um it was it was helping us, but we've that's kind of leveled off now. >> Yes. >> And so that that's not money that isn't part of our levy that that's coming to us anymore or coming back into us terms of um you know, state aid. Yeah. >> You know, it's where what where it's reached and now it's leveled out. The other thing is, you know, the state plays with education funding and you know, um, some years you you they'll get do $150 per student, some years less. We're hoping, but right now that's not the number. Well, might be now, but it we're not sure where it's going to end up, right? Because that's not decided. >> And as we know, that's the other hard part, right? And this is again, I've seen people and I've heard people saying, well, they've just announced that they're going to give us additional money.
It's beautiful. And what's awesome about it is it has everything in it that you need. It also has arguments in favor, arguments opposed. They actually take a lot of time to do this. And we used to have a little bit more in our warrant and then I it was sometime I want to say 2015 they decided to take things out of the warrant. This is actually called article. They took things out of the warrant and they put them in this so-called budget book. So, the first meeting everybody, including the finance committee was looking for the budget book. They were looking for the information and it was like quite frankly an Abbott and Costello routine. It's like who's on first? Where's the budget? And then it was announced, "Oh, well we didn't make any copies." So, this information that was supposed to help us was nowhere to be found.
Second. All in favor? Aye. >> Aye. Thank you. Okay, assistant superintendent job description. A memo from Valerio. Yeah, so >> [clears throat] >> I'll pull this up as well. So, as we are going through the process of looking at job descriptions and finalizing job descriptions across the district, uh there was one that came uh to my attention, which was our assistant superintendent um job description. And that was actually considered a regulation uh in our former policy handbook. Uh and I talked to Jen King, again getting her guidance with regard to should we have job descriptions as part of the policy manual? And she was like unequivocally no, we should not. Um and what happened uh coincidentally enough, I went back to the minutes of in 2000 and I can go back and look. I was highlighting them here. In 2016, when we actually uh posted for the the le the assistant superintendent position.
And camera one automatically zooms in on uh the Ashland team. That's just how I I do it. It's easy. That's how you do it. I always do it. I always have two shots. So, okay, everybody now is on the camera one. And uh he's in here with us. We're all talking together. We use these headsets. Headsets. And So, what we're going to do is we're going to let Harry um do a little bit of directing and switching. And so, you're doing a good job. So, you're able to do with that cam two. Generally, getting a little bit more of a like a medium sort of tight, not very tight. You know, what the guy is directing. So, people just say um slow movement is the best. It's okay if you're a little bit off the action. It's just to make sure you're aware where the ball is.
Nostrum giving him a hard time. Passes up. That was Behan and that one finds the back of the net. What a shot from Justin Pillard. Good assist from um Yeah. From Behan. [snorts] All right, so now right in right now it's one to three Mustangs in the lead. It's going to be an exciting senior day game. Not looking like a blowout. Whoa, Jason Drake just kind of really laying that stick right into Ben Savarese, but Raiders are going to get the call. Savarese running through him. Nice tough play from the freshman. It's now Hartnett has it on the 30. Far side, backpedaling a little bit. Up to the 30 nine. Now, you got Cavalero. Run down. Cavalero shot wide. Tough angle, good thought though. The thought gets shots on Pollard. Perella. All right, Olson now. Oh, just a little high on that one. Abrams has it.
Um which is a great charger. It's not charge point where uh charge point does have a significant software networking uh subscription cost where it would be an upfront cost per port to the customer for depending on the term of year that you would like. So you could do a one to fiveyear term. With Autel, they have a red e system where that software network cost is deferred to the driver itself. So the customer actually doesn't see that software cost at all. Um, but you can also they what ends up happening is that let's say you're charging 45 cents per kilowatt hour for a for a public to use the charger that they the oddel system would take maybe 5 cents of that and then you are remaining with the 40 uh the 40 cent revenue and that goes into an a account and you can distribute that revenue to paying off the additional electric bill uh electric bill that would be occurred from the demand on the the grid from the chargers themselves.
Um which is a great charger. It's not charge point where uh charge point does have a significant software networking uh subscription cost where it would be an upfront cost per port to the customer for depending on the term of year that you would like. So you could do a one to fiveyear term. With Autel, they have a red e system where that software network cost is deferred to the driver itself. So the customer actually doesn't see that software cost at all. Um, but you can also they what ends up happening is that let's say you're charging 45 cents per kilowatt hour for a for a public to use the charger that they the oddsel system would take maybe 5 cents of that and then you are remaining with the 40 uh the 40 cent revenue and that goes into an a account and you can distribute that revenue to paying off the additional electric bill uh electric bill that would be occurred from the demand on the the grid from the chargers themselves.
On Tuesday, May 19th, Daniela, Alyssa, and Melissa will take 25 poetry students on the annual 80s poetry hike at Bb Brook in Washington, Connecticut. Students will have an opportunity to hike and create original poetry and art pieces inspired by nature. On Saturday, May 16th from 1 to 4, Ace will host its fth annual Joe Pepin day to celebrate Ace. It's founder Joe Pepin, who opened the doors to Ace in 1977. The day will include a barbecue, face painting, and rock painting for kids and time for alumni and staff to spend with one another. The event is open to public to celebrate Joe and Ace. On Thursday, May 28th, Ace will host its annual Ace coffee house at the hottest park from 5:30 to 7:30. The event will start with a barbecue and then introduce to a coffee house portion at the night where students and staff will read original piece according to the formula.
Um and again the mechanical infrastructure and utility assessment program um HVAC replacements at both Majestic Way and Summerdale um are in design but we're also in progress with that that as well. we've kind of started process to get a good jump on the work ahead because it's going to be a crazy summer at these two sites. So, we we used Brook Tree not only as a guinea pig but as a learning um a learning thing so we could figure it out and uh not have so many issues with the next two schools. Um, we got portable P1 and P2 at at Majestic Way. Those that is out for bid and um also going through DSA about 80% through DSA is what I heard today. Um, projects that just bid was the roof replacement for K1 and two at at Ruskin and we received four bids on the 7th.
Even though I was not at the village for all four years of high school, it was still an incredible experience. Whether we were gathered around the common area, going out for lunch, or competing in senior assassin, we were making memories every single day. Life moves fast and we don't realize it until we look back. As my favorite artist J. Cole once said, there's no such thing as a life that's better than yours, which to me it to cherish every moment we have and to slow down and appreciate what we have. Because everything we've worked for and dreamed of could be gone in an instant. There's no second chances. That's how quickly life moves. Take this moment right now. We're still here. We still have opportunities ahead of us. We have strength. We have a heartbeat, and we have a future. These all represent reasons to keep pursuing our goals in life.
Elementary teaching positions are 224. Middle school 196, high school 345, counselor and social workers 280, and support staff 175. >> And this is all through attrition >> for the most part. Yes, there may be one exception in there, but for the most part, it's through addition. When I say attrition, please understand that may be a retirement, >> right? >> That may be somebody that left us to go take a job somewhere else. Um, but but there was not a termination of a of a position in this case. >> Okay? We try to break it out so you can see what it looks like at the individual schools and the district office. I only highlight the district office um as that number is slightly higher than it would be when you look at the 280,000 that goes to counselors, social workers and and SEI teachers. They are spread out across all over the district.
We're seeing it in in our our scores and in the students progress. So, with that, I want to say thank you. Your your hard work and efforts are truly appreciated. And also, hang in there. You got a week to go. You're you're almost there at the finish line. So, um again, don't give up yet. Don't give up yet. And uh other events that I've attended was the senior awards night at the uh MHS PAC facility. Uh I also attended the uh Santa Rosa Hispanic uh cultural event. That was an awesome event to to be part of to see the the pride in not only the students faces and their efforts but their families and to hear them supporting them and cheering for them, calling out their names and all of that. That that was a great experience. So if you have not seen that, I encourage you to um attend when it does come up.
Now you can see from this chart that our iLearn scores are not as high as I read. I learn is a much longer and much more difficult test. But what you can see from this slide is the improvement that our kids show. So if you will look at 2023 grade three only 50% of the kids passed the iLearn but as fourth graders in 2024 69% pass. So that was significant growth. In 2024 we had grade three 56% of the students passed and last year in 2025 61% pass. So that's one of the things we look at. Are the kids achieving growth? So that's good. But we still have a lot of work to do to be able to get our percentage up to the 95%. And so, how are we going to do that? How are we going to close the gap? Well, one of the ways as a corporation, we've been very intentional with strengthening our tier one instruction.
And as you know and I know unfortunately we have to set our budget. We have to have our budget before July 1 and they could be voting the budget as late as the end of July which me and [laughter] we're not looking at 2.75 close to it. Right. >> Um you know >> it's just not even close to it. So that money could definitely help and it could maybe be returned to some of the stabilization funds or >> based on our budget process how that has to happen, >> right? But it certainly is nowhere near um >> one one other question. It's not necessarily part of the override, but it was part of the discussion at town meeting. The amount of money that was pulled from stabilization fund already for some of the general government and even some of the other departments. There was discussion early on about $750,000 and now when we look at that stabilization $1.6 million was pulled from the stabilization fund to cover basically general government.
And now we've got the uh continued stripped down version. Uh the last one was a little bit longer than normal, but most of them are about 45 pages. This one is uh pages. Um And again, it's all part of a how much do you care about town meeting? It's supposed to be our legislative body. We can't speak. The warrant is stripped down and then sometimes I'm sorry, maybe it's cuz I'm a writer, but there's just so many typos that you're just reading it and last time I think I I sent the moderator a whole bunch of typos that I found and it's like it's not even long, dude. You know, spell check. Some of these would have been caught by spell check. So, and I guess bring up now I as I recall, I think we're a little bit getting away from printing anything. So, that's a reminder to people going to a town meeting that you have to bring a device, right, to to um read it, which I I'm all for saving paper, although I'm old school and like the paper, but that probably has to be make sure you're prepared with a device to read the word articles.
Remember we had a director of curriculum position and we didn't have it. Then the school committee decided to post it as a assistant superintendent position. We talked about the regulation, but we never actually voted to to get rid of the regulation. We actually talked about it doesn't belong there, but we didn't vote for it. So, uh I had Jen King just write a memo saying to the school committee, it's appropriate just to pull it out of there. Uh so, that's all I'm asking you to do to do tonight for the assistant superintendent uh job description is to remove it from the policy as a regulation. I But we do it's not listed on here as a policy. Right? You're concerned about the agenda. Oh, I I see what you're saying, Paul. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I I That's fine. I can bring that back. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's kind of hard sometimes. So, just keep in mind that slow motion makes the viewer at home want you see this on a bigger screen. It's much much more more enjoyable on these lines. If you're not sure, then just back the shot out a little bit. You know, when you're when you're really in tight, makes things harder. You're looking for the ball, sometimes they pass it over long distances, so that can make it difficult to find. So, the camera one is generally going to give me a wider shot. I'll give them a higher and a more perspective on the play. When we get down, when the ball gets down near the goals, obviously you can get in a little bit tighter. And then when there's a score or something like that, you know, maybe find the player that scored, okay That's just all stuff that you can do with it.
He's bringing it in. Abrams right to Oh, right to Matamore. Couldn't quite connect. Good job keeping that one in though. It's Cavalero. Ball is bouncing all the way back into the Raiders end. O'Leary scooping it up. O'Leary run down the sideline. Absorbs some hits up for a second. Medway gets it back. And ref blows the whistle. It's going to be a timeout by the Mustangs. So, you got 8:57 left to go in the half. 3 to 1 right now is the score. TS still down. So, let's see what happens after this timeout. All right, timeout over. 8:57 left to go in the second. Up by two are the Mustangs and they have the ball right now. And they're bringing it down. This is Pillared. Passes it over to Barucci. Sen creeping up on him. Sen laying the body into him, pushing him back. Good defense there from Hamilton.
Now, with that, there's utilization, right? So, the utilization of the chargers themselves, if they're not being utilized um as much as you would like, there is still a bit of an um an idle fee, but that could be as little as $5, a dollar a month, excuse me. Um up to $60 a month depending on the actual power of the charger. Where these are only 50 amp chargers, they're not really pulling as much power for them just to be sitting and being connected to the Wi-Fi. But um that would be a cost toward to to you guys. >> Is that 1 to 60 per port? >> Um correct. >> Okay. Per month. >> Yes, ma'am. >> All right. I've got Melon then Jenny. >> So I think of all the charging the stations like and I know nothing. to somehow maintain if somebody uses it the billing of it.
Now, with that, there's utilization, right? So, the utilization of the chargers themselves, if they're not being utilized um as much as you would like, there is still a bit of an um an idle fee, but that could be as little as $5, a dollar a month, excuse me. Um up to $60 a month depending on the actual power of the charger. Where these are only 50 amp chargers, they're not really pulling as much power for them just to be sitting and being connected to the Wi-Fi. But um that would be a a cost toward to to you guys. >> Is that 1 to 60 per port? >> Um correct. >> Okay. Per month. >> Yes, ma'am. >> All right. I've got Melon then Jenny. So I think of all the charging stations like and I know nothing. to somehow maintain if somebody uses it the billing of it.