You know what I mean? It's going to be great. I mean, I see this as like it's kind of like a movement. I mean, we all get we all get to record stuff. We all just do our thing. That's what makes it special. I mean I mean hopefully all these films are eligible for like best picture next year. Eligible for the Oscars. So, who knows? >> Picture all these are short films. If anything, they're my most likely best short film, man. >> All right. All right. But we all know But we all know any one of them could win an Oscar. Who knows? Thomas, Trevor, they can win it. they're eligible to win it. He He's bluffing this. He's I don't know if it's a reality of some sorts, but who knows? Maybe. They always say when there's illusion, there's hope. >> Yeah.
So we would sometimes replace things like we had a trailer court in our district, right? Which really is both high density and affordable. Maybe not the same level of density, but the affordability is much higher, especially if you have a family because it's like really hard to raise a family in a studio apartment, right? But you might have a two-bedroom trailer and that might be more functional for you and it's far more cost effective. Those things are getting scraped out of our community and the apartments that are going in really aren't fulfilling the role those properties fulfilled. Nor are they expanding the amount of affordable housing. What they're doing is they're creating luxury apartments for people to move in from other places. And I'm not against people moving in from other places. But before we worry about that, we really need to take care of the people who don't have affordable housing options here.
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Mhm. So, I I mean, if I appreciate there are good use cases and that there are students who are going to benefit from having those, but if there are ways to cut costs, we should consider all of them here well. Like I said, don't mind playing the role of jerk when I need to. Well, we have a replacement program. Would we would we be better off in line with what you're saying is like we did with the buses extend their life another year year in their cycle before we replace in the future at least? I have no complaints for our technology program. No. It's an excellent It is excellent program. I think the cycle time that you expect and what you're getting, if you start getting too close to life, you're probably going to start losing some. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Just trying to Yeah.
So, the revenue is not being, you know, um received. Um so, so it's a challenge, but I I can't imagine um us going back in the next 5 years asking for another override if we pass one at this level. If we don't pass one, yes, we will 100% be coming back to the community for an override. >> Well, that leads into my final question for you, uh, Jim. You know, we, you know, what what actually happens if voters say no at town meeting and no at the ballot box? What what happens? What what does that scenario look like uh for families uh for families, for kids, and for the community on a whole? >> So, I I'll be honest. I mean, I for next year because of the conversations we've had with our um with you on part of the select board with with the finance committee and the and the school committee, there will not be a tremendous amount of change for next year, right?
So, and again, not to mention the safety side of this. I mean, heaven forbid something happen and one of those poles fall over and hit somebody. I mean, that would be catastrophic. Um, hit a car, hit somebody, something else like that. And um I wouldn't say that that would be out of the realm for something with with for how how those polls are. >> Yeah, we've kind of been talking about this. I feel like the last couple years just that it's been, you know, on the radar, something that's going to need done and I think now is a good time to try to address it so that we could get it done over the summer before the football season next year. um especially with the rough neck reinforcers being in a position that they're able to to help with some of that funding. And I speaking with um some of those board members, they like they do like the the show package that's just a little bit more kind of over the top kind of some of the things that you know that we're kind of trying to bring into the school and just that extra extra fun and pizzazz.
Any questions y'all got or? >> Um, let's see. Have you heard of any particular films in the film festival you're really excited to see? >> I'm excited to see the XXL rapt. I mean, I've been seeing I've been seeing like behind the scenes images of Thomas and Trevor being Pete Davidson and Timothy Shallow from the SNL sketch. It's gonna be great. It's gonna be funny. And the fact that we have seen this SNL sketch like before knows they might recreate it to be something funny. Especially, of course, in the in the original where Quest Love slapped the out of him. I don't think we can say that. >> Probably not, but let's keep going. >> Sorry. Sorry. >> Chill. Sorry. Yo, someone edit that out. Someone edit that out, please. Yeah, please. I didn't mean to say that. It just came out. >> Uh, yeah.
Right. And in many cases, those are the people we most depend on in our society. Sometimes I feel like everyone forgot the pandemic where the most important people in society were the service industry professionals and that included us as well, right? Like we were out there getting things to kids, getting things to families. But um you know that everyone was like, "Oh, we love you know we love all these folks and then oh now we can make a bunch of profit off this property and we can just forget about those folks." And what's cool about this project is all of the um apartments are affordable and in fact the contract with the developer requires them to maintain that affordability for a minimum of 30 years. Right? So there's it's not like they can just go year two we're going to now we're going to you know turn our back on everybody because we got this built.
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save a dollar. We really adjusted that that cycle plan 2 years ago 3 years ago when I came on. We were borrowing money >> [clears throat] >> to replace computers a little bit closer in a little than what we are. So, I I think this is kind of what we feel comfortable with. Obviously a local school is in a little bit of a pinch. So, we can sell them to a recycler for 10 bucks or we can sell them to them for 10 bucks. It seems to make sense to sell them to them for 10 bucks. Makes perfect sense. Yeah. fine with that. I just would like to ask. That's a good question. >> [clears throat] >> Do we get anything out of the e-waste, Chris, or You just get weight, but not not much of anything anymore. Yeah. Okay. Makes me not have to pay to get rid of Yes, exactly.
there there just won't because people will not recognize a loss of service because we're utilize we'll have to utilize all of our onetime funds to pay for the school year. So So people aren't going to notice much of a difference next year. That's the that's the truth. But in FY28, when those millions of dollars that are being used to fund salaries, whether it's out of school choice, transportation revolving, building revolving, townwide um stabilization money to help, you know, level the budget, that money's gone. And if that money's gone, how are we going to then um fund operations for FY28? So I I think we're so shortsighted, at least in I think in education when we start budgeting. Um we're focused on what's ahead of us this, you know, in one year. We've got to look five years down the road. My job is to look five years down the road.
So on the tech line it shows that there's five years of the cloud connect cellular included on the Musco I don't see it specify whether it's over wireless. >> We looked today. Yeah. Um let me find it here real quick. We were actually having this conversation just a little bit ago. It says like the remote electrical component enclosion enclosures are wired, but that wouldn't necessarily mean that the I'm not sure. Let me uh >> which I guess either way they're promising you have no maintenance costs for 25 years. I would just want to make sure that there isn't like a monthly or annual fee or anything like that if there's cuz the techline one I would read as after 5 years you're going to have to start paying that. >> Yeah.
Yeah. >> Okay. Well, awesome. Thank you guys for the interview. >> You're welcome. No, thank you guys. >> Fist bomb. >> No problems. >> Fist bomb. Okay. That was great. >> Guys, >> I got Get in the corner. >> Get in the corner. You're going to be here. Yeah. Even then, no problem. And I'll be right in case 2026. >> Yeah. >> That's good. Stuff like that. I love that. Well, well, this thing, this live stream is probably at 7. At 7:15, it's over. And that's not my So, I'd say around like 7 710 I think maybe like I'd say around 710. I was going to say at 710ish you guys and I'll live stream right now. >> Yeah. Absolutely not. I was like, "Yes, >> we got it on." >> No. Is that camera? >> I'm not going to see Oh, that's super. Good.
Um but there's a subset of those apartments that are specifically designated for single parents who are going back to school or technical training to be able to advance their careers. And so in other states where this program has existed about 60% of those graduates go into the healthc care field. And so for any of you who've ever gone in for medical services and they're short staff, they're not short staffed because they don't want to fully staff. They're short staffed because we don't have just like we don't have enough people to serve in public education. Healthc care field often runs very parallel to us. Sometimes they're typically ahead of us. And so the number of technicians, nurses, doctors, there just aren't enough. And Phoenix Children's actually struggles this as with this as well, which makes it really cool that you could literally very easily not only walk to Phoenix Children's Hospital, but if you had $7 in your pocket, you grab a Starbucks on the way.
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So, yeah. Awesome. Anything else on the 300 Chromebooks? Okay. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> I. Opposed same sign. Motion carries. 8.4 maternity leave request. Yeah, I have a teacher at middle school. You should see in your packet who that is. I have a middle school maternity leave request is asked for your approval. Okay. Entertain a motion to approve the maternity leave request for the 2026-2027 school year at the middle school. So moved. Second? Second.
If we don't pass an override FY28, we're going to see significant cuts across the district. That's the reality. Um upwards of if if we've got to save$1 or2 million out of our budget, we're talking 20 to 30 educators. Class sizes will definitely go up. Opportunities will be lost at at the high school. Um can I give an exact number? No. But I I can tell you if we were a level funded budget right now, meaning we were not getting any more funds than we got this year, we have 13.2 reductions right now, we would be at 30. So that's 17 more educators. We would lose. That will happen in FY28. That's the reality. Um, and it's it's a it's a never- ending cycle if we don't fix this. And the problem with relying on those one-time funds is I've shared with the community, we have about $14 million worth of capital projects that have to be funded and figured out, meaning new roofs, um boiler systems, um you know, fixing our fields.
Uh Brad, that's our guy, that's our contact, is on call tonight if we had any questions. Let me just give him a holler and ask him. Hey, Mr. Brad, this is Bobby down here in Central Plains. How are you, sir? Hey, I'm good. Hey, we're in our board meeting. We had one question um as far as like the controls for the the um the the lighting on the football field. Is that something that's included for like lifetime of of the plan or is there like after 5 years you have to start paying a certain cost to be able to have it like whether it's on your phone to turn on and off or whether it's like from the control. What's that look like? >> Okay. uh on off. You can turn you can turn those those lights on. You can pre-program on a computer. You can call in 24/7 uh 24/7 365 days a year and you can put it on your phone on an app and it does not cut off at 5 years or 10 years or whatever.
Good. Came out for the film festival. It's awesome. >> All right. You guys are ready. one. You're live. >> Okay. Hello, guys. I've heard through the grapevine that you are related to Giana. Is that true? >> Yes. >> Unfortunately. >> No. Yikes. Yikes. Well, we interviewed her earlier. You told us a little sneak peek about her project, but let's get the inside scoop from her family themselves. How are you guys feeling about this being Janna's last film festival? >> Um, it's actually very emotional. We're super super excited, but at the same time really sad to see her leaving because she absolutely loves being here and she's we're going to miss it. She's going to miss it. >> Oh yeah. >> How sweet. Oh my goodness. They were talking about crying. I might start crying. Oh goodness gracious. I have the sunglasses. It's all right. Um, is there anything she's hinted to you guys about her project?
Um, that may be part of the problem that that those coffees cost so much. Um, and so, um, I was really in favor of this project because I also know that in our school district, we have staff like one of the projects that Dr. Lauren's working on um that the board approved our application are submitting our application for is a teacher apprenticeship program in partnership with Rio Salado where a workforce development grant will actually pay for all the schooling. So if someone's a classified staff member in our district and they'd like to become a teacher, they can go to school for free and we can actually pay them to work as you know kind of a I don't know what you apprentice. Yeah. In the classroom, right? And so we have slots to do that I think with up to three people initially. Um, and I mean, really cool program, but imagine if you could go back to school for, let's imagine you're a single parent and you go back to school for free and get paid by the district, but your pay may not allow you to live near the district and now you can get an apartment at a very significant discount with two mentors on that space specifically for your family.