Item 8.3 Budget Update starts at 27:56 on the YouTube recording.
Item 8.4 Internal Auditor's Update starts at [53:44].
Item 8.5 2023-2024 Middle School Achievement Report starts at [1:01:05]. "It was a rough year." "You have to touch Math to learn it."
"Reading on a screen is different from reading on a page."
You'll want to look at the charts presented to the Board. On my scorecard, "Achievement" should be the Number 1 Priority of the District. THAT is where the focus should be.
Item 8.6 on the Agenda was "Discussion: Enrollment and Staffing at Pontiac Elementary." The discussion begins at [1:29:15] on the YouTube recording of the meeting.
Wil Anderson discussed a chart of enrollment numbers for five years, starting with 2020/2021. The summary of growth to 2024/2025 is:
PK 69- 76
K 84-147 (+75%)
1st 97-134
2nd 107-141
3rd 90-142 (+58%)
4th 102-129
5th 95-117
Totals 644-885
Building Capacity 700-786
One interesting slide is the Projection (Spring 2024) of number of students versus the Actual number of students at Pontiac Elementary. A new subdivision (Ashcroft) provided 59 new students.
Franklin Foster continued the presentation.
If you are interested in Pontiac Elementary, watch this presentation.
At the point I stopped watching; there was still 40 minutes left in the meeting.
