Music I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the I know we're know. I know. Why not have an agenda? I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. Absolutely. How are absolutely ready to go. Should I start? Yeah, we're going to be helpful. Thank you. Oh, here we go. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Today is Monday, December 3rd and 2007, and this is the regular meeting of the City of Fairfax. School Board, we will start with a pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. There are no changes in the agenda. And as far as I know, there are no other announcements. Before we begin our meeting I have two resolutions that I'm gonna come down from. I'm assuming this microphone is like we have, let me who work on behalf of the schools and behalf of our students. And this evening we have two people who have been instrumental in the renovation program at Fairfax High School and we would like to take a minute to not only to offer them special thanks but to highlight for the community so the community is aware of all of the hard work and dedication by these two particular individuals and I'd like to invite Rods Bellman and Patty Chapman to have a very good time. I'm going to have a very good time. I'm going to have a very good time. I'm going to have a very good time. I'm going to have a very good time. I'm going to have a very good time. I'm going to have a very good time. I'm going to have a very good time. I'm going to have a very good time. I'm going to have a very good time. I'm going to Ross Bellman is the director and Patty Chapman is the assistant director of Central Thailand School Community Liaison. At any rate we are thrilled they have if anyone has listened to George Steph they know that that he has talked on more than one occasion about his right and his left hand and the people who have been his right and his left hand have been Rod and Patty. And so it gives me great pleasure today to present a proclamation to each one and so they can hang this above their bed or they could hang it in their office at school and it will serve as reminder that this school board and this community is this school and this community we are all very grateful for the extra effort that they have put forward because through their diligence and their hard work, the renovation project, first of all went very smoothly and we were in a position that the renovations were not disruptive or as disruptive, as least disruptive as possible to what went on in the school which is basically the education of our students. And so for Mr. Spellman, the Proclamation reads, Rod, Paddy Pugh, step out of the school, which is basically the education of our students. And so for Mr. Spellman, the Proclamation Reads Rod, if you step out of the way, honey. If the Proclamation Reads, whereas Rod Spellman has provided leadership and support for the renovation of Fairfax High School with dedication and station from 2005 to 2007, and whereas Mr. Spellman provided exceptional leadership, as well as extended time in addressing individual needs of students, teachers, staffs and guests to the school to ensure their safety throughout the renovation. Whereas Mr. Spellman maintained the priority of ensuring that the delivery of instruction to students was not interrupted during renovation. Whereas Mr. Spellman displayed a positive attitude and a kind of spirit throughout during renovation, whereas Mr. Spelman displayed a positive attitude and a kind of spirit throughout the renovation, always being the go-to person to get any job larger, small done, and whereas Mr. Spelman's highest level integrity was evident as he handled the myriad of decisions that he had to be made on a daily basis as he kept the safety of the students and protecting the instructional program as a priority, whereas Mr. Spelman has been collaborative with all stakeholders involved ensuring the delivery of the renovation be on time and under budget. Whereas Mr. Spellman used his knowledge and understanding the complex schedules of the school to anticipate needs and to always have alternative plans in place at all times. And whereas Mr. Spellman's performance throughout the renovation was above and beyond expectations and demonstrated his personal pride in the students, the building and the community. Now therefore, it be proclaimed the City of Fairfax School Board extends its highest commendation and deepest appreciation to Rod Spellman for his passion, dedication, and commitment to Fairfax High School student staff, families, and community and extend this sincere thank you for a job well done. It is signed by all members of the board and all I can say is Rod. Thank you. We really appreciate it. For those of you who don't realize, Rod is a Fairfax city person. He grew up in this community. He lives in this community. He's a graduate of Fairfax city person. He grew up in this community. He lives in this community. He's a graduate of Fairfax High School. And we're delighted that one of our own has been instrumental in this project. And now for Ms. Chapman. Whereas Patty Chapman has provided leadership and outstanding support for the renovation of Fairfax High School with distinction, dedication and distinction from 2005 to 2007. And whereas Ms. Chapman's sustain performance was always above and beyond all reasonable expectations in performing the mirrored of tasks required by total renovation of the school. Whereas Ms. Chapman consistently focused on protecting the instructional environment throughout the renovation to ensure that the delivery instruction was never interrupted. And whereas Ms. Chapman communicated high expectations related to maintaining a safe building and providing the follow-through to ensure that there were no safety issues impacting students and staff, whereas Ms. Chapman consistently gave extended time to ensure that coordination was completed in a timely and professional manner with a general contractor, subcontractors, movers delivering furniture and staff's charge with cleaning so that the school was ready for students and staff. And whereas Miss Chapman's knowledge of the complex schedules of the building provided the background to anticipate needs and plan for the unanticipated offense that are routinely a part of any renovation, whereas Ms. Chapman maintained a stalwart steady demeanor and a kin due attitude that exhibited her pride and passion for the school, the students and staff, whereas Ms. Chapman's attention to detail for organization and her follow through on ordering the furniture and shirt that all deadlines were met and provided a crucial link as to how successful the renovation would be. And now therefore, it be a pro claim that the City of Fairfax School Board extends its highest commendation and deepest appreciation to Patricia Chapman for her dedication and commitment to Fairfax High School student staffs, families and community, and extend there since here thank you for a job well done. Thank you, Patty. Great. Thank you. And while Patty hasn't always lived in Fairfax City, she does, and her daughter Rebecca was a graduate. And so we feel as though Patty is one of her own as well. And we thank you both very much. Thank you. Would either of you like to say something? Thank you. Thank you both very much. Thank you all. Pleasure. You're welcome. All right. All right. The next item is presentations, the School Board citizen participation. And Mr. Adele, did you sign up? Good evening, Mr. Adele. I'm going to go to the next floor. Good evening, Mr. Ardell. Good evening, Madam Chair. The all 3920 groundwater street. The state of Virginia Commonwealth will be participating in the US presidential race a little earlier than usual. The primaries moved up to I think it's February 5th. It's worth noting that the Declaration of Independence speaks of the unannual right. It should be by today's English in the Bible, right, to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness or property as its characterized. In the fifth amendment to the US Constitution, which holds that no one shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. Now since about 1982, the Democratic Party, official platform has always had a plank supporting abortion, the unjust killing of unborn children. Since 1990, roughly, a plank in that same platform of the Democratic Party has supported homosexuality, roundly condemned by anybody with any common sense, as well as the Holy Bible, old in New Testament, even the words of Jesus himself. Those castigations that I just read out about the Democratic Party do not apply to the Republican platform, though there have been many wolves and sheep closing who call themselves Republicans, who are really Democrats, advocating these same sort of things. They've not been able to prevail. May I suggest once again that this school board declare independence from the Fairfax County public, or as I call them, taken schools, so that you can exert better control over the curriculum. The documentation for what I just said with the curriculum comes value, you know. The documentation can be found in among other places, the book called Back to the Drawing Board, where do we go from here in the Pro-life movement? The chapter written by Howard Phillips passed nominee on several occasions of the US Constitution Party for the president. That chapter in particular bears a good read. The Republican Party believes in strict constitutional construction upon the separation of powers, appointing judges who do their job of interpreting law rather than rewriting it from the bench. No more important thing will be done by any president than to suggest nominees to the Supreme Court. Thank you, thank you, Mr. Agile. I believe that the primary is on February the 12th. I'm not sure of the exact date, but I believe it's the 12th, not the 5th. Thank you for your question. Thank you 12th, not the 5th. Thank you very much Mr. Roger. The next item is the report of the student representative, Christina. Fairfax has been doing great this past month. We just finished our annual canned food drive collecting 19,775 items. All food was donated to food for others and will be distributed throughout Northern Virginia. Theater performed their fall play in monster tales this weekend. The winter sports season has begun. Our city wrestling will hold the annual winter classic this Friday and Saturday, hosting 32 teens from all across Virginia. Both boys and girls swim and dive when they meet this weekend against Turned In. Gold cards, the new program to reward academic achievement should be distributed by the end of next week. This is an exciting new way for students to get motivated to excel academically. AirFacts baseball is selling Christmas trees. All proceeds go to the baseball program and student athletics. The leadership class will begin to collect tab tops for the Ronald McDonald House this week. Aluminum cans will also be collected to go to the firehouse to support grand victims. And that sums up the last of 2007. Thank you. Great, thank you, Christina. The next item is legislative program. And before we're going to introduce Michael Maloy, I wanted to turn this over to see if Mr. Griffith or Mr. Batrum had anything before Mr. Maloy provides us with the information. Alan or John? Nothing matter, but other than it, sometimes we don't need to pass it to the program. We've been earlier to give us more than 48 hours to work ours, but that's okay. It proves interesting from time to time. And we do appreciate the opportunity. Look forward to Mr. Molloy's presentation. Okay. Mr. Molloy. Thank you. Chairman Miller, Superintendent Monday. Good to see you. And board members, I'm Michael Mola. I'm Director of Government Relations for the Fairfax County Public Schools. And I appreciate your invitation to come and speak to you today about the county and hopefully soon to be a largely similar city legislative program. Wanted to take a minute or two to kind of set the stage for what we're going to look at during the 2008 general assembly session, the kind of political and policy background that we face. And then talk a little bit about some of the changes that were made in the program. As you're aware, the program from year to year mostly stays the same. We make some changes along the margins and I want to highlight just a few areas where we've made some significant either additions or deletions in this year's program. In terms of the political and policy environment that we're in right now, everyone's aware a lot of talk from the General Assembly is that in Fiscal Year 2009 in particular, the state is facing a fairly significant revenue shortfall in terms of perhaps as much as or more than $600 million. That of course presents the General Assembly with a challenge because fiscal year 2009 is what we in the education community call a Revenge marking year. The Revenge marking process is a process by which the state every two years goes in and updates all the data that goes into its educational funding formulas for to update the costs of basically doing business, increases in teacher salaries over the last couple of years, increases in everything from teacher benefits to the cost of bus fuel. All those inputs are added as additional costs in the Revenge of Marketing formula. And right now the projection is in between Fiskier and 09 at Fiskier 2010 that a complete revenge mark of all of the education formulas that the state uses will run the state about 1.1 to 1.2 billion dollars. And while we blanch it, that price tag gets important to remember that revenge marking only updates the formulas as they exist today. It doesn't change any policy, it doesn't add a single new teacher to the classroom. It doesn't do anything other than say that over the last two years, the cost of doing business and this school systems have gone up. And the state reimbursement formula is being changed to reflect those costs. Against that backdrop, you also have the local picture, at least from the county side, very well aware that there's a very soft real estate market. Because of the way state and local funding is apportioned in Fairfax County, we get about 75% of our funding from the locality and the vast majority of that funding comes from local real estate property taxes. And those revenues have not been growing in recent months or over the past 18 months. So we face not only a challenging environment at the state level, but we also face a challenging revenue environment at the local level. We've undertaken a number of initiatives locally to begin to address some of those revenue concerns that we have in terms of our planning for our fiscal O9 budget. But there are things that the state is going to have to do and that we're going to be asking the state to do to step up and help mitigate some of the circumstances that we face here in the county. Rebench marking is the big gorilla. It's the front and center on education policy, but there are other things that the general assembly will be looking at in terms of education and also in terms of other issues that are going to compete for funding, funding dollars with K-12. One thing you've heard a lot about is the governor is going to come forward with a program on pre-K education. We really don't know what that program's going to look like. We have an idea. We've heard parameters, but we don't know what it will look like. With the 75% split, the 75% of our funding comes locally. It's always important to be aware that even if the state fully funds a mandate that they place on as whether it's pre-K or anything else, the locality is still obligated to come up with a significant amount of money to meet the states to match the state's share. So any sort of policy change, again, whether it's pre-K or something else that the states decides to do in terms of a mandate, even if fully funded, will have a significant local revenue impact. And with the local revenue shortfall that we're already facing that makes the environment even more challenging. A couple of other issues that will quite likely come up this year. Childhood obesity and wellness that's been a topic of discussion with General Assembly for the past few years. Both in terms of student nutrition and childhood years, both in terms of student nutrition and childhood nutrition and also in terms of student activity, whether that be physical education, or formally, or encouraging healthier lifestyle, so those types of things. I think that will be a significant issue that the General Assembly is going to try and tackle this year. Again, funding may be a problem, but they will certainly be talking about that. And in terms of issues that the General Assembly will be looking at that will be competing with education for funding, pre-K certainly because it doesn't specifically focus on K-12 education, it can be considered a competitor. Higher education is always front and center in terms of the General Assembly's priorities. This year I think you'll hear a lot about mental health, Medicaid, and of course transportation as much as everybody would like to believe that that was put to bed last year with what the general assembly did. I think it's going to come back as another issue and again may have some revenue impacts, which will indirectly impact what we do in the schools. Well that's the background. Let me tell you a little bit about the things that we've changed in the legislative program. As I said, for the most part the program, the positions continue from year to year. When we are successful and actually are able to achieve an existing position, we're able to drop it from the program. This year there were four such positions, either full positions or to achieve an existing position. We're able to drop it from the program. This year there were four such positions, either full positions or components of an existing position that we were able to drop because of successful action, whether from the General Assembly or in another venue, we were able to drop a position on allowing us to factor in local conditions for drivers education tuition charges. We were able to succeed in getting that passed through the General Assembly last year, so that's been dropped from the program. We dropped a position which encouraged the state to adopt a statewide English language learners proficiency exam. The Board of Education in September, I believe it was, did adopt an examination that was acceptable to all parties and will be used throughout the Commonwealth in the upcoming year. So we did drop that position. We dropped a position which was in our no child left behind advocacy, which asked that we be able to count the scores of students who were students with disabilities who had actually left that category that actually left special education services that we would be able to count them within the special education subgroup for two years after they left simply as a way of acknowledging the fact that it was the success of the school system to move those students from a special education setting in a general education setting. It parallels a provision that was already in no child left behind for English language learners. And finally, we were able to drop a couple of positions in student transportation, one allowed us to undertake a pilot program to add some additional safety lights to the sides of buses. When you come to an intersection, oftentimes if you're approaching the bus from the side and the lights are on in front and back, it's difficult to tell as a motorist coming at the side of the bus that the bus may be letting students on or are picking them up. And so we've instituted a pilot project thanks to the state's permission, state board of education and the state police gave us permission to do that. And then we also were able to reverse a state decision which asked us localities to pay whenever we had to ask for a driver's abstract for to look at the record of a school bus driver. They had instituted a fee on that and we were able to reverse that decision and return to receiving that abstract free of charge. In terms of additions to the program, the most significant one and it's been added in two places. It's a new standalone position called early childhood education and it's also been added to our joint position with the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. And that's a position on early childhood education, again, pre-K. As I mentioned, the governor is very interested in doing something with pre-K this year. And we wanted to make sure that the program at least addressed our interest in it. Of course, we will have funding concerns, we'll have to wait to see what the program itself looks like. But we wanted to have a general statement in there talking about early childhood education. Following on the heels of us, deleting the position on a statewide English language learners, the examination, we've added a position as in the state to make sure that they pay for it. The state in the past, because it's been a local option as to which language assessment localities were allowed to use. They actually dropped state funding for that and let localities pick up that funding on our own. Now that there's a statewide assessment that everybody's required to use, we think the state should step back in and pay for that assessment. The same way that they do for any other assessment that's required for mandated programs, whether it's a federal accountability or state accountability. The state pays for the other examinations, we think they should pay for this one as well. Last year an issue came up that would have changed the diploma requirements for the standard diploma in particular that would have required students to lose two electives that they had currently available and require them to take a sequence of courses in career and technical education. We're very strongly supportive of career and technical education, but we were concerned that that process was playing out in the General Assembly and there was not much discussion with the Board of Education, not much discussion with localities about the impact that might have on staffing, on student schedules and those types of things. So we added a position in here not to address that specifically by to address that situation in the future that if the General Assembly does want to contemplate changes to diploma requirements that they do need to go to the Board of Education and get their participation and also to undertake an impact analysis and look at ask localities what kind of an impact those changes would have because any change in any diploma requirement is going to have a staffing impact, a facilities impact on localities and we want to make sure that the state acknowledges that as they go through the process. We added a few new positions to what used to be called the student health services position is now to school health services and student wellness. We added support for best practices to be disseminated between different school divisions based on their different policies for nutrition and for student activity. And we also strongly support increased state reimbursement for the school breakfast and school lunch programs. Those programs are operating on funding and I may not have the exact date, but I believe they haven't been changed since the 1980s. So it's high time that the general assembly take a look at the amount of reimbursement. Not only because the cost of food may have gone up over that time, but also in terms of the new selections that are being placed in schools all the time in terms of healthier alternatives, more fruits, more vegetables, more whole grains, those items tend to be more expensive. And we hope that this day we'll address those reimbursement issues. A couple of other things that we've added, we added a number of things to the student safety position. We had an existing position on incentive funding for some student safety programs, which were more focused on items like mentoring and those. We also added some support for more physical security items, things like external cameras and entry technologies into schools. It's trying to take a holistic view of what students' safety is. We also added some mention of Internet safety as well. So it's not just the physical environment and it's not just the interrelationship between students. It's also educational technology and student's ability to get out on the web and things that they might face there. We also brought up the issue and we don't know if we're going to get a resolution to it this time because it's a complex issue. We have been looking as have many, many state and local agencies at what would happen in the event of something along the lines of pandemic flu. If you had countywide quarantine, if you had high fatality rates in a locality, we've addressed a lot of issues locally. We have an extensive plan for contingencies on what we would do on our behalf. But what we found is that there are a number of places in the code that have particular requirements for how a school system is supposed to operate. Something as simple as mustering a quorum for a school board meeting, but also timelines for certifying certain actions that the school system has taken, the ability of a school board to delegate different authorities to a super school superintendent. And a lot of those things aren't simply aren't addressed in state code in the event of, again, a catastrophic health emergency. So we're interested in having somebody, whether somebody's a general assembly, whether it's Jay Lark, which is the general assembly's research wing, or some other agency. Take a look at some of these complex issues, but we at least wanted to raise them. If there were such an event, there were certain things in the code that we may not be able to be in compliance with. It's not even a matter of desiring to be in compliance with them. We simply may not have school board members to bring to make a quorum. So it's sobering issues, but we wanted to make sure that they were raised in case something like that were ever to happen. And then the final thing is, is if you look through this program, you will not see very many references to the Federal Accountability Program, No Child Left Behind. That is actually done on purpose. It's not that No Child Left Behind is gone anywhere. It's that we are in a period where no child up behind the actual underlying title of which is the elementary and secondary education act of 1965. No child up behind is simply the popular name of the most recent rewrite of that law. Whether it's next year or the year after that law is going to be rewritten. It's due for reauthorization this year and clearly the United States Congress is not going to get to the point where they're going to be able to reauthorize this law. So it's going to continue in effect until they actually get to it. But what we tried to do was we tried to take out specific references to Nochele behind because that's a very specific piece of legislation. And it's largely the same issues that we would have with whatever the program is called. But in just in terms of federal accountability, we wanted to make the references to federal accountability more generic. So it didn't matter if it was called no cell up behind or whatever they may rename it when they reauthorize it. The same points will be salient whenever the reauthorization actually happens. And those are the major changes in the program. I would be more than happy to answer questions. And thank you very much for letting me come and speak to you. Thank you so much. I appreciate that, my questions for Mr. Molloy. I'm good. I'm just saying Mr. Reddram. I'm like, I'll just notice going through some of the changes that brought forward in the latest package. It may not really affect us very much, which is kind of curious about it, the new construction. I mean, yeah. What that is is under the Virginia Public Procurement Act. There are certain provisions in there which allow public bodies, and it's not just school system, but as public bodies, if a project costs less than a million dollars, it allows the public body to undertake something which is called competitive negotiation. It's a streamlined process, it's not as involved as actually going through the seal bid process. It allows you to get to a project faster, it allows you to complete it faster. There's a quirk in the way the Virginia Public Procurement Act is drawn. Everywhere else they refer to buildings and structures and I believe highways are the three categories that are used everywhere in the code except for in this one section where it only says building. So what we're asking is, for example, if we were to want to put up a playground or to do renovations or parking lot things you cannot fairly characterize as a building, we wanted this same provision to extend to those projects, again, to be able to take advantage of competitive negotiation as opposed to the full, the full-on seal bid process. To let us get to those projects a little faster, as everybody's aware, the cost of construction materials and everything go up virtually exponentially. So the sooner that we can address them, the better it is. And it is limited only to projects that are less than a million dollars. So this wouldn't apply to major renovation. This wouldn't apply to new construction of a school. Simply for some smaller projects. And it allows us to streamline the process a little bit. Thank you very much. Anything else, Mr. Petrum? That's all I have, Madam Chair. Mr. Griffith, did you? No, I'm good. Okay, thank you very much. Thank you. We appreciate your hard work and we appreciate you coming here this evening to give us an update. You are very welcome. We should be and we'll see you on Thursday morning, I believe. Yes, will. Okay, thank you so much, Mike. The next item of business is the presentation of the Superintendents proposed and Thursday morning, I believe. Yes, ma'am. Okay, thank you so much, Mike. The next item of business is the presentation of the superintendent's proposed fiscal year 2009 budget and following Mrs. Mendes' presentation, we will have a public hearing which is not only this evening, but we'll be carried over to January. Mrs. Monday. Thank you. I am very pleased to be presenting my first annual budget. Before I begin, each of you have a great folder that was prepared for you. It goes along with the budget presentation. There is some detail that I'll refer to in this budget that he will find in the folder. And obviously you have it to look at at your leisure and as we have more conversation about the budget. I'd like to begin by providing some context for the budget and that is some city membership information and trends. You've gotten this information in the past and I think it's helpful as we begin this discussion to have a thorough understanding of where our school district is. To begin with, how many students are we serving as city students in our schools and in county schools? And this comes from the September membership report from Fairfax County. That detail is in your folder. We did not prepare that for you as a slidesnight. But it shows what our membership is at the elementary, middle, and high schools levels with a total of 2824 cities, city students being served by Fairfax County education. Please note, for this purpose, for comparative purposes, because in prior years, this number included our preschool and head start students. It does for this purpose include those students, although at a later time as we get into the tuition bill, we will exclude those students. But for these purposes, this are that this is the number of students in September membership who are enrolled in a Fairfax County school and a Fairfax City students. It's citizens. Looking at trends over time, this next slide shows steady incremental growth in our schools. Please note that the most enrollment stability occurs at the middle school level with some relative volatility at the other two levels, but truly steady incremental growth over time at the elementary level at the high school level and fairly consistent population of city students at the middle school level. I'm pleased to note that this bar graph shows that 89% of our city students attend one of our city-owned schools. So an 11% therefore attend schools outside of the city. And this graph again shows our total city membership, our city students attending city schools, 89% and then city students attending city schools, 89% and then city schools attempting county schools. We also need to point out that nearly half of our students, 47% of the students in our four city schools are county residents, mostly at the secondary level. And again, you can see this, the total number of students. And in that last, the middle column, you can see again, the numbers of students attending, county students attending city schools and it peaks at the high school. And then overall represents 47% of the students in our four schools. City County membership comparison. These ratios have remained pretty consistent over the last few years. I think you're familiar with the population percentages at Daniel's run and provenance. Provenance has ticked up just a bit, was more around 75% is 78% based on this year's membership. And then consistently both linear and fair facts have over 60% county residents, students and over 30% city residents. This line graph shows the change in the numbers of students over time, city students attending county schools. I'll start with the bottom line, which represents our middle school students, and that's been again, just like the middle school population remarkably consistent over time, the numbers of middle school students who attend county schools, as opposed to schools in the city. The numbers in the middle line represents the high school, a little bit more volatile utility in terms of numbers. It would appear that those numbers are trending down in the last couple of years and look like they're getting down almost to a new row. The low many years ago in 1996 was 80. It's down to 92 in membership this current year. And then the elementary school, which is represented by the top line, which again shows steady decline in numbers of elementary students who are accessing programs in other schools outside of the city. I speculate looking at the knowing what I know about Fairfax County and the years 2002 to 2007, that that's probably mostly reflective of the change in the process for identifying student-selectable-forgifted services as that has increased county-wide by almost 6% during that period. So I speculate that it has increased similarly in Fairfax City, among Fairfax City students. Again, in your folder, you have detailed by school and reasons for placement but we summarize this through these graphs to make it very clear why our students are not attending school city students not attending schools in the city. We're looking first at the elementary schools. The number here is 198. And if you combine the first three categories, GT Center Services, Special Education Services, and Language Immersion, then that comes to 74% of all students who are on people assignments outside of city schools, but our city residents. All the other categories are related to what I would call family issues. In that last 2% there were no more than three students in any category and that represents five students altogether. So just to give you a sense of proportion of numbers of students that we're talking about here. At the middle school level, similarly, when we look at the reasons for pupil placements, pupil assignments, first of all, this N is 28, so this number is very low when you start looking at percentages. But 64% of that number are placed for GT services, 11% to continue in a language immersion program. And then again, employees, children are slightly more than the special ed and then moving in adjustment. And that represents all of the students in this category. But for both the GT program and language immersion program to curriculums that would represent 75% of the middle school students who place outside of Fairfax to the schools. High school is a little bit different picture. This N is 92 students. The reasons are more varied. The numbers are more spread out. The curriculum, first of all, that the highest percentage is special education programs that are not available in Fairfax High School. Curriculum includes the ESOL transitional high school, the alternative high schools, a Mountain View in particular is one that has a number of our students, and placement at other high schools to access specific programs or courses, you will note that the IB placement is a separate category. And interestingly, for this purpose is the 12% of alternative high school for people assigned is solely Woods and Adult Education. We also have a number of students who have been administratively placed or placed by hearing officers and I don't wouldn't have access to exactly why these placements take place, but most of them are related to disciplinary issues or other reasons why the school division determines that a student cannot attend his or her base school. The category other represents six students who are assigned for a variety of different reasons, none accounting for more than three students. Now let's look at how demographic trends in the city are similar to and different from the county. And on this chart, the top portion is percentages, demographic changes in percentages in Fairfax County, and then by comparison, Fairfax City students in the second chart, the bottom chart. Both the city and the county have shown growth in the percentage of Asian students over time. The city's percentage of Asian students is percentage of population is slightly lower than the county. The black population in both the county and the city have remained consistent in constant over time. The city population as a percentage of population of black students is lower than the county. The Hispanic student population has increased in both the city and the county. This Hispanic enrollment as a percentage of population is higher in the city by approximately 4%. And that's been pretty consistent over the last five years and into this year. The white student population is steadily declining at nearly the same rate in both the county and the city. For the past two years, both Fairfax City and Fairfax County have been a majority, minority school district. That is, we do not have a majority ethnic population in our schools any longer. This is a graph illustrates what I just described as the changes in ethnic membership in the city over the past few years. Again, it puts numbers with the percentages over time. Mobility or the percent of students who come and go during an academic school year is a major factor in student achievement. In fact, when I was a principal, I considered mobility to have a greater impact on achievement than any other single variable in a school. You can see from this graph that our schools have a higher percentage of mobility than the county average do you primarily I think to housing in the city that is affordable and available for rental. So again this is mobility rate at the elementary middle and high school levels the city compared to the county. This breaks down our, those rates by school, now obviously, linear and Fairfax wouldn't change, but Daniel's run and Providence, we see a slightly higher mobility rate at Providence than at Daniel's run. I'm going to go through the next four slides relatively quickly to make a point that as we look at students and student needs and student high risk factors in terms of students, we will see that mobility is more of an issue in some ethnic groups than others. And again, these are a series of bar graphs that I think make the point graphically very clearly. So I'll go through them quickly. This is Daniel's run elementary. In all of these cases, you're going to see some bars that are very high, but the end for those numbers, for example. American Indian and Alaska is very small. In this particular case for this year, no, this is not the end for this graph, but for September membership, we only had four students in that category at Daniel's run. Again, these are very small ends, but where the numbers are not small for the larger populations of black and Hispanic students, mobility is a significant issue. Providence Elementary. Again, the ethnic groups of Asian, black, and Hispanic are far more mobile than the white population. The same holds true for linear, but the gap between white mobility and that of other ethnic groups is slightly narrower at this level. And for Fairfax High School, but here once again the mobility rate for white students is much lower than for all other groups. I think this data becomes critical as no child left behind requires schools to have all students and all subgroups perform at the same level of achievement at the same time and mobility is clearly a factor and is quite a challenge for our schools. Mobility and poverty often go hand in hand. This chart shows the numbers of free and reduced lunch eligible students at the city schools. Note how close our two elementary schools are. Note that the percentage of population in the last school year eligible for free and reduced lunch was higher at Daniels Run elementary school than Providence Elementary School. And our schools like others in the county and around the state have higher percentages of eligible students at the elementary school than at the secondary level. I did ask the county also intrigued by that providence and Daniel's run number to just run us an update with current numbers. So this is not the official, the chart I just showed you was the Virginia Department of Ed official count at the time that they look at ADM. Just with the numbers as of the end of last month, October 31st, Fairfax County is reporting that at the elementary level, our poverty rate would be up to 29.1 at the middle school level 22.2 and at the high school level 19.2. So it's higher at all levels. Again, whether that will be sustained throughout the year, we don't know yet, but we need to keep an eye on that. And in this data set, Providence was again slightly higher than Daniel's run, but both were almost right there at the average of 29%. So I speculate that those two schools in terms of population or percent of population and poverty are becoming more and more alike rather than different. Let's share some good news and that student achievement data. We have great challenges and we have great successes. What are some facts about our schools? We know that all of our schools are accredited based on meeting the Virginia criteria for SOL test scores. We have three schools that continue to make adequate yearly, meet the adequate yearly progress criteria for no child left behind. We've talked about the issues at linear, similar to many in the middle schools. I think they were most impacted by some of the issues around testing last year. And we have a number of issues to address at middle school, and I'm confident that our linear will address those issues, and these students will make the progress that they need to. And of course, I have great excitement to show a continue to share the great story about advanced placement classes at Fairfax High School, and how they continue to increase. This slide is data off of the VDOE website. It shows that our schools are achieving the state requirements for accreditation. And although there has been a dip in elementary school and middle school math and elementary school history as new tests have been introduced in the last couple of years, which has occurred and this dip has occurred and this as it has occurred throughout Fairfax County. Overall these test scores are very respectful, respectable and reflect solid achievement by our students in our very diverse schools. I'm going to just go back over quickly some slides that you've seen before because I think that they tell an important story. This is a budget presentation after all and I want to emphasize in this presentation that the investment that this board has made in the past in student achievement really is paying off. The vertical teaming initiative that regularly brings together teachers from across elementary middle school and high school levels is showing results, and math in particular, math teachers in this area have been leaders. In this one year of SOL test results, we can see positive trends, especially in the numbers of students now accelerating math, so that they are taking middle school SOLs and elementary school. We looked at this previously, I think we see overall good results for our two schools, not perfect. We certainly have some issues to address. But I think what you enjoyed seeing in this presentation previously is that 44 of our elementary school students were tested out of grade level, tested in at the middle school level as elementary school students, and only one of those students did not pass the S.s. Likewise at linear we had last year we had 140 students at linear who took the high school ended course SOLs and mathematics and algebra geometry and all of them passed. I know that our seventh grade results are low as they are throughout the county but be aware that last year approximately 40% of our seventh graders were an honors math and all of those students were tested at the eighth grade level are out of grade level and our eighth grade results which again include all of the eighth graders who were not taking a high school course plus 40% of our seventh graders are very good and again I think there's a good news story here graders are very good. And again, I think there's a good new story here and note that it, in linear, at linear, the grade 8 results are higher than the county as well as the state. And of course, the big payoff comes in high school where we show that we are where we need to be. I think, oh, he left, Dr. Brebrand left. I can't, I know they're still working on improving these scores at the high school level where our students have been performing exceptionally well in math. And again, I think our work in vertical articulation is part of the story here and great leadership by teachers certainly has led to some great results. I hope we can continue to invest in student achievement on the SATs at the high school level. I believe we can reach the county average and that we are going in the right direction. And again, we've put some funding there that is not available in other schools. Note that the gap between Fairfax High School and the county average is closing in math. And we hope to see it close in language as well. The detail for this behind this slide is in your folder. You have some comparative data for Fairfax High School and other high schools in your folder. Finally, we really do need to celebrate the phenomenal growth in numbers of students participating in advanced placement coursework at Fairfax High School. I did meet with Dr. Brebrandt today, and he showed me not only current AP data, but pre-AP, ninth and tenth grade students who are enrolled in and staying in these courses in the record numbers, absolutely record numbers students are choosing to get into the pre-AP path in ninth and tenth grade. The Roadmap Initiative, which encouraged teachers, parents, and students to begin in elementary school to plan to take rigorous coursework and to maximize learning opportunities is really changing the landscape at Fairfax High School. The staff there has taken on this challenge by providing support systems during the school day, obviously during the summer. We're going to talk about their summer program and my budget detail later on so that students are taking advantage of advanced courses and getting the help that they need to be successful in them. We have a lot to be proud of in the results of Fairfax High School. Let me talk about the tuition agreement with Fairfax County Public Schools and I thank my friend Michael Malloy for setting some context here so what I have to say about the Fairfax County budget will not be surprised to you although I doubt that it would have been it anyway. The, as you know, there are two basic factors in the tuition formula. One is the number of city students being educated in Fairfax Public Schools and this number is the official average daily membership Submitted to the state at the end of March We have here tracked over time ADM numbers that last number 2008 for this school year is a Estimate based on September membership. We do expect a rise in ADM Based on what we saw on September membership. So we would go to 2764. I've also speculated in my budget calculation that we're going to have a similar increase in student population for FY09. We don't have anything to base that on except for trends at this point. But I am going to base this budget which we'll see in a minute on that figure. The other factor is the county operating costs which provides the basis for the pure pure pupil calculation which drives the entire tuition contract and the formula. Note that the box on the chart for the county operating costs for FY09 is blank. The county is not prepared to release this number as their budget is very uncertain at this time for FY09. Therefore, the best we can do is accept their recommendation, their estimate, that the potential of 4% growth in per pupil is as close to accurate as possible as they can be at this time without other information. Okay. Therefore, the city and county estimates are very close. I basically took that 4% growth, multiplied out a growth in student numbers, factored in some programs that will be funding, and came up with the best estimate that we can. We can project a possible 4% increase. That's what we've been advised to do. We've been told by county staff that it's unlikely that it could be higher and more likely to be lower. And again, you heard Michael Maloy talk about the county budget issues. And also consider that our ADM will most likely increase at the same rate next year as it did this year. Looking over the numbers on this chart, I think it would appear that this estimate is in keeping with growth trends, except again that that whole wild card of how many children are sitting in seats, a city children sitting in county school seats is something that's been hard for us to predict over the last couple of years. Hopefully by our next meeting in January, I can get a clear picture and I may bring this chart back to you. I understand that superintendent is going to make his presentation to his school board on January 10th. I don't know if they will have released the documents before then. I hope that I can get some preview and it's in some way be able to update this chart and have something a little closer. But that's what I have tonight. This chart is the, this gives you a view of cost per people over time. And on this chart, the most recent year is at the left and shows growth in per people costs since 2001. I did note, as I was learning the history myself, that when the city began to assess the county for rental space for county students, that the city cost per people no city began to assess the county for rental space for county students that the city cost per pupil no longer was higher than the county, so we've kind of reversed positions there. Again, by way of comparison, where our cost per pupil, how it compares to other districts in the region. Fairfax City on this chart is forth from the left. in the region. Fairfax City on this chart is forth from the left and it shows how our cost for people in the FY08 this year and the previous two years compared to other jurisdictions. Where does the revenue come from to support our schools? Fairfax City is represented by the bars at the far left of this graph, so the far left is Fairfax City. This graph shows that compared to other Virginia districts in our region, we depend mostly, almost entirely on local or city funding for our schools. And please note that we do not, as you know, receive any federal funding directly to city schools, although there's an indirect funding through Fairfax County, but we have no direct funding from the federal government. The amount of money provided by the state and city for the past few years is represented on this chart in actual numbers or projected or for post numbers certainly for for eight and oh nine and it again illustrates that nearly 85% of our funds are provided by city revenue and you can see the amount of city transfer in the kind of blue color toward the bottom of the chart. And just above that is the total of state funds on an annual basis. And then the total transfer that we have received and that we are proposing for this year on the bottom. Unlike the average state funding, which is on the right of this chart and shows that on average, now this is all schools in the state. On average, all schools in the state of Virginia get 40% of their funding from the state. You can see the middle column is the funding that Fairfax City gets from the state. And again, I'm making the point because it's an important one in terms of building our budget. We depend almost entirely on the locality on the city to support our schools. These charts compare the percent of general funds that districts in this region dedicate to education. On both the chart on the top and on the graph, we are displayed as the third lowest percentage. Our city is expected to provide approximately 42% of its revenue to fund the schools, compared with the high of over 70% in Loudoun County and a low of 32.3% in Alexandria. Again, this is the percentage of the general fund which goes to the schools in each of these jurisdictions. The cost of education in Fairfax City is captured here in a list of disbursements over almost two decades. Now, the last three years are not quite yet, until 07 is close to being an actual, not quite ready to close those books entirely. 08 is obviously in process, 09 is proposed, but before then we can look at the cost of the, what was the city operating budget was, and what the city transfer was to fund our schools over almost two decades. Revenue in the city comes from a variety of sources happily, and I think that insulates us not entirely, but it's a little bit more than some other jurisdictions. And that's illustrated by this graph where our revenue comes from in this city. Thus the funds to support schools come from a variety of sources as shown in this chart using amounts projected for this school year for the FY08 budget. Although cost for education to continue to rise, been able to provide quality education instruction, evidence by positive student achievement in all of our schools at a funding level that by comparison is fair to its citizens, I think is a very good deal for all. And again, I think that we have a variety of funding sources does not put the burden on one entity in our taxing structure entirely. So the superintendent's proposed budget for FY09. I think this template is familiar to you, so you are used to looking at this information laid out this way. Let me start with the Administration and School Board accounts and truly this is the only really discretionary aspect of this budget. This chart compares last year's approved amount with this year's proposed note that salaries and benefits have gone down and with the exception of professional services all other categories have remained the same. I will speak more about professional services in later slides. In the contracted instruction costs, I've already explained how we arrived at the proposed amounts for FY09 tuition. The tuition figure again reflects a 4% per pupil increase in a higher ADM. The classroom rental fee was calculated by the county based on the number of county students currently in our schools, and that again can change from year to year, but we were cautious on the side of taking the numbers that actually existed in our schools now. And the last category insurance, the last category on this page, is a fixed expense. The debt service on the next page that's required to support our magnificent renovations is decreasing and will continue to decrease as we pay down our debts. Under capital outlay technology funding, we will once again not request additional funding for technology as the renovation funding has provided adequate funds for this purpose. Capital improvements operating. We continue to make an annual payment of $20,000 as our share for the artificial turf at Fairfax High School. And I think we have a 10-year commitment to make that payment. And we have included, and we just made a presentation to the Planning Commission this evening, we have included funds under capital improvement CIP, should we need to replace heat and air conditioning at Daniel's run or make repairs to in paving on the parking lots at either one of our elementary schools. So we have a CIP commitment of about $200 and $47,500. All of this adds up to a toll of $47,957,105 dollars for a proposed budget for FY09. And a little bit more detail. First of all, staff development and instructional support budget requests. I do have something in your folder that details a little bit more what these requests are. But in summary, all of this money would go to assist our schools in reaching the goals that we have set around student achievement. As we looked at them, we know we've invested quite a bit in technology. We know also that when you provide for the training and staff development of teachers or serving students, but we also know that we're doing some unique things in Fairfax City to give direct services to schools, especially in the area of summer camps and providing sort of those transitional programs to help students succeed in accelerated learning. We have also needed to increase support for our newly renovated facilities. As now Fairfax and Lanier will need lawn service and tree work to resume. So you will see that budget item that will go out to bid. We have been advised that putting the holder of 90,000 was the best that we could come up with at this time. We will take over school sweeping budgeting for four times a year so that our campuses remain clean and attractive. As legal services decline at the end of the renovation, we need to shift those funds to facility services instead. The allocation of $24,000 for this purpose is to hire an hourly consultant to do monthly inspections of our buildings. To be certain that work orders are completed in a timely and competent way. To assist in the development of the CIP, both by being knowledgeable about the condition of all major systems in our schools, but also about the use of space in our schools. And to be a staff liaison between the city and Fairfax County in facilities and maintenance. So that really represents a shift from legal services which had been about that much higher in the past because of the need for legal services during the renovation to facility services. Publication support provides funds to continue the publication of close-up and the roadmap. And as reviewed on the last slide, the largest allocation of funds goes directly to schools for instructional support and staff development. This particular allocation goes to our elementary schools, has traditionally gone to our elementary schools. And I know this is especially appreciated in lean budget years in Fairfax County where field trips are often the first things to go. I have already spoken to the categories on this slide, capital outweighs minor maintenance and major maintenance. Hopefully we will not need the replacement to replace or repair heat and air conditioning this year at Daniel's run. Hopefully we can get by another year without having to have major repaving done at these schools. But we certainly do have to now begin to secure funding on an annual basis through the CIP process to make sure that we have funds available when our facilities and campuses require work to be done. To compare this budget with the previous two years, this slide lays out three years of the FY07 and O8 are approved budget figures for those years compared to what has been proposed for O9. figures for those years compared to what has been proposed for 09. I wanted to illustrate the consistency in this budget process that is in place during this transitional year from one superintendent to another. I was acutely aware of the past and again, tried to be present to you a budget that is consistent with what has occurred in the past while also being able to shift some funds in different directions. This final slide shows the variance both between the 07 and 08 budget and the 08 to 09 budget. It was most important to me that we, that where we have discretion in spending in the administrative accounts, the total increase was compatible with the past and represents only a 2% increase from one year to the next. This increase in funding was used solely to increase services to maintain our buildings and grounds so that we can have the most functional and attractive schools in the region and to support student achievement in all of our schools. I really believe that this is a reasonable and a responsible budget proposal that reflects the values of this board and this community. And I appreciate your attention and I am prepared to take any questions now or at the work session that is scheduled after the school board meeting this evening. Questions for clarification at this time? Okay, very well done. I'm spending very thorough job and quite good. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, we will open the public hearing and entertain members of the public who might wish to comment on the budget. If there are no comments this time, the public hearing will be carried over to the January meeting. Is there anyone who would like to address the board at this time? Okay. There being no one who wishes to address the board this time. As I said, we will also have a public hearing in January at which time we will be happy to hear comments from the public. The next agenda item here is we're moving on to action items. The first item is approval of the November 5, 2007 minutes and I will be happy to see Mr. Griffith. I move to the City Fairfax School Board of Proof minutes of the November 5, 2007 Regular School Board meeting and printed and distributed. Is there a second? Second. It was moved by Mr. Griffith and seconded by Mrs. Craig that we, that the City of Fairfax School Board of Proof minutes of November 5, 2007. Regular school board meeting is printed and distributed. Are there any corrections or modifications there being none all in favor signify by saying aye. All right. Chair votes aye members opposed no members, the motion is unanimous. The next item is the 2008 legislative program. And Mrs. Muntid, do you have any comments before we move into this? Okay, thank you. I am going to turn the discussion over to Mr. Griffith and Mr. Batram. Gentlemen, thank you. I would also like to say thank you very much for working on this. It is a major responsibility and we appreciate all that you've done in working with Mr. Maloy and moving this board along. Mr. Griffith, Mr. Batchram. Thank you, Madam Chairman. And I thank Mr. Batchram, who's done the lion share of the work in how should we say, improving the county package, certifying it, if you will. I've got three in front of me and the one that we're taking action on tonight is the one that does not have graph on it and is not in color. And it was the one that was at our place. It was at your place. It would have been at your place when you came here tonight. I believe it is... I know John worked all week on it. I spent some time with Linda on it this afternoon. I believe other than both of us working very fast this afternoon and you always miss something. I think we're very, very close to the, you will note that the motion will provide for subsequent edits. I don't believe there have been substantial changes to it, but inevitably there's a Fairfax County in this believing someplace that's going to have to be changed to City of Fairfax. But it's 99% I believe of where we want to go. If that proves not to be the case, obviously we can reopen it at a future meeting, but minor edits I believe can be dealt with by means other than coming back for a whole reopen. Okay, thank you, Mr. Frederick. So, do we put a motion on the floor? Or do we go to questions first or? We have a motion. We should start with the motion, ma'am. Okay. Gentlemen. Mr. Frederick. I'm with City of Fairfax School Board, approved the 2008 legislative program as printed and distributed. Subject to subject to the case further modifications post discussions. Okay, Mr. Is that a second from Mr. Griffith? Yes. All righty. Let's open with questions or comments. First of all, from the Mayors' motion and then from Mr. Griffith and then we'll go to other board members to see if they have comments or suggestions. Mr. Retrim. Madam Chairman. As I was working on this over the weekend and earlier today, there were a number of areas where I was trying to ensure that what reflected in the package reflected the city of Fairfax, the flavor of the requirements and not necessarily strictly what looked like Fairfax County, what you'll see though that oftentimes what's good for the county is good for the city also and that's and the wording was trying to reflect that. In terms of where the Fairfax County public schools had actually provided numbers to provide emphasis for the argument, we made the modifications to incorporate what the city saw that was reflected back in the city that we would see through the contractor. An example of that would be Fairfax County sites that for pupil additional cost for instructing special education students. And then it goes on at some length to talk about the number of those students in the gross cost involved in that, and we just stopped it. We have the same per capita cost, but then we truncated the paragraphs, we eliminated the part about the gross cost and the total number of students. We could, with unlimited staff, Mr. Moly, we could calculate that for the City of Fairfax, but we don't have that kind of staff made of ill to us, so we wouldn't do that. And we did the same thing for limited English proficient students, the same per capita cost, but truncated the paragraph, so, and then many of you noted, some of you noted, the earlier page three, Mr. Mollye knowing who signs his performance appraisal, the glorious statement of mission and purpose for Fairfax County Public Schools, and it's just a wonderful couple page introduction, and that is just here. So, a fine document though it was. Somehow it seemed out of place in the cities, and the cities were legislated back. This must make may feel differently. My wife. Okay. Alrighty. Oh, Mrs. Knight. Just a question for clarification. I think that Mr. Griffith has covered it, but I just want to make sure. Yes. And we had a draft, the one smart draft from November. Yes. And that's the one that we marked draft from November. Yes. And that's the one that we noted that we deleted that page three. And then the corrections were made appropriately to localize this. We see a fair facts and referring to data. But other than that, the questions that were raised this afternoon and of those changes that been incorporated into this document that we have tonight. I saw some of some of the questions this afternoon. For example, I'm on page three. You know, good. One of the questions was how about page three? Well, right. Well, we just said that's gone. Right. But we agreed that that's gone. And the other questions have been dealt with. I'm not sure all of them have. And that's why that's why the motion is stated the way it is to make sure that all of those issues have been done. And because it was going so fast, so hard this afternoon, I just can't make that insurance. Well, I mean, Mr. Betrum raised several questions and I addressed some of them and then there was a further second version sent that I was late and I didn't have time to look at that even raised additional questions. So are we proposing that we should go through those? Yeah. And I'm by item tonight. If I would think so, if there are questions before we, I think we should do that. We have, it's 10 minutes or 9. I believe we have time to do that. I think we've got all the questions. Absolutely. So if you have, if Mrs. Knight, if he would like to start with the questions? Well, these were questions that, I guess I'll start with some that I've responded to this afternoon. Okay, that would be great. And there is no real order and it certainly is not comprehensive because additional questions came later this afternoon. These are minor, but on page 11, dealing with employer and employee relations, I think it's good in our best interest also. Special education, I think it's appropriate to leave that. Okay, if it's policy that's not missing tonight. Why don't we go let's address one each one one by one. Have a good time. These are minor, but these are minor, but these are minor, but these are minor, but these are minor, but these are minor, but these are minor, but these are minor, but these are minor, but these are minor, but these are minor, but these are minor I think it's appropriate to leave that. Okay, if policy that's not in this, why don't we, let's address one each one by one. These are minor, but these were questions that I just, I'm not sure if we need to, maybe it should be Mr. Betrams should go through because these were his questions that I responded to this afternoon. Maybe he should start at the top with his, all right, let's do that. Questions. I'm sorry, starting with the imploring employee relations. The question there was, this is obviously some that's very, very big in the county and district's question being, does it really relate to the city of Fairfax and the way we do business? In case in point, this has not changed from last year and if I recall correctly, we've basically supported last year as it is. Traditionally, we have as basically will help show the flag and support the county and its name. But there's one last, I think the last sentence in the opening paragraph, which is kind of curious whether or not that did really need to be there for the sake of the city. And I'm just about to say that it's okay. As far as I'm concerned. I or not that did really need to be there for the sake of the city. And I'm just about to say that it's okay. As far as I'm concerned. I would propose we could. We're good. Okay, so that should be good. Okay. Okay, means tonight. And I do think there's several go right ahead items like that that may not directly impact us, but overall benefit us because of our contract with the county, our support for the county position. I think it fits us also, even though- But this was my first year of really counting, doing this, I figured I can throw some rocks. And one thing that gets an idea. And Chairman, we've kind of gone back and forth on a little bit in the past, is the county's position on funding or revenue sources. They want equity with cities for revenue. Meals tax is the easy one. And we've supported the county and that, and I believe this one does the same. We've retained that in this one as well. Truth be told, of course, if the county had the billy raised more funds, no doubt they'd spend it, and that would tend to raise our tuition. But that's just a minor point. Okay. If we're digressing here. So basically on page 11 employer employee relations, the majority of the board members would like to continue that position. Retain it as- How do you like it? As is, and we will keep the last sentence which reads, the city of Fairfax School Board poses any legislation, yadi, yadi, yadi. That is agreeable to the board members. Okay. All right, John, Mr. Betrum, what was the next- The second one that I brought up, I believe this next one was about the e-rate program. That's primarily relevant. In what pages on that? I'm sorry. There was on 14. 14. It is. Now it's new. It's time page 13 now. 13 now. Okay. It's federal support for elementary and secondary education. Normally, no. No. And it's, I believe, the last sub bullet or last paragraph at the bottom before you get to the public school calendar section. Okay, so- I was going to ask E-Rate and Maloy about that myself. Michael, it's disappeared. That paragraph has disappeared out of the final, but Michael, on the counties, at least the penultimate draft, the e-rate program paragraph is standard language from you've had in there for a couple of three years. But then you've tagged on a non-related paragraph on Medicaid reimbursements. And should there not be another header in there somewhere? I think you always will be fine. And there. Just happen to have one with you. You're right there. You may have fixed that in your last and your final. And that was used as an example. I think it was worded more as a general catch-all. And it's been deleted from our final tonight. But the one we had this afternoon that I last looked at now. I'm trying to find that. Yeah, but it is in the county. It's made it. We actually do retain that language in our program. And you may be correct that there should be an additional heading. The original purpose of that position was as more of a catch-all in terms of all federal funding. I'm just going to Medicaid as an example. And it just happened to get caught at the very end of that position. The other ones fell under particular headings. I think you can add it or are deleted as you please, but as I said it is, we did retain that language in the county's program. Okay. It just seems to be retained. If you ought to have a separate header, I think we can come up with an appropriate header for that one. And then retain the right program. Mr. Moe is just fine. That are alternatively you could move it to the top before any of the other headings and make it just the first position under federal support of public education. Put in an intro paragraph. Then it wouldn't require a separate heading. I like that. If further the board's position on that matter, sure. Okay. Board members. I'm okay. We'll move to the next. Sure. So the introduction. We will keep the ERAPE program progress as it is. Correct. Can you do that? Move that to the introduction. The bullet state policies, laws, regulations and procedures. Move that up as the first bullet under Federal Support of Elementary and Secondary Education. Okay. Well, see, now, once again, they all have subheadings. I think it needs to be part of, like, a blast in. It's on the introduction paragraph. It's a general kind of catch-all. Senate, so the introduction paragraph on page 11. Or 12, is a case maybe. Yes. The city Fairfax endorses federal support. That paragraph. The bull right underneath the heading federal support. I would say it just would be a final sentence in that paragraph. Because if you listed as a bullet, I mean all of the bullets have subheadings so you'll either have to create a subheading You put it at the top or It has to be under supports because it's a it's a it's not a false it's not a complete sentence City of Fairfax School Board support state policies law of regulation procedures that promote so they local access So it could be written with that as a sentence. Sure. The idea of their effects on support. Right under support. And then there will be additional bullets under headers. The others have headers. Without a header, that's fine. And we're worth smithing in this, really. Lyndon and I will, she'll call me tomorrow and we'll work that out. We can discuss this and we'll have a private. It'll work itself out. Okay. Next. Next. Next, Mr. Patrick. Next topic on page probably about 15 it's under public school construction. If you're there, there's a second bullet. Talk about continuation and expansion of the Virginia Public School Construction Grants program. The question had come to me whether or not that should remain as something we would support. Or is that something we need to support to support? I propose we should still support it for counterparts in other districts that don't have four recently beautifully renovated new buildings. Why? Yeah, they were there for us when we were in whatever, yeah. And sometimes these programs tend to offer not just construction support, but financing support and who knows what they could create a program that would offer low income financing and we could refinance our debt. And if people think there's maybe confusion on the Senate's capital revenue shortfalls continue to exist in Fairfax, you could just say in most of the state schools divisions and delete in Fairfax. But I mean, I think it's an issue to statewide and there's no reason we can't throw a support in that. Actually, we did say in most. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Okay. Consensus for that. Yes. Yes. Linda. Got it. Okay. Okay. Next one was under revenue alternatives. Page 16. Next one. Okay. The under the city of Fairfax School Board supports the last two bullets. Question before us is, do we favor that locality is considered piggyback local income tax? I think we've discussed this a few minutes ago. Well, it's been in the package for years and years and years. It'll happen when pigs fly. But on the other hand. I think one of the things that I think one of the things that we may want to consider is to remove the word levy and to put consider permitting all localities to consider a local, piggyback local income tax. One of the things, the way that sentence is written, it almost comes across as not just for local, for a locality to consider, but to levy. And I don't think that that's what we're interested in doing. We think each jurisdiction should have an opportunity to do that. And of course, it's wonderful since we're the non-revenue producing body to be telling the revenue produced. Oh, absolutely. So if we can, I would suggest using strike levy and put consider. Sounds good? I'm okay. Already had that in my notes. Okay. If I could under revenue alternatives just to maybe with the advantage of having Mr. Maloy here. The second bullet, which was the position last year about addressing the issue of collecting sales tax on goods purchased on internet, you've added a second sentence in the county position about sales tax revenue being returned based on point of sale or school age population, not the local composite index. So that's referring specifically to internet sales. You are correct, we added that explanation this year. One of the, we always got the question, why did we even care about this? Part of the reason is is that when sales tax comes back to localities, particularly in the city of Fairfax with an LCI, local composite index of 0.8, Fairfax is now 0.76. The money comes back to us on a much closer to even match between the state share and the local share. I come back and it goes under much more favorable terms than other state aid might come back to us. So that was one reason why we're interested in either addressing the tax itself or addressing the loss of revenues because it is more advantageous for it to come back to us that way. Thank you. OK, also if I may, Mr. butcherm on the last bullet on page 16, where they talk about critical issue in a high LCI jurisdiction. If we will put city a fair fax for about 85 percent that reflects the counties but if we change if we add a city of and change 75 percent to 85 percent that that's an accurate picture of this community. It should be city of fair faax. This is the, have you got it, Linda? She's on it. Okay. Linda's got it. She's done this thing six times today. One better than the last. Matt is okay. Really? No. Under special education. I had a question previously on policy. The CFFX school board supports the third bullet and talked about discipline for students. Regardless of disability status. The only question I brought there is not really anything concerning. It's legitimate, it's just whether or not there's the engineering, meets, and redundancy with the student discipline. But this is targeted. Right, that's special. And I see that. I'm fine with that. I just have that question throw. See whether or not redundancy fits in there. And I'm fine with that. I'll just have that question throw just a little. See whether or not we're done and see if it's in there. And I'm okay with leaving it there. Okay. Check. Okay. But looks like we've dropped. No, never mind. I'm sorry. It's because the page numbers are different now. Yes. It looked like we dropped some things. It's there. Well, we did we did truncate that one paragraph. I remember the one that. And actually, I like the way it is now. Okay. I'm not sure which one. This is a full of underfunding. Yeah. On it first full of underfunding or first full of under seven on 17. Okay. Oh, it is funding. Sorry. under seven on 17 okay but it is funding sorry under city for towards the towards that college and university admissions questions. Ah yeah. I've got a page for that. I'm getting there. Thirty one. Thirty. Thirty. Thirty. No. Twenty nine. It starts on 29 but the two bullets in question will be the last two bullets. It's on page 30. What would be the second and third bullet down from the top? In terms of eligibility for undocumented alien students and such. Again, touching based on locally events and stuff. Is this something that we do or do not support? I feel it's necessary that we put our hand out here and say, yay and a. Is this something that we do or do not support? I feel it's necessary that you know put our hand out here and say a and a. Yes. I think that I think when you look at it that there are adequate qualifiers in there. With all the caviar. And that I'm supportive. I am. Likewise. Supported I am likewise The question is just making sure that you early we agree with these I like to have a lot of people. Thank you. And Julie, you're okay? Okay, fair enough. We'll continue with those. And I think there's one last one. Should be about the next page. Two pages over. Oh, the fiscal. On the next page. It goes back under the category fiscal autonomy. I like the fiscal economy question. Those back under the category of fiscal autonomy. Oh, yeah. What's that page? Well, I know what page I have here. That's page 31, page 31, the 30. In the middle. The City Fairfax recommends its General Assembly Initiator Study. This is this is BSBA language in the musical. And that's all it's exactly where it's from it's a The recommendation just as it states. Yeah, it would be nice Just for somebody to look at that. These are page 32 or 30. It's 31 Should be 31 version that she has it's 31 on our tonight's version Right in the middle this will oh maybe as long as it talks about a study, I'm okay with it. The Secretary of State is studying. Initiated study. You brought up one more, John? I'm looking. That's on page 36. I'm going to run out. That's on page 36 about transportation, which, which was a good catch because there has been some legislation passed about. Oh, that was- That's on page 30, right? That's the- About the transportation for non-public support. Supposedly, you use 32.02 in Rome. And it would be page 30, correct. The last bullet page, that's it. And the question is, yeah, and I went back and looked at all the legislation, I believe it passed. Very to it. Yeah, it's up to localities to go into agreement. But I mean, I guess, I think it's permitted to go on recorders continuing to oppose it. And once you get your nose on it, it's the next amendment to that bill, it would make it no longer aggressive, but required? Could we ask Mr. Molotka comment on the legislation that was passed and how it affects what we're talking about here? Mr. Boucher, that was legislation that was passed in the last session in general assembly, which would allow school divisions to enter into agreements with private schools, potentially to share transportation. It's a possibility that exists that hadn't existed under a state code before. My board feels very strongly that those are not agreements that we would, certainly we would be willing to have somebody come in and talk to us about the possibility, but the cost of doing so would be so high that I think that it's the standard position of my board that would be very, very difficult for us to try and accommodate any such requests. So they've left the position as it is in this program, and it would be a relatively not an easy thing a lot decidedly because there probably wouldn't be sufficient support for it, but somebody could come in and propose making that changing it from being a voluntary agreement between a public school system and private schools to making a mandatory. So it remains here as a function that's what the board wanted in there. Yes. Okay. And that was really the question having, you know, having the legislation I wasn't sure if that's something I think it should say just in case anyone wants to know what our position is. There it is. If someone wants to propose changing it back. Yes. That'd be fine. Well, that's that was something I needed to be, at least in my mind, brought forward. Yes, sir. I did want to point out that this language actually has been amended in the past few years. The original language is as it stood in the program for many, many years. Said the city or the city of Fairfax School Board, County of Fairfax, poses legislation which would mandate local school boards to provide transportation from not public school students. That would be another option as a possibility to change that language back to the original to oppose the mandate since in light of the passage of that legislation. I think that's passed. Okay, I'm usually the word mandate would be appropriate here. Either way, it's okay with me the way it is. I'm sure that's all I have. Okay. Anything else from any other board members? I think that's rather comprehensive. I have a couple. I have a couple. Anything else from any other board members? I think that's rather comprehensive moving. I have a couple of other comments. I do commend John. I have a couple of other comments. It's their minor. In your copy at the table tonight, the clean copy, so to speak, on page 12, the first bullet, I would suggest removing the second and the first bullet, removing the second sentence because that really does talk about it. It explains what happens with Fairfax County. We don't have any specific, I would probably could fill in some specific information, but it's not necessary to the discussion that's going on. So I suggest removing that and then on the next page. The next one is I was bored one day by the pool, Mr. Mr. I'm you catching wherever you can. Yeah, I was bored by the pool when I was on vacation. It was like, well, just sit here. It's under the, still on page 12, it's under the CARLDI Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act. I would simply remove in the second paragraph, which supports FCEPS, Professional Technical Education. It's as long as we're supporting technical, professional technical, technical education, I think we're okay. So I'd remove that and then I'm sorry. I don't know. Okay. On page 12. Yeah. Under Carl D. Perkins. Second. There's only one bullet. What? Second sentence. Second sentence. Is it while funding? It says which supports the FCPS. Second line. Second line. Second sentence. Is it wild funding? It says which supports the FCPS. Second line. Second line. Second line. What did I say second? I have to accept. I accept. You started with second paragraph. Do you want to second sentence? Now we're at second line. Second line, sir. FCPS, professional technical education. Yes. Let's just remove FCPS. Good. Okay. And remove the second sentence. Excuse me? I'll just go back to your first comment to remove the second sentence in the upper upper program. That's correct. Perfect. County. Yeah. Got all that? All right. He's with. Okay. And then on it's before. Okay, and then on it's before. It has to do with Bell schedules. I'm trying to figure out which public school calendar. Yep. And it is page 13. It is the one two two, third paragraph. It starts with over half of Virginia School divisions already open. I would remove the second sentence. Again, this is specific to Fairfax County. While Fairfax does have a few individual schools that take advantage of the innovative program where the division as a whole cannot, I don't think it would be. The lead to sentence. That was my fault. I think you have underlined it. Good. I would delete that. Good. And then I'd weigh in on this one. Excuse me? My son's going to weigh in on this one. He still doesn't understand why mom can't help determine when they get a day or not a day off. I know that they always wonder. On page 26, this is about the local, page 26, about the local composite index. First of all, it's in the Black and White copy, it's difficult to read. But more importantly, it talks about the LCI in relationship to Fairfax County Public Schools. It is meaningless to this community. You had updated that. I thought somebody updated that. I had updated, but I probably didn't make it. That's okay. We'll talk more. So we should insert. Right. We're it says Fairfax County Public Schools. That was one of the versions, John. Did you have Fairfax? If we could go ahead and do that, I didn't see it in any, well, it must have been the last version that came through, but either modify it or to lead. I was hoping to do just that. There's some of the changes that you had made that were along those lines. I was gonna try and eyeball it one more time. I think the only thing that needs to be changed is the first bullet, the first sub-bullet. Where we say Fairfax City Public Schools LCI is 0.8. And that means meaning that the state pays on average $20 out of every $100 in custody of public education cost. And the City Fairfax pays $80. the public education law and the City Fairfax pays $80. And the rest of it is generic, just explains what LCI is all about. And we do that? Yes, certainly. As long as we can do it, that's fine. I just didn't want it to go out the way it is. Agreed. The last question, this is more of a comment because I think it's something we all Have concerns about and that is under school health services and student wellness and this is on page I don't know what page it's on in this one because I didn't get that They're thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Knight While I am very very supportive of this I didn't get that far. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Smith. While I am very, very supportive of this, in the last bullet on this page, that would be the one, two, three, four, fifth bullet, where we talk about continued attention to the issue of childhood obesity, I think that that is a growing concern throughout this country. My concern with having this in here is that when we embrace this issue, it will become our problem. It will become school's problem. And while I'm willing to support it, I can't let this pass without making that comment. That there are- All of the mamas are going to blame us because their kids got that. That's a possibility. It will become our problem and we will be, that we meeting schools will be in a position that we will, it will be another issue that society expects schools to offer. Well, that's inevitable. I sent Johnny to school's skinny, and he came home fat. And what are you going to do about it? And that's the end of my journey. And I do like leaving that in as a general support statement, it recognizes the need for flexibility for localities to develop wellness policies and also recognizes the importance that they do so. And it's in light of that there are state task forces, I can't even get it right now, that healthy for unions. There are efforts on a statewide basis. This is just promoting that we just want to make sure that the local community is to keep. I agree with all of that 100%. I would simply like to state for the record. It's, it's, it, it, while it's important that schools become part of it, my concern is is it will become a school problem for a school to solve within the current school day school to solve within the current school day and there are many other issues that we still are working on. Madam Chair. Yes. Ms. Chair. We're on and picked up an FCPS on page 12. If we could go back to page 12 for just one other FCPS that's sitting in there. Okay. And it's under Title II preparing training and recruiting high quality teachers and principals. Okay. We not delete FCPS and put effort to both ensure that the current workforce is that about. That's good. That's a good suggestion. Thank you, Miss Craig. Anything additional? I think we've nitpicked this step. Yep, we've done it. Well, we're supposed to, Madam Chairman, I'd like to say that I am pleased that the board has engaged this thing. There have been times in the past where we have, how shall I say this? We've said it's stamped the county thing and said good let's do it and we spent 30 seconds on it and we walk. It's obvious we've all read it this time. Demonstrates an active engagement and I'm pleased. Great. Okay if there are no there is a motion on the table. If there are no more comments or questions there is a motion on the table. If there are no more comments or questions, there is a motion on the table. And the motion is that the City of Fairfax School Board approved a 2008 legislative program as printed and distributed subject to further modifications and with modifications made this evening. That motion was made by Mr. Butchham, seconded by Mr. Griffith. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. Members opposed, members are opposed. Motion is unanimous. Again, thank you to Mr. Butchham, to Mr. Griffith, and to Mrs. Pierce for their work in making this happen. And the plan is the board has been invited to the legislative breakfast, which is 730 at gate house on Thursday morning, which will be the 6th of December. And when do we expect the materials will be sent to the legislators? I would probably I would venture to say perhaps next week we'll get this inkling to this week and we have to have a printed and bound and all that sort of thing. We haven't for the past over years passed them out at the breakfast because they tend to get lost and we send them to the delegation's office and they really get the attention they. Good. Good. I ask this night when will City Council respond to the joint positions? They have not been. The City Council, they adopted their legislative package and it is, they did that last Tuesday night. It is the same as what we have adopted. And I talked to Mr. Hodgkins today and he asked that our package, particularly that position be sent to him as soon as possible. So if Mrs. Pierce, if you could send him the joint position tomorrow, that would be good. And then the entire package once you've completed all the modifications. But we had a nice conversation today and there were no problems from the City Mayor's City Council's productive. Okay. The next item is approval of Change Order Set Linear Middle School. Mrs. Monday? Yes, you have the detail in your folders and I will draw your attention to it. It is a change order in the amount not to exceed $171,031. It was reviewed at the work session. It has been carefully monitored and reviewed by Mr. Step, and I recommend that it be approved this evening. Thank you. Questions for Mr. Mende? No? Mr. Griffith. We had an extensive conversation with council at our last session concerning this matter generally or this matter is proving and generally work orders or chain orders at Leneer. Is that situation changed? Do we? That situation is still in process. Okay. So we were not ready to go forward with that. But it's, but it's still going forward. It's still in process, but the, uh, all of the information has not been certified and the contractor has not agreed to all of the terms, but that's again our intent. Okay. It will be from the email that I received wait today from Mr. Russ that that everything should be finalized and given to the board in time for our January year. Right. Uh, the chair will not get a motion. Adam chairman. Well, one can make the motion the other one can go ahead Julie. I'm like this. This very old. I move the city of Fairfax and Unison. The city of Fairfax school board authorizes the superintendent of the city of Fairfax schools or her design the director of facilities management. The improvement of change order number 12 has permitted a distributed for the renovation of Plano Middle School. Is there a second? Second. Mrs. Knight moved and Mrs. Craig seconded that the city of Fairfax School would authorize the superintendent or her design to approve payment of change order number 12 has permitted a distributed for renovation in the Mayor Middle School. Are there questions, comments? There being none, all in pay were signified by saying aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. Members opposed? No, members opposed? The motion is unanimous. Superintendent Smatters, this Monday. Well, I just want to say at the beginning of this holiday season that we have much to be thankful for in Fairfax City. I think I shared some of the good news with you tonight. I know it's going to be some tough budget times in the county and that will affect the city as well as going to face some challenges. But I'm confident that we can move forward in a positive way and that all good things will happen in 2008. And I'm glad to be here with you. Thank you. Then we'll move on to matters for board members Mrs. Craig. I just wanted to comment I was at the festival lights on Saturday and it was great to see all the student groups performing. They all have beautiful voices, wonderful behavior which we all like to see too. And I agree with Superintendent Monney, I hope everyone has a good restful season even though it seems to be a busy time for all. Thank you, Mr. Retrim. I'd like to echo the Amy's comments on everything that took place during the Festival of lights and carols. Again, Keeke Pozerpark is a very nice place to go and everybody should visit there if they get chance. The student group groups and instrumental groups played very nicely. And I just want to wish her by Merry Christmas and a great Christmas season and holiday season. Okay, great. Thank you Mr. Petron. Mr. Griffith. Nothing other than to wish us all peace and joy and happiness during this special time here. Great. Thank you, Mr. Griffith. Miss Knight. No business, but I'll just echo and did all my colleagues and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone. Thank you. Great. Thank you, Miss Knight. I just have one thing. We have not had a business meeting since the re-gedication at Fairfax High School. It was a really wonderful day. We had an exceptional turnout for both the ceremony and for the tours throughout the early afternoon. We have lots of people to thank. First of all, I'd like to thank Mrs. Monday, our staff Mrs. Monday, Dr. Jamal Vaney and Linda Pierce for helping us to put together the program and for helping to plan out the the very nice ceremony and the student tours. Scott Raybrand, Patty Chapman and Rod Spellman also contributed to making the day I think a meaningful one for our community. We had wonderful participation by the band, by the choral group, by the strings group, as well as a number of youngsters who stayed for several hours and gave tours throughout the schools. I've received several emails and many nice comments over the frozen food at Safeway from people who attended and had delightful things to say about our youngsters. And it's, you're never too old to hear something that is good that is said about our young people. And I would also like to compliment Christina. She started our program off by welcoming all of our guests at the ceremony. And she is very poised and a very good speaker and a wonderful representative for our students. So you did a great job and I heard a lot of compliments on your behalf and I was very, I was as proud of you as your mom and dad. So you did well and we're very pleased. I would also like to say we're looking forward to our annual city county dinner and we're certainly hoping that we don't have any more than a dusting of snow early in the day. And I would also like to say, Mary Christmas, Happy Hanukkah. I don't know exactly what they said about Kwanza, but for those families, it's all great Kwanza. We hope that you have happy season and we look forward to working with everyone in the new year. If we have no further business, we will adjourn this meeting and we look forward to working with everyone in the new year. If we have no further business, we will adjourn this meeting, and we will have a work session in the Judge's Chamber's following this meeting. This meeting is adjourned, and the time is about 9.30. Oh, good. I'm burning with love. My heart's on fire. The flame froze higher so I will with some what do I kill how much it may