As well as our thinking around complex thinking and social-emotional learning. It is super important, especially for our multilingual learners as we think about making sure that kiddos become effective communicators. Making sure that they are community collaborators and contributors. That they're self-directed learners. That they're using the tools we're providing and that they're collaborative and cooperative learners. This is how we lean into our vision of the work. When we think about our multilingual learners, we have to think through the culturally responsive lens. This is super important because what we're talking about here is these equitable access points that that we're providing through universal designs for learning as well as our work with building thinking classrooms. The other piece of this is we need to foster belonging. We want to make sure that kiddos know that they belong in our schools and in our classrooms. How do we do that?
Hearing none, members, any questions of the one that's here? Uh I see none. With that, we will um move on to the next item. We have HCR 53 requesting University of Hawaii Board of Regents to conduct a system-wide associate degree completion audit and that measure I don't know that anybody here that test uh weighs testimony, but since we have UH here, no testimony. Okay, members, seeing that we have no one here, we'll go move move on to HCR 110 and this is requesting the University of Hawaii Board of Regents to review and refine operational institutions to ensure that each campus fulfills a distinct and complementary role in serving students in the state. Um HCR 110, uh we have no testifiers on this measure either. Uh hearing that no one else wants to testify, we'll move on. HCR 111, uh requesting the Board of Regents to review and clarify the roles and responsibilities and functions of the University of Hawaii system in relation to responsibilities of individual campuses.
My in my internal definition of school pride, my definition of school pride is being just I know it seems very simple. You can't use the word and the definition, but just being proud to go here. And all of our students are, but when I ask them what does the traditional like high school musical think of wearing school spirit? That's like, oh, wearing homecoming dress days, going to homecoming, going to our newly patriot Palooa, going to football games. Besides Christina, who is there from dance, none of the other ones really attended the football games. They didn't wear they didn't go to homecoming and they didn't wear Stevenson merch on the homecoming days. Is that a bad thing? Not necessarily. And because each of these students have that school pride, I kind of want to emphasize that. I don't I don't want to come out here thinking that they don't because each student at Stevenson is proud to go to Stevenson.
>> Yeah, I get that. Okay. Thank you. Caroline Aller will help give us five goal areas for North Elementary School. This is a busy school right now with a lot of construction. So I want to start you off with a great team. >> All the patient teachers cuz I drove over there today and I am very tuned up how difficult it is to come and go. So, let's all be safe and thank you to the North staff for >> being good. >> Well, thank you for the opportunity to speak to you guys tonight about uh North's work towards the strategic plan. There's lots of great things to share. Um and we've got a mighty crew of North staff behind me because this is really about them and highlighting all the things that they're doing. So, I wanted to make sure that they were in attendance tonight as I spoke about the things they're doing.
I can't I'll list some of their names, but you know, like my mom, my stepdad, you know, my dad, they came to all my meets and it just like meant the world to me, you know, like showing them and showing their um commitment along with mine and it's been such a journey. Um, but yeah, you know, along with all these teammates and stuff and it's just so fun, you know, I like running, you know, you guys know running, it's not, you know, that typical fun sport. sports a lot of people's punishment. So, you know, making the sport so fun with all these guys and all these alumni, still seeing them come in, you know, it's been it's been an emotional journey for sure. But, um, I've, you know, suckered all that in and it's been so fun this last year, especially senior year. And now, you know, I'm gearing up for hopefully my last big season.
That is due to our construction projects that have been ongoing. That is going to keep the model guessing because we have not had wholesale construction projects for quite a few years. When we look at our at our month end fund balances, again, it's coming in right where it should be. We're coming in slightly ahead of where we were at this time last year. Our current month summary to date, again, this slide is useful to see the percent change from the prior year month to date versus the current year month to date. And you'll see that the state of funding actually was down slightly. That is in part to the fact that our teacher vacancy grant is less than it was in the the past. Our federal dollars were actually up because of when we claim for expenditures. When we look at the expenditure side, you'll see there was a gigantic jump in supplies.
And it seems like more and more school districts are going to first day exemption. So, we'll report back at the start of the school year to see um how this how this initial phase goes. But, we we anticipate it's going to go very well. Roll call, please. Hurst? Yes. Mervica? Yes. Pappas? Yes. Ward? Yes. Dogan? Yes. Gorman? Yes. Wasson? Yes. Motion passes. Next, I need a motion and a second to discuss and approve the farm lease. So moved. Second.
So, we just can make all those changes right there on the spot and start things like the next day or sometimes we'll start in the next week. But we're having a lot of conversations and we're getting to have some more challenging conversations so we can like ask like, "Oh, what about this?" You know, and start to bring in some things to look at look at it differently. So, go to the next one. That's most of it. We just want to continue building them for next year. We think they're huge. And just to keep strengthening So, they're once a month like an hour or they're they're uh During their prep prep time. So, our teachers don't have to miss any instruction time. So, it's just 40 minutes that we sit down together and look at everything and talk about Well, they've gotten to They're really efficient now.
I played in Michigan and school up there, but this is best group of people I've ever met. And I mean that. You know, it's takes a lot for me to say that because uh I I really look at people and try to get to know them and try to see who they really are. And you these are a good group of teachers. They really will, you know, they're not scared to ask you what's going on and try to help you out the best they can, you know. I uh grew up without All right. Had the best guidance, but as soon as I came here I changed. I I've been in work-based learning. Did that for about a year and a year and a half. And I ended up That really gave me some responsibility. You know, how to balance everything in life. The schedule. I like to get my hands dirty, you know.
Any discussion? Question Do you want to split them? I know it. Sorry. Donation Oh. Yeah. Sorry. Um I had a question on one of them. Yep. Actually, is it Wilson? Yep. She is. Sorry. Vendor, sorry. It's small. Uh 6015 Inland E L A N Inland It's our credit card statement. Okay. I didn't know what it was cuz it's changed every month. I didn't know if it was a constr- contribution to No, that's our credit card statement. Okay. And I guess you use it for just the general credit card for anything or everything? Mhm, it's hooked to like our Amazon and then um anytime like somebody needs a credit card for something. Okay. The amounts were very varying. Yeah. Yeah, like >> It'll go way down in the summertime. Yeah. Yeah. Almost zero, right? This happened to be a larger one this time of year to pop my eyes.
From a principal standpoint, you know, um I I share a similar past with Dr. Hoover in that I started out as a chemistry teacher, and and as I thought that I loved science, it it quickly uh I could quickly realize that it's not the science that I love, it's the people. And so as I was able to transition from the classroom over to administration, I I really was able to to focus in on what makes me happy, what fills my cup, and and what really matters to me. And at the end of the day it it is the people, you know, as the principal test scores, budgets, school accountability, all things that are important, but they're not the most important. What's the most important is those kids that walk through the door every day, their families that are sending them to me, and and the teachers that that I need to to support so they can do wonderful things for those kiddos.
We need to validate their identities, their stories, and backgrounds and look at this to an asset-based lens. Every student that comes to us that speaks another language in addition to English comes with his or her own lived experiences, knowledge, backgrounds that are an asset to our school system. And so, as we looked at our program, we uh referred a lot to this document, which is put out by the state of Connecticut and this is the English learner and multilingual learner frameworks. And these are really what all of our work was grounded in. Um it really outlined for us um the policies, the practices that are um needed in order to make the meet the needs of our diverse learners. So, we referred to this document a lot um so that we could all have a shared understanding of what success looks like for a multilingual learner and also what high-quality rigorous thinking experiences look like in the classroom, what that instruction looks like.
Again, no one needs to test testify. Finally, HCR 118 HD1 urging Department of Education to strengthen menstrual health education initiatives to adopt a comprehensive menstrual cycle curriculum. And this measure was passed by the Senate. We passed it over to the House. Uh the House asked if we would hear their measure as well and so as a cooperative colleague, I am complying. So, I will ask our testifiers to please you have 1 minute and we will start off with um Lasmin Chaney. Not here. Leila Gonzalez in support. Um Niki-Ann Yee Niki, is that you? Yes. Aloha, Chair, and hello to the committee. Nice to see you. Um my name is Niki-Ann Yee and I'm co-founder of Ma'i Movement Hawaii. I stand on my written testimony and strong support. I want to start by recognizing the young people that brought us here today, Joel and Leila. Unfortunately, they can't make it because they're in class, but this measure really reflects what students they themselves are asking for, comprehensive and standardized menstrual health education.
I know this is kind of a little bit biased, but I feel like a majority of Stevenson students, if you ask them, are you proud to go here? They will say yes. And that's just because it's an amazing school. There's so much amazing things to do. But if you ask them about school spirit, they might not say yes. All three of them said things that school spirit is decreasing, but school pride is increasing. Augie said staying the same, but they each said school pride is increasing, which coming from a student government perspective, I think that's amazing. I think if you can have school pride, that's amazing. And I hate to leave it on a cliffhanger, but I kind of am because I'm going to ask like you guys, and very it's a rhetorical question here. The interview is over, but rhetorical question is that a bad thing?
Um, with goal one about student achievement, we have really worked hard um, with our PLC's and our collaborative teams this year to really refine our work on what we're talking about during our collaborative um, plan time. So, we really shifted our focus to what we're teaching to how we're teaching it. So, we're able to really talk about strategies and it allows for deeper conversations about the standards and then also sharing that instructional knowledge um, between team members. And we know that this has really built our collective teacher efficacy um across the building, which we know is the number one factor in influencing student achievement. Um also want to highlight in the bottom right, it's probably one of my favorite pictures. Got two girls just huddled around a book. Um I want to highlight that we had 14 of our North staff members participate in the literacy pilot this year across second and fourth grade.
I want to end things off with a big bang. So, I'm really proud and um proud of DGN, proud of myself, proud of my parents, and uh super excited to end off the year. >> All right. Uh next up, we have Maya Nicholson. Um all state cheer. I'll invite up coach Pasarelli. And Maya, come on up. I don't know how to speak. >> Uh well, a little bit on the fly. Um Maya um got the all-state recognition for cheerleading and was amongst a very small group of people that got that honor. Um I've had the privilege of coaching her for four years. Uh she was a former gymnast and had some injuries and came to cheer and we're so excited she did because she is the epitome of a coachable athlete. Um, I could sit here and talk about her for probably an hour, but um, she is so humble and so talented and so um, deserving of this honor.
Why that gigantic decrease in supplies. Why that is is just the way it rolls. And capital outlay 859% increase. Again, all due in parts to our construction projects. I believe this past month we had a pretty sizable bill go out for our solar project. Our year end projections are coming in right in line with where we want them to be. There's little variance compared to our projections and budget. And actually these numbers have started to decrease as we've gotten closer to the end of the fiscal year, which is what we strive to do. Your end projections for debt and capital projects. Really no change here other than some some large payments went out for the solar project. Finally, the all important cash flow slide. You'll see that we're still running a $798,000 surplus. The education fund is strong. The operation maintenance fund is actually has a lower than expected deficit.
Any discussion on this? Comments you want to have? Yeah, I can start off, and then maybe anyone else at the table. So, the farm lease You may know the property that the district owns. There's approximately 250-ish acres that we have that the last 2 years we had a tenant farmer. Tonight, we have a different person that is we're recommending the awarding of the lease to. That is not including the FFA 28-acre portion. It is just simply it is for the farm lease of which we which we've done the past 2 years. Um the district obviously will command some some some monetary relief from this. Dana's worked very very hard on it. Dana, if you want to go into more detail, please feel free to do so. Yeah, I think just um we're just switching tenant farmers. So, we originally asked for 275 as a minimum bid.
We've gotten to the point where we're really we run through things really quickly. Sometimes the teachers are done even before 40 minutes are up just because they've become that efficient with looking at the data. It's been really good to move Like Amanda said, move our kids to to what they do need. So, they're moving them from one group to another to get the instruction they If they're growing here, if they've got the skills, then we move them up to the tier. And so, it's They've been really good. They've been I think they're enjoyable for us. A long day of meetings, but it's a lot of fun to sit in and and listen to teachers collaborate with each other and with us. And our teachers come prepared. I mean, they have their own data binders now and our spreadsheets and they come with exactly what they're ready to talk about.
I like to work on cars. And uh work-based learning I I got to do a lot of that. Especially. >> [clears throat] >> Also, the teachers here you're With Mr. Earnhardt up there, her class was welding and and [snorts] that is what really got me started in my freshman year of high school. It was really a pleasure to be with you and I did work with and I really got a lot of All the teachers here have really inspired me to take my step forward and do all the projects. >> [snorts] >> I'll tell you right now that I would have overcome you. I thank you all. You're very welcome. >> [applause] >> That's it, Brooke. Well, thanks, everybody, for sharing. I'm sure that was a little nerve-wracking for some of you. >> Thank [clears throat] you, kids, for taking the time. It really uh makes me change up the road with us, talk to the community because uh it sure makes me feel good about the school administration and what's going on.