graduate medical education programs are a solution to the issues affecting Hawaii. >> That's what I was going to do. >> Physician workforce and graduate medical education system. >> Question seven. >> How could the council accomplish this? So, um it's definitely one of the solutions. Uh graduate medical education, you know, we in the last few years, we've been lucky enough to um really be able to grow some new programs and start some new ones and and we're very excited.
I've I've had the privilege to participate in the development of some of our new residencies and fellowships. So, I I think it it is one of the solutions. Um it's not always an easy one, though, and it's not it can't always be used. It's not the only one. One of the things I've realized and come to learn is um in some of the areas where we have the biggest need, you would think that starting a training program is a great solution. The hard part is when we have a big need, we also don't have all the teachers and we may not have the concentration of clinical patient volume to train to adequately train a skilled physician in the area. Um, so what HMEC can do is work with the our medical school, uh, work with the University of Hawaii and our health system and and provider partners to look at where are our needs and then triangulate that with how can we develop that cadre of skilled educators in those specific disciplines.
Um, and sort of coordinate and coales the resources to achieve this. And being very open with you, there are some specialties that will we will never be able to train here. we we don't have um the infrastructure or patient volume uh to train that. So then we have to start thinking outside the boxes. Can we identify young people who may have may be going to medical school here and support them and identifying good places to train and help them inspire them to come back and serve this community and make it easy for them to come back and serve the community. I hope that answers your question. >> Thank you. That was the question seven that I was going to point out. But I I agree with you, you know, and I say this often is that we can't be all things to everybody and we're not able to train in every area.
So we have to look at what is the greatest need and um how we can employ our resources uh for that. And so, you know, part of this is, you know, what is it can we do if GME is u one of the solutions? Um, you know, what is it that we at the legislature can also do to assist in these areas? So, I appreciate you bringing that up. >> Any other questions? >> Thank you. >> Hearing no others. Thank you so much and thank you for being so patient being the last one on and um hope you got something out of listening to everybody else uh here. Uh so with that I am going to go straight into decision- making members because the hour is late. Uh so um starting off with uh um GM 804 and GM 805. This is for consideration for Marie Lerta and for Keith Amamia to uh be confirmed for the board of regents of the University of Hawaii.
So um members, do we have the voting sheets? You do. So the recommendation for GM 804 and for GM 805 is to advise and consent. I'm taking the two together so they're on the same board.
So any discussion members, any questions? Uh I think the two of them will be a great addition to the board of regents and look forward to your vocal uh and uh oversight of the board. Uh we'll be watching and with that >> uh for the vote chair votes I >> madame vice chair >> for 804 >> 804 and 805 chair votes I vice chair votes I senator Fukunaga >> I senator Hashimoto >> I >> senator I >> measures are adopted chair >> thank you very much uh GM752 this is for consideration and confirmation for the early learning board uh for Cheryl Kudmat and uh The recommendation is that we advise and consent.
Is any discussion? Hearing no discussion. Chair votes I. >> Five members present. Any objections? It's just adopted. >> Thank you for GM744. And this is for the commission for national and community service. Gumatorial nominee Marie Anne Machisaki for a term to expire 7 63027. Recommendation is to advise and consent.
Any discussion hearing? None. Chair votes I >> 4744 advice and consent. Any objections? Any reservations? Measures adopted. >> Okay. And then I'm going to take the next uh all in one motion. And this is Oh, no. I'm sorry. I have two for the board of um directors of the research corporation of the University of Hawaii RC GM 802 and GM695 for David Carl and Michael Nedball. Recommendation is to advise and consent.
Any discussion? Not chair votes. >> Five members present. Are any objections? Any reservations? measures adopted. And for the next eight of them that are on for the Hawaii Medical Education Council, we have first GM507, Christopher Yulan, uh GM659, uh Jude do I might say it do. Uh, and then 665 Lance Seagawa, 666, Martina Kamaka. GM667, Colleen Inoi Bomb, GM668 Tammy Ho, GM669, Maryanne Spadaro Antonelli, and finally GM670 for Russell Woo. Uh, recommendation is to advise and consent on all of these said GMs.
Any discussion members? Hearing none. Chair votes. >> Chair votes side. Five members present. Any objections? Any reservations? Measures adopted. >> Okay. If not, thank you again all for being with us here. Thank you for re being willing to serve. We are adjourned. Have a good weekend.
This is the CIMS news for Monday, April 20th, 2026. Our stories today will be about the National Cheddar Fries Day, National Look Alike Day, and Amberly Steiner. >> Amberly Steiner Steiner is a natural ranked barrel racer race who spends most of her time training with her horse, Power. Power at her home in Utah. On her way to Denver, Amberly lost control of her truck and crashed. Torn her face and her legs, her leaving her paralyzed. Amberly is rushed to the hospital where doctors confirm she will spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. She later goes to a 6-week rehabilitation program program instead. Instead, instantly desponding, she lashed out at her mother taking taking care she will never be able to walk again ever. She She She pushed herself to the finals her strings strings her reins and her upper body. Her strength and her upper body.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you all and welcome to the April 20th, 2026 Board of School Board Trustees for Reading High Schools. Um Call to order. Are there any modifications to the agenda? There are none. Um is there Can I entertain a motion for approval of the agenda? I move to approve the agenda. Is there a second? I'll second. Discussion? All those in favor of approving the agenda signify by saying I. I. Opposed same sign. Motion carried. Uh are there any visitors or comments from the audience this evening? Mr. Canton. Um there are no presentations this evening nor discussion items. Next is the approval of the minutes of the April 6th, 2026 meeting. I'd like to entertain a motion for approval.
Good morning. Today is April 20th and we're celebrating National Look Alike Day. This fun holiday happens every year on April 20th and encourages people to find someone they look a alike to. Whether it's a celebrity, a friend, or even a fictional character, people love joining in. The day has become especially popular on social media where users share photos comparing themselves to their look-alikes. So, today turn around and look around and you might find your twin. Now, today's weather is partly cloudy and windy. The high 75 and the low 54. Today, if you missed any day of the state testing or still have to finish state tests, you'll do that today. Happy birthday Delaney, Chris, and Tucker Blockman. Don't have a good day, have a great day.
I move to approve the uh approval of minutes from April 6th, 2026 for the School Board. Second? I'll second. Discussion? All those in favor of approving the minutes of the April 6th meeting signify by saying I. I. Opposed same sign. Abstentions? Motion carried. Next we have the consent agenda items starting with separations. Um BC Transportation Department with Leo Emerson effective April 15th, 2026 through the approval of the out-of-state professional development leave for Jackie Stewart to Orlando, Florida July 4th through the 9th for Florida show choir intensive. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda items? I move to approve the consent agenda items. Is there a second? I'll second. Discussion? Thank you for the donation. All those best wishes to Mr. Coopman who has served here for 35 years, I think it was said, and has been a very loyal and wonderful math teacher.
Wishing him good good times in his retirement. Um any other discussion? All those in favor of approving the consent agenda items signify by saying I. I. I. Opposed same sign. Abstentions? Motion carried. Next we have F 9 action agenda item? None? Superintendent's report? Yeah, I am trying to pull up the the finance report. Finance Cycle program. Meanwhile, um the middle school and the high school kids um today came down to the auditorium to do their TED site TED Ed site event. So those kids got up on stage and gave their TED Talks in front of um their the student body. Um which is a big deal, right? Um it's it's one thing to to give your talk in front of a panel of judges who you don't know, [clears throat] but to be able to do that in front of your peers um is is pretty impressive.
So really really proud of them. Um yeah, so we are gearing up for May 16th is our event. So we will um the kids, the youth speakers have auditioned and and we know who made the big stage and um so we're just waiting on their speaker graphics and then we'll start to push that out. So um our school community community can can know who's who's going to be on stage and um putting all the volunteers we can get. So Yeah. How many middle school and high school? One high schooler, three middle school. The rest are elementary. And all three elementary buildings are represented. And then we have four adult speakers. So again, we want to get as many people as we can in that music center on on May 6th. It's a free event. Um first 300 in the door get a really cool swag bag with them.
Doors open at 8:30. Yep, but it talks earlier. TED Talks start at 10. Food trucks, all kinds of stuff. So we'll keep pushing it out there to people. Um yeah. And if you want to volunteer, is there some place to do that? There is. In my weekly message in fact there's a link to volunteer. Yeah. So yeah. Okay, finance. Um Again, this is the the operations uh for March of 2026. Um so you you can see you guys have it in front of you, those that are in the audience um you can see how it's formatted up here on the screen. Um we have the different categories um and then then how much we spent out of each of those categories, but it's really nice that Megan puts together a little summary in the note section so so we can synthesize some of it. Um for March our overall expenses in operations were up by 50,000 um and then bus contractors were down by 24,000.
Uh we had spring break in there, right? So so we don't we don't pay for that. >> Can I make a comment on the bus contractor? Yeah. Uh last last few times we've got this it shows the bus contractors being a usually the largest amount. Well, that also includes fuel and employees' insurance and all that. I just don't want people to think we're throwing 120 grand in our pocket running or anything like that. So just wanted to bring that up. It includes all expenses. >> Yeah yeah yeah, that's Yeah, I wish. So but I I think and this is a really good example like the the next one says janitorial is up by 8,000. It Again, it's really really hard to take from one month to the next month and be able to compare month to month exact with exact amounts. Um like the timing of invoices for the janitorial, we had two of them that were in the same month, right?
So because of the timing of when they invoice us, it did will dictate how much we have to pay out for that month. Um maintenance is up by 16. You think about the snow removal, bills have to be paid. Um if you remember we opted out of our contract with Cintas. Well, when you opt out of that contract with Cintas, you you still have to be able to purchase um supplies that we need. So there was an increase at in high grade. Um our professional services are down. Again, this is the timing of billing. Um we have noted that we will have several payments or maybe multiple payments that we're going to have in April. So although they're down by 8,000, we're going to see it probably uptick in April. What's professional services again? Professional services um gosh is is kind of a miscellaneous. So our attorney fees are in there.
Um I think about our contracts with like our copiers and our leases, things like that. >> Okay. Uh technology is up by 10. Um Priden actually is a technology. Those are our cop our lease with our copiers. So they do a monthly service and it's about $4,800 each month. Well, we paid two of them um in one month. So that's that that's why you see technology up about 10,000. Um and then our utilities are up. I feel like this is the one constant that we have and that we see is utilities um keep going up and you can see the list of of why there. Think about the propane. We didn't fill propane at Helmsburg or Sperry Nica in February. So there was an up cost there. Well, they just filled it. So we have to pay that bill, which is why you see such a large increase there.