Yeah. Like we're close or this is what we've been working on. And we knew that they were struggling. Like we've been bringing them up. And so, we use the Dibels data. We're looking at every time. That's Amplify to see how they're progressing. And to see if we're maybe needing more interventions. We've had students from there go to evaluation after we've continued to provide interventions for a couple years and they're not making the progress, then we can look at next steps like thinking of evaluation or if we're missing something. So, we're hoping we'll see it in the next year. But it's also I'm hoping a year or two of growth. Now, the checkpoints, that was That was across the state. Schools were not happy with the predictor value of that. So, we weren't alone in that. So, it's time So, then you look for something else that's a better predictor of this guy.
Abby Hile, JV softball coach. Kendall Ruefer, junior high boys track coach. Kylie Zimbra, junior high boys assistant track coach. Nathan Spellman, assistant baseball coach. And the uh following volunteer coaches were also approved. Aleah Zobrist, softball. May I have a motion? >> I'll make a motion. >> Second? >> I'll second. >> All in favor? >> Aye. >> Opposed? Passes 4-0. Action items. Um >> [clears throat] >> recommendation to approve proceeding with Central Noble Early Learning Center classroom move and Apple Tree School renovations. Jenny? >> Okay. Can everybody hear me? Okay. Um so first off, I think we need to recognize Jenny Hicks. She is the director of the daycare um and her expertise with the daycare has really brought us to where we are today with asking for this move to be approved. Um she's had countless hours reviewing requirements, consulting with the licensing officials, visiting other facilities, and so much more um just to make sure that this can be the best possible environment for our students that we have in there.
Um so when you look at that, that's that's a difference there, so um everything is looking really good um when it comes to that. Um just again some things kind of keep looking at and keep eyes on. I'll touch on um SEA 1 on the bottom part that impact operations and debt service. Um last month I had my my thought was to not spread that impact this year in 2026 um and to absorb it all into operations. Um continue to look at that more and more, had conversations with people um and and I think right now the thought is that we are going to go ahead and balance that um between our operations and debt service in 2026, that lost credit um that would be part of that SEA 1 with the 10% or $300 and so for us it's about $160,000 um lost credits this year and so originally we were going to take that hit in ops, but I think we have the debt service fund cash balance to carry it as we run through our cash projections.
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>> Still for 3 years? So, yes, we still have to monitor and intervene if academic Yes. So, the kid who moves here is 5 or 6 years old and he moves here from a different country. Mhm. Uh if he speaks English fluently, Mhm. reads, writes, everything, does he get put or she do they get put in that former ML No. >> They They just go There's like nothing no nothing whatsoever cuz they just Well, what would be important, we would know that there is a second language at home even though the child didn't qualify for services. So, we will keep an eye on that because if it did start to impact academics at any point, we might have to take a look at that again. So, we do keep track of a different district number which talks about how many students in our school system do speak a different language at home but do not qualify do not qualify for ML services.
Any voting Any others voting with reservations or no? All others voting aye, recommendation is adopted. Thank you. Uh for HCR 53, this is urging the University of Hawaii Board of Regents to conduct a system-wide associate degree completion audit. Uh recommendation is to amend with technical and non-substantive amendments for clarity and consistency. Chair Wooley, aye. Members, HCR 53 Chair's recommendation is passed with amendments. Any reservations or no? With all others voting aye, recommendation is adopted. HCR 110, this is for the Board of Regents to refine the operational missions of Hawaii's four-year campuses. Uh recommendation is to pass as is. No discussion. Chair Wooley, aye. Members, HCR 110 Chair's recommendation is passed unamended. Any members voting with reservations or no? With all others voting aye, recommendation is adopted. >> Okay, and HCR 111, similar to the one above except this one um is looking at the responsibilities of each individual campuses.
>> Just ask you to keep your comments at three minutes if that's okay. >> All right. Thank you. >> I start now. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Good evening. My name is Marla Tiffen and I'm a Mongolian-American sophomore here at Stevenson and also a member of the Suburban Youth Council with the Hana Center. I'm here to today to express my strong support for the Teaching Equitable Asian-American uh community history act and its full implementation in our schools by adopting our demands. The Teach Act signed into law in 2021 and supposed to go into the curriculum in the 2022 2023 school year was meant to ensure that Asian-American history and contributions specifically in the Midwest was taught with both accuracy and depth. However, my experience as a student suggests that we're not yet meeting that goal. For much of my life, the only time I heard about my heritage discussed was when Genghaskhan was described as an evil dictator.
So, we kicked off the week with a keynote speaker. He's down on the right. Um, and he plays for the United States MPT soccer team and he'll be competing in the uh World Cup this year. And he was a hit. The kids after his per or after his um speech, they asked him to come outside and play soccer with them. So, he was out there with our fifth graders playing soccer on the black top. Um and it was just a really great experience for students to see um how we can embrace um all all people for goal area three for workforce. Um you know obviously I've got amazing staff here like they're they're just fabulous and we've really wanted to invest in them as professionals. So how can we continue to support their learning? So we have provided opportunities for staff to identify areas that they want to grow in as an educator and we've provided differentiated professional development during our PLC building meetings where they can select a session that they want to attend.
Uh I could go on, you know, for days talking about Adam and all of his accolades, the points he scored. Um but I don't think I would be doing him justice to not talk about like the type of character, high character kid he is. Um and just how the amount of hours and time he put in the gym day in day out. Um, and I'm so grateful uh to be able to coach him for the last two years. Um, and just get to know him. And I think as you know, teachers, coaches, as we're starting to get ready here for summer and we start thinking about next year, um, I always knew I was going to miss him. Um, but I didn't realize until the last few weeks when I'm like going through everything, like, man, like I'm I'm really really going to miss um, and not just the basketball stuff, but just who he is as a person on the dayto-day.
And with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions. Hearing no questions. Thank you, Mr. Shepherd. Then next up, we would have the fiscal year 26 amended update. FY 26 amended budget update. Yes. Once again, as the board knows, we were going to end up having to amend our FY 26 budget. It is for two reasons. That is one of the reasons why you don't have the full budget with you tonight because we're still uh, trying to fine-tune that particular number. Uh, but the two reasons are uh, the original budget anticipated approximately 12.5 million in capital projects. That number seems to be coming in right where we expect it to be. Uh, but we are going to make a transfer from the education fund uh, to capital improvements in the amount of $6 million. Again, that is being offset by those uh, maturing investments uh, that are scheduled to mature um, in June.
And if they're not a good steward of the ground, then within a couple years, if they're not farming professionally, then we get in a situation where it won't command a high rate of rent. And this is far above the King County average for cash rent, so. I just like to say thank you to Dana, Tim, and Chad. The school district, I don't think that when I was trying to get on the school district, realized that we're somewhat in the farming business, and that's not what the district is intended for. And so, there's a lot of things that come with that that I have no background or knowledge in. And so, having people take that project on to actually try to do the best for the district and get the most that we can out of the land that we have right now, um was awesome.
So, NWEA is our best one. And we've had, you know, like I I know one of the sixth grade teachers We don't have NWEA as middle of the year required. But we had one of our sixth grade that was really working on math interventions and wanted it. And we talked about the growth with students and their middle of the year scores went up in that class. And we had been targeting interventions to that class because they were kind of split and then low and So I don't I tried to pull data right now but I don't have enough across the board from NWEA. Hopefully at the end of the year we will. But she's good with data. >> [laughter] >> So I'm just so happy that our kids just they're not they're not stagnating. They're not sitting there. We're we're looking at them and we're moving them and we're and we're giving them the strategies that they need.
Um this request is brought forward now so that the district can begin the necessary planning and approval steps in a timely manner as several requirements must be completed before a move can occur. After extensive extensive discussion, we believe utilizing four classrooms at the junior senior high is going to be the best place um for a permanent location for CNALC at this time, and this is regardless of any future building consolidation considerations. This is what we we feel is best regardless of what happens. The proposed renovations for those classrooms are focused on maintaining the program's LLEP certified status and meeting required standards, which include emergency exits, restroom access, security, and effective classroom design. Uh before occupancy, they will have to go through um some certification with both the fire marshal and state licensing um or inspections, I should say, to approve those spaces. Um so approving that now, um that will give them plenty of time to get moved over, uh renovations done so that they can be ready to go and accept students again.
So um I'll go into that a little bit more with you guys later, but um I think right now the thought I've got to issue a letter to the DLGF by May 15th um if we want to spread that. And so I'm going to the last piece of that is I'm going to go back and look um and talk to um our county auditor about our average um percentage of our property tax collection rates. You know, so if we're if we're projected to get $5 and man, we only normally get half of that every year, well, we might want to be a little more cautious. But if we're typically maybe at 90 or 95% collection rate and then I think we're in good shape good space. So Steve will recommend it is to go ahead and take advantage of it this year because we can always come back and and play it differently in 27 and 28.
I'm happy to answer any questions you might have tonight. This will be brought back for action at the next meeting. Just one question. Those employees or folks that are going to be driving, do do they have their license copied? Do you check that out anyway to make sure that everything's above board and Yep. Actually, that's really about what this policy is about is amending and clarifying those definitions and the requirements and the addition of the motor vehicle report. Okay. Thank you very much.
I was thinking about parents who if you have two different parents, one of them may not speak English but they get emails or phone calls in English. Marlene, what was that number 500 and something? 600 658 families. 658 families that identified themselves. students whose families speak don't speak English at home. Speak a different language at home. Okay, but it's only We've only got 180 kids in it. So, there's probably kids who speak English but read, write, speak English fluently. Enough to pass the last test. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is I'm assuming that's pretty close to what most people would consider fluent short of maybe like an accent or something but they speak perfectly fluently. Well, it depends on when the parents register the child what they determine. What was the first language spoken by the child? What's spoken at home? There's a third one. So, they fill out a home language survey exactly what was the child's initial language, what language is spoken at home.
Uh recommendation is to pass as is. Members, HCR 111 Chair's recommendation is passed unamended. Um any members voting with reservations or no? With all others voting aye, recommendation is adopted. >> Thank you. And HCR 118 is to uh pass pass as is or how about we just we all we make any any amendments that was made in the measure that went over in the Senate draft. Uh >> [laughter] >> which I can't recall what it might be, but I'm sure we have that on record. Uh with that, uh can I do that? You can do whatever you want. Okay. >> [laughter] >> So, is this going to be an SD1 or is this going to be How about we Uh we do with technical and non-substantive amendments and then any changes that was made in the version that went over be included. >> Yeah. Okay, that's good.
That was the narrative presented to me both in classrooms and in popular culture. But in Mongolia, he is remembered very differently as a Brazilian Brazilian brilliant strategist, a unifier, and a figure of national pride. Reconciling these two vastly different portrayals forced me to question not only what was being taught to me, but also what was being left out. This experience is not unique. In school, Asian-American history is often framed primarily through hardship, through stories like Japanese internment and the Chinese Exclusion Act. While these histories are essential, they are incomplete on their own. When we focus only on oppression, we fail to recognize the leadership, innovation, and cultural contributions of Asian-American communities. We also fail to show students that their histories are not just defined by suffering, but by resilience, achievement, and influence. An incomplete education does more than just leave out facts. It shapes how students see themselves and how others see them.
Um we also have opportunities before and after school for some additional professional learning as well. Um we also have continued to really invest our time in collaborative practices. So, we've provided staff, each team with three half-day planning sessions where they can really dive into the curriculum, dive into the data, and build relationships. It's a really important for staff to work well together. So, we wanted to make sure that they had carved out time to specifically work together, that they're not under the clock of I got to go pick up my kids from PE. Um, so we really wanted to provide that for them um this school year. for bowl four families and communities. Um we continue to work with our display and self-help pantry. We did a food drive in February and we had four of those big blue bins if you if you know what those are um filled up to the brim and we were able to donate to the food pantry.
Um, and I think that's kind of the standard and the legacy he's leaving with Downer South and with the basketball program. So, I'm just uh truly truly appreciative of all Adam's done for us. >> He'll pick you up. >> Um, I just want to thank my mom first. um always driving me to the gym and practices and stuff and even when it's super late at night um or in the morning. I want to thank Miller for always believing in me and pushing me to like way past what I thought I could. And um my sister, she's not here today, but I thank her cuz she always talks to me about basketball, how she likes seeing me play. So, I'm just really grateful for it. All right, celebration continues. I've got uh Brian Sueda and Luke Connley right here. Uh we're going to celebrate um Luke and then Brian is also going to talk about our diving program as well.