And then we have our SRO. This year we have our new SRO, uh Officer Rachel Mini. She's been a great addition to our team. She is a bridge between the law enforcement um and our students, helping our students understand the law and holding our students high expectations, being um a liaison for our parents and an advocate for our students. Now, I'm going to introduce Bill now to get into some of the specifics of uh what we do. Um, I want to start with this graph. I This graph comes up every time we open Power School, which is our student information database. Um, [clears throat] if you take a quick look at it, it kind of summarizes our year. And I want you specifically to look at the month of March, which uh that's where everything spikes. Uh, I think uh about that time is probably when I got a little call from the superintendent.
I will not be available the first 2 weeks of August. I'm just Letting everybody know. For a regular meeting, subcommittee, all things. I will be exiting the building for vacation, so Um just FYI. I appreciate that and I will also be unavailable the week of August 10th because I'm having um gender affirmation surgery on the 11th and that's going to be awesome. So. All right, congratulations. We will all be on vacations of a sort. Of a sort. Is that Thank you. Um are there any other Are there any other pieces to this um outreach document that folks wanted to talk through or change language around or edit like now is sort of that time. I think it's good. And I don't want to belabor it. I like it's it's fine. Let's put it Let's put it in the It's totally fine. Um let's put it out there.
I did this in uh lived with this in Winsted at two different years. And everything went very smoothly because professional teachers are excellent and they know what they're doing and they really don't need um so many administrators looking over their shoulders constantly. So, I strongly urge you to cut administration um and raise the salaries of the paraprofessionals who deserve to be paid so much better than they are. Uh just because they're mostly women is not a reason not to to pay them uh well, as typically happens in child care situations. So, okay. That's it. Thank you very much. For your thoughts. Anybody else on the line who [clears throat] would like to speak? Uh, no, no more raised hands.
The faith friends program is sustainable for future students and published on the Catholic website to reach audiences both nationally and even worldwide. Congratulations. [applause] >> [applause] >> At this time, I am pleased to introduce Greg Bell, coral director, and the CHS honors treble choir to perform Landslide by Stevie Nicks, originally performed by Fleetwood Mac. [applause] >> [clears throat] >> took my love and I took it [music] down. climbed mountains [singing] [singing] [music] [singing] down [singing] in the sky. >> [singing] >> heart through [music] the changes. [singing] Can I handle the [singing] seasons of my life? Well, [singing] afraid of changing [singing] around [singing] your children get older. [singing] I'm getting old, too. [singing] >> [music] [singing] >> I built my life around [singing] children. I'm getting old. [singing] I'm getting [singing] old. Take it down. [singing] Turns around. And if you see [singing] my reflection in the snow covered hills when the land [singing] brought me down [singing] hillside [singing] bring it the way I treat it.
That's exactly the type of educator that we want in our schools. >> [clears throat] >> She focuses on social emotional outcomes and growth in in our youngest learners and on universal design so that all students benefit including those with IEPs and then also implements those same strategies I can't look at you. >> [laughter] >> For every student, I mean truly implements them for everyone. In a really true way that that affects everyone. Um, she's implemented home school connection activities with interdisciplinary support throughout the school, um, involving parents in those social emotional outcomes. Um, she has her provisional license from ISBE. This requires the same content exam as the PEL. She's already passed it. In fact, the ISBE actually converts the provisional license into the PEL. So, we know that she has a documented timeline and we can already see her success generalizing to the classroom.
But but uh we're getting like a brand new admin team and I think they need this. Like and it's only going to kick the bucket down the road for them among all the other jobs they need to start fresh. I I feel like give it to them now. Let's start this new admin team with this rather than It's a fair point. to wait, you know. Cuz they need to act. So. Absolutely. That's a very fair point. Um Do Would you prefer I call you Belinda? Okay. Have you had experience doing a salary study previously? Can you turn your microphone on? Okay. Rule number one. Sorry. Um I have done you know, dummy salary studies with my district looking at um salaries of different um uh districts around us, but that was literally just something small. That is not what they are offering us. I mean, this is looking at total rewards for every position in our district, which is huge.
>> At least we're addressing it. We are we are >> so like you said these kind of leaves are it's not intentional to been appear. So [clears throat] >> any questions regarding it? So I'll make a motion to accept these leave leave of absence without pay. Entertain a second. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. I. And next on the agenda will be the superintendent report. >> Hey, I have three things for you. I would like to start by recognizing that this Saturday, May 23rd, at 11:00 a.m. in Viking Arena, we are going to have our commencement ceremony where we will be honoring 64 graduates. We have 63 seniors plus one student who's graduating early and stuff. So giving us 64 seniors who will be graduating and remarkable class. You look back over their accomplishments whether it be academic accomp accomplishments, artistic, athletic, work-based learning, um just different programs they've been a part of.
You do give up a little bit of control over how much your costs are going to end up being. And so right now your revenue for special ed is relatively comparable to your expenses uh, for Indiana. We get additional money for special education through both the state and federal governments and so those extra dollars on top of the money we get for any child basically covers this extra 4 million 30 next year. It does look like your expenses are going to outpace your revenue for the first time. This is one of the benefits of working with us. We've worked We've worked with over 100 uh, local education agencies within Indiana the past couple of years and you are actually quite unique in that you've been spending over uh, less than or about to what the state has been paying you for special ed. Most school districts, they've been in the red or spending more than their revenue for special ed for quite some time now.
Goes in and out, gets 8-m attempt. And this is here, somebody should be yelling should be switching sticks with her. Cuz Mac's still got the 8-m stick. Or got the draw stick. So, this is the first I've ever seen Mac Whitworth with a draw stick on an 8-m attempt. >> Interesting. See what she can do. Would she have been allowed to switch it, or >> she Yeah, she could have switched it with one of the attackers. Mac Whitworth goes in, turns around, gets squandered by a bunch of other girls. Oh, wow. >> Oh. I don't know about that. One official One official was turning around calling one thing, this other far official Mac Whitworth got hit in the face with a stick, and there was no call. It's ridiculous. What No, no, they You got to play that back. Oh. Bad luck for the Spartans as But You know what?
Hey, we want to know what's going on in the building. There you go. Um, we get a lot of referrals around the month of March. The school year is uh pretty much the same each year. Um, I always say the calendar is built for a specific purpose. We come to school, tensions start to rise, and they say take a vacation in the middle of December. Um, we come back for the new year, last a month or so, we take another vacation in February. Those are much needed, I think, time off for our students and teachers. Uh, you could see what happens in March. It's the full month. Uh, it's uh, crazy. We call it March Madness. Um, it winds down a bit in April, probably more because we have a week off there. Um, and May, it kind of peters out. Obviously, we're in the middle of May.
Let's get the people I'm more concerned about having awareness that it's even happening. Mhm. So like like we need the recorder to do a piece on it. We need a something on the website. We need all the socials. We need somebody to drop this information in all of the pertinent Facebook groups that all of our families use. Okay. >> There's like six of them. That's where everything happens. I'm not on Facebook, but when we have these materials to drop, can I empower the two of you to go for it? Yep. Thank you. >> And um we have I'm more than happy to notify like the PTO groups, too. Yeah. Um you know, somebody could take it take a flyer. Whoever goes to the CPAC could take a you know, information. Like I think just everybody plugging it in all of their um subcommittees as well.
Okay, hearing none, I'm going to close public comment. I want to thank everybody for their comments. I truly believe that everybody has a good heart. Everybody's trying to help uh, fix a problem because I agree the problem is spending continues to go up and I don't know how sustainable we have that will be in the future. But, I appreciate the comments. I appreciate the suggestions. Now, hearing all that, um, I'd like to call on our superintendent um, who has been working the last couple days since the budget referendum failed uh, and then hearing last night what the cut would be, I'd like to turn over to Dr. Grossman to give the board some thoughts on on his Uh, thoughts on the cuts. Superintendent, Mr. Dayton, thank you. So, tonight I'd like to provide an overview of what the administration is thinking about budget reductions. I know the chair said that I've been thinking about this for a couple days.
[music] [applause] Please welcome John Harino, athletic director, who will recognize Chester High School's Booster Scholar athletes. Booster Club representatives Ryan Donovan and Jen Duffy will present the medals. [applause] Good evening. It is my uh pleasure to welcome up Booster Club president Ryan Donovan and Vice President Jen Duffy who will now present our booster club recipient medals. Before we begin, I'd like to thank both of them and all our booster club reps for their unwavering support of our senior athletes. The Chester High School Booster Club takes great pride in the accomplishments of all our student athletes and is honored to recognize a special group of seniors this evening. These student athletes who applied for this honor also earned a combined total of four or more varsity letters in at least two different sports while maintaining a GPA of over a 3.0. It is now my pleasure to call them forward and recognize their outstanding achievements.
Thank you. Our next speaker is Juliet Delabia. Good evening. It's nice to see everybody. Thank you for all the time that you give our district. I'm a parent here. I have three children and as of tomorrow night, I will have a high schooler, a middle schooler, and an elementary kid. So, um we're in the thick of it. Um I'd like to briefly briefly talk to you about student Chromebook use, particularly at the elementary and middle school level since I haven't had experience with a high schooler yet. Many families appreciate that students have access to technology, but we're also seeing some consistent challenges. At home, parents have very limited ability to guide how devices are used, especially when it comes to distractions like YouTube or general browsing when they're supposed to be working on you know, using the resources that we provide them like IXL. >> [clears throat] >> Right now, our only real option is to turn off the internet access entirely, which isn't practical or balanced.
Definitely not something that I could do or any HR person in the school district could do on their own, for sure. So, is there a consensus to move this for a vote next week? And since um Mrs. Darling and Mrs. Hartman aren't here, we'll uh we discuss it. Yep, we'll put that in section eight. Thank you. Okay, um next is um the review of um our policy on board board members attending uh conferences. So, the um the Joint Annual Conference, which is an annual conference for school boards, it's the School Board Association, the Administrator Association, and the uh CSBO Business Officials Association do the strength conference that you may be familiar with. That's in November. It's usually the weekend before Thanksgiving. And it is the largest conference uh in the state or in the area for particularly school boards and administrators to get professional development, a lot of governance information, a lot of legal information, and things like that.
Phenomenal group of students and so wish them the very best in their next endeavors and so thankful that we have been able to be a part of their journey for that. So, I know that Lena's gonna have a special one up there on on stage. So, >> last one. >> Yes. [laughter] >> I was just I was thinking along Yeah. I don't want to jump in on your report, but you're good. You're good. It kind of pertains, but yeah, we've had kids in the bario school system since 1992. >> Wow. >> And we've had kids continuously in the bar school system since 2004. Like continuous years. So Chuck and I are extremely grateful for Bar. I just think there's no other place where kids get the experience, the education, you know, the community support as they do at Bar. >> So yeah, that kind of was my board comment, but just wanted to say a note of gratitude to everybody.
And so this shouldn't be a concern in the overall big picture. Obviously increased expenses are always a concern and you have to plan for them. But the fact that you're spending more is honestly much bigger than the school districts have had to deal with for quite some time. So, the 7% increase we've been spending about that same amount of an increase anyways, and so, operating alone is not going to accelerate that and if you were just to continue with your current participation in the special ed cooperative. However, with that being said, with greater control allows for you to possibly further contain those increases of cost and that might actually be better long run. >> [snorts] >> So, this is a year-over-year increase in special ed spending. Though, you know, obviously all of these bars are not at the same level, so some some periods like this first bar, FY23, you spent 7% more.
It all works itself out. >> Worked itself out in the end. Just being a Spartan fan right here, I'd give the ball back to Mack Whitworth and just say Take it right back in. >> Go do what you just did. Mack probably uh maybe wants a break from that one. McKechnie out with the ball. Gets the ball over to Parsons. Parsons to Pelletier. Pelletier runs in. Pelletier Nothing there. She kicks the ball all the way out to Parsons. Parsons to McKechnie. At some point if you're the Spartans and you could do that. Mack Whitworth goes all around, turns around. Still, I don't know how she held on to that. Still with the ball, gets hit. Gets her goggles knocked down once again. Mack Whitworth still with the ball, turns around, goes in. Finds Pelletier and Pelletier throws the ball just high. >> What a great pass.
It'll probably even out with April. Um, and then the seniors are leaving in about a week. Um, it's a busy year. It's uh a lot of efforts on a lot of our parts and uh it keeps us busy. Keeps us busy and uh we definitely uh have a a pattern that we have to follow. Next slide. I'm just going to go through uh what we deal with. Uh here are top 10 infractions in no specific order. These are infractions that are reported by teachers primarily. Sometimes they're ones that we input ourselves when we uh keep the data in the database. Next slide. The first one we're going to go to and again no specific order here. Uh we'll start with skipping class. Um it's every one of our infractions I want to kind of get at. We have a goal when we're addressing the student behavior.
You know. Yeah. Whoever's watching, I don't I don't know. We don't often have a lot of public at the subcommittees, but um Yeah. that's something to do. So I think I what I'm hearing from you is first step, get this on the website because that gives us a URL to share widely. And that website can include so far this outreach letter, the form they fill out, and um I get I'll also can link back to our past meetings. Mhm. >> So that people can can have a sense of um what we've done so far and what our whole purpose is. Yep, letter of interest story from the recorder which we can then plaster everywhere. That should have the link to do all of the things. All of that, all the marketing. Maybe I don't um I probably wouldn't be something that the city would drop a note for cuz we're different departments, but if it's possible I know the mayor can't can't talk because of OML, but if I just say like maybe the city could put out a little thing, that'd be cool.