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It's not a sailing company. It's National Network of Oral Healthcare Providers. So we we want to bring more resources to connect the mouth to the body in this case nutrition a food bank to the body. So, we would like to be in collaboration and represent 5,000 con constituents in mainland, but they want to have a branch chair. They want to collaborate with you senators and house of representatives. Thank you so much for what you do to our people. Uh my name is Dr. Sand. I'm talking in behalf of Noah. Thank you very much.
so for very rough numbers before we start we're sitting at 1.2 mil now i'm going to tell you that that's depending on what you do with that money that that number could be greater than that if you get creative legally creative so we're all on the same page if you get creative with how you're going to spend some of the different funding sources that we had on the previous page so you could stretch the 1.2 out more than 1.2 and we'll talk a little bit about that not necessarily in great detail but we'll talk a little bit about that so when we started with the leadership team and said where do we prioritize things we're basing it on the fact that we believe we would have 1.2 million dollars to spend if you saw senate bill 1269 come through you would now have 1.5 million to spend if that grand plan or brand bargain came in you got a big number i don't know what that number would be because it would depend on what it is so that's why this becomes a conservative budget that we're building off of and so anything that we present tonight as a as a concert as a concept could potentially go up and i'm going to give you a very specific example in just a second i'm going to give you a specific example right now i can't remember my slides so 301 uh the new number must come out by law by march 31st i think last year it actually hit april 1st or 2nd but at quarter till six we got an email with the new number so that's how fast this changes if you remember last year the base support level was 541 and they had a 190 day addition or 192 addition to that which was one-time funding and it was related to what happened within uh 301 and the paying off of debt services so it was a one-time increase so the total increase last year or the total amount last year was 733 dollars you probably had some districts that said chi-ching 733 dollars how can we spend it all we took the the idea or the stance that it would be 541 which is what we would allocate the 192 would become a contingency okay depending on which one of those two ideas you adopted the number that came out a few minutes ago some might see it as a loss i see it as oh i can't believe it's that great so what we saw um and i've i have the jlbc uh article on this but i it happened at quarter to six and i can't process what it's in there the new number so the 541 is the way i'm looking at at it went up to 708.
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Uh Senator, any questions for the doctor? Yeah, I guess Senator Kim. So, you're testifying in support of this? I'm sorry. I'm new to this. I haven't My family hasn't been here Senator since my great uncle, Senator Joe Edaki. I was born Don Bagaki. Okay. But are you are you speaking in support? Oh, I'm just saying I'm not good at this, but I'm going to get good. So, we're in support. Yes. The more collaboration with the food bank and the health committee. Definitely. We love oral health as well. So how do you envision us getting this vitamin supplement distribution to the students? Well, I believe everything that we do in Noah is first education, but not the kind of education that Western society thinks here's a brochure, you know, brush your teeth or take your vitamins. It's the way Native Hawaiians and locals learn. It's I call it a threedimensional Okay.
some people are saying we lost 25 dollars because it went from 733 to 708. i didn't i in my perspective and i've talked to several people that would do the same thing nobody planned on that 192. so everything we talk about here is based on 541. so you're going to sit here and talk about you have anticipated carryover of a little over a million dollars and you just popped 160 dollars increase to the base support level the first question is is it sustainable it is in the base support level so yes it is but that base support level is still subject to tax revenues so if we went into a recession that number could go down when are we going to go to the next recession well those you that can tell me then i'll be able to plan better but i don't really know and so there's a piece there that says how much of that do you add more to contingency if so how much and then what are you going to do with that which is left over it's such a significant number and remember it can only go to certified staff so we these guys are sitting here don't even know that the new number 708 until i just told you guys and so we haven't even had a pr time to process that we haven't had time to talk with ccc ccc is probably just or teachers are just finding that out today i'm sure it was released sometime this afternoon but we got the email that said the amount at quarter till six and so this fundamentally shifts some of the ideas we'll talk about here again if you talk about 160 plus dollar increase here and then you get into one of the other two state budgets they're talking about you may see substantially huge numbers and so that's why i keep talking about this is a process with what we're thinking but if you get those kinds of numbers coming in if you really replace 208 with 750 million dollars into the system plus 160 whatever it is one or two dollars on this that's big time dollars and so okay so a month ago i'm saying we're going to present some to you guys in april and maybe maybe dang if it's those kind of money we might be having a conversation that pushes out a little bit because you don't want to do something stupid and just spend money for the sake of spending money so just to understand that as we give you this perspective i want you to understand what we're thinking and where we're trying to go but we're starting to get some numbers in that may substantially change and we may have to come back to the table and have bigger conversations okay and it is literally happening this fast it's also important that you remember governor signed 1139 back in 21 that effectively changed the way 301 can be spent and i'll have a slide on that so i'll show and explain what that means bit it's significant impact on what we're trying to do not just us other districts too just so you're aware we get about 1.9 million as of right now daa 450 000 goes over to mno automatically so we have about 1.5 in daa we have about 2.1 in bond remember you have to spend bond money within seven years of the sale and that's 22 is about seven years so there's some money that we're going to have to get done spending this year and we have essers of approximately five and a half million left but please understand that some of it's committed so we put that number out there some of it's dedicated to positions more m o less capital so we got to play around with that number questions any other just on that so that just frames it now we're going to go into what we're going to do and why i have a question on the daa how much of that is eligible to move to mno is there a certain percent or a dollar amount or 100 okay i will tell you i've been in districts that have had to move the majority of there to stay competitive with other districts in mno i'm aware of other districts that wouldn't touch a dime and move it over to mno so it just depends on the situation you're in we did the 450 i can't remember someone may be able to tell me why there was a specific reason based on the way we funded something that we had to move it over to cover the 450 but i'm drawing a blank on it right now i don't know if anybody remembers that and yeah and then but there was a reason we were funding something bonuses for the board members yes is that it okay we were funding something and so therefore the decision was made to make sure we could continue to fund that but i'm just it might have had to do with the when we lost the override and the override went out in 13 or 14 whenever it died out they still wanted to make a commitment to something that was funded as part of the override and so therefore they chose to take the 450 to keep that commitment i believe that's what it is but but i'd have to do some research on that so budget review priorities again staff increases so meaning the number of staff positions we have fte salary and benefit increases or position increases and by position increases takes someone from a part-time employee to a full-time employee is is an example we're talking about there we're not going to spend a lot of time on staff increases or position increases i'll show you what this group has initially talked about uh we're waiting to see what the final dollars are because when you get to the salary benefit increase that eats a good portion of what we're talking about you will see i'm not going to go through each one of these these are some of the ideas that leadership put out so obviously because of the nature of the jobs they're doing at their sites and etc you're going to see more ideas and a little bit more specificity what the mean is is basically we had them rank these and this became the mean for what they felt was most important okay and so once we got all of uh all the ideas through brainstorming same as we did with uh ccc we then went to a rank order you're seeing some uh bold faced um [Music] funds in there because some of these could come out of some of these different funds so it makes it you may actually have something we'll see down you may have something that's number 15 with the lowest mean and we may fund that and not fund number eight because there's funding in idea to do it so just because we rank them that way doesn't mean when everything plays out that they're automatically get funded there because there's different issues that are at play here additional training days for certified staff technically you guys have approved that last year when we talked about essers so yes number 10 create signing bonus stipend yep we'll talk about that in detail yeah yeah no we'll talk about that in detail is that good or bad though yeah well i don't mind doing that but then if they decide to break their contract well we'll talk about it yeah we'll take something back no we'll talk about that yeah we have that okay so in this conversation both with ccc and the leadership the discussion of compensation became the overriding most important thing we do so most of this conversation is about compensation because it's the only way we can remain competitive with our neighboring districts and so these other ones although important you have to see how much money is left over when you get done with the compensation discussion and therefore that's why we haven't done as much with some of the other ones because we had to deal with compensation first so some context for converse for compensation and some of these may be changing this was a report that somebody did so we pulled some numbers they may have modified a little bit but this is what we had when we talked about this this tells you what the 2122 base salary was and it tells you what based on what we're hearing is the projected base salary and the performance pay i'm going to get into that more detail but you can see that at 43 000 as a base salary we're in the bottom three or four of all of these districts mesa is not in here well that's just because we did the study chose not to use mesa but so you can see we're down below if we don't do something to remain competitive then if i'm going with we'll use qc if they're going to come in at about 50 000 and i'm we're at 43 then we're not competitive it's just that simple and so if you're a chandler um maricopa where they're 47 40 49 you're not competitive florence is moving up to 47.
I just wanting to know for the resolution you're supporting it and it talks about distributing a vitamin supplement program to the students. So how do you see that in being done? You sign a a ohana I mean a hero in the ohana a hero in the community. Those are community workers and they work in relationship to educate and they want to do it. They're lining up. They're begging for it. If we bypass that and give them like a social media website thing or we give them a brochure, it's they don't even know if you want it. So, it's through community, through well-trained community people, including in the ohana, there's a hero. That's the one that takes people to the eye appointment, the dental appointment. Thank you. Is the healthy food at Whole Foods. Thank you so much. Please uh check in with the clerk so that we have your name for the record.
so that generated why we're having the discussion on compensation that we're having because we have to get more competitive aj's going to be at 49. so again these numbers may change a little bit but conceptually there's an idea that's being pushed and that we'll talk about that when we get to there so our first recommendation again this is conservative and based on the discussion with the 708 this is changing but if we were to go to a five percent increase for everybody why five percent number one that's what the classified raise was in january of 22. so it gives us a starting point to say we want to treat all employee groups the same way we said compensation and being competitive was a primary consideration so we'll start with five percent in this particular scenario there's two ways to take that increase do you take it to the base so you say five percent increase on 43 000 which is our current base is an increase of 21.50 so you're effectively going to go um up to 45 000 as your as your starting point okay 40 45 150.
Oh, yeah. Sure. Dr. Don after the hearing. I will be this. I apologize, sers. I know you're That's okay. You're just fine. Thank you very much. Thank you so much for what you do to our people. Thank you for testifying. Okay. Uh do we need to recess for decision- making? Yes. Okay. Recess. Okay, we're going to reconvene for decision- making on this 3pm March 30 agenda as to consider uh STR 29 and SR23. After having conferred with the co-chair and the members, I'm going to recommend that we defer this measure and ask that the food bank and the community partners uh work with the department of health independently to scope a program with a little bit more detail and then uh we certainly can consider this program and a more concrete appropriation uh in the future.
if you did that obviously a new teacher because you're given the same dollar amount to everybody 21.50 means entire certified staff gets 2150 raise obviously the younger you are percentage-wise the greater the increase to your salary the older you are the longer you've been in the system the less so the other way to do it is say we're going to take five percent and we're going to give five percent to every single individual in that scenario you still give five percent to the base so the base is still increased by 2150 but if i'm making 55 thousand and i do five percent on fifty five thousand it's a bigger number than if i just gave you twenty one hundred i'll give you some examples i have a question um i'm thinking about that forty three thousand so i went to our website and it shows our average teacher salaries forty thousand eight thirty nine so i'm trying to see how the numbers forty thousand forty thousand eight thirty nine now that's coming from from 2018 right from 2018.
Uh any discussion? Okay, on that note, we're thank you for joining us. Welcome to the Senate Committee on Education. Today is Wednesday, March 30th, 3:15 p.m. We are in hearing room 229. This meeting, including the audio v video of remote participants, is being streamed live on YouTube. You will find links to viewing options for all Senate meetings on the live and on demand video page of the legislaturator's website. This Zoom meeting and YouTube live stream event will include the 3:15 agenda for the Committee on Education. In the unlikely event that we have to abruptly end this hearing due to major technical difficulties, the committee will reconvene to discuss any outstanding business on Friday, April 1st, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. and a public notice will be posted on the legislaturator's website. I'd like to take this time to remind our testifiers that due to time restrictions on our hearings, we will be limiting testimony to one minute per testifier per bill.
our average salary right now i believe is 50 or 51. okay because i was going to say that this seemed like it didn't jive with the 43 yeah so you can see obviously to go ahead and do that the difference between going 5 to the base is 750 000 for certified staff if you did the 5 to the individuals it's 900 000. so one costs more than the other again depending on what happens with the state budget and stuff that may be an issue that may not if you do it to ministration i just chose the ap base the system principle base that we could start that's where you get the 36.60 and the same with the exam classifier we fixed the classified but there's a group of about i think it's 10 exam classified that did not get the increase so they would have to get an increase so you're seeing all toll if you were to do 5 it's 868.
For people participating remotely, please remain muted and video disabled until shortly before it is your turn to testify. When I call your name, unmute yourself and your time will begin. After your minute is completed, staff will mute you so that we can move this hearing along in an orderly and efficient manner. Thank you. First item on our agenda is Senate Concurrent Resolution 209 and Senate Resolution 202 urging the Department of Education to report to the legislature regarding the amount of public school space available to be used for preschool classrooms and the number of public school teachers certified to teach early childhood education. to testify. Intern Superintendent Keith Hayashi. Hello, Chair Kadani. Uh, Kdani, uh, Vice Chair Kim, uh, Senator, uh, Roy Iikera on behalf of Keith Hayashi, Superintendent, and the Department of Education.
if you do it to the base it's over a million dollars if you do it to the individual okay we also talked about a student growth stipend this is a slide that struck strictly from last year that implies that if we get 200 kid growth we would pay it out in march we did that this year when they came back from spring break they got the increase if we don't get the 200 kid growth we don't pay it out so there's no impact to us uh in a negative sense because it's based on current year funding but it allows for a way to to reward staff if we have growth so it's a it's a good incentive but it's not or no it's not a commitment performance pay next part this will be important i know i'm giving you a lot of information but we'll start to connect these dots so previously prior to 2021 you had three funds there was a specific percentage amount so you're 708 dollars 40 percent had to go to i believe it's 12 and 13 and 20 percent had to go to 11.
The department stands on his written testimony in support of this measure and is available to answer any questions. Thank you for the opportunity to testify. Thank you, Roy. Next to testify, I don't have anybody next to testify. There we have um comments and support from several uh community members. But other than that, there is no further testimony.
with the new program in 2021 they just lumped it into one one fund the big difference was all the funds says is you have to do performance pay it does not tell you how much you could theoretically give all of your staff one dollar all the certified staff one dollar and you would meet the law might fire people up but you would meet the law okay so that's the significant difference and that plays into what districts are doing and just so we're on the same page what districts are doing is say we will take most districts are probably given somewhere between three and four thousand or forty five hundred in performance paid depends on the district and what they're doing they're saying we will reduce that number down to maricopa said two hundred dollars i think chandler was five and queen creek was seven or vice versa aj was like a thousand because they didn't spend as much money and we will take the additional dollars and put it into the base salary therefore it's the way to bump you up and get you closer to 50 000.
Members, are there any questions? I have a question for Roy. For Roy, please. Uh so Roy um you folks can do this without a resolution, right? I mean yes we can. And in fact the last couple of years uh we've had inquiries into our capacity to uh absorb uh early learning. Um many of our elementary schools um you know some of them have uh in especially early uh for prek purposes you know we've looked at what our facilities uh can handle. So uh we certainly can do that assessment and uh provide a report. So in the priorities is it early kindergarten, early age or pre kindergarten would take preference over preschool or is that one and the same in your mind or I think the department will u will have to evaluate you know again where we are with uh providing that support and both uh in terms of facilities as well as the curriculum and getting qualified teachers.
so those numbers that you were seeing on that slide that told you all the school districts had a reduction in the performance pay component at the concept of trying to raise the as close to 50 000 as you could make sense okay so what we would take a look at a couple things first of all we already have a commitment within 301 for some base salary you have to because that's what fund 11 was our performance pays at 4 000 and again state revenues and as i said we're not sure what the increase was and i can tell you today it was big okay so what we would look at is possibly two options with certified staff if you gave the five percent increase that we talked about before you see that the starting salary is 45 150 in either case because you're applying the same five percent to this starting salary if you were to take in one case and say instead of giving teachers four thousand dollars in june we will take three thousand and dump it into the base so everybody's gonna get the three thousand it's not costing us a dime more because we already have that money already spending that money if you did that you can see you can get the base up to 48 150.
Do you even have room in the schools? I'm sorry. You even have room in the schools at this point? That's an assessment that uh we can do. You know, we um in especially for schools, elementary schools where we have excess capacity because of just uh smaller enrollments uh we may have room is we just we also need to look at the appropriateness of these facilities for you know children three, four and you know five year olds. Okay. Thank you. Sure. Thank you. Um Roy, further discussion members. Thank you. Moving on to the next item. STR 218 SR211 urging the Department of Education to incorporate media literacy into the existing state public school curriculum. To testify, interim superintendent Hayashi. Good afternoon, Chair Kedani, Vice Chair Kim Marcado, I'm sorry, and Senator Makanova. Um, Raymond Fujino on behalf of interim superintendent Hayashi. We stand on our written testimony in support of this resolution.
if you don't do that you would keep the base at 45 150. at the end of the day the total amount that you're going to get paid in either scenarios is still 49 150 because you would have in one case a thousand dollars of performance pay that's paid in june and the other case you would have four thousand so either way you're not changing the amount of money now i fully understand and there'll be people that have concerns that i love the bonus of four thousand dollars in june because we go to disneyland every june and it pays for the trip if you spread the 3 000 over 26 pays and you do the higher tax bracket and stuff i don't not going to really see it that will be the debate do you not go for the bonuses they don't get taxed on their bonus yeah they do but but i'm just saying you're going to get this debate over like you get 4 000 but really that's not what their check is right but but the debate's going to be do i want it here or do i want it spread out you can change the question was asked in ccc can you change the percentage of what you're getting pulled out in your deduction yeah you can do that just like you could before the big difference is in one scenario our starting base is 45 150 in the other scenario it's 48 150.