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just an action-packed game so far I'm glad you're tuning in then yeah please uh subscribe to lcadum you get notified and uh throw uh the Bell on you get notifications for all the new videos and I believe the live streams so oh yeah no you can I stay up to date with Eastland metal Sports as well as events around the town great program though for sure for sure some great nachos too ball pops out to Midfield it's lucasic that ball goes through her legs and now more no running with it look into the advanced the ball here it actually turns up field sends it a field good control there's controlling that ball will be directed towards more now lukasik lucasic to more now more now sends it to the middle the shot and it'll go just right [Music] oh yeah the Esau metal crowd oh gasp in disappointment so oh yeah some good nachos very good very very good head up to Canada go go do some trout fishing oh it's good oh yeah good defense there for zero zero game I think we're making it fun yeah I mean I I'd have to agree with you definitely gonna watch this one back in other words he will not be watching it back foreign [Music] ball heads out of bounds yeah ball touched back to the middle and a big save by deflorio yeah the floor able to just scoop that up once again holy punt what a fun that was I could talk all about it the contact that she made there it's all about that out you gotta hit the laces you gotta you gotta you got to get at least 40 yards which both goalies have been pretty pretty consistent the puns from the the punch and I've just been unbelievable man never seen anything like it has your rating changed on those nachos yeah man I've just been going at them they're good I don't blame him I'm hungry I mean I I think they still sit at a six seven I'm just pretty hungry right now that might have potentially boosted the score for him yep yep I could be right with you at the 6-3 but six two six three yeah don't get it wrong don't get it twisted six two six three um that's what I told girls I feel like what my height is 60 60.
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uh in our mmdt account balance on September 20th was um eight million 856 593 spot 01 and we had interest for uh the month of September of 19 220 spot 54 leaving us with an mmdt balance on October 3rd 2022 of 8 million eight seventy five eight thirteen spot five five and an overall total operating cash balance of 10 million 907 037 spot 42.
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um greenhouse gas inventories take many forms for many different purposes uh this community-wide greenhouse gas emissions inventory estimates major sources of emissions associated with Ann Arbor like using electricity and natural gas burning fossil fuels in our cars and vehicles and disposing materials it's estimated on an annual basis some of the sources I use are not available at the level of a granularity of the community of Ann Arbor and are based on modeled or scaled data for more information on the data sources I use the methodology and assumptions in preparing the inventory please visit a20.org this is also not going to be an exhaustive exhaustive list of every source of emissions that are associated with our community um one tricky thing that's especially hard to calculate are those associated with goods and services so if you are particularly interested in those associated with your household I'd recommend you check out Berkeley's cool climate calculator so I am going to focus today on digging into some recent changes we've seen in emission levels um if you'd again if you'd like to see more of a a deep dive into every Mission Source I'd recommend you check out ho0.org for some previous recordings uh I'm going to start by sharing the general changes we've seen in Ann Arbor's community-wide admissions since 2000 which is a year that we have a baseline established uh this chart shows the overall Trends in climate pollution or greenhouse gas emissions and sources that we have comparable data for in 2000 and then in 2015 through 2019 or pre-pandemic levels uh in 2000 greenhouse gas emissions were roughly 2.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent which factors in the global warming impact of multiple greenhouse gases you'll see that throughout the rest of the slides um this level is equivalent to 40 million tree seedlings grown over 10 years and doing that for each year so it's a lot of emissions um in 2019 we've seen a 25 reduction in these emission sources uh oops this chart illustrates what sectors have seen significantly in lower emission levels since 2000 um that is primarily from residential and Commercial and institutional buildings because buildings and commercial and institutional or UVM buildings have changed hands over the years they're combined here um have a more comparable amount again over 80 percent of these changes and admissions that we've seen are associated with the energy used in our buildings uh well we actually consume more energy in our buildings today these emissions have fallen as electricity from the grid becomes cleaner in addition the average vehicle on the road is more fuel efficient than those available in 2000 um with that context in mind I'd like to take a look at the last two years of emissions so the kova 19 pandemic disrupted our lives in many ways from stay-at-home orders financial hardship Workforce shifts families disrupted and lives lost but we also saw empty streets and shifts in where we spent our time and paid for electricity 2020 emissions were 37 lower than 2000 levels and 2020 2021 admissions raised back up and were 30 31 lower than 2000 levels um and so I want to dig into where we saw these changes um to do so I am going to look at an inventory that includes more emission sources than we have data for 2000 um I designate these by calling them the simple inventory and the expanded inventory um the largest impact is the inclusion of commuting passenger vehicles um for commuting patterns which is more significant and so I'm going to also stop comparing to 2000 levels so this is that same Trend I showed earlier again not showing the Baseline but including 2020 and 2021 you'll see the emissions levels are higher um as we include more uh emission sources um 67 or roughly two-thirds of those submissions come from our community's residential commercial and institutional buildings an additional three percent comes from the Upstream emissions associated with the use of electricity and natural gas in those buildings um Transportation including those commuting patterns represents 28 of our communities of emissions and Disposal disposal of solid waste and the treatment of Wastewater represents the remaining two percent of community-wide emissions um also a quick note on officer emissions there are much more that aren't included here I mentioned um missions associated with generating the goods and services that we consume um a fugitive natural gas emissions at the point of production aren't currently included um it's challenging to get an accurate estimate of those emissions based on the data that we have available again I'd recommend you check out the cool climate calculator if those are ones who really want to dig into um we just wanted to caveat this um so this chart shows where the sources of our missions come from um so we see electricity um natural gas the upstairs Mission solicitor that propane vehicle fuel and our waste streams um overall we can see a trend in emissions dropping from electricity and uh in vehicle fuel um and here is that broken out for 2021 uh with a little bit more detail so from 2019 to 2021 uh emissions dropped 11 overall again we largely see those emissions changing emissions changes happening in our buildings and from Transportation so residential buildings emissions dropped eight percent commercial and institutional buildings 10 and transportation dropped 18 percent um also we're taking a look at emission levels in our buildings uh residential buildings including multi-family represent 22 of community-wide emissions so slightly more missions here are associated with electricity than with natural gas and a small amount attributed to propane um and again we see that variability and Emissions associated with electricity um use their missions for commercial and industrial buildings which represent 16 percent of community-wide emissions this sector is the least certain for calendar year 2021 as DT has not yet been able to share community-wide aggregate consumption data for this sector so this year is based off of an estimate of a trend line for previous years and a comparison to University of Michigan's electricity consumption which it tends to track um we see a pretty large dip in consumption in our commercial buildings in 2020 as office buildings and commercial spaces were slightly less occupied um also unlike residential buildings um commercial buildings uh electricity consumption is highly correlated to how hot it is outside and use of air conditioning um and so 2020 was not a relatively cool year 2021 was even hotter so this might be underrepresenting these these emissions and then the University of Michigan's use of electricity and natural gas represents a little less than 30 percent of community-wide emissions compared to 37 for the rest of the community's buildings uh electricity and natural gas consumption is publicly available through the University of Michigan's environmental metrics um and we know so emissions from electricity consumption are driven by two factors how much of it we consume and what was used to generate it so from 2019 to 2020 we saw a pretty large shift in uh not only what sectors we're consuming electricity um but also DT's fuel mix as it shifted away from cold heavily for a year and then back in 2021 it came back up again and just to flip through you can kind of see in buildings this General trend line follows that of um how much fossil fuel is uh and and coal is included in DC's fuel mix um I also want to touch on things like offsets and voluntary green power purchases these aren't included in official greenhouse gas inventories as these purchases don't directly impact emissions associated with the community um the intent is kind of if you added up everyone's greenhouse gas inventories uh it would represent total emissions occurring um however it is helpful for informational purposes to see that Ann Arbor's residential participation and my green power makes up about 10 of electricity consumption uh which was estimated by the number of enrolled customers and complete data isn't available for the commercial class so these changes in building emissions make up about 50 of the reductions from 2019 to 2021 uh changes in transportation make up the other half of emissions reductions um you can see here uh passenger vehicles and commuting make up the majority of endeavor's Transportation emissions and these changes are due to how much we use their vehicles so Google's environmental insights Explorer uh provides annual estimates for vehicles mild traveled for the purpose specifically for a greenhouse gas inventories so we can see this large dip in 2020 as our the vehicles or the miles we travel in our vehicles dropped over 30 percent and then a bump back up in 2021 not quite at Great pandemic levels but much higher than 2020.
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fortunately the taxpayer came back in November of 2015 and approved that 10 override but you can see the story being told by the graph in fiscal year 2020 was the last year we had the 10 override and in fiscal 2021 was the first year in which we had the 15 override so you can see where the levy increased at that point in time so the override commitments we made in 2021 retain and attract high quality Personnel social emotional supports these included the social workers at every single one of our buildings along with the Mental Health Counselors at our secondary schools and then the class size reduction allocation of two million dollars so note that those three things amounted to 18 million dollars but going from a 10 override to a 15 override amounted to about 10 million so even at that point in time we were making a commitment to continue to increase salaries across the board so that we can retain and attract the highest quality personnel I I do want to mention that when I first began serving on the board we did not pay competitively with other districts we were below and I think that it's really remarkable remarkable that we've been able to be competitive now and that we're in that in that with other districts so that we we aren't paying less so in 2022 this is our mno override spend so you can see the history I felt it was useful to see the 2020 actual versus the 2022 actual because 2020 was the year in which we were still at a 10 override so you can see the totals there at the bottom and you can see where we maintained all of the commitments that were made in that first 10 percent override and then in 2022 you can see that we still continue to increase salaries um even though our override dollars went down by 1.3 million dollars so that required us to move that 9.7 million dollars out of override and put it into other available mno uh sources so also you should note that um whenever we're talking about the increasing social emotional support or academic programming or post-secondary advising all of those lines are reflective of people and salary increases so we opted to just show that we haven't cut anyone at all since we've come back from the 2015 override and then the successful 2019 override so we're maintaining all those staff members it's just that we're reflecting the cost increases of those staff members under that first line which is offering competitive wages could I ask you to clarify something that you said at the very beginning when you said that we were by law have to follow what we say we're doing in the bond or the override excuse me for the first year but then after that we could do whatever we wanted however when we advertised for the the one these are the the what we advertised for absolutely and we have we're continuing we're not we're not changing any of the of the commitments that we made when we first went out for the override that's correct since the two November of 2015 that's correct the point eight percent for access to Arts Athletics and co-curricular are those like athletic fees and that type of thing or it's it's primarily um just being able to maintain the the salaries associated with coaches and um uh all those individuals that support those uh extracurricular activities thank you okay so um mno salary and expense increases this is exactly the same slide that Ms matineon shared with you earlier wanted to point out that you can see the salary growth from 151 million in 2021 to 158 million uh in 2022 exactly exemplifying our commitment to continuing to focus on competitive salaries in addition you can see the drop in benefits our benefit costs did not decrease but we had an opportunity where we could give a premium Holiday to all of our employees and and actually the district as well um because we had available resources in our employee benefit trust because we've been reporting positive results there as well so that it was another benefit to our employees and put more money into their pockets for those two pay periods because they were not required to pay their dependent care coverage during those two pay periods so again a focus on compensation overall here in Gilbert Public Schools maintaining those commitments that we made on the override so maintaining social emotional supports again have not made any reductions you can see that there's no increase here we've I've shared that we've used up all of the available mno override dollars but we've continued to maintain the number of ftes and social workers and Mental Health Counselors and then finally class size reduction made a commitment to allocate out at least two million dollars annually for class size reduction if you look down the teacher grade level content area Grid in the middle of this grid you can see that all of those areas are the most difficult ones to find and to hire math science kindergarten social studies we also included in here the site-based substitutes go back a year from now we were still in the throes of significant absenteeism due to the pandemic continuing and the site-based substitutes the those 12 FTE made a huge difference for our schools in making sure that we didn't have to double up classes and we're able to to facilitate the instructional learning of our students in spite of the significant amount of absenteeism that we saw last year did you want to add anything there no I would just like to to say and give kudos to otm and our schools just I'm impressed with the fact that we were able to find individuals in some of these categories to begin with um for the mere fact that it's nice to be able to uh listen to principles when they call saying hey I really need help in this particular grade level or this particular subject or core content area at my secondary school and were able to say yes please split your classes go ahead and do that the problem lies in finding those people to be able to fill those voids and so um please know that we continue to do that as we move forward and the key the principles were giving them the ability to hire earlier and earlier each year and will probably come out and let them start hiring for next year here very shortly so they have some folks locked up and able to go and ready to to start educating our kids for the following year so I I just have one question um site-based Subs I understand that we have one at each school and two at the high schools so um we're only listing 12 here so this is last year remember and so in the current year we have 59 okay site base Subs we've increased those numbers this year we've also found that it's just become um I don't know if it's more economical but it's definitely uh stress more feasible for our schools to have these individuals ready to go on their campuses and then if they're not ready there they don't need them that day there's always a need at one of our schools and we're very a lot of school districts have have inquired about this because we think it's one pretty Innovative too it also is a way to encourage people to go into our Pathways program and then all of a sudden we have permanent certified teachers that are ready to go and teach our kids so we like it the other thing I wanted to point out about last year in pulling data from November of 2021 and comparing that to data from like end of January early February we filled about a hundred vacancies during that time frame so it was a tough year to find people so we were still hiring even in January to fill some of our positions okay so moving on to the capital bonds so we are still in the midst of two Bond authorities the 2015 Bond Authority and the 2019 Bond Authority this is where there's a lot of context data here that I'm not going to go into a lot of detail on you've seen these numerous times over and over again um this Grid in particular was in the 2015 pamphlet this was in the 2019 pamphlet these are the commitments that we made way back when um and then now I want to share the district-wide spend summary so note this is our 2015 Authority note that to date we have about 5.5 million dollars of that 2015 Authority left and all of that is in technology and transportation what I wanted to point out here is remember that the the one-to-one initiative was for 712 and it was scheduled out all the way to the end of 2023 so that technology amount that 3.7 million dollars will complete that commitment that was made in the 2015 Bond request the 1.7 million dollars you'll find from Mr Toby later that um nearly or over half of that has has now been spent because we ordered buses over a year ago that have just arrived and so that those invoices will be paid in 2023 not in 2022 but largely they're they're gone and spent so this is the 2019 Authority note to date that we have um just about 50 million dollars of remaining balance in this Authority we have about eight million dollars left uh sorry 18 million dollars left that we have not yet sold note the 100 million dollars versus 82 million um so 50 million plus 18 million is what we have left available to us however you'll find shortly that of that 50 million dollars about 30 million dollars is already encumbered and expected to be spent here in the current year already so we are going through the bond dollars fairly quickly quickly meeting the needs of our schools and getting a lot of projects completed I also Circle this uh this the cost of issuance uh detail up here these two amounts so the transferred to bond debt because this cost of issuance is outside the authority if we didn't have to spend it as a cost of issuance we are obligated to send that money back to the bond Debt Service fund offsetting expense to our taxpayer so when we present the next monthly Financial to you you will see that about another two thousand dollars will be transferred to the bond Debt Service that will then zero out those two figures there any questions before I move on and then the final summary showing a remaining balance of 55 million but again I shared some of this so of this left 1.3 million dollars it's already encumbered spent in fund 631 going into the new year and 22.8 million dollars in coverage spent in funds 630 leaving only 31 million dollars left unencumbered of that only about 20 million dollars is left in facility and renewal keep in mind that every year we spend we have been spending the last two years over 25 million dollars during the summer to complete necessary projects at all of our schools so I wanted to make sure that you all were aware of that Miss Spitz before you go on can I just ask you so we have it looks like we have sped up the spend compared to what we had originally maybe anticipated especially on the 2019 compared to go back there sure maybe just speak to that a little bit how how did that come about and you bet so at this point in time if you recall we we were focused on our tax rate and we wanted to make a commitment to the taxpayer that we will not sell bonds if it's going to increase the tax rate Associated Tax Rate and even the levy itself the total dollar amount it would not impact that in this new Bond program so at that point in time because the assessed values had not grown at all between the years of 2009 to 2015.
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six four six five six six seven I don't know six a-less shoes you could push six nine six ten might as well play in the NBA I don't know call me Giannis ball out of bounds Eastlawn metal throwing those are crazy this is gonna be a good film session they're gonna have to mute the audio and they might we've said about three words about the game in roughly 10 minutes um about throwing well go down the sideline oh yeah we'll play back out of bounds definitely a close one but perhaps to that ref looks like a good guy I was just gonna say the same thing I like what he did with his hair yeah I I can I he definitely uh slips it back looks pretty clean neat I can probably put a lot of effort into this yeah I know for sure for sure what's good for the crowd you don't look good feel good ref good oh yeah oh yeah I bet you he lives by that Dominic looks like she's approaching the blues I'm like look good feel good commentate good all right Dominic gamelli if you're not gonna get off the iPad you have to go you have to go get off the iPad all right get out and about you Town well climb the middle to number 19 which is perfectly defended by Roman and mournal will take it up the sideline that ball is booted out of bounds by somebody I like when they kick it out of bounds it's my favorite part yeah probably the most entertaining part you know uh paulus has been reminding me of Lewandowski tonight I mean apart from uh I mean she hasn't buried any quite yet but uh in the in this season just like pretty similar Well Chad I'd have to disagree I've never heard of that name in my entire life you've never heard of Lewandowski I've heard of Cristiano Ronaldo that's about it Lucas looks kind of like Ronaldo yeah Mr McGee's kind of like messy you know [Music] I don't know why they don't put them out there no idea what the coaching decision is there but oh my wow wow buddy almost just died Diane looking to step into the ring yeah she's getting excited I see her adjusting fire up the cart she will swiftly make her way to the field yeah we're gonna take a uh take a moment hopefully yeah nobody's seriously injured thank you and we are back Shadow Ryan alongside will devoy ready for us some more action fortunately that player was able to get off the field and she is uh talking to Diane now and for the town of Belcher town and to and this Islam Meadow sideline you just gotta hope that she's okay nothing serious yeah absolutely I hate to see stuff like that but uh I mean I'm sure she's on the concussion protocol and uh hopefully uh speedy recovery yeah she'll be good to go as soon as possible all kicks out to Davis foreign what have you noticed from this game so far I've noticed some serious Midfield uh some Midfield action not much not many shots on goal really I mean a couple here and there uh but you know man great defensive game plan something great I you know I I I can't help or recognize those pots something special thank you to our 300 viewers for watching divide that by 30.
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okay there's a recommendation by the treasurer of a motion please discussion all those in favor anyone opposed this time to chill material appreciate a motion to adjust the agenda to go to Executive session please all those in favor and you want to oppose that you'll accept the motion to go into executive session for the purpose of security update contract negotiation okay do I get a motion discussion could you call the roll please I'll sue when you have a moment we'll be coming back to uh Mr Gerald let's just listen Mr Hayden yes Mr Cirillo yes and Mr Lamontagne you know good yeah okay thank you I know um I know you're gonna go in there all right well we'll talk yeah yeah I just need to know like sort of what you're seeing and thank you so much thank you um and and why because it the standard protocol as two weeks and I think it I don't know it just puts undue burden I think on Rebecca to get things out and she wanted she thought it was good why I don't I don't get it yeah I don't know and maybe this is and I was like well if we had like a weekly process I wouldn't have to do these one-offs make exceptions you know and then it's gonna it's gonna Force this committee to sign more often right right you need a quote you need I know because I know other school districts they have they have a sheet just like that this one yeah I don't think it's just one maybe you know by law I don't know I'd have to check superintendent's not here uh he's not here the next meeting so we're we're going to be canceling the next meeting he's not here no good no problem then you will John's on vacation also so I oh good congrats I hope you have a good time uh Sue can you give us the date of the actual next meeting please November 8th if [Music] it's the first Tuesday oh okay election day is the eight yes nobody is running though right okay you're working for somebody oh okay well we can't go I know I don't think we can go that far that far out here no no we we can't we have to go on the uh the eighth as it stands now uh I don't know if we could do the Monday imagine we can key doesn't open it and now it's just not answering here John okay just make sure we have insurance that's all okay John uh okay she hooks up the motion to go back into regular leave that open to uh John please all those in favor anyone opposed we're an open session Co-op report is in the packet October calendars in the packet anybody have any questions or comments on any of that M cash strategies so John well we just got the uh uh scores this week we opened them up we haven't reviewed um all the test questions and uh from last year because we just got all that information back so we haven't really started putting together strategies yet that's one of when Susan comes Susan gets back from her vacation that'll be Frank the next time we meet sure she'll accept the motion the table disable the MCAS strategies discussion all those in favor you want to pose John you need to you already gave a busing update October professional development John I'm just reading from from here foreign we don't need to table it even there's no need for a report on it or accept the motion the table the October professional development report discussion all those in favor anyone oppose attorney general Mara Healey's visit to glts so on the last last week we had a visit tonight [Music] no I just I I just wanted to say that we had uh uh Maura Healey running for governor to visit us who came to the school to try to learn a little more about vocational education and also to see some of the programming here at glts and the impact it's having on our community what the needs are in terms of continued programming for the future and the need for expansion for for students we uh I thought it was a great visit many of the school community members were here many of our our legislative delegates were here so it was good to have everybody here and have conversations with the future Governor um and I thought it was one of our our best walkthroughs or tours that we've had here at the school for many reasons for the opportunity for someone that can have an impact on future opportunity communities for growth for our school and for our legislative and also local executive bodies here to have conversations with her as well to kind of support the needs of Lawrence Mr Cirillo so and I'm going to concur first it was supposed to be a meeting for thank you Marilyn Zoila and Vivian for attending it was supposed to be before it was the full elected body federal and state as well that showed up and it was one of the best tours that we've had and she got a chance to teachers were teaching we walked into the classrooms they were a lot of them were unaware that we were coming in they knew they were coming but they didn't know to the scoop and what was very impressive was not only the teachers being able to articulate everything they were doing but there were a couple of students that that sat there and explained what they were doing to um General more healing so they left out of here with an impression of what is going on in in the school to me it was one of the best things I want to say thank you to John your your Sue and everybody else especially the teachers and the students that that did what they did um because they weren't we didn't prep them they wouldn't prepare them to to have these conversations they were doing it on their own um they learned a lot of course they could only identify the mayor of Lawrence of everybody but it was um it was definitely one of the greatest things that I've seen of all the tours that we've done since I've been a school committee member anything Frozen okay NASA visit so he had a visit from well as you know today um or as you I think you may have maybe you had didn't know that we were connected uh doing a project for NASA our machine tech department students were building a a part for the space station through a program that we started last uh last year at Nasa and working with Dr King a engineer from NASA who worked closely in with our students doing Zoom calls and other connections with them in planning and organizing this particular project that we worked at the students got an opportunity to to make this specific part to very close very close tolerances exceptional tolerances and we're able to present it to Dr King today who also came to do a presentation to the students where she talked a lot about work ethics work the importance of the work that they do and the opportunities within the manufacturing industry and in the opportunities within NASA that would be looking for their skill sets in the future and um and she had some slides and video regarding what the space station was all about and some of the other schools across the country there's very few schools across country that they work closely with they are very selective What what schools they work with so it was she was very impressed with the school I'm very impressed with the students the students they they have these what she called lockers that they put on the space uh State put in the space station and the students got to sign their name on a in the locker so that all students that were that worked on the project from Machine Tech got sign and have pictures taken with Dr King and then later on she went to work with the students the rest of the day this afternoon in the shop working with the rest of the students and they had the opportunity to show her how they made the part and she got to talk a little bit more about engineering and the importance of being able to program machines that they learned how to program and and use computers drawing and and she was highly impressed by by their work did we get any good time I just want to say that she was extremely impressed with the amount of young ladies we have in the Machine Shop she says she's been to a lot of schools and she never saw so many girls in the trade she was very happy to see that non-traditional students did we get a chance to get any pictures we did take a lot of uh we did take a lot of pictures we in channel five was supposed to come but then they backed out this morning and the Eagle Tribune was also supposed to come and they backed out this morning so we had our own our own press here who took uh which took some pictures and uh interviewed Dr King teachers myself and putting an article together for the newspaper for the Eagle Tribune this is Joe is this our paid press person yes okay um so I don't know at what point um we were going to discuss Vivian's uh question about better coverage but I was knowing that we had internally promoted this to the school committee and on our site and the actual instructors posted things on their own um Facebook page anyway I was disappointed that there wasn't something ahead of time in the Tribune so I know that we do pay and and I'm thrilled to pieces of what happened today and especially that the acknowledgment was made of how diverse that particular shop is and they are but I I just feel that we don't do a good job of promoting ourselves in the past five weeks Woody has been on the front page three times for positive things so I just wish we could get a handle on who we need to contact thank you Marilyn for bringing that up I was actually trying to hold off uh considering that we had mentioned uh the point that I had made regarding being a little bit better as to us as a school highlighting the amazing projects and the things that are going on in the school um yeah the only reason why I knew about the NASA project was uh during the tour with Maura Healy that it was mentioned so had I not participated in that tour I would not have known about the NASA project even though my sister's in that shop actually and um thankfully I did get a picture from her with Dr King um I just feel like we're missing out in the engagement process with our communities and with parents in not showcasing the work that we're doing this is like front page newsworthy it is amazing news that we should be we should be highlighting this and I am just as much disappointed um in the fact that we're dropping the ball in not doing so um and I'll address even with Maura healy's visit that wasn't addressed or highlighted at all within our social media platforms either and when we talk about engagement social media is one of the top methods in in doing so so I'll leave it up to um kind of continuing this conversation um in the future agenda items John uh well with regards to more healings we purposely did not highlight that because it was a political visit and we just wanted to be careful that we weren't trying showing any favoritism or endorsing any particular candidate so that's why we kept that low-key people who you know the people that came and everything um knew about it and I think what was critically important for this particular visit was the future Governor which we believe will be the next Governor uh had a clear understanding of what our needs are and saw the value and what kids are learning and and the excitement and the importance of vocational education that she continues to support it when she becomes governor and I think she was you know impressed and spoke at several conversations that I had with her while she was here was totally on board with continuing the support of vocational education and look at ways of trying to provide more access for students is something that you'll be work working on as part of her in her Administration she told she told me so I think that's important um you know in terms of marketing I agree that we're we've been struggling this year with marketing since we lost Stephanie and um we have Cassandra who's working on a lot of a lot of different projects so I guess it's you know when I I talked I spoke to the gentleman today from our marketing company that we pay he's coming in next week to sit down with me to try to look at a strategy where he can come in on a regular basis and meet with different people so we can get more more articles but that's you know we pay them for that we pay well as part of their contract is supposed to do seven articles so he's going to come in and we're going to look at the calendar and see what are some critical things that he needs to be here for but also we might look and consider whether we should have an actual marketing company or do we want to go down the road of having another marketing person and on payroll trying to stay away from that if we can but can we give that responsibility to different people to see that we can be a little more focused at least on on social media getting more out there on social media on a regular basis Mr solo Marilyn I just feel that over the long history of having different people on board this cannot be a if we do this not a stipend position where maybe an English teacher takes on the role I feel that we need a professional and I am disappointed in the company that we presently hire the gentleman that we have because I don't remember seeing seven articles that what has he been with us now three or four years and um I don't think that he's earned his keep but um I would certainly be open to um looking at how we can best address it and we have had paid professional marketing people on staff before but I'm not proposing that I'm just proposing that we find a way to do it that's not as haphazard As It Seems and it shouldn't be your responsibility superintendent to have to make sure this article is done or that article is done um someone else needs to actually take that and run with it thank you Mr Cirillo yeah with mothers here he's um visit was a very last minute thing um it was very low-key um so it was completely unexpected it was out of blue legislative wanted to bring her here so before she could see what a top tier Vocational School looks like um so it was definitely completely of it's not something that we could have marketed because it was definitely the day before they called and we had to put it together but I would do want to Concur and agree with Vivian um we have to do better as how we're marketing our students I mean today's event of NASA coming in that should have been all over the front page the news our kids are missing out on exposure that it should be getting um and I thought Stephanie was our only marketing person then most of her duties went on to Cassandra but now listening to Maryland saying that we have a company that's been here for three years what are they really doing platforms they well even then what are they doing because they didn't they're not I don't see anything in the paper yeah so when we have events we have to contact them make them aware to be here so um we haven't what we've had we have contact them on a few things but we have not uh as I said before done a good enough job in giving them a heads up of when to be here uh and when we need them so um that's something we definitely have to do better at so that was one of the when I spoke to him today trying to get ahead of this a little bit and um so meeting with Cassandra so what I'm at this meeting what my plan is to have Consignment part of the meeting so that she can better connect with him and keep him more informed as you know beyond anything that we have on the books anything that's spontaneous or something that comes up that we not may not expect that she can be in closer contact with him and um I think looking at um some of the stuff like Cassandra lately has been working on our we're trying to rebuild our website so she's been doing a lot of work on that with um with um Eleanor she's doing the writing and and so we've done a lot of work on that social Focus has been on and been doing a lot of work with helping the teachers out with different things and working with our uh our technology support person for uh for software for our teachers helping them with developing Technologies you've been helping her as well so her Focus has not been on on marketing enough and so we're going to take a look and see how we can improve on that you'll be getting back to the committee right I can get back to you on uh some uh long-term plans as to how how we're going to look at it moving forward anything further okay just to committee priorities no policies section B bde subcommittees of the school committee need a motion discussion and all those in favor and you want to pose do business not tabled matters I see none here resignations none leave of absence retirements and appointments uh there was job posting superintendent one one job posting we'd like to post for electrical instructor to replace an electrical instructor that's retiring after the holidays so we'd like to post for that position um and it's teacher contract 2022-23 is what we'd be following discussion all those in favor anyone opposed okay future agenda items ongoing projects um the I'll update you on some of the major projects on the first one cosmetology um half the flooring is done all the counters are in and done um the sinks they start putting in hooking up the sinks today we're looking targeting it for hoping for some time next week to have the students move in um so there's a couple we got to make sure the sinks are done and um the other thing um I'm trying to think really is if we can finish the floor this week which I think we will uh and then move in some of the furniture so hopefully sometime next week we'll be moving the students into Cosmetology shop and I will have to get up a uh uh occup a occupancy permit before that happens so we'll at the end of this week request an occupancy permit have the inspector come in uh the Reggie Cafe we are looking to have that ready to go so the counter the cabinets came in last week they were installed last week till the counters are in I mean the cabinets are in they templated the counters today they try going to try to get to put them in early next week maybe the end of this week depending on their schedule um the uh the walls that weren't placed or plastered today so we'll paint them Monday they have to dry so Monday we plaster them so again I think sometime the middle of next week we're hoping to be able to open up the Reggie Cafe uh and uh the door the glass wall won't be in but we'll we'll put some polyethylene on the wall there until it comes in uh the flooring is done in there on the Reggie Cafe side the other side they'll jump and finish that as soon as they finish the cosmetology floor once that floor is in we'll be almost and we have to put in well we'll actually be almost ready to open it once the floor is in um we'll use the old furniture they're looking at new furniture one of the things we're looking at what we're going to try actually is for the Reggie Cafe we're going to take the old furniture and paint the chairs black spray paint them black and use the match the counter for the table save us a lot of money but I really think they'll it would look nice to do that and would save us a lot of money on furniture and then the other side what we're looking at doing is taking the old library Furniture in Spring those chairs also because they have soft cushions on them and so rather than throw that out we could use that in the in the dining area because they're a little more formal and that would save us some money as well so and then that would finish up that space the one thing that won't be done yet is we're putting an exterior door into that space But still hasn't it's still not done it hasn't arrived yet it's been ordered but the storefronts away are 12 to 16 week weights so we ordered it back in July AI this is Mrs Fitzgerald egg story adore exterior door for for the Reggie Cafe the Four Winds so they don't have to come in the building anymore yep we put we put in a bathroom also and now that they plastered it um Danny can put in the uh the toilet and sink in there and and that would be ready to go as well so that way they don't have to go outside the space to go to the bathroom either yeah restroom I mean well whatever we got some trees yes Mr swellow what about the um daycare where we are we're finishing up with that the daycare uh that's on my list here too so the daycare they started Plastering the daycare today um we are um the things left in there is we have to do the ventilation system been waiting for a while to the for the parts for that to come in um we had Robert told me he thought they'd be in last week but they hadn't arrived yet but they should be in soon um we're waiting for a final price on that I did talk to heac there they may be interested in doing the HVAC work for us so save us some money on that and uh and then after that's in then we put the ceiling in um once the plastering done we can paint so I don't know I think we're probably six to eight weeks out for that because with all the furniture to put in and paint I mean the Cabinetry to put in the paint it'll go quick once we can get the ventilation done in the ceiling and the rest of it will go pretty fast um but those are the two biggest thing now that we've got the thing on its way I would say by the end of the week it'll be pretty close to done plastering and we can let it dry for a week and then we can start painting in there so that's moving along we've been looking at outside we have to put a playground before we can open so the landscape shop Horticulture landscape is going to do the work for that we've got to remove a lot of uh I think we have to take down three trees there's a lot of trees in there but I think we only have to take down three trees to make room and then we have to take a lot of loom out of there because it's too much Lumen there and put a base down for the uh uh rubber base that has to go down for the playground so we're actually gearing up to start that and then the last thing is automotive automotive is going a little slow hasn't got that project has not gone well um I'm meeting with the architect and the Builder tomorrow to talk about the project it's a couple months behind schedule and the builders looking for other contractors looking for change orders but I haven't signed off any exchange orders till I meet with them and talk about the delay up to this point which has been more to me just a lack of staying on Pro staying staying on the job and getting it done so I think we have some challenges there but we'll be meeting with the builder with the architect tomorrow to try to iron out some of the issues that that project there though John that's not disrupting the everyday operation of the shop is it no it has no impact on the operation the shop it just um I mean for me it's more concerns that it's taking so long to do the project and which will escalate a two-month delay will escalate the cost because of um yeah well not just material but now you're working Outdoors so now you got to put outdoor protection in order to do some of the work and then the contractor is going to want more for insurance coverage because it extends extending beyond the time it departure was supposed to be done but I my contention to him was that he should have had the project done now never mind too late month delay and he claims he didn't have answers to everything which I disagree with them but that's why we're going to meet foreign you put in a bid for and he had a time frame of when he anticipated completing the the job now outside of materials delays which I could see as an issue but he has no answers as to why he's delaying for two two more months I mean I'm not sure if I heard that correctly well he his contention is um he had delays in getting some answers to order his steel and some other things um what I had to suggest he said that wasn't clear on the print I disagreed with him on that and I also said that if you had questions about the steel they should have been asked three months ago not now because now you're asking questions about the steel that should have been ordered three months ago now you want to order it now if it takes six weeks to come in that's on yourself not on us you know that's all pre-planning and you know construction when you build when you do construction work you don't wait to the day you need it to order stuff you order way in advance so particularly in this day and age so that's my argument with him that he should have ordered that and if he didn't have answers he should have got those answers Bank borrow steal you you don't hold up but and I believe that he got the he didn't like verbal answers he wanted in writing he said the architect and these are answers that the architect gives them so he said I want a drawing I wanted a drawing not just a verbal answer and um which sometimes you get verbal answers on construction jobs all the time and sometimes you need a drawing but some you don't need a drawing every time so so we'll we'll uh we'll try to uh to come to some compromise tomorrow brother uh Sue would you put under um yes I just had a question about the projects overall is Rob in the building working on the projects and Mr Arsenal seeing the day-to-day running of the school or how is that working for you so Rob's typically in the uh it depends like last week he was in three days I think he's going to be in two days this week depends on Rob's schedule but Rob has been managing most of the big projects with and John has been in all those meetings so that he not only so he can also stay on top of anything that comes up when Rob's not in but also he can also learn from it so that's worked out very well they work very well together and um and then um John has been taking care of the day-to-day stuff as well so that Rob doesn't have to deal with those things so they uh partnership and the and the projects with them working together has worked out well any further on it okay uh shoot under uh future agenda items we'll put the uh social media we'll keep that on there put that under there okay this time the trail accept the motion well superintendent you want to give us your recommendation on the admission policy I would recommend the committee uh approve the admissions policy as uh the director of admissions had articulated this evening uh I think she's done a really amazing job trying to work with all people who have been involved many people have had input and had a chance to articulate it and I think you know we're not finished with it we're going to continue to try to make it as best we can and particularly in the aspects that are important to the committee with regards to appeals uh um we'll have we'll continue to have conversations about that and maybe reach out to other people that might maybe there are things we haven't thought about that someone else might think about so when you know I know it's important to you so we'll continue to work on that but I would make a recommendation we approve as presented this evening superintendent has a recommendation you have a motion on that please discussion all those in favor all those opposed once she carries no further business superintendent uh nope Geo accept a motion to adjourn oh all those in favor and you want to pose you can stay how many what for the Reggie Cafe oh I think it's middle next week I'm hoping to open it right no no I know we're going to move on yeah yeah well the doors Doom in November beginning in November the glass the glass wall it's a glass wall that closes and opens that's due in the first weekend of November yep so it's not that
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um again 2020 was anomalous year with this large drop of greenhouse gas emissions that we saw um I reviewed those emotions last year acknowledging that some of the drivers and reductions would likely not be continued into the future um like these lower BMT levels that we saw however I do want to mention that commuting patterns are a significant source of missions for Ann Arbor and continue continuing to allow employees to work from home as one powerful tool to reduce them uh so I want to return to the action and Arbor needs to meet 820 goals of carbon neutrality by 2030. um so we've seen an overall drop in emissions since 2000.
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we were obligated to to share with our taxpayer our electorate that that the maximum amount of what that tax rate could be so in order for us to achieve a flat a flat tax rate we had to commit to not selling until 2023 which is reflective here so however back in at the end of 2020 interest rates were extraordinarily low at that point in time we really wanted we knew he had the great needs we wanted to expedite the uh the bond projects so we had an opportunity to sell about 35 million dollars worth of bonds in August of 2020. that interest charge we would have seen I think we were estimated like a four or a five percent all in interest rate and at that point in time the interest rate was 0.71 percent so it was an amazingly the right time to do it and then fast forward again in February of 2021 I think last February we closed on the second series of the new bonding Authority and at that point in time the interest rate all in was about 1.7 percent it was going up obviously from 0.7 up to 1.7 today those that are out there trying to sell bonds the interest rate is at 3.5 percent so the Expediting of the sales have saved the taxpayer allowed us to get the resources in quicker so that we can meet the needs of our schools quicker so that was the result of all that thank you that's I think that's good use of our funds and especially the needs were there and we've been able to spend and have those improvements going on which we know the costs have an inflation have only gone up for for all of these kind of construction projects and materials so we probably also saved some money and actually got a bigger bang for our book because of that as well so I'm appreciative of your watching that and making sure that we didn't change the tax rate or Levy just like we committed to but instead we took advantage of really advantageous yes opportunities so thank you I just wanted to comment I mean I feel like um going into the schools and seeing these Renovations and changes I think it really is a point of Pride for us and I was actually in a building that needs Renovations and there's having some problems and I thought how great it is that we aren't dealing with burst pipes or things like that that delayed maintenance would force us to deal with so I appreciate that work that we're able to do that I appreciate the voters for allowing us that opportunity so we're very very fortunate to have supportive voice yep but note that our total Bond spend then for the for last year was 29.4 million dollars and again in comparison to last year it was about 25.3 million so this is the total spawn uh the Total Bond spend by functional area um so technology security and Facilities renewal there is no transportation in here right because the buses didn't come in in time to reflect under 2022 um and so then uh can't talk about bonds and overrides without talking a little bit about tax rates wanted to share our assessed values so again to your question Mrs wood the the low interest rates as well as the increase in the assessed values here in Gilbert Public Schools really helped us to achieve that that earlier sale of bonds and therefore earlier Bond projects getting completed but you can see there even going into the new year our total full cash value increased by over six percent and our our net value uh 5.3 percent giving us those opportunities to keep the tax rate low and then this is the tax rate Trend since 2015.
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20 to be exact nope nope 30. nice little rip there on net but oh Point convert foreign but uh heck of a game wouldn't you say Chad oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah you'll have to see it man I mean who who doesn't love a good defensive battle eh yeah oh yeah I sure do you know from the warming up on the sidelines to the Midfield play just warm never heard of it no back where I live Trout the trout only bite in the cold get a lot of moose up there huh the Moose oh yeah very good talk about yeah we could not yeah I don't know who that is oh yeah so soft looking for the ball yeah she's trying to uh control she'll send it up field towards I believe Davis on the opposite side can't reach her oh that was like that ball is all the way back to the floor wait wait wait wait wait wait goodness read this at this point out of Time Boom oh my gosh the height the depth 43 yard line the accuracy wow accurate eight out of ten uh oh and that ball once again will who all the way back to the Florio yeah who else and the one and only we'll get another punt rating that's a what a wow that one eight yards FIFA rating that's a 99 punt oh for sure no doubt oh what a play by the Wrath ref is playing some serious minutes here hey I'm sure Buddy's just a player I don't know yeah he definitely ripping FIFA in his free time got a little confused there it was just like he was just going back to uh his men's league on Sundays and he was just like oh yeah he forgot he wasn't playing for a second thought he was playing pock yeah maybe even you never know this one's going back back right corner that's my call yep oh well good call close but no cigar room all right I'll go all the way to Metra all the way back to Roman Roman holding on she'll Boot It Up field it's to lucasic lukasik now holding on is your shoulder not a handball uh no oh like front chest shoulders good I believe good opportunity there maybe another one as that ball goes back to the middle and now it's Marina with it Mourinho Taps it to mornell Morneau sending it to the middle it's now Metro with the ball on the inside and she is almost able to get a shot on and that's all the way back that top of the key definitely lethal with a uh with a sharp shooter like matcha oh yeah absolutely and she just makes a great play there and the idle end up in the hands of DeBarge and she'll look to pun wow look at that that's gotta be our best part of the day could be I don't know I've seen some good punches all the way up and she will just send it through the uprights that that was yep that would win a football game that's for sure yeah for a second I think she forgot what's for it yep that's who yong-hook who wishes he was I thought it was young what no no it's not sorry oh it was offsides oh oh uh yeah I missed that yeah sarcastic now with the ball it's Stevens now Stevens touches it to the outside to Davis I kind of figured that was awesome this makes a nice little move did you yeah yeah too much space a little FIFA Instinct yeah I know I just if I was ripping FIFA and I saw that I would be I almost I almost could ref this game let me tell you I know offsides I don't know too many rules but let me tell you if I saw a foul I'd call it you know but I'd mostly just let him play yeah no I yeah let the players play the game and let the refs do their job well in that case it would be me boot up field we'd make a good roughing Duo for sure yeah no no I would have to agree with you we're reasonable guys and McGee is over by that left sideline again he's everywhere today I might be checking in for a striker oh yeah I don't know this is interesting here now this is tallest this is the tallest specialty this yeah this is tallest out Alex Morgan like I I'd have to it's tough to differentiate the two yeah my soccer senses are tingling right now all right yeah I have a feeling this one's this one's going T90 I don't know who's gonna kick it I believe it's gonna be tallest though tall is coming off that hat trick I wouldn't doubt it oh yeah oh shooter just rips it over the net unfortunately we still stand at a zero to zero game with just over 21 minutes remaining here in this second half of the East Longmeadow Stadium oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah I was really hoping to see a goal there but uh it is what it is you some it all look to uh work for one coming up here now that they are I've gone a few opportunities nice little cut there now Belchertown was able to advance the past Midfield foreign out there um we got more note oh that looks like a handball to me might be a fire I don't know maybe yeah um we're now with it she sends it towards Luke cassik who cast a cable to get a foot on she tries to advance it towards tallest can't quite make it there now it's Metro fighting for it she'll tap a Tulu classic lucasic now holding on she'll send it towards more no or no looking to tallest actually the Sosa Sosa will send it opposite side switching Fields towards Jordan and that ball will will roll all the way out of bounds past the goal line and inside the flags and then we'll set up the barge for the goal kicked and number seven I believe is Jordan checks into the game for matcha foreign just under the 20 minute mark and that will be sent tallest with the ball we'll pass inside Jordan back out towards Luke classic lucasic with a move towards Mourinho Mourinho able to touch it inside the lucasic lukasik taking it to the outside now take advantage of that speed she'll look to get her hips around it and she tries to send it to the Middle with a cross I I just set herself up I don't know about you but I can I can sort of feel a goal coming from this corner kid oh yeah um it's a shame that there's no ball boys they're ball girls tonight yeah definitely definitely yeah he's got their work cut out for him yeah oh there actually is a one ball girl I'm mistaken definitely definitely but it's just running working hard out there yeah I mean gotta keep the feet moving if you're the solo ball girl all right I can just I I don't know why I could just feel a goal it's it's gonna happen you know I I'd love to agree with you well but uh I'm still sort of zero zero so yep whoa scoreboard oh shoot all right you know what I was wrong you know I hope they score that would be good we sit at just over 18 minutes remaining here in the second quarter still obviously zero to zero and the coin the action-packed game one would say we're gonna lose our jobs aren't we yep Jordan no more no more notice Sosa Sosa on the outside she'll just rip one and that goes about a hundred yards right not sure if she shot second goal or might have been a third goal buddy just looking at that field Hocking down to the right oh jeez you know I like the effort though yeah you gotta respect effort yeah it's all about one for uh I mean why not still stood zero zero fall in to Belchertown Defender you know I'd like to see more of those shots yeah you know they're gonna fall I mean go watch Lionel Messi for example even Ronaldo even even Ronaldo and sometimes even Lewandowski no one not that's not a real person that's not that's not even care uh ball to the middle pass back to Roman Roman to Stevens Stevens off the sideline to more no more no the tallest tallest back outside tomorrow in a one-on-one and we'll cut it back up field looking to get it inside we'll cross to the middle it has a man open goal [Music] of the day to be honest that's some real excitement here wow things just went from zero to 100 real quick in this student section is bumping man you know I kind of 300 students in this student section are just real excited right 299 of them are cheering and one of them is on his iPad shout out to Melly uh goal scored by Q cassock assisted by Megan mornell once again just a great cross you know you look to uh to get those those balls inside it [Music] [Applause] pause all right all right ball goes up field again toward Jordan Jordan the tallest tallest will look up field through the legs of a bunch down the fender and that ball will go outside actually out of bounds not sure what happened there we sit at just under 50 and a half minutes left here uh you saw a lot of Spartans are up one to nothing after that goal by two classic one nil as uh Mr Freeman would like to correct me as he always does one to zip all right one to no all right zip one laughs no one I don't know one to zero nada none no goals or no all right has not scored a goal and Esau Meadow has scored one that is a brilliant observation there Chad thank you all don't mention it I was just trying to assess the the score and for the 600 people watching I'm sure you can see the scoreboard man do the people just keep coming up they saw that like they must have seen in the thumbnail that the goal scored they must have seen in the thumbnail that uh there was a nacho review at halftime just a quick clickbait for sure Lucas oh the great move inside wow what in the Lionel Messi did I just watch if reminds me of them bopping man Lewandowski reminds me of myself back in kindergarten I don't know might have been 12 years ago yeah just a great great play you know she'll throw that in the Highlight mix you know oh yeah I'm sure some high-level schools will be looking at that is this ball we'll see Barcelona maybe I don't know I don't I'm not too familiar with these Barcelona term that you speak of yeah I do know Portugal from Ronaldo though do you Jordan touches outside to the cassock can't quite hang on we'll be back to Steven Stevens will touch it up and nobody home wow is this an exciting game what a goal we'll take a break for just a moment we'll be back with you after it elapses thank you welcome back to the you someone as far as Versa Belchertown Oreos and as we do every game we do the 12 minute and 54 second food draft uh gotta love the 12 minute 54 app we're talking fast food here we're just gonna draft a few places uh we'll let you guys decide who drafted better we'll do uh top five picks yeah so uh would you like to kick us off yeah I mean uh my number one pick I mean just probably an Easy Choice pretty basic but I will take Chick-fil-A I you know I I respect it I respect the call but uh I think if you go a little larger scale definitely more basic I'm gonna take McDonald's first round I like that decision I mean you got another pick correct uh this is a snake yeah we'll go snake uh and then I think I'm you know obviously not not a worldwide restaurant but I will go Chipotle with my second round pick all right so you're sitting at McDonald's in Chipotle I got Chick-fil-A I got a couple pics coming up here [Music] um oh man I might I might rip off some Wendy's you know I love the bourbon bacon there uh the Baconator always hits definitely yeah second round pick yeah so uh we'll take Wendy's and then I might steal your own restaurant from you and uh pick Hot Table wow you know I I totally respect the opinion the variety the diversity and uh for my third round pick I'm surprised it dropped this far I honestly think it's a first or second rounder but I'm gonna have to go with Subway you know oh man similar to Hot Table I I think it's it's got the versatility it's got the ingredients and uh yeah I I I'm just gonna have to stick with Subway and then for my fourth round pick I'm gonna have to go Burger King oh man yeah oh yeah all right I'll take that uh I believe is this my uh fourth fourth okay so uh we're uh round round four so uh I'm gonna look towards uh we'll go Dunkin Donuts you know that's a that's a classic for uh you know Massachusetts New England most definitely no America runs on Duncan so uh yep we'll look at Duncan you know it's my uh it's my daily so yep surprise has dropped that far so uh and then my last pick ah gotta think about this for a minute hmm if you want me to pick first I I would I would feel free to do that you know I'll give you one of your picks first yeah and then all right uh in the fifth round of the uh 2022 uh fast food draft I think I'm gonna have to take Red Robin oh you know that does not count you cannot take Red Robin fast food that's outrageous you can no you can go in you can get the you know that's disturbing would you would you rather I switch my pick I would rather you switch your pick all right then I'm I'm gonna have to go with it's like picking the 99 yeah yeah ridiculous um I'm upset by that all right we'll go but that doesn't count as fast food right let me think In and Out Burger In-N-Out Burger okay I respect that um I mean oh Mr Freeman just gave me a great pick for yeah fifth round I don't know how it dropped I don't know how it dropped we gotta go with Five Guys wow heck of a pick um so you what do you got for uh your five ah we took Chick-fil-A we took uh second round who did we go with um Wendy's I believe and then we went with uh oh a Hot Table of course Hot Table um so that's my third my fourth rounder um I don't even remember what my fourth round was my fifth round was Five Guys of course yep I think I don't know you know despite Chipotle despite the spike Burger King despite dance I think I'm gonna have to give you the win on this one you know Fair match you took Classics but uh I think like the diversity that that diversity docs yeah dunks I just took the classics of uh our area you know hopefully the town he's watching uh appreciate that and uh I'm sure they do I don't know if we're gonna have a poll or not but uh I think uh I don't know I think for this one I took the win but uh we'll we'll see you again at the 12 minute and 54th second yeah oh yeah I'm excited yeah I'm pumped for that all right since the 12 minute 54 seconds I'm gonna be honest I'm not really sure what's been happening so I forgot to look at the game quite frankly ball ends up back with the Florio and we're going to be looking at a punt oh man I'm sorry let's see excited for that I'm I'm like I am eager to see how this Pawn goes she steps up good run up there wow oh man oh my God 55 yards what a kick oh my goodness fantastic with it with classic holding on to the outside send it to the middle hopefully and she'll look to get her hips around it and she just gets corner kick Corner three it's like a player down um she looks slow to get up but seems to be you know stretching out the Hammond she'll be good shape yeah no Diane need it thankfully you know I saw her get the keys ready on the golf cart but uh yeah as ready as she was unneeded in that situation there is still a fire truck outside the building could be a fire I don't know well what's your favorite color I'm gonna say I'm gonna say blue what's yours I I'm gonna give it to oh my goodness and that ball is almost buried a great save um I'm gonna say I might stick with you on Blue all right all right it's your favorite animal but it can't it can't be an ocean I don't like ocean animals not a big ocean animal guy nope um what's my favorite land animal oh man give me a pet it can be something more quick like a cheetah Imma have to go with this is gonna be patriotic I'm gonna go with the bald eagle all right all right how about it how about it um for me I'm gonna have to go with uh I'm gonna have to go with the human being thank you that's the best animal to ever live obviously as a pet oh no oh no my favorite pet also human beings no no it's the human being I'm just messing with you it's Gotta Be the dog we're joking yup I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with I'm joking I'm joking nice little poke there hoping to get it inside or no cut back oh my God ankles oh my God what just happened oh my God God oh my God that was disgusting yeah that's going on yes oh wow jeez wow there is zero recovering from that one literally snatch those ankles it reminded me of Dom gamelli last week just snatching ankles out there okay you know that's got like 12 touchdowns this season what a guy yeah good good good player we're talking football now yeah what and the ball will head up field as we approach the three minute and 55 seconds mark yeah wait hold me back for this but oh oh why I forgot to mention we're in the The Hot Table final five oh the fridge was here you wouldn't notice this already would know because Brady is the origin of the hot people find a five so is he at work at Hot Table right now you know I I wouldn't doubt it honestly he's a versatile uh Panini artist he he will get you the cheese when you need the cheese but if you need the Mayo quick he's not gonna get you the mail quick um why not quick with the hands He he'll make you a good sandwich it will be a quality sandwich it'll be cooked to Perfection but that Mayo that Mayo is something he's quick with the male or slow with it he's he's not he's not too quick with the mail oh whoa what do you think for like you know how we uh grew up with uh colors for class oh yeah oh yeah what do you coordinate science with I coordinate science with green I'm a big green Science Guy oh yeah um I'm gonna give I'm gonna give English yellow English is yellow yep social studies wait wait don't say it on three we're gonna go one two three blue oh my God and then and then that's science Sam chemistry is science oh man got a bunch of questions and she just goes right wow the opportunity was there the speed was there the drive was there the determination was there the money was there but the bag was not secured unfortunately foreign if there was like a goal stacked on top of that goal there would be like a that would be a goal s like like you have play rocket League yeah yeah if the goal was like 20 feet high you're saying yeah no that's what I'm talking about okay hopefully I would agree with that I probably would have gone Sosa holding on she'll make a nice move to the inside oh my God he's just warding off like 13 Defenders right now yeah that's some Derrick Henry stuff for sure 48 seconds to go reminds me of that and just a versatile life now Marina will just take her time as 30 seconds remain oh I don't know what just happened I'm lost all right get out get out brother she'll just rip it off the field belts are down just trying to play aggressive right now that just 10 seconds remaining Esau metal looks like they'll hold on to this game and well now take a winning record I believe five and four now wow when Esau Meadow needed to advance their efforts towards playoffs these last two games have been yeah what did you get from that well honestly I I think I I think that was a hard hard-working team team effort great defense great goalkeeping um who who are your top three players of this game tonight for the Esau metal Spartans I mean gotta go with lucasic for the goal yep um more no for the assist and uh deflorio for the punch I couldn't agree more I could not agree more um yeah well big win for the Utah metal spots absolutely five and four now and uh I'm not sure yeah five four and two can't forget those two ties so uh nope just a must must win game and uh they they pulled out so uh oh yeah oh yeah thank you for 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um a lot of that is attributed to a cleaner grid um I want to emphasize however that if we immediately switched our all of our electricity to 100 renewable energy um that we still have a lot of work to reach um a20 so this little green uh line shows that exact hypothesis or not a scenario of let's just say all auto electricity is 100 renewable um myself a long way to go we would still need to Electrify our buildings and our vehicles and Implement widespread Energy Efficiency improvements to help make those changes more affordable uh I also only touched on data on emissions today um but a20 also addresses important improvements to our community like centering actions on Equity increasing resilience and strengthening our social education that isn't measured in greenhouse gas emissions um for more information on the h0 plan and the greenhouse gas inventory visit a20.org here's a screenshot so you can see uh where the navigation is to the community greenhouse gas inventory for specific questions on the inventory feel free to send me an email that's listed here and thank you for your time and I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have so why don't we leave the slides up yep yep I'll go for that um so if anybody has a question on mute yourself and pose the question to Thea go ahead Gabe hi Thea thanks so much um you know I was looking at the slide of um I believe it was dte's Energy Mix where it shows that the I think the average is somewhere around 80 percent where uh being sort of fossil fuel or carbon intensive fuel sources if I'm reading that correctly um and I think what I was wondering is are there potential options um both in terms of the seasonality but also in terms of timing um with the mix of fuel itself you know and I'm thinking about solar at a time of when solar comes out in the time of when wind comes on and things like that and if they're um is potentially variation that might allow the city of Ann Arbor and residents to to be able to sort of utilize cleaner fuel sources versus dirtier fuel sources yeah I think that's an interesting concept and I'm not an expert here so um I wouldn't take what I have to say is the and I'll be all um I mentioned that looking at cooling degree days which is how we track um how different years vary in terms of how warm or cold they are because that directly relates to how much natural gas we use to heat our homes and how much electricity use for air conditioning um and I mentioned that 2021 was a really hot year uh which means that when we use a lot of AC in the summer uh utilities end up using peaker plants and those might be using coal as a hypothesis I don't know if that's actually why um the use of cold bumped up again in 2021 but I could see helping um offset emissions that way um one of the things they also estimate is transmission and distribution losses um which is when electricity uh travels from where it's generated to where it's used um it's not 100 efficient process efficient process and we we lose some of that energy as it happens and those are higher the hotter it is out um so those are days when it's even more beneficial to use on-site renewable generation like solar so great point others I have a quick question go ahead customer risks yeah so um I know that in our um climate action plan in terms of how we break out the um different sectors of of emissions transportation is by some of you that's kind of artificially low because it's not I don't believe it was incorporating that sort of commuting Behavior but it looks like within this um greenhouse gas inventory the commuting patterns are being brought back into this I'm just curious and I want to make sure I'm understanding being able to compare the plan to the greenhouse gas and inventory um are we is that calculating the you know pre-pandemic pandemic 80 000 folks who are commuting into Ann Arbor every day or that's what community Behavior are we measuring yeah um I don't believe the estimates and the hsager plan have been updated um but I would want to um confirm that I will say we know that committing patterns are important and that's why the h200 plan addresses it through some actions there are um other actions when they choose your plan as well that we aren't able to estimate like things having to do with uh sustainable food although right now we're not able to get a super meaningful impact estimate of that even though um Dairy and and beef is a really significant source of emissions I would say um taking the greenhouse gas inventory with the with a grain of salt maybe is helpful only knowing that no estimate will ever be 100 complete but we do know through context what's important and and significant um even if we don't have an exact number for it um so we know that commuting was important it is included um in terms of the actions that address fit but not I don't think it's included in terms of an estimate okay that's your question yeah I think so I just wanted to clarify so the commuting what we're measuring here is the the in and out um yes both inbound and outbound uh Community behavior and that's based off of um semcog has an estimate on that and that's the data source for this great thank you appreciate that can I can I follow up on that real quickly that means commuting is miles outside of the city limits of Ann Arbor that is correct um so you see a breakout commuting and passenger vehicles so the passenger vehicles I think is primarily in boundary or at least emissions that should be Associated um directly with the Ann Arbor through the um greenhouse gas protocol um and commuting I have separated out um as it is primarily outside the boundaries of Ann Arbor but we know it's significant um and uh from public input and and so on we know it's an important sort of submissions to address and estimate so um this is an important resource for all of us as well as many others um including just frankly informational resource I would ask that you footnote that so people can understand that I don't know that that's necessarily obvious to the layperson that takes a look at this so if you wouldn't mind you could footnote that on the chart uh when you post that both in registrar again maybe we can update it as well as on the City website commissioner Peck thanks I really appreciate the uh the thoroughness of this it's really nice job um do you have a way of as you mentioned uh goods and services and methane leakage and you didn't that you have to eventually get to those numbers and I'm just wondering if you know you have an idea of what ballpark figures would be because I'm guessing um goods and services especially is a pretty large number and we would need to start working on a strategy for that sooner than later and methane leakage um probably DTA tries to make it sound trivial but I don't think it is and at U of M there is a group over in clasp that's working on the leakage air court and his students and then in sees Greg kioli and this we're trying to work on scope 3 and getting a lot more detail on that modeled so there might be some synergies and reaching out to those groups if you need it yeah that's a great point and and just to add I I know in previous years I've shared an estimate for um goods and services uh the Berkeley cool climate calculator also provides um by ZIP code and by municipality an estimate of greenhouse gas submissions by household which includes that goods and services um and then multiply that by the number of households in Ann Arbor that kind of gives you an estimate of the scale that we're looking at which is helpful to understand that it's it's a large source of emissions it is however a snapshot in time uh I think the last year um a permission set was available was 2016 or so somewhere around there um because we're on a 20 30 timeline and trying to see changes happen uh quickly um I think it can be frustrating not having a uh a source of data that is more uh regularly updated um so that's one of the things there I am so excited and hope U of M or some other uh entity has some capacity to help estimate those I know with our circular economy work that we're definitely interested um did I freeze no okay cool uh we're definitely interested in those um and on the note of the um Upstream uh fugitive methane emissions uh associated with the actual gas production so this currently estimates um or includes the estimates of those that dtp provides but not not the ones that um the source of production again another significant emission source that we know happens we know it's a good thing to reduce natural gas emissions because um estimates of the scale of those vary widely from large to very very large um so I I would just to Mark knowledge that we know they happen we know they're large we know they need to be addressed um doesn't mean we can't work on them on one hand you know the natural gas might be we could just sort of ignore because as we go we you know phase out gas uh we'll get that benefit and I know you would like to see that benefit that's always a nice thing to see um on the uh purchase Goods at least uh and maybe services it could be conceivable I mean you can obviously work offline with Greg um and I could introduce you if you don't already know them or any one of the Seas folks on this Council commission could do that but we could also ask Greg to give a presentation on it you know he did all the modeling for the University of Michigan's carbon neutrality plan and so this is the one thing that we had to punt on because we couldn't you know couldn't get it done in a year and a half so it's it's being completed now but it would be really interesting even if we can't estimate it for and certainly can't estimate it every year for Ann Arbor to at least be able to get our hands around where are the knobs we could turn to reduce it great just let me know if you want any help thanks commissioner McKenna hi Thea thanks for your work here um really clear presentation of of the breakdown of the emissions um just scrolling through the the a20 plan um in this most recent iteration and I'm starting to think about you know just if you go to the maybe just go to this Library you're showing the um the drop in emissions or like the dotted line with the yeah sorry that's an enormous task um and it's obviously um intersectional but also um happening in all the different departments I'm just wondering how you uh communicate the barriers um and I know that's not the purpose of what you shared with us but thinking about how we actually actualize um these savings um so yeah I think that when I see this presentation I think about okay I'm thinking through the Technologies I'm thinking through the energy sources that provide all of our power and uh fuel our buildings but I feel like that position it as like a technology problem and I think that you know most of us know that there's an enormous organizational uh kind of challenge to making this happen from what we heard about earlier to you know the way the utilities serve new developments to um the existing housing and all the gas and and inefficiency of the older housing stocks so not to get into too much specific detail on like what all the barriers are I just wanted to ask you as representative of OSI and maybe of this work like how do you talk about the barriers um when when you talk about the emissions savings and kind of like the the really troubling uh slope of this dotted line yeah you know I I will caveat this to kind of like taking a step away from the greenhouse gas inventory I'm here for sending these numbers to us all because I think all of us carry in the room deeply about you know greenhouse gas emissions as a concept of needing to reduce them I've wanted to know where we are on track to get them to zero um I think it's been proven however that um knocking on someone's door or talking to someone you find on the street um talking about emissions and the levels of having to reduce them isn't really a successful um or productive way of carrying out that conversation of driving action um one it is a crazy number to look at and you either throw up your hands and say there's no way we're going to do it or the damage has already been done or you know someone will design some perfect you know technology that will fix this problem for us um kind of going to the Natural Gas uh topic on its own um I think there's been a lot of great research that shows that what people most uh identify from or respond to um is hearing the health and safety impacts of having natural gas in our buildings and how it directly impacts ourselves and our children um and your neighbors and other people in your communities um so while I'm here today presenting on numbers I acknowledge that this might not be the most meaningful message for the majority of the people in our community I think you commissioner Kenneth that was a great question um any others speak up or raise your hands so I have a number of points I looked at this ahead of time um and um if I may I some fee I may just send to you directly um but I have I think several questions or comments that are of interest to the group um first of all I want to respond before I forget to uh commissioner Peck's statement about um methane uh leakage related emissions and uh the comment that that will become less of a concern as we Electrify uh I just wanted tie that point to the point that Ken Garber made when he called in and I'd just like to note that since June 1st 2020 an additional 529 residential units that are going to be fired so to speak by natural gas have been approved and so those are not yet probably very few of those are reflected here because those are just approvals and as he mentioned uh the number of units that are coming online just from the village of Ann Arbor is going to be another 320 units in addition to that commissioner Peck I see you raised your hand maybe I misunderstood you but go ahead not at all but what you're um you're getting me to realize is maybe we need to get a lot more serious about a natural gas ban and just go all out and Marshall whatever we need to do it because I I look at this curve that we see here and actually I see it you know I see optimism in other words you know it looks like we're going down and we're not we're going to keep going down at the same rate if we're if we're good but we all know that uh that's going to take increasing amount of work at least to deal with some of these really big uh problems like you're you're raising and we need to re you know we need to get to a Tipping Point on that in order to sharpen the you know The Descent to steepen it um and I know that's just so I totally agree with you that we got to do something about it I'm just so let me play catch ball with you of ideas and then uh commissioner McKenna I'll get to you first of all I would like to point out and see how this is one correction that I'd like you to make um this is a little bit misleading um you show it in the sense that you have it grade but if anyone makes a mental best fit slope from 2000 to 2020 and looks at that rate of improvement um that's misleading because you have roughly to the middle of the chart um maybe 40 percent of the chart a 20-year time span and then on from 2020 over you have a 10-year time span so the slope of improvement that I might eyeball from 20 from 2000 to 2020 or 2021 looks relatively steep but it's really nowhere near as steep of that and we know that 2021 was probably still not a typical typical year in Ann Arbor because of the pandemic and this Associated um changes in behaviors so I agree completely with you commissioner peck it this shows that we have a a big task in front of us and because of what we're doing with new buildings being fired by natural gas that's adding to the problem we we are looking there was a ordinance uh revisions committee meeting that entertained a proposal from the planning department that would introduce a effectively a natural gas ban through zoning um that is hopefully one of the topics that we're going to be discussing in a joint meeting with the Planning Commission I provided last week information showing that the city of Boston is doing actually much more than that through zoning granted the laws are different in Massachusetts than they are in Ann Arbor or the Michigan but there may be some precedence there that we can rely on as well as actions taken and a number of other different states that were taken into consideration by uh by Boston in addition another possible ever uh that hopefully we will discuss is looking at our connection fees for water and wastewater and those are really significant and we might be able to use those as carrots and sticks to do exactly what you just described commissioner McKenna hi thanks I wanted to comment on this figure again just kind of add to the conversation about the slope of a line and I think how it is uh slightly misleading I agree with that I'd like to see that change as well but something that commissioner overpeck mentioned um kind of gets back to my initial question about what are the obstacles to actually achieving this drop off and it's actually more of a stepwise function right like you can't like gradually decarbonize natural gas and so I think that it might be an interesting next step to add to the conversation I mean you know we know that I think from what I've heard from what what the city um talks about for for the a20 plan um that even if we're you know and maybe the Planning Commission is considering a natural gas ban as well um talking about getting rid of natural gas is like it's a full piece of what needs to go away I think that that's more sophisticated and I think that when you look at um you know this eight years that we have to go uh we need to get more sophisticated and I think we need to bring ourselves and the public along with like having a more sophisticated conversation about what it's going to take um and then just while I have the floor I also want to mention that I I mentioned this briefly in my intro but I actually worked with said the 17 cities and towns in Massachusetts including Boston and Cambridge um to to write those natural gas bans um so I have an extensive amount of resources on this topic so definitely like to be involved in future conversations great commissioner pack did you re-raise your hand or yes uh and I get in trouble here because Claire has to finish her PhD uh but I think it sounds great what you're you're saying um two things one is that would be what you just recommended would make a even a better case than we already have for figuring out what the fugitive emissions are in the Upstream emissions because then we can show people what the true uh impact would be and second uh with a price of natural gas these days um and what the hell is going on in the world there's a really big justice issue here too so we're building in very expensive uh heating systems here and I think the last piece of the puzzle would be to really highlight how the indoor air pollution um is really bad I mean we could create a campaign to really educate everybody that you know having a gas burner in your kitchen is really stupid for your own personal health and that of your children Etc thanks excellent comments council member radino thanks chair mersky um I know you're aware of this I just because I've heard it come up in in this conversation I I wanted to also bring up a brief update that the the city is kind of paying attention also to some State legislation that is moving right now the the Michigan House of Representatives voted um out a bill that would preempt local units of government and prohibit us from enacting natural gas bans um there is companion legislation in the state senate or if that gets moving we are obviously working with the governor because it is something that we certainly do not want to prohibit our local unit of government from being able to uh to do and to take that tool out of our our options um the only other question that I maybe have um this was brought up to me recently and maybe somebody who's more knowledgeable in the subject could could help me out a little bit is if we were to move forward currently um I think slide 14 shows dte's current electric field mix um given their Reliance on coal still if we were to ban natural gas a question that I received recently is in the short term would that actually make our emission problem worse if we are more reliant on the coal as opposed to clean options and so I wonder if for folks who are still reliant on DT and don't have some of the the renewable energy options um is that something we should be looking at in the short term and if you could maybe speak to that a little bit so the ban would be a ban for new natural gas connections um so what that would mean is that any new construction would have to be all electric and therefore it would be Net Zero ready um dependent on uh how they're powered it would not change dte's fuel mix at all um I think it's some what commissioner Peck mentioned is important though is that if these new connections are fired by natural gas it's very likely that natural gas prices will go up for some of the mentions reasons he mentioned but also because a lot of the fracked wells are they've gotten out the easy gas and they're having to go to more and more difficult gas to extract which means that the prices are going to most likely go up so [Applause] um commissioner McKenna do you still have your hand up or yeah go ahead and then um commissioner Berkowitz yes if I may I have a couple of uh responses to commissioner Dina that's an amazing excellent question and uh very much in the minds of of our um citizens um I wanted to make a couple of points so I studied this when I was at RMI and I can share resources I'd like to also know how to share some resources so when we can talk about that later um but it as of 2019 um I found that every single state in the U.S except for Wyoming if they switched it basically if you bought a heat pump over a gas furnace uh today whether that be a new home or a replacement over the lifetime of that equipment um it's it's net positive emissions savings so like like it's a better environmental proposition in every single state except for Wyoming where there's an incredible amount of poll it's almost like 90 um and so that's what the fuel mix that you're seeing today I think that's a really important part of the argument um and the other part of that is that it's that stepwise nature of reducing emission so if we don't start um kind of digging into all the operational challenges to actually making that happen to getting rid of natural gas in our buildings um that we actually can't even achieve um you know all electrification so it's kind of like those those two components thanks for those insights commissioner Berkowitz thank you I also wanted to follow up on uh city council member Regina's question I think it's a thoughtful one um and just in regard to dte's electricity mix um you know and I'm not sure if uh this is shown here probably it will you know work into the the next iteration of this um inventory uh in 2022 or whenever the next update refresh happens but um DTE did uh retire their River Rouge coal plant in 2021 um the the last remaining units there it's kind of a smaller situation at this point because a lot of it was already retired but in 2022 they retired their Trenton Channel and their Sinclair coal plants um so this the number uh like the percentage you're seeing here for coal is going to drop dramatically um the other component is that um DTE is filing their next uh it's called an integrated resource plan is essentially a 15-year plan um they're going to file their next one in early November and the Rumor so far is that they will will propose Expediting retirements for potentially their Bell River or and or the Monroe coal plants too so you know nothing is certain there but the coal numbers are definitely going to go down on there unfortunately the gas numbers are going to go up too they did build a new large frat gas plant the Blue Water Energy Center to largely replace a lot of that coal capacity but the renewable figures on there should dramatically increase too so all that to say like electrification still has a net benefit the fuel mix is getting a cleaner in in rapidly like right now so um thank you for that great again thanks for the insights uh yeah I have just I made a bunch of notes here but I won't go through all of them one of the things though I do want to talk about in this forum is the date of when we can expect these inventories uh in the future I know that there was uh some delays in getting data as there have been in the past and there were also maybe some oversights that led to delays but what we're essentially doing here is driving in the rearview mirror and that's not so bad when you're on a straight and narrow road and the trend is good uh but it's potentially disastrous if we're getting a report like this in October um and we don't know that we have a big problem and we've lost 10 months in trying to rectify that or let's say six or seven months especially when we're on the time frame that we're on so I'm wondering if you can give a commitment to the commission of when we can expect these inventories uh in the future yeah it is challenging I mentioned our largest uh sources of emissions if I scroll back up here are from buildings and transportation um and so our data on uh the energy that we send our buildings electricity and natural gas comes from DTE that's not data that we have internally um the delay this year as chair mersky alludes to is there was a long delay getting data from DT and they still have not been able to share um data for for commercial buildings um in addition we use uh the Google environmental insights Explorer for information on um vehicle Smiles traveled again that's an estimate that is specifically generated for use in greenhouse gas inventories um that was released late spring of this year um so while I think it would be great if I could uh and that's also an emerging data source um so that doesn't quite yet have a consistent date on when it was available um I mentioned it was available late spring of this year um I think the the intention is to have this prepared uh at least by mid-year um that alliance with the deadline that we have to submit a greenhouse gas inventory to the CDP the carbon disclosure project um uh which fulfills our obligations that we've committed to through things like the race to zero um I think it would be ideal to have this the second calendar year ends ideally everyone has their data and shares it with us and then we have a full toll Barista plan but unfortunately that um it's not always how it happens when we're reliant on data from external sources I hope that provides some some clarity yeah it does uh we'll talk about it in agenda items for future meetings where we had the idea of getting DTE in um and maybe there's a couple of topics that we can talk about I've made a note that we can come back to that um or brevity's sake uh I think what I will do is maybe send you a bunch of questions that I have um council member Riggs I'll come to you in just a second sorry and uh then maybe you can respond to those uh to me and copy the rest of the commission so that we're not uh extending this conversation too long but I don't want that just applies to me so anybody else council member Riggs will start with you thanks I've mentioned this point at previous meetings but um since we have some new Commissioners here tonight and um you know likely uh some new audience members as well I just wanted to bring it up you know I think it's pretty frequent that um we mentioned the number of units of housing units that we're adding to the city and um in the conversation that we bring them up in here that often comes up in a somewhat negative light in terms of how they're powered and I think the conversation we've had here tonight is incredibly important um to be talking about that and to talking about how it means meet sorry to zero goals but I just want to make sure that um at least I am mentioning the fact that we have a multitude of City goals that we're trying to reach and um housing shortage is also amongst them and so historically across the United States and also locally sometimes the environmental movement gets put at odds with um sort of the development of Housing and I I don't want us to I know that's not your intent to do that chair mursky I know that the work that you do also in the community on this issue of housing so I know that's not your intent um but just uh to point out that that's also um very important for us to be increasing our housing stock and that we are trying to as quickly as possible figure out how we can legally take the steps that we that we need to take in the community to power our new housing appropriately but for folks who are interested there's a great book I read recently Golden Gates the housing crisis and a reckoning for the American dream that goes into this um in this a really great read or a great audiobook thanks for sharing that uh I would just remind everyone of our last meeting where we had a presentation that showed that we can indeed have affordable and sustainable housing any other comments so Thea thank you very much um we are blessed to have you in OSI and doing these inventories I know this is one hell of a task and I know that you're really good at this and we really appreciate it and thanks for sharing this for with us and uh we'll look forward to having you back hopefully in June or July of next year telling us about 2022. thank you for the time tonight commissioners so um Zach uh I think just a second where's my agenda here at this page over so yes now we're going to have an update on the home energy rating disclosure and some of the longer time Commissioners will remember that Zach made a presentation back in February and so we now have an update and I'm going to let you steer the meeting go ahead Zach great um yeah some of those might look a little familiar to those of you who are here back in February when I give this presentation um but uh so this will be for those of you who are new and kind of an update for those who saw it before um and it is on the herd program or home energy rating disclosure um and uh so what is that um that is a program that is designed really to make the energy consumption of a home easier for future owners to understand a lot like the miles per charge rating electric vehicle and I'm gonna reference only electric vehicles uh in the spirit of electrification uh and it focuses on residential single-family homes we have a number of different um initiatives that are addressing other types of buildings um and I'll touch on that a little bit here um but what is this program and why do we need that so to expand on what I've said already um a little more is that we want to make sure that everybody has the detailed information that they need to make wise home purchasing um decisions um they can benefit from that a couple of ways it gives them a bigger picture of what they're getting when they buy a house and then should they choose to prioritize Energy Efficiency once they own the home then they'll have more information to help them make decisions about those projects um and those Investments and so over time we hope that this will ultimately drive a market push that values Energy Efficiency and ultimately reduces carbon emissions in line with the a20 plan um this is uh some of those other initiatives that I mentioned commercial benchmarking was passed by city council last October green rental housing will be following heard um shortly after that so later this year Commercial Energy I suppose there's not something that is yet in place but that is where um we could possibly close that gap for buildings that are smaller than 20 square feet and then are not covered by the commercial benchmarking but what this does cover are single fan single dwelling units um so whether it's a standalone home or it is row houses or town homes or duplex um if it's single family it's being sold will be included so what's this program all about well to answer the why um we should start from the beginning and uh with a20 there are the seven strategies outlined the herd ordinance Falls squarely into strategy three that is to significantly improve the Energy Efficiency of our buildings that's what those other Suite of ordinances are addressing um and um following that by virtue of being a decarbonization effort it could also help with the electrification strategy as well um and so this is just a different iteration of the table I showed you a moment ago um The Herd ordinance would be the second of this Suite of three programs so just to further build the case for the herd program um I want to demonstrate that on paper sustainability and Energy Efficiency are important to real estate agents they believe that things like the utility bill is important to their home buyers um you can you can see here that um they they understand that this is something that is important to home buyers and that they want to be able to highlight when a building performs well um some full disclosure is that there are some real estate agents who are a little reluctant to support this initiative and I just want to name that because it becomes a really vital piece of our Outreach efforts and so a lot of the conversation that um we'll be having today uh is about the ordinance but I want you to understand that we accompanying that ordinance would be a strong Outreach and resource availability for real estate agents foreign and so to share a little bit more about the why of this program uh are that right now there isn't any such thing in place and uh owner occupied homes and single-family homes um uh have very few points of intervention where the where the city of Ann Arbor can can leverage resources to help homeowners make the right decisions and so by increasing the literacy of of Home Energy Efficiency it naturally leads that um consumer action consumers who have information about the performance of their homes and the energy costs um and what sort of improvements they can make um it it naturally follows um that then drives Economic Development there will be um job creation as a result of local investment in Energy savings we will need home energy assessors and um Energy Efficiency contractors who can who can do this work um uh the Community Development component of it are that it it clarifies and helps to address some of the energy burden risk especially for low to moderate income households who are looking to buy in Ann Arbor right now it's kind of a blind um purchase at least on paper you can request some documentation from DTE about the previous year of of energy consumption at a house that you're looking to buy but otherwise a lot of that information is in the dark and you're kind of rolling the dice when you buy a house hoping that it's not energy hog um and so therefore there is a strong consumer protection in that that it informs a lot of that uh home buying process um some of the direct benefits to the home buyer are sort of as I just mentioned they they give a total cost of living figure um which is broader and more encapsulating than simply the home price um and it helps them make cost-effective efficiency improvements lowers energy costs to support lower income households um for those who are selling their home excuse me and who will under this ordinance this draft ordinance be required to get a home energy score they then get to showcase the cost-effective Energy Efficiency upgrades that maybe they've already done um and that can in turn increase the value of the home that those that have higher energy scores anyhow and I want to import to make an important note there that that doesn't mean that those with lower scores are devalued we've seen a few home energy scores get implemented across the country and in every situation what we find is that this is an additive value and it it only makes it a stronger case when you're trying to sell your house rather than lowering this cost of any home that doesn't have a high score um homes that have energy scores tend to sell faster and that benefits the real estate agents um when when they are giving a more a better more complete picture to potential home buyers um the it's more attractive to those home buyers it's also providing a better service to them you know you're preventing situations where a home buyer could be disappointed in the home that they bought um and this helps to standardize a comfortable method of discussing energy performance with with clients it's it's a um it's a topic that in my conversations with real estate agents um is difficult to bring up not every um home buyer is interested in it and if they are don't know how to talk about it and so having something in place like heard sort of standardizes those conversations and then of course overall we're looking at a community-wide carbon reductions um which also benefit the health and safety and comfort of these homes so just briefly um the home energy score is a initiative of the Department of energy which is why it has been chosen for this that's also the same method that other municipalities who have passed similar ordinances um they also use the home energy score and so if you get a five on your home energy score it says you're using about um 50 more energy than I'm sorry you're using about the same um energy as about 50 of the homes um if you are getting a 10 that's the best that you can get on this scale um and it says that you have a pretty highly efficient home um and then everything that is uh below that you know conversely is uh or attracts appropriately with the score um so a little bit of the process is that a doe um home energy assessor evaluates the home's total energy use and then they put the assessment into a report and that report includes not just the home energy score but the data that they use to calculate that home energy score their um they would give you energy use estimates on any improvements that you might make and they can include Improvement recommendations um specifically those that have a 10-year or less Payback excuse me so those are the things that we would expect to see in the home energy scores in this policy um and then in terms of the broader impact um you you have a better sense of the high leverage upgrades as a new homeowner and so um the home energy score can recommend those efficiency upgrades which is um high impact for making those decisions for um the first projects that you do um the most new homeowners make major project decisions within about a year of owning the house doesn't mean that they do them necessarily but those usually when the decisions are made and if you are equipped with the information up front upon new ownership about Energy Efficiency it kind of guides a lot of those at least informed those decisions um and then overall it lowers your energy cost so it's kind of a win-win situation I've mentioned a couple of other municipalities who are doing something similar Portland Oregon is doing it and now several of the surrounding municipalities are also doing at Milwaukee and Beaverton are following suit um Chicago is um has seen some of that as well as Austin Texas and and these are where we're getting some of those stats that say that homes sell quicker for instance than those that don't have home energy spores that's that's what we're seeing um across the board so it's it's overall beneficial um they're are there's a lot of information from AC Tripoli about um Energy savings and how that benefits homes um they also do a deep dive into energy burdened residents and what they are finding is that those residents who are energy burdened have increased starting in 2020 and there's a trend that has uh continued and so it could be covet related it was already on the climb though um and so we're hoping to address some of those energy burned households through an ordinance such as this um and so to give you a sense of the timeline going back in time um starting around this time of year last year um we were working with some of the work that the energy commission had done previously and to put together this um this ordinance and we began talking with real estate agents and and their Community um and learning from them having conversations understanding pain points Etc um earlier this year what we were exploring was a voluntary pilot program and that was in discussion um at the last time that I gave this presentation um the voluntary pilot program was uh legislated prior to a millage and with the millage coming about uh we decided to put a hold on the voluntary program especially if this ordinance is going to move forward on the timeline that we are expecting which is that it could feasibly be passed before the end of this year um that would mean that we had just a couple of months to launch a voluntary program that may or may not have had much benefit if it's ultimately going to be required anyway and so instead what we did over the summer was work with um a fellow who did really great work putting together messaging and marketing materials so that once we know what is going to happen with her and what I mean by that is whether or not Council will pass this ordinance um we will be ready to go and hit the ground running um we have everything in place um to do Outreach and Community engagement and we are expected to do a full program launch um early next year starting right away as soon as this ordinance passes um so that's that's where it stands I will let uh your questions guide the rest of this conversation thank you Zach so that slide that you showed last just since you were right on it that's the old slide that we showed in February correct and it's no longer the current plan where I think you just said we're not going to do the voluntary program implementation and so on and so forth right that's correct yeah okay yes thanks for clarifying uh the reason that I left it on here is to show that that's what was in place the last time that we spoke right the all future items that are on this timeline still stand so we haven't lost any time the legal review is slated for the first quarter or has already been completed um it's it's in process right now so it should be done um I mean it'll have to be before the ordinance moves forward but all right um they yeah we're hoping to get feedback from legal stat um hopefully any time now um and that really once we get that legal um we will be prepared to move forward right so I'd like to open things for question and answer and discussion there's two other elements of this topic so we actually have the ordinance itself uh which we can get into if appropriate and then we have a resolution of support and so um we'll need a motion to consider that and a second um this is effectively the second reading since we did look at this back in February so let's start with questions about the presentation we have um two up council member Briggs and then commissioner harp yeah thank you and thanks for the update on this um excited for it to make it to the council table um I'm curious when it does what sort of you've done a lot of stakeholder engagement and discussions around this um what sort of feedback would we anticipate um for example from the Realtors Association about this was there support or mixed feelings or what what what's the sentiment you're getting yeah really good question um we have gotten mixed feelings um part of that is because like we have seen in some other communities and what have we've seen here previously in Ann Arbor um that mostly there tends to be misunderstanding during the conversations with them about what this means we find that most Realtors then actually are quite amenable to this and friendly to it and so that's where it's the engagement strategy that we spent all summer building um and some of those messaging tactics really come into play for example there was uh let me see if I can rack my brain here in a conversation with one of them there was a um the county had passed a I think it was um a water related requirement that they must pass a certain test and there was a qualifier to that that they had to achieve a certain score and if the house didn't get a good enough score they had to make those changes what some of the a lot of the misunderstanding comes in around heard is that they're ex they thought and some still think that they need to achieve a certain score before the house can sell and that is not what hurt is requiring they heard is not requiring any changes whatsoever it simply is requiring the score it then allows the home the home buyer to make decisions about what they want to do um uh when they take ownership of the home so um that's that's I think where one of the biggest um sticking points are we have we have been putting together uh with the help of Joe on the line a website that will be a resource hub for really anybody that can be involved in this process so if there will be information for real estate agents home buyers home sellers um and energy assessors and and contractors who do that and so with that resource Hub um we hope to address a lot of uh these potential concerns before they become major concerns and that's something that you won't see in the ordinance because we want to make sure that we can't adapt if a certain messaging or Outreach tactic is not working we don't want to have to seek council's approval to change the ordinance to change our Outreach but that is something that's really critical to to keep in the back of your minds um is that the OSI will be accompanying um this this initiative if it moves forward to become an official ordinance with a lot of Engagement to make sure that we're answering those questions appropriately commissioner thank you so much for the presentation I was really excited to dig into this and and I think a lot of the questions as I read through both the ordinance and and the slides as well some of that was answered to in the research report from the Department of energy that went into some of the detail about some of the measures and some of the calculations that went in so it answered a lot of my questions as well about um not only this sort of plan for improving the metrics over time but the sort of regional climate and grid emissions uh calculations or excuse me context that goes into I think some of the reporting metrics that come out with the with the assessment as well if I under if I understood that correctly and so that helped me get get a sense of how this would be how they would be made comparable but also the sort of types of data that went into it two there were two main sort of areas of questions that I was sort of left with and and you talked about these a little bit one was was this sort of question of who's doing the assessment and what the handoff looks like um between the score itself but also the report that comes with that and I wondered if you could talk a little bit more about that handoff and how that might be reflected in the ordinance in particular because one of the one of the key things I'm curious about is how do we help ensure that someone who ends up purchasing or buying the home actually has the report and the knowledge and the insights um the actions to take in ways that help them sort of support decision making or actually help them make improvements or decisions about what kinds of actions they'll take and and part of that was I was just wondering how in particular the um the real estate agent um might get that directly to to a buyer but also uh perhaps an inspector who might be working with a buyer to help interpret and understand some of that information as well in the process of of purchasing a home and then the second the second piece which I can I can sort of follow up was was a little bit about the artifact or the or the the the report document itself and how the structure of that I saw the example from Portland how can that best help support decision making and I was particularly looking at some of the items you know are the suggested improvements for example prioritized in a particular order what kinds of ways in which can they be set up and and that's something I think that comes out in the making but I was just wondering if you had any thoughts about that as well sure um so the ordinance specifically uh to address your first question um the ordinance specifically names that the home energy score information must be listed in the home listing um that involves a conversation with the MLS the local organization that handles all um of the the house listings the multiple listing service and they can actually add fields and have added fields in the past for things such as Energy Efficiency and so um the ordinance requires that the home energy score be added there and that's one of the um places where we will be doing Outreach with the MLS to make sure that that field gets added so that it's nice and easy um for real estate agents to include that information in a listing as well as for potential buyers to find that information now in terms of the report that's something that is because it was obtained by the seller it supposed to be made available upon request by the potential home buyer your second question was about um jog my memory I'm sorry sorry about about the about the report document itself yeah and the type of information the way in which the information is presented the sort of quality of the information about the improvements um in part because I found that a lot of the way in which those improvements and and you can go for example look at the DTE site in terms of how they uh communicate Energy Efficiency improvements and things like that and the kinds of steps they can take but also the Portland example that you included in the at the bottom I think of the ordinance um there may be better versus worse ways of of presenting some of that information ways that will help uh I think homeowners make choices about what to do when to do it how much you know how much and then what process yeah so that's a good question there are actually um requirements from the doe about what information is included in those reports and how they get that information and they go as far as having a quality assurance checks for that um and um so what I what I took out of this uh presentation um but perhaps maybe should have left in from February was a little bit more information about that we would have to find a doe partner um and there are a couple of options here in the Ann Arbor and Detroit area for who we can work with um in terms of Home energy assessors and then the doe does um it's I think it's a five percent quality control check so they'll they'll pull those reports um and go over them with the home energy assessor to identify how they got that information and um identify any potential miscalcs or things that they can improve on so there's some quality control in there and then we can further work with the partners and via the doe to identify if there are other certain things that we want to make sure are included in that report so for example one thing that has already been in discussion to include in the Ann Arbor reports are or something like Eevee Readiness that's not already standard in a home energy score as it is delivered from the doe but it is something that locally has been expressed as a desire to be included in this so we would work with our partner to make sure that that information is also in the home energy score Dina thank you um I have a couple of questions and and I would uh I guess I'll start by saying I think I appreciate kind of the the work that's being done on this and and some of the Outreach that's taking place um I do think that there probably needs to be some additional Outreach to Realtors I am already hearing from Realtors kind of anticipating this and I have heard a lot of unanimity across the board and their opposition to this um so I would actually love to also talk to some some Realtors who might be supportive so that I can hear that perspective as well as as somebody who will have to vote on this at the council table um one of the questions that I have is about um kind of the mechanism for what the process is for for doing some of these assessments one of the the concerns that I have heard is that um mandating this without necessarily knowing if we have the the proper channels in place for these to be carried out regularly could add a lot of backlog to the buying and selling process as sellers are waiting for um these assessments to take place so do you know if if there's currently kind of a enough folks who can do these Assessments in place for if we were to implement this that it wouldn't dramatically impact the housing market um yeah that is um one that we have heard a lot as well so this was also something I took out of the previous I was trying to save time but I should have left it all in the presentation some of those that we're working with are already prepared to help us meet that demand so there are um already a few home energy assessors in the area um they uh one of the partners that we could potentially work with is Walker Miller they're based out of Detroit and um they specifically are focused on um helping to provide home energy assessments but also Workforce Development for that as well and so they are working on Partnerships with local high schools and colleges to get folks trained up and into that field at really opportune times and and equip them with the skills to be in the green economy and so that includes training them up to be home energy assessors and so um they have some capacity and are equipped to do that green home Institute is another one that is prepared to help with that and then I will also state that um there is some discussion about making um some of the potential millage funds if they if residents choose to pass that next month available to hire perhaps an in-house um assessor who could also help address some of that um with some of the that all of that said RMI uh what helped us put together some numbers on what we would need and what sort of demand that would put on our local energy assessors and they found that four energy assessors would be able to meet the need there are fewer than about 2 000 homes sold in Ann Arbor each year and so um that's four energy assessors full-time should be able to meet that there are also some other energy assessors who are already in the area that aren't um uh actively doing a whole lot of these and so though they could be engaged um and we also do already have some funds designated towards we are prepared to do some trainings for free from the city that we would we would put some folks through the uh dob training program thanks and then and then maybe as a follow-up to that I wonder if and if you don't have this I can obviously I will have another opportunity to ask these questions but since we might vote on a resolution tonight um in some of the other places where this has been instituted have you seen any is there any data to suggest whether or not this has added any type of considerable cost to the to the selling process and in additional fees or do you know approximately how much it costs to do one of these assessments um yeah to do one of these assessments is about two to four hundred dollars um it can be cheaper uh what we have found in the last couple of years is that that has increased to about two to four hundred dollars um so um that's that's the cost that we're looking at there already are some in terms of an equity approach um exemptions built into the draft ordinance so for any homes that um for homeowners who are low to moderate income they uh have the option to um apply for an exemption from compliance with this now that said that's the way the ordinance is worded again our approach to it is not always written into the ordinance and so the city of course would seek out um offsetting the cost for those homes rather than allowing them to be foregone completely and in fact we uh the current draft says 60 Ami are and below are exempt Portland bumped it up to 80.
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you can see the continual decrease overall of the tax rate you can see the bump between 2020 and 2021 again that was due to the 10 override to the 15 override but that gives you a snapshot of our tax rate history and with that I'm happy to set us to hand over the presentation to to Mr yeah I'm nervous as he's sitting here next to me um Mr Castellano so I will be very happy to drive for you John I appreciate that thank you madam president members of the board Dr McCord thank you for having me uh here tonight um I'm going to uh quickly go through some of um Mr Allen Kane our Satan security director uh security spend for last fiscal year um this big shoes to fill he is also a national director and safety security director so I will I will do my best there there's been last year was around 6.6 1 million most of the security camera system obviously and I know he's been here and talked to you guys recently about a lot of that so some of this maybe review again when we started this project we've technology Services worked very closely uh with Mr Kane and we also have a network technician from our department that we actually embedded with him and Benson throughout this entire project so it keeps us very well connected on all the technology pieces as well obviously there were a lot of reasons for for needing this we had security cameras that came from as old as Radio Shack to Costco it was just all over the place so it was not an Enterprise level system so there was no Central management whatsoever and from a safety standpoint that's obviously needed to be addressed so a large RFP was done Benson who is a local company we partnered with and as well also show you some pictures of the Vigilant entrance video intercom system which I know he shared with you as well prior to this um this is a picture of the sock the security operations center this is at technology services along with Mr Kane's offices so it's nice to have them close right there and we can assist with any technology needs but if you haven't visited the sock I definitely recommend that you hook up with Mr Kane and go on there and check that out it is amazing technology and and what can be monitored across our district from the security operations center the vigilon camera system is what has gone in and you'll you'll start noticing those around at other places if you haven't already just from seeing it at our place they're used across the country and number settings but all seven of other high schools are completed at this time two of the five Junior Highs are completed and he expects the final three to be completed by the end of the year and then two elementaries are completed at this time and work on that we're remaining we'll begin in January they have just completed the entire Greenfield and Elliott Corner we call it so Greenfield Junior Elementary Global Academy and the tech services area so that's just been completed now they're they've moved on to the next but I'm not exactly sure where they're at right now this time so and one thing I wanted to add is that at the very beginning of the project we had an opportunity to buy we were worried about supply chain issues and we had an opportunity to buy large quantities of the cameras Benson was willing to store them in their warehouse for us until we could actually Implement them and install them in all of our buildings so that accounts for the fact that the whole budget was some somewhere in the neighborhood of 9 to 10 million and we've already spent 6.6 million even though we haven't gone over to half of our schools it's because we did that pre-buy of all those cameras which paid off for us yeah that that's crucial to keep the project going um the video uh intercom systems I'm sure you've all experienced these by being out and visiting our sites and he shared these um the only elementary schools that Neely does have the secured front entry so there's not one there and then the Patterson for an entry is in progress as well as well as our five Junior highs in the GCA and Canyon Valley um I do not have those security interests as well so they they don't have those there but um yeah the feedback on these I'm sure you've heard as well but um it seems like community and everyone has adapted very quickly to those and they seem to be working very well from a technical standpoint they've been pretty Flawless too once once they get used to using them so that's it for security stuff you have questions I can try my best to answer those or definitely can relay those on to Mr Kane if you have any that's what we committed to on the bond when we went out and asked for that and that's what we've been working on and went through the whole RFP process have worked to make sure that this has gone in a efficient and responsible way and that's and you guys have done good reporting back to us Mr Kane's been here several times so I appreciate that thank you sure um we'll move into technology Services piece as always I want to thank our entire technology services staff they're definitely the best staff ever and they've been working hard the last couple weeks to to try to get some stuff done uh can I argue with that a little bit oh yeah you can argue but I don't know if you're going to win this one but our 2.8 was was our spend in the last fiscal year a lot of this stuff is stuff you've seen over and over every time I come here but we've tonight the consent agenda will be the last spend of that on our refresh for our elementary teachers so it's kind of crazy to think we're already at that point to where we're refreshing those devices that that uh I feel like that was just yesterday that we were purchasing I know it's time flies so that will be the last part of spend that we will spend that money on and since that Elementary refresh um it's gone it's a little over four years ago I know before yeah and a half so um it was like 10 I think it was a long long time long long time so we definitely have a refresh cycle now and as long as funds stay good then we will be able to stick to that but um we're doing our best because that's important those are our teachers devices and our student devices so um cabling obviously every time I talk about cabling but we did finish the top bulleted schools uh last fiscal year those are complete we did because of supply chain again we it's still difficult on certain pieces of Technology items to get so the bottom schools are bulleted we purchases the purchased the parts for those but they won't be finished until this current fiscal year so those are in progress or just finishing up as well so you would see those the next time um our co-location I talked about this quite a while ago um so we definitely need to get back here and update you on on our co-location which is our data center downtown that is going very well we have most everything set up there now on Parts again held us back to finish that but that is nearly complete this was just some of the parts in the routing systems that we needed for down there but with the work that's been going on with our network with Cox they've even redesigned some of our fiber Rings here in the district and so redundancy now is is is there so we're super excited about that and hopefully you never have to to use that that way but it is prepared there our secondary internet connection is there our phone system is there as well and so we feel really comfortable on how we're set up now so the bond dollars definitely allowed us to be able to do that foreign initiative continues our take home at the secondary level so I'm again that's uh the funding came from for those devices we did have to replace some Chromebooks and purchase some more for loaners as well just like always and the same with staff laptops as those refreshes get a little bit closer we do have some that just kind of die out and so we have to buy Replacements so we also replaced a lot of well all of the very old Antiquated devices in our elementary libraries and even some of the high school with chrome boxes so it's basically like a Chromebook but it's more like a desktop so we have replaced all those and they're they're pretty solid and work very well so that was part of some of that spend as well there so our 290 2019 bond this is where you're going to start seeing some of our av refresh because we did start that last fiscal year um we did all the distance learning rooms as well um so that our secondary schools can offer um programs from school to to school within and outside of the school district but the AV refresh will be the biggest spin here in this piece so it was about 1.5 million and I'll talk a little bit about each of those so I want to spend a little bit of time on this slide so those numbers in the middle um this has been a huge huge project um similar to the to the camera system project these are very very complex projects but this touches every single classroom in the district and so um the five of us uh there are four of us internally and you probably knows Robert ebright who's usually here in the evenings but myself and Jim Woods our project specialist and then Sean abley who is our instructional technology coordinator and then Lindsey Baker from CCS our vendor that was chosen um we were the ones that went on the walks and walked every single classroom in the school district so that was took a while but it was actually very educating for us to be able to do that and just to see all the different classrooms in the school district but we completed that in about four months and the principal was required to go on those walks with us because if there's any location decisions to be made they were making them not me or us it was their call because those are their campuses um but things were pretty standardized across the district so that went very well the training piece uh I just want to take a little bit of time um there's extensive training that goes into this for our teachers so the way the crews work is during the school year they work at night so they come in and a teacher's projector basically disappears overnight so they're still working to the end of that day then they come in the next day and they have their new interactive panel there before we even get to the school the ties or Sean abley herself visits the school and we do a 30-minute training because there's only three things that are focused on how they can connect to that new panel hanging on the wall just like they would their projector how to access the white board which you'll see some pictures of and then how if they have a document camera existing in their room they still really like those a lot of teachers do and so we teach them how to hook those up it's a 30 minute training it's mandatory and the principal has to have everyone there but there's no mistaking it the next morning when they arrive they'll be able to connect and then we also have ties and customer care technicians there as well to help them so nobody's left unattended the next day to try to connect to their device there's plenty of help there so that's the initial training and we also have the on-site ties that can provide training as well at any time the secondary schools already had the distance learning there so if they wanted to go and use a board they could the the opportunity excuse me was there for them and then Ben q and CCS follows up after the installation and does a longer training they'll stay the entire day and meet with every teacher or they'll come after school before school it's the preference of the principal and however they decide to have their teachers there or drop in is is up to them and then of course by request the ties will train at any time so multiple multiple ways to to get training for these new devices we've also trained all the curriculum or like the name wrong the new coaches instructional coaches thank you we're also all trained on these as well and so we have 14 Schools completed at this time all the junior Highs are completed Campo Verdean Gilbert High School are completed and then a small number of elementary schools so we expect to have the project done by May at the latest but the goal is to have the entire District done in April so it's it's moving along quickly now thank you this is this these are secondary students so there's a lot of secondary students won't use these but they've really taken off with these I love the guy in the second to the left there he discovered he could write on his assignment there was Hamming it up so um but either multiple students can use the board at the same time as you can see so our secondary kids have actually taken off with these more so and even pushed some of their classroom teachers to use them in different ways so that's always engaging and great these are some of our elementary kiddos and the great thing is they can split these boards up into three parts and the teacher can send different things to the board for them to work on it and so that's just an example of that on the far right it's hard to see you can connect up to nine other devices to these boards to present so you could have nine students connecting their Chromebooks to these boards and they will all show up at the same time so nine gets a little crowded but they can use them for presentation they can also whatever is on the board can be sent to the Chromebooks in the classroom as well so if there's a student sitting in the back or says they can't see or whatever it may be they can send it the opposite direction so it's been really really interesting to watch and of course our teachers uh have really jumped into these he drew that himself creative there but um it's been great to also see the specials teachers use these especially the music and the different special areas even in the coaching there's pretty mapped fields and courts and whatnot so it's really been amazing to watch this and I I can't say enough about the partnership with ccs and how smooth this is gone knock on wood it's going very well so if there's any questions about any of that I'd be happy to answer those for you any questions board members no I've been to some of schools with those and seen the board can be moved down so that Elementary can actually reach it and then and then move back up or just shift it down and shift it up really easily yeah the elementary schools are all on motorized mounts okay so they'll go down as low as 24 inches off the ground and then up as well and I've seen where teachers can do notes and all this stuff and then save it and then send it to their Google classroom or whatever so that that's available for whoever wasn't there that day it's just a really convenient I've been really impressed with it and now we don't have the overhead projectors at all it's this is everything connects to every single classroom yeah and Elementary libraries yeah thank you any other questions board members okay thanks thank you thank you Mr castellana so Mr Toby thank you good evening okay good evening again um before we get started I want you to look at that picture because if there's any doubt what's at the end of the rainbow it's a school bus all right got a cold so um talking about the supply chain issues that's hit the buses pretty bad we're ordered some of these buses over a year ago some were like 10 months ago we've still got some on order that are not here yet um but that's kind of the world that we're living in at the moment but the ones that we got in recently in August we got three new 84 passenger and those are the big buses with the flat noses that you see running around just like this one in the picture they do have luggage compartments they've got everything designed so that we can use it on field trips Sports trips music trips as well as just daily routes um you know obviously we bought them for Arizona so they've got dark tinted windows and they've got a really really big AC system on it um I was teasing with Bonnie but they've got 121 000 BTUs which doesn't mean anything to anything but if you look at a car has 12 000 it kind of gives you the perspective of how much AC these things have because we realize that's a huge huge thing for the students nowadays is they see you on the buses um but they've got big engines they can travel up and down the hills they're built for you know more suited for what we use them for put it that way um let me go back to the thing that that was 523 408 of where those three big buses the other buses we got were the six which we call type A buses which are the smaller activity buses that coaches can drive the non-cdl drivers can drive okay and then we got six of those um they're 14 passenger because if you go into 15 passenger that's the CDL limit so it's as big as we can do and still standard of CDL restrictions but you can see the inside of them they're pretty nice to sit in for the smaller teams you know that they can get back and forth they're all gasoline engines so if you go out of out of town it's easier to fill them and things like that than the diesel that you have to fight with and there again they got tinted windows and great ACS um go back to the the money yeah so um they were about 417 955 for a total of 941 000 363.
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um and we would likely follow suit um if if that is um if that's something that is attractive to this body um and if we have the funding part also thanks and then and then the last thing I'll say is really I think more of a comment than anything as you continue to have discussions I know I think the thing that I have I have most heard as a concern is potentially like fire anxiety that if they go into um a potential purchase and then receive an assessment that demonstrates that the home really is not very efficient and needs a lot of work that at some point the city May mandate that they make all of those changes um and so I I think that's one of the the pieces that I've most consistently heard when I when folks have reached out to me about this is that that it may but add some additional anxiety or some additional kind of uh time to that process as buyers installers try to negotiate out what whether or not they are mandating that the seller now makes them upgrades because they're afraid that they might have to burden that cost later on and so I don't know if that's something that's come up in your conversations but just something that I've consistently heard as as you continue to talk to Realtors yeah at this time there is no such I haven't had any conversations involving that and I don't anticipate that that is anything that would come into play I will say that with the recent passing of the inflation reduction act there are a lot of very attractive rebates and tax credits that are available to homeowners who do choose to act on some of the recommendations that are put forth in the home energy score so for the next 10 years at least till 2032 it's actually a really good time to be to be making some of those electrification and efficiency changes council member McKenna did you have a question you if your hand was up a couple times no it's okay okay um any other comments or questions before we move on to the associated topics Zach I would just ask that you provide some data to Council on exactly those cost estimates I know eco-telligent homes uh did a full blower door test on my house again a second time last year and it was um I think around 200 for a full blower door test and I know that they're still doing a lot of work in Ann Arbor and were featured at the electrification fair so um before that two to four hundred dollar range is is given we should have provide some data to council uh go ahead yeah sorry and just if that if that information is being provided also at some point I would also love to hear if there's what what the current timeline is for for an assessment to take place not just like how long the actual assessment would be but if we were to implement this and had those four people in place and somebody requested one about what length of time they should expect from requesting an assessment when it would be completed okay good idea so um the ordinance was posted on legistar it looks it sounds like a few people looked at it um are there any questions or comments about the ordinance before we consider the resolution Zach I submitted uh some questions to you in advance of the meeting which I think you saw um would you comment on on at least the ordinance related aspects so I I can read them or you can just go ahead and address them directly um sure um uh the first one I'll I'll address uh is one that I've sort of already addressed this question was about um the city providing certain Provisions for um either the city or another entity to fund reports um and this question was specifically about the exemptions of low to moderate income households um and so I'll just repeat again that that's something that we would keep an administrative approach so that we can appropriately adapt and adjust as needed to make sure that those are being funded I will provide a little more information background information on why that was included and the goal was to not then further burden a household that may already be energy burdened now with the cost of complying with a new ordinance even though it's in the spirit of of reducing the energy is if you're a low to moderate income household and you're trying to sell your house uh we we don't want to be burning you any further so you can apply for a full exemption um of course then if any applications that we receive under that exemption would be met then with okay great now here's how we will help you get it done um but but you won't need to legally apply yeah just for the council members that that that cuts two ways so if you don't do these scores then you sort of perpetuate these lower income homes that have high utility costs that low-income people can't afford and if they are continually Exempted then they're not aware of that and they're probably less inclined um to make the kind of upgrades that we want to see them make not only from a greenhouse gas and energy perspective but also from an affordability perspective so I think it really is important that we think about how we might be able to provide incentives for those being done um then there's the other point um about calculating greenhouse gas emissions two different ways could you comment on that and explain it um yeah I'll I'll um I might actually turn this back around uh to you about exactly what this question was asking um there is a um stipulation that says that the home industry score should include an estimate of the home's greenhouse gas emissions based on the home energy score estimate um and which fuel types are being used the question was asking if the second calculation could be if it was a hundred percent renewable Electric option um which if it's renewable electrics the uh doesn't that mean that the greenhouse gas emissions are very low I mean outside of doing embodied carbon I don't think I understand what they're no so there's the typical home in Ann Arbor is going to be greenhouse gas heated um water heated stove Etc but then there's also electric uh power consumption and so if um you have the electric component is going to have a certain cost in a certain greenhouse gas emissions but most people in Ann Arbor now have an option of subscribing to 100 renewable energy so one option is through my green power um in fact DTE has a special offering right now another option is through Arcadia a future option might be through Community solar on the landfill and so the idea is that if you provide the information of what the greenhouse gases and Emissions would be should they procure their electricity from a 100 renewable source that would give them an indication of what the benefit would be of subscribing to 100 renewable energy from some Source or another um yeah I mean I think I would again turn that back to the body if that's of interest to the energy commission um I don't see why that isn't something that we could include you essentially build the multi multiplication factors in and then when you spit out the report the report gives the two different uh figures and indicates what the benefit is of having 100 renewable energy which we want to encourage people to do absolutely are there any other comments or questions about the ordinance that people have if not we'll move on go ahead councilmember Calvin Garcia there was a section in the ordinance about okay under definitions that says asset rating the term asset rating it says for existing houses the asset rating is produced based on an in-house assessment which uses the department of Energy's home energy score for new houses the asset rating may be produced based on design documents for the house how is that going to be like consistently calculated with new houses like in a way that's replicable and everyone who's doing it is calculating it based on the same criteria I found that also confusing frankly I didn't understand that whole definition sorry maybe you can explain it or rework it sure um we we can rework it um some of these things also um were um uh kind of taken from other municipalities who have something in place uh I think an important thing to note here is that new homes uh new construction will not be um uh subject to this they are already getting a hers um rating through uh the current building code um at least a blower door test and so um they are already rated under another system so um it wouldn't apply to to new homes so yeah so Zach maybe you can communicate to us uh on whether or not that language is then going to be changed as well as the other couple of points um I think we can still go ahead and consider the resolution of support though yeah we can we can edit that um to make it clearer I I think I might recommend just removing the point about the newer homes um even though later in the ordinance it does state that new homes won't aren't covered but um we will uh yeah we can we can rework that that would be great great so we have a resolution of support uh could you pull that up and display it do you have that handy Zach yeah and maybe a parliamentarian can help me here council member Briggs um I'll finish my question um since we already considered this ordinance of support back in February do we need to reintroduce it with a motion to consider in a second or can we just go directly into discussion maybe you can pose your question and answer my question at the same time councilmember Briggs um yeah my question is um related to I just wanted some additional clarification around um the exemption piece of things which I understood what you're saying in terms of administratively that the goal would be to provide that as a service um but I'm a little concerned if if folks how that's been playing out in other communities um if that is an option if it makes a little bit quicker um in terms of the speed of things that there might folks might choose to to to just say no I'd rather go through the exemption process rather than even if you're going to pay for it and so I'm just curious how that's uh paid played out I assume that there's a desired not to commit ourselves in ordinance form that we are paying for this in perpetuity and so I understand the administrative component to that but I'm just curious how this is um with youth how this has worked in other communities um yeah good question um I'm pulling up my notes here from interviews with uh like Hillsboro and Portland and as I recall neither have actually received very many um uh exemption requests under this they had similar language for low to moderate income households um and I think what they're finding is that they're um uh let's see here is that they just haven't been receiving a lot of requests for that but that doesn't answer your question I I can do a little bit of digging uh council member Briggs if that's okay and I can help answer that question yeah that's fine it's not pressing for tonight I mean I'm assuming we really don't wanna include that within the language of the ordinance that we would be paying for it but I'm just just checking makes sense councilmember radina thanks I think I can answer your question and then I do have one more question too um I think if this resolution is new even if we looked at the ornaments before I think the the resolution needs to be moved um um and my my question is Zach sorry I thought of one more is there a reason why um I believe that this requires um the assessment to be done at this time of listing as opposed to the point of sale like a lot of other assessments is that is there a reason we did that specifically um yeah you're seeing language in ordinance requesting time of listing well yeah you mentioned you mentioned like you wanted in the MLS listing as opposed to it being something that's done before closing um or I know you know when I went through my home buying process a lot of those um the the assessments that would take place or the the um most of those will happen after kind of an agreements in place and then they have to be completed by the time of sale by closing yeah um one I'll harken back to the beginning of my presentation that um stated one of the stated goals of this program is to sort of help drive that market of Energy Efficiency and so by encouraging it at the time of listing it um gives prospective buyers the information so they can make that in their decision making before getting to the point of agreement or locked in to the home um I will state that as um written uh the um ordinance will focus more on time of sale that was a recommendation by some of the preliminary legal review that we've gotten because I think that the the likelihood of being challenged increases as we get closer to time of listing and so um that's again where a lot of the administrative Outreach engagement falls on the OSI is that as homes are getting listed making sure that we are informing real estate agents and home sellers early on in the process that this is something that they're ultimately going to need to comply with anyway and give them resources and information about how it behooves everyone to get it done early as early as possible to make that information available to as many people as possible because it's required at the end of the day anyway I think I'm confused a little bit and I'm also still confused by the title Zach I see you changed some of this in the title so it now reads the Ann Arbor code of ordinances but it still says time of sale so when when is this being conducted or required so again it the it would be required by the ordinance um by the time of sale um that uh removes certain requirements um there let's see the doing it at time of listing um involves a different process there that real estate agents already must adhere to and um interfering with that process I think makes it uh more challenging for this to to hold water is my understanding um and so the requirement is at time of sale um but we would encourage it at the time of listing and so that's that's when the OSI would would be encouraging it through letters and through Outreach um to everyone who is involved so that frankly is a big concern of mine when we talked so as Zach knows but many of you may not know Carlene and I and I think Bridget and Wayne Apple Yard former chair we held interviews with a number of different municipalities uh Portland Austin um at least those two for sure um and it's my understanding Zach that those are time of marketing requirements both at both of those municipalities is that correct um I believe that Portland is actually um set up the same way where it's time of sale um but it is encouraged ahead of time so one of the reasons why again the group that originally drafted a version of this that Taiwan has handed off to OSI uh was that by doing it time of marketing you you actually touched two two parties you touched the seller and you touch the buyer at the time of sale then really you're not touching as much the the the buyer okay there may be Outreach and things like that but um if you're really doing this at time of marketing you're encouraging the seller to look at this and they just simply comprehend it and think about what they're doing with their next purchase and if you do it at the time of sale it's really directed at just the buyer um and the other thing is is that if you're really looking at disclosure it's just like um buying a car you look at the sticker and there it is in big big numbers your MPG values and you see that before you make a decision it's not that you make the decision to buy the car you go in the salesman office and then as you're signing the contract then they say oh by the way this uh vehicle gets uh 12 miles a gallon and this is how it's taxed up against other vehicles so I'm I'm really concerned that this is leaving open a loop where we're just doing it um potentially at the time of sale but um yeah um commissioner Peck you know I couldn't agree more I mean this seems like a waste of time to do at a time of sale that's all I can say I mean it's like really half-hearted and um if we wanted to have any impact on things we got to do at a time of market and logically from I bought enough houses through the time I moved around uh that um you know could be done as part of inspection could be done you know when you're also having to do a whole bunch of other disclosures you know time of sale makes no sense and I think it's just a way to get the Realtors to give in exactly so we're sort of getting into the consideration of the the language what I'm going to ask is for a motion to consider the resolution um and a second and then we'll dive into this I was guilty of uh partly getting ahead of the game here so can I have a motion to consider the resolution uh I think I saw Carlene's hand go up is that correct yes okay and the second from commissioner herp so I'd like to open things up for comments um any comments no discussion okay so um council member breaks yes just to continue the conversation that uh the question was just raised um exactly I don't know to the degree that do you think there's an opportunity to move this to time of listing or do you think there are um are there significant barriers you know beyond sort of political considerations but you know um barriers to doing that um yeah one of the um barriers that we encountered when we were having some conversations with the goal are enforcement barriers um the once it comes time to sail because there's so many checks in place for what can happen before a house is closed on um that is a more natural setting um evidently for doing checks like this um and it's much harder to do that at the other end of the the time scale um so that might challenge that I mean you have the MLS is it in the MLS or is it not in the MLS um well the requirement the um ordinance would be that it would have to be listed in the MLS so there you go there's a check and I think the question at that point then comes down to again back to enforcement um that requires a lot of resources to check that those are getting into place um we do have some staff and budget time allotted for ensuring a quality check on that um but it falls down really to at the very end that's when everything is looked at and we were advised to include it at that time you know you would can I say go ahead I think you would sorry I think you would be forcing I'm not a lawyer but I have a funny feeling you'd be forcing people to do it if you had a city requirement and then if someone didn't do it and the seller wanted to get out of the deal it would like be a piece of cake and therefore it would put a lot of pressure on both the realtor and the seller to comply because they've realized that there's like a by not complying and breaking a city ordinance you know you'd be perfectly legally I mean I can't imagine you'd lose in court if you just decided not to buy the place and people hate that you know you could bail at any time that's the home buyer you're saying yeah yeah and I don't I think the realtor and the seller would I mean that would be doing them a great disservice it's just creating I do think that time of marketing is for our goals far more effective uh approach um these were recommendations that were made to us by legal who are looking at um uh they reference certain State um laws that are in place that it would be far more difficult to enforce um at time of listening so how about how about this how about time have come you know like the normal way you do it you put it in the contract but I'm trying to think I'm you know again I'm not a real estate lawyer I think we need to go back to the drawing board here because you there ought to be a way you know when you buy a house you have in the contract I need an inspection I need to see you know all the you know liens I need to assist disclosures all those kinds of things closures this and that that's when you want to have it in there uh I would love it if it was before then um but by putting it at that stage at least what you're doing is you're giving the buyer a potential buyer and out you know because so you do an inspection and you find something you don't like you ask the home buyer to fix it or you get your money back your deposit back and this would fall in that same category I'm really surprised the legal didn't go for that I mean did they did did you you know how I mean no offense if anyone's a lawyer but you know everybody likes lawyers like to have things kind of Ironclad I understand that but you know we we don't we have a climate crisis on our hands and we got to get this done you don't want to just have sort of a hollow regulation here I'm gonna jump in just really quickly and just say so I I think I think as a policy body I think we can advise one way or the other I would discourage us from having maybe further conversation about the nature of the legal advice that that staff is getting in a public meeting just because if if we were to go in one way or the other we don't want to broadcast potentially what our our lawyers are thinking about and so I'm going to maybe save Zach a little bit from having to answer about um what maybe he's hearing from the lawyers um but I think we can maybe express our preference one way or the other and then continue that conversation I apologize yeah I think you're right I support that too other other comments uh commissioner Macomber um so now I'm confused um so this is time of sale is it happening like at close thing or is it happening like somebody makes an offer on a house and this this uh audit is done and they get the results like a house inspection sure so for certainly the um ladder is preferred um the I I appreciate the um the encouragement to to maybe let me know what you're thinking um and we can we can go back and get a little more information on it um it's him important to consider this a lot of this is coming from like a um an approach to um it's more than just carbon British reductions um and so it's uh it does it does get tricky because there aren't carbon reductions laws necessarily on the place or on the on the books um so it it currently as drafted would it requires it at time of sale if we're doing our Outreach appropriately we're letting people sellers know before it gets to that time that hey this is a new requirement and you are going to have to get this um and you should do it sooner rather than later and then provide them with the resources to be able to so I sorry I'm so is this something I'm still confused I didn't think I was confused but I'm confused now so is this something where you make an offer in a house and uh all of that stuff happens you agree with the deal you go to a closing and you're handed this audit or is this something where you make an offer on a house uh whoever I guess the seller organ uh has to schedule the uh energy audit and its information provided to the potential buyer before the closing happens so that they they have the opportunity to react to it yes that's when that's when we would like to see it so there's if I may and correct me if I'm wrong there's a must and a want the must is that it's available at closing and when you get your stack of paper like this to sign there's a piece of paper in there that has your home energy disclosure and your home energy score so want is that it's available early on in the process so that when a potential buyer interacts with the seller that that information is available and that there's a dialogue at that time between the three parties the Ageless put it this way the agents and the buyer and the seller about that that is only a want that is not a must is that correct Zach you know I am going to have to ask for your forgiveness um a lot of these conversations happened 11 plus months ago um I am going to need to dig through back through the advice that we were given from uh legal and I identify where specifically they think that this would be most effective council member breaks yeah I'm this is I think a confusing conversation um but I would say that in terms of what we're looking at on um our agenda right now it says that his ordinance is currently written it says that you know prior to public listing any covered building for sale the seller of the covered building or the sellers designated representative shell and there's a variety of different things but the last one is include the home energy performance score in all real estate listings including the home energy performance report and attachments if the attachments are accepted by the lift team service So currently as written um what we have is that it it will there would be a violation if it wasn't done at the time of listing so whether or not that's how the conversation has evolved over time and um is maybe an important point to check because it sounds like there's been a number of conversations with OSI about this issue but the ordinance that we're being asked to approve tonight there would be a violation if that was not done is if I'm reading this correctly is that correct thank you for that actually you remind me I read it this afternoon that was my understanding as well and the point of confusion is that the title of the resolution still says at time of sale correct commissioner Macomber so which is it because coordinate says one thing and the resolution says something else the ordinance says at time of marketing essentially that's what commissioner Briggs just read she quoted from the origins I'm hearing a contradiction it is and I'm not sure what we're voting on are we voting to let the legal department decide whatever they want let's not vote let's have Zach said he could go back and just clarify everything get it all straight and because I think what you're working on here is a really great idea and we just want to make sure it's at time of marketing commissioner our council member Grace to councilmember Regina's point because I you know just to save staff time in terms of the conversation that I've heard around the virtual table tonight it sounds like there's a strong desire to happen for this to happen at time of listing that is what the ordinance in front of us says if if there's comfort with approving the ordinance language as is right now this is an advisory body we take that forward and obviously there are going to be elements there may be elements that need to be worked out before this comes to the council table um we under I would say that as council members we would understand what the recommendation is here if there's a different desire at the council at this table to not have it at time of listing and to have it by at time of sale then I would think that might be an amendment that might be proposed or maybe we do need to postpone it but what I've heard is that the comfort is actually around what the ordinance language says not the title and I am inclined to um agree with that I think again forgive me but uh chairman risky the title that you because you had pointed out some of that earlier today I think that that didn't get changed and can we can we change the title and vote on it and where it says at time of um listing and then that can be clarified and we don't lose time between this group and uh because that that corresponds with the language in the ordinance that is in legistar and attached um to the agenda so we when we when we do these kinds of things we change the wording often in the text in front of us there's other two other changes that I sent you that I recommended be changed anyhow there we go time of listing and I made two other minor points they were released insignificant um but maybe you've taken those into account yes okay great second whereas Point has been changed 21 of local emissions and from the residential Market and then there was one other minor one yep exactly yeah thank you so with with the change in the title with the understanding that this is all going to be clarified with the hope that we do not delay this any further and I'm apologizing for what I'm going to say at a time uh but this has been extremely frustrating to me and to others there was a virtually a complete version of this three years ago and we considered this in February and now here it is in October and we are just too slow on some of these things and somebody may have reasons to me they're not good enough so I would like to dispatch with this um that's my position before I take the vote I don't know if anybody else has anything to say before they uh before we take a vote in terms of registering their sensibilities I'm willing to entertain those um otherwise we'll take a vote anybody else have any other comments so seeing none all those in favor of approving this resolution of support for the ordinance that we just had presented please raise your hand and say I I close the pose any extensions did I see an uh an opposition from someone or was just a hand that stayed up longer no opposition okay passes unanimously great council member race um based on the discussion tonight I feel like there's a strong sentiment a certain way I just wanted to make sure that if we get feedback between now and when it comes to council that time of listing is um is not the appropriate right route for one reason or you know another um well I guess for legal reasons would be the there could be other reasons I suppose as well but um is this um something that you would like to have brought back do you think that's a big enough change to this ordinance um that it should not move forward to the council table um I'd heard some sentiments here that you know time of sale is is not okay but I I just want to make sure that there is also support with us moving forward for some reason that shows how does how to go ahead council member of Commerce how do you all feel so if it's time of stale I mean this is going to be a lot of work and staff time um and resources on the part of a whole lot of people um and it seems as though if it becomes time of sale it will no longer achieve what we want it to and looking at the heavy lift that it's going to be to roll out and force I guess my answer to that question would be um I think it's worth taking another look at it if it's really what we want to spend our resources Collective resources in council member radina and then I think um commissioner McKenna has something as well go ahead councilmember Adina thanks I I can I can maybe wait for commissioner I know she had her hand up I but I just I want to make sure that that's the sentiment of the body because I also did hear you know chairmanski acknowledge that this has taken a long period of time and so if if the desire is for this to come back to this body if for whatever reason point of marketing is not achievable that will add time to the process and so I just want to acknowledge that as well um and so so I guess I I just want to make sure that the that is the the sentiment of the body is that we would come back if a considerable change needs to be made commissioner McKenna and then commissioner thanks I'd like to comment on what we or yeah just put a voice to what we think is a considerable change um I mean I may be wrong when I'm looking at this like point of sale I mean just just for one I know from other cities doing this um it's it's commonly called point of sale and to me that's a longer time frame um than you know the the time that the the buyer signs the paper you know it's we're not talking about like a yeah like a 30-second moment at time of sale where the buyer signs the paper um that's just kind of my take on it that I think that time of sales is common language that's used across industry um and in policy for this and so I just wanted to share that uh commissioner my my thought on this is I think the information that's being generated by this is useful at any stage um in in the process both I think Upstream um in marketing but also even after the sale and I think the presence of that information given how sort of durable it might be and that its expiration is about eight years and and the calculations themselves of the footprint I think are about two years or so can be useful at multiple times and so do we think it does better work in helping people make better decisions at different phases in the process yes possibly but I think also having the information at any point in the process will help further the goals that we're looking at so um any other Commissioners have anything to add to that I mean we've already voted unanimously in support of the resolution officially that means it moves on I would ask Zach that in any case you reply to the entire commission as to what the situation is both in terms of the proper interpretation taking into account commissioner McKenna's uh statement about what is common language and what what does what does that really mean so what does the ordinance self-release say and mean versus what sort of typical nomenclature around these things and that that is maybe more broadly interpreted um and that I would also appreciate information um as to what's what the practice and experiences in other cities and that will go to our two council members that allows all of us to weigh in with those council members they can then we can weigh in with them and they can then also present this um when it comes to the entire Council so that way we don't slow things down so I think we can do both we still have an opportunity to weigh in on this with the information from Zach if this moves forward does that sound acceptable to everyone great good so we are on to the next point on the agenda which is an update from OSI and news from commissioners Joe I think you're going to take the lead here yep um pretty much as always got a flurry of things so trying to organize it by category here but um first want to just go through some of the events that we've had recently in our upcoming um last Friday we had our green Fair talking about all the things we've got going on we had really really good turnout and really good engagement with that so a lot of people asking good questions and just having a good time all around um we also on Sunday had our first ambassadors Summit where we got together a bunch of the ambassadors who were coming together just to talk about what they you know what they've been doing how the process has been how it's you know changed um they're what they've been doing going forward so I got a lot of good impact or information from that um solarize is ongoing in fact there's a meeting uh would have been earlier tonight at this point so additional rounds of that are on upcoming and lastly for upcoming we have a local food festival this Thursday um learning about all the you know different food sources that are around got some vendors got some a couple of the restaurants who are doing stuff with that um so if you've got time or have people that'll be interested send them that way um to go for a bit of fundraising um today we submitted a grant that we talked about I think in a previous meeting for uh the geothermal system in and around the Bryant neighborhood uh this would be that two-stage Grant where the first stage is looking um just at the design in a study or feasibility of what could possibly happen and then based on that um doe would down select to fund people um that had a good design and something that would be feasible um and in really good fundraising news one of the grants that we talked about previously ended up being successful um so the Community Action Network uh working in Bryant has received a 500 000 Grant from mishta uh to get started on doing some of those home retrofits uh we've kind of been stuck in this planning stage for a while with lack of funding but now uh with this funding is kind of the first one in the line to get things done um we have to do some of the things to submit a final revised budget and finalize things with mishta but we're estimating we'll be able to do around 20 home upgrades in Bryant with this funding and hopefully that'll spur further funding as you know we have a proof of concept there um one and two talks specifically about where we are with some of the energy concierge stuff as I know we've had some questions here and there and uh interest in the project um we've gotten started officially on the one-on-one version of this which would be you know people call in they work directly with an advisor looks at their home and starts making recommendations um we started working with Elevate and ego Works to make a model uh it's kind of if you want to look up what a similar one is it's called I heart my homes Connecticut um so this kicked off just in September uh Julie Roth is working with these two partners to make sure it's in line with everything that we want here in Ann Arbor um the goal for it is to buy by late spring early summer to have kind of gone through a pilot process of working with around 10 to 20 buildings um of a couple various different uh sizes and owner groups just to see how it works with that um the that hasn't yet started we're still doing the back end looking at how the modeling would work figuring out the intake and everything that goes into that and then once that's ready we'll start doing Outreach and working with um some some buildings in the community um we also have rmio be helping out a little bit with that doing some of the Outreach and other information gathering to talk about the virtual aspect of it the website version we've had a couple conversations with a couple different um platforms of kind of what they offer how it could be used how it would apply to Ann Arbor and also spoken to a couple other cities that have used some of those tools to see what they thought of it we're also working with it as we're going through some transitions with the website itself they're working to upgrade and transition over the city website to a fully new platform that'll have a lot more information and capability so they they want to just make sure to first see what it would look like if it was fully hosted um you know on a City website versus everything else so we're just kind of in discussions with them to see how that would all work we should have more clarification on what we can expect from that and then can inform our decisions going forward by hopefully the end of this year if not early next year um and then lastly just to give an update on Staffing as we talked about last time we've been down a couple people um we've currently made an offer for the administrative assistant position and then we are in the process of interviewing for the engagement specialist position um we have not yet posted the community energy manager one but that is in the works as well thank you news from Commissioners and from Council Members I'll take those as they come not necessarily in that order any updates of Interest okay seeing none I would just mention one thing um and that is make sure that you and your friends and your family and everybody else votes on November 8th and there is an important climate millage on the ballot as well as a whole host of other candidates that will make a big difference on energy and climate so make sure voting has consequences as we have seen unfortunately uh working group updates I don't know if there's anything to report anybody have a working group update no okay so we moved to public input this is our second opportunity for persons from the community to speak for up to three minutes if you're watching CTN please call 888-788-0099-4877-853-5247 and enter a meeting ID 956-8718-7876 this information is also on the agenda and the video feed City staff will select callers that have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of your phone in order to raise your hand press star nine on your phone and you will hear an automated message that the post is allowing you to speak when speaking move to a quiet place and state your name and address at the beginning of your comments we'll wait 30 seconds or so anything Joe nothing yet no nothing yet okay well let's go ahead and move on to agenda items for the next meeting and if somebody calls in then we'll stop and and take that um so I want to just read off real quickly what I had written down um first of all um we're talking about a joint meeting with the Planning Commission that potentially could happen at our next meeting I actually talked very briefly with Shannon gibrando who's the chair of the Planning Commission they meet also on Tuesday nights at seven o'clock so there's a possibility of a joint meeting coming up um I wrote down a couple of other things that came up during the discussion um one is uh presentation by um Greg Julian um about um I guess the general topic of um purchased goods and what scope 3 emissions related to that is that correct commissioner Peck you're still muted oh yes okay good I mean I gotta talk to him and see how far I think he's had quite a bit of time to work on it so I bet he's done a bunch yeah so if you if if that's something you could Circle back with uh with me and with Missy and then we could not put that on the list um then the uh other thing is potentially something related to fugitive emissions I understood that that might be something that might be interested for this group that's um basically natural gas leakage um and if anybody knows somebody who might be able to speak to that okay commissioner Peck then we'll Circle back with you and um a couple of other things that have come up outside the meeting one other thing came up in in the meeting is uh DTE um data sources that I wrote down and maybe we can get DTE to come in here and talk about uh how we how we can get them to accelerate providing data to us so that we're not looking in the rearview mirror um and that should be important to I think everybody including themselves um and then another aspect of having DTE in in here some of you may have heard from your neighbors or others that DTE is now offering migraine power 100 renewable energy at the same rate um as what you currently pay and it's not really clear at least from what I've heard as to what the details of that are and I think that would be very interesting to understand that and then how that compares to other offerings I mentioned earlier Arcadia also offers essentially a program for Rex and then there's also this would enter into frankly the I think considerations related to putting landfill on the solar on the on assuming land solar I am still on the solar solar on the landfill uh and and other potential things that the city may do also related to the sustainable energy utility I see Larry raising his hand yeah I also got something from DTE about um Greening of the gas supply that I thought I would like to know more about it as well um they they claim to be green and how they're taking care of the force at the same time um I've heard other people say that they're confused by it don't know whether it's legitimate true or not and I think that's another thing that would be interesting that's a great great Point thank you uh I had two other notes and then I'll open it up for other comments too one is um our next meeting is on Election Day and I know at least one person that's going to have an issue with that um I don't know that we've ever had that in the past or if that's a concern is that a concern to any of the other Commissioners is that problematic I've seen a few nodding heads commissioner councilman Briggs that I see you nod your head yes I did I think it's just generally problematic in the sense that um we want to reduce any barriers there are to voting and that means not encouraging folks to attend our meeting that night both as commissioner or as a member of the public okay so I will take that up let's go ahead and I see a thumbs up on that and I think another nod from council member Edina and I feel the same way so I will take that up with Missy I realize that shifting this potentially is problematic too but maybe we move it to another Tuesday but if we do something with a Planning Commission I assume they would have the same objective that we would in terms of encouraging election participation so maybe that's a good fit and then the last note that I had with regards to this is in-person meetings can someone either from staff or Council give us an insight into when if and when we might return to in-person meetings I know Council and Planning Commission are both in person go ahead council member Edina yeah thanks um so we recently updated some of our um say our covet safety protocol for for Council meetings themselves um and at the last meeting uh rescinded the state of emergency that we were at the local state of emergency we were operating under that being said we kept in place the resolution related to council or to the commissions which still the original language says that other than the list of exceptions all other commissions shall meet um virtually or electronically and so um I don't believe that there's currently any exception for this body to begin meeting in person yeah okay great I appreciate the the information for all of us so for the time being we remain then as is and we can all plan accordingly did anyone else have any other ideas suggestions for future topics commissioner yeah it's somewhat with respect to the the question of real-time emissions data um you know and related to sort of the inherent variability of the grid and the fuel sources that are on that and sort of how we can shift it I was wondering if there might be folks that we might be able to bring in to help sort of talk about some of that I have a cup I have one or two in mind um who might be able to speak to some of that from a presentation I saw recently um with another organization maybe you can feed me some information on that or that maybe at least the lead to maybe the what we need to get to commissioner great thanks thanks we have some colleagues that sees uh researchers that specialize in marginal emissions and the grid um like Michael Craig comes to mind so um definitely would be a great local resource Claire if you could send me that then we can also talk about that we Carlene Missy and I have a meeting where we talk about future agenda items and scheduling and who would be and so on and so forth because we have to also coordinate dates obviously with their calendar as well so that's great any other comments okay um so this is not quite as long as some of the meetings we had last year when we were considering the feasibility study but it was a long one but it was also a very interesting and interesting one and I really appreciate again working with all of you I really appreciate the new Commissioners and with regards to the new Commissioners we typically have new commissioner orientation and we have a number of you so I will reach out with you I made myself a note and we'll send out a meeting poll and try to get all of us together and just talk about uh how the commission works and answer your questions some expectations things like that so you'll hear from me here in the next couple of days or week or so uh with that said uh thanks again everyone and uh it is 8 54 and I declare this meeting adjourned have a great rest of your evening and a good night's sleep okay thank you
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um we do still have five more buses that were part of the same purchase that aren't here yet three of those are special needs with a wheelchair and two of them are special needs without a wheelchair just are shorter buses to get door to door easier instead of the big giant ones that we use um so that's just another great picture of of what they look like and you see the dark tinted windows and there again just to try to make it comfortable for the kids as we're running down the road okay and the last picture is just what it looks like at six o'clock in the morning before the buses roll out so any questions oh and this this is all part of actually not part of this 2022 spend but they were bought that time but didn't come till now but we're so glad they're here yes yeah yes and helping the other five get here in a month is that the so that's what they're telling you hopefully in a month oh that'll be great yeah well thank you and again that's according to what we've what we told our taxpayers we would spend on this transportation and we're we're thankful to have those buses and have that support to have new taxpayers to happen and we'll be retiring some of the older buses as soon as they get here oh great auction those off okay thank you the other thing I wanted to note is that Trace actually has worked very hard over the last three years to right size our Fleet we have the right number of activity buses we have the right number of the big buses we have the right number of the 54 passenger smaller buses so you'll see that every time an order comes through it'll be different sizes of buses so he's really working at making sure that we have the right equipment for the needs for transportation here in Gilbert so it's been fun to watch for me to watch thank you thanks thank you very much and then Mr Dutch over here the last one my friend this is the area that I added 10 slides I apologize [Laughter] so this just is our overall span based on ultimately I have three categories in in my operational Department uh grounds mechanical and structure structural that each one of these projects falls under um here is just a spend based on age of the facilities we focus mainly again we've hit um we've tried to go on uh work with the older facilities um start with the 80s or 70s into the 80s and work our way to right now we're currently in the early or late 90s early 2000s we spent quite a significant amount at Islands Elementary renovating the exterior of the facility Roofing HVAC units as well as a couple other items there to uh bring that facility again that's one of our older schools in 1987.
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as well as Playa del Rey which is 94. we I noted this just because it did have a significant amount of work um thankful to um Miss Bix the the principal there because this facility we actually did multiple projects this is the first of its kind we not only did the restrooms we did exterior paint and we did the flooring usually interior we do one or the other in this case we actually ran two projects side by side and um I just would again like to give her uh a thank you because she was great to work with and she accommodated greatly um Desert Ridge High School this was another large need school we did exterior paint as well as um track renovation and flooring again um we touched 27 facilities so roughly 68 percent of of our educational spaces we touched this summer again this is another breakdown to spend per facility per site of each one of those 27 educational facilities and then here's a brief breakdown of the structural spend based on individual categories from restroom remodels to secured entryways mechanical summary the same just the breakdown of what we utilize in the spin associated with it so most of the mechanical you can see is the the lighting projects that you guys approved back in the 9th of August associated with the energy performance project that we we did with Schneider Electric in ground summary so ground summary is ultimately touching the athletic Services throughout our facilities Roofing so this project is you're going to see some slides here that were slides I think we saw back in May uh prior to the start of summer obviously there's a deficiency a failure with the roofing system at South Valley Junior High due to material delays the project was not able to kick off until just this uh fall break so October 5th we're going we're moving along and everything is going good so far so hopefully by the next rain we won't have any of these issues so okay I I think it's important to know just like Trace has dealt with and um you know we've been talking about South Valley Junior High roof for a while and when we finally got it sewed up ready to go you were set back because available materials and um you guys deal with this in operations all the time but I sincerely appreciate how you figure out ways to make it okay until we actually get the materials in to to help our schools continue to function as well as making sure our students still have a great space to learn in and our folks have a great place to work in so thank you guys for doing that you're welcome thank you I have a quick question so just this is just keeping things keep track of things in my mind so the South Valley Junior High roof if we haven't started it till right now is it part of the 22 Bond and override is this specifically the 22 does it I appreciate the question so it was difficult for me to figure out how to share that with you so basically the the financials are one thing they're really July 1 of 2021 to June 30 of 2022 reflective of an encumbrance period but that means all the work had to be finished by June 30.
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so we're in the middle of and then we're in the middle of the summer so we've always shared with you the pictures and everything reflective of the summer work that really does cross to fiscal years so what what we are showing you here and the financials are all from the governing board approvals that occurred during 2022.
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okay so in other words the financial grids that I showed early on include some of the projects that we shared in 2021 because we were finishing those up and paying off invoices so it's hard to explain that I appreciate the question but yes you're not going to be able to reconcile the financials to all this to all this you're not going to be able to reconcile it so I just want you to be aware okay so thank you next we move into fluorine um again as we move forward and try to modernize our facilities we look at different systems flooring has been key as we've started utilizing LBT instead of ECT creating as you can see with these um slides are before slides here uh poor maintenance or inaccurate maintenance and and additional failures so we've done upgrades this is Mesquite High School um you can see the lvt now on the in the hallways through main walk areas uh we did started we we did start utilizing epoxy flooring in the um science labs again to cut down on the maintenance costs no scrubbing um waxing stripping all that good stuff so we cut down time maintenance costs and amongst other things and again this is a front entry at Mesquite High Schools gym we kind of stole the idea from Gilbert High School's design and I think it adds a good touch to that to that front piece so front lobby there well I appreciate those pictures too being able to see the difference that we're making with the exchanges exterior paint again as we try to move away from older colors or outdated colors and and bring a more vibrant look to our facilities and incorporate some of the um school color or or some of the school branding into those facilities here's Playa this is a before picture this is actually uh after I got it on a good day so it's and yes we did paint the grass so that it really pops scared but yeah again giving it a more modern look um updated look with the other new color scheme Mesquite High School again here's the before had more of the mauve colors here's Ariel just so you get kind of a bigger or a wider perspective went to a more neutral gray tone with utilizing their their school color of the blue stripe throughout the campus [Music] um and that's the back end right here right yes this is off the Facing East and then this is the GM entryway I just thought the campus is such a large campus and it came out it looked so well uh similar to Desert Ridge High School when we painted that it made such a big difference from the for the curb appeal and then I had to get the power cat in there so restrooms uh this is something that Bonnie and I talk about so I think we've all seen the restroom remodels and we've probably seen enough toilets and urinals so Playa del Rey again um can't stand how Pat's Optimus Biggs uh this is her facility and again this is an updated look for her new uh her new restrooms so the restrooms are our biggest spend if you look back on the grid it's over 6.5 million dollars spent on restrooms this summer there's a few outstanding items on that but uh but it's a significant cost and everything is touched I mean we go floor to ceiling tile new tile the restroom is gutted new Cabinetry partitions and again there's always things behind the wall that do come up but this helps us with this modernization of the restrooms and gives more um appealing facilities portable Renovations this is something that's just that we've tried to focus on just because of the state of some of these Portables you can see here the exterior so again we peel that exterior shell off re-insulate as well as as add new siding to get given more of a weatherization as well as a a new facelift and paint job to to give it a more give it a better look again appealing to the facility and adding to that Aesthetics Millwork project this is technically the first of its kind that we've done site-wide this is at Patterson Elementary and similar to miss Bix I would just kind of take my hat off to Mr Blackburn not only did we do his restrooms but we tore every single one of his classrooms apart and added mill work to it so he he was he was very patient um dealt with a bit and like I said he he was great you can see it's important to say the teachers did it as well they they stored things and um corners of the classroom middles of the classroom but they they really their weight really paid off it looks really great no it didn't and yeah I apologize because definitely throughout every campus to be honest with you uh we LED just as we noted a little bit earlier that we led into the school year and and there was a lot of patients that uh went into these projects so with two weeks shorter we we kind of tested everybody's patience and resolves but yeah as you can see these these came out a lot better than what they were looking well and I do remember when I was there that they were talking about the age of their cabinets that the doors were sagging on the hinges because they've been there so long yes like 30 years old so I was there were you teaching third grade there at the time that's what I thought huh um our athletic venues again something that helps us with our curb appeal not only um our Athletics but our our PE curriculum this I thought this is Gilbert High School I thought was a good um transition because it actually shows to the to the north there or up on the top of that picture the um the new Surface and Below they were getting ready to to strip down the existing surface so it was kind of a good contrast between the two and we did add start adding pickleball courts into these facilities I'm glad to hear that yes we yeah we started adding um I believe Gilbert High has 10 quarts so that bottom half I believe the bottom half is what got the majority of them and you can see this is actually the before pictures of the um surface deteriorated surface um again here's another shot of Gilbert High School and I did get the picture prior to the line so they are there this is a Highland High School before picture um and the Highland High School after picture and again we added pickleball courts to Highland High School as well so and that's something we talked to at uh Steve and continue to talk to with the ads about incorporating that as we move forward into these facilities because it gives us that additional flexibility and taking advantage of some of those sports that are taken off or I guess have been taken off for quite a while track and field uh this is our Highland Junior High School high jump pit and long jump hit oh it's okay um Highland Junior High School so we resurfaced obviously you could see to the right it was down to the concrete again if you have a high jump hit set in the center so the athlete still has to run through so it again caused the potential safety hazard tripping Hazard for the student athletes thank you okay questions that's it well it's impressive what we've been able to get done due to your hard work so thank you I did want to share um the comment that Albert made about Playa one of the things that we miss often is the cost of mobilization so when you have an opportunity at Playa where you can do the bathrooms you can do the flooring you can do the exterior paint we actually end up utilizing our monies in a much more efficient cost-effective way so Albert's been driving those Concepts over the last couple of years and he's always looking for new materials and new ways to do business so we've made some improvements as he shared on the science science classrooms moving to an epoxy surface it's it's very affordable and yet very um what's the word last low maintenance and perfect for science classroom environment so I just wanted to to give him credit for all that work he's been doing is is that the same as the flooring that we put in the auditoriums OR is the flooring in the auditorium is a little different it's similar it's underneath the floor and actually we upgraded at two facilities so I think I know what you're talking about so there was epoxy on let's just say Mesquite High School and Highland High School underneath the seats this is a little a little bit better than what was originally there and we have upgraded those two since um well it looks it looks very nice and I feel like it will be much easier to keep clean definitely further questions or comments board members oh thank you for the presentation tonight thank you again to our taxpayers for the support of bonds and overrides that allow us to have classrooms and teachers that are conducive to learning to Great learning for our students we appreciate all of that and and work hard to spend the money efficiently and and in a way that addresses the needs so and and I just would like to comment tag on what you're saying is we're being proactive as opposed to being reactive that's very important all right well that will take care of our presentation and discussion topics and that will adjourn our work study so I would like to call to order our oh do you want a five minute break yup let's take a five minute break over on break Lizette Pierce raise your hand she's one of our Spire uh folks that they're required to come do some of these things but I can tell she's just invigorated Spanish teacher Mesquite High but thank you for being here okay yeah so cool it's alive together so you just didn't think okay um foreign okay thank you yeah yeah yeah hi um I'm feeling just right okay oh great Perfect all right we're back thank you for the brief adjournment we will now move to um our brief board business meeting I will call this meeting to order and ask Miss Wilson for a roll call Dr Charles Santa Cruz here Mr Bill Parker here Miss Laurie wood here miss Jill Humphries here mishita eugetti here Madam president all board members are present you have a quorum thank you that will take us to the consent agenda items 5.01 the approval of consent agenda items board members may have a motion I move that we've approved the consent agenda items as presented thank you Mr Jetty it's been moved is there second so thank you Mr Parker it's been moved and seconded that we approve the consent agenda items as presented all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with nay thank you we will now move to our action items 6.01 FY 2022 annual financial report and school level reporting form Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board members we ask for your approval of the 2022 annual financial report and school level reporting form as presented by Mrs betz Ms Madden this great so we just went through that tonight board members may have a motion so moved thank you Dr Santa Cruz it's been moved as our second second thank you Miss Humphries it's been moved and seconded that we approve FY 2022 annual financial report and school level reporting form is there any discussion Madam president just a comment and I failed to make that during the presentation but just uh lots and lots of thanks to Mrs Betts and for her team that is quite comprehensive and quite diligent and all of those who presented tonight really have Illustrated to our taxpayers how their money is being spent and that we are true in fact to what we have committed to on their behalf so thank you to that entire team thank you Dr Santa Cruz anything further besides what we were able to discuss earlier tonight do you want Miss bets to come up and give that presentation one more time let's have her come back oh I don't think that would be necessary I don't think that would be necessary we would we do appreciate her willingness though I appreciate that well it has been moved and seconded and so I will call for the vote all those in favor of approving FY 2022 annual financial report and school level reporting form please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with Nate thank you that takes us to the adjournment of our brief board business meeting this evening um board members is there a motion some move that we adjourn thank you Miss Humphries it's been moved as our second seven thank you Mr Parker it's been moved and seconded that we adjourn all those in favor say aye aye any opposed with nay thank you and thanks again to those who presented tonight and for the opportunity to discuss [Music]
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yes I will get you a paper copy [Music] we are live I just want to test the audio but YouTube's being a little sluggish today oh there we go okay we're good we're live you are great to start hey everybody let's go ahead and call to order at 6 30.
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through here Dr Chabot yes Miss me here I have a motion to adopt the agenda I saw a move Mr kurz which is I miss Duncan aye Mr Hopkins aye Ms Robertson aye motion passes four to zero okay so please thank you and I see we have no public comments so we're on to the informational items start with the governing board report of current events um before we start with I don't know if anybody has any current events to do but I would like to request that we take a moment of silence in memory of Laura Trujillo who's a valuable member of the board who passed away absolutely come on okay thank you for that if anybody else on the board have anything to report and we're on to the superintendent's report of current events Mr President um in December we were January yes but I just wanted to share with you two uh two gold I had two reports to give though the first is actually on current events um have them dated uh just you have an excellent board of directors of Officer opportunity wanted to make sure you all were aware uh five officers serve on the executive committee on the asba board of directors president president and that treasurer secretary and immediate past president so you must complete an online application by 5 PM on Thursday November 2nd let me know if you're interested I have I have the information with me I don't know if you don't know what is from uh asba was sent out yesterday board of directors um new position descriptions uh you know just I just figured I would share this with you and so I think I got a copy of what everybody else was looking at uh there should be two of them there's one that's Staples okay that's good sorry if you have one is a single page and one is that two-page statement yes and uh the other one that we had I wanted to give you an update which I put on this Venezuela with the as a USD for Innovation project we met here yesterday did a property walk for maybe about a couple hours in total with EMT to The Architects Sun Valley builders and contractors Progressive roofers and record the third party quality assurance team we both have been put in contact with the superintendent for Summer Valley um you will actually be here you will be here during the process of staying here in Ajo so we'll be in close contact with him but both of us and history on um we took a property walk to assess the buildings that will be completed first during this this is a great opportunity and so we just wanted to all walk together it was probably around eight of us and and the first areas that's gonna that are going to be looked at for the representation is the primary building and so we are looking at the same thing is about how are we going to do this also talking about the next phase after the primary building the cafeteria some of this brainstorming some ideas uh Dr should also notify the teachers right already just to be prepared uh we're going to meet in a couple weeks after after fall break and um the start date depends a lot on when the materials arrive so hopefully they're looking at anywhere from the first to the second to the third week in November um trying to be strategic to as far as with the displacement um we we shared Our concern with the cafeteria just how we're going to try and get that set up logistic wise their plan is to be here over the uh can we call it a break got to give them a good two weeks to where any work they do will not affect any kind of uh procedures but most likely when the students come back there'll still be some adjustments to be made but um very positive uh just really gave us some good Insight on what they want to do so it was a very productive meeting we're going to stay in touch on a regular basis I believe on a weekly basis they have our contact information we have theirs and so um we're looking forward to this great opportunity to beautify our our campus so what we're excited about it also an update with the Title IX training um we've gone through some training I have there some days for you when the different staff members have taken the training and I apologize for not reporting this previously but um August 19th Dr Conley went through some coordinator training uh September 19th I went through some decision maker training that I also shared that training with Dr Cheval so we have two decision makers on campus for the Title IX process um we also want to send another staff member to Investigator training hopefully in January so Dr uh Conley is is serving as the coordinator in investigator but we also want to have her to have another investigator to help to investigators to decision makers the trust provided the training very informative gen Corey very very informative they shared with the solid templates all the documentation we have updated the uh our website to have copies of the formal complaint form on the district website and also copies of the PowerPoint on the training also on the district website yes there we there we go so it's been it's been a good process to where Dr chavose myself and Dr Connie have have been a very educational process and the trust has provided really good Insight so uh just to give everyone an update on that and where we are also board docs training um our board secretary slash executive assistant slash historian Ms Valenzuela will take the training uh October 20th it's going to be all day it's going to be intensive Thursday October 20th two sessions one morning and one afternoon so we're just going to have her over here um sealed away here in the conference room we're really excited about that I think this is a great a big step forward for our district is to have more docs it's very efficient other districts have it throughout Southern Arizona and so uh we're real excited about it so that's a little uh superintendent's report and um also just came out in the conference of front page the homecoming beautiful picture of our court and the floats the students did a great job of incorporating to see all the different floats at work last week so it's great to see the students working with staff uh parents so that is the one pager the superintendent's report on current events you also have the um 100-day uh Plan update which is what I want to keep doing with you not just during the weekly uh go any more weekly updates every week but also doing the the uh the board meetings and and you have you know for the for the sake of not being redundant I won't read the days and the goals those are highlighted but I'll just kind of go through kind of go through the activity as far as what has helped guide the constant Focus during this 100 day of plan so it was a real good uh some real good sessions during the Arizona rural School Association conference just really I want to focus on the map assessment which is what we do here so I really thought that was very valuable because my background is more on Puerto Rico so this really got me to be more familiar with the map growth assessment the reading and math very good presenters our research scientists and so also um I wanted to make sure and highlight the decision maker training but I won't go into that I just said that report International Day of Peace was very very I believe very successful we had a great delegation from the um the mayor around 20 or 30 members from the mayor and council members a lot of great dancing uh great partnership overall with uh Mr Cooper from hisda International desert Alliance Sheriff's Office the fire department it's really a great Community Partnership building experience it was great to see everybody um you also have their uh meeting with the the the CEO and director of Health operations from Desert Sunita they want to uh want to get involved and partner with the district and so uh right away they got involved with our garden our apartment our elementary Garden in the primary building uh they came over and helped out and they want to help out with uh and talking with Dr shavokes about supporting the science curriculum for the Pre-K and third grade over there so I think we think that's a great opportunity and uh and um Mr Leonard and Mr Cardenas Rivera and the garden looks good and so I think that's a great great step forward um uh regarding uh we also have a campus security monitor positions and the uh being advertised we're really excited about that uh Dr Cabot has has really expressed a great deal of enthusiasm about that position coming to fruition and just having an additional layer of security here on campus along with rsro and also with our with our Security Academy so we're excited about that really want to highlight if I can as you see the next three uh the next three uh entries on professional development we have the traditional professional development with our staff and the teachers but we went ahead and just in collaboration of Dr Shavon tonight um wanted to try to go a little bit more above and beyond so you can see here we had a professional development with a special education department you know well he was doing certified staff I went ahead and I'll go ahead and work with our especially a 14 paraprofessionals our special education director to Resource teachers and our special projects the secretary just going over as you can see there um going over the the focus and the vision um instructional strategies that that I was able to obtain from the that were shared with us during the Arizona rural School Association conference um we had every every paraprofessional complete their individual professional Vision they fill that out and they gave it to me and I have it up in my office to serve as a good reminder of what their individual professional focus is we want to know how do they want to experience professional growth also they completed the characteristics of effective administrators and leaders they shared that with us from from the special education department of what they feel their characteristics are for us so this will serve as a good guide for to help us in our day-to-day job performing duties um they uh they expressed a lot of enthusiasm and excitement about this just sharing that is they're happy that something like this is being done with them and their department and they really just go they feel very big the comments were that they felt very valued and they really feel like a part of the team um we also had a professional development with the maintenance department um the same the same day he was he was busy you know up working with the certified with the teachers so we had a uh I went in and had the maintenance department here same thing we talked about the Red Raider Division and focus uh high expectations we also had them complete their individual professional vision every single one of them so that we know what they want to focus on and how they want to be part of the team moving forward we also had them complete the characteristics of affected administrators needed from their perspective it was very interesting with both groups special education department and the maintenance team two of the top three characteristics that they had listed two different groups at different times they had communication and respect and their top terrific characteristics so that's going to serve as a guide for us working with them that these are the characteristics they value for their leaders um they also Express a great deal of enthusiasm of what we share with it we share with them also the uh the Les Brown It's Possible video he used to give that home both groups you really really valued that we had a aapd with our leadership team Dr chabotz uh Mr Casey and Miss Adam horn we looked at a data analysis for for the map results reading in math quarter one um we also I also wanted them to complete their individual professional wishing so just to get from every different staff member what is their individual professional vision for this year to help set the focus in the course for this year to help us all go towards uh that in the end result of a academic achievement relationships when the feedback's being given about the characteristics that's hitting directly with relationships that's going to help guide us towards academic achievement the relationships part so uh also had in there just a debriefing with the international native peace coordinator just to go about over what went well and how we can always start finding the territory to start planning for for the next event really want to highlight the very last uh entry here we it was last Friday and it was a lot of things were going on at the same time homecoming week we had the parade the philosophy just filled with the enthusiasm the excitement and we had our assistant superintendent Kevin Carney from the vale Unified School District in the training to the to uh the Leadership Retreat team and there was a good about nine of us there both of us these are Mr Casey Miss Adam Khan Miss Shelley Mr rigidon Miss yaryan Miss Robles and Coach Q and it was really it was really intense but it really got to the coral we were really talking about the vision and Mission and we need to really have established here that can serve as a guide in moving forward with Beyond textbooks and it was very explicit he stated this is going to be a good three to five year process it's going to take time but it has to start with you guys first and it has to start with your vision and your mission so he really took us to some exercises to where our that Leadership Retreat team we got it to start okay let's really take a hard look at our at our vision and our mission and so they really helped grow this that has helped provide guidance for for us uh with our professional developments coming back we have a more clear focus and sense of purpose but he was incredible he just he didn't stop walking around in three and a half hours and it was it was pretty much direct lecture but it was so intense and the feedback from the teachers uh that were there this was so inspiring I want to continue with this how can you make this even better how can we focus on our vision and our mission more directly so it's it was a great shot it was like a vitamin B12 shot right in the yard and and we're really excited about moving forward so that's pretty much the the um 100 day uh report on our current events and uh thank you for your time thank you okay now we have a motion to accept the consent agenda I'll move Duncan aye Mr Hopkins aye Ms Robertson hi motion [Music] first next action and Personnel the classic certified resignation of teachers Aid Victoria I'll make a motion recommendations and members of the board um I recommend the approval of the resignation of Victoria travel I'll second it occurs which is I'm Mr Hopkins aye Ms Robertson aye Ms Duncan Wilson next item Personnel certified and classified employment for fall intercession Mr President members of the board um the following teachers and parapro professionals that have expressed an interest in teaching during the October 17th 20th uh fall intercession teachers will work five hours per day for four days at 25 dollars per hour Mr you want me to say the names teachers Mr delara Ms De La Roma Mr Bria Israel Fernandez Miss Genie balgaris Cornell Mr Anthony delara Mr Richard rigado the teacher's age will work four hours per day at the hourly rate of pay Rafaela Duran is recommended that the teachers and AIDS names above be approved for the 2022 I'll make that motion all second Mr Hopkins aye Mr Curtis Mrs I miss Duncan aye Ms Robertson hi motion passes for dessert [Applause] next item is business approval of payment schedule for the certified stipend Mr President and members of the board um the pandemic the district decided to set up a percentage increase to be two thousand dollars stipend payout to all certified teachers would be easier to maintain to meet audit needs the better a payment must be approved by the board payment will be November 2022 an April 2023 of 1000 for each of these two payments recommendation is the approval of the payment of a two thousand dollar stipend for certified staff one thousand dollars in November 2022 1000 in April 2023 fund will be paid only to teachers employed I'll make the motion to approve so there was some discussion last time about whether this was coming from 301 Monies or another 301 it's just reality yeah okay so that was an oversight on my part it's on me thank you okay Mr curse which is I miss Duncan aye Mr Hopkins aye Ms Robertson aye motion passes four to zero purple business is the approval of prop 301 payout to 21-22 certified teachers Mr President member of the board um Dr chabotson the leadership team has compiled results of the 21-22 route 301 plan for each teacher employed that year payments has been calculated in accordance with the approved Revenue one property in one plan and the details are attached for your review it is recommended that the board approved the entire property one payout of the 2021 2021 2022 Academic Year elements of motion all second and those two approve motion to approve all right all right Mr Hopkins hi Mr Cruz is awesome I'm Miss Duncan aye Ms Robertson hi motion is approved 4-0 see what you're saying see it was worded that way on them okay next item is the certified employment of substitute teacher Brandon Hinton Mr President under the boardroom very excited we have these next two uh we have uh explanation Brandon hinhorn has been interviewed in reference checks computed for the position of substitute teacher for the 2223 academic school year I recommend the approval of the employment of Brandon hintorn as a substitute teacher oh second Minister Hopkins uh Mr Curtis which is awesome I'm Miss Robertson aye Miss Duncan hi motion passes 4-0 next item is the certified employment of substitute teacher Kathy Morales Mr President members of the board Captain Ross has been interviewed and reference a position of a substitute teacher for the 2223 Academic School year Mrs Morales retired from Office schools in 2005 after 13 years of teaching at Aqua schools I recommend the approval of the employment of Kathy moradis as a substitute teacher I'll make the motion I'll second it Mr kirsner jizza aye Mr Hopkins aye Ms Robertson aye Ms Duncan motion passes 4-0 yeah amazing yes so on to business uh the first item in business would be the approval of fundraisers for Student Activities Mr President members of the boarding in consultation with the Miss Mercy Adam Cohen high school student council the following fundraisers are being submitted for yearly approval for a usfr Car Wash dances homecoming and prom food dinner sales spaghetti hot dog Etc game concession stand Fall Festival talent show holiday store smoothie hot cocoa sale holiday treats Valentines roses flowers Crush Candy December candy grams cards Etc Thanksgiving cards caddy Etc it is recommended that the board approved the above list of fundraisers for the 22-23 school year I'll make a motion for a second I have a question on that yes ma'am on car wash how about insurance is that would that be Mike Holt's responsibility because he agreed to have them have a car wash there or are we responsible even though they're out of school Mr President Ms Duncan um that's a very good question it also was part of my colleagues as far as uh in this uh Smith in this island Scola as far as with insurance purposes we hope that never be used but it could be someone rents our facility we normally request us to take care of insurance some districts it's too many they're very inexpensive um like if you went to a church and so this person could ask us for one if they did good okay flight cars are so I'm banging on the hood if they back up all right so voting for approval Mr Hopkins all right Mr chairs which is aye Miss Duncan hi Ms Robertson hi motion is approved the next item of business is the approval of the fiscal year 2022 annual Financial recruit Mr President members of the board of the administration is requesting approval of this year 2022 annual financial report this is a culmination of all Financial s I recommend the approval of the history of 2022 annual financial report and Miss Smith to see our business management there was one follow-up I know that I had to change it was not pulling the covet and I I did fix that and um I had to reprint the whole document because of time stamps and when you upload it in the auditor generals and here they look for that so the whole new one is printed out but we didn't take the paper to reissue it all it only changes page five which had the if you wanted to pull that up it's the page after that this one is the one that was wrong anymore no this is the wrong page this is good yeah it's this line right here where it says Federal progress on the top and covet funds had a line and I noticed last year very far I had a mistake on it too it wasn't pulling it so because I presented it to you I realized what happened so I I could figure out what we needed to do and so we actually spent um or it's on the the new one that that Mr Hopkins has yeah interesting and so it doesn't mean any of this information I know it says page five but it um actually is like a different page inside because we don't remember in finance one through five because anybody it's five of nine um that covet line and so it had not pulled our beginning balance um I mean it wasn't part of person but one thing um this is one of the rare kind you can use federal monies and it's not technology to plan things now the last one had a little bit of that in it but the first two covet uh Ester funds did not um restrict the money any other Federal grant if you start in ml you must stay in them but the extra monies we were allowed to pay MMO expenses which is when we do our carry forward this is money that we would have spent in mno that we don't have but it's coming back the next year so that may sound a little confusing but this really allowed us to be for eign there was unless it rolled into page nine which is autofilled and so yeah yes [Music] um I'll go ahead and make the motion to approve I will second it okay Mr kerznerch is aye Mr Hopkins aye Ms Robertson aye Miss Duncan aye uh that's how your business is the approval of the sole source vendor for stem pilot Mr President members of the board at the Yahoo Unified School District Attorney has a CTE air transportation program that needs an additional flight simulator the funds are provided to ahu Unified School District by Jay tech for this program currently there is only one Simulator for an entire class to take turns on this will enhance the Hands-On learning that is crucial for success at this time stem pilot is the only vendor that offers an appropriate Simulator for the CTE air transportation classroom governing board must include all Source sold Source procurements before any purchases are made r-7-2-1053 of the AAC provides quote that in contract may be awarded for service without competition if the governing board determines in writing that there is only one source for the required service um I recommend the approval of the stem pipe as a sole source vendor there is a memorandum on the next page from the sniff the business manager a little more in depth description of what what I just went through and so uh it looks it's very positive uh once again Mr Gigi researched the best possible option the only option so we did he deserves his credit he did a great job conducting the research and um so that's for you if there's any questions administrative code for that statute is located and the governing board's determination shall be made using the information on the memorandum which is the district procurement the reason why there is only one single Source available or no alternative which is what this is the name is proposed supplier which is stem pilot the duration and estimated dollar amount on the memorandum I said it's for this fiscal year and I estimate it will be approximately fifteen thousand dollars uh and um the documentary that it's very reasonable it is because the instructor needs we may determine if there was any available I searched all the Cooperative purchasing organizations in the state on the commotion to approve okay one second Mr Hopkins aye Ms Duncan aye Ms Robertson aye and Mr first which is I who approved 4-0 it's a it's a very nice exciting they had pictures of it yes yeah I want to yeah yeah you know what Mr President Mrs Duncan um you should I encourage you all to go I went in yesterday he invited me and two of his students guided me in the takeoff Camp um how to make a left how to go right make sure I don't run into the stadium I mean you want to go left but you're going left with your left heel your left foot I didn't know that the two students behind me they were guided me and I'm not designing successful but let him crash yeah buddies they love it oh my goodness just to do it and I hadn't done it before and I'm thinking we have to invite all of you to go and check it out but then we'll be in there every day so a second simulator it's not quite Top Gun in Maverick but yeah it's pretty cool nice it's a great investment District it gives them Hands-On that they need desperately sure so anyway that's changing okay so I made the motion uh next one is the approval of governing board policies second reading uh Mr President members of the board the Arizona school boards Association has proposed proposed adding and changing the dashboard policies jlcb immunization of students tlcd-r immunizations or students KDVR Public's right to know Freedom of Information I recommend the acceptance of the Apache policies upon the second reading um we can what I can say this is as what we did in September that the second reading will just include what was reviewed in the study session I do want to highlights study session Monday for the kdbr Publix right to know Freedom of Information um we checked some of the local other local uh districts similar demographic rule you know toe Tech and Gila Bend as far as the fees and so the fees that they both have is uh 10 cents per copy for materials indicated as board minutes again this financial records contracts of course the study statistical summaries and 35 cents per copy for materials listed above so we put that in there going off of what districts close by is to show that we're being consistent with what other districts are told yeah that's for your information and the second reading with this I'll just state that it's similar to uh the same information that was read on Monday during the space no problem I'm gonna make emotional food Robertson aye Mr Hopkins Miss Duncan aye unfortunately is it approved uh next item is the approval of online governing boards survey self-evaluation Mr President members of the board we have are you um attached as an overview of what the board self-evaluation covers it aligns to the main characteristics of effective board can stand on Five Pillars of board service each pillar has corresponding benchmarks and sub-measures that Outboards drill down on their needs here's the rundown give Miss Whaley a start and end date for the survey she will send out the link and remind us until all have completed it the survey goes out to our board members and the superintendent it's online Anonymous it takes less than 10 minutes to complete Miss Whaley will run your report and send it to you it takes approximately 48 hours to get the report after everyone has completed the survey all of this is included in your asba membership so the survey and detailed report are free if you would like ASB to facilitate a discussion around the findings and help the board come to consensus of some goals asba can do that for your regular fee ASB has done this in person and remote and um super dance recommendation this is a board decision I like to say that um this is a opportunity for us I think it's free we've already paid for it yeah there's no added costs oh yeah um I'll make a motion for approval now there we go thank you for that Rodney and it's something that the board chooses and particularly after after the experience it will know how worthwhile it is we have not done it before but it's something that supports do you do annually um and I think it's a good opportunity for us as a board to do it now in a couple months we could have three new board members up here that don't have the experience to answer the questions as comprehensively as we would be able to Angelina computers again I'll have you it's not easy to come to the Learning Center you're a Full Service Learning Center yeah so we have the motion in the second I'll go ahead and I Mr Hopkins aye Ms Robertson aye Ms Duncan aye aye is approved four to zero foreign agenda item to add agenda items does anybody have an agenda item to add yes ma'am wow next month towards the middle word with the superintendent evaluation tool for that or the mechanism for evaluating um so I would like to request that next month uh prior to that so for the November meeting we have a have a jerk for this coming evaluation particularly yeah we have a new superintendent um and so it's not likely to be as comprehensive as an adult we would have it Monday to discuss the tool make any changes and then Wednesday would be a vote to approve it so that it can be visibly passed out to the board within a couple of days after that sure okay anybody else nope okay and we're on to may I have a motion to adjourn I got it Mr Curtis just I missed nugget hi Mr Hopkins aye Ms Robinson hi I'm meeting adjourned at 7 14 6 14.
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good evening if we could take our seats please all right good evening I'm going to call this meeting to order Dr Foley roll call please president kaler members of the board please let the record show that all members are present thank you very much we're going to have a moment of silence followed by the Pledge of Allegiance because of the United States of America foreign one I moved that we approved the agenda second questions or concerns all those in favor aye aye aye motion carries five zero Dr Foley superintendent's report please president Kaylor members of the board obviously we've just returned from fall break and as I pull up here we have our upcoming events with a superintendent visit to Cortina in the near future where we can check out the lovely painting that has been occurring on the campus we also have meetings the month of November and another superintendent visit so we're excited to be able to Showcase some great things happening in our schools we also want to thank Chartwells this evening for their lovely partnership we had an opportunity tonight to try some of their healthy examples of their Discovery kitchen and try a few of the mood boost things that are coming to our cafeterias in the near future that concludes the superintendent's report thank you Dr Foley yes I hope everybody got a snack tonight because there was quite a few goodies there to try so again thank you to Chartwells and Sam and everybody out there any board comments Mrs Wilson I had a great fall break I hope everyone else did too because it was just fabulous with a nice two weeks off and I've Heard lots of great reports from where everybody went and even those who didn't go someplace got to enjoy the nice weather here so thanks for thank you to Higley for continuing our two weeks thank you anything else okay moving on the request to speak Mrs Zimmerman no request to speak movina I move that we approve consent agenda items 6.1 to 6.11 second questions or concerns do you want to point out several gifts uh girls volleyball and the higley's high school parents United booster club all gave um large donations for their Utah trip that's coming up this weekend I believe we have Aaron Johnson who donated some items for the Sossaman early childhood development center the American Heart Association I love this money where most needed um with 2 500 going to Power Ranch also the high school theater boosters raised money thirteen thousand dollars over for their thesscon um event that's going to be coming up so thank you for all those gifts and donations truly helps our public schools in every way all those in favor aye aye motion carries 5-0 moving right along we are going to have a Career and Technical education update tonight Dr Foley president Kaylor members of the board we are very proud tonight to have a presentation for you about a CTE program update and to hear from some of our amazing student leaders and our instructors and I'm going to invite Mr Craig Pearson to the podium so that he can begin this presentation this evening I am proud and honored to be here tonight to be able to give you an update on our CTE programs and the successes that they're having so let's go ahead and jump right into that um if we can get the clicker to work there we go [Music] there we go all right for the 22-23 school year uh we're we currently are offering 20 programs at the two high schools we have 11 programs at williamsfield high school and nine programs currently at Higley High School you see there we have a new program at both high schools this year which is the technical theater program which was a natural progression of our drama program and it developing over the last couple years we're excited to be able to offer some support to that program and have a dedicated technical theater teacher now at both both campuses um enrollment uh 2223 enrollment uh at the 40th Day which is one of our accounting periods is was that 2572 students in CTE uh this is uh continuing to show a growth pattern in our district of our CTE programs over the last five years our growth has been 48 percent so as we continue to add programs and those programs continue to grow and be successful we continue to attract students to these programs so we're excited about that um one of the things that I am very excited about is the fact that we currently are now offering and paying for certifications in every single one of our CTE programs and you can see in many of these programs we are paying for multiple certifications for our students some of the Highlight certifications on here the base certification which is the biotechnician assistant certification exam is a certification offered through the University of Florida that's for our biotechnology program students criminal justice is offering multiple certifications through crime scene management security they offer a lot of the FEMA certifications to their students as well um our Early Childhood Program which we'll we'll talk about a little bit later on as well is offering the mandated reporter the first aid CPR their second year students can take the Praxis parapro and then our third year students and this is our first year for that that course are being prepared to take the Child Development Associate certification which will make them very marketable when they get out of high school so we're excited about the different opportunities we have for all of our programs and these certifications that we're able to offer for our students um along with certifications we have a plethora of dual enrollment opportunities for our students through CTE so I have two slides here this first slide is showing the different dual enrollment that is offered at williamsfield high school by program the second slide shows you the certification or the dual enrollment opportunities at Higley High School in their programs and just this week the criminal justice program at both high schools was offered the certification from Chandler Gilbert Community College if the students complete the courses so both programs will be offering 15 credits that lead to a certification from Chandler Gilbert um which is absolutely amazing so those kids can leave with 10 to 12 academic credits they can leave with 15 credits in criminal justice be halfway their way to an associate degree before they leave High School um and there's again opportunities in almost every program for dual enrollment right now um so this is a little bit of an eye chart and I'm going to spend a few a few minutes kind of going through this one the State of Arizona CTE Department creates performance measures that are used for all school districts throughout the state and we are measured against the the cut scores or those measurements every year for this 2022 school year uh Higley High School once again was above the not not only above the the required 90 percent but above the 100 level in every category so this is the third year that we've we've met all of those in a row the first four our graduation rate math breeding and science scores these are primarily academic but you can see here that uh Higley student that completes two years of a program uh has a graduation rate of 96.7 percent so students that are in CTE finish and graduate high school at a higher rate than the state average at a higher rate than the general population as well as here we're four percent above the state average of CTE students that complete programs so uh our students are amazing our teachers are amazing and they help these students find Value in being at high school and completing high school so the reading math and science scores are based off our AZ science and um our act and ACT Aspire tests so these are academic indicators you can see here where the state's cut score on these is is tremendously low compared to our local performance so in language arts or reading language you can see that our proficiency score is at 67 percent proficient the state's cut score is 24 percent um in math we're 74 proficient the state's cut score is 28 and in science we're at 71 proficient and the state's cut score is at 20 so we far exceed the state's average on all of these areas um the last four are CTE specific so um placement is a measurement of what our students are doing and what they're achieving six months after they graduate high school we track our students and our teachers track them down find out whether or not they're in college whether they're working in the military doing a service service project like serve America or Peace Corps or on a religious mission 79.6 of Higley students are placed either in a career field that they got training for in their CTE program in a college program that's related to their CTE program or serving our community in some other way the state's average is 76.5 so we're above that and that's a difficult one because we have to try to track down students six months after they graduate sometimes it's hard to track down students when they're here so um the next non-traditional um the state has specific programs where they focus on trying to drive and build non-traditional participation uh for example having males in a medical medical professions or having females in a welding or an industrial type of program and so for Perkins and Federal grant reasons we have to track our non-traditional performance you can see here that we are at 36.5 of our of our programs that have non-traditional um classifications 36.5 percent of our students are non-traditional um we are one of very few districts in the state that meet this requirement many districts have struggled with this one mightily and the state average is at 33.5 but I've seen those numbers as low as 10 15 percent for school districts so we're very fortunate to have programs that attract students that are and not based on their gender and teachers that make students feel welcome the next uh industry you recognize credentials higley's performance of the 82.8 percent of our seniors last year were who completed a program had an industry certification the state's average was 33 percent um to me that's the number one thing that I emphasize to our teachers is important to our to our programs if we want to have quality programs and we want to show that our programs are meeting industry needs having the students graduate with that certification in hand is the measurement that we are measured by so four years ago when I came back to Higley it became my my focus to make sure that all of our programs had the opportunity to have kids take those I want to say that we were probably offering a certification in two or three programs when I returned now we're offering it in every program and you can see that these numbers have grown uh over the years and the last is the technical skills assessment that's the state test that the students take at the end of the year for their individualized programs our pass rate on that was a 75.3 percent for this cohort and um the state average is 70.5 percent so again above on all those performance indicators so these show that our teachers are very strong in what they're teaching they're very connected to their curriculum they have delivery and and practices that allow our students to understand and grasp the concepts and I could not be more proud of our teachers and our administrators that are running these programs next year is our official state monitoring so each time that the state comes up with a new state plan which is about every five to six years uh to meet Federal compliance guidelines they come up with a new plan for how they're going to monitor CTE programs in previous years they would monitor two to three programs a year over the five-year period And so you knew this year was graphic design film and TV and digital photography and next year was going to be engineering and something else in their wisdom they decided that this time they would go by C10 so next year all of our programs will be monitored at the same time so knowing that we have been working as a department to um update all of our materials over the last two to three years try to keep compliant find out what it is the state's looking for through the other districts that are have been going through this monitoring and we put together a plan to make sure that our teachers are prepared and not overwhelmed so this year is really a year where we're just collecting documents and putting them in folders that we've been working on over the last year or two so it's not a tremendous reach but it is additional work for our teachers and we've been cognizant of that so we've made sure that we've built in extra time for them to be able to work on these things on half days as well as build supports in place so that that they can be supported in being able to meet all of the requirements they need to for the state uh will be notified next month officially we will go through training officially in February and at the end of May they will open up a portal for us to start uploading documents and then the CTE departments will start reviewing those documents communicating back and forth on things and then next school year they will actually come out and do site visits walk through the programs talk with the teachers verify that equipment and inventory that we say we purchase with grant money is actually here and where it should be so when we'll have all those things in place so but on to the fun stuff so high program highlights at Higley High School the largest program that we have in the district in CTE is Criminal Justice it is a program that we started four years ago it had 30 students at Higley High School and I think 25 students at williamsfield high school and it went to 120 students to 300 students to now the district has over 500 students one in every five CTE students is in criminal justice um this program has exploded there was no way to foresee that this would be the popular program for our students but they are getting a lot of info great information and they are loving this program um part of that might be it's a little edgy we tend to focus a little bit on uh you know current events and we we have to teach them current tactic current tactics and training and so kids are kids kids kind of like that it's kind of like going to an amusement park but uh they're getting a great education and even though we only have about 35 to 40 percent of our students complete this program what I like to say and I tell our teachers all the time is that we're going to have a tremendous group of students that are educated citizens about the way law enforcement and the criminal justice system works and to me that is probably the most important thing that we can do so when they see see a news newsreel and they see a 10 second clip of video they understand that there was a lot more video taken and somebody Cherry Picked that 10 seconds for a specific reason um one of the activities they do in that program that I really love is our teachers will show a video ask students was the officer acting appropriate or inappropriately then they will reenact the scenario in the classroom and almost inevitably all the people who thought it was inappropriate behavior once they go through the processes end up changing their minds and saying no the police did what they had to do so I just it's exciting to watch that program our early childhood education program added their third year like I said before they we were they're going to be sitting for the CDA exam this year which is a tremendous credential for those students to have um and that program partners with our early childhood Learning Centers um and so our second and third year students are over there multiple times throughout the week actually training in the classroom with the teachers getting that experience that firsthand experience after the first year our students can also apply for and they do apply for positions in kids club and so they're working with our kids club after school programs logging all of those hours they need need for that uh certification but being able to immerse them in an actual preschool versus creating a a pseudo preschool environment at our schools has been a tremendous uh value to those students and I've got to tell you that Miss Patty and Miss Stacy absolutely love them too engineering at Higley High School had two teams go to the Vex World competition last year in Dallas Texas both teams placed in the top 25 percent of the world and both teams returned as a seniors this year so we are looking forward to seeing what those two teams are going to do this year one of the students actually went and bought himself a competition set and set it up in his garage over the summer built built and started building his robots and he has got his he's got a head start ready to go he's actually leading the program at Higley High School and mentoring all of the kids at sasman so he just amazing work being done there graphic design at Higley High School has one National officer who you'll get to hear from here in just a few minutes one state officer four Regional officers and two CTE presidential scholar applicants a few years ago you may remember that Higley High School had a presidential scholar that was chosen from State of Arizona to represent Arizona at the national level I bet we have at least one if not two that we'll be doing that again this year so and you'll get a chance to meet them in just a little bit and then we added the technical theater program at Higley High School this year as well over to Williams Field our biotechnology program has conjured up a partnership with Bridgestone tires if your NASCAR fans about a month ago you saw a NASCAR race where all the tires were green it's because they were all made from a plant called a Geico plant and that plant uh that is they use extracts from that plant to create rubber compounds for those tires Bridgestone has a facility two facilities here in the local area and our program is working with them to grow those plants and extract and learn how to extract the rubber compounds out of that so our students are doing the same work that they're doing at those facilities uh and Bridgestone is helping to partner with that and helping fund that a little bit as well our criminal justice program at williamsfield is partnering with the Maricopa County Juvenile Courts uh to host a team Court program this is a a juvenile diversion program so juveniles who have been convicted of a misdemeanor crime our students get to sentence them and so the students go training through the Maricopa juvenile court system we've actually set up a classroom at williamsfield high school with to look like a courtroom so it's got a jury box it's got a judge's bench a witness stand our students are the prosecuting attorneys the defending attorneys the victims Advocates the judge and the jury and they work with the uh with the assailant and determine the consequence that that person will uh we'll have to work out to uh to continue uh being a good citizen and not have that charge being on their record so they have a court hearing about once a month and our students uh got recognition by the Maricopa County Justice System last year they actually had a celebration for them for the work that they do uh digital photography program at williamsfield high school finished nationally in the top 10 percent in categories like best cover best end sheet best design best divider the yearbook program or the graph the digital photography program in their yearbook uh activities over there continue to just Excel and they went to camp this summer where they got to work with national people from uh National experts in yearbooks and photography and they're probably going to knock it out of the park again this year it's just it's become a standard now so early childhood again we added the third year well we've sold as well and technical theater we added as a new program this year we are currently working with the PR department to update the website um the CTE website was old and sad and it was ready to retire and so we were working on updating it with all of our new programs we're making it more interactive we're ensuring that all the photos on there are students of Higley Unified School District um and uh putting things like the highlights on the bottom and making sure that CTE is highlighted not just at the The District web pages but also on all the CTE web pages in the near future we'll have program pages that have all of that information I talked about those programs it'll have Labor Bureau statistics on there average starting wages the number of credits our students are getting for each of the Community College programs that they work with so people when they look at our programs we'll be able to determine exactly what that program is going to be one other thing that Higley started doing last year is we started partnering with Queen Creek and comb School District to create Regional advisory boards for each of our programs um one of the legislative requirements of a CTE program is that they have industry and business partners advise them and support their programs in smaller districts like Higley Queen Creek and combs sometimes it's difficult to find a large pool of Industry partners that want it can or were willing to spend time with you it's also difficult as a teacher to find other colleagues to speak with about your program and to share ideas with and collaborate and so the three CT directors got together last year and we said you know let's go ahead and test this with a couple of our programs see how it goes the word got out to our other programs and by mid-year they were all asking when their Regional advisory boards were going to happen and so we have uh this year set up Regional advisory boards with all of our programs with the exception of one which is criminal justice and that's because we have a regional Advisory board that stretches much further than the Southeast Valley we actually do a regional Advisory board with Scottsdale Mesa Gilbert and Queen Creek so uh but the idea behind the regional Advisory Board is that we bring career clusters together so we'll bring all of our health science programs together we'll talk about things that are are specific to that Career Cluster will work on um you know needs and listen to our industry Partners tell us what the needs are out in the industry and then we'll break out by specific programs so again our graphic information programs will break out into digital photography graphic design digital Communications and then they'll work individually with business partners and their colleagues from the other schools with the goal that they will create a plan of action or program of work for our region so now our business department is in the region know if they come to Queen Creek Combs or Higley and are looking for a student in one of these programs that they're going to get the same type of outcome um and then the teachers bring that back they still have their own advisory boards that they work with at the school level but those are a little bit more informal and they bring those plans of actions back to their own individual advisory boards and those people that work specifically with their program and they try to align all of those goals so this Regional approach is something that's unique it's not something that has been tried a whole lot in the state um we'll actually be presenting on this at our conference up in a in Prescott next month and so I think this is this will end up taking off as something that you'll see throughout the state but our PR our teachers are definitely getting a huge benefit out of this so CTE funding so just wanted to kind of update everybody on the the funding that we're getting for the year and let you know where we're uh where we're at so our funding comes from four primary sources uh the the major source is through the state through the ctet funds and that fund those funds are funneled through evit and allocated To Us by the state uh that makes up about 2.3 a million dollars of our budget we also get a federal Perkins Grant right now it's about ninety five thousand dollars but we'll it'll go up to about 130 140 000 when it's fully funded it was supposed to be fully funded by the state on September 30th but it will be here soon they say uh State priority same thing we're about 60 funded it'll go up to about a hundred thousand dollars in funding uh and then we receive a little bit of funding from the governor's office uh through a program called the Arizona industrial uh credentials incentive fund um this was kind of his way of testing the system for the last four or five years or actually about seven or eight years the ctet superintendents across the state have been saying it's impossible to offer certifications and so the government said I'm going to put five million dollars aside and everybody who gets the certification in a high needs High wage industry I'll pay I'll pay for a thousand dollars for it all of a sudden within three years that funding was was used up and everybody was being able to offer certifications so he did like most Governors do and he said okay you proved to me that you can do it I'm pulling the funding so that program ends this year but proof of concept right um so of that 2.5 million dollars that that we get every year or whether we're getting this year about 1.4 million of that goes to cover our teacher salaries so that's where the vast majority of that funding goes um we always set aside or try to hold back for a reserve for new programs um it was welcome that we did this during the covet outbreak because we found out all of a sudden that we needed to buy some computers that were a little bit more than the one-to-ones that the students were using for our graphic design programs and our our technology programs and so we were able to send some funding on that um but we always hold try to reserve a little bit for That Rainy Day or New programs the remaining 650 000 is budgeted to supplies equipment professional development student conferences and competitions uh travel and then teacher incentives so and now the fun again to the phone part I would have the honor to introduce to you Mr John levsock our graphic design teacher over at Higley High School and two very amazing young ladies Lily Valencia and Stephanie Sanders [Applause] uh president Kaylor board members District administrators we appreciate you allowing us to be here tonight I took over the graphic design program four years ago this is year five we have contributed to the growth of the print shop and doing work throughout the district so students doing Hands-On working we have also been a top 10 percent National yearbook as well and the big piece has been skillsusa we have six National Statesmen which is an award that less than one percent of 380 000 members Nationwide earned we have 15 Regional officers over four years three state officers and one National officers so with that we have developed our Legacy of leadership and the students understand that there's a ladder of leadership where they progress from being a chapter officer to Regional officer to State and if they have time a national officer we have with us tonight the skills USA Arizona State reporter who represents 13 000 members Statewide with estefania sandez and we have the skillsusa secondary secretary who represents over 380 000 members with the National Organization the other thing that Lily has earned is she is the joint executive Council chair this means that among the members of the national officer team she was selected for her leadership to represent them on the skillsusa national governing board so she attends governing board meetings she meets with CEOs from Caterpillar to Lowe's to Ford she is representing business and industry representation with skillsusa as well as 380 000 members this is an exclusive thing and she is actually probably the first in the state of Arizona to ever hold this position so she represents Higley unified in a very dignified Manner and these young ladies have demonstrated that they are quality leaders that stand above and beyond and I'd like to give them time to talk about their experiences thank you hi everyone I'm really happy to be here with you tonight um I just want to thank Mr lovesuck um I don't think I think both of us could say that we wouldn't be where we are today without him he's a really great advisor and I'm excited for that um he also very well said our roles um I'm the national secretary um and I just want to go ahead and talk about some of the experiences that I've had through skillsusa because they've been really positive in shaping me and who I am today um so first the national leadership and skills conference this happens in June every year and it happened in Atlanta this previous year so in being a national candidate I really was able to focus on campaigning and talking and networking with people from Across the Nation it is really cool because it's not an experience that an average high schooler gets to have I got to go and I had to stand up in front of 200 delegates from across the country some of them from Puerto Rico um Maine Michigan Florida like basically everywhere in the U.S and so they were able to ask me a series of questions like see um a controversial question and I was able to go ahead and like give my speech um and then we were able to go in sessions and they voted for us and it's really cool because now I'm elected as a national secretary on my team with someone from Maine we also have someone from Missouri and other states like Georgia so it's really cool to be able to have this kind of platform because not only am I getting these experiences by getting to go places to like trainings to DC but I'm also able to voice The Voice the opinions of the members as lebslock said on the board so I also get got to experience nlsc and it was amazing seeing Lily elected as a national as a part of the national officer team along with nlsc we got to experience leverage training which was a state officer training and it helped us Implement any skills in our program of work at those workshops into our terms as state officers throughout the year so it was just amazing being able to network with hundreds of members from all around the country and meeting people that I never thought I would meet in my life and it was just amazing creating so many bonds and friendships along with that were many quirks of skillsusa such as the skills USA Festival the pin trading the text bow which was where you got to go onto the platform where these members were having their competitions and it was just it was live competition so you had competitions from welding to cosmetology it was just a really huge stretch of how many skills and how many events there were within that platform along with that you were able to walk down the aisles and there were business and industry partners and you were able to speak to them and talk to them and they were able to also Advocate about their business to you as you were also advocating to them about skills you would say at the same time so it was honestly just an amazing experience nlse was a highlight because again this is an experience that high school students not don't get to experience all the time so very grateful for that yeah well they so we have a few more experiences that we'd like to share um I feel like there's a lot of opportunities within skills USA for students to experience and one of that is through trainings so as elected officers we've both been able to attend a number of trainings um this past summer I was able to fly over to DC and I was able to see the skills USA national headquarters and meet the skills USA national staff along with learning more about the program of work and CTE information in general and through all of that now I feel like I'm an educated Ambassador who can really accurately tell people about skillsusa and just the wide variety of opportunities that students can have because before I joined skillsusa I feel like I was really um I would say a little bit shy and didn't really talk to people and so being able to be a student who came from that and now being able to speak in front of a room like this clearly um I feel like is just inspiring so being able to do that to students and to show them hey you have these opportunities too you can go to conferences you can network with people from Across the Nation you can create these lifelong friendships and it really is important and I would say a little bit more important than some of those experiences that you may just gain in the classroom because your your network really is your net worth so being able to create some of those connections um yeah so alongside my trainings are slightly different than Lily's because I'm at the state level but either way it's again being able to grow these certain skills I was never able to public speak I was never put in a position to public speak and it was just amazing learning different qualities that you need as a public speaker and a facilitator so that was more what my trainings were revolved around just increasing and improving myself as a leader and as a figure to the members of skillsusa and being able again to Advocate to them and speak to them and answer any questions that they have and just provide for them as an officer and again with advocating that brings us into wlti which is the Washington leadership training institute and I'm sure Lily has information so provide besides providing a lot of opportunities for students to compete in their CTE program whatever that may be we also have the Washington leadership training institute which is another Nationwide event where students and even students from other CTE programs they all come over to DC and we learn about advocacy as a national officer this year I was actually able to facilitate these workshops so I personally was able to teach a group of students what exactly is advocacy being in support of something and then we were able to go and analyze CTE Hot Topics they were able to learn about the Perkins funding so that way they could plan out their legislative visit and have alleged like a conversation with their local their local legislator in DC and that way we can continue to support CTE and it really just does make a difference I feel like some of you like before the meeting pointed out it's different to hear from a student perspective um and just to like hear the experiences that CTE and security USA really is having an impact on our development as individuals and our ability to be career ready like even out of high school and so the Washington leadership training institute I would say it's just an amazing opportunity one for advocacy but also networking like we said before in our most recent event was the fall leadership conference which is actually two weeks ago I believe and there was actually basically the kick off for skillsusa for many members or students that wanted to see what skills USA was all about so we actually had over 2 000 students attend that conference and it was amazing that was my first actual conference where I got to be on stage and actually speak to all these members so it was very nerve-wracking but honestly it was amazing being able to speak to them and just finally showcase all the training and the preparation that we've been through to finally showcase that on stage and through facilitations and workshops I had a workshop along with Lily and many other business and industry partners that were also there and public speakers that were giving their workshops my workshop was on teamwork and just Hands-On activities on how they can embed these teamwork exercises into their teams back at their school or in their chapters or in their Regional officers as well but again the FLC was just again the kick off for skillsusa and I would say that it was definitely a huge success and an overall great experience so one of the other events that we had earlier this year was chapter officer training and that was the first time ever that any students from the Higley Unified School District were going over to go to a training to learn about the program of work and so it was a really cool opportunity because Steph and I were able to facilitate because skills USA is kind of emerging newly in this District we were able to tell them more about skillsusa and more about the program of work so like Craig was saying it's basically your plan of action for the year and so making sure that we can provide students the pathway to planning making sure that they are hitting their advocacy in marketing their Community engagement and things like partner and alumni engagement while also making sure as they plan events that they are intentionally developing skills which is something that I was able to learn a lot at National Training and so being able to pass down some of that information to the local level is really important to me and it was really powerful as these students we're really excited to put some of these events in play which is really important because skills USA is a student-led organization so it's really cool to see that all come together and I'm really excited for the year and what they bring back yeah but yeah just to tie it all together like Lily said overall I'm excited as well to see how these events carry on throughout the year and how much we could see members grow from the beginning of the year to the end because you can genuinely see it as you see them all across the event so overall skills USA is an amazing organization that just helps serves members and keeps these doors open and allows students to take on different Pathways that they never thought they had access to so thank you for having us ladies you are phenomenal professional very polished young women and I don't know I'm I'm not your mama but I feel so proud that you are our Higley students tonight I I really am kind of speechless right now at your accomplishments on our behalf and how well you represent us out there thank you thank you thank you we're very very proud of you both foreign also I'd love to know what are your future plans after Higley each one of you so I would say I'm a little bit undecided still trying to figure it out um I have applied to the Arizona schools and I've been accepted to ASU NAU and U of A however I think I want to travel outside of Arizona gain some new experiences so right now I'm looking at applying to the University of Oregon the University of Chicago and Stanford but that's more of a reach so kind of just keeping my goals high and I'm thinking of going into something medical I know it's not related to graphic design but I really do admire the skills that I've gained and yeah your your future is very bright wherever you end up they'll be lucky to have you thank you say your name for us again me yes estefania it's so pretty okay go ahead where are you headed huh what school are you are your plans after Higley okay um [Music] sure been accepted to um NAU U of A and ASU so that's pretty good and um yes it is we concur so for me I'm kind of since I'm undecided and I'm not quite sure which could change throughout the course of this year I'm kind of leaning towards going to community college first and figuring that out and then going into a university transferring into University but the fields I'm interested in which is kind of a Long Reach because they're both on complete opposite sides but is being a neurologist in neurology and um communications field the graphics the marketing just any working for companies on the marketing side is what interests me as well but yeah awesome thank you for asking awesome go ahead we have some questions maybe up here if you're up for it always okay thank you so much you guys did fantastic I'm gonna Echo what Mrs Kaylor said and just say ditto because it was fantastic um how do you think we could encourage kids to join CTE especially maybe our freshmen and sophomores that want to do like a three-year program what advice would you give us I guess to incur how could we do that um I would go ahead and start off by saying just like increasing um showing what we do perhaps like maybe on social media because I know that has become a very apparent thing but also we could go out to middle schools and we could go there and tell them about Schools USA and the experiences we could show them like some of the things we get to do like within competitions previously I was able to like compete in advertising design so being able to show like hey like we get to take photos you get to use Adobe Photoshop like these are all like opportunities that you're going to have in high school and I feel like really just showcasing it in that way would make it more apparent that this is an opportunity for them thank you did you have anything to add as Stephania did I say it right yeah okay fantastic I'm sorry okay um uh I would say the same exact thing basically that's honestly a very good answer um for me CTE graphic design kind of just fell into my life I was like looking at the selected courses and I was like oh graphic design I was like I'll do it so I clicked it so that's basically how I got into CTE and I think that's also definitely a different way to get into CTE and I think many students at schools also kind of ran into CTE with the same way that I did too but yeah Lily's answer was spot on with okay if I could add that I agreement they didn't mention this but part of the program work which is our pathway they're currently working on a plan to go to sauceman and to integrate this already so that's why they are familiar with an answer for you so I just wanted to add that they did not mention this but they're already in the planning process probably for a January event to promote the program as well as skillsusa and CTE at our feeder school sauceman so plans are still being developed and once we have all that we will they will be integrating it because this is student-led so I just wanted to add that that they're doing phenomenal things Dr Foley will that also happen at williamsfield going down to Cooley or do you know maybe I'm sorry I hate to like just throw you okay sorry president Gator Board member Wilson yes and when we get to the next slide when they talk about what are the some of the work that we're doing you'll hear some more about what we're planning on doing president kaler ladies again we can't say how proud We Are of you and how you represent us and I don't I heard you say you know it's not graphic design um don't worry about that because it's these skills that are going to take you somewhere and it's just ironic I have this example today that my son participated in graphic design not to the same level obviously as you as you ladies but had a leadership interview today and part of his practice um for That interview was going back to he was um an editor-in-chief and had some leadership roles within the yearbook and graphic design and so he was reaching back to those skills for this this job interview that has nothing to do with graphic design or anything but he's relying and going back on the skills that he's learned so don't don't even think it's because it's not graphic design that you're going into the leadership skills that you're learning will that's going to carry you forward and you have represented it amazingly and I'm so excited for you guys and for our district and it's like how do we do more how do we do more because this is this is amazing where you can contribute obviously a lot in your role but it also sounds like you don't have to contribute that much time and everything but you can still get a lot out of it so um that's very exciting I'm excited that you guys represent us because you're fantastic ladies and um I'm excited for your future but don't don't even worry on where you go it's the skills and the uh what you're learning now is what will will go with you yes ladies all I want to ask though is at that competition for the child development class was it like a race on who could change a diaper the quickest or like how did they I can only imagine all those different CTE opportunities in the competitions that they had so I don't mean you to answer that it was just but ladies truly we are very proud of you thank you for coming tonight sharing with us very very well done ladies thank you so much thank you for your time thank you so there CTE then [Laughter] again could not be more proud of the accomplishments of these two young ladies and the leadership from their teacher and just all the opportunities that they've been able to do because of that so um speaking of future opportunities uh our possible future opportunities that we're looking at in CTE currently is trying to align with the middle school a little bit more and looking at some of the CTE programs we're offering down there as well and and working with those programs to create a more clear pathway to the some of the programs at the high school as well as potentially future to look at some other type of opportunities at the middle school we we have currently over the last few years had CTE programs going down to the middle schools and doing uh presentations and lunchtime activities for students to be able to understand what their programs are and we will definitely continue doing that um another exciting opportunity we have right now that we have more room at Higley High School or we will soon in the future uh is adding a couple of new programs to the Higley High School uh menu as well uh one program that we're looking at potentially starting at the beginning of next year is a medical program we did a survey currently we have over 1 200 survey responses and overwhelmingly the programs that our Middle School parents and students and high school parents and students are interested in are a medical assisting or a physical therapy technician program and so we are looking at we've we've already submitted a request to evit to be approved to start a program next year in one of those areas and we're waiting to hear back from them on that um we have a unique opportunity at williamsfield high school as we have a business and industry partner who has been a we're trying working with us over the last year to um create a a specific pipe welding program at williamsfield high school and it is the Arizona pipe trades Union they're currently looking for about 450 pipe welders and the pipeline is dry and so I know there was a question about why a pipe welding program when we have a business industry partner come in and want to financially support a program academically supporter program and help support a teacher and and build that program out it is the ideal way to start a CTE program having that business and industry support first one of the one of the things that we were talking about with this program is these students when they complete the program and graduate high school would automatically be accepted into an apprenticeship program into the Arizona pipe trades Union so that's that's a pretty big deal uh that is a career starter for kids and that's a career starter with zero debt and for our gen Z kids that is one of their top priorities is to be dead adverse so um and there is a even though the welding isn't growing nationally I did some research today and I looked at that welding is looking at growing at one to two percent nationally but there are projected over the next 10 years 47 000 job openings a year because of retirements and because people leaving the industry and so there is a still a huge need for welders both here in the state of Arizona as well as the the country so uh and then our last our one of our things that we'll be focusing on over the next year or so is our program outcomes again we're offering uh certifications and licenses in every program now so now the goal is to focus on Pass rates uh we're currently sitting at about a 75 pass rate on those certifications and licenses we'd like to push that up to about 80 or above uh it will definitely make us one of the top school districts in the state if we can have that that type of results so with that what questions do you have for me any questions president Kaylor yes Mrs Reese so I know in the past when we've had a specific program only at one school we have allowed or accommodated for a student to go from either Higley to williamsfield or Williams Field to Higley for that particular class is that something that we would still look to do for the medical assisting and and try and work schedules that way and are we doing that with biotech since it's not being offered at Higley anymore yeah I tease Mr or Mr Crosby teases me all the time about me needing to buy a bus for the district um we're currently bussing kids four periods a day to the Early Childhood Center for uh classes we're busting kids back and forth from Williamsville to Higley for ROTC and for that biotype program if students are interested and yes the program if it's offered at Higley High school will be open to both schools and I think that's just important that we share that that they can still attend their school of choice to their home school however they want to go but would still have the opportunity to partake in this in these programs absolutely at available um and that they don't have to go far away for that so yeah um the Scottsdale School District uses a different model where they have specific magnet schools basically so if you're going to be in culinary arts you're going to Chaparral and the district will bus you there to Chaparral but it will become your home school and if you want to be a medical student you go to Saguaro High School and that and they'll bust kids from anywhere in the district to Saguaro for that um I agree with students that have grown up together have gone through Elementary Middle School together want to attend high school together they built that camaraderie and that teamwork and so if that opportunity is not there we just make sure that they have that opportunity piggybacking on what mystery said how do they find out that they can go to a different school for that um the primary way is through their course guide and their counselors um and I'm sorry I president kaler uh Miss Schultz uh the primary way is they find out through their counselors um or through their course guide so the course guide will say that a program is available at both schools currently the biotech program I think says that it's available at williamsfield but Higley students can be transported to it the same thing will be the case for a medical program if we offer it at Higley High School okay thank you oh one question sorry one more um the grants that you talked about are those long-term are there it was in danger of going away I forgot what I'm sorry I wrote it yeah so there's there's the three there's the the three Grant uh pools uh the federal Perkins Grant is a 15-month grant so it goes from July 1st to September 30th uh of the following year the priority Grant is the 12-month Grant so it goes from July 1st to June 30th and this the incentive Grant has been a carryover grant but since it's going away we've been told to spend the money since that one's going away we've we've been told to spend the money this year okay okay governments have a tendency to pull that back one does go away locations or I'm sorry what when that does go away how will it affect the ability for certification it won't okay my model is that we will always be able to offer certifications to our students and we'll pay for those certifications okay maybe you said that and I missed that sorry okay thank you uh I just want to thank you both my kids have benefited from having CTE both of them have done different CTE my son did two or three different classes not knowing quite what he wanted to do and my daughter's currently doing one she really enjoyed it or is enjoying it it makes her excited to go to school which is always something in high school that you're not quite sure about but it's very exciting to see that and I did get to see the criminal justice probably at the start it would have been my first or second year on the board we went over and viewed hickley High School's criminal justice program and it was fantastic they had a crime scene set up in one of the rooms it was absolutely one of the best CTE that I had seen offered with the crime scene and the kids were using like the light to check for fingerprints it was pretty fabulous and I'm excited to see that that program still continuing and doing so well so thank you thank you whenever we talk CTE um I think it's life-changing um for for students and sitting in high schools and I I see it all the time where there's there's students they just don't know what they want to do but now with the CTE programs that have been running and and growing and in my opinion it's so sophisticated here and the options are just they have value so you mentioned about the marketability but I see it is that it gives meaning to school to some of these students like they've had to show up since kindergarten and it was fun for a while and then it hits Junior High and high school and we're like why are we here and even teachers like why are you here but this gives a meaning it's not a Dumping Ground for kids that aren't going to college now these two young women have proven that it's it is building these skills and has missed restated you know her sons how he has been able to use the skills that he gained to hopefully get a job whatever he's working for so I just wanted to I just wanted to just say I I'm grateful for everything you were doing and you seem to be doing it very well like I said I don't want these classes to be Dumping Ground so it looks like at least from these two young women that it's being handled very well and I wanted to address uh Smith Valencia Ms sandez like it's it's beyond um what you are how you're growing through this you two have become whether you like it or not difference makers so you have now gained the skills to help the the students below you and they're watching you and they're learning from you and it's so it's bigger than just you and and you handle yourself very well and I think you are truly like I said different different difference makers so thank you for sharing all of that to my one question is how are you getting and I stated it here how do you track the non-traditional students to the programs do you have a method or is it just they just kind of show up because your numbers were above State president kaler Ms Anderson um in some cases that we're fortunate I will tell you all programs and their successes are based off their teachers there's absolutely no way that our programs would be the successes they are without the teachers that we have in place um our programs that are non-traditional we discuss and have talked about strategies to attract and retain non-traditional students in those programs there are certain programs that um are I would say more heavily influenced by society and culture to be a traditional path or not a non-traditional path than others we have some programs that do a tremendous job our criminal justice program is a female non-traditional program yet we have about 45 percent of our students in that program are female they're very interested in that our engineering program uh engineering as an industry has about a five or five percent or less female participation in our engineering programs have about seven to eight percent female participation uh we Market things uh with females uh we give all of the opportunities to all of our female students to go to events that are pro-female in stem careers and engineering careers both high schools are going to be attempting an event at Scottsdale Community College calls girls get it it's a specific program based around females in stem careers so we we continue to to offer those opportunities culturally and societally it's just not a program that a lot of females see themselves in um so we continue to try to encourage students and those teachers and that we had an all-female and robotics team at williamsfield high school last year and one of the things we kept pushing with them is ASU about three years ago had an all-female robotics team that placed second in the world so there are people close to home for them that they can use as mentors and and that but we just continue you know saying that trying to make all of the programs accessible to every student that's interested thank you Mr Pearson I too have a have a an engineer student back in the day who uh went on to become a pilot and that's a tough tough women in aviation let me tell you it's not a it's not an easy gig so I appreciate everything you do for the ladies that are trying to really kind of break some glass ceilings um in our community so well done great presentation thank you this is our why and we don't always get to see our why so thank you for bringing these fabulous women tonight and Mr lebsock too thank you for all you do and we really appreciate this tonight thank you and ladies you don't have to stay or Mr lebsock we understand thank you have a have a great night next up we get the Tyler Moore Show I get 7.2 our annual financial report yes good evening president Kaylor members of the board it is that time of year where we report out our fiscal year expenditures for the prior fiscal year that just ended June 30th so with that just a refresher what is the AFR this is our all-encompassing report out of every single financial transaction that has occurred um from July 1 to June 30.
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foreign okay we're gonna call this me to order at six o'clock um I am going to make a motion to adopt the agenda I'll need a second all in favor aye did he say I yeah okay motion carries three to zero we have um we have one board member online and then we have another one that is out of the country because I'm going to be him when I grow up he's always gone so I'll go ahead and do the pledge okay is your mic on you can check it off yeah okay um any questions on the um meeting minutes from last time I'll make a motion to approve the meeting minutes a second second all in favor bye ooh look at him all right um I motion carries three to zero all right um we have we've got a lot to do today so we're going to just Boogie through this all right so superintendent report I'll take that as a hint um oh wait a minute we need to do special board meeting too um I need to I'll make a motion to approve the um special board meeting minutes a second um all in favor aye aye motion carries through to zero okay proceed please okay thank you a couple different things we do have next Wednesday night here in the boardroom the asba Pinal County meeting uh that's just the meeting that asba hosts for all boards in the county not every board in the county will show up we'll probably get a rough count on Friday of who's shown up uh registration's between 4 30 and 5 and then the program's roughly I'm saying five to eight I have not seen the agenda but it generally runs that five to seven thirty eight o'clock they'll talk about a variety of different issues including um probably uh some of the trainings they'll have for new board members so for you miss Ducker or we have another new board member coming on board in January there may be some things that we can do with them we'll let you know if you haven't seen the dirt north of uh Ranch on that property is being removed with a local contractor to need the excess dirt kind of cleans up the property we'll do some other things to help clean up the property but just also know there there's an agenda item tonight there's a section of the of that property that is east of what's already fenced off north of the tennis courts that is not fenced off and we will be making recommendation to fence it off just because there's a liability issue we have kids racing ATVs and and quads up there on the weekends and Etc and that's why we fenced off the regular property but now they've kind of made a little racetrack on the other property and so there will be gate access to it because I know for example that's where we do the bonfire but just know that that it's going to clean that area but we're going to have to fence off student enrollment pretty much the same trends that have been falling all year long we're about the same number down and so I won't go through all that all that detail we do have a lot of different things happening to the school so I'll take a few moments for that uh the booster club I want to thank them for their gracious donation up at the high school tactical Pest Control gave a donation to the booster club and that donation was in the amount of one thousand one hundred forty dollars and it's going to be used to cover all or portions of the 95 activity for those students in need who can't afford to pay for the fee so that's a very generous donation by tactical Pest Control uh to help those kids that that need help and again just another way that our um our community comes together to help us out we're very appreciative of that homecoming was very successful they had a parade and the Grand Marshal was our own Laura Ridge selected by the kids so I do think that speaks volumes for uh her connection with kids when they're down at the middle school that they would select her although the parade got moved to a shorter a shorter route I thought it was a very successful parade a lot of people uh involved including some of our other schools and so I think that's great the homecoming assembly during the day was enjoyed by all the kids and then the dance was very successful I know Mr hoagland's here the football team won two so it was just an overall good homecoming weekend uh the Combs clay Crushers Trap Team starts their census State Championship where they started it on the first that's their fall conference season they have a fall and a spring season and the state championships are held in June clue was very successful for the drama department and what I will tell you about the clue performance is they will be submitting it in drama you also have very similar to other sports and other activities a chance to to compete at the state level and they will be submitting that play to be judged at the state level they will actually act out to play as part of the as part of the judging and that'll be upcoming over the next couple of months and so uh they're hoping for Success there comb Center for Success also had a fantastic first quarter with over 300 finished courses through Edgenuity and we we did have three graduates complete their diploma requirements and I think that's part of what we're trying to do with that alternative school is that that kids that may be coming back as fifth years or kids that are trying to get out quicker in their senior year you can come and do a different a different uh way to to get their credits and this speaks to the success that they're having so appreciate that middle school middle school tournament big 15 this year so 15 years since it was built so they're celebrating all year long they started with a school birthday party dance on the 23rd of September the teams are doing well too we had um the middle the baseball team making the playoffs after defeating Legacy and we also had the if you remember we included a new um Team intramural team across country and they placed within the top 10 at their at their meet over the break so again good things happening there uh you're aware of this but I did want to comment especially as a way to say thank you to the Simington staff the Friday before fall break um very early in the morning right the school was starting we had a contractor doing some work out there they had blue they had the Blue Stake but they probably just took uh Blue Steak took it off of the plans instead of actually coming out and and running the uh to see where the lines were and so this line was not staked and so with their second dig with uh bucket they went ahead and split the main line coming in so we lost uh water flooded that whole retention Basin out onto the road down through the middle of the campus and so we had to call School approximately 9 30 and the staff just responded tremendously uh in trying to coordinate it so we made sure that every student that left because you had parents that could come up so you had Guardians you had different people coming to pick up we were able to have uh the signatures done to make sure that every kid was picked up by someone we knew and I'd say 90 95 percent of all kids were picked up by 11.
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