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we are regionalizing some work with Specialists from each district to do the hard lift of reviewing these resources and then we'll make our own recommendations based on what we need what is is not going to be a siled effort from us so um I feel very confident about that I just want to make sure that our teachers continue and our kids get the resources that they need where I will say that we are a win right now you committed extra dollars to be able to support A literacy specialist an additional literacy specialist that is paying off in students system next question God I don't I just to comment I don't get I try to get a lot out of my son every day when I get home like what'd you do at school today very difficult I hear about foundations every day and I hear it from my eyes I honestly don't really know what it means but it comes up in conversation every day you're talking to his sisters about it I don't know what you're doing but I hear Foundation every day and what I'll say is a lot of the elements that are a part of that are still being bred into the program and the professional development the there's the work that our literacy Specialists are doing with our teachers are preparing the way for more of that work for the future we just need the opportunity to be able to say yes so more to come um and then another kind of exciting piece is we try to be able to continue to expand our connections within our community um and with our our work with our new social studies units that we're piloting Bob vessel have been working very closely with a little bit about a project that we're hoping to be able to put into into uh the interest back into that museum hopefully bringing more families in and helping to be able to revitalize this sense of uh this resource that we have here so I want you to know that we're doing our work I I think it's important for you to hear that we're doing our work here we're doing our work with other districts and we're doing our work with Community agencies as well so that Historical Society is a gem at this time and every I think every class you know should have a time where they go to visit them well we're starting eight or five or eight to six it's just you guys doing field trips there we're gonna we're gonna do more to be able to make that happen and then you know ideally the the work is then to be able to have our high school students be able to work and to come goes into and help to support this work with our younger students as well again just what Mr Moore was talking about making this ecosystem of olders and younger is working together so but it is the foray that we're moving on and I'm pleased to be able to have another elected official working so closely with us to be able to be in support of that any questions for me it was a Brooklyn there's several of them who will pardon them uh with the curriculum uh related to the Historical Museum okay you'll probably have to hunt pretty far to find it but it's there and it used to be part of the ninth grade curriculum it was like a month-long unit or a weekend and I forget Northern Navy thank you thank you John appreciate it okay Mr Case consent agenda please okay tonight as part of the consent agenda you have the minutes from the October 25th um meetings as well as a letter of resignation from Maria sokola um who has resigned from Canton High School as a Spanish teacher she's been a Spanish teacher at Canton High School for the past couple of years she has moved on to a technical school to teach Spanish um so tonight you'll be accepting her resignation we've already hired a teacher um who has now uh taken over from mississaug um and it uh um we've tried to make it as smoother transition as possible how will that affect I know she was supposed to go on the Peru through is that okay I think she was one of the teachers yeah so someone else should be going in her place but I don't know who that is so I can check on that she wasn't doing it no she wasn't it was Mrs sabrizi but I think the two of them are gonna go [Music] but as we've talked about um the biggest shortage area there is right now is for Spanish teachers so many districts are paying top dollar they're not even following teachers contracts they're paying top dollar for Spanish teachers because there's no other way to get a Spanish teacher so um that's one of the reasons Mr sokola left but we were fortunate enough to hire someone so it's unfortunate you know to have teachers leave in the middle of the year but on the other hand it's nice to have teachers willing to come to Camp yeah to teach for us so she's now standing here she's great it was a good catch to be able to fill that spot so quickly Kevin nice job well thanks goes out to Mr dipipoff poker yeah absolutely thank you so that's the consent agenda for tonight and motion to prove the consent agenda please also thank you Karen thank you first and second all those in favor aye on the screen thank you unanimous perfect okay so we uh we're moving first reading on uh the opiate overdose prevention policy and revised Health assessment Mr scheidler you want to just give a highlights sure against the first reading so if you have questions I'd like to be finalized we wrote next to do uh the opioid uh overdose prevention is a new policy we don't have if you haven't before that allows our nurse to keep Narcan on hand uh in the event of an overdose I would say she's already doing that state will automate that legal a while back our policy would confirm this and set guidelines for the nurse there are numerous regulations that go with the policy that we chose not to include in the policy that there will be the nurse will keep track of those within the school they emphasize safety and training I've been actually part of the process you want to see those who certainly get them and bring them to you um second policies on immunizations about 16 months ago state law changed eliminating the religious exemption for students entering kindergarten after April 28 2021 I believe and this new proposed policy supports that law and implements that law which we have implemented for the best year plus already there also are some updated forms attached to that health forms that comply with new state regulations I know not everyone agrees with the state law but it is a state law and until it changes we're obligated to enforce it thanks John okay we'll take this in two parts so may I have a motion approved the first reading of policy 5141-213 opioid opioid overdose prevention thanks America and thank you Joe first and second any discussion on those further discussion I'm just going to say Evan Joe on policy is like unbelievable and I want to thank because I'm an ADHD guys so I read like four lines and then I'm on to something else but Joe goes through it and um these policies that we get let me tell you they are they are a plus because Joe went through it for the fine-tooth poem and makes his recommendation so thanks John okay uh first and second all those in favor hi okay Ryan I didn't see you good okay so that passes unanimously so the second one is policy 5141 S3 revised of the current policy the health assessment and immunization for immunizations um can I have a motion no thank you second thank you Russell first and second any conversation discussion on that policy yeah I'm going to reiterate my opposition to it right based on the state's roof probably not refusal but failure to provide you know alternative education options for students who have strong religious convictions um they basically have to choose between their religion and going to school I don't think that's right I don't think it's constitutional so I'm going to vote uh against this Mission I respect that okay right you know is anyone taken it to court yet I don't think it's been taking the court yet um but it certainly is the you know government has to prove a compelling interest in you know in contradicting a person amendment rights it would be okay yeah it'd be a very interesting Supreme Court case given its current makeup I feel pretty good about how they might come down on that but has not gone that way I'm not sure if there's anything bubbling up in the state right now but yeah okay any further conversation we have a first and a second all those in favor aye aye okay keep your hands up for a second one two three four five I've seen okay so I have I will opposed one opposed and one abstention so we have that for the record thank you thank you for your votes okay and then the Final Act uh before we um ask for a um to go into an executive session motion for executive session um reallocation to CIP points so it's in two parts so the first is we're going to move the decant Board of Education we allocate 9271.35 from Project number 048-00-992-5948 which is Cherry Brook Primary School tile flooring replacement the project to fund project number zero four eight Dash zero zero-996-59457 CH uh Canton High School generator project um so Russell so I have a motion on that second Erica any discussion questions for Donna further hearing none all those in favor aye aye okay were unanimous on that thank you okay so the second part of this is uh because we don't want Rosa to write a check for 248 dollars we're going to ask for an additional 248.65 should be moved from Project number 048-00-990-59455 CIP building project to fully funded project number 048-00-996-59457 the CHS generator project we have a motion on that right thank you I want to get you in a minute Felicia thank you all right you got a person in second any uh any conversation discussion questions for Donna hearing none all those in favor aye aye your name is okay thank you very much uh final part uh any board comments for tonight any thoughts concerns could you get the authority and the knowledge to control the temperature in this room oh my gosh last time it was like a long time yeah okay can you speak with them though they actually give you the ability to invest challenge okay so may I have any motion to move to Executive session and have the superintendent and John Bishop uh in the meeting please thank you Russell thank you Erica all those in favor aye good night so we're moving into executive session at um eight to 40 opponents right I'm sorry yeah no yeah it's 8 57 right
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foreign welcome everyone to the November 8th uh Board of Education meeting um may we begin with instructions for interpretation thank you so much thank you interpretations gracias thank you thank you so much I'd like to call the meeting of the Andrews County school district 14 Board of Education to order please join me as we stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of silence during the moment of silence um maybe uh think about the election results today and and I hope uh whatever your um your motivation is but um just I think we're very lucky to be able to have that opportunity in the country thank you I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands um first on the agendas roll call Ramona roll call please Mr Amador here Ms Estrada Ms Lovato Here Is Molina here miss Zubia here thank you next may I have a motion to approve the minutes from October 11th and the October 25th meetings so moved a second Ramona Rocco please Mr Amador aye Ms Lovato aye Ms Molina I miss Zubia aye thank you um next is item 2.7 approval of the agenda may I have a motion to approve the agenda for the November 8th meeting so moved I'll second uh Ramona broken aye Ms Lovato I Is Molina hi Ms Zubia aye thank you next is one of my favorite parts of the agenda celebrations and recognitions this evening we have classified staff recognitions for November Dr Lydia would you please introduce the stuff that we're going to recognize this month yes thank you madam president members of the board um this month we're going to be celebrating three of our classified employees not to say that they are the only ones that actually should be recognized we want to recognize everybody and this is an opportunity through the partnership with um with Suncor we have um we bring um three to four classified employees every month to celebrate them um so today we have three members and what I'm gonna do is as I am introducing them if they want to come up here we're going to take a picture towards the end you're going to receive a certificate of recognition and also a 300 check um and just just a little token we know how they work their work is hard in in they go above and beyond and we want to recognize them so our first person is um Jeanette Lopez she's an employee from Child find Jeanette is not present here today but I still want to go ahead and um read what her colleagues have to say about her Miss Lopez is a valuable member of the child find team she offers ideas and solutions as well as listens to others ideas and offers feedback in addition Miss Lopez offers to help people in any way that she can and maintains a positive attitude in the most stressful situations she is welcoming and excellent at being service oriented so thank you Miss Lopez I hope Miss Lopez is listening or her colleagues child find and her family we're very proud of in in we feel blessed of having her as part of our our staff our next person is Erica Fernandez and Erica is um here so Erica if you can come up here you can come up here Erica and wait for us to introduce you and then our next person Miss Erica is from Monaco Elementary and Erica is another employee for which we are we're very excited um she's part of our staff we are blessed that she is with us and um and so is the school Erica always has a positive approach to situations and is open to discussions whenever needed to help solve issues that arise Erica works well with everyone and demonstrates effective collaborations or in groups discussions as well as during lunch and recess duties she has lots of knowledge and experience Erica has a hobby and positive in positive personality um and she always has a big smile so Erica thank you very much for uh for your work please stay there I'm gonna bring down I'll bring your certificate and then you're gonna be getting um the check as well in our last individual um is Lorenzo cerevino in Lorenzo if you please learn to come up here [Applause] Lorenzo works here at the central office building and just like with Jeanette and Erica I personally as a superintendent feel excited to have him as part of the team and I know we as a staff are blessed of having him here Lorenzo always quickly responds to requests and emails he makes it a point to rapidly take care of all the building needs in every Department Lorenzo is a very positive person and wears they smile regularly very friendly and welcoming to all who enter the central office building you can always count on Lorenzo to be on top of Duties and tasks and he always goes above and beyond and I I want to say and give a little example of how he goes above and beyond even outside of his duties he is teaching me um Portuguese so um you know he's been doing that for a while several months and sometimes I stay late and he you know he just takes a couple of minutes when he comes to my office to do his duties and he just teaches me a couple words I am not a good student I need to say but he's so patient so definitely above and beyond and always being a good Sportsman so uh thank you he is here at night so sometimes um is is the work behind the scenes that not everybody sees uh sometimes scares us a little bit because we just see somebody passing by uh but it's Lorenzo taking care of us so uh thank you both and thank you Jeanette for doing uh let me just calm down just uh maybe the boy wants to come down and um I know Erica you have some family if you want to also have them after we take a group picture to come up here to take a quick picture I will be happy to do that this is awesome different shoes [Music] I'm stuck like really stuck huh thank you sorry sorry about that you might need another one one two three thank you [Applause] all her family are you gonna take a picture with your family yeah come back over here foreign [Music] all right last picture [Music] thank you [Music] I'm sorry no not this one my other one the problem oh thank you thank you all right those are always so fun thank you so much um are there any comments from my fellow board members no I would well they all left but congratulations and thank you for all the great work it's always um I think it's it's always great that peers recognize their peers and and we always have great ones every month um next on the agenda is 3.2 Native American Heritage Month Proclamation um secretary Zubia would you please read the proclamation happy too thank you Proclamation Native American Heritage Month whereas Native American heritage month is an annual celebration in November that recognizes and celebrates the first Americans and their Rich histories diverse cultures and invaluable contributions whereas there are 574 federally recognized tribal nations in the United States despite their ethnic cultural and linguistic differences tribal Nations share common challenges to the protection of their rights as distinct peoples they have struggled for recognition of their identities ways of life rights to Heritage cultural sites and natural resources which throughout history have been violated whereas for Generations Federal policies systematically sought to assimilate displace and eradicate American Indians and their cultures they continue their struggles to maintain their tribal sovereignty without which they would not have federally recognized claims to their Heritage sites or cultural practices and thereby diminishing their identities or cultures whereas while American Indians have had a painful history marked by unjust Federal policies for more than 200 years American Indians have served in the U.S military and every major conflict historically they have the highest record of military service per capita than any other ethnic population and continue to serve in the United States military at a rate that is five times the national average whereas in 1976 Jerry C Elliott High Eagle a physicist and one of the first American Indians to work at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA authored the Congressional legislation for Native American Awareness Week the legislation passed and was signed into law by U.S President Gerald R Ford becoming the first official week of national recognition for American Indians since the founding of the nation whereas on August 3rd 1990 U.S President George H.W bush declared the month of November as National American Indian Heritage Month also known as Native American Heritage Month whereas Adams County school district 14 Adams 14 recognizes that the district is built upon the homelands of American Indians specifically their Arapahoe and ute Nations who have inhabited these lands since the in Memorial whereas Adams 14 understands that the recognition and celebration of Native American heritage month is a critical part of its commitment to diversity equity and inclusion the month recognizes American Indians and their resilience and contributions to American society throughout history even as they faced assimilation discrimination and genocide therefore be it resolved that the Adams 14 of uh Adams 14 Board of Education and the Adams 14 superintendent proclaimed November as Native American Heritage Month a time to celebrate Native Americans and to reflect upon their ongoing struggles via further results or number one strongly encourages our staff and Community to observe recognize and celebrate Native American heritage month two is dedicated to equity equality and justice and promoting understanding and respect within our diverse community and three is committed to creating a safe and inclusive School environment for its diverse students thank you so much secretary Zubia may I have a motion to approve the proclamation recognizing Native American heritage month so moved thank you the second uh Ramona Rocco Please Mr Amador aye Ms Lovato aye Ms Molina aye Ms Zubia aye thank you um board members any comments I just I'm very proud that we are putting forth this Proclamation um I um have indigenous Roots as do many of our community students um and I just think it's great I think it should happen every day thank you thank you yes thank you next on the agenda is 3.3 um American Education week Proclamation um Proclamation American Education week November 13th through the 19 2022.
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the Ann Arbor energy commission and I call this meeting to order uh I am participating by the way from my home in Ann Arbor welcome to the November 8th 2022 electronic meeting of the energy Commission this virtual meeting is to affect social distancing and to mitigate the spread and impact of the covid-19 virus we will conduct this meeting similar to in-person meetings we're basically forgotten what those are like Commissioners during roll call please indicate your current location during the meeting please remain on camera just as you would be visible during an in-person meeting also mute your microphone when not speaking public comment will be via telephone only to speak during any of the public comment opportunities please call one of the following toll-free numbers 877-853-5247 or 888-788-0099 and then enter the meeting ID number nine five six eight seven one eight seven eight seven six this information is also available on the published agenda in the Public Notices section of the city website on the broadcasters meeting on CTN Channel 16 and ATT channel 99 and online at www.a2gov.org backslash watch CTN so Missy please read us the land acknowledgment you back chair mursky I acknowledge that the land the city of Ann Arbor occupies is the ancestral traditional and contemporary lands of the anishinabe and Wyandotte peoples I further acknowledge that our city stands like almost all property in the United States on lands obtained generally in unconscionable ways from indigenous peoples The Taking of this land was formalized by the Treaty of Detroit in 1807.
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whereas American Education week is celebrated every year during the week before Thanksgiving to highlight the importance of education and transforming lives uplifting communities and strengthening our society whereas Adams County school district 14 Adams 14 recognizes its task to equip children with knowledge resources opportunities and values that will strengthen their character and lead to a productive future whereas Adams 14 and the certified teachers associations are using this week to launch a year-long celebration of everything that makes Adams 14 an incredible place to live work and learn whereas schools or Community linchpins bringing together adults and children Educators and volunteers Business Leaders and elected officials in a common goal whereas all public education employees work tirelessly to serve our children and communities with care and professional realism and work together to provide a safe and healthy learning environment for students whereas this is the 101st year that multiple National organizations are observing American Education week to bring attention to to and honor the accomplishment accomplishments of public schools whereas this is the 23rd year that more than 100 countries are observing International Education week to promote the benefits of International Education and exchange worldwide in an increasing increasingly Global Society therefore be it resolved at Adams 14 Board of Education and the Adams 14 superintendent Proclaim American Education week from November 13th through the 19th of 2022 as the time to Showcase engaging high quality education and to celebrate the joy of learning thank you secretary Zubia may I have a motion to approve the proclamation recognizing November 13th through 19th as American Education so moved I'll second thank you Ramona roll call please Mr Amador aye Ms Lovato aye Ms Molina aye Ms Zubia aye thank you board member uh I can't speak this evening board members any comments I just want to um publicly thank all our educators including our certified and classified staff everyone who takes the time to educate our students to the best of their abilities um it's just it's an amazing community and I just am very grateful for those folks that we have that have the heart to work with us and work with our kids so thank you thank you I'm very excited that we got to approve this Proclamation this evening I've had the honor of working with a CTA and outstanding members of our community and I think this is going to be a great way to kick off lots of fun activities to um recognize education and it's the great things that are happening in the district as well as bring our community together so I'm excited for all that's coming yeah um next on the agenda is 4.1 superintendent laria's update um Dr Lauria would you take it from here yes thank you madam president members of the board I have a few updates today we do have a couple of videos and I'm going to ask for them to be shown at the end of the update so that we can um have actually Dr Ruby here um last month we had during our study session an update with the academies and there were it was a great discussion lots of questions um so we committed to Bringing on a monthly basis um quick updates of the progress that we are making at the the account with the academies of the two high schools I am very excited about the work Dr Ruby is actually championing that work and he's helping us with um just just be that that champion for this huge Endeavor at the schools he meets regularly with connect ed the organization that is supporting us he is basically every single day at the high schools I'm supporting with this work so um Dr Ruby thank you for being here Dr Ruby if you can introduce yourself for the record and then you can take it off thank you thank you um I wish I was a doctor but I'm not I'm Mr Ruby um CTE that's okay CTE director um so um and also I'm taking the lead on our work towards academies so Madam president members of the board Dr Laria thank you for allowing me to address you tonight with an update to the academies at Adams City High School and Leicester Arnold High School tomorrow November 9th we will hold our monthly District leadership team we are going to be holding the next few virtually to continue our process in planning the Academies tomorrow we will focus on connected element D3 which is focuses on high quality learning and teaching and each month when we address these elements what we're doing is they have a rubric I know that was something that we talked about last month is how we're measuring ourselves so these rubrics we're pre-assessing basically where we're at so we know the work we need to do and those rubrics we will use to as we build the academies and Beyond to hold ourselves accountable so I know that was one of the questions that came up last time we also have a meeting uh scheduled tomorrow afternoon with a connected scheduling expert that will Begin work with the school teams to create a master schedule that meets the needs of future academies this will be invaluable as we move forward with an overall plan so tomorrow it's a one and to one and a half hour meeting and she's basically going to interview the key people at this one's just for Adam's City and then we'll do step one for Lester Arnold so that she can get a good idea of where we're at now and where we need to go so she can go process that and then come back and offer suggestions to the team survey results have come in regarding the graduate profile we've only we had 29 respondents and I'm going to be happy that 29 respondents and we'll get more feedback as we go 55 of those were parents which I was happy to hear about um and 17 were community members so we were reaching out of those 29 most of them were outside of our staff overwhelmingly the respondents felt the components of The Graduate profile were very important in preparing our students for the future and I'd use that language because that was the language that we used in the survey out of the each question as I looked there was only one to two who scored it less than very important so I thought that was a positive push in that direction next steps are to make the language changes that were suggested by you the board members and committees that we've come along the way design a visually appealing graduate profile that reflects the Adams 14 Community and then share with the board and all constituents for final input and in a little bit I'll tell you how we're going to do that but I also want to address that the survey results and feedback also came in about the academy themes and the strands in this survey we had 62 respondents where 69 percent of the respondents were parents and community members the survey asked specifically for each Academy and strand for each Academy theme please indicate if you think a career pathway would be relevant for student and their future and there was varying degrees they could list once again the majority of the respondents felt that the strands in each Academy were relevant for students and their future respondents offered other suggestions of strands some which we talked about such as a teacher at Cadet account a teacher Academy which we are moving forward with and then some of the other some other ones that as I process through them I was able to to know that either it's something that is related to one of the strands we have or we will be setting students up that post high school they could easily enter that career although I'm not the sole person who makes that decision so the team will be looking through all those comments and then we will be processing that as as part of that leadership team as well okay two tentative dates are being explored for Community forums to share all survey and data results I'm looking to host those at the the middle schools and the reason why is because the middle school students are the ones who will be entering the academies next year and then from them on out that we're looking at December 15th and January 12th the team will also present to DAC on December 14th so we can get some feedback from that group as well and we'll continue to collect feedback and plan to look for final approval of those academies strands themes and the grad profile in January mid-January because we got to get moving on registration real quick here and all those and along with these efforts I'm in the process of creating a web page that will act will be accessed through the district and High School web pages that continue to provide updates and answers to frequently asked questions about the academies and so that way the stuff that I'm going to compile and share with you will also be made to the public I plan to have this completed of course they'll be ongoing but started before winter break a team including principal de Guero visited a big picture High School in Mapleton we are planning to visit two other high schools that have programs that combine alternative education in a career exploration the team is looking for the best fit for our students at Adams 14.
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knowing where we live work study and recreate does not change the past but a thorough understanding of the ongoing consequences of this past can Empower us and our work to create a future that supports human flourishing and justice for all individuals thank you very much Missy would you also lead the Roll Call absolutely and forgive me it's a little clunky as I go back and forth here um reminder uh if you could just share where you're calling from that would be delightful uh commissioner Macomber I'm joining from my home in Ann Arbor thank you uh Commission 11.
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we'll provide an update after we have had the chance to visit the other programs and summarize our findings we just don't want to look at one we want to see what else is out there and what is best for the students finally District leadership tntp and connect Ed met last week to align professional development which was another one of the items that you brought up with us to make sure that teachers have what they need to best educate our students in the academies and all classrooms across the district we found a lot of alignment in what the work we're doing and the group these groups of leaders will meet monthly now to continue to ensure that professional learning is aligned while the work is ongoing I welcome and appreciate your continued support and suggestions and so I was wondering if there's any current questions at this time that I can take forth to the team as we move forward members here I do have a question you had briefly mentioned that back to school registration is nearing sooner than later my understanding or my experience has been that usually forms and everything have to be in around February for the registration process and I'm just curious if that's too short of a timeline to get a lot of the stuff that you guys are going to need ready by that deadline date so that your incoming freshmen right will have that opportunity to see what it looks like or next year so as a I I think I addressed this last month but maybe not so I'll I'll bring it up again um our freshmen are going to go through a wheel next fall where they will go through a four-week session which each with each of the four academies through uh interactive exciting elective but it's not really you know it'll be the academy and then they'll make their choice the next December for the following spring semester and that's when we'll officially start the academies although they'll get a taste of everything next fall so yes it would be rushed if we weren't doing that and so that's why we purposely plan that because we just didn't think we could get students everything they needed in our current timeline yeah or our old timeline this is our new one this is the new one yeah no I'm just um wondering I guess I should be more specific so the registration process is that going to remain the same um even though it's uh I'm just talking about the actual registration packet will there be information ready to go out and those packets in time not I get that all of that is going to happen afterwards I'm more worried about having like the actual tangible paperwork ready to go um when it usually um is that time frame around February March so that people have an opportunity to read through it and get all the information they need before they sign up their kids in our plan yes we're also moving the freshman orientation night which is the eighth grade orientation night that was I think it was in April last year that will be occurring in January February we'll have the website ready to go we'll have paperwork ready to go and even though they won't have to choose their Academy we'll have all the information about the academies at least at the very minimum the outline of it um so if we have to keep specifying but I have a good feeling that we'll have a lot of that taken care of definitely for parents by registration time I've been working on it under you know from the back side just in case you know if we have to make changes we can make changes but we're working forward as if so we're ready okay it was mainly that tactical piece I I get all the other part I just I'm worried because it always sneaks up on you and by the time you realize your register is asking for all the forms then you have to put all the forms together and packets together and I just want to make sure that the information is out there so that families realize what's coming down the pike for the the following school year and that's one of the reason why we're working with the expert from tntp2 is she has a checklists and protocols and and she hasn't shared them all with me she's just told me that that's what she has for us so that anything that especially if we're making some major changes in schedule which we don't know yet I mean we don't know exactly where we're going with it but she has processes and protocols for us to take back to the staff to prepare them right yeah and don't forget to add some time for the translation of all of those materials because that always takes a while too so thank you thank you appreciate it great presentation I think um one of the questions I have is um student input can you talk a little bit about um other than survey like are you doing anything to obtain direct student feedback about the proposed academies and and especially like the middle schoolers that are going to be able to enroll that is one of my agenda items for our meeting tomorrow so I should be able to report back to you next time about um what how we're going to collect student input but uh the whole team we're going to discuss that and come up with the plan tomorrow during that meeting Madam president members of the board if I may jump in as well um throughout the process also um in through the teachers the input has been in there from students there has been surveys that went out to all students um and we started this process um July yes July right uh so in the Summer where all students were um some surveys also to start getting their inputs uh and uh through the teachers also getting the input from the students so that the teachers can have discussions with with the children we will continue that um also to add a little bit to director zubia's question also I asked the team to to have parent nights at the middle schools um because the one thing that is important for for me to reiterate um as far as you know how we move forward with this uh information will be given but the parents and the students do not need to make a choice in you know favor March of what Academy their child will go to this will be the starting year so that is the will the first semester where all children um as ninth grade ninth graders will have the opportunity to experience a little bit of what each one of the academies feels like looks like uh in in the taste of it so that they by December can make a choice and then finish that ninth grade second semester you know starting finished ninth grade now in the academy by that time those students will also be leaders and at that fall then they're going to be also presenting to the um in uh eighth graders at that time which are now our seventh graders at the Academy so the second group that is going into academies in two years will be able now to make those choices before they go into ninth grade right so this is a loop year almost they're gonna get an experience of um what the academies are we're working also on summer projects summer camps where the students can come in 8th graders going into ninth grade can experience a little bit more of what those academies are the the whole idea is these are going to be Hands-On experiences for kids uh practical things for kids so that they can get a taste of what each one will will look like but students do not have to make a choice until December this first time around so just adding a little bit more clarity on that and ensuring in um in affirming that student input has been ongoing and received and we're planning now on a second phase on on student in input and the fun part as soon as we finally decide on these I have nine hundred thousand dollars to spend on equipment to get all these academies amazing and yes congratulations we got our funding yesterday and we have to get it spent by July so I'm pushing that along too just so we can have the equipment we need for each of these academies in place for students so congratulations on that we should celebrate that at our next meeting um I don't know if everybody knows but we got the rise grounds um awarded to us and um yeah there's a lot to share a little bit of that yeah oh and I'll continue well I'll share more when uh once we get these solidified I'll start sharing what we're buying because that's the yeah it'll be nice for the community and you all to know uh what equipment we're putting in place for to make these work for students so so December we're going to bring another update so if there's any question that comes even after today you can send them my way so I can make sure that we address those during the updates or if you hear from family or constituents you let us know let me know and then we'll make sure that we have that such as exciting work a lot of work so thank you all for everything that you do I just thank you Dr uh Lauria and to the staff for promptly answering some of the concerns and questions and working fast thank you I like I love what I'm doing so I appreciate it thank you Mr Ruby thank you did you have other updates or is it okay yes I actually have one more I'm going to be very quick um um I would do one and it was mentioned by Mr Ruby I do want to bring um an update on the academies the teaching academies um I I am not sure if Mr makana I think that they're we're trying uh to put him on the screen so that he can share very briefly a couple of updates we are very excited about this program we have been working with the University of Denver one of the requests from the staff from the students from the board in one of our commitments is to build our own in every area of the community right of the organization so in all jobs in all departments we want to start building our own and that includes teachers um so uh Mr makana and I also know Nathan is uh back there so if he cannot jump in I don't know Nathan if you can give an update on behalf of Dr McKenna um working with the University of Denver we're able to start a cohort as soon as January for our students there has been there are 15 or 5 oh 15 right one five 15 slots right now that have been confirmed through the University of Denver so uh Dr makana and Nathan working very um you know diligently actually uh working diligently with the university to ensure all that is in place offering it to students through concurrent enrollment through the CTE and Mr Ruby with principal Garcia and also principal de Aguero so that we can offer to both schools um with the um and Cameron give me a thumbs up and if not I can keep um a thumbs up when Dr McKenna is ready but if not I can just continue sharing and if I miss anything Nathan just let me know or jump in uh each credit um the cost for the students for any students go to the University of Denver to get credits to become a teacher is approximately three hundred dollars we have a um an agreement with them so it's actually coming down to 79 that the school district will pay for the students so it's free of all costs to students but also and I see the thumbs up um also through Apple company Apple actually they are also providing computers for the students all materials um so it's going to be a zero cost to the students and these are our own students our very own graduates that will be able to start working on their degrees before they leave us and then we'll continue supporting them so that they can come back when when they are um teachers so Dr makana makana I was trying to share any you know everything that I remembered I'm I hope that you are listening uh to the update so that you can add anything that I missed assistant teaching in first Day Out thank you Dr McKenna so I don't know if there's any questions I just needed to share that uh because I think it's amazing amazing that we've we've been wanting to do this I remember um I have to give a shout out to Mr cook Lanny cook he wrote um fingernails on the chalkboard which is a great book and back in the 80s and 90s we were talking about creating grow your own programs like this and it's just such an honor to see it come to fruition from the great work of our of the team that you put together so thank you all yes yeah well thank you we're very excited about that in um in just very briefly Madam president if I take two more minutes um because I do want to shout out the instructional work and the work on academics that is happening every single day in our schools we hear a lot of noise out there but I do want to share and reassure us the board of the district but also everybody here listening that we continue working diligently to ensuring that all of our students in every single classroom have a have the opportunities that they deserve and have a high quality instruction our principals and teachers are working very very hard um not even mentioning the work that is happening here in central office long nights we started the day at seven o'clock in the morning visiting schools and here they are supporting the work so I just want to mention a couple um I want to shout out principal Hirsch at Central uh this week we had the last week actually Thursday it feels like this morning we had principals meetings and we're having these principles meetings in at schools so part of the print part of the learning together is visiting classrooms and using that classroom as a learning lab so we were able to see principal Hirsch in the work that the school is doing all the teachers are doing showcasing what it looks to lead a school with a strong culture um we still have a lot of work to do everywhere but it's very exciting to see the work that is happening at Central um I also want to shout out the instructional leadership teams at Rosio Elementary in Dupont they are taking plcs to the next level and really focusing with their teachers on looking at work samples internalizing the lessons practicing coming together during the professional learning communities on a weekly basis for the teachers and in analyzing student work not only test scores assessments but the actual student work to know or to determine what are the best next steps for our students all this is focusing on the structure of these student ambassadors that is helping the teachers and the administrators and central office narrow and getting really good at monitoring students and how they respond to instruction so that that's a work that we're doing in every school but I want a particular shout out those two schools this week uh and lastly I want to shout out Dupont Hanson Elementary's Monaco camp and Rose seal for um approaching our attendance goal we are shooting in in working hard for 95 percent of daily attendance of our students so for all the parents listening out there for all the teachers it is important for us to continue supporting students and encouraging students to come every day because we can work and change instruction but if our students are not in school you know there's little um that we can or or Reach Out is limited so all these schools are over 90 now which is actually uh extremely good uh it's in progress from what we have had last year but we will continue supporting our schools and pushing and encouraging uh for 95 attendance in every single classroom um in every single school so those are my updates and we'll continue bringing also Snippets of the instructional work that the different schools are doing on a on a daily basis moving forward such amazing work again yes thank you I'm um excited for elementary schools and I would like to give a shout out to our Communications team because I've seen tons of little snippets on social media of videos encouraging attendance and um just just all the things that you're doing to bring that up that's that's awesome so thank you yes those are my updates I know I mentioned a couple of videos but those are not ready to be shown so we'll bring them back next time thank you okay that sounds good um colleagues any other questions or comments great thank you so much for that great update um next on the agendas audience comments did we have any Ramona okay so we will get through there next on our agenda are consent items uh may I have a motion to approve the consent agenda item 6.1 through 6.8 motion to approve [Music] um they both did so yeah hi thank you those past anonymously um next on the agenda is 7.1 approval of mou with kids in need of Dentistry um also known as kind for the chopper topper program that's a cute name uh may I have a motion through proof so moved a second thank you any uh discussion before we move on I just want to say I am so happy to see this um happening again kids that need a Dentistry kind East to do this for our school district for many many many years so I'm just happy that they're back they have a fabulous program and they work with families that need dental care for any of their children so I'm just very appreciative of them working with our district again I agree um I remember gosh it seems like so long ago when they came to present and it sounded like such a neat program and I was so sad to hear that um it was one of those things that went away and I'm so so thankful that you you brought it back so thank you bye 7.2 approval of members of the reorganization committee for Adams 14.
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uh yes I'm joining from my home in Ann Arbor apologies for the lack of video I'll make sure to resolve that by next community but thank you very much uh chair mersky present in here my home in Ann Arbor Vice chair Colvin Garcia president from my home in Ann Arbor uh let me just double check on my list uh councilmember oh hi council member bricks yeah here in Ann Arbor uh council member uh I want to say council member Adina is excused he wrote that he's unable to join us tonight because the election issues yeah uh commissioner here and calling from campus in Ann Arbor uh commissioner Kerber here from my home in Ann Arbor outstanding commissioner Peck hi y'all home in Ann Arbor commissioners Smith oh wait I wasn't calling for my home in Ann Arbor since I toggle back and forth here perfect uh commissioner uh zitelman for my home in Ann Arbor great commissioner Cohen president calling in from my home in Ann Arbor apologies I typed over you did you say Ann Arbor yes Ann Arbor great thank you commissioner McKenna president calling from Ann Arbor great commissioner Hart here uh joining from Ann Arbor excellent commissioner Berkowitz present here from my Homan Ann Arbor chairsky you have a near unanimous uh attendance you're on mute but I too am in awe I was gonna say excellent and that's because we have such an interesting program tonight So speaking of programs uh we have an agenda it's close to Van legistar can I get a motion to approve the agenda in a second and then we'll open it up for any discussion or changes so moved by commissioner McCumber second from commissioner Colin Garcia any discussion changes to the agenda seeing none all those in favor of approving the agenda please say aye and raise your hand all right anyone opposed none opposed it passes unanimously uh next is approval of the minutes of the last meeting uh can I also get a motion to approve those in a second so moved by commissioner Calvin Garcia second from commissioner McCoy any discussion any changes necessary very straightforward minutes this time seeing uh no indication that there's any changes necessary all those in favor approving the minutes please raise your hand and say aye aye aye anyone opposed none opposed great okay we are on a roll oh this now takes us to public input if you this is an opportunity for members of the public to speak for up to three minutes if you're watching on CTN please call 888-788-0099 or 877-853-5247 and enter the meeting ID 956-871-87876 this information is also displayed on the meeting agenda and in the video feed City staff will select callers that have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of your phone number in order to electronically raise your hand to indicate your desire to speak please press star nine on your phone you will hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area and mute any background noise so that we may hear you clearly please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments all right caller ending in one three four thank you Dr stultz and Tara murski Ken Garber 28 Haverhill Court I've been in my green power for about four years at the 100 level I get an impact report each month DTE last month told me I'm doing great and said my year-to-date impact was equivalent to planting 20 trees or removing 1700 pounds of CO2 this is false solar panels and wind turbines do not remove CO2 from the atmosphere I wish they did but they don't what they do is add more Generations if DTE used that to replace fossil fuels we'd be getting somewhere but I don't see it DTE is slowly retiring coal plants but replacing them with natural gas that happened at Saint Claire and that's the plan for Bell River I'm not even sure my offsets go to new Renewables as opposed to existing assets pte doesn't tell me and even though I have the 100 option my billing rate reflects dte's overall dirty fuel mix solar by itself should only cost maybe six to eight cents per kilowatt hour my 17 cents per kilowatt hour also pays the cost of dte's fossil fuel power generation if I'm right all my green power customers even at the 100 level like me are still paying for coal and gas generation through the rate structure now about natural gas balance the forestry component is suspect third party offset verifiers have a conflict of interest because they're paid by companies selling the offsets the verifier that DTE uses American carbon registry was exposed in August by muckraking TV comedian John Oliver for certifying Forest preservation offsets for land that's under no threat of logging as for renewable natural gas in which landfill methane is diverted for burning in gas furnaces that puts the same carbon into the atmosphere but as CO2 rather than CH4 the EPA already requires large landfills to capture and control their methane emissions so even if landfill methane displaces fract gas there is little additionality but let's let's assume these are quality offsets avoid them anyway consider that when we burn gas we send a signal to the capital markets to make more fossil fuels um offsets can't offset that only avoidance can at this late stage in the climate crisis every investment decision we make needs to be for Renewables electrification and energy use reduction offsets ensure that Capital keeps flowing to dirty energy offsets in fact are worse than nothing because they encourage inaction and that leads to more emissions not less if DTE wants to help the climate it should prevent new developments from connecting to its gas lines but it does the opposite of course natural gas balance is designed to protect dte's gas business not to phase it out which is what's needed thank you for your comments Mr Garber missing anyone else that's all it's all we'll wait just a second longer um I guess probably not worth waiting much longer because people had three minutes to get in line behind Mr Garber yeah there's no one else even in the in the room okay okay yeah very good okay so let's move on then um the next point of the agenda are updates from OSI and news from energy Commissioners so we'll start with news from OSI Chairman's kitchen I fail in the agenda to put this earlier do this at the end um we have work group updates um and reports from environmental commission at the end so we're sort of duplicitous in that regard oh that is an error on my part then if folks would entertain a kind of in process motion we do have our speakers with us and we can move on to that portion and then I could do an update with what we have left why don't we do that I think that's fair to our speakers so that they can enjoy the rest of their evenings okay so we have two presentations from DTE um one about my green power and the other about their natural gas balance um program and um I welcome them and appreciate their appearing I wanted to just preface uh their remarks are um or give my own remarks before their remarks and that is just to remind everyone in an hour that a huge portion of our greenhouse gas emissions come from greenhouse gas emissions traceable to DTE generating electricity uh and also from uh natural gas that we burn as consumers we are the consumers of everything that DTE supplies us so this is something where we have to be critical about ourselves as well as about DTE um I wanted to also uh I know I'm speaking to the choir here but um everybody knows that uh cop27 is taking place this week uh and I think it's important to note that in the lead up to cop there were some interesting let's say climate statistics uh that were issued by the rural metatrological organization um and I I just like to read off a a couple of those uh recognitions or or statistics that that they pointed out first of all the planet if you look at including this year and we're most of the way through this year um so it's very likely that the planet has witnessed its eight warmest years on record um the global mean temperature in 22 2022 is on track to be 1.15 degrees C above the pre-industrial average um ocean Heat was at record levels in 2021 the latest year assessed and the rate of sea level rise has doubled in the last 30 years and then we're seeing glacial melts all over the world but in particular in the European Alps where in 2022 there were average losses of three to four meters in their glaciers so it's I think really important that we think about that and I think also um if some of you didn't hear some of the opening remarks given by un Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez um he said that we are in the fight of our lives and we are losing and he went on to say the world is on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator so I think we all need to do everything that we can to leverage opportunities to reduce our our footprint our greenhouse gas footprint our carbon footprint and we're going to hear about potentially two ways to do that tonight and so we will first start I believe with the my green power presentation is that right very good yeah so I believe we've been with us from DTE Energy and I just want to share Commissioners this topic came up uh because it's a it's a pretty interesting time for renewable energy and many of you have probably gotten flyers or seen information about the migraine power program and so there's a lot of questions we wanted to Daylight that and have a chance to kind of have interactive dialogue so then I believe you are now a co-host do you want to share your slides directly yes yes thank you yeah thank you uh Dr stelz thank you commission for having us here tonight I really appreciate it um and look this is you can tell it's an important issue uh for the World by your comments around the UN for uh you know uh for for the caller who called in I mean this is important to all of us not just that we do it but how we do it something we want to be very thoughtful of I think that's on everybody's mind so I've got some prepared slides uh that I'd like to present I can bolster them with a little bit of additional information on our uh residential and small business program and then leave um plenty of time for questions and uh you know keep going until you make me say I don't know which I hate to say and then uh I follow up with whatever whatever I can answer tonight but um yeah let me uh let me show my screen and um earlier in the week I had to use zoom I use mostly teams uh if my sound starts to waver in and out I can bolster it by calling in from my phone as well and use the audio for that so just let me know if you start to lose my my audio your audio is fine right now thanks man great great great thank you so much [Music] everyone see um yes we do if you can put it in um slideshow that'd be great yep it's now there so thanks jump down to the first substitute slide because everyone here knows you know who you are already you don't need to tell you um so yeah without reading every bullet here uh DTE Services 2.2 million uh electric customers in our service territory and uh the point of this is not to say that DTE is a big company I'm sure you know that DT is a big public Fortune 500 company um with all the goods and all bads that come with that but um the point of this is the dte's perspective it's important that we touch these folks We Touch 2.2 million electrical customers and that's a responsibility and we get that and we see that so so what does that translate into um uh DTE has um articulated a plan to get to Net Zero by 2050 and it's actually interesting this company is a very interesting time and even at the time I uh created these slides additional or since the time I created these slides additional information to come out like just last week last week uh DT made public its uh most recent IRP integrated resource plan and um 2050 gold remains but there's even been some accelerations on that if you actually uh look at some of the executive summaries that are out there and search the word accelerate or accelerate it's really interesting and great stuff to see but the plan overall is the same through retiring coal plants investing in renewable energy and Energy Efficiency programs we're working our way very methodically towards a net zero goal foreign [Music] this slide up talking about electricity uh the um emissions associated with uh electricity that's generated on your behalf so that's very much true and uh migrating power was meant to be a solution to help to begin to address scope 2 emissions those emissions associated with purchased electricity um the program is voluntary right and so in addition to the 15 RPS folks that want to attribute reader degree of uh their energy consumption uh to uh to clean sources to renewable energy they have to raise their hand and we try to keep the program as simple as possible uh we have the advantage of already having a relationship with all of our electrical customers and so adding something uh into the relationship that can be easy and that can take uh two different forms whether we're talking about the smaller large Business program which I can get into in a minute and uh you know just kind of talking about the large program for a moment so uh the distinction large program versus small I've gotten some feedback that I do spend the most of my time currently uh talking to large customers but have a fair amount of experience talking with our residential and small business programs well in the current form of the program the enrollment break point between the large and small program is 2500 megawatt hours so it's a fairly large customer uh that it takes to enroll for and qualify for the large program now the main difference on a high level between the large program and the small program is that large program uh has a contract associated with it and a minimum enrollment uh also due to availability you know capacity constraints uh currently if you were to sign up for the large customer program you would begin um uh you begin receiving that energy or being able to attribute that energy starting in 2026 soon to be 2027 by the end of this year we uh we'll be getting into 2027 start dates with a small program there is no contract required and you can start and leave the program whenever you want uh although I should add because of the popularity of the program capacity is starting to be a constraint there as well so um but that's a good thing in the sense that uh you know if we were having trouble selling out the program it would slow our bills whereas you know there's nothing that puts more pressure on our renewable energy development team to build more or to find the option to build more than to continuously sell out year after year uh into the build plan so that's that's a good thing for the large program I did mention there's a contract associated with it and flexibility we try to make the name of the game uh it's customizable in the sense that you can adopt the program in five percent increments and so that's uh five percent up to 85 percent you can join so anywhere from five percent to 85 and five percent increments uh your contract term could be 5 10 15 or 20 years it's originally 5 10 or 20 but we added 15 just to seemed like uh you know going by fives is a theme Here for flexibility but uh just adding as many options as possible for folks different people make um their decision based on different factors um you know no upfront Capital right it just becomes a monthly uh either uh credit or uh cost depending on depending on energy markets and I'm going to come to that I know that how these things are priced and energy credits versus um your standard energy uh is something that's team Focus here and believe me I will get to that in just a couple of slides I want to talk a little bit more about the structure of the programs um so what are we what are we doing I mean on a high level is probably obvious we're building large-scale wind and solar uh projects inside the state of Michigan so that's important um we're focused on building and creating you know uh clean energy jobs within Michigan and that goes everywhere and that's not not just with MDT service territories we're in the U.P we're way up by Traverse City which we can show you West County so uh all over uh Michigan but inside the state of Michigan and uh we're able to build at a scale that uh allows us to um really make it economical so some things when you're You're Building solar projects are going to be expensive whether they're big or small but other things uh you know you really do get the economy of scale and uh you know mpsc approved um as a utility one of the uh things that I think of as a very good thing is that uh everything that we're doing here is under the oversight of the mpsc and so um you know there is a factor of sort of Big Brother you know looking over our shoulder and to the extent you know DT in my experience is uh an incredibly uh customer minded organization but um you know you don't have to take my word for it because we've got a regulator so um so you know you have that additional Comfort additionality locality affordability tracking and kind of take these in order um we're not trying to say okay and um you know just kind of take it you built for five years ago as I said you look at the large program um where you know getting people into the program now so that we have full support to build our program build into our program 20.6 1.7 and Beyond I actually started this year uh selling uh 2024 and as of 2 20 24 20.5 sold out uh that's not now that's not directly pertinent to the slide but I keep talking about if you start date years and uh capacity and that's a point that I'm going to keep committing throughout the um uh presentation because there has been such overwhelming demand which is great which is really really great um and I hope it really gets us to keep uh keep doing what we're doing we'll have locality right this is this concept that you're um you're consuming uh inside the state of Michigan so isn't it great to um to be associated with renewable resources that are being built in the state of Michigan affordability this kind of comes back to my point about um uh you know scale building and scale I think that there's also you know a lot of things that have been done you know if you look at the uh the changes between former uh the writer 17 and writer 19 the tariffs that drive this program being restructured into the new Rider 17 and uh just so the way that's continued to help lower prices there's some folks in this room who are key contributors thought leaders in um in how we go about doing that and a lot of folks DTE um you know a lot of folks within our territory and Beyond and the mpsc have all kind of put together thoughts and how we can get this as the expensive as possible for the um for the customers so again I think customers benefiting from us being a regulated utility and then tracking uh so uh you know you get these wrecks these uh renewable energy certificates are created for every one megawatt uh hour of of energy that's produced by a renewable resource a wreck is produced is created and that's got a serial number it's trackable uh and uh Michigan's got the Mi the my Rex system so that's a a digital uh software that is you know that's the mandated software that's used inside the state of Michigan and uh the good thing about that is again you know this is under the oversight of the mpsc we create the the energy is generated the wrecks are created they're tracked in that system and uh retired on behalf of our customers at the end of the year so it's it's fully auditable so we're not calling and selling uh the same megawatt of energy to uh to two different customers but um it's also you know from an administrative burden perspective it's another good thing about our program where it's just another thing where you know an individual is probably not looking to track their own wrecks uh you know if they even produce one you know wreck a year I think that large companies it could potentially become an administrator um just you know a little bit of the successes that we had this year to highlight two of them uh one is the four deal we are inordinarily proud of this deal for a bunch of reasons um you know part of it being record-setting with respect to a private company utility super cool um if I use an informal term but I get excited you know going and seeing things like this um this deal between Ford and DTE um will uh have us at 650 megawatts of solar energy just to give you a sense a large solar Park that we're building in Michigan is in the neighborhood of 200 maybe 200 plus megawatts so this is probably three or four large solar parts so I I think that that's um super exciting and um you know you probably hear us talking about it for a little while hopefully hopefully you know and I I don't think this will be the only thing we're talking about because we have a lot of really interesting things going but uh but a super big deal in system um the Ann Arbor Public Schools um uh enrollment uh I was personally very closely involved with this one as well and um I think it's great I think um you know if you look at the ability to help uh the school district meet its goals and and uh economic manner uh I think that my green power through my personal opinion is was an unrivaled Choice uh I think it's it's going to turn out to be better and better uh for uh aaps over time and um you know really happy to be able to speak to this one 31 schools uh involving that buildings this is the slide I like to say almost speaks for itself um because and I said because although it's obvious what it is a logo slide I'm always going to talk to this because there's a lot of great stuff here and yes this is a series of big companies that are in the program but a lot of these folks have offices locally right there's folks on the line and constituents who work for these companies and and institutions and health institutions right with the Trinity being just east and Washington being right there and um like having a test track in the Northwest Washington County you know these folks are just all around you and inside a city of Ann Arbor in some cases as well yeah big block in there at the top right so uh just some folks some names you know and uh before I move on and this is my take a breath and see if I have questions but I want to add on to this some additional information on the residential and um Small Business program that was uh kind of brought to my attention a little absent from the Priceless instead of time to do a slide on this uh but I can follow up with these numbers and we'll throw some numbers out here for you um so you said you know if if someone were to say to me yeah the large customers it's apparent there's some large customers in there we get it but what about the small customer adoption so if we look at the small program this is folks that are under 2500 megawatt hours in an enrollment that's going to be two main types it's going to be uh individuals so homeowners like myself I'm in the program uh or uh business owner and that can be um someone like uh that owns a restaurant or wants you know small businesses okay so I'll take those uh separately uh small business coming into the year as of the end of 2021 is approximately 46 000 customers in the program through the end of October this year alone we've added 26 000 to that so you could say by the end of October is around 72 000 customers uh in the program now the interesting thing that we've seen this year and you could kind of do the math if you think you know it took us let's say you know three or so years to get to 46 000 and then on base to add another 30 something or 40 000 this year alone the the obvious conclusion there is that it's picking up speed it's almost uh going parabolic in the sense of how quickly people are starting to um join the program um another Point small business so the second point I wanted to make was around small business uh coming into the year was approximately 460. uh small businesses in the program we've added another 300 through the end of October there's also um a designated uh sales consultant who works specifically with small business in the past uh it was a part of the job of folks like myself who covered large and small but it's become something that we've dedicated and pointed someone at uh specifically so uh just repeat those numbers I can tell people we're writing down so um came into the year with with residential 46 000 26 000 were enrolled additionally through the end of October bring to a total of 72 000.
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uh pursuant to CRS 2230 106 School Organization planning committee the Adams County school district 14 board of education is required to appoint two members to the school organization planning committee um anyone willing to make a motion or would you like me to I think you should okay I feel a little odd that I would like to move to a point myself and uh Lucy to the school organization planning committee uh Lucy are you would you agree with that okay um are there any further nominations from the group no I agree okay um may I have a motion to close the nomination process then is anybody a motion to close okay thank you um and I went out of order of Ramona do we need to get a Giro call on the motion to oh yeah you'd have to do the roll call okay um can we first um so we have a motion and a second for the the two nominees that's what we need to do real calm first no you did a motion uh close nominations that you need to vote on so okay so that's what we do real call First okay thank you Ramona maybe we have real call to close the nominations hi thank you and then now we have a motion and a second for the two nominations uh Ramona Luigi please do roll call on that as well hey hi thank you um I do have a little that I'd like to say and then I I would love to open it up to the rest of of the board um the Adams County school district 14 Board of Education along with the boards of Education of Adams School District 4 or 12 uh five-star um Adams School District 27j and Mapleton public schools will follow all aspects of the school district organization planning process as outlined in CRS 2230 101 through 2231-29 while the Adams 14 School Board objects to this process because of the massive amount of resources and Personnel time the process will take we will follow the statute we believe the resources and Personnel time put towards this reorganization effort would be much better spent in the education of our students the school organization planning committee will consist of two members from each district appointed by their respective boards as well as the district accountability or doc member from each district appointed by the respective Docs the doc representative must be apparent with a child attending a public school in the affected area all meetings of the committee will be open to the public pursuant to CRS 24 this committee is the beginning of a lengthy Endeavor that Adams 14 will work to defeat by any legal means and to keep items 14 as an operational school district for the students we serve board members would you like to add anything I I guess I just want to make sure that people understand that or that our families mainly our parents and our students realize that we are really going to work diligently um in this legal battle to make sure that our district stays intact and what's nice is knowing that our fellow board members and other folks and our neighboring districts feel the same way so that really does help I just want to assure people that in the meantime it's still business as usual you know we're still having uh Dr Lauria really focus on the education plans and education of all students and as you heard tonight there's just some wonderful things happening in Adams 14 that sometimes the noise that's out there overshadows what truly is happening inside our schools and just knowing that um yes this is something that we have to do and you know like I said it's it is ridiculous because we're spending so much time and effort and actually money on something that the state board has requested we do and so we have to abide by it because of certain statutes yet here we are making sure that our kids are getting what they need and so I just want to reiterate that even though this will be happening it's going to take a while and people um there's just a lot of like I said noise that I wish people would um ask flat out what it means and realize that our kids are still getting educated and they're still going to be our linguistically gifted kids in our in our schools and they're still going to be our families in our schools and we just need to as a board um you know continue this good fight with our Council and our superintendent because our kids are worth it our community's worth it so just make sure that everybody knows that that yes this is something that we're being told we have to do it's not something that is by choice but we're going to do it because um yeah it's part of the good fight that we're in for a while so anyways just I didn't mean to make that a little lengthy but I just wanted to make sure and assure everybody out there that it's still business as usual in Adams 14 for our students and um our teachers and our staff and know that it's going to stay that way um you know as long as we can make it happen so that's all I have thank you thank you anyone else I would just say something it's really short thank you and I'll piggyback on what um my my fellow directors uh shared I just want to tell our families our staff and our students uh that we are not giving up on us that's all I want to say thank you mm-hmm I agree um I truly believe that public education is a civil rights and our students deserve every ounce that we can give I very much look forward and I'm thankful for our allies in our neighboring districts we have a lot of work and and I'm I'm hopeful that we'll get it done together all right well we are set to go we await our DACA pointy tomorrow and we'll provide updates when we have our first meeting scheduled and move on from there uh next on the agenda um 7.3 election of officers um I would like to move that we table this only because um we are missing Janet this evening um I I know we've had uh individual discussions about this and and I would just feel better if she were here to be part of that conversation um may I have a second um Romano can you conductor a call please Mr Amador aye Ms Lovato aye Ms Molina aye Ms Zubia aye and perhaps sorry to add to our agenda at the end of the month but maybe we can add it to to the next meeting um do we want to tables I think we can go ahead and and do 7.4 and 7.5 if if you guys are okay with that um only because um so 7.4 is the appointment of our assistant Treasurer um and 7.5 is the appointment of our assistant secretary and I think because they're already doing that work and and um it's not necessarily separate am I correct in that Ramon and um Mr Salazar okay all right well then let's um let's move to 7.4 appointment of assistant Treasurer uh may have a motion to appoint Mr Douglas Moss as the assistant Treasurer so moved thank you second thank you any discussion Ramona roll call please Mr Amador aye Ms Lovato aye Ms Molina aye Ms Zubia aye thank you 7.5 appointment of Miss Ramona Lewis as assistant secretary may I have a motion so moved I'll second um any discussion thank you um Ramona Rocco Please Mr Amador aye Ms Lovato aye Ms Molina aye Ms Zubia aye thank you welcome guys thank you for all your work and we look forward to continuously working with you um next on the agenda is Board of Education new business requests do we have any this evening I oh sorry I do have one um I just like we recognize um staff and other folks it would be really nice to start recognizing some of our outstanding students that are doing a wonderful workout and um not only in their school but in their communities I think it's a it's something that for a while now I we've kind of been missing but it would be really nice to start recognizing some of the students and maybe even possibly some of the the volunteers that we have because I know part of what we'd like to see is that we'd like to get to have Community involved again in our district and start and I know that there are so many people out there supporting us and supporting our students that it would be really nice to have um just a little recognition of of a few folks once in a while and I in fact all of them I wish we could do but that's for another conversation before right now I think it would be nice to have some students and at least um and you know maybe because we now have our appointed schools that as school board members that's something that um we could play a part in maybe and have somebody let us know who those students are and maybe we could even go to the school and recognize them I don't know just some ideas yeah so yeah if you could yeah thank you and I do have something after attending the ROTC oh yes Junior ROTC ball this week I would really like us to see if we can put some something away or have them be able to be funded so that our gentleman isn't driving our students to competitions on his own dime I think that's something we should be able to provide for them especially with the program that we have there and how well it's going I mean they do a lot of stuff they had a competitor this week that took third in state for shooting and I mean we did not you know he was third overall out of what 96 Shooters and first uh at a first-year shooters for 64.
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you know what I can I can follow up and I can send these uh over small business came into the year at 460. another 300 added through October for a total of 760. um so so the program's growing there's uh if anything growing and accelerating adoption on the small business and residential side um I see there is a question and this is my stop and take a breath slide so uh unless I'm breaking protocol by taking questions in the middle I'd like to open it up go ahead commissioner Macomber uh thank you so uh I'm wondering what percentage of dte's customers participate in Michigan green power because uh as I understand the um project approved by mpsc DTE doesn't have any requirements to actually invest in New uh renewable energy until they meet 75 percent of customers participating in the program and that essentially DTE doesn't have any requirement to invest in new programs until they meet that number sure let me let me try to answer that best I can because I may not have those exact numbers right in front of me so bye um my total usage total customer usage eligible customer usage I believe it's around nine percent in terms of the enrollment in in the program I believe uh please so hopefully I can follow up with that number that's shooting from there um but the second part is more interesting to me if you do look at our IRP and I myself uh haven't really had enough chance to really sit with it and fully understand all the sort of things that have changed since our last one um DTE has filed a plan to continue to build uh year over year over year and it's hundreds of megawatts of uh Renewables that are already part of the plant so uh if you're talking about a forcing function that asks well causes us to build even more on top of that um that's possible that's a possible uh for sure but um you know I assure you that a large part of dte's plan is to grow Renewables as part of the generation mix over time and it's uh pretty explicitly laid out there in the IRP for sure there are two uh I'll take Dr Stoltz for students I think commissioner McKenna was before me oh I apologize commissioner please thank you hi van thanks for sharing your work with us um it's great to have you here and I'm looking forward to a great discussion my question to you is about costs to the consumer and basically the overall business model of this program um so I'm reading that um please correct me I'm not super familiar with the pricing I'm not currently on the program but I'm reading that the cost of consumers is about three cents per kilowatt hour is that correct currently uh for this for the uh the residential program is very very close to zero uh and I believe is actually a very small credit currently in the favor of the customer okay okay great and uh I'm sorry please oh if you had more I'd love to hear yes it's actually my next slide so it's uh okay you've set me up perfectly thank you Commission I have just one follow-up here as well um you mentioned uh Rex are retired and I think your point was that uh you know you're not kind of double counting or double selling which is clearly uh important um but I want I wanted to ask a little bit more clarification on the Rex Market in Michigan and it's my understanding that the way wrecks work is that they there's a um a requirement for utilities to have a certain proportion of their generation provided by Renewables and therefore there's a Rex Market that has a value for each kilowatt hour created of renewable energy um so you're retiring them but are you also selling them and or like getting that value I'm just kind of curious how the business model works on your end yes uh so there's a couple of different things as part of your question and one point that you've come to uh twice commissioner is how does the business model work and that's what this next slide is going to get into and I want to I want to spend some time on that because that's that's really worth delving into the other part of it and let's kind of separate the 15 RPS uh that's the you know the renewable portfolio standards standard it's the law 15 of all of our customers uh energy needs to be attributable to renewable energy that is separate from the migraine from Power program in the sense that everybody gets it's not voluntary um their maybe a portion of meeting that obligation that comes from Rex and that's something I I would be less privy to on sort of day to day as to you know how we're getting their uh generation versus uh Rex Etc but there is a wreck Market in fact and uh you know Rex uh you can come into through buying through generating um through the types of generation that you build and the types of wrecks that you get uh for building you know bonus records They call them Etc but um that's you know sort of the 15 if you want to talk about the wrecks that are generated through um migrant power assets and then we are not turning around and trading those into the market uh not the ones you know definitely not the ones that um become essentially the property of the um the customer who is enrolled so in an ideal world where uh we weren't super duper uh capacity constrained we'd be selling out these assets about 80 percent we'd be you know enrolling them about 80 percent 80 that's associated with the enrollments would go uh would be retired on behalf of the customer and that's it the other 20 will be keeping the bank for if production were to get down and we didn't have enough to make you know to meet our customers needs and doing nothing Etc you know that's just how you would do a program where the exact production is a little bit you know maybe uncertain from month to month it's just sort of a buffer um but no we would not have the ability to go and trade one of these into the market um and then also retire on behalf of the customer the myrec system make sure that we don't double dip like that it's again one of the good things about having something associated with that a serial number and I will come back to answer your question about how the credits uh work in the marketplace but have I answered at least the rest of your questions thank you thank you for the question commissioner um why don't you go ahead and explain this slide if that's okay Missy and uh maybe that may better inform some of the questions coming up sure um okay so it's uh we've broken it down to like a relatively simple math equation to just kind of like talk about what is the bit that you would see on your bill and it's a we put it as a net premium and that could be a credit or a debit a credit or an expense depending on this second part right so here's the math part right the subscription fee let's talk about the subscription uh that is your Baseline monthly cost that's your rent for lack of a better uh analogy um these projects are built and the projects have nlcoe now I'm going to oversimplify a little bit right and the lcue is everything that goes into the cost of building it the land the panels the studies et cetera et cetera et cetera and you take those and you um spread them out across the 35-year respective life of the project and uh you model it down and what you come up with is a cost per megawatt hour so I'll pick a number and we'll say you know 58 dollars per megawatt hour I say your subscription fee based on the lco we have our Blended pool of projects will be 58 per megawatt hour so if it produced if the energy It produced went to the marketplace and was worth zero nothing you would be on the hook for 58 per megawatt power but like any other sort of farm it produces something and that has value in the marketplace so let's go to the second part so that's the subscription fever we don't we own a farm right that farm let's say it's a corn farm I like to just kind of let's just shift it right because this is not it's not as uh intimidating that sounds uh so 58 uh per month is our far you know uh rent on the corn farm and then when we produce something energy we go to the marketplace the Maison Marketplace and we get credits for selling it now there's two different types of credits the there's the what I call the Energy Credit could also call the LMP credit and that's a good way of thinking about it is a lot like the spot price of the energy right at any commodity corn gold wheat right uh will have a value at that moment to that um market and so when you go to sell the energy into the marketplace it's worth something now that's your big credit there's also a smaller credit called capacity credit so for having that energy available at that time so the Miso uh Marketplace you'll also get credit for that so those two credits together the energy and the capacity credits are worth something now there's basically two scenarios they'll either be worth more than the 58 bucks per megawatt hour that you're on the hook for or they'll be worth less they're worth less than you owe the difference if they're worth more then you get a credit now we're in interesting times now sort of I think I'm gonna come back and I know I so I did that fast I want to give people time to digest that and ask me some questions about that if they like but we're in interesting times now and this is sort of what is on everybody's mind because people seem to know that right now the credits are exceeding the subscription fee so the subscription fee is pick a number 58 bucks a dollars per megawatt hour uh let's pick a number and say the credits together are 59.
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so I think we really need the that is a program that we have that we need to show them support as well because we support everything else and there we should be able to support them and give them some funding to be able to to get to these competitions as well and to recognize them once they've gone to the competition um I wish I had the the student's name because I know I can't remember his name yet um I think it was Jesus but I don't remember oh yeah so um yes I agree thank you any other um I just had one more comment I wanted to um actually uh thank our Commerce City rotary club for um all the fundraising they've been doing to help our students in Adams 14 and because the shoe program is coming up the hearts and souls program I just want to um send them a big shout out because they have been doing a great job of making sure that this program continues every year so those of you who may not know the the rotarians are the ones who purchase the shoes for kids during the holidays we get a list and then we go from that list and you know and really help out the community so I just wanted to give them a shout out because I now that we have our assignments that we as board members are in different committees I think that it's it would be appropriate for us to give a little bit of an update once in a while as to what we're doing in the Committees and so that would be my update so um I think that um bordered with Communications do you guys want to move on to no totally good do you um want to move on to 8.2 for board member Communications do you guys have any yeah no totally good it's still kind of an action because I I would I agree I would like us to have a more formal way to update on all of our board assignments um because I know I have a bunch more that I need to bring yes yeah so maybe it is a business item where we can add that to the agenda moving forward okay and I think the other one I would do if you're a parent and you have flyer to check it because they gave away something that they had a recall on uh with all the backpacks that we've been getting emails on the pencil little pencils pouches so just so parents are aware that it was sent out to everyone today I think so if you got it make sure you know you're reading that yes was it also posted on the website I think they post on the webpage flyer I think we got a bunch of stuff but just in case if the parent's not using those or it doesn't see it just to make sure you check it foreign I think one big announcement or update um we all had the opportunity to attend the ROTC ball this past weekend um always always great to celebrate with our amazing ROTC students and um their um leadership is is just outstanding I know they are recognized by the City of Commerce City last year maybe the year before um but they're just they're leading such a great program and they always keep us updated and we had a amazing time [Music] um did we say how our softball team did our girls softball team because I know they made it not heard no they made it to say I know that I think they lost on that one I think they lost the first year they approved it so just still they had a great season I think it was a good season for them and I just want to make sure that was something that I know we had approved for them to go on that trip and to say yes they you know they didn't win but congratulations on a great season made it to State yeah we had a great season this year um one quick thing I would like to give an update on as part of our uh American Education week Proclamation I have had the honor of working with a cea and community members um I would like to give a special shout out to Nathan great ideas and just bringing everything together and I know is a lot of coordination between the district and and the work that the committee is doing so thank you for that um please keep your eyes and ears open the arms around Adams 14 will be kicking off and we're really hoping to pull in community students parents like now is the time to literally Wrap Your Arms Around Adam's 14 so just wanted to throw that out there and Lucy I would like to thank you too you've been to those meetings with me um just just it's so heartwarming we had students there last night and we are doing the right work for the right things all right well um with if there is no further go ahead Mario how is our tournament going for the World Cup oh I know that's starting soon it is starting soon and as he gets ready I just want to say how sad I am that with my ankle I'm not going to be able to participate because I already have my cleats and everything I was ready to go maybe we can figure out a backpack thing and I'll carry you on my back I'm getting quite good with the scooter so yeah it is coming together we have already designed the player registration system we're gonna be rolling it out pretty soon uh we have been in conversations with the Rapids for use of their fields uh they're pretty booked up for the coming weeks so we we need to find the day when we can have all the fields available that's going to be a function of the number of players that want to participate and of course we have to watch the the weather as well yeah um initially we were thinking that we were going to uh just start registering players but then after the couple of meetings with the Olympic Committee they have recommended that we extend the registration system also to volunteers so people that not necessarily may want to play but I want to have a a role in the in the event staff this is going to be all kinds of jobs food security parking what have you and our Stellar Regina back right now is designing the uh the opening ceremony so this is going to be very colorful it is in the design phase right now all right thank you um speaking of community activities we did have the um used to be called the nine health fair but it's called something else now 365 Health 365 Health um I heard turnout was great but maybe we can get an update on that next week and then possibly invite them in to recognize because I know they've done it at our school a number of years in a row and I just think that is such a great resource to our community so I used to be part of that committee for like over 10 years wow um except for this year because I no longer and yeah and that role but um yes they have done a wonderful job in the past so yeah great thank you all right well this concludes the agenda for the meeting our next board meeting is a study session special meeting and Retreat all in one day on Tuesday November 29th um so may I have a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn second Ramona roll call please Mr Amador aye slavado aye Ms Molina aye Ms Zubia aye great thank you thank you for joining us and have a great evening everyone meeting is adjourned oh
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60 megawatt hour which in this made up numbers scenario folks would be making one to two dollars per megawatt hour so you'd see it so on your bill I I said the break point for the large customer programs 2500 megawatt hours so if you have a 2500 megawatt hour enrollment on your bill there would be a line that said 33 additional lines for being in the program line one subscription fee 2500 megawatt hours times uh 58 dollars per megawatt hour uh sales tax or something we can do that math is my own problem but whatever that is and then credit will do the credits together it's two separate lines the energy and the capacity but let's just do it together to make it easy uh 2500 megawatt hours 59 megawatt hour and if you you know tear that out you'll get basically the one dollar difference times 2500 megawatt hours I mean I can do that now you'd have made twenty five hundred dollars as a credit against the other items on your bill so you know partial offset of your DTE bill in that uh in that instance and that's kind of where we are these days I have a uh oh the first bullet pertains to the uh the large customer program and the interesting thing to me about this is not that just that it's in a a credit currently but we didn't forecast it to be any credit DTE um takes a fairly conservative uh typically in my you know sort of uh observation in my experience has taken a fairly conservative uh forecasting approach and whereas between even predicted to be a little bit of a um uh an expense to the customer you know it's nice to surprise to the uh to the upside and turn around and some credit so that's the large customer program and then the small customer programs and the credit as well we talked about earlier we expect and what we expect to happen is um especially as we get past 20 30 the credits to continue to exceed because uh subscription fees but again that's a forecast I do not have a magic ball if I did uh I would have been the winning Powerball uh personally but um I've taught for a bit and there's been people with their hands up so uh you know to the extent uh can I interject the first Missy before you to make sure that we all understand I'll put it this way whether I understand maybe I'm one that's uh most feeble-minded here um in the first bullet point I want to make sure that we use the same terms that are in the formula up above so forecasted expense what is forecasted expense in the terms up above does that mean the third element credit was estimated to be a loss I mean in other words was the farm going to be producing at a loss or are we mixing term names between the various elements forecasted expense is another term for the net premium here so yeah that that's a that's good feedback and I can change that for going forward that uh I'll use that terminology so it ties to the above but um yes so the expectation was that if the subscription fee were 58 that the credits would be getting in the marketplace were 51 and so that they would be a seven dollar cost to the customer but what happened was they were on average um but uh 76 76 dollar credits which is surprising everyone delighting everyone to the upside okay so in other words the figures in the first bullet are both net premium figures one that's forecasted as a net premium of 18 per megawatt hour and instead the net premium is only going to be seven dollars per megawatt hour is that correct yeah um it was very close up until the end because it's actually you stated as something that's good but it's actually even better so expected outcome for the net premium was that it was going to be a seven dollar per megawatt hour expense to the customer but what uh is happening um year-to-date is that it's an 18 credit I'm sorry yeah I got them reversed okay a massive swing uh a massive swing and it's it's wonderful and it's I I don't think that that will necessarily pull uh you know that we would um you know blow it out of the water by that much but um it's a great experience and since the large customer customers went live in June of 2021 it has fairly consistently surprised to the to the upside too because in just the last point for clarification before the questions these are figures for large customers not residential customers correct yes and so the large customer uh net premium had been as uh the commissioner had said um uh earlier I believe this commissioner can I pointed out um was a debit uh was a so the net premium was an expense and uh as of June of this year it resets the Small Program resets annually uh became a very small credit so it's um think about it as just about zero but that's like credit for the customer okay and as you say that will change depending on the markets um so that that's clear okay um that that helps for me um Missy go ahead with your questions and then Ember and then Larry yeah thanks so much Vin I just want to I wonder if you speak to two things one is um as Commissioners may know in the volunteer green program the vgp in which this is a an initiative we got settlement to potentially pursue 440 megawatts of new Renewables for Ann Arbor which is roughly equivalent to the amount of electricity that we use in any given year so very very similar to the Ford product I wonder if you just speak to uh when if if we were to move that forward which we have not made the decision to when that might come online and how that would sort of look so that's kind of one bucket that I wanted to draw attention to and then the second is one that I think is really important and sort of gets to what our caller Mr Garber was mentioning which is can you just verify my assumption is correct in this which is if all 2.2 million DTE customers subscribed to the vgp program it doesn't mean the DTE is 100 renewable because the base load still has other mixes am I correct in that assumption so uh let me answer the reverse order there is a certain amount of capacity that's set aside for the program but if 2.2 million people try to subscribe to the program tomorrow it would be you know it'll be but we were already at capacity issues right and so it would it would over kick the current coverage with respect to what we um had planned it would be the best possible problem in a lot of ways because when you're probably be an opportunity in the sense that we could then plan to build to try to meet that you know what would happen to your point the base load generation Etc I think we all are familiar that DT's recently built um a branch I need uh you know natural gas generation facility in Blue Water right so there are other things in the mix and um and yeah even I would love to see what happens though is I guess my answer is I would love to see what happened if 2.2 million signed up for the program but yeah right now we're in the uh the 70 000 range so um I first wanted to get me to say I don't know I don't know exactly what would happen but I think I'm sorry under the bus on that that fundamentally is a question about additionality and I think that's what I was trying to get it is how much addition it's not a one for one and that that's important for the commission is we want to get to a one-for-one replacement hence why the city keeps intervening uh to create new projects that get us there so just wanted to sort of name that broccoli no that's that's great and and and yeah and if you look at the IRP um one of the things though that I mentioned in my my store my Preamble was this concept of acceleration and I think that uh you know dtd's plan and uh desire to have Renewables be a greater part is working in the sense that if you compare the last I repeat of this IRP things like what I had been saying for the last couple of years is step one you know one of the you know big Milestones is by 2040 will be at 80 well if you look at the new IRP by 2040 will be at um net reduction from you know from our initial base mark which I believe their Baseline um was that DTS based on which 2005 so seeing those move in the right direction coal retirements get accelerated things like that I'd say it's it's moving does it you know so it's it's kind of a bit spasmodic to point it doesn't feel one for one to a lot of folks and I definitely understand and can empathize with what the caller was saying as well uh in that you know I do this and then I don't see it's not like you step on the gas and you're it's maybe a bad example some of the gas in your Tesla and and then it it leaps forward no it's kind of like we do stuff and then you know we see it in the plan and there's a little bit of an ebb and flow but I would say that it's it's working uh to the extent that that they give you a piece of mind the other uh question that you has about the uh the 440 megawatt project um would love to um you know to explore that and really kind of dig into uh how soon you know I say similar with size projects that we're talking about now probably you know 2027 don't quote me but just to get a sense my response to the extent you're giving me an opportunity to say this and you know um I'd say for things like that there's such interesting demand from large customers right now um that definitely um let's continue to talk and move that forward uh uh you know because I want to make sure that you know you have a place uh you know you keep your place in mind for sure because you know those dates just just keep seeming to move back I have a question for clarification Missy um would the city in effect be an aggregator in that regard and that would aggregate the demand of Ann Arbor customers and would go essentially is that what you mean by this 440 megawatts yeah it's what we proposed was if uh if we were to do effectively a wreck purchase we would want to do new Renewables in Michigan and so we put that in the vgp knowing the long lead time as a project that was approved by the Public Service Commission so we could execute on it if we wanted to so it's available to us yeah John we would be buying for everyone in the community okay okay great Vin could you provide us after the meeting the Caps I mean you've talked about caps several times I'm wondering what what are actually the caps and um is it and maybe what it's contingent on if it is contingent on you know something that um enrollees would do or is it something contingent on something that's on DTE side and it's Supply chains could because that's something you could provide us after the meeting is that the uh available enrollments meaning like yeah let me follow up on that on my site and get a sense of uh of okay I will get you something yeah because otherwise it's not very transparent what's what's limiting you know if we were we and others were really um increase the demand is that increased demand going to run into caps and therefore the demand is really not going to be um something that's going to be automatically met within a certain time frame by by increased Supply and overall I mean yes is the answer for sure and it's in details interest uh for sure too okay find ways to get folks remember forgive me you're up it's okay thank you um my first question is related to Dr Schultz's question and also comes from um Ken garber's comments uh I'm not a math person so perhaps I was not following the rate structure combo exactly so I just wanted to ask explicitly um our customers who are enrolled in Michigan green power even at 100 Levels still paying for coal and gas generation through this rate structure that was something that I believe Ken asked um and then my second set of questions was around um the the goal for that like the statement that by 2050 The Net Zero carbon emissions in dte's electric and gas businesses um there would be Net Zero carbon emissions so my my first question there is how is the measurement of that goal accounting for methane loss via leak in transport and if it isn't why isn't it and my second question is at by 2050 what percentage of electricity generation from DTE will actually still be from coal in natural gas um and I mean I asked that because I want to make sure that we're not obscuring the actual impact of you know dte's electrical electric electricity use in our our use as customers um you know particularly because we know that low-income communities and communities of color are facing the highest burden from Poland natural gas so I would like to know what the actual percentages will be by 2050 as of right now thanks sure so um off top of my head if I can tell you said call uh production as part of our generation 150 will be zero and I can I can't remember I haven't actually spent enough time with the new IRP to tell you the specifics of what the what's the last few the last year that Nicole uh generated plant will be um 2035 so thank you thank you for that and uh the other question is he's going to get a little bit of a similar answer and that's uh you know backing up I think it was your second question was what will be the specific percentages that's public record that is in the IRP and there's a like a five to ten from each um really nice executive summary available online which I can follow up and send that uh to the group and it's got some interactive things involved and it will fully answer anything about what the projected percentages are going to be I just don't have the numbers uh inside of it right now so I apologize that's a little bit of a cop-out the information is available uh and I have a feeling that someone might be looking at it right now but uh I don't I don't have it in front of me tell you the exact percentage of the 2035.
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I'll send it out to the Commission in just a minute commissioner McCoy so we have that at our fingertips Amber did you get your first question answered oh and then backing up um no the first question was relation I believe I'm sorry I believe it was in relation to uh Ken garber's question on the phone about paying for um the generation mix is that fair or do you want to restate it no that's correct I mean I was about asking like even if what how if the rate structure for migraine power even when we're 100 um as a customer if we're still paying for coal and gas generation through that rate structure foreign I think it's a little bit of um a confusing way to determine um and so what I'll say is that the way that this is structured in terms of how you pay for it is you can imagine basically your bill stays the same and they have these three lines that I talked about and so if you look at your bill um you could say I'm paying for everything that I was plus or minus the microphone I I think that for a lot of the other reasons that I talked about your generation can be linked directly at least for the 85 enrolled in micro power can be linked directly to these assets that are associated with the program the other 15 uh associated with um RPS generation so there's two different ways of looking at it I mean there is a practical component of needing to be able to set this up on your build uh and you know supposedly infrastructure and there's sort of all that stuff so I I wouldn't phrase the way um you know the position there but in the sense that yes micro power is uh you know these three additional lines on your on your existing Bill yes uh yesterday did I answer all your questions uh satisfactory because I'm happy to go back into any of those if you think I have pants then may I follow up on that um DT or Deans earns a guaranteed rate of return based on its capital capital assets correct that is my understanding yes right so if an asset is not passed it useful life then it's still earning a rate of return on those assets even if they're fossil fuel and that rate of return is being distributed or paid for let's say by dte's customers and so I guess maybe another way of asking Amber and Ken's question is if indeed DTE is earning a greater return and that rate of return is being paid for by DTE customers and part of that those Capital assets are fossil fuel assets then are we not paying for those fossil fuel generating assets good question um I know I see your point yeah I kind of go back to my earlier answer in the sense that the way we've structured the program this is an add-on to the existing bill so I mean you can break it down and you know talk about uh utility accounting I'm sure you can find a way to talk to that but what I think the focus it really ought to be in my answer this kind of goes back to the sort of thing about you know you step on the gas and there's a little bit more of an EB in the flow looking at the difference I would Point again to the new IRP I think that there's proof there that gte's plan is working it's accelerating um you know coal plant uh retirements and uh accelerating you know the path to to Net Zero and and that's uh you know the best answer I got for you right now okay commissioner Kerber then commissioner Calvin Garcia yes uh thanks for for being here Vin um so I really like the my green power program the problem is that 2050 is just too long so I know everybody is wanting Pat you want to Pat yourselves on the back but 2050 is just not acceptable in any stretch so I'm going to come back and just take one sentence you put on one of your slides that said affordability less expensive than on-site owner-owned generation I would challenge that is not defensible what you're saying is all the people that are doing their own solar don't get a financial return I can tell you that is unequivocally false no question I'd like to see your calculations that justify that statement right now if you look at this program right in this slide you have up there the oh somebody on my green power is still paying 17 to 18 cents per kilowatt hour they haven't saved anything they're basically just going green which is fine I'm totally in support of that but that does not make it more affordable than going green using your own energy so you know just tell me what how do you make this claim that it's more affordable than what gives you a payback in seven or eight years how do you make that comment I just don't understand it thank you for that thank you for the question and look we got to be able to answer the hard questions and justify what we have on the screen so I appreciate you holding me accountable here uh Commissioners and thank you for that um let me just take it so that the line down there does refer to the large customer program the uh 18 they could point it to is actually a credit but uh even taking the small customer program because I think that you know if you're talking about an individual putting um solid pounds on the roof and and I never want to speak poorly of um putting solar panels on the roof and if anything uh I did say came across as negative on that uh that was not my intention because um I think um it's great that people are getting out there and doing something and I've definitely had enough conversations for folks to know that some people it is their strong preference to do that and um you know putting the economic issue even set aside for one second I'm going to come back to it so that's the part of your question um someone says that they want something they can point to and touch and um you know and have that on their roof and it's frankly it's a great advertisement for for going green personally I'm a big supporter of that you know because I'm a Believer in this stuff and so yes that's great um in terms of cost I mean right now as an individual anywhere to come to me and say uh I'm going to put solar panels on my roof and I'm going to start tomorrow you know I've financed it it's going to cost me x per month and I say okay well let's compare that to migraine power you've got your pick a number 100 I don't know I'm making up a number per month you know to pay okay my green power will cost you that's the current number we're comparing against zero will it always be zero I don't know but uh so the way I make these statements now is if that or if we compare the cost of even logic let's step back for a second right talk about economies of scale um building on your roof versus building a 200 megawatt you know uh call it a thousand acre um Farm logically which you know would you expect would um would have uh uh you know enough economies of scale to make the cost per for a lot less no I'm not saying that I've got all the answers I don't know if I can know it all at all and if there are numbers um that you had that you wanted us to compare or look at Etc I'm always open to the uh uh you know to the to the dialogue and to looking at my numbers and definitely appreciate the challenge if anything what I put up there so I'm just kind of Defending I'm not trying to get one over on you or anything by you but but you that power that you have someplace remotely someplace in Michigan that's largely being produced by coal generating plants you charge a customer about seven cents per kilowatt hour just to Move It from that plant to their home right that's that's that's where you start so you can say that you can generate electricity less expensively but you still have to deliver it and I think there are a lot of people who think you don't deliver it very reliably right now which is a major issue that I think everybody here has heard over and over and over again so I mean fun at the end of the day when you say more affordable if you have this program and I believe in this program I think it's a great program but you're still paying 17 to 18 cents per kilowatt hour for it and those people who have solar on their rooftops are saving lots of money and are paying a lot less so to me that's affordability so I'm just I'm not going to belabor this use of that word but I think you should probably rethink whether you want to have that on your slide because I just don't think it's an accurate statement thank you appreciate the feedback thank you commissioner Colin Garcia thanks so much for being here Ben it's uh really um such a great conversation that we're having um and um so I have a couple of questions uh one of the earlier slides uh you had a statement about the tax benefits to local communities and I just was curious uh if you could just embellish about that to explain what those those tax benefits are then I have another follow-up or that's actually not a follow-up question but a separate question that uh more closely ties with um with Larry's um questions for you so if you want to start with the tax benefits and then and then I'll ask you my other question sure um you know what I'd like to do is um because the actual statistics around those will change and I usually can get a couple of really good bullet points uh you know stats uh from my uh quarter pound group uh if you allow me the opportunity what I can do is I can follow up on be using the key some good statistics around jobs created tax benefits Etc and they're usually accumulative and they change periodically so I can follow up and send a couple of strong bullets and then you know answer any questions if there are the most but you know I think quantitative answers would be better with myself qualitatively financially off the cuff is that that satisfactory uh yeah I mean I was just curious as to like does this mean that especially um you know like if municipalities like if they purchase into the program if they're then going to get some aspect of the you know the investment tax credit or something like that I was like wondering how that works but yes I'd be great to see further information yes if that's what you'd be for absolutely I will not say no uh so as to my other question um so I installed solar panels um on my roof and so I look at my bills and and since I I subscribe to the my green power uh program and I see that I still am paying a power or Supply capacity charge a power supply non-capacity charge a power supply cost recovery charge and as far as the power supply charges and so um there you know as as Larry was saying there's still that full 17 cents it's really great to know that that you know a portion of my electricity is green remotely through the utilities and I I also am producing electricity with my own solar panels clearly like not not enough you know to uh you know to meet 100 of my needs because I just I that but locality doesn't have enough solar exposure however so my question is the 85 percent like how does that calculate out you know if if a property already has its own solar power production if it's doing a combination of both locally and then also a utility subscribed yeah I know it's a good question um I'll make an assumption you know with I think a lot of the rooftop solar it's essentially at the time of meter um installation which means that the usage that you effectively get from it so to the extent it's reducing your overall usage from GTE that's coming off the top right so um the part that's your 85 is a function of what's actually getting the meter and so you know if you had a pie you know and that's the total amount of electricity that you consume in a year um and you're you know you produce let's say you know the pie is 100 units you produce five units in solar from your roof now the price down to 95 units and that is it's it's is is what we're doing 85 for your enrollment so your your rooftop unit is reducing your overall uh metered consumption makes sense all right yeah very good that was that was the question that I had thank you sure sorry about that I had myself on mute again I I think um and Alex we'll get to your question and Larry did you have a question again did you follow up again okay so we just we just have Alex I think um and we'll get to him in a second but what I what I'm realizing here is uh that um it may make sense that we we as a commission maybe behind the scenes we don't necessarily have to do it in the meeting is to go back and look at at some of our questions and some of your answers and formulate again some questions where maybe we provide those questions to DTE and GTE decides who's the right person to answer some of these questions and some of the base load kind of questions and and some of the other kinds of things that we're getting at um that are not really specifically related to my green power but what's sort of going on with big picture and and how a customer is still seen maybe a part of that in the bill so um we we really appreciate you doing the best you can to tackle those but it may be something that a follow-up meeting may may make sense and we'll we'll Circle back through the sea um if that's indeed the case so Alex go ahead and then we do have one more presentation and I did uh write you that we're going to try to finish this meeting by eight um and I realize I'm not I'm part of the problem that part of the solution here so um but um Alex and then if we have another one or two short questions then we can move on to the Natural Gas balance program go ahead thank you uh for coming then I have a couple of questions um the second one's kind of a two-parter please bear with me so DT's website says just under 10 of the fuel mix is renewable however the Michigan green power program web page says DT already provides customers with 15 renewable energy and my understanding is that DTE is required by state law to have renewable generation capacity of 15 but our existing renewable facilities actually running at full capacity and then I can just State the other questions and okay so when someone buys into the program do you know how much money that they pay in their bill actually goes towards the expansion of renewable energy sources so not including operational costs of existing facilities and then additionally onto that would methane gas infrastructure receive this money under the classification of renewable natural gas so taking them in order the first question really pertains to um RPS so it's it's not part of the migrant power program it's a little bit outside my area so I'll you know I'll give you a kind of a shorter answer on that and then you know maybe we have to Circle back to it but you know there's a gap between production and 15 RPS made up in other ways uh you know potentially through purchases Etc so I don't know the exact you know difference there but that's really kind of what we're getting that on my understanding what that question is the difference between RPS generation and meeting our 15 goal I can say that we definitely do meet our mpsc uh mandated 15 RPS uh but I couldn't tell you exactly you know the percentage of how we can close that Gap but we read that correctly uh that makes sense uh question two had to do with I'm sorry uh one of the questions had to do with um you know the costs um where the where the money goes to basically when folks are paying their fee I mean it's direct inside the subscription fees directly tied to the alsoe's uh of the pool of projects um so that is not um that's not the source of capital and um the the follow-up question on the part Associated that is um you know or the money's going to or or are sustained a different way is renewable natural gas part of the migraine power program it's not yes it's in the pool of assets or of two types they're either wind assets or solar assets wind was the original prevailing technology for a while it has been solar PT is starting to get more back into wind again so migraine power program for our electrical customers is wind and solar first time thank you very much hey thank you Finn uh for being with us here today um I had a question just around the flexible nature of the program you had mentioned you know some of the contract periods um and just curious if you can speak a little bit more directly to that flexibility um and per the potential concern that uh kind of signing up for one of those contract periods may walk a customer into you know potentially unfavorable kind of Economics um and uh uh you know prevent potentially the the build out of on-site generation that that may be a bit more favorable here and um and for the purpose of this question when we talked about the contract terms it's the large customer program and yeah I mean the contracts are you can can go from as short as five years five ten fifteen twenty there's also an um contract Provisions that allow for termination and that's in that's in the Tariff um so that's that's a possibility there's assignment there's a possibility with uh DTE sign off and um there's even potential opportunities for you know a acute uh an additional Community customer um taking the place of the customer seeking exit so there is potential for termination uh as in any agreement um but uh uh you know the reason for the contract terms is um they're large commitments for building and so long that we've got customers sort of um signed up the last DTE to with confidence I mean you know from these large assets at the rate that we want by rate under first thank you that's helpful I was also interested if you could speak to I understand there's a community impact or support element to the migraine power where uh you re you when you receive the kind of the migraine Power report There's an opportunity to allocate additional funds to kind of low-income customers can you talk a little bit about kind of how that allocation occurs kind of the additionality aspects um you know to uh you know uh kind of subscribing to that as well sure sure I think there's going to be uh probably another opportunity for me to follow up with uh sending information on how you know the mechanics of that could work I mean it is voluntary so folks that are in the program which is voluntary aren't compelled um to do that but it's another opportunity for folks to um to contribute to uh you know obviously regularly cause and there's been uh some real women support for that which is great in terms of you know how folks can do that I can definitely follow up with uh with some more specifics yeah you know as I said it has a follow-up in terms of the folks looking to get more involved in the low-income Pilots okay I think it's appropriate to move on um Commissioners if there's something that you recognize that you would like a line of inquiry to be pursued you can submit those to me as I said maybe there's some other things thinking back on this where we might want to have another person or even with someone else come back at some point in time so don't hesitate to uh reach out to Missy and me and Carlene if if you have something that comes to mind uh otherwise I think it's appropriate that we move on to the Natural Gas balance program and I believe um we have another DTE representative looks like Henry there yeah we have HJ who's going to join us and I want to apologize Commissioners I'm going to be signing off in about 10 minutes to go do some election work so Joe is going to take over for us so HJ uh I believe you're a co-host and you then I think we have to have you stop share and they say you should be able to share yours very much again thank you and thanks Missy for your Civic service okay hi everybody nice to meet you can everyone see my screen not yet yep oh let me click share I'm not a how's that uh it's coming there we go okay thank you very much hey um just uh I don't know if I've met many of you uh I know Missy um from other work uh around the city and stuff but my name is uh HJ Decker um Henry is my official name but I go by HJ uh I'm the director of sales and marketing for the DTE Gas Company which is DTE energies um gas utility uh I'm a proud Ann Arbor resident so I live right here in the city uh I'm sitting over here on the Southeast side of the town so um happy to meet you all I've been a resident ever since I moved to Michigan I'm not from Michigan or have any ties to Michigan whatsoever but uh I'm one of the few people that decided to relocate here uh years ago so um I'm happy that you will have me um uh just a quick uh before I get into it um for any of you that don't know I mean DTE Gas is like I said our gas utility we have about 1.3 million customers across the state um a little different than the electric utility where primarily the gas utility in Wayne in Washington counties uh but we're also the gas utility in Grand Rapids up to Traverse City Petoskey over to Alpena and we even have some service territory in the upper peninsula primarily around the city of Escanaba um so um I'd like to start off with you know um you know um in 2020 DT gas came out with a a commitment to reduce our carbon emissions um you know quite quite um novel for a gas utility to come out and do this um we broke down our value chain into three areas one is our Upstream emissions which is essentially the methane leakage that happens um in the process of of us purchasing natural gas and transporting it to our system for our customers uh the middle portion is the dis the utility distribution emissions so those are the assets that we own we have a lot of distribution pipes some high pressure pipes as well compressor stations as well as storage and then Downstream emissions although we didn't we have not committed to Net Zero on our Downstream uh that's our customer emissions um we we have committed to helping them along on our journey and reducing their overall missions by 35 by 2040.
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um so these are you know relatively aggressive for Gas Utilities out there again Gas Utilities are in a kind of a different different situation than Electric utilities but uh DTE is certainly been at the Forefront of um uh trying to commit to some of these um emission reductions um I can talk a bit more about upstream and and and um our own utility operations but today I was going to talk a bit more about Downstream um you know upstream and internal emissions we have a pretty good uh path forward on that um we have some programs that we're starting off we kind of know what we need to do and how we need to get the industry to move along with us um Downstream emissions from natural gas is obviously uh the the tougher uh nut to crack if I can say that right and we believe it's going to be a mix of all of the above it's going to be things like renewable natural gas um which I can talk a bit about uh it's going to be things like carbon capture and sequestration um as well um we're um looking at Nate we're using nature-based offsets uh currently um not that this is a an incredibly long-term uh tool to use but it is something that you can act upon now hydrogen is something that DTE is actually spending a decent amount of time and frankly money on um investigating how hydrogen can be used as a substitute for natural gas and then Energy Efficiency in particular things like natural gas heat pumps uh which are 30 to 40 percent more efficient than current furnaces so my schematic here just sort of says that you know we need we need to as an industry explore all of these Technologies and solutions to see how we can uh truly uh um reduce Downstream emissions from natural gas and this goes across both residential as well as uh industrial uses as well as I kind of note here and I in my pictures so um as part of this program and commitment um back in the beginning of 2021 we launched a very unique and first of its kind voluntary um uh renewable um natural gas program for our residential customers it was initially launched for our residential and small commercial it's essentially a program we filed this with the commission uh and they approved it um it's a essentially a program where a customer enrolls in the program pays us a premium to offset um up to a hundred percent of their uh emissions from their use now we've we've simplified this program in that the the 100 is actually an average residential customer on our system so it's actually a set amount you know our average our average residential customer uses about a hundred mcf a year uh in natural gas so we set up the program too that if they enrolled 100 percent we would go out and on their behalf purchase and retire a mix of carbon offsets and renewable natural gas um uh the important part here is um you know these carbon offsets and renewable natural gas sources are all in the state of Michigan uh we've got some carbon offset projects in the upper peninsula uh one in the Gaylord area and then we have a number of renewable natural gas um projects that we subscribe to in Canton right here um uh close to Washington County as well as one in Grand Rapids uh which is brand new and we've helped facilitate their connecting to our system uh program's been relatively successful at least we think um we've got all a little over 9 000 customers and we we plan on having over 10 000 customers by the end of the year um that's about five thousand per year again we're only about two years into it my green power has been around a bit longer so uh um and they've they've seen obviously as Vin set a quite a marketed uptick in the recent year or two on subscription so we hope to get there um but again it's kind of tailored and flexible customers can subscribe anywhere from kind of five percent of that average residential usage all the way up to 100 percent um in addition to the residential and small commercial we this year um earlier this year we launched a a larger large commercial uh industrial program where we are actively marketing these products to um larger users across the state whether that be Industrials or large commercial uh We've enrolled uh one commercial customer so far so uh not not a huge number of customers so far but again these are larger users uh and they really are kind of learning about these products um there's a lot of Education that needs to happen with these uh a lot of people are not as familiar with um renewable natural gas or carbon offsets as they are with maybe solar or wind electricity generation um a little bit of an overview of carbon forestry projects um I assume that many of you are somewhat familiar with these there's uh several different kinds uh there's re reforestation um afforestation which is kind of a new area that wasn't even forested previously agroforestration um which kind of integrates it into uh agricultural areas and then improved Forest management or ifm um which basically takes existing forestries um and essentially compensates the owners of those Forest to either change their behavior around what they do and have done and plan to do and or change the way the Forester managed to increase the um the amount of trees and carbon that is actually captured in these forests so it um it takes sort of a baseline um and then and changes it from there and uh and that that owner is compensated for that uh some other co-benefits of um uh some of our forestry projects um that you know don't get a lot as much air time as maybe just the carbon offsets themselves but you know these uh these will you know are are intended to uh preserve the forest uh create additional habitats for wildlife uh it does benefit the Michigan economy as these are premiums that are paid into owners of the land um and then provide additional acreage and Recreation areas uh for michiganders as we go foreign for those who may not be as familiar with this uh source so um there are a number of uh processes out there and industries that create methane as part of their process and in many cases this methane is either kind of wastefully flared or used in an inefficient process or frankly just released to the atmosphere methane is about 25 times worse than CO2 as a greenhouse gas emission so if there's a way to kind of capture it clean it up process it and put it back onto the natural gas system where it can be used in a more useful way namely heating homes that's something that we we are trying to encourage in the state of Michigan um you know like I said our voluntary program does purchase these products but these products are um are in under a lot of development right now there's you know my company one of my groups that reports to me also handles all interconnect requests so when a landfill or a wastewater treatment plant or a dairy farm wants to connect to our system and inject clean natural gas they come to us and and work with us to do that a lot of renewable natural gas is um uh put to CNG vehicles or compressed natural gas vehicles which are much especially when it's RNG or very clean running sort of Transportation even even if it's brown gas into a CNG vehicle which we also have a business that does this uh it's much cleaner than diesel which has a lot of pollutants around socks and knocks that come along with it the natural gas does not um so um we we see it as a key component we think there's um you know it's it's not the end-all to be all for natural gas obviously the the potential is not as high as the demand today but we see it as part of the puzzle and it's something that can be done today right it's the technology is commercialized uh and it's widely deployed already um it is a bit of a premium uh renewable natural gas um costs somewhere between three and five times Brown gas um but it can be cheaper at least today than other sort of decarbonization Technologies um and a lot of that is because you know RNG um you know it's technically methane when it goes in the system and you don't have to modify equipment or home heating applications or anything like that whereas other potential sources of fuels even if clean might require costly costly upgrades um as part of the program again it's it's a voluntary program but we like to be very transparent with our customers we do an annual report uh we have a lot of good information on our website uh we work through um two uh highly um regarded uh certification uh organizations out there for our carbon offsets we work through what is called the American carbon registry we do a pretty rigorous process through them as well as our developer and then as well as us ourselves we we kind of did a our own due diligence on the projects that we're investing in and taking carbon offsets from to make sure that we we were comfortable with the quality of those uh and then the same on the renewable natural gas to make sure that these are indeed coming from bio bio sources that are being captured and cleaned up and um making sure that those environmental attributes are traceable and therefore we can retire them once we've purchased them on behalf of our customers as they enroll in the program and continue to be on the program and that's it for me um relatively short and sweet uh again I'll I'll end with sort of a um you know just a high level thing you know we believe that you know again you know obviously methane uh when combusted emit CO2 um there's not a lot of great Solutions today to help mitigate some of those impacts we're offering uh what is very much a voluntary program um uh to our customers to have an impact today and and encourage some of the development of these Technologies while in the interim VTA gases pursuing um some of these other Technologies like ccs and hydrogen and seeing if there are not some ways to incorporate them into our sort of Supply as we move forward foreign I guess with that I guess uh I will touch on I don't cover it in this presentation but uh some of the other interesting things we're doing at the gas utility on the Upstream side so we purchased quite a bit of natural gas for our customers uh in other parts of the country we uh recently launched a bit of a pilot program to uh Source response what they call responsibly sourced gas uh RSG it's um essentially certified very low methane intensity so I um some of the Commissioners were mentioning methane leaks things of that nature so we are starting to step into the market of acquiring very low methane intensity which means it's another fancy word for how much methane is emitted during the production and transportation of this natural gas uh and sourcing that for a for a small premium for our customers uh on our own utility operations um as some of you may know we've we've got a pretty robust uh what we call gas renewal program where we are actively replacing older pipes that are uh many decades old at this point uh prone to leaks um and making sure that we replace them with um much higher quality much more reliable less prone to leaks much less prone to leaks uh high density plastic as opposed to Bare steel and cast iron to make sure that they are uh are as clean as possible as we do that as well as changing some of our own operations around blow downs and as well as retrofitting our some of our other equipment to make sure methane is not emitted into the atmosphere all right I think we have a question open things up for questions yeah uh commissioner couldn't uh yeah so I had a question about the clean Vision natural gas program so I know you said that it um the offsets were like standardized for households um and but you also said that there was like one commercial customer for the commercial customer are there offsets like dependent on how many how much they use or is that also standardized no no for the for the larger uh commercial and Industrial customers we are doing sort of uh I guess the best way to say it is bespoke sort of Arrangements right so we've got some customer that customer is is larger than a residential so they will purchase more offsets and more RNG than a typical residential customer and it'll be based on their actual usage for the year um other and then we also are changing the mix some some of the larger customers have shown interest in going 100 offset some have wanted more RNG and that type of thing so with those it's very much a sort of bilateral agreement between us and them on what they want to do we felt that you know simplifying the program to an average residential home was with a just a much easier way to reach a larger number of uh kind of smaller customers that sign up through uh the phone or sign up to the website and things like that questions Mr Berkowitz uh HJ thank you for your time here with us tonight appreciate your presentation um so I'm I'm reflecting on what we've heard uh both from you and from Ben earlier um I personally see the value in the electric uh voluntary green pricing program for example if you're like me and you know you live and work in a building with limited or no solar potential um you know it uh truly does seem to create new renewable energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions though I think there's some questions around the additionality and kind of the one for one and as we were talking about on the gas program I'm a little less um excited about this and kind of candidly a little bit skeptical about a few components um you know it sounds like um it's fully offset programs um you mentioned carbon capture sequestration the forestry programs um hydrogen and renewable natural gas all of these are technologies that perpetuate fossil fuel sources and actually might take us further away from a renewable powered and electrified economy um I I've got like a few things where in particular I think it doesn't Vibe with kind of what the city of Ann Arbor uses as our criteria for trying to you know projects that would meet our sustainability goals and I would invite you to reflect and respond to some of these but a few things that jump out to me one is first and foremost on the equity front you know offsets don't uh help people or communities directly impacted where that gas is extracted or burned often you know marginalized in environmental justice sacrifice Zones near both the extraction sites and the gas plants themselves not to mention you know this is not improving People's Health who are operating indoor gas appliances like stoves or home heating um also as we're talking about removable natural gas there are concerns around agricultural digesters you know this potentially props up demand for factory farms or industrial agricultural operations which them in and of themselves are huge greenhouse gas emitters but they also create local Air Pollution issues they contribute to the water pollution problems currently ailing Lake Erie there are issues with cost Effectiveness I know you had mentioned that removable natural gas is three to five times you know more expensive than uh traditional gas most of these offsets like carbon capture are exceptionally high cost they're a bad deal for rate payers actually and alternatively like Renewables are a very good deal we just heard about how essentially the capacity and the energy credit for solar and wind is so high that people are essentially getting paid by DTE to sign up for you know more Renewables um but it kind of seems like that's the the opposite situation on this gas program also like it sounds uh like a lot of these offsets have very limited capacities um so um I just recently read a report from the Public Service Commission uh that said that renewable natural gas its full potential is only six percent of today's you know gas consumption and it would be dramatically more expensive as you kind of ramp that up as well um you know it kind of seems like these are things that are really maybe better suited for just like offsetting Niche components of the economy that are like near impossible to decarbonize otherwise and instead we should be like looking at Renewables and storage and efficiency and demand response as kind of the actual way to meet the challenge that gas poses in our system currently um so sorry I've I've said more than enough but I'll I'll leave it there is I would love to just hear Reflections about like um is there a reason why we can't make Renewables and storage and like efficiency part of the gas offset program here um well I guess Renewables as in you know we I I don't work for the electric utility so if you're asking about renewable electricity and storage of electricity that would be a question for uh the electric side and you know Vin did talk about our IRP which incorporates um a significant amount of that um so you know am I going to sit here and say that electrification won't happen no absolutely not it will but I think there is a transition period here where in particular in a cold climate weather cold climate place like Michigan you know natural gas will you know for for some time be the more uh reliable and affordable way to heat your home in in sort of the depths of the winter now does that mean it has to be the shoulder months as well does that mean it has to be the mild the mild winners as well um but to say that the natural gas system isn't going to have some sort of use in the future I'm not uh you know I think many of us are not entirely convinced of that now will it play will we use a lot less of it most likely so right but it might provide an excellent source of safety uh and reliability that you know a full electrification Society again particularly in a place like this if you want to talk about the southeast or the Southwest absolutely right like uh home electrification is there now and it works um pretty well um you know it may it may have some cost issues with it but that's you know neither here nor there um and you know look we look at our voluntary program as something that we can do today um you know to help um you know offset some of the emissions that our customers are seeing for home heating which you know again like I said the the solutions to that are probably not in the short term they're probably more of a nearer longer term as we transition to something that has a bit more of that um and again it does um encourage the development of some of these projects which may not have otherwise been developed particularly on the RNG side I mean um I'm not in the dairy industry so I mean if I'm not sure it's DT's place to advocate for the dairy industry to be shut down um but you know to the extent they want to sort of be cleaner today uh this helps encourage that sort of development commissioner zelman yeah I just have a couple of clarifying questions so the first one is does DTE expect gas consumption to increase in the coming decades and if so does this mean DTE plans to expand their methane-oriented operations and infrastructure in the long term and then I also have a question about how DTE plans to invest in the sourcing of this renewable methane so the strategies in Ann Arbor's climate plan include building a circular economy to reduce garbage waste and encouraging Less meat consumption to reduce participation in animal agriculture so how much methane could DTE feasibly Source from just the other options we heard like food waste and Wastewater sludge because like to be frank renewable natural gas as a term sounds like a way of moving the discussion away from fracking while optically utilizing like language popularized by environmentalists right um the on the renewable natural gas um again we don't um we're you know we're we as a gas utility we're not actively developing these projects right we are just interacting with them and helping them uh interconnect with our system and and put their methane on our system to the extent they can do that in an economical way which is their prerogative not ours um you know we are sort of bound by tariffs when asked uh if someone can interconnect with us we you know unless it's just completely uneconomic and unfeasible we can't say no um and nor nor would we do that um uh again on the meat and dairy side uh that's I think not for us to you know opine on if that demand declines uh over time um that's okay too um as long as that's you know as as part of the part of the salute all of the above solution uh that's okay um what was your other question on your first question I'm sorry um does DTE expect gas consumption to increase you know uh to be honest with you part of our um overall reduction of customer Downstream emissions has a large Energy Efficiency component to it so we expect to decline overall uh consumption of our product um as we go over time so that's through um you know your your like increased Energy Efficiency measures whether that be the basics which everyone should be doing no matter what um insulation better Windows things like that but also exploring new technologies that um may continue to utilize natural gas but in a much much more efficient way commission over pick hi I want to thank you HJ for coming talking with us I am uh I want to talk about one reality of our decarbonization plan in Ann Arbor that I really worry about I also I'm I'm quite disheartened that it appears DT really isn't that committed to decarbonization you know it's clear that one of our biggest challenges in Ann Arbor is going to be getting off gas we have to get off gas we have to get off gas by 2035 or 40.
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and that's going to be really hard particularly with respect to heating you're right about that and the reason it's going to be hard I don't think is due to the uh really cold temperatures I'll get to that in a second I think it's due to the fact that you know that's a lot of infrastructure in homes and the pace at which we decarbonize uh Heating in the uh will largely depend on you know how fast people can replace their gas not just appliances but their heating which is the expensive part with electric you know electric is the future electric is the only way we can decarbonize obviously gas is not decarbonizing burning gas to heat your home is crazy uh in a world where we're trying to decarbonize the the thing that I I feel is a little disingenuous and when your response is when the Michigan climate Solutions Council the governor's Council was discussing the issue of these really cold temperatures solution that Consumer Energy suggested uh is you know obviously we can't build three times as much electrical generation a renewable electrical generation as we need just so we have that extra capacity during really cold periods and of course during real cold periods too you're not guaranteed that we'll have the the wind blowing and the sun shining to the significant you know to the the amount needed so they suggested this renewable natural gas solution not in the way you did DTE is doing that seems to be suggesting but rather uh to power peakers you know in other words the gas plants would still be there uh they wouldn't be running routinely they'd only be running on the really cold days to generate more electricity I mean one of the reasons this is important is it's hard for me to believe I mean inconceivable I think that homeowners residents even commercial uh building owners are going to want to have both gas heating infrastructure and electric heating infrastructure in their buildings that's crazy we got to replace all the gas heating with electric and so whatever the solution is has got to be electric and I just want to get your I mean the IDE it seems like you're trying to guarantee dete will have a gas business in 20 60 20 70.
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uh something like that by trying to prolong folks having gas heating in their homes and build other buildings we really got to get that out of there and if DT is committed to carbon neutrality they got to be committed to electrifying not just appliances but also Heating in all our buildings and of course the University of Michigan has come up with a different solution which is to use ground Source heat pumps and I I'll admit that that's going to be too expensive for a lot of existing homeowners and building owners but it's another way to leave gas behind we have to leave gas behind for heating building Heating yeah I mean again you know I'm not a policy guy I mean if if people want to transition away from gas we're fine with that I mean um you know again you know it has to be done under you know clear and concise policies right I mean um we're not Advocates of mandates uh of that sort of stuff we we do believe in customer Choice under the uh you know Under the Umbrella of the what the law says um and if the law doesn't say that then you know we will continue to do what our customers ask of us uh to some extent within reason obviously um we we believe that the the natural gas infrastructure system may have a role to be played in a climate like ours again like I said that's not necessarily a lot of usage but it is it could become you know there are interesting Technologies being developed around dual fuel systems you say that you know that's um uh crazy but there there there's actually some pretty good equipment out there that works pretty well firing both dual gas and electricity as far as heat pumps it greatly reduces the use of natural gas but it maintains a system efficiency that's quite High when you know air source heat pumps do decline quite precipitously in efficiency in very cold climate so I understand that but it's still like we got to stop burning gas that's the whole point we don't want dual use heating if people are going to spend money they got to spend their money on electric heating it'll be cheaper than the Dual and who cares about efficiency if we burn any natural gas we're increasing the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere and we are worsening the climate change crisis and I'll just switch over you know and it doesn't help to have DTE try and promote this stuff that's what you're doing and I just don't I just don't think that's right um you know you're in Ann Arbor right you know and everyone has like you said and we all have choice and freedom and all that stuff but you know I want to know if DT is really on board with carbon neutrality it doesn't sound like it at all and the last thing I'll bring up is a different topic just because I happen I'm at the University of Michigan and studied uh climate ecosystem change for much of my career and one of the things you see out west right now is a lot of carbon Going Up in Smoke in other words people are um hoping that forests are going to be used for natural climate Solutions and you know Carbon offsets and instead what we're getting out west is a net release of carbon to the atmosphere and the reason for that out west is because it's hot it's getting hotter and because of the heat it's drying out the soils and the vegetation atmosphere can hold more moisture just like plants wilting on a hot day in your garden and that means um it's pretty Unstoppable and this is something that isn't a drought Everyone likes to talk about it just as being a drought um but the worst route we've ever had in recorded history in the west is in the United States for that matter is occurring now it's not occurring just in the west it's occurring in the high plains what's going on is called a redification in other words with climate warming we're drying out soils and vegetation increasingly around the entire continent I wrote paper on this and the um the thing that really worries me about our offsets and our state forests I've said this to my our colleagues in the state as well is that increasingly our summer hot spells are turning into you know dry spells or turning into droughts and they're going to get much worse if we allow climate change we continue burning natural gas for example allow climate change to continue and that'll that'll mean all these carbon offsets that are uh in in based on forests I'll go up and smoke here and there in Michigan too or the forest will just be weakened the trees like you already see look at Ash or hemlocks or Maples or Beach all these tree species are being affected by disease and pests and it doesn't help them at all that they're being stressed by warm or drier conditions so these these offsets based on forests are are just not reliable anymore and again I think we got to go with what is reliable which is renewable electric power and electrifying everything and I just wish DTE would realize this and stop fighting the rest of everyone basically and get on board with carbon neutrality right thank you for your comments Mr Berkowitz yeah I just wanted to ask um kind of uh following some of the things that commissioner pack and others have said and I raised earlier um it sounds like DTE has the flexibility to kind of create whatever programs kind of make sense or you'd be interested or work with whatever Partners make sense for these offsets for the guests voluntary green pricing program I'm wondering if there would be any way y'all would ever consider you know working with a group that say like um I pay extra you know on my bill monthly I pay that surcharge that goes into say a bucket of money that would then be used to help Electrify people's homes or businesses or institutional buildings and maybe improve the efficiency of them you know tighten up the building shell do installation remove asbestos repair you know roofs things that are home health and safety but also efficiency upgrades is that something DTE would ever considered or are your hands tied in regard to like doing a program like this well I mean we have pretty robust Energy Efficiency programs today right these are set in law and we're passed back in 08 um so we spend um you know well well north of 100 million dollars on Energy Efficiency programs those are not more and more focused on low-income communities uh and those are your like I said exactly some of the stuff you said you know better insulation better Roofing uh better Windows um things like that better efficient appliances uh I mean there's still quite a bit of low hanging fruit out there on just general appliances on them being more efficient both on the electric and gas side um the law you know the law does you know when we get into sort of promoting uh fuel switching uh that is something that we are investigating particularly in our in the propane areas where it makes a lot of economic sense for customers to get off of what we call Delivered fuels um which are you know frankly worse than natural gas there's not only the the propane that um uh emits more CO2 on a heat based content but then just the truck traffic that goes across roads delivering propane so we are experimenting with pilot programs to convert um some of our electric customers over to um uh off of propane and onto electricity uh entirely so um you know in the gas territory we we don't have a program to actively promote switching although we more than happy to support that to the extent it happens um um but you know that's an interesting question that um you know frankly I should take back to our senior leadership and and think a little bit more about thank you much appreciated I have a few questions if I may could you go back to the slide that shows um the reductions and uh how they're broken out into three different savings categories there we are um I have a quick question just for understanding sake um there's a targeted 35 reduction in emissions from customer end use that's essentially in a sense your customers scope 3 emissions is that a good way of putting that correct and what that means if they're going to be reduced 35 percent that means 65 percent will remain and continue to be emitted into the atmosphere is that correct uh that that is correct okay and I think that's exactly what commissioner overpeck and others are getting at is we need to get off of gas we realize you don't set policy um we realize that DTE took exception to the 820 plan in that Ann Arbor says we want to completely get off of burning fossil fuels and Electrify 100 percent um but again this is I think the message that we're asking you to take back to your management um is that this is really unacceptable from a climate perspective and a long-term perspective in terms of ecological health human health and so on and so forth um my second Point um was there are uh utilities Natural Gas Utilities that are redefining or looking at redefining I should be um forthright here um their business model and instead of saying we are a natural gas utility they're saying we are a heat delivery utility and um what they're looking at is saying um in in the end what what's happening is we're we're burning natural gas to generate Heat and what if we just simply Supply heat um and I um would recommend that you look at what's going on in Boston in Massachusetts um there is a a group that's sort of behind it um with the acronym h-e-e-t and that's what they're looking at doing is replacing um Natural Gas infrastructure with uh essentially geothermal infrastructure it could be either ground Source or it could be Wastewater or it could be any number of different sources and really just re-examining the business model so it's consistent with what scientists are telling us absolutely has to happen and the other thing is that from a business perspective at least my perspective is and I'm I'm a business person or an ex-business person but it seems to make sense to me I don't I don't I'm not working in your industry but it's clear that a lot of customers are going to be moving away from natural gas because people are becoming more and more aware of the climate crisis they recognize that one of the ways of combating it is to Electrify fully Electrify and so what you're going to have is you're going to have a remaining infrastructure that you're going to have to maintain across the entire geographic area with fewer and fewer customers and so that means the maintenance costs of those are going to be essentially largely in the same you know the only line that you have is going to maybe to individual houses somebody's going to turn off a valve at their house but everything else is going to have need to be maintained and you're going to take that fixed cost and you're going to have to distribute that over a dwindling supply of customers and that's just not going to be sustainable and from an equity point of view frankly the people that are going to be able to Electrify first are people like me that have fully electrified and that's going to leave other customers and Ember commissioner McCoy mentioned this earlier in terms of equity the people that are going to be left are the people that can't afford to buy their induction stove and their heat pump this and their in and so on and so forth and they're going to be carrying these ever increasing costs for maintaining on a per unit basis so they're per customer basis they're going to be carrying a higher and higher cost so I think these are some of the the things that we're getting at from multiple different angles from the climate angle from the equity angle from the business model angle we we just see these as being inconsistent with the direction that Ann Arbor wants to move and we believe that all municipalities and frankly the globe is going to be moving so I know that's not formed in in uh it's not in the form of a question um it's just a a request that you consider this holistically and I think in doing so uh DTE has to consider that actually there are other business models where it can continue to grow by growing its electrical supply it can grow by being a heat delivery utility as opposed to a natural gas utility and it can still be you know a functioning very profitable ongoing utility but one that's consistent with the direction that we all need to move in so thank you for allowing me to make those comments as well as my fellow Commissioners because we're now at 8 11.
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do we have any other questions or comments for HJ thanks very much we appreciate this um and uh it's it really helps clarify the program for us which is really what we wanted to do um and we appreciate you also um being willing to take our questions and comments you're welcome yep thank you great comments and I definitely will take a lot of this back great okay fellow Commissioners we are approaching the end of the meeting um the only thing that we have left are updates updates from OSI um Joe I think you're going to be able to provide those then we have updates from Commissioners and working groups and then we have public comment and then that is basically it so Joe take it away sure um I will first say feel free to check out our newsletter that went out last week that'll have more in-depth and comprehensive updates um but just a few highlights in there I mentioned at the last meeting um the Community Action Network in Bryant received a grant from mishta to uh fund some of the upgrade work we're doing there right now we're in the process of finalizing everything and working making sure to prop up the structure of what we are doing there with mishta so we can start getting people in line in the system so we can start making um those upgrades to their homes um additionally we just kicked off the fourth cohort of our a20 ambassadors last week um got a wonderful group of people who are going to be going through that uh 12-week cohort before they uh start working on their sustainability projects out in the community um we also one of the FYI programs from CTN was just focusing on the race 2-0 challenge I think that came out last week so just serving a reminder that the race to zero challenge is ongoing throughout the rest of this year um and even though we are rapidly approaching the end of the year people can still sign up or if they've been involved they can continue their involvement uh so just wanted to note that is going on um and there's also another solarized cohort that is upcoming at the end of the with a meeting scheduled at the end of month uh with another uh another couple that are in the wing so if people are looking to get solar those are continuing to be ongoing thank you Joe Joya uh posed a question to Missy she answered me in brief and your update may be as brief as what she told me was um was about um the status of the landfill solar project did she talk to you all about that and so you could provide an update um I don't have information on my end but I can check in poker to make sure she responds to that so very briefly what Missy told me is that there's no change in which she had told us several months ago um I um I think it was also in a meeting but also there was some email exchanges I think as well and um so I'll let Missy speak authoritatively to this but what I think the situation is is that with some of the supply chain eruptions and also with the Department of Commerce actions uh the price of Solar has gone up and that has jeopardized the project it doesn't look to be financially feasible right now I think also frankly as we heard today the my green power offering is going to be attractive to a lot of customers here and that may undercut um the interest in the landfill solar so right now it's in a holding pattern uh that's my understanding so updates from commissioners well let's start with updates um from Council uh council member Grace anything of import um if there is my my brain is not recalling it at this moment so I'll see if anything triggers but very good uh updates from Commissioners and then I'll get to working groups my hand raised but I think it Blends in with my uh background in the day in a building um I have two uh one is just general energy news um that last week Washington state became the first state um in the country to ban uh gas heating in new residential buildings which is incredibly exciting um and that building code will go into effect in July um and of course I thought that was really relevant to our discussions around Banning natural gas heating shout out to Ken Garber who I hope is listening who continually reminds us about the importance of that um but I I figured that maybe looking at that when acknowledging it but also perhaps looking to Washington for you know our own direction as as we consider that and the city could be useful for those in the commission who were working on that um and then the second thing is an issue that I had raised privately to chair mersky and and our council member Liaisons but um two of my colleagues in C's are residents of um a building that is being demolished on division for an Energy Efficiency development that is being considered next week um on Division and it just brought to me I think this continued issue that we need to work on on considering you know the ways in which housing and housing affordability and access are pitted against Energy Efficiency at times um and things that we continue to continually need to consider as especially I think renters get put in a place even when they're long-term renters like PhD students at Seas who care about Energy Efficiency um you know get get put in difficult situations that they're in absolutely no control over and you know in different ways than homeowners who may be choosing to make um upgrades to their homes or selling it and demolishing it and that kind of thing so I hope that's something that we can consider um you know as a commission as things come up or can intentionally create a working group around um because you know I think that's something that's always on my mind but it came up as incredibly relevant for two of my friends um uh this week thanks for your comments on that by the way um Ember and her two friends and I are meeting on Friday to discuss this further and by the way this is not probably just going to be a one-off or couple off situation if the green rental housing program uh passes uh it's more and more likely there will be um energy upgrades some of them most of them probably will not be anywhere near the scope of the project that ember described um but it could be that there are renters that are displaced um as as this program is implemented so um it's it's definitely something that's um worthy of the commissions uh attention and further discussion commissioner McKenna thank you chairman Murphy I'd like to make a brief comment about a a bit of a narrative shift and then there's no way that we could all adopt this or that I'm even proposing that we make a hard turn um but you know I think I've brought this up maybe at the last meeting in termerskine I've discussed it briefly in the time in between but a lot of times we talk about motivation for climate action coming from really serious um kind of like atmospheric and and weather changes associated with climate like we heard from term Mercy earlier about you know the picture of climate hell and I think that that is you know something that we're probably all lined with but at the same time I think we could make it more personal and I'd like to see um you know both this commission and sort of like the city more broadly um when we're motivating action towards climate talk more about um those personal impacts um and impacts for our citizens and and to you know to our fellow Americans which is like the worst term ever um and so I don't know if that means some more research I think you know what I think of is lives lost property damage who is feeling those impacts like just more explicitly like what are those impacts um damage to homes displacement you know we hear about Michigan being a place where a lot of displaced people are going to be coming um from climate change and I think that um painting a more like Michigan and local picture and and human picture of what's happening is a really important shift that we need to start making um so I just like to kind of put that out there for now if anyone's interested in talking about this further definitely would love to develop it more right now it's just an idea but I want to have some more consistent language that has that that human element thank you very much for bringing that up and reminding me and um I would add to your list two things human health and I would add simply suffering I mean if if you just think of suffering and the Very people are suffering because of what is happening it's it's really immense so uh commissioner thank you um and to commissioner McKenna's appoint the joint office between the World Meteorological organizational World Health Organization just released a new sort of portal and Clearinghouse for climate health related impacts and it you can find that at climate health clima halth.info and if you go to slash hazards it points out and identifies many of the impacts Associated directly with health and health outcomes associated with climate climate change and many of them many of these are also tied to um energy relate energy related uh impacts both upstream and downstream so just as a point of reference for some of some of those as well rate on any other updates I think I said what I wanted to say um anyone else any updates from working groups anything uh Carlene that you want to mention I would like to mention an update I am I've been um one of the leads on the Transportation electrification uh committee and um back in in 2017 we started looking at ways that we can impact the adoption electric vehicles uh through policy and so that is how the Ann Arbor's EV Readiness organs came about existing EV Readiness ordinance and since then um the group has been looking at other ways that we can support the development um the delivery of EV charging Solutions um in particular the private sector not through not the city projects but but private projects and um by creating things like guidance manuals uh for for installation of charging systems and other things at this point based on um the input from City staff that we're going to be yeah down I don't know it's downgrading our our committee from an active committee to an ad hoc committee and uh we're looking forward to um renewed um engagement with City staff on on the opportunities that are available moving forward that's my update thank you um any other updates I did remember one and it is related to another topic on the agenda and that is um Missy and I and Shannon gibrandel and Brett Leonard are still looking at having a joint planning and energy commission meeting um we don't have a definite date yet but I did want to mention that the Planning Commission is looking at something that was brought up earlier about natural gas bans and that is the possibility of um doing something through zoning to essentially require electrification possibly even additional kinds of things although that becomes difficult because it starts to get into direct conflicts with building code and energy code but uh they already had a discussion on this in the ordinance revisions committee and I believe it's being taken up by the entire commission at its next meeting which actually may be because they meet on Tuesday nights so I'm not sure if it's tonight or next Tuesday or something like that you might check in registrar if you're interested um but we we will definitely take up these topics again as well as potentially other carrots and sticks that we might be able to use to green construction um one could potentially even be connection fees and things like that because Ann Arbor connection fees are quite significant now whether that's financially feasible is another matter but it's something to that's definitely being looked at so um we'll come back to uh other other agenda items but I wanted to give that update um right now we have public input um and so this is our second opportunity for members of the public to be able to come in and uh that you would have three minutes to comment and if you are interested um please call 888-788 0099 or 877-853-5247 and enter meeting ID 956-871-87876 and that this information is also displayed on the meeting agenda and the video feed um see staff will select callers that have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of your phone number in order to electronically raise your hand uh to indicate your desire to speak please press star nine on your phone and then you will hear an automated message that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area and so that we may hear you clearly and then please again state your name and your address at the beginning of your comments I don't have any raised hands yet but okay we'll wait a minute or so so while we're waiting for 30 seconds think about agenda items for the next meeting and one of our next meetings will most likely be a work session where we sort of plan out the next year as we've done in the past that potentially could be December it potentially could be January depends on what we can line up um for December and January but obviously it would be something like we'd like to do in the next let's say two maximum three months but um we'll we'll take those as we hear whether or not there's anybody on the line anybody yet Joe No Hands raised okay well I'm gonna look for hands from you as far as agenda items for the next meeting okay we still have a list from the beginning of the year we're pretty far down that list but we will take a look at that I already mentioned a couple things already and uh you can always submit agenda items uh after the meeting uh some of you have done that already so we have those also on the list one of those was something that Alex had suggested on I'm looking at Hydro we just need to get the right person lined up to be able to do that um commissioner Calvin Garcia what's your thought thank you uh just uh how to put a little placeholder for us to be able to have an update on the uh energy concierge program development to see where we are because it would be a really great um you know place to not only just you know provide information and guidance and support but the one program that was being looked at can have people being subscribed you know to the you know in the process of improving their own uh offices or dwellings and then we can share what we're learning with each other and that could be part of the human element as far as sharing our our challenges and and you know collectively coming up with with ideas for how we can really start pulling into our lifestyles um a lower carbon um usage so thanks duly noted and I'm quite certain that that will be somewhat dependent on whether or not the climate millage passes because we will have additional resources to expand those kinds of programs and we will be much more limited if it doesn't so um with that thought uh we will all wait with baited breath on the outcome of the election I'm sure in many many regards um and maybe that's something that we will be talking about in future meetings because that will determine a lot not only just whether the climate Village passes but a lot of other things so thank you all for hanging in there I thought it was an interesting discussion and um I appreciate working together with all of you very much and as I told our new Commissioners I'm really excited to have all of you it's uh it's stimulating to work with all of you so I thank you for the evening tonight and uh I hope you have a good rest of your evening um it is what time 8 30 and I declare this meeting adjourned thanks all
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foreign okay I'm gonna call them meeting to order at 6 pm backpack is wrong this is correct um I'm gonna make a motion to adopt the agenda with one change of putting 9.4 before 9.1 just for presentation so I'll need a second oh look at her get in there um all in favor aye aye aye motion carries four to zero go ahead and do the pledge foreign okay before we um before we go on to the uh board meeting minutes I want to um congratulate Dr Wyman he was um he received the ASA superintendent of the year for the medium School District so congratulations [Applause] okay so um we need approval of the minutes does everybody have any questions on the minute if not I'll take a motion I moved to approve the minutes my second all in favor hi hi motion carries no no I I have to abstain since I wasn't at the last minute three to zero with one I'm still one one okay now we have a superintendent report thank you madam president um on the December board meeting you're going to have a couple different evaluation situations going on you have the board evaluation as Acosta will get you guys a copy of the board evaluation that's just using the current policy exhibit if you could fill it out and get it back to her by uh December 2nd then we can compile all the results and and I'll bring it to the meeting for discussion the same with my evaluation we will be an executive session for that we will as you remember last year we used one from asba but this year we went back to the traditional one that we've used in the past so we'll just go ahead and and share that one with you same basic timeline so we'll get it out to you tomorrow um if you could just uh print it out and it will summarize the the information that you guys put for that uh you will also have uh my first uh semester uh performance plan uh pay plan at that meeting so I bring all that up because that means we have two evaluations and performance pay review it is a special session 2 in order to get into some of that and so the question is do you want to hold a special meeting for those three things do you want to hold it before the regular meeting do you want to hold it after the regular meeting since I've been here we've done it multiple ways and so it's it's your whatever you would like but you need to let me know so that we can plan accordingly in terms of of when when to do it I will tell you before maybe an issue uh or only in the sense that asba has a new board member orientation on the 14th I'm not sure if Miss Tucker and and Mr Beach who is now officially elected to the board to begin in January are going to be able to make that but if they are uh it'll be I believe it's either at the Biltmore or up a Desert Ridge and therefore trying to get down here we're going to be scrambling to get here at six o'clock for regular meeting so so just keep that in mind in terms I was does it have to be on a Wednesday no that's what I'm saying if you wanted to do it on Wednesday as part of the regular board meeting you probably have to go after if you want to do it on a different day it's just a matter of whatever day um you can all figure it out I can send out some dates tomorrow to see or you can send me some dates let's do that okay uh then on some other stuff we want to thank rural metro and especially the local firefighters Union uh they made a gracious donation of fourteen hundred dollars to the district for the Thanksgiving holiday food drive um yes uh that donation will ensure that about 100 families uh from around the the district will have a Thanksgiving meal um we'll be working on distribution out of the district office um uh next week 16th and 17th so uh we had a little bit of a situation and and we reached out to them and they responded within literally within minutes uh with that gracious donation and I think it's important to show that just because we do have so many good partners around the district helping us out in so many different ways and so very very appreciative of that I'm not going to go through all the information on the student enrollment just suffice it to say that as a general rule we're still holding the same pattern on all four of these different uh enrollment numbers again a slight decline this year of of 200 plus students uh varies a little bit from from month to month depending on any number of different factors so we'll continue to monitor it and as we come to you with um uh the revision of the budget in December we will have a little more detail on some of the specifics of how we intend to address uh the shortfall that that brings so I'll just save that for for next month Let's see we do have uh the good news is there's lots of outstanding things happening in the district so we do want to take some time to do any number of celebrations tonight first business department I think they're in the back they were recently notified as a district that once again we received the 200 to 2021 comprehensive annual financial report by gfoa or government finance office Association or certificate of excellence for for certificate of achievement of excellence in financial reporting this is uh given to governmental entities around the U.S and Canada uh and I think the key piece to it is it states in the press release that the department demonstrates a constructive Spirit of full disclosure full disclosure to clearly communicate its Financial Story the district has received the award for nine years in a row and I think it's just a way for our community to see and understand that we are good stewards of uh taxpayer dollars and Mrs cook in the whole department if they could stand up we just want to thank them for the outstanding job that they've done [Applause] with HR we have about 10 different opportunities to go out and look for recruiting events from now until the end of the school year we'll have both in person and virtual recruiting fairs we'll also have some internal recruiting fairs the spring Job Fair summer job fair so just know that we are working hard it's a tough Market out there for all professions and and education is no different to that end uh HR is partnering with ASU and more specifically Dr Kurt Palmer for the opportunity for our employees to get degrees those could be a parapro as an example trying to get a teaching degree or it could be similar where teachers trying to get Advanced degrees Masters or even a doctorate and so we've we've had one session already and another one or excuse me two sessions already to talk to staff who may be interested in in continuing their education and again trying to grow an internal pipeline for teachers as we have a shortage with with teachers and we're also working with with CAC we've had a couple meetings to again work with their education college and and again more degrees and opportunities uh so that staff can go ahead and get a degrees but don't necessarily have to travel to downtown campus for ASU or something like that so that's exciting stuff for us we had two teachers this recently received a 2500 Fiesta Bowl teacher grants those were displayed are provided to teachers from around the state Levi Hoagland up at the high school got one for his economics class to purchase resources focused on finance and economics and Catherine Holmes a first grade teacher at Harmon uh received one to help update the classroom library and the new seating options so again our teachers competing with teachers from around the states and being recognized for what they're doing on the kid level uh we had our marching band earned first place at Corona del Sol Invitational back on the 15th of October but then in that particular day was if you probably don't remember but very similar today out there today a little bit of hurricane activity a lot of rain but they persevered and then this past weekend down at Desert Vista they performed in the state semifinals and they finished nine out of 18 schools of those 18 schools the top eight go to the state finals which is in a couple weeks so they did very well the margin of difference between eighth and 9th Place was 0.25 of one uh one point so they did an outstanding job and over the last three years they've continued to improve they went from 16th to 12th or 10th I believe Tonight Tonight three years in a row so so there to be commended for the job they did our Student Government at the high school again trying to look at Partnerships student body president Catherine Alvarez junior class publicity director of Brooklyn Lowe and junior class sponsor Darby Pyle presented 50 blankets with handwritten letters of encouragement from blankets of Hope to the Hope Women's Center just as part of the the student government is really working on uh Community Care or service projects and this is just one example to date Community cares has raised over four thousand dollars in support of individuals and organizations in our community so I think it's key that the public understands that this is truly a two-way street that although we have Partners like rural metro and others that donate to us our kids are also doing fantastic things to donate back to our community so it's truly a outstanding partnership Mr Hill was recently notified by the Arizona thespians he's administrator of the year in the east region he was nominated by Mr Smith and is just an award to demonstrate exceptional courage and Devotion to Performing Arts programs at over individual schools and he'll be recognized at the state thespian competition I believe it's in December but it might be in January we also had uh Kennedy Nichols a senior uh competing in the 100 meter backstroke and first alternate and 100 freestyle at State for the swim team she's been on the swim team for four years and was team captain so it was uh congratulations Kinley for that and the boys cross country team qualify for state by finishing six overall so Jackson bodell was ranked 31st and Luke Jensen 26th in the division Hunter Claire is a receiver and a DB received it was a state winner for the 2022 Heisman high school scholarship that's a scholarship between the Heisman Trophy and Wendy's and they select 50 state winners and then from those 50 state winners they select a dozen students that will be a national finalists and then uh they'll select a a finalist and Hunter is representing our state I don't know how many kids applied but when I looked at the list which had about I'll say 12 or 15 names on it there was 184 pages of of kids that across the country that applied for this so a very prestigious award uh from hunt for Hunter to be recognized as a state finalist Combs Middle School 9th Annual Pinal County Business education Workforce Development Summit they were highlighted for their work with major Clarity we had Anthony Elrod and Abe Wong from the Combs rundown create a video so thanks to Mr Scroggins and Mr Taylor for their help and it was shown to all the participants and that would be a Workforce Development for adults just kind of showing what's happening in schools around the county and they chose the work we're doing with major Clarity in the Middle School to highlight so that was a very positive benefit for our kids to show what's what's going on in our district they also had second place out of 11 middle schools for the math competition with Claire Helm and Victoria Peterson placing second Wyatt Shu as a team and then Wyatt Shupe and Finnegan Mooney placing third and fourth they're also doing very well in the sports so again good things happening down at the middle school Ranch Elementary has been doing an outstanding job getting parent activities had a steam night that had about approximately 250 students and parents coming to the school and just seeing what we have to offer with steam and then they also had a trunk or treat for the first time not sure how it was going to go it was a Friday October 21st and they had a ton of people show up for it it was just outstanding with lots of parents and and staff members really excited by the experience and already planned it for next year uh CTA uh doing a ton of fundraisers with PTO to provide additional resources we do have a canned food drive that's part of the what the rural metro donated for and because Mrs Schaffner loves to do this stuff she will get slimed if 1200 cans or food are donated you've got to love Elementary principles and they're willingness to get slimed um and then they're also having after school programs Kids in Motion curiosity clubs so just great things Harmon Elementary uh sixth graders are sixth graders participated in the 32nd annual Pinal County Attorney office anti-drug poster contest over 800 posters submitted and Kylie Vasquez was honored and recognized by the county attorney and local law enforcement officials in October and Maxwell freeze or fees uh top 40 would will also be honored so again it as you can see it doesn't matter whether it's Athletics academics uh the extracurriculars the Arts our kids are performing at the State national and local level so just wanted to highlight those activities I've listed some upcoming events just so you're aware of what's going on now for the next part we want to recognize some of our different employee groups and so I will call up their names and then I'll say a little bit about them but this first group is National education education support Professionals Day is next week as part of American Education week so representing the high school in the cafeteria is uh Maricela sharp if you come up if you're here the SEC secretary admin down at CCS Virginia cam Beats okay [Applause] a custodian representing custodians from CMS Rosalie Munoz Figueroa [Applause] we have a cafeteria Aid at CTA Alejandra Villegas [Applause] crossing guard at uh Ellsworth Randy Romero [Applause] custodian at Harmon Jessica Nunez foreign pro at Ranch Pam wambor front office staff at Simonton Janet Harvey [Music] Transportation a bus driver Andy storm [Music] [Applause] maintenance technician representing maintenance is arveen now we're gonna carry me I know I butchered that but I'm sure he's used to that uh rving is there District technology is a brooch [Applause] business office Karen Flynn [Applause] and marketing Priscilla almanza and and the reason we bring these people up before we let them uh before we let him sit down these are all the different support positions we have across our district and they're representative of the people that do a lot of behind the scenes work many of you may have seen them if if you're dealing with front office staff but they are constantly doing all the little things to make our lives um that much better in this in this District they do it in most cases unsung without a lot of recognition and so we just want to really take a chance take an opportunity to say thank you for all you do for our district you make it a special place so thank you we also have upcoming on the third Friday in November um is which next week would be for honoring substitutes so we have some substitutes that we've asked again to represent all of our subs so we have floralera Leyva [Applause] Nicole Horsley [Applause] Amber bear Dana Engel [Applause] Victor Butler Vanita Harris Dale wheeler Adriana Jimenez and Caitlyn Dean and let me tell you what when we as we see shortages and teacher staff uh not just in our district but around the country the the role of the substitute is even more critical uh and they're here on short notice uh helping us out we could not run our schools without them every single day um we just can't thank them enough it's an early morning call it's lessons in short notice um and so they come and they help us out every single day um over the way this is a plug for anybody out there that would like to be a sub where you can always use more subs but again we thank you so very much you make a difference and and Who We Are I know there's some students in the room that are going to be disappointed that Friday is a day off of school but we want to remind them that it's a really important day off of of school it is Veterans Day it falls on a second Friday in November and this year that's this Friday the on the 11th it was recognized as Armistice days in in 1919 was the first day coming out of the uh World War one uh President Wilson proclaimed the November 11th as the first commemoration of Armistice Day saying to us in America the reflections of armors today will be filled with solemn Pride of the heroism of those who died in country service and with gratitude for victory in 1938 Congress passed a law to Market as a legal holiday and in 1954 uh President Eisenhower signed a law that changed the name to its current form of Veterans Day it's celebrated well Holly is celebrated on the fourth Monday of October for much of the 70s President Ford signed a bill that may return to the observance to November 11th 78 today we use Veterans Day to celebrate all those who have served honorably in the military whether in War and Peace whereas Memorial Day is for remembering and honoring military personnel who died and service the country so we would like to take a moment to honor these following veterans I'm sure there's others but these were who we were given and thank them for the their service for our country and for all that they have done so we have Jack strible from Harmon Elementary with the Air Force thank you Justin Slater who's at Harmon Elementary in Simington he's with the Air Force served in the Air Force Mr Hill at the high school with the Navy David Nelson at the high school with the army [Applause] Vincent Jordan at the high school with the Air Force Edwin Boggs transportation in the Marines I know Danielle's here Danielle Pinkard in the district office with the Marines Michael Holmberg uh Holmberg from the high school with the army Zachariah Deans at the high school with National Guard [Applause] Brandon Pyle at the high school with the army Joy Rupert at the high school with the Navy Chelsea Carpenter Ellsworth Elementary the Navy Grant Q cook at Ellsworth with the Navy [Applause] Avery battle and maintenance with the Air Force [Applause] rving again with maintenance in the army Trey Colburn at the district office for the Marines Victor Butler Combs uh excuse me Victor Butler Combs middle school with the Marines David Willoughby with Combs Middle School both the Air Force and the Marines [Applause] Don angle from Ranch Elementary with the army Carol armistad from Ranch Elementary with the army and John Goodwin for transportation with the Navy thank you for your service [Applause] that is my report well now turn it over to you I think Santa dunker for Ellsworth thank you Madam president members of the board Dr weiban I am pleased to have our group come up um we have a new club on campus this school year and I met with these two boys in the spring when they were in fifth grade about a new club that they wanted to start and um they had a plan they were very excited about what they wanted to do for our school community and they had a vision so they have they called it Helping Hands their next step was to get a club sponsor so I have Miss jorian joint our school counselor who I'd like to come up and Tyler Pruitt and Rylan Valencia if you could come forward and share with everybody about helping hands foreign okay hi everyone I'm jorianne Joy I'm the school counselor at Ellsworth Elementary this is Rylan and this is Tyler Rylan is our president and Tyler is our vice president and I'm going to hand it over to them and they're going to share a little bit more about our Helping Hands Club hello we are Tyler Pruitt and Rylan Valencia foreign and vice president of Helping Hands a new club at Ellsworth last year we made the decision to create a new club that could provide support and positivity throughout our campus we worked together with Miss Joynt and Miss Gomez our school counselor and social worker to form Helping Hands we created our club vision and code which is to provide help around campus for teachers and students and to spread positivity while encouraging others to be kind members of society this year we brainstormed and built our club from the ground up as as for right now we have 15 5th and sixth grade students participating in making our campus a positive and supportive environment we meet after school every second and fourth Tuesday of the month we have spent our afternoons helping teachers in and their classrooms putting up motivational signs around campus prepping projects for younger grades cleaning up our school playground setting up assemblies and running our holiday food we have so much more planned for the year and we look forward to watching our club grow and seeing the change the changes we can make on our campus thank you for having us very nice and there was actually a group of them as well as a group that was there today helping get our decorations put up for our Veterans Day assembly tomorrow yes I'm very proud of them and it was really cool because they have taken the initiative to create a calendar they have a schedule of one who's cleaning the playground and when they sent out um multiple emails to me reminding me that this was a club that was important to them um not that it was annoyed but it was just like you know they really they really held me accountable to making sure that I didn't forget about them and they this was important to them and it's just been really cool to see them bring their Vision to life on campus and to see the how it has taken off and the students that are involved in it and just the initiative that they've shown in the ownership they've show over it very good all right so I have three staff members that I would like to recognize um Karen Corona if you could come up here please [Applause] so Karen Corona actually was a student at Ellsworth yep when when it opened so a while ago Karen joined us as a title one paraprofessional when she graduated high school in 2000 yeah yeah so she joined us at Ellsworth um and is actually taking classes working full-time now she has uh transitioned over into a resource parapro position and it has been amazing to see her growth um Karen is very shy but to see her confidence build and the relationships that she has built with the students and to see even her I saw her with a student one day and the student was was having some challenges and just the you know the the the the teacher language that she was using with the student and the student did respond to her and I was like oh you go Karen I didn't know you had it in you so and she's going to school to be a teacher and she wants to be a teacher we are yeah you know whatever and and she just adds so much to our campus she's always willing to pitch in um no matter what last year when she was she would seek out one of our first great teachers um whenever she had some time and she would go in and work with the kids and she really enjoyed that and the kids just loved her um and it's just it she just adds so much to our campus and to the lives of the students on our campus and I don't know what we would do without her and I know she you know she has some tough days but she always shows up she gives her all and she has a positive attitude and always has a smile on her face so I wanted to present her with a blue Apple foreign okay so I I have issues with the apples because I broke Josie's stem on the Apple last year which has traumatized me um okay um Alex pantastico could you please come up here thank you she didn't know that that she was being recognized tonight she's very excited his fifth grade teacher this is her second year at Ellsworth um and this is we've departmentalized this year at Ellsworth and she teaches Ela and Alex I don't I I don't know what who was looking down on our school and on me when they dropped her into our life you know she had teaching experience and moved here from Oklahoma or Texas or both um and like she really has just she takes ownership she is invested in our school and our students are today with our veterans as they were I went into the she texted me and she's like could you come look and make sure you like the decorations for a veterans assembly and I'm thinking to myself well at this point what am I going to do you know if I don't like them I don't like but I walked in and um just an example of her of just kind of her as a leader is she's like I we were thinking of making a checklist of everything that we need to accomplish for next year and I'm like okay so what do you need for me well your permission I'm like yeah do you know so it's just that initiative that she shows on a daily basis and even last year is her first year in our district with um hashtag forward she was one of our first teachers on campus to become um proficient in the learner-centered culture elements um and she really has embraced our culture and over the summer she um took on a leadership opportunity and to be the summer school principal at the elementary level and did a fantastic job and she just she's a quiet leader she's very modest she doesn't like praise I can see her looking uncomfortable the more I say about her I can't say enough about her it just it's a real pleasure to to be part of her growth in our district and to see the way that she um is with students with families and the way she's looked up to even in her second year here on our in our district and so I wanted to present her with the blue Apple [Applause] and last but not least jorianne if you could come back up here [Applause] okay so this is jorianne's second year as a school counselor and her and she's so excited jorian is a very driven person which I love um but she also like she's like I want a blue Apple like that has been her goal since she heard about the blue Apple program Dr Wyman like she has been on a mission to get a blue Apple like I really want that so um jorian this is her second year as a school counselor and to see her growth over the last from last year to this year and how she advocates for students and just how she talks with students and brings out the best in them has been amazing and I see her tearing up over there because but I'm going to start crying too because you know like we even those most challenging students like you know I was with her yesterday and there was a student we were working with and and we're both looking at each other you know and she's just like I love him he's like you know and so she really she's our 504 coordinator and I've never had a school counselor that had like she you know last week she told me it's my goal to um this year to really get in the classrooms and observe my students that are on 504s and make sure that we that the accommodations that we have for them are aligned that we are doing what we're supposed to for them and working with the teachers to really make sure that our students are successful and day in and day out like she brings it all to work and I will say and I'm going to tell you a funny little story and she'll probably kill me for saying this like you know we have a little group text going on and so a couple couple Fridays ago she was she said that she had to remind her fiance of the household Sops the standard operating procedures and I you know we were teasing her because um you know standard operating procedures that's a that's kind of a teacher language thing and she's like you know I live in breathe Ellsworth and I and I chuckled but she does live and breathe Ellsworth um she really does give her all when she comes to work um and she works tirelessly to make sure that the emotional needs of not only our students are taken care of but also our staff and so I have a blue Apple for you Julia break yourself all right oh I have to take a picture so thank you so much for letting me share about Ellsworth and celebrating three of our amazing staff members we have student on the month Madam president board members Dr Wyman and my colleagues in the room I'd like to introduce some wonderful students and as I always say this is the best part of my day so could I have Mariah Flores come up from comb Center of Success [Applause] Mariah has excellent attendance and works diligently on all of her coursework and currently she assisted as an advisory capacity for the Halloween door decorating contest and daily she volunteers as a student assistants at CDA in addition to her involvement at CCS Mariah is a proud member of the high school marching band and we are so proud of Mariah congratulations Mariah [Applause] could I have Ansley Nye from the high school come up [Applause] over here how are you ansley's in the top of her classwork and is quite friendly she keeps focused and enjoys her learning she always asks questions when she needs help and is always polite she has a very positive attitude and we appreciate Ansley and her citizenship at Holmes High School congratulations Ansley could I have Peyton Huber come up from the Middle School no thank you could I have Jordan de Hart come up from Combs Traditional Academy [Applause] Jordan demonstrates the character trait of citizenship by his willingness to take responsibility in his learning in addition he goes the extra mile to help others offers words of validation and maintains a positive attitude always he is a kind person who's genuinely care he genuinely cares about the culture of his classes Jordan is a fine example of a citizen congratulations Jordan [Applause] could I have roxland manunga come up from Ellsworth foreign we're pleased to tell you about Roxy she's a young girl with a very calm personality but a very Advanced intellectual capacity Roxy deserves to be the student a month for her hard work consecutive and defined way of sticking to the curricular areas and making them her own wow Roxy also has a beautiful personality and a great ability to make her classmates really feel comfortable for these characteristics and the great skills that Roxy has she is our student of the month congratulations Roxy [Applause] should I have Elsie horde come up from Harman [Applause] Elsie was selected by the teachers at Harman because she embodies all the qualities of citizenship in and out of the classroom she was a key student who helped create sore code and classroom Vision always showing her peers kindness and respect LLC continues to be curious for new knowledge and seeks to find Opportunities to grow our own skills which leads her to being a scholar of Distinction for quarter one at Harman congratulations Elsie could I have Jade Thompson come up from Ranch [Applause] shows respects towards others and herself and to me earlier right yes she's always willing to give a helping hand and goes out of her way to make the day better for others Jade is kind friendly and responsible and this is why she was chosen for the November student of the month congratulations could I have Camila Vasquez come up from Simon thank you hey you guys um can take pictures if you'd like we'll do like a short break and then you can um you can leave if you'd like you'll have to stay for the whole thing we'd love if you do but well you're not gonna hurt our feelings if you don't laughs foreign move on so we have a board governing board members if we have anything um do you guys want to talk about our little uh thing we went to you didn't leave that early do you want to talk about it Jen do you want me to so we had an asba Pinal County um what do you call it like meetings yeah so just so you know you guys made us look really good I think we got high accolades for what the Trap Team and we got high accolades for the sink the thought the thought Exchange and then we had to come up with a we got these little things that we we had to if they gave us a challenge of who would make the best what did they call it um what did that was a theme for that night what was it it's working stronger stronger together so everybody was making their little sculptures and then of course we we well they even decided we had to do it we had to do it together so we put all of ours together because we were stronger together and so we won so we were we were bringing home we brought it home so anyway you guys made us look good thank you all right so now do we have public comments not this time okay so anything if we have any um questions on the consent agenda all right I'll take a motion um I move that we approve the consent agenda second all in favor aye I'm motion carries four to zero okay some action items um holy moly hold on um 8.1 discussion consideration of approval of changes to the policy recommendations from asba policy advisor this is our second read so do we have any questions on this second read it was pretty straightforward um okay if you don't have any questions then I'll take a motion um I move that we approve recommendation recommended changes to the district policies as presented in asba policy advisory 737.
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I saw the meeting order at the special meeting of the Canton board of education for November 9th at 7 00 pm and um tonight Mary Broderick the cave consultant will be providing us with her feedback on the um on the survey that we've had and uh I don't want to I don't want to steal any of our Thunder but I I did do an article today for the um um for the value press so um apparently we did do all the board members by the way have this if not I know quality made copies okay okay so tonight we'll um we'll go over the uh the profile and the information that came back then we'll go into executive session to uh talk about next steps and uh hopefully everybody will be home early okay I'm trying to and right now she should be able to hello Mary hi there hi Mary how are you great thank you how are you great thank you for joining tonight we appreciate all the work that went into this well thank you it's they're all like mini dissertations I feel like but I have to say that your community um definitely wins the prize for the highest level of participation of any I have done so far so um because it seemed low like you and I talked about maybe extending and so thank you no it I mean I even much larger communities you rarely get um far over 200 so to come in with 325 participants is pretty um noteworthy especially a small community so congratulations on that you called our meeting to order tonight we have Joe scheidler with us in case you can't see Joe shot who's with us Russell Bush uh Felicia Jordan Erica Hayes Kim Sullivan and Peggy Steinway we're missing a couple board members but uh we we have a court group here and an upper Forum but there will be no votes uh tonight anyway but uh anyway so we thought uh we would just tonight we would review with you in public session the um leadership profile right would you be able to stay a little bit longer for uh in the executive session for a few questions um a little bit longer depends on sure I mean I I think we could probably yes yes okay that's great so with that with that said if you want to uh dig in and then what we'll do is we'll break for public forum after we um hear a little bit about the leadership profile see if there's any questions both online or in the audience and uh and then we'll go into executive session okay sounds great sounds great so I'm going to share my screen and I'll just run through the profile and if you find I'm just going with too much detail by all means stop me and we can um I can speed it up a little bit but especially for those who may not have had a chance to read it yet I'm not able to share my screen I thought joining am I able to share my screen can somebody make me a co-host somehow or does everybody have a copy of it and I'll just go ahead and talk through it oh we seem to have Frozen can you hear me oh can you hear me now yes oh good okay I somehow got Frozen um is it possible for me to be made co-host we are trying to do that oh I see I am now co-host that's great so I just thought it would be helpful for you to sort of see where I am as I'm reading through it not I'm not going to read the whole thing to you but I um again 800 325 was a really high participation rate um you'd see that 52 percent of those were parents um almost 14 percent aren't parents but are community members you did have some students which is great some administrators um 16 were teachers and eight and a half percent were support staff some of you um a couple of town officials and some Business Leaders so this 364 figure obviously is higher than the 325 but that's because people identified with a couple of groups so um the first thing we asked about was strengths of Canton both the community and the schools I have to say the responses in this area were tighter than I usually see you had a lot of agreement around these strengths you had 170 people um definitely the majority of your participants citing um your staff your and and citing your teachers as expert and dedicated and passionate and both the faculty and the support staff several mentioned the commitment to educating the whole child and how important that is and really knowing students really I mean that's something that really stood out to me as how well your faculty do in connecting with students and really knowing them deeply 32 talked about the administrators as a strength noting um that they are open to hearing the different perspectives of people within the system and working through conflicts they tend to be welcoming and accessible and they give clear direction to the district and they communicate effectively and Foster a collaborative culture that's really focused on what they ought to be focused on you had 153 who talked about some aspect of the program and most well 89 of those responses were talking about the overall program the the overall curriculum um described as strong um now I put things in quotes when I feel like they do speak to the volume of responses so when you see me using quotes it's because those are things that um kind of carried the herd of information student-centered and rigorous with high academic standards um the holistic approach the Innovative culture and positive School climate were mentioned um now 25 participants talked about a specific area of strength um and the one that got the most mentions there with 14 was music and some specified that it was K-12 and others didn't specify but just said music was really strong and then 11 talked about the high quality extracurricular opportunities and that included some sports um the next highest is this pace okay for everybody excellent okay um Community was the next highest strength the the next most cited with 86 people talking about the um schools themselves the community within the schools and the broader um town so it's it was hard to distinguish when they said Community which they were referring to but um they talked about the close-knit family atmosphere and being small But Mighty and that the the size which comes up in the next part also allows that sense of community um so there were 63 people who talked about the size being a great strength um and that skull smaller schools meant that connection that seems to be so important to the whole Community um having students well-known um both between students and with with staff and getting that individualized attention that comes from being a small community and then 21 of those 63 mentioned class size in particular 26 identified students as the greatest strength with their desire to succeed and their diversity of thought and and their ability to succeed and then 22 talked about parents being a great strength with their involvement and their support and engagement and partnership with the schools ten mentioned facilities and that and adequate resources to provide the program um and then ten mentioned a sense of safety okay so that's it for strengths and we'll go on to challenges um now again you will find that some areas are mentioned in both both places because people have different perspectives and some people sometimes your greatest strength is also your greatest Challenge and I think um the fact that program Rose to the top I was more about participants saying it's going to be really important for this new leader to make sure we don't lose ground and indeed that we continue to maintain and focus on high academic standards and important is there something as you go through this I just want to remind the board that um at some point probably this summer we're going to begin a strategic plan finally it's it's well overdue by a couple years a lot of the input that you're going to get here and challenges and positives uh are gonna are gonna play well we may not even have to do a survey we might be able to work from this document to get some of the real um strategic direction that you need to go in off of this so I just want to as you read through this I'd like you to think in that thought process a little bit thank you Mary yeah thank you okay um so again broadly just wanting to make sure that there is continued focus on um high quality programming um some some are asking for improvement in um District ranking and making sure that you continue to balance the needs of all the different stakeholders um that you continue to offer the robust curriculum and extracurricular opportunities for students um and then there were some specific areas that Drew mentioned there were 14 out of the 96 who said that there are challenges with curriculum that it needs to be more Innovative and relevant so you did hear some people saying that it's Innovation was a strength but obviously not everybody totally agrees with that um 11 of the 96 talked about special ed as a challenge um and noted increases in the identification of students and corollary higher spending rates and then the need to ensure that there's accessibility across the district now we're getting into lower numbers we had nine who talked about technology as a challenge and they wanted greater Proficiency in the tech as the tech industry is advancing and evolving and needing Educators to have the resources to keep up with that and then eight talked about the lingering effects of covid that's sort of aligned through a lot of this obviously the context for the Gathering of this information is moving out of covid we hope but it definitely appears in different ways in this study and again Staffing was viewed as a great strength but there were 83 people who identified some issue with staff and for the most part it's like every single School District in Connecticut staff are especially coming out of covid are um are really feeling the challenges of the time you know that there have been that they've been stretched to the Limit and there are shortages in hiring and that has also meant extra stress on the people who are filling in when people are out and that kind of thing needing to offer competitive compensation came up for a number of people especially for Paris it says for teachers and Paris and I would say we heard Paris loud and clear in in the study need to focus on professional development I think people are feeling that it's time to refocus attention on sorry on their um on staff development so that they can meet the changing and significant needs of Staff of sorry of students um and morale as I'm sure is no surprise to you has been affected by the many many continuing challenges of covid so the leader is going to need to continue to devote attention to ensuring that the culture and environment um is enough to really attract great people to work there and to ensure um that the also people mention wanting to make sure that the administrative team is in a position to really connect well with the broader community there were 51 people um and you know it's I actually put social and emotional health right under Behavior even though the numbers weren't quite as high and I in general you'll notice that these are in descending order of most mentioned but behavior and social and emotional mental health just went so much together that I had them next to one another here so 51 said that behavioral and discipline issues are going to be major challenges for a new leader um 15 specifically mentioned bullying both in school and online and then there that there are different the this is another thing I see in a variety of places but um because discipline by Nature needs to be different if a student's individualized education program specifies that there are different expectations for Behavior between the general population and and those students um so that inconsistency can rub people and I think that's part of what we're seeing here um and so I think we've covered all of that um 40 talked about social emotional and mental health issues now we know that those were issues with our youth before the pandemic but across the board we're seeing a ratcheting up in concern about students and staff and staff Mental Health um and we I think there's great appreciation that the district has made significant efforts to address those issues but that the growing need has just been overwhelming um funding and resources well facilities and resources we met were mentioned as a strength but there were 45 participants who think that it's going to be a challenge to Garner enough resources to address student need and continue to offer the robust program that you have been offering um the next we get into some of the what what I saw as pretty Stark political um camps in Canton with 40 43 participants um identified diversity equity and inclusion and the need to address the changing needs of students and then um there were 40 who reflected um or offered comments about the broad political divide um that the new leader will be confronted with um and the varied political influences on students and parents and schools 20 talked about political indoctrination and 10 talked specifically about politically divided parents and the increasing political divide one talked I mean again this is just one person's quote that the leader will will face standing up to those who might grandstand politically with the board and the need to navigate the current political climate and ensure students continue to be allowed to explore so that's an area where there was again you're not at all by any means alone in this this is something that we're seeing across the state and Across the Nation and the next challenge was a big drop to 10 saying that there are going to be space and Facilities needs uh I'm sorry There Were Ten who said it was a strength There are 16 who cite this as a challenge speaking of an aging infrastructure and facilities in need of upgrades um and again 22 found that parents were a strength but um as far as challenges go there were 14 who said that parents can be a significant challenge um and I think that political divide that was just described is um part of that concern about parents and finally there were 13 who talked about your growing enrollment as a challenge and fear of losing the community feel of a small District so that's that's it for um strengths and challenges and now we'll move into what people say that they're looking for in a new leader um this might be a little bit hard to absorb but people were asked for their top five um to rank their top five choices in in this from this list of desired expertise in a new superintendent and what you'll see is here in the these first two columns are people's first choices what they listed listed as number one and then the final two columns here are um and the the collection of people's top three choices so you'll see that first and foremost building trusting relationships with students staff and Community was cited by 90 people as their first choice and that's 28 of the participants in the survey and next came communicates and collaborates effectively in schools and Community with 78 or 24 percent and a big drop then to the next 41 people said that they wanted somebody who is knowledgeable I'm that their top priority would be somebody who's knowledgeable about educational trends if you look at the top three choices they're all still in the top ranking but now first and foremost is communicates and collaborates effectively and then builds trusting relationships and then knowledgeable again a big drop here and shares district-wide vision of Excellence isn't too far behind there so in terms of the qualities of a superintendent using the same process number one was keeping People's First Choice keeps students growth and well-being the primary focus yeah 24 or 77 participants select that one as their first choice um 73 said they want somebody trustworthy honest and respectful or 23 and then um 19 18 and a half 19 said accessible approachable and visible in schools and community and again there's a big drop to the next um levels and those are um you see it's it tightens up a little bit for the top two choices here but they Remain the top two choices and then approachable accessible and Community um invisible is in third place so those are all really important and all of these qualities and characteristics are really important in leadership but these speak to your needs specifically right now and what I did then was took comments from um the open-ended part of the survey and kind of placed them where they seem to belong under these areas so recognizing the importance of relationships it's just so critically important that relationships are number one and um the leader devoted to supporting the growth of students teach everybody needs to feel like the leader cares about their growth both students the teachers and staff and somebody who's really attuned to what's going on in the class in the schools and aware of all the variety of issues that are affecting students and their performance and their mental health and their safety um staff really need to feel appreciated these days and I'm sure you're all very much aware of that um the stresses on them have been so enormous um they want to know that there's a fair hiring practice that people are able to earn livable wages um the successful superintendent is going to show that that individual really appreciates them and cares about their growth and makes decisions that are embedded in empathy and compassion um supports their Grassroots ideas um and helps them to expand teachers expand their Horizons and contribute to the strengths of the school system they want somebody who's open and compassionate and fair and is able to Garner the trust of students staff in the community um some this person needs to be an expert listener which obviously is the first rule of a good communicator um somebody again who's caring and humble and invites a variety of perspectives and shares ideas and follows up on promises somebody who's able to collaborate well with staff and loves to hear their professional opinions um somebody is political you're definitely going to need somebody who's politically aware and yet not political but diplomatic um able to bridge the existing divides the political divides that are were very clear in gathering this these data um who's able to listen to parents and promote their involvement um and and simultaneously give staff the impression that their the staff are backed up as well but ensure that um the family experiences All Families experience a sense of belonging in the Canton Public Schools and somebody who's a good partner with other boards across town as well this person needs to be knowledgeable about educational Trends and best practices and how to Foster Innovation see the big picture um in ensuring students are healthy and energized to learn and able to energize teachers to teach uh really Savvy about proven educational Trends and Innovations including International Trends um really informed on current curriculum uh focused on the whole child supporting the Arts and other forms of of student learning and expression um somebody who has significant experience as a classroom teacher that was really important to a number of your participants with also this is a lot but a deep understanding of special education and of mental behavior on social and emotional health and somebody also who understands social media and its impact on students and staff and Families somebody who will think and problem solve creatively and openly and help the community navigate the divides and come together behind a common sense of direction you want somebody who understands the district's finances and is able to communicate the district needs very effectively to the community and able to support the information the plant has been in need um this person is going to keep students as the primary focus of their decision making somebody who cares about learning and understanding what each child needs to succeed somebody who can address student behaviors who cares about supporting the social and emotional needs of both students and staff and it is able to encourage and enforce consistent discipline and Foster a safe educational environment so this leader also needs to focus on mention the growth of Staff helping principals and other administrators to improve and expecting them to meet high quality standards so raising the bar for everybody um higher effective teachers obviously you want somebody trustworthy honest and respectful um somebody who's realistic and transparent and guided by your policies and protocols I think we've mentioned the word humble a couple of times but times but somebody who's humble and kind and deeply involved in the community and highly visible in schools so somebody who really gets energized by being around students somebody this person needs to have a great personality and sense of humor and be able to relate really well with students and adults and finally um your participants say you're looking for a strong leader with a positive outlook somebody who's intelligent and compassionate and uses great judgment and able to make confident decisions somebody who has a vision and the capability to improve the performance of the schools somebody who's resilient has a strong backbone has a lot of common sense and courage and finally you have a desire to have somebody who commits to Canton for the long term so that I will stop sharing that is the detail of your I suppose God actually created a person I mean what do we got here right I mean everybody that might be like that is dead in his heaven so well you know this this document can also really help whoever ends up taking the role be reminded of what it is that's going to be successful there so I mean this is a moment in time but probably some of these concepts are good to reflect on when you're in the role and thinking about what this community really needs or what the community thinks it needs um and and tailoring Behavior to those needs all right why don't we do this why don't we um why don't we open up for public forum and then we'll go to the board for questions you want to do in Reverse yeah okay so in public forum certainly North please um my name is Nora I'm okarski for those of you that don't know me and this is public comment um I'm not a resident of Canton so I'm here in my capacity as an EAC executive member I'm the pr R person which is the person that's essentially a contract interpreter looking at the teacher's contract uh they call it professional rights and responsibilities as a grievance chair um but I'm here in in the stead of Chris amini who couldn't be here um so the reason why I'm here though is because it's relative to your agenda tonight which is to select a superintendent and the EAC asks that in your process of considering who should be on your board or group to decide and make those decisions that the teachers the certified teacher members would be a part of that conversation um we know that the rubber meets the road with the student and teacher relationship in the classroom and we think it's very important that teachers be asked or called to serve in some capacity in the process of selecting a superintendent we're the ones who carry out the vision we're the ones who carry out is you're mentioning a street strategic plan so I think that would be in our view imperative that teachers be a part of the the equation in some form of fashion and so I just wanted to voice that on behalf of the EA state for this evening thank you great thank you Andrew do you want to mentioned yeah sure um I thought we're going to be speaking at the beginning uh the pro called the media we wanted you to hear the uh yeah um but I heard you say state your name and your own I'm sorry Andrew lab report my name is Brad thank you um I heard you saying earlier that the board's going to go into executive session shortly by pretty soon um but I want to say public comments I did fill out the survey but one thing I forgot to include in the survey and I wanted to come tonight to uh just to throw that little tip into the post a little tidbit in is that I didn't want the board to go into an executive session at any point to discuss the hiring new superintendent I don't understand why any part of this process needs to be secret my understanding is that the session I can't be in the room for any member of the public can't be in the room um as far as I know and it's starting to come wrong any minutes captured the executive session won't be public as well that's my understanding so I understand why any part of this hiring process needs to be in private this is a superintendent for the town we all pay taxes here some kids from school some of us are having a business school no longer to do um there's nothing to be nothing should be in private issue I'll be public even even the resumes of the uh perspective superintendents that we receive you know the resumes that we get even make those public you can blur out the public information you know the private information such as addressing phone number and such but even those resumes should be made public so the way everyone can see what the qualifications are of all the applicants you know knowing that will only choose one but really uh keep it uh keep everything transparent and um you know give everyone an opportunity to look and see what you all are doing in this process so that's all that thank you thank you Adrian thank you for those comments um no one else in the room so we'll open it up to um online um if you're attending online tonight and you'd like to make a public comment you can go ahead and use the raised hand feature of zoom and I will call on you by your name you can find the reasoning feature on the bottom of your screen no questions no raise cans okay well thank you then I'll close out the uh the public forum and um go to the board now um Peggy any questions about the profile anything uh um I mean it was pretty thorough a lot of a lot in there it's nothing we can really argue with no I think your comment of you know sort of like the perfect person or something so you know with all the different um all the different things um no I I think it sounds pretty good actually okay thank you Kim no other than I hope all board members are going to read through everything if you're not here and you know going to read the other documents that are sent and it's important that you know everybody I agree I am grateful that the air conditioning um Erica I don't think I have any questions for now Alicia I am too that's a question it's just one uh did anything jump out is particularly unusual or unexpected that maybe would be unique to this town as if you've done many of these searches so and anything that I think I was most struck by the political divide I mean I have seen that in a lot of places but um there was more expression of that through the survey responses than I have seen um we know it exists across this country and certainly across the state but I haven't heard it quite as honestly and um yeah and deeply felt as as in Canton but otherwise I I also think you had greater Unity about um sense of both strengths and challenges than usual and I do think the participation speaks to a commitment to the schools and um desire to weigh in on um on what you're looking for so I I think I actually felt really good about the Kenton public schools and just think it's really important that the new leader Have Eyes Wide Open about the political divides and the effort that he or she will need to make to try to bridge those divides I think the staff really needs that because I think staff are feeling pretty beaten up thank you everybody okay uh any other questions okay um we are going to move into executive session but I'll just mention one thing about expected session the reason one of the reasons why we go on an executive session is because we're going to be we will be talking about certain individuals that have asked for confidentiality because we could be upsetting a career if they know uh if their school district knows that we're talking about them or how that works that's just one part of why uh and and the state allows us under Personnel matters to be able to do that but I certainly this board will try to be as transparent and open is is possible because I think that's important too so I appreciate your comment so so with that I will say that we're going to move into executive session I need a motion for that and it'll be just the board of education at this point so Felicia and uh or Peggy okay so we will move into executive session at uh eight uh forty all any any further discussion on that first and second all those in favor aye opposed foreign body Mary Broderick which will be quick for you because I know you have some meetings just in case thank you
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the lottery we already have a thousand people participating and so the result as of Friday February I'm sorry November 4th 495 applicants for the STEM Academy and 388 applicants for the Global Studies the Lottery closes on November 15th certainly will have an update then we're hoping to get letters out in early December for the families who have been awarded the seat and then also have those waiting lists players available for families in December as well so things are moving forward and excited about the flying through my settings so that is I'm sorry and last but not least in terms of lotteries AIS uh will open on January 3rd 2023 that Lottery closes on January 18th you provide tomorrow our next goals and update is connected to goal one in college and career Readiness for all students we've provided it as part of our Friday packet for the board and the community and really this is a follow-up to be board presentation on kind of the summit of data presentation kind of the state of the district attorneys that are supporting [Music] so for us we see this work as the next step I thought it would be appropriate to introduce the two chief of schools to you this evening we have we do a lot of work in our respective offices around looking at data of our schools kind of assessing where we are as a district in these two fine people have been charged with helping to improve a teacher and [Music] Implement architecture ultimately we want to improve of course food now so they will speak through some of the research behind furthermore speak to kind of their practices with principles to help move the district forward so Mr Chris Roche and Dr Anna Rocco welcome to the board meeting and we are ready for it good evening thank you for having us today as we discuss some of the work we're doing as a Chiefs of schools my name is Christopher she's the schools Ka uh for I don't Rockville next to me and we can handles K5 with some of our schools so we are I just ended up another package we'll get started in just a moment uh but first and foremost again thank you for having us I want to talk about the important work that his school Improvement um creating a History Month here in Montana so just to talk about some of the work um you'll see a quote on page one or page two that the School principles are down for 25 of the school-based impact on student achievement second only to classroom teachers at 75 so if you think about how profound the impact and how the enormous responsibility and the Bliss that a principal has as they help Elevate practice in their school in the school room process so it's still yeah all right we'll take a look at that side next so talk about principal leadership matters and then you're packing we're on the principal leadership matters live thank you you'll get the Wallace Foundation uh research Think Tank they talked about shape and vision but that success so we talk about principles in the realm of you've got about 36 million things happening during the course of the day and you've got to prioritize instructional leadership to affect positive change that we're going through effect on this system at scale uh creating a climate hospitable education cultivating leadership and others so the notion of leadership well by example and the leadership capacity building our leadership and other schools years improving instruction so this is really the why and the why Behind these positions choose the schools is that when we invest in principal practice principal professional development we directly impact teacher practice and ultimately student outcomes which is what we're going to talk a bit about today but the whole notion of this presentation of the leadership matters principles matter and in order to Be an Effective change agent we've got to move the needle which is what we're going to do this year inside too that's too small all right so we're going to talk about the science of school Improvement so we're getting chaos Improvement strategies Improvement science uh presupposes that there are ways to improve uh with respect to the moving uh student performance for uh it's really important it's difficult to see on the screen right now but when you've got a second of the accountability system it's a holistic balanced scorecard for accountability for the state of Connecticut and it's a perfect care measure of student performance I say this because it provides if you look at the screen above this is Joe West used to enjoy the circus at the PTO meetings if you look at a slide above we're showing that at the elementary level 42 percent of the accountability indexes is determined by quarterly what I mean by growth is every student has a Target uh your work call a live watching board meeting last year Caravans represented on targets right and we talked about the notion of crossing the Finish Line right every student has a Target if every student reaches or a Target they're put 100 both on growth rate but also the average percent the target achieved so when we look at that 42 percent we're saying students are growing and it's almost half the accountability system similarly at the middle school that's approximately important for a staff growth so you have a system predicated on growth our job is to get every student closer to that growth Target so you could run a 26 mile marathon if I finish 26 miles get 100 if I finish 25 I've got points proportional to that 26 miles so in doing so many of our schools currently are in the quadrant that says lower achievement but very high progress all right so our job fundamentally everybody's job with the school district is to improved practice right so getting principles into professional learning communities to really dive into student level data system level data and data across all Summoners the other thing that you'll notice about this accountability index at least in your packets is high needs students count twice in the data what high needs so that's how do we Define that that's ell students special education special needs as well as Freedom reduced lunch so when we talk about closing the achievement Gap number one we need to know that one exists second we need to know all of the students in our system and how are we going to move the needle for all students which is a moral imperative we want all students to grow we want all students to be proficient so the way that we do this is to really study the data really breaking down the segregate Bible study by subject Center but grade level we meet with principals we meet with coaches we meet with all district leadership in an effort to impact positive change I'll stop talking for a moment But ultimately you know there are strategies to get better um and we need to examine continuous models of success or schools in this District that every year continue to thrive we're studying that there are schools and other districts that continue to thrive we are studying them and bringing some of those practices back you know the professional learning communities so not directly you want to talk about the positions so anyways and we're very excited to be to use this one into a while but it is but we've only come recently I was very connected to the workers in schools and we understand about the goals experience so in our next slide and in your package you see things the rules for Chiefs and we used to do many things there so there's really a lot of the job description and then there's those other jobs other [Music] periodically so part of our role also in addition to these students that you see listed on the slide are Outreach to parents and kind of concerns that can't be resolved in the building level they generally come to us okay so we also hold your co-chair the media and we oversee summer school in addition to possibilities in a year but the heart of our work which lies on the next slide is the things that come under these strategic operating companies goals so if you'll see a few things listed there and everything that really is on the first sheet in that very long list is lives under these two areas that are focused on the Strategic algorithm and homeless for Walston schools so I just want to talk you through a little bit about what this actually looks like in practice we are in school every week in we all love our schools everything and talking with everyone um that's something that is really critical to our work and very important to both of us as well as to Mr Austin that was one of his priorities I want people on the ground I want people to know what's happening in our schools and I want to be able to hear from the people who are there every single day what's going on in our buildings and how we can support the work that our principals and our teachers are doing to Advanced student learning so when we think about the school Improvement planning process it really is a very extensive process it starts with principles analysis of the data and that informs the score through the plan it sounds like it might be simple but it really is very complex it's looking at where's is selling where students need to grow further and what are the instructional practices that influence that growth or need to change in order to develop the growth further in those areas you work very carefully with the principles in addition to the care monitor to look at the data to look for Trends across not only the schools but across the district we meet the first schools regularly our shares the schools to um data with them as well as the district's data with us they can see where they are and comparison to Industry and they can really hone in on areas where students need support and what instructional strategies can go up against these areas in order to advance supermarket here we go look like the festival you provide feedbacks and those plans on a regular basis and we really push the principal's thinking around the goals that they bring the strategies that they've written and the systems that they have in place to support those goals it's really important to us that those documents that they are working calculus who don't want them to be something that's written at the beginning of the year and then we've got spots again a couple of times during the year to see where we are in those plans we want them to be living documents based on that data as it comes in with looking at data in terms of big data so you saw a lot of the escrow data from camera velocity also receive Dental's data at some point in time which is related to our literacy skills in our Literacy for local students and we have already this year with various [Music] middle schools also have literacy I'm not we'll see that later as well and we'll look at that data but the other data that we have that book is the day-to-day data the student work we're really grounding a lot of our decisions with student work and when we engage in the fields and process that professional Learning Community process for principles we're really looking at student work and saying where students growing where do they need to go further what are we doing in our instructional practices that's helping that and helping students to advance your life right so we engage in instructional rounds with principles that we use for Science and learning walks through their building or hoping to engage teachers in those learning walks as well so they can see perform practices that are going on in their buildings but that's really a critical part of our work to see if this is a focus for a school if this is a strategy that they've identified is it going to be a high level of practice school student going forward where we've seen evidence of it where can we really recognize teachers success in implementing those effective strategies and where can we bring teachers together to share their successes so that they can share those excellent practices with each other and have opportunities to discuss them in addition to that we're looking at what innocent plan when they have identified these practices that they've made for high leverage practices which will soon learn forward what is it that has to happen in the administrative practice where does the administrator feel they want to push themselves and grow their own practice to influence teachers practice which we know will impact student learning and against you let's do the first goals that we have so we're identifying areas of growth for administrators just like athletes and doctors and lawyers have coaches get coached them on a regular basis we want to rule the practices of our administrators as well so we are also providing opportunities for administrators to come together to share the school Improvement plans to talk about things that are working in their buildings to think about common problems of practice within schools across our schools and then how are they utilizing resources within their schools how are their teachers implementing strategies that they're seeing great success with and we're trying to provide many opportunities in many ways so if maybe we'd be one-on-one with principals to talk about their practices we might bring small cohorts of principals together to talk about practice or we may meet with the whole leadership team to talk about things that are going on in their schools that are successful and also provide opportunities for them to talk with each other about how to build their practice and how to solve problems in their schools so we are really excited about our work um we know that from our experience administrators are both in many many directions on the important today and oftentimes um we get so involved in the dealing management pieces that we don't have time to engage in those real professional conversations and keep that instructional leadership first and foremost in their minds before front our administrators are dealing with lots of things over the course of the day but not fires making sure safety is the number one priority of all students and staff and making sure we're keeping academics front and center sometimes gets pushed a little bit to the side when you get invented in all of the other things that happen so when we are there and we're in schools it's an opportunity to bring that leadership Focus back to the work they really want to be doing and want to engage in that high level so we're really excited about those opportunities that we have we've talked to many administrators as we go in the other day someone said I set aside there's two hours that you're here every week as the sacred time so I know during that time that there's nothing that's going to happen except we're going to talk about educational leadership in my leadership practice and I hope that time to save your time every week um so it's exciting work that we're doing we think that it's worth it will really push our leaders to grow we have outstanding leadership in our district we're really proud of people who are colleagues and now we're working with closely and our role is really to ever continue to elevate the leadership practice so that they can in turn work with their staff and Elevate the teacher practice which then in turn always our students success foreign [Music] question how do students approach word problems learner-centered problem students translate word problems and solve without thinking about these questions so without thinking about what the question may be asking right so that's a student learning center problem teacher problem practice may be that teachers are asking students to memorize words such as in all how many more different sort of keywords that may uh you know impact the right answer so that once we know that we're going to put an actual time in place we've got to remedy that as a problem of practice it's about a teacher practice so we've got to look at it through the lens of what do we need to increase whether we need to decrease where we need to stop altogether so our actual plan would be to help students create models to to understand what's going on in our work obviously conceptualize it and act on it and make sense of the word problem but also solve it and then plan to assess using short-term long-term goals looking at specifically how do we remedy that issue so that we can concurrently improve our checkpoints along the way our irated data our liberal data our smarter balanced data we're very completed driven and we're trying to impart within all schools like data culture so that it becomes a really good business around here in all schools we looked at data in a way that since I've been here we have not all right we're looking at the student level we're looking at it and with this sense of urgency the right way so the remove the needle in the right direction crucial to that is after we look at the data we need to act on it right the teacher didn't have it in their hands principles need to have it in their hands we need to get out into those classrooms so we're there every day in classrooms with principals asking questions helping lead and and really um helping create the conditions for success in all schools within within all classrooms so I'll probably the opportunity so we have a couple on the last three principal survival time sharing students success their actions helped me in a positive School climate motivate School staff and enhance teachers practice therefore they play me in the role in retaining effects of teachers and ensuring their success in the hospital ultimately has the leadership has significations to students experiences and accomplishments so our goal is to provide support to all of our principles whether that looks like data analysis of unsolvable being a thought partner just boosting them around sometimes sometimes we go into a building and the principal says I just I just need the 15 minutes of your time to just talk a little bit go for it so sometimes we're there to just support them in that in that moment but our ultimate goal is to be a strong support for president so that they can be a strong support to their teachers which then translate to success for all students and one of the things that we very early on when we knew we had these two roles was that our desire is to be the person that we if we had when we set effort to see um so that's really what when we walk in the building every time we walk into a building we try to meet the person that we believe we had when we stand that goal and also improve outcomes in all areas across the district [Music] well that is it any questions question so when I was back on the board of April Kevin took the time to sit me down because I came back and there was a lot of juice and a couple more assistant superintendents and so I kind of got acclimated with the bulls go on so um thank you for you know talking about your whole and um so who who did your job be for you guys were hired the assistant superintendent right that was your job before and then without your classes consumer in 10 minutes director of great Construction two years three three eighteen years Kara and I had the responsibility of transport of my 10 year it was solely my role in and then he was over last year and prior to that was built um Dr casimiro's role Plus the principles Etc I don't know what that was there before that I don't know if you know maybe caramel wasn't Christie's leader leader of like the charge of the team not for supervision though so she was a lead principal so API for Destruction okay yeah you're right so there was a complete role for that and then it had one point gotten kind of cut down to a to a lead position correct yeah and Ralph I'm sorry also my first year here Dr Rocco was in a similar API position I forget the name the title of that position at that time and then she ended up going being [Music] primary the second year kind of in the middle of the Year pandemic and there we go back just your product s yeah we're trying it out and we're gonna we're gonna open uh we'll see a return on our investment effects here with uh data with Karen and stuff like that but um how many guys have been in this district for a long time you've seen a watch everything so I'm glad you guys are wearing these roles [Music] so I have questions like I just wanted to say one question um your presence on the district team has been welcomed and appreciated I feel like it's an opportunity for us to make our work the work that happens across the street in the curriculum office come alive specific lift that working and leave that work I just want to say to the board we have kind of doubled down and invested in these positions because we've got that the better prepare our principles are these are going to be [Music] they follow research to support that that thought we we is going back to one of the points that Chris had made into that slide inverted triangle and if that data watch process that Chris was so happy to present and we've talked about the problem of practice we are particular ly [Music] intent helping principles identify problems and practices in and so the wonderful staff that we just saw in the back of the king of the cow it is sitting with the principal in helping principal traffic get ready for his fourth grade Team all of those teachers are together and help us identify the profitable practice hypothetically inappropriate what do we want to improve outcomes for kids in the fourth grade and then help the teachers unpack the data in ways so they can find out what those problems are get to the root cause in terms of teacher practice to help improve it's not about people doing anything wrong but it's just trying to find the right practices so sometimes those issues issues stomach they have something that we have to [Music] have to schedule and a program and get to school and and so the principle may have to make a shift or it could be principal practice but you don't know until you sit down and begin to discuss and help uncover the problems and so these are the things that Annie and Chris are really intentional about so I don't Chris who said the principal has like 36 million things on your plate that they're trying to deal with and and of course they're trying to get them to focus on student outcomes teaching practice instructional leadership meeting okay we've we've invested in where our big bets are on principal leadership we can't get to every single teacher in the district but we can get to every single principle in the district to help and improve their I mean this is the deliberative practice moving forward so I said I apologize I just want to one last question so I'm talking about management principal so if a principal comes to you with a problem you guys have the authority to solve that problem when you could say they have an issue with uh a teacher in their in their their client their school or they have they have um you know they have a safety issue where they have something like that so is that where that because that's that one level of installation kind of from the superintendent area [Music] aerial Point time will also [Music] with your family care of him and Kevin morons peace out again or we can only live together in the process of being individual should be application how do you find out that um communication is with the network speed dial do they pick up yes anyway well thank you everyone we have a great staff in this District wonderful Educators and administrators and thank you all for your support I'm sorry yep just do we have a metric in place to show the growth of our principles of administration or is it just ultimately the growth in our students that are going to approved effort that's a great question thank you guys so we are we are in a space right now because we were meeting just this afternoon [Music] that we met last week really following up with our admin Council all of our administrators to follow up to the Public Presentation that you just saw in the last one part of that presentation is began to talk about the next steps specifically for all of our school leaders our school leaders like we're all supervised evaluating this District and so there there was kind of expectations artifacts as part of their leadership that people um so we haven't talked about what that would look like publicly in terms of practice but certainly some of the things certainly one of the expectations that I was talking about today like when we meet with our admin Council next Tuesday I want to make sure our last couple of slides to concrete concretely talk about next is two leaders in the world and some of those concrete next steps are I need to be able to say to Anna and Chris how is principal why doing relative to the best practice the house principal X doing relative to these expectations and so we will be working on outside of right so again everyone's evaluated and still be kind of a toolkit of best practices we're expecting everyone to engage in and so we're saying tonight this whole idea of PLC the professional Learning Community we want our principals to lead meetings with with grade level teacher Wednesdays I think ideas so here comes the fourth grade team they all come in we need to make sure their agendas there are minutes that'll help driving those discussions Chris is having a conference he's talking about hey we need that um we need evidence that those discussions have been LED in many cases Chris and Anna will be there but if they're not there then the principal has to make sure that they have in place and then of course we're meeting with principals every week as you've heard but we're also sitting down and having a full-on conversation this is your benchmark data at the beginning of the year until I see how it comes now um point out how has the school moved and then we'll do it in the middle as the process unfolds they're going to be providing feedback to the principles all throughout the year and so in the beginning Anna Chris might be leading the meeting of doing a whole meeting [Music] at some point in a year it should be shoulder to shoulder and we're we're kind of really sharing it then at some point there should be constant care where only the principal is leading and Anna is only coaching from behind in the background so those are some that's something important to see at all of our schools but I I do think it's important raise this because we haven't like come up with a score sheet outside of the event valuation process on how we're doing but I think it's important for us to have important for us to identify our schools that meet kind of more help with growth than others and that's something that we'll be working on and we certainly identified schools that the in terms of student outcomes or not as good as we would like them so we're working with those schools and differentiating support accordingly but in some cases that also means our principles need help just like our kids and I'll teach quite differentiate differentiated support as well [Music] thank you for the presentation is it impossible uh we could get email to us a better version of page two and page five please thank you it wasn't fun yeah and it's in our packet and everyone's email to us it's not an equality in the email it's smaller too that'd be awesome [Music] um like yesterday was professional development our principles included in the profession of development days the principles are included some principles lead some are learning a particular content area on that very as quickly can you can just share with the board what likely to be an application so what we did I'll speak to the elementary real quick there were teachers that were learning at various grade levels through difficult data going over like your location for the data what to do with that was about providing a classroom in the I really Iris is going through the game changer for the districts and most subjects particularly at the middle school where you got the whole alternative for uh you know mention two but with respect to your question the principles were there a learning but B also facilitating a great level meeting so indigen after let's say grades two and three go to their typical streaming they will then come back and be with their principal but this wasn't that facilitating that discussion on school improvements I think what a certain data look like what are some highly perspectives were going to incorporate within the client and I really want to monitor whatever outcomes what are our goals so it's it's twofold that they are participating in professional learning they do get a professional learning profiles as well but in that realm yesterday they were too far learning but also presented and facilitating the discussion around school um previously development early release day when teachers will work with each apartment people so we have the principles of us when we were looking through and continue in our work with the PLC plus training so on Point people um and the principals came with us and we worked for about two and a half of the EOC class thank you thank you again thank you [Music] and so the next goal is gold rate fiscal responsibility and planning for growth this one is about Danbury degree Academy Staffing plans to be objections and a couple of soybeans ago think of a overview of we were anticipating the cost to be to open up the new Career Academy [Music] and Dr casanov is display walk you through those three values good evening everyone I'm going to try to read off my slides a little bit because I'm also having a some of the fonts it's a little small and honorable self-conscious route so I'll make sure that everybody can see the rubbers and speaking to them to them appropriately so what John and I tried to do is put some detail behind the projected numbers for the for the cost of the academy which both includes the high school side as well as the new middle school science club which is much smaller than student in a moment the first thing I thought was important is to try to ground ourselves in how do you come up with with class size numbers there's teaching staff and so this is a general formula that we've used in the past with turning large numbers such as this is an imperfect model because the whole class sizes tend to be a little bit different they cover in our district at the high school level around 26 is sort of the number that we run some of our classes are larger at the Danbury uh the DCA in the architectural plans we've we've created CE for 24 which is pretty typical recognizing that we may have one or two or three extra students in those classes likewise there will always be smaller classes for different reasons some of our special classes classes that have a lot of heavy equipment sometimes run in smaller numbers so 24 sort of a general worker that we're using of the protection for this model um so just to just to reiterate so if you have a 1100 students at the high school side and the new Academy each eating seven classes at 7 700 classes divided by 24 students is 321 sections a teacher contract they can teach five sections so we can come up with 64 teachers and so when you when you minus out the remaining staff left at Danvers High School at the time that we did this it was 2500 students roughly I think it's I think about 87 short since the October 1st collection and you would need approximately 140 445 teachers depending right around the numbers of 24 or 25 um our classes at temporary school a little bit a little bit lower so the first slide in the deck is really the meatiest to unpack and I'll see if I can do that for you without getting too complicated so you can see that the regular teaching classes currently we have 201 core regular teaching classes at Danbury High School teachers that she would say the dc82 and the DC A4 what that means is that the Dan breaker Academy with the two academies and then DCA fours the more the main campus at our high school and so you can see that our DCA academy by our mathematical formula with these 64 teachers we would still need with the remaining staff 144 teachers for a total of 208 so a net new of seven new staff so we do gain some staff over when we move over to the academy but we still have to hire approximately seven I will point out that this is based on this year's production as an example but as you move as we move through the next couple of years Danbury High School have an additional 400 students total between the two campuses which is 23 or so additional teachers from out and see here so while the DCA two-sided number will stay fixed because of the number of because of the capacity of that building our DHS in terms will continue to grow through 2025-2026 so we'll be adding more staff than that so right now this is really just a projection of the Oakland Academy today this is what we think we would need we are going to cost out the next couple here year over year to kind of get even more detailed after a picture of the cost moving forward the teaching or media PPT that's really are some of our facilitators these numbers are a little bit easier to digest you currently have three we'll need one at the new Academy site 3D must reading at DHS for a total of one additional same thing with our special education you can see we'll need at least three and again special education members are will fluctuate based on the control of the lottery that our students needs same thing with ESL and bilingual students three there coaching and counseling will need an additional five or a little short at DHS to begin with so we really would not be removing any of our counselors out of that main site we'd be adding five over to the new site Crisis Intervention here we need a new teacher there one SRO um you'll see on the Middle School slides and I also have an SRO listed on the Middle School side of this so whether or not we would need to would be made to be seen depending on the makeup of the campus and the accessibility between between both buildings building where it's welded off we'll see how that that works a media specialist you will need one school psychologist we think we can move one over and leave three at DHS Two Social Work One speech pathologist and One D in additionally and on the Middle School side the Middle School side is is all net new so there are not enough seats per se not enough teachers and and to remove out of the Middle School building so for example you're taking out only a few students from each grade level each cluster across three buildings so it's not quite enough to bring an entire teacher across so the Staffing at the middle school is on that new the little stars when we're teaching class regular it needs has a little meaning behind it right now these are just core classes we would likely have to add special aerial classes to this as well it could be upwards of six additional staff there but we'd like to see if we can get some sort of crossover between in special areas between the high school side and the Middle School side so we're still going to continue to look at that so it could be as few weeks too it could be as many as six go update that as we get to work on it a little bit more again you can see the special education numbers there the remaining numbers that were similar to the high school so you have any questions about that sliding concerning what should happen yes and no Sean Paul what is uh forgive me I don't know what what is a dean Daniel so the DNA students the dean of students of work so basically the dean will handle kind of the low level behavioral things happening at the high school level but also really keep track of students who are productively absent and making you share a touching base that our kids are coming to school and they're staying on track they're looking for students right away it's particularly in freshman year they're very key in Grade 9 to making sure students are on track for graduation and they work directly with the kids and the administration to collaborate on each Young very much they've been a huge child in this last year or so especially on the high school administrative side production so we will need a campus principal um at the site as you can see the associate principal of 0.406 that's actually Dr Martens who would shift her support between the two buildings and balance her time up if one of the left director that would remain we do not have a sports on this campus and the students on the DCA campus are part of our DHS community and will be attending all the curricular sports that they enjoy now um our director of County Partnerships as product Dean he will also be sharing time between the two sites as well as working out in the community and we currently have five principals please we would need two on the new site five would remain the main campus for a total net view of two and on the Middle School side a little bit simpler no credit support the next couple of slides are really about your support of Staff again the support staff can vary widely depending on the students that are attending on either campus and so these numbers can kind of shift between both campuses they can be a little higher it can be a little bit lower so you have a total of 12 support staff between your regular paraprofessionals ESL and your special education here reflections Middle School side you want to talk about the 14th irriting other staff projections on the high school side so custodial Secretary of Maintenance you're seeing safety Advocates um many of these you again you don't review about secretary for Mobility to go to another so you don't exactly gain Staffing here you have a total of 14 across the star on the cafeteria staff is references the fact that that is a program that pays for itself so we don't technically bankroll those jobs we want to speak with that today a little bit on the cafeteria side of things sure there's a whole bunch of the school lunch fund is a colon off budget so sustaining paid for either through State reimbursement or claim claim lunches for for sales on food during the day so there's no no part of the school budget that goes to America school lunch time and now the Middle School slide this may differ actually it does differ from what's in your packet if you notice that one of the columns had a formula that totaled some of those areas so I did correct those um and I will be sitting at the boards if you have the updated numbers on just a couple of few different numbers there some custodial side of the school league was two the total was two new hires would be two I believe under a packet you may have seven because it totaled it from the high school side you know I apologize for that um secretary maintenance and then the other one there on that sheet was completely Advocates that also held the formula and told it from the high school side as well so that number was dropped down to a total of 13 for this area here and then we have John walking through sort of the totals so in aggregate when you add up the 912 Personnel the six eight Personnel uh and then we'll talk a little bit about some of the busing and you can see more after that sure um all of the positions that you've seen are members of McLaren units so it was relatively straightforward to as well through the projections and all of the numbers that we took came from the exist for that year for the teachers and other certified staff in the Nea we budgeted at Ma step six we think is pretty typical amount that we're recruiting people into happening so that all the positions are NA Step six the benefits we took a middle kind of point which is a combination of employees who might elect a single coverage and their employees that might take family covered who pre-blendid those in the of course some teachers don't pay social security but other staff members do so that that was pretty easy you know what the employer share of Social Security is to just put that on top and for for the other positions and that would include the administrators who'd be members of the apartment unit of the Paris and the support staff who are mentioned the secretary's safety Advocate nurses things like that all of those positions were projecting we are at step one step one would be in those years or approaching the contract same thing with the benefits it's blending rate applying with the front car as well so um it wasn't hard to do because we're so close and we have most of those I think all of those marketing agreements place that was the staffing agency out there the bossing apprentices that the middle school students and the high school students will continue to have separate runs like they they have now or do not under this scenario of the lending middle schoolers and high schoolers on the same buses and although you'll see you know on the sides of the school buses passenger capacity 65 or 71 that's her Elementary School students for middle schoolers and high schoolers you can only get two of us do it a seat you can't get three and on camera Elementary days the boss is in full capacity to proceed or about 50 students on each of the full-size school buses so that that wasn't a hard calculation either we we definitely a thousand kids uh 50 60 kids on the bus so that's 20 bosses we have a contract in place with sta where we know price per day per bus so when we just went to the contract to find out what that would be and multiplied by the 1980 days that the school buses are from to and from school so I guess the first uh in summary the projections primarily came from contracts with the the assumptions that I just described restaurants one question about it [Music] necessary that we put the middle school with the high school on the same bus I'm just going to enjoyed by the 60 yeah he's smaller so if that's something that we well the scenario that I presented uh separated [Music] oh I'm sorry I thought they were together maybe foreign [Music] class that's right so mandate for graduation so credits in PE so we we will have a gym at the new site but the actual political activities are pretty quickly as we talked about with looking at the international model of this sort of some of the supplemental materials that we would hold inspired to have with our Burger how do we think about willing that cost in here so we have started to do that we you know there's a few things that you would add in that maybe wouldn't normally have uh now so actually we do have it now it's on a smaller scale so for example the CNA students who take the CNA tests so there's a fees that will look better associated with that and then maybe some Preparatory materials that we give our students and so we would have that with all of the areas that really offer certification we're going to kind of make sure that we cover the cost of those um that said though we are hoping through business and sponsorship so for example movements is already throwing out there that they kind of help us out with that and take care of those fees so if that is likely to grow across what other business Partnerships that we have similarly we already have companies that are speaking to equipment and donations that they can help establish so things that may be obsolete for them or near obsolete with quickly working and condition for a student to learn and practice on on kind of first generation code is foreign one of the rules when we moved to a new Leadership Model each Academy will have its own little mini budget and we'll be working for our time to establish what that is we are going to be moving into the most cost effective way forward as we get started until our Partnerships built you can see or sustain too many extra things that we're hoping to do but there will be some you know some added potential Transportation I think between as we if you want to bring kids out to more places which huge Harvest of getting a bouncy Shadow getting them out to go do some internship experiences or maybe um so if we do anticipate some of that but we will be building sort of mini budgets across Academy now and some of that is formed by the curriculum development as well so as you as you build in learning experiences for the students and you say part of this learning experience will be an off-site trip to you have to continue to develop the the costs associated with that to keep you up you've got enough time um the other person I had was a word for August operational thing as far as cost for running the building electrical and other services I don't see any of that here so I'm just wondering listen and also started about yeah so I I do not have a handle on that aspect of it um that's something that with the city will have to partner with who is determining what the cost to run you know the previous costs to run artists at sis with the equipment that's in that building um you know and how with the new additions and the new upgrades um you know I'm not sure what grades there are to the you know the air conditioning is the heating and all of that but if there were more efficient models put in that would be you know change sort of the number that would be looking at but we definitely have to work with the city to come up with a cross-test and employee operational costs of that building and equal to a little bit more once once the construction starts and yeah just I keep crying this idea out there because I really would like to see if there's something great I'm certainly willing to volunteer Market I would love to see us invest in solar panels because this building I just think it makes a nice try to limit our future costs especially as far as utilities are concerned and even if the federal government is still offered it's on that random house building I think the time I I'm not involved the project that I definitely would encourage that to be brought forward and number speed remind me the grades will be phased in or this is just foreign but we're phasing students in so so um not necessarily we need to hang kids out of DHS okay sooner than later um you know there's a little more flexibility around the middle school side but the issue with that is that you have to staff that building with a nurse within a safety Advocate with a principal so you're not really saving a lot of money to to face that that building in as much as you would say at the high school level but we definitely need to move students out of DHS when this building opens we're already going to be 200 students Beyond at least not paper where we are now if not more um and then a year later for our good students so unless we plan on adding portals to Theory High School we're going to be we're already in the series the cafeteria right now is beyond Max now and so in another year but originally the plan was to phase it in right um generally that wasn't fully that wasn't gently decided so much as you know the question was so these are 10th graders coming over so so for example our CNA program will be housed in this in this new location we have we have students who you know that are seniors that whole program should come over to to the new site where all the equipment will be located and where I think what we have so you'll already be taking a sizable number of that Academy over to the school she'll have 11th and 12th graders they're not just 10th graders um so we are looking to wholesale move students over as soon as possible we may have to do some negotiation for that depending on how the budget plays out but I think that there certainly is a need to to get those students into that building as soon as possible so this concludes the superintendent update but there's still a lot of discussion we can have around the specifics for the middle school just in terms foreign get into the school process [Music] choose elected with networking so we don't want to signal that [Music] process will be but you'll have some work to do on how that's going to management but out of all the kids first if not for our second choice hopefully we don't have to go to the third choice but this school is preparing for these these realities [Music] they'll also revisit it thoughts were standing middle West Side Middle School Lottery and or look in another Lottery type model look at any efficiency in season five I think the last thing we wanted one thing to [Music] think two cells for additional costs with busing and all over the system so you know we have some opportunities to come back and talk about that as well as well exciting things for us I think the point that I heard tonight was with model 365 kids are really not finding any of everyone's gonna have to have people certainly they are [Music] awesome certainly there's still some Investments to be made but we can but we can a lot of a lot of let us do that building the questions I just heard from Lauren and Rachel about transitioning for the to be a wholesale legal wholesale at a very wholesale wealthy moves so we can populate a building so it's full [Music] but I'm here from Carrie is we've had programs that with neatly we can we can pull students whether they're in 10th level to 12th grade [Music] but that's only a couple hundred kids though so certainly this is going to depend on the budget but the last I think the last thing I think we want to do is have a building of 36 3800 still after we've already moved or moved over a couple hundred kids to occupied campus [Music] for staggering we'll talk about 12 million dollars both on what those positions are and how we live in them so give us something to begin at the true water so 12 million is not function there right [Music] now but no no those are all good positions [Music] yes separate from yes [Music] yes that's right yeah John's gonna find the force oh my God nothing tomorrow any other questions before we move on did you go to Japan and put that down I would be happy to so I would like to first you think [Music] go over the goals for the for my office with a 20-year school year somewhat of a departure from another goals that were presented years previously opposed to the committee that we the priority plan is something that is at the Forefront of our work to make sure that it was also to ensure the alignment of the plan and my goals the modern foreign that we focus on those five priorities identify action steps on priority to help speak to supervise and evaluate me of course I would be prioritizing those goals with my team I also just so this team this is the stats yesterday [Music] or attack it goals to help to number one provide some kind of alignment plan but two days results as well making sure we do what we say we're going to do and then making sure that staff has an opportunity to review those goals as well so that they also open us accountable as a district attorney questions requirement questions of the information [Music] for the first time began to understand how the process is going to go I would just ask for it [Music] was a committee or have a meeting we love things come up but if you just let the chairperson know a terrible being a dentist I certainly would appreciate it so um and I want to thank Carol personally for taking time to make sure that she had folders made for everyone and she did in a very nice to meet sometimes in January of 2020 and thank you Mr Watson because I think the presentation was awesome thank you any other board updates many updates comments questions regular meetings on Monday and Wednesday before Thanksgiving foot lots of committee meetings in between oh yeah Escape convention show of hands who's going to the cave convention again okay so we could work that out amongst yourselves thank you for representing us [Music] nothing else motion to adjourn by Kate seconded by Al all those in favor um [Music]
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