What you're seeing is frost that is building up on those units. And frost starts building up on the units because your subcooling is too cold. It is not discharging the the it's not collecting the heat from the space for whatever reason. So you could have I mean there's a multitude of reasons that could be you could have low low refrigerant. Could be a crack in the line. It could be a problem with a fan. It could be a problem with the air circulation. But that is not the way that is supposed to be. So that was actually a new one since since uh original visit there. What you're seeing here, this is the horizontal pump that runs the cooling tower on building 8, I believe. >> Yes, sir. And so what you're seeing, and it's hard to tell from this picture, but you can see water uh at the base where the pump the motor shaft goes into the pump.
So it ensures that our focus is still learning on English, but also showing that the students are able to bring some points. ILEARN EL students. And then the next, I kind of touched upon this. Academic proficiency is looked linked to long-term success. That was some of the feedback that they received in in K-12 and beyond. And so in the second draft that we looked at, academic proficiency and meeting one's individual growth target are weighted equally and achieving proficiency should carry more. So in previous drafts, that's not how it was. So a student could be showing progress and it wasn't clear to the parent that they were never going to meet that proficiency mark. And so in this, proficiency is always going to be higher than someone just showing progress on a test um on that one. The next part another um more feedback that they had, grade seven had fewer opportunities for them to earn points than any other grade um because they don't have a specific ILEARN subject outside of ELA and math.
One is going to be unassisted. Shrewsbury nine, Ashland four. As mentioned, Shrewsbury came into this game with a three and three record, but they have played some tough teams, so they're they're clearly a quality opponent. They've beaten Algonquin. They beat Wachusett 22 to six. They beat Leominster 24 to six, so they have put up some goals even in their Algonquin win, that was 13 goals, so they know how to They know how to score. Shrewsbury comes up with the ball. That's Paige O'Donnell. Able to get a shot off, but it went wide. Shrewsbury will maintain possession. O'Hearn over to Welsh, over to O'Donnell. Push foul on Ashland there. That is outside the 12-meter arc, though, so it will not be a free shot to goal, so where the infraction occurs is makes a big difference. If that was a few yards closer to the goal, that would have been a free shot.
G is to approve the submission of the preschool expansion aid budget workbook for the 2026-2027 school year. This has to match what's in the actual um budget that gets submitted as well. So, we did submit this. We just need those certified minutes to send over to the state as a formality. Um H is to approve the tuition contract between Berlin Township and Pine Hill for the 26-27 school year. You'll see the rates listed for our regular education students as well as our special education students that are going to um Overbrook as part of our send-receive um agreement with them. Um I is to approve a very large resolution. Essentially, this is saying um we no longer have to pay to post our advertisements in a newspaper. Um we have to post through December twice a month, I believe, telling people where they can go, saying we they go to our website um to find those those postings, and then moving forward, um we will just be posting them.
So that pump uh has been there for since the '9s. Uh those shafts, they just wear out and needs to be replaced. The pump housing needs to be replaced. The motor is a less efficient motor. Newer motors are much more efficient and can operate with better controls sequences. And what you're seeing is water collecting on the floor because that pump housing is is in disrepair. What you see here is again another picture, another angle of those pumps. And you can see right in the middle of the floor there's a floor drain that is it's not made to handle that much water. So that floor brain floor drain has been overcome by uh by excessive water. And it's interesting to note on the other side, it's right up against your electrical gear. And anybody that knows anything about electrical, water does not interact well with electrical gear.
And they did they did not want um feel like every seventh grader was capable of earning high school credit. So if you look on this that I gave you, grade seven, a student can learn earn academic mastery through ILEARN performance ELA and math. And then to the right are all the other ways that they can earn it. What they've added in this plan then is a completing a graduation plan in grade seven. So that's part of what our seventh graders will do, they'll complete a graduation plan and then parents will also be signing off on it. So it's a way to get parent engagement and awareness to what their opportunities are in in middle school and high school. Next one feedback is ensuring accountability reflects all learners. So our students with most significant cognitive disabilities face barriers with the statewide assessment. Um our students with significant cognitive disabilities, 1% of them can take the I AM assessment.
Not the case here. 45 seconds left to go. Shrewsbury trying to put another one on the board. Ashland trying to stop that, and Paige O'Donnell collects it. Flies to the front of the net. Fantastic save again by Alana Duffy doing everything she can to keep Ashland in this game. That one goes in. Lauren Albertson, the the speed of Shrewsbury is evident. They haven't been able to create space in order to get their shots off around the Ashland defense. This is a very young Ashland team, only two seniors, so there are a lot of underclassmen on the field right now, and uh some of these players they're going against are bigger, they're stronger, they're faster, and um that seems evident right now. 10 for Shrewsbury with 9 seconds left to go. Tough hill for Ashland to climb, but they're going to keep trying. That's a draw control for Shrewsbury, but they're going to be content to run the clock out here, and we will go into halftime with the score of Shrewsbury 10, Ashland four.
Mr. Cunningham is actually working on a page for our website, so all of our public notices will kind of be there and easily accessible, um and we will no longer have to. Also, it helps with the time frame because if we're having a special meeting or something like that, a lot of times we'll try to send it to the paper, but they can't get it advertised quick enough for us to have that quick turnaround for an emergency meeting or things that nature. So, um this is a great thing. It's just been a bit of an undertaking getting it um getting it rolling. >> years too late. Mhm. Yeah. True story. True story. Um and then J is just to approve um to ratify and affirm the renewal of the NutriServe Food Management um contract. This is um it was the fourth year of a 5-year agreement, so um next year we'll have to go out to after next year.
And that's your main panel there. Yeah. One of them. This is a picture of And if you can see the discoloration on the wood, this is some roof damage. This is evidence of leakage that has happened in the past. And Mike, I don't know, you you pointed this one out to me, which was was good there. Um, and we'll see further roof tiles, ceiling tiles that show evidence of of past leaks. And again, you don't want water in places where it doesn't belong. It can cause uh um air issues, uh air quality issues with your students and the learning environment. You don't want that. So this picture here um it's a couple things. It shows water damage that is apparent. It also shows if you can see the discoloration around those registers. What that shows is that is uh old units, older coils, older duct just by the nature of age of units that collects that dust.
And so in this new model, I AM will also receive points, a student taking I AM. Um it used to be a pass/fail test and it's going to be a proficient or approaching proficiency where student can earn 100 if they are proficient and 75 if they're approaching. So students with cognitive disabilities who may not be taking ILEARN or IREAD can also gain points for their school. And the next one is civic literacy. The feedback was that understanding our nation's government and individual roles to be a productive citizen was very important. And we already have a ILEARN US government into the course assessment that provides um a an assessment based on civic literacy um which is one of the five GPS characteristics. Um so a student can gain points from also taking this test. Um on this one, they would not be penalized if they did not pass.
We'll be taking a short break here, but we'll be back third quarter in 5 minutes. >> [music] [music] [singing] [music] >> Shrewsbury's in the middle. it. Ellery Ahearn Ashland now back to defend. Kendall Westerlund on the ball. Shrewsbury's working it on the outside. Nico Welsh on the drive. Payton Trip defends. Prevents her from getting out, but eventually called for a card. She's going to be out now for 2 minutes. It's 11 minutes, 12 seconds left in the quarter, so she'll be out till the 9:12 mark. Ashland will be down a player, second time. Seven on six in the offense is on for Shrewsbury, plus a free shot to goal. And quickly into the back of the net. Nico Welsh And only a couple seconds off the clock there, so Ashland is going to be down a player for the next minute and 55 seconds. So, adding insult to injury goal scored and you're still going to be down a player.
We'll have to go out um to bid. The management fee is $21,400, and they project an annual loss gain loss gain, sorry. Gain of $18,450.77. There is no guarantee for that, um and the cost of agreement is listed. Again, that is a self-supporting program. Um the money that they bring in the budget that the district does not fund any of that. That is all money that comes in from state reimbursements. Um, they use a lot of commodities, um, things of that nature. So, that program has pretty much, as long as I've been here, has run in it's positive. It's run itself, um, which is great. Um, when I get to my finance committee, I'll have a little bit of an update as far as some good things that are happening over there in the cafeteria. Um, so, at this point, I just need Let's look at that.
is you can filter it all you want, but in 20 years you're going to collect what you don't want there and you start discharging it and you can see the staining on the ceiling tiles from that air quality. This is another picture that shows the uh ceiling tile uh conditions with some of the uh the water damage. And you can even see some of the fixtures that are coming down. And when water damage occurs, it can affect the grid, which can also shift that around. You can see a light uh fixture kind of coming out. Go ahead. When you have a ceiling tile that you see that's stained, it's always more than just a stained ceiling tile. Uh replacing a ceiling tile, by the way, is not necessarily cheap. They're about 15 to$20 a piece. So, one of those pictures you see the ceiling tile removed.
If you take a look at um grades I need my glasses. The Thank you. 11 12 at the bottom. It is becomes one of their additional knowledge. And I'm going to show some student examples that makes this a little clearer, but the key outcome on that, the academic side is a diploma and then this test would be additional know it could be additional knowledge or skills. And so it may be one they they don't choose. It wouldn't count against them if they took the test and did not pass it. The next one, 12th grade works a little differently. There are two parts of 12th grade that doesn't work like anything else. They as um the graduation rate has been separated from that. So a school's graduation rate will be 10% of the overall 100% of that grade. Whereas that's not how it everything else is the student's 100%.
With Payton Trip on the sideline, Lily Vitti will join the circle. Begin us in Welsh again on the draw. Straight up two sticks on it, but bounces right to Paige O'Donal of Shrewsbury and they are quickly into the offensive zone. Julia Fries is defending well there. High pressure. Ashland going to back off a little bit. That was a nice cut by Nico Welsh. And another goal, extending the lead to eight, 12 to four. Shrewsbury Not much stuff you could do on that one again. Pass coming from behind the net to a cutter right up the middle. Tough to defend when you're down a player. And this game inches closer to running clock. The lead gets to 10 or more clock will continue to run without stoppages as it happens now after goals. Once it's running clock it will keep going. Ashley Forster able to collect that draw control fortunately and hopefully Ashland can get into the offense, maybe stall for a little bit of time, get Payton Trip back onto the field.
Um, a motion and a second to approve business and finance items, um, A through J. Motion. Second. Any questions? All right. Um, Mr. Golden. Yes. Mrs. Allen. Yes. Mr. Phillips. Yes. Mrs. Rowell. Yes. Mrs. Hommel. Yes. Mrs. Giuliano. >> Yes. Mrs. Oriente. Yes. And Mr. Davis. >> Yes. All right, moving along. Um, I don't think we have any old business. Um, new business, uh, committee updates, negotiations. We're moving along with the BTEA negotiations. Um, we just met 2 weeks ago? Last week. >> Last week. Last week, um, and we're meeting again next week as well. So, we are making progress and hopefully we will continue to do so. Um, we did have a finance committee meeting. Right. Agenda, we have that before. Um, we reviewed the budget report, the revenue review report, um, some out of district um, special ed placements. Um, I just let everybody know that we're winding down in our fiscal year.
We actually keep it removed because we know there's a roof leak. We've been chasing it. And why put up a ceiling tile every time it rains? We know we're going to lose that ceiling tile. So, seeing a stained ceiling tile actually says more than just we're going to lose money on replacing a ceiling tile. It means there's a roof leak. It means there's an air conditioner that's not working that's backed up the system. So, a ceiling tile is just a sneeze when we're really seeing the big flu that is going on. So, there's ceiling tiles throughout this school that are stained and my gentlemen replace them all the time and they continue to be stained because we do the same thing. >> Yeah. Again, this more pictures of ceiling tiles and missing and on your subject of the ceiling tiles. There's levels of criticality. If you don't have air conditioning, you don't have air in the space.
So they wanted to be sure to reflect any student who did not um graduate because they're getting points for graduating. And they wanted to be sure that any student that did not graduate and that graduation rate was taken into place here. So that's going to be 10% the overall grade of the high school. And then the second part of the overall grade of the high school is the SAT is also separated and it's another 10%. So 20% of the high school grade, 10 will be graduation rate and then 10 will be SAT or I AM proficiency test. And then evaluating assessment based in high school. Um feedback was that students may choose a variety of assessment options to demonstrate college and career readiness based on their future goals. So in addition to taking SAT as a stand-alone indicators, students should be able to earn additional points when demonstrating success on other options.
Shrewsbury's content to play their zone now. Looks like they're going to try to double which is what will normally happen in a man-up situation or a woman-up situation. Marceglia behind the net got the ball quickly to Vitti. This is the way to prevent that double team pressure is to move the ball as quickly as possible before the double team can get there. Here comes Megan McGinnis. Sends the offense out. Pass a little bit high over Marceglia. Marceglia's going to chase it down, but goes out of bounds. Shrewsbury ball Still about another 30 seconds or so on the penalty to Ashland. That's a great job by Julia Fries anticipating that pass, intercepting it. She got pushed out of bounds. Ashland maintains possession. Nico Welsh has to get behind her. Fries takes it into the offensive zone. She's going to probably try to kill a little time here.
Um, funds seem to be stable in some of those concerning areas from prior years, such as those related services and legal services. Um, but as I've said throughout the entire year, we'll have to move some money into those out of district placements for those um unbudgeted placements that came in or had to go out. So, we will have to move have some additional budget transfers this year, so you'll see that. Um preschool plan was approved from the state for 2026-2027 um for our grant, and then um I just made note that our school bus inspections were on March 18th. All of our buses passed. Our next inspection is September. Um the budget review is taking place at the county office. The county business administrator reviewed our budget for 2026-2027 and has passed it along to the county executive superintendent for final approval in preparation for our public hearing next Thursday here May 7th 7:00.