um the waste load allocations of WLA are benchmarked to the 2019 tmdl that was determined or for those calculated this is not a measurement it's a calculation based on a lot of assumptions as I mentioned before um it's confusing though because this is expressed as pounds per day not makes per liter so it's not really clear you know you know how that Maps uh maps on to the ultimate Bowl which is here in tier three which is after October of 2048 we're supposed to be we're supposed to not release any more than 25 pounds per day but um as you can see on the left hand and which is stated as being equivalent to 0.2 mix per liter which of course um really just relates to how much water comes out of the wastewater treatment plant so we have to remember that if we're gonna you know we can either dilute it by one way of meeting this goal is just by pumping more water through the wastewater treatment plant um and see this just illustrates and this is somewhat confusing too because these are the these are the phosphorus allegations in this consent agreement um to the tmdl and as our fun as these are these are assumed to be what are relative contributions are um to phosphorus into the river and you see it's kind of peculiar because in October through March we're at 0.86 belated which if you see in the previous slide our goal is 0.2 mixed part later ultimately and um and and these numbers differ by month and I have no idea why April has doubled basically or more than double tripled even compared to these other ones of the summer um all I can say is that you know we're experiencing Lake Erie where research has been done in Lake Erie is um um what will maximize algal blooms is generally having a lot of rainfall in the springtime and around drought in the summer because this is a general weather pattern that will enhance harmful algal bones as if you have flooding in in the spring but drought in the summer so and uh and this is just showing that uh part of this is that they're various estimates um they're not measurements they're really estimates in various communities indicate that potentially maybe half roughly half of the phosphorus that the city of Ann Arbor emits to the heroin River comes from it's a storm water runoff so the other half comes from the wastewater treatment plant that's a general that's General across many communities in the United States where it's been estimated I'm not sure exactly what the contribution is here I'm not going to stand by any numbers that I've read um so far but it's roughly again and again it comes up to roughly half and half and so these are this is what you can find and the city is our website for the recommended green streets um bmps there's our best management practices uh and this is based on the Ann Arbor stormwater model I think we've talked about the green streets initiative here before and so this is just uh recommending what um what measures can be taken for these different uh uh you know at these different locations and how much it would cost to implement so again you can look at the city's website um it's much for more information about that so what are the critical questions here well the first one is where where what are the relevant sources of phosphorus it's not just the wastewater treatment plant so um so this is one of the criticisms that Professor Layman made on this uh on this uh on this Igloo report for 2020 is that they only consider development sources or basically run off on a notorious surfaces not whatever the embedded sources which are sources that are already present in the sediments of the soil that can be mobilized under different conditions and what are the cost benefit ratios for the numerous numerous remedy options and what are the collateral benefits I think this needs to be part of any City study that's done and reported you know I think it's it's really necessary to identify the cost benefit ratios for various remedies that the city might propose and also take account of what collateral benefits might be um and then of course what remedies are politically possible um and Ann Arbor's current existing effluent quality that's this EEG number that it's the foundation of everything um it's current um eeq is 0.8 makes per liter the total phosphorus um and several sources indicate that really reducing that to half a Meg or 0.5 milligrams per liter or 0.5 PTM is of total T it should be achievable and economical you know based on current current uh Technologies however you know that you see that our 24 day Target is 0.2 minutes per leader so this is definitely going to be a stretch you know using the current uh using current remediation methods and so I'm just going to dip into a little science here um so cyanobacterial competitive advantages um this just lists what their competitive advantages are and so uh I'm not going to cover this uh well I'll be happy to answer questions about it later um after people have had time to review it uh just email me and I will we can have a brief discussion about all these but they have competitive advantages and uh now that these competitive advantages have been researched and and are known in better and better known um there are newer technologies that are being promoted for reducing harmful algorithms wow but basically you'll see the healthy Lakes have an oxygen-rich environment they have a productive biodiverse food web and they achieve nutrient clearance from the aquatic ecosystem that means that the biological organisms in the river itself will help clear out the phosphorus um and and what's causing the cyanobacteria is a lack of oxygen in the bottom that's what minoxic environment means and under constrained food webinos lacks diversity so improving the river's Health overall is going to be a good thing and nutrient recycling that supports algal and cyanobacterial dominance of the nutrient webtake so um there are ways to uh to try to engineer the Ecology of the river itself to try to make to try to approve the clearance of phosphus and reduce the severity and and uh duration of harmful algal blooms so there's just this um so most chemical treatments are temporary because they're really ineffective in the long term well that's been something that's been noticed I I'm not sure if it's a consensus but it's definitely a pattern a trend and so prevention and Remediation are needed so I would encourage the city staff to look into some of these more novel prevention and Remediation strategies um so um so I'm going to skip over all the details here you can read it on your own but some of these methods have been successful in several lakes in the United States now the one that's best documented in the uh on the Internet is a Peak Skill light in New York so there's a lake in New York that suffered from harmful algal blooms and some of these newer methods um it's uh to try to do what's called a generally multi-level mitigation approach some have worked in these in these situations so um and finally I just want to mention that um you know anything that is done should have key performance indicators and so um and part of what um part of what has been done so far is that it's not clear what the relative rules are of the Huron River Watershed Council and the City Planning Department uh and so this mother this might be somewhat the accountability so here we have a project that's going to continue until 2048 and how are we gonna how is the account how is the accountability going to be managed you know with cities with City staff turnover what city council turnover are we going to make sure that we're meeting our responsibilities here uh with this consent to group um and also what are the relevant contributions from Wastewater versus stormwater and maybe that the storm water discharges um maybe a bigger contribution and so money might be better spent uh doing uh doing storm water rather than Wastewater remediation we need to have a strength weaknesses opportunities and threats analysis of these overall remediation and prevention strategies before we invest a lot of money through this project and uh can you know what are the recommended stormwater best practices um these are based on our ms4 permit which is my understanding and then what are the recommended worth it as a city or what are the recommended Wastewater dnp strategies what are the processes that City staff and uh um and the council are going to do to evaluate these to deliberate on these various on all these uh on all these options so and with messaging and education I just put this in here because um you'll hear often that it's the kfo manure that needs to be uh that's causing these harmful algal blooms it's not so much of a problem here in the Huron River but it's all it's the major problem with Lake Erie it's not defined as a waste so many of these capable operations some of them are in Lenawee County um some they are contaminating the Raisin River and the water supply of Adrian Michigan um okay um in many of these capable operations they generate as much maneuver as the city of Antarctica is a mid-sized City wherever they're not because under the law some of this manure is not defined as a waste product so I'm just defining it as a waste product would be the simplest way of having it treated properly on site one of these on these papers are not spread on agricultural land so recklessly um if you're interested in uh where harmful lateral blooms are showing up this is part of uh this is part of the informational resources that have been provided so far um so you can go to that website and see where there are current and historical harmful level booms over the state of Michigan for example this summer there was a serious one on Ford Lake Belleville Lake cut off relatively easy um any messaging in education currently because scientists have been driving this so far in in the EPA most of most of the messaging and education is based on 11th rate uh level of understanding and it needs to be dropped down to a fifth grade level at the beginning when you're communicating when you're trying to do messaging about this powerful and it's clear that Houston Community involvement makes a big difference and in outcomes um so finally I mean I'll just uh leave this these are advice to landowners so what can land owners what can property owners in Ann Arbor do to help our government our Collective government deal with this problem well first of all don't use a lot of fertilizers with phosphate uh this is something the city acted on in the late 70s or early 80s but my understanding is you can still buy one fertilizers in Ann Arbor at big box stores and things like that to that you know soluble phosphate in it by reducing turf grass by planting normal native species on areas of native plants and trees and shrubs this is another goal of the environmental commission so this is one of these collateral benefits that could be plant rain Gardens disconnect dance folks or redirect them into yards or rain barrels well in the rain Garden installing permeable pavement the city's done some experiments in this regard but the payment is not stood up to traffic so uh so uh and picking up head waste of course which is a common practice here and there was not a practice when I moved here from North Carolina and oftentimes I've heard this come up with Council about breaking your dead leaves into the street and having the city um pick them up but uh um a better solution is to rake your Dead Leaves away from the street and put them on your on your garden beds put them on your flower beds remember um not on your turf grass but uh on your native plant garden and um and keeping keeping this yard waste debris out of the storm water drains will help reduce the phosphorus by going into the river in the city realizes that so they've done more sweetened street sweeping lightly than they have in the past so this is just uh um there is an online meeting that you can you can that didn't show up in here but I think it shows up in the electronic copy that you can you can look at this for uh this meeting or this recent meeting for a general discussion well you know about harmful lot of opens so that's um that's all I want to say at this point and just to reiterate that I would like to um devote a meeting of the environmental commission later um sometime this winter possibly and invite some outside speakers who can explain some of these things in more detail now Kathy you have your hand off um yeah I want to thank you for having this I think it's very important that Community experts and policy makers take the lead on this just like they need to take the lead on the Gelman plume because when we leave it up to the attorneys much of the information becomes privileged and confidential and this is just my opinion but it becomes more adversarial rather than problem solving and the first time I met Dana nessel and said I was from Ann Arbor she started asking me about the algae blooms and uh it was like what you know why would she be asking me about that I knew there was a problem in Fort late but it's something that she's very interested in thanks again all right thanks Kathy I'm Bridget yeah I have a question I might have missed it when you were talking about the targets the wastewater treatment targets of point I think you said 0.5 milligrams per liter is doable um and achievable are there targets yeah that we went too far just a couple slides up are there targets set for storm water or is that just too challenging to to do some non-point Source um this consent agreement was uh specifically with the wastewater treatment plan so I'm not aware of what and you know what's you know and that's under our npdes permit but I'm not sure what's in our ms4 limit for stormwater okay so we don't know what what I have not come across this information myself okay thank you um Roger you have the floor yeah I was going to ask to make a couple points at the beginning of my presentation relating to what you just covered but first of all for anybody that's watching on CTN or on Zoom um CTN uses a the regular Zoom view which overlays the people on top of part of your presentation so I think CTN should use and anybody else watching on Zoom go up to your view in the upper right corner if you're on a computer and do this side by side gallery view that way you can see the full presentation as well as as many people as you want to open up and see so that that's for anybody that's watching online either on CTN and CTN can change their View I think on the Fly even and I think my my presentations won't get overlaid and the other thing is the regarding elbow brooms I'm not sure if little lake has that but it certainly has changed in the 20 29 years I've been watching what's going on with the Gelman thing and the discharge from gallman may be contributing to uh what's happened to Little Lake and what's happened to Little Lake is likely what's going to happen to the first sister Lake if government is allowed to discharge their partially treated dioxane into one of Ann Arbor's only two natural lakes in the city limits first sister Lake could end up looking like little Lake does now and uh and sometime later you can look at the Google Earth views of little Lake over time and see what's happened with that well that's all I have to say in that thing okay so so has the discharge been measured for Fosters well in the early days they were dumping everything into the in their treatment bonds and some of that overflowed into this into the marsh area which leads into the the tributary of Honey Creek that um empties into the Huron River Upstream from where Ann Arbor it gets 85 of its water and in fact the video behind me on the screen there that's Honey Creek behind my house uh video I took a couple years ago in the height of kovid and the normal flow that's pretty much uh all of Honey Creek emptying through a third of a mile Upstream from the mouth of the Honey Creek so there's yeah there's all that stuff in there in the early days there was a lot of other other stuff it's well anyway okay about that right yeah thank you Roger uh John you have your handbook yes thanks a couple of questions about the settlement agreement uh first of all my understanding is I skimmed it it's legally binding correct I think so I imagine so yeah so the second question is what teeth does it have what are the consequences if we don't meet the 2048 Target because I missed that it was that if that was that does anybody know if that was in there um nothing that was publicly disclosed I mean I I assume that there will be negative consequences for the city if um we don't meet the Target and uh third is I just make a statement I assume also that this is not some Target that we can meet by flipping the switch in 2048 it's something that we're going to have to address step by step over the next roughly 25 years and that means we need to really have um as you pointed out leading indicators that we we are monitoring and a clear action plan step by step that takes us down you know Point whatever it is milligrams per per liter you know per per year or whatever if we don't do that we're going to be in a heap of trouble in 2048 is that a reasonable assumption foreign but you know you know time will tell I mean there's plenty of examples of uh you know um problems with this duration where they're just kicked down the road continually um Kathy you have your hand up and then yeah some people ask questions kick down the road is a good phrase to apply to this okay all right well thank you everybody I'm going to stop sharing and we'll move on to the next item on the agenda which is the Gelman dioxane plume update so um I think we have we have a um some slides and Roger rail is the first speaker on the agenda yeah let me share my screen here I'm looking for oh that's weird Galen Kaelyn if maybe you could help I think we need to allow permission to share well I have a share but it doesn't okay to Mike it doesn't uh get to my second screen where all my stuff is queued up so I'll just uh I'll just go directly to what I was going to go to in fact to switch to another view I'll do it later so I think this is not it so you're a co-host now usually I get I get a chance to share screen one or screen two and that's not showing up for some reason so let's see if I can go to this one this is uh my presentation uh in Google format so let me go up here this is going to be a quick view a very cursory view because these are going to be two-dimensional Maps I'm going to show you where the plume is um from 1992 to 2021 so let me go to View full screen mode are you seeing the full screen of the title side yes we are okay good so here's the plume in 1992.
you can't vote till you're 18. you can't buy a gun until you're 21 because it's also a universally agreed that 12 and 13 year old children do not always make good decisions I think we'd all agree with that and so we've I've reviewed the CH uh PEC curriculum and uh find the performance expectations uh lacking and probably ought to be modified or at least there should be some additions and I'll uh itemize them later it would be very inappropriate and contrary for most parents wishes to encourage students to alter their biological binary gender and sexual orientation because data shows that it is a clear path from gay lifestyle to transsexual or transgender surgery it's also inappropriate in the curriculum in to discuss transgender surgery and that would be all of the surgeries associated with transgender and I don't think that's at all appropriate also um and just because a doctor can make a living um that on adolescent transgender surgery does not make it ethical the recent research cited below and that's just real quickly NIH uh American Academy of Pediatrics Columbia University it's um from the NIH the pediatricians to universities there's General agreement in the medical community the gender dysphoria and transgender surgery is a dangerous life path and it should be recognized as dangerous for 20 to 40 percent of the uh uh transgender folks and end up attempting suicide it's awful and it's approximately 5 to 20 times greater than those who are binary and you just can't ignore this data it has to be included in any kind of discussion when we talk about uh you know gender identity unfortunately there's no evidence even that sometimes parents don't make good decisions unfortunately we had a case here just back in July where you know you know somebody's right you know it's a child end up writing a suicide note you know I mean almost you almost sometimes ask where's dyphus um and uh as the old saying misery loves company you know one wonders what's the motivation okay for somebody to you know encourage this kind of behavior the state required curriculum is offensive to many parents there's a lot of talk about hate you know associated with the issue of sex education and the gay lifestyle but there's two sides um all right we just I want you to know that it's three minutes so are you almost finished I got one paragraph can I just finish this last one okay just yeah okay quickly yep the most important question is is are you protecting children and will you teach your children that a gay and life you know a gay or a transgender lifestyle is risky and dangerous I would hope that that you would also adopt the policy that no District employee is encouraged or is permitted to encourage students to alter a student's biological binary gender and sexual orientation thank you thank you if you have that and would like to send it to the board I'm sure okay great thank you so much anyone else wish to speak okay seeing none we're going to close that portion of the meeting there's another public comment section at the end at this point we're going to move forward with the approval of the minutes I need a motion to approve item 6.1 and 6.2 do I have a motion Mr cantham Ms Capello any questions or comments regarding the minutes okay seeing none roll call please Mrs Capello yes Mrs Everhart yes Mr physicara I've stayed from both six one and six two Mr Canton yes Mr Meegan yes Mrs Ryan Yes motion carries thank you at this point we're going to move to item seven superintendent's report and administrative items so I have a motion to approve item 7.1 through 7.6 Mr physicaro Miss Capello before we get into questions and comments I'm going to give the floor to Dr Smith all yours thank you Mrs Ryan so our first board meeting of the 22-23 school year and we just finished up our back to school nights which took place over the last two weeks and it was absolutely fantastic and I and I just wanted to mention them because it's in some ways hard to overstate the the magnitude of those nights for example in Middle School every parent every parent it was their first in-person back to school night for Middle School and then Elementary it would be the majority of our parents who were there for their first in-person back to school night um and it just felt like I don't know if anything will ever go back to normal but like our new normal that we're back you know and I just want to thank all the staff for the the time that they take in preparing that and the energy that they give to their kids every day which was so palatable in um in their presentations and in the Halls those evenings um other Points of Light so on our agenda for approval tonight you'll see our first batch of extracurricular activities for the year and uh you know our extracurricular programming here is second to none you know you're not going to find a district that has a wider variety a wider range of ways for all kids to find find a niche find belonging find fun and growth after school through our after school activities and and again thank you to all the staff who volunteer who work those activities it is truly appreciated and without it we wouldn't have the the programming that we do so for families if you are new to the district or haven't had your kids take part in those before definitely check it out you know reach out to the school find out more um kind kids broadcasting sign language dodgeball golf Morning Show Happy helpers sign language I could go on and on but um it's I don't just don't anybody miss out on those and um the I will point out that the activities look a little different school to school depending on the um the interests and the talents of our staff the among my items is also the re-adoption of our safe return plan so we updated that because we also updated our emergency remote learning plan so every District's required to approve an emergency learning plan for the New Jersey Department of Education we have no intent to need that plan but we are required to re-adopt it so um that's why that's on there and um among the remainder of my comments I want to recognize that it is currently a national Hispanic Heritage Month which runs from September 15th through October 15th and which celebrates the history's cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors are from Spain Mexico the Caribbean and Central and South America our Township's second ever Eastern cultural day is taking place during this this time frame on Saturday October October 8th and if you're interested in volunteering or performing please check out my updates they have links in there to register and um lastly I just want to um you know thank the staff again because those first weeks we're now like three weeks in are such a critical um inimitable time for making connections with kids and then that personal relationship building the Bedrock the foundation of student growth for the entire year is lead in those first weeks and I can't tell you how many times um you know as you move around our schools you can see that happening in real time as kids make connections with teachers and staff of all roles because it truly is a village effort in that way to help our kids really want to get up and come into school and um and so thank you to everybody from our bus drivers to our teachers to our paraprofessionals to our administrators I could clerk type business secretaries every rule custodians for uh for seeing our kids for hearing our kids for valuing our kids um and and and making them feel that so that they can learn and then it's my comments Mrs Ryan thank you thank you Dr Smith any questions or comments to the superintendent's report okay seeing none let's go to a roll call please Mrs Mrs Capello yes Mrs Everhart yes Mr physicaro yes Mr Catherine yes Mr Meegan yes Mrs Ryan Yes motion carries thank you moving to item eight curriculum and instruction I need a motion to approve items 8.1 through 8.9 do I have a motion Miss Everhart second Miss Capello any questions or comments to curriculum instruction I actually just wanted to say something about curriculum and instruction um privately I gave a shout out to the curriculum department but I would like to really publicly acknowledge all the hard work that our curriculum Department did over this summer if you take a look at the agenda there are um one to five different curriculums that they worked on and updated per state standards and sitting down and discussing it with our curriculum supervisors there wasn't really much to add which means we were doing what state wants us to do before the state wanted us to do it so that's a true Testament to our curriculum department so I would like to thank you Miss magulic and your your team so Kudos on a very productive and busy summer um I'm proud of all the work you've done it's really really impressive um keeping that in mind any other questions or comments on curriculum okay seeing none roll call please Mrs Capello yes Mrs Everhart yes Mr physicaro yes Mr Captain yes Mr Meegan yes Mrs Ryan Yes motion carries moving to item nine finance and operations I need a motion to approve items 9.1 through 9.12 do I have a motion Mr Canton second Mr physicaro any questions or comments pertaining to finance and operations okay seeing none I'm going to ask for a roll call please Mrs Capello yes Mrs Everhart yes Mr physicaro yes Mr Canton yes Mr Meegan yes Mrs Ryan Yes motion carries moving to item 10 personnel of items 10.1 through 10.9 do I have a motion Miss Everhart second by Mr physicaro thank you any questions or comments pertaining to personnel Miss Everhart floor is yours shout out to Mr Feldman who was not here but I'm sad to read about his retirement but all the best to you in your second chapter I wish you were here to hear the shout out he's a he's a great principal and he's done great things at MES in the second part of his educational career and I hope he goes on to do wonderful things in his third chapter so good luck Mr Feldman any other questions or comments okay I have one more um I was able to address the new hires at the new teacher orientation over the summer or right before school started and it was so great to see former Eastern Township students that are now coming back to be employees it's a true Testament that we grow them good and they come back and they're going to spread all of their greatness with the students so welcome to Evesham to all the new staff but especially those former Evesham Township School District children okay roll call please this is kapow yes Mrs Everhart yes Mr physicaro yes Mr Kenneth yes Mr Meegan yes Mrs Ryan Yes motion carries okay moving to item 11 policy I need a motion to approve items 11.1 and 11.2 do I have a motion Mr physicaro second Miss Capello any questions or comments pertaining to policy none okay seeing them okay roll call please Mrs Capello yes Mrs Everhart yes Professor Caro yes Mr Katherine yes Mr Meegan yes Mrs Ryan Yes motion carries thank you okay moving to committee reports are there any committee chairs or anyone from the board that would like to um give a report or share a report I think Yuko as curriculum chair I think you covered pretty extensively the curriculum meeting so thank you for that thank you anyone else okay I have um our community outreach our unfortunately Mr lanzawada couldn't be here today because he's had his own back to school night but he did send ahead a report so I will just read what he sent us for the community outreach Evesham Education Foundation their annual fall cigar dinner Thursday September 29th at 6 PM Marco's restaurant at Indian Springs Country Club 135 dollars per ticket that includes a three-course dinner top shelf open bar for three hours and complimentary cigars you can register online if interested at eveshameducationfoundation.org awesome in conjunction with our ptos and ptas movie night Friday October 7th at 7 pm Savage field the movie this year is light year the event is free for everyone to attend bring your own food drinks chairs and blanket for a fun night Under the Stars he didn't write that I just added that okay um Marlton rec council Sports Unity program is a fantastic community service program for our special needs students it pairs our student athletes with special needs students to Aid in learning the rules of sports competition socialization and fun Sports Unity program is looking for student volunteers to help and buddy with our special needs participants hockey is currently in season but volunteers are always welcome and encouraged and as you saw earlier today congratulations to the Marlton 10U baseball Chiefs for their Cal Ripken World Series Championship they will be recognized at the Phillies versus Braves game on the 23rd which is tomorrow and if you would like to purchase tickets to go to the game you can go to the MRC website or a Philly's website and Town Council congratulations to the Eastern Township School District ptas and ptos for receiving the community aaard award by mayor VC and Council and it was great that Dr Smith and myself were able to also be there to congratulate our volunteers that worked so hard throughout the year and even through the summer so congratulations to our ptos and ptas for that recognition and that is all Mr lancelotta scent if there's anything else that anyone would like to add now would be a great time okay seeing none we're going to go into Old business which we don't have any old business and we do not have any new business so now we'll move into open public comment the meeting will now be open to the public referencing any items of Interest however if your questions or comments pertain to litigation student or Personnel items or negotiations we ask that you see the superintendent after the meeting since we do not discuss these matters in public we ask that you limit your comments to three minutes per person and also this section is meant for one comment per person please don't forget to state your name and address for us and the floor is yours good evening Corine halibura 13 Olympia Drive also Rice School Preschool paraprofessional the reason I come here tonight is because I don't know if many of you are aware that Lenape Regional High School has now adopted a policy where they are hiring power professionals full-time with offering them health care for single coverage only and I wanted to bring it to your attention if you don't already know it because I think it'd be something beneficial Ephesian was able to do that right now we have a lot of paraprofessionals coming in at five and three-quarter hours and it's just not working we're robbing Peter to pay Paul we're trying to get coverage for the arrival and dismissal and it's it's not effective and and it's going to become a safety issue I think if we could have people and offer them even the single coverage and we could extend their hours to six and a quarter which is only a half an hour more it would not leave our classroom short-handed during the day some some Powers leave at 2 30 some leave at 3 15 and we don't just dismiss until about 3 21 and sometimes in a classroom you could be down a para and someone could have an accident or and you need to tend to that child or a behavior and it leaves a teacher with a number of students and it's just not it's just not sustainable so for efficiency and for safety if you could take a look at it and maybe see if that's something that's possible it would really definitely help out race and maybe the other schools as well because I think a lot of schools are having struggling we can't seem to hire enough people we do have good staff in place if we could just give them more hours I think things would work much better thank you thank you so much anyone else wish to speak okay Mr Jenks where was yours yeah John Janks again most you know me anyway um 39 Carlton Avenue um I I just wanted to add one item uh that I thought that would be appropriate and that's uh the addition of a performance expectation in the curriculum and that would be um something to the tune of examine how gender dysphoria and transgender lifestyle often results in a deadly decision and that's um that's something that I think is is important I I you can't commit you know minimize the uh the data and the uh there I I do have some other questions though for you um and I'll make I'll try to make these as brief as possible um we'll we'll start with some rhetorical things uh is gender in children malleable for all children or perhaps said in a different way can you change a child's gender I I'm not going to go into the definition of gender we all know it okay all right so so I'm willing to accept uh those those definitions and and adults can cause uh you know gender changes in children and I think you know we know those answers are yes but um and if adults can change them the question is is should they change the uh gender of children um or the the negative would be should they be barred for changing the gender of children and that's whether they're parents or anyone else uh and I I do have a question though when a child registers for School attendance does the district ask the parent uh the sex of the child and the gender of the child or both um let's suppose an eighth grader comes in and asks um to be it is is a listed as a male and asked to be called a girl what does the school district do how do they respond and that's also true for anyone who's coming in um you know that those are the questions that I think many of the parents uh in this in the district are concerned about um the school and I think the school should develop a policy for all of its employees that requires that a school district employee not a firm a child's gender different than what the child was first registered as unless they of course have spoken to the parent and that concludes my discussion sort of my questions here thank you very much and are there any more people willing to speak okay come on up to the microphone hi my name is Jessica Harris 209 Poplar Ave and I am here as a parent of a child with an IEP um we knew my son needed more services from the beginning we did our diligence we enrolled him in private Services during preschool and daycare years coming to a district you know that was part of our consideration when moving that this is such a well-renowned district and a good school system before school even started we requested our emails evals began immediately when March came we were presented with his proposed IEP my son was in kindergarten we paid for a full day instruction because we wanted him to get that additional instructional time we signed up the first day you could drop off the ballot to get in kindergarten we paid in full the day we got the notice we wanted to make sure he was getting an education March comes and the proposed IEP offered him Services otpt speech academic instructional support 24 hours before the meeting I was given the draft which said in order for him to receive those Services deemed necessary by the child study team we would have to change him to half day program change his home school and move him to rice from mes I don't see how that's equivalent that a child who needs additional instructional Services would have to reduce his instructional time so we were put in that ridiculous predicament as a parent so now do I offer my child these services this resource teacher but shortened his day do I keep him full day with where he's been acclimited you know he knew Mr Feldman by name he sat with him at dismissal he had all these Services he was already receiving speech noted so we had to decide that for him which I don't think any parent should have to decide especially in the district like ours we should have those services at every home school and it should never be presented to a parent to reduce your child's educational time to receive services first grade came we were given the same option the only place my child could receive in-class support was going to Rice he internalized that he has issues with emotional regulation he didn't wanted to know what he did wrong that he needed to go to a different School he wanted to know he doesn't see his friends anymore he rides a bus with preschool kids because no one else rides his bus but we wanted him to get those services and a major concerning factor is also when asked the child study team couldn't tell me where second grade will be housed so he may have to go to another school next year and the year after and it's really hard because he's receiving all these Services he builds connections with the staff who was amazing and they're doing everything for my child but that inconsistency for peers social I mean he's in a social building like he gets social skills from the counselor but then he gets a new school every year so I just wanted to raise concern to that that we should really be offering these Services regardless of where the school is and that we shouldn't be shifting our special Educators all over the district they don't know where they'll be one year from the next how can they support their students and that's pretty much it thank you is there anyone else that wishes to speak come on up to the microphone name and address please I'm Karen Schumacher 56 Lady Diana Circle I'm here I I this is my first meeting I've ever attended so I'm not sure how it works obviously I had questions a couple questions about the busing the limit that two Crown Royals facing now do you guys answer me or do I just put out the questions how it works is you um express your thoughts or concerns and if it's something that we can address publicly we do but if not usually it's not usual back and forth right I I'm sorry that's okay thank you for asking my concern is when we we I we live on two Crown Royal that area when we received a letter in August about the busing being stopped I was led I I felt through reading the letter that this was going to be a temporary type situation because of the lack of bus drivers and everything that was listed in the latter now I'm doing a little bit of research I found out that back in May this was a specific item that was discussed and about the budget cutting the budget and and to cut the 52 families so my confusion is is this a temporary situation or is this something that's going to like in our development we're so far 0.6 miles I'm 0.6 miles from the school um Williamsburg and Bill of Royale that's closer to the school they seem to have buzzing from what I've heard through the you know the Grapevine like they're closer to the school so why weren't they made into awkwards where our children are further it's just that I I'm just confused I guess and concerned because it was it has created so much havoc in in everybody's lives in that Circle that I know of that I've spoken to of just trying to shuffle the your work schedule and your um I hear that in the morning there's there's no more room in the um before school program so anybody who's trying to get into that is stuck that's not an option anymore so that's my concerns I was just hoping that somebody could explain to me what the situation is that's it okay Dr Smith said whole dress it yeah and thank you for your questions um thank you for coming to your first board meeting by the way uh just um and that's we would if anybody is listening that has never come to one before please consider because uh we got a lot of room so um the um and you're right and I you know and I'm glad that you mentioned that the roots of that change go back in time um they actually go back May was when our budget was approved for this coming year and that budget contained lots of you know changes in terms of Staffing but also the transportation changes and those changes we're in there only after many months prior of discussion you know so we um which included uh conversations with our Township so you know different uh traffic studies that were done looking at what are the changes that lend themselves the safest for us to be able to have more a few more kids walking in an incremental way and a few less kids being bussed and the reason initially that we looked at those changes was budgetary because as many people know but in case anyone doesn't know I'll say uh we are going through seven straight years of funding reduction and that might be because I feel like I'm is that it's a static okay um it could be the it's related to the rain I bet you um seven straight years of budget reduction totaling almost eight million dollars um which needs to be said is impacting us greater than any other District in in the county um so budgetarily was the first reason we were looking at trying to um have a few more kids walking to school what happened in the meantime during the tail end of the covet phase starting really about a year and a half ago was bus drivers became more and more scarce to the point where last year there were times when um it was challenging to bus all the kids that we say we're going to bus every day and that's a very serious situation you know um we needed to be able to continue to do that and that also means when we can't find drivers we might have to make a transportation change like we did in two neighborhoods rice was one of them that two Crown Royal neighborhood was one of them last year so I would love to say it would be temporary it's certainly I can what I can say is something we look at all the time what makes it hard to say temporary for is two things the uh the driver shortage isn't getting any better and so and we work on that all the time to try to find more drivers and if there's anyone listening I did have a few people I put a plug in my update from last week and I had a few people respond to that who were interested in wanting to learn more so um but we provide all training and pay for all training and all licensing for drivers it's a great place to learn to drive and it's a great place to drive and make a difference um etsd but um it's not going to go it's not going to resolve itself anytime soon the driver's shortage some of those neighborhoods in rice that you mentioned the other neighborhoods they might be closer to Rice as the crow flies but for different reasons maybe um a lack of sidewalk for example they currently can't be a walking neighborhood to rice and uh I would anticipate as we move forward to this coming Year's budget the 23-24 budget our district is projected to lose another 931 thousand and state eight in addition to other costs and we are going to have to look again at Transportation changes a few more kids walking a few less kids being bussed for uh next fall you know um and then we don't want to have to do that but that's just the reality that we inhabit at the moment and um I hope that helps and I'd be glad to talk more too uh after the meeting or any other time are there any other members of the audience that would like to participate in public comment okay seeing none I'm going to close this portion of the meeting are there any comments or questions from the board or announcements I actually have one um I wanted to thank and give a shout out to Rice Elementary School this last week we uh Dr Smith and myself were present for um the new flag being presented to the outside of their building it was so cute the kids were all dressed in red white and blue their new principal was there it was presented by Veterans of the Korean War one of them is actually the crossing guard in King's Grant he also sang the national anthem so it was just a great day the kids were so happy and the flag is beautiful so I would just like to give a shout out and thank you for the invitation and thank you for organizing that um if there's no other questions or comments okay I'm gonna at this time make a motion to go into our second second executive session whereas the njsa 10-4-12 allows for a public body to go into closed session during a public meeting and whereas the Board of Education of Evesham Township has deemed it necessary to go into closed session to discuss certain matters which are Exempted from the public and whereas the regular meeting of the board will reconvene following the end of the closed session at approximately 8 45.
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which you know that that's not funny I I got it that it wasn't the end no no so it was the thought was it is at every point it has to be coded right right and I mean yeah so you know what's your plan on doing that right you know every school in my eyes so but that was something completely got the warcraft unbelievable um you so if you just go to like just a great example yeah it would be in a actual evaluation is just ticket or even an indicator to give a couple examples of those Spirit day and our brothers not every single one but just throw a couple examples foreign [Music] because this was a lot it is about supporting me but it's you're just it's what you do right so um when they you know they're going through these and we're building our support as I said yeah I mean they're definitely there are some boards to different Pilots instead um corporations I mean that's why that people do they like greatness just join us it's not my medicine um so I'm thinking of our professional development characters yeah and you know just showing it history so um yeah yeah so again I would just recommend going through this you know like an indicator questions this is a situation where you can get this to the report beforehand thank you through it and Mark someone and then we have a conversation so I'm not going to go through it you know why but why but we're going to make sure everyone understands what and I think if you were able to have a couple hours of quiet now um is [Music] documentary so this is a kind of a summary of all of the domains that is exists and it's 16 16.
15 years completed was it 15th I don't know if it's 15 or I'm not sure because I started 16 because they're four-year terms no I started in mid of it I started in the middle of a tournament oh well then yeah so I think it it yeah it's up there it's a long time it's a long time I didn't catch Karen but you're pretty close yeah my my oldest my oldest was was in school and and she's turning 30 next month so she's I'm sure she's loving me telling that but our turning 30 uh um yeah December 5th so well thanks for your service thank you for your service wow after April anyone else I was going to say something about the math curriculum but Alyssa already answered that during her but I do like your high energy I love it I love your high energy I love it absolutely I've worked very prerogative um a couple things actually so number one I I do want to let everybody know how proud I am of this board um you guys all work together you take your job seriously you do your homework you go through all this packet I mean everybody really cares I think we really mesh well together and we we all come from a a diverse background and really feeding off each other and I'm just I'm just really proud of all of you guys so I just wanted to put that out Scott thank you all for your service sure you definitely will be missed and next year when it comes time because I mean your your knowledge has been just fantastic and I thank you for your service and the administration is to grow to you have and Mrs Smith you guys have done a great job I know there's been a lot of challenges with employment and curveballs thrown your way and you guys just stay in the trenches and hammered out and thank you for all that you guys do so one thing I don't think anybody mentioned also is we were able to with the with the running of the district um on everybody's part we're able to reduce our tax burden on the citizens by 60 cents is that correct so everybody notices when we raise taxes but when we lower taxes it's kind of a quiet deal so nobody says that word well this didn't happen very often so right again another reason why I'm proud of the board and administration and everybody in the district for making that happen so it's uh there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes we're all paid very well as everybody knows getting no pay at all but uh I mean it's our our work is is paying off and and it's really it's a good moment so proud of everybody so anyway enough of my soapbox so that's it for me we do have an executive session this evening and we're gonna go into the executive session for the purpose of appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of a specific employee of the public body or legal counsel for the public body including hearing testimony on a complaint Lodge against the employee of the public body or against legal counsel for the public body to determine its validity five ilcs 1202 C1 and with that I would entertain a motion to enter executive session so moved thanks Scott or a second okay Andrea beat you to it roll call please yes Andrew Corey yes Craig Meyer yes Scott Middle Camp all right who's the Schumacher yes Tyson search yeah perfect Mr Brody said there's uh we do have a couple items to discuss in the executive session but there's no action items you guys are more than welcome to come back in and watch us adjourn but uh fully understand if you don't want to as well so thank you time is 8 55 we are back in regular session uh we just completed our executive session there's no action items as a result so with that I'd entertain a motion to adjourn I'll make the motion hey Tyson to our second second every second all right perfect all right all in favor aye any post all right thank you very much for joining us have a great day
kind of a backer way of calling us all old wasn't it yeah [Laughter] uh some of them improved and it's got some of them still an issue like Frank we're still hearing new ones every day that answers your question no I mean you guys have done that every day a great job considering the supply chain issues that we've had in the week time on steel and yeah you guys you guys you got to come into you guys for sticking with it when we pre-ordered remember we pre-ordered steel didn't we yeah was that for the Middle School packages as well possible what we needed earlier okay good so that's not going to hold us up then what I liked from what I just heard was that we're done in May of 2024 and we're 347 000 under the estimate so I think that's in in the current climate thank you for pushing us to pre-order steel yeah very much 2024 completion of both middle schools or just no that would be just Central yeah it's good if it's before 20 December January so yeah 2024 is kind of totally we're doing a lot more work at Central than we are at normal um Mr President I move that we accept the bids as presented big bid package three no okay I move that we accept the bids as presented for a total recommended Award of 10 million 571 867 dollars second oh go ahead go ahead Amy second motion's been made and seconded to accept uh bids from uh Middle School Central all in favor say aye aye is anyone opposed motion passes thank you thank you 6.2 they're talking off thank you Mr Herbert the board approved the school Improvement plans and Dr Noor Hoover will provide you with some additional information okay thank you um just some things I know we approve these every year but as a reminder per Indiana code all public schools in the state must annually submit a school Improvement plan also per Indiana State Board of Education rule plans must be submitted to and approved by the governing body the applicable applicable legal standard requires that each School submit their full revised three-year plan on a yearly basis all Center Grove schools must submit their plans for this year to the Department of Education by October 6th the Indiana school Improvement plan is part of a process for continual School Improvement to be effective the plan should be viewed as a living document evolving a circumstances change during that three-year period covered by each Year's submission each Center Grove School is reviewed and considered its assessment data its most current data and revise their school Improvement plan to reflect the current building needs the student achievement goal for each building is the basis for their strategies and professional development throughout the year and it's delineated in their action plan also as a reminder our schools are in a renewal year not the three-year cycle where they kind of take a big overview look this is more of a renewal within the three-year process um so what they do is they look at the their most current data and decided they need to adjust benchmarks perform from that performance data strategies for instruction student outcomes they look at research for best practices and see if um there's new or different things we should be doing and also then what professional development is needed for our staff I also want to share that our school and our federal accountability that we in state we met or exceeded expectations in both performance just how students did and the growth of students so we're not just not just how many kids meet a proficiency level is how much growth we can get which is very important to those for us to know especially for those students who are striving Learners and have farther to go so we can see how much closer we're getting them to where they need to be so all of our schools met were exceeded those Expectations by the state and the federal systems so any questions do you guys had reviewing it yeah no I have any questions I need a motion I move that we approve the school Improvement plans as presumed second most have been made and seconded to approve School Improvement plans as presented all in favor say aye aye anyone opposed motion passes thank you thank you just real quick so on after approval um these will be obviously available for the public the things we saw tonight was summaries but then full plans per code also go onto each school's website so parents can look at the entire three-year plan in addition to any changes for this year thank you 6.3 thank you this evening I'm recommending that the board approve an amendment to make sure right here we go and then to level C and Level D salary and wage schedules reflecting a salary and wage increase and Mr Taylor will provide you with some additional information thank you we are recommending that base salary and wage increase of 5.65 percent for our level D our level C and Level D employees this group includes our permanent and part-time support staff members um might think of custodians bus drivers maintenance classroom IAS in that group this would be retroactive to the first employee work day on or after July 1st 2022.
I have a motion by Tony I have a second by Travis any discussion hearing none all of those in favor and then so the other policies that were listed for approval under Section A of the agenda do I have a motion to approve those policies I have a motion by Pat do I have a second if I have a second by Tony in a discussion all of those in favor 7-0 and then um under as Jim stated under 6A down below these are a first reading so there's no action to be taken on those policies so then we'll go back up under 5B students Nikki I think you have something on student exits I do so I have two pieces of data I wanted to follow up and bring to you that we've talked about previously one is our student exit survey this is new for us so our count day numbers are approximately a hundred students lost from the difference of last year to this year total so we've wanted to make sure that we were being very thorough and looking into why that might be if there are things that we can work on to improve things we can work on to look at processes or know where some strengths were so we shared exit surveys with each family who has left us and asked for some feedback we did not receive all of those back but we had a pretty good response rate for the first time doing it and we reached out by phone for anyone who didn't return to us and did it by phone call so I wanted to share with you what we found out and a summary of that information and then I do have individual responses and I took those in tabulated these results but I would mention this data won't match up completely of what you see on the corporation transfer report we'll get in November because this is based on who responded to us so we had some who aren't captured here at the high school nine responded back Middle School 16 Brush Creek 31 nbe 37 Hayden 9 Sand Creek 11 Grand Creek 9 and Scipio 10.
I believe that's Shane Smith replacing number six Brandon Stone I'm not sure I'm gonna check the roster real quick might be his first game back we had some incidents with him and that is Shane Smith so he's gonna be in the game today making his first appearance Barlow sending it back to soup sack Oliveira steps up nicely on weslowski and weslowski is able to make a quick defensive play but it goes off his foot and it's gonna be an east-long metal throw in for Andrew Oliveira on the near sideline Oliveri finds presnell fresnel with a little bit of room Hanley with a quick move and a pass and they again double teamed in East Longmeadow wins the battle was Lasky fighting for it in the middle and Richard picks it up passes to presnell back to Richard and it goes off his heel and behind him a little bit of the tug of the Jersey there from weslowski there's gonna be a whistle on minute talk free kick and Andrew Oliveira will be taking it for each long medal as they set up just outside the 18.
this is uh from Gilman's own Maps um colorized and overlaid onto Google Earth so we can see it in relation to all the real things that we have to deal with and then 93 and went back and got caught up on all this I think this would be a good time to to point out that citizen involvement has been key on the Gilman issue when I got involved Pat Ryan Pat Ryan the citizen of Ann Arbor was the expert citizen expert on this and she got me up to speed and hit the ground running when I got involved unfortunately Pat died last month her obituary hasn't been posted yet but I'm working with uh different people to try to give her full credit for her early work on this I just wanted to interject that so that's 1992 plume map here's what it is in 2021 from the latest Gelman blue Maps except for the light yellow areas is the area they didn't bother to map that I've added where the dioxin has been at one part per billion their deductible level so after nine years of cleanup this this is basically what we're left with I'm going to go to the next slide to give you some other views because you've probably read about Scio townships sampling and I've added that in here these are the locations in the white are the ones who are non-detect locations here in the yellow are where there's detect uh from Silo Silo Township's own sampling this is not the complete list the latest round has not been shared yet via the Via eagle and I'm waiting for those to be updated so I can add those to the maps the rest of these areas are areas where Gelman is doing their own sampling or in these yellow squares is where the state is contract with the with the county health department to do sampling for the state but with all the sampling they somehow missed all of these detection levels up here mostly because the method of detecting the company and the state used up until recently could only detect onto one part Pavilion which is three times the cleanup standard that some states use but since Michigan has a very LAX cleanup standard of 7.2 um you know the the the state and the company have been able to get by with not really detecting where the dioxin was in our Waters of the state but where it was at One Park pavilion or more so most of these were in uh 0.2 to one part Pavilion there's one here that was at one part per billion so even with the state and the company's old analysis method that would have been detected this northernmost one here is only a thousand feet from the river only a thousand feet now that's about a mile farther north than what anybody expected so this is what's coming now this these tend to be at the deeper layers and we can talk about that in more detail when we have more time I only have a few minutes here so I'm gonna just re go to the next slide which is the again looking at the 1992 plume map and after 29 years of cleanup we have this plume and it's still expanding and of course this doesn't even show the size of sampling that so when people say it's a mile wide and four miles long it's really more like uh two and a half miles wide and more than four miles long and growing so uh I just want people to be aware of that now I'm going to turn it over to Jack Eaton and he's going to talk about this latest appeals court ruling that overturn the judge's order local judge order from last year that got some of the cleanup moving and he can go over some of that so I'm going to stop my share unless there's any questions that um you might as well leave it off Roger hi it's John Lewis Jack wants to have something else out on the screen okay well just leave it up Roger so um Google Earth instead so it can zoom in more so go ahead go ahead Jack thank you I'm Jackie and I'm the executive director of card um I'm a lawyer but I've never practiced environmental law so even though I'm going to discuss the court case this is not my area of expertise in fact the environmental commission may want to invite the City attorney to visit one of your meetings and um give you their point of view um excuse me so to understand the current legal status Gelman plume I need to provide some background the state's oversight of the Gelman plume is governed by a consent judgment agreement on the first version of a consent judgment was reached in 1992 nearly 30 years ago subsequent amendments were made to the consent judgment as conditions in law change regarding the claim in 2006 the city sued Gelman independent of the state's case against the polluter that case was settled on less than favorable terms which may in fact impact the uh cities standing um in the coming months in 2016 the state adapted new exposure standards for one for the axing and drinking water necessitating changes to the consent judgment the allowable levels of 14 dioxin was reduced from 48 parts per billion to 7.2 parts per billion that's a dramatic change um in that same year congresswoman Dingle urged the city to seek EPA involvement in addressing the plume problem the city just declined congresswoman's suggestion at least in part because of concerns about property values oh excuse me I've lost my place here um the state and gentlemen reached agreement on modifications to the third consent judgment which will um talk about in a minute um in 2017 but also on that year the city the county South Township and the Huron River Valley Huron River Watershed Council saw intervener status in the state's case against skelman the trial court granted that request to intervene that gave us a place at the table during the negotiations the interveners were allowed to join the negotiations for modification of the consent judgment those negotiations dragged down for about three years the interveners lawyers insist that the version of the consent judgment that was negotiated with input from the interveners was an improvement over the agreement reached between the state and gallery the elected bodies for the city county and Township rejected the proposed consent judgment there were fundamental and fatal flaws in the agreement that I won't get into at this point in time after the interveners rejected the proposed consent judgment the trial court held a hearing and ordered the polluter to implement the terms of the proposed fourth amended CJ and to engage in quarterly meetings to improve the remedial plan gentleman appealed that order to the you know initiating Court of Appeals while the appeal was pending the polluter refused to keep the interveners apprised of what efforts it was making uh to implement the Court's order interveners filed a motion to compel the polluter to create a timeline for implementation importantly the polluter argued that if the consent judgment did not include a deadline for an activity it could not be compelled to do those activities within any particular time frame this was one of the fundamental flaws to to the consent judgment that was proposed the trial court denied the interveners motion finding that it could take no action while the appeal was pending in July of this year the court of appeals held a hearing on gentleman's appeal those of us who watched the hearing noted that it didn't go well for the interveners on September 15th the court of appeals issued its opinion the court opinion starts with four pages of history of the plume including the fact that the discharge of 1-4 daxan began under a permit issued by the state of Michigan in recounting the litigation history the court noted that initially the trial court dismissed many of the state's claims against the polluter that was back in 1888.
now therefore be it resolved that the Board of Education will go into session for the following reasons as outlined in njsa 10-4-12 superintendent's contract do I have a motion Mr canthan second Miss Capello thank you roll call please Mrs Capello yes Mrs Everhart yes Mr physicaro yes Mr Canton yes Mr Megan yes Mrs Ryan yes motion carries thank you we will see you all at approximately 8 45 when we reconvene no action will be taken after this executive session foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] um [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign [Music] I would like to resume this meeting of the Eastern Township Board of Education are there any closing remarks from the board okay seeing none I would like to make a motion to adjourn motion by Mr physicaro seconded by Miss Capello all those in favor aye aye good night everyone [Music]
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okay okay um so this this is white this is what my Google uses the Bible um is um and so that's what was the public information that's something you've been awarded um because this was intended to live you know it's a snapshot one of these this is um I'm already feeling I go a lot better about it I mean okay yeah um and this is where um of what you say um right twice right right you can go look at this okay um so you could say you know domain one standard whatever it is okay there's a medical version available that are at least to the boxes it doesn't translate the freight from the PDF so that's something that I've been working on so sometimes you can even have a PCS yeah so I got to figure that out for her um yeah the other thing I thought was just kind of briefly all over this uh because this was um but um a little bit more it was the same uh-huh okay yeah definitely one thing that you can get feedback from Pilot you didn't believe we didn't have this initially in the handbook please um information and we did get feedback right now our last meeting we asked because we said you know we're talking like a couple names if you needed to receive a completed just the same um here's the definition yeah so um foreign um and I guess also with that I mean it really becomes that trust because in board members they don't work with other superintendents so a lot of them don't have any idea of what is and in terms of my colleagues or in terms of other districts but you know when we talk about rules tools to superintendent responsibilities like a lot of my friends because I don't have a title one Department like above and beyond foreign with parents and the community members is that with board members and that's was one of the ahas that most of the superintendent have because you can go into the center of Tennessee people of the instructions you know you're not really prepared for the political Department of Job to do this is um that's what we want to avoid we want to avoid the I don't blame you for your power believes it let's use this tool you're the reasons that we're not happy and instead of just like we don't like you um but he's not wrong right right so okay what it is yeah um cracking there is a simple evaluations you know some more some superintendents are doing order meetings and the evaluation some are just doing good we would recommend them and um one of the things that's in here that happens a lot of the performance valuations but we kind of took out of the equations at the topic to kind of an essential attendance and tendency and that is easy we have you know five yeah and three is just kind of like because you don't want to say anything so we took that out we were like choice um and then the appendix um writing this checklist examples of evidence and this is almost as you may not a fight and every single in order for superintendent evaluation it's a technology plan which is one right so you just updated your technology in the last year so um again these are just examples there's probably hundreds of examples and then I think this would be a good way we can talk about their certain data you know that is wrong right it just is you know I think that this facilities right right okay and then um so this is the board member a board member I was so overwhelmed so um I think this is really helpful you write this down is it to Too Much I mean I think using those to instructions the same okay resistance and you know and I want to be sure you know and it's just it's just a step up and I think these nutritions are good for you have two people organize data data you shouldn't have to print every single word before we do as four members have a responsibility in the extension to the information that we're getting from throughout the interview so there are things that foreign specific data on our Cooperative assessments I have a director's presenting fed transportation technology Community as I see a lot of this as evidenced at the principles were reported that superintendent report and board meeting agenda is right right Trends the evaluations that are highlights something so Kelly do you have any questions you're very good I think we're really good at um so I think at least um well we did record it so hopefully um yeah and the other thing is like I I think I'm happy after um and we will be talking about superintendent evaluation and then report some advisation um questions and then when every board member so we did that we need to do that one yeah and um um the standard report is just the six the Five Pillars the detailed report which used to cost money and they no longer across anybody so yeah so we decided um still itself I mean you probably didn't dedicate other questions there is massive amounts of days yeah sure and then on Wednesday um we are doing a webinar on one more self-evaluation and superintendent evaluation the board is it assistant foreign Kelly thank you lots of vitamin C all righty thank you thank you 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I will bring a revised statement of benefits for your approval at the October 20th meeting where you'll you'll see these actual value changes detailing salary changes and this salary has been included in the 2023 budget that I plan to present later this evening any questions Mr Taylor this is 565 in this group last year got seven percent is that right that's correct so we're following up the 565 with the seven percent so over the two years yeah we're really proud to do that be able to do that for our support and this is our non-certified staff so that's correct we're still actively in negotiations with our Teachers Association um and that also would exclude the administrative group from being approved tonight um and so we would bring those back at a later date once we've gotten through that process felt like it was appropriate to go ahead and move support staff level C D at this time thanks for the clarification thank you I think it's important we like doing this we show our support staff that we support them that they're not a lower ranking situation they are just as across the board with everybody else plenty of motion Mr President I move that we approve the raise for level C in the employees as presented well second most have been made and seconded to approve raises for level C and D employees all in favor say aye aye anyone opposed motion passes thank you 6.4 this evening is our first budget hearing so tonight will require no board action however we do need to have our public hearing so this evening is a hearing for the 2023 budget and I will turn it over to you Mr Hubbard for running that meeting and we'll start right there okay the city's board meeting has been appropriately advertised as a hearing on the 2023 budget the the bus the bus replacement plan and the capital projects fund plan I now open the public hearing enlarge the phone yeah thanks I'm starting squinting I would like to call Mr Taylor to provide an update on the budget there you go thank you Mr Hubbard I'll uh be brief I've got eight key points to hit here um and this uh Howard will do a great job of moving forward with the slides for me so you can go ahead the next one thank you keep some key important dates with the budget this year um I want to start this is my first presentation um I have to give great thanks to Dr Gabriel um who stepped down from this position at the end of June and Kathy statzer who's in the back of the room it was a played an integral process in getting this budget ready to be brought to you this evening we look forward to uh executing this budget in January so important dates are this evening this this information has been advertised well in advance of this meeting on the Gateway platform provided by the state we'll do a hearing tonight it's on the budget the bus replacement and the capital projects plan those are all three required by state code and then the board would actually adopt this budget of their October 22nd or 20th meeting if approved on the next slide I'll talk about the eight areas I'm going to focus on this evening beginning with enrollment changes and working my way through a summary you'll see all these titles repeated later on as we move through the first one we want to highlight is our enrollment changes this was a particularly High year of growth for Center Grove schools very excited for it we have projected about 200 new students as of this morning we ended up with 363 additional students in our schools I'm putting this up at that 94-34 Mark that will change between now and next Wednesday as we certify that number with the state but we are we are very pleased to see that and part of that allows for things like the large arrays that we were able to have the higher raise amount we were able to offer Sports staff our official enrollment date was last Friday but again it takes a few weeks to certify that information we built this Budget on an advertised enrollment of 94.30 we're going to be very close to that final number it looks like when we when we do certify and we receive about sixty four hundred dollars per student each year key to highlight that sounds like a great number we're very happy with that number we're very happy to have that number for our students but it does rank in the bottom 25 of all public school corporations in the state of Indiana and so there are 300 Public School corporations in the state of Indiana and we're 25th from the bottom so that's something to keep in mind that a lot of this number and the budget and the growth that we're experiencing is because of that student increase not because of an increase in the funding formula uh as we mentioned we do have to discuss a capital asset plan Dr long myself in technology we put together this plan we look at any items or projects our assets over an amount of ten thousand dollars that is available on our website and I'll share that link at the end of the presentation um for anyone who wants to review those projects and then in since 2020 2010 we've supplemented Revenue in the operations fund with uh General obligation bonds so we do purchase a large amount of equipment out of those bonds because the operations fund just would not support those with this funding and this year's total for those bonds are 5.8 million and one of the action items the board would look at in October is again approving of those bonds next slide for me there's kind of a brief summary of the capital asset plan much more details available on our website you can kind of see how those bonds are spent and how the money from the operations fund is spent as we move through there the first slide up here is for the maintenance projects you'll see the inclusion of security at the bottom of there and building improvements and on the next slide it's the technology projects and then a grand total for how those Bonds were spent again these are all equipment purchases facility purchases upgrades work there are no employees that come out of the Geo bonds just equipment and services we also need to present this evening a bus replacement plan that's on my next slide again in Greater detail online if you want to know exactly which bus is slated to be replaced riveting information but you can see the cost of bus have gone up can we just play 100th bus so we can get off 99. no we went up so it was 98 in Prior years it looks like a plug number I understand um but unfortunately the third column is the scary one because that number was well below a million in Prior years and this will fund at best eight buses next year when we make this purchase what's our what's our length now keeping buses 10 to 12 years this plan is built on a 12-year on a 10-year cycle as required by state code but we can get 12 years out but that does cost us more maintenance when we do it it's a balance and some years we just have to train we have to trade one in earlier because it's just a lemon of some sort you know and they've they've just spent so much in maintenance that we had to so and in that eight buses I believe that um the inclusion of the mid bus we hope to be able to fund um in that amount and we do carry that out for a five-year Pro Cycle um I think that's all on that slide thank you Tracy so let's talk about some major budget changes that we've had this year and this is uh really kind of focused in both accounts so talk about both funds talking to education fund and operation there are no administrative changes we had one transition but there's no additional positions added this year due to that growth and those 343 new students we did add 13 new classroom teachers we also have increased some classroom AIDS some of those would be like kindergarten AIDS or just simply class size maybe special education and also we can't just add teachers we also have now more kids in the buildings and more needs for our physical plant we were able to add two full-time and four part-time custodians along with two new bus drivers into this budget to accommodate that student growth health insurance this was a much better year this year for us than last year we are recommending in this budget a 5.1 percent increase from the corporation and a 2.1 percent increase from the employees we'll share more of that as we talk about other employee changes in the next month's meeting that averaged out to about a four percent increase in Revenue into that fund utilities it's always a guessing game we've got a little more information this year we know gas is much higher than it was not just gasoline but natural gas has gone up on us and so we did increase the utilities by 5.8 percent you can see what our expenses are in those in those accounts that's the increase of 175 we spend far more than that that's just what 5.8 percent looks like gasoline also we did a 25 increase for us that puts it up over 600 000 in what we spend on gas and you can see that change again this is all for 23.
those who filled out the form we really got a depth of information they shared with us some strengths they shared with us weaknesses and then on a likert scale of one to ten rated some areas so moving forward we are going to ask to use the exit form anytime a student withdraws and we really felt like people more more candid on that form than they were even with the phone call in person so that's going to be a process that we put in place and continue to do So based on where that is right now you can see at the bottom that's percentage by category that's not number of students so of those who left us 44 of those students moved out of County and these are students who truly moved out of County they're not just attending school outside of the county their family for a various list of reasons moved out of Jenny's County and you can see that is the most significant group the next most significant group was withdrew to another school of these 31 at that 31 only a small handful uh reported to us that it was another public school there mostly were to a private school the vast majority being the new school that was in town for this year which is Columbus Christian they cited as their reasons religious reasons and smaller school size that's what people responded on that portion we did have just about 15 percent that responded to us that actually transferred within County our own schools but they gave us information about the school they left which was helpful and then the others were handfuls of small reasons such as uh three percent it's actually a total of six students who moved to an online program they've previously been online and we didn't offer that program any longer they went with an online programming at one percent to homeschool one percent high school equivalency exam at the high school level those students most of them were reporting that they wanted to work to help their family full-time so that's why they chose that path some two percent for medical reasons and one percent noted uh concerns with peers so that was just a quick summary and again that's just of who responded to us so it won't match the corporation transfer report you know dollar to dollar matched match but it was really great information that we're now going to have a discussion with at our admin Team level and dig into some of those facts and some of those comment sections that they shared with us talk about things like problem with their peers or moving to another school do they get specifics is it just like there were three parents and two of them then okay um then is I'll move on to the next item sure summer school day yes so we Todd Epping you're not actually going to present this one together and Seth has the slides to pull up for us we had robust summer school programming this summer we've really been working hard to try to help fill in gaps that were created for students during the pandemic and so we had programming on three different paths and we're going to talk about those so we had our traditional summer school at the high school that's a credit recovery and we get most of that funded out of the state summer school Grant every year then we offered an elementary Reading tutoring program so for our K-5 students we offered them 16 sessions to come to school during the summer and get tutoring with a teacher or a paraprofessional that were trained in Barton and other reading interventions we paid for that through our sr2 and three grants and then finally we offer extended school year through special programs for students so our elementary summer tutoring program these are a number of students who were enrolled it was a total of 167 across the grades then we counted up the number of students who attended at least 50 percent of those sessions so you can see that 68 almost 70 percent attended at least 50 percent of the sessions for our first time ever trying this program and that we did not provide transportation we were pleased with that number we would have liked to seen it be higher but we only had a handful of total no-shows so we were pleased with that we did see that the gains were more significant for students second grade and above um majority of the students though showed some type of gains in and eating the ones who attended at least 50 of the sessions showed some type of gain or they remained the same which is also important because typically what happens in elementary is students fall back multiple levels during the summer twice the amount of time they're gone they lose double that over the summer in instruction that's called a summer slide and we were able to see most of the students who participated either stayed at their same rate and did not lose ground or they gained in one of the three areas we looked at and if you turn the slide it shows some of those areas we looked at so you see here the names have been removed the number of sessions a student attended what their Bas or Benchmark reading level is at was it the May and then we use the same test to see where they were when they returned to us in August after their 16 sessions over the summer we also looked at Star reading scale score or if they moved along in the Barton reading program so that's just one sample of one gray little snapshot to show you some of the data that we tracked individually at the high school level we had 46 students who attended summer school this summer and combined they completed 56 courses that they earned credit for so we had a good response rate of students who participated and earned credit to help them along to graduation we used the Edgenuity program and then teacher and paraprofessional support that's a half day program throughout that number is comparable to other Summers and years and Mr Edinger so with our extended school year our real focus is to prevent that summer slide so we know a lot of our kids they're working on goals below grade level so we look at what goals are in their IEP if it's reading if it's Behavior writing math and then we would plan instruction for that during summer instruction we had nine teachers one of our slps also provided speech throughout the summer 67 total kids attended extended we provided transportation for 16 of those kids to North Vernon Elementary and then the Summers or the sessions range over the summer for some of our kiddos it was only five it was right before school started they might have been transitioning from one of our self-contained programs to a gen Ed program and we wanted them to get experience in that genetic classroom meet that teacher so that they were comfortable when school started and then it ranged all the way to two per week or uh we did have a big emphasis on reading intervention so 58 of those 67 students did receive reading support through summer 55 of them we could collect the data for three of them moved before school started out of the 55 29 of them did make progress from their May star reading score to their August star reading score which was about 52 percent 12 percent stayed the same and then we did have a few kiddos that did not make progress but overall we had about two-thirds of our our students made progress or stayed the same over summer break our average growth was a was 0.22 grade equivalent on Star reading which is about two months growth and that range from 1.5 we did have a kid uh progress 1.5 grade equivalent now that end of the year score might have been skewed he may not have did their best effort but it did show 1.5 grade equivalent growth we we actually saw the k-3 students made a growth of 0.4 grade equivalent and our four through six students actually had a decline they they lost 0.15 great equivalent growth and then what was reported to us was nine out of those 19 students that did not make growth or did not stay the same did miss one or more sessions actually more than one session so we gave them that one session kind of break but then if they missed more than one session we started tracking that now and then our four to sixth grade our teachers reported that they had a lack of motivation they wanted not to be in school over summer break and they were starting to see that that they were some of our sessions were almost two hours so when we were keeping them there for two hours by the time it we were having a hard time keeping their motivated so we are going to we have the our students who attended we know their names so where the schools are in and we see our middle of the Year data we're going to glance at this data again and see if it helps them to grow anymore during the year by not having that summer slide so it's something we're going to keep an eye on to make sure that our summer intervention programs are operating at an Optimum level or things that we can learn to improve upon that we're keeping that data so just wanted to share that with you tonight and this was the program where they were allowed to pick their own times and yes as much as possible the 18 sessions we allow the parents the flexibility to try to schedule when it works for the worked for them this item was an inform item does anybody have any additional questions or conversation then we'll move on down the agenda um it looks like under programs we have Pace alternative head okay um this is what we're calling our PACE program is our Panther alternative classroom environment we have several alternative education environments now currently housed within our school this is looking at a placement outside of the regular school so I think go ahead the point of pace it's providing an alternative to expulsion to keep our students on Pace with their education um we see you know some students when they are expelled they aren't going on with their education we want to make sure we're giving them that option it aligns with our safety plan and it provides academic and behavioral support so we can help eliminate hopefully repeat expulsions for these students um it's for grades 7 through 12 right now it is the alternative to an expulsion and the enrollment this is the state requirement for anybody that's getting alternative education funding maximum of 15 for a teacher if there's an assistant in the room they can add five more and then it's going to be located in one of the classrooms in our education building jcec it's utilizing that program of Ingenuity like we used for summer school where the students can work at their own pace they can get some individualized instruction and they can work through as many credits as they're motivated to get we monitor their progress we can see daily their session logs we can see when they're idle we can see um the percentage of how far along they've come so we can monitor the credits that they're gaining in through High School it is offering the opportunity for more individualized assistance because they're each working on their own class the teacher can go around and really hone in on the skills that they maybe are lacking in or if it's the motivation how can we get them motivated um and they will all have alternative education goals each student will develop an individual service plan it will address the needs it'll address why they got expelled and then as they start meeting their goals we will update those and if new needs arise we can always write new goals as well as well we assigned either full days or half days and then because this is a new program off-site we definitely want to collect some data to see how it works and if it is worth continuing collecting about their student successes how many students are enrolled at each time how many credits they're earning while they're in there are they meeting their ISP goals are they meeting the goals or are we continuing to kind of spin our Wheels with that kid and then how many students are able to go from this program and successfully reintegrate back into that general education population in their building and no more expulsions for that any questions what determines whether they go a half a day or it could be based on student need so their own individual situation some kids we know struggle with full days and maybe they'd be sitting on a room the whole day now they would still have a full day schedule they would have expected if they are not attending full days I think a lot of factors there Travis it could be their behavioral plan it could be if there's I have a special education plan individualized education plan it could be a parent agreement there'd be a variable for every child the costs teacher we're going to use current teacher you'll see later on the agenda is looking at hiring a Para to help support that sort of time share between them so the teacher could be over there monitoring things at times but could also still attend to someone other duties and switch on and off with the Para so really the only cost at this time is just the additional Para and I'm going to be working on putting together all of the information for alternative education funding there's an application to add a new program so if this is successful we continue on there's more funding will be coming from an alternate that is just replaced it does not this is an addition we have not had an off-site just to give you some numbers from last year we had 44 students recommended for expulsion last year we have an on-site at the high school and at the middle school most of those students work at the high school um that classroom also runs our in-school suspension so that's a lot of students coming and going um to go into one room and to provide that individualized need that behavioral need that's gotten to mentioned being recommended for expulsion Pat the other factor is is that sometimes children don't fit the it's like a round peg in a square hole of being in the Gen Ed program at your high school and being off-site makes that feel like I'm not really going to that school where I'm the round peg in the square hole it's like a fresh new start to what it is so you've got we have it at the middle school they have kind of a similar programs seventh through 12th how is that set up now the seventh graders in with seniors and how's that they would be placed strategic so they're in the room but right now we're looking at it so we have done that previously and that's where it comes in also sometimes scheduling so sometimes that's where the half days come into play so there's there's many different ways that we've done that in the past but we have had programs that were 7 through 12 span and between scheduling and Staffing and how we have the students work yeah and interact very much during the day I mean it's regimented their strict rules um there's they're not they don't have headphones in and they're not on their telephones and they're not walking around talking and playing cards and things it's it's not passing periods you know between the seventh grade that's where sometimes the supervision comes in making sure we have really good super Vision in there there and there is some loss of privileges happening more when you're in an off site if it were to grow to be big enough to say 20 you might be able to divide them out 10 to 10 and have younger children in another another room across the hall or next door it is done to supervision but you'd want to see how it grows and then they would be back to the table regarding that growth and need for additional staff but right now we've got one teach an aid that what is it in well the middle school went suspension and then they had their absolute suspension in a separate room but it's ran alongside with another classroom s in one of our self-contained classrooms so they're doing double duty the same thing at the high school they're doing double duty in that classroom there are students that are in there that are not on an expulsion those expulsion numbers I know code would kind of skewed everything there last year we are currently we're looking at we're in September we're currently sitting at seven students recommended for expulsion already so although this program has a different name we have had a similar program in the past actually housed at that same building um I think five years ago maybe six at this point we had the program and now as we've got coven we've been having available availability of an off-site program for students who fit that need so we'd like to do this as a pilot and we would be asking only for the addition of the para for this school year and if at any point the program grows we will bring data back we would ask to hire before we need any additional staff and we'll bring back data on how the program performs for the kids this year and share that with you after we get started on the pilot with it program is similar that's the restart s we start all set do we do we know why that at the time of some other needs for the building at the time it was between the transition of see just stopped we were moving it to Adult Ed we weren't sure on the amount of space there's a list of different reasons I was able to collect in the past of why it was just seemed like a good time to move them we definitely see the need based on current student needs to have this opportunity you are so lucky to have that facility it it's so well taken care of and so clean you know every school district would only love to beg to have a place like what you've created and established over there so you have the perfect place the timing's right so where will that so in special education department at the high school so we will realign some caseloads we will have that pair that we're adding kind of switch in and out with some other staff within the department to make sure that we don't shortchange anyone's Services they currently already have and we feel like we can fit it in with what we have all together and make the entire program work if we have the addition of that parent and Mandy's going to work with the high school team next week to make sure that we try to balance that as equally as possible I remember when we started that we you guys went in pain fixed the place up and we had a tour a school board and it was really nice and we had a principal there and a secretary and I think Mike Green ended up there up there and it was really successful and it was really good deal and Dustin Benz um he's very supportive of alternative Ed said that he would be okay again that item was an informed item um the vote or approval for the additional pair of habit happens when we move on to the next and that's the high ability program making so a high ability program I wanted to share with you where we're at on high delay program it's been a little bit since we've had an update and then at some point here in the near future we'll talk about Staffing for the high ability program our former High ability coordinator left in May look at how we're going to hold that role in the future so starting with just some information this evening on the program in general so we have 368 students currently identified for high building the district that's nine percent of our student the state recommends eight to ten percent of students in your population be identified so we're right in line with what is expected the way that we identify students is through a screener and kindergarten second grade or sixth grade and then any grade their parent or a school staff member who sees characteristics of high ability can recommend them for screen so we can screen any they have an assessment portfolio that we use for identification co-gap assessment scores that's an aptitude ability test Sage's inventory that has some teacher input on that portion and then standardized and formative scores so we put all that together for a data picture to see if a kid qualifies they can be identified in math in reading only and both of those combined and then we have also identified students in our arts program and provided support programming at our elementaries currently there are is classroom differentiation so if a student's identified as high ability their classroom teacher provides them some extra or challenging opportunities within the classroom we also try to Cluster the kids with a partner when possible so if they're doing group work they have a buddy who's also in high ability that might do that challenging work together and then we do offer small group pull out Services once a week at the elementary for our high ability kids they focus on literacy we do a lot of stem projects we are just now ordering brand new kits from when Jennifer Layman went to the National stem conference they recommended a group called Central creativity they send us complete kits and a little baggie for our high ability kids to use during High building lessons with stem materials we use some programming and robots with ozobots oh sorry ozobots Lego labs and other activities and then we have level challenges within the room a lot of teachers have reading goals math fact challenges and use IFL programming for that at the middle school level our high ability students are grouped together in advanced level classes for some challenging opportunities with their curriculum we offer electives with Project Lead the Way at the middle school their guidance Department offers specific support for our students with highability counseling needs and then there's High School Credit opportunities students at the middle school have five opportunities that they could sign up for high school credit if they would like to do so at the middle school level and then at our high school level we're very proud to be able to say we are one of the high schools in the state that is a college core program meaning that our students can choose to take their whole First full year of college while they're in high school and get an accelerated start so when they go to college they're already one year in and count as a sophomore and then that's money their parents are saved as well so College core programming is available we have our graduation Pathways that include things like Project Lead the Way we have the biomedical Sciences pathway and certifications they can earn we offer a variety of AP courses at the high school for college credit our counselors share College information about specific honors programs at each school and then our guidance Department also offers specific support and so then the final slide I have these are some items of programming that we were able to provide in highability prior to covet that we would like to see return so these are things we've done previously and we're hoping to get back up and going this year an annual field trip we bring all the elementary students of each grade level into one location in the past we've brought in Louisville Science Center to do some special activities with them creative arts multiple different things that we can do but it provides one challenge field trip idea we've had higher parent involvement levels in the past and we definitely want to get that back together we had a quarterly newsletter that was going home to parents to inform them of what was going on in their child's High ability programming parent information session meetings especially at the high school level to talk about college options and choices and then we have parent involvement night specific to highability so those are things that we'd like to bring and then college visits we took the students on tours of honors programs at some colleges around the state small group support at the entry level would be an option they are receiving that help right now from their stem special para we would like to have that teacher a teacher incorporated into that process one-on-one or small group support for College and Career exploration at secondary and then finally our high ability coordinator in the past has done a lot of resource organization and professional development support for classroom teachers so if they've asked for special supplies to teach their class with their students that they have they've provided that they've been the pathway to help the teacher get those materials so those are some of the programming things that we'd like to see come back now post covid that we're able to do and Staffing will be a big a part of that we'll talk about going place that that coordinator position there's one to give a brief update tonight on where we are with High Valley in general any additional conversation or questions again that was an informed item so we'll move down under support staff recommendations that's Sandy Jacobs she's the current Jennings County high school custodian but we're adding the crossing guard Duty so asking for a rate change for her asking for approval for Stacy Morris as a Brush Creek Elementary paraprofessional Ronald Robbins as a Jennings County School 's driver Rebecca sohocki as the jcec test proctor Andrew Titus as the high school boys assistant soccer coach and Jonathan I'm sorry that should be Andrew Titus as the boys head soccer coach I'm sorry so it says assistant coach to head coach so he is the head coach I'm sorry and then Jonathan Titus will be the assistant boys soccer coach Jessica Wilkerson we moved her from a classroom nurse to a school nurse and her days increased from 180 to 185 and then Kennedy Vance is going to be a Scipio paraprofessional asking asking for permission for those recommendations except a motion for those recommendations motion my pack do I have a second by Travis any discussion all those in favor 7-0 and then next we're asking for permission to post the Jennings County High School sped parapro OT I have a motion by path do I have a second by Susan any discussion all that is in favor moving down under finances Philip yes asking for approval for the following donations vote electric two hundred dollars to the Grand Creek to Grand Creek for stem Club days Rebecca and Carl I'll forward a hundred dollars to Middle School nutrition Club forty dollars each for the following that will go to the jcec career fair that is farming Construction Columbus Regional Hospital Bill Wilson on behalf of Martin Betty Eggleston 225 dollars to the Jace food program and Cummins 1176.78 JCS for stem supplies I have a motion to approve Earl do I have a second by Tony any discussion all those in favor under operations yes next I'm asking for approval for a route to change between Ron Hendershot and Kathy I have a I have a motion by Travis do I have a second second by Chelsea any discussion all those in favor 7-0 and then down under relations Nikki asking for approval of our annual mou with Ivy Tech College so we're able to provide dual credit opportunities do I have a motion a motion my pack do I have a second by Susan any discussion all those in favor 7-0 which brings us down to other things we accept emotion to adjourn yeah did you want to yeah I didn't want to discuss something under other it's our policy Board of Staff relations I brought to Amy's attention that I think we need a little crafted some language sure so Travis called me the other day and just wanted to talk about policy 3112 this is the board staff communication policy he would like some different language within that policy so I'm going to um have it printed out but I'm going to kind of just discuss this policy reads that the school board desires to maintain open channels of communication between itself and the staff the basic line of communication and there's a little bit of language change here but should however follow the chain of command when possible and then under a staff communication to the board the line that was stricken which Travis is requesting that the um moved from the policy states all communication from staff members to the board of its committees shall be submitted through the superintendent and the replacement language would State staff members are expected to follow the chain of command with job-related issues prior to contacting board members and then a an additional small paragraph in the effort to maintain open communication if for any reason the staff do not believe that the communication through the chain of command is the appropriate channel to discuss a problem concern or complaint regardless of the reason a staff member may present the issue directly to human resource and that is what is being recommended out so I think um Travis has brought this up and I think what we would like to do for what correct me if I were wrong please but what Travis would like to do is send this language out so you all have the opportunity to review it and read it and then we'll bring it back to them discuss at the next board meeting any additional discussion anyone else and then I'll entertain motion by Pac do I have a second by Travis
Oliveri sending it to the far post looking for a head and it's defended nicely Biggins tries to send it back in looking for presnell Hanley open wide on the far side Biggins Barlow hits it down and it's taken by believe Nick Bradley Shane Smith finds Bradley Bradley have moved to the inside Zach Richard a one touch to presnell president what a fake fake move Hanley rips the shot on net and it goes wide right Sam tried to make a good effort there just wide I've noticed uh Teddy hanley's definitely on this weak side has been open quite a bit and they finally were able to find him there but I think minnetrock's got to tighten up their defense a little bit because he seems a little too wide open to me we're getting better at switching Fields absolutely quick switch to the field and you're gonna get an open shot all day [Music] just gotta capitalize Wilson fortunately fortunate enough that was not on net he gets a free kick out of it sends it to Midfield the head ball from Shane Smith East longmeadows got a three on four Richard coming up to help Hanley looking inside in the top of the 18 to Smith Smith's got some room sends a ball towards the flag Richard will chase it down and keep it from exiting the playing field send a quick Cross looking for Bradley on the far post ends up on Joe prezzle's foot prezzle makes a move to the left and taken down just outside the 18 and should be a free kick for each long medal me and Joe are out on the turf a few months ago you're getting some free kicks in so hopefully all your practice there Teddy will will pay off even though hanley's taking it but president with a great play just outside the 18.
it notes that the consent judgment expressly provides the polluter has not admitted any fault and has reserved its rights to assert defenses um should the matter be litigated so there's a dichotomy here you can either negotiate a consent judgment or you can fully litigate the dispute and in the past they've negotiated consent judgments um the Court held that Joe government could not be required to accept changes to the consent judgment absent agreement of the state and government um and the court also found that the interveners cannot further participate in this dispute unless and until they file complaints filing complaints makes the interveners partied the case but it also allows the polluter the ability to raise any defense against those claims that it may have thank you the court of appeals was very critical of Judge Connors they found he aired by holding the hearing and amending the CJ it found that he conducted that hearing as if it were an open mic night and then the court vacated the June first order remanded the case back to the trial court and reinstated the third amended consent judgment the most notable difference between the third and the proposed fourth consent judgment is the level of toxin that's excelled the third consent judgment allows them to um have amounts up to 48 parts per billion um we need to negotiate an agreement that brings it back down to 7.2 um the court noted in that quote the state and Gelman are free to negotiate a fourth amended consent judgment as they see fit which they may present to the trial court for entry as a new consent judgment is to parties find it necessary they may see quick trial Court's involvement as permitted in consent judgment unless Gelman or the state seek the trial Court's involvement the their third amendment consent judgment remains in effect and the trial court should play no role in their negotiation of a possible fourth amended agreement Henry manned the trial court shall require interveners to either file complaints or to be dismissed from this case so at this part point in this litigation the parties and the interveners will have to decide whether to appeal from the court of appeals to the Michigan Supreme Court or just allow the matter to return to their trial court if it returns to the trial court the interveners only have standing to participate if they file their complaints we won't have any status at the negotiation table if the interveners file complaints that will allow the polluter to to answer those complaints raise all of its defenses and more importantly to appeal whatever the the court may decide through lengthy appeal processes which they've always done in the past their methodology is to drag their feet to delay and to appeal everything so for me the takeaway from all of the the state court um activity is that the city council did the right thing by asking the EPA to come in the epa's in town they're studying um possible listing of this site is a Superfund Site and um that's currently where we are um the interveners will have to decide their next steps that while they're making those decisions uh the EPA is hard at work studying the site for um possible placement on the Superfund Site I'm happy that you invited Roger and me um to your meeting tonight and I want to reciprocate by inviting all of you to our current meetings um we hold our card meetings the first Tuesday of each month our next meeting is October 4th at 6 PM we conduct our meetings by Zoom everyone's welcome thank you all right thank you Jack are there any questions for Jack Kathy you have your hand up um Jeff can you just estimate how much uh either Ann Arbor or all the communities have spent on legal fees uh fighting with Gelman well the city um uh has authorized approximately 920 000 as of February of this year I'm not sure if they have spent that last portion but it it's coming up on a million dollars um the other parties have spent similar amounts of money um Although our outside Council takes the lead on an office um they consult with all of the attorneys and they're all working to understand what works being done so a ton of money has been spent on this litigation okay and I want to say that I did attend the appeals court hearing and uh while I have been harsh about our attorneys uh Nathan Dukes who is a lead attorney uh provided an excellent argument at the appeals court hearing but it was obvious that uh it was not in our favor Gelman has unlimited resources they actually presented themselves as the underdog who continuously did everything that was reasonable and Beyond and the interveners were just insatiable um and I also want to mention that less than four years ago when I mentioned the EPA and it was in MLive I was chastised for even mentioning the EPA because it's only been in the last couple of years that we've been able to have a dual path process and talk about litigation as well as the EPA lastly I think this decision actually was positive because it was very definitive and it's easy to I think come to the conclusion that we must pursue the EPA at this time and and hopefully they will agree to take this site thanks Jack and Roger so I I wanted to follow up on Kathy's remarks um an important thing to remember about the state litigation is that it's been going on for 30 years and in that time the plume is spread in the manner that Roger was displayed on and that the fourth amended consent judgment does not substantially change what the state will do with regard to the plume and so the next 30 Years will look much like this as the plume continues to spread pretty much unabated um even as some dachshund is is removed from the ground so rather than spending our millions of dollars on litigation we should ask the EPA to use their staff attorneys and they're accustomed to going up against um uh large multinational corporations and and their lawyers so that would be my bottom line okay are there any other questions for Roger or Jack okay I have one uh Jack um I mean what about the torque system I mean there are a lot of property owners that have been denied their property rights of using their ground wire so actually I'm going to let Roger speak to that because he's familiar with the short cases that have been um filed in the past and I I'm less so so okay yeah the um the people across the street from Gomen they were originally contaminated their their homes their Wells were originally contaminated as well as um a lot of businesses including gelman's own Supply Wells so they were contaminated we don't have all the data for that we just have a couple indications that there was double and triple parts per billion in their own Supply Wells uh but the people across the street in the Westover area here um their Wells were contaminated up to I think there was one that was four thousand parts per billion not right away but eventually uh several hundred parts per billion they sued and they lost in court because there was a big enough sample and the the ailments they were suing about uh could have happened from something else a lot of the ailments could have happened from Yemen spray irrigation which wafted across the street you know when they when they couldn't treat in their treatment ponds uh good enough they tried spraying it in the air on their lawns which with the sun and the bacteria in the soil would supposedly break it down with some of that ran off into the third sister Lake which is where the dioxin was first discovered by Dan Bicknell back in 1984.
so we're trying to predict what the market will look like next year and so we do use current trends to predict that and then finally we did need to transfer additional money for tax cap losses and so this is where we've gone out to the public property the assessed value and we we apply a tax to it and we receive revenue for these funds but it falls short of the revenue we need to operate or to pay our debt and so part of that is due to the tax have loss and the circuit breaker laws we do lose that money that we've asked for from our property values all other public agencies lose a little bit of money too but School Corporation is the largest part of that and so for us that increase represents almost a doubling of what we had put in there in Prior years um so we've seen those tax cap losses go up nearly double I know Dr Gabriel did a presentation on that in June um so some more information there if you look at those slides so let's look at what this actually looks like we have three major areas in the budget that we're talking about this evening education operations and Debt Service and you can see what the budget was or what the revenue is in those accounts along with what we expect to spend out of those accounts I'm pleased to highlight the first two education operations are a balanced budget we plan to spend every dollar in Revenue that we've received in The Debt Service this is a little bit different one we're going to collect more than we spend and we need to do that because we made some extra payments on debt last year and we want to restore our cash balance level back to that so that we can make those extra payments in the future if needed it was like a third payment in a year typically we'd make two and so that's all that's really doing it's not exceeding the 2021 level it would just get us back to where we were so cash would have went down for a period of time this will restore it and that's the only reason the bottom two numbers then don't equal up but all in all it's a balanced budget it's a well-designed and we think affected budget for us let's talk about how that budget's funded on the next slide so on area number six we'll talk about our total tax rate always want to kind of list the education funds on there there's no tax associated with that that comes from the state it's income tax sales tax all those all those miscellaneous taxes we get from the state but what we can control then are the tax rates and the operations and Debt Service fund and on the slide I've presented what last year's rate was what we anticipate what we're advertising for 2023 and then the far right this is a kind of a shell game that we had to play with the state um because we never know exactly what those final assessed value rates are going to be until late December and so we always advertise High so the number you see in the far right is what we say we'd like to to raise just in case assessed value came in higher or lower it lets us make adjustments and those adjustments are made in the month of December and when we adjust them our adopted rate will be what you see in the second column so what's key to point out is we are not raising the tax rate for our homeowners this school year we're remaining flat it will be as close as possible to one dollar and two cents and four hundredths there four thousandths of a cent um that last zero might change to a one or three nine something like that but we will hit it as close as we can but again we've got to do that in December we've got to come to you folks in September and so we've got to protect ourselves from down the road this isn't a new strategy it's something we've done every year let's move on then and let's look at what that tax rate looks like looks like so we always look back to 2009 that's when the state reset kind of the taxing and formula structure and at that time we were at uh 1.04 cents of our tax rate and we've really remained flat over the past decade and a half and again you'll see these last three years where we remain consistent at that dollar and two cent mark the next slide we always like to compare so how are we doing as a school corporation in the county both Franklin and Clark Pleasant exceed our tax rate partially due to building projects that they've had partially due to Capital referendums that they've passed that they have a higher tax rate we did lose the race with Edinburgh a couple years ago I think it was just last year where somebody had some pension debt fall off and so they've moved back below us but you'll see we provide a pretty good bang for your buck I'd say here at Center Grove to be right in the middle of the County schools and think about the quality of Education that we are able to provide with that tax rate moving on let's take a look at what that tax rate looks like for a Center Grove homeowner this is not necessarily the average cost of a house in Center Grove but 300 thousand is a nice rounded off number for us to work with and this slide did change a little bit from what the board has seen in the past and we did that because something I really want to talk about assessed values have gone up the values of our homes and I live here in Center Grove have gone up since last year we all should expect a higher tax bill next spring and that's due to the value of our houses going up not every single parcel throughout the township probably went up but the vast majority did and this is Statewide if you've been following the housing market um so I inserted a third column for folks to take a look at in the past we've only shown the first two because we're not changing our tax rate and that's key to know that what the school's action tonight that we're the I'm presenting and that we're asking the board direct to approve in October is to not raise that tax rate but if that house value went up and that's what I'm showing in that third column is that the house value has gone up about 10 percent so a three hundred thousand dollar house in 2022 is now worth three hundred thirty thousand dollars in 2023.
Sam Hanley looking to capture his first goal of his senior year it's Wilson directing traffic in front of the net foreign goes just wide right at the net and Ben Wilson looked pretty happy about that one another sub coming in another sub coming in number 24 for East Longmeadow I believe that is Tyler wretchen and looks to be replacing number nine Michael Monroe Monroe certainly establishing some early offensive attack slowing Meadow thank you and hopefully this time I will continue to apply the early pressure that ball is sent towards Midfield Shane Smith Sam Hanley heads it down to himself and that ball Skinner's out of bounds sleeper with the throw in for minute jog the sleeper throws it to Midfield let's chase down by weslowski and Richard with a pullback move looks to find marrigan Marion and Richard double team Joe presnell and he rolls over the ball and they're gonna say it was a quick little foul there on cam ice and East Longmeadow will have another free kick in the danger zone Zach Richard taking the kick Richard one of the goal scorers last night in the two nothing win against East Hampton along with Michael Monroe Richard throws one on net it skitters in and Shane Smith looking to get a foot on it and they're gonna say goal kick I believe a goal kick yep wasn't sure if it was offsides Joe McLaughlin also recording his first Varsity points of the season last night on the assist thank you and that head ball and Hanley goes way over the top of soupsick a little bit of Airborne there for Hanley some WWE type stuff and super SEC will hit a low laser at skitters on the ground ends up on the foot of ice excuse me not ice of Park Yom and it'll be a free kick for minute jog students section A little light for East Longmeadow today hopefully they can get something going four o'clock games I guess a little early for people yeah get out of practice going to work and a shot on net one hop right into the chest of Morgado and he'll throw it out wide to Bradley in a little slip up there on the far side marrigan able to recover sends it up the sideline where it's touched up field by Barlow cam ice working with weslowski and a shot in a head ball attempt and weslowski tries to get another head ball on it and the ball will exit the playing field at goal kick for East Longmeadow foreign [Music] rips one off the Noggin of weslowski and soupsick traps it down looking for weslowski again diascali calls off Biggins and a quick pass from Shane Smith Zach Richard a fake ends up on Sam hanley's foot and he'll find Tyler wretch and wretchen with a chip up the the middle looking for Richard or presnell and O'Toole will play it back to Wilson it's Oliveri Shane Smith loses the ball sends him and Ascend up weslowski in Atkin Atkins and it goes just left of the post little too much curve on it definitely a dangerous opportunity there for Minnesota Morgado catches a break okay some some subs going on some substitutions yes for East London Joe presnell will exit the game along with Zach Richard and Josh Riley will be entering again with I believe Shea McCarthy and Michael Monroe as well Riley head ball over to Hanley Riley tries to fire up the sideline just a little bit Out Of Reach come on and soup sack a touch pass to barkiom super saki again Riley chips It Forward looking for Monroe and ends up in the hands of Wilson uh punt towards Midfield and carthy goes up for the header Barlow McCarthy ends up on the foot of vacuum and Santos sends it back to Barlow Barlow back inside tool O'Toole and I clear up the sideline just a little wide a little wide there both teams looking to be using the chip and run method Teddy I I've seen East long metal and minnetonk so far they're trying to catch their user speed up top and find the guy going towards the flag hopefully get a cross in yeah make a scoring opportunity Barlow with the ball at Midfield passing it to ice and that ball is broken up by Monroe Monroe double teamed and it spits out to McCarthy he'll play a wide to Bradley Bradley a quick cut move inside back to wretch in and he'll play it out towards the flag looking for Nick Bradley and that ball will go out of bounds minicha goal kick thank you for that time check 20 minutes left to the first just under 21 remaining still a zero zero game so far been fairly 50 50.
but some of that uh Mist would waft across the roads into people's yards where the kids that played outside seemed to have more health problems than the kids that played inside and that was wasn't a big enough sample and of course they didn't have good enough lawyers like government had and they lost the case and then they appealed and they lost an appeal and in fact I think uh Gelman was awarded that they had to pay the government court costs and government never asked for it because there's a good way to keep everybody quiet over there you know well anyway so that's that's a little bit of the history similarly in the Evergreen area that used to be Scio Township um that that area uh was contaminated and uh they were talking about this area up here uh it wasn't this bad at the time but in that let me go back to the 92 flu map you can see what it was um well Roger we don't have much time to go through a lot of these details I know and it's it this this site really we really should have now after 30 some years we really should have a teach in on this that'll be a multi-day teacher where all the people that are still around can relate what happened in the early days so the next Generations can take over in this because this contamination is going to last longer than any of us are alive okay well I'll note that um part of our bylaws are that we're um we have the right uh we have the privilege of doing extraordinary public hearings so I think the commission can consider doing public hearings on this topic from an ordinary public hearing we've had rafts of ordinary public hearings and uh one of the reasons I like to be able to keep this uh map up on the screen is that a lot of the decision makers especially judges have not seen these mashups I've done for to to help card with this decision making this this doesn't make it into the lawyer's kit when they walk into court because you know that's that's like open mic night right yeah yeah okay um well thank you Roger so let's um let's think about what might be an appropriate um public engagement tool when I say public hearing I'm thinking about her teaching yeah it's got to be something ongoing it can't just be a one-off right right okay I've been working with the school of information uh we're giving them some ideas for ongoing graduate level uh courses to help uh do some of the stuff that I've been doing and uh you know keep that going forward because after pat died Pat Ryan died it kind of hit me in the head like okay what if what's going to happen to all this stuff if I'm right okay okay so we've got to move on um John mursky has a question now I uh have a 50 000 foot question it seems to me that we are playing a game of whack-a-mole uh given that we have we're operating under Tasca the toxic Substances Act um where if you look at what we're doing here with one for dioxane if you look what's going on with pfas if you look what's going on with other toxic chemicals um from a policy advisory perspective which is our responsibility as a commission it seems to me that it would be worthwhile having and I think I may have brought this up briefly before but we've never done it is dedicating an agenda item to contrast the Tasker legislation in the United States with reach legislation in Europe and how the reach legislation is proactive uh and prevents uh the kinds of new chemicals being released all the time and then 10 years five decades down the road we realize we have a disaster on our hand and we're going to have the next Gilman plume or the next pfas issue or whatever else and it seems to me that it's worth at least one agenda item to contrast those two different policy approaches and how under Tasco we're doomed to talking about these things forever in the here in the United States is that a correct assessment Steve and is that something worthwhile or is this simply outside of our sphere of of influence even and therefore not worthwhile well um the legal Authority is with the federal government but um I think it's important to build public awareness and um especially with elected officials like in Congress that this is something that we really need to do we need to reform on the way you know synthetic chemicals are treated within the legal system that's definitely true and reach is a very good model um yeah with the European Union um so you can you can look up uh if you look them up on the internet and see what's happened there um Sarah you have your hand up John I love your your idea yeah like if this did go to EPA um you know kind of looking at how the federal law compares to other other places like Europe um that would be a really useful thing for us to go over um I also just um wanted to chime in um you know the thought about npl and super fund listing um you know there is this small probability that it doesn't get listed as a federal site um so just thinking you know worst case scenario um to Advocate to continue to have other parallel Pathways going forward um so I know like Eagle's gonna continue to negotiate with Gelman on the side um so continuing to represent the city's voice to Eagle and what we're hoping to see out of that knowing that they have continued negotiations going on between them and Gelman um and then also you know advocating for on the state level level polluter pay legislation um so the polluter pay law will help um prevent this prohibition Zone from being a remedy um which is what's continuing to allow the plume to spread um so those are you know just a couple different ideas to throw out in addition to MPL listing you know in the case that that doesn't go through all right thank you Sarah are there any other questions or comments all right okay let's move on to the next item which is uh find a new business um John mursky has submitted a draft resolution um entitled uh resolution to improve city of Ann Arbor's performance transparency so this will be a first reading I I assume so are we anticipating a vote or um a discussion on a vote John or I would say that depends on the commission if it's non-controversial then potentially we have a vote um and if there's agreement it's not then uh we would potentially have a second reading okay so let's put it up um I think I can maybe I'll try to share my screen again and put put up the document while we're talking [Music] um so you want me to introduce to introduce the topic yeah please do okay so um coincidentally today I read an article about something completely unrelated to this and it included the quotation old saying or adage In God We Trust all others bring data and I thought that was relative relevant to what we're talking about here uh as many of you know I moved to Ann Arbor back to Ann Arbor in 2015.
you can see how that translates out even though our tax rate stays the same the tax bill will change and it's due to that value increase I wanted to be real clear and transparent on that for our taxpayers so they understand that's coming they're preparing for it and they and they know it does um is not caused by the school again it's caused by those Market changes and fluctuations that we've heard about got just two more quick slides to go through wanted to show this is something we always predict at this time of year the board will see these exact numbers later on when we talk about um final Appropriations to end 2022 but this shows where we expect our cash balance and operating balance at the end of this year so how we will start the 23 budget and you'll see we have a slight decrease there where we've spent some more cash on things like unanticipated tax cap losses is the biggest expense there and and so this is a budget to budget comparison of where we thought the tax rate or the operating amounts will end up it will be different than this this is the budget to budget comparison we'll give you actual actual when we bring it back I'm still well within that goal that the board's defined probably will be a maybe a smidge higher probably back to Flat if I had to predict right now but didn't want to show that this evening so one thing about there Mr Taylor is that we did decrease the goal yes 2010 yes down to four percent and then under advice yes our bonding and yes due to concerns on our ability to get uh double A or AAA rating you're correct AAA rating they recommended you reset that's why from 18 to 19 and continuing up to hopefully closer to eight percent as we move forward so we can maintain our that is correct and we also at that time started looking at both funds prior to that we were really only looking at One Fund our general fund and that's when there was a major change so those two things in one or Mr Alexander you're exactly right and I do think the board will come in right around that eight percent when when the end of the year hits so a quick summary education fund and operation funds are balanced budgets uh you can see our increase in enrollment always good to keep that in mind we are not raising that tax rate and so therefore there is no increase based off that tax rate now the final slide I want to provide there's a very detailed budget website that the school has operated for multiple years um we share as much of the information of where and how we're spending the taxpayers dollars Miss Conrad and her Department helps me with this um making the website look great and be real pleasing to the eye it's very very user friendly and then if there's some other document that's required at the state level that would be on the Gateway website and that's transparency for all government agencies so the schools are just a part of that but all government agencies data that's required by code is listed there so I encourage people to check that out and we do welcome questions I think that's ended my part Mr Robert thank you for the time thank you sir uh so this appropriate time for members of the public to comment on the 20 20 23 budget or the information presented here this evening in regards to the budget are there any members of the public president that would like to comment safe yes sir yeah same thing as last time just state your name and keep it to three minutes and just address me and don't mention nobody's name Bill Collins 3865 new battle Lane Bargersville the projections are very dependent upon growth into the Center Grove Community has this taken into uh consideration the number of people that have left the public school system and have opted for homeschooling over public schools and have utilized vouchers for school choice opposed to traditional public schooling and do you have the numbers for the number of students that have left the Center Grove School District and have gone to those options to that would you like to um thank you for your question Ms Collins we don't project out much Beyond 2023 in this budget we do project that in many other ways looking at our future debt or enrollment might be that's something Dr long and I work on a lot to look at how our growth has been we've been steady over the years we've had one years you saw in that chart where uh enrollment kind of flatlined but we've been growing as we estimate about 200 students per year and that's kind of what we've continued to estimate as we move forward we don't have a ton of data on transfers I wish we had more I cannot tell you exactly every student who leaves Center Grove schools and where they go that is something that the Department of Education and the state does not provide we do get a list towards the end of each year of how many transfers have gone out to other public schools and sometimes we have some privates on there doesn't have homeschool information can't provide that can't do certain schools that aren't fully accredited or part of the state so I can't give you that full answer but we do track it we do watch your transfers we know some of our enrollment growth is from transfers in from other communities a pretty good portion of it is anything I left out there guys other than the budget was based on a enrollment number of 94 30.
yeah a few opportunities for both sides you saw metal had some early shots and have yet to produce anything and minichog is definitely making their way into the offensive zone getting creating some opportunities of Their Own American oh one on two and minichog will be called on the penalty and a free throw in for Marion and there's another whistle on the play most likely exited the field a couple minute shock players shaking up on the Play Jake Barlow he seems to shake it off no problem a few more students coming in flowing in yeah we're filling it up a little bit need some noise to be made from the student section get people fired up a little bit maybe even the parents can let out some screams American clears it and it's smacked down by Santos Monroe up the sideline for Hanley and supsak defends well Monroe curves it towards the middle and Barlow able to hit it oh Bradley goes for the low header a bit of a dangerous play if I've ever seen one sleeper could have knocked him out with one there put him to sleep Joan Richards coming in for a sub but not yet definitely two of East Long East longmeadows top players in Richard and presnell Fresno obviously a returning player but good to have Richard for the first time in his uh High School career I believe he was playing club before this but definitely a valuable asset for to East Longmeadow and a great addition to the team this year and a minute chalk throw in on the far sideline just past Midfield and sleeper clears it weslowski finds the foot of bark yum and now subsec gets beat by Smith and the ball is touched up field Patsy diascali with the ball in the near sideline passes it back to Riley rileyo across it towards the middle looking for wretchen and it's broken up by itner wretchen McCarthy East Longmeadow trying to clear the ball out of their Zone Hanley double teamed by soupsick no foul and ass now ball played out wide Shane Smith a one-on-one beats Park yum and now has plenty of real estate to work with McCarthy with a lot of space tries to throw a shot on that and it goes way right Joe and uh Richard's coming in for the sub they'll be replacing Sam Sam Hanley and I believe that's Nick Bradley exiting the game yep and you saw metal will change up the positions on the field a little bit straighten things out tools on left wing now and Ben Wilson with the goal kick looking for ice at Midfield ball spits over to Richard Richard and Shane Smith battling with Cam ice Shane Smith a pullback cut move finds merrigan and that ball trickles out of bounds it's going to be a minute chog throw in for Alex sleeper I'm gonna talk making their way towards Midfield an arrogant pass from Ice ends up on Richard's foot a little handball and Jake Barlow will have a free kick the 25.
um and I've served on the energy commission and the environmental commission since about 2016 first on the energy and then also concurrently on the environmental commission was a period of about a year and a half or so when I wasn't on the environmental commission it's my perception that during that six plus year period that the transparency of city of Ann Arbor performance has declined and I'll that's addressed in the whereas Clauses here but I will summarize some of those in just some opening remarks um as is stated in uh the mid well actually from about 2013 on the city had a sustainability dashboard it was one location on the city's website there were um 16 goals and I believe there were 38 or so 30 some metrics so you could go to one place on the city website and at least theoretically get an idea of how the city was performing against its major strategic goals and and Targets in 2019 um that was taken down it was replaced by another web page called performance measures um that is still up on the city's website um the quality of that website is as bad if not worse than the sustainability dashboard if you go to it now you will find in most cases that almost all the data is dating back to 2018.