Unidentified Speaker 1, a district staff member, told attendees that “for this particular school year, we have roughly 370,000,000 that we are overseeing,” and said staff are seeking supplemental funding to align spending with the district’s strategic plan. The speaker described coordination “with every department in the district” and noted grant relationships intended to support student safety.

Unidentified Speaker 1 said the district maintains grant partnerships with the “CCSD police department” that are intended to “ensure safety of students.” Unidentified Speaker 2 said the department has long used mountain bikes and that a recent grant secured by the grants department enabled the purchase of electric bicycles; “Super excited to get these,” Speaker 2 said, adding, “Got 79 of them out in the field.”

Speaker 1 also outlined additional school-focused grants. They named Gehring Elementary as a beneficiary of a magnet program and described “21st century, community learning service grants,” which Speaker 1 said fund after-school or outside-of-instruction programming at multiple schools. Speaker 1 singled out Tate Elementary as “a shining star in that particular program.”

Taken together, the remarks framed the district’s approach as combining large-scale budget oversight (the roughly $370 million cited for the school year) with targeted grant spending on safety equipment and expanded programming. There were no formal votes or motions recorded in the transcript. The session ended with Speaker 1 noting that the district is “an interesting place to work,” and that professional satisfaction has kept them at the district.

The district’s statements in the transcript did not specify the exact grant names, funding sources beyond “grants,” or the departments that will manage implementation; those details were described generally as “grants” and “the grants department.”