So, the projects themselves are done and they're in the finalization process and that just means that we are um we are working on getting the reimbursements completed. We it is a process of getting all the paperwork submitted to um to the school facilities division. Uh there are a lot of working parts in that and that takes a little bit of time. And so um these are all the current projects that we have pending. Okay, next slide please. Another question came up. Uh there was some there was a little bit of confusion on our classroom how the on the classroom spending breakdown. And so I wanted to give a little bit more clarity on the classroom spending. Um this is going to be the operational and the nonoperational spending. And so if you can go to the next slide there's and I apologize this comes straight.
23 students are inactive that were once with us. Some of them it just wasn't a fit for them so they returned back to in person. Some of them attendance was an issue so they had to go back in person also. Um alternate setting. We we use it's been really helpful for kiddos who are struggling in person. So some of them were in an alternate alternative school setting kind of and they've gone back because their time's been up. Some things that we've offered this year is tutoring to all the students at any time that a student's struggling, we offer them to come on in to get some tutoring or even hop on Google Meets to to be tutored. Individual help just to parents or guardians to help them through the program. It is all online and it's a lot of independent work. Tech support. Some celebrations.
See how Shrewsbury decides to play this. Player came from behind the net and briefly came open. The pass couldn't connect. Good defensive pressure by Julia Friess causes the turnover and collects the ground ball. So, up the field she goes. Quickly to Laney Early. Ashland will be have about 30 seconds to work before the end of the quarter. Early behind the net. 20 seconds left. They're going to have to move to try to get a shot off here. It's coming out to to McGuinness. She's going to maybe try to make a move herself. Dodge, nothing there. Down at 8 seconds. Try to get the ball into the middle to Lily Vitti, couldn't connect. Goalie catches it and that's going to end the first quarter. First quarter is concluded with Shrewsbury 6, Ashland 2. We'll have 2 minutes between the the quarters. Taking a look at the other spring sports for Ashland High School Clockers, baseball comes in with a record of three and three.
>> You don't? Um but I wanted to highlight that district goal number one, um we said that our chronic absenteeism rates were were way too high last school year and really for the last few years. I don't even know why I'm saying this. I should not go into it, but I I don't think it's going to get so bad that it's going to it's going to be way way worse than this, but last year JFK, our chronic absenteeism rate was 26.44% Currently, the chronic absenteeism rate at JFK is 17.18%. So, it's a huge drop and that's due to the efforts of the teachers, the principal, um some of it was the way the data was being input and changes that we made. Um and then at the middle school, it was 20.97% last year and currently at the middle school it's at 16%. So, drop of over four percentage points there as well.
It's is this one is a little bit harder to read. You can zoom in on it and it'll show you all of the different components. But in operational spending, it will it will it'll itemize everything that's within the operational spending. And so you can see how what exactly is included when we talk about instruction dollars, the percentage of instruction. That's what it's specifically referring to. And then the other side of that is going to be the non-operational which was the land and buildings, the equipment um interest and um other things that were right um service programs, civic activities and things like that. >> Courtney is is this doc are these documents available to to like on our website or anything like that? >> So this actually I left a link at the bottom of this page. Um and this so this is just the glossery on the auditor general's website.
We've had 23 students log in regularly and complete work and that's hard because they're supposed to be on for about 5 hours a day. All second sixth eighth through eighth grade students have come in for ILEARN and IREAD testing. They can't do that online. They have to come in for that. And then we offered some buyback days where we helped them get some days that they might have missed. Nine of our students did that. Some of the challenges this year have been attendance. It's it's tough to track attendance. The program we use, they we've been in contact with them and they're improving that for us. And then just sometimes parent communication. We don't see the students or the parents often and so sometimes contacting them can be can be tough. But I do say it's it's a program it continues to meet the goal of us offering a flexible learning option for our students.
Softball doing great. They have a 6 and 1 record. Um boys track 0 and 3, girls track 1 and 2. Boys across comes in with a 2 and 7 record. Boys tennis is 2 and 4, girls tennis without a win so far. Hopefully they'll get one soon. About a week away from the power rankings coming out, the MIA power rankings for not only girls lacrosse, but all of the spring sports. So, teams will start understanding where they fit within their division. Trying to move up the the standings, of course, to get a preferential playoff position. Teams about to come back onto the field. Second quarter about to start. Ashland will be going left to right. Shrewsbury right to left. Ashley Forster taking the draw. Lily Vitti is now on circle. Defensively, you see Kendall Westerland, Julia Friess, Samantha Sciarappa. Shrewsbury awarded the ball off the draw.
So, it's been a a heavy focus for us. I have a feeling it's going to continue to be heavy focus for us in subsequent years as well. Um but they they the kids are buying in and the and the parents are buying in, so it's good to see. Sorry, Mike. That's all right. All right. So, motion and second then to open the meeting to the public for the discussion of agenda items only. Motion. Second. All those in favor. All right. Opposed or abstain. That was on delay. All right. Nothing on this moment. I'll entertain a motion and second to close the public portion of the meeting um for agenda items only. Motion. Second. All those in favor. All right. Opposed or abstain. All right. Mr. Lee, you're back up. >> Hey, look, I'm still talking. Okay. Um first under the superintendent's report for A and B, we have the safety and security drills for both JFK and DDE that are documented there.
That's where this comes from. Okay. And so this link you can go to that and it'll give you a glossery of actually all of our uh peer groups our obser you know >> but it will show us our our spending and those yes and that was that previous slide that was where that came from as well that is going to show you that just came straight from the auditor general's website. >> Okay next slide please. Um, another question came up and this one the question was uh was asked on how much spec how much we're paying on deferred maintenance and preventative maintenance. Um, and that one's a little bit gray. I because you know there are we have some things that we're you know we we spend dollars on repair and upkeep. Um, and so if you take a look at this is just a comparison of our operation and maintenance of plant expenditures.
And it's allowed us to be better than cost neutral and we've been approximately $200,000 available to reinvest back into our student programming distance services. So it's been very productive this year. Again, that information is available in the packet. This item is an inform. Next we have accountability model. It's me again. So this is the final accountability rule and some of this will sound familiar because we've talked about it. This is after a couple of rounds of it and then final input from people. And this was presented in the March state board of education meeting. You can go ahead and close that. The what matters most for students, aligning accountability to what matters most. It's really personalized to to students. Their shared vision is to develop an accountability model that values all the characteristics essential to student success as well as every student's unique pathway. It allows students to really focus in on their passions and it makes education more relevant to them and more engagement.
>> [screaming] >> Shrewsbury is able to dodge around Brennan in the Ashland defender. Quickly in just 24 seconds into the second quarter to extend their lead to 7 to 2. Again, defenders are getting together along with Alana to talk about positioning. This time ball's awarded to Ashley Forster on the draw. Lily Vitti takes it from there. And Ashley Forster playing in an offensive position here, so she's moved back to midfield where she would normally be. McGuinness to Vitti to Forster. Hickey on top. Payton Tripp tried to get the ball into Maggie McGuinness there, not able to connect. Kennedy Lane came up with the ball off the deflection, moved up the field quickly. Ashland is going to be a player down with Ashley Forster going out on a card. When Shrewsbury gets to the offensive zone, they will be seven on six. Of course Ashley's going to try to prevent them from getting down there at all.
Item C is the monthly reports uploaded to the portal for your review from the administrators. Item D is one report of uh harassment, intimidation, and bullying and it was uh at JFK and it was unfounded. Uh item E1 is um your affirmation of the two reports of HID that came through from uh from last month's meeting. Uh All the letters are are messed up. That should be F under discussion. Right. Um F F1 is uh two uh policy updates. The first one is regarding restraint and seclusion. Um it was just some changes that we had we had to make according to a special education like an audit that we had uh and we had to add the word seclusion because everything in the state now is about restraint and seclusion. And so we didn't really have to change anything in the policy, we just had to add the word seclusion so that our policy met that threshold.
And what that means is ju so this is just looking at a specific object code in our and that is just on um operation of buildings, maintenance of buildings, care and upkeep of grounds, right? So those kind of dollars and it'll tell you what is specifically it's talking about down there, right? Maintenance, repair and supplies, custodial capital and utilities. And so that's just a comparison of where we were in FY25 and where we are currently in FY26. And I think too looking at the numbers and then seeing the slides, I think one thing that'll be evident is our facilities people and to be quite honest, all of our employees, our budget people are doing more with less. They're really working hard to make things happen with with what we have. And so with no further ado, our first presentation tonight will be on our facilities.
The why was that um Indiana's laser focus on ensuring more students have access to knowledge, skills and experiences they need now and in the future. So taking that knowledge that we've always had and then adding experiences and skills. And you'll see that throughout the pathways and it's a K-12 continuum. Just being able to expose kids to experiences that align with those knowledge and skills. So the characteristics that Hoosiers agreed, the five characteristics are the most important to students' lifelong success and what we're going to be graded on is academic mastery which is nothing new. Career and postsecondary readiness, credentials and experience, communication and collaboration, work ethic and civic, financial and digital literacy. And this is the real key is it's for the lifelong. It's not just a year test that we're going to be graded on. And if you take a look this, there's 18 indicators that are across pre-K through graduation and beyond.
Ball down and Ashley does get it. Ashley ball. Erin Hickey with it. To Maggie McGinnis I'm sorry to Payton Tripp in the middle. Payton takes a shot. Doesn't get there. I'm not sure if deflected but Lilly Vitti is the first to the ball or closest to it as it goes out of bounds. So the ball awarded to Ashley there. Uh Shrewsbury might try to double team but fortunately for Ashley and break through it. Maggie McGinnis gets the ball to Lilly Vitti. Lilly does what she does which is put it in the back of the net. So even though they were down a player, Ashley able to get a goal there. That one was Lilly Vitti's second on the day from Maggie McGinnis. Cutting the deficit to four. Shrewsbury seven, Ashley three. Maggie's going to take the draw this time with Ashley out. This one it's again went back but it's quickly neither Ashley nor Shrewsbury could get it cleanly but now here comes Shrewsbury rushing in quickly.
Uh this the regulation update for school events and class trips, we made a change in the regulation where we said the parents can drive to to field trips if necessary. So, the one stipulation in there basically just says that we need to make sure we have enough people for the bus, but if we already have enough people for the bus, we're okay with parents driving. Um and so that was a a change cuz it was like a hard no in our current policy and I wanted to make sure we allow for that if needed. Uh item three is to approve two guest speakers. Item four is to again approve the district calendar for next school year. We made an adjustment where the teachers are going to begin the following um the following Monday instead of previous the previous Thursday which is when they were going to start.
So I'm going to invite up um Mr. Bosley as well as uh Russell with performance services. Um we want to thank performance services for coming out and doing a full facilities audit. And so come on up gentlemen. >> Yeah. Thank you very much. We appreciate the opportunity to come and and speak with you again. And uh thank you very much, Mr. Bosley for the help. Um, any of you that get a chance to do the tour, I highly recommend it. What you're going to see are some of the pictures and some of the images that we captured that were indicative of the type of things that you will see on the the future tour that do show the the needs in the project in the school. So, one of the first ones, and some of you have seen these pictures before, and I'm I'm sorry to rehash them for those of you that have already seen them.
And they've broken them into bands, pre-K through grade 2, grades 3 through 8, 9 through 12 and then graduation and beyond. And the key there is for this accountability is what gets measured gets done and you'll see how how they're going to measure us through this. So back to those characteristics that are important and how they're going to be measured. Academic mastery is what we're used to, ILEARN, SAT, reading and math has always been a huge focus, but they've added science and social studies and that STEM side to it. Second characteristic, career and postsecondary readiness, credentials and experiences. That's our new diploma seals that you're going to see. That's going to be our measurement there. The communication and collaboration characteristic, it's being piloted by several several schools so we don't know how that's going to be measured, how they're going to show that. Work ethic, regular attendance.
O'Donnell behind the Again this is a seven on six situation for Shrewsbury. Ashley down a player. Cut to net. Terrific save by Alana Duffy yet again and then a fantastic work by Kendall Weston to come up with that ball. She streaked up, grabbed the ground ball. Pushed out of bounds. Shrewsbury will get it. This delay is good news for Ashley and it get Ashley Forster back in the field a little bit quicker. Running clock here in girls lacrosse for infractions such as that. Shrewsbury not able to connect. Good work by Ashley keeping the ball out. But then a quick cut into the middle. That was Mika Welsh. To number 12 Lauren Albertson. Those names we keep hearing. Extending the Shrewsbury lead to eight to three with six 8:43 left to go. Second quarter. Every time Ashley chips away at the lead, Shrewsbury is able to come right back and get another one.
So everything just kind of moved back a day in the calendar but it's not a not a big change. Uh item number five is to approve a ton of advanced approved parents. Must be field trip season. Uh yeah, right. Correct. Item six is a list of weeded books from the JFK library so we can start to thin out that collection a little bit. Item number seven is uh the board's approval for submission of the focus grant. The focus grant is a grant that we already benefited from this year and essentially if we receive that money again it allows us to purchase additional materials for universal screening. This year we used it to buy um AIMSweb uh for our kindergarten through second grade. Kindergarten through second. So we're hoping to get that again. Um our next item there, item number eight, is for a new grant.