We very much appreciate all of our teachers. They're working hard. We talked a lot this evening already about, you know, all the extra you know, I don't want to call them challenges but the shifts and changes to improve student learning that they're all having to dig into and yet when I go into the classrooms, I see them digging in hard and and working hard to help make certain that we're improving outcomes for our students. So appreciate them and and want to give them another shout out. Um But also for all of our staff throughout the district. I know everyone's been working hard all year. It's been very warm the last couple of days and so this is a challenging time as we roll into the last two weeks of school. So thank you very much for all of your hard work and we're so happy that so many of you are returning to work with us again next year and that's all I have this evening.
Let me Cuz he's This is his brand new as superintendent. So I think that might be getting some input from him. >> a current motion there. So we'll table that motion until June? I mean, could we put July TBD and August TBD just as like a placeholder to alert people that there will possibly be meetings during those times? Sure. Just so it doesn't hit anyone by surprise. >> Yep. So Jen will >> Jen, put a July TBD on the website, please. And then August as well. >> Yeah. >> [clears throat] >> Just uh right under the the calendar for next year, July date TBD. Underneath the school committee calendar. But But we're not voting on this. Oh, we're not? >> So, we're not But Jen, we're not voting on it today, but we are. >> any plans those days, so put it in your calendar.
And if you're going to read the bottom part in there, there's a parent that says the program's timing was a good fit for one parent who works 8 to 5:00 p.m. At the same time, parent feedback also highlighted the importance of strengthening communication regarding program schedules, enrollment, and activity information, which is an area we are committed to improving moving forward. And moving forward to staff survey results summary on slide number 26. Staff survey results showed strong positive feedback regarding organization, communication, student engagement, and overall program structure. Teachers and staff highlighted that students demonstrated academic improvement, positive behavior development, and strong participation throughout their program. and staff also provide volable recommendations for improvement including clearer expectations for each cycle orientation procedures and increasing communication and transparency with stakeholders. Moving forward to the academic growth contributed by the program slides 27 to number 32. If you can see in there, that is our um comparative result of the pre-EST and post- test per program.
so that we can put a patch on things like that. That is a shorter term solution that hopefully lasts a while until either the state comes to our rescue or it fails again. And we have to do that and I and just just to be honest, I think that's where we're at as far as the bond where we're going to have to continue to kind of be where we're at now. continue to just patch things up and and and then you as we walk around the school and look at things and a lot of things that aren't great, you know, whether it's the ceilings not matching up, whether it's the fire sprinklers out, whether it's our restrooms not being in ADA compliance, those are things that and once again, fixing things in in an emergency is more expensive than fixing things in a proactive measure.
Thank you, Mr. Man. That moves us over to item eight, which is approval of consent. I move the governing board approve consent agenda items A through N in accordance with policy 1-302. May I have a second? Second. Thank you. All those in favor? I. I. Any nays?
>> [clears throat] >> It was July 9th? No. I I think we're going to talk to Dr. Conway next week and see what dates he might be available cuz if he does want to do a retreat, to your point, that you you can't have him start on July 1st and plan a retreat cuz he's still Sorry. So, before we put any dates of July 9th, Jackie, and it just like if you're having a new superintendent starting July 1st, he's still employed at this other district until June 30th. For him to plan a retreat, you you got you can't be able to do a >> thinking more of meet and greet, Jackie. So, meet and greet different, but I'm hearing retreat, so to pull a retreat off in >> No, no, no, no. He doesn't need to plan anything. I think it would be nice to meet informally with him and have conversations and I'm sure that'll be on our own responsibility over the summer for if he's interested to talk, you know, have a like you did, I think >> Yeah, I think that's he's going to want to do that.
That is fourth grade ELA. And then um next is fifth grade ELA. Next is our sixth grade ELA. Moving forward to our math, fourth grade. You can see in there that the kids are grouped according to your program and you can see the growth that they had from pre-est to post test. Next are our fifth grade math. And lastly, our sixth grade math. In summary, our academic growth data compare pests and poses benchmark results across grade levels in both ELA and math. We observe movement from non-proficient to toward higher proficiency bands, demonstrating student growth and academic progress through targeted intervention, tutoring support, and enrichment opportunities provided by the program. While some grade levels demonstrated stronger growth than others, the data shows promising progress and highlights the importance of continued academic support and student engagement opportunities schoolwide. And that specific slide on slide number 33 that is what is the Arizona Department of Education is asking us to report showing um the number of students that improve in their class participation, classroom behavior and positive peer relationship.
And so if it doesn't pass, we're going to continue to be in the deferred maintenance and plugging holes in the dam as they come our way and having to pull money out of classrooms essentially to do that. >> So if if it doesn't pass, when could we go out for it again? >> I mean, I think you can go out the next year, >> but I think if it doesn't pass, I think we would want to try to figure out why it didn't pass. because if people wouldn't support it this year, what would be the difference the following year? And I think I I'd want to get educated more on that. And so I'm really optimistic and I wouldn't be coming here. The last bond did not pass by 60some votes, only 60 votes in our community. So I'm here um with an optimistic viewpoint, but I think that's a fair point.
Hearing none, the motion passes. That brings us to item 10, which is personnel. It's this conversation will be on the interest-based meeting confirm recommendations and I will turn it over to Dr. Lauren. Thank you, Madam President, members of the board. Uh Mr. Donald. Can we turn the video on, please? The the video? Video. We we don't want to kill the radio star, but we do need the video. >> [laughter] >> Yes. So close. I think he's just messing with me cuz I didn't give him a shout-out for being one of our What did he receive? Administrator of the year at our award ceremony? >> [snorts] >> Yeah. There we go. All right. Uh we'll start again. Madam President, members of the board, thank you so much for your patience as we got technology sorted out. Seems to always happen to me, uh but that's okay.
Yep. And that's fine, but it might be worthwhile to have 30 minutes with him to just say hi, you know, this is my name, this is something about me. Just like to get to know each other. Like it doesn't have to be a retreat, but it's more of like a informal >> Yep. conversation. Um whether it has I don't know again the laws, like does it have to be an open meeting? Do we have to film it? Does somebody have to take minutes? If we're just hi, this is who I am. We're going to be working together for the next however many years. So, I'll be with him next week. I'll talk to him about what what works out best for him. He might want to do individual meetings with you guys. Great to schedule that at central office or here or maybe somewhere off or maybe he does have a plan for Can you guys all just give us until next week when I'm meeting with him and get some feedback from him.
So we have there did not improve in changing class particip participation. We have one because if the student is already participating and has been consistently participating then some of the teachers may not did not improve because it was consistent. Improve was 56 in classroom participation 61 in classroom behavior and 62 in per relationship remain the same for um classroom participation is seven. classroom behavior um is three and positive relationship is two. Moving forward to the program strengths. Some of the identified strengths of the program included strong student engagement, positive staff student relationship, organization, communication, and opportunities for student to develop leadership, teamwork, creativity, and social emotional skills. Staff also noted that the balance between structure and flexibility helps students remain engaged while allowing meaningful enrichment experiences. And of course, our program will not be improved without the areas of growth on slides 35 to 36.
if it doesn't pass that we will have to go to our plan B which is kind of where things are now cutting positions not having you know looking at salaries giving modest cost of living or no raises and that's is if we're very efficient with the resources we have and that's that's the reality and I don't want to rush it but we have >> nine minutes until the the computer prices are going to go up so I don't know if we want to table this and and and talk about item 34 really quick. >> I would suggest that we skip until 10 time. >> Oh, 10 our time. Okay. I was starting I was more worried about that than I was worried about the bond right now. >> So then I have another question. How much does it cost the district to go to ballot?
>> I don't think it's you. Okay. Uh I'm going to invite members of our meet and confer interest-based negotiation team to come forward. They're going to help with the presentation. Uh they'll introduce themselves when they get up to the podium. Uh As you are aware, we are a district that values our interest-based negotiation process. Uh we've spent some time uh with the governing board talking about what that process is and what it is for our district. Um I do want to remind the board that in January you approved the following principles that guide the work that the uh interest-based negotiation team followed. >> [clears throat] >> Uh so, just to remind you, those goals uh guiding principles included alignment with student outcome-focused governance goals, sustainable salary for all staff, sustainable health care benefits, exploring revenue generation options, and adhering to budget recommendations. Uh just a reminder that our board policy does talk about what our interest-based meet and confer process is, and note that at the bottom, the scope of meet and confer uh is subjects that are open that are not limited to wages, salaries, but are not limited to wages, salaries, salary schedules, hours of work, compensation related to fringe benefits, and district-wide conditions of work that are non-instructional in nature.
Sure. That work for everybody? I I don't want to speak for him. I want to be respectful to him. Thanks, Al. All right. Uh then moving on to the next two business items are the scholarships. Beth, do you want to talk about that before we uh motion that? Um I have the Luzerne County scholarship. We are awarding $22,245 to Berlin students this year. There's Ken, there's Duncan, they were all eligible. They will all receive a scholarship based on different tiers. Um this year it's 50% graduating seniors, 50% kids that are already in college. It's a great scholarship. It's always impresses me when I look at them to see how you can really piece together with small local scholarships and make college so much more affordable. And Matt feeling when here, but it's it's really important for the kids to apply for these local scholarships. They they mean a lot to the people that put them together as a memorial for their family member a lot of times.
In summary, it says as part of our commitment to continuous improvement, survey feedback also identified several areas for growth. This included expanding activity options, strengthening communication with parents regarding schedules and enrollment, increasing opportunities for engaging learning experiences, and continuing to improve overall program accessibility and organization. So, some of some of the students also says that if we could move our end time from 5:30 to 6. In closing, the 21st CS program continues to provide valuable academic support, enrichment opportunities, and positive experiences for our students and families. And I will work alongside with the new coordinator for the coming school year before my departure back home to ensure the program will remain committed to continuous improvement, expanding opportunities, and supporting every student academically, socially, and emotionally. It is always my pleasure to serve BSD and autonom. Thank you for your continued support to the 21st CLC.
So to the county fees that they cost, I believe it is about 30,000ish. And I'm just I'm spitballing right now. >> And that comes out of our district funds. That's not fundraising. And so where is that money coming from? >> Someone, >> you know, it's like Ken Dillingham went out and someone donated $10 million to him. If someone wants to step forward with $30,000, let me look out in the audience. I can't ask anybody to do that. Maybe someone's streaming online. If someone wanted to donate that, we would take it. But if not, it comes out of our budget. But it's one of those things right now where we're at a point where if we don't make that investment and and put ourselves out there Yeah. >> And doing the fix fixing as things break is a sad use of funds. >> Well, and some of them we're not fully fixing after they break.
Uh just a reminder of who our team is. Uh the Clayton Education Association is designated as one of the um partners in this process in our policy. Uh then the other team members are made up of uh team members selected through the superintendent. Uh we also have a deep bench of support including uh myself, Mr. Shapiro, um our director of finance, Mr. Ruth, my assistant uh Roxana, and uh Lisa Menna, our HR director uh manager. Um we also are very ex- um thankful for the work that our IT department, especially Mr. Donalt and Mr. Pack, uh do to support streaming this meeting process. And then just a reminder, we had six meetings this year, and uh we finished on April 23rd. So now I'm going to turn the presentation over, and we'll start with Oh, this is Oh, we have one more. I have one more.
Um it's sad to see cases where you know, people stop applying for them when it was, you know, made for a loved one and these is the what what we're giving out I consider since they're actually small scholarships and you can really stack them and pay for a majority of your college year with these scholarships. So I would just encourage everyone to continue looking locally for scholarships. And that's Do we have to vote? Yes. Yes. Um So we'll take the Mary Hoffman award first. First, can I have a motion, please, to approve the Mary Hoffman award to 25 dollar gift certificates to be awarded at the BMS fifth grade recognition ceremony. So moved. Lisa? Yes. Beth? Anybody? I think this is not what I was talking about with a significant small >> [laughter] >> This is something to This is fifth grade. Yes. It still means a lot to the people that are giving them the bike, right?
I would be happy to answer any questions. >> Thank you Dr. Forest. Awesome awesome awesome presentation. I really really do appreciate the breakdown and all the information. Uh I don't have any questions. I think I I was expressed everything that was at least asked has been pretty much answered and it it truly is um I'm very thankful for for the presentation. anything miss >> I see you know the the uh the growth and and uh the charts there and then I I I go back to the responses of the program and um those numbers are very low. Is there a reason for that? Um, one has five responses, a couple have seven, you know, and I don't know, um, like the staff survey, I'm sure there was like the seven responses because maybe there was only seven staff, but in the, um, in the students, there's only six responses for that pie chart.
So some of the pumps that are running are cooling towers and stuff, the ones leaking water. And so even that like we're out of gum and duct tape fixing that and it's just leaking water in the electrical room and and but those are $25,000 each and so we're hoping that they don't die anytime. You know those type of things where like some of them aren't even really fixed. We're at that point. So when we say you know what's it going to look like in a couple years from now pretty similar or if not worse than what it looks like now with a lot of things in disrepair. >> Isn't it kind of a domino effect too? you start fixing something that's bad and then you find a lot of other things. >> Yeah. >> Well, it's like the corroded water coming through the pipes and the pump's not working, but then the corroded water and then you got that other pump that's working overtime.