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foreign thank you Cameron um prior to the start of our Forum math uh Lupe to provide the administration interpretation thank you madam president buenos a Los participants is thank you so much good evening [Music] team Board of Education I'm here with my fellow colleagues who I'd like to introduce um I'll leave it up to if you'd like to stand or wave um secretary Maria Zubia Treasurer Janet Estrada and director James Amador our moderator this evening is Joseph Salazar I would like to invite Mr Salazar to continue in our farm thank you president Lovato thank you members of the board Madam superintendent and also members of the community for appearing here in person as well as virtually the board has received two letters of interest for the board vacancy and you will hear from the applicant who is present we thank you for being here this evening and we thank the community that is here in the audience this meeting is being videotaped and will broadcast on our local channel 22 so we ask that you refrain from talking while our applicants are speaking and that you turn off your cell phones or place them on silent mode as you heard earlier we do have interpretation available tonight is the final step in the process to fill the remaining time until the November 2023 election of the vacancy left by Ramona Lewis it's an impos an important process to make sure we have the best person possible representing our students parents and community and your engagement is crucial to that process we are providing cards so you so we may select a few questions from the audience to ask prior to the end of the form if time permits please turn these into the secretary to the board Ramona Lewis Ramona please stand and if if you didn't get a card they're out in the um entryway if somebody could maybe get them and pass them out to people that would be great thank you the board provided the applicants with five questions to frame their remarks this evening they are number one well would you intend your major contributions to be as an Adams 14 board member number two what do you see as the primary work of the Board of Education number three what is the school board members role and responsibility how does that role differ from the role the superintendent or Administration number four can you please describe your understanding of the current situation between Adams County school district 14 and the Colorado State Board of Education as well as accountability actions overall five what is your definition of equity and how does it apply to Adams 14.

we just and to be fair uh which is definitely not a process that I feel as a parent of of students here and as a community leader as well that Equity has that the the State Board of education's process has not been Equitable again I just shared a little bit of uh of what I saw as far as this is a highly Spanish-speaking Community where if 56 percent of our students are English learning students uh it doesn't make sense that they're being that we are being uh judged or um I guess based on this law that passed in 2009 um so definitely if I understand also that this is a historical situation that has happened and uh I feel that our district has been targeted uh not only by our state board of education by by charter schools by privatization private privatization privatization of education and um and it's not fair it's not fair for our students it's not fair for our families that we are constantly scared and worried of what's going to happen next what decision our state board is going to make to impact our families okay thank you very much um I'm going to take a moderator's privilege and I'm going to adjust the order here just a little bit and um instead of having you do a finalist speech since the closing speech is something that should be done after after everything is is over with let's go with audience questions so um do we have any audience questions seeing none um why don't we go with uh board questions do we have any board questions I just have a clarifying question um why now and um why would you like this position at this point in time hold on a second did everybody hear that no go ahead sorry I I asked why now why um which why are you interested in this position now I know that that was kind of part of the opening question but I didn't really hear a full response to that part okay so why not first of all and uh this is not the first time I apply in fact you and I applied together a long time so some of us have already applied together so I've this is the third time right uh I'm I'm not doing this for special interest I'm not doing this uh for a selfish uh Reasons I'm really really doing this for our students I've seen the struggles that we have gone because we have gone through it together right with our kids throughout the years um and I feel I believe I don't think it's fair I really don't think it's fair and um and I'm I'm always here right I'm always around through serving my community whether it's uh through the dock through uh the city wherever I'm able I'm I serve and I'm gonna just re rewind a little bit to remind everybody how you know we were I worked at an at us at a business a long time ago where we were robbed and shot they they shot my my boss nine times okay and that was a very clear eye opener for me that I did not want my children to what can I do as a parent as a as a citizen to make this community better for my kids I don't want my kids to be the next victim I don't want my kids to to be aggressors either then what can I do as a community member to serve my community and it started here I started serving even you know with a lot of my with with you and some of the with Maria that invited me to a lot of committees that I got to serve and I and I love it and I love my children I've I love the children at uh of our district from all levels I see the potential again our children are uh most of them are bilingual we have a treasure here we do have a treasure in our district and we have to start valuing them and as a parent I feel I also needed to step it up Maria you know I I also need to step it up and uh become a better example not only for my children but also for my community thank you I described it sorry thank you so much for joining us this evening um for me my question would be um you you displayed many volunteer and and board work that you did in your resume I'm wondering if you can talk a little bit about how how you would work through the process when making a decision like if if the board as a majority approve something that you weren't necessarily in favor of how what is your process and and how would you support that and work through that well sometimes we have to you know make the hard decisions I would say I've done main you're right I have served I'm a board member from for for another organization as well so and sometimes we have to do what's best for the community not what's best for me I would say I want to be happy sometimes but like you know but you know I I always think we need to be uh think what's the best for the community and what's best for the for our students and our families and especially in this and what's best for our district yeah great thank you any further questions board Miss Molina go ahead and give us your uh your closing speech well first again I want to just thank our board for all their hard work and also my our our Madam president from the DAC that is here today Ms ghani for everything that you have done for our district I really acknowledge that and and honor your work uh to all our volunteers and our students and families uh I want to thank everyone for you know sticking it out I mean you guys we went through covet together uh that showed one thing is that uh we are a resilient community and uh we have to be more united so we could make the decisions based on what is the best for our community for our students according to what the the situation is now I really hope that I can be a difference and be an uh additional voice to this board so I could be able to represent our kids here in our district I'm not afraid and I feel I am I believe I'm ready thank you very much Miss Molina for submitting your letter of interest to the position of Board of Education director and also thank you to the community members who joined us this evening and that now concludes the community portion of um of this application process and the board will take a final vote immediately following this form and a special meeting and announce the new board director if that vote is uh is taken thank you muchas gracias

good evening everyone thank you for allowing us to be a few minutes late we're working harder to get better about being on time welcome to the september 13th board of education meeting we will begin with instructions for interpretation for our spanish speaking audience thank you madam president thank you so much i like to call the meeting of the adams school district board of education to order please join me as we stand for the pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence during the moment of silence i'd like to ask that we remember an unsung hero in our community lost last november leroy quintana leroy dedicated so much of himself to support our adams 14 students and the entire community his legacy a legacy his family members continue to carry on thank you i pledge of the allegiance states of america into the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice okay thanks connie all right um next on the agenda is roll call uh romano would you roll call please mr amador here ms estrada here ms lovato here miss zubia here thank you next on the agenda we have 2.5 2.6 2.7 approval of the minutes of august 9th august 23rd and august 29th of 2022 uh may i have a motion to approve the minutes a motion to approve thank you and second second thank you uh ramona roll call please mr amador aye ms estrada aye ms lovato aye ms zubia aye thank you that is approved unanimously um next on the agenda is 2.8 approval of the agenda may i have a motion to approve the agenda so moved oh second thank you romano real call please mr amador aye ms estrada aye ms lovato aye ms zubia aye thank you next on the agenda is celebrations and recognitions this evening we have the classified staff recognition dr lyria would you please introduce us to the staff we're recognizing this evening yes madam president thank you members of the board members of the public adams14 has a group of talented animation employees who go above and beyond for our students every day and we have been with the support of our partner sanchor we have been providing these recognitions it's a monetary token of the work they do and we want to pre to to say thank you and say how much we appreciate the work that every single employee does for our students we're going to be recognizing three classified individuals today the first one is claudia marcias from central elementary she's a building engineer and i do not know i cannot see very well the public with the light in my face but if claudia is here if he can come up i don't think she's here um claudia is an exceptional employee who requires no supervision and this is what uh her peers and colleagues at the school say no supervision to fulfill her responsibilities she manages her time well and works every minute of every single day although she's always busy claudia will always greet you with a warm welcome and her great and a great smile so claudia thank you i hope you're listening to us and watching us uh virtually but we want to say that we thank your we thank you for your for your work we also have laura pasillas from alsup elementary school she is an instructional paraprofessional not sure if lauda is here i can see somebody moving up there lauda come up here um laura she said also as i said in a instructional paraprofessional and what her colleagues and peers have to say is you can always count on laura to have a smile on her face laura and kurt encourages our students to do their very best and supports them along the way lada goes out of her way to identify the students that she's working with that need additional support she will work with those students on her own time just to ensure they're getting all the help they can get so lauda thank you very much we're going to ask you to come up here in a minute so that we can take a picture uh with you and the and the board and we also have um violeta leyva from hansen elementary school she's also a paraprofessional i want to i don't know if she's here today in violeta it's a great addition to a professional team is what her peers say she always communicates and adapts very quickly and is always happy and eager to help anyone so thank you very much so miss laura if you want to come up and if you do not mind taking a picture with her hello on stage thank you madam president oh thank you that was wonderful thank you thank you dr lydia are there any comments from our fellow board member from my fellow board members sorry no i just uh i would like to say thank you to the three folks that were recognized but also to all the rest of the staff that is working just as hard to and worked just as hard to make this school years um you know the start of the school year go so we're just very appreciative of everybody's work so thank you i agree congratulations and thank you so much great thank you next on the agendas 3.2 hispanic heritage month proclamation secretary zubia would you please write the proclamation yes thank you so a proclamation for his hispanic heritage month september 15 through october 15 of 2022 whereas national hispanic heritage month is observed each year from september 15 through october 15 to celebrate the histories cultures and contributions of americans whose ancestors came from spain mexico the caribbean and central and south america whereas the celebration originally began as a week-long celebration in 1968 until it was expanded by president ronald reagan in 1988 to cover a third to cover 30 days whereas september 15th was chosen as the beginning of hispanic heritage month because it is the anniversary of the independence of five latin american countries costa rica el salvador guatemala honduras and nicaragua that all declared independence in 1821 whereas the theme of this year is unido's inclusivity for a stronger nation reinforcing the need for diverse voices and perspectives to be welcomed in any decision-making process thereby building a stronger community and a stronger nation whereas the hispanic and latinx community compromises the largest minority group in the united states and represents 87 percent of adams county school district 14's total population whereas members of the hispanic community have made countless contributions to the united states economy and culture serving in all branches of the armed forces as the dedicated public servants and as leaders in education healthcare business and entrepreneurship and other professions whereas adams county school district 14 has an important role in educating students and the larger community about the diversity of the hispanic and latinx communities and their contributions to the state of colorado and the united states of america whereas adams 14 schools honor and preserve the linguistic and cultural assets of students through bilingual and dual language instruction and are still a bi-literacy program as well as honoring the backgrounds of our students from spanish-speaking households therefore be it resolved that the adams 14 board of education is committed to highlighting the rich diversity of peoples and histories within the hispanic and latinx communities via further resolved one recognizes inclusion as a core value at of adams 14 and the school board has a responsibility to oppose the historical system systematic racism towards hispanic and latin next people in colorado and two invites all members of our community to join in celebrating our hispanic and latin next students and families approved this 13th day of september 2022.

resolution to opt out of the paid family family medical leave insurance act program may i have a motion to approve resolution 2213 to opt out of the paid family family medical leave insurance act program i'll move to approve um can i have a second that's a tough one second are there comments or questions yeah well yes i think that um you know just the way it reads um opting out of paid family medical leave insurance act program sounds wrong to me because we have so many families um so many people that work for us that that use it but then when you read it um and you i guess i'm just concerned of how it reads because people can still take they can still use fmla right so i guess i'm just concerned as to or questioning why is it that um we have to have a resolution to opt out of it if people are still going to be using it yes i can use that because it's by law they we offer it right yes uh madam president members of the board i'm i'm going to ask dr mckenna to come here he's our chief for human resources so that he can explain a little bit better and then i can add if he missed anything thank you dr mckenna thank you thank you madam president uh members of the board madam superintendent those of you that are at home watching i do agree the wording leaves a little bit to be questioned however the district already has all of these insurances and anybody that wants to still opt in to family still has the option if we as a district don't opt out then everybody is automatically opted in you have no choice every single person in the district whether they have insurance coverage or not has to if we don't opt out has to pay for this supplemental coverage that they can opt in if they want it it costs no more whether we opt in or opt out for those people that want coverage we just don't want coverage mandated for people that don't want it and we did a survey and the vast majority of our staff this wasn't a decision made by myself or our superintendent we did a survey gave access to every employee the vast majority does want to opt out every school district in colorado up to this point i've been told has opted out instead of mandating that their employees opted in so this will not affect any employee that wants to opt in this won't cost them any more money uh this will only result in people that don't want to have this insurance be mandated to take it and if i may add uh this does not impact family medical leave this is not the the uh the fmla now so f malayah there are no changes to it this is an additional coverage but if it's mandated you know the employee will have to make a contribution a mandated contribution so this is ensuring like dr mccanna said that all employees have the option to choose whether they want to be covered by it or not so it's an additional insurance that would be mandated if we don't opt out and people would be deducted the same amount every month regardless of whether they want it or not everybody that is correct yeah and that's why every school district is opting out now the the benefit we as school districts have is we already have insurance plans we already have all of the things that they're offering but a lot of businesses don't and so this more or less was directed from my assumption and from my interpretation for those organizations and industries that don't have all of the insurance options that we have here yeah madam president just further yes thank you um thank you madam president members of the board madam secretary this was uh state law that changed it has nothing to do with federal law oh okay and i i watched the um commerce city city council meeting and they too opted out i think it was a government any government entity had to either opt out or be stuck with it for three years i mean it was written kind of weird so yes ma'am so i i do understand but it's not in our best interest to stay in this when we have the opportunity to opt out and allow that choice to employees yeah that makes sense thank you and thank you for um pulling our staff to make sure this is yes absolutely yes thank you dr mccann any further questions or discussion okay no thank you that helped and i think that helped clarify for the community as well because it does read like um yeah something different it's very weird yeah all right uh ramona roll call please mr amador hi ms agenda item number eight communication um board of education new business requests do we have any new business requests this evening no okay next is 8.2 board member communications does anyone have any communications do we want to wait to do this until we get a new board number um you mean 8.3 oh yeah yeah 8.3 okay sorry it's like sure thank you it's been a long weekend it's only tuesday okay um well this evening if it's okay i'd like to review we did approve a number of items on the consent agenda that i'd like to highlight um first is kemp elementary we purchased play works which supports social emotional growth for students teachers in school administration receive training to help students stay active and to provide students tools to deal positively with disagreements and managing conflicts this district or the district is exploring offering structured recess for all elementary schools in the future additionally as a district we are committed to the continuous improvement of the academic programs we offer including the training that complements these programs we approved academic supports for our students including to continue the work through the cde early literacy grant with the purchase of services and trainings with growing educational practices for early literacy instruction support to our elementary schools the purchase of services with mapleton school district to provide synchronous online instruction for up to 50 students in grades 6 through 12 from mapleton's highly qualified teaching staff for the 2022-23 school year we sincerely appreciate this collaboration with our friends in mapleton the purchase of constructive constructing meaning training to provide assistance to the linguistically gifted students we serve constructing meaning is a research-based training for staff at all grade levels to support academic language and english proficiency while we continue to make progress adams 14 like most districts across the state of colorado still have unfilled positions this evening we approved a number of supports for our students including an increase to the blueprint new school network contract to support the math tutoring throughout the district increases for sun belt staffing salient health and therapy traveler contracts to help us in our efforts efforts to provide for staffing in our critical needs areas we approved a contract with miss maggie host striker hokestra sorry to fill the vacant educational technology coordinator position she's a former employee and will continue supporting us until we can hire for this position so we thank her for her continued support one last go around any other comments or questions for board comments okay next on the agenda we had 8.3 the review of adams 14 board of education member assignments for the 22-23 school year um while i know this was proposed in the agenda i would propose that we postpone this discussion until we do have our new board member um is that agreeable with everyone yes we'll be cable that for now i think the one question i did have um since we put it off for a couple of months is the urban renewal development so from i i wonder if you guys are okay with me attending that for now until i just want to make sure we have representation um and then once we get our new board member we can leave okay because they have a meeting coming up thank you all right this concludes our agenda for this evening our next board meeting is a study session on tuesday september 27th follow immediately following tonight's meeting we do have a community forum for the board vacancy we'll take a short recess and then begin the forum may i have a motion to adjourn a motion second thank you ramona roll call please mr amador aye ms estrada aye ms lovato aye ms zubia aye thank you everyone we're adjourned and we'll get set up for our community forum um we're scheduled to start at 7 15.

orsky I am chair of the Ann Arbor energy Commission um it is 602 pm and I'm calling this meeting to order I am participating from my home here in Ann Arbor Michigan um welcome to the September 13th 2020 electronic meeting of the energy Commission this virtual meeting is to affect social distancing and mitigate the spread of the covid-19 virus we will conduct this meeting similar to in-person meetings Commissioners during the roll call please indicate your current location during the meeting please remain on camera just as you would be visible during in-person meetings also mute your microphone when not speaking public comment will be via telephone only to speak during any of the public comment opportunities one at the beginning and one at the end of the meeting please call one of the following toll-free numbers 877-853-5247 or 888 -788-0099 and enter the meeting ID number nine five six eight seven one eight seven eight seven six on your phone this information is also available on the published agenda on the Public Notices section of the city website and on the broadcast of this meeting on the CTN Channel 16 and 18t channel 99 as well as online at a2gov dot org backslash watch CTN Missy would you be able to read the land acknowledgment absolutely chair Mercy I acknowledge that the land the city of Ann Arbor occupies is the ancestral traditional and contemporary lands of the anishinabe and Wyandotte peoples I further acknowledge that our city stands like almost all property in the United States on lands obtained generally generally in unconscionable ways from indigenous peoples The Taking of this land was formalized by the Treaty of Detroit in 1807 knowing where we live work study and recreate does not change the past but a thorough understanding of the ongoing consequences of this past can Empower us and our work to create a future that supports human flourishing and justice for all individuals foreign thank you very much and would you please conduct the Roll Call absolutely just a reminder if Commissioners could follow tremorski's very excellent example which we'll do again and state where you're calling from that would be great uh chair mersky present calling from Ann Arbor Vice chair Colvin Garcia president I'm calling from um Ann Arbor oh I'm sorry a panelist in the waiting room thank you very much uh commissioner McCumber uh present and joining from my home in Ann Arbor commissioner Levin present uh for my home in Ann Arbor commissioner McCoy here and in Ann Arbor commissioner Kerber I'm here and in Ann Arbor commissioner Smith Leave absent commissioner overpeck commissioner Conan president and calling from Ann Arbor great commissioner zitelman present in Ann Arbor Michigan excellence greetings everyone um thanks for joining us um Kendall I think this is your first meeting correct yes yes this is I missed the first and then I think uh last month was canceled so right I'm going to put you on the spot and ask you to introduce yourself quickly to the rest of the commission um and um depending on people's appetite for doing so maybe we'll go quickly and have people introduce themselves and give a two-sentence introduction okay great um I am a junior studying at the University of Michigan um my major is pipe so the environment and I have a minor in public policy um in addition to school though I'm also working part-time as like an environmental consultant and I'm doing that uh virtually from my apartment which is um definitely a lot for this school year but I am excited to do so sure Mercy I apologize to go backwards I forgot our council members ah you did I did yeah I'm smiling so go ahead and yeah council member Briggs yes here in Ann Arbor council member radina so here in Ann Arbor no you definitely have a quorum excellent good catch uh so welcome Kendall great to have you on board um real quickly I'll introduce myself so you know I'm chair I'm retired after a career in Industry uh I um am real active in a number of different um environmental kinds of activities and advocacy I'm also on the board of uh non-profit and um have was born and raised in Ann Arbor and glad to be back I moved back in 2015.

nice to meet you so Kendall there's a couple of other people that will introduce just before they present um that's to McDonald and Brett Leonard um as you can see Brett is with the city and Tim is a guest um speaker so I'll introduce them later um and but I think the first thing to do the next is to get approval of the agenda um can I get a motion to approve the agenda and a second moved by commissioner McCoy and second by would I see somebody waved council member Briggs um any comments or questions okay seeing none all those in favor say aye and raise your hand I any opposed unopposed the agendas is approved as published next uh is approval of the minutes of our last meeting which is the meeting in July um I can say I reviewed them and they look good to me hopefully the rest of you or at least some of you had a peek um can I also get a motion to approve the minutes and a second um motion by commissioner Calvin Garcia and a second I uh councilmember Regina all those any discussion of the minutes any concerns seeing none all those in favor of approving the minutes please raise your hand say um yes thank you all those opposed passes unanimously so um we are now at public input and we'll also have a second chance at the end of the meeting um this is an opportunity for persons to speak for up to three minutes if you are watching on CTN please call 888-788-0099 or 877-853-5247 and enter meeting ID 956-87-187876 this information is also displayed on the meeting agenda and the video feed City staff will select callers that have raised their hand electronically one by one I'm using the last three digits of your phone number in order to raise your hand electronically to indicate your desire to speak please press star nine on your phone you will hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet place and mute any background noise so that we may hear you clearly please state your name and your address at the beginning of your comments thank you color ending in one three four um thank you Dr Stelton chairmersky this is Ken Garber 28 Haverhill Court um just so you know the um meeting ID on the published agenda is incorrect um Zoom tells you that um that it doesn't exist um commissioner McCoy luckily passed on the correct meeting ID to me there so I was able to call in um anyway this meeting is Timely because the a20 climate action plan has a big problem I think strategy to action one of the plan is quote promote home and building electrification end quote and assumes the following quote all new residential and commercial buildings are designed and built to operate without the use of natural gas end quote strategy three is quote significantly improve the Energy Efficiency end quote in our buildings both strategies largely depended on the state revising its energy code to include the iecc zero code appendix so that most new projects and major Renovations can be Net Zero Energy it now looks like that's not going to happen and the next code revision won't be for at least five years meanwhile almost every month the City reviews and approves gas burning and energy inefficient new construction for example the Planning Commission last week voted reluctantly in favor of the village project off duvern the developer did agree to go all electric for the 164 single-family homes thanks I think to the efforts of at least one energy commissioner but not the 32 apartment buildings 10 units each still with gas heating that's 300 000 square feet total with CO2 equivalent emissions of over 4 000 metric tons every year for the next 50 years probably just from gas so if no zero code appendix then what is our plan B I have my own ideas which I don't have time to go into instead I'll pose a second question that question is our sustainability and affordability in new buildings compatible I think the dominant view here is that they are not but I think that's a false narrative I suspect we'll hear a different view tonight from Tim McDonald and I very much look forward to his presentation but even without passive buildings I think we can have affordable Zero Energy Net Zero Energy Construction one Revelation from the village debate was just how close utility costs are between Gas and Electric if you assume high efficiency heat pumps and if you plug current gas rates into the cost algorithm while costs of electric heating are still higher than with gas cooling costs are 140 a year lower per unit and that's at last year's gas prices assuming those low prices just adding two kilowatts of rooftop solar per unit on average would more than Wipe Out the remaining difference so we don't have to choose between affordable and sustainable in new construction and yet in most cases we get neither that needs to change and fast thank you for your comments that's all chair Mercy that's all okay great so uh next point on the agenda is a planning and sustainability in Ann Arbor presentation by the head of our planning department Brett Leonard Brett thank you very much for joining us tonight I'd like everybody to know that um Brett is also going to be attending a Planning Commission meeting tonight so we're really fortunate that we are having here um Brett and Shannon gibrandel chair of the Planning Commission Missy and I met on the 30th of August to talk about this meeting um and possibly a future meeting where we meet jointly to talk about these topics um we will probably talk again after tonight to see where we want to take um what we learned tonight and what we learn hopefully um after sleeping over it and talk about next steps but Brett um if you want to introduce yourself real quickly um and then launch into your presentation I think you have some slides that would be great and thanks again for joining us tonight um my pleasure thank you chairman thank you to the commission for having me um as um John so eligible uh introduced my name is Brett Leonard I'm the planning manager for the city and the Planning Commission is the um the commenter I think highlighted uh issues that you are grappling with that the Planning Commission is grappling with that we are grappling with as a community and so my goal here is to um nerd out a little bit at you with Planning and Zoning just to help set a framework about what that is um why we do it some of the barriers and challenges of it and talk to you a little bit about some of the um opportunities that could evolve in the future towards sustainability goals so um I do have to jump to a blank or some meeting at seven o'clock but I will stay here as long as I can so I don't have too many slides and I'm happy to address any questions and if we don't get to any uh all the questions or there's follow-up I'm happy to follow as well so as indicated let me hopefully pull up my slides can you see yes we do okay and I just um do want to brag a little bit normally in my Planning Commission who has to deal with me all the time just gets boring black and white text uh PowerPoint presentation so um you're welcome uh so planning and zoning and I I you know despite its title I do want to uh let you know that I will um definitely talk about how it relates to the city's sustainability goals but I want to make sure we're all starting from a similar understanding so this is a very chaotic kind of chart about the overall development review process and planning process and um what it means and I just want to briefly walk you through and Orient you to this is to as to why it's important so uh Planning and Zoning are partners and planning is policy and Zoning is Law and Regulation and so the comprehensive planning process is the most wide open the most uh Community engaged uh the most fully engaged in community engagement it is the the widest opportunity for us to think big to think far-reaching to think creatively progressively about the challenges that are facing us as a community informed by the past and formed by data informed by Trends and it is a very broad opportunity to identify the concerns the opportunities that we want to be as a community um at us at some point in the Horizon um we plans often pick a point for that Horizon and they go through a um a filtering process in a way of gathering wide Community engagement trying to prioritize the common most important elements that we hear from the community and memorializing those as Community goals with recommendations as to how we can go about achieving that all of that process is strictly policy creation it's strictly creating ideas it's strictly articulating a vision at the end of any comprehensive planning process nothing changes in our community from a regulatory perspective no matter what we say in that comprehensive plan it doesn't switch the legal expectations of how private land is developed in our community the plan does tee up ideas and recommendations to that end more specifically we plan not only to create a vision of what we want to be as a community in the future but because we're directed to do so state law directs communities to create planning commissions and to provide for City Planning our code of ordinances specifically directs the Planning Commission to prepare a plan for the orderly development of the city and both state law and our own local bylaws of the Planning Commission direct us to look at that on a regular basis and over time the the most recent modification and update of our comprehensive planning has been pretty significant through the adoption of new planning documents into our our planning Canon um and but again plan is visioning it is ID ideation it is what do we want to be when do we want to get there who do we want to be as a community I will do my best to always use the term comprehensive plan um I am still a long-term planner that has used the term master plan for a long time we're specifically trying to shift away from that master plan can evoke images of slavery or paternalism or even more of a finality and even these policy documents are not intended to be final they are like any other conversation in a community reflective of who we are at the time the trends of the time and setting a goal in the future and so that is why you'll see while you'll see some documents of the past invoke the term master plan uh the Planning Commission and staff are really shifting towards the term comprehensive plan as a more appropriate term of that endeavor the city's plan is plans it's made up of documents that were went through that ideation process and here in the city they were often very focused on a particular um in the past geography or aspect or component of planning and when those plans are crafted they also are adopted through a very prescribed uh manner by by state law and at the conclusion of that state law with their adoption the city council says we are hereby incorporating this document into our comprehensive plan and since 2004 the city council has done that with eight documents that you see here so together collectively this is the city's vision for its Future these are the goals and aspirations of where we want to be in the future and um just as an aside we are embarking on the process to update our comprehensive plan and when I see this slide I see a lot of opportunity to simplify Ai and consolidate our vision whether it's you as stakeholders and policy advisors decision makers such as the Planning Commission or zoning board of appeals or historic district commission or legislative body of the city council the notion of having not only this multiple thousand Pages at the ready to guide your policy decisions and legislative decisions in the city is intimidating and at times because the city has approached these and sort of focused ways there's even potential for conflicting ideas uh evolving out of these documents so um going forward I think there's a great opportunity for us to be more clear more concise and make a comprehensive plan that's more usable and accessible not only to stakeholders and decision makers but the public and problems alike as it relates to sustainability are our comprehensive plan is pretty sparse the 2013 sustainability framework did a lot of work to aggregate ideas and Concepts from Seven other documents and try to find common commonalities and threads um as it relates and I'm there are a lot there are other sustainability aspects in our natural features and just how we develop housing in the city and moving towards a multimodal Transit but specifically as it relates to uh energy Supply and Energy Efficiency of buildings somewhat teed up by chair misky and the introduction to this um these are the policies that are in those comprehensive planning documents that relate to this um improve access to and use of renewable energy by all members of our community reduce energy consumption and eliminate greenhouse gas emissions and reduce buildings energy use carbon impact and construction waste so all of those documents take us to this point those documents have reflected of course a lot of community dialogue a lot of discussion a lot of time a lot of setting those visions and goals and have identified um goals that to implement those goals is plans set forth recommendations to make amendments that could be either to our zoning map that is more broadly what types of development should happen and what geography is in our city or text amendments that is these here these legislative decisions these are the most critical aspects of that planning process because until these are crafted considered and adopted they don't apply to the other side of this line which is when you as a um small property owner considering your dwelling or a large property owner considering a wide impactful re-envisioning of an entire area or blocks our ordinances are how we communicate minimum standards maximum standards and how we communicate if you do these things you can expect to be approved to do these things in our community because you are delivering us the typology and the location of the development that we want to see in our city without those text amendments again the plan can be the greatest comprehensive plan ever conceived by any community it doesn't change regulatory framework until it follows with actions and ordinances that make those requirements of development going forward and in a way I think this right here is the tension that you and the Planning Commission and to an extent I think the city council and our community are grappling with we know that we are facing some very critical challenges um huge challenges and that has largely been concluded on this side of the line and we don't yet feel like we have all the tools and amendments and codes on this side of the line to deliver us with the aspiration that we want so zoning as I was planning on zoning zoning is the other side of that line zoning is the actual regulation of designating and limiting the height bulk number of stories uses and size of dwellings building and structure this is what the state of Michigan says zoning is to be used for it is all done to promote the public health safety and Welfare I'm missing a quotation mark there so much for my editor uh however I want I want to be clear this is this is a phrase that can be very challenging for communities to promote the public health and safety and Welfare is not at times that I have seen it questioned or invoked as a open blank canvas opportunity to attach any requirement to a decision but rather it is the basis by which zoning regulations achieve something we regulate and designate where uses can be how high buildings can be the uses of those buildings by geography in order to promote the public health safety and Welfare we accomplished that by a regulatory framework we don't accomplish it by stating it or restating it and sometimes that can be a challenge of communities ideally of course our zoning reflects our vision and the proposed development that happens is delivered in such a way that it meets our community goals it reflects our values it reflects our aspirations so as I said the Planning Commission is very interested in this uh chairmersky talked about our conversation we're um I I gather part of that is because you are having these similar conversations here at your table and struggling with similar issues and so this is how staff and the Planning Commission are starting to think about this challenge of that switch from policy to implementation we have those same goals in our land use comprehensive plan we have the benefit of a lot of work that the community has done with Dr Stoltz and the city council identifying other Community climate the a20 plan adoption that is not you will see it's not it was not adopted with that process and add-on that says we want this to be part of our comprehensive plan and um and there's a lot of aspects of that plan that I don't think necessarily would fit in a comprehensive land use plan but there's definitely some some connections a couple of them here identified I think some of these were referenced earlier in the meeting promoting home and Business electrification and updating building codes these are two recommendations that are just absolutely I think to the core of how do we change our building stock to a more sustainable model and how the Planning Commission has been thinking about this is uh electrification Energy Efficiency and solar energy readiness even that work though I I just want to be very transparent and clear is very very challenging I talked to you about the zoning um what the intent of zoning is to do and here is the intention of the state construction codec which you will see and I'm sure that you've discussed this this act is the act to prescribe energy conservation standards this is where the state legislature tells us how as a state we will prescribe Energy Efficiency of buildings in this regard um the Graham sustainability Institute has has opined on it as well via the clean energy of Michigan series not definitively I want to be clear this is not a you know a well-respected opinion but they also recognize that it's that it's likely could be challenged likely maybe even would be challenged the best way to do this is to update the code which we've you've discussed and you heard from a commenter tonight really challenging it's really difficult and one of the opportunities to keep thinking about zoning is that that is a local ordinance whereas that construction code is not adopted by us we are directed to adapt something um on top of this um you're starting to have some State Legislative uh Rumblings I would say they I don't think these bills have gone very far they've gotten to committees both in the state and the house to preemptively ban communities such as Ann Arbor from enacting laws that uh would prohibit natural gas connection it does it in different ways but um no legislative historian this has happened in the past the city in the past was in considering rent control along with the city of Detroit state legislator steps in and preemptively prohibits rent control Washington County looking at banning plastic bags from a sustainability perspective the state steps in so it's just another challenge on top of an already sort of challenging legislative framework but um that's not a definitive answer the city has adopted these goals and so I think I I think the Planning Commission speaking for the Planning Commission and staff we certainly feel that it's part of our um Mission from that policy direction to consider the most creative ways that we can advance these goals and so there are more questions here than answers but I just want to set sort of some of my preliminary thoughts and some of the conversation that's happening at the Planning Commission as well uh there are some connections specifically in planning to infrastructure to energy again it's not definitive I think that there is a more uh a better connection of zoning and land use to infrastructure and energy use um so I think that electrification um is a really an opportunity for us to consider again it's going to go through a lot of review a lot of review by people smarter than I but I think that there is at least a Nexus there and the intention of that legislation and what that legislation the planning economy um Energy Efficiency I think is more challenging not to say it doesn't have a place in zoning but I think that from the construction code act I think it is probably harder um at this point for me to Envision a requirement Incorporated in zoning to a higher building Energy Efficiency standard um I think that that is going to have to happen through incentives or other mechanisms to do so um the challenge of all of those things as finding the right triggers the appropriate times that it gets invoked and I I think particularly with Energy Efficiency in my um brief experience with this from a zoning perspective even in the over the last decade the The Benchmark the standard the specification has evolved even in that time period of and um I would just say that gives me pause and trying to memorialize that in a zoning ordinance to specify any Energy Efficiency standard when it seems to be a pretty um recently evolving field um evolving quicker than zoning ordinances typically and then I think uh the last is the context of the City versus surrounding in a way um I think the city has set this policy and that context is not important in that regard on the other hand I think it does have implications in transportation patterns and Transit patterns and we have to think about how making progress and maybe energy connections and Energy Efficiency doesn't set us back in other regards of sustainability developed Community aspects so I'll stop there um happy to address any questions that we can get to this evening critiques um and again if we don't get to something I'm happy to follow as well Brett thank you very much we appreciated all the color and the graphics as well as the content so well done uh I'd like to open things up for comments and questions well that was easy I kind of let you off that easily though um I have oh there we go Alex go ahead I guess I just have one question I'm not sure if you would know the answer but are there like no municipalities in the state of Michigan that have their own construction codes and requirements and stuff I don't know that answer um if there are any um my I guess my understanding is no that some communities might modify the state construction code um but I think that I think that communities find safety in being part of a larger group rather than deviating from building codes which are often really seen as core health and safety I think for that same reason there's probably not too many communities if any they develop their own so my gut would be some communities make some modifications to it but I'm guessing probably not very significant all right thank you that'd be a better question of course for our building official I can try to follow up on that others cost amount of breaks um yeah I one piece um struck me as we have not yet adopted into the comprehensive plan our recent a to zero plan um so relying on that 2013 sustainability framework um that seems like a logical next step for us to do are there is there any thoughts around that yeah we're in the process of um like I said kicking off a comprehensive plan process that is one of the Central themes we are articulating in that we are we want the plan to reflect a sustainable lens to land use planning we wanted to reflect an equitable lens that not only recognizes past wrongs but seeks to repair those to the extent possible and does this all ideally without losing sight of affordability which remains an acute problem so okay thanks I'll save some other comments till later yes um you know thank you for the presentation I am one of my pet peeves is when I see large developments of condos and someone wants to put solar on it and you look at the roof and the roof has dormers and the Dormers are all facing south you have a whole large roof the whole length of the city block and dormers on every single part of it it is on the north side there's nothing it just seems like something that could be done with the architects of these projects just to get them some awareness that you're taking away those people's solar future by doing this yeah and I would um I appreciate the critique uh the Planning Commission has taken steps over recent history in the city council as well through adoption to try and make solar installations more flexible and more prevalent um I think the Planning Commission thinks that there's more opportunity to go further in that regard as well so that might be something that can be looked at um we've recently had an example two where the Planning Commission actually had to well they're playing commission proactively um uh undid a very common Housing Association Covenant that prohibited solar panels on a proposed development um you know this was um so I think that it reflects there's a lot there's still a lot of sort of uh I would just say General market based um inertia that we have to push against on a lot of fronts but that's a that's a great critique a Brett uh While others think of their questions and by the way we'll keep Brett maybe for another five minutes at maximum because Brett has to run the Planning Commission meeting that starts at seven so we need to let him go um you you showed um the interesting graphic at the very beginning about the comprehensive planning process um is is there the intent to uh coordinate closely um the comprehensive Plan update that the university affects me that the city is doing together with the University's update of its um campus plan as far as I know it's intended that that's going to happen at the same place and the university so so interwoven in with the city um is is that an explicit intent on both party side you know foreign I can I can just share in the past we have approached those conversations and I think I think that there is enough distinction between our goals um at times where there hasn't been a lot of momentum towards a more unified planning process um the more embraced aspects of that I think have been how do we collectively avoid sort of Engagement fatigue how do we make sure we're reaching our respective audiences in the greatest way possible my grizzled um somewhat sarcastic planner history would tell me that it seems unlikely to me that we would get there um so I think try to trying to find the the intersex is probably a great first start um so the um I but so I do Envision um an acknowledgment of that and sort of trying to tee up that opportunity I don't I don't have deliverables in my in my eyes yet as to what success looks like then just a brief commentary from my side I'm hoping that the values of the university and the city overlap to a greater degree than maybe what they have in the past because of the two carbon neutrality plans as well as the need to address affordable housing this is also an issue with the university and its contract negotiations for example because housing costs are going up at Double the rate of pay increases for University employees and so this is an issue and the university isn't as an engine of growth so hopefully those two interest uh spur greater level of collaboration than in the past I would also add that the university particularly um well I mean the two both housing and um greenhouse gas emissions also overlap in the rain area of transportation and commuting emissions and if the city does not add additional housing and I know we're doing work um with um trans excuse me transit um Corridor uh rezoning but um if if new jobs and new students have to live outside the city then the city is not going to meet its Transportation emission reduction targets Norwood University and so you know all these areas emissions in general transportation housing there really is an opportunity for win-win outcomes in my view um yeah apart and I would just add apart from carbon emission goals as time passes the ability of our infrastructure to accommodate the growth of the University will become challenged indeed um our roads will need to our transportation network will have to find other ways to move people around because we won't be able to build roads to accommodate the trajectory that we've been on so just a quick comment um I was with a group that met with the U of M CSO um the university has added 6 000 employees and 6 000 students in the last seven years and the CFO said he sees nothing that is going to change that basic Trend maybe not the the slope of the line but the basic trend line is likely to um continue and that poses a big challenge for the University and and the City um I I need to respect your time and I really thank you for um joining us tonight and I look forward to um further collaboration at least within the city and between our two commissions and departments um on some of these topics so there's a couple other things that I noted down and we can take those up at a later time and I would encourage other Commissioners to do the same if you have some thoughts on these um let's save these let's gather them together let's talk about them and we hopefully will have some additional ideas that come out of Tim's presentation um here coming up soon so thank you so much and um I'm sorry yeah I do have to run to that other meeting but um thank you for recording this um just to follow up on Mr chair mursky's comments um part of um Our intention is recording this conversation that's going to follow to share with the planning Commissioners as well so um all the examples and and sites that we can provide is just going to help everybody so um thanks for doing that for us as well great thank you Brett take care of a good meeting so council member Briggs sorry I didn't give you an opportunity to comment no I figured I would wait until after Brett left because it really didn't need his it's just just comments um and didn't want to use up his precious time so um I used to serve on Planning Commission prior to coming on to council so just wanted to provide a few additional thoughts he obviously talked about the um the challenges around electrification and Energy Efficiency and that's kind of those discussions that have been coming up on our commission I think it's just important to know um how we're I think at the Planning Commission is also thinking about these issues in terms of um and this will be an integral part of the comprehensive planning process that we're launching kind of how do we want our city to grow and um you know how do we support sustainable Lifestyles and so when you think about you know um historically the the separation of we have moved towards separation of land uses so residential is one area commercials and another area offices in another and as we're um as as we're reflecting on those land use patterns um obviously that is something that encourages driving so um we you know there's a real emphasis on thinking about how we um around more mixed use around um 20-minute neighborhoods yeah you know developing our land use in a pattern that that enables sustainable Lifestyles um I think it's also important to note that all the in the carbon neutrality plan we say that you know 17 of our Greenhouse admissions come from Transportation um that was we did not count the um figure into that the the commuters the emissions outside of the city so we've got 80 000 commuters who are coming into the city every single day at least pre-covered um and those emissions are not counted in our in our figures so um the more we we're already not factoring that in um and the more that grows the more challenging it is so that's another piece in terms of providing additional housing in our community um that's an important piece and that's where the tension as we know kind of comes in in terms of you know in terms of housing growth that is not electrified versus meeting that with that real housing need that we have so I just wanted to put those in as comments um and and acknowledge you know at least say we are we're recognizing there's a lot of tension at the council table around these different goals that we have around affordability and sustainability and it's there's [Music] um it's it's challenging right now so thank you for those insights does anybody else have anything to share or questions um I had some thoughts but I may share though share those or hold those to the end of the meeting um anticipating comments from others and maybe even public comments so what I think we'll do is move on to the next section of our discussion about this General topic and actually I'm going to present um some um slides first and Missy um are you there that you can bring them up or do you want me to I can I think share my desktop um I I can although I think you are co-host okay yeah I've got them right here so I'll go ahead and do that so you go to massage so um I had mentioned earlier that uh we had met together with a Planning Commission Representatives on the 30th and um I put together this uh framing document um in an hour or so before that meeting and I thought it might be helpful um in sort of staging why we're having um this meeting tonight and the topics some that we're considering and so I wanted to cover that quickly before turning things over to Tim um so um there's a lot of construction going on in Ann Arbor a lot of it is in the housing area we know that in our relaxed housing demand has far outstrip Supply because of the growth of the U of M um as well as Tech spin-offs um and um we have as a result housing costs that have as I mentioned increased that road will roughly double the rate of the CPI and earning local earnings increases um as uh Ken Garber when he gave public comments mentioned that the carbon neutrality plan the a20 carbon neutrality plan makes it clear um that all new buildings in Ann Arbor need to be all electric energy efficient and powered by renewable energy and as Tim is going to point out to us that's backed up by the science that says we need to cut our greenhouse gas emissions 65 and eliminate um by by um 20.

chamber as well as chris clarke so she will probably join us in a little bit but thank you for um being here and thank you to you candidates for participating in this and we know that running for office is an extremely brave but very important role here in our community so i just want to thank each and every one of you first earlier this evening the candidates did draw for numbers hence that's why you see them in the order that they are um there are five candidates that are running one candidate could not be with us this evening due to a prior commitment so we actually sat down with her and um actually went over the questions and we recorded her live answering that so you're gonna get to see it unedited and so you're going to get to see that i haven't even watched the full thing in the entirety so you'll get to see that live here tonight so i just want to make sure that you knew that the chandler chamber of commerce along with the gilbert chamber and the queen creek chambers we are business organizations but i know especially i can speak on behalf of chandler but we really view education as an economic development tool and how critical that is here as we continue to move forward as a city and so we are looking for those candidates not only that are education advocates that are also business advocates because it has to be that collaboration in order for us to move forward as a community the chandler chamber represents about 170 000 employees here within the city of chandler and we are the third largest chamber in the state i want to also acknowledge chandler unified school district and thank them for the use of this facility as well as being able to host it here because this is really important to our business community i also wanted to thank all of you that are joining us online tonight i know that we had well over almost 100 people that registered online that are watching as well so this is really important tonight's recording will also be available you can it's currently on the chandler unified school district youtube channel as well as the chandler chamber channel as well this debate is a civil opportunity for our candidates to discuss their ideas and philosophies on school governments and governance and current issues that are happening we have made every means to accommodate all of the candidates and as i mentioned before about mary lou so i didn't want to leave her out as well so it is my pleasure though to move forward and introduce today's moderator and i want to welcome lisa simpson and lisa will be our moderator lisa is with the arizona newspaper association and she joined them in april of 2021 she is proud to help her industry innovate and remain a vital part of democracy and a trusted source for innovation information for future generations lisa has over 20 years of experience yes she started when she was 10 and she has held many positions with many of the newspapers such as the arizona capitol times the arizona republic the east valley tribune and las vost publishing so she studied engineering at the colorado school of mines her family leads her needs her and led her to an early career here in arizona she was in the automotive industry product design and telecom industries she moved with her husband in 1995 and began her career in the newspaper industry they chose arizona because of the outdoor activities that they so love she's an avid sports fan and loves the local teams and loves politics even more so so please put your hands together and welcome lisa simpson [Applause] thank you terry i'm excited to be here so hello and good evening to everybody as terry said my name is lisa simpson i do not have a brother named bart just in case you were curious i am the executive director for the arizona newspapers association we have over 83 newspapers in the state of arizona and i'm pleased to be here this evening to moderate this event i want to thank all of you for coming i want to thank the channelified you the chandler unified school district um for hosting this for us um and to thank the candidates for making time out of their busy schedule to come and to participate in this um it's important to discuss these these relevant issues to the chandler education community once again tonight's program is also being hosted by chandler unified school district and we want to thank them for their support and for making this evening happen and for doing all the technology for us so next i would like to introduce you to the cusd governing board candidates in alphabetical order we have laura bruner who's the incumbent we have mary lou estes and once again mary lou was unavailable to come so we did do the pre-recorded and i'll remind you as we go through she did draw a number so you guys will see her responses as we go through some of the questions charlotte gala curt roars and patty serrano [Applause] okay so the candidates did draw numbers um so we're going to start in this order we'll have mary lou charlotte kurt laura and patty so just to go over the rules for tonight the debate committee has created questions that are non-biased and education focused for the purpose of defining the candidates views on school governance and the role in the education community in answering candidates need to provide brief and succinct responses so that the maximum amount of questions can be asked this debate is a civil opportunity for candidates to discuss their ideas and philosophy on school governance and current issues that pertain to this topic in order to fully clarify the candidates views on specific issues we ask that general information about a candidate's platform be laid out in their opening statement each candidate will have two minutes for their opening statements to use as they wish a time to share basic foundational views for their campaign as well as their specific engagement with with the district candidates will provide a response to questions for a maximum of two minutes and then the comments and rebuttals will be allowed for up to one minute each our timer angie waver boards angie is seated in the front row she has a 30 second board and a thank you board so that we can all see and try to stay on time finally in order for us to better evaluate the candidate's position we ask that the audience remain respectful during the debate outbursts displaying of signs comments and any other types of disruptive behavior during the debate will not be allowed and if you engage in those you will be asked to leave so if everybody's ready we're going to get started with the program so we're going to begin with the opening statements and as a reminder you each get two minutes to do your opening statement so mary lou without even being here drew first so we will play mary lou's recording for accommodating me and the scheduling conflict um i decided to run because um i just felt that the teachers in cusd needed a voice and the students need a voice it's just you know kind of uncertain times right now for them and i am a reformer chandler teacher i taught 21 years for the district in three different schools um elementary schools i taught at uh galveston bologna and national elementary um first second and fourth grade and i just um thought that i needed to just get in there and you know speak for the teachers and speak for the kids and and also for the parents too because i know there's some you know parents are kind of questioning what's going on in the classrooms and things like that so i just felt that this was a time and i'm not you know i just wanted to do it i apologize for the video um we do have this um on here and we'll get it set up for the next one so that you can physically see mary lou also on our cheaper website we have each of the candidates their written statements as well as their video statements on there for your future viewing and we'll make sure that we get this going for the next round so let's go ahead and is that all mary lou had to say that is all that okay i had to say yes all right charlotte you have two minutes hello my name is charlotte gala and i'm running for the chandler school board my husband and i have lived in chandler since 2005 and we have four children in eighth grade sixth grade second grade in kindergarten all in chandler schools when i left the corporate world in 2013 to focus on my expanding family i realized really quickly that i missed adult conversation so i jumped head first into volunteering at my kids schools i've been room mom pto secretary pto president and fundraising chairperson i really hit my groove with fundraising so that's where i spend most of my time and last year we wrapped up our fifth annual checkathon fundraiser raising a hundred thousand dollars in-house at a two percent budget with a school with less than 500 children so i know how to get a good team together and get a crowd excited now that my baby is in kindergarten i want to give back to our community i now have the time to serve and i want to do just that i'm a creative problem solver and i really believe in our school district we have the top three elementary schools in the state with knox weinberg and cta independence and we have those top three schools because our district isn't afraid of being innovative those are three of our magnet schools and i want to be a part of that direction of our school district to keep that innovation going i'm running because i love our children of our district i love our teachers of our district and uh i have a servant's heart so i'm charlotte gala my website is charlotte for chandler.com and i look forward to serving you thank you charlotte all right kurt you're next good evening and welcome uh first i'd like to uh express our appreciation for the chandler chamber the gilbert chamber and the queen chamber for giving us this opportunity to speak to you tonight my name is kurt rowlers i'm a parent in this district i'm involved with the district for many years 15 years on the budget committee as well i moved here in 1995 there was three kids in the district all who went on to college first one just graduated from college in may and has a job by the way so i'm appreciative of the district for the good education that they got here i'm also involved with the chandler chamber public policy committee been involved with them in a number of years particularly in the education and workforce development areas my education um i have a graduate degree in chemistry which led to a technical career and then an mba in finance which led to an executive career after that i spent 18 years in the high tech industry working executive positions uh traveling all over the world working with people from many many different cultures so i was a substitute teacher in cusd so i was able to get in the classrooms to see some things that were going on there and volunteer with icann helping kids with homework after school and i coached student athletes for quite some time five things i want to work on catching up and learning loss from recent school closures scores just came out and they are bad i think it's where we really need to work improving student retention we're losing students in the district improving staff retention and then one thing i really want to work on and talk about tonight is introducing a heavier emphasis on career and technical education and workforce development for kids to be able to find jobs after they graduate from the district thank you thank you kurt now laura it's your turn um i'd also like to thank the chamber for all the hard work of planning this event and i totally appreciate all the folks that have been supporting education in our community for many years it makes chandler what it is today i'm laura and i'm a parent and national award-winning educator who has dedicated my life to serving children while earning my degree at rutgers i volunteered at a school for children with autism and at an evening school teaching english to english language learners and then i substitu substitute taught in local schools after graduating with honors i worked with students who faced intellectual and learning challenges for 13 years and since 2005 i've been teaching psychology to high school students this year i teach in the morning and i spend my afternoons working on educator retention and engagement i have served on numerous local and statewide committees for education i've developed and sponsored mental health clubs for students i've presented at national education conferences i've developed retention programs for teachers and of course i currently serve as a member of the governing board of this amazing school district thank you for having us thank you and now on to patty good afternoon everyone my name is fatih serrano and i am your chandler unified school district governing board candidate from our district for our district a special thank you of course to our chambers of commerce and sponsors for highlighting the importance of this election and creating this space to better inform our community it's no coincidence that chandler's chamber of commerce is the third largest in the state just as cusd is the third largest school district in our state this is critical what we're doing here tonight is important and i thank you to each of you here in person and those watching with us online for showing up we show up because we care and have a vested interest in what happens within our schools here in cusd that is one of the reasons i'm here tonight as your candidate for cusd governing board this decision is absolutely personal to me i'm a proud public school cusd mom my son's been in the district for over nine years since kindergarten i'm a proud cusd alum product of our schools i graduated from the second graduating class of hamilton high school in 2001 when it was brand new i hear that's not the case now we have newer high schools and my family is absolutely rooted and invested in this district i have family that has taught here for over 24 years i have family that has played a role in our staff and all of the children in my local family have gone through cusd schools in fact i have the honor of participating in our cusd's i am chandler campaign as a cusd mom alum and community member i have distinct ties to our district as a mom i get it and am ready to bring representation to cusd that prioritizes the best whole child education that we can offer in all of our schools north and south of the 202 for all of our students educators staff and community at large thank you thank you all right we're now going to move on to the question as a reminder um for if you're the candidate with your question you get two minutes to answer then each candidate will have one minute to comment or rebut after that okay so charlotte you have the first question what can be done to improve student achievement and ensure everyone who graduates graduates is either work or higher education ready so our goal as a district when our children graduate is to have them ready for enrollment enlistment entrepreneurship or employment and so then what does that look like as a district it means we have to focus on getting them college ready which as a district i do feel we do a very good job at getting children college ready but we have to understand not all children are on the college path so one thing we must do is expand our technical education programs our chandler technical education that's something that i hear a lot about on our study sessions and our board meetings that needs to continue to expand so that we have people ready to go out into the workforce right away so that would be a focus for me on the board would be to extend that technical education we also have to make sure that our children are becoming critical thinkers the problem-based learning that we've implemented at several of our schools should be a model for our other schools we have this at our gifted schools we don't have it at our other schools i don't believe this is just a model for gifted children problem-based learning could get the kids at our title one schools so excited about and invested in their education and i understand that it will be very different than what it's looked like in the past but it's something we have to look at because if we can get kids excited about learning and excited to go to school then they become lifelong learners and a lifelong learner is somebody who is going to go out into the workforce and be a good employee so expanding that problem-based learning curriculum as well as expanding our chandler technical education curriculum would be how i would go about that thank you charlotte uh kurt do you have anything to add or say you have you response or original comments you have one minute all right this is something that i really would like to work on very strongly i think alluded to my original comments but there has to be a pathway for kids out of school when i was substitute teaching i was in some classes talked to some of the seniors they had a look of absolute fear in their eyes this is in may they're about to graduate and it's the end of the road and they do not know what they're going to do it's a very real thing there are four pathways one is the college track which the district does push quite a bit but another one is the trade schools another one's technical certificate programs and everyone's a military which has some of the best training for kids coming out of school available so thank you laura um i think the core of what we do in education is to prepare students for their future that future is absolutely including academics they need to learn to read they need to learn to solve problems related to mathematical and scientific and social issues they need to learn to communicate well both in writing and you know interacting one-on-one and with larger groups we also want to build character traits in our students financial literacy we want them to be able to use technology efficiently and understand their rights and responsibilities as citizens this is a tall order for schools and the research shows that the number one way to do this is to hire the best teachers they make the most the greatest impact on our students and we need to create programs and find ways to retain the excellent teachers that we already have through things like stay interviews and my time is up thank you thank you and pati hi there so i think this starts by what we're literally doing here tonight strategically coordinating with our chamber and other stakeholders to continue to offer and expand on opportunities a great example is our successful partnership and relationship in regards to ctes and what we do with evit we should grow those type of partnerships and that would look like promoting the option of career and technical education it would look like working with our local businesses to include ctes alongside them and internships and finally i believe it's critical in addressing what's to come by the year 2030 arizona will be a minority majority state we have to ask ourselves are we directly addressing that preparing for it and doing what's right to prepare our students knowing that's inevitable okay thank you very much now we're going to move on to the second last couple of years with the pandemic you know just gorge where they took a dive on that because the you know the in-person learning is so much more efficient and teachers are not trained to do online teaching as well and so just that the connection with the students in in the classroom is just so important and i just felt as far as the improvement how we can get them back up to speed is boy that's just you know have summer schools or or um after school programs but you know it just this was a difficult time for the students and the teachers and of course the parents as well because they have to you know watch the kids but to get them up to speed it's just you know i think it just is going to take time and a lot of i i really don't have an answer once you know if i'm elected on the board we can come up with a program and um have some ideas from you know all businesses and schools to you know maybe help but exacerbate the problem right now so sorry i forgot about mary lou okay now we're going to go on to question number two kurt what do you think needs to be done for school safety and what can a governing board member do to keep staff and students safe yeah this is probably the scariest thing for for parents and for teachers as well concerning some of the stuff that have happened i know that after one tragedy they had in the east coast the district did respond and put up fencing around every school in the district at a substantial expense okay and they felt they needed to do that one never was in the budget they used the reserve funding for that i have visited some of the schools and they're tightening up that as as well with the sally port concept but i really liked having the sros and schools these are police offices that are paid for by the district and the city to make sure that we have somebody there in case of a very difficult situation we have a new security chief here who's uh ex-pd if we've met him i think he's great and i think we'll probably continue to work on a lot of the safety things that that we need to work on the other thing that really concerns me now is the drug problem and i don't think we talk about this enough we've all seen the pictures of the candy colored fentanyl pills those are coming in the schools and we're going to start losing some kids if we don't jump on this right away so what i hate to say it but you probably need some devotion programs for kids that are caught and to really crack down anybody dealing drugs in school should be dealt with very very harshly that's the other safety concern that we have to worry about thank you laura do you have comments yes thank you um safety has many facets to it for our students one of them of course is physical safety of the place where they go every day and yes we have a new director of safety who has been looking and meeting with actually lots of community partners the police department and lots of folks to make sure that we are meeting all the needs for physical safety including for example things like making sure the fencing is secure the entryways locking of doors those kinds of things but there's other aspects to safety as well one includes school resource officers who can be a great asset to the community if you choose the right people to be those resource officers they need to have want to develop a relationship with our students in a positive way where where they can interact with a police officer and feel comfortable with that person and not intimidated by them and we also need to look at social emotional learning the number two way our students are dying in our junior highs and high schools is by suicide and we need to make sure we have a comprehensive plan that's evidence-based and community-based thank you party well as a parent here in our district it's we all want to keep our school community safe that's not a question here i think in regards to sros i think as a school board member it is my responsibility to make sure that we're paying attention to the financial aspect to this and what we already know um i didn't say this in my introduction but i come from an a background in evidence-based research i work in academic research at one of our public our largest public state universities and so i am always following the data and i'm sorry to share but the reality is that to date there exists no evidence that funding sros in our schools makes a difference in keeping our school campuses safe that evidence does not exist we need to follow what evidence does exist and we know that investing in school counselors and social workers really does make a difference if we look at the data aces have gone down we need to pay attention to that okay thank you did you want to play mariolino i know there are this is of a touchy subject you know actually because i know some parents you know are okay with sros and police on campus and some parents are not they just feel that you know that's with the police presence the kids aren't comfortable i think um that right now even when i was teaching they had a you know there's protocol in place for the lockdowns and what the kids are very i mean i don't want to say well trained but they know the protocol and they know what to do when you know there's uh emergency drill or whatever but as far as i think if the board decided to or chandler pd you know got more police presence as a rules or whatever on campus the one thing i want to make sure is that they the officers are very well trained for to know the students it's you know we've had some uh i'm sure episodes where they just don't have the connection or they you know um kids are kids and teenagers especially they're you know they have their own um personality and that i just think that the the sros and the police need to be trained to know be a little more cognizant of the teenagers and all the kids all right on to question number three oh i'm sorry see i'm always forgetting somebody all right charlotte your turn so there's multiple ways to address school safety at school sros being one of them training for our staff on what an at-risk child looks like as well also more parent education for the parents in our community our kids have been through a really rough two years parents need some information on what it looks like when their child is struggling we also need to address our student mental health issues it's not students with good mental health that are creating some school safety issues and we can look to set up a satellite center similar to the care center in the southern part of our district and partner with either not my kid or i can or something like that and again so that will happen resources that the parents can access for their children to help them with their mental health okay did you want to rebut the other question the school safety question or was that your okay because the next question is is under youth mental health all right so sorry about that okay laura this one starts with you youth mental health is an important issue for school administrations and state and local governments what can you do as a governing board member to support these types of programs students staffs and parent thank you for the question we know that over the last decade this has truly become a crisis it's always been an issue for students but it's an increasingly prevalent one unfortunately um and and a lot of attention is given to suicides and certainly there should be and that is a big piece of our mental health program but it also should address um an entire comprehensive plan with the community we need to have our government partners our non-profits and our specialists in the field out in our community partnering with us to this because the school district does not have the resources to meet all the needs of our students and as charlotte mentioned earlier part of that also is the parent education piece and so we want to make sure that we access parks and recreation and the city and the school district to reach as many parents as possible on how to know the signs of you know when your child needs counseling hopefully way before they ever get to the point where they're contemplating ending their lives another element of the social emotional learning is how to interact with each other how to develop relationships which can be a preventative intervention that we can do with students to help them make connections with others and have those social supports that are so vital another piece of the mental health process is that currently i've been working for the last six months or so with multiple folks trying to get this collective way of looking at mental health and it's an issue because to be honest there has been some resistance in the community to talking about it and to working on it and we and we are taking the lead in chandler to try to pull everyone together and we are bringing in a national expert hopefully this will happen in the next month or so where we have multiple people from different groups coming in and contributing to the plan thank you thank you pati well i think we need to start by listening it's that simple we need to do a better job listening to those directly impacted first and i just mentioned the acronym asus in my previous previous comment and i wanted to make sure i defined that those are adverse childhood events that have gone up over the past years cusd has lost students in the last year as many of you are aware to death by suicide clearly we have a problem but one of our problems is our lack of listening to those directly impacted like our students so my plan is to make space for those students listen to them not just at school board meetings but in a meaningful way to carry discussion and dialogue as they know their situation best we need to recognize our students who come here to advocate for their needs and not just the experts our students are their own experts in their own lives thank you are we ready for mary lou cusd has put in place quite a few programs right now so um and they have i think 92 counselors and 21 social workers throughout the district and i think they have put you know quite a bit of money into those programs and they have had other entities come in to to help with the youth mental health issues and i think it's a good start of what they're doing but we need to find out why and talk to the kids and have something you know where they have a safe zone to go in and you know maybe talk to a counselor and just feel like you know or have a group of students that can meet in a you know a club i know they do have a student club but i think they need to feel comfortable enough to be able to talk to someone and whether it be a counselor and a teacher and i know some parents don't feel that you know that is that they don't want their child to talk to teachers but i feel that teachers have that okay charlotte sorry i thought you'd read my mind earlier on the other question so so as i mentioned earlier youth mental health is important for school safety but it's also important to create better learners happy kids equal better learners so um as i mentioned um you know we we need some parent education offerings so that the parents can learn the risk signs but also learn how to listen to their children you know my my kids tell me they feel like a lot of the adults in their lives just aren't listening to them and sometimes we just need to step back a little and get a reminder from a third party on on how best to uh create that active listening environment i'd also advocate for a youth mental health commission so that we could again listen to our students and what their needs are and as i mentioned create a satellite center in the southern part of our district somewhat like the care center and have it as a place for children to go for the parents to take them there to access those mental health services thank you and kurt one thing i'd really like to understand about this is the causes i mean just treating symptoms is one thing but treating the causes will actually start to impact the problem kids are under so much more social pressure now than they ever had been before and part of this may be because a lot of political agendas are being driven through the education system that parents in particular are not real happy with so the second part of this is parents have to be involved you can't hide these things from parents and try to treat the kid yourself it has to be a joint effort between it now you know there was a presentation here a few weeks ago and they talked about that uh extensively here most of the programs are based with the county health department so we need to make it take advantage of the programs that are available instead of trying to reinvent the wheel here in chandler there is a lot of resources available with the county and let's use those thank you okay now we're going to start on the next question pathy you can start this one off for us this past arizona legislative session had a large number of education and school bills that became law which bill gave you the most concern and how will you handle the implementation as a board member well i hope we are all somewhat familiar with the aggregates expenditure limit it is not a new law but and we waited until the very last minute at the end of this legislative session to approve uh passing the cap on that limit basically there's a limit to the budget that is handed down from the state to our school districts we were put in a very very heated situation this last spring with the threat of them not lifting that cap what that would have resulted in is us not being able to possibly finish the school year in other school districts i do applaud cusd because we have reservation funds that would have met the need for us to finish the school year but we have to address all of our students throughout the state and be good neighbors i think it's extremely important to advocate for repealing this limit and that is something that i'm really looking forward being done in this new legislative session and i hope people join the advocacy that we're doing throughout our pro-education organizations it's critical that we repeal this limit so that we don't find ourselves in this situation again and that we can keep our reservations as they're needed our schools need to be properly funded and it is incumbent on our district boards to advocate for that funding in order to move our state students forward together again i'm a proud public school mom advocate and i have been involved for many years addressing these issues on the state level thank you do you want to okay here we go i think the one that concerns me the most is the funding and the ael the aggregate expenditure limit because that is going to happen year after year after year until the legislature or the constitution is amended because i just get a fear that this is going to occur like i said year after year and we need to do something because once you give a district x amount of dollars they're planning their budget around those x amount of dollars and then towards the end of the year it's like oops no you can't have that eight million dollars that we told you you could have so um something needs to be done and i think that is a very important um whether it be a bill i know uh representative pollock introduced a bill to extend that um ael for one year but i like i said i fear that this is going to occur every year thank you charlotte yes and i'll respond to the aggregate expenditure limit um so the aggregate expenditure limit is a taxpayer protection that was passed in the 1980s and um i don't disagree that it is very difficult for the districts to be given a budget and then not have access to that budget if it exceeds the aggregate expenditure limit but what i would advocate for would be fixing the limit so excluding the prop 301 money as it used to be but then wasn't upon renewal and then updating the calculation to be more reflective of our times that way the state legislature can then give a budget that falls within the aggregate expenditure limit because it is it is untenable for the district to be given a budget and then lucy with the football have it taken away but we cannot totally abandon that taxpayer protection either we need to fix the limit thank you kurt yeah the one i was most interested in was that there were finally some restrictions put in on crt type doctrine in the schools now yeah i know it's only taught in law schools and la but you know if he walks like a duck and talks like a duck it's probably a duck so judging kids based on their race and then separating the injured groups and calling one oppressed and one oppressor that needs to stop their kids and i can tell you being in schools they don't really care about this so there are a couple things in there holding kids responsible because of the race for things that happened decades ago or even centuries ago you know holding kids morally responsible for things that other people do in the race we shouldn't be judging kids this way let them be kids and i'm really glad the legislator finally got this right thank you all right and laura um so the question was which bills give us the most concern and honestly there's a lot to choose from i'm not going to lie and so i'm not going to go into the aggregate expenditure limit because we've talked a lot about that that is certainly a concern as well as other means by which they are trying to remove funding from our district schools um those are huge concerns for us um but i'll also talk a little bit about some of the other things that might be smaller issues but have a great impact on our ability to hold on to our excellent educators there have been multiple bills that have been proposed not just this year but the last few years where we lower the standards for teachers for them to become you know an educator of our children in the classroom and in addition we are questioning every word and every activity that our teachers do and if you don't think that impacts people and what they do every day you are being very naive people do not feel like they're supported by the community in the classroom because they feel like they're targets and they're afraid and i think we need to look at that again and explore how we can [Music] support our teachers not undermine them thank you okay we're going to move on to question number five sorry the way it's set up is you get to do oh yeah who started no you started it right sorry yep nope you started it so if you want to wrap something up in your closing remarks you'll you'll have a chance then but no you started off with you started off with the two minutes so yeah okay so question number five um we'll start with mary lou and the question is do you support programming that includes diversity equity and inclusion and social and emotional learning and cusd chandler go ahead and finish i'm sorry so once again the question is do you support programming that includes diversity equity and inclusion and social and emotional learning in cusd why or why not i do support the diversity and social emotional learning in chandler because it's such a very diverse community we have um the large hispanic community we have the high school kids that feel that they're not being heard whether it's the lgbtq community um and i feel that there's programs out there and i think we just need to work and um on um expanding the programs for the um the diverse population that chandler you know has i mean it is a very diverse community okay charlotte and that's a loaded question but exactly but i will say um i support open honest and direct communication uh at all levels so um you know for our k through six children i think that the best social emotional learning happens through free play i mean i i even had someone tell me once when i was putting my kindergartner on the bus the best social skills classes the bus you know so um so i definitely support social emotional learning in that aspect when it comes into your middle school and high school we have to foster a community where children can have that open honest and direct dialogue and have those difficult conversations so um that is the community that i would foster in our district thank you kurt yeah regarding sel i mean people need to understand it's now a state statute that we have to have this in our curriculum there's not a lot of detail about how it's supposed to manifest itself but i would say this i think the goal should be to be as a political as possible as we address these things this has to be about character and how people treat each other and being in the schools of the kids they really didn't care about race they cared about how people behave towards them that's i think what the real focus needs to be and maybe pull back some from some of the other things that we've done here um some people think we should look at everything through the lens of racism no we don't no we don't we should look at things to the way that people treat each other in their daily lives thank you thank you kurt laura i think the two core questions when we're looking at diversity equity and inclusion all three of those are that we have to look at the curriculum the materials that we are providing our students and do they reflect those who are using them is the curriculum helping to support our students so that they're prepared for the global society that they will be becoming a part of if they are not already experiencing people from all around the world they will be probably in their future and then secondly we need to look at do we have staff members that reflect the variety of backgrounds and experiences of our students and one more thing to add on to this is inclusion also includes students who have learning disabilities and have intellectual disabilities and we need to be continually striving to improve their instruction to give them opportunities to be included in the general curriculum as much as possible as well as providing all the needs that are there for our gifted students as well thank you and pati absolutely to all of the above in fact one of the main issues in my campaign is supporting the whole child education which encompasses beyond academics the social and emotional component along with mental health our job here in our district is to produce the best kids we can that means meeting them where they're at and addressing all of their needs in order for them to reach their full potential by recognizing and celebrating our differences and our real history we will better be set up to produce excellence in our students and i'm incredibly proud to be the only woman of color on this ticket and make history by being the first latina elected to see usd school board where 30 percent of our children are latino and over half of our students are now non-white identifying thank you thank you very much okay we're running pretty much on schedule so we're going to wrap up here we have our last question before we get to the closing so i think we should go to the closing um so that we remain on time okay all right so we're going to skip that one and we're going to go right to the closing so um we've heard a lot of really good responses tonight and we're going to give each of the candidates two minutes for their closing remarks we're going to go in reverse order from what we did with the opening remarks so papi you have two minutes for your closing remarks thank you lisa well this has just been wonderful everyone thank you again including the fellow candidates for participating and thank you all for informing yourselves on our important election for chandler unified school district governing board i hope through today's debate or forum that our chamber and community have grown to learn more about me pati serrano my vision my passion and commitment to serving our district in my best capacity every day i drop off my child to school i'm reminded of how much i love our district and rely on our district with my greatest gift my child as parents i understand we just want what's best for all of our children while recognizing those other stakeholders involved like our teachers our staff and community at large including our chamber again as a mom i get it and i'm ready to bring representation to cusd that prioritizes that whole child education so we can offer the best we can at all of our schools as your school board member i will listen starting with our students first we've already started on the right foot by holding a student round table with current students i'm excited to bring their issues to our board and address them i invite you to join us in any capacity and help elect someone from our district for our district you can learn more about me and find out how to get involved at serrano for chandler.com thank you patty laura you get your two minutes now okay thank you as a current school board member and lifelong educator i will continue to rely on evidence-based practices on listening to all stakeholders when making decisions i also wanted to mention a few other issues we didn't have time for in some of our questions just to make sure some of the priorities that i have are shared as well our population is aging and our enrollment is declining and we must do everything we can to try to bring students to our schools through high motivation methods with project-based learning inquiry-based lessons career and technical education allowing teachers to be innovative so that we can increase our graduation rates improve not only our academic but as well all the all the different needs that our students have to be successful in college career and life um all our efforts to increase enrollment once those are exhausted then we need to look at our community to see how we can repurpose our land and buildings in a way where the neighborhoods and the districts benefit there is a retention crisis for our staff we still have a few positions that are open in this district that we can't fill and most other districts are doing even worse than we are we need to create a plan where we gather information from our employees in a proactive way where we have a meet and confer process for non-budgetary issues so that staff feel like people are listening and that they can address the problems before they become too large and insurmountable we need to give teachers autonomy and a voice we need to make their jobs sustainable by providing the resources that they need we need to foster connections with the community to help our the mental health of our students and we need to maximize our funds towards salaries thank you thank you kurt well again i want to thank you all for being here um last couple comments i wanted to make is that i go to a lot of school board meetings and one thing i've noticed over the last several years there is nobody on the board that really represents the rights of parents and the rights and the concerns of parents and that's why i think we need to get a couple parents on the school board arizona state law is very very clear it says that the liberty of parents to direct the upbringing education health care and mental health of their children is a fundamental right that includes the right to direct the education of the minor child the parents have that right the right to access all records regarding the minor child the right to direct the upbringing of the minor child and the right to direct the moral and religious training of the mild child that is not the responsibility of the school district the responsibility of the school district is to teach them to read and write and do math and the second thing i wanted to bring up is that we're facing i believe a very serious problem in our learning loss here i want to make sure that all schools all schools have are below are above fifty percent proficiency in leading and math we have schools that are down to twenty and thirty percent range and it got much worse over the school shutdown the third thing is really starting to push job skills training and workforce development is very important to the city is very important to the chandler chamber i want kids to have a pathway out of high school that's very well defined and i think we do a much better job with that thank you thank you very much all right charlotte i want to close with some of the very life experiences that i bring to the board and then also with um what i want to accomplish as a board member so the life experiences i bring are varied and it begins with having a reading specialist for a mother so my mother was a teacher in public schools then at a literacy center for illiterate mothers a tutor for children with dyslexia and finally a teacher trainer in the wilson reading system watching her dedication to education with a focus on the most important cornerstone of reading shaped my appreciation for educators i ended up following in my father's footsteps not my mother's and worked in our family tpa business i worked in implementation throughout high school and college and then after i was shipped out to get some sales experience at other insurance companies returned to be the regional sales manager for the western region until we sold the company to wage works in 2013.

are we ready yeah okay board members are we are we ready to start thank you thank you for being here we will begin this work study and brief board business meeting at 6 pm tuesday september 13 2022 and i have called the meeting to order and we'll go right to to the presentation and discussion topics starting with 2.01 marketing and communications update dr mccord thank you madam president governing board members welcome everyone to the meeting tonight uh first up for this evening we will bring up our director of communications and marketing uh don antestenis she's just gonna give us an update of kind of what we're doing and how we're moving forward with regards to that so done thank you governing board president um governing board okay move it forward okay thank you thank you madam president governing board member superintendent for the opportunity to come here this evening just to give you some updates on marketing initiatives and a little bit of a focus on enrollment campaigns going into well during the school year and for 2023-24 [Music] okay so quick overview our marketing goals are always to increase awareness within our community and beyond of all of the incredible opportunities that we offer for students both academically and extracurricular all the different programs and alongside that we're always looking to build a trusted brand and last year when i came and spoke to you at a governing board meeting we focused a lot on building trust with our community and the importance of that with all of the different stakeholders our students our existing parents members of our community and potential families also student retention and staff retention are always a goal we'll talk a little bit in a moment about some of the factors that influence enrollment and the experience of our existing gps family is a really key part of that and ultimately a marketing goal is always increased enrollment so with everything that we look at now whether it be data regarding enrollment experiences everything is a little bit through a lens of the pandemic so i thought it would be useful just to bring up this slide here which was actually the marketing mission statements that we had for 2018 2019 and really to highlight the division of retaining existing students recruiting new students and winning back law students and all of the different elements of the mission and our unique selling position are still the same so we really have this solid foundation to build on of academic excellence educational choice a well-rounded educational experience and also the different strengths that we have um and the position that our schools have within our community i did add in a couple of points in orange which i think are what as a department we're going to really focus on to deliver results one is working in partnership with our schools and departments so i think i've said it quite a few times and i continue to say it that enrollment is really everyone's business and a big part of what we try and do when we're building brand when we're bringing in different tools that our schools can use to communicate and market is we're trying to empower the people on our campuses and also in our departments to share the good news to constantly be putting information out there about why people should choose gps for their students education and we actually have now over a hundred staff who are specifically trained across the campuses as campus communications teams and we provide them with ongoing training and support they also have access to a whole wide range of tools and resources so that they can so we can all work collaboratively it's really key to achieving our goals um and then also just we're always adding new channels of communication for our parents it's always important with marketing to bring the message to people rather than expecting them to just find it out on their own so in addition to social media and newsletters we have the district app gold as a tool for celebrating school news newsletters and social media with regards to the unique selling position still delivering academic excellence for over 100 years and we have again that solid foundation and i think we're going to continue to have an increased focus on educational choice within gilbert public schools and really emphasizing that students and families can find what they're looking for right here um quickly just to show you this was actually the slide from last year when i came and spoke um and we emphasized what works and we talked about additions to our marketing toolbox which was gilbert gold as a means of celebrating and some new targeted campaigns like level up we also added in the campus communication teams and we began to really promote educational choice within gps more on that in a moment so some of the highlights from what we worked on during the 2021-22 school year for gilbert gold we actually published 72 stories um and just this week i think it's cause for celebration one of the news channels took a gilbert gold story that we had on our website regarding greenfield elementary and a kindergartner who raised funds for his teacher and just took the whole entire story and published it as a news story which i'm taking as a compliment unbeknownst to us yeah we see our schools you know how it is we see your your school district on tv and you're like hey this was great stuff so it was good yeah it was really positive and so that's really our intention with gilbert gold was to tell positive stories about what was happening in the district to increase morale to retain our families and also to spread the word about what's happening here in gilbert and our team were really excited we won a national school pr award of excellence for that as a marketing campaign great job thank you um also our campus communication team as i mentioned briefly um we have this team and i think it's important to acknowledge that it's not necessarily originally part of these team members job descriptions so we have attendance specialists administrative assistants principals teachers who are all actively creating newsletters updating our websites putting social media out there and we're extremely grateful for all of the work that they do we provide training monthly resources and we've created a quarterly newsletter that we send out to them with resources and tips and tricks and to make that part of their job easier um another highlight was level up and pave the path so if you remember from last year level up was initiated if that's the right term to support our sixth grade families and students moving into junior high and there were a number of goals behind that one was to retain 100 of our sixth graders we know that the most shopping around for schools happens at that transition and we also know that larger numbers of students are not at their boundary school when it comes to junior high so we were looking to retain all of those students and also bring in new families it was particularly important because last year was the time that the fifth grade i called him the fifth grade covert cohort which is not a good term name um but there was a we when we saw losses during the pandemic it was particularly at the kinder level and also at fifth grade and last year was when those fifth graders were coming into seventh grade so it was a smaller cohort moving up so we gave special attention to that and i think we were anticipating around a 300 loss and we really minimized that and attracted additional students in and excitingly as we were doing that community education and our preschool teams came up with pave the path and that you'll see we're gonna um do again this year that was designed to try and retain 100 of our preschoolers into kindergarten um and i'll share a bit more about that so those were the highlights any questions so far okay um so for enrollment i think it's important to identify that marketing doesn't solve everything and there are other factors that affect enrollment including reputation experience quality competition birth rate cost of living boundaries and programs alongside that we collected some data regarding our two requests so when families requested tourist school they complete a form and we added the question how did you hear about us we gathered about three months worth of data and this is how um which i find really interesting but this is how the percentages worked out so 30 was recommendation and i think that's when we're talking about the importance of customer service and the experience of our existing families that's really powerful and word of mouth is always the most valuable form of marketing second is internet and google search and so that just really highlights the importance of our um websites and keeping them up to date and having content like gilbert gold and the calendars up to date and that really matches how people find things nowadays so if you're looking for a restaurant if you're looking for purchasing a car your first port of call will always be the internet to do research and the same holds for schools the third twenty percent was other which was majority of people living within the boundaries of the school and campus signage was 13 driving past our schools and older students attend digital advertising and newspaper ads so for 2223 um the way that we try and do things as a team is build on what's successful so we'll continue to focus on what works and the additions from last year um and then bringing in some new campaigns which i'll briefly go through focusing on educational choice within gps those transition campaigns for retention and recruitment new program growth campaigns we had a number of new programs last year and over the last couple of years so really looking at how we can support them to grow and thrive with enrollment a kindergarten readiness campaign and then customer service so with choice comes potential confusion um for our parents and a key part of the marketing campaigns around educational choice within gps is going to be supporting our families to navigate the different options that are available to their students so that they can find the right fit for their child and their family if i click on this it should go to the website so this is just some initial work along those lines where we have um explore gps and we have these different icons representing some of the different choices available and then different ways that families can explore the schools scheduling a tour attending information nights focusing on the different options now we'll try and get back to the here we go um so i think it's important to highlight when we're talking about choosing our schools and looking at the different options that we do have these really strong neighborhood elementary schools and comprehensive junior highs and high schools offering already a really wide range of academic and extracurricular opportunities and then we also have um more program specific or alternative curriculum options whether it be traditional dual language accelerated options so really making sure that we're providing parents with the full selection and helping them to understand um how those are different and connecting their student potentially with the different options so highlighting that there's choice highlighting the choices educating on the choices and supporting the families to navigate and then also last but not least helping them secure their choice so that's a really important part with regard to enrollment um would be the tours and we're always working with our front office staff to make sure that they're responding quickly to tour requests that they're um following up afterwards to check if the families have any questions and to um support them basically to get them over the line to be enrolled for the next year we're constantly putting out information this is just an example of some of it so for example for gilbert accelerated middle middle school we had information nights highlighting what the school offers each school has their own promotion materials and and we're also create videos um this is just a brief example um which i can show you which is to highlight for a canyon rim so i think canyon room is a good example because it offers two choices within one school so again how do we help parents to understand what that means what is the difference between traditional and the conventional classroom would it be a good fit for their student and their family so this is just an example of some of the content we try and create hopefully [Music] [Applause] i'm in third grade at canada in third grade we started learning long division i enjoy specials like pe library computers art and music we have specials every day and today is library [Music] we do good in class you can become cougar in the month and get a pizza party in fourth grade one thing we got to do was go to the movies for a field trip and do a recorder concert at canyon room we do fun things like the fun run and the talent show in fourth grade i enjoyed learning about magnets and electricity and how light bulbs work we're learning about money and right now we're talking about saving money every year there's a crew carnival and it has a bunch of fun stuff kenyan room's just a really fun school to be at so yeah just trying to each one of our schools is so different it has its own personality and experience so always trying to show visually what does it look like in a classroom and ultimately the students tell the story the best every time okay so with the transition campaigns which we're calling them as i mentioned the aim is to really retain 100 of students that we already have within gilbert public schools and to recruit new students and families and also i think it can't be underestimated it's to support our existing students and families so it's a customer service if you want to use that term um as well so pave the path as i mentioned was introduced in the 21 22 school year um really huge thanks to the community education team and the preschool leaders for that and the way that worked was and all of the preschoolers had the opportunity to attend kindergarten for the day at their school they received water bottle stickers information to take home so they went home to their parents and hopefully shared great experiences about being in kindergarten and then we follow up with support on how to enroll for the following year and the goal with that is for them to enroll at any elementary school in gilbert public schools we do see movement and from the preschoolers they're not necessarily going to attend the preschool that they have the school that they've been at level up the same that was the projected loss potentially of 400 students because of that fifth grade cohort and actual loss of 86 which was a significant achievement and meant that we did attract a number of students from out of district um the goal is to retain 100 of our 6th graders we do do um as part of level up we will contact directly all of our outer district sixth graders to make sure that they are staying with gilbert public schools and then i think last time when i was here we talked about could we introduce something for the transition to high school so the working title right now is next level um there's still conversations to be had with our secondary principles to get their input into what they currently do and what will work for them but a similar uh goal will be 100 retention over eighth graders um attracting new students and and then also providing that support piece for the families to navigate the different course choices electives that kind of thing so here's just a little bit more information you can see there and there was the again the front office staff did a phenomenal job with pave the path contacting directly by phone every single preschooler to welcome them to the school and to support them with any enrollment questions and then level up which consists of the level up days where the sixth graders visit their junior high also the family preview nights and then plans for next level another big focus as i mentioned is going to be building enrollment at the new programs that have been introduced a big part of this is actually raising awareness for the first year of any program it's completely new and to an extent it takes a little bit of a leap of faith for the students and the families to enroll in something new that has not existed previously um so we're working with for example gilbert accelerated middle school students and the ib students and the accelerated students at the five elementaries k-6 to follow them throughout the year and then also the performance academy to really help for we're basically asking the students to help us create content so we can tell the story about what the experience is like of being in those programs so that then we can share that with families and they can watch that content they can read about it and they can hopefully see their student in these different programs and that will make the decision easier for them um and then of course celebrating successes so i have another video as an example um this is what we've we've picked four um gilbert accelerated middle school students that we're following throughout the year so we're basically interviewing them every four to six weeks to get their insight on what their experiences and this is one of the first ones [Music] we all really know each other i know mostly everyone's name here the fact that it's a small classroom it just feels more intimate i guess because we're all talking to each other we know each other's names the teachers i thought that they would be like middle school teachers but they're high school teachers it's pretty cool because now we get to see other kids from on the campus and we get to like hear about what the high school teachers teach they're on level kids or like their older kids and it's pretty cool so that's just one example but we're trying to focus on creating content around some of the um concerns that parents might have so for example you know it's a real highlight for the student and you can see on her face that she's being taught by high school teachers so the idea that for some parents that might feel a bit nerve-wracking but actually being able to see it from the point of view of the student that that's actually the value that she's getting from it she enjoys that so um we're excited to keep building that content and as we do we're learning a lot about the programs and from the students and and what they enjoy um similarly for the performance academy we're working on a day in the life video right now following them at mesquite l in south valley and then going to legacy just really trying to tell the stories and to help our parents give them all the tools so that they don't miss out on these different opportunities that are open for their students um kindergarten readiness so um we're bringing back some of the tools that we used for kindergarten enrollment prior to the pandemic and one of which is the kindergarten readiness fairs and that was previously held at the greenfield library so we're looking at how can we kind of supercharge those efforts and work as a team so the marketing team is working alongside community education preschool teams and elementary to create an event that will then be tied into the other initiatives so for example pave the path is going to be probably around i think early march that the preschool students will go to a kinder classroom and then one week later we'll have a kindergarten readiness fair so we'll be able to say to parents you know your student had this opportunity experienced that you probably heard about it now registered to come to our fair they do vision screenings they'll get an opportunity to learn all about kinder and we'll have a q a session with kindergarten teachers so we're really trying to integrate everything and to make it as easy as possible for our parents to navigate noting of course that kindergarten is really key for us because that's where a lot we're welcoming a lot of families for the first time to gps so not only haven't they haven't experienced our schools potentially they don't know anything about our district so events such as that we're really we're building trust with the brand we want to provide them with community resources and really welcome them to the gps family and provide them clarity with the options because there's options and choices at kinder we have a huge range we have the dual language five accelerated campuses with kindergarten traditional so there's a lot of different options for them to navigate not just choosing kinder and the goal of course is increasing enrollment um when we look at data and analysis of you know over the five years ten years kindergarten is definitely a vulnerability for us and all surrounding districts so that's an area that we're going to put a lot of focus and that is my conclusion any questions i i have a couple things a couple questions i really appreciate the collaboration that we're building a team and helping the schools to be involved so it's not falling just on the shoulders of a few people you and two or three others that's that's not manageable um especially in keeping our website fresh and updated so i really appreciate that um one question i have is we put a lot into explaining what our traditional classrooms are like i would really like to see us put something into explaining we call them conventional classrooms i prefer collaborative classrooms but classrooms have changed a great deal in the last few years and i think that explaining what a collab a collaborative or conventional classroom is like so that people don't look at it oh this is what i did when i went to school because it's really not it's really changed a great deal and i i would just like to see some more emphasis on that and i don't know if that's where we talk about you know where you're talking about the elementary schools but definitely um you know we're doing a lot of things differently than we were 10 years ago yes yeah definitely and i think that's an important piece is not to lose the um conventional classroom collaborative classroom to not to lose the value of those classrooms and the schools the neighborhood the community schools um and like i said the comprehensive high schools the junior high and all the different options that are there as well that's going to be a really key part of what we're looking at this year for sure okay and then i wanted to ask about i mean it said newspaper ads only one percent are using but have we used many newspaper ads i mean it might be very small because we haven't used many newspaper ads we do we do um regular newspaper ads in the local newspapers um primarily gilbert sun and then also east valley tribune in the area where our schools are in mesa and then we also do ads in for example like the morrison ranch magazine eastmark doesn't have paper they it's in their newsletter so we continue to do that it's a solid foundation of marketing that we wouldn't want to lose no that's i understand i just wasn't you know our our newspaper market is a little more fragmented than it was you know years ago yes um well the value of print advertising and digital advertising is when people frequently see our brand and see the information and then maybe they drive past the school so it's not always just the one factor there's multiple factors in there so having that visibility is important too all right thank you don congratulations and and my compliments to you and and your team i said this the last time you presented and and you have done just an incredible job of keeping gilbert public schools out in front and in the public view without asking you to dump dirt on things because this is exceptional stuff it's quite innovative and it promotes the district well from my point of view but in the pr department as it were what are some of the challenges you face and what some of the challenges the schools face as we really search and look to refine those things that we're doing and innovate where we can well thank you first of all one of the challenges is always going to be competition i always say we have the most charter schools in the world here but we have i think it's 18 within our boundaries and 26 additional within a mile and that hasn't changed since i started here five years ago so that's an ever present and then also increasing competition with surrounding districts particularly when surrounding districts are experiencing enrollment laws for the first time so they're switching up how they market so that's one challenge that we face i think the number of schools that we have and our campus communications team approach has significantly helped with that and that i cannot thank those people enough for what they do every day and how receptive they are to me constantly emailing them with and can you please put this on your marquee and but i think we've streamlined the processes for that to make it easier for them so for example we create graphics and verbage that schools can drop into their newsletters so we're always trying to look at how can we make people's jobs easier while delivering what we're trying to do and and building those relationships is key to that um but really what they do is exceptional because as well i'm always saying when we share information as a district people read it but when they share information as a school people really read it and and definitely value it more because that's such a unique special relationship between the families and their child's school so just always emphasizing those things and working collaboratively definitely helps and we'll keep building those partnerships again thank you thank you thanks again uh and if you need an example uh the my next-door neighbor recently bought the home next to me and uh they explained that they had done a tremendous amount of research on gilbert public schools before they moved here from out of state back east and this was the reason that they bought the house there so that's uh you know that's that's something that people do now in the days of the internet and everything so it's working thank you thank you i just want to say that i think that the campus teams that you've built um are phenomenal and um but i think you know having your support you can have all the campus teams you want but when you what you're telling us that you're doing for these campus teams is invaluable and giving them the tools that they need and i i think this is just absolutely amazing and thank you oh thank you i also just wanted to add my thanks to all the board members for the great work that you're doing and i love that you're getting i think the key is the good things have been there and we continue to improve and want good things happening in our campuses but that we can now that you're talking about them that they're that the news could pick up a good story that was happening at our campuses because we know that those are happening but it's hard to get that word out and to keep that focus you know on that so i appreciate that and i also love that you're focused not just on attracting new students but really taking care of the families that are here and retaining students i think that's i think that's the key is to make sure that are we meeting the needs of the students that we have both through customer service through marketing and then through just communication letting them know what our choices are letting them know that they have the opportunity to find a program that fits their child's needs if it's not exactly at their neighborhood school which most you know there's great programs all throughout the district so i guess along with that i was i was also going to ask you this is a little bit different but um i know that in the past we had done some ideas of trying to have opportunities for feedback with current families and parents to provide kind of a two-way channel of communication and i just wondered i know with kovid we kind of just there wasn't room or time and really it wasn't appropriate in a lot of ways because we were trying to avoid that but as far as just the in-person feedback so i just wondered did you have any thoughts on that going forward yeah absolutely i think it's actually in the strategic operating plan to build those opportunities for two-way communication and um as we started this school year i think the first step with that has been to really welcome our families back onto our campuses and there is a phenomenal number of events happening i think we just had grandparents day and so building those opportunities for the our parents and families to be on campus and is kind of the beginning and then working on opportunities kind of throughout the year for introducing and we've been researching different ways that we can build two-way communication i mean we have the superintendent councils we did just introduce um one thing we've been trying to do is add in our parent newsletter opportunities for them to so to nominate for example for like the chamber of commerce excellence awards perhaps we previously went out to our staff community for those nominations but adding our wider community into that but yeah there's definitely more work to be done on that and there it's an important focus that's great and as i was thinking about us i was thinking we do have there are opportunities in place and i think we just keep working on it i know like i just got an uh text or email today for the site council at our at our school you know every school you can go and participate in the site council ask your principal or teacher when that occurs that's a place for feedback there's the online web comments that we provide now on our official board meeting yes once a month besides coming to board meetings that's another opportunity or emailing your school your principal the board members when you when you have a concern so i think we do have things in place and we actually are working on a gold story right now about parent involvement where kaylie latham who i i didn't met kaylee latham communications specialist johnson paulie videographer couldn't be doing any of this without them but m kaylee actually went out and interviewed a number of our principals to look at what's happening on individual campuses to start to build that conversation as well oh that sounds great i appreciate your work toward that as well thank you thank you we will be putting out a survey at some point this year we've talked about it in the past and with everything that's been going on you know i think we'll get more solid results in a year like this year this year started off phenomenally uh and it i don't know how to put it it feels much more normal than it has in the past and so um i think you'll get better data in terms of just honest opinions about things and so um we'll be putting that out we just don't know which time yet oh that sounds great well i appreciate it again thank you thank you for all that you do and your team please thank them as well get down real quick before you leave can you talk about just the communication you talked about our newsletter parents talk about the newsletter to staff as well as um what we just started with our high school kids yeah absolutely so connect create care goes out every two weeks to our parent community and always has over 40 000 views um and we're using that as a tool i think our community has become familiar with that as a source for um important information and also celebrations with gold and then the same every two weeks we send out gps together to our staff community which has always over 4000 views again putting key information and also celebrations in there and then last but not least we a goal for our team this year was to look at connecting with our student stakeholders so um kaylee latham worked we met with um san francisco school district and because they've done something similar and then we pitched to marcy taylor and dr mccord the idea of a newsletter to our high school students from the district to go out to those 12 000 students it's called in this together we did our first edition and we're working with the superintendent's council a student council they're writing introductions and so the student voice is in there and um i haven't looked at the latest numbers but there was a surprising number of high school students reading it so that we were really encouraged by that and there was important information in there we find that what they're looking for they just want factual information that's going to help them make good decisions and they want to know what the district is doing and how those decisions are made so yeah the the the council the student senate is a phenomenal group and when i say that you've got just a mixture of kids from every one of our our high school campuses and we talk about building relationships with people and how key and how important it is and for many of these students on the senate they are very open and honest and you want to talk about feedback right we'll talk about surveying staffs talk about surveying parents well this is direct conversation with kids and they don't pull any punches and i love it and and they're very complimentary and but yet they'll tell us straight out like i don't even know why you guys do this or why were you thinking about doing that and we love it we love it we walk away from every one of those meetings me marcy and doug daly and we just it really makes us remember why we got an education so long ago because they are definitely the reason why we do what we do so that's the best feedback i think we've gotten uh in a long time so we're appreciative that so this newsletter that uh don has put together and kaylee it is really something that is born out of that communication with them and pitching the idea to them they're like yeah that'd be great we'd love it and they're involved and so it's it's kind of like a bit of a student newspaper except from the district level so it's great well done thank you shane how many kids do you have from each school yeah usually we have two two uh they don't always show up at the same time but we the first meeting of the year usually is right here in this room and then we rotate to each school and part of that is the hosting school has to give a presentation about their school and then they take them on a tour and then we have certain things that they have to do do a little update but they have become friends and they didn't know each other before they sat down and um i don't know i i would keep them all day long if i could so i know marcy would she just smiles from here to ear when she sees himself and then they come to some of our meetings like they'll be a part of and they'll come observe either a gef breakfast or a board meeting or some other event and you've heard me introduce them in the past will continue to do that thank you for that presentation we will now go to 2.02 community education fees dr mccord thank you madam president community board members next up we have mr jared ryan our executive director of community education as well as strategic initiatives and part of the role related to community education this is a self-funded program so everybody knows community education is and they have all kinds of different programming as well as facility rentals that are fee-based and so over x amount of years they constantly have to look at what fees they charge and how does that keep up with inflationary rates supplies all those types of things and actually we have to analyze are we charging the right amount to ensure that uh we're keeping up with what we need to to make sure we're still self-funded so mr ryan will be giving you a presentation on that tonight thank you dr mccord madam president governing board i appreciate the time to come and speak with you regarding community education and some of the um some of the adjustments that we're looking to make for as we move into the 2023-24 school year um first off i i always feel like i'm kind of busy through a day and then i listen to dawn talk and i realize i don't do a whole lot so dr mccord needs to find a few more things for for me i think so don and her department are incredibly impressive and so the work that they're doing um not only is on campuses but has a direct benefit to community education and everything that we do matter of fact earlier today she was with our team discussing youth athletics and some strategic adjustments we can make or initiatives we can put in place to be able to promote to be able to get word out and make sure that all of our families know what opportunities are on our campuses to represent their community and represent their schools so i appreciate she and her team for what they do um it's kind of a beginning portion of this i wanted just to go over briefly what it is that that we offer in terms of programs and why we're looking at them on an annual basis and what different pieces of information we take into consideration when we make recommendations regarding fees both in tuition when we talk about preschool before and after school care camps anything during intersession that will now be coming up as well as our fees for renting our facilities so just as a brief outline the the bold portions are what we'll be focusing on this evening vik which is very important kids our before and after school service program summer and holiday intercession camps as well pre-k for those that aren't familiar we have four different kindergarten preschool options kindergarten prep building blocks toy box and advantage we'll get into the kind of the differences and what those programs are and and why we offer such a variety of preschool programs enrichment which is our after school primarily as well as intersession and summer skill specific options primarily from outside vendors that we partner with and nathan paquette does a fantastic job of finding needs on campuses and addressing those with some vendors as well as some of our own staff members gilbert youth athletics which we began just a few years ago with with your blessing and has been fantastic for our community as well as in facility management and all the rental of our facilities as they're available on our campuses we want to make sure community is able to to take advantage of that opportunity so those are those are the programs that we're mainly talking about in bold this evening as we talk about tuition rate adjustments we all know what we've experienced in the last couple years and not only with sickness but now on the financial side of things and unfortunately every time we go fill up a tank of gas or every time we go eat a meal or any time we do just about anything else i think we all feel it and we feel financially we feel it from the standpoint of stresses on our on our families and on our homes and in our bank accounts and we've really tried over the last couple years to prevent that from trickling down to our families and our community because we know from the school side of things if we can keep things as financially accessible as possible that it just goes a long way to making sure that they can live um with less stress in their lives and over the last couple years we've been fortunate we've been blessed to receive grants we've been blessed to have workforce employment grants blessed to have early childhood grants that we've been able to point towards some of these increases in staffing costs and whatnot and and those are kind of starting to run out and so that's why we're coming at this point in time this document talks about the tuition rate adjustment and in the pieces of information we look at our current hourly rate of pay so total volume of employees and what it's costing us to attract and retain those employees is first and foremost that's our biggest cost that's our biggest out of out-of-pocket expense and as we all know the employees within our organization are experiencing those same increased costs in their lives and so for them to be able to to live and survive in in our town and live in gilbert and the things that we've been experiencing our rate of pay has had to increase to be able to attract and retain some of the best out there our curriculum costs we analyze on an annual basis so we look at everything from arts and crafts to our science projects to our cooking projects the things we're doing before and after school as well as in our camps as well as in our preschool classrooms food supplies our azdhs requirements we've received a couple questions related to these requirements and so when you're licensed program there's certain specific elements that must be within those rooms in order for them to be licensed sometimes we move rooms from time to time as campuses grow or as campuses experience reduction in student population when that occurs then we have to make modifications and adjustments to classrooms if there are specific things that licensing auditors are looking for as they're observing our classrooms obviously we need to make those adjustments and ensure that that we're meeting all the requirements and there are costs associated with that and of course finally maintaining competitiveness with surrounding programs we don't ever want to put ourselves in a spot where we feel as though we're not competitive or we feel as though we're not giving our families an opportunity to access the care that they need based on based on cost and based on out out pricing the market so we want to make sure that we're always competitive that way mr ryan sir just quickly do you have any well i'm sure you do but what is the total number of staff who support the community ed programs do you have and between 230 and 250 depending on where we're at with our staffing and so we'd like to be at 250 right now in the 230s so if anybody out there is listening and has a desire to work before after school care or preschools we are hiring um if we can just put in a little plug for that right now that'd be great and that number represents the largest amount of expenditure out of the budget right yes sir um the next page and that's a great lead into to the next document which is it took an actual staff member that we have um and really looked at what our average expenses were two years ago and where we are today really trying to ensure that one the fee increases that we're looking at are in line with what our actual costs are as well as making sure that there wasn't a large discrepancy between certain classifications of employees and so after doing that i just pulled one and this is an average uh look at it at an employee in one of our classrooms so this particular case is a site leader in one of our preschool classrooms this is a non-certified position this individual is the preschool classroom lead teacher as a site leader the individual is hired on august 20th or i'm sorry august of 2020 at a rate of fifteen dollars and sixty cents thanks to governing board approval and support there that individuals received a two percent increase on august 20 uh or august of 21 a dollar fifty increase in september of twenty one ten cent and three percent and march of and then the final increase of two dollars in july of 22.

some organizations that we we've looked into add am and pm directly and that becomes their total we don't do that our am and pm we still have a discounted rate if you do both and your children are full time because we know that that cost gets really steep really quick and many of our families are working families that need before and after school care and so we've we've maintained that the holiday camp rates we were at separate rates for holiday camps and summer camps those though are run the same the staffing is the same the ratios are the same field trip costs have gone up fuel costs transportation costs and so for us to maintain the same level of service um there needs to be an increase or an adjustment to that fee that that is paid do you have um do many people use the option of vik half day when we have update for teachers that's a great question um thank you for asking it's those are our busiest days we have staff that are that are working and and they need to be working and then we have parents obviously still at work and so we'll see a greater number on those wednesdays our staff's done a great job of finding more student workers who are available because the high schools students some of our seniors have half days and they're able to come and work and we're able to find some college-age students who are also looking for work that can come more mid-day and then work through the end of the day and so um that along with sean mcintosh and missy udall have assisted us with finding paraprofessionals on campuses so as teachers are going into their plc's not all of our paraprofessionals have specific assignments during that time and are able to stay and assist us with with care the biggest thing is that we never want to have a waiting list we always want to be able to serve every family in our community that needs it um that wants it that that is asking for it and um sometimes i think that the worst times we have is when we pick up a phone and we have had to say particularly in the last couple years i'm sorry i don't have i don't have enough qualified trained adults to have there to be able to make sure that your kids have the experience they're supposed to have we're really in a good place right now a much better place than we have been i'm optimistic even with with conversation that was going on today with some paraprofessionals that are also going to be assisting on those wednesdays as well as the upcoming parent-teacher conference days that's also those are also big times for us so the the the trick is to sign up early so that it is have a spot it is it's signing up early registration some people were surprised registration for preschool opens november 1st for the following school year and we have specific locations where the reputation of the teacher and some things drive enrollment and all of a sudden you'll get a phone call in mid-spring and they'll say well what do you mean it's full it's been full for three months you know and some of those more popular programs and popular teachers certainly are looked after and those spots are coveted absolutely they've come a long way in terms of registering kids in community education used to you had to go in every week and pay in person and there weren't a lot of options and then when you sign up for camps you would come here and like being at a bank because we'd put up ropes where people would come in and out and um now they're able to do this much sooner and be able to have parents plan for their summers in a lot of different ways and so yeah it's it's really good it's very nice i mean people don't generally walk in the community education building anymore very rarely it's usually just all online so it's nice very rarely the communication the communication is quick um the systems are in place and vreeland does a fantastic job of creating the classes opening registration communicating it in advance our campuses do a wonderful job of communicating when when registration is going to begin that was portion of the meeting earlier with regard to gilbert youth athletics how do we ensure notification all the families of when registration is going to open on a quarterly basis when new as new sports and opportunities begin so same thing with preschools same thing with camps we don't want to catch people off guard we want them to be notified but even above that we want them to have a space a place no matter maybe when they realize they need it and so that's our continual work to identify to identify new employees to come on and to train we now have somebody in charge of professional development within our department we have two personnel in charge of recruitment retention and identifying new employees and having them go through the process to make sure that they can be started as soon as possible we've been partnering with colleges community colleges and our early childhood teacher prep programs at our high schools and so the team's been been diligent ran a job fair a couple months ago and it was just a few people got together and said we can do more and they found a way and identified new staff members to come on so every new staff member that comes on after they're trained and they're in place that's another 13 to 20 students that we can give a thumbs up to and get them in and on our campuses before and after school so okay so moving on to facility rental rates dr mccord and i have talked a bit about this as things have changed over the course of time with relation to facility rentals this is something that i think all of us wish we could make more accessible to our community and and have available for them to use and for our kids and our young kids to be in our auditoriums and in our gyms and on our fields there are a lot of costs that come with that and there are a lot of internal things that we have to do and a lot of internal staffing that we have as relates to that and so here i have what we would say would be our most utilized facilities provided a document to you prior with every every piece of of property that we rent and and how that's rented and the prices associated with that on the actual presentation there are a few examples and as i said these are our primary spots the high school gyms junior high gyms high school stadium fields uh baseball softball and auditorium those are our our big ones those are the ones that we get the most requests for and so you can see the current versus proposed you can also see to the right the comparable low and comparable high those come from our surrounding districts municipalities as we look to see what other like-kind facilities are being rented for we wanted to find where are we in terms of the low to the high and make sure that once again it wasn't something that we were pricing out our community and it wasn't something that we were also taking a loss every time somebody was turning up the ac in an auditorium and so we need to be diligent with that as well so the high school gym the current is 42 dollars this is per hour the 42 dollars an hour and the proposed rate would be 52.50 which is approximately 25 percent increase once again as we looked comparable venues locally they range from 30 to 60 dollars i can tell you through conversation nothing finalized or approved but through conversation this is something being looked at across the board at our neighboring districts as well um in terms of two specific people i spoke with at neighboring districts that said this is something that has to be adjusted where they are as well and so nothing official and approved on their end yet but i know it's being looked at across the board junior high gymnasiums same level of increase about a 25 percent where you'll see a large adjustment is with the high school stadium field to be real honest we were just behind that's one of those areas when i said before i wish it could have just been a clean blanket everything's 10 percent 15 percent 20 whatever it might be there were just certain areas where we were not keeping keeping up with what was in general going on across our community so the high school stadium field is one of those examples the comparable low at 50 dollars comparable high at 200 our proposal would be a 100 an hour varsity softball baseball from 21 to 30 and auditorium from 63 to 80.

all the speed days of the maryland wilson rainbow school district order this meeting is being recorded your image and organized navy broadcast we're going to begin with the pledge of allegiance [Music] indivisible with liberty and justice for all has anyone received any communications that they would like to share is there a motion to approve the content agenda as presented so again sorry is there any discussion um all in favor aye aye and i as well opposed motion to approve the consent agenda as presented passes i'm going to do a little moving around just a little bit with these principals who have had a busy couple of weeks and i think we're going to start with their reports these properties [Music] ladies would like to go first sure so for our report uh we talked about the fact that on the 26th professional development session um um and engineering teacher we have volunteered a couple years uh keith schmidt is a new role actually that we put in this year so she needed part um school district school concert and we have gina who took over four years and we just hired a preschool teacher trisha sims we had a paraprofessional michelle sander from upcoming elementary we also have either youth professional in our preschool jennifer baxter and it was very nice to have the pto and [Music] um met with all the grades actually throughout the day and we also linked our um student camera presentation to the report you can see that and one of the things that we're focusing on this year [Music] uh for chromebooks we're now one on one for all students involved which is great because and there's also a voluntary insurance policy that goes along with that and for athletics we are focused on another successful season we had some teams do really well last year so they're field hockey and soccer teams are looking to defend their titles from last year and also um soccer teams who did very well um uh um for upcoming events we have school pictures in our senior class photo on eight and we have the pba next week on the 21st and our um open house have any um i just have one really quick one um i know we talked about this before but um is okay [Music] okay right so these have been added then the cell phone used for high school students quality exactly that's just the procedure but that's not the name of the outline of the consequences for um [Music] is the policy you have in place typical for what otherwise believe me when it comes to students using cell phones i ask because i just i don't have high school students right but i have friends and family and i hear so many stories about the extent to which bullying occurs and other things happening with myself and obviously we can't control it outside of the school day but uh students can have their cell phones yeah i would say yes just based on my presentations just because those slides were amazing to know that they're working on kindness and how you're going about it and then even just the information in the slides was really helpful i read a few parts aloud to a student of mine that attends here for you know strengthen that um but it really was helpful yeah i think oh good good yeah i must have missed that but i appreciate it was very very well done and it was just like i said i can't say it on both kindness parties just think we all really need it right now to see that positivity and to see it be an expectation that's really just comfortable thank you thank you i wasn't able to access your acne presentation in years equity to help staff members realize that this is something we're taking seriously obviously this school year and school years coming forward and teaching um staff that you know they're working on working on development just to be mindful of the classroom because oftentimes you don't know internally what a student might be going through whether it has something to do with their social economic background their family background if they have a mental health being going on so just kind of be mindful of that you know in and out of the classroom and making sure that we're really developing for our students because once you have that rapport and commitment to getting to know them we can really stop meeting them while they're at connections with education so throughout that presentation i will leave you through three videos one with just um someone's perspective on absolute flows of discipline relationships that was done by edward eddie green and it just got the conversation going up as educators we're learning each day too from our students and kind of enhancing the idea of what's our power purpose and responsibility and the more of a reminder of our students they can also teach us too what is our power purpose and responsibility to take us some days we know as educators we might feel like we're not reaching our students but you never know they're just being mindful of how to approach that we have students that feel very comfortable here identifying their their preferred pronouns go into different communities and make sure we are upholding the respect and also to be mindful of curriculum [Music] you know a lot of times we go to museums the portraits are all of you know but there's also thanks very much i i have to mention my new best friend who is not here this evening to be the best elementary school but i'm the best elementary school i'm sure we brought 223 children into the building on the first day of school and we managed to send them all home and nobody cried so that's always a win at the elementary level i think that there she was once um but that's okay is that kindergarten kids choose just a couple of updates for you as we start the year we did school pictures we um i always like to take the year you know kids they come wow a lot of them come dressed up and then more the boys come dressed up from the waist up and handsome shirts and nice ties and their shorts but it's a lot of fun this year just to give you a sample of what it's like to be an elementary school student because the day is a we don't little different much time in the morning we always take a picture every year it's a nice shot keep trying to find a nice place to hang them up um but the teachers all got together but i only had [Music] you know week of school to their classes we didn't go past them because of course the teachers were all right there there was nobody lost them in the classroom but i was just amazed at how like this is how we did things and i think that's a you know part of this whole school-wide behavior these are our expectations everything um because kids so picture day was a lot of fun we have open house coming up on thursday your wall and michael um instead of 90 minutes we're actually doing three sessions for parents which is great for the few parents who get more than one or two children um steph did with presentations i do in the olden days when mrs costello was in principle [Music] three sessions three thirty minute sessions i just sent the email out to clarify for parents at six o'clock so you haven't just got yeah obviously oh yeah yeah we thought two 45 minute sessions and then teachers went are you crazy we could not talk the 223 pre-k through grade 5 how does that compare to last year uh slightly up okay not huge uh that's that we are seeing a kind of continued slow growth yeah so there's a set of houses now being built literally right next to school um as i look at this you get two classrooms for each grade k through five what's your staffing beyond the teacher in those classrooms how many of those classes have an aide that's in the room assistant teacher several have aids but they're typically tied to one or two or three special education students the days of like just classroom aids why um partly funding it's uh it's expensive it's a professional doesn't make a ton of money but by the time you toss in the benefits and all the other stuff um it gets very expensive um sometimes it's not worth it do you have anything kindergarten correct is that we do we do not at this point because of the staffing talks that we're having and uh paraprofessional they have what are their lines for kindergarten games and vocal kindergarten classrooms are there staffing lines for kindergarten there's one kindergarten this year that is the one exception to the it's not always helpful kindergarten and all you have to do is walk into a kindergarten class um it's it is hurting rapids yeah what do you think before i see here and i see in the bes numbers too is the kindergarten enrollment you've got 41 students so 20 and a half students in each class you know you know as that number potentially continues to increase at what point does it require us to add a third increased by about 10 students from kindergarten here you went from 70 to 20 if you had a similar increase in new kids coming into first grade this year you've got 23 24 in classroom in first grade it's that's a lot of kids especially when you're trying to do small group work and that's where paraprofessionals are really helpful because you've got a teacher who's doing direct instruction but you want to take four or five kids off to the side and you want to work with them or whatever wow although thank goodness you know back to routines think about themselves yeah okay but yeah it's going to be the shield there's no space yeah berliners were too so you can't even add oh no you do have two glasses per grade perfect right last year you only had one in fifth grade so we had one fifth grade the lesson hit just one was three years ago that does not work for a whole bunch of mostly social reasons [Music] john is there a threshold number that you keep on your radar that is a tipping point downstairs uh primary grades 18 is probably your sweet spot upstairs 22 more far away no you're not a couple here as the grades go higher the numbers get lower is that anything to do with it you track or do you know how many withdrew completely from the school you've got to go in during those couple years you just haven't come back or is there a situation okay um we don't lose kids they we lose kids and they leave us much more reflection of you've got 41 kindergarteners 42nd graders but then you only have 26 4th graders still two teachers for all of them giving class sizes of 20 which is over your 18 but then only 13 for the fourth graders so how do you kind of handle those issues where because i mean that's a huge difference the teacher has one more time attention to 13 kids versus 20.

actual woman was 278 [Music] is so they are skipping their september meeting and we will focus on that they are going to they are going to have a meeting in october so i can ask too because i don't know but you know what i mean i guess i think about it but we've in in uh boylston the last five years they're consistently obviously outperforming projections but that's that's also because the um you know it's a rolling average so it's like a rolling three-year average days so there was a little what in 2014 so they they you know that may have come from that piece but the actual numbers have consistently been outperforming the projections not as much you know and girl and they're really closer again they've had less they've had less movement in town um so why i would think if i was doing this myself using raw data i would start with the town census because you have to list everyone in your household and the ages so and then i would probably take averages of who moved into town using the census data you know like when people moved in and like taking after already in 2022 we had you know 10 people moving to town so is there any way we can figure out how they do this i mean that's a huge discrepancy and like again i'll ask the master steering yeah so they do use the census data i don't know about that i know they use the local ones but that's not going to be one of 10 years uh i know i think it's every year for boylston i get it you know we get it right yeah i was told by bro i always actually was supposed to talk to you john she has this at the same time but with all the new multi-handle building directors actually don't necessarily fill out that data but they still have that oh my god a lot more apartments available and um so just that one and a half or three years is some flexibility yeah and then you know it's it's a it's a projection when you you know the town says well you know you got 200 units you're only going to get seven people something like that you gotta again look at that i think all right probably not gonna be set is it gonna be 70 maybe 17.

when you have a moment could you call the uh role for the purpose of attendance Please Mr Fitzgerald here Mr Hayden Mr Cirillo president okay our chair would appreciate a motion on the minutes of August 30th any discussion all those in favor anyone opposed thank you uh you pack it uh hand out well no we have a handout for the Consolidated cash Reconciliation Report revolving fund report and budget report any questions this is for Joe yes question on the revolving account I know that in many cases the revolving account is used directly to support an activity I'll use the pool account as an example um that the pool is expected unless unusual circumstances to pay for itself through the rentals but there were a couple of accounts such as the cosmetology account which now has almost thirteen thousand dollars in it and I'm I don't want to assume it is that all from the services provided through cosmetology that would be question one and question two uh the um the expenses used on a client applied after that or do we use these accounts um for other things for the students you know I know at the end of the year they have Awards and so on so I used the um Reggie Locker accountants I think that's the school store account which would be kind of it is or as a self-explanatory as to where that money would go and then for instance graphic which now has about sixty five hundred dollars in it is that from Services we've provided to the community Through The Print Shop or so I don't need the answer right tonight but if we could show maybe the revolving account count that are used to support that activity or those that are from community services and so on so if we could just look into that I would be grateful thank you okay John do we understand the directions yeah you'd like a more detailed report on each of the accounts see how the money is how the revenue comes in and how the revenue is spent I guess I don't need it for every account because some of them like the cafeteria account continues to have money coming in and then expenses go against it same thing I use the pool account facilities rental would be a different thing I know sometimes we've used money from that for Capital expenses but um those things that directly service the public that would be like cosmetology Auto Body Automotive or whatever um just to see what happens to the money at the end does it go towards the students I don't mean paying the students for services provided but maybe the awards at the end of the year so just maybe a clearer picture of what the accounts do sure thank you I'll meet with uh Melissa will go through each account and get a little more detail and back up on it how the funds are allocated and spent and then what we do with it at the end of each year anything further okay moving on uh Jerry uh budget transfers please budget transfers uh we'll give that off to Melissa I'll do the cash balance report sorry sorry um so we had several budget transfers to account for the colas for the teachers settled contracts there were some salary adjustments I did I did transfer I factored in what the colors are going to be for the rest of the unit so I did Factor those in there'll definitely be some adjustments after all the rest of the contracts settled in the first three transfers were not salary but they were line items that were missed during the budget process so I needed to add those lines back into our budget Joe accept the motion to approve the budget transfers as presented so moved yep sorry sorry yes yeah I I apologize I'm sorry not on purpose not on purpose a long day we're doing the budget transfers then we're going to go back to the cash balance report sorry I have a motion to uh for the budget transfers yes I I have a second second discussion go ahead um there are some items that you you were putting back into the to the budget and you talk about the code was the one-time payment to staff in general part of that um the one-time payment was last year's budget so that's all taken care of this that included in the cola um one of the raises no okay anything further uh there was an error in the formula on the um on the revolving account balances in the packet so it's just I corrected the formula on the balance so it's just it's the ending balances this ending balance column the formula was wrong in the packet so I just updated it so some of the balances were incorrect yeah anything further all those in favor and you would opposed okay sorry Jerry took your auto cash balance report please sure cash balance report as of September 6 2022 count balance on August 23rd 2022 was 670 000 90.46 we had deposits from August 24th to September 6th of three million 555 270.05 less payroll on September 1st of 1 million sixteen thousand four Twenty Eight spot 93 a warrant number four on August 30th of one million four oh ninety four fifteen and wallet number five on September 1st of 96.14.

killings of the motion so moved second any discussion all those in favor aye anyone opposed did we have a a call going out tonight is that what that was well mine's a great mine said great Lawrence also oh for the oh okay so that's what it was okay for the delayed opening new opening late tomorrow John you can sleep in tomorrow okay all right uh getting back to the regular out of our business I apologize for that uh see no donations no articles no public participation admission report superintendent would you um update the committee on admission report please you got updated you got an updated documents on the admissions report from the requests of last meeting where uh I asked the director of of admissions to add the applicants accepted and enrolled so you have three Co three columns now that outlines how many students apply how many were accepted and how many actually enrolled so you've got the complete data on each of the towns and schools they came from that outlines more clearly who who he accepted Mrs Fitzgerald yes I believe I was the one that requested it and it really does clarify um tremendously for me anyway um and following along with the rest of the report I was really happy to see this thank you for other Aviation program superintendent please so um for the aviation program we submitted the intent so that went in along with the Child Care Program and the um the other program there was a third program we have our low voltage that we're also submitting for approvals it's called a different name but so we're actually looking for three different programs for chapter 74 approval it's fiber in i t i t and fiber optics and low voltage electricity which we have now at the 10th grade level but we're looking to get at chapter 74 then we can offer it for all four grade levels as well as the child care center not the first year but the second is the next school year to offer it as a chapter 74 program because we have the space and it'll meet all chapter 74 requirements for an actual program to teach Early Childhood early childhood education as another program that we can offer to our students and then of course Aviation the next step for us in the process process for all three is to send in a complete application a which needs to be in by December December 1st I believe it is and then after that they review it and get back to us as to whether they will allow us to go to the next step um I spoke to the associate commissioner that's who I was talking to before I came into the meeting about moving the process a little quicker so once if we were to get the application the first application a in quickly can we get an early decision on it but it doesn't look like that's the case which doesn't give us a lot of it kind of ties our hands in terms of investing a lot of money and time into it until we get that approval but she's going to check tomorrow and see if there's a way to make that happen um so um we feel we feel as though um we into in order we know that we have an opportunity to for the aviation program to lease a hangar out the airport but uh my biggest concern is if we wait too long that we might lose that opportunity so uh you don't think so Frank okay but that would be good but anyways um we'll try to continue to try to get to move along a little quicker if we if it's at all possible for particularly the aviation program the other two programs were do we have them pretty much in place anyway so I'm not as concerned about those Mr sorello yeah um and the ABS is just going back and having a conversation with them to make sure that they understand that we might need some time to wait for final approval on by the department of Ed um the um early child is it early childhood yes are we looking at training our students um in the early childhood field yes in early childhood education which basically we try to prepare them to go on to Early Childhood programs at the post-secondary level or to go into a working in a child care center facility as well but uh we'll be training them both for prepare them for industry as well to move on to post-secondary if they so uh desire but that's what the programs intended to do can we follow with them to see how many um as they go through the program we would start be interested in becoming educators I know that we brought on we have funding that we brought in for um the Anton retail yeah um this is a good segue into promoting that as well as a combination uh yes we'll do it well we we as part of the process we have to do a survey to see how many students would be interested in the program so we have to submit that department answer we'll survey our existing ninth grade students that's what we did for the aviation last year and also as we go out to visit the different schools this year we will bring a um a application register with us so that students we can get some feedback from students that we talk to at all the middle schools to see if they have an interest in any of those programs we'll be another and then an open house will also when we have open house in November we'll have also be promoting it to see how many students we might be interested in um the fiber optic is that going to be part of the low voltage electrical or is that going to be part of robotics that'll be part of low voltage electrical Vivian superintendent when was the letter of intent submitted that was submitted um it was submitted Monday I think it opened it was opened as soon as the first day we could do it we sent it in Monday and would you happen to know um what is the response time well you turn that off the next the next step is to uh for us to complete part A of the application once we submit part A then we won't hear any according to what I was told today we won't hear anything until December whether it's approved or not to go to part uh B okay all right so once you submit a letter of intent we're not waiting for a response from them we're just um going on to the next process of submitting the part a application by December 1st yes and we're going to try to submit it a lot sooner than that in hopes that they'll uh once they get it maybe we can try to convince them to take a look at it and if they don't give us some official word that if it looks strong or not would be nice okay and the survey please jog my memory again the survey that was already done last year it was only for a specific grade right it wasn't who who would be interested in learning that career area but it was all freshmen stop freshmen to seniors well we only surveyed The Freshman because it was a new program uh we wouldn't survey the upper class that's true yeah um when would you submit one for eighth grade so the we will be submitting resubmitting this as part of part A so that will go in this uh continued application that we're working on we started the we started completing part A last year um so we'll pick up where we left off but we'll also continue to do surveying students so that um we have a strong application the more students that apply that are interested the stronger the application will be the key though really is going to be uh is there a job market and um so looking at the labor market data and if you look at the um Northeast blueprint it doesn't show favorable in the Northeast blueprint so that might be a hurdle that we have to overcome but I feel like if we collect enough data and we'll start to do a little more research with corporations and companies that uh even on the day it may not show strong in our particular Merrimack Valley the data may be strong and so it may not not necessarily across the state it's strong but it could be strong in this area which then would strengthen the application so that's one of the things we'll start to do a lot of work on now are you able to submit the survey that was already done to all the committee members and any future surveys done could you supply that as well sure Mr Rock um keep them everybody keep brought Frank Rossi you got to keep him alive um the brief conversation we had with the new airport director um said he may he mentioned it was a lot in the field as for jobs in different areas so I mean I don't know what data you looked at I don't know what data he looked at that's probably something that needs to be looked at and have that conversation again um as well with a meeting with him and this is a great opportunity that we are in the verge of putting together when I um talked to him the last time out at the home that we're going to be doing some work for the lady that was killed in Afghanistan I met with them again out there he he said he'd be happy to be on our uh Our advice report for the program so we will certainly utilize his expertise and I'm sure it'll carry a lot of weight with the uh with the Department to have someone of his stature and his knowledge and expertise as part of our advisory committee anything further yes Vivian so this is just for clarification purposes there is no intent on your event to pause or delay this uh the initiation of this program we're absolutely committed to having this program start in September and getting it approved this uh this spring final approval this spring so in order to get approval we have to have a space that's all done that we can show them we have a space equipment curriculum and potential uh person that would teach a licensed person to teach the program so that's when I say that having a final approval in December really makes it hard to meet all those demands in such a short time because in may we would have to have that final review and approval there they do a safety inspection they look at all the tools the equipment so we'd have to invest all this money you know before I even get that final approval if we're going to be ready in September but so if we even had an indication that it's going to be a approved that would certainly help us even if we don't get that final approve of what we feel confident that it will now we can still run it without chapter 74 approval we could still run a program it won't get chapter 74 funds if we run the program and it's not chapter 74 approved but you could still run the program but that would be something for the committee to decide even if it was to uh for the first year if we're not meeting that deadline that we would have to find a way to cover the cost and then until the approval process is done that it would be a chapter 74 approved program well I think the challenge is not so much us it's it's will they even approve it you know we can in um so let's say in December they don't approve us to go to step The Next Step then we can continue and go ahead and start a program it just won't be a chapter 74 program it'll be a vocational program which is doable you just won't get the you won't get that five thousand dollars for each student in the program I understand but you mentioned a deadline by May correct if may it would be yeah once they approve it in December we have from December to May for them to come and give us the final approval after we've completed step B that which means we'd have to to get the space already and prepared for the program which means have the hanger have a space here have a classroom have all the equipment and tools we need to run a program and they want everything in place for a four-year program even though we may only start a one year even though we're only starting with the Freshman program they want to see that we're capable of of continuing the program for four years that's been their typical standard and they bring in a OSHA person to come in and inspect the shop and the safety equipment and everything to meet all OSHA standards also gets done in May so everything really has to be done and the curriculum developed and ready to go and your of course our advisor we'll put our right now we're going to put an advisory committee together regardless so that we have that committee together which then can also help us make recommendations to the you know as part of our proposal to have a strong advisory committee will make a difference all right I mean I just want to make sure that if it consists of utilizing our um like local officials um I know everybody that I have spoken to regarding this program everybody's on board and supportive and excited um we have newly elected state senator pava payano who's in favor of this program State Rep Frank Moran we have the mayor on our side so if it takes for everyone to come on board and all hands on deck you know it's a matter of you letting us know and for us to try to figure it out to make this happen yeah so well one of the things we'll do is approach many companies to get letters of support in any of our officials we can also get letters of support from them which will go in as part of our application proposal okay just let me know John thank you so much you're welcome Mr well YouTube Aaron this is Mary hadn't spoken I'll speak up to Maryland yes thanks um John in past experiences and I'll use steam as an example I remember sitting on that committee for two to three years from the first talk of doing it till getting the first freshman in there and each year we were able to add the next level the next level does it usually take one to two two to three or three to four years for a chapter 74 program including the hottest part of all I would assume would be the true curriculum development based on the workforce needs so are we being realistic to think that we in fact could have this ready by September or are we looking at the following September I guess what I'm asking is when you bring these to the Department of Ed from their initial intent what are they looking at in terms of years is it two to three or is it one to two I just don't want us to have a whole bunch of freshmen thinking that this is what they're going to get to go into if in fact it can't be done for another year or whatever so I'm asking your experience of how many years it takes to put a program not like this but any chapter 74 program from start to finish implemented well different programs are can be more difficult than others because they entail more equipment more expertise uh also curriculum but um take for instance the environmental science we really that took us a year to put that one together we decided last year to pursue that and within by the time May came around we had uh we were ready and in fact the department Ed was very impressed with the space and the curriculum so I think it can be done the advantage I think to right now to the aviation program we've done a lot of research work this past year we've done Labor Statistics we've we've met with a lot of different corporations and companies already we've been out to the airport we've done a lot of research already this past year so I think I think we you know as long as we're willing to invest the time and a little bit of money to move forward I think we can make it happen it'll be a little scramble the last three months once we get that final approval to get the so we'll meet with the uh the air airport the gentleman who owns the hangers out at the airport and if we get a commitment from him he's willing to lease the space to us when we're ready in December it's just a matter of having the lawyers get together and put the least agreement together and we're ready to go so I think we can do it I think I feel confident we can get it done we have enough staff also our administrative team that we have some very good people that I think have already started this process that are well situated to make this happen so I feel like we can get it done in this uh this year because we're only talking we're only educating ninth graders next year but we have the everything in place to continue the program and that's why the department Ed wants to see that we have the space and we also have the um um curriculum and the equipment which I think we'll be able to make that happen um so one of that in terms of the space that brings up uh I have on here you'll see that there's a I think it's the next item skills Capital Grant that's coming up on the end of October well this particular skills Capital Grant is for five million dollars it's every it's anything from 1.2 million to 5 million which can be used it's it's targeted to expand access for students in vocational schools and so uh what it means it's intended to put small additions or expand inside your building by adding space in order to say you can take more students so what we would like to do is put in a proposal to put in an addition on the building that would uh take the uh would be basically a small hanger space within our facility so you so when we went out to Westfield they had a a hanger space in their school and they had a hanger out at the at the airport and they had educational space so we're looking to pursue that Grant with aviation in mind as well as additional classroom space so we would pursue this opportunity I think we would be strong candidates for it because number one we have one of the highest wait lists in the state and um for us to provide access to low-income students in a Gateway City makes our grant possibility even stronger so that's something we'd like to pursue if they come if the committee is comfortable with us pursuing that Grant I do want to let the committee know that we have to get working on it now so the first step for us would be bringing in an architect in to just give us some preliminary I uh numbers so that we can put that in as part of our grants to support the Grant in terms of doing a preliminary walk through what our intent is and he can give us some preliminary numbers as to what that would cost in order to put that in the grant um and it really the intent would be to really get a shell up which I sincerely think we can do for that that kind of money including having a space for our expanding or adding some academic classroom space Maryland yeah Mr Cirillo is twofold to torrento it's not just renting the hanger you also have to rent she's locked out you also have to rent the land and talking to the mayor of the City of Lawrence um it is not a final decision but he will rent the the land I think we've had that conversation for a dollar because you just can't give them you can't give the land so as those the lowest thing he could do is probably a dollar a month for however long it is um a lot of the network has been done a lot of the surveys and everything has been done it's just right now is writing the proposals and the grants and putting that together and then looking at everything else that needs to be done with to get the program up and running I think we're at that stretch right now and John has been burning the midnight oil getting this ready to go that's it um and in the other chapter 74's programs where we are on the stage to um get those into chapter 74. on the the early childhood and the um I believe the electrical one is already chapter 74 correct all right now right now the electrical program which we call low voltage program has to align to the framework that exists for electrical so how it works right now is we follow the same framework for the low voltage but more hours in time a focus on low voltage so the students will graduate and have hours towards getting a low voltage license and have more hours towards that particular license than the full-blown four-year license and um but we want that we in order to make that a there's um and we only have one cohort so we had a freshman cohort last year that now is a sophomore cohort and the reason we only are doing one cohort at a time is because it's a basically it is a four it is a full um um following the same framework as the regular electrical program with more hours on the low voltage but we would like to include other aspects of low voltage work which includes optical fiber optic work as well as pulling wire for it systems as well include that in the curriculum as well then we can have that as a chapter 74 program every year and it also expands the skills and knowledge and opportunities for kids to a larger market The Early Childhood where are we going to stay so early childhood The Early Childhood shop is going to program our space is going to be sheetrock there's going to sheetrocket start Monday and so we're looking for a completion date around somewhere between the middle of November to Thanksgiving we would like to open it after Thanksgiving I think we should be pretty good once once it's sheetrocked all the the flooring's here already the cabinets are due the third week of September so everything we need to move forward quickly after the sheet rocks in and we'll I feel like the space will go pretty that project will go pretty quick after that and so that once the space is all done and we're operating under and the licenses are director of the program is now working on all the state licenses that we need and approvals and we're working on some kind of proposal for a fee structure that I'm going to bring to the school committee uh probably the next school committee meeting so we can let our staff know what we're looking in terms of the cost and a more defined opening date so people complain we hope to have that to bring to the committee as well the next meeting so so once we've operated in that fashion and the person that we hired as our director is working on getting her chapter 74 license so that she can teach in that program as well next year and then we would just need to hire another another instructor for that for chapter 74.

okay we're gonna kick off the Board of Education meeting for the 13th and and welcome everybody I am so thrilled and so sorry that we brought you out on a rainy night like this and everybody's dodging the uh the raindrops but thank you for telling me we're excited to meet you we're actually gonna break uh once the principals make their introductions we're actually going to break at that point so we get a chance to mingle those board members and get a chance to meet you I had a chance to walk around and say hello but um you know I'm the oldest guy in the room so I'm going to forget names so forgive me but uh we'll catch up on all that so but I wanted to welcome everybody I want to welcome our PTO uh presidents uh tonight that are here and Julie and Andrea are here and I think uh online is Who's online we have James online is Jamie up there yep hi Jamie thanks for coming this is kind of a new thing for the board we want to be better connected with our PTO presidents to be as supportive and helpful as possible you don't have to come to every meeting but we're going to leave a spot open for you once a month in our agenda so if you want to report on anything or you need our help or you want to give us some advice you can do that okay so we've cut that out for you guys also tonight uh I believe uh Dean and Steve Mandela Martel are going to be here we're going to discuss the uh the buses a little bit and we're we have some uh an excellent announcement on cameras and things that nature and then Chief RC Arrow will also be here to kind of talk about some of the issues that were we've been faced with so far with our buses so it's going to be uh it's going to be a pretty uh action-packed night but we're so thrilled that everybody's here and part of it you'll see that our agenda has changed somewhat we've moved those for they're online in those in the audience we've moved public forum later and me um and the reason why I did that was I wanted you to be able to hear some things that are going on with the board so the superintendent who is on his way here uh he'll be giving his report I'll give my report so if you have something that you want to comment on after you hear from the student report um you cannot you can comment on that so um just to make that that'll be a standing going forward with public forum being a little bit later in the meeting so people can catch up a little bit on what's happening with the Board of Education so having said all that we're going to go to our Pledge of Allegiance and Simone if you would be happy you know to meet us we'd appreciate it thank you you're the flag of the United States thank you okay so this leads us to the introduction of uh of our staff and I'm going to go in reverse order I'm going to ask Mr capippo and uh if you would like to introduce everybody from the uh from the high school side of things so okay I think I think so I think you look pretty good there so I'd like to open evening by uh dividing James welcome James James is our digital technology teacher and as many of you know here we have split staff funeral high school and James has beautifully filled that role and done it quite well so he splits his day between the Middle School and High School um James Bay Choice from Farmington where he's released a 15 year veteran teacher um in both Wallingford and Farmington graduate of Uconn where he earned a VA in the College of Environmental Studies he completed several courses in those areas at Binghamton and then later learn a masters of education technology at University of Hartford she comes in quite prepared um carrying several certifications here to support our students and as I said he he started Wallingford middle schoolers a science teacher and then uh continued on at Irving Robbins as a science teacher as well until recently around about six or seven years ago it became um the teacher of engineering and technology and education so we were very thrilled that he was interested to come over um and join us here at the high school and the middle school so at the middle school he teaches pre-engineering courses and he's very well equipped at the high school teach several courses which is really hard to find so this semester receives some Bigger Productions computer science principles to be teaching computer programming electronics mechatronics and computer programming as well and we also have other talents people will share with us um you know via ad or um you know Technology robotics after school so he's well invested early he's already coming with some new ideas thinking about some grants so I'm so happy to have James here we'd like to welcome him to Kent Public Schools you're in welcome it's a nice deal thank you speaking of Steel to the Board of Education so Eric comes to us also compartments in Farmington High School um they hate us over there so I really as with James I really do appreciate um Eric Wilbur as a veteran and taking a chance on Canton and making uh you know a later career move um to join us I came to schools it was a choice on his part to join us here in his hometown which I think played a big role in it James has two um daughters in the public school system here um and um you know we're happy to see them in school every day as well um so James comes I'm sorry air comes to us again from Farmington where he was there for um since 2006 it appears to that he had teaching experience in New York and Massachusetts he teaches physics at the high school and um you know he had his education was at Cornell University um where he hope he sees his VA and then a secondary math and science instruction you know earlier in his life and become social symbolical certifications as well so that's hard to find um this year he's teaching primarily AP Physics even few electives astronomy and um you know we're just so lucky that he's willing to come over I was very impressed and leaving and seeing Eric all summer long um most teachers stay away but he really acclimate himself to the school to his surroundings to his workspace he's really created a wonderful workspace for students pulling out as martial Jordan's impulse everything that was sort of blocked away so students can be you know interacting with that um and again I think commitment is already evident um you know with his hours and hours of time spent the summer making sure he was preparing the ready to move students so we're thrilled to have air I'll join us here at Camp public schools and I think we've been locked out with the physical situation [Music] I'd like to also take a moment to take the board here um we in our budget last year asked for a literacy coach and it was something we had asked more and talked about for some years and just really couldn't quite get to the to the end goal of the budget you guys really supported that and um as a result we're able to hire our experts that Dr Phil will talk about and she's already making a huge impact on our school thank you Dr Tidwell so thank you there's a little bit of thunderstorms um so we are very excited to welcome Gigi as our new brand new position as literacy coach new role for her a new position for us it's been a really nice partnership already in the last couple of weeks um so officially this is Christina di Giuseppe but it was by Gigi that's why you'll hear that um so Gigi has graduated from UConn with several degrees in the certification so a degree in English when she was an English teacher for several years she's also got a master's in curriculum obstruction her remedial reading certification finishing up another six years to have her reading consultant certification so definitely a student for life um she comes with most recently from Windsor Locks High School where she was an English teacher from 2016 and is no stranger to designing and leading teachers in professional development she actually presented as we asked annual conference on Fifth Grade division of graduates and advisory components so she's definitely got a lot of different pieces that we're going to tap it into and happy to use um when she's not being a student and designing professional development and trying to figure out what her new literacy coach role is she loves photography and theater and she's definitely already making herself at home at VHS so we are excited to do what uh what she'll bring welcome that's it on the high school side Mr Moore how are you sir we're doing well how are you okay thank you good evening everybody um thank you for having me here tonight and to introduce our new staff um I have one person joining online in abstention so I apologize for that phone so passion for what they do which at the middle school level you are passionate um can you hear me sir thank you all right this is another one of our shared staff members and so Dan and Mr robita will be teaching music technology at both the middle and high school level Mr Rivera has a bachelor's degree in jazz trumpet performance from Western Connecticut state and a mask um when I was speaking about genuine passion his love performance for arranging music and then people tell them is that in Denver he was a member of the uh the halftime brass band that performed at the Denver Broncos games so we're very fortunate to have Mr Bean and his talents and passion teaching music here in Canton Public Schools Mr Ravine welcome to you foreign will be teaching special education at Canton middle school she has trained she has her bachelor's degree from St Joseph College and a master's in instructional technology from Western Connecticut state um so that may be a familiar name Megan Rue she is a king High graduate and um and her first teaching job was actually at Canton Middle School where she was a building substitute and then a language arts tutor uh and then she began her full-time professional Journey uh honing her craft building her skill sets teaching in Southington Stanford and most recently Lincoln Middle School in Maryland so she's already made an impact in supporting our students here at Cape middle school and we're very lucky to have Miss room on the team so we welcome this room equipment Benjamin's record he goes by the Benji Benji sprecker I actually introduced it to you um last year informally he was a long-term building substitute Force so he's a familiar face to the the families and students of Canada he um had a bachelor's degree from Uconn and a masters from St Joseph's um in his bachelor's in biology and then education Masters and um he was a very successful long-term substitute teacher during uh one teacher's maternity he built extremely strong relationships he showed a master of the content that's one of the more difficult roles to do a a long-term sub because it's not your classroom but you have to take ownership of it for a long period of time and be delicately balanced his his role at that time so when a full-time position became available we snatched up Mr sprecker to bring on his talents to our school he is incredibly um calm he's got very calm demeanor he has an unking patience with students and he's also got some really sweet skills at disc golf and we're excited for him to share all of those talents with the students of PA middle school so we welcome Mr sprecker to our scientists and additionally uh Forest can served below um is another addition to our our science department he has a bachelor degree in biology as well and a master's in global sustainability from Central Connecticut state and uh so uh my introduction to mrpool not my introduction but at orientation I had my my personal phone out probably texting my family and he looks at my lock screen and goes is that the first image sent back by the James Webb Space Telescope and I knew we had I had found a fellow people I knew it and I couldn't be more happier to have another one running around Kent Middle School um this person's passion this uh Mr circle of passion for science is Extreme evidence uh and although his trainings in biology he's had a very purposeful journey to further his scientific knowledge in the areas of uh chemistry and astronomy which he was teaching most recently at Southern's in high school so that experience his deep knowledge and genuine curiosity are going to be great benefit to the students in with science classroom and kids middle school so we welcome Mr door below as well foreign hired as Sean Glenn but was married over the summer before the first day of school um I would like to welcome Miss Sean arel to CIS Mrs arel joins our fifth grade English language arts team and is enjoying life with Mr perotti you have a partner teacher up on the third floor at CIS Mrs arel is not completely new to Canton Public Schools she served Cherry Brook Primary School several years ago as a para educator and a substitute teacher Mrs arel holds a Bachelor of Arts in theater education and a master's degree in elementary education from St Joseph's College prior to earning her Elementary Ed certification she taught theater and gardening and most recently she completed her student teaching at Forbes Elementary School in Torrington so we feel very fortunate to have such a well-rounded unique experience in Mrs Rowe welcome another new through CIS but not new to the district Edition is is MJ Sturgis prior to joining CIS as a part-time Library Innovation specialist to complement Mrs Conway who has moved back to part-time Mrs Sturgis served as the library media aide at Canton Middle School since 2019.

yes great thank you thanks for that report we appreciate it and you guys are doing great work at Cherry Brook and it's exciting and the kids are all excited I know my granddaughter told me about the Popsicles and you had the best popsicle she had a lemonade popsicle oh I'm glad okay Andrea and Julie thank you for coming tonight and thanks for being here so we'd love to hear from you thank you so much we prepared a short report that's great thank you supported by chair Daniels and superintendent Keith for the opportunity to update the community on the Canton middle school PTO thank you to our board of education for all the work you do on behalf of the council and our our children we'd also like to thank principal Jeff Moore for his support of wpto our goal at the PTO is to assist in creating the most enriching Middle School experience possible themes we feel it's important to Anchor in our spreading positivity and full spirit keeping the Middle School experience fun and exciting and expressing appreciation to our school community I'm three weeks into the school year our PTO has 40 members we have five members on the PTO award myself and Julie our co-presidents and co-fresurers Courtney Vincent is our vice president Karen mcconville and Karen Ian article secretary we meet via Google meet once per month and in addition to our monthly meeting there are three other ways that we share our PTO news um the scene which is the Middle School's weekly electronic newsletter the middle Canton middle school PTO Facebook page and the PTO page on the Canton Middle School website so we wanted to take a minute just to share some recent activities and some current events um coming up most recently we held the largest fundraiser of the year that can being Lobster Loop which is a 5K held block we've had record numbers for recent years we've had over 500 I think 508 to be exact and registered not by strategy but sort of by by chance we ended up moving the day to the weekend before school last year we put the necessity and learned that it was kind of a great way to kick back to the school year people are back in town and we think we saw kind of a surge of diversity as a result so we're going to continue with that moving forward um and we try to engage a lot of families a lot of children to to participate in addition to the really serious runners in the community um we treated our staff to welcome back lunch on Friday August 26th so staff including all teachers nurses custodians and support staff enjoy crafts ballots and desserts provided by The Pasta Company and um also we are partnering with Progressive Farm a local Farm on another fundraiser currently so through the 15th of this week we're selling months and there's also been a big part of our one of our fund research again this year we had a great turnout last year people were even said if I knew I would have supported so we decided to run it again we're seeing a lot of orders come in so and last something that we initiated last winter was a sticker a water bottle sticker campaign and the concept was to promote school spirit and positivity so we are caught doing something well we have these really fun DNS logo stickers that staff can hand out to students and it's really fun imagery and we also have asked staff and specialist teachers like if they have an idea or if a club wants to um wants us to create a logo for them a fun sticker for them um a team a music teacher anybody at all a nurse a big lifelong that's something that will partner with them on and provides and they'll have those stand up students some events and ongoing projects for this year the first is our second annual student versus staff soccer game which I took the mingling opportunity to recruit John Bishop for his second event you're going to have to have doctors outside we're ready so we're in the planning stage of the dates are still to be determined last year over 50 students participated in the game we held it at the turf under the light that was like a really big deal we had music the student health local professions hot chocolate we had the middle school band played the national anthem before it and we encourage fans to bring can goods for the Canton food bank and we collected over 300 items that night it was a super fun event we were so excited to do it again um a picture of the plant that continues supporting student clubs and organizations such as Council an activities such as Veterans Day dancers otherwise events that they plan during the year and also guilt-term as always our school you're capped up by the needs grades promotion celebration last year we decorated the main ceremony space hosted an after-party dance providing food instead of games including glow-in-the-dark volleyball and the gym which was pretty cool um we'll also continue to focus on showing our teachers Administration office staff nurses Food Service teams custodians bus drivers and all educational support staff how much we appreciate them throughout the year we have conference treats to plan for November and March I love CMS theme for February bus driver appreciation day and teacher appreciation week in May we support teacher requests for items a handful of learning experience of the students and we discuss and include on them during our monthly meetings so we look forward to working with the school Community um this year and all families and ideas are always welcome to join our meetings to email us and help us bring new ideas to life and thank you thank you you know we yes we should have rcis about PTO you're just doing phenomenal work and we appreciate you because you know there's a lot of things that we can't do as a town could you guys step up and do to fill the gaps of the boys and we so appreciate it our children appreciate it and we're not going to let you go so you're going to have to stay in these positions you can't grow up right it's the uh advancing we're not going to March him but uh we will we know that people do move on but you got such great organization so thank you and thank you for that report so we'll leave it open the first meeting of the month for the PTL president report this change would be like all of us accountable to some things if you hear some things in the public he was a little attention any of the parents and you hear things and you know we like hey uh Lou if I could just jump in for one sec sorry I I work very closely with uh the head of the caspto um and she would like to uh say a few words if there's some time well sure I didn't know she's here she's here no she's she's sitting next to me I'm right here sorry I kind of sleep next week sometimes sometimes if our kids let us if our kids let us so I'm so sorry I completely Ryan's face and I didn't even think so thank you I know he lets you do it so uh well thank you everybody um if you don't meet I'm Whitney O'Donnell and Ryan's wife and I'm the president this year of the CIS PTO um it's I last year I was the secretary and I didn't think I was going to be on the PTO again but I'm back and this time I'm the president but I'm really excited because this year we finally have a full PTO at CIS so we have a vice president um Jen Violet has stepped up to do that we have two Treasures Allison Dolan and Nina um D'Angelo and then Amanda Garza will be our secretary so uh we're really excited it's a bunch of fourth grade parents who will be on our board this year and we're all really excited to have a great year for our kids um the cispto what we do is we support um and try to enhance the educational experiences of all of our students we do that through extracurricular activities for the children we do it through field trips and we're hoping uh that we can do that a little bit more this year um so far this year we have helped to support our staff by uh we did a welcome back luncheon like we do most years um we also on Friday during the since it was the first full week of school and it was a very long week we surprised the kids with popsicles um on Friday afternoon so that was a nice little treat for the kids um moving forward um we're just still like I said we're just finally have a board that's kind of in place uh we didn't have that for most of the summer but um Mrs Corto and I are very excited um to find to have a really full board for this um so we're working on our membership right now uh our secretary is going to be updating our website and kind of getting things moving um we have a couple things coming up as always we will be hosting fright night which will be at the end of February or sand of February at the end of uh October right before Halloween and uh we have two co-chairs for that and we have a couple parents who have already expressed interest in working on that so we're very excited about about fright night it was we were able to bring it back last year and we had over 250 Kids come out for that and parents and it was an absolutely wonderful evening and we really hope we can continue to do that for the kids we had the police department came out and did a trunk Retreat um with us and a lot of parents did as well so um we have that going on so I'm sorry this is just a kind of off the cuff little update for you guys but we will be doing a few more things um in the fall we have a Chipotle fundraiser coming up in October on the 12th uh we also have um a catalog fundraiser that we will be doing we're hoping to do a readathon fundraiser again this year um we of course will be doing more conference lunches for our tea teachers um we'll be doing hopefully doing the student staff basketball game again this year we also initiated a few years ago with something called Valentine's for the front lines where the students came to get made different cards for Frontline workers um first it was just at the hospitals last year we expanded it to drug stores and grocery stores in town so it was a really great effort and the kids really got involved and we had some really dedicated parents who kind of worked to organize it we actually got on the national news for it so it was kind of exciting um we also we worked with CMS last year on Sixth Grade on the bus driver appreciation which was absolutely fantastic and Andrea and Julie did such an amazing job on that um we also have sixth grade celebration that will be coming up and that was a really wonderful job and that was a a wonderful team effort for a bunch of parents um Sarah moribito headed that and Melissa trainer and a bunch of other people came together and just made it a really memorable evening for the sixth graders so if anybody has any questions or that was great and we appreciate that you move Brian out of the city I know I'll let you get his handsome face back much better yeah now now the view gets downgraded again I'm sorry sorry people they go above and beyond and I don't know if anybody knows but if we answered the lobster group with some teams and students that won for a station and they went and brought their fries and pizza and popsicles and jukeboxes and delivered it and presented it and served it and they didn't even have their own children there you know they really go above and beyond all the PTO so those uh all of them and and we encourage more parents to join and participate I think thank you guys thank you okay okay moving uh right along we're gonna go right into Mr Bishop uh thank you Mr Daniels I appreciate the opportunity to be able to share with you all tonight uh the the first thing that I want to be able to uh speak to is actually in reference to some work that we have already done and it's uh surrounding our summer work um uh we have over the the past two years had the opportunity to be able to engage in some some summer work with our students in ways that might look a little bit different than we have in the past and that has been through some of our uh our arpa funds uh to be able to support us our uh our our funds um and that actually was a requirement for us to be able to make sure that we were continuing to support students as their work uh in their work as we continue to move through the uh the pandemic uh we have been really thrilled with the work that we've been able to do from last year into this year and look to be able to do some uh really impressive work as we continue into the future but I wanted to be able to talk with you all a little bit tonight and actually have uh the folks who ran this program for us speak with you a bit tonight and just give you the opportunity to hear a little bit about what we've been doing and how we've been working through this um so so highlights for us tonight are to speak about the K5 uh summer Learning Academy our um CHS credit recovery program and then our CHS Pathways our CHS Summer Academy that we that we sponsored as well so I want to go to the next slide here if that's okay and and this is this is the big why behind this and it's this concept of the summer slide um summer is a wonderful time to be able to get away and it's a wonderful time to be able to uh to play get your get your feet in the sand uh run around outside really enjoying yourself but there's also a real reality to a lapse or a lack of Summer uh engagement for students in work um there's a study that uh was done that in Children of grades three to five even prior to the pandemic that on average they would lose about one-fifth of their school year gains in reading and better than an order of their games in mathematics over the summer break some of that is natural for kids to be able to be out of practice and just be able to be removed but the the fact remains that time on task and time to be able to continue to engage in meaningful work is really important um our younger children are really are really prone to these uh opportunities for learning loss and I think this is this is a real key for us here uh in general kids learn a lot more in kindergarten first grade and second grade than kids in middle school or high school because learning follows a curve where it's accelerated early in life and then plateaus things like decoding letter knowledge and word reading skills are very susceptible to Decay without frequent practice as our math facts like addition and subtraction so it's critical for us to be able to take care of our youngest students and really make sure that those who might be vulnerable uh that they have an opportunity to continue to be supported throughout our summer months and and give them an engaging experience that brings learning to life so we're excited to say that we've got that in place with our K-5 summer Learning Academy this Academy Works to be able to provide acceleration enrichment and engagement for students through small groups small group instruction with with prioritized standards and skills through a workshop type model the academy is intended to keep students engaged in learning and prevent that summer slide it provided academic supports and math and reading for targeted students and as well as those opting for attendance enrichment was embedded throughout with steam connections for students as well we had about 60 students who were joining with us for that K to 5 age range and the dates went from uh mid-july through the beginning of August we had an outstanding staff and and two of them are leaders here Abe Amery and Christy Johnson Avis our math science specialist our math science coordinator for Canton Intermediate School and Mrs Johnson is our literacy specialist for the intermediate school so they worked with a number of outstanding certified staff and great tutors to be able to provide this program including Molly henneberry Cora much Carrie Campbell Denise Doria Megan wood Tracy reichen Stevie Giuliano Ellen raposo Lisa Frawley Brandy Scott Tanner Clark Riley Gaudet and Tyron Jemison I'd like to invite Aid and Christy to be able to come up and and give you a peek into what we saw and what we learned from the process and some of the thoughts that we have uh moving forward for this as well David Christie welcome come on thank you and sit right in front of the cookies sorry if you wouldn't mind going to the next slide push that so I will speak to the slide I just want to start by thanking you for giving us the time to report out on the Summer Academy and not only talk about the programming but celebrate some of the successes that not only our students saw but staff as well just to add on to what John had said you know really our goal in putting this together was thinking about not only preventing summerslide for students but also just being really mindful about how do we put students in a position to grow and close some gaps and we did that by really thinking about priority standards or key skills that students would need to learn and then grouping students based on where their needs were so it was really purposeful um and allowed us again to be thinking about that small group work and individualized instruction um and give lots of feedback to students in real time and so as a result of that programming we have some outcomes here to to look at and for students who regularly attended Summer Academy it was a total of 16 sessions um or Ela 80 of those students either maintain so preventing that summer slide or made rope in ela standards that we were targeting and for mathematics it was actually 95 of students who attended regularly either maintained or may grow and so when we look at this data we're really thoughtful about how a majority of our students were better positioned to tackle the demands of the school year um and just thinking about just specific performance data better suits teachers to kind of hit the ground running with students and support them where they are and where they need to grow I know just based on the data up here this is quantitative but another goal that we really tackled that can't be captured in numbers is building student confidence and we really were thoughtful about that in terms of students who need support in reading and writing or reading and math rather and don't always feel that success in what ways are we supporting and celebrating small successes and helping them set goals and meet those goals and by and large I think we helped build Independence and identity as readers and mathematicians and I think you see that more in a lot of the pictures that were sent home to families in our weekly newsletters and even some kids walking in in the morning and like skipping down the hallway to class during the summer so I think by and large you know thinking about not only the academic growth that we can celebrate here but also students being more poised to start this school year I'm feeling ready not only as readers but mathematicians too that's pretty Christy thank you here you wouldn't mind going to the next one so feedback is another important thing for us maybe doing my channel so at um the end of the academy we send out a survey to families and then to staff as well just gain feedback with that mindset of always what can we do better what what can we build on what can we add for future academies um so I captured some feedback from from two parents um we had about um almost 20 parents respond to the survey which was nice um every little piece of feedback is so important to us and we definitely use that information for future planning but I think the the biggest trend line and theme throughout all that feedback was how parents were so appreciative of having the opportunity to keep their kids connected to learning um through through all the activities that we had planned so through the math activities through the reading but also we had Parents comment about how much their children loved learning about space and the steam and then the social emotional learning component of it having having morning meeting having a closing Circle having time to do some movement um throughout that morning was really important so like thinking about the whole child so the feedback I think the main feedback from parents was that opportunity to keep kids engaged but also to make it fun for them and to Christy's point at the very last day of the academy we had kids crying not wanting to go home they wanted to come back that following Monday to the academy so I have an iPhone 8 so I wasn't fast enough to capture that picture but um but no that just I mean that was that picture in itself and that that scene itself just spoke volumes and just the hard work that the staff put in to make it such a special experience for our students and I think having it at CIS has been nice and you know boat building all buildings are nice but it's especially for our third graders moving up to CIS it gave them a really nice opportunity to to get their feet wet in CIS and learn the building and see some of the teachers that they were going to be seeing in the fall at CIS so that was really nice um but before we go to our next our next slide I really want to be able to celebrate these two and highlight how excellent they are um if you think about it they ran school for a little over a month a K-5 Elementary School of 60 kids um the reason that that kids were successful the reason that teachers were successful is because of the hard work that they continue to put in you can hear the the Poise the confidence the Excellence in in their presentation and how they bring their work forward um this is what we see and experience every day and we're really grateful for the partnership with YouTube and your leadership so thank you so if I could just say because I had the opportunity to drop off my granddaughter who's in the program Juliana and Christy and they were out there every day smiling faces my daughter would run out and wait until my granddaughter couldn't wait to go and truth be told she was one that was crying that said I can't believe I'm not going back I'm not going to see my friends and she was uh so I I wanted to thank you both for for the job you did there and my daughter tells me the progress that my granddaughter made was significant so it really does have an effect and you know very grateful that you sacrifice part of your summer to do that so thank you yeah it's a great opportunity thank you um so future opportunities as I shared earlier the feedback survey from staff and from parents is so important and something that's that Christy and I um when we meet with Mr Bishop and central office to kind of think about future summer academies we always go back to that feedback and and see what can we continue to build on and and improve and maintain so some of the highlights um we always our our Academy is built around the staff that are involved in it um so expanding our highly trained staff to meet the kids students needs this year we're fortunate enough to have staff members who are trained um with specific curriculum to support students who needed specific needs and so if you can keep that model going um and be able to tailor students instruction throughout the academy um I think we're going to see research says we're going to see the most impact and the most acceleration with their growth and and what they're doing the this year we we collaborated with our extended school year program and we look forward to continuing that collaboration I know Christy and I and Mr Bishop are really looking forward to meeting with whoever new director of people Services is going to be and really looking for more opportunities to integrate the programs together this year was exciting that those students joined us for the social emotional components so the morning meeting closing meetings and also this theme activities so we'll continue to kind of look for opportunities to build that integration because we're all one Canton family so there's no no need to be in two separate silos um and then as Christy shared she shared some data up there you know we'll continue to evaluate you know the needs um and curriculum needs and the learning needs of our students and making sure that we're putting the right staff and the right information and programs in front of them and then continue to adapt I think this year what made it so successful was we had a lot of highly trained staff members to be able to meet the wide range of students and Learners that we had and then the other opportunity that we started to look into like this past year we're going to continue to look into is how do we capture or attract the Canton Community Resources so the Reps at the rec department because we had a few families asking is there anything that my child could do from 12 to 3 or 12 to four so looking to maybe bridge that community outreach with with the Canton Community and see other other opportunities after the Summer Academy for these students to you know partake in whether it's Sports Camp or a day camp or something with The Parkers Parks the next apartment so we're excited we thank you you know thank the board for your support we thank the parents for their support obviously Christy and I are so grateful for the teachers for giving up their Summers and and it's and you know for next year you know your Phil you're you're more than welcome to come in and check out the work that's happening and it's so incredible for teachers to come in on their Summers and and welcome these kids and make the kids you know give them the feeling of wanting to come to school in the summertime so thank you both thank you any questions your thoughts go okay it sounds like a great program thank you very much putting it together and do reports and I mention my questions for John I think this was funded through the Essa Grant yes and that continues at least one more year am I right on that or not I think this is the year that we this was the end of our our timing for this and so part of the reason that we're going to be able to share right now is we want to be able to put together a sustainable a sustainable plan for this future we believe that there's value in it we see value in it and I expect to be able to show to you our spring to our fall data to be able to show that it holds we held off the summer slide and that's that's that's value for us so uh we'll be preparing a a presentation for you all to be reviewing for our budget buses it's a great question just to clarify um yes the grant is over so we used it last summer and then this past summer um we have not broken down the exact plus but we'll talk about those posts during the budget preparation period all right I guess it's possible there might be more grants out there as well because it's not it's an issue across the country it is and there are some some Grant grants that are available within Connecticut they're highly competitive and very selective in their populations as well so that's something that we're going to work very closely on be able to identify what might be the best way to be able to support this but we definitely see value certain type of program I'm trying to be attractives and those people that are Dole after grants scalable successful absolutely enrollment in enrollment was good and I'll let you two speak a little bit with it too the I think the issues that we found for folks feedback that we received was oh I wish we could have known earlier I wore I wish we could have known that there was coverage throughout the rest of the day because some some families needed to be able to have that coverage all the way through so that was a barrier the the challenge for us in advertising when it's going to happen is we need to be able to have staff and then we need to know our numbers and we need to know a second so there's always a little bit of uh um a game that moves back and forth however I think we are going to find things uh become more stable for us and as we move out of what what is the the Terror of covet and we have a little bit more normalcy for folks where they have the bandwidth to be able to do more in their summer time so we do expect to be able to communicate earlier and we talked about that earlier today yeah promotion is going to be important is there anything else that either of you wanted to be able to add to that and feel like I mean my question was this yeah everybody that got it that wanted to get in yeah yeah we didn't hit that's a good point we didn't hit our capacity we were able to operate we would expand based on whatever the capacity was um so to answer that point the answer Erica thank you oh good this time hey thank you for coming tonight absolutely appreciate you so well thank you yeah we'll see you at school sounds wonderful all right have a wonderful evening thank you all right thank you I wanted to provide a a quick tour of our CHS credit workout recovery as well um if you wouldn't mind just getting to the the next slide for us as well so uh last year we had a number of students that required credit request Credit Recovery opportunities um this year because we were able to be in person because we were able to support those um those personal relationships with students better we didn't have as many students who were in need of credit recovery experiences uh however we did have 15 students who participated nine nine different courses were were used throughout this uh what we're able to do with this partner that that we have uh called Apex learning is we worked through and we developed the entirety of courses and ensured that there was Fidelity to the instructional content and uh and the practices that were involved in this to ensure that students had were able to receive quality credit for the work that they were doing this was available for students who were just missing the bar for uh accessing credit within their classes and they had an opportunity to work with fourth grade staff James annunziato Amanda Bernhardt Tara Smith and Julie Monaco um this is the second year of this program we see successes in providing this alternative Pathway to support our students um and it was a great way to make sure that our kids can continue continue to move on in that uh direction towards graduation on the next slide that's something that's been ongoing we always said that right that's not a grant program that is not a grant program we did support Staffing under a grant program like that and the state has provided an apex learning this solution as part of their art of funding um and so there we're waiting to be able to see where the state is going to come so we don't know where that funding is either we don't necessarily know where that funding will be coming from yet okay now the state may be looking at things and saying this is going to be a great solution that we want to continue to support we're making good things happen all right good um RC rchs boot camp uh we had 14 students uh join us for this this was uh an opportunity to to work for uh kind of the ninth grade at orientation for students who needed that opportunity to be able to reconnect back with school we had several key staff uh Jillian latcher Matthew britzel and Jen zenu they work to be able to promote engagement social skills and academic preparedness um and this was great this allowed these kids to be able to come be able to have um a fun way to connect back into school to be able to do some school-based skill as well and then have that rolled into our ninth grade orientation so that they could they could look at that transition from middle school to high school and feel that they were very successful in them um any questions for me on on that end I just think these programs are outstanding and we can't afford to promote them so we're going to have to figure it out I guess a lot of Grants a lot of work a lot of hard work to be able to figure out how to be able to support this but this is we see the value in this for sure and we want to keep highlighting um the success of these um the the final piece that I would share with you all is our professional development and evaluation committee uh met recently and we were able to pass uh flexibilities flexibilities in the educator evaluation process which was allowed by the state this year we're very excited about what we're bringing forward this year uh for our staff it's it's it's similar in a lot of respects but what we've done is we've streamlined our systems of work to ensure that our teachers uh some of the um some of the laborious elements of adding information into a system that that was taken away so the teachers can really focus on doing the job and working on getting better our goal uh our bet is really on supporting the Improvement in teacher process uh and teacher practice and that will continue to support uh student growth and student learning so we had a great involvement from our administrators from our bargaining units and from our our committee to be able to work on this and we're we're thrilled we're in a very supportive position to support our teachers going forward so again coming back to this conversation of people wanting to be in Canton we're working very hard to make sure that we are supportive of our staff and support of our students through the work that we're doing foreign that's for sure absolutely thank you all for your support okay I apologize I miss Mr Moore Mr Moore wants to uh talk to us about a we're bringing back the Washington DC field trip booking table so you're going to find a very uh easy board tonight yeah right so go ahead and let's go back to DC thank you for your time all in favor uh no I so um as we all know we we paused uh overnight field trips um as did as did many uh in the midst of the uh pandemic and I believe that we are in a position where there's enough predictability all right this is still a part of our lives but there's predictability and and um skill sets and how we respond uh to to things where I think that we can offer something that requires a lot of long-term planning uh from both families and staff to leave the state go overnight and return to something that's both an important tradition to Canton and an incredible academic and social opportunity uh so I am uh partnering uh with a I'm exploring along with Tina Olson one of our staff members she's working with me to collaborate and find uh opportunities for the trip and as of right now what's been uh put into your packet is a proposal from academic and performance travel which is the company that we came to know through Rachel antonucci and her Florida trip um we've vetted several different companies some of you may remember we previously worked with Nations classroom not Nature's Classroom that's a CIS tradition that was also paused but uh nature Nations classroom and this company that Rachel introduced us to we actually uh explored with both of them different packages and different Partnerships and we strongly preferred the package put forward by academic performance and travel so you can see I've got some dates proposed here in late April a three-day two-night trip to Washington DC um returning to many of the sites and traditions that this community has known for a long time I think it is uh it's in direct alignment to our 8th grade social studies curriculum and it is an important developmental milestone for students it requires a great deal of social skills and resiliency and maturity to travel right beyond the easy reach of your folks and be overnight and be walking out there in a major Metropolitan City and taking in everything and students that have done a wonderful job with that I've had the opportunity to do this trip once in my time before it was paused and I think that we are due to return to it this is something I'd like you to consider the Improvement so that we can begin formally inviting families to plan and prepare for it so Jeff before we go to the board with questions because they really do but uh I pulled the board before this and the board has an issue and the issue is that Joe scheidler has to be a chaperone again he doesn't go we're not going to vote this thing in no you're right right right there all right let's get to the question to move this along so who is okay Erica um I'm thrilled to see that it's back on the table paper is there not over this one is shorter than usual it has uh it has been a four day three night trip and this is the one time that I'm proposing uh it feels most appropriate to do three nights uh three days and two nights so yes I'm I'm proposing a reduction of one day um for this for this one trip so my thought it might so different schools in our in our area and nationally are taking different approaches to the reintroduction to field trips right this will be an 8th grade trip that has never done a school overnight trip right Nature's Classroom is usually an introductory experience to being away from home for a couple of days and they are just in was it Coburn right and so they go away but like you're there these these eighth graders have not done that and I think that it's appropriate to take that into account in terms of the duration and experience that they're going to um some schools as rather explore the different options some schools are staying closer to home they're doing Boston uh or New York we explored in both Boston and Philadelphia but these different companies and quite frankly just the experience of what they will get and its alignment to our curriculum is not is not worth it so as I was thinking about different ways of balancing what the appropriate reintroduction to a pretty significant trip um given their their their previous experiences DC was clearly the winner in terms of where is it valuable to go and where will kids and families want to spend their time and money to send their kids um but that that one less day um it's exhaust right there's just there's so if that's the main the main reason and there's also Financial component by reducing a day this is a group that will not have had the opportunity to fundraise for two years which in previous years they we did two years of fundraisers so some students and families could mitigate the cost they could offset the cost by hundreds of dollars and uh with a shorter trip obviously I'm able to keep the cost below even what it was before as costs for everything is skyrocketed we can come in below where families would have expected it to be a few years ago because it's shorter right so there's a financial but also developmental reasoning okay thank you good answer we'll see your point Joe yeah I was going to ask the same question that makes a whole lot of sense Jeff um and it was two nights three days for many many years um so it certainly can be done chaperones teachers parents what do you have in mind my history with this is that the goal is to have teacher chaperones uh to do so you need about 13 staff with a 10 to 1 ratio with the size of size of a grade which in the school of Kent Middle School side size is um half of them uh right and so um I have not yet put up feelings for that right I anticipate that I know that this has support within the school Community but I also would be very empathetic if people would say look you know I love the trip the the bus the Close Quarters I I would understand if there's if there's some hesitation there but I think that things are going to be continuing to get better and I think that maybe even the reduced time makes it a little bit more attractive to get chaperones so teachers would be my first preference but obviously we will need to explore if I don't get to that 13 Mark we would need to consider where we would we would want to go next for chaplains but in my experience we've been able to get there and we I would certainly hope I can again so solution that was that was my question too when we got the board traffic over the week for the weekend I looked at it and I that was my initial thought too like gosh they're gonna go all that way but then I I actually dug a little digging in other districts are doing the same you know Granby's doing the exact same amount of time and then you're all your rationale makes great sense I'm just thrilled to see that it's back on the table because I know over the years it's been such a disappointment for students and parents too I think you know value the trip Mr Case do you want to say anything about this Mr Moore and I have had several conversations over the past year about to begin planning for this because we both feel how important um an educational experience this is um I've gone twice myself uh possibly I'll go again we'll see what April brings but I told you something we do that it's a it's a it's a great trip it's what our students remember from it's one of the high points of their time in Canton so I hope you support this so so my only Point comment is going to be every child that wants to go has to be able to go right I know the PTO is going to offer scholarships I don't want any family to be embarrassed to ask or uh any child to be embarrassed not to be able to go so that would be my own you know absolute in this statement every child that wants to go can go can you assure me that absolutely from my bone marrow I couldn't agree more right like this is a place that is something that everyone should be able to uh to go if they want to go and although there is the barrier of you you need to ask for help sure from from the bottom of my heart we try to communicate things both written important and in-person experiences uh this that's a judgment-free request right because we recognize that anyone could be in any type of situation at any particular moment great and uh through both your support and this really amazing PTO who've said a lot of great things about what they did today but I think still undersold how much they support Canon staff became Middle School staff and students um I can absolutely guarantee that we will get every child that wants to go and our goal is nothing short of 100 okay all right that's our goal thank you all right having uh everybody oh right you want to ask a question for chance Ryan okay um sorry thank you um okay so thank you this is a first reading for the board so the board will uh we'll we'll um in the consent agenda will uh we'll go over this is a first reading we'll bring it back at the 28th I think you get a sense that you can get going on this thing but I mean the process is the processes will vote on 28.

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through them we have addressed many issues and concerns while building a structure that provides us a place to create solution solutions and better serve our students and teachers we will continue to look for ways to develop leadership among our members inside and outside of the classroom we will also look to develop student parent and community leaders in our public schools we look forward to continuing that work with all of you on the board and in the cabinet thank you thank you grant uh any other associations we have csca nope okay uh uh apga come on corey and friends okay hello good evening board of trustees superintendent matsuda executive cabinet auhsd students and families guests and those joining us online my name is corey kretz and i'm the proud apg co-president along with natalie saudivar counseling sit on the three pillars of social emotional development academic counseling and college and career exploration as the school year begins and the master schedule has been completed counselors are ensuring that that current and new students are being placed in appropriate classes auhsd enrolls many new students and it's the counselor's role to welcome them make sure they are in their correct courses and that the staff is front loaded to expect a new face counselors are also delivering social emotional development through guidance lessons and introducing or reintroducing themselves to their students counselors have also been sending out needs assessment through their lessons and minute meetings which collects students interest in academic planning such as a through g or life skills like interviewing prep interview preparations or social emotional development such as how to cope with anxiety once counselors get this information they plan out their guidance lessons and activities for the year we are also very excited that counselors are preparing for and supporting the college and career fair the largest one in the state of california today you will hear from brookhurst junior high school and savannah high school and how counselors are advancing the cpsf for 21st century skills you hear about how counselors develop soft skills during guidance lessons for technical skills you're here you will hear about how counselors are guiding students towards their chosen cte pathways and or dual enrollment opportunities and lastly how youth voice and purpose is supported by allowing students to determine the guidance lesson topics and also by the many surveys and assessments that counselors are collecting so that we know all our students names needs and stories first up is going to be brookhurst junior high good evening board members uh my name is alma ortega i'm one of the seventh grade school counselors at brookhurst junior high brookhurst counselors promoted their role during the 101 site slide guidance instructions through all english classes in september of 2021.

well good evening and welcome to this regularly scheduled board meeting of the azusa unified school district board of education on september 13 2022 the time is now 7 p.m and we will open our we'll move to our open session and we will begin with 4.1 which is our flag salute and i do believe that we have scarlet overrubias here with us this evening welcome scarlett go ahead and lead us my name is carl garlicobadobias and i will be leading you in the fox bloom please stand for the fox loop please face the flag put your right hand over your heart ready begin 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 prometa republica representative [Music] thank you very much next we will move to our roll call board member rodriguez pena president board member beau here board member cruz gonzalez here and i board member greer i'm also here board member arianes will be absent this evening next we move to 4.3 approval of the agenda is there a motion to approve tonight's agenda make a motion to approve 4.3 a second moved by board member rodriguez pena that's seconded by board member beau any discussion hearing none we will move to a vote and is there a uh excuse me for not asking do you have a student is there a preference would you you'd vote yes thank you and so the motion formally passed is to approve the agenda uh four yes one absent which brings us to 5.0 a report of report action of closed session matters and we'll begin with 5.1 student matter final sentiment for office of administrative hearing oah case number zero three three one student number twenty two dash twenty three zero one dash zero one is there a motion to approve a motion to approve 5.1 a second moved by board member rodriguez pena seconded by board member beau and we'll move to and that motion passes or yes to one absent bringing us to 5.2 student matter final sentiment for office of administrative hearing case number two zero two two zero five zero eight nine six student number 22-2301-04 is there a motion to approve a motion to approve 5.2 second moved by board member rodriguez pena seconded by board member beau with that we will move to a vote and that motion passes four yes to one absent this brings us to 6.0 recognition and awards and specifically 6.1 recognition of azusa high school student nathan nogues estrada please correct me if i pronounce that incorrectly but i will look to mr fernandez good evening board of education i'd just like to invite our head coach coach brownstead up to the days for introducing his players tonight for his player tonight video uh i don't know hear me or not but good afternoon or evening excuse me i'm still on practice time um my name is mark brownstead coach brown said um we're here to uh recognize nathan we call him nate um for his performance in week zero which is confusing because it always seems like a week one um just weird football stuff but uh in our game against mountain view nathan threw for five touchdowns ran for another touchdown um had a fantastic evening played very well on defense has played well all season um as he often does and what i can tell you about nate is he is an extremely hard worker on and off the field he's very coachable he's extremely intelligent he has a bright future i think we're only seeing the beginning of what he's capable of and it has been the culmination of four years for uh interesting years of him dedicating himself to not just the game but tolerating me so um i am pleased to uh recognize him in this moment and i'm very proud of him and uh i appreciate his family being here as well thank you is there anything that you would like to say this evening at the podium i just like to say i appreciate my mom and dad for like helping me throughout my journeys and playing football throughout my high school years but this isn't like my award i feel like this is a team award because without my team i wouldn't be yours thank you half of the board of education certificate of recognition for all of your hard work as a student as an athlete and as a young man so congratulations all right and next we move to 7.0 and specifically 7.1 public comment on agenda or non-agenda items this is an opportunity for the public to address the board of education on agenda or non-agenda items individual speakers may be allowed up to three minutes to address the board of education on any agenda or non-agenda item when the public wishes to address the board of education on an agenda item they may fill out a blue card stand at the podium or raise their hand while in zoom attendant the board will take blue card requests first followed in order by speakers at the podium and then those and zoom attendant do we have any blue cards this evening we do so first up we have david pavero [Music] good evening president greer and board members and superintendent ortega if you don't know me i'm chief david pavaro of the covenant police department i wanted to come at the beginning of the school year best time here september to just affirm our commitment to gladstone high school you know that's in the city of kena affirm our uh passion our mission provide safety and security on that campus to the student faculty and parent we've committed our sro program there through the summer we've done our department in-house ongoing training as we always do with school safety and active training we continue to partner with superintendent had several discussions with them over the summer we're here for you i just want to make sure that you important understand to take care of tonight but uh the last thing i'll bring up is you can see by my patches i'm wearing patches october is right in front of us breast cancer awareness month the vino police department has always been a supporter of breast cancer awareness the la county police chiefs last year raised a quarter of a million dollars together for breast cancer awareness research intervention the covenant police department raised seven thousand dollars on its own this year we're winning ten thousand dollars uh a pledge and we're participating home and block october october 8th saturday down by la live welcome any of any of the community of azusa gladstone uh faculty and students anybody in our community join a partnership on a worthy cause um you can go to our website our social media sites join our fundraising we have shirts and challenge coins if you don't want to join us that's fine join any organization to fight a worthy battle breast cancer awareness thank you for the time you know where you can locate me superintendent again we're here for azusa unified thank you have a good evening thank you uh chief next we have albert sanchez all right good evening president grier superintendent ortega fellow board members and cabinet my name is albert sanchez i'm a physical education teacher and athletic director at glaston high school i'm speaking tonight on behalf of our ausd coaches and want to address ausd's extra duties pace schedule in particular the coaches section on octo on november 5th uh 2021 i sent you all the first of two emails addressing the extra duties pay schedule i shared a spreadsheet with information that i had gathered that compared the coaching stipends of five neighboring school districts to that of ausd what's important to understand is that these numbers reflect the pay scales entering the 21-22 school year the findings clearly showed our shortcomings when compared to the other five neighboring school district salaries in my follow-up email on may 14 of this year i sent an updated spreadsheet that compared ausd to 16 of our neighboring school district again numbers clearly showed that we rank at or near the bottom in pay in almost every sport football volleyball basketball soccer baseball and softball i've asked both of our high school head football coaches to join me here tonight to further drive home the point i'm trying to make these two coaches coach brownstein from azusa and coach lopez from gladstone are the lowest paid high school football coaches on the list i provided you we rank dead last 17 out of 17 the speaks volume also in my follow-up email i mentioned that if you take a look at the ausd extra pay schedule 2019 2020 effective july 1st 2019 found an appendix d of the aea contract the initial sentence underneath this states this title states the following percentage for number of years as applied to column one step one of the teachers salary schedule forty three thousand six hundred fifty eight the teacher's salary schedule begins with column column one step two at fifty two seven seven eight there isn't a step one on the teacher's salary schedule a first year teacher in a zoo unified begins at column one step two of the teacher's salary schedule a ausd the facts have been clearly presented to you you have the opportunity to correct an obvious heir find a way when it comes to negotiations to make the changes needed to make us comparable to our neighboring school districts and consider separating the coaches pay schedule from all the other ausd extra duties change the initial sentence of the ausd extra pay schedule to state column 1 step 2 of the teacher's schedule do away with the 43 658 total and replace it with the base salary of a first year teacher like our neighboring district on behalf of all of our coaches and student athletes i thank you in advance thank you for your attention to this matter thank you thank you moving on to uh our next public commenter which is amber fish hi everyone sorry i couldn't be there in person um i wanted to start out with a couple kudos thank you so much to nutrition services for the amazing food they have been serving uh the first day of school my son had chicken noodle soup and he was absolutely raving about it he's still raving about it here we are almost a month later um seeing the pasole the fresh foods it's really encouraging and i'm hoping that we can roll out more soon um i love seeing these fresh options for our students sorry about that um also i wanted to say thank you to superintendent ortega for opening up his parent roundtable to everyone in the district it's nice to be able to log in and chat and have some conversations with him to address some concerns that we might be having which leads me to my final point uh air conditioning uh i see that air conditioning is a problem throughout our district not just at hodge we've been waiting on some parts that have been on back order however we just had this very giant heat wave and our students are having lunch outside yes underneath a covered patio however this covered patio it's it's still over 100 degrees outside and hot for them um i'm hoping that if continuing waiting on these parts is probably not the best option we need to look into replacing them um it was mentioned that they are old and some are up for replacement so i'd hope the board would take time to consider that being proactive about this so this way we can get on a list to purchase acs instead of waiting until we need them again and then possibly being at the bottom of a list and we can get ahead of this for next year's heat waves coming up thank you all for your time we look forward to a great year this year thank you very much miss fish and with that we will move to 8.0 which is comments reports and requests by the board of education and we will begin with board member rodriguez payne uh hello um good evening everyone i just want to start off by saying i went to the welcome back district luncheon it was great to see everyone out and it was i don't know 105 degrees right but it turned out very nice a lot of people showed up and we had the opportunity of either choosing between a taco um don't want to see a taco stand but a gentleman was telling making tacos and also the big ice grill which of course i have to go get my favorite bacon wrap hot dog and um i want to thank natasha and her team they did a great job they had many many raffle prizes distributed them and they're really good um i also went to the cls va conference the california latino school board association i went to several workshops the one that stood out to me was equitable while addressing the mental health needs of students and community they spoke about creating a safe space for students i do know that we do have the wellness center at the high schools but i would like to recommend that we have the wellness centers also in the middle schools i would like to um also wellness center should not only be for students they should also be for staff members that was really important when we spoke about when they spoke about that in this session you know i know we have staff lounges but it's not very private because you never know who's in there you know somewhere you know where a staff member can go and and and you know just spend some time in there if they need a break you know we're all human beings and we all go through different emotions um and even if they stay there 10-15 minutes just to be able to get away um i'll just give you just a quick example of myself just like you know i i've been working in the school system for 40 years my husband passed away and um in 2011 2009 excuse me and and i'm working the office right and and i'm not feeling good but i had to go back to work eventually right and people wanted to talk to me or and i just wanted to not have him ask him all the time oh so what happened and how did he die what i just but then i couldn't get away right i mean i had like a space where we just go and sit i mean i just i just have to get up and tell my principal i have to go home this is like it's too much for me so i mean it's 13 years but it still affects me so i think it's really important that the staff members at the school sites and the district have a place to stay other than um just going to the lounge or just sit in your desk and just taking it [Music] so i i really like that class i went to coffee with the principals at murray elementary school and uh with mr costa and then i went to central middle school with mr contreras and um you know they spoke to the parents about the upcoming programs and all the great things that to look forward to here this is the unified school districts of course parents had many questions regarding the middle school um regarding the organization what are we doing next year and mr mr dr contreras you know he had answers to them or that he said they can come and speak to him anytime and he would also bring updates of what's going to be going on so they do know being transparent is so important to these parents um but i do see the balance back the valve's been missing and it's there so um my concern is that you know this bowel was there since 1988 i asked mr contreras how long has it been there and i'm just hoping that when we do all this reorganization it's not just we put back in the warehouse because that's where it was all this time i'm hoping we'll find a place for it i mean even in the district office in a corner somewhere i don't know but i just don't think that we should um we should respect it and put it somewhere and not just stash it away and i did go to the back to school night azusa high school in glaston high they had a very good turnout considering it was 101 degrees out that evening it was a nice evening but it still was very hot but they had both schools had a great turnout with parents um the um retired new york city fire lieutenant um 911 responder you usmc veterans award veterans mr singleton he came and spoke to our students regarding 9 11 and how to help others and also um lisa landeros levine she was an active u.s army captain for 17 years in the military they went to the high school they spoke to the students and the um sierra high school were famous this channel 7 went there and they interviewed the students and they interviewed the gentleman and he was i don't know seen it had a chance to see it but it was a tidbit but it was azusa unified school district so all the students i was so impressed they did so great they all were real quiet they were listening very interested in what what you have to say to them and they also asked him questions so i wanted to thank myra rico and um the she's the president of wrote the rotarians and uh ray kearney for all the hard work because i know it took a hard for them to bring him from virginia they they flew him here and they found the funds and they housed them here and took him to lunch every day and and he was a very nice gentleman so and also mary turner on 9 11 they had a um and the interact students they had the dinner outside at the front of the city hall and they had their ceremony until it started raining right but it was good everyone still continued to eat and everyone's get even the um apu the jazz van they kept on playing them and playing and everyone was you know they were okay just a little water was not gonna hurt anyone but um that's all i have to report thank you board member bo thank you good evening everyone um just a couple of um shout outs that i'd like to give i'd like to give a shout out to all of our teachers and all of our principals at the site for their hard work in making this year a true back to normal back to school i've seen a lot of energy at the school sites a lot of enthusiasm a lot of print filled and art filled classrooms already in the first couple weeks of school so that's exciting to see i also wanted to share that i am a new hodge parent and a new long fellow parent so the morning drop-offs have gotten a little easier now um especially with my little one at longfellow um and and the thing together staff at the administration especially at longfellow has been very caring and welcoming as my little one is making her transition from preschool tk today in fact i had the opportunity to volunteer as a parent at the hajj book fair and i think it's a great fundraising opportunity it's a great opportunity to promote literacy um and for students to have the opportunity to come in during lunch and browse and and purchase books at their at their leisure one thing that i noticed that um i think given our current national climate around school safety and campus safety is as apparent um i i think maybe there's an opportunity for um the district to take a look at our visitor management systems um some of the schools that i've been involved in we have sort of that that system where you have to show your your driver's license your id and then it's run through the system so that if we verify that i am who i say i am and um i i didn't experience that today and it just it's been on my mind as a school administrator about how we're able to have access to our campuses so i think given our um current upgrades and technology and servers and phones and cameras and just security in general i'd like to see if we can start having that conversation about a visitor management system district-wide board member cruz gonzalez thank you i'm just a couple things i'm also just want to say i've really been excited with coming back to school year just the excitement i see on campuses and the energy um i know my son is having a great time in second grade um so just a couple things that i wanted to talk about i also attended the california latino school board association conference and there were two workshops that sort of stood out to me um the first was around ethnic studies um and um wouldn't it woodland unified has actually started training a very long time ago passed a state a board resolution to to focus on the high school graduation requirement and so we know that their message to all of us were that we know that the requirement is two years out and so if you're not preparing now and putting your courses in now you're gonna you're not gonna be ready in two years right so i just want to bring that message back to us um and they've gone so far as not only training the cohort of their ethnic studies but also all their social studies teachers on sort of a baseline understanding of what ethnic studies did so just something for us to think about um and then the other area i'm glad to see our citrus partners in the audience i went to a session about dual enrollment um that cintanella valley about and they've got a very different path right so i really appreciate our our um early college that we have um they've actually focused much more on the career tech and embedding fuel enrollment in those career tech pathways um and so i think it's a place for us to think about us expanding partnership because i don't think we've gone that in that direction yet so thinking about like as we're consolidating is just the high where all the pathways are going to be at one school even closer to citrus than before i'm thinking about maybe that's maybe a place for us to think about how we expand partnerships um along with um my plug for like a full early college where kids walk out with an aaa like we see in a neighboring district um so that's um i just want to mention that and then just a couple other things i also wanted to mention the quality of food i really appreciate um especially the scratch cooking that our kids are getting i think it makes a difference um because you're getting really high quality food i did want to mention i still i feel like there's still work to happen at the breakfast level and especially now that we have um the second star break which i appreciate now because every kid gets a breakfast but my son who i do not let him have sugary sugary cereals it comes home excited because he gets the cocoa puffs in the morning right and so you know he's like and they have tricks and they have he's mentioning all of these sugar cereals that in my house we don't have right so just thinking about like how do we make that breakfast that we know we're giving to every kid make it a quality breakfast that that uh someone who wants a healthy start for their student is gonna knows that the school is delivering that but i do want to just preface that by saying the food i mean especially at the lunch is i mean it's incredible to see those changes i'm looking forward to seeing how we expand that i do know that the state um i think in the last day budget has out actually allocated dollars for grants for kitchen upgrades so i hope that we're looking at at trying to get some of those dollars because i know that's a big barrier and being able to have full scratch cooking um i also just wanted to mention i wanted to express appreciation to especially to our hr department and to our services that we have a fully staffed dual immersion program i know last year we had issues with with um you know teachers and classrooms and so i know that we walked in the door with some really great new teachers i i think some of them are very new in their careers so but that's exciting um and so i'm really excited to see that we have a really strong program um and that it's continuing and then um i think that is oh no two more things i also wanted to mention all the positive press that i see i see that we're getting through media through local tv i think that's just a testament for the work that our staff are doing in terms of how they outreach um i know we get to i get text messages from arturo saying hey this abc or nbc is coming to interview us right and so i think just thinking about where we used to be in terms of press i i i just want to say i appreciate that i noticed that that difference um and that is the all i have for our for this part right now thank you and good evening i similarly just want to comment on nutrition services i'll say that it came up kind of kind of school lunches and whatnot came up uh in conversation between my my daughter and and myself prior to the school year starting she brought it up and as and as she brought it up i i informed her uh to be on the lookout for some things that were going to be changing and uh she has since come back and has has said dad you were right and and if i could right right that's always a great thing to hear and as well as the food was bomb it was was it was another it was another quote from her and so yeah i just want to want to tip my hat uh to the nutrition services team and all the hard work that's that's going in to provide quality meals uh to uh our students here in the district and with that we will move to 9.0 comments and reports by student board members superintendents and cabinet and we'll we will begin with our student board member so to begin project high school azuza high school would like to thank the azusa rotary and the chamber of commerce for inviting captain lenderos levin and lieutenant clarence singleton who uses the high school on friday to share with students about the importance of service and helping others lieutenant singleton offered aspects a strong personal story about his service to his country in vietnam and in new york as a firefighter who helped save others on 9 11.

a big congratulations to the glaston high school varsity football team for their hard fought their hard fought 7-0 win against la puente this past friday night the ghs senior class had a senior sunset senior sunrise on the ghs football field yesterday september 11th from 6 00 6 00 am to 7 30 am the seniors had a great time watching the beautiful sunrise while enjoying music food and games the first inter club committee and student body meetings will be held on september 14th the icc meetings of all the clubs on campus the voice on spending activities and fundraisers sports events for the rest of the week include girls varsity tennis which they will be playing at damien against st lucy's on thursday september 15th and jv and varsity girls volleyball will play at azusa on thursday september 15th and varsity girls tennis will play at home against ganesha on friday september 16th good luck lady glads and thank you very much thank you and do we have daphne here with us this evening yes good evening board members the school year sierra is off to a great start our leadership class has been planning many school activities to engage students during lunch time students recently competed in a dodgeball challenge between juniors and seniors students also participated in a t-shirt spirit day on wednesday september 21st our co-ed flag football team will play against coronado high school last week many parents attended our coffee with the principal and mental health workshop these workshops will continue to take place throughout the school year we were honored to have california army national guard captain lisa landeros levine and former new york city firefighter clarence singleton share 9 11 experience with encouraging words finally sierra will host our back to school slash report card night on thursday september 29th from 5 30 to 7 00 pm thank you thank you and now we will i'll turn it over to the superintendent and cabinet good evening all um i wanted to first start with um thanking our nutrition services department i'm excited to be the twitter guru because i get to post all the pictures and get all the excitement and everyone's like oh what district is that um but um we've come a long way um and we set a goal um and under the leadership of ms stella i'm confident that we are on the right track and we still have a long way to go but we are not where we were last year so i am grateful um for that um also i want to announce that we do catering um so if anyone wants to hire us for your special event please contact the nutrition services department for catering um but lastly on [Laughter] she's like we have too many absences right now but you know we're going to get there okay but on a serious note i do want to um acknowledge um we are still having our hvac issues um though it was our goal we tried hard to um have a zero open work order at the start of this school year um we were not successful in that goal um we did as much preventive maintenance as we could but with the supply demands um staffing shortages there's a list goes on but there's no need for excuses but what i do want to share is that um to go over and beyond that we did solicit services for other suppliers directly to come walk our campuses and just say hey we're willing to buy the parts from you guys i mean they too said the same thing um we have parts but it's not the parts for your units um in an interim um we are investing in fans which i know does not help but these are just little things that we're trying to do we have communicated with our principals that in a minute um in the midst of inclement weather we can um allow our students to eat in their classrooms still under the ac so go to the cafeteria get their bills income we're trying to find solutions um but our goal is to continue we're not going to stop um we're going to continue to push our suppliers we're going to continue to try to see what we can do in-house to make this happen but we do want i just want to probably thank the multi department for the efforts that they have and just continue to ask for everyone's on patience and support but we are doing the best we can good evening i also would like to acknowledge our site administrators and staff for welcoming parents and families back to a wonderful back-to-school night i had the opportunity to attend several and it was great to see all of the people braving the hot weather to come and meet teachers visit school sites attend title 1 meetings and just coming back in in such a wonderful way i also want to acknowledge our ela eld tosa kimberly dom and our assistant principal of glaston high school althea zimmer who will be presenting um uh with laco tomorrow on how to launch and ethnic studies they will be part of a cohort with three other districts sharing about our path good evening uh board um thank you miss fish for uh introducing the parent round table i do want to thank last year's superintendent para roundtable uh because they said let's try it let's try to open this up and see how that works and so thank you to last year's parent roundtable this year we had we launched a couple of weeks ago we had a tremendously awesome time during our meeting and so thank you to all the parents that showed up we really really really appreciate all the comments all the feedback and all the questions uh that you gave us uh on that morning uh number two uh also a big shout out to all the school sites that have been doing amazing in this opening i got to visit azusa high school glaston high school and matp's back to school night and enjoy a paleta at mhtp and in this weather la paleta was was really welcomed and uh and good but it was good to see the parents uh to uh board member rodriguez pena's uh comments uh there was a huge turnout of parents at the high schools and so it was very um very awesome to to see that uh in addition to what norma just said uh regarding laco and uh inviting us uh to uh to a webinar tomorrow to share what we have been doing around ethnic studies so uh yes kudos to to uh uh kim kimberly dom to uh althea zimmer uh another example of how we're we're leading in this in this space uh but i also got an invitation uh from azusa high school teacher who has invited me to her ethnic studies course because we launched these courses this year they are ada g ethnic studies approved courses uh and so i'm gonna i'm gonna be able to go out and spend some time with her and uh these new courses so i appreciate the the invitation uh from our teacher and good evening board of education staff and community i also want to join the chorus of uh congratulations and and thank yous and high fives to our that administrators staff that have been putting on a wonderful start of the school year with our back to school nights i have been able to attend a couple i attended glaston high schools and ellington's and both of them were very well done very different um in in their approach but very well done very welcoming and i also want to give a big high-five to our teachers who you could tell have put quite a bit of attention on preparing their classrooms uh for the the parents and the communities that that we're visiting yesterday i had the pleasure of co-presenting with aea president meg savella and our director of special education aaron cramer was here in the audience on the certificated evaluation system the training was for our site association representatives and our administrators to review the evaluation process and answer questions the overarching goal is to make sure that all of us are on the same page as it comes to evaluation and looking ahead we have our dessert social next week this is an opportunity that we have every year to recognize our employees that have reached milestone years of service to the district and this event was held virtually last year and we're happy to be able to resume an in-person recognition of this event this event is this coming monday september 19th at 3 15 p.m in the sierra high school multi-purpose room i'm looking forward to a wonderful event and i look forward to seeing all of you there thank you thank you with that we will move to 10.0 general functions and we will begin with 10.1 presentation of programs and partnerships with citrus college thank you board president greer tonight we are very thankful to have dr schultz and trustee dr contreras from citrus college who are here to share some of the things that citrus in partnership with the district that greatly benefits our students but also the things that await our students when if they choose to go to citrus colleges the amazing things that await them when when they get here uh so with that i'd like to turn it over to uh dr schultz uh and trustee contreras thank you superintendent of its staff thank you for the opportunity to hear here about college partnership a little closer okay thank you make sure i'll use my teacher voice but um it's just a pleasure to be with you this week greg schultz i've served as the superintendent president citrus college july of 2021 board ortega thank you so much for this opportunity by the way we're hoping to make this a regular yearly before we come over into it but we're going to have citrus collaboration on little secretary josh maddy and as you all know i'm also the principal at center middle school here and this is the unified so i have many hats and people that know me growing up i still have many hats so thank you so much for this opportunity so we're going to go a little bit back and forth on our presentation today just to share a little bit more about college's unified partnership and how it's all work thank you so since i've joined the campus college of july of 21 i've had the opportunity to meet many of our faculty staff at student course but also members of the community our educational partner tonight we want to briefly share some highlights from things during the past year citrus college and certainly we're excited to share about our partner with this business but before we begin about all our partnerships let's start a little bit about the history so uh a little bit about the history it was founded in 1915 by floyd s hayden um it is the hundred it was the oldest community college in los angeles county and the fifth oldest in the state of california citrus has a beautiful 104 acre campus that includes 44 buildings and seven outdoor athletic facilities we proudly serve almost two hundred thousand residents living in the communities of guardi monrovia bradbury azuza glendora and claremont and as well as some slivers in small portions of pavina irwindale pomona sandimus and the bird okay well we'd like to share um some recent honors and these are our things that thanks to the faculty staff and student of citrus college uh citrus college has been recognized uh first we were named a military friendly school and military-friendly spouse school something we're very proud of we have a veteran on campus the college received the equity champion of higher education award helping latinx students reach their goals including free completion transfer but the college earned a higher education award for the arts schools network for supporting arts education k-12 schools and uh for being one of one we were one of 150 community college in the nation invited to compete for the asp college this past january we had our accreditation we're accredited by activities um our accreditation was the firm for seven years with no finding for recommendations for clients which was outstanding news that's the best possible out we could achieve we're excited about that thankful to our instructors staff students next i'd like to hear a little bit about enrollment after experiencing as so many of our schools have adjusted particularly with the pandemic um citrus college we're starting to start grow at fact this fall as the this morning we have ten thousand seventy seven people fall semester we offer many in-person camp on campus and first classes in fact we've had more students choosing to take their classes on campus than these best past five for the past two and a half years we still offer a significant presence online so lots of online hybrid course what we've tried to do while encouraging on campus class services is listen close follow data from where our student express they're there whether any of our students want to learn maybe working adult learning students so we're working hard to do the best both on campus and online and as a reminder it's very very affordable high quality so cost of college is 46.3 for students in addition have a robust financial aid department uh where we're able to work with students and uh help them qualify for federal financial aid so not loans but just uh financial aid assistance take access during college they uh move on to career for four year college university and best of all for our azusa student first-time college student those coming right from high school or perhaps those coming military service or from work they're a first-time college to control twelve more units they can have two years of college tuition for the promise program we call it the citrus college program but this is a this is california college wonderful offered and it's such a great way to get a quality education incur college debt that's good for the student good mom dad i'm a dad who had a student attend a college and transfer first so i i know that first for all those moms and dads that just yes 46 that was not a misfortune not just 46 a unit and for my friends that have kids going to college that would be a welcomed uh a welcome number people are writing checks all of a sudden versus getting low so definitely take a look next i want to speak a little bit about uh diversity equity inclusion we have a lot of great uh things concurrently going on at citrus in 2020 citrus college established a dei task force the purpose of our diversity equity inclusion task force is to understand how we the faculty the staff the students and as an institution can actively influence the social change needed to make an impactful difference in eliminating eliminating structural race while promoting diversity equity and inclusion the diversity equity inclusion task force has focused on developing and implementing a wide array of initiatives and measures designed to lead an improved college culture of equity diversity and inclusion in april of 2022 the college hired a director of dei ms aisha thomas that was a step and that was one of our also moving on from diversity acting inclusion we've also focused on mental health we have a robust health center on campus and many services available students employ we also recently hired a mental health supervisor nadine henley to strengthen the mental health and wellness resources available to our campus community right it's it's all exciting for us but this is a really good part fuel enrollment let me back up a step um i mentioned that i started had the opportunity to serve citrus college beginning in july 2021.

I will repeat these questions when it is time for each applicant to answer each applicant will have three minutes to show their thoughts well the one applicant who is here we'll have three minutes to share her thoughts on these five questions they will be alerted that her time is ending when Ramona holds up a 30-second warning card all right let's hear from the applicant Miss Molina can I please have you come on up and stand over here at the podium and just to double check is the other applicant present we do know that the other applicant was provided just like Miss Molina notification of this meeting it was not only publicly noticed on our board docs but also Communications went out to the other applicant inviting the applicant here so with Miss Molina being the only applicant present we will allow Miss Molina four minutes to introduce yourself and why you are interested in this seat that's Molina please go ahead good evening my name is Lucy Molina I am a Community member here in uh Commerce City the South I uh have two children in the district I am very proud to say I have a senior at Adams City High School this year so I tell my son we did it we're doing it and I really think all the support that we he's been given the last few years to be able to follow his dreams here through this District so and I also have a junior she's here also my kids are our Treasurer I I mentioned in our letter of intent that where our our treasure is is where our heart is right and our children I always say that our community is um we have bilingual children we have children that speak two languages and uh we have a strong culture and also a very stubborn Community yet I am part of this community so I would um I've been working from La chispa nightclub here from being a waitress serving my community through our local Latino businesses here as well I understand my community so um yeah I'm Lucy Molina here from Commerce City gracias great thank you very much Miss Molina so I'm going to ask you the the questions that were presented to you earlier and you'll have three minutes to answer the questions the first question is is what would you intend your major contributions be to be as an Adams 14 board member thank you for the question um to protect the future of our district and public education to offer opportunities to our communities that have been robbed from our students in the last decade and in addition Unite with my current board to be a voice for the community of which I am also part of and I made them sure because I never have three minutes uh I'm like you know I thought you're a veteran of a three-minute rule that's for sure right you know I've been practicing a lot testifying and we only get sometimes we only get two minutes all right so three minutes is like okay short and sweet and let's get to the point right on what do you see as the primary work of the Board of Education so I understand that the school board members are locally public service that are entrusted with governing our communities Public Schools now the role of the school board is to ensure that the school districts are responsive to the values beliefs and priorities priorities of their community they are they are they're also the governing body of the district this requires members to collectively bring the proper education to our district that competes with the with the global village basically taking us to the Future thanks thank you what does a school board member's role and responsibility and how does that role differ from the role of the superintendent or Administration so generally I understand that the boards are elected again by the community to set the priorities to establish policies and evaluate the outcomes of District Operations the superintendent identifies needs and the policies right develop regulations provide leadership and manage the day-to-day Opera operations of the district can you please describe your understanding of the current situation between Adams County school district 14 and the Colorado State Board of Education as well as the accountability actions overall okay now this one's a long one so uh you know I will take the three minutes probably here so um I have been following the Adams 14 very closely I've showed up to many state board meetings even to going up to Estes Park to support my board and support my district so I do understand that through the educate education accountability Act of 2019 which authorizes the Department of Education to uh make these annual reviews right to uh for the performances of our Public Schools so through that things have changed I know that we have um you know testings and uh other and this is stuff that I from CD from uh CDE you know right so I did my research and this is something it's very close to my heart because my kids have been in this District all this time when the accountability act began which I have witnessed myself uh how it went downhill because this act and that was passed in 2009 does not apply to communities like ours uh when you even their own statistics and their own percentages they're saying that 56 percent of our students are Spanish-speaking so then uh that and then one of the tests is based on English performances okay so then how does that apply to our district so then I believe then that is why since then our district has been targeted I understand also that uh as of May of this year they well not on this whole year they took our accreditation away uh they are moving forward with the um with the reorganizing our district um so this has been very impactful for me and my family uh my kids are like hey where am I going to go to school without understanding the current situation of our district I also understand that our uh District we sued the state board and that didn't go through I understand that the district judge denied it uh again to me proving that we are facing a a racist leadership at the at a state board level um even based on the on the on the 2009 accountability act that again does not apply to districts like ours thank you what is your definition of equity and how does it apply to Adams 14.

thank you secretary zabia may i have a motion to approve the proclamation recognizing hispanic heritage month so second great thank you colleagues any additional comments all right thank you so much uh ramona roll call please mr amador aye ms estrada aye ms lovato aye ms zubia aye thank you next on the agenda we have uh superintendent gloria's updates uh dr gloria would you please provide your updates yes thank you i have two brief but very important exciting updates today the first one i just want to thank adams county they actually provided us with two checks to support our homeless population one is for one million dollars and the other one for 275 thousand dollars out here so that everybody can see them but we are very excited with their the partnership and the support that we get from adams county and i will be uh giving these dollars good use to support our homeless population so um that's the first one and i'm going to put it out there in a minute so everybody can can see them and the other one the state department run calculations for the expedited clock adjustments conditions for the 2022 request to reconsider the pro to reconsider process in adams county adams not county school district has three schools that meet the criteria to actually have a better rating or improved rating this is pending the state board approval but we do meet the criteria three of our schools meet the criteria these are lesser arnold high school and if they are approved by the state board they will go from priority improvement to improvement ranking we also have rose hill elementary school going as well from priority improvement to improvement and we have hands-on elementary school going from improvement to being on the watch for a year too that means that if we maintain and continue growing they will be out of improvement so this is exciting where we met yesterday with cde and we were talking about the process and what to look for so pending board approval state board approval will get a new designation for this school so that's quite exciting because especially the second semester we put a lot of structures in place and this is proof that we can take care of our students and our students can demonstrate what they're learning and what our teachers are doing every single day so that that's exciting very exciting yes thank you and those are my two updates thank you thank you so much colleagues do you have any questions or comments for dr rhodius oh that's just exciting information yeah very exciting um dr lydia i hate to put you on the spot do you happen to know when i know they're up for state board approval but when is the process when we learn what the rest of our school's ratings were uh um actually we met with them yesterday and i know sheila was taking cup his notes so i'm going to ask her to yell it out from there and i will repeat it here september 22 september 23rd awesome thank you i knew it was coming up but i was this is exciting news so it was exciting i was so excited doing the victory dance uh and while sheila was taking notes yes very well deserved great thank you so much yeah those are amazing yeah next on the agenda we have audience comments do we have any we don't have any okay um this evening we have none so next on our agenda our consent items may have a motion to approve your consent items emotions her proof thank you may i have a second second thank you um really quickly i would like to welcome mr ramona lewis we um as part of our personnel actions we just approved her as our executive assistant to the board and um to label council so so thank you very excited to have you back [Applause] oh my goodness yes i'm sorry thank you secretary zubia corrected me we need to vote first before i noted that can we take roll call thank you mr salazar mr amador aye ms estrada aye ms lovato aye ms zubia aye thank you luckily that worked out in my favor i would also quickly like to thank uh monica for her many years of service um i know i believe she's taking a little time off here and um we would look forward to a celebration and hopefully recognizing her her service yeah she is going to stay with the district that is correct madam president members of the board she um decided that she wanted to eat a change and but she's staying within the district and we're excited for that yes we are awesome thank you thank you welcome thank you oh now i will not be flustered on my mistake sorry about that next on the agenda we have business action items uh 7.1 is approval of the first reading and emergency adoption of policy ic ica school year school calendar administration is seeking approval of this policy to be put into place according to board policy bg to approve and adopt the changes during the first reading so policy changes are in place prior to october count this policy will then go to the second reading at the october 11th meeting with any necessary updates and final adoption may i have a motion to approve the first reading and emergency adoption of policy ic ica the school year school calendar so moved thank you may i have a second a second thank you any comments or questions [Music] aye next on the agenda is 7.2 approval of the first reading of policy jldba suicide prevention this is the first reading of a new policy once this policy goes through the second reading and final adoption a committee will consider several curriculums to bring the to the board for our review may i have a motion to approve the first reading of policy jldba suicide prevention a second thank you any questions or comments no it's just about time i know that this is a very difficult subject and topic out there but it's one that needs to be addressed so thank you for bringing it all forward thank you uh ramona mr amador aye ms estrada aye ms lovato aye ms zubia aye thank you next on the agenda 7.3 approval of revised student calendar for the 2022-23 school year the 2022-23 student calendar has been revised to include the observance of the new year's holiday there was also a miscalculation with the student contact days in october and march due to parent-teacher conferences and the compensation day for staff on the friday of parent teacher conference week with this change it impacted the last day of school for students and staff resulting in the day being moved from may 25th to may 24th of 2023 may i have a motion to approve the revised student calendar for the 2022-23 school year so moved thank you second i'll say that thank you any questions or comments all right ramona roll call please mr amador aye ms estrada aye ms lovato aye ms item is 7.4 resolution 22 13.

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Carlene you want to introduce yourself hi Kendall welcome um my name is Carlene Colvin Darcy I'm the vice chair of the anniversary energy commission I've been on the energy commission since 2017 and um I really like to work like boots on the ground with Community organizations helping um I helped bring solar to the animal Public School District at the very beginning for school worked out a lot with a safe Transit active Transit supporting kids to be able to walk and bike to school safely and uh my my big Endeavor these days is electric vehicle charging so putting my efforts into helping folks get access especially those who live in like multi-unit dwellings it's one of the nuts I'm cracking right now council member Briggs yeah so um I represent the Fifth Ward of Ann Arbor which is on Ann Arbor's West Side um and have been serving since 2020 have lived in Ann Arbor for 20 years or so background professionally in transportation land use cool a lot of advocacy and transportation issues um let's go kind of and got me to council a little bit and I guess that's enough for now commissioner Macomber uh welcome Kendall um I am the finance director of a local environmental nonprofit the Ecology Center I'm been in Ann Arbor gosh Going on 30 years I think um and um I served on the Parks Commission for about six years and I've been on the energy commission I think for about that same amount of time um and I'll leave it there so commissioner um settlement also a new relatively new member yeah not too much to speak up on my background because I haven't been around for 20 years but I recently graduated from U of M with a bachelor's in public policy and a focus in intersectional Justice and I spend a lot of my time focusing on how we can improve Ann Arbor whether it be Transportation or housing or energy or climate change or what have you just Missy you're famous but do you want to introduce yourself real quickly hi Kendall I think we actually know each other uh but I'm Missy Schultz's sustainability and Innovations director nice to see you commissioner Kerber hi hi Kendall uh welcome and uh um I am a I guess I've been on the energy commission for a couple years now and I do Solar Development commercial Solar Development primarily in uh all across Washington County and Southeast Michigan commissioner lemon welcome Kendall I'm Noah I live on the west side of Ann Arbor I first came to Ann Arbor at U of M a bit ago and I'm now an attorney and I do stuff with environmental law um not as much with energy but more so uh with air quality foreign ER radina thanks hi Kendall I am Travis rodina I'm council member from Ward three um I was elected in 2020 uh live in the Bryant neighborhood which has allowed me to work a lot with Missy and her team because the Bryant Community Center has been a great partner to OSI um and prior to serving I also as president of the Jim toy Community Center and was doing a lot in lgbtq activism and commissioner McCoy hi Kendall I think there's a few new people since I've last been this I have not been here in like three months um my name's Ember I issue her pronouns I am a PhD candidate which is a new thing I was doing that one of the months I was gone um at the University of Michigan I'm in the school fair environment and sustainability I study energy Justice and air pollution issues um around policy failures mostly in Southwest Detroit and I've been on the commission since I think 2018.

30 and eliminate emissions by 2040 to have a 66 chance of holding global warming to 1.5 percent um we have another challenge uh and that is building costs have risen substantially um since uh before the pandemic there's uh also I would say um this is my framing so uh some people may not share this but I believe there is a widely held Paradigm in Michigan and certainly in Southeastern Michigan that sustainable housing um not just affordable but also market rate can't be developed property um I I don't know that this is a problem statement but um I would posit that if you take a total systems thinking approach housing costs are really the sum of what an individual or family unit is paying in terms of mortgage for their rental payments it's also their utility costs it's also their transportation costs um commuting and other related daily Transit costs and then I would also add the opportunity cost of time and Transit and that is a particularly valuable resource especially for many lower income people who can't afford to live Ann Arbor try to reduce their mortgage costs by or their rental costs by living outside the city but as a result spend more on transportation and more time in transit and uh that is then a cost in terms of opportunity to do other things and then there's also um the belief in many views that all electric buildings substantially increase utility costs for heating um hot water and cooking compared to utilizing natural gas um as the energy source because natural gas prices have been historically low obviously that's changed um and it's hard to forecast what it's going to be look like in the future but um these are some of the situations that we're dealing with so in terms of a solution set um and what the benefits might be uh energy efficient buildings for those example those built to passive house standards as Tim is going to run through with high performance envelopes and balance and ventilation cut energy use by roughly 75 percent thereby offsetting the all-electric utility cost Premium versus natural gas as proven by many many projects across the United States and worldwide um if you employ best design and construction practices such as efficient mechanical electrical and plumbing design and layouts off-site modular construction and if you're using um very energy efficient or passive house premiums um they offset those premiums I should say for energy efficient or passive Health construction again proven by hundreds of projects and um it's therefore deposit and Tim is going to provide us proof of that tonight um not only with data but with his personal experience and anecdotes as a result energy efficient and passive house buildings that are all electric Net Zero ready can be constructed constructed and operated at Cost comparable to traditional cost or code compliant buildings moreover energy efficient or passive house all electric buildings provide significant other advantages behind um lower energy costs and greenhouse gas reductions including High resiliency to extreme weather powder outages and utility costs uncertainty and increased occupant health and comfort through the elimination of drafts radiating heat losses exposure to combustion uh gases and the health concerns associated with that and then also reduce risk of mold bacteria pests and cardiovascular vascular stress so um when the four of us met that I mentioned in back in August um we basically agreed that we would present the documented benefits of all electric energy efficient and passive house construction and that's why we have Tim here tonight and that the other element of this is that we hopefully can work together the energy commission the Planning Commission city council pulling input in from others to devise and Implement strategies that either require or incentify the construction of the kinds of buildings that I've mentioned and um so that's what we plan on doing going forward so I am going to turn things over to Tim and I am going to take a second to introduce him so he doesn't have to brag and I can brag for him um Tim is the president and CEO of onion flats that is a Philadelphia uh headquartered uh firm that was founded in 1997.

um at this point in time the employees at twenty dollars and four cents per hour and if you look on the column on the right 4.40 per hour increase equates to a 22 increase in pay for that for that individual so as we were breaking down information and trying to determine what was reasonable in terms of expectation of increase in tuition rates as well as then balancing our budget to ensure stability we never want to run into a situation where we can't offer something to our community and so this isn't a requested increase to generate more revenue um in terms of profit but rather just to maintain our same margin of profit um and by looking at our revenue and looking at our expenditures and balancing that way may i ask a question i i think probably the information you're giving us right now and we let's let's say when we gave the two dollar an hour raise that was because we got the money from the state for and so we gave it to everybody but technically this group of people didn't don't generate any of the money so they still benefited from them and i think that's wonderful but i think that that's an important issue here when we're looking at having to make some increases because we couldn't say to this group of people we're not going to give you the two dollar an hour because you're not part of the big pot am i correct in thinking you're 100 corrected our philosophy has always been all for one one for all when it comes to those pay increases as much as we could right and when you're self-funded that even like with title one funds right um that eats into those types of things and so um that's why he's here tonight yeah but you're right it eats into his bottom line which generally takes care of himself because he's having to make up that two dollars an hour without having generated any more income exactly any questions related so when we started down this path i feel like i was a bit naive and believing that we could have some type of blanket increase right 10 15 20 whatever it would come out to but across all programs and that would have um that would have been easier that would have been nice to be able to to have but as we began digging into each one of our programs in each one of our entities what we began to discover is that there were some imbalances in there and there were some areas where we're really behind the rest of the community and there were some other areas where we were right with what the rest of the community expectation was in terms of what your other options were out there as well as then the employee costs associated with it so the next document really just points at that a little bit of a discrepancy or a little bit of a difference between each of the programs beginning with our advantage preschools which was what's known as a monastery so same program advantage preschools a 10 increase toy box 15 percent and these are our recommended amounts building blocks school day 10 extended day 15 the reason for that adjustment is what we realized is the time that students would be with us beyond typical school day until they were picked up sometimes 5 30 6 o'clock the rates that we were charging for that extended time wasn't nearly enough to cover our cost of having staff there with those students there are also some building or some ratio considerations that we have to keep in mind the ratios with your three-year-olds is different than the ratio with your four-year-olds which is different than your traditional vik ratio and so as we work to balance those when your preschool students stay later into the day and are offered extended care your staffing ratios have to be adjusted accordingly which then expenses go up are are the staffing ratios done by us or is that some of some things from the state state licensure yes speak to those a little bit just give us three or four examples of those ratios sure so the difference with a three-year-old class as an example your requirement is thirteen to one um we can go all the way up to twenty to one as we get a little bit older into the middle years of elementary school or an older elementary student so the difference between the 13 to 1 to the 20 to 1 is significant when you talk staffing on a campus an example would be neely where you might have 90 to 100 students after school in your balancing your your staffing depending on age of student as well as other campuses or maybe you have 30 or 40 students staying after and you may have seven three-year-olds and 28 fourth graders those 28 you still have to have two staff members four because you go over that ratio number so um it's balancing another place this comes up in discussion um that is a challenge to to communicate clearly is some families and some employees some parents receive their schedules on a weekly basis at different times and we've had this discussion numerous times of trying to figure out the best way of cut off times to sign your kids up for the week or cut off time to sign up your kids for the month because as those students are being signed up we're balancing ratios rose and her team over in our otm side of our office do a great job on a weekly basis of making sure we have appropriate staffing at each spot if we don't have those accurate numbers then we end up overstaffed or in some cases under staff just depending on on what might be going on and so it's the best way right now sunday nights you have to have it in by a certain time and then we plan for the week and we get everybody deployed to their area for the week but beyond that it's a little bit of a challenge so those are the reasons that that occurs and we try to make sure we're not as i said overstaffed and we certainly can't be understaffed anywhere and i think we had a bit more flexibility three four five years ago i think we had more subs we could call on and we had more people that were available to move around and right now we're real tight staff wise and so it's important that we we can do this thank you absolutely just because we're on the preschool page um which one of these which of these preschool programs have certified teachers because i know advantage does short advantage in kindergarten prep as well as your toy box director so your toy box director is certified that person splits time between high school students and the preschool students the two paraprofessionals that then support that program are not certified okay we do have certified teachers within building blocks but it's not a requirement it's just a blessing when we're able to find people that really want to be in the classrooms and we have a significant number of people working toward credential right now and while we hope they get there we just hope they stay with us once they do so yeah thank you absolutely those percentages visually i know this this page has a significant number of of programs and and it's a lot to take in initially on your left side you have building blocks you can see the variety of options as i stated earlier we try to have an option for every family whether they're looking for half day full day nancy who works in our office and takes most of our preschool phone calls is fantastic at ensuring that families have a choice and and have an option for exactly what they're looking for tuesday thursday options monday wednesday friday full time monday through friday as i said half day full day three days five days you name it i think nancy can come up with a program that works for you and your family which we're blessed to have that um the um are there more options we probably could look at in terms of expansion in the future probably that question comes up sometimes from families who still feel like we can we can offer a few more things but for now we're really proud of of the four programs we have the sophistication within those four programs the curriculum within those programs and what's being offered there's a document you'll see in just a second which compares our rates to local rates around us so how these were created as i explained earlier was based on a few things staffing costs local pricing and rates we looked at surrounding school districts we looked at surrounding private organizations we tried to find a balance between each of those and understand how their billing and their cycles were working um and and we feel like we're in a really good good place um matter of fact when i've when i've had this discussion with other people they've been surprised that were the rates even based on these recommended adjustments where they still are comparatively speaking and while while there's some sticker shock certainly for families particularly when you have multiple students or multiple children overall when compared you'll see in just a second we're in a really competitive spot and actually below most of the people that that we compare to locally in terms of sister campuses and privates gilbert public schools employees have a discount on all their rates and that would continue if you go to the local competition document the next page you'll see um you'll see where we are in comparison building blocks extended is on the top left 645 tudor time 760 creme de la creme 1086 that's for the three day extended hours preschool half day k prep 3 40 kinder bugs 590 kinder care and then on the right side five day extended hours um you'll see where you were at the same spot as sunrise and then significantly behind the others this is also pretty consistent with surrounding school districts we're still in a very competitive spot even with these recommended adjustments and i think that that's something that in speaking with dr mccord and cabinet members that's something we want to be able to make sure that we maintain a really great opportunity a good option for our families and make sure we never get to the point where we're pricing them out of this out of this this area so mr ryan are these translated to monthly rates or annual rates these are monthly rates any questions related to preschool we're going to move into vik i just said one i mean when we're talking about tuesday thursday or monday wednesday friday is that usually like a three-year-old this tuesday thursday and a four-year-old is monday wednesday for id so it just depends on the family need so initially we'll go through and eric and his team and julie stockton and her team will go through when there are certain needs that families have our goal obviously is to serve the need of the community but also balancing our classes is essential and so um it's a challenge if you have a classroom with 14 kids and eight of them are tuesday thursday only if you can't fill in the monday wednesday friday spots so it's a little bit of a balancing act a lot of conversations with families trying to find the perfect you know spot for them to be earlier dawn mentioned that some of our preschool students will attend a campus and they'll move in kindergarten to another campus and sometimes that's the reason that's the cause the fit in terms of preschool they possibly are looking for a k-prep traditional campus that's located over in the school they want half days that's great we'll get them there then ultimately they might come back to the campus that's just down the street from them four k through six okay all right thank you did they get a discount for more than one child or is it ten percent for a sibling discount yes sir tuition rate adjustments for vik and camps this is a place that we're seeing significant increase in costs because of the number of hours that these employees are with us so vik mornings is a challenge because it's a brief period of time and so finding staffing and and motivating staff to be there for an hour and a half in the morning is a little bit of a challenge or in the afternoon the hours are a bit more defined and great especially we notice when fuel costs were driven up the motivation of somebody to drive to work for an hour and a half and then leave and then come back we've also begun partnering with our preschools so community education i'm i'm really proud of our leadership team and how they've come together over the last couple years and internally we don't really view it separate as preschool and k prep and building blocks and we're kind of one team and how do we establish really some some job opportunities for people that are full-time to get them there and keep them there where they can move from one program to another and that hasn't always been the case and it's something i'm really uh pleased with and has assisted us in in finding and attracting and keeping some great employees so the tuition rate adjustments for vik and camps primarily when you look at camps the individuals are there all day long and so when you're working an 8 hour day and we have this increase by 20 22 23 in terms of staffing costs that's where it's really making a change in terms of our tuition moving forward once again all this said over the last two years we were prepared to come two years ago and have this discussion and and obviously some things have happened and we were fortunate to receive as i said earlier some grants to support so really this has been pushed back a couple years because we've been able to to utilize those funds to offset these costs but the tuition rate recommendation for bik am would move from 192 to 211 pm 260 to 299.

that is not the total cost because utilities are also added in which is connected on on the next page mr ryan before you go there is it because you're going to speak to that i think in your next frame here but is it your impression that the proposed increases particularly when we're talking about fields uh will cover the cost of maintenance and fertilizer and lighting and fencing and all of the things that could go in disrepair as we utilize these facilities so what i'll say is that we feel as though it will contribute to the overall cost i'm not going to say it will cover the cost of our thought is it will cover the cost of the rental portion of it however we still have obviously them being used throughout the day um the costs that or the the revenue generated by us will not cover the two maintenance and grounds crew that are there full time the fertilizer throughout the year the water throughout the year the upkeep and just the manpower alone but we feel as though this increase will support the rental side of it and the rental proportion of of that use so what we need to do and you know as well as anybody from working on the campus we need to ensure that our campuses it's not a detriment to the overall campus to have teams and youth teams and and auditoriums used by churches and outside organizations we have to ensure it's not a detriment to that campus and the funds coming back into that campus can be utilized to ensure that it's kept up to the standard that we would expect for our students and so it's that balancing act of making sure that those funds are there to support a portion of the funds that come in go directly to athletics apportion go directly to the school district itself and a portion will go to the campus itself so as things maybe find themselves in disrepair or needing to be taken care of we have some funds set there to be able to take care of those things i think that's important that we take that into consideration because the district already has a budget line for maintenance costs and and repair costs etc so to contribute to that is is an important feature and uh i think it's an important piece to highlight to our public absolutely thank you sir the outside organizations nonprofit and profit that use our facilities uh do they provide their own security or are we required to do that so depending on the rental purpose we determine if there's a custodial need or a security need based on that then there's a fee associated with the requirements so let's say an outside dance company comes in and has an auditorium and a couple classrooms that are adjoining there's going to need to be custodians there's so many people in and out and so we will determine that that will then be we use a program called facilitron for individuals to go in from the community to identify if a facility is open and available to rent it then has to go through an approval process so it's not something as simple as the community member can hit go and they they they take the hours that they want instead that goes to a campus it also goes to adam crang and christy odle within our office each of those entities approves and then also determines what additional support may be needed on the campus to ensure when everyone arrives back on a monday that we're ready for school mostly those individuals are our employees that then um we'll get in touch with and we'll ask them to work additional hours over the summer over the over the weekend to support all right so the proposed facility utility and staffing rates um once again same um same um kind of process and looking at our local rates in our competition as well as looking at what our expenditures and costs are gem and field supervisor custodian and security miss betts took some time and worked with her department to look at what the average cost would be for our average custodian as an example to work on a saturday and what that ultimate cost would be to us and then to ensure that we're covering those costs the current is 30 our proposal would be moving to 40 dollars per hour for those individuals gym utilities one of the pieces that we'd like to propose that would be new for us is a differentiation between spring and summer months versus fall and winter months as our utilities are significantly different for say a gymnasium or an auditorium in the summer than it is in the winter so we have specific dates set for those as well you can see the comparable low and comparable high there is an example our utility costs i would just say we've been a little behind on adjusting those over the course of time we've been at 12 an hour for a significant period of time and so we're recommending an adjustment to that depending on when they're used uh field utilities moving from twelve to twenty dollars if you'll remember back in probably 2008 or nine is when and i i could be wrong but it's right around that time school districts used to get excess utility funds and uh gilbert public schools the time i think that was to the tune of three to three and a half million dollars and that's when we started um a little bit before they kind of phased it out um that's when we started charging for utilities and looking at some of these rates i don't know if they've changed since then and so we know utilities remember ever yeah raising rates on that so in my time on the board yeah so so that's kind of a little history any questions at all related to a few questions that have come in that we just wanted to make sure that we went ahead and outlined financial support for families in need this is specific to before after school summer holiday camps that type of thing we are des licensed programs families in need can apply through through the state and have different levels of qualification than we support our families with within the preschool areas we also work with our campus social workers so as they identify families that they may believe are in need for a variety of reasons that may come up in someone's life they certainly contact us and we work with those families to ensure that we can support them one of the grants we have in place right now also allows us to support families in need so our goal is always to make sure that that's not the reason a child can't be taking care of her or a parent can't take care of the things that they need to take care of difference between all the kindergarten programs you know jill asks a question related to certification requirements within specific programs we have lab settings at our high schools we have as i said before full day half day three days five days and so each of those has a has a has a niche each of those has a population of people that really look to those is the thing that's the right fit for them and each is very expensive very important to us traditional is something that's relatively new over the last couple years k-prep traditional which we've rolled out on the the campuses where we it feeds into our traditional programs at the elementary schools and then the waiting lists once again our goal is to never have a waiting list our goal is to be able to serve everybody in our community and primarily that's based on two things and it's either space or staffing and i shared with you a few of the things that we're doing to try to generate interest in working with us and thanks to you all and the support and and some of the financial pieces we've really been able to to keep some great people that we have and attract some new ones to come in so i feel like we're in a much better place today so any questions i i just have one about the after school athletic program and i i obviously that's not des so how do we help help with kids that maybe financially can't afford that sure uh very similar to what we would do with preschool um we actually um just maybe a week and a half two weeks ago i was approached by a counselor who happens to have a personal friend owns a business who said they want to sponsor kids and so we're continuously looking for ways to connect with outside business who want to sponsor kids and youth athletics and give them an opportunity to participate once again we've told every elementary principal as well when we go to meet don't let that be the thing that deters a student from being able to participate if you know something that would benefit a student and you want them to take part please call because we do have these outside we have an ability to bring in some outside support to be able to support to be able to take care of those kids anything else board members i it's difficult to raise rates because i know it impacts our families and our community members who use our our facilities so that is always hard to do but um remind me when was the last time did we raise the rates dr mccord had looked back into some notes and i believe five years ago was the last thing that's a discussion i looked on board docs and i think that was the last time when jack was here i think we raised rates and i don't think more than five years ago that was not nine years ago no no no for five years for tuition i know that we've done it since we've been on new yeah so but still probably been five years so again we're trying to do all we can to make sure that we aren't that we're allowing our you know we're allowing these programs to be accessible to our students because it's an important way to support our community members but also we have to pay the employees to come so that we have great employees there so this is where we're at trying to figure out how to how to make that all work so i appreciate your thoughtfulness and really basing it on the costs that we have and then if we can just make sure that our with the rentals that that money does go back to maintaining you know that that's what that's for is to maintaining those facilities that's important that we have and use that to to maintain them so dr santa cruz yes mrs wood just to your question because i too on the additional preview of the document was struck by sticker shock as it were and then i cooled off and realized it's been a long time since i've had to avail myself of daycare just daycare and when my two were daycare age i remember it was twelve thousand dollars a year and that was bare bones almost nothing other than a snack and a loving person and that was about it so [Music] i i appreciate what you've said about rates and yet five years is a significant amount of time and as we do the comparative there uh we're we're still significantly below many of our competitors i i cringe when we have to bring these types of things to to you or to look at just because it is difficult exactly from what you guys said these fees do get passed on and if it doesn't get passed on to the individual it gets passed directly it gets passed on to them indirectly if a club team's renting a field they're playing paying monthly for to belong to that club and if rates increase they're going to get increased somewhere down the line and so it is sadly the cost of doing business um but um and and we can look at it as do we we want to look at these every year is that something we do and incrementally do it every couple years i don't know if there's a magic formula to that but um it's something we can look at can i just say something to that um dr mccord please if just on a historical note many several years ago we had to do that we did something like this with the insurance trust because we had not increased it and then we had this significant increase and it was one of the most difficult decisions we've ever and this was be this was prior to me being on the board um so i think my suggestion would be maybe and i understand the last three years or have not you know we can't even think about anything being normal because it hasn't been but maybe from now on we look every year at a slight one so it's not quite the you know the drastic but i i also think that we don't have any choice i mean you know when we're going to give a two dollar an hour raise to everybody we have to find the money to to support that so thank you for your work on that well and before giving that two dollar an hour raise you had nobody applying for the positions you weren't able to offer the program you weren't we were really short on vik or the summer program because we were not competitively paying our employees they could go somewhere else not just in child care but in any number of things to to receive that kind of payment i still remember when ms betts brought it up in a cabinet meeting and we started having the conversation and she thought that it was possible and i remember thinking how excited i was because maybe now we can open some doors to more kids at the same point in time i wondered how on earth i was going to do it or we were going to do it you know and so it's twofold right but you're absolutely right if if the two dollars an hour hadn't occurred right now we would have far fewer students able to be in our programs before after school or in preschool programs if that happened there are specific examples of families who haven't been able to stay who had to go elsewhere because they had to have before and after school care thankfully we were able to bring them back and thankfully we were able to get an employee in the room but it displaced a family from their school because they had to have before and after school care so there is a bigger picture there that that it has a larger effect than i think we will ever know but there are specific examples of times when this has absolutely made a huge difference to families and been able to keep them in their neighborhood school so well i think just being competitive with the businesses around us because i mean obviously if someone is caring for our children in a after school program that's a very responsible position and if you can make that same money going down to walmart or or somewhere else where you're you i mean it is a responsibility at walmart but it's not involving children which is one of our most precious resources so we just want to be careful to get really good people absolutely in best positions when when vik specifically was started it was probably i think 2001 my first year as an elementary principal and we didn't know if it was going to be successful or not right you were a principal at the time too for elementary and um and then you know go to 2022 and people depend on it now i mean we've created something that people absolutely depend on and and instead of just saying yeah if you want to get it or not now people are like said banging on the door saying why don't you have enough staff what do you mean there's a waiting list and so we're feeling that demand in a different way and being able to pay them appropriately is what's important but it's also a program that's been around and it's it truly is and has been the backbone of community education since day one and uh being able to support each campus with the before and after school program is is vital so there's survival of that campus too well earlier you're talking about the the connection and the relationships three weeks ago standing there and a lady i have no idea who she is comes up do you work with kristen do you work with kristen yeah do you have any idea what kristen did for my son and when you talk about relationships that are still being created after school kristen stoltzman you know his has made a difference in the lives of hundreds of kids that have come through our schools and um anyway the values beyond um sometimes what we consider when we're making our decisions but it's certainly there and i've learned a lot in my few years working with community education that i that i didn't as a principal prior and so it's been great well thank you and i think it would be appropriate to add our thanks to all of your staff and all of those who work in community ed before and after school and preschool and provide these opportunities for our students and take care of our our gps students whether they're preschool or all through the years so thanks to all of you we appreciate it this will come back at the end of the month for formal approval um i don't foresee any changes and this will enable his team to be able to get everything ready for registration for the following year already so thank you mister ryan all right thank you that will adjourn our work study and i will call to order our brief board business meeting and mrs wilson could you please do roll call for me dr charles santa cruz here mr bill parker miss laurie wood here miss sheila eugetti here miss jill humphries here madam president all board members are present you have a quorum thank you we will now go to the consent agenda items 5.01 approval of consent agenda items board members is there a motion so moved thank you misty jetty it's been moved is there a second step thank you mr parker it's been moved and seconded that we approve the consent agenda items all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with nay that passes 5-0 and that is all that we have on our brief board business meeting tonight so we will now move to adjournment 6.01 board members is there a motion i move to adjourn thank you second thank you miss humphries and miss you jetty it's been moved and seconded that we adjourn all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye aye any oppose with me we are adjourned thank you you

absolutely so so there's two parts to that the first part is that you can't take like in this case a fourth grade teacher and then you'll teach first grade right part of it's just structural because k12 is on downstairs right in three four five is all upstairs the other part because we've experienced it before and i know carol went through a couple of classes the uh when you go down to one t-shirt you lose all of that kind of momentum you get so right now in berlin we have basically the same six teachers and we've had them for a few years they are rock solid in what they teach if you have to let someone go because that's really what would happen if we decided to combine that fourth grade into one group which we did which would have been our decision five years ago um those kids then suffered yeah i don't think it was more elevated getting a third class for those which is impossible right now this is something that over the next few years we're going to want to take a look you know that just goes great i noticed that carol young is in there for a little while my first year teaching she was a first grade teacher and she was the gold standard so you know she's just amazing and you would never know that she's been teaching forever she's just you know full of energy what's been cool you know we also shaved carol the first grade she got first grade before um but she's loving fourth grade and uh loving math which really it's surprising because we have made in first grade too and i just assume that's where she would want to go but i just wanted to try to go back to fourth grade so it sounds like you have open positions right now yeah part of it it's um they're open because they're connected to maternity needs and i can't find people to take those jobs actually and um janelle inspector is not here i spoke with her on the phone earlier today just on that and they interviewed the two people that they're feeling what they're going to do so that's going to help what's what's preventing us from you hear it everywhere i was talking uh missy tucker one of my third grade teachers her husband works for target you go to restaurants and they're having a problem you go to the grocery store and the shelves on stock it's a problem everywhere we put out ads for different positions and we get like it's not like somebody posted for paras we got nine applications of the nine we could only interview five the other four were so inappropriate i'm sure there are many kind of brick layers but that's not the skill set we're looking for of the five that we could interview three terms did they say one thing under the jump it as a pair of professionals right [Music] also in the past [Music] something to me looking into the benchmark and salary side for the paris and our district compared to others i would i would think that there would be opportunity to steal professional blackmail in germany and other districts if we're offering a better opportunity for them right is that what you find true sometimes it is frequently the very last thing people ask you yeah okay um mr zane has been really good about paying what it takes um so i felt more so than at other times in my time here i had felt like i can use you know the budget to kind of entice people a lot we can't do it a few times um to get people to come it's especially true when it's only for a certain period of time but like we never found a preschool teacher you know and uh you know kind of pieced down that together we only found i don't have more you can increase it i think that's you know certainly any other questions thank you very much i suppose if you would like to go here with your families rest after a long day please leaving we appreciate you thank you so much and he's ready to present so these uh these aren't a surprise to you i've talked to talk to you about a couple times the student learning goal thank you student learning goal um two pieces one was hiring new administrators so those are going to require a full search which take about you know two to two and a half months to get committees together um so be the high school principal the assistant principal maybe an additional assistant principal depending on how the um restructuring goes that's why that is a question mark next to assistant principal the principal at bes you know obviously we got turning out to be a great principal when he has intro but that'll require a full search and then a curriculum director i got a question mark next to that also depending on the superintendents which goes and then the second part of the restructuring of the middle school high school credit office that's something we've been wanting to do for a while so was that put together a list of districts in massachusetts that have a middle and high school in the same building and will start investigating you know what they do the advantages disadvantages there's a cost to it that is most likely going to require at least one more administrative position um but certainly you know teachers i've talked to in this building have said to me this is what we've been asking for because i've school were very different places in high schools and require you know a certain amount of attention it's direct intention so so we'll be doing that and i'll i'll present that uh certainly the the first pass in the budget because there is a budget impact and so i want you to see that before for a district improvement goal that's going to be the enrollment piece to include things like growth rate real estate trends new buildings in town new about i don't bui we're there yet but you know we keep getting these little surprises now the numbers you see now for a moment that's opening day numbers those are the october one numbers those are the official numbers that we have before so you know no one should panic or say oh great we have been numbers this year until there's always a movement in the first few weeks and so we always use the october one number and then the april one numbers again to see additions in one grade so and usually at the lower so and most of time it takes place over the summer but you can get some movement so we'll look at we expected around uh 55 and 60 okay which we didn't get so we'll we'll see that doesn't mean obviously there's a lot of buildings going on and that needs to be you know just because you see a bullet doesn't mean you open the eyes to us i know when i came i told the story many times say go for it and no one's going down i just drove up steal all the business building doing that so i don't know how that worked sure enough we've seen an increase so i think we should do you know more extensive enrollment projection for this year going forward as a transition as i transition away from this position and then [Music] the third part the professional practice school is the mentoring again we have new director finance and operations uh new facilities manager uh brand brand new uh directed people personnel it is only six months into the job and that has proven to be a handful of special education i was still hiring still hiring personnel in that department especially nurses it's been it's been very very difficult we're getting there we're getting there so we assigned a outside mentor for the high school principal and john is going to be acting as the mentor for the best performance for this year next year that person whoever that is will require an outside mental nutrition manager not the job official he's our inside guidance john will also by the way be working with bes and some of the literacy pieces that have been successful and still the principle of bms at the same time so it doesn't give away some vessels yeah high school assistant festival doing a great job doing a great job those are going to be quiet um full searches those aren't the kind of jobs that the town just said now just pick what you want to require a full search and uh and they're appoint jobs that's that's where the mother needs to grow and they're in direct contact with the kids day to day so we got to make sure you get the right the right people were muslims so um so so that's it jeff asked questions i'll go number two one of the one projections um how are you going to do that if that's something you'll do yourself is there any external you know support and something to help with some of that or do that no we've got a good product [Music] but they they send this raw data and they have people there you can call so you give them a call and ask them to help with the interpretation of the data but i can't you know kind of get it myself but um the principles take a look at it also so again they'll go out ten years although ten years it's tough to get an accurate picture we should be able to go up five maybe five years you know accurately um and again like you know like when i got there and said you know was decreasing well if you look at the raw idea that there was a little downward but certainly nothing that would have should have caused us to say we need to reduce our budgets which is what we ended up doing so you know you can't make that mistake but we can't make that mistake this year we just heard john talked about his enrollments and that's the town that has the least amount of development right now do you have a sense jeff is one that draw data from uh i usually do the presentation you know up here sometimes uh you know kind of mid to late november i usually do the presentation it takes about a month to go to the towns and you know i check the records the pockets too because sometimes the growth rates aren't correct i talk to them find out where they collected their data from because sometimes that's what they'll have a conversation with some but i've already had a conversation a different conversation with the same person don't talk to the talent but i talked to him also sure so um so the answer question did vary some you know mid mid to late november uh and then they usually have a presentation includes a section of public schools and one of the things that says here is that and i wondered where they got this number it says that in [Music] 224 seems like a rejection that's pretty good you mentioned the national center for education statistics yeah so what was it again first the section here said [Music] facility is fully boys according to the national center for education statistics enrollment bes that inconsistent climate in the 21 engine 21 school year enrollment was projected for 224.

so you know some of it is some of it is just that it's just a projection you know it's safe to assume when i when that enrollment isn't going down you know the populations in these towns are not going out and growing in their drafts here too they have a projection just an overall town population they have 20 20 at 48.49 in boylston in 20 40 40 20 years from now they send them to go from 48 15 to 50 26 150 i don't believe that that's anywhere close to the number of people i i think the actual projection of 10 years for enrollment was that you know for the for the district so that that would just be strange so yeah i'm going to ask when i go to that meeting how they're getting that information but i don't know i think when we know the source it'll make sense i also remember the nasdaq report that you gave in february of 2020 one of the few meetings that was in person um river bridge is that's what's called correctiveness it was being built and the projection for berlin over the next five years was zero new students yeah and both cliff and i being in the real estate world were like yeah the original was only 29.

leaves us with the book balance on September 6 2022 of 2195 223 spot 43 and corresponding bank balance on the same day of three million 931 369 10. in our mmdt account um account balance on August 23rd 2022 was 8 million 841 606 spot 32 which is inclusive of July interest of ten thousand two thirty three spot 89 and there is a 14 986 69 in August interest that was accrued for a total balance of 8 million eight fifty six five ninety three spot 01 leaving us with an mmdt balance of September 6th of 11 million I'm sorry mmdt balance um uh total operating cash balance you don't see that here of 11 million 051 816 spot 44.

we will when we open the program we'll have to hire to us to us so since you have to have so many assistants for so many children that you bring in so we're that's what we're the amount of staff we have to operate this program will help Drive what the fee will be for staff to utilize it so we want the whatever it costs and staff we want to make sure the fees cover those salaries anything further okay do you need to any more about the capital skills Grant gun the only thing on Capital skills um in pursuing that I guess um I would like the committee to approve moving forward on that because this particular Grant will be a lot of work putting it together uh it'll be Susan and I'll spend a lot of time with her over the next four weeks getting that Grant together but I think it offers great opportunities to be able to expand our school and offer more seats to students moving forward by having that extra space both the shop space and classroom space and allowing us to you know bring in another 100 to 150 students which 100 students brings in about two million dollars which we cost cover our costs in terms of the expansion of personnel and and the space can you clarify with Susan there's like four seasons which is you said Susan can we have a last name oh I'm sorry yep Mrs Fitzgerald yes so I when you are applying for this grant you said it they're giving out any way from 1.2 to 5 million dollars how many different areas in the school would that be are you just scaring this towards the aviation program for expansion of numbers um so thinking of the numbers of children you could bring in you gave a number in excess of a hundred what shops would they all be in so how many different shops are you looking to apply this grant money should we get the whole five million dollars so the reason I've contacted an architect to come in and meet with me is to look at three spaces a space where Aviation can go we're also looking at a space over by carpentry and HVAC where we could expand well as part of this plan expanding carpentry not carpentry but Horticulture in his making more room for Horticulture because we want to move harder harder culture out of that space the long-range plan would be to turn Horticulture into another cafeteria because as we bring in more students we need a bigger calf our calf wouldn't hold more students So the plan would be to take the Horticulture space turn that into cafeteria The Architects already looked at that once it's actually a perfect place both because it's in a different location in the school where we can keep the traffic patterns uh flowing better not having to go on one space by expanding one cafeteria and also because it's on the first floor it's uh it's got a floor space that works well uh we wouldn't have to in fact we wouldn't have to do much with the floor much with the ceiling it's a matter of putting in some Refrigeration some windows and the kitchen certainly probably a five hundred thousand dollar job but um but that's part of the larger plan but so what we're looking to really do is get three shells up three shells up with the five million and then possibly finishing up some of the inside work ourselves with the students so that we keep the costs down and impact have a better impact but that would allow us on the second floor to expand our classroom space over by carpentry and over by uh HVAC that's that's why I'm trying to bring the architect in to see what what really makes sense and what's feasible but I don't think we can expand more shop space but also Banning classroom space in order to make sure that we meet the needs of all all programs so once he comes in so the next step was really to if we're going to pursue the grant bring them in um and then then we'll have a better understanding of what's feasible when we write the Grant and what makes sense Mr Fitzgerald yes one last question when did you say the capital skills Grant deadline for application is uh the end of October and has the architect been here yet the architect well he's the architect hasn't been here yet but for him we're not looking for him to do any design work we're looking for his expertise on square footage and the kind of space that's going in there so he's not going to do any design work he's just going to make a recommendation what kind of costs would be based on some of our thinking if it's feasible or not so that's all we're looking for from him anything further yes from Frank you looking for a motion make a recommendation superintendent please I would make a recommendation we pursue the grant by having putting it together uh and um bringing the architect in for some feasibility work and um then we can put our numbers together also what will be important in the grant is we're targeting specific programs that will help get us the Grant and I say 100 students for AV uh 100 if we start an aviation program that'll bring in almost 100 students just for that one program it's not 100 students right off the bat but over time you know each program each new program you bring in about 25 students 20 to 25 students a year so it's almost 100 students per anywhere from 80 to 100 students a program so if you had three brand new programs you're talking you know at least 250 students gets us up around 1900 students and given that we you know turned down a thousand students this year there's certainly a demand for it it was a very long recommendation discussion all those in favor aye anyone opposed okay busing update superintendent um can we can we move that to Executive session because it's about contracts okay just time to accept the motion to uh table the busing uh update discussion all those in favor and you want to post okay update on Cosmo and excuse me update on Cosmo culinary education situation please so on cosmetology since we've been renovating that shop students well the Freshman programs we've cleaned this section of the new space where the freshmen can run their program so they're spending some time in the shop and sometime in the library the upperclassmen had been working and learning in the library a lot of the first three weeks of the two to three weeks well mostly two weeks each grade so we're looking at four weeks is spent on safety so we expect that the space the floorings do the 16th they told me it was going to be completed after some discussion with the manufacturer today and the counters are going in on September 28th and will be done on September 30th and so once the calendars are done in the floors and we can move in so by the end of September early October we'll be ready to have the students back in their space and anytime they're working in the library and and they had they we did do another section uh this week uh where some of the journeys were working in the new space and one of the uh back off the corner where the seniors are eventually going to be so we've done some preliminary work in order to keep them going and trying to make sure that they still get some learning experience shop hands-on experience they don't have they have their chairs they have the cabinets they don't have um you know the water running the way they need it but right now they have they can work with their mannequins and still meet a lot of the standards and Frameworks that they're working on so given the situation we've been trying to make sure that they continue to get their hours under this under these conditions so we've adapted the teachers have adapted some of the curriculum to because of the situation in the culinary program the renovations is not impacting any of the their shop space so their their restaurants aren't open but typically this time the first month they're doing safety and the rest typically the Reggie and the Four Winds didn't open until the first week of October so we won't be far off of that when we open the when we open those spaces so probably the first week maybe the second week of October the restaurants should be able to open I think the Four Winds while waiting for just half the flooring materials arrived we're waiting for the other half which hopefully that'll come next week after a conversation with the uh flooring the manufacturing company today the restaurants all painted it's all completely painted and ready to go so once we put the Florida on the cabinets may not be in but we could still put the tables and utilize the space for the Four Winds itself uh so we can have some services in that space if we needed to um and the cabinets are doing on the 26th I think of September for the Reggie Cafe and there's not a whole lot of cabinets but cabinets encounter where they where they do that typical serving in the Ridge cafe should be ready to go um early October questions or comments Mrs Fitzgerald yes um this might be a naive question but should the flooring for cosmetology not come in because it was supposed to be and it's supposed to be in supposed to be in can we put everything else together for the remainder of the school year without that flooring so that they can actually work in there or is the flooring a must in order for everything else to be done the as I had mentioned to you last week The Unofficial greater Lawrence Tech website where the parents get to gripe with each other um or sometimes say positive things most of the comments have revolved around the fact and in particular the upperclassmen that they're not in their shop doing what they're supposed to do so is it possible that we can put it together let's say it's not in on the drop dead deadline that they told you it would be here and as it's still being manufactured can we just put everything else down and work for the rest of the year on the flooring that's there right now so once the counters are in and the sinks are in once the counters room we can put the sinks um then we can move in even without the flooring down We'll Wash the concrete floor they can work on the concrete floor when the tile when the flooring comes in they can put that in on weekends that uh we can work with the contractor and he's been very good to us we've worked with them for he's been putting floors in for us the last 10 years I'm sure we could work something out where he would lay the most of the flooring on weekends it's probably a four-day job to put the flooring down so um we can work something out with them but the students can occupy the space once the once the counters are in we can put the sinks in and then they can occupy that space Mr Cheryl yes as a follow-up to what you just said John if the flooring is not here on the drop dead gate that they said I on behalf of the students and the parents would want to vote for that as an official we're going to let them in there at whatever date we say if the flooring's not there we're going to go ahead with it um I just think it's really a shame that in fact they're going to lose I know that the kids that need the hours are getting the hours but in practicality they're not so we have to do something for them yeah wait once the count is down we can definitely let them utilize the space as if it was totally completed it's not a problem without the floor at all that's not a problem at all um I think that you know the difficulty I think as every construction project in the country is dealing with is the supply chain which is totally out of our control these the flooring was ordered back in May I think I looked at the PO today was May 24th the flooring was ordered and it was supposed to be delivered the first week of July there's been some complications with the POs and the systems and the way they operate but we've straightened I think we've gotten it all straightened out today we spent a lot of time on the phone with them today I think we finally got it so that everything should be coming in now there was some they were holding up some of the delivery I think we got it clarify today and it should come through this week except for the one the one flooring that's not totally completed which will be totally manufactured on the 16th and they said it would be delivered would then be shipped out two days later which means the 18th of September so but I don't know how long it takes in shipping maybe it's going to take five days maybe it's going to take two weeks you know it's now we're looking at Trucking how long is it going to be to before the trucking gets it out here so it's hard to know any of that because that's basically been part of the problem but uh it's you know it's a situation it's really a lot it's just been out of our control anything through okay uh report from committees um old business district committee priorities policies uh section B section bdb uh school committee offices and BDC appointed committee officials motion on that please I'll move to prove as submitted on the following page what's the support okay um any discussion questions comments all those in favor aye anyone opposed okay any new 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or Miss Sturgis holds a Bachelor's of Arts degree in sociology and earned her Elementary education teaching certification through Regis College Mrs Sturgis is currently enrolled at Southern Connecticut State University um her The Graduate of information and Library Sciences program working towards her Mastery master of library and information science degree so welcome nope and is Caitlin O'Connor has joined the CIS staff as our long-term Social Work set Ms O'Connor holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Westfield State University and a masters of social work from Springfield College Ms O'Connor has vast experience supporting Children and Families most recently as a family Advocate at the klingberg Family Center and in a short 11 days of school Mrs O'Connor has already made many strong connections with students and has been a wonderful support person for students and families through the transition to CIS so thank you this is upon everyone thank you very much for the introductions Mr Robinson changing that I'm going on this side so good evening everyone so I'm actually why are you one over there so good evening I'm excited to share our new staff with you tonight what I've tried to do with my introductions is just kind of what set them apart from the group that we hired and what made them unique and what qualities are going to bring even better close even though it's almost impossible to do that somebody do it every time so Ingrid kind Ingrid is teaching kindergarten she had her undergrad from Simmons a masters from Southern Connecticut and then you have another Master's appointment yeah um her past experience she worked in soccer team as student teacher and an intern with San Diego part and the reason why we hired her was her reflective nature her hard-working any question can be asked that she wasn't sure to come back with an unbelievable little detail against it so we're really happy to offer in our kindergarten rooms and you're in school right now I have the question mark yeah [Music] okay um so every Monday Wednesday she worked at Cherry Brook as a long-term sub in kindergarten yes and then went to the tollington's on first grade where we stole her um one nicolette's clear strength it's her ability to adjust to what her students needed she did analyze this child needs that and just seamlessly makes it work for that child in each individual the real time welcome back Erica Stevens Erica teaches first grade she's a Westfield that you gratitude um we have a masters and two Bachelors from there yeah and made the hallway um previously she worked at a few schools in Massachusetts what's that Erica apart from our other candidates was her knowledge of the literacy she has a strong Lyricist background she's able to articulate it clearly and understand how the different components of the day tie up so that kids are ready to be great leaders and analyze the facts so welcome to charity yeah it doesn't just happen to be here it seems like children so like um but Jess has a masters of 20 piac undergraded from the University of Maryland Washington no uh University thank you um just worked previously oh yeah an undergrad at the Hartford yeah there it is taught in Farmington taught in Manchester we got her back where's she belongs to Cherry Brook Jess has a player for a lesson that brings all the students in probably has to do that for all the backgrounds remarkable but when you go into your classroom there's a lot of light and enjoyment into what the kids are doing and learning so we're happy to have a chance to be part of our school not here tonight is our third grade teacher Matt C he had an undergrad from the University of Mary Washington a masters of Liberty University this is a second career for Matt he did a lot of substituting he did a lot of coaching found during covert that this was a change of life that he really enjoyed working with kids um more for the coaching and he realized what we have when the teaching did a student teaching Avon math strength this is ability to build and maintain positive relationships um when he taught his lesson in our school he knew every kid by name checked in with them three or four times and was able to like do some small Pokemon talk to those who are interested in it it was really unique what about that yeah I'll just be in the audience to make sure he wasn't uh Carey leboine is one of our special educating teachers she couldn't meet us tonight she has her undergrad from St Joseph her previous experiences were in Torrington West Hartford Windsor what Kara brings to our school is she's thoughtful patient and you know with her special education background she's able to help students that have the unique learning profiles and students that you know may not be verbal they may have expressed themselves differently but she's able to connect and do whatever is best for them Rachel well she is our new speech language pathologist undergrad at Tufts a master from Case Western Reserve to University um comes to us from Granby and the private sector in Ohio we're excited to have Rachel she had to finish up her tenure in Granby but one of the things that she mentioned that we're happy to hear it's a very excited to collaborate with teams and bring that team approach to help our kids be able to thrive in an individuals welcome chairs if I could just add a couple things real quick um you hear that the talent you hear the accolades um this is a a really impressive group of folks who have joined us here in the Canton Public Schools um they went through a rigorous process to be identified as the top candidates but I think what really sets them apart is as we as we did our training through the the first few days of school every one of them said that Canton was a destination for them they wanted to be a part of the Canton Community they wanted to be a part of the Canton Public Schools that that tells a lot about who we are as a community and that puts a lot of trust in us as a group that looks to be able to provide for our staff and our students but it's a a wonderful thing to be able to know and recognize that folks want to be here within our schools and are willing to be able to engage in the way that we've already seen so far so to all of you thank you we're so glad to be able to have you so just tackle those comments um you are an impressive group and we are fortunate to have you in your um your training your your education is is impeccable but I want to tell you that um as much as we're thrilled that you're here we want you to be thrilled also that you're here with us because you're going to find the Canton school system to be and the parents in the community in this board of education to be so supportive and helpful and we want you to express yourselves we want you to be creative and we want you to look at the mission that we have behind us and you all participate in that and I've said this and you've heard me at the convocation that our greatest treasures are our children but our second greatest treasure are our teachers in our Paris and our staff that we have that are teaching our children so we want to welcome you to Canton we hope you stay forever and retire here but thank you for coming tonight on a on a rainy night we're gonna break for about 10 minutes because I want to give the board a chance to say hello to you uh we'll take a 10 minute break there's cookies and I'd encourage board members to uh to say hello and you have children in that school system um you know say a lot of new teachers and welcome them yourselves okay so let's just take a 10 minute break now thanks um thank you foreign thank you so I understand tonight in terms right um congratulations thank you um foreign thank you songs you know okay great and and obviously you're you're free to leave and you are so that's good sorry Abe and Chris you got to stay because we're gonna honor you in a second so no problem sorry to make it a little longer all right uh it's called meeting back to water and um I thought that was great thank you board members for uh mingling getting to know some of the new teachers and when we were in the buildings we can say hello and they know who we are and we know who they are so that's wonderful so with that we're going to move right into the student report Simone how are you tonight I'm really good having the first week here at two of school ago good all right good that's good okay so um past events we kind of covered this last meeting but uh the kindergarten had their meet and greet on Wednesday August 24th uh canned Middle School 7th grade orientation was held Wednesday August 24th Granbury Primary School grades monthly three had their meet and greet on Friday August 26th uh canned middle school PTO Lobster Loops it took place on Sunday August 28th on Monday August 29th the district began their first day of school Friday September 2nd CMS and CHS have their picture day um upcoming events tonight there's a flatbed fundraiser for the class of 2023 um CHS coffee house which is like another fundraiser for the Orlando trip and that's on September 23rd we highly encourage you to come before all the high school clubs are beginning to meet uh between this week and next week Wednesday September 14th Cherry Brook uh Primary School opened house curriculum night and Canton High School senior parents night Tuesday September 20th it's a Canton High School in canned middle school early release day Thursday September 22nd will be CIS curriculum night Monday September 26th there will be no school for Russia Rosh Hashanah yes sorry um and then ongoing events all school all students are back in school uh School sports are beginning their first game something season and I did want to mention this um we have this new club or program at the high school called we're just student ambassadors and there's about 30 new like 28 30 new um kitten high school students and we have this new program where we meet with them um monthly and like checking on these students and make sure that you know they're getting in the school well and I'm part of it and I really like it they pair us up with some of the new kids and we like to check in with them and it's a really good Target I really like it Metro program yeah it's just kind of like making sure they have someone because if they're new to the school you know that some of these kids don't really know anyone that's great yeah it's really nice it's probably really good um I I wanted to mention that and I I know um this is already always uh keeps us up to date on things are going on but you have our email addresses too you can if you want to sit like a flatbread thing if you want to remind us you can set your board um a note and say it'd be great for you guys because you're part of the board so you could say be great you guys can you know show up tonight and get flatbread we'd love to see or something like that so you you feel free to do that yeah um that's where khalila is right now actually okay so he runs is he bringing back Pizza right okay what's the date the 23rd again um that's that is the cafeteria okay yeah just like a little people perform their talent sing play instruments while there's coffee and adults so that sounds that sounds fun we used to have that right here that's now back because we're back that's great I'm performing oh you are so that's the 23rd at seven we're now going I'm not sure about the times we got to support our board members oh so you got to let us know but we will be there all right Bella is too okay yeah thank you Lord appreciate it okay all right so but part of this uh this new uh this new world water that we have a little bit in our agenda is an opportunity for the PTO presidents to speak and I know that um Jamie's on maybe we'll go Jamie first and then we'll go Andrew and then you guys can go okay Jamie do you want to say anything do you want to report into the board on anything and thank you for attending tonight even video we appreciate it approaching yeah we're opening it up for you Hi how are you can you hear me yeah if we can okay all right hi um so I'll give you an update of what the Cherry Brook PTO did um on Friday we just celebrated back to school um with our back to school bash which was a huge success we had ice cream sundaes for the kids we had bounce houses uh we had live music from the substitutes um families brought uh their picnic dinners um met with friends met new families um it was from five to seven we sold our spirit wear we had raffle baskets huge turnout we had over 150 families um that attended our back to school bash prior to that we had welcome back popsicles for grades one through three the Friday before school another way for the kids to get to see friends that they haven't seen all summer and then for the kindergarten meet and greet we handed out Welcome to The Kindergartners with uh welcome back treats that's so great you know I I want to mentioned to the PTO uh president said if you want us somewhere you have our emails so if you say hey guys we need to support come on out um but we will definitely do that so I want to make sure we did that anything else you want to report it on Jimmy um we just have our first general meeting on Wednesday um October 12th and is that going to be a Cherry Brook in the evening that is going to be in Cherry Brook uh cafeteria at 6 30.

okay and others without planning in the meantime thank you thank you for coming tonight thank you for staying thank you Mike we're getting to you I'm sorry this was kind of an unusual night I'm trying to adjust things yeah it can but the superintendent is going to give his report we're going to talk to the Chief and the bus company and then I'm going to give a very brief report and then we're going to have a public forum this is not volume but we're getting there yeah thank you okay thank you Mr case thank you good evening everybody it's great to see all of you um in the interest of time I will make my report uh brief and and send you out through email what I think you need to know that I won't have time to share tonight but very importantly I want to let you know that we've had a very smooth opening of school we've been in school now a little over two weeks it's hard to believe we started with our staff convocation uh which um some of you were able to be at Mr Daniels said some welcoming Words which were really well received allowing the staff to really understand what the goals of the Board of Education are going to be this year and we focused on staff wellness and one of our Canton community members Kelly vascubiak who's also a life coach and wellness coach did a fabulous engaging presentation for our staff that was so well received that staff members wanted her to come back so we're arranging that and then we had some vendors from throughout the community uh with the help of Lil and Felicia and other members of our community they were on hand to talk about what they can offer our teachers various discounts various Health Products to support their own Wellness so we kicked off the year with with a great start and I can't thank our administrators and teachers enough for what they did to create such great learning environments for the first two weeks of school we also know we don't take for granted that we couldn't have students in school without our buses so I want to talk a little bit about busing because busing can always be a little bit tricky in the beginning of the year we've all heard what's happening on the news in various districts and while I lose sleep over a few things as superintendent I rarely lose sleep over the quality of the transportation that our students receive because of Martel Transportation who uh Dean Martell is here tonight the owner of Martel Transportation whom we have a contract with and um um Stephen is uh sorry Stephen Martel is here as well from Martel transportation I want to just um talk about a couple of uh Transportation issues that we've dealt with and continue to deal with one I just would like all of you in the community to know that we have 13 full-size school buses and we have several Vans and the goal is to get students from home to school and then back to um back to home uh within a certain amount of time based upon our school starting and ending times makes it very challenging to do to do this an inefficient man so some people have raised concern about middle school and high school students needing to stay on the buses for a few minutes in the morning before being able to get into the building some people have expressed that as a concern because uh it was said that some buses were late to school where children even though the the bell rings at 805 their children are walking up the hallway at 803 it creates anxiety um and and that's how conscientious our students are and we realize that so what we have been working on is those bus routes that we are aware of and there are are a couple bus 11 the CIS rule being one of them where um this has been zakowski and Mrs Patel and I've received most emails we changed the um the bus pickup time for the middle school high school to be earlier so that that bus can get to CIS in time and that seemed to have worked for uh this week so we continue to tweak different routes that way that's solving the issue of buses getting to school on time we did a Time study over the last five days to see when buses are getting to the schools so we could base our decisions on that particular those particular pieces of data the second issue we're working on now is getting the middle schoolers and high schoolers off the buses before 7 20 which is a concern the challenge is our staff does not have to be in the building until 7 20.

so let's keep all those who perished during 9 11 and especially our armed forces who actually sacrificed our forces to sacrifice their lives please join me in one minute of silence thank you okay we'll move on to our closed session report it's o'neil thank you 4.1 no reportable action taken regarding public employee performance evaluation superintendent 4.2 the board of trustees unanimously approved the settlement agreement in oah case number 2022040127 resolving all issues in students due process complaint by amending students iep and providing assessment compensatory education and other reimbursement 4.3 no reportable action taken regarding negotiations 4.4 no reportable action taken regarding personnel 4.5 the board of trustees unanimously voted to suspend without pay for five days employee hr-2022-23-02 and 4.6 the board of trustees took formal action with a 5-0 vote to approve the expulsion of student 21-30 all right thank you mr o'neal now we move on to recognitions i always love recognizing our donors to our district let's start off with our advanced healthcare pharmacy and do we have a representative probably not no okay all right what about dow medical group yes they're here okay let's have you up front and let's have the board join us to take a picture as well okay i don't know if you want to say a few words i know thank you very much for your donation to our vietnamese student association at oxford and if any of you want to say a few words please join us dr dao is uh unable to be here today but i'm dr duan i'm his medical director so on behalf of him thank you for recognizing our little contribution to the school and [Music] dr nao has been here since 2000 just one doctor but now with his vision and he tried to provide the quality and also the vision center facility so we have the amd medical plaza and dao medical group is in that plaza and we employ about 100 employees and we have about 30 doctors primary care and internal medicine and other specialists so the patient government we have a different service so it's very convenient but on the philanthropy aspect of the america group and he been trying to donate as well as helping all the different non-profit organizations in school provide a lot of school back for i think he donates about ten thousand school back to a different school in santa ana and here in a different place so on behalf of him thank you for recognizing us [Applause] okay all right [Applause] uh all right i didn't mention advanced healthcare pharmacy was the other organization which actually donated three thousand dollars again also to oxford academy vietnamese student association um so thank you to them as well i wanted to uh thank ricky pham i'm sure that you probably had a lot to do with all the donations so thank you very much for reaching out on behalf of our district thank you let's give him a big round [Music] all right so now we're going into our reports and student speakers do we have any we don't have any uh student speakers tonight so we'll go to our reports of associations and at 7.2 i'll start with grant schuster come on down good evening board president jabar trustees cabinet and everyone else joining us this evening it's been a very active month for asta as the associate as an association as well as individually for our members we were all together for the ribbon cutting at sycamore junior high for our first facility dedicated to serving students parents and the community through our community schools model it was an honor to have so many folks from around the state and local offices along with our education partners there to celebrate our progress and look forward to the opportunities that lie ahead it is also deeply gratifying to see the power of a shared leadership model on display and the engagement that it encourages to those all involved the asta paletas cart was also in action bringing smiles on an incredibly hot afternoon additionally the first meeting of asta's lgbtq plus caucus took place this month as we have all stressed the importance of inclusion and celebration of diversity among our students we also want to call attention to the importance of the same goals among our teachers and staff we will lift the voices of those traditionally on those traditionally unheard members and welcome everyone to our school sites and to our association on that note tonight i want to stress the idea of lifting voices throughout the history of our own community female voices voices of people of color folks from the lgbtq plus community have often been ignored or dismissed we have got to continue our efforts to lift these voices in our schools at our district office and in our employee associations the idea of the shared leadership model that this board has endorsed is a generational opportunity to transform our public schools and the way we all see ourselves in them when it comes to community schools and lifting voices we made the unrealistic goal of getting survey input from 75 of our district families in a short period of time the first attempt with questions out of the gate and we're already closing in on a 60 response rate district-wide we need to continue to push forward listening to students teachers and the community groups in the same way getting input on that scale at that level from each one of those education partners we need to make sure that people representing every community give input at this high rate and through every voice from every group being lifted and heard we can achieve the profound transformation to our schools and to public education within asta i would also like to call attention to the teacher input group and the special education input group these bodies have lifted teacher voice and encourage and engaged our members like never before more than a hundred asta members have been part of these groups since our first meeting in the summer of 2020.

in this guidance lessons counselors focus on building rapport with students during this presentation the counselor has also collected data through a needs assessment our overarching objective is to emphasize the social emotional development by highlighting a scenario by one of our students presented by ms okay good evening i'm rosalinda pineda and i'm the eighth grade counselor and lead counselor at brooker's junior high and i'm just going to give you a brief uh presentation an example of uh the reaction of one of our students amongst many after our guidance lesson once we introduced ourselves to the students this particular student came into my office and just wanted more information about how to connect with with the counselors because um we in our guidance lesson we talked about um connecting with our students just giving them resources and also a process that we completed in terms of being more efficient uh in terms of connecting with us we we created um a form that they would complete so that their emails wouldn't get lost with all the other emails so that we can respond in a faster manner to them so she came in and she said well i need a little bit more information and more detail about how to connect with counselors and so i completed the the form right there with her so that she would know how to do it and then she thanked me and she was out the door um the next day she actually completed the request to see counselor on her own and came in chit chatted with me focused on building a rapport with her and the following day we went through the needs assessment that our students completed during our guidance lesson and we realized that she was on that list where she indicated that she had or needed more support in dealing with anxiety so by this time i had met with her a couple of times already so she was used to me and comfortable with me so i called her in and explored um what was going on and and more details about um what she was dealing with in terms of her anxiety and she stated that she had anxiety about death and after exploring and making sure that you know there wasn't suicide ideation or anything like that she just determined i determined that it was just a general fear of death itself and so i normalized some of those feelings and talked about some ways of dealing with our anxiety and a plan to deal with that um and so and i also talked about the resources in our school um our social workers that are there for um students who need um to you know focus more and and when a situation uh is more long-term um then that they would be available as well to support and other support systems she after that walked out of my office thanked me and of course she came she continued coming back because that was part of our plan to support her a few days later she came in and asked me to see one of her friends because that friend was having difficulty and i talked to her i called in her the student and during lunch she approached me and she's like miss pineda did you already call my friend how did it go and of course because of confidentiality i couldn't give her details but i said yes you know we've taken care of her and she's getting the support so that's just one example to demonstrate how important it is to build relationships with our students because i feel that if i if we hadn't got into the classroom to provide that information it would have been difficult uh for her to just come in she wouldn't have known uh how to get a hold of us thank you and i'm i'm gonna go ahead and uh introduce miss preciado here who will talk to you a little bit more about um our data here thank you thank you miss pineda i'm miss president president support counselor at burgers and because of our guidance lessons and assistance we put in place we have noticed an increase in the number of students who complete a request to connect with the counselor so i would like to read the testimonial of this particular student that miss pineda was talking about counselors have helped me overcome my fear of death miss pineda has been there for me when i was going through hard times and she's a trustworthy person i always know where to find her and she calls me out every time i need to talk to her parent testimonial over the phone mom expressed she was very grateful for all the help that we have provided overall we as the counseling team department we work for students and not the other way around we use the needs assessment and the time with students to make sure that we allow for students voice and purpose thank you now here's savannah good evening board of trustees i'm penny hajees from savannah i'm one of five there i'm so grateful for the opportunity to speak to you tonight i want to share with you a little bit about what's going on at savannah what i want you to know by the end of my few minutes speaking with you this evening is that your auhsd school counselors on each of our sites are working with the whole student the academic part of our students lives the personal social piece and their future college and career plans i want you to know that we work to guide our students academically through the use of the six-year plan but before a six-year plan can actually be developed we need to have educated our students on the different career pathway options how student can earn seal of by literacy for example or what it takes to be an academic honor student at graduation we communicate all of this by creating classroom lessons that we teach to our students so they can make informed decisions about their academic futures i want you to know that when one of our students decides which college they're going to apply to you can trust that the student has received an entire curriculum of support from their counselor they've learned how to determine and reach a match in a safety school they've learned how to match their interest to a college career and how to navigate the campus demographics the advanced degrees they might have and of course the costs all of this was taught to them by their school counselors i want you to know that your school counselors work with students social emotional needs on a daily basis but before we can do that we have to know our students names and their stories we spend time developing relationships with our students we create safe nurturing respectful environments for them when they are with us we protect them when they are when we are called to do so and we support them through the chaos helping them navigate the process we connect our students and families to resources i want you to know that we're not simply creating their schedules and tracking their requirements we are creating opportunities for each of our students through the work we do in the classroom in our small groups and individually we also work for our students behind the scenes in meetings at our sites and at the district we attend workshops training conferences seminars all to better equip our campuses with new and improved tools for our toolboxes we actively respond to students needs both through our daily work and commitment to the auhsd pledge and of course the cpsf counselors aren't just looking at data we're acting on data we're not just telling how many times we met with a student rather we can show you how students are different because of the commitment and dedication of their school counselors so honoring our cpsf framework counselors have increased enrollment in our dual enrollment courses we've increased our pathway completion and now we are on our second cohort of embedded dual enrollment students for our patient care pathway super proud of that our first cohort had 26 students enrolled and these students are currently juniors this year but our current cohort of sophomores has a whopping 36 full class of students enrolled and they're going strong so that's really great these cohorts of students will not only be meeting their requirements to take state licensing exams to become lvns by the time they graduate but they're also completing five transferable college courses not credits courses to give them a jump start to college or university and in addition to that we have 24 seniors currently who have taken at least one dual enrollment course and they must have done that during their junior year right if they're seniors now so super proud of those numbers our pathway completion is increasing last year we had 67 students completing a career pathway this year we have 234 slated to either com they've already completed their pathway or they're on their way to completing their pathway so that's also huge we also have big plans this school year we have three departmental goals that we've developed by reviewing last year's data which we do every year and we've reviewed the data on the california dashboard and data from aries web reports and so our plan is by may 2023 to increase our college and career preparedness by an additional five percent the number of students with disabilities enrolled in college dual enrollment courses and increase redesignation of our ltels by 20 we are doing this through intentional targeted interventions that we offer our students based on data we identified students who were one class away from crea completing their career pathway and students who already started a pathway but during the course selection process they kind of deviated from that pathway for whatever reason so we called them in individually and what we did was we helped them with capstone completion planning so they could meet their pathway and get them back on track we worked with our targeted group of eltels who scored a three or better on the lpac to teach them test taking strategies familiarize them with how the elpac is scored and we worked with the teachers to implement el teaching strategies in the classroom this targeted intervention model is is modeled after findings we learned through the district's lead program partnered with cal state fullerton for our students with disability goal we're working with students and case carriers to encourage our students with disability to take a leap forward towards college coursework so all of that is by the end of this year we're planning to target and we're planning to exceed those goals for sure we're taking social emotional learning to the next level at savannah we're we want to support our students voice and agency so they know they have the power to influence change both inside and outside of the classroom through the lens of scl we conducted a student anxiety i'm sorry a student needs assessment and we as we do every year and the results out of 1700 students 1300 students responded and the results are launching our small groups and what we're doing is we're implementing anxiety and depression identity and motivation those are our starting small groups so we have also piloted we're so excited a 12-week series of seo classroom lessons for our 9th grade class that will happen in the classroom 12 sessions so 150 of our 9th graders will receive this piloted program on october 14th in our career finance and technology classes and they're going to focus on a variety of different seo topics we've conducted our needs assessment and we are implementing our first small groups like i said and we also work with nami the counselors actually run nami group the nami club and with the students in our nami club we've developed school-wide wellness wednesday campaigns that we've been working on now for almost three years this is advertised to our parents students and staff bi-monthly we have a whole year's worth of wellness wednesday curriculum that we send out and we are also in um year two of something very exciting our well space which our students have so aptly named our rebel relaxation room or the r and r for short yeah it's kind of cute so i would like to read a brief letter from a student regarding the r r room i just feel so overwhelmed because sometimes i usually are i just feel so overwhelmed sometimes and i usually just push it down and tell myself just try not to think about it but that doesn't really work there's class assignments projects practice after school my parents and girl drama swirling around in my brain so many expectations i've got to think about so much pressure is put on me being a through g getting a scholarship going to a four year i have to do well in school and sports so i can get a scholarship because that's what my mom would have wanted missing my mom and wishing she were still here wanting to scream but i push that down too when i'm home i have to take care of my younger siblings and share a room there's no privacy i don't complain because i know my dad's doing the best he can for us today is the second time i've used the r room since school started it's also the anniversary of my mom's passing she passed away three years ago i was thinking a lot about my mom today and it made me sad i didn't want to get emotional in class so i asked my teacher if i could go to the r r during second period i don't have a place just for me at home or anywhere else really the r r room is just for me i talked with mrs h and she listened to me she offered me the help i needed but really the best thing was that she listened the room is calm and it smells really nice the lights aren't bright and miss mrs h that's me has soft music playing in the background there's lots of different things i can use in the room to focus like kinetic sand and the buddha board mostly i like sitting in the bean bag chair and using the fidget stick and being able to talk to someone miss h rings the chimes when the time is up and i know i have to start thinking about going back to class i feel better after having taken a break in this room i know it's here if i need it again so i don't have to worry i can go and focus on mr k's chem class now so students come into the r r they receive permission from their teacher to be there they have 15 minutes that's timed and they know they have just 15 minutes to spend before they're asked to go back to class and that's the process there what i ask the students when they come in as a check-in and to check out when they check in they ask i ask them if they want to talk to anyone while they're there and i asked them how calm their felt before they got to the r r and how come they feel after and then i also ask them how ready they are to learn when they came into the r r and how ready they are to learn after and on both they are 50 percent like more ready to learn and a much calmer when they leave what it takes to have a well space on our campus is partnering with chalk having the space on campus getting the funding from chalk which we were so fortunate to do thanks to mr pooley and his work um staffing i'm the fifth counselor i'm the programs counselor and so i can be in that room along with my interns and so we can staff that room and it's open uh periods one through six and then of course like a plan of communication with staff and students so that they know how and when they can use the room what our parents are and our staff are saying about the room they're saying um we need an r for teachers the student center is always bustling with activity it's great to have a place where students can go that provides calm i think the savannah relaxation room has been great for students as a mental health professional i believe it's important to provide a safe place for students on campus to learn and practice healthy coping and relaxation skills for self-regulation these are skills that students will take with them far beyond the high school years i hope you will take away that counselors help our students navigate all aspects of their lives our students know who their school counselors are and feel supported by us we guide them towards their futures we help them get college career and life ready i hope you have heard me tonight that counselors aren't just looking at data but we're acting on it we're not just telling how many times we met with a student we can show you how our students are different because of the work of their school counselors we welcome you to visit our campuses and see for yourself thank you all right thank you very much that was very insightful and thank you for sharing those stories we appreciate it um all right so next i have oh we have okay go ahead come on up i was almost going to miss you [Laughter] um good evening president javar board of trustees matsuri executive board students parents and our school community who's joining us here and online sites have been really busy with back to school events school sites have held back to school spirit assemblies dances pep rally senior bonding events and numerous sporting events in classrooms teachers have been actively building community through instructional practices and through the implementation of routines such as capturing capturing kid's heart wellness and restorative practices additionally sites have begun their parent leadership academy and their ready set go curriculum that empowers parents with knowledge about our systems and structures in place principals have had their first coffee with the principals and have shared information with parents regarding current and upcoming events this year's here um sites are focusing on student voice and learning experiences and further developing their capstone project outside of the classroom groups of students have also been participating in a variety of aim opportunities that gives them hands-on experiences with specific careers for example i'm going to take some of the cba students yes they do participate in field trips and yes we do have a building they just went to uci the urology department and had the opportunity to practice some surgical knotting skills they learned about endoscopic exercises and they also had the experience with robotic suturing and they also each individually had the opportunity to operate the da vinci surgical robot so students came back from participating from that event and since shared a sense of excitement and gratitude for this experiences and in talking about careers and future planning we're currently gearing up for our upcoming college and career fair on october 6 where students will have the opportunity to further explore their passion college and career aspirations district wise sites will participate in a series of lessons and conducting a college and career week lastly i want to share with you our collective effort for student wellness and focus to raise student awareness for well-being and belonging uh the addition of community schools will definitely help with that our ambassadors are also working on some mindfulness along with student leaders from the sites and have participated in their first mindfulness training a week ago and we'll continue to do that next week also sites are conducting staff development and lunchtime activities for students to participate in um and get resources and information on a variety of topics as mentioned earlier this is suicide prevention month we're also this year continuing the universal screening for high schools to continue support student needs with that i'll leave you and if you did not know today is positive thinking day and also international chocolate day so it's a good way to do yourself all right thank you since you're reminded hilda i thought that you might have chocolate for us but okay all right well thank you very much to alta president let's give it up to hilda um all right so i don't think we have any other uh association presidents seeing none we'll go to a parent-teacher student association ptsa report i don't see anybody representing them either okay so let's go to our presentation segment which is 8.1 and this is the introduction of the 20 22 23 student representative to the board of trustees all right so let's give a big round of applause to omkar katrine hopefully i got the last name right i think we're going to have you come up and sit first and then we'll have the next item go ahead and introduce the rest of the ambassadors so welcome again here's your seat right here [Music] let's give it a big round again [Music] so um car do you want to say a few words yeah i'm truly grateful for the opportunity to represent my peers in the aohc family and oh get a little closer yeah i'm sure what i said um i'm truly grateful for the opportunity to represent my peers in the auasd family and i think i speak for all the ambassadors and all the students at uhsd where we say how grateful we are that the board of trustees the president and the cabinet and all of hsd's staff and faculty um it puts a large emphasis on student voice and truly integrates our opinions and our education and puts that at the top of their priority and we're truly truly grateful and thankful all right thank you omkar so just to uh as well background the position of student representative to the board of trustees was created along with the student ambassador program 20 years ago the student representative to the board of trustees represents 30 000 students of auhst and reports on student activities throughout the district at all regular board meetings so you have a big job ahead of you omkar and the current so they actually lead monthly leadership meetings with student ambassadors at the district site and they create reports from student ambassador findings to the to present to the district leadership and to the board of trustees at regular board meetings so we're looking forward to lengthy board reports from you right and then you're also supposed to bring starbucks coffee for all the board members i think you missed that memo i'm just kidding just kidding all right well thank you very much again uh well we'll go to 8.2 and ask you to do the introduction of the 2022 2022-23 student ambassadors um so presenting the uh student masters from our school sites i was hoping they could each come up say their name and their school site so if that's okay yeah absolutely so before they come up i i i'll give again a little bit of a background one of the unique programs that that auhsd offers to see senior students in our student ambassador program it was an initiative of former eu hst superintendent dr jan billings and is fashioned after the disneyland resorts ambassador program each year the program participants are fortunate to receive etiquette and business training the role of au hsd student ambassador program is to represent the district's 30 000 students in the community and they are the face of the district and represent auhsd not only at community and district events but also share student input on various district committees and i know many of you do a lot of work already i've seen you in action so thank you for that um and then purpose of the student ambassador program is to provide student voice from each of our nine comprehensive high schools as well as hope school gilbert high school and cambridge virtual academy to the district leadership team in the board of trustees which includes the following student leadership training their 10 monthly meetings led by student representative to the board of trustees the creation of a uhsd student ambassador handbook with a court of ethics active participation on district and community community committees the creation of student focus groups such as rising student voice and participation which is rsvp led by the ambassadors at each of the school site community service projects led by ambassadors and being visible and approachable to students and staff on campus so i'm going to start by introducing or asking evelyn alonso from alaheim high school come up and introduce yourself okay hello okay good evening everyone my name is evelyn alonso and i am anaheim high school student ambassador it's a pleasure to see all of you in this meeting thank you [Music] all right malia balcom vickery cambridge virtual academy um hi everyone i'm aaliyah balcom feet gray and i'm the ambassador at cambridge virtual academy it's awesome being here vinod raja hello everyone my name is vinod varvaraj and i'm the student ambassador from cypress high school and it's a pleasure to work with all of you this year michael flores with gilbert high school morning everyone i'm proud to be representing gilbert high school this year as a 2022-2023 student ambassador thank you all for your time and i hope you have a great evening awesome [Music] and i got adrian barrios hope high school [Applause] hello my name is adrian ballios i'm a hope school at bathora [Music] we got roland hernandez with catella high school good evening everyone my name is roland hernandez i represent nutella high school as a student ambassador it's an honor to be here tonight monica mikhail good evening everyone i'm monica mchale i present kennedy high school as city ambassador it's pleasure to see you all today ari cardenas with laura high school hello everyone my name is arie cardenas and i'm laura high school student ambassador it's a pleasure to meet you all and i look forward to working with all of you hi muntador al-jadeed good evening everyone my name is monsider aldrid or monty and i am the student ambassador at magnolia high school and i'm really excited to be working with you this upcoming school year thank you joseph reyes olivas oxford academy [Applause] good evening everyone my name is joseph reyes olivas and i am oxford academy student ambassador i am looking forward to working with all of you this year all right donna sade with savannah high school or jenna good evening everyone my name is jenna seday and i'm savannah high school student ambassador and i look forward to working with our staff and students this year to make some meaningful change thank you brianna dawson with western high school good evening everyone my name is brianna dawson and i'm representing western high school as a student ambassador it's a pleasure to be here with you all tonight [Music] all right well thank you all for uh coming here today and i know that you guys are going to be doing you already worked with the former ambassadors and how they've done so i know you're going to raise the bar higher for the next incoming ambassadors as well so and i have seen and board members have seen some of you in action already so thank you very much for applying and taking a lead role at auhst and we hope that you'll learn more and more leadership qualities and abilities and also represent a uhst very well so thank you and can i say something also i would like to acknowledge ron hoshi who has been their advisor and been working with them all summer great job [Applause] ron yeah stand up i think we need to introduce you for taking the lead on this so let's give a big round to ron [Music] and jennifer brown as well please stand up and amber houston as well hilda okay [Applause] [Music] we just want to recognize all of you guys for doing splendid job being you know supportive of each other right and you ladies have been swapping back and forth because i think hilda worked with them before and then then amber are now back to hilda very good but ron has been with us for the last several years he retired a few years ago but you'd never know it because he continues to work with us and be a phenomenal advantage to our district thank you ron and everyone thank you put him in semi retirement more all right thank you ladies and gentlemen and i know that tomorrow is a school day so if you guys want to be excused you are more than welcome to be excused all right so we're going to start off with uh but you can't yeah now you're going to be here joining us we're going to go ahead and start out with the next presentation with his h 8.3 orange county human relations um should i ask robert to do the presentation introduction yes thank you board president jabar it gives me great pleasure to bring up dr adam hernandez our director of student services and i on behalf of our district i want to thank dr hernandez and his team for the great work that they've been doing and we'll continue to do with our friends and colleagues at dr hernandez will now introduce our our team and our colleagues from orange county human relations thank you thank you mr seldivar uh hello good evening board of trustees president dubar superintendent matsuda and executive cabinet it is a pleasure to introduce ochre's director of youth in education programs april van dytten and also director of operations dan han as a which continues its partnership with ochr it is another example of how our district is out in front when it comes to implicit bias and restorative justice practices ochr exhibits care and compassion when working with our school sites in the brief presentation today you will see the connection uh with auhd's core values specifically moving the needle towards equity and justice and cultivating cultivation of student voice and problem solving so we do have a representation i do want to bring them up without further ado this is april and dawn please welcome great well thank you all so much for having us we're really honored to be here and to share space with you all and to share a little bit about the work that we've been doing in auhst and are excited to continue doing so without further ado let's go ahead and get started here just the clicker yes all right there we go awesome so you all have a copy of the powerpoint so you can follow along here or up here on the screen so first and foremost again yes i'm april van lichten i am the director of youth and education programs at ochr i just want to start us off by just naming some of the schools that we are currently serving so we have two programs the bridges program and the restorative justice or the restorative schools program and we are currently at these schools here anaheim high school cypress high school gilbert high school lexington loera magnolia savannah south walker and western we're at all those schools with the bridges program and then with the restorative schools program we're at ball brookhurst dale lexington south and sycamore and you can see here that a couple of those schools are highlighted because those are our new schools this year we're really excited to bring them on gilbert coming on this year um having bridges for the first time and then south coming on um with under the direction of yoli with rj so we're really really excited about those folks joining us in partnership this year i'm going to pass it on to don to talk a little bit about bridges and then i'll join back in and talk about rj thank you april uh good evening president jabar member board of trustee superintendent suda my name is don han director of operations on county human relations it's an honor for me to be here today because i'm sitting here in the audience and i'm reflecting on the years that i at least have the privilege to be a staff at oc human relations which is about two decades ago when i first came to serve at the agency i was one of your human relations specialists at different school savannas being one of them and i wanted to talk about hearing all the important stories or programs the counselors talking about how they are very focusing on student social emotional learning their well-being and how they are being building connectedness to the community and the campus really reminded me how such a privilege we are as a human relations organization to have the partnership with your district for at least the last three decades for us building a campus environment that is respectful for diversity where all students staff people parents whoever have the engagement with the campus community feel safe and welcome and respected is what we wanted to do and you as a district welcome that and embrace that and support us to do our work that engage the student on your campuses we're talking about programs that lift the student voice and voices and making feel that they are the part of this community over the years when i been a part of or have proudly served the program on your campus i was at the orange county equity summit last month or maybe a month before last month and this is about 3 400 people at mile square park in fountain valley gathering to talk about equity in orange county and as a gaze across the room i ran i spotted one of my former students that i worked with at savannah so i went and said hi to her and mind you she's about 30 something years old now so that's going to make me outdated a little bit older and she said don i'm so proud to be here and i wanted to it just happened by coincident that the organization that she's working for had an open house that night and she said i want to invite you to our open house and i want to invite you as the director of the programs so she is not just giving back to the community but the whole time even while she was in college she stayed engaged with anaheim and i think that speak volume about how we make or how anahan union spent effort to make sure that every student that feel connected also coming back to give back to our community so in our bridges program last year we have 141 student meeting six human relations retreat school-wide project and most importantly leadership consultation and relationship building our goal for this year is to get back to our route what it means to be a program on your campus what it means to empower our student what does it mean to practice a relationship building relationship building skill communication skill and also most importantly what's it mean to ensure that staff students and campus community members feel that this is a program that could enhance the effort on each campus so i'll turn that over to april thank you so that was a little bit about our bridges program and what that's looked like on campus and kind of what our hopes are our vision for the upcoming school year so now i'm going to talk a little bit about our restorative schools program or the restorative justice program that is at some of your sites so you can see that here we have some pictures of some circles these were both at brookhurst um during my time there as a restorative justice specialist so some circles there um just generally what are restorative practices um so for folks that may not know they are tools that can be used to help build positive relationships and community they can also be used to effectively navigate conflict and harm so those are the two big pieces of our work is that building community piece and then the supporting with navigating conflict and harm okay and this is just kind of a breakdown of what the work looks like on a campus okay so again community building healing harms and centering relationships is really the center or the core of the rj work that we are hoping to do on a school campus okay and what that looks like is these little components here in the bullets so training consulting modeling mentoring and coaching and then of course conflict support as well so all of these are elements that our restorative justice specialists are doing on their school campuses i have a quote here from a 9th grade student she's actually i think now a 10th grade student um at but she was 9th grade student when she gave this to me at one of our our school sites in ahsd and she said restorative justice practices have had a positive impact on me because it helped me learn how to be more understanding and aware of other people's feelings so you know just really a testament to a student that really struggled with conflict really struggled in getting into maybe some physical altercations with other folks and by the end of the school year school year really learned tools to navigate conflict more effectively learned how to identify her feelings and ask for um you know what she needed to make things as right as possible and so i heard the volume go up so i hope i was heard before apologies on that um okay and then i want to share a little bit more about community building circles so this is the other big aspect of a restorative schools program out of campus is that community building circles are an intentional structured way for us to be in community with one another it's a process where everyone gets to be heard we really try to do these for students and also for staff because when we're talking about building community we're talking about building community for everybody on the school campus not just the students but also for staff also for parents for caregivers we want everyone to feel like they belong at this in the school community and just a couple of data points here from our school sites from last year collectively there were 148 consultations 155 mentoring sessions 134 modeling sessions 283 relationship building sessions 743 student development sessions 92 presentations or outreach or trainings and 490 cases were referred so that just kind of gives you the scope of what the work looked like across the district last year i also want to note that some of these numbers came from schools that came joined us mid-year and have since uh started with us at the beginning of the year so i'm anticipating these numbers to be even more this year which i'm really really excited about so a little bit about our vision for this upcoming year our hopes are to continue training staff in our tier one training which is called everyday rj and our tier two and tier three training um called navigating conflict and harm so that's an intention we're studying for this year um our hope is to train more folks and actually um adam's gonna talk about this in just a moment so i'll bypass that for for a moment about implicit bias in circles our other hope is to in our intention is to build staff capacity and overall sustainability of practices we really want to make sure that we are embedding these practices so that way everyone on the school campus knows what they are knows how to do them and it's just part of the culture and then lastly systematized practices in schools that we've been in a relationship for a really long time so beyond circles how are we implementing this how are we embedding it and then just a couple of other notes before i pass it on to adam this is some other program programming that we have other youth in education programming that we offer to our partner sites so we have our hrap program that's our human relations ambassadors program it's essentially a year-long internship first for high school age students they come to our agency they get some knowledge building they take action in their communities so we are currently accepting applications so if folks are interested they want to go ahead and to get that experience put that on their resume please reach out to us and we'll make sure we get you that application um there's also the youth speak contest that we do it's in both an essay contest and a speech contest and that usually comes with a cash prize as well so our partner sites are you know that is available to to folks at those sites as well next we have is our walk in my shoes conference so that was a big conference that we held for both junior high and high school every single year it used to be high school in the fall junior high in the spring but because of covid and everything right we had to put that on pause for a little bit though we're really excited to bring that back this year at least for the high schools we're starting small we're going to start at the high schools in the spring at cal state fullerton so we're gonna bring that back every partner site gets to bring about 30 students and they get that conference workshop like experience so really really powerful day for everybody and then lastly we have our youth leadership institute this happens every summer it's a week-long i guess if you want to call it like a summer camp programming but again the purpose to build those leadership skills among youth across orange county so it's a really awesome opportunity for youth to connect with other youth in orange county and to build those connections as well and with that thank you so much i'm going to go ahead and pass it over to adam thank you april uh just a couple other data points um so in 2020 and 2021 school year we did have a hundred administrators that participated in in implicit bias training so just an idea there's about 75 um site level administrators so the partnership and the buy-in with district level personnel participating was so huge so it's a collective effort 150 staff members trained on implicit bias as well so 10 from each school and most importantly rsvp students 30 30 students leaders were trained on restorative circles to continue that work moving forward the implicit bias on restorative circles training each the focus is going to be on the high schools so this year each training will be a full day two full day trainings so 25 participants from each school but it's a combination of 10 staff and 15 students and what we're doing is we're trying to specifically and be targeted with student leaders on campuses so principals are charged to select students that represent are from rsvp bsu student ambassadors asb athletes so many different levels of student leaders on campuses so we can get a well-rounded representation to go to this important training and each school will be going through two separate six hour trainings so implicit bias and restorative circles um and that training is slated to happen over the course from october to february uh and maybe go into march but uh that's a lot of important work ahead of us and a lot of planning and a lot of dedication to what we think is important to restore some uh culture on our campuses and and push this ahead so uh with that i do want to uh thank again ochr for the continued partnership with auhsd and uh that concludes the presentation here's a couple of fun pictures of the work that they've been doing and if any questions uh you have for um for uh ochr now would be the time um and that's that's it all right any questions great presentation thank you very much thank you thank you thank you very much great presentation thank you very much appreciate the partnership i have i have a suda dr hernandez so is the uh is the plan to create a training of trainers do we have are we building capacity at each of our sites to carry on that that is ultimately the idea is to have um the impact of this training to go back and influence other student groups and also among our staff and our teachers so that we all can be equipped to take on some of the challenges that exist on our campuses so the other question i have don you and i uh in human relations were at the recent anti-semitism conference at uc irvine and some of the folks there spoke of the rising and growing influence of hate on social media is this a specific issue that you're targeting as well in terms of creating awareness and also advising us on how to address some of these uh real threats to our schools and our students yes sir so definitely we're the agency that actually contracted by the county to support the orange county human human relations commission and one of our key work that we do is hate crime prevention and respond to the county in our partnership with the district that's one of the key component that we're focusing on is preventing and building the capacity to create a campus that even when the crisis happen or incidents that happen on campus how do we properly respond to anti-semitism or any type of hate or hate incidents or hate crime on our campus so i i mean is ochrc sort of monitoring some of this some of these social network groups in orange county and giving our admin teams and our district uh sort of a a list or awareness of some of this stuff because i i think that it's happening right under our noses our students are being recruited into hate groups in orange county and of course nationally so i think we need to be i mean really take advantage of your resources as well and and make sure that our people are aware that this is a growing problem definitely if we see any trend that's happening in orange county specifically any community we definitely will alert the administrations or the law enforcement or even our partners to be aware that hey this is what's happening the hate activities that's happening or we may even forecast seeing it coming to orange county or to our community or sometimes the trending of things such as racial slurs being used on social medias or even off-campus activity that happened unfortunately unfortunately it had happened in orns county quite often in the last few years fortunately i could say that it didn't happen here in your district but in the county we have responded to different incidents that happened that actually even viral even nationally viral and and when things are hidden in social media unfortunately not people in orange county sees it but people in the world get to see it and they get to respond and that's when we come in and hopefully be in access to the to the community in terms of responding to crisis thank you all right thank you don i appreciate the work and thank you for the partnership appreciate it thank you thank you all right all right next item on our agenda is public comments i don't see any blue slips here no blue slips we don't have any okay all right perfect um well that's i think that's a first that we didn't have public comments all right we'll go to items of business resolutions 10.1 resolution number 2022-23-b-01 recalculation of the 2021-2022 appropriations limit in establishing the 2022-2023 estimated appropriations limit calculations and this is a roll call vote so move second second i have a motion and a second any questions seeing none i will take the vote and miss piercy aye it's randall terrejo aye ms smith aye mr o'neal aye and i voted motion passes unanimously 10.2 resolution number 2022-23-b-02 adjustments to income and expenditures general fund resolution number 20 22-23-b 0-3 adjustments to income and expenditure various funds and 2021-2022 unaudited actual financial statements this is also a roll call vote so move in second i have a motion a second any questions seeing none uh miss piercy aye ms randall trejo aye ms smith aye mr o'neill aye and i wrote our emotion passes unanimously got 10.3 it's a public hearing for statutory school fees pursuant to education court section 7 17620 level 1 fees i open public hearing is there anyone who wishes to speak seeing none i'll close public hearing and we will move forward to 10.4 which is the resolution number 2022-23 dash three increasing statutory school fees and notice of exemption so it's a roll call vote okay i have a motion and a second any questions seeing none miss piercy aye ms randall trejo aye smith aye mr o'neil aye and i vote motion carries unanimously 10.5 resolution number 2022-23-f-04 approval of notice of exemption of for magnolia high school pool restoration and or rehabilitation project it's a roll call vote some move second i have a motion to second any questions seeing none miss piercy aye ms randall trejo hi smith aye mr o'neal hi and i vote motion passes unanimously 10.6 public hearings sufficiency of textbooks and instructional material it's an information item it's a public hearing open public hearing any questions or any anybody want to speak seeing none i'll close the public hearing and then move on to 10.7 resolution number 2022-23e 0-2 textbooks and instructional materials compliance for 2022-23 roll call vote bill moved second a motion is second any questions seeing none miss piercy aye sirando trejo aye smith aye ms o'neil aye aye vote motion passes unanimously 10.8 resolution 2022-23-e-03 national hispanic heritage month it's a roll call vote we have a motion and a second any comments seeing none this is a roll call vote as well miss piercy aye it's rando trejo hi verdai miss smith aye mr o'neal hi and i wrote i motion carries unanimously 10.9 resolution number 2022 slash 23-e-04 attendance awareness month roll call vote don't move second have a motion a second any questions or comments see comments very important we have to really impress upon our students how important it is to attend you miss a day of school you miss what's happening you may miss some very important information it has been proven steady attendance makes a difference and lack of it unfortunately makes a difference so i know that we i for years had a poster in my classroom about attendance making a difference and i think we got to make sure we put some more back in every classroom about being there so very important thank you miss pearcy this is a roll call vote miss piercy aye ms randall trejo aye smith aye mr o'neil aye and i vote eye motion carries unanimously 10.10 resolution number 22-23-e-05 red ribbon week it's a roll call vote don't move uh second promotion a second any comments seeing none miss piercy hi it's randall trejo mr o'neal hi i vote i motion carries unanimously 10.11 resolution number 2022-23-e-06 international translation day so move second uh it's a roll call vote i am miss piercy aye ms randall trejo aye ms smith aye mr o'neal hi i vote i motion carries unanimously 10.12 resolution number 2022-23-hr-01 week of the school administrator roll call i have a motion in a second any comments this is a job let me tell you one i never wanted that's for sure our administrators work hard and you know there's only a few of them on each campus and they have to deal with a lot luckily now we have at our high schools an assistant principal per grade level and that is important because we have a lot of students on our campus and they have a lot of work to work with all those students so i give them kudos and so we do deserve to give them their week and acknowledge it all right we all give them kudos with this vote all right roll call vote miss species aye ms randall trejo aye ms o'neil and miss smith mrs o'neil miss smith okay i was so neal hi and i vote our motion carries unanimously business services 10.3 transportation agreement with owie connect i have a motion and a second any questions no but it's we we connect [Laughter] oh what did i say always french for women yes okay all right do we all right we okay um um i have a motion in a second all in favor aye hi and your post you threw me off okay i'm sorry you just experienced motion carries unanimously all right 10.14 proposal monarch environmental companies inc second action item yes um we have a motion in a second all any questions no but i'm you know i i'm glad to uh say yes on this because this is a tree care services and uh trees are very important and i'm a tree hugger that's right i was gonna say to give the data access to miss piercy i made a note here no did you yeah um this is going to uh basically um you know catalog all of our trees and keep a a a log about their condition and making sure that they're healthy and if they're not a tree better be sick before i let you guys cut it that's all i got to say because we've got some of the most beautiful trees on our campuses they are phenomenal some of them are orangeview has got this massive tree that is just unbelievably beautiful yeah it does tear up the sidewalk around it you got to give it at least 60 you know foot diameter around it but you know it took nature 60 years to grow that thing and it's gorgeous so we need to take care of our trees absolutely all right thank you i have a motion in a second um all in favor aye any opposed motion carries unanimously educational services 10.15 revised board policy 7903.11 6153 student trips and off-campus activities repeal board policy 7903.13 field trips and excursions non-school-sponsored educational tours first reading information item only any questions seeing none i will move to 10.16 agreement with ucla campus life community programs office and it's an action item so moved second i have a motion in a second uh any questions seeing none all in favor aye aye any oppose motion carries unanimously 10.17 membership accrediting commission for schools western association of schools and colleges uh lost committee action item second we have a motion a second any questions seeing none all in favor any oppose motion carries unanimously okay a 10.18 agreement education and innovation research grant with orange county department of education action item second i have a motion in a second any questions seeing none i have a question um and i know the question was asked and you guys answered it but for the public's uh uh for public purposes what is the plan uh in terms of how are we planning on reaching out do i ask you the question since your gerund's not here yes i can but you might defer it okay um what do i know it's talking about tracking the data and making sure that uh we do some kind of a plan but just for our parents to know and the public to know what is our plan to attract students because we have a lot of programs right so i want to make sure that we have some kind of a plan which goes out there to attract uh students for the program so we have i know amy quan you're overseeing the er ground which is at a couple of our sites i'm not sure if you want to come and speak a little more to it but in terms of of your the question just to clarify it's how are we attracting students to how are we collecting the data to attract students to take to be a part of this grant right so we have anaheim cyprus and loera right and we want to attract more female students um so my question is do we have a set plan or are we still formulating the plan or what is our goal for the grant it's part of the grant's objective that we create ecosystems that are inclusive and diverse around computer science so it's the recognition that the way computer science is typically taught and the profiles of students that are recruited to go into computer science isn't always as inclusive now that computer now that technology and computer science and programming is embedded in almost every industry teaching computer science from multiple perspectives i'm creating that type of culture would attract more students so the grant is taking computer science adjacent courses like math and science targeting those teachers training them in computational thinking in math and science so students are being exposed to a more diverse way of thinking about computer science and then seeing by doing that are we attracting more typically underrepresented populations into computer science okay um so i'm assuming after we do this maybe six months or a year you could come back and let us know how what we have done in terms of attracting more students right so the grant's actually going to track the class of 2026 we're going to work with math and science teachers for the next three years and see at the end of three years did we get more students who signed up to take computer science so i i get that it's end of three years but i'm i'm kind of wondering if we could get that at least to the board i'm not going to be here but at least to the board in terms of figuring out maybe in a year is it working to so that way we could kind of modify what we're doing in order to attract more students right we can definitely embed into the professional learning with the math teachers surveys to see if after this unit are you more interested in this field or going a little bit further and then maybe we can work even with our counselors and say if you are then here are the pathways that you might be able to pursue at your own school site okay thank you all right make the uh presentation at city council mister yeah yeah i would i'll be there that's a joke everybody all right well uh thank you any if there's no other questions we'll take all in favor aye aye opposition motion carries unanimously 10.19 contracts independent speech and language assessment susan holler i action a motion and a second all in favor aye aye any opposed motion carries unanimously 10.20 a contract independent psycho educational assessment dr betty b bostani so moved i have a motion in a second any questions seeing none all in favor aye any opposed motion carries unanimously 10.21 contract independent occupational therapy assessment richard furbush refurbished inc so move second i have a moisture in a second all in favor all right any opposed motion carries anonymously 10.22 school-sponsored student organization action item and omkar you get to vote on this as well i have a motion in a second all in favor aye aye all right we got ours i wanted to make sure that you said i own car all right and uh any oppose none motion carries unanimously let's give a round of applause omkar's first vote [Applause] all right human resources 10.23 public hearing disclosure of collective bargaining agreement with afscme this information item 10.24 adoption of 20 21 22 uh collective bargaining agreement with if you could open the public hearing there's a public hearing yeah 10.23 it's uh open the public hearing for disclosure of collective bargaining agreement with afscme anybody want to say anything seeing none i close public hearing we'll go to 10.24 adoption of 2122 collective bargaining agreement this is with afscme this is an action item second we have a motion in a second any questions yeah no we got first second and third and fourth and a fifth all right all in favor aye aye any opposed motion carries unanimously all right 10.2 uh five initial contract proposal auhst to anaheim secondary teachers association this is a public hearing too right no the next one is the next one is okay excellent that's the information item and 10.26 public hearing initial contract proposal auhsd to anaheim secondary teachers association i open public hearing do we have any speakers seeing none i close public hearing we'll move to 10.27 initial contract proposal anaheim secondary teachers association to a uhsd and this is an information item now we move on to 10.28 public hearing i'm going to open the public hearing for the initial contract proposal anaheim secondary teachers association to auhst anyone here to speak seeing none i close public hearing move to 10.29 revise board policy 6201 6201-r equal opportunity employment first reading and this is also a informational item any comments seeing none i will move to 11 which is our consent calendar any items to be pulled 11.15 k 11.16 m which is i guess 1.16 yeah all right can i entertain a motion for the rest i have a motion for the balance and i have a second all in favor aye aye aye opposed motion carries unanimously i will take a motion for both of them together mistonio yes second i have a motion and a second for 11.15 k and 11.16 m i have a second and uh any questions seeing none all in favor abstentions all right and um any oppose seeing none it's a 4 zero one all right now we go to all right we'll go to our uh student superintendent and staff report no report [Applause] sornio i just want to thank um karen orrick and joe komona for closing the books you guys did an amazing job so i want to thank you and your staff for your great work thank you all right carl saldwar no report no report all right and i will start off with miss uh piercy okay i'm prepared this time usually i have to like oh i'm i'm first i don't want that okay it's been a busy month for me since the last board seeing that school opened and it's a busy time of the year for you know when school opens i attended a number of coffees with the principal which i found thoroughly enjoyable and informative i've decided that that's to me is really a good point of finding out what's going on at the schools i attended the coffee at dale junior high cyprus high school magnolia high school and kennedy and it you know you you really kind of find out more of the identity of the individual school at the beginning of the year and what that principle is kind of going over because they kind of go over the majority of a kind of an overview of what's going to happen and since we had uh some several well these were all new principles basically except for magnolia at the beginning of the year so it was a new thing for them and i really really thoroughly enjoyed it and i'm waiting for some more so i want to go to some other coffees then i went to the back to school nights okay and i was able to get to western and walker and lexington and oxford and orangeview and cypress despite the heat because it was miserably hot let me tell you some of these but you know and i have to congratulate all the schools for coming out in this this we've had an un seemly seemingly hot season this year and they've still come out and done their back to schools uh not very comfortable but they did it okay then i also sat in on a csba webinar in the afternoon that was fairly interesting uh sister city comm uh commission i went to their meeting and the sister city is working on some new city application forms because we have some uh cities that are interested in being a sister city with anaheim but they have to be vetted because there's got to be something common between us and so we have some old ones that we've kind of lost touch with we're trying to get back with and like victoria gastis in spain was one of ours and we have to kind of we lost connections with them and we need to get back but we've got some other cities that want to be sister cities and so we're looking at that and we are going to be having a fundraiser uh next month at well i can't remember the hotel but um and i'm hotel anaheim hotel yeah and uh open to everyone to come you know come and and uh have some refreshments and and uh we'll have a silent auction and you'll get to know a little bit more about the sister city and meet the people that are on that committee um hope school oh this was phenomenal i went to the hope school school distribution and pizza party uh natesh patel okay i keep getting his name wrong he's a father of one of our oxford students who happens to be a buddy with the hope school and he thought this was such a great thing he got together he raised a bunch of money and bought shoes for every single hope student and a backpack with school supplies and then gave them a big pizza party well it took two of the teachers and i didn't catch their names to write them down to remember but these two teachers spent the good part of the summer getting the information calling up the students homes finding out what size shoe they wore what maybe their favorite color was or whatever and then getting it all organized so that you know they went out and bought the shoes and unfortunately they didn't get any big deal from any of these you know companies which i thought was kind of sad but anyway they they did the best they could they had vans they had adidas they had all kinds of them and but it was phenomenal and then we had the the buddies group and then what was the other group the uh uh it was the um friends of the friends of hope friends it's the friends of hope it's another group i can't think of the name of it but we had two different groups the best buddies in another group it's for kids it was uh each one teach one each one teach one that was that's right and they came and they helped that and they they organized them all and then each of one of the kids would go find that student and give him his backpack and or her shoes and then if they needed help help them put them on if they wanted to put them on it was great and then they had they had a ton of pizza i don't think they ever ate at all probably had to send it home i had like 150 pizzas yeah it was but it was chess and you know and i just you know this gentleman did this and he just thought it was a great thing and he's done other things like this i understand but it was just phenomenal that he went to all this and got others to you know to chip in the money and and it was phenomenal then i went to the sycamore community school ribbon cutting and that was really a good deal too that was very well set up it was warm but they set up everything really well and tony thurman our school superintendent state superintendent of education was there with his assistant and that was all very i mean this is new i mean we're the first school district to put in a a full-size community school like that and have this you know 13 of them are going to be in our district so that was quite a big deal and i'm glad i made it okay and i enjoyed talking you know afterward we got to go to the library and tony was in there talking with us so we we got an opportunity to really you know exchange with him and and talk and that was really good and then the last thing i did was the oxford senior pancake breakfast uh the seniors at oxford showed up at like 4 30 in the morning to celebrate a senior morning well i'm part of the kiwanis in in cyprus and we do pancake breakfasts so i was there at 6 30 in the morning serving them pancakes and they've also put together fruit and i have to say this because they had you know the i guess the pta or maybe just the the seniors group they also added some fruit to go with the pancakes because the kiwanis will give them pancakes and and sausage and that's it but um and orange juice and coffee if they wanted but they had a big you know big tray of bananas strawberries blueberries and then they had a big bowl of chocolate chips and then three or four cans of whipped cream and so the only thing i have to tell them is next year don't let the boys go through first okay they would they'd take these you know pancake things and then they'd put all this fruit on it and before you know it they had this mound on top of the pancakes and then they put whipped cream on it and then this one i had to stop him he's taking it i said ah he said i'm not touching it no so i just think by the time the girls came through there was no fruit left you know so let the girls go through first and then the boys maybe you know but anyway it was cute and they had a really good time so that was fun that's all that was my last thing what's the guarantee that the girls would not do the same thing no when you look at no you know i'm looking at these guys that are taller than me okay that are coming through the line first and you know i'm sorry boys eat more than girls you know i know it's a proven fact i mean my grandsons will eat my granddaughters under the table i mean they just come on always eat more all right uh miss randall taylor all right wow that's that's fun i mean that's the only way to yeah to eat whipped cream is like that all right i have a very very short report um i've been down to one car and uh my daughter has a job in la so i wasn't able to get to a lot of the events but i really commend all the schools because they put on they just they kept going no matter what you know through rain or heat or snow they're they're there and um it's been pretty pretty hot so i commend all of you for attending um and everyone for putting it on and and um just i'm looking through the you know the facebooks and and all the postings and seeing all the smiles and the happy parents um because uh you know every everyone wants to celebrate um being open and and all the work that's that's going on so i'm i'm watching and and i just really want to commend all of the administrators teachers uh students for putting on the wonderful back to school nights um i was able to attend the sycamore ribbon cutting and as my colleague said that it was really special that we really had an audience with tony thurman and it wasn't so much for us it was more for uh the other uh school sites who are going to get the their community school so they were probing and asking a lot of questions and and a lot of it was you know how are we going to sustain the funding so really important questions that uh our legislators have to really go back and solve because you know this is just a great opportunity uh to serve our community and i'm just so proud that um we had the the you know the forethought and and uh we're working on it and grabbed those grants when they first came out so i commend the committee and i commend everyone for putting on that wonderful event and i see uh marissa bermudez one of the speakers in our audience and and just it was just really a celebratory event and it was perfect because that was the back to school night for sycamore too so a lot of fun that that evening i also attended a foundation meeting uh boy we haven't had one for a long time so it was nice to get together and talk about some strategy strat strategies to to continue that that committee and i had an opportunity to be invited to a community meeting held at ponderosa the community center there mariana who is the um the leader of the in accion invited really our school district to come their representatives from south and catella and also our director of transportation and a manager of transportation so we had our faces there we had principals there we had counselors there speaking to that group there and the folks were asking really wonderful questions but the highlight were the folks who help us out every day with our students at the bus at the buses and the ones that take care of our students before the bus comes in the morning and then in the in the afternoon and we had an opportunity to thank those folks that volunteer for us every day and they really had some great um great probing questions and um our team was you know right there to answer and the great statistic um that i was left with was um you know that that area um um you know about four or five years ago um was was really um kind of a harsher area um and that's why you know the parents came to to um to stay in the morning with our students but uh it was really interesting to hear today um a lot of um a lot of that behavior and um a lot of that um that myth uh or those actions that created that that reputation um is gone the area is nice and um there are there are there are no events to report um as of today and so it was really great to hear that our bus drivers are you know involved in part of what we do as a district to to really um create safe places for our students and so um it was a really great opportunity to attend that meeting and i commend um again you know everyone in our district for really doing their job to the best of their ability because you never know you know the contributions that you're making every day for our students so i'm so lucky to be you know hearing that firsthand from our parents you know really really giving their testimonials about how much they appreciate what we're doing as a district so thank you that's my report all right thank you miss smith okay well this heat wave um is not for me i've had heat stroke twice in my life and so i did not attend any of the events that you did because of my reality that i faced so i'd like to share some information today in the orange county register there's an article about anaheim city makes progress on stagnant projects and beech boulevard from ball to lincoln has been a filthy criminal mess for decades and it affects our families whose children go to our schools it affects the hospital down there and it affects our schools and i was so elated because it looks like maybe you're going to be on the city council i hope that this will become a reality for the future because it is not acceptable for this community and it's beyond tragic that it was ever allowed to occur but any who the the article i thought gave a lot of bits of information of how the city plans to go about this buying motels that are rented out to homeless people and criminals so i don't assume that everybody knows what everybody else knows is there anybody in the room that does not know that queen elizabeth passed away last thursday everybody knows that okay unless they want a rock hard sure they probably know who i mean everybody probably knows well i don't assume that because i spoke to someone the other day and they didn't know so and i thought this person it was interesting they did not know her death last thursday was historic she reigned for 70 years no other person in royalty has ever ruled that long and why am i bringing this up to you because anaheim union high school district has a connection with the queen a personal connection we have a student that graduated from lower high school decades and decades ago and she went to london and she rose to be the executive director of the west minister abby foundation and she's been there for decades so a number of years ago my husband and i when we were in london went to see her she's a former neighbor and i've known her family forever and she gave us a tour of westminster abbey does everybody know that the queen's funeral is going to be at westminster abbey because she's gone from scotland to ireland and to london and different places so that's going to be her final ceremony so valerie took us up a very old winding staircase made of wood hundreds of years old not very wide maybe this wide and we went up this case staircase to the triforium which is like the it would be the attic and we get up there and i look out and there's this area some with some items artifacts just placed kind of dusty i see some cobwebs and it was evident to me that this has not been used and valerie said to me see this stool this is the stool that queen victoria kneeled on when she was coronated and here it is up in the triforium it's just so incongruous and so we chatted and she pointed out some other items and we went back down and i said as a queen ever been up there i can't imagine at her age she'd even be able to walk that and she said the plan is that we're going to transform it into a museum and um put an elevator in so guess what valerie and the dean who is going to be performing the funeral for the queen's funeral took queen elizabeth up in the elevator to the triforium and it is now a museum and so it's life she is a wonderful representative of a human being that graduated from this school district and many times when we have people that friends of ours or family that are going to london i always ask her if she would kindly give them a tour and if ever you're in london i recommend that you go and ask for valerie and tell her who you are and who you where you come from and i think it'll just be an additive memory for your life to experience it so i share that with you it gives me great joy but she has known the queen for decades and i can tell you that when um they have big events they're like marriages and funerals i always say on television if you watch the bbc if you see the rear end as the people walk in and then the last pew valerie is always standing there so a little bit of anaheim high school is with us all in our hearts this next week during that funeral and gratitude and thanks to people that are good human beings that do a good job and i want to speak to the people that work in this school district that i have had the joy of knowing for the many years that i've been here the 14 years that i served on the rop board it has been a joy for me to know good people that's my report all right thank you kathy for that uh ms o'neil sure thank you mr jabbar i attended the the young congressional leaders program at magnolia high school and it was conducted by congressman luke rea he was there to promote a a nine saturday course for skills and professional development for students so he was recruiting from high schools in his congressional district and i was fortunate to be able to go and meet him at magnolia high school and then afterwards we we went out to the mag which he was very impressed with and they gave him a box of veggies from the from the patch and he was very pleased to get that i attended 14 back to school nights so far unfortunately i missed the three on well i guess it was tuesday night i wasn't able to attend but at one of them which was the dale junior high school back to school night they had at the vietnamese dual language table they had these brochures in english and vietnamese translated so i thought this was very very informative and i didn't i didn't ask them do you know did they do this or did the district from the office here and we have you can answer the question do we have these at all the schools that have dual languages great we should have brochures like this for every program that we have not just in language but all of our our pathways we should have informational pamphlets that we can hand out and give to people if we don't already have them i've been a proponent of this for some time so this is excellent done so thank you for that certainly i attended a principal's meeting which was uh held here in the la palmer room very educational enjoyed it walking around listening to the various tables and and how they were conducting themselves and then last i i attended the hopes uh school with the with the backpack and shoe handout and it was very well done the students were very interactive with the um with the oxford i assumed with the hope school students the oxford students were and they have done this before patel's have also been very giving i used to be with salvation army in downtown l.a and i've been there many times with him and helped him out along with other people in supporting the community but he decided to bring the community closer to home he says you know we have we have needs here so he has funneled from that area now to oxford or to oxford to hope school and oxford academy where his daughter's gone or is going has been supportive of that effort so he says he'll be back next year do that again and there's a it's not fully funded so it comes out of his pocket and i think we need to recognize uh him and the the group from oxford academy for all they have done for the district will continue to do his friends but also not just oxford the each one help one each one teach one each one teach one it's not just oxford no no no it's a 511 okay so and it's our our students from our our other high schools too because i know that uh you know there were a couple from cypress high school i know and then so i don't know what other high schools they were that's it all right well thank you mr o'neal and my report i forgot the little piece of paper that i jumped down the teacher's name i was at brooker's junior high school for back to school night and i went into one of the classrooms and he was a substitute teacher long-term substitute but he captured the attention of not only me because i was just like passing by and i heard him and i wanted to listen to him uh went into his classroom as an english teacher and the parents loved him i loved him and i i wrote down his name and i came back out and i spoke to the principal and i told him if you ever have an opportunity we got to hire him because uh he's the type of teacher that you need in a classroom or in a school and i know he engages our students really well as well at bruce brookes junior high english english yeah so i'll pass this name on to you just so that we know what type of a teacher he is and i also attended the western high school uh back to school night i attended a sin anthony's clare mariachi festival which many of our uhst students and families participated and of course the community or anaheim high school back to school night it was awesome to see a lot of our families attend that even though it was hot and a community school night um community school ribbon cutting carlos got to give it to you um great great event and your team congratulations for not only putting that together but i really admired your passion for uh not only the project but you passionately spoke and eloquently really gave us what community schools are so it was a talk of the town so thank you for your leadership on that um and i also want to thank araceli and her team there i think they went through a lot of logistics and put on a awesome awesome event uh we are all proud of it so thank you and please placid please place it on to the team over there as well i did attend the anaheim high school football game with rancho which we unfortunately lost but i know that they're all gearing up for their homecoming coming up i also attended a three-day cricket tournament in tustin um and i say this i wouldn't report this out but i'm reporting it out only because we had many of our auhsd students participate cricket is a up-and-coming game and i know many probably don't know what it is it's not the insect it's actually a game played with bats and balls and they they are i was very surprised uh there were i think seven teams and out of the seven almost closer to about five of them i think five or four from uh travel from northern california to southern california and we had a lot of auhd students participate and i was invited as a guest to give out the awards and fortunately a southern california team won but afterwards i was cornered by some of our uhst parents who said how come we're not introducing cricket at auhst and i said well it's going to be a long shot but it is something that we could discuss about because it's going to be an olympic uh uh sport and i think the next olympics so um estrogen when i was in high school we didn't play soccer that's true it takes a while exactly it takes a while right um can it takes a while a question about that are those the the people who were the kids from anaheim were they on a team or were they on various teams i think they were spread across at least two teams okay so they were like uh club games right he was a club team yeah so there were students from i believe kennedy uh there was a student from cyprus um and i think dale junior high hire cam yeah but there were parents are very highly involved they want to meet and they want to discuss about it and i think at one point we did i did bring that up long time ago but it didn't work out because of liability and insurance issues so we got to revisit that again so that we have our folks who are cricket enthusiasts to have something to do so that's great other than that i i unfortunately i couldn't attend a lot of the back to school night because i had a death in the family so i was the sole person who was taking care of the kids while my wife was out so um and then that that's about it and so my step-son-in-law played cricket last saturday titty there you go so there you go i already got it i got i got my second vote well not only that but you know things change over the years you know there was the sports that we play like he said he didn't play soccer in high school and i played field hockey you know and that is boy talk about some hurdles let me tell you but you know but that isn't played anymore either and there are other i can think of other ones that you know we we played you know but uh things change you know so we'll we'll start introducing those because there's some other places down south that play highlight yeah you know i know it's uci i think has quite a bit so well you never know i think if we get enough you know absolutely all right mr president uh john baptiste just quietly set these down i just want to give a shout out to him because we all asked for uh this site administration and pictures of all of our new administrators and old administrators um because there were so many and so he just quietly slipped this to us and this is awesome so thank you john we really appreciate you john is the type of guy who where's mine who works in silence but he gets it done you ask and you shall receive all right thank you thank you john for that all right we're going to go to advanced planning future meeting dates our next meeting of board of trustees give me one where's mine uh-oh he didn't get one hey you're being prejudiced there i want everybody to see that all right i'm sorry no no worries all right future meeting next meeting of board of trustees will be held thursday october 13th 2022 at 6 p.m um and suggested agenda items anybody have any agenda items for future no i just have a question though um in the emails we get every day about uh what's going on in the state and education there was something about misinformation for teens and i was wondering do in any of our classes in probably high school do they teach students about how to ferret out fake news so that when they get these emails or stuff on the on social media to be able to determine if it is real or if it is fake do we have any anything going on civic education um training there is uh they do address that um try and um having the teachers present the difference between fake news and real news and also looking at closely at citations when they do their research like on their uh soapbox beaches or something like that so yes there is uh that training going on and the soapbox speeches are done on the junior high level right now senior high too senior high too well i but i really think that we need to look at that being done on the junior high level as well it's both it's both because this is very important yeah and i think um to answer your question estonia with all of our speech classes and even if you're writing that's part of what they do is to kind of figure out how to do citations appropriately right and i know omkar is shaking his head i'm sure that they probably teach you on how to cite it not only appropriately but vet it right to make sure that it's not a document so in our english classes they teach us like mla citation and how to find like accurate sources from like acclaimed individuals and um i know in our currently in my gov class they're telling us all this information about like phishing and all these like fake news and how to like uh like sort through that information to find accurate information so especially in online classes i know for sure that they have that and they teach us mla citation apa citation to different ways to ensure that the news that we have is accurate and what level of class are you referring to is it an honors class an ap class or what they were ap classes so what about non-ap classes that when we get down to just just a regular student going through the education process and they're not in an honors class or they're not in an ap class are they receiving the same type of of education to be able to ferret out the the junk that's out there question to the administrators so and i think maybe mike could right give us a little bit of uh um on our friday update yes uh we'll get that for you all right anybody else no but i have something that i will in the future again bring up but again it has to be with climate change and what we are going to be doing as far as climate change because if anybody's reading the newspaper is talking about how things have gotten hotter and how we have to conserve and electricity and how much we're using and how we have to be flex alerts and everything looking for agenda item or i will but right now i'm just making a comment you know because i didn't get a chance to make it before we got to that but uh we're breaking records if you read the newspaper we have hit we have broken records from last year from five years ago from it's getting hotter and hotter and you know we as a district need to make changes as well we need to think about our calendar we need to think about the fact that we're starting in the hottest time of the year what's it going to be like next year okay even if we started after labor day like we used to we still would have got hit with a really big hot time but we have had a whole month of hot time before we even got to that we need to look at that and and think twice about when we're starting school where southern california we're becoming even a hotter desert than we have been and it's time to change things i think okay all right not going to stop that's miss piercy's soapbox just one of the news item and it sort of helps you out too and it was talking about today is the state boosts funding for school greening projects so we need to be right on top of that and seeing what's out there coming patties i know so i haven't just mentioned it it was in the news today so all right okay um since there's no other suggested agenda items i will entertain emotionally second i have a motion and a second all in favor

azusa high school is having a spirit week in advance of our first rally on september 16th we can't wait to see which class is the most spirit during the round azusa volleyball is entering league play this week with an away game against swardy on tuesday and a home game against spotstone on thursday volleyball is currently 4-5 in non-link and tournament action azusa football continued its winning ways against ferry high school on friday night with a 39-7 victory they have an away game at glendale high school this friday night all runners in azusa cross country improved their running times last saturday in the rose mead invitational yvonne and velasco meddled in the freshman race and sebastian kweller meddled in the sophomore rate mr fernandez would like to thank mary turner and the choir and orchestra who performed at sunday's field of glory ceremony he also would like to stay members of the interact club who helped organize logistics for the evening as well google parent tech workshops are continuing this month every tuesday and thursday in the college and career center we would like to thank blacco community schools fleti and karina for the collaboration and making this work thank you that is all thank you and then i it looks like we have carolina also online from bledsoe good evening everybody um to start off mr padoma would like to thank board members yolanda rodriguez pena and gabriella arianis for their support at glaston high school back to school night mr president would also like to thank superintendent assistant superintendent norma camacho assistant superintendent george von kell and director aaron turmer for their support at back to school night glassland high school would like to thank azusa rotary and the azusa chamber of commerce for inviting lieutenant clarence singleton to glaston high school on friday september 9th to share his amazing story as a first responder on 9 11.

so thanks to uh our trustee dr ferris he right away helped connect to community members leaders i really appreciate that i want to stay superintendent they go one of the first doors that opened your door you welcomed me in during my first month even before school started thank you it was a great first thing and i quickly learned about the strong partnership that has been in place with this school district interest college and uh proud to be that tradition as we explore how to best our families our students moving ahead so as you know dual enrollment is an incredible opportunity that allows high school students to access college classes enroll in college classes during their high school experience in doing so this can be in fall spring even the summer is a possibility they can earn both college and high school credit during the last academic year the 2022 academic year there were a total of 28 dual enrollment course decks offered a zuzia unified scholarship alone very proud of thank you for that partner across the district that was a total of 676 enrollments in these courses to think of it another way sometimes we'll think of college credit free and of course as work complete class towards free so that 28 number the dual enrollment course offered to this unified high school student translated to about 2 000 college credit for this year the 2022-23 academic year number of cool enrollment class sex this was unified is projected to increase 28 to 31 fire you know these times we're still grateful for that offer work closely with the district to expand this top student of your district we're thrilled to have so many students taking advantage of this opportunity i'd also like to share a few data points about the students who obtained an education as this unified school district subsequent high school continued to take class citrus college so as of early this fall 152 students are first of all current high school students is unified in addition 196 are as the unified alumni who graduated this past day they're enrolled 196.

resolution to opt out of the paid family family medical leave insurance act program may i have a motion to approve resolution 2213 to opt out of the paid family family medical leave insurance act program i'll move to approve um can i have a second that's a tough one second are there comments or questions yeah well yes i think that um you know just the way it reads um opting out of paid family medical leave insurance act program sounds wrong to me because we have so many families um so many people that work for us that that use it but then when you read it um and you i guess i'm just concerned of how it reads because people can still take they can still use fmla right so i guess i'm just concerned as to or questioning why is it that um we have to have a resolution to opt out of it if people are still going to be using it yes i can use that because it's by law they we offer it right yes uh madam president members of the board i'm i'm going to ask dr mckenna to come here he's our chief for human resources so that he can explain a little bit better and then i can add if he missed anything thank you dr mckenna thank you thank you madam president uh members of the board madam superintendent those of you that are at home watching i do agree the wording leaves a little bit to be questioned however the district already has all of these insurances and anybody that wants to still opt in to family still has the option if we as a district don't opt out then everybody is automatically opted in you have no choice every single person in the district whether they have insurance coverage or not has to if we don't opt out has to pay for this supplemental coverage that they can opt in if they want it it costs no more whether we opt in or opt out for those people that want coverage we just don't want coverage mandated for people that don't want it and we did a survey and the vast majority of our staff this wasn't a decision made by myself or our superintendent we did a survey gave access to every employee the vast majority does want to opt out every school district in colorado up to this point i've been told has opted out instead of mandating that their employees opted in so this will not affect any employee that wants to opt in this won't cost them any more money uh this will only result in people that don't want to have this insurance be mandated to take it and if i may add uh this does not impact family medical leave this is not the the uh the fmla now so f malayah there are no changes to it this is an additional coverage but if it's mandated you know the employee will have to make a contribution a mandated contribution so this is ensuring like dr mccanna said that all employees have the option to choose whether they want to be covered by it or not so it's an additional insurance that would be mandated if we don't opt out and people would be deducted the same amount every month regardless of whether they want it or not everybody that is correct yeah and that's why every school district is opting out now the the benefit we as school districts have is we already have insurance plans we already have all of the things that they're offering but a lot of businesses don't and so this more or less was directed from my assumption and from my interpretation for those organizations and industries that don't have all of the insurance options that we have here yeah madam president just further yes thank you um thank you madam president members of the board madam secretary this was uh state law that changed it has nothing to do with federal law oh okay and i i watched the um commerce city city council meeting and they too opted out i think it was a government any government entity had to either opt out or be stuck with it for three years i mean it was written kind of weird so yes ma'am so i i do understand but it's not in our best interest to stay in this when we have the opportunity to opt out and allow that choice to employees yeah that makes sense thank you and thank you for um pulling our staff to make sure this is yes absolutely yes thank you dr mccann any further questions or discussion okay no thank you that helped and i think that helped clarify for the community as well because it does read like um yeah something different it's very weird yeah all right uh ramona roll call please mr amador hi ms agenda item number eight communication um board of education new business requests do we have any new business requests this evening no okay next is 8.2 board member communications does anyone have any communications do we want to wait to do this until we get a new board number um you mean 8.3 oh yeah yeah 8.3 okay sorry it's like sure thank you it's been a long weekend it's only tuesday okay um well this evening if it's okay i'd like to review we did approve a number of items on the consent agenda that i'd like to highlight um first is kemp elementary we purchased play works which supports social emotional growth for students teachers in school administration receive training to help students stay active and to provide students tools to deal positively with disagreements and managing conflicts this district or the district is exploring offering structured recess for all elementary schools in the future additionally as a district we are committed to the continuous improvement of the academic programs we offer including the training that complements these programs we approved academic supports for our students including to continue the work through the cde early literacy grant with the purchase of services and trainings with growing educational practices for early literacy instruction support to our elementary schools the purchase of services with mapleton school district to provide synchronous online instruction for up to 50 students in grades 6 through 12 from mapleton's highly qualified teaching staff for the 2022-23 school year we sincerely appreciate this collaboration with our friends in mapleton the purchase of constructive constructing meaning training to provide assistance to the linguistically gifted students we serve constructing meaning is a research-based training for staff at all grade levels to support academic language and english proficiency while we continue to make progress adams 14 like most districts across the state of colorado still have unfilled positions this evening we approved a number of supports for our students including an increase to the blueprint new school network contract to support the math tutoring throughout the district increases for sun belt staffing salient health and therapy traveler contracts to help us in our efforts efforts to provide for staffing in our critical needs areas we approved a contract with miss maggie host striker hokestra sorry to fill the vacant educational technology coordinator position she's a former employee and will continue supporting us until we can hire for this position so we thank her for her continued support one last go around any other comments or questions for board comments okay next on the agenda we had 8.3 the review of adams 14 board of education member assignments for the 22-23 school year um while i know this was proposed in the agenda i would propose that we postpone this discussion until we do have our new board member um is that agreeable with everyone yes we'll be cable that for now i think the one question i did have um since we put it off for a couple of months is the urban renewal development so from i i wonder if you guys are okay with me attending that for now until i just want to make sure we have representation um and then once we get our new board member we can leave okay because they have a meeting coming up thank you all right this concludes our agenda for this evening our next board meeting is a study session on tuesday september 27th follow immediately following tonight's meeting we do have a community forum for the board vacancy we'll take a short recess and then begin the forum may i have a motion to adjourn a motion second thank you ramona roll call please mr amador aye ms estrada aye ms lovato aye ms zubia aye thank you everyone we're adjourned and we'll get set up for our community forum um we're scheduled to start at 7 15.