001I think you're all here and we're live and recording. So, think you're good. >> Todd's muted. >> I think he's talking. Yeah, now I can hear you. >> Okay, good. So, I have two o'clock. We'll call the special meeting to order. Very light agenda. First item on our agenda is for public comments. I don't see any of the public. So, next we have the uh position approval. Deian sent out a proposal for everybody to review. It is simply to keep the reading teacher position in a full-time. the ASD would pick up the difference in its local budget. Uh, Superintendent Payne is on here and I believe he supported it. Um, so is there any questions from our board? >> I had a question about just some historical perspective on this. This has been a grant-f
002funed position. Was it a full-time position that we have now been moved down to a 0.8 funding has been cut? >> Nicole, my understanding is that uh it was a full-time position at uh Arlington and Nick, please correct me if I'm wrong, but the formula is recalculated. And so, uh, a greater number of, you know, a greater number or a a smaller number of kids who are determined as, um, I think it's poverty and rural setting. Um, so if the school moves up or down, it affects your funding per the position. >> So, I would assume I would assume that it's a lower percentage. I I don't know exactly, but it's a reduction because of that. Nick, did I miss something? >> The only thing I would add is it can be impacted by changes
003in other schools in the SU. So an increase in number of students identified in other schools can then decrease the proportion of funding that Arlington or any other school gets. So it's it's not wholly dependent on Arlington student body. It can be impacted by changes in student bodies at other schools and then the ratios shift. So, >> so the difficult which I understand you know mathematically but in practical terms the difficulty with that is that unless somebody can say otherwise I'm not sure that our student needs have decreased and so if you bring us down below a 1.0 position you know functionally first of all it's hard to fill a point8 position and if our student numbers haven't decreased then it's not like we need less than a 1.0 O service to support the students
004in our schools. So I I understand that this is, you know, one big pot of money and it's allocated out but based on a percentage of the total student needs, but we've had this conversation before where if the need is increasing somewhere else and so it's pulling a greater percentage of the total amount of money, but Arlington still has a need. We don't have fewer students that need to be served. We're just getting a smaller piece of the pie. And so now we have students who are going to be in theory underserved, which seems ludicrous. You haven't missed anything. Nope. That's And I Rene would would speak to the administrative nightmare it is that we have to recalculate and rebalance this every year. And one would think that a minimum of a 1.0 know in
005a in a school would make sense that they wouldn't reduce you to below a full-time teacher, but there's no provisions in tiny >> or any of those factors or any of those considerations. So, >> so when you say they that's >> Yeah, I I won't speak to it. Yeah. More than I understand, but we get our funding designation from title and then through the grant management system. And Tim, you might have to correct me if I'm wrong. Through the grant management system, we then have to upload certain data, including student data, and then the formula essentially informs us of how our positions need to be allocated across the SU. >> So, Nicole, >> yeah, >> it's a combination of state and federal above us making that determination. You upload your population and your student demographic,
006and then they come back to you and say, "This this is the amount of money you're getting. This is how you're reallocated. Right. And based on our demographics here, even over the last two years, we have had to shift some services to the middle school and it hasn't been full-time at the elementary school. >> So I think last we were 6 and 04. Now it's point four and four. Um, so that but we're still short that 0.2 in order to make it a full-time position. So we've lost a 0.2, but over the course of the last two years, the demographics have shifted and the allocation in either building has shifted. I don't I mean you guys aren't designing the funding formula but I I and I believe there is some sensitivity to the impact that
007it has on our schools. Um >> it in in a sense is basically saying to Arlington you're not you're not able to get the services that you need for your students because there is greater need somewhere else. Yeah, >> it's it's not an increase in funding. It's a maintaining of current funding level and now you have to because if there was an increase, you could have covered continued to offer a 1.0 at Arlington and still met the need and whatever school they determined had the greater need, but it's probably the same amount of money. And Nicole, you and I have talked about this a little bit already in that given the current conversation at the national level, we will probably have more of these conversations as we go through the budget process in the next
008couple of months. >> Yeah, I know I'm singing to the choir. It just it it's this has been the discussion that Todd and I have had that we've had with you know our it and I and I really try hard to not say their kids our kids right it's our kids it's how do we meet the needs of all of the students but when when that when that formula then >> hurts a population that can no longer get the full resources that it needs then it then it it just feels like it's a different conversation. But yes, I absolutely support the proposal because the school and the students need the resources. So, >> okay, we have >> I appreciate the generosity, but I'll let the chair do his business and move along. >> Um, do
009we have a a motion to approve the proposal of funding the 02 position in the local budget? Yes, I'd make >> I make a motion to be adopted. >> So, we have a motion by Nicole Dan. You second? >> Yep. >> Any further discussion? All those in favor? >> I. Anybody opposed? Okay, there you have it. It has carried. Uh, that completes our agenda. Any other business? >> Terrific. Thank you all for jumping on. I greatly appreciate it. Enjoy the rest of your day. Motion to adjurnn. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Thanks everybody. Take care. >> Bye.