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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.

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

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.

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 business I see nothing listed tabled matters Personnel considerations um resignations HVAC instructor effective 9 6 of 22.

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.

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

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.

The Firm provides architectural development General Contracting and green roof and solar system installation services Tim's an art a licensed architect in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in addition he has been an Adjunct professor at four different universities and like all of us here tonight he has been active in his community for example by serving on a zoning committee uh serving on the Philadelphia sustainability Advisory Board and as founder and president of f-aarm or Farm a non-profit organization dedicated to the exhibit exhibition of art and architecture in Philadelphia finally Tim is certified lead accredited professional and a passive house certified consultant and Tradesman Tim knows all aspects of the real estate business from first-hand experience we are lucky to have him join us this evening before turning things over to Tim I have one request or ground rule um Tim's presentation is going to be rapid fire and so we are planning on having q a at the end so please note your questions and a slide number if relevant and then we'll take those at the end Tim take it away John I don't know if I'm going to live up to that intro but uh thanks for having me let me share my screen um what a great group of people um I actually didn't know that I was going to be after all that and so I learned a lot about you guys and um uh and it's great to to see where what perspective you're all coming from um as John mentioned I'm an architect and a developer and a builder and we started we just had our 25th anniversary this summer of our company um in 1997 really just to be able to control the process the design process I'm an architect first and so I really just wanted to be able to design and build the kinds of projects that we wanted to design a build and in the process along the way we developed some companies uh to support that develop the development of those projects a green roof and solar company called grass So currently we're not doing a lot of development but we are ramping up our Architecture Firm and we're starting to work across the country as well as our green roof and Solar Company and I think the thing that um pretty much has driven us for the past 15 years at least has been knowing that that buildings are responsible for almost half of all greenhouse gas emissions and you know as an architect knowing that um I I can't ignore it and then if you connect that with the fact that Urban environments with transportation and Industry and everything else um are responsible for three quarters of all greenhouse gas emissions so if we think we have a chance in hell of solving this climate crisis um we've got to do it with buildings and cities there's no possible way to do it and if we don't so for me it's what I refer to as the new Gravity of our time in the sense that just like gravity um is literally foundational we you we can't go halfway with gravity um it's fundamental to who we are um this is now two uh and you know we can we can address it this way as we have been for the past couple of decades I love this this art piece in Germany called politicians discussing global warming um or we can handle it like we started to in 2015 at the at the cop 21 conference first time in human history that almost every country on this planet agreed that uh and that carbon and climate change is the greatest existential threat to humanity and so we've got to do something about it and essentially what came out of that for for Architects and developers is that carbon neutral Net Zero Energy buildings need to be standard practice by 2050.

it was 29 and then i got the update and it said zero mistake so i actually called the guy and it was based on conversation yeah injection going out to 2030 and 2032 was about a hundred and ten hundred twenty more additional so that would just be you know that's not that's not thirty yet [Music] the accuracy goes way down does anyone have any questions or comments for jeff regarding his goals the only thing i would add is just i go one deadline right yeah we don't get that until that'll be within the next couple months that will be before your first pass on the budget yeah that's what i'm saying the first class is december mid-december um i'll have it before that because it needs to be put in the budget if you're gonna if you're gonna vote on uh reconfiguring the senate uh from office then that position has to be put into yeah something in there don't miss it i mean i have something to say don't miss it no no i i do have i i do know that some of these things are very time sensitive so i'll make sure you you have what you can wait ahead of having to make a decision [Music] and most of them i would think it needs to be done by this talent during here the enrollment stuff yeah the role and stuff that was the you know the hiring should stop should have somebody hired mid to late april you know that's when you get people off the first route and we have a long time so there's no excuse [Music] um [Music] well we had a principal retire so it would be a good time to sort of restructure the entire piece i mean really we could have we could have just put another we could set another assistant principal but if the decision was made it would have been the two principles and i think it was difficult for a principal who has a year a year and a half to go to decide okay you know it'd be very difficult that we could figure an entire role for the principal at that time if we didn't have coping you know we maybe would have backed it up another year so yeah i mean that's that's had an effect on a lot of a lot of what what we're doing you know push things it's a good time we have a lot of movement we have a lot of people in interim it's a good time but they're committing to look at it and have the least destructive impact on schools and while we're doing a lot of moving things around let's decide what we're going to do yeah maybe not i wasn't totally surprised i was starting let's say i'm more surprised that i'm leaving at the end of the day thank you um we are gonna move on so we're now on item six we jumped around a little bit um the chairs reported i'm going to discuss our goals this is our update the policy subcommittee is going to finalize the goals related to the areas deserving of attention which would be budget support uh budget and support hiring of a superintendent and we're also going to review the school committee structure um and this is something that we're going to try to do within the next month or so um it was also suggested that we review the mass massachusetts school committee law possibly generate our own bylaws or operating guidelines for the school committee since we don't have any that would define our purview which we really kind of need via a guiding document this will be a topic that the policy committee will look at and probably a little bit more in the winter when things are a little bit slower and really dig into it and then just lastly as a reminder at our last school committee meeting because we weren't taped responded but you know that we created subcommittees new subcommittees for the 2022-23 year so we have the personnel and superintendent evaluation as well as negotiation and that is um mrs julie lee myself and this name grill the student success and technology subcommittee that would be mr totman mr holmes and mr wilbur policy and school committee effectiveness of effectiveness that's mr totten mr holmes and myself and then the budget facilities and safety subcommittee that's mr wilbur mrs lee and mrs corelli i think the first one [Music] that's is we you're correct we changed that um so mr chapman is on the um good catch that's my fault that's okay no and i should have caught it because i remember we did change that but it it looked good to me um and then just as a side note everybody except for the talk group on because there's no nothing to them to work on right now um met in groups last week it got started right away so we're digging right in so our superintendent of school search mr wilbur took the time to comb through the community feedback and he's going to summarize it for us he did a fantastic job they were wonderful comments very insightful thank you to anyone who filled that out for us it was truly helpful and you had a lot of great ideas so mr wilbur and carol about this as i handed her a copy and said you've been asking me all these questions 400 questions and i've talked to a couple of people i think it's incredibly um nice to see that the community responded in this way to this request and we created them as open-ended questions to respond to um we got 112 responses a strong number of them from um in particular and a number of teachers and staff who also participated um many of those anonymously you know people do chair who they were and you know um were willing to do that the three questions we asked were what do you think of the top three district priorities for the next supreme court you address what qualities or experiences are important to seek in the next superintendent and what questions would members of the community most like a candidate to answer so the document from you here summarizes number one number four which i thought were more relevant to tonight's interview number two which is what are we looking for in that superintendent what college we're looking for probably is more relevant to financial discussion of whether to appoint somebody tonight we're not as you go through this the second page summarizes some of the results across the first question that first question was about top priorities now put parentheses about how many times a certain topic was mentioned by somebody so you'll see that the two most common areas that people mentioned were recruiting retaining and developing exceptional people for the district and academics and student success those were far above far away the most common areas that people wanted to have us think about when it comes to the next superintendent a third one close third was around communication culture and community engagement so there's some examples there i mean you all have full access to all these results but i quoted some kind of representative examples of what people did have to say in those areas and then four and five also with over 20 um mode responses there you've got a budget answer to resources as well as health and wellness and then you'll see at the bottom some other areas that came up uh safety equity and inclusion bulletin harassment and technology so we've got a sense as to what people are most concerned with or interested in seeing as we move forward and then the other six pages are all the questions people suggest five pages people suggested we ask and so those questions are bucketed into some different areas school climbing culture aligned with what we saw as areas of focus communication and community engagement student outcomes a lot of questions about leadership style management style and goals and plans for the district budget facilities safety health and wellness equity diversity and inclusion inclusivity and also questions about the canada's past experience and there's some like other questions we certainly haven't a round of questions tonight um so i think that will help us a little bit but at the same time we're in no way you know just ask these questions so i hope it's helpful for everyone tonight i think we really owe a dead gratitude community people really did put thought into this you know i would say all the feedback we've collected via surveys from parents in the community over the last my last year in the school committee i found this to be really helpful and i think the open-ended picture of it was probably part of why they had to actually type words that made sense so here we go today i want to start by asking your own questions [Music] oh yeah you know that i'm a passionate educator and i've been in this district this is my 15th year i care very deeply i want the school committee to know that and also the families at home and the teachers about the children in this district into making this the best possible educational experience for those children for their families and for the community and for the staff so i feel like i've worked very hard on those pieces i think i could watch children go from kindergarten to girl to memorial school and watch them before graduation day so i have that kind of background and i feel part of this community more so than the town i live in this is the community and the town i've been with i've spent a lot of years building relationships with staff members in all three buildings with the parents of the children i know many of you and many of the community members that i've worked with on various committees um certainly the police department and fire departments farming community folks businesses probably anybody who's in this [Music] but i i take very seriously this position and take very seriously who i am as an educator three more children to our family um and i have ten grandchildren so if these children work in my school in my district i would want them to have a very nice education hospital because i'm watching my children trying to find places to live with their families that are affordable in green school systems i feel because i know that you know that's like if we're trying to pick a place where they can raise their children to have good education and a number of them are educators themselves so i understand that piece of parents and what they care about staff relationships definitely have built those through the years i feel that the staff will talk to me about many questions that they have we work together on committees and we want to work together to support their growth as educators and so i know all of them custodians cafeteria workers they're part of my daily life in the buildings and i spend time with them and so i think i know them and they know me probably even tonight as i'm here in a very different way a personal and a professional way to try to make those emotions i want to talk to you about experience and expertise in the field so in addition to this role an assistant superintendent backing up always a teacher first i have been a teacher for a number of years in various grade levels i taught first sixth grade fourth grade so i spent time doing that work i was a curriculum specialist i moved into assistant principal position and another district then i came over here as a principal in the memorial school and i'm the curriculum director and now assistant superintendent i i serve on a number of massachusetts association of school superintendent committees i've been involved in a number of seminars and leadership [Music] mentoring with people coming into a position similar to mine so back in my second year along with that work i'm also part of a think tank across the state for gs 21 this is a group of superintendents and assistant supreme to discuss our place as educators and educational institutions forward so that we're thinking not only of what's going on in will move massachusetts their world and also looking at what's happening in other countries and how they may be doing things better several years ago i choose to travel between them in germany to look at their educational systems of other educators and we learned a great big deal about how educators successfully trained and how how they educate children that we can learn from so that's part of some of the other work i do and i also i'm a teacher of the teachers i work with for educational services i work with new teachers coming in about curriculum and assessment and i also teach aspiring teacher principal administrative leaders in the workforce [Music] culture in the school so that's my that's my background as far as education um more than anything i feel that i of these know towns i came here i used to tell the story i came here because i survived the bicycle around berlin and i thought something's wrong here there's something i love about this small town i grew up in a small home and i understand the importance of relationships in a small town how that's going to happen first without anything else can take place i've seen that over and over again with staff and building those relationships and i feel like children working relationships with them and building relationships with their families as well so i'm here tonight giving it my best to say about me i have a question first of all thanks for uh taking the time to be here with us and opening yourself up to questions and letting us get to know you a little better and as well as the community who's watching um a number of folks from from the community that responded to surveys and others have asked questions about your vision for the school district and so i thought i'd summarize those questions with with uh with my own [Music] if in fact you find yourself in a position of superintendent um could you share with us how you would prioritize items to start doing within the district stop doing within the district as well as continue so i thought about that question you know what i'm thinking of um i would i would probably start with stuck paying attention to the negativity i think we have to move beyond that i think we have to address the of that negativity to try to understand why why that exists but i also think if we spend the time focusing on that we are going to move forward we have to be able to take steps forward we have to find our people to help us to join with us to visit you take the last time to say let's let's get started with this work the second part of that question is uh first up and continue okay so i i want to get out usually my work is behind the scenes and it has been that way but i want to start getting out more and be very visible in community by being able to attend various functions events sports programs things that are going on happening with our students pto meetings that i have been at in the past certainly in cpac but really getting a sense more so in those areas as well as outside in the community because those folks are important to us i think it's important to tap into some of the corporations we have in these towns and introduce oneself there we can we can potentially get funding from you as individuals or these materials if we get out there and we introduce ourselves to these people um i'm starting to do that work already um and i think that we're also just introducing ourselves to the seniors that area the council on aging and other folks who may not have a chance to get to know me and what our school district is if they don't know us we don't understand who we are and what we're about what our priorities are when and i think as we've been talking about these past several weeks and years we you need to have um continue doing i i want to continue building relationships i want to continue building relationships with our staff we want to continue with our fire department you know a wonderful crisis uh partnership that i had initiated several years ago by inviting the police and fire departments within two towns and with us we have not had that experience before we have leaps and bounds with the work we're doing right now in fact we're meeting on thursday to continue to kind of tighten the information around emergency and that has taken time to do because we have to go to trust among ourselves and know that we're going to count on one another when there are crisis and other times [Music] so i want to continue building those relationships exploring opportunities like that internship program at the high school exploring possibilities and i think just getting to know how to do better and to approach all of this to a different lens as the leader now thank you very much any question i have several but i'm going to do one of these questions okay i'm very excited um the parent community is that communication just drops off despite the newsletter just feels like the school doesn't want that parent support the economy elementary schools and you know um so my question would be how would you what sort of ideas would you have to create that relationship with the community so the parent community feels that the school wants to hear what they have to say or wants who wants to involve i think there's two parts to that i think first has to do with leadership and who we selected the leaders in those buildings because the principles drive the culture in each of the buildings it drives the culture of our whole district it's my responsibility another job and he knows it because we have these deep conversations at times and difficult conversations the superintendent drives the principles from what the expectations are in each of those numbers we feel that that's a priority they need to know that we need to show evidence that that is that is going to be the priority in that school but i think he's also choosing those good leaders too when we have opportunities to look for individuals who will promote that and who will start to build that trust and and ask of those teachers specific things like reaching out whether it's newsletters and we've done a lot of work in our negotiations around parent conferences we've been trying to break through and allow new avenues to do that so i think it's around that leadership piece the second piece and i think that part of that is on a district level as well as the communication piece that we're speaking of not just at the middle high school level but all of the levels there was a quote one time that struck me and as a presentation that said if we don't tell our story someone else is going to talk to us and that has always resonated with me because i think that's really true what a lot of what we do on social media is the negativity because we're not out there promoting ourselves this district is doing such wonderful things we have staff that are doing we just saw at least the sequoia came a couple weeks ago right at the moment worksheets in biology how often do you hear about that years ago mr hefner was a growing principal and things were very different in that world i used to bring in the groups of students and do a little presentation every single time i had a growing school community meeting we may want to do something at least like that for a number of my meetings because do you want to see the children the students are what they're doing i think [Music] we have social media to our advantage through twitter through facebook the two just starting now that we can promote we have newsletters we have a lot of we can be doing i think showing up at the table to these different events and honoring the work the teachers are doing these students when they have opportunities like exhibitions in the high school i've gone to i used to not get invited to the exhibitions i think that people think i survive why i wasn't invited i started going there's no peaceful exhibitions and if you have not had a chance to go these are the seniors john within they take my breath away these students read a variety of books they select the material they're going to read and they take interpretations on their specific themes and they present that to the audience they act it out they discuss it they take questions from the audience isn't this like college-level material going on there and it blows me away every single time but i look around the audience it wouldn't be wonderful until about the father and some of our seniors from the senior center to come parents to come in and see what's going on so i think we have to work on promoting ourselves as well otherwise we're radio silence and then allow the negativity in the toxicity district um carol you've already answered all the questions that i have written down um i never thought i would ask this question but do we have any diversity yeah i would say we do okay and and it's so subtle that we our first reaction and we went through this in an administrative team we don't have a problem with equity because we think of connect equity right away to um racial equity we absolutely have a population here of students who are elves or english language leaders there is another country but it's not so visible and what ends up happening with those students there's a term for i want to say whitism they blend into their culture and they actually use their own culture because they try to become a patient you know they try to to to fit in with it you don't see it it's very subtle so we're trying to raise awareness of that piece of the equity position we also have to look at the social economic social social economic level of our students and the opportunities that we have here to support those students the equity initiative started several years ago based on the fact that students can afford field trips there were some that those that could and those that couldn't and students who had came from families of money were able to build a very beautiful and exotic places to travel in their educational experiences they were even able to find other types of field trips that were in within the country because they had them funding to do it the equity plan was designed originally to be thinking about how we're going to fund those opportunities for those children as well because that's that's indifferent to allow that opportunities and courses there are students and we may get into special education a little later but i would say we don't know our children and if a student who has an iep wants to take an ap course or a course of rigor even if it's an honors course and they want to work at it oh god did that give you an opportunity to do that you owe it to us to step up and give them a chance to at least take those courses even if you don't go through the test at the end of the week [Music] near and dear to my heart how that percentage has grown tremendously in the past couple of years here because i think we had this conversation during our masking conversation so yeah i think i agree with you but setting all that aside what is the one thing we can focus on right now as a district as a committee what would you tell us as a committee the one thing you would want to do to make this district improve stand out jump ahead leaps and bounds go where it is now compared to i think the other day we're talking about surrounding towns that some people may consider more desirable districts one thing that we're not doing now so we're in a period right now of transition but jeff spoke about that the principal spoke about that in the report changes in administration changing inner leadership and staffing but i also think the bigger picture this is period of transformation we're at a crossroads right now when we can go forward but we have to do that together we're dealing with quality of opinion and anybody who denies that has got blinders on we hear it across the nation we carry it across the commonwealth and we feel that in our district so the truth so that this period of time is an opportunity for us to remove again one of the things i've been talking about with the administrators and i would want to move forward with all of us is is an initiative called the portrait of a graduate many high level districts are including units in this program the program enables us to come together collectively as a community not only just all of us we would be involved certainly all school committee members parents community members to sit down and say it's an initiative a creation of a whole part of distributors because i think we do pockets of greatness but i think we need to have a pathway that says this is what we want our children to be running out of to haunt them this is what the skills the competencies we want them to be able to have and that we all have consensus around that because julian may have a great idea and mike mike and john lyden but it's great but we're fragmented with that we need to bring us together again and have those kind of discussions and it's and it's a systemic approach to doing this work i've been looking at a consulting group that does this work in a very great way who's going to be meeting with the administrative team just to give give them an idea of what this is about to explore some of the options to talk about where we think we are right now to look forward you got to know where you now student behavior social emotional learning i know you yourself took on a lunch duty at boyle's elementary the last couple weeks covering for the fact that we're into staff there um on that topic especially at the elementary school level we have students who either missed out on from preschool experience altogether or had preschool kindergarten first but experiences that were not what they were typically in the past what can we be doing and what would you want to see the district do to help young students who are struggling behaviorally with social emotional types of things here starting now i think that i was glad that john had spoke about [Music] and expectations whether it's in the elementary schools when teachers are on the same page with the principal there the children know what the expectations are when they have expectations they're still safe they feel such a structure as a good thing because it does make them know i'm going to be okay and i know i know you need to do people and you don't have it to become scales and that's what those children miss who started who didn't get preschool we had them in some of the acceleration academy and we had 40 something preschool students coming into that acceleration academy that year just to do the social emotional [Music] setting the expectations reinforcing those expectations is one [Music] actual curriculum for the elementary schools and fun that the teacher is implementing each are there in each of their classrooms there is a set of rules of expectations for the classroom they meet in morning meetings class meetings where they discuss issues and topics and how they handle that with i think we're also putting resource resources in place right now beyond the justin council and fullest in elementary school that's been huge our school psychologists and we do a lot of work with our children in the middle high school we're adding school adjustment counselors we structured the counseling department so that we have somebody now dedicated specifically [Music] that kindness peace kindness for everybody and i think that's going to take us a long way to get an honest and future back i also think there's a piece of this that says to me as a parent we love the expectations of our children and if you don't think that they're watching or behaving and listening to a lot of words had to tell you as a mom who's had that i'm still reminded now 30 years later of things i said when they were eight years old remember what you said [Music] and let them know we care about them at the high school students who are coming in and transitioning from mental health [Music] so that when they feel ready as they feel ready to go back into different classes they'll help they'll transition back so that they are not safe okay um so i feel like one of the things that many people asked but also many people have been talking about is uh staff right teachers you know um support staff so what what do you think are the two one or two most important things to number one hire great staff and number two retain those staff i was listening to john talk about the teachers in berlin and how some of them have been there for years doing the same job and they're not going anywhere and then we look at bes and we've had a ton of turnover um so what do you think are the one or two most important things that you as the superintendent need to do to get good people that will stay i think providing them with adventures we have a mentorship program here i think that the people that we selectable mentors are committed to to growing free educators we spend a lot of time [Music] and then they understand what our culture is and what our expectations are i think that mentoring those features is really important um i also think that we've perhaps taken these undervalued [Music] and unfortunately to evaluate and to watch for folks who should not for whatever reason should not be teaching and they do a good job with that but i think that we have to promote excellence in those teachers who have been here for a while and build their opportunities to become leaders whether they're leaders in their departments or leaders in sports or coming forward in art and music and being able to really flourish i get a lot of correspondence with them because they're looking for other data and information for their courses and i think it's it's our job my job to make sure that they can get what they need [Music] so actually you just brought up a great point because i know my son's first grade teacher was going for her master's and we didn't know the whole year but over the summer she was doing like a research project and she reached out to the parents and i was just like wow you're doing all that and trying to get a master's i think maybe it would be you know just a thought i don't know informative for the school committee maybe we could you know have an update or you know not like a spotlight you know not to like try to make people feel bad it's like like you said focusing on the positive you know maybe like once every couple months or once a year look at these teachers that are doing you know this one's going for the doctor this one's going for the master's kind of making the school committee aware you know so at least we know the names and i don't think and i actually worked with them but they completed their um oh my gosh what they call them now that it's qualified they have to complete certain levels of competency in order to go better administrative license now and i would work with them around that so i'm very proud of them that they got these positions i would never hold them back i always want to encourage them to go some folks were just looking for other opportunities somebody was a bigger district or a more challenging district or is moving away you know is getting married or doesn't want to teach anyone but this happens to be the perfect storm of things to happen so if you don't think left me with all my questions go on um but i did want to comment you know during negotiations we had the opportunity to see how you've interacted with the teachers um and you know when you walk into a building or a house you walk in you can feel a feeling there you can feel happiness you can feel heaviness um how are you going to how do you see yourself working with the teachers to try to build up you know hope they took they beat them down they're exhausted you know the morale is you know across not just our district everywhere it's low um i know that you have a wonderful relationship with a very deceptive relationship where they listen to you and listen to them i'm just curious if you have any visions for what you might do to help build them up um and strengthen them like even the cultures and the schools just to bring more happiness and joy yeah we had um jerry cobin in particular because i was working for the association i was taking a lot of information about what the teachers were asking for and so we tried to provide them with opportunities for some social emotional support for madness teachers they know that the principles were very working very hard to give them embrace and time to improve and empower from from challenges of teaching online and then working in these highway models so giving them some flex time that they might never pack um certainly within them and professional development because we brought in mass partnerships and that is an organization that deals with workshops for teachers on anything from trauma both their own trauma wellness opportunities for them to be able to learn from and also to recognize that for those students in the classroom but honestly i think the the strongest way to do that is the personal one-to-one relationships that i've built with those teachers i do a lot with a professional piece but i also want to follow up with them in a personal way i know what's going on in their lives they talk to me about some of the things that are happening and i think reaching them in that way is the best communication getting back to them too on things that they want to do or things that they're asking before it's respectful and it shows that i don't just say i'm going to do something and make sure i do it but i think we [Music] and we do talk about how will you how's this going how's that going what are you doing what are those teachers thank you i appreciate it they're the backbones of the school um and it's just i think one of the one of yours you have so many strong there's so many strong points and strengths it's about you but you just have that nice relationship with them and i think right now where we are in the world it's really important that whoever comes in and takes over is able to work with that and create these relationships and what i like about the idea of your coming in that you is a nice workflow with them there's mutual respect and understanding and just hearing all of the things that you were doing to support that within the rest of the leadership team is just wonderful and you'll see two things about the earlier i look at that as a mess so it's the team and i don't take the credit for that a part of that work that we're doing when we do that together so and i think i think you have other ideas that the teachers are not they don't always love me now you know i recognize that it's not like where we're just a big love fest here and everybody says yeah they get mad at me you know i make them do things right now go through this all the time but in the end i do think you come to an understanding of why these things are important to you and just like working with families just like working with the kids the teachers have to understand why we're asking them to learn what they need to learn to be able to teach why are we learning about foundations why are we doing these videos programming programs and teaching them about these skills why are we asking people about new math concepts and skills we have joey thornhill spoke about that last year we're changing the way we teach mathematics teachers [Music] and making those okay um extracurricular activities and drama and all my kids play sports and i am pro sports very impressive i think you do a really great job for supporting the athletes here but i'm not so sure that we mail it on [Music] people are very invested families are very invested in schools but we're not addressing students who are in the arts or interested in the arts and or any other topics because we don't have we don't have that extra school extracurricular activities after school we run clubs during the day they happen a lot of times during lunch times in part to afford those students who are sports sports players to be able to go to those meetings and then start their school's practice right after school i'd love to work with with our athletic developers coaches and principals to make some adjustments in those times so that students who want to stay after club activities or art or the music program or get into a jazz program whatever they want to do some kind of club organization moderate when after school they can do that because they can't they don't have to pick and choose they can't do that at school because i'm in school i don't want to get rid of the sports program but i want to expand that because of all of them not all kids play sports and i don't want to take that away from the sports program i'd like to build some other sports i'd love to have lacrosse here at the school and there's sports that i'd like to bring in but i think we have to open up after school activities i've been talking with teachers over asking numbers for new procedures can you please have an after-school help help center and the students can go for additional support if you don't have any after-school buses how is that equitable if you can't go home your mother your father can't pick you up after school so you don't stay after school this goes back to i think your question about the social emotional easier you don't have to feel part of the morning sometimes he was reading up a book gentleman's book because he gave it to me it was the second day of the books right where they talked about everybody wants to feel part of the tribal community the disconnect the depression the anxiety starts when we don't feel it before long that was part of the having more corporate right we all became disconnected from each other have students here who need a connection with somebody or somebody other friends who have a like mind right to be able to get into love and compassion about music or art for teachers who have that and they want that opportunity to teach and do that work after school or expand that opportunity i think that that would be that's one of the very complete questions so why don't we do some of this stuff now is it money is it that i know you just mentioned the buses so obviously is it or it's like sports so it's all because of sports or is it just because we don't have staff i think it's a culture that's been created all the time i think it's been trying to trying to find ways to have clubs but looking for coaches who will be willing to be here and i think that it's it's just that the collection we now have should be having the two two days of that after school last tuesdays and thursdays i haven't had a chance to find out who sounds like that started yet but then the buses the buses show up and the kids aren't there because there's nothing going on but otherwise they show up yeah what about lessons for kids who are in sports after school buses where kids were in sports and i'm staying late [Music] yeah it was a late month after school bus so we do not have one we don't [Music] have this to be just student government you know you and we're never going to be able to offer the wide variety of courses or opportunities that street very high school offers for example and i mentioned that because one of the items that i organized is the program bus justice in toronto and i commented during the student success meeting about the fact that we offered two foreign languages here at tahoe spanish and french i went on to choose various programming studies it's a page full of foreign mandarin and latin all kinds of options how do we as a high school provide perhaps different opportunities and what do we provide to students that makes up for the fact that they're not going to have that variety of options that they might have at a bigger high school what do they get here how can we enhance that so that people don't graduate feeling like they missed out on the opportunities [Music] what she said about the expert performance it does tie into that for example i think two of our teachers are moving forward under the auspices of the grocery code organization they're offering additional coding opportunities for students who are interested boys and girls and they're going to be starting that program after school this year so i'm excited about that we have opportunities for students to take courses online to pay for that right now use our program for vhs and we use that to be able to allow students i i see us expanding into opportunities to take courses in college we talked about that and i share them with last year we have local colleges they're offering times for our students to go into the coursework there as well um [Music] i think that we can do some some co-teaching models and we're combining where teachers have expertise and don't get to particularly teach that course one of the areas that i would love to see from here now is environmental science they have the teachers being prepared is budget and as we look at some of the challenges we have across the district i understand our biggest challenge right now in this district we can't no matter how much money we have we're probably not going to offer through different levels of mandatory chinese however as we think about advocating in our role as the school community legislative perfumes how do you see yourself as the potential superintendent playing a role in that process and helping us advocate for the budget we need to do the things we don't want to see happen i think that's that's a multi-faceted question i think first of all [Music] information from staff as far as curriculum material personality to have in places so i think it's imperative for that for the superintendent to be able to to look through and prioritize and make recommendations right now but i also think we have to work in partnership to get out there early and talk to the community about the needs that we have i think a lot of times again it goes back to the why they don't know until november december january can go out there and speak to these friends and various is [Music] and talking to them so that they're aware of when we need what we need it's going to be critical we can't we can't put everything into the plot and warning you and say okay this is all the things we need but we can prioritize and put it into a sensible plan so that we can ensure that we're going to get those internet over a period of time this is a skeleton model it does take into consideration think for me that answer in that topic is probably the biggest strength i see in your candidacy for the world in that you understand where we are today and what you could do to rapidly improve outcomes in the district in having someone who's knowledgeable in our district able to be side by side the six of us none of them i think they're scared to do the same thing you just said go out there [Music] um what would you what is your vision for the restructuring there what would that look like jeff and i have talked so much about this restructuring i do absolutely support the idea of bringing them through the administrator um whether we do this as a model with that one principle and two assistant principles one of the middle schools one of the high school the ideal or we have one principal middle school high school we talked about that model as well but i think i will go with the if we can ensure and set the definition of those job descriptions so that the two assistant principals handle specific duties handle discipline sample schedule and handle they'll be doing evaluations as well handling kind of the day-to-day operations amounts of time on topics and things that he or she should not be having does he not have a [Music] and that person should be the one guiding some of these initiatives that we're going to put in place thinking about thinking what do we need to have carol how can we get in let's see what's going on in these classrooms and doing things [Music] our size and see how we look at that you know what we do you know originally when the school was built i was part as a number one principal of the middle of developing the middle school model that i spent a lot of time with some of the teachers who are still here now creating what the division of what that model would look like and then we didn't have funds to bring in even a second you know one of the challenges we have now is across this crossover still so they're between scheduling conditions so again cleaner at the end those are the teachers is that something you would also need for [Music] i think it's very hard for your teachers to do truly [Music] when it comes time to do that i think you've worked with how many superintendents have you been here six years [Music] as you think about the different administrators you've worked with in the years you've reported into um are there any specific things you would take away from their styles and do similarly or anything that you would try to do differently they hope you might have seen something as other leaders do and i specifically think about you know a very friendly and personable and nice person but there are times when the superintendent is going to need to put their foot down for the first time table in certain situations so you know how do you evolve yourself as a leader over that period of time so not just japanese yeah you know [Music] i have taken a watching break superintendents and and and value what i've learned from them the positives and the neighbors of these individuals for all human you know all universes our strengths and our weaknesses um styles that are definitely different from in my style and i'm very different i'm very different from jeff and that's one of the things that made us work together i think well because we see things from different specific perspectives and we're not afraid to go after things that we believe in with each other and he you know they both laugh because they've heard i'm always nice when they know they see a look in my face and they're like children parents teachers everyone and everyone we have to be respectful to one another we have to do what we say i think we have to be good listeners i think we have to be able to hear what people are saying and make informed decisions sometimes you have to make a quick decision she's just made a million important decisions yeah or you know you can't wait around sometimes to decide what you're going to do and that's fun that's scary um because you're on your own with those um i got everyone's experience um and then sometimes you can take your time sometimes you can get a lot of feedback and collectively get their ideas [Music] yeah seriously at the end of the day i wish you worked all day yeah that was great so thank you that was really took care of me to the next steps in [Music] and we're going to have a meeting on september 27th which is two weeks from today it is a tuesday and at that meeting we will vote to appoint carol to take over a superintendent on the retirement of mr zaney and then we will go into executive session to discuss um contract and in between um you know we're we're looking to the community to give us their feedback and to let us know how they feel and if they're questions that they feel we should have answered um we absolutely welcome those um there's been a suggestion if you want to put something out there to the community certainly where people [Music] so i i just want to offer that to you i'm looking forward to setting a path that's that's exciting um [Music] always say that you want the job to be honest thank you [Applause] let's do some sex media reports i'm left to appoint the following members uh as chairs to their subcommittees and as such they will be providing an update on the submit the subcommittee that they represent so um mr wilbur i'm going to appoint you to be the chair of the budget facilities and safety subcommittee okay would you like to give your report this time sure and thrill you're on deck so the budget finances um safety budget facilities and safety supplements being met on we call this um discussed a number of items um we overviewed and looked at the district funding sources to get uh myself megan and julia their understanding of really when it comes to financial workforce kind that i think was really valuable for for all of us to dig into and understand the district's budget and how it comes to be and where everything fits um we also looked at a preliminary list of other districts i think we want to understand really a benchmark for non-leading personnel salaries so specifically we'll be hiring superintendents and assistant superintendents substitute teachers and out central office staff to understand where we are compared to neighboring districts um that initial information and going on to get more for us from the next meeting we're going to have um we initially looked at the timeline for the qualcomm budget process and talked about the timing of that along with the [Music] to be what some of our officers went there helped fund that liability and also looked at the contracting district's assistant legal counsel and reviewed uh service offerings from other law firms to continue with our existing council potentially consider others so we met for over two hours that was great and i do want to also ask maybe to speak to some facilities concerns we have with pbs in particular and then let her speak to that um so i'm going to start by saying this morning when um i told my kids it was picture day and it was raining and my kindergarten daughter said to me well where are we gonna do pictures and i said well we're gonna you're probably gonna do them in the gym and she goes well she goes well the rules of the gym are you can't touch the buckets of water and if a ball goes in a bucket of water you have to tell the teacher and i said what are you talking about and i went to the school and i saw that the roof is leaking in the gym and in the library um so mike right like like okay yep he took me around and he said that actually they've patched it so many times the people have had to have told them so i think that we've talked about this loosely but i think that we need to find the money in dual facilities study on that building like asap um you know the roof the building is like it was like 90 degrees in the heat and the way the way the sun hits the building you know with the flat roof the air conditioning in the library is broken it was about 87 degrees in the library it was 86 or 87 the day we were in the building i mean huge impairments in learning when gym classes about avoiding the buckets of water and the library is just about surviving instead of like actually enjoying the books um because it's so hot so you know i don't know if that's something we need to vote on [Music] when we had a budget of something back in june we talked about the facilities yes that's a huge thing to budget for so it would be helpful if we could have it done you know i'd say before the end of the calendar year right [Music] i'll talk to nancy about it what i was going to suggest we do tonight would be to take this topic in for the school committee to empower the budget subcommittee to follow awareness going so far as to requesting our case and improving funding board if you need to so i wanted to give it as a motion to authorize the budget and facilities and safety committee to work with the administration that proposes an entire pharmaceutical facilities assessment of pes i think you said it was 25 000 for pns so i'm going to put up to 30 000 to conduct it so we can take it into the subcommittee to further discuss where everyone else would do it here so my motion is for this to give the subcommittee authorization to move forward with that in expendable 30 000 working in the administration to do that i'll get this started do you need a second for that question now i will say for the assessment it was 25 assessment pms so i'm just putting the inflation on there should [Music] thank you and then if you have something like air conditioning for example that's obviously not in the order because it doesn't exist in the school right so that's something to be able to consider and we also we've started [Music] the idea around it as a town building i don't know how that works um [Music] is that is that a uh assessment that's done periodically i don't know i don't that was a big capital item but it started with that piece but that has it has a number of little issues going on there's a mold issue in the building that teachers complain about so there's some ongoing issues yeah i mean i last year my son told me there were mice in this classroom twice they were sitting on a rug and a mouse ran across the moment twice it happened i mean they're first graders so they think it's cool all right my motivation an opportunity is get this assessment done this fall it would allow us to put that into a budget request for this year and i i'd rather do that than wait to get the funding for this assessment and then yeah i took some pictures they have buckets in the library lined with paper towels but the library's killing is destroyed um the gym thinks it's coming in from um coming in from the ducks so then you talk about mold while the water is getting into the dust you have no idea so i just i echo and adds that i feel like there is urgency to get this done asap because we don't want to wait a whole other year if there are certain capital improvements that need to get done and i think from what adam and i heard and laurie heard in the town of boylston we have people we have parents that are willing to go to town meeting and fight to get some more money for the school it's shocking to me that we have kids in school trying to learn it depends what else they're doing i mean i i agreed uh [Music] that this has [Music] who was so how long did that take yeah is that what steve was telling us about like the hvac stuff in that building the heating thing palace they got the new so how long would that study take the furnace [Music] how long did it take furnace was before i [Music] the berlin facility assessment was completed final report was delivered on may 20th so that was before our time before us like i do not remember that yeah it was like a two month start to finish no that's right i don't know what was it that's what i'm saying was it was it two months was it four months was it i have no idea my point is i don't know what we're talking about i agree today start now get it in for february budget great yeah um also i wonder if we could just contact the people that did the berlin one and see if they would do what's sort of so right now we're in the middle of a motion we have started and then no no it's okay but i'm just i just want to remind you that we're in the middle of the motion to give the authorization the school committee gives the subcommittee authorization to seek bids and perhaps spend up to thirty thousand dollars we drop it to 35 because jeff just let us know that the boylston facility is significantly larger than berlin so you're suggesting an amendment [Music] so we'll start looking at how nancy will have some information next time she'll just do the initial work on it and give you some more answers and the bid process okay all right september 27th all right okay so um so yep uh all in favor uh hi what's the next one is october 6th well now our next meeting is october 6th but we have school committee meeting september 27th so nazi has information for us to share at nfc all right i'd like to state that the motion for the school committee to give the budget sub-committee authorization to spend up to thousand dollars in seeking bids for disabilities disability study has passed um megan did you want to so i'm going to appoint rowe to be the chair of the personnel negotiations and superintendent evaluation did you want to share because we weren't on camera yes yeah so um the school committee um voted the current contract so it took draft immediately um it was a unanimous vote yep exactly so the committee has not met since um because we don't have any upcoming contracts excellent thank you thank you so much [Music] the school committee approves the bbc contract contract we talked earlier today about the pressure this is that school committee too or is that it deals with those we would recommend an increase if we're going [Music] with the superintendent but if we want to if we wanted to change the salaries we would come to because it's a budget item it reflects the budget to say we're recommending that uh all the steps increased by [Music] five percent so as is opening the only contracts employment contracts where we have somewhere as supernatural and uh and you you technically deal with the assistance right for the policy and committee effectiveness i'm going to import myself as the chair and i'm going to give a policy update um we're going to start with our public policy which we reviewed and i'm going to ask mr thompson to speak to that yeah we reviewed the policy edcfa and we have to have it tonight for both the first weekend to vote uh the only thing we changed in there is there was a line the second paragraph line read vaccinations the best protection is among the highest rates for young people and is a national leader we discussed this we didn't feel that this belongs to the policy any longer for several reasons one it reads as a statement of fact you hear that it sounds like we're making a statement uh we don't know that it's a statement fact we don't have the resources to continually research whether or not massachusetts is a leader whether or not vaccinations are the best or any of this other language that's in here so so we don't have to spend any future time on this we just want to strike that policy leave everything else as this and as that this language came from the dc notification the memo they sent out at that time and it just was left in there but we felt that it was time to just move past this and start getting everything else moving forward so that's up for um sure did you want to talk about um data yes so the sexual harassment policy that we voted on and approved uh several meetings ago there were some questions that came up that's the language in there we discussed that we didn't feel it was right to make those changes on our own so we were talking about the legal console they actually went back to us yesterday and so uh we've got their responses up there in the draft you guys look at the policy that you look at we also updated our bullying policy um to match the current policy that the nisc has suggested um mrs lee i know you had some questions regarding the policy which we can discuss when we go into the votes and i'm going to appoint mr chapman to be the chair of the student success and technology committee um [Music] you about how the high school kids can use cell phones in the cafeteria they can use it online yeah i is allowed and it's allowed in transitioning yeah i disagree with that as well so are you are they able to look at school policies so it's yeah the policy stuff unlike that are they able to do them because i agree with you like mike and larry i'm not right now there's not any research read so can i ask you is that something you would support abuses [Music] i would leave it up to the principal on the system if if it was their decision to do it i would ask the people who want to help them sure all that aside i'm talking about kids in a learning environment kids in a lunch room where you're supposed you ask the parent community it can't be a denial for this because it's not about actually first of all you're asking the question whose decision is it about cell phone use in the cafeterias is the building administrators you're asked me if i would support i would i would if the principal said that as a direct disruption of the school then i wouldn't support it they said well it's no problem you know they're doing that stuff then i would well if it's allowed then they probably haven't seen an issue with or it hasn't been brought up if you're saying there's research then show us the research you said all the research for something is i think he's suggesting that you take the research that you've seen and then trap sentinels like the leadership teams and say here i would like you to look at this when considering yeah sure number one okay number two if you have research department that's making your point then and i haven't seen that other schools haven't seen but show it to us you know it's totally possible we haven't seen all the research is specific policy to look at not speaking to whether we can change it it's our perfume you can put a lawyer on that but it looks like imjdb would probably be the policy to look at which specifically mentions mobile devices in it for the policy but this policy can be repeated whether we can change it or not to address the things and julie i absolutely 110 agree with you that if a kid is on their phone on facebook at lunch that literally sickens me in my core instead of learning how to talk and be with friends that's a huge problem in our society and i do not think cell phones should be a lot of school even in high school and i get it there are many adults and it's part of our world but if there is any way that we can get there i suppose jeffy you've spoken recently in a couple seconds about the school concept in the role they played with things like the hands-on is this an issue that should be referred to them surely with the administration i don't know if you've ever engaged with that group but you've mentioned a couple times in different settings yeah i mean they they deal with all of those issues and they deal with the handbook so that that's if you have if you have those kind of issues it should go through this conflict that's what they're there for and and again if you if you know you get it you're going to decide what your role is going to be you can make general policies but it's not to say well listen my kids say not specifically youtube now my kids say this is going on at school and i want this policy change to reflect that now if you're you know what i mean so but if you have a school council they review the student handbook and so that's that's where that stuff can come in because they can take a little more personal look at it because that's really their job to kind of investigate what's really going on in school but they do it they do it with students and they do it with administrators and so there's a different kind of discussion that happens to say okay this is what we hear is going on is this what's going on and then the administrators will say well yeah this is going on and we let it happen because of xyz oh we don't let it happen because of xyz and so that's how those changes get into the student handle so that's the place to have those kind of discussions because there's an administrative disabled do you as a superintendent support i don't support it or not support it because i don't have enough information so that's the discussion you have that a school council has with a group of students and with the administrators and the parents so they can all discuss because then there's kids they'll say we'll say well that's not happening or it is happening whatever the issue maybe not self like something else and that's how that that those things get changed this isn't the format for that stuff it just doesn't one of the things that the student saying it's not success student successfully talked about inaudib hour to really give them for them as to what's going on and i think we talked about that because that needs to be done and we talked about in terms of instead of this committee going to meetings you invite those people here or if you want the principles to be reported but it's better to have that whole representatives of the council do it but that's not the job no i get what you're saying yeah we should have been i wish we could have asked and i don't know maybe you emailed sally because i saw that but i wasn't sure did you email her and that's what she said i was going to get back up she's fine right right so this is just a very large issue that's not going away and we have to be able to help our students manage these devices why don't you apparently reach out to her ask it as a request of the council okay so that's different google show is it a different group every year um they're always looking for members i know i just had a parent ask me about something that was going on in the school i can't remember who it was what my suggestion was if you feel that strongly get involved get on the student council which i believe they did so okay that's the place for that stuff so you can as a parent as opposed to this say can you is this something you can refer to your you know your counsel to look at okay you come and present then you can ask as a committee as this committee how that can be that's different that's a different process yeah let me know if i can help you with that because i wholeheartedly agree even though i only have little kids but i've seen a lot of done a lot of research seen a lot of studies on how toxic social media is it also comes into a point that we've read several points in the superintendent survey feedback yeah that's where i think it would probably be solved becomes the biggest problem one thing to distract students during the questions another thing right i've heard a lot of people talk about tick tocks and photos being taken of other students in the school and posted on social media about other people's consent and okay yep all right good yeah i saw that cell phone thing earlier mr thompson did you want to give your report on student success and technology sure thank you so we did meet uh yesterday we and paul was there too we had a few things on the agenda we didn't get to all of them we spent a lot of time talking about the district improvement plan and carol told us more information about this portrait about a graduate idea which i mean i'm really bored with that i think i think we need to start with that and develop you know i'm sure that's how important to start with that and develop the improvement around it uh that will come i guess the time so we spent a lot of time talking about that we did talk about equity uh i've kind of brought up a point where i'd like to see more between the two elementary schools i think i've mentioned that before they're different schools they've operated independently for years they have different groups and different activities and different offerings you know one school district and i don't know how much work has been done to sort of bring those two together so that's one kind of topic that we might explore in the future i don't know what's going to cover that so we spent a lot of time talking about that um we asked paul if you could get us some information on the cell phone giving a cell phone cell phone service in this building right he says as well as additional ways to use technology not just for students in class but for getting information on facts um so that's what we talked about we'll meet again we talked a little bit about trying to set a uh don't want to call it a mission or the charge for the community so they actually know not only what we're going to do in the next year we communicate to towns what the purpose is this is a new committee it's not really you know budget self-explanatory but student success can mean a lot of different things so we will meet again probably in october excellent all right we are going to move on to your business uh i have a motion to approve the to hondo high school program of studies anyway sorry so the program of studies yeah is this it's this big documentary play when it comes to improving this what i don't know this time of study yeah first of all i thought it was agenda year unless yeah a change to it it's not in the fall though i mean not it's usually done in spring isn't it usually this of course just came out that the transition for me so there is a document in the drawing that just shows just the change everything else remains the same so that's why of course sounds like that this program is starting to do something for us to revisit after that corporate graduate process takes place to see whether that is the outcome we're looking for this committee should look at it because you knew what there's a change in that you should look at plus as chrissy said to us of course and then one course i think you'd be interested in um what's the cost that i'm going to ask i was interested in that too so i i would suggest even though even if they will everything new costs as it's a new committee and and if you've got an expand program and do any of that stuff which we should be going in the next few years you should make yourself familiar with that because that's one thing that is it certainly isn't even you should should be looking at that yeah i hate what you're saying there the confusion i had was when i opened the agenda [Music] principal would come in that's why it's done in the fall because that's when they're going to decide if there's going to be new bosses and then they can then be scheduled so you know the principal would say to you here's the new here are the new selections for next year for you to take a look at its vote however you're a new committee so you haven't you haven't seen the documents to begin with itself since that's not done until that's not really done until the uh spring there should be time to so look at it but it's on an agenda for a book should we table that until we have more information about this yeah this kind of late winter and then they present them to the school committee and then as changes to the book and then you vote on it and you know before they schedule this schedule so there's that stuff that's the timeline so your problem your most likely knife tendency i'm sorry to see it but you're most likely seeing costs that are already running so and you should because you vote on it that that is when you jump the ball you should see it before they run right um so yeah and probably you write a problem as part of the transition that was in a bowl in the spring was it yeah so that's i think he just got a sequence with it so i think what you could do now maybe is have the principles when next time they hear present time the changes or at least familiar with the new courses so you can ask the questions but it shouldn't be it should be something yeah again i think it's probably something that just missed in the transition um towards the motion wait and just can i ask a question so when we come to vote we're voting on the two editions or the whole document yeah you voted on the document yeah well my suggestion is it survive you probably should know about the cost and that's something you want to know about because it's your goal so even if it's already running my suggestion would be the table to vote have them come in talk about the costs just so you know they are and then make the ball if you make the vote now you're going to forget about it it's going to be going all right wasn't it of course being run in high school a life skills class last time we toured so mike um discussion all in favor all right and i as well host the ocean to table the high school program studies until a later date has passed but i have a motion to approve the fiscal 2023 fiscal year 2023 superintendent gold second sorry discussion [Music] a superintendent [Music] fiscal year 2023 superintendent pose passes could i have a motion to approve the updated mentor coordinator job description second sorry motion to approve the updated mentor coordinator job description passes um j-i-c-f-b the bullying convention is a first read are there any comments on either of these documents i do know that this we had some comments that were she put within the document julie did you want to talk speak to those right now um i do i'll start by saying okay you highlighted something you said it was a very important piece of policy and one the community should know also while you will read it out loud um bullying and cyber bullying are prohibited at a location activity function or program that's not school related or through the use of technology or an electronic device that is not only leased or used by the berlin-wilson school district if the act or acts in question create a hostile environment at school for the target infringe on the rights of the target at school and or material and substantially disrupt the education process or the orderly operation of a school yeah the reason i i made a comment on that i think it's important for the community to understand that this is this policy is in place this is outside a no there's an existing policy this is the msc version does anyone have any opinions about that or do you feel it's um does that change from the previous policy [Music] so so the consequences for bullying for this policy would apply to a student fully as purpose policies definition from the bedroom at night to another student or you know off off campus or outside of anti-school hours or activities if it trickles into the school right well yeah because if you're being bullied outside of school and you have to face that failure in school i would think there'd be negative consequences could be my guesses but we've actually had a parent come to us with that exact concern last year i i've had this issue yeah so i think um school principal or designee shall promptly investigate the report of bullying using the bullying cyber bullying report forum and julie asked can we see this one do we have one probably not right this is a brand new policy so maybe what we can do is find out in our policy meeting about that particular form i can also find out from other districts and it says annual training shall be provided for school employees and volunteers who have significant contact with students in preventing identifying responding to and reporting incidents not only and julia's really good question she said what annual training does the dbrsd staff receive no granted this is a new document so they wouldn't have received it in the past but is there anything that we're currently doing that would have already been excellent does anyone have any other comments about this first reading i'd be interested in potentially having the school committee go through that training as well i agree good idea do they also do like a sexual harassment one for teaching okay so that was the first read um our new coping policy is both the first read and vote if the discussion is necessary we can do that with the motion and second on aid they have a motion to approve the updated policy motion to approve the updated public policy passes we have a new section called school creating questions comments and future agenda items and i would like to start off by saying thank you to the subcommittees for the work behind the scenes i don't think that the public has any idea of how much work we do um before we come to the table and i know you guys did some great work this week it's really it's actually i feel almost kind of nerdy saying it but i'm excited about what's going on so um so thank you for all that that hard work because you know organizing schedules sitting down talking about the work that comes out of it you're doing a great job i appreciate that and i also want to thank sebastian we can't see behind the camera but he's always here making sure that this is all set up it didn't happen last week but man we try our last couple weeks ago he tried very hard to get us online it was a situation outside of his control so thank you sebastian for all you do for us appreciate it does anyone else have any questions comments or future agendas sometimes this year as well um our upcoming meeting dates we are having one obviously on september 27th and that is going to be to vote on the appointment of this is carol costello as the superintendent upon retirement of superintendent chelsea um we also have an october 11th meeting and we'll have an october 25th one if needed but hopefully we'll get all of our work done smooth sailing after that um

oh I'm sorry before we move on sorry okay we were supposed to do the superintendent goals and everything this meeting are we postponed back to our last meeting in September it sure looks that way yeah yeah yes we will yeah you're not ready for that anyway generally no I think that's when we had targeted the last week of September I I I'm not gonna last meeting I thought I gave it a I thought we gave it a um a calendar of that and I thought it was the next week I believe it was at this point it's uh it's going to be yeah be the next meeting thing yes um we approve this job posting the director of facilities pending um some changes to the um to the job description and I've been looking and haven't seen it posted yet yeah it's going to be posted tomorrow morning we have been rewriting it in uh but it will be it will be going out first thing tomorrow we were we were going to try to get it out today but we had a few other things going on so it will it will be posted tomorrow are working on getting it out there tomorrow Vivian um I just want us to I guess remind one another um and it just dawned on me so under tabled matters if the evaluation was supposed to be part of this meeting why isn't it listed on the tabled matters section and um I know that Mr Hayden isn't here but he had wanted to add something to the agenda because he's not here we're postponing that to the next meeting shouldn't that be under tabled matters as well no or technically [Music] Insurance under future agenda items so how do we go away from not forgetting so it's like if if cirilla would not have mentioned the evaluation it would have slipped my mind and I would have come to the next meeting and it would slip my mind as well because I'm not right well the super the superintendent's records uh recalls that it was due for the next meeting not this meeting okay all right I don't you know like you're saying that was the superintendent's uh recollection of it he doesn't mean yes and I'm just going to deviate a bit before we move on to personal considerations and maybe I should have addressed this under new business um there were two questions that I had um it's probably targeted to miss silinsky um and I'm not sure if this is something that I need to add um as a for the for the next meeting um from my understanding there was an assembly done for you know I don't know if it was the first day of school um and I some parents and students want clarity as to what was said one of the concerns were if the students arrived late regardless if it was due to busting concerns would they be marked as tardy and then the second question is if a student is sick with kovid and they have to be out those days because of you know because they're sick are they considered absent I think I don't know if there's confusion but I I wanted clarity as well that way I'm able to relay that information to the students and the parents oh okay yeah it could be added briefly okay and then expand through the superintendent if you need me to okay so um the first week of school we always have assemblies by grade level and our assembly is really um we we review and discuss our core values every grade level changing it depending on the grade level and part of that is in terms of high expectations in arriving to school on time what was said is that if you are tardy how and it was dirt it was due to a bus issue that does not count oh so if you are driving yourself as an upperclassman and you arrive late then you are marked tardy but if it's due to a busing we have a different code so any student who is late due to a bus that does not count as a tardy okay what about the covert so at this time there are no there's no coveted guidelines that would allow us to not count students that are absent due to covid so students have 14 days absent regardless of the reason um if they are out due to covid and they extend beyond the 14 reason the 14 days then we would look at that case by case but if a student is absent right now due to covid that is it's like a medical absence like if they were out with the flu okay okay I just I have some concerns um as you know due to a student maybe not wanting to be marked absent for 14 days they will show up and not say nothing you know that's a concern of mine um but thank you for the clarity anything further Frank yeah thank you Leo so so they gave Mark tardy one day come in with the bus but it's a special code so there's a special code that marks some tardy so does that go in it I'm talking about buses you're not somebody who's roped himself they should be tardy if they are driving themselves because they're responsible to get here but with all the bus issues that we've been having and not just us um I know there's a code that they gave Mark tardy but does that Authority goes on to their record okay that'll be my concern no it does not it distinguishes between someone that just arrived Hardy or if it's as a result of a bus so that does not go on the record it's not accounted against them okay anything further okay getting back to uh resignations HVAC instructor of effective 9622 custodian effective 99 of 22 no leave of absence no retirements uh appointments a director of facility in operations an interim director of facilities and operations John do you want to expand on that so at this time I would like to appoint a director of facilities and operations Robbie has been working uh six hours a day every day at the end of the month he'll start to go I think it's the end of the month he'll start to go two days a week so I'd like to get somebody in place we have someone in-house I would like to appoint interim until we go ahead and hire someone to take Rob's place until we go through the hiring process and get somebody to take his place we have a person on in-house set has a lot of experience knows the building has worked closely with Rob and would work continue to work closely with Rob um he knows the hea C system in the ventilation system is able to operate the um the technical aspects of the system remotely from home including from home uh is a and has been since Rob retired has been coming in to take care of anything that happens in the evenings and nights those electrical systems well because it's done a lot of work on the electrical system so until we can get someone in place I would like to uh um have the committee approve me uh go forward in a point so in interim okay we have a record we have a recommendation from the superintendent I have a motion on that please uh I'll make a motion but I have a question we'll get you a question I promise you okay do I have a second do you have a second oh sorry uh for discussion Mrs uh Fitzgerald yes I stepped out to get them to turn that music down so I missed the very first part of um but they listened to me so that was good um see uh I missed the first part of John's but I want to go back just to make sure um John talked earlier about the posting of the position is the position being posted um is the position being posted looking for the interim or is the position being posted tomorrow with the new um language and if so don't we need a copy of that to see it before we do it I have no problem um keeping my motion as is but I just want because I stepped out I just wanted Clarity on whether the two are intertwined I guess is the word superintendent yeah um the intent is not to pose but just to hire someone in his interim that's from the inside the building if I post for an interim it may take them more than a month to get somebody on board with Rob being gone and it's going to be vacant with nobody overseeing the facilities so I'd like to just uh and then we're going to post the position where we can hold off if the committee wants to see the final posting I can bring it to the next meeting and we can hold off and uh and have the committee look at that first if you would like anything furthermore um no I would like before the the total position is posted I would like to see that new language um so that because it was con so much confusion the last time we were looking at two separate pieces of paper so that we are all looking at the same um job description so um now that you have clarified that uh they're two separate issues I'll um leave my motion as is okay anything further Mr Cirillo yeah um when was this person asked so and I'm and this is what boggles me because I remember even here with the motion that we had made for a job posting that hasn't been posted yet but yet I'm getting calls saying that somebody was put into this position um two weeks prior to us even looking at the job description and now here we are having discussion about an interim so the transparency to me is starting to to waver because now we're looking at we like we put somebody in this position you're coming now to us ask to put somebody in their interim the job posting hasn't been done yet but yet conversations are about a person already having the job without it even going through all the steps so the um that's why the intent to post it tomorrow was it was the intent was to post it for tomorrow the I think part of the mix-up with why it hadn't gotten posted was um Susan uh got has been out um uh sick and so she when James was out on vacation Susan was posting there was some changes that needed to be done and then when Janice came back Susan went out and so there's been some confusion back and forth on on that particular posting and that's why it hasn't gotten posted yet but the intent when I met with with Janice today to revisit the posting to make sure we got it right and that I think that's the reason why it hasn't gone out yet because we want I wanted to make sure that there was Clarity on what we were putting out there because there was two different applications two postings that came to the committee and I wanted to make sure that it was correct so um between all the confusion between everyone people not being in and people being out for different reasons that's why it wasn't posted yet um but I think that's why uh Janice and I were meeting tomorrow to make sure that we get the correct posting in but I'm I'm happy to wait or I'm happy to post it tomorrow whichever the committee would like me to do but we still were still regardless we still need an answer from whether the posting went out this week or not we would still need an interim to cover for um for the facility while while Rob is no longer here oh my question my question is still the same I'm the job posting I I understand and as Maryland's question I'm glad Maryland brought that up because it does we should review it make sure that it is what um what we clarify Grace because we did we were looking at two different um job postings that that night but we approved it based on changes so that and I was looking at the the notes um but that wasn't my concern my concern is that there was a person the claims are the person was put into this position um given the position without it coming through through here um especially since we didn't even vote on that position until last meeting which is what two weeks ago Maryland two weeks ago yes so I want to know if you've already assigned somebody as an interim over two weeks ago and if so which here here's here was the lemonade and I agree that we're going to have to have somebody in there in the in the mean Center until somebody gets hired because we went with a without a Director of Finance for almost two years a year or year um so my so but if that's happening then we're not being transparent especially to everybody yeah well I would say in terms of um I don't know who uh sent out any rumor that said we had that the job was taking because it didn't come from my office or I don't know who it came from but it certainly was just a rumor that went out there people make assumptions or I mean you got 200 something people here that might be making assumptions thinking that somebody has a job when they don't have the job I do know that um whenever Rob was out this year vacation or any time one of our custodians always filled in for him so maybe someone's making an assumption that's some where the assumption's coming from but nobody has been appointed interim up to this point um um until the committee makes a decision to go ahead and have me do that to appoint someone into him um but in terms of anyone having the job that that never came from my office or anyone that I'm aware of that that had suggested that I don't know who the person spoke to but whoever he spoke to didn't have accurate information Mrs Fitzgerald yes um it's my understanding I believe this was set in a public meeting that Robbie has agreed to stay on until a new person comes on but more importantly he has agreed to be here until all of the projects that we presently have going are finished so um I totally understand the need for Robbie to be retired but that in fact the building is not being left taken care of and it's also my understanding that um the gentleman um that you are looking to post as interim already and for quite a time now has done weekend duties so that Rob was not any longer having to be here seven days a week so on that basis I feel that we'd have two things we have Rob here until it's done and I believe you told us two weeks ago that whoever gets the position Rob will stay on two to three days a week until this person knows the building almost as well as Rob I think we all agreed that no one there is only one Rob and no one will ever know every inch but that um there certainly are people out there capable so again I'll leave my motion um and Frank I never heard um until I asked John the name of this person I didn't even know who he was and I still don't know who he is I'm sure I've seen him someplace in the building so I had not heard that rumor at all that someone had already been posted for this I mean uh appointed and I think probably payroll would show that that did not actually happen okay anything further Mr cirola do you wish to uh amend your uh second I'm in the second tool that's good any further discussion all those in favor and anyone opposed would you uh please call the roll when you have a moment Janice please Tesla no this is just cyrillo no more yes motion carries three two okay um John the yet oh oh I'm sorry I thought we were done that go ahead something that was mentioned immediately prior I believe when I was out the door um I I just want to make sure that we get to see the actual wording of the posting so if we can wait till the next meeting for that posting um sure yeah don't see why not it's been in this long yes uh Mr Sewell she didn't that wasn't a motion that that's already gone yeah right to a point not when it was no no no not the answer with the full-time with the full-time concept the one that we we had a lot of questions on the last meeting okay she wants she would like to see that revised that revised language before we post it two separate things two separate things I guess you could put that in the form of emotion I don't know if she did or not but put that in the form of emotion that she made a request I mean just Mr Cirillo or Mr Vivian sorry okay someone is the only difference then is that this is an interim position yes wouldn't it fall under the same guidelines regarding their the requirements that you're seeking not necessarily no it's just it's an instrument position it's a fill-in so they yeah right but it's not a per it's not a permanent it's not a permanent thing something to get us by Mrs Fitzgerald sorry I'm so sorry yeah I'm fine with I I guess I would like I'll just make the recommendation that or I'll make an emotion whatever the committee wants that the full position replacement for Mr charest I would like to see in print the job description that was discussed at length at the last meeting before being posted okay we have a motion do we have a second do I have a second could uh could Janice could you repeat the motion please to please bring before the school committee in print the full-time position for Mr charest before being posted the director position collect does Mrs uh Mr will have a second uh Mr cirola where this is uh the guys retired or retiring and we went through lengths and and I agree with you Mary we definitely need to see it um but I don't think we should tie the superintendent's hands from posting the job maybe you could send it to us and we can review it if anybody has questions contact the superintendent or whoever that way it gives him time to close the position yeah I understand because we did vote on this that's very Corrections that's very very nice of you but the problem being is that if somebody did let's say somebody looked at it and didn't like the requirements they couldn't do anything about it without a vote of the committee so you know you can look at it you know yeah yeah you know he could send it to us but if uh you can't you can't move on until the entire committee says yes well no four members of the committee say yes sorry we have to be the entire well majority majority that happens to show up that evening how's that okay second okay further discussion all those in favor anyone opposed okay uh John the job post the following job posters we're going to do them one at a time okay please the CTE access liaison on Union positions the CTE Equitable access liaison it's a non-union position salary range 50 to 65 000 Grant funded through the uh 112 Equitable access Grant in Perkins Grant expected to start the expected start date is 10 122 it's a replacement position jail accept the motion you have a second discussion all those in favor anyone oppose guidance uh record skin a guidance record scan destruct destruction scan and Destroy Student Records per 603 C mr23 0.23 I mean 23.0 up to 75 hours per clerico CB stipend school year 2223 annual position it's a recommendation from the superintendent you have a motion you have a second yes a second from discussion yeah for Answers by Frank sorry that's okay Leo um the guidance records can is that a new position or they're going to be like a a stipend position for somebody just to do it's just for 75 hours just somebody from the U there'll be someone from in the building or a clerical person so any other discussion all those in favor and one oppose custodian slash bus driver um so custodian uh custodian uh Slash I mean parentheses bus driver for custodian contract school year 2223 it's a replacement position um so we're what we're going to do is we'd like to post that we would be asking this custodian to to carry a bus driver's license or at least be willing to get a bus driver's license what we're trying to do is and and when we go over the custodian contract you'll see some language there trying to get some of our custodians to carry a bus driver's license to help us with some of the issues we're having with the busing company right now mostly for short runs using our Mini Bus our mini buses which would help you know usually if we could run out and do some of that work so if we had custodians that were when they come on at 2 30 could do a 15 to a half hour run and and then come back and do their position so we're looking for that as a as a posting you have a second second discussion uh yes Zola so it says replicas you asking a custodian to be also a fast driver and that's new right that would be a new thing so we're looking to replace the custodian and we're looking but we've added the caveat that we do want to um them to carry a license but it's still fill existing position that exists now custodian if we couldn't find one with a bus driver we'd hire just a custodian but just also oh go ahead it works because now you also give me reason for those people I know the duty when you're asking them to be a bus driver so I just need to want I'm looking to understand how that works in terms of the job yeah so I've I met with the custodians and asked all of them if any of them would be interested in getting their bus driver's license which we would support and they could take the uh program in the course at no charge um and so we're trying so in preparation of getting more custodians with bus drivers we thought we'd try to post and see if there was any bus drivers out there might be interested in coming to work as a custodian for us as well so it's basically an attempt to get someone out there that has a bus driver's license that might be interested in applying for this custodian position that kind of help us in two ends both in custodial work and in bus driving different um under their new contract they would get paid different but we haven't gone over that yet so the committee still has to vote on that so we could take the bus driver part out if you prefer for now I'm not I know for the contract that will involve that and I'm not comfortable with this at all right now yeah so I I have no problem just posting for a custodian and then um once you approve the if you approve the new contract you'll see how that language Works who made the motion now you wish to adjust your uh your motion Maryland no no I think you yeah it was you yeah sorry you're confusing a very confused person here yes custodian only right we'll address that a little bit Mrs uh did you second it yes you did then I will adjust mine but I also surprise surprise you're gonna come go ahead all right didn't we last year with Athletics post for people to be bus drivers for some of the athletic things and wasn't there a custodian that did it I I'm just thinking I know I don't want these two things together um because you want a custodian first and foremost as a replacement position and then fine if we then post for bus drivers or people to get it but maybe I'm thinking of covid but I really felt that we had such a shortage because of the bus contract and them not having enough people didn't we pay some people here in the school to take our kids to athletic events and would that be a similar thing you just shut it off too so the difference on that is uh if you're taking students to an athletic event that you don't need a bus driver's license if you're taking kids home or picking them up you need a bus driver's license so that's the difference so in the case where we have Coaches Driving the Vans bus we don't they don't need licenses yeah right they only use a specific D7 license Mrs Fitzgerald do you have another question no uh uh and I will agree um we should definitely need to vote on the review the um contract because if they change the pay scale adding on this then we have to go through that process first before posting this we could bring this back John and that's all Leo is there anything further on this matter all those in favor aye anyone opposed okay custodian slash maintenance for a part-time position superintendent please yeah looking for a custodian maintenance person part-time many a Time many times we need something to be done when students aren't in the space and this would having someone we used to always have a weekend custodian or after hours custodians that would come in and and do some of the things that we couldn't get done during the day but because of students or because it was night school or it might take two days to get done so I'd like to get a part-time custodian back on when to have them work when we needed them sometimes it would be just replacing a custodian at night as well so if a custodian calls in sick we'd have a backup person to call so we would use that person that way as well so and they would be per the custodian contract there's a recommendation from the superintendent I have a motion on that please so second note second do I have a second oh he's second well I'm sorry I didn't you're usually a lot louder than that Maryland you know so sorry about that uh discussion all those in favor and you want to pose cohort facilitator for the bar we have a bar uh stipend position so we're looking for a cohort facilitator for the bar program uh it's a stipend position for 2022-23 it's an annual position Susan can you tell us what the abbreviation for bar is yes um it's b-a-r-r building assets reducing risk um I believe some of the members came and spoke to the committee last year so we have um grade nine bar we have groups of teachers and other support staff that meet to convene and have those meetings we're actually advancing it to the grade 10 we're excited to move this up to grade 10.

and so supervision is an issue so we're working on a solution to that by the end of the week we will have one so and just ask your patients um just for the rest of this week until we can figure out the best solution to allow our middle schoolers and high schoolers to go into the building as soon as the bus is around so those are two issues that have been brought to my attention that we are working and then one of the issues that was brought to our attention last year was the issue of cars passing school buses when school buses are picking up or dismissing kids from the bus while the safety lights are are on that's totally inappropriate inexcusable we cannot have that for the safety of our kids our terrific parents have alerted uh Mr Martell police chief R Fierro and myself as to where these situations seem to be happening and that began last spring and we've got a great partnership here in town with our police uh force and I thank the police chief Chris arceier over his partnership and for being here tonight at this hour after a very long day uh just to be here to show support for this effort um so we really want to do all we can to curb um drivers from not following the law around our school buses to that end I want to thank Mr Martell for purchasing a camera One camera for one of the buses that we are using as a pilot that takes pictures of cars and their license plates if they're passing a bus so one of our buses that is in the high traffic areas where this seems to be occurring has a camera in that um Dean I want to thank you very much for purchasing that for us um let's um we talked about yesterday was uh the board purchasing nine additional cameras they're at a cost of six hundred dollars each uh Mr Martel was able to get more than a 50 discount on the cost of the cameras um I'd like to propose that we as a board purchase nine additional cameras uh to be installed so that 10 of our 13 buses will have these um these cameras I present that to you tonight as a proposal um and then our next meeting I can talk to you about where the funding for of those cameras will come from great question um so is there any reason why we wouldn't put them in all the buses because like three boxes remaining it's a good question for Lisa Felicia there's always a reason um in three of the buses it would cost um if I'm correct one thousand seven hundred dollars each because three of the buses need to be retro retrofitted and they don't have the latest technology that the other 10 buses have foreign [Music] over to the police department who can research the driver's license plate we follow up Chief our Sierra would you like to speak to that what the process is for that sure thank you Kevin thanks as well thanks for coming certainly even though we have a great partnership and we just think that we must safety is just the extension of the normal school safety protocols that would be a big partnership with the school to make sure that the school is safe for everybody that enters that building and buses are no different every year I can present the Martell bus company drivers just a concern about bus safety um so I think the camera's going to be a great addition to the extension of the Social Security program now the violation does occur the bus company contacts us we will get the information whether it's an archive they can be shared by email or phone Drive will take that information or reach out to the voters for the operator of the vehicle or due diligence and it is an infraction of about 450 dollars violation of testing stop school buses displayed a stop sign so certainly uh we have the investigative effort ability to do that just a matter of once you're up there they work with Mark caliber make sure that you know the problem is aware started an education campaign already putting on our web page about violation devices passing stop school bus and notice again has been challenged with the campus last meeting you met with uh one of the residents who made the complaint with the enforcement came out there so this incorporates some of this bus safety in our normal selected traffic influence she puts the rule on Route 44 because we have four lanes and I see cars getting confused sometimes certainly you're coming you know um southbound Northbound or is eastbound westbound I'm sorry east and west but again Minneapolis of any type of convenient divider has four lanes of no meeting divider the bus is stopped on the eastbound side the cars traveling on the westbound side have an obligation to stop okay on the first you know wait if you will on all four of those Lanes to stop and respect once the school bus stop and exactly leaving this emergency red lights and around the stop off so will camera be able to catch all the way across the four lanes uh that I have to defer probably to the technology involved in the school buses but um yeah and just you know the you know the bus company we've been talking to them each year they have the ability to instantly communicate to the Martell off School contact us so if there's a contentment contemporaneous violation of the violated a stop School Bus they've been called in and we'll be notified and then we can intercept that neighborhood what streets are most violations on okay is it there so I think it's great to hold sport but is there a way to advertise I mean because enforcing it somebody getting a ticket I think you should get it taken but is there a way that you can advertise that this is happening just so it's out there for people I mean yeah I think I think the chief passing on his uh website you know he sent out a couple things it's been in Canton chatter Canton tonight you know people talking about this um I suspect you know maybe it's commuters you know coming through town but um I'd like to think that our community knows that don't have to do that but we it has been advertised pretty well I think and it's come up as a real concern for the parents that um this is happening more frequently and I I know when I talk to the chief they've tried some some treatments to try to you know help the buses out a little bit or track the buses on and so forth but I think the cameras are going to be that's what the parents have asked for and I think that's what we're going to get to them I just want to be clear though uh we are so grateful to the Martell bus company for installing that one camera but it'll be the town of Canton that's purchasing the next nine so um and we'll have to find that in our budget but uh you know safety is is Paramount and we'll do that so Kim any other questions um for the high school middle school when children when students are dropped off by parents or Vans is there supervision out there or they're just they're old enough to be able to supervising themselves yes um I believe the doors are locked so students cannot go into the uh the building so Kevin has actually is working on a solution to that right now because I know there's parents personality issue of when the building when the buildings are occupied and Kevin's working on a solution right now so we possibly will have uh adult supervision earlier uh so that we can open those doors sooner yeah because some are remaining on buses and some are waiting outside or I don't know what they've done in the past don't start sitting in cars yeah um I get dropped off just to answer your question around like seven o'clock and you're supposed to start over at 7 20 and I wait outside thank you mentioned and there's no like supervision but there is like coach Cole who's this he's our director of yes yeah um he's always just standing there like you know fist bumping kid he's the supervision yeah he's what we have so I mean he's great so we are working on that yeah I I think Kevin's going to have a solution on your tour by the end of the people we've been working I guess for fifty four hundred dollars I'm I'm concerned about waiting two more weeks and then whoever long it takes after that that were by the cameras that installed uh the the forget about school buses the traffic on Cherry Brook Road is very frequently uh concerning frequently in terms of people racing up behind you and all that stuff and and if school buses are being passed when they have the flashing lights on there's serious potential for a disaster it's just fifty four hundred dollars I uh Joe I was I was awaiting a question where will the money come from and Donna and I just wanted a couple weeks to uh to uh determine where we could take the money possibly from an unused Capital project um we just needed that time to decide but certainly if the board chose to vote or purchase these uh right away we could do that and then I could come back to you um in two weeks and talk about what line item that funding would come from for your approval so I guess what we're saying then is we're covered softball um in favor favor Brian okay um so on a soft vote I think you know if you can go through with the ordering uh you'll you'll get a hard vote on the 28th so you can you can proceed I think but we'll do we'll do this we'll do the reading uh we'll vote the reading we'll give you the hard vote on the 28th but you have you know the permission to go ahead and start the alarm that's fine Dean do you want to order and then we'll get together and reimburse I'd like to say something about the ordering part right now we're putting this camera out we want to make sure it's a good camera it's going to do its job so you want to test this right yeah I don't want to waste any money and it's not going to do it okay we have the camera installed but now we're trying to we have to reconfigure the camera system and the reason why the cameras are only five I suppose a 5.99 or whatever is because I have created all my radios except two radios it's a 1700 package that's what it costs to do each bus I already did the radio so now the 500 whatever 600 was I gave you the slip on the company but anything 5.95 yeah but I'd like to try that system up first it's it's on the bus but it's not active right now okay we're still we've still got glitches to get through with it but I want to make sure that the camera is going to be good enough to do its job before we go out and spend that money that's a good point okay all right so we're going to go through the bus I think you have the approval of the board we'll work it and superintendent it'll work with you and the chief and we'll get this thing squared away I think I think it's on every parent's mind um so then until that time I know the chief is is providing some uh some covert uh operation there so give us the location of the times and we'll address that we do have a Camp angle starting next week with all the speeding and we'll appropriate and school bus by the way just let us know and I'm ready we appreciate you guys thank you very much anything else you want to mention on school buses I think you want to mention Kevin that um uh the interior cameras I just said Ken did you have something no Ryan he asked if Brian that was back up I did I did wonder though about educating I mean you know we think um it's common sense to stop Crucible bus but sometimes educating or reminding everybody like putting it out there because then maybe the buzz gets out like this has been a concern and people talk and neighbors and we can find a flyer find a way to remind people use our message boarding because I think Kevin made a French letter John people put our message to get the message out there exclusively but I hate to say this but we've been passing the right side also oh she's Chris yeah that's terrible not this year it was about a year ago that happened the Public Services well you you all did a great job with years ago um my kids used to have to cross very Corner if you remember and they were speeding by there and now you come up Charlotte Meadow and turn on closet because cars just buzz around the Box they come up and I still have the concern there's some parents that don't want their child on Cherry Brook Road is one of them that don't want them to do that route and then get dropped off on the way back so I have them have to call the board and we have to figure that out because I just got a list from the driver yesterday because I'm concerned about that and it's the parents that went on the cross but I don't want them across yeah yeah they just want to get up with us early it's going to do a whole room yeah um I think there's like seven of them we have to deal with and I didn't I just got this yesterday so you know and so you're Route 11 that we discussed yesterday it was fixed today and he was 10 minutes early at the intermediate so route 11.

if we go out a little further how many is a school district alumni graduated more than a year ago our current world is citrus college 500 points and currently our citrus college total population students enrolled in the college this fall there are 1233 current students who are arrested we're really proud honored that well one of our most memorable events this year as it was in many school districts was commencement or graduation what a joyous time it was held on june 18th at citrus college and this was the first time we had in person since 2019. we were able overall we had 1799 students graduate from citrus college in june of 2022 many students achieved multiple certificate awards in total 2156 total degrees were awarded in the top programs being business administration psychology pre-allied health sociology child development and education in addition to these disciplines which allow students to earn an associate's degree and continue a pathway towards four-year college or university we're very proud of citrus college to offer numerous robust career technical education programs that prepare students for the workforce where they can earn certificate uh specific areas of focus and even in those areas they can pursue education beyond for a bachelor's degree but to share some examples we awarded a total of 2141 certificates in those top programs last year including cosmetology and barbering administration justice child development uh early childhood education studies commercial music and life nursing outstanding group allied health uh program and now i'd like to share a brief video with you this is footage from our 2022 commencement ceremony that highlights the best of our students remind us of the work taking place with our partners for this picturesque college that continues to impact lives so thank you for the video [Music] so so as we get ready to conclude we just uh once again like to thank you for the time hope you can see some of the fruition of our students at citrus college all the hard work i think everybody in this room understands difficulties the last few years students in our these citrus college students that we just saw in the video the same they persevered they pushed through they finished their classes they changed formats famous here the staff the teachers the faculty format learning how to go online still pushing through finishing credit units it's just really recommend we really look forward to that continued partnership on how we can how we can partner to serve more students and serve the community so thank you for allowing us to share this time and we would be happy to answer any of the questions you guys may have i just want to thank you for this great presentation and you are it become yearly would be great so we can make you know know what's going on i know uh citrus college is a great college but um knowing even more it's you know it's even better i think but i also like you your uniforms your ties when you start working together long enough yeah it was it was uh we showed up we met each other we have said one time we're going to end up winning this is how we do we just channel it we end up wearing the same same outfit any other comments oh yeah i mean this is really great i'm wonderful to see you here i think my question for you dr schultz is around thinking about um deepening expanding partnerships where do you where do you see that going next both through conversations with our partners we can explore a number of things we can we would like to be able to offer more and we recognize that in both of our desires to do that we have to carefully analyze what's our capacity facility use the staff and so forth but we're definitely in a position to strategically accept the number of offerings we have and and also i would say the variety of off available ethnic studies was very exciting something at citrus college we have i think studies courses one of the things that i'm working with our college to do is to move towards hiring of additional full-time students and i know from talking with our special and we're excited about so whether it's studies whether it's or offering that students can get college credit and earn credit towards an associate bachelor's degree wherever they go to college or university and also career technology we offer any of those so what we try our best to do is to work closely with be good partners we know that families parents goals so leadership um may have different desires type offering that we can offer but we're really prepared to do all of it we just want to be good listeners but my hope is as we move forward we'll continue to build our best is uh listen if there's any adjustments we see help you serving children in the assistant school district but hopefully where we see it leading to enhanced strengthening the number type of dual home force offered you do you still have your automotive um i didn't see it in here but you do have the autumn your automotive that was a great program too we do and we've got phenomenal depart our students go to work they'd like them to go to work before they finish we like them to finish and then go right to work as one brief example we got a phenomenal program with toyota usa we just had the national managers at our campus talk with our faculty lead but it's got incredible state-of-the-art equipment students are learning on computers the diagnostic that's that's a great example of one of the many technical programs thank you students were being hired before they finished the program they were they were hired as they were finished program out of that i did go to your own house at one time and it's a it's a beautiful program to have let me offer this in this enclave the board um anybody on your staff that you'd like to send we are going to have two community days one in october and another in in the spring i would love to have you guys come on campus and just be able to tour the camp what's going on so i'll extend that invitation out to you uh the board and your staff i'll send an invitation over whoever can make it and come down and view the beautiful campus i'll commit dr schultz to a lunch there and uh and uh and get to see what's going on by the way i went to citrus and from when i well that was a long time ago but when i went to citrus i mean you could see the difference in anybody who lives in the area you just drive by you're like well i never noticed that building before oh is that new and it is and it is it definitely has vastly grown and grown for the better and they're we're continually trying to improve i will extend that out well just just want to say thank you incredible partnership i'm grateful to to serve this community and and to do so in partnership with you all so thanks for the presentation and for all you continue to do and with that we will move to 10.2 approval of agreement for development consulting services with dcg strategies uh mr ortega thank you for president um um as a as a director of the board of education um the district went out uh submitted a put out an rfq for uh development consulting services um through a wide as net as we as we possibly could uh we had three companies uh submit a proposal [Music] myself our attorneys and two board members had the opportunity to interview the three firms and it was unanimous that we would be bringing a consultant agreement with dcg strategies and so it is here for a board consideration make a motion to approve second move by board member rodriguez penis seconded by moved by foreign cruz gonzalez seconded by board member rodriguez pena any other discussion um i'll just say um i've actually had the opportunity i was not involved at all in any of this election as you know i though but i but i've had the opportunity to hear their executive direct or their whatever their leader is speak before um the school members and i was very impressed in terms of the vision of being driven from what's best for schools and students and really an equity focus and so i think um i think i'm i'm looking forward to see what happens because i know i know i get questions in the community around what's going to happen with all the prop what are you guys doing so i think this is the good first step for us to really figure out what's going to happen with the properties that we now have any other comments with that we will move to a vote and that motion passes four yes to one absent moving on to 11.0 consent calendar and specifically 11.1 which is approval of all items under the consent calendar all matters listed under the consent calendar are considered to be by the board to be routine in nature and enacted in one motion there will be no discussion of these items unless requested by a board member if a board member requests discussion that item will be removed from the consent calendar and considered separately with that is there a motion to approve 11.1 i'd like to pull 11.19 so um so i'd like to make a motion to approve the consent calendar with their with the removal of 11 19.

so now we're at cop 27 in and we'll see just um how that goes but uh uh we've got a lot of work to do and I don't know if you know this website I I find it refreshing every once in a while the chest check how much carbon do we have left to emit into the environment well here it is this is the 1.5 degree Centigrade scenario this is the two of course we we didn't we don't want to go for that two degree scenario we want to go for the 1.5 so notice that number 289 gigatons of CO2 left to emit okay so I'm going to put that in a little bit of context um in 2020 if if it looked as if we may be peaking emissions and let's just assume for a second that we did which we didn't and you drew a line directly from 2020 Peak emissions down to 2050 as the um you know cop 21 uh prescribed uh 2050 right the area underneath that line is equivalent to 600 gigatons of CO2 so in 2020 we had 340 gigatons of CO2 left to emit so so if this is this was like best case scenario straight line to 2050.

so those meetings will occur during our professional collaboration time and the role of the cohort like the bar facilitators is actually to plan and organize provide data and work with the administrative team ensure to ensure that the um the the data cycles and the meetings for those Grade 9 and 10 teams run smoothly let's go I'll say just further discussion yes I remember exactly why when they came before us and the work they did with the students this is definitely something we need to should be supported anything further dollars in favor anyone oppose HVAC instructor John so we're looking to replace uh AC instructor who is our brand new instructor that uh resigned before the first day but we need to repost for the position um excuse me okay the recommendation from the superintendent discussion all those all those in favor they want to pose future agenda items admissions policy update MCAS or MCAS uh strategic strategies and at this time the chair would like to the ongoing projects like the table left Mr hate that was Mr Hayden brought in like the table that at this time you have a motion to table discussion all those in favor go ahead and Francis no just well no just the ongoing ongoing uh projects I don't see any discussion here from the MCAS and do you have anything to add to the mcasister any of that um I didn't see anything listed here not not no not just not the table but to move a future items future agenda values yes we're good we're tabling right now the ongoing projects that was that was by Mr Hayden had brought that up at the last meeting and he was unable to make this evening because the increase in the MCAT scores so we're going to move that to the next meeting sure we can move that to the next meeting certainly we can move all three of these admission policy the MCAS uh strategies and uh the ongoing projects have a motion to table those three items uh discussion all those in favor aye I want to pull anyone opposed okay uh this time we need there is a need for an executive session for the purpose of collective bargaining correct I have a motion foreign could you call the roll when you have a moment please huh I got two seconds so I got a second and a third I got a second and a third yes we'll be coming back here to adjourn foreign yeah well I don't know the hiring another bus company uh I think we should do something myself personally um on that idea I mean the bus situation at the moment is uh impossible I don't uh I don't think it's I'm sorry I don't think it should so and I think we should do it as uh as early as uh as tomorrow especially if uh a bus company can uh can step did they say they could step in as early as tomorrow we'll be able to do it tomorrow because we'd have to negotiate a contract yeah okay sign an agreement and make sure they have the proper credentials safety uh in their buses meet all the safety standards right I understand that yeah okay and uh I I I'd also like to I'd like somebody to add to this motion too that we direct our legal Council to expedite it uh sometimes a legal counsel has a tendency to put us to the back burner I know that wasn't nice to say but uh I think it's uh I don't I don't think it's something that can wait three weeks for a legal opinion myself personally I think we need to take care of this so whoever wishes to try to repeat that good luck I think I will not need to repeat that because Janet caught all of that his emergency situation we're having kids on buses for almost waiting for buses for almost two hours before getting home and then having to expect them to do their school work and be here the next morning I make them emotion discussion all those with favor one opposed any further business superintendent uh no the chair accept the motion to adjourn second all those in favor anyone to oppose thank you very much well good luck yes absolutely [Music]

and we did that with Kevin John so um I also want to let the board know that um all of the buses have cameras installed so we can view what's happening on the inside of the bus as well Mr Martel took care of that also and um you know I just want to thank uh Mr Martell for his Recruitment and ability to retain the drivers forward Hotel Transportation thank goodness we have not had as many vacancies as other districts have had which is which have caused problems in other districts so even throughout the pandemic thank you Dean for all of your efforts we really appreciate it Dean just recently uh donated um the time of the bus is to take the kindergartners on their kindergarten orientation tour and also the new teachers who were around town so thank you for your support thank you Stephen thank you Dean thank you Chief thanks for coming tonight we appreciate you thank you very much um all right so we're gonna we're gonna pause to let Mike we're gonna go to our public forum for everybody that's still with us and this was an unusual night because we had the uh the commuters here but Mike represents the Granby Canton football team and wants to give us a little bit of an update on where they are in their budget thank you thanks for being patient no problem um yeah so friends of playing football um you don't know is a registered non-profit we've been around for about 20 years and our we're fundraisers and our mission is to uh support and promote football in the town of Canton um first of all I know this pandemic has been not so thank you for for all you guys do I know it's been a crazy couple years um what I just hand it out is our budget so uh before we go through the budget because I think the budget tells a story um do you want to mention football right now in this town has never been better our youth program the mud Hogs went to the Super Bowl for B team and C team B team one uh the numbers are are growing our flag program has over 400 players in it uh it's really grown big time and our Co-op is great um you know we we co-op with Granby they're the host uh school but um we went to the class end second round playoffs two years in a row and uh you know I would I look at it as you know we're playing Big Boy High School football right for the first time in a long time um so I know the town I know the town loves the football program uh come we're gonna whack uh winter winter locks on September 30th that's the Canton game um come come check us out uh we you know we have a a real solid team this year I think we're better than last year to be honest with you despite the week one loss but um so we our numbers okay we have 20 Canton players six are Hartford families okay uh so friends of Canton football right now we last year we were three families right that are responsible uh for the budget that you're looking at and you know proud of the report that we picked up two more families so now we're at five so uh just real quick I know I'm going to get out of here in two minutes um so if you had a son or a grandson if so if you and if tackle football I know football is part of the mission football if Khalil we're here I mean I've seen what football's done to that kid uh all through the youth level um at our golf tournament Khalil took it upon himself because we had the golfers helping everybody with their bags and Khloe was a leader Club ran that whole thing and uh I have no doubt that Chloe you know is who he is but one of the reasons who he is is because of football uh so if you if if you were uh like me and you wanted to play well we we have to uh we have to fundraise thirty four thousand dollars uh the bus right I don't know about I'm guessing the basketball and the soccer team they don't the parents don't pay for the bus right so the football families have to pay for the bus uh and you know that's going to be a cost of about 18 Grand um we pay a ten thousand dollar seven or ten Thousand Seven sixty uh Co-op fee uh we pay a three thousand dollar pay to play fee uh we feed these kids like you know listen feed these kids throughout for you know home games and stuff that's what boosts their clubs and fundraisers should be doing um you know so you're asking a lot from Three Families last year five families this year it's a big it's a big number to uh to come up with uh we do get four thousand dollars this year from you guys which is great and then you can see the uh the other income so I'm gonna close with this is that you know uh just wanted to get that out there show you the numbers um and that you know if I lived in Avon if I moved any town outside of this or you know you talk to other programs talk to other co-ops try Ops talk to other towns right no one's dealing with this I mean when they fundraise they're sending their team out of state you know they're buying fun stuff for the kids I mean they're doing all the fun stuff that a booster club is supposed to do uh but you know if football's important to this town which I think it is if football is important to the board of ed uh which I hope it is um you know my I just got one ask is uh I don't know maybe pay for the bus or uh any little bit you can increase uh we go a huge a huge uh you know way to keep football in this town uh short drive right they're the host school they have they we have eight unbelievable coaches the hours our coaches have put in before the season started is mind-blowing uh the kind of these guys have put in so uh five home games ones in Camp yeah oh by the way our golf tournament is our big annual thing uh right every year uh this year eight holes into it storm so uh you know we did okay but did we we lost it we we could have done a lot better if we weren't for mother nature that hurt us so back to the back of the drawing board thank you Mike thank you guys so my my observation on this is um so if you take what the board of education is providing it's about 206 dollars per student for this Sport and I'd be interested in how that compares to to other sports uh between you know the busing and uniforms and all the other things that we do I mean it sounds like we're a little bit I would think sounds like we might be a little bit late what we provide for for this this team and there should be equity and parity uh there um so it'd be interesting to find out when the athletic director you know on average what are we spending Sports wise thank you well I know the sports they take in 125 per person um and like my daughter plays volleyball the food is not provided we actually actually have to pay for that any additional food so it's on top of that 125 I know or a regular sport but we can look into would you say if you aggregate them um you know just 206 a reasonable number is it is it anemic and we should we shouldn't provide these kids you know some type of Equity they can certainly look into it you know I just paid like 295 for volleyball Kim Church does a study every year so we have those numbers on our fingertips she's not here tonight but we'll so Mike we'll take we'll take a look at it okay thank you can I ask a question sure please I don't know I may be completely not entertaining why how did the football program funding different than say soccer or field hockey it's not part of the athletic program the dates back to November 2006 when um the Canton Board of Education at that time agreed to allow a team but it needed to be um the cost with Matt was not supported at that time by the board of education project it was to be the cost was to be provided by fundraising efforts so we fast forward now we're part of a co-op with Granby and this is the agreement that was developed to become part of that Co-op a few years yeah so the town had an issue with the fact that football is an expensive Sport and we were funding it ourselves so you can imagine you know what the cost was for 36 38 kids shoulder pads helmets and so on and so forth so we put a cap and we left it to the uh to their own booster club to form and fundraise to the board had always given a x amount of dollars trying to keep parity you know because of the other sports but it sounds like during that time frame you know 206 dollars sounds to me a little bit light if you take the average but we'll find out because that's that's how it all came about do we know what Granby contributes do they can shoot like because we're playing we have 20 Canton families right playing and they have 30 grand baby so I have no idea what their budget looks like I have no no idea I mean to see how Brandy funds their their portion of the football program is it fully funded by the district is it partially funded it'd be interesting to see where they are and what they contribute on an average basis just to give us an analysis thank you yes that was an answer was it well I I guess it is it real is it part of the athletic program or is it like we're donating to the football club no it's it's it's a million percent part of the athletic program okay yeah okay that's it I just want to make sure but um but Russell the agreement um maybe in the agreement what boards in the past have supported was um offering to pay half the cost of a coach or the cost of a full court coach I'm not remembering now but but what it comes down to is four thousand dollars in our athletic budget goes to support football that's all you know in 2011 .

is there a second second so the moved by board member cruz gonzalez seconded by board member rodriguez pena and with that we will move to a vote for president thank you student preference yes thank you with that we'll move to a vote yes and now we're ready to vote and that motion passes for yes to one absent and with that 11.19 now becomes 12.1 approval of advancement grant program agreement between zeus unified school district and los angeles county arts and culture is there a motion to approve make a motion to approve 12.1 you have a second a second and without any discussion yeah i have i um so i have some questions about this i'm not i mean i'm very supportive of it obvious uh but um so the the agenda item actually references an assistant unified school district strategic arts plan right and i think arthur i think thank you for sending that a copy of that to me and so um um i'm not sure if it's appropriate right now but maybe um at a follow-up meeting um i'd like to i so i was able to look at the plan and it talked about having clear measurable outcomes right and being able to track them and i i feel as a board i'm not sure that we've really ever talked about those um and really where are we on those and so i'd like to be able to get um an updated at a board meeting in person right talking about what is that plan where are we on it was it delayed because of the pandemic how are we in implementation how did where do we see it going next um i think the investment in elementary school art teachers is a very good first step right and i appreciate that we've done that um and so i just want to make sure that we're just doubling down on art and thinking about how do we strengthen the program um i know we've invested in staff i know we've heard of the past we really need to be investing in the materials for teachers to offer quality programs so this can be an opportunity for that conversation um so i'm hoping that could happen soon um and one of the next like and then hopefully maybe the next board meeting we could have a conversation about it um yes we can organize something and for the board and yeah there was some delay with the implementing plan but i think i'm interested with our plans on elementary any other questions or discussion and we will move to a vote that motion passes four yes to one absent this brings us to 13.0 business and finance and specifically 13.1 approval of contract for hvac design and construction services between azusa unified school district and wilden energy services is there a motion to approve a motion to approve 13.1 [Music] you have a second a second moved by board member rodriguez pena seconded by board member bo and any well before we we move into a vote uh mr mall would you would you kindly um share a bit about what this means uh for what this would mean for our district yes i happily so i'm last year i'm under board um authorization we were able to solicit on the service of mr uh wildan company to utilize our sr3 dollars where they're doing an energy um savings audit where they walked our entire district all of our facilities to assess all of our hvac units we have 598 units and with this approval of this contract they'll be replacing 378 units it's important to note that i just want to share that until these new units get in we are not going to stop our efforts that we are to continue to repair and rehab what we have but this will give us opportunity um as long as we procure the items to have all um 378 new hvac units for the startup next school year can you would you mind sharing with with that so there's if i did rough calculations somewhat over 100 units that are not being replaced can can you elaborate as to why that is the case yes because we have um some units that um were purchased within the last five to six years and so they'll still have a useful life and so this um contract would replace all of our hvac units that have exceeded the useful life any other questions or comments on the board i i do okay i'll wait yeah my question is so um how would they categorize which ones you're going to work on first so the ones that are need more help more work or you know how are you going to determine which schools or what which ac's you're going to need work yeah so we're actually um under will then they'll manage the project but we are going to do a rfp where we're going to um um contract with several contractors all at once versus just doing one side at a time and what the goal is um to start as soon as we procure the items um we get approval today um according to the contract they're looking at that there's a 40 week lag time of getting um items but as soon as we have them we're going to start replacing them as they go and versus just waiting so they're all here i just like to be sure that you're not just focusing on different schools that we're working to all the schools throughout all schools that want all schools yes ma'am just have a question um so my understanding and i don't know all the specifics but i might understand that there are some state funding available um like grant funding that you can apply for to be able to get hvac replacement and you know because it's now not connected to air quality so have we pre and i appreciate us i know we've we've allocated dollars in esther to best of three to be able to spend on this but have we pursued those grant opportunities to see maybe we can get some state funding to also help the offset some of the costs yes ma'am and we were awarded um the allocation we received last year um was over a million dollars over a million dollars and we utilize um those funds to up upgrade our thermostats um so every time there's been a grant we've utilized our grant writer and we've been soliciting for every grant that's been out there okay a million doesn't seem like a lot of money when you're talking about 378 units completely agree we're only awarded what the state gives us any other questions um how does the replacement units impact the repair work that we're currently doing and waiting for part so um for every um for all the units that we're replacing parts those items will be replaced meaning the units will be replaced um if we replace the item that's on this list like we have one unit we had three that was at um valley dale i'm at the right school yes three npr we replaced those so now that will decrease this 378 so if we replace items on our own and we're able to procure those items it would decrease the amount of hvac that the contract would actually have to replace okay so i guess if i were to say well if we just repaired something this year um i guess what kind of confidence do we have that the repair is sufficient are we only repairing end of life or our units that have exceeded their their useful life and then just repairing the units that still have useful life so this contract will replace all of the units the 370 units that are extended their past useful life internally our staff is working to repair the units that we currently have even those that have exceeded the useful life because we still need to try to make them operable until we're able to get the new unit in thank you um and then in terms of i mean it feels like it feels like we're having a crunch right and so thinking about future planning um what how how are we gonna how are we planning internally so that we have like a regular schedule of replacement and um and maintenance so that we know um and maybe we can paste this out so it's not like we're replacing so many units at once but we're able to sort of refresh unit along the way and it becomes less i mean we're lucky right now we have a lot of money coming from the federal government right you're right yes if we didn't have that it would look very different right now so what are we doing in terms of future planning because we know even these units are going to have a shelf life right they're not going to so what are we doing in terms of planning so that we don't see this happening again um so first um we've recreate we created a 10 year deferred maintenance plan um second we're also i'm investing in our staff to have training on the new units so that way we could do preventative maintenance versus just letting stuff fester until it just doesn't work anymore there's gonna be a twofold approach and we're going to be allocating funds so on our 10-year plan we're allocating the funds that we're putting in fund 14 which is our deferred maintenance spend as well as identify okay how many units can we replace over each year and those funds will be set aside for that the same thing we're going to do with our vehicles and how many steps do we have dedicated just to hvac or do we right now we currently do not have trace specific positions well we have our pink brand i i i felt it i felt it but we do not have trace specific what we have is what's called maintenance two maintenance three where they're our trades um our staff are um they have identified at least a minimum of two trades that they could do but we do not have certified employees a certified certification for each of our trades and that's our goal to get there yeah so once upon a time we did have somebody who or more than one person who had just who had that was their area and they were that they were they did the hvac i think when those when those people were retired so i think that's something to think about and because it's been quite a while since we've had that expertise of the a person just focused with that expertise on our staff completely agree wait brian i said you see you have three people that sort of work on the hvac three guys that have had experiential training not necessarily formal okay and last question i have what is what is the expected life cycle for these new units that are coming in 15 to 20 years any other questions okay and we'll move to a vote and the motion passes four yes to one absent moving on then to uh 13.2 approval of 2021 2022 unaudited actuals financial report and we will begin uh with info yes sir one second to present my screen all right first before i begin i want to take this opportunity to thank um shannon norris our director of physical services and her team for the hard work and effort this is a culmination of where we're going to present um how we're closing out the 21-22 fiscal year so here is where we are um we are at one of the four required budget reporting cycles and so we are unadded actuals in september and we'll be in front of you again in december for our first interim which is addressing our current year adopted budget so what are unaudited actuals um this is a requirement per education code 42100 um audited actuals is just um is simply a report where the staff is closing out all the books we're identifying if we paid all of our expenditures accounting for our revenues and then we present to the board by september 15th our projections of our unaudited actuals and then in december our auditor will come in to give us what we call our grade to say yeah or nay if our numbers our projections were correct and if we close our books completely and accurately any questions and i'm open to questions throughout so here we're going to talk about our general fund revenue and again this is our revenue from last year so we're just closing out last year we do not this presentation does not identify our revenues for this year so for our general fund revenue for the 21 22 school year we received approximately 129.3 million dollars with 71 of that coming from our lcf revenue sources 15 of our revenue was received from our state aid and 9 from our federal revenue and 5 from our local revenue of our lcf dollars um from that that was which projected estimated actuals we projected that we were going to receive 91.47 in lcff revenue and we received 91.7 million this increase was just a change in our actual ada of 299 000 any questions on our total revenue for 21.22 yes ma'am does this general fund revenue include one-time monies yes ma'am this is our total um general fund revenue from unrestricted and restricted dollars and what percentage and dollar amount are represented by one-time monies um we're represented by one-time money i can give you that number i don't have that number right in front of me um it's just this i can get that number for you dr bill thank you you're welcome and here we're going to go about our total general fund expenditures our total general fund expenditures equated to 120 million 100 120.7 million dollars um of that approximately over 73 percent of our expenditures are to our employees 22 was allocated for employee benefits 14 was classified salary and 39 were certificated salary um 16 is for other services that's our contracted um services and salaries um transfers and other out goals will be 3 percent and books this implies equated to seven percent of our total expenditures for this year any questions on our expenditures for the 21 22 square so here we're going to um talk about our revenues to expenditures and this is where we identify if we deficit spend or if we ended the year with a surplus so as we shared our total revenues for the 2122 school year was 129.3 million unless our expenditures and transfers out that was 120 million point seven and that gave us an increase of our ending fund balance of 8.5 million dollars from there we go to our components of any fund balance [Music] here this identifies our total unrestricted ending fund balance we have our three percent reserve that we met which was 3.6 million dollars we have our evolving fund which is 25 000 we have a prepaid expenditure as well as our aea reserve that's approximately over 998 000 um we do have our concentration add-on um that we're assigning of 2.7 million dollars and we also have our supplemental concentration l-cap um i do want to point out that we have a 3.1 million dollars which is a supplemental concentration carryover but that is specifically due to delivery delay so we actually have planned expenditures but we only can account expenditures if the goods or services are received on it before june 30th so those expenditures have been materialized by the time of closing the books since the goods were services weren't there we assigned them funds at any balance and with that that concludes our presentation of 2122 i want to see if we have any questions yes ma'am i have questions on this on this slide actually um so can you talk a little bit about the um the reserves focused on future rising costs and what and what we're thinking that's going to be applied to yes so we're um for future rising costs such as um stirs and purse um step and column um and any other initiatives that we may have we just have those funds allocated and set aside so primarily around staffing costs and okay um and then in terms of so with the the supplemental concentration delivery delay so are you saying that those are like materials and supplies or is it also services so maybe staffing materials that's all matures and supplies um it seems like a significant amount of dollars so i'm wondering maybe if you have examples of like what what's in that that was delayed is that is that normal like i can get that breakdown for you but i mean like for example is it like we ordered yeah so it'd be good to understand what that is because i mean is it instrument is it like you know what what kind of materials and supplies are being delayed and then just wondering about like what what happened last year in classrooms if they people didn't have what they expected to have right or or you know is it books um so and then in terms of the supplement the all cups of winter concentration dollars so i see a two point run a two and a half million dollar um reserve from last year and so um i'm just wanting to understand like what are our intentions with that if i mean if if that's money that we didn't expend and i know i know in paso arturo you've been really good about tracking even down to actions and services what how far we're spending um so it'd be good to understand like what what didn't get spent last year and in what areas um so i'm not sure i know you've had that information first before in the past so yeah i mean off the top of your head do you know like maybe some of the big areas or is it like or or or is that something you'd have to give to us later on um we can give you a breakdown but i can say this is primarily due to we have we had a lot of one-time funds that had to have a spend by date of june 30th and so we had some expenditures that could have been allocated that was assigned to supplement concentration we were able to utilize those funds and so to still ensure that we have those funds available for the goals that said in lcap we have assigned them here okay well then it'd be good to have a conversation about it feels like there's like this extra one-time dollar sitting out there then if that's if we start a supplanted other fed like one time dollars for these stuff think about like what are what are the best uses of those dollars right to enhance what we're already planning on doing and so i'd appreciate having that conversation and then the last question is around the other big chunk and that's the add-on grant right which um my understanding includes requirements to increase staffing yes ma'am and so um one how much of that add-on did we spend last year so is it at one just percentage-wise is this like a big portion of it is it like we spent most of it and this is part of it um do you know that i can get that for you because i don't want to just throw out a number but i mean just roughly like did we like i'm trying to get a sense like is it on the is it an order of magnitude like we you know we spent like we're able to spend half of it or like we really didn't touch it because we weren't hiring stuff we didn't we didn't hire this stuff we did not spend majority of our concentration add-on so so and then that continues this year right so we're going to get additional dollars this year for that yes but we have a spending plan for this year so we've been i'm hiring our resident subs um and then we actually and i don't want to take on miss norma's um thunder but we're doing our residence subs i wrote this down because i was gonna be ready for this i think norma can answer we're also um looking to add uh teachers with uh who would support um combination classes take on um so if you have a second and third grade combination it becomes very challenging to teach two grade levels of mathematics so this um the additional feature would be able to support those combos that have different grades okay and then i mean what do you anticipate happening now then because it sounds like we're gonna we have a plan for this year's dollars but if last year's dollars also have a requirement to hire additional staffing i mean how do we anticipate making that happen right because for right now that money is ongoing right i think it's not not going to be ending correct so do we have a plan for that yes and i believe um i'm not going to say i believe we have our presentation come up in october we're identifying all of our one-time funds and this is one of our categories and i think we can address that during that presentation that would be great okay welcome any other questions or comments okay then with that this is also an action item and so the approval is also on the floor so is there a motion make a motion to approve we haven't no i don't believe we've done a promotion in a second yet no make a motion to approve 13.2 a second moved by board member rodriguez pena and seconded by board member cruz gonzalez any additional discussion no but i just think we should just recognize the hard work of our finance department staff i know it's a big effort to put all this together and especially with all the one-time dollars i'm sure there's a lot of work that goes into this um and trying to meet the september 15th deadline so just want to see okay then we will move to a student preferential vote all right thank you and now we'll move to above and it passes 4 yes to one absent this brings us to 13.3 approval of contract between azusa unified school district and safe and sound security is there a motion on the floor make a motion to approve 13.3 a second moved by board member rodriguez pena seconded by board member beau any discussion student please um have an explanation item please yes so this is our first of many steps to improve our safety and security of our campuses um this first phase would allow us to install perimeter surveillance on all of our campus to ensure that we have no blind spots this also gives us a surveillance monitoring where we can utilize and see the activities on our campus from our cell phones as well as our computers and is that what's like uh motion or body heat or you know motion body heat and even to the point that um we can grow and expand so we can work in partnership with our own police department to say hey we saw someone with a red shirt they can go on our computers our system and to look for anyone with a red shirt or if they're looking for someone as well when you're if someone's home they can see it in the monitor like we do like a ring exactly yes ma'am same older right yes ma'am great yeah any other questions okay we'll move to a vote [Music] student preferential though yeah and now we'll move to a vote and the motion passes for yes to one absent this brings us to 13.4 approval of resolution 222306 fund 17 special reserve for other than capital outlay fund balance commitment is there a motion a motion to approve 13.4 high second moved by board member rodriguez pena seconded by board member cruz gonzalez any discussion student preferential vote yes and we will move to a vote and the motion passes four yes to one absent which brings us to 14.0 policies and bylaws where we have three items first reading each these are info items 14.1.2 and 0.3 are there any questions comments or anything to note for any of these first readings of these policies hearing none these will return to the following subsequent board meeting during our consent calendar and bring us to 15.0 and specifically 15.1 actually that's not true we will not adjourn because we have some unfinished closed session business but we will move to close session and then we will return uh you

and we're emitting almost twice as much carbon as we have left to emit in fact it's more like this this is what we need to do 20 50 is too late because we've squandered all these years we've got to reduce by 20 30 65 percent of our emissions in order to think that we're going to hit that uh 300 gigaton of CO2 Mark it's really just about carbon so you know I love the discussion earlier with Brett about how challenging it is to to put these policies into practice right but I think we don't remind ourselves enough of what we're trying to solve here and how important it is and how significant it is if we don't so you know so for me 18 years from now carbon neutral buildings Net Zero Energy buildings need to be standard practice wow yeah pretty much across the world let's just try to you know see if we can do it in the United States but um but this is across the world so what does that mean for me what it means as an architect and developer and Builder it's that because I'm not a fan of carbon offsets buying you know the math there just doesn't work for me how about we all just design buildings that can generate enough energy on their own footprint let's just try to do that right let's see if we can do that within Urban environments it's challenging no question about it um so is that possible this is a typical row home up and down the East Coast this one in Philadelphia this is about how much energy that that home needs to survive um could this become a Net Zero Energy building it could but it would need a roof that's five times as big as what it has right so if that's all it's got then the consumption of energy inside the building needs to be equally reduced by 80 percent okay so how do you do that what's the how do you make that happen Well turns out we all know that heating and cooling of that building is more than half the issue so what's the best heating and cooling system out there to me it's a coat if you have a really well insulated coat that's airtight um you don't need anything inside other than other than your body heat that's the essence of passive house passive house is a fabric first approach to thinking about designing buildings to meet this challenge if you think about the fabric the envelope of the building first it's actually the cheapest place to guarantee Energy Efficiency over time um you can reduce your energy consumption by up to 80 percent within a building we we know how to do this you know that if you poured soup hot soup into that plastic cup versus this thermos how long it would take for that plastic cup for the for the soup to get cold right we know how to wrap uh a thermos in an envelope that's airtight and really well insulated so that that hot liquid can stay hot for days days without any energy um that's what pass passive house is all about it's thinking about the building as this as this really tight well-insulated coat and that you warm the space up as much as you possibly can with the free energy of the sun that's how you heat it well what about cooling it well Yeti Coolers you can put ice in a Yeti cooler without any heat pump and that ice will stay there for days Days right we know how to do this and uh I don't know if you have heard about the icebox challenge it's been this thing that's taken off around the the world um uh passive house aficionados have said let's demonstrate the whole The Wonder of a passive house envelope what if we take a ton of ice put it on a platform and then put a little a little uh code built building over top of that ton of ice and then do the same thing right next to it and wrap that in a passive house envelope and then set it out in the sun for 18 days and see what happens and so this is in I think this is in Canada uh there's that ton of ice and then the passive house envelope is coming down being put over it this is a this is one that was done in Philadelphia on the left is the code built building and on the right is the passive house building and those are the blocks of ice and they put them on 18 days later guess what happened the code building the ice is gone the passive house building more than half of it is there so neat it's a Yeti cooler it's pretty easy to visualize but this is what we really need to understand this is a passive house Brownstone uh retrofit that was done in the middle of this row of buildings this is what our cities are really about we're just heating our streets right so and this isn't about just passive houses this is about uh any building type it doesn't matter the size the scale the typology the same basic five principles are what matter super airtight really well insulated building good thermal envelope with without any Bridges between the outside and the inside of course high performance windows and doors and then when you make it that well insulated and airtight you've got to give it a lung to breathe so the other wonderful thing about passive house is that it's Superior indoor air quality so it's the healthiest indoor air environment possible and we this is all we do and we do it around the country where I could give a whole presentation on our retrofit we're into we're trying to tackle the really difficult nut of retrofits uh across this country with several projects in the Boston area we're doing large-scale small scale this is a we've got a mass Timber Tower uh 16 Story Tower passive house Net Zero tower that we're doing in Philadelphia some projects that are under construction um big and small um uh all around the country and all passive house all going for uh Net Zero Energy it it that's all we do and so I thought I might show you a couple of projects that we've actually done this was in 2015 uh 26 townhome development uh when we can Orient our buildings to the South we do depends on the size and orientation of the site in this case we did we created these um three blocks of buildings that face South that we could really control the sun in the summer and winter and then created these Muses in between but I also like to say that it's not enough to know how to design uh differently designing uh Net Zero buildings as standard we've got to totally rethink how we build them too because we've been building buildings one stick at a time in the rain sleet and snow on site um for a hundred years more than 100 years and uh I think the construction industry I saw a graph recently the construction industry um uh was looked at in terms of how efficiency and productivity uh over the past hundred years the construction industry is the only one that's gone down compared to any other industry and so for me what that means is prefabrication we've got to start thinking about how we build much better quality more efficient faster uh buildings and factories or panels and factories you'll see and in this case we modularize three of these town homes and this isn't being installed and this is with the plumbing and the electrical a lot of the finishes in place um that's what it looks like uh so the first three were built in our modular Factory we had multiple partners on this project and they had they had relationships with other builders and so they wanted to use those Builders but um all the all the buildings were still built to the same specification pacifist specification and I I also like to push this narrative about um my dad used to say that any good idea has to have at least three functions so I I this is a perfect example if a roof just sheds water it's not a good idea a roof especially in an urban environment needs to do so much more work it needs to manage storm water it needs to generate power for your building it needs to give you outdoor space and Views it needs to reduce the cooling um uh from your the heat in the summertime so I I'm a big fan of integrating systems um because it becomes more efficient more cost effective um people don't let anybody tell you that you can't put a green roof below solar panels you absolutely can it's just about how you do it um and when you make these buildings really tight you've gotta you've got to give it balanced ventilation so we're constantly exchanging air and filtering it inside these buildings and this is one of our first times uh testing how airtight it needs to be and passive house is 0.6 ach-50 and we hit the blower door test here and at 150 dollars a square foot at the time that was the same cost as code Built construction um and uh in terms of uh getting to Net Zero we demonstrated that there's they still can put another 4kw uh on this on each one of these routes and that would get them to zero we've calculated but currently this is this is 12 months worth of data 2500 square foot townhome you know all electric uh all utilities ninety dollars a month um and another 4kw and that would be zero right around the corner in the same neighborhood this is actually a three four sites um uh this was the phase one uh that we did in 1999 phase two which was a lead Platinum uh set of duplexes and then we came back eight years not later nine years later and built phase three which is our passive house project we call the battery um it's a 25 unit apartment building um I won't go into detail about the the systems I'm just going to kind of refer to them I'll talk about systems a little bit later in another project but these are all centralized systems um and and we're focusing a lot these days on which makes the most sense centralized decentralized systems like HVAC and Hot Water Systems so we spend a lot of our time uh testing different approaches to find just the right strategy in this case uh centralized I wouldn't do that again it's one of the things we learned from this anyway ground floor um we had a had 13 parking spaces required a small Lobby and a couple of units really simple double loaded card or mostly one bedroom units couple of two beds and in this case again interested in pre-fabrication but not modular this time the most difficult thing about a passive house is the envelope um you know we didn't want to train an entire uh group of you know contractors on site so we thought let's have the envelope delivered so this is this is a panelized strategy that came uh to site in those pallets we unpacked them these walls uh which have the two by six structure the air barrier built in the rigid insulation continuous rigid insulation weather resistant barrier and the triple pane doors and windows already installed um it actually cost me less to to build this high performance building than it would have cost me if I did it site built because they built this in half the time that they would typically do it the other thing we tested here was the does it make sense to take up the room and the cost of creating individual meters for every single apartment especially if it's a passive house and you know one bedroom apartment might cost twenty dollars a month and why not why not try to why not just simplify that reduce The Upfront costs for the electrical system and have one meter we give tenants a 50 we include a fifty dollar a month utility uh kind of bank account in their rent and we monitor how much they how much energy they use and if they use you know wildly uh more than than they're supposed to then we'll just raise their rent the following year and it's been working really well I mean fifty dollars a month is half what they would be paying in any other apartment building so tenants love it um and it was less uh costly to build and really efficient blower door test day on construction sites it's when the it's when the beer bottles come out and people are excited and this was a fun day because we hit the blower Dart test here's the building uh I I'll I'll just say this one thing the the panels these white panels that you see they have LED lights above them and those LED lights are tied into the energy monitoring system of the building and each one of those lights has an AP IP address connected to each apartment but nobody knows which light is connected to which apartment and so if you're using the allotted amount of energy that you're supposed to your light will go green um but you may be blowing your energy budget your light will glow red or you might be uh kind of in between in this cautionary yellow so this kind of tongue-in-cheek thing that gets built into the architecture that just helps start a conversation about energy and um how we're doing certified fast Fest project uh our largest to date and just under 170 dollars a square foot it was in line with everyday code built build buildings around us um here's here's the east side of the parking underneath uh here's the West facade with those uh shading devices as well as the LED lights and panels and this is a different way of integrating solar into the into a project especially it makes a lot of sense in an urban environment because then you can grow your food these panels are translucent they're bi-facial solar panels and so they're just two pieces of glass there's no opaque backing to it so they let a lot of light in um and they they shade it really wonderfully in the summertime so it's a really great place to hang out um I think this is what a lot of buildings should look like in urban environments um really simple but um intentionally we try to make spaces that feel larger than they are the translucent glass helps um even borrowing light and bringing it into the into a bathroom above a closet uh so you don't turn lights on um motivates us as well we're we're monitoring even though we're not metering um individual consumption and the building uh has an eui um I don't know if you know what eui it's essentially uh miles per gallon uh four buildings um and and a typical eui for this kind of a project would be 59.60 and the eui for this is 10.

so maybe it's time to revisit yeah and revisit and how we want to vote we're a new forward and you know ask yourself if you watch football it was worth it it's important to the town because we wanted so bad we'd like to get another game yeah I think we get more games we have five home games the way a whole school they're the whole school this is important okay this has come up in the past they're the whole school the coaches are based out of there the services are based out of there the program the the we feed the kids every Thursday night on home games the um we do a sleepover Camp I mean all the stuff that uh we paint rocks with their numbers there's so much done and it's uh we have the best of both worlds it's a we are we're not the whole school uh there are 40 co-ops in the state of Connecticut there are two that play games in the non-ho host schools stadium where one of them we should we're lucky to have our own game our home game is going to be booming uh the Boosters club I mean they're going to sell more hot dogs in the hamburgers that night and you know then and then then every other sport up there for the rest of the year so I'm gonna sell crushed ice so I'm going to come out with a crush no that's fine yeah listen we do support it and that's why we love to see more but we understand we know we are so it's an 11 game schedule though correct and then but you can play 11 now who does the scheduling I I don't know okay that's weird their ID is more response is is responsible primarily well so they're the whole school I don't know sure back room but I would probably do the schedule yeah okay yeah yeah and can integrate together Rockville is going to be our big one yeah um you know I'm Cromwell we won the state championship last year that's gonna be a big one yeah all right and you have a Thanksgiving Day game this year no Northwest uh broke up Gilbert um so that schools is no longer so we're Thursday Friday night before thanks that's where you lost your 11th game maybe yeah yeah that's where you lost okay okay thank you Mike thank you we're we're looking at him thank you so it's worth your time to wait yeah no ahead and take some put a win all night take some cookies yeah Martel transport yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah uh martial Transportation supported still supports the pool pump football program when it first came out Martel donated them a thousand dollars and one year we gave that's when it first came out yeah yeah I don't know if we'll have sex on him going into the call um and then uh I'd cut my bosses in half one year I don't know about maybe two years ago but so we did support them no I I listen they transport five days a week six days a week because they gotta get yeah our program is done yeah okay because the parents are not going to be driving to Grandy right and these guys do they do a great job and our kids our our friends get football I get on the bus and remind them that that behavior and you know whatever it is so and then please come off absolutely so thank you thank you thank you ladies okay I just want to say one thing I'm still on right yeah sure I want to thank you for having my bus drivers part of you know appreciation they did a great job um and it really meant a lot to the drivers that that was never done like that before I thank you who is my wife so I don't know oh [Music] um and also before I leave I'd like to introduce it's kind of late now I'd like to introduce myself to give you a little history my name is Dean Martell um I started in Canton in the gas bus that was um standard um and I've been here ever since I was a mechanic for FR teach on Enterprises um and then I bought the company from Frank with Frank teacher oh Joe remember spring um and then Frank bought it from Lloyd Hinman and he was Lloyd's mechanic and I have Lloyd Hammond's son driving he's in his 60s so we have a pretty good history yeah history and yeah thank you for your support the super cool bus no I just go to Google okay yeah you won that you won that um really excellent I donate that to the big deal but they don't have that anymore auction there must be an event though at charity yeah that's my blog for donating 1938 Outback School Bus you should donate um thank you very much thank you thank you Stephen thank you okay do we want to do the rest of public forum for anybody online first we do thank you all right so we'll we'll complete the uh the public forum at this point if any of you online all right I have raised hand from someone named Lisa I'm gonna allow Lisa to Sure hi Lisa go ahead Lisa hi Lisa hi can you hear me yes thank you for uh thank you for being patient on this public pool oh my gosh I am so grateful I I'm gonna keep it brief because it's so late it's like almost past my bedtime but um I I wanted I first of all I regret not being there in person tonight because I really I really did just want to thank Dean and and you Lou and the Canton Police Department and the board of education for their Swift action on the dash cams for the for the buses it's just really important and I I'm really grateful for that um I I actually really want to thank everybody all the volunteers like I everything I heard tonight was so amazing just a PTO and just like the you know the summer program and and the Board of Education you know you're all volunteers and and I don't thank everybody enough you do an amazing job at night I'm really grateful for it um one of the other issues that I I wanted to mention was about uh a Google Classroom daily summary but it's kind of a detailed thing and I'm a little bit too tired to to go into the details so I think what I'm going to do is just send in an email maybe to the Board of Education email and and maybe discuss it at the next time because I'm I'm I want to go home I'm I'm tired I'm sure everybody else wants to go home as well so I just just wanted to say thank you to everybody and um and I'm grateful for to have this hybrid opportunity to to speak even though I can't be there in person tonight it's so nicely to say so and we appreciate the kind words and the comments we don't always hear that so we really appreciate you so thanks thank you so this is uh Kevin super the superintendent how are you yeah well thank you thank you thank you thank you I also want to thank you for your comments tonight uh I'm wondering if uh Mr Bishop can give you a call regarding uh the Google issue you were talking about he actually did and I he said there's going to be an internal audit I just wanted to explain to the Board of Education why it's so important to me and my family but I think it's just better if I do it in an email and then you maybe can pass it around to everybody it's just it's an extremely useful tool in communicating with my student and with the teacher and just um just I've seen it help my daughter who has an IEP she's grown to be more independent because of the Google Classroom daily summary but it's for some reason there's a technical glitch on it Mr Bishop is working on it he's working on it but I just wanted to emphasize the importance of that thank you thank you so much have a good night thank you thank you anybody else from public forum that'd like to speak to the Board of Education you can use the raise hand feature Zoom it's located on the bottom of your screen I don't see any more raised pans okay thank you Carol we're going to close public forum then thank you all for uh for joining and I can obviously stand alive if that will close out public forum thank you okay Mr Case okay all right thank you very much um I want to at this point I want to talk about uh our business office and some issues related to uh for the business office when I say issues in business office Don't Panic nothing nothing Financial um Dynamic ask me who is here um tonight has just been working so hard all summer long um we have an end of the year report that is one of the most important importancy School District can file and it's known as the EFS report educational Finance system and that was due on August 31st and I want to thank Donna for your hard work to get that filed done in a timely manner as you know we have a shared a shared finance office where um several years ago a study was done and it was determined that it was best to share services with the town so Mr Bill Geiger is our shared Finance director or town Treasurer and then we have um Personnel one person uh handles from the um benefits for Town and board event employees another staff member handles accounts payable for the Board of Ed and another staff member handles account handles payroll excuse me for the board event we also have a shared Town accountant whenever one of those positions changes or there's a reshuffling of responsibilities um it really comes down to our business official who at this time is done in our office to take on those additional responsibilities Our Town accountant has left the position and we're currently searching for a another person to take that position I say that to let you know that those responsibilities have now fallen on Danish openers adding to the list of things that she needs to continue to do normally we would have had a finance meeting tonight to look at our July and August financials but because of everything that Donna is doing we weren't able to meet the deadline so number one I just wanted to explain why we didn't have a finance meeting tonight we do want to have our next Finance meeting and we'll send this out an email but if you want to take note of this now on Wednesday morning August 28th if you're on the finance committee Wednesday morning August 28th at 7 30.

so 83 better than the typical building um project up this in the next neighborhood to the north uh 28 unit apartment building plus our offices actually called front Flats totally decentralized strategies for mechanical systems and I will talk a little bit about that but of course the obvious thing here is this large solar wrap um that uh that I'll I'll certainly jump into right away and at 180 a square foot again at the time this is pre-covered this was everyday code Built construction stuff um around us now we could find hot people building for less than that or we and we could also find code built build builders that were building more than that so and it's this it's shrouded in fact in in solar panels um actually but it's done in a very particular way and this is a different way of integrating solar into your buildings uh we started to think about it just as much as a material uh or having multiple functions more than just uh generating power and so we we're floating these panels about 24 inches off the facade you can see the translucent they're somewhat translucent that light carries through but the reason why it's doing that is because it's it's got a triple function it's it's obviously generating power both from the front and the back um but the this all important issue in passive house buildings you've got to keep the Sun out in the summer time you've got to keep direct radiant heat from coming in in the summer time so you've got to shave that um those windows but in the winter time as the sun is lower in the sun it lets it lets in that free heat and then the third thing on this tight Urban site it allows you to not have blinds in your in your apartment because it blocks people from seeing into your apartment again a roof that can be many things uh Urban Garden hangout space um our these were the numbers from our energy model we were expecting to produce 20 percent more than what the residential portion of the building needed which is what we were really going for the net zero for the residential portion and that's pretty much what happened um we generated 26 000 more KW than the residential needed which got us almost to Net Zero for the entire building we weren't trying to generate uh and we weren't trying this was not within the kind of Net Zero envelope but we got really close to being net zero for the entire building but the most interesting thing about this portion of it for me is that for the first time I'm beginning to see utilities as a potential Revenue stream you know it's not it's not a cost because after tenants pay a forty dollar a month um fixed utility rate in this project um not 50 like the last one 40 um and we're generating all the energy for free this actually is the first time we're seeing that uh we're generating sixteen thousand dollars more per year now that's not a lot but it's something then then um than we need so is it possible you can just imagine as as solar panels become more efficient themselves um the the metrics of of uh utilities being something that we pay for is going to start to go away something that generates money anyway the same um prefabricated envelope system again built in half the time same idea one meter in one meter out um 40 a month uh fixed utility fees in this case um I I make this point because in a passive house building unlike the typical code built building ventilation is a really important piece of it it's essential um you've got to have balance ventilation and heating and cooling so very often that means two distinct mechanical systems and so what's beginning to happen is manufacturers are starting to merge those two systems and Erv energy recovery ventilator and a heat pump and in this particular case this is what's called a package T pump which means that a condenser which is typically that thing that sits on your roof or on the ground and it blows hot air that's actually built into this unit and so you don't run the line you don't run line says to your roof you don't have your roof filled with these condensers that opens it up for solar and so forth so we we use this system here uh uh this totally decentralized one unit per apartment and it does heating cooling and dehumidification and it fits nicely into the kind of the Cabinetry of the kitchen as you can see uh with some storage below and then I just wanted to mention I don't want your eyes to glaze over here but I I did want to say something about the kind of attention we give these systems so hot water um is one of the is after Heating and Cooling and when you solve Heating and Cooling with the envelope right you're essentially solving the issue of heating and cooling with the envelope hot water is the next biggest energy hog especially in multi-family buildings because of this particular this very specific issue very often hot water is a centralized system meaning it's in one spot whether in this case it's on the third floor very often it's in a basement and um it's a gas boiler and then they send this this Loop of hot water around the building and into every single unit and then back but of course somebody up here or somebody down here if they open their faucet it would take you know five minutes for the water to get hot unless you did what's called a recirc loop so this blue line is water that's constantly being pumped around the building so that the hot water stays really close to the fixture right that's a ton of energy that's being used it's a second uh set of piping it's a second layer of insulation and heat lost and and the pump and all of that and we thought wait a second we can rethink this what if we start thinking about the hot water the way Plumbing drainage system is thought about and the essence of drainage and and venting of sewage pipes is that you have this stack and then these very short horizontal runs to fixtures right well the exact same thing could happen with hot water the exact same principle if we decentralized it into these cores ran one pipe up just you know that's that's a fraction of the length of piping that one would use in a central system and then very short horizontal runs to the to the fixtures um that's the same Principle as the venting okay and then the recirc loop instead of typically a whole nother pipe would then come out be insulated and and go down and connect back into the hot water heater what if you put the the recirculation line inside the supply line now I get all freaked out by this because I think it's brilliant that somebody thought about this and what this means ultimately is that the energy that is being lost in this system which is an off-the-shelf system is half that of what a typical system would and it cost half to to install because it's off the shelf you pump water heaters so these are the kinds of kind of innovations that get me really excited because this is how when people say how can you possibly build a passive house at code built numbers this is the all little ideas like this is add up a lot all right so here it is I'm going to get moving because I think I'm rambling a bit and here's how it fits perfectly into its neoclassical neighborhood all right and then the last one I'll show you is this is the one of the first passive house projects we've built uh it's affordable first affordable housing project it was for formerly homeless families um large families five bedrooms uh handicap accessible ground floor um first certified passive house project in Pennsylvania and um it's really where we cut our teeth on all these issues that I've talked about this is the first time that we did a modular project uh built to the passive house standard um it's where we developed the building system rather than a building typology to be reproduced so our idea was that once once we developed this building system it can be replicated into various building types and sizes it was our first shot at a passive house and we hit the blower door test um beautifully and this is what it means to hit the blower door test in a passive house building standing next to your neighbors you could actually just warm up on the if you could put your hands up against these buildings and kind of warm up um but you know lots of natural light simple materials um really terrific triple pane windows and doors we can only get in Europe at the time now you can get these uh they're multiple manufacturers in the United States and Canada um and with 5 KW it was designed to generate all the building needed and that below 130 dollars a square foot um again this is our this is affordable housing so we just started to ask the question why aren't why isn't affordable housing being built this if we could do this other people can do this and so we went to the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency we didn't know much about how how this stuff got funded and we said how about you just make all affordable housing capable of getting to Net Zero by 2030 essentially saying use passive house as the tool to to to get there and they said yes and so long story I won't go into it but um and then I said how and they said through the LIE Tech program not nine percent low income housing tax credit program I'm not going to go into this other than to say it's the it's an extremely competitive program and that's very important um it's a point-based system and the more points you get the better chance you have of getting funded typically you don't get funded for like three years so really really important that if you were to add an extra couple of 10 points optional points here for Passive house Maybe developers might be interested just by the fact that you know the uh 10 points wow if I don't take those points somebody else might and that's exactly what happened in the first year this is 2015 85 projects uh came in 38 of those projects came in as past spouse projects and this is from developers and Architects that didn't know anything about pass Pals they did it purely for the points okay so they funded they they uh in the end they only funded seven but originally eight of those projects were passive house projects and here are the costs of all of the projects from that year the white lines are the code built kind of everyday projects and the yellow and orange are the passive house projects and if you compare the passive house projects the costs of the passivas projects to the code built projects the passive house projects which use 75 to 80 percent less energy than code build building were built for uh we're we're 2.5 percent more than the code built buildings the phfa said 2.5 percent you've got five percent contingencies in your budgets you can do this within your contingencies and they said go and so that's what they did they funded these projects they all got built uh and then the question was well that was that application did they get built for what they said they were going to build them for and the answer is yes they built them within the contingencies that they had these are the code built buildings and that application were 171 dollars a square foot use three percent of their contingency to complete them same thing passive house uh four percent but you know essentially they got built for what they said they were going to be built for by developers Builders and Architects that had never done passive house buildings before okay and that's important to remember so you know maybe that was a fluke so the next year 10 projects were awarded funding that were passive house projects and something happened when you average the passive house projects compared to the code built buildings it flipped the passive house projects were coming in on average two percent less than the code built buildings for me it doesn't matter the two percent more or less it's not the point the takeaway here is how is it possible that all of these developers and Builders are doing this and they're building them within the within the realm of what code buildings are being built for how is that possible here they all are they're all built um the next year same thing eight projects same exact same happen two percent less Okay so this is the last thing I'm going to show you but I just want I just think it's another helpful way to rethink the metrics of development and utilities and what matters so this is one of the first one of the first seven projects that were built that's for veteran housing this building on the right was a historic building that was kept and they wrapped this 49 unit building around it built the passive out standard um designed it as a prefabricated Foundation system this is a structural insulation that is also the form work for the building and then on top of that prefabricated Foundation system is a prefabricated envelope system the same exact thing that I showed you in the other projects built in half the time contractor that had never done a passive house building never hit a blower door test that was anywhere close to passive house and he hit the bloat this is a pre-drywall blower door test this is without even drywall any any hit the passive s standard and then this is after drywall was done uh hit the standard um but this is the most interesting piece of it for me because in affordable housing tenants pay 30 percent of their income and that goes towards rent and utilities well what happens when the utilities goes down does the rent go up in fact it does so the developer the owner said listen if you're you allow a hundred and three dollars a month for a one bedroom for utilities what if I deliver it a a unit that uses uh forty two dollars a month can can we use that that extra sixty dollars a month to go towards Revenue and turns out yes you can and so why why would you do that well one developer might put it in their pocket but this non-profit developer he doesn't do that he says that three hundred thousand dollars uh in in well the that extra Revenue can afford another three hundred thousand dollars in debt so I'm gonna do that in order to build more housing so what I love about him is Passat house lets you borrow leverage more money to build more housing because of the utility mortgage relationship right and there it is um and there it is on opening day and the last thing I want to tell you is this was a paragraph people we just asked the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency to put this paragraph into their qap for 10 extra points so why not ask other states so to date we've asked 40 States and 18 states not you guys 18 states have uh put passive house into their qap for in one way or another and projects are happening in those States but even in the states where the qap does not have passive house in it it's still happening why because it makes sense to build affordable housing to the passive house standard and here are some of those examples too and just so you know we have a conference every single year that is called the new Gravity housing conference which is all about Lessons Learned on building affordable housing to the best Bell standard thank you I don't know if I went on too long probably no you're right about on time three quarters of an hour is what we said oh great uh I'd like to open things up for comments and questions foreign I just wanted to reinforce uh what Brett mentioned and what Missy and I discussed with Brett and Shannon and that is that uh the intention is to or the expectation will be that planning Commissioners watch uh Brett's presentation um and I have been accumulating a list of people that I'm going to send the recording of this presentation to um who are interested in these topics so that hopefully it uh is widely viewed and we dispel some of these paradigms that I mentioned uh when I framed this conversation so uh commissioner Kerber fire away yeah great great presentation and really exciting the um my question is the inflation reduction act hits and this is gonna really really change renewable energy it's going to change Transportation it's going to help low-income people with their energy Equity it's so valuable and everybody really needs to appreciate it and learn about it and you in what you do I was really curious as to what you are thinking is going to impact what you do uh with the inflation reduction act yeah I mean it's a it's a great question other people have asked me that and um I'm I I haven't dug into what it will actually mean for for the work that I do and I I think it's curious that I don't know because we have never had subsidies to do what we do we've always had to find ways of of doing what we do with the money that we had so so I think it's fantastic that um that we have needed that kind of investment um in certainly solar but also Energy Efficiency and lots of other things uh associated with that for for Generations we've needed that but I haven't had it so I've had to just kind of figure it out without the subsidies and so Larry I don't know um it's kind of like icing for me you know it'll it'll make things easier life's not been easy but maybe it'll make things easier maybe what it'll do I think what I'm most excited about is um it's it's about the it's about clients it's about people saying okay we're gonna do that this is what I needed uh developer or architect talking to me this is what I need I needed this in order to get us over the edge so okay we'll do a passive house project now you know I guess what I was hoping um to hear is that this is going to make those who follow on doing projects similar to yours all across the country all across the world Maybe two yeah of course I hope to do it more cost effectively I hope that I hope that I hope that I think I think what it'll do more than anything is um set the tone for see I think it needs to happen on on the um not so much like on the individual level yes but it's got to happen on a systemic level so I hope what it does is that it gets invested into policies uh within um municipalities that push the very things that you guys were talking about earlier uh with Brett's presentation that that becomes a way of subsidizing some of that work that needs to be done that's what I hope it does I mean I think it's going to get developers interested in building because there are subsidies for it but uh to build to the passive out standard But ultimately I think what it what I hope it does is it creates a systemic change it's not going to last unless it does that okay thank you alsoever breaks yeah thanks um great presentation I learned a lot and I can't wait to go back and look at it again because there's just a lot to absorb there um but I'm curious I mean you obviously talked you're demonstrating it can be done you're demonstrating you know the cost-effectiveness of it you're showing how it's been incentivized um affordable housing are there um that's not happened yet in Michigan um but in terms of have you seen any other examples at the local level of ways to incentivize um this Beyond yeah I mean there's a there's a really great way to incentivize it from a zoning perspective um for example in Philadelphia um on the one project that I showed you with the the first project the battery project with the green roof and the solar 10 feet above um we put a green roof on them we were going to put a green roof on anyway but at the time Philadelphia changed their incentives their sustainability incentives and they gave us a density bonus if we put a green roof on the on the building and I think that kind of strategy makes a ton of sense for Energy Efficiency too what's it what's the difference build a passive house building that is a certified passive house that hits the blower door test and um and you'll get a whatever 10 density bonus that's one one example thanks commissioner Calvin Garcia all right so terrific presentation I'm just so excited to see this um and really really motivated um I my question has to do with your slides uh 76 and 77 I believe when you're talking about the distributed water heating systems yeah and um I'm just really really curious to learn more about those and I'm wondering if you have any resources that you can share with us about that and um and you're also talking about companies local companies that you know that that can Source within the United States that are providing this technology I'd love to see uh you know who those manufacturers are that you're working with and that you've had really good success with and you don't have to you know go into into too much detail during this meeting here I understand but it'd be really really great well I'll tell you what you can just email me I think that's maybe the better way I can give you a couple of Manufacturers and and um the most important person you need to know is guy by the name of Gary Klein he he is known as the hot water Guru of North America he knows everything there is to know about hot water and he is who I'd been working with on on these systems but um um yeah so so just take my email down and I'll send you the name of the manufacturers that we've been working with I'll send that to everybody um Gary has his own website and Tim you didn't mention that you have a YouTube video that basically goes into detail on this subject so we can we can send that around I guess another quick question do you have um do you integrate electric vehicle charging into your developments oh that's such a great question um so we I I I I was debating putting this in the presentation that I didn't have time but um uh in the the battery project it's called the battery because uh those 13 uh station those 13 parking spaces have charging stations but what we're really excited about is uh when bi-directional Chargers um start making sense or start making sense they make sense they just don't exist um uh commercially yet but when they do um and I know people who know uh electric cars you know they just pooh-pooh this idea because of degrading the batteries and so forth but put that out of your head for a second why not again with this idea of a good idea has to have at least two functions if a car is going to take you around that's one function well why can't the car be the battery for the building um that does if nothing else um knocks your demand charge uh down to zero because your demand charge is half your bill and it's all based on pulling uh electricity off the grid at Peak demand well if instead of pulling it Off the Grid you pull it from your car for a couple of hours why can't we do that so we haven't done it yet Arlene uh wait did you ask me that yes yes yes we haven't done it yet but we have prepared ourselves for it and um and I think the first bi-directional charger is coming out with the Ford um lightning truck if I'm not mistaken that's correct yeah and that's not out yet vehicle to grid it's coming for sure yeah so the battery had enough had enough um production to also uh accommodate the EV charging well theoretically and if you um if you've got 13 cars parked we did the math where if you've got 13 cars parked remember these have pretty large batteries in them and I just I just got my first electric vehicle it's got a 130 KW battery in it uh others are like 60 right so you you gang four or five of them up so that that was the math the math was at any given time there's going to be four or five cars in the parking lot um and so if you if if uh provided you design the software to pull from those Vehicles whenever needed but not pull too much to degrade the battery and so forth but yes there is a there this is a technology that can make a lot of sense but I think the integration of um building information and software to help run that whole interface smoothly isn't there yet okay well thanks uh very much this is great I look forward to interacting with you thanks others I have a question Tim uh the city of Ann Arbor is looking at a lot of construction housing construction um of the type that you showed um two to maybe six stories um but also there's been quite a bit of construction and more is likely in the downtown area where we're talking about 12 stories 17 stories um past you know in some cases up to um 20 stories um I think you showed a picture of a tall past house construction I know that there are passive houses um that are you know in the 20 plus story range can you talk a little bit about that um either from personal experience or what you've learned from interfacing with other um of your peers yeah sure I mean so many different ways to talk about it but I'm going to talk about it from uh from maybe a question to ask is do you think there's anything that you talked about tonight that um were the conclusions that you've led us to would potentially be different conclusions for tall buildings No in fact what I was going to say was they'd only be better for tall buildings because the fundamental premise think of it this way you build a little house tiny little house and you put it in the woods you've got six sides to your tiny little house right the the envelope for your for that tiny little house would have to be really thick in order to keep the heat because you've got all these surfaces compared to the tiny volume um leaking out heat all the time right now The Other Extreme is you've got a tower and so the volume the relative volume to surface area ratio is a totally different thing and so guess what happens the bigger the building the center of the wall gets right and what does that mean that means the more cost effective it becomes so so uh that's really what I would say now what it what it also does is it introduces another series of challenges because all the projects that I showed you are Wood Construction okay you get above six stories and you have to build with non-combustible construction but I will just tell you that New York City is the center of passive house building right now and there are large and small buildings every single day going up Jonathan Rose is completing a 600 unit passive house project I think it's in the Bronx uh right now the tallest uh passed us building in the world is on Governor's Island in New York city so anybody who wants to know how to build tall buildings to the basketball standard look to New York City right um you're I'm going to mention something that some people here may not um be familiar with you talked about um the the envelope being sealed and you gave these ach50 figures there's probably some people that aren't familiar with that terminology so correct me if I'm wrong but ACH means error changes per hour and that is the 50 refers to a pressure differential that is set up so that you get consistent readings from case to Case and it happens to be 50 pascals and as Tim showed multiple times with these passive house projects they're getting um figures in the range of around 0.5 or so the passive house standard is 0.6 I'm pretty sure in Michigan code is an ACH 50 of four so that means and Tim showed this many times with some of these thermal images um and and that's really almost showing more the the insulation but what you don't necessarily see is the leakage as as much a passive house building is leaking less than one-sixth the amount of heated air that a code-built building is so that's just one more reason why these buildings make so much more sense if you think of all of you know it's one thing to have an all-electric building but if it's leaky as hell then your your heating air or your cooling air and it's leaking out at six and a half times the rate at a code built building that it is for a passive house building so think about that when you think about waste in in wasting energy that is a huge waste and I think about wasting money and I do want to say this one thing I forgot to say and that is that I'm a fan of what um some of us have kind of dubbed stealth passive house now why because if I were to go to if I were to go to my subcontractors let's say my framer and I were to say okay I want you to price my really unique and amazing and experimental project Iles a passive house project I want you to give me a price on this it's going to be complicated there's air sealing details and what do you think that guy's gonna do he's gonna put a padding on every line item on that budget instead I say to my framer here are the drawings give me a price to frame it and the framer gives me a price and I said okay you got the you got the air barrier you got the insulation you got the um WRB on the outside and you got the windows you got your triple payment yeah yeah got it all I was like okay great now what if the so I have his number and I said okay so what if that envelope showed up on site you didn't have to put all those pieces together it was like really oh I could do it in half the time and I said okay so he knocked his number down so it's you don't go into discussions with people about how wonderful unique and experimental this is you go in saying how simple it is it's actually really straightforward and simple um because that is what changes the budget conversation and my experience more than anything else I have seen teams uh just fall into the Trap of talking too much about why this is so unique and all of a sudden their numbers are they they can't cover their they can't get there in their budgets so that's a just a cautionary Tale another question from anyone so I'm going to take a stab at at somewhat of a summary and then um turn it over to Tim and see if he has a summary and then we'll move on with the rest of the meeting which is basically just closing things out so this is the energy commission and we've been sort of focused on energy and greenhouse gas reductions and affordability has also been a dominant theme of what we've talked about but I want to mention again other benefits of this type of construction because I think this is important for a lot of different stakeholders and constituencies in Ann Arbor so again highly energy efficient lower greenhouse gases reduce utility costs but passive houses also have the following benefits they are healthier because of the absence of natural gas combustion and better moisture protection and enhanced ventilation they are more comfortable because there are less drafts and less radiant heat losses and gains they are much quieter because the envelope is better sealed and it's better insulated and we are doing a lot of construction in Ann Arbor um the downtown areas and on Transit corridors so if we want people to move to these places um having a quiet environment and not hearing all the the the city noise and things like that um that is really really important and then finally these are more resilient buildings because in the case of a loss of power think of the block of ice that Larry showed us um in the summertime or think through the reverse of that in the winter time you lose power these houses are a lot more resilient to being able to stay in your home and not have to go to a shelter or something like that um granted there's there's other considerations to doing that but still um these these houses are you know have us these types of construction have real advantages and I want to sort of end my comments with um talking about the village of Ann Arbor so this decision is in front of council and um I I have worked in business I've worked in Industry I realize the train is some might say because Leicester Station or is about to leave the station but I wanna I want to emphasize that we have heard that the 320 Garden apartments that are a part of this cannot be all electric because utility costs will be dramatically higher and they cannot rent these apartments with these high utility costs well guess what we just heard from Tim with many examples not just his own but Illustrated with with his own examples and with data that you can build these types of apartments at the same or maybe even lower cost you and you can dramatically improve the Energy Efficiency and even reduce the utility costs and these are the kinds of messages that we need to get across to developers to Architects to these teams that this is what we need in Ann Arbor this is what we need across the country and across the globe and we the paradigm that we keep on getting repeated time and time again that this can't be done sustainably and affordably regardless of whether this is affordable housing Workforce housing or market rate housing simply needs to be challenged and I believe it can be busted based on the kinds of stories and data that Tim has shared with us tonight so Tim how would you like to wrap things up well I'm just thinking you know about this group of people and the kind of scale of what you can affect um and it reminds me of of what I've been really focused on for a number of years and and that is what I call looking for leverage points um and for me that's what this uh li-tech program was all about and what do I mean by that I mean I was getting a little exhausted you know building one building at a time and then saying to the world look you can do it too one building I thought that one building could make a difference and then I realized I I I'm gonna die and this planet's not nothing's going to change on this planet I've got to think at a different scale here and that's that's when I started thinking about affordable housing and when this when the competitive nature of the qap finally sunk in and I realized my God that is so it's like the secret sauce it's the it's it's a leverage point that when I say leverage I mean that one move could shift the industry right that one that one point of it's an opportunity you're not even forcing people to do it you're just leveraging the competitive nature of those tax credits to ask them to push just a little bit and I guess what I would leave you with is to search for those places of Leverage and Leverage is all about the least amount of effort with the largest impact right that's why that's why they're important one person building one building isn't going to change the world but one person affecting scale change at scale that's what I'm searching for and for instance if all you did at the at the municipal level was to slip in to the I don't know building code or an incentive for a developer to build a building that is that hits a blower door test of 0.6 ACH 50.

only because we have a policy meeting that night before the board of Edmonds I'm sorry September I've got August financials on September 28th what time that will be at 7 30.