This sounds like something she'd be happy to work together with you. I just had emailed Roland prior to the just about an hour before this meeting. So, I'm sure that he hasn't had time to see that, but um it came up late in the day for me, but we you know, I'd be more than happy to work with you. >> Sure. Yeah. Um we would need a W9. That's really what the uh the application would require from whoever owns the the building on the address. So, if it's a separate from the school district, that that's fine, too, because again, it's tied to the address, not specifically to the school district. The school district just happens to be the one that makes the decision on where it goes. >> Yes, remember that. Uh in the future, if uh one of our buildings were to install solar panels, would these be fairly universally compatible with local solar being able to charge directly instead of going to the grid or how does that work?
I just had emailed Roland prior to the just about an hour before this meeting. So, I'm sure that he hasn't had time to see that, but um came up late in the day for me, but we you know, I'd be more than happy to work with you. >> Sure. >> Yeah. Um we would need a W9. That's really what the uh the application would require from whoever owns the the building on the address. So, if it's separate from the school district, that that's fine, too, because again, it's tied to the address, not specifically to the school district. The school district just happens to be the one that makes the decision on where it goes. >> In the future, if uh one of our buildings were to install solar panels, these be fairly universally compatible with local solar being able to charge directly instead of going to the grid or how does that work?
But happy to report that that should help with our preschool growth over the very near future or so. Thank you. That is it. Okay. >> All right. Great. Um, next, do we have any reports from our committee chairs? If they would like to talk about >> like to publicly thank Dr. Celic uh Jason Rich Jalbert uh for working extremely hard on a new document that will allow the board to see work in progress at every school. So we can check back and and the volume of work that they did in a month is is stunning. Uh it's a testament to the crew that works. Like to thank Lenny and Mrs. Lopez for a great tour and the kids. But uh we had a great meeting here tonight and I hope it's uh to build on for the future. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Um on to the chair's report.
especially with the outages. Um, and I'm not sure if there's been a change in their division, but in the past we've had a direct contact, uh, who would like pre-warn us with power outages that are going through the cycle, etc. For the past year, that's been non-existent. And to be able to get access to someone who knows status on these situations as they occur have been very challenging. I will text her right after this meeting to see if what we can do. All right. Any other comments, questions? All right. Thank you so much for the presentation. >> Thank you. >> All right. Next is the superintendence report. Dr. Ventus, >> thank you. Um I have a few things. Uh just one thing I want to talk about because it's timely is just our um where we are in the process with our state budget. Uh right now we anticipate the governor's proposal for the May revise to come out this Friday and there's been a lot of advocacy these past month and a half or so uh in terms of public school funding and the supports that our schools continue to need.
I will always remember the talks in our marketing classes and how much you shared about investing as the highlights of my senior year. Gabriel Adam Cutter Thank you to my family for their support and help throughout high school. I also want to thank Nash for his help with my schedule and making sure I was doing the best thing for me. Kanyel James Dalrymple I want to thank God for giving me the strength to get me through the journey and my parents for the constant love and support and for always pushing me to do my best. I also appreciate my teachers and mentors for their time, patience, and guidance. Ambry Hayes Davenport The Village has been a place I found a community and within it I have grown. My family, teachers, and friends have supported me and I can't thank them enough. I can't wait for this future all of you have helped me shape.
When they leave you can drop off because the next person's not a kid. the girls soccer team had girls on the soccer team this year. And two of the times that they were not able to play and participate was because they had ineligibilities. That's when we as the adults here need to rally around them and teach them. We're going to help you pass your class. And that's unfortunate that we were not able. We had to forfeit and we couldn't play those two games, but we're going to help you pass your class and we're not going to get rid of the program and we're not going to do these other things. >> And so, >> I just don't think this is the best way. And you can disagree and everybody else the other three ladies can disagree. And so very just so everybody's very clear. You guys can say no and that's fine.
How does this added value compare to the rest of the data values in this data set? 800. Most data values are in the 200s while 800 is not and is much greater than 200s. Thanks Ariana. I love that you describe first most of the data values in the data set and then what do you call again that data value that's extremely greater or lower compared to the rest? >> An outlier. Thank you Ariana. Now that there's an outlier, what would happen if there is now the presence of an outlier in our data set? So >> the measure wouldn't look the same as it does right now. >> Mhm. Which measures do you think wouldn't look the same? all of them. >> Although it's not seen on the video, the students were then sent to breakout rooms working in groups to see the effects of an outlier to the measure of center.
And it is, they live for club days. They get so excited. We have some team leaders. They call their number for their specific um club day. They meet in the hallway and then for the next 45, 50 minutes, they are fully immersed in that activity. So during this day, they'll um go through that club. They'll be able to form different activities. What's nice this year is we've kept each student within that activity that they select at the beginning of the year so that we can slowly build upon what we're teaching from the beginning to the middle to the end. Um it's always fun the week after they're still talking about it. Hey, we got to blow something's up in science or hey we made no bake cookies for the entire school which were delicious or you know what crocheting really helps me stay regulated. I love it.
Uh we're able to move the district and the community forward because of the relationships uh and and the collaboration we have uh that's unique in Ashland, really. Um and and and you're a big part of that, so uh definitely echo everything that that was said and and appreciate the effort. Likewise, the the culture in the collaboration comes from the top down and you you set the temperature and you've put together an incredible team, but you deserve a lot of kudos for the success of our district and we're grateful for you. Thank you. Yeah, thank you for everything. Okay, all in favor? I. I. Okay, next up the consent agenda. Do we have a motion to accept the consent agenda? So moved. Second. We have some more guests. What? What the heck? Oh my gosh. Aw. I love you, sir. >> [laughter] >> Oh my goodness.
Uh-oh. Got to be wide. LET'S GO. GO, GO, GO. LET'S GO. >> [cheering] [cheering] >> STILL SHORT. WHERE'S THE BALL? OH, I SEE. OKAY. Getting some action. >> Get that action. I am getting action. I did. Let me zoom in into one of them. Okay. Oh, we're streaming. We just cut the audio. Okay, they dispersed. What she say? 10. All right, 26. Is that up? And they just missed. Yeah. They're all in the They're all in the corners, back corner. It's in 7-10 right now. He just dodged number eight. He's running. I have a good shot, by the way. I am. All right, the ball is in number five's hand. Zooming in, zooming out. Ashley's got it, number four. Ashley's interconnecting right now, they're making a play. Will they score or will they not score? We'll We'll see. Watch now, watch the TV. Oh, what a pass, yeah.
All right. Good draw win by Ben Savarese. Cavalero now zipping down that far side. Cavalero, oh. Lots of Moya couldn't block that pass. It was a tough pass to reel in. Pillard now trying to get into the Raiders zone. He whips and does. Pass it to Brown. Brown to Behan. Behan to Pillard. Pillard to Adore to Pillard. Pillard's pass. Wow. What a pass right to Jason Drake and Mustangs go up by two now. Wait, hold on. Let's Nope, only by one. This game has just been so back and forth. Just getting confused for a second. 7:42 now left to go in the third quarter. Look at this. Siegel gets it popped loose. And ball kind of loose. Siegel gets it. SIEGEL! ARE YOU kidding me? >> [cheering] >> Walter Siegel just doing everything on that one. >> [cheering] >> The ninth grader showing his worth.
Um I they should be as long as you're tying the chargers into that same electrical uh panel uh if you will or um it depends on I guess where the the solar panels are are being uh installed. Um but I I can get back to you on some more detail in that because that's a great question. Um I haven't had that one either. So >> yes. >> Yeah. And I I think we just wanted to bring it in front of you um tonight as an option in life, right? Um I think as Kendra mentioned to and we've talked about this, the city of Greenfield has done a lot with sustainability, right? Trying to cut down on waste and save energy in life. Um I'm not an expert. Thank go goodness we have member Deniv here who knows a lot about vehicles, but there there's no doubt I see electrical vehicles.
>> Um I they should be as long as you're tying the chargers into that same electrical uh panel uh if you will or um it depends on I guess where the the solar panels are are being installed. Um but I I can get back to you on some more detail on that because that's a great question. Um I haven't had that one either. So >> yes. >> Yeah. And I think we just wanted to bring it in front of you um tonight as an option in life, right? Um I think as Kendra mentioned to and we've talked about this, the city of Greenfield has done a lot with sustainability, right? Trying to cut down on waste and save energy in life. Um I'm not an expert. Thank god goodness we have member Deniv here who knows a lot about vehicles but there there's no doubt I see electrical vehicles they're coming um you can turn them on and off I think and we've heard that in other communities too about not having um non I'll say strangers just strangers on school property right you could open it up to your staff during the day and then at blank o'clock certain time could be open and it doesn't have to be as she mentioned an all ornone you right?
Um just a few things tonight. This is our last um on location meeting for the school year. Our next three meetings will be back in the boardroom. Um I just want to take a minute to thank the board uh for you know for helping with this this year. um we will have the full schedule of our locations for the 26 27th school year. So you'll know where we're going to be um at the school. So we're hoping to to really next year and and get a lot of um attendance and and through the district. So thank you to the parents for showing up tonight. It's really important to us um that we that we have that um engagement with the uh community. Um couple things for my board members. uh please RSVP for the parade if you haven't already done so so we know who will be attending and um so we have an idea so we walk in and we can plan that accordingly.
I just want to encourage our board as well as our community. This is the time to reach out to all of our elected officials to let them know how important this funding is. There's two points that are really critical right now. The governor proposed a discretionary block grant back in January. We want to ensure that that block grant is flexible use of funding. There's been different discussions in the legislature to make some of those dollars restrictive, meaning they have to be used for a very certain purpose. We do not want that. We want to ensure that it's flexible so that way it can be applied based on the needs that we have in our district. So that's the first ask that we want to make sure our elected officials hear from us. The second ask, the governor has proposed a loophole of Prop 98 funds.
Thank you. >> [applause] >> Kaden David De Coste I first want to thank God for guiding me through high school. I'm also very grateful for my parents for their support and thank you to my mentor Jimmy for his advice in helping me grow. Alexis Cora Dehart >> [cheering] >> I want to thank my amazing parents for their undying support towards everything I do. Also my sister who inspires me to be better every day. Thank you to all the teachers who have made this school feel like home over the past 4 years. >> [applause] >> Malia Kiare Delamou. Thank you to my family and friends for helping me through high school, even if it wasn't the normal experience. Thank you TAC for your constant guidance and encouragement. Thank you mom and dad for always believing in me, especially dad for the math help, which was much needed.
We'll come back. But that means the $62,000 is coming from somewhere. >> It's coming from somewhere. Absolutely. But it shouldn't come from in my opinion that >> but I would just be very cautious about what you say with fat because when you cut 25% of your budget, you're past cutting in the fat. You're getting down into the bone. And so just know that whatever the decision is, when we go back to some of those other priorities we talked about, those priorities might get lost because all of a sudden someone that does something else for kids, but maybe people don't know about that is then going to be the one that gets cut because this is not a zero- sum game. And so someone's going to lose out something. And I keep putting up here if you look at the number of sports when we talk about kids and how many sports we had back in 1920.
Students were strategically placed with peers with various skill levels based on their diagnostic test results and teacher observations to benefit from diverse perspectives and promote stronger peer support. Their task was designed to shift the culture from traditional group work to collaborative learning. Students follow collaborative norms and assign clear roles for shared accountability to promote high interdependence. This increased engagement and allowed students to learn from each other which improve their problem solving skills. And when students struggle, I catch the habit of rescuing which can make them fragile and instead use nudge questions to scaffold thinking. This approach allows space for productive struggle and perseverance. These shifts led to noticeable growth in both understanding and performance. This class demonstrated exceptional mathematical growth with plus 109 increase in which means that our students have met the essential standard for one grade level. This data highlights how much learning progress students have made from the beginning of the school year through their most recent benchmark assessment, showing that our students have gained at least one grade level in their math skill proficiency.
It was so much fun. So, we also had there's some pictures of our robotics, our garden club, our Legos. They just they love club days. Um it's really special at our school. So, um that's just something um one of the things that we're doing to continue to become STEM certified that we're proud of. I went to Oh, is this me too? Yep. So, another thing that we do is garden club. I think this is year three for us. And at the beginning of the year, I think we had um we did signups and we asked them to come clean out our garden beds and they were roughish. Um they pulled weeds, they put their gloves on, they get down in the dirt and they get dirty and they have a blast. But thanks to the junior master gardener classes, we were able to get two new garden beds.
I still have to talk a little bit more here. >> [laughter] >> Good luck with that. What the heck? Did we Did we take a motion to accept the consent agenda yet? And did you all say yes? I. Did I say yes? Really did. Oh my gosh. Okay, warrant approvals. You messed me up with putting it at the end of the agenda. Between April 9th, 2026 and May 13th, 2026, I will continue to authorize by my signature payable in the amount of $1,471,122.56. This includes general fund expenses of $1,146,364.54, revolving expenses of $301,970.50, grant fund expenses of $22,692 and meals tax expenses of $95.52. Finally, I authorize payroll for 4 million $528,414.35. That's what you guys all came to hear, right? Just in time for that. Okay, do you guys have reports this evening? Of course they do. Okay. I'm going to start. So, um I'm going to read, but it's a challenge for me to stand up.