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that's the budget Year we're talking about so it's actually next year so this is two years out three years out four years out five years out will be 355 and 335 so we'll be at 6.90 for DOT um when you get out you know looks like about the eighth year you'll be at 7.73 so we really aren't gonna Peak capacity at Dodd for the next five years I I know long term as those kindergarten first and second grade classes as they grow eventually they'll hit the middle school and eventually they'll hit the high school but you know we certainly based on these projections we won't run out of room at Dodd well at least it looks moderately stable and I know that in our Peak Peak years right we got as high as what 900 that's the on the cart years right that's kind of was always referred to right the teachers on carts was when we got to like if we when we see a population of 700 we're not talking about teachers on carts right I don't believe so no okay so and I'm just looking back at I'm looking in the spreadsheet in the early years so here we were 4 13 and 410 405 and 438 so we were just under more like 850 and that was back in 2001 and two so I was you know I mean as we approach which is in 3233 we'll be back at where we were in in 2001 2002.
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um I do think and they also had it interestingly enough when I was at the department of Ed back in 2005 we also had a school by school level AFR and they dumped it then it came back again obviously so um so yeah we do not have a site-based budgeting process and um and and just I mean a simple concept for you to remember is that we can't we have differing teachers with differing levels of experience and so therefore differing pays can you imagine if we would have to assign teachers to schools based upon their pay to make sure that we're equitably Distributing funds throughout all of our schools I mean that's a ludicrous example no it's not that's true that's logic I mean and even informative you look at the transportation some Schools Bus poor kids further than other schools do so your your transportation expenses will be higher or lower it's it's just different things just different things yeah I think what also needs to be said is that if there's something that a school needs we do everything we can to get that to them we don't we don't care what their numbers are we don't care what this report says if they have a need we will fill it as best as possible so this is what these guys do so thank you yeah well that's kind of back to that zero-based budgeting process right we're going to fund what you need tell us what you need and then we'll take care of it on under capitalize an example Gilbert L chose I really want to change my my library Furniture this year and so we allocated out the money for that so it's just an example that's more efficient I think well and at least that is the process that we follow so whether or not it just isn't reflected the same way these numbers don't reflect that so yeah great well I really appreciate that Mr Jetty did you have something I just want to say in special education programs change over the years too because of population and things like that so you really it just you know it you have to just present what you have no no you're not no but I really appreciate what Mrs Betts said about that what our district philosophy is and you know that we take the child and do the best we can it's all about students so great thank you guys thank you very much I I really appreciate your time as well to to dive into this and give us give us some insights into that again this year so wonderful all right this will adjourn our work study and I will call to order our brief board business meeting tonight and I will ask Miss Wilson to please call the roll Dr Charles Santa Cruz here Mr Bill Parker here Miss Laurie wood here miss Jill Humphries here Michela eugetti here Madam president all four members are present you have a corn thank you very much let's go to the consent agenda is there a motion to approve the consent agenda so moved thank you Mr Jetty it's been moved is our second second thank you thank you Dr Santa Cruz and it's been moved and seconded that we approve the consent agenda as presented all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with nay thank you that has passed and now we will adjourn our brief board business meeting is there a motion to adjourn so moved thank you Miss Humphreys is there a second second thank you missy Jetty it's been moved and seconded that we adjourn all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with nay thank you thank you all for being here for all the work and presentations that were given to us tonight we appreciate it [Music]
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so we'll certainly need to be you know looking ahead and starting to make some plans and and deciding what we could do um you know for space needs so we can't fall asleep at the switch but we don't have to deal with that for a couple of years yet yeah we at least again maybe we get through this first project and then we'll start look looking ahead I guess right right okay any other questions on the population not on population we budget 65 000 for salary and 20 000 for benefits so we use 85 000 as a budget number and we're assuming that we're hiring the teacher around step uh five so to the extent and typically with Elementary we are hiring teachers below step five and how many years have you ever no they'll have five years experience if they're on step five but if they're on step two they'll have you know two years of experience and you know it depending on the grade and the pool of candidates um it it's not unheard of to hire a teacher right out of school okay and are we going to be um given that the I know that at the high school level the course load is dropping but are we looking to eliminate or reduce positions there well I'll answer it this way we don't have anything definitive that we're going to put in the budget to reduce yet and we're still working through some of the specifics of the budget so we're not done yet part of the and and I you know I realized that the student population has dropped at Cheshire High School um but but the other offsetting issue is that the teachers used to teach six classes at Cheshire high school and I'm sure you remember in the last contract we reduced that to five classes so the impact of students dropping and teachers teaching less classes does have an offset but with that said they're you know I know that Jeff and Marlene you know have looked at you know whether or not we can shift some of the course offerings that we have if the classes are too small in size it's from most of the high school is based on course offerings not on just students per class so that I think that's the the question there and certainly not my area of expertise but you know Marlene and Jeff certainly would would talk quite a bit about that okay um okay all right uh we'll move on I'm gonna stop sharing this so that I can open up one more document okay so what um you should see on the screen now this is the last document I have for this evening by the way and hopefully you can see that large enough what we do as part of our budget process every year is we ask the principals and the department heads to provide in a separate request a essentially anything they need that's outside of a currently funded operating budget line any request for Staffing we we do not want them to enter that into their operating budget requests we ask them to break it out in a in a Google sheet that then gets reviewed and when I say reviewed I make a first pass at it then Marlene and Jeff review it in order to determine do we want to actually include this in the operating budget or not and so what I'm showing on the screen that I'll walk through in a moment is the summary by school of all those requests so just to familiarize us what what this document shows in the left hand column we have the school then we have the request the estimated cost and then we do break this out by type of request and then there's initial on this sheet there's an initial decision based on the review from Dr Solon and Miss Solano and myself so the first one is a request from the high school to add thirteen thousand dollars to the operating budget at the high school for the software called huddle that's used by the sports teams to review they games that they've played what's important about this is that we have to make those game tapes I'll call them tapes but they're actual digital there's no more tape these days right we have to make those those game videos available to our competitors so we've been the reality is we've been making this investment you know for several years now um but it's being taken out of other athletic budget lines and so it's not been properly funded so this request is to properly fund that so that's kind of the easy one these are the ones that are always more tricky these are all the Staffing requests um and so if I just focus your attention on the bottom so based on the requests we received though the if all were added to our budget it's a million forty seven thousand three hundred eighty eight dollars a new Staffing requests so we go through each of these um one at a time and then we discuss them with the school principals or whoever the department manager and ultimately make a decision whether to include it in the budget exclude it from the budget or in a lot of cases that you see on the screen TBD which is to be determined so um I'll just hit a couple of these and then I see Ms Rosenberg has her hand up Mr grippo but there was a request from Chapman to add bus monitors on each of the buses permanently right now what we do is we do have bus monitors that we employ we rotate them through the clutches as needed so the determination was to exclude this from the budget and in that decision obviously is never made in a vacuum it's looking at well you know what do we know our budget you know requirements are going to be and is this something that can be supported or not um another one is an addition of an art teacher at the high school um and based on enrollment that one was determined to be excluded and I'll just explain this one and then I I could pause there so at Doolittle there was an increase requested of a nursing assistant um now Doolittle's student population has grown this is a request that you know Jeff and I reviewed with Nancy Stanton who's the nursing supervisor for the district you know we believe this is a request that we would probably support and include in the budget when when we you know finally submitted and you know it's the superintendent's budget that he recommends to the Board of Ed and then the Board of Ed you know has an opportunity to make changes as it sees fit so that is an example of one that we would support and there's a few that are tbds that we're still working on so I'll just pause there to see if there are questions as we move through or before we move further Sam go ahead no I think you already started and I would just love to hear the rationale for these line items you know um for reasons of exclusion or inclusion in why justifiably we should you know I don't know you started a bit already so yeah so and these you could see that these you know these requests for a staffing um for the most part come came from the schools um and so there's you know discussion that has to take place some of some of the requests like this one there's an additional grade one and grade two shared uh this is para educator for ELA and math support that's a request that came out of Doolittle yeah um and Marlene marked that as to be determined because she thinks there may be other ways that we can provide that support not necessarily through just a para educator you know we do have you know other supports like the reading and math specialist that may be able to help we also have um the possibility of using arpesser funding yeah yeah so that's why that one's marked a TBD um there's these bottom four these are all requests that came from the pupil Personnel Department one is to increase the bcba for the district from a 0.6 to a full-time uh the second one is an increase from a half time to a full-time speech language pathologist for Highland another one is to increase by one full-time teacher at Cheshire high school for special education um and actually that's uh the second full-time teacher request is for Highland the justification for the request is based on on Staffing enrollment I know specifically with those four Marlene Jeff and Robin and Carrie the director of pupil Personnel I'm not only looking at dolls but they're exploring opportunities to make some reductions in some of the other programs that we provide Jeff mentioned you know one of the programs that we have running at Quinnipiac that we might be able to take back in-house or find a a better way to address the needs of the students that participate in that program um this request for at maintenance a supervisor position for buildings and grounds that one you know I'm discussing directly with our facilities director rich clivette I'm not sure that we would do that one this year um he does have retirement on the horizon but he's not quite ready yet so he wanted to you know start laying the groundwork for his replacement um this is uh the one at Highland I'm just trying to hit some of the highlights although it looks like I'm going to wind up explaining them all so this is just a premature list and then it still needs to be teased out with discussions for each department and so forth yes I was just like specifically for PPS like is it because it's an increase in caseloads that we're now needing the additional Staffing yeah I mean that that is the that is the justification that was provided you know on that those two requests and also same thing here at Doolittle the part-time School counsel or social worker has to do with caseload and so all these are being examined further to determine you know do we include it and try and come up with a budget that has a series of trade-offs that the superintendent is comfortable with that the board will then need to look at and determine if they're comfortable with it you know then if I could ask um just uh if um the uh special education Staffing request you go through if we could perhaps get an analysis of what that caseload increase looks like uh just so we can you know make a better informed decision on stuff like uh you know because these are these are basically permanent positions we're talking about right so you know we just want to know what we're looking at there you know I will just make uh you know one comment you know based on my experience here well every year we get requests for Staffing technology and there's one more paycheck I'll show you um and you know we negotiate them back and forth and and you because I know you've been on the board for several years Adam we don't typically ask for a lot on the Staffing side unless it's it's required my comment is that this is probably the highest I've seen in terms of Staffing requests and I do believe part of it certainly has to do with enrollment and caseloads in the area of special ed so we'll need to work it through but there's no doubt in my mind that we're going to have increased pressure to increase staff just because you know enrollment's growing and how we manage that you know may not necessarily be only Staffing increased requests you know can we offset some of the increases with decreases we just touched on the high school as an example maybe there are some reductions that can be made there to try and and you know submit a as fiscally responsible a budget as we can while making sure we provide services students need you know along that that line um and I don't know if we had completely flushed this out or not but since you know with the new the the North End School that will be developed and you know that's going to be picking up a lot of the um or all the duties that that Darcy was going to be you know that does currently um is there going to be like any of the special education duties that occur at other elementary schools are there are there going to be any like a I don't know a center of excellence or something that would also be there where we could achieve maybe some more efficiencies for it's system-wide or is the thought that we're going to continue to have um services for for each school like you know for instance I know that like um certain case loads go specifically to Highland or we have the bridges program at at Dodd I mean I do a little um so is there a thought about you know achieving those some more efficiencies at the new facility or are we going to sort of keep going where we're just going to kind of Shuffle uh staff around like we are we didn't get into that level of detailed yet Adam I know when we were developing the Ed specs for the new North End School where Darcy would be located we did we did look and talk about can we either relocate some of the programs that we have to the new North End School or do we leave them at Highland we do get some efficiencies in the programs you mentioned right so at Highland we you know generally speaking students that are identified that are on the autism spectrum they do go to a specialized program at Highland regardless of where they are in the district um do a little is is more of a behavioral program and students that are identified from across the district they attend the do little Bridges program and you mentioned that and you're right because we do have a Bridges program at Dodd as well although um you know there's I believe there might be only one or two students in that program this year so as we continue forward as we design the schools and we get you know closer to when we got two years out from opening that school I think those discussions you know will will be occurring and you know that we will be redistricting once all the once the three new excuse me once the new two schools are online so in that redistricting we can move programs or establish a program if it makes sense to do so well that's that's good news and you know that's sort of the point of why we're having these these Finance meetings before the finance meetings was to sort of sort of talk about these these types of topics to just to sort of start thinking about things uh as our school system you know gets a little larger and we're going to have these new facilities to be able to maybe use more efficiently and kind of look at how we're growing and how we can maybe transform a little bit yeah um is there uh let's see oh uh Faith go ahead so um assuming these these Staffing requests they're coming in it you know basically one million a million dollars um those do not include the four positions that you're asking for right so we're really looking at 1.3 what is this 1.3 almost 1.4 million dollars in new Staffing yeah but I I didn't mean to call you off faith that's okay I doubt that we would request the million dollars that you see here I I'm confident that's going to be reduced you know just based on some of the ones that already excluded you know what is ultimately going to be in there we don't know yet but it won't be that million forty seven thousand the four teachers for elementary based on classroom requirements that that will be included I don't see any way of getting around that at this point okay so that's 72 and one 70 so 240 plus 340.
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so we're looking at about 500 at least realistically 000 Plus for new salaries for new positions that's a good back of the napkin estimate for now just don't hold me to it faith oh my I won't I promise I won't I won't okay but again the process is the superintendent will make recommendations and then you know we'll present to the board and the board you know can add a deep add or subtract I mean that is the process and we've done it before but there'll be pressure yep if you're good with Staffing I have one more page it's easier yeah go ahead okay um so there's part of the request that we receive from the principals and the department heads offer replacement and new equipment which we asked for them to carve it out if it's something special and you could see you know some of the larger ones you know do little needs replacement student desk for class for grades two and three that's about twenty three thousand twenty four thousand um privacy room dividers new iPad cards for kindergarten classrooms so these after reviewing them for the most part we will either purchase these as we get into April May when we know where our budget stands and if we have sufficient funds we can make these purchases to replace classroom desks rugs tables those are pretty straightforward one of the things that also winds up in this bucket is Chapman for example added the addition of a sixth grade teacher well that was based on the principle there Diane Burns she assumed and I think rightfully so that sixth grade class size was increasing but we don't add it from this process the Staffing for elementary that comes from that enrollment sheet that I showed you so there's a lot of things that wind up in this category that will either purchase at the end of this fiscal year but we won't be budgeting it into next year's budget and those total 423 843 but again a lot of those are coming from addition of a second grade teacher at nor an addition of a fifth grade teacher all of that is determined through the enrollment projection process so I don't want to bore you with all the details of this one this is just straightforward you know replacement technology and new equipment that um you know we'll we'll deal with that side of next year's budget request so then um you're saying that if what was it right now we're at 40 percent yes uh of what 40 percent of non-discretionary right that's right yeah non-payroll expenditures we allow that we have been allowing the um principals and department heads to spend 40 percent of their approved budget we're actually going to raise that for 50 we did a budget review um this week you know through November things are holding just fine you know not surprisingly as the board and the finance committee knows you know our energy costs are up um but you know certainly within sustainable levels so we don't want to wait we don't want to hold up the expenditures back too much that you know would cause um you know discomfort or an inability to buy the things that the that the principals feel they need for students so we'll be a 50 um in December and then we'll hold there until we get another couple of months of budget under our belt so there's a possibility that a lot of the uh items on this list as far as materials go could potentially be purchased five years then correct is that okay all right well we'll keep an eye on that then I guess um any questions for this list besides that okay all right um I think we have uh bounce forward Staffing phase in so that one I I spoke to Jeff about that a little bit um and I think the the thinking on on that particular item he added to the agenda had to do with what happens when we're through and we've expended all the oppressor funds and does it make sense to start phasing in some of those bounce forward costs into the operating budget that we're preparing now and just to be clear the bounce forward expenses that we're talking about are staff increases we added 1.4 yeah um Elementary principle assistant principles we added a math culture thought a math coach at Cheshire high school and a reading and math specialist for elementary so those are the positions that when the RPS of funding is exhausted will need to make a decision do we continue on and include them in our operating budget or do we eliminate them and that decision hasn't been made yet but the really the simple answer is if we start incorporating those into this fiscal budget for next year we actually won't wind up expending our passer so we have enough another way to say this we have enough our professor funding to carry those positions through June of 20 um 24.
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so it doesn't really warrant us starting to phase anything in now we don't want to give any of the oppressive funding back well I I think uh Jeff had explained to the explain this to us a few meetings ago where essentially that the all of the the math interventionists and the reading support folks are basically permanent employees at this point right yes so they would have to be essentially uh laid off right and then would they be enjoy uh Union you know bumping rules and stuff like that at that point so it's not as simple as just like you're getting rid of a consultant or something it's you know it's this is being like an actual almost like a full teacher position correct yes those types of yeah so the math coach uh Todd the math called Cheshire High School those you know our our full-time teaching positions and so if we decided that we would eliminate both those coaches um you would not actually eliminate those individuals you would eliminate the lowest person in the math department that's certified whether it's at the high school or the Middle School right so I I understand the the I know Jeff's concerned about that but there's really nothing we should be doing now I think we should need to continue to discuss and the phasing in doesn't help us it doesn't soften it might soften the budget blow but then you you're not using the art best of funding and actually if the deadline for our best or funding is extended because right now it expires in September of 2024 if they extend that deadline we may be able to get you know well into 20 24 25 with that funding if if we um use it appropriately well that's good news I guess appropriately I didn't mean that we're using inappropriately but you know we could stretch it out by making sure that we use those funds for Staffing unless for some of the you know the items I would expect we will be able to stop doing like you know using Consultants to help address learning loss and and professional development right um Sam I think your head your head you're right now we don't have to plan yeah for the cliff right because of potential positions yeah your audience going crazy yeah this laptop I have to see Scott uh well okay well Sam has figuring that out or maybe you want to type it out Sam's uh Faith once you go ahead no just this is more it's probably more a curriculum question but um you know okay um um it bounce forward uh you know I as I understood it it was to bring kids up to Snuff what was covid um and we you know did a decent job keeping our kids in class and and yes we've seen some learning loss do do we have a plan I mean is this what we're saying we're going to work these people into our permanent staff are we gonna forever and always have bounce forward because I do remember at the time when we started bringing these on and and a couple of us asked are these going to become permanent positions and we were assured no they would be temporary uh you know I just I I obviously we do what we have to do do to get our kids is you know back to where they were I guess but when will we know when that we're there and um this town's being asked to bite off a big hunk of change and I just uh I get a little worried I guess and I this is the Forum to express that concern in fact I understand the question I would rather that Jeff and Marlene address what the needs are the only thing I will say is that the learning loss you know at some point some of the I certainly think some of the learning loss that goes away because we've addressed it and we through several years of schooling some of the desire may be though to keep that staff on because enrollments increase so right I think you know my point tonight is it's it's a discussion worth having but it's not going to impact the operating budget for next year because you know even though there may be a fiscal cliff it's not next year so we have time to to discuss it and as I said if there's an opportunity that you know our professor deadline is extended we might be able to you know to continue with those positions using our besser eventually though that runs out and so the question has to be answered do we keep you know these positions in the operating budget yep okay uh Ben did you see Sam's comments here or do you want me to read them or can you see them or do you want me to read them yeah when these positions end up being in the operating budget eventually if we decide to keep the model of support the answer is is yes I'd also love to see some data to support the effectiveness in keeping the model I will pass that on to Dr Solon and Miss Solano that's a good question yeah and then Sam said she definitely appreciates the early planning for when the fiscal cliff does occur after 2024.
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so this issue doesn't go away it's it's going to continue to get you know discussed I'm sure I don't think I disagree with anything in those comments [Laughter] that that all sounds like uh excellent suggestions and presumably we're going to keep you know keep these Finance you know committee meetings going so we can keep this item on the agenda yeah and yeah and that does seem that the first comment there about the permanent positions that that like you said that does seem to be the case where if we you could eliminate the positions but you don't eliminate the people and therefore to keep the people and their uh let's say seniority status and so forth that would affect uh a teacher somewhere else in the in the same uh area right because you said there are some interventionists at the elementary and at the middle school level correct there's a middle school and high school middle yeah there's a ram it at elementary and coaches interventionists at the middle and high school right they're all being supported by our professor funding so we have three basically three Administration isn't treated the same way or is it do they have the same rights oh you're talking about if you eliminated the position it actually doesn't work the same way with pumping well because there's less administrators right but I mean but the bumping rights aren't treated the same way uh and like do the do ministers even have bumping rights are they I believe they I believe they do I'll double check the contract but in this case the last person hired is the least senior person anyway that's in that role right right well these are all things to be considered because I know that did happen once right we did have to uh reduce again I think it was back to the population bumper we switched T where we switched teachers around but it somehow affected uh this because the seniorities a teacher I think lost their position somewhere you know if I recall um just because of you've moved to a different school or something something weird happened so these are things that we'll have to account for yeah the only time it's not just titles on on sheets of paper or actually maybe you know as you understand it yeah yeah ah okay um so is there any so yeah so we'll leave that as a step basically I think a standing agenda item because that's that's going to be a a big issue to keep an eye on yeah uh okay um so is that is that what we have for looks like that's what we have for agenda items I believe and that is and so if there are any other additional questions so our first uh official budget meeting is in in the beginning of Jan or at the middle of January right if I wanted to call I believe it's January 12th the 12th yes is the Board of Education that's when the superintendent presents his budget okay great we'll we'll get to see what made it and what did it it'll be very exciting but it looks like you guys are going to have a lot of hard decisions because what was it 1.5 million faith I think there's gonna have to be some uh looking at those positions pretty hard because I think like Jeff said and I'm sure Vandy you're thinking too you know with the approval of this new school project uh I'm not sure if he used the a word austerity uh or not but uh I think that's the right word um but uh certainly fiscal Prudence will be in order uh in this coming budget as we you know the town's folks uh come to the realization of paying for this new project so yeah we'll all have to be very aware of that um if there aren't any other questions I will um entertain a motion to adjourn so move Faith or faith second and Sam's good all in favor raise a hand I'm sure yeah second seems good all right we are adjourned thank you VIN all right thank you thank you Carol thanks Mike good night everyone
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the Ann Arbor Public art commission meeting to order December 7th at 704 pm um and I will go ahead and start with a roll call uh Allison buck present in Ann Arbor Michigan rate Jamal Bufford president in Superior Township Michigan great um myself Sarah Fuller present in Ann Arbor Michigan Sophie Grier present in Ann Arbor am I muted no we heard you loud and clear uh John katarski present in Ann Arbor Peggy Leonard present in Ann Arbor to marionetta Porter president in Ann Arbor all right Lynn song I believe is not present this evening and last but certainly not least to marry peoples oh and I think you're muted Mary yeah I'm present and in Grass Lake wonderful um all right so um I invite a motion to approve the agenda as presented do I have a motion to approve I need to make one change on the agenda if I could Sarah okay um we have staff here to do a presentation for the city project so could I move um Hillary up on the agenda to do a presentation yes um so do we want to do that then before report from staff or just move report from staff up um that'd be fine either either way okay then we will we will do that because I think I actually should have another section in there where she's listed as a presentation rather than I I put her in staff but okay so we'll move we can move that up okay thank you great and Mary yeah as panelists do we have an option to share screen I can I can let you share a screen yes okay great okay so do I have a second for the amended uh approval of the amended agenda thank you Allison um all right and then um see so the next item on the agenda is the approval of minutes from our October meeting um do I have a motion to approve the minutes I moved to approve the minutes wonderful thank you um all right so I guess we can then get started um it does look like they're so usually we have discussion after approvals if anyone has any discussion of the minute and then we can all approve any discussion from the October minute all right then um I believe we have approval to move forward um yeah right sorry oh we vote on it okay um so everyone uh and approval yes yes and all in favor I I perfect thank you um okay so I see that we do have a public comment um Olivia Glenn a Community High School student so perhaps we'll start with that public comment there and Olivia you have the floor hi um can you hear me we can great um I don't actually have like a public comment like to add to the discussion that's being had but I'm like sitting in on this so that I can do like uh a project for my government class where I can sort of like participate and listen to a discussion in some type of uh government thing that I'm interested in I'm really interested in artwork so I thought this would be perfect so I'm just looking forward to like hearing about everything that is fantastic thank you Olivia for joining us um thank you and yes uh so thank you okay well then let's move on then to uh the presentation from Hillary and Hillary you have the floor so I'm actually so I'm Peter Sanderson I'm with Washington County Parks I'm currently texting with Hillary who has just lost internet in her entire house oh no so we're trying to figure this out so maybe we could if you have something else to do for a little bit maybe we can try and sort this out and come back to us absolutely on her phone she might be able to use her phone too just a little suggestion right well but we had a PowerPoint yeah we're gonna we're gonna work through some stuff we'll be right back okay thanks sending you good luck yes all right so then why don't we go ahead and move on to new business and that would be um Mary your presentation from tree town uh murals good evening everyone so good to be here uh welcome Olivia glad you're tagging along um so this is this is something I wanted to bring um to the attention of the public art commission um there is some exciting New Movement for a couple of new public art projects that are going to be happening in the city of Ann Arbor starting now um a lot of the groundwork is being laid right now but the work will actually be completed in 2023.
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so in Foods one um towards the end of the semester we usually do a pie lab to have the students kind of show off their skills they learn throughout the semester they create a homemade double crust pie from start to finish over a course of three days in the beginning it seems so intimidating making a homemade pie completely from scratch so what Mrs lizak and I do is we demonstrate the recipe from start to finish using our demonstration cameras that we have in the foods classroom so they can see from their seats on the demonstration camera what we are doing Within These recipes I think one of the great things about our Foods classes and family consumer science are all the different academic skills that the students are drawing from so the cool thing about Foods in general is that we are pulling a bunch of different disciplines into our class for example when students are reading a recipe they're learning vocabulary skills they're learning how to follow directions from start to finish as far as math skills go they need to measure their ingredients appropriately using fractions sometimes doubling or tripling or cutting a fraction in half that becomes science right because you're taking taking a leavening agent like baking powder baking soda and you are producing the end result which is a rising pie crust so you're bringing in math science reading and all these different aspects throughout their school day and they're learning it in a different way so the first day they create their own homemade pie crust the second day they create their homemade filling which then becomes Frozen with the apples and the cinnamon and all the goodness that's inside and then the third day they kind of combine everything so this is a double crust pie which means that they have a layer of pie in the bottom the pie filling in the middle and then they can choose the top crust of their choice so they can choose whether they want just as simple with a fluted Edge they can choose what's called a lattice crust which has the strips or they can use some cookie cutters and make it kind of fun or braids and kind of make it of their choice I feel like the apple pie lab really like reflects you you could add like your little little spice to it you know like you could add your personality to it with the pie crust so I feel like bringing that home and showing it to your family really shows like not only your cooking skills but like your creativity skills when it comes to stuff in the kitchen like that so one of the things that is so much fun about being a food teacher is seeing these students faces light up when they make something amazing what's really cool about this unit is that students actually take home their pies to serve to their families and friends over Thanksgiving break and it's just awesome to hear how much their family loved it through the pie lab they're really able to finally show off their skills and bring home something for their families to enjoy that they've made handmade when students are able to turn in their pies to us ready to be frozen to take home seeing the smile on their faces like we did this look what I did it's just amazing as a teacher to see it's really cool because I'm the one in the family who like my mom complains about because I don't know how to cook but like it's the dish that everyone's waiting for this Thanksgiving so the goal of all of our Foods classes and really all of our current tech ed classes as a whole is to provide students with experiential learning where they're going to get hands-on experience and hopefully by the end of the semester they find something that they're passionate about maybe for potential career or just develop life skills that they'll be able to carry on outside of school coming back from covid we notice a lot of students were struggling with communication we were just behind the screen for a while and coming back in person was a little bit of a struggle so what's great about Foods classes it really gave them an outlet to practice those skills yet so what makes Foods classes set apart from other classes around the school is that we are 9th through 12th grade so students can come into Foods one as a freshman and be in a group with two other seniors maybe a sophomore I always like to say food brings people together when you cook together when you eat together they get to know each other when they work together they kind of build this bond that gets stronger and stronger as the semester goes on hey we're a team right here team right here I can't do anything without these girls right good job I was working together and it's fun you're really going to get your social skills up because you're talking with everybody in your group and it's just so fun to cook things and you get to bring them home and eat them at the end of the day not only do you get to learn different skills and cooking but you also get to communicate with other smart friends your social skills really like improved because if you're not talking during the lab and stuff like that is going to be awkward when you have to cook so you really have to open up and stuff like that and you're gonna make food you get food out of it you get cookies out of it [Music]
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um if I can share my screen I will show you the site locations and give you a little bit of information um and let's see here so the um two Target locations are what we're calling um the project we're calling murals that bridge um we have two sites that have been identified for uh renewal um and the this one is the Huron Street what you're looking at is what I'm calling the underpasses which are the concrete Wing walls and then the overpass which is the kind of metal um you know structure that kind of goes over so the Ann Arbor railroad which is actually owned by Watco um goes through the town as most of you know and actually creates these um sort of gates um for people that kind of come in and exit visitors and residents um at six different locations throughout our downtown and air air area um so these spaces we see as being highly transitional between neighborhood and City also so many people that come into our community come off of 94 M14 so we have here the Huron Street underpass and you can kind of see where the art is proposed to go so the wing walls and then actually the the bridges over top the metal um we have identified a couple other sites and so this is looking the other direction so the metal overpass on this direction as well and then on North Main when you're going up to M14 this is a mural that was completed in 2002 so 20 years ago by myself and another local artist it was commissioned by Peter Allen and Associates who have their offices and own a couple of buildings here on the North Main Corridor and they actually reached out about kind of restoring this mural and the timing was pretty perfect because there was already some funding coming in and some interest to actually have this whole Space kind of overhauled so here you can see it going into town as well so we're talking again about the wing walls and the concrete and also the metal overpasses um so we are actively fundraising um we have reached almost half of our goal of um 250 000 uh which is philanthropic money from uh local um people uh Larry and Lucy Nissen have stepped up uh Peter Allen and Associates have stepped up as well as destination and Arbor so those are three funders at this time and we are working with constellation Consulting out of New York to do the rest of the fundraising and development so we're pretty confident that we will raise the money needed to kind of oversaw overhaul these sites um they have been um through like surveys that we've conducted people have watched Art Go Up in these sites over the years but they still remain pretty blighted um and uncared for uh being such a prominent spot in our community uh these have been identified as sites to get public art so retail murals will be kind of leading this initiative and I just wanted to put it on everybody's radar and let you all know what was what was going to be happening so I'm happy to answer any questions that folks may have or just happy to kind of um let you all know what's the what's the process for selecting the muralists um the there is no process um at this point um I and my husband will be doing the first base designs um so treetown murals has already been selected to do the Creative Design um because of our community connections with youth and with other artists we will definitely be bringing in other voices so um that just means that we will be kind of overseeing the initial design and um the review of that foreign exciting projects Mary and John uh well I think this is absolutely wonderful this is what um has been discussed among our commissioners for uh years about Gateway projects so there's always been talk about uh could you know this is towns have are using it as a Gateway into the town a signifier an identifier and this is exactly um uh one of the kinds of projects I think that that people uh thought about um and uh and I don't think there could be anybody better than Tree Town murals uh you know I watched Mary I I've watched you grow your business I've watched you interact uh I don't think there's anybody that could do Outreach as well as you I mean uh uh you know your your experience with uh with with uh young people in town uh and uh and the quality of your work is just absolutely superb so I'm delighted uh that um uh that this project is coming uh into being and that you are leading it so uh kudos to you that's absolutely spectacular cool thanks so much Jen Alison yeah I'm very excited to see this project go forward I know Mary we had been telling me about this project earlier and um of course Echo John sentiments that glad to see you guys are on it and making it happen um you mentioned there were six of these is the idea that these are just like the two pilots and eventually we'll do the rest and uh also I'm super excited about the fact that the metal part is Incorporated in the project now I love to see that you're like slowly inching your way and getting Headway with the railroad to do more and more of those um so that's exciting as well but yeah how are we gonna do all six yeah I'm hoping that this is kind of a like a flagship project that will just gain a lot of momentum um the sites were identified uh with the interest of really connecting the neighborhoods with the city but also just giving something to people that come in and out of our community every day hundreds of thousands of people visit and drive under those underpasses and I think they go unnoticed if anything um because they just they need some love uh Watco has given their full approval and support for the project so um for those of you that don't know uh this is how I got my start as a muralist was actually being arrested for painting on one of these underpasses uh 25 years ago and I I've used this story in so many different ways to work with young people especially because we just didn't know what the Avenues were and which to do it correctly with permission um certainly the charges were dropped and that summer uh seven of us painted all of the underpasses for the first time and this was 25 years ago so this is a project that is super near and dear to my heart and um let's just let's see how it goes I love that story Mary I'm glad it's coming full circle um and there's a lot of traffic on Huron so you know you can sit there and actually enjoy enjoy um we were at delanis today doing a window painting workshop with um many of the residents there and getting a view from the dolanus window uh it's just that the whole Space just needs a renewal so it's just super exciting to see that funding is coming in that people are passionate about it I digress do we have any other questions or comments for Mary all right I'm going to take that as as a no um I wonder Peter if there has been any update on the Internet situation uh Hillary is enroute to her sister's place she should be there in about five minutes all right perfect well then um why don't we go sorry I'll just wait for her to jump on the meeting and then I think whenever it's convenient we can do that fantastic that sounds like a plan so then I think we can move on then to report from staff so I think first on the agenda we have the arpa funding update hi I'm sorry oh that's fine so yeah the arpa funding yes could I um make an invitation here um we have a new council member who's joined our public art meeting this evening I'm just noticing that Cynthia Harrison is here um welcome um Cynthia do you want to introduce yourself and tell folks a little bit about you sure good evening everyone um my name is Cynthia Harrison and I am the new council member for Ward one and let's see a little bit about myself first of all I'm happy to be here thank you for having me um I don't know it was uh born and raised in Ann Arbor um I'm a wife I'm a mom um I work I'm a program Community program manager for the Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living [Music] um currently there I'm working on a program for re-entering Citizens I'm really excited about that um let's see what else uh my art background um all through Elementary and high school was you know singing or dancing actually lettered in choir uh I think acapella acquire uh so that's that's my connection to the Arts um my youngest uh I call him an artist he's a Lyricist um so I selected the uh public art public Arts uh commission just because of my family's love for the Arts and um I just thought it was an appropriate choice to make so I'm happy to be here I I was chatting with Lynn earlier I was like I didn't realize I was there was just one um liaison from city council so I I guess I've replaced her so I just asked that you be patient with me I'm learning um we were just assigned I think yesterday or two days ago officially our assignments and um I believe I've got about eight committees uh and commissions so hello welcome I'm Jamal hi Jamal is he there Hi friend so Jamal um you you and Pam graduated together right you did yes go rats here on that's right yes yes go rest I I graduated from here on like the mall but Jamal is younger than myself and his appears uh with my my baby sister so and he was a big supporter of mine uh during my campaign so thank you Jamal welcome thank you Cynthia um I think I just have One update for the arbor funding I don't have a lot of information on it and I think last month I may have reported that we had some initial bids that came in um we actually had no bids to do the programming for the arbor funding and we're looking at a couple of different ways um to to move that forward and it I believe we're going to move forward without actually carving that out and and hiring um someone to run that program for us um I'll have to share more information as I know more I know right now we're working with Lego to put all the documents together and determine how we move forward from here selfie um yeah Bonita could you tell us a bit more about that I mean um what kind of solicitation was put out and you know what were the criteria and how would people think about it and maybe just some more information would be it would be interesting it is part of a normal City bidding process so folks that would have been interested in participating in bidding and and putting in um an option to be the facilitator of the Opera funding they would have gone through our purchasing process we had no submittals at all for to run the arbor funding program um and as everybody knows we have a local local organizations that have expressed interest and possibly doing um the facilitation of the arbor funding um staff is working with purchasing and having some additional meetings with legal to understand how that would work and how to set that up um and that's kind of all I know at this point until I have actual more feedback from legal if I know they're working on some documents they're looking at trying to figure out how much people need to be paid what portion and how they would um disperse the funds to individuals who might want to participate who will hold those funds how do we deliver the funding um so are there a lot of other steps uh within it that were we weren't quite prepared for because of what didn't go through the debating process if that makes sense yeah I I'm I'm still slightly confused I'm afraid because I know when we had the the meeting whenever it was last January I can't remember what it was now kind of been January whenever it was so we had an open meeting and lots of people came in and with ideas about projects they would like to do and I'm not quite sure how those dots get connected of the people who are interested in doing projects and how would they go about finding some funding for their project what would be required for them you know maybe I can fill in a hole here yeah between that meeting and putting out the bid Sarah Jamal and I met and put together a proposal for how those buns would be delegated I believe we all reviewed in a meeting those um criteria that we had put together one of the items was that someone would administer those funds and that the city would hire an organization to administer the funds this is the bid to find that organization that would come up with how they would get the submissions and would manage the granting the re-granting okay and so apparently no one applied to do the re-granting and I guess my question was I assume that the organizations who had expressed interest got direct letters about the opportunity is that correct Medina and they just didn't apply um for as far as as far as the bidding process um I don't believe they applied I'm not sure I really don't know I didn't see I don't know we had nobody apply no one even submitted a bid right and I'm just asking did they get direct letters because I know like when the for example when the gallery in um the city hall and like the commission when that went out for bid organizations got direct letters saying this is an opportunity that you can apply for administering the gallery within Chambers because I was at the alarm at the Arts Alliance at that time and remember getting the letter and been putting together a proposal and whatnot so my assumption is and if you could just confirm at some point that those types of organizations that we kind of thought would be inclined to do this type of work like creative Washtenaw the art center the Community Foundation those types of places got some sort of notification that this was an opportunity um that would be good good to know at least if they got if they got that kind of notification I can certainly check with purchasing to see if they set something out like that yeah just because we didn't get any bid so otherwise yeah um oh sorry Mary did you have your hand up so will it go out back out to bid again I don't know that answer either okay I'm sorry again we're working with legal to figure out how to do this I understand that um we can do it one of two ways we could send it back out again or we have the option of um looking at local companies and having them do this work um but I have not been able to get complete details back yet from legal we've just had a few conversations because it really just kind of happened um I think we were all a little surprised that we didn't get any bids at all and so that kind of threw us into a completely different way of thinking about this and looking at it is there a percentage that that organization would make if they were in charge of this re-granting process I don't know Mary I have none of those details at all I just wanted to bring it forward to you to clarify because I think I reported last month that we had actual bids and we did not so I wanted to clear that up and just let folks know that we're still working on this when we had put together the recommendations there was a certain percentage of funding that would go to whoever administers it because we understand that that is work and well thank you so much for the update on that Vanita and we will stay tuned as things uh progress from there um and Peter it looks like you have your your hand up there I just wanted to let you know that Hillary's back and she needs to be promoted to panelists please is she actually here I don't see her she's not showing up on is she she's under the attendees she's not on my list unless I'm missing her I said yeah I don't see her oh I see I believe Hillary has joined us now welcome Hillary we're glad that the Internet situation has resolved itself and um if you need a few minutes or if you are ready now to present um that that is up to you are you ready ready to go now yeah ready to go now but I hate to interrupt in the middle of your conversation so if this is a good time for the rest of you that's perfect we'd actually just finished um finished that update so if you would like to have the floor please do yeah thank you and unfortunately my internet didn't resolve I actually got in the car and drove to my sister's house who fortunately only lives about 10 minutes away um I am Hillary Hansel I'm a park planner and landscape architect with the parks department um and I'm going to be sharing my screen here in just a second uh but I have with me today I'm not sure if he's a panelist yet um Pete Sanderson with Washtenaw County Parks um so Pete and I are collaborating on one of the two projects I'm going to be talking to you about today which is the Barton Bandimere pedestrian tunnel um so Pete um we'll be chiming in later in the presentation and Anita I just want to make sure he's a panelist as well um so really quick just for um having an agenda we'd like to talk to you about our goals today just kind of what we're looking to get out from this meeting so this is our first time interacting with your group um provide an overview of both of these Park projects and kind of our preliminary budgets and then run through just some broad ideas for what we're thinking public art could be in these spaces some of the considerations we're taking into account um and really looking to have a discussion with all of you and then hopefully get some clarity on the next steps um going forward in the process and so um in looking at goals for today so you know this is our initial discussion with all of you I've actually not engaged with the art commission before so I am new to this as a city staff member uh but these are the two projects that were recommended by by you for public art um incorporation and so for us part of what we'd like to hear from hear from your group is understanding you know what the expectations are for the public art um you know what constitutes public art kind of what the goals of the Arts are for it to achieve um understand the process that you're looking for um in relation to these two projects we'd also like to provide an overview of the interpretive master plan that Washington County Parks developed for the border to border Trail um as kind of a cohesive thought process for how arts and other interpretive elements um are included in these areas and then you know as I mentioned discussing preliminary budgets and ideas and then also discussing this role of non-city Partners and private donors because we actually have a few different partners um in the tunnel project so with that um hopefully everyone can see this map on my screen here um we just want to kind of show that these two projects um they're both located near the border to border Trail which is the dark blue line um and they kind of you know this this orientation on the Southeast and Northwest kind of could act as these Gateway elements into and out of the city um so it's just really interesting timing that they're both um happening in similar time frames they have similar budgets so while they don't have to have um you know similar public art there's also this opportunity for the art to relate to one another and maybe play off with each other so just to provide some context there oops and then um so the first project I'll just kind of give a broad overview so um the Gallup Park um wooden vehicle Bridge many of you might be familiar with this it's the bridge you cross over if you drive into the park kind of heading southbound um it's basically reached the end of its useful life um it was built in the 1970s it wasn't built for the level of use um that it currently receives today so um we've been planning for its replacement for a few years now and the proposed bridge that we'll be replacing it with will be built actually just next to it just west of the current Bridge um it will actually retain the single vehicle Lane which I think adds a lot of like traffic calming so you'll still have to yield um to any oncoming traffic on the other side but we'll actually double the sidewalk um or Trail space on either side so it'll be a little bit bigger um you know we're looking to incorporate wood elements it'll actually um not be made entirely out of wood just because of the um the new vehicle loads that it must carry but we're looking at corporate natural elements so it still has a park-like character and feel um but you know we do need to use those strong materials because of fire truck apparatus lows because of the construction equipment um that needs to access the south end of the park because this is really um you know one of the only ways you can get vehicles into that um Southern Park where it's uh cut off from the rest of the city with the um railroad there and then um in addition to building the actual Bridge itself we'll also be doing some reconstruction to the Park Road in that approach and how it connects to New Bridge as well as adjusting the surrounding trails and how they connect the bridge we're also looking to pull the border to border Trail Crossing away from the bridge currently for those that might use the bridge currently the trail crosses just south of it and there's not a lot of reaction time or sight distance for cars to kind of see what's happening and see who's coming across so this is a safety Improvement to kind of give better visibility to this very very busy Crossing um so that's kind of in a nutshell the project it's an underwater underway right now we kicked off design this fall and we're anticipating that construction could begin as early as fall or winter of 2023 um probably not being completed until the following summer of 24.
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our current estimated project cost is around 3.5 million dollars but again this is kind of a very early stage cost estimate and so as we move through design refine what's actually um occurring here that number could change um it looked like what was typically recommended to council was about one percent of the project budget so um I think we're talking about thirty five thousand dollars um but just for clarification um you know the project cost that we're talking about is all in both construction um actually construction costs as well as the design engineering costs and then the last thing to know about this project is it does it um it has received arpa funds so the American Rescue plan act funds that the city um you know selected certain projects so we have about 2.3 million dollars um going towards this project and um with that I'm just going to do another brief overview of our second project and then we can kind of get into the discussion for public art so the second project um you know that we're partnering with um Pete and Washington County Parks and Recreation Commission on is this Barton ban to Mary pedestrian tunnel we're also partnering with the non-profit group a Huron Waterloo Pathways initiative between shortened to hwpi um you know their funding Partners were kind of shared um we've been working on this project for several years now starting with the feasibility study back in 2019 um that confirmed that this was a project that was feasible and so now we're currently in design as well with um a similar timeline for construction in 2024.
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so what this project is is you'd actually be adding um a pedestrian tunnel um kind of just north of the North Main M14 interchange beneath um the railroad tracks here um with Bandimere Park and the border to border Trail on the East and Barton Easter area in the west So currently there's no safe and legal non-motorized connection unfortunately many people choose to trespass and cross illegally at the railroad tracks which is very dangerous and it's also a critical Gap in the border to border trail that Pete's been building um you know both from the Ann Arbor side and the west side so this will be kind of an important connection tying those two together ultimately and so our total estimated project costs at this time is about 4.5 million so again public art budget around 45 000. and um you know just to talk a little bit more about the tunnel it'll be very similar for those who are familiar with the Allen Creek berm opening um tunnel so it's a Concrete Culvert that's actually Precast off-site ahead of time and so this process has a lot of approvals there's a lot of complexities in how it's actually constructed because we actually have to have the railroad times we're going to be shut down for 24 hours allow us to get in do this big open cut dig out a spot where then they place you know with a large crane this tunnel and then cover it all back up put the railroad across and trains are running about 24 hours later so something to keep in mind kind of the complexities we'll be working with on construction here and so timeline for the tunnel project um you know this past year this past summer we began design engineering geotechnical work um kind of doing soil borings and getting the information we needed we're using the same design team as the Allen Creek berm opening so they're very familiar with what the process processes are um and then so looking into 2023 we kind of expect the whole next calendar year to be finalizing design and then obtaining all the railroad approvals that we'll need as well as permits it's a little bit of a wild card um you know the railroad approvals are not a fast process and they're not always linear so we can't know for sure how long that'll take but this is what we're hoping for we're also hoping to kind of Define the public art component do some additional Community engagement kind of informing Community about this project and looking at anticipated Construction in 2024 so again very similar timeline to the Gallup Park Bridge and so with that um I'll actually invite Pete uh to speak a little bit about some of the public art he's been working on at other sites along the border to border Trail and then some of the considerations that that we're kind of thinking of as we look for public art these two projects great thank you Hillary so uh thanks for having us here tonight my name is Peter Sanderson and I'm a landscape architect and project manager with Washtenaw County Parks my main job is building the border to border Trail throughout the county over the past four years we've built about 16 miles of trail that includes some reconstruction working with the city of Ann Arbor and lots of other partners within the county we also work with the Huron Waterloo Pathways initiative as Hillary mentioned the county has an agreement with them and they've been raising significant private funding to help with construction of the project so working with them hwpi and our other Municipal Partners like the city and the Metro Parks the DNR um and others we developed a few years ago a border to border Trail interpretive master plan and the idea with that was to provide high level guidance about what might make sense to do along the trail in terms of interpretive elements it could be historical it could be ecological it could be art it can be whatever's there but the real question that it was trying to answer is how can we give this a consistent look or at least a consistent theme across the entire County and also why is this piece of art or why is this specific thing being interpreted so it gave us a lot of kind of broad categories but was not getting into any sort of design detailing or anything like that so I think Hillary covered a lot of the other Parts here but one of our big questions for you tonight and um especially from myself as somebody that does not work within the city's process internally is kind of understanding your public art selection process and how does that installation work because as Hillary mentioned we have a complex engineering project going on on one hand but we also want to make good public space and we want to figure out what's the best way to merge these two processes or run them in parallel so that we can end up with a nice product at the end but um can you go to the next slide Hillary so this is an example of a tunnel and and the first slide there too we built this tunnel in 2020 underneath m52 so this is out by Chelsea um and we used a stone facade but this is a very similar type of construction of what we're talking about doing under the railroad but this is underneath uh State trunk line Highway we'd used Cortez steel panels on the side and these mimic the um or these are right in the area of Stover Hill which I don't know if you can read the text there but that's the second highest point in the county so it's basically a topographic map of the area and then the other side shows a bathymetry map of the lake which is behind the viewer in this case so we're kind of relating to the natural features using um I believe it was water jet carved corten Steel and this is also a Gateway between the Waterloo and Pinckney Recreation areas the highway is the divider line so this was something that we built during the midst of the shutdown uh in 2020.
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which was great because we had to shut down m52 for a few weeks but you can see we did uh Stone facade this is real Stone not concrete or not cultured stone and pavers uh and there's Lighting on the inside as well and then later on and there was a sculpture that was donated to the project which was installed in the vicinity as well so just kind of in the B2B master plan or the interpretive master plan it does call for occasional large-scale interventions kind of leaving it open-ended you know they could be temporary they could be permanent but something that generally encourages movement through the space was kind of one of our big goals because the trail is about movement um so something like that would make sense or it could be something small we called them secrets and surprises in the master plan something that could be uninterpreted but something that somebody could discover but uh you can see here we're kind of choosing more natural themes so that it might not seem out of context in a park or along a trail near the river next one so the last thing I'll just mention is the general project overview there's two main components to the project one is building a trail through Bart nature area kind of along the existing main trail that goes through between the two pedestrian bridges that part's been approved by the parks advisory commission already and um then there's the tunnel area which we're really focused on we think that it would make the most sense to try and incorporate public art in the tunnel area to leave the nature area as a nature area experience with the minimum amount of human intervention so we were kind of envisioning this like a Gateway into and out of downtown Ann Arbor which is very timely given your other Gateway discussions this evening um but this is really a gateway to the west side of the county we've been doing a lot of work out there to connect to Dexter into Chelsea and then up to Stockbridge and there's about 20 miles of existing trail to the east all the way through the city of Ann Arbor and into Ypsilanti and now extending into Van Buren Township in Wayne County so next slide I think Hillary if you want to take over here is that right sure well yes um yeah and so again these are just some things to think about as you go through the next slides um you know talking about the definition of public art um you know we are looking for some aesthetic enhancements to the tunnel um and the bridge so similar to what Pete showed whether there's um you know a stone facade or other materials and you know do those things qualify and meet the goals of public art or as public Arts something something different something separate um and then keeping in mind with the public art like what's appropriate given the park settings you know how can it relate to its surroundings and just kind of understanding that um you know when people go into these natural environments you know it's usually where they intent to um find some rest but from the the built world and and um you know just making sure that any interventions aren't um too Stark or something that would take away from that experience you know also think about safety considerations um you know just a few sheds making sure that people um you know the art isn't blocking um visibility you know knowing that there's not a lot of light in these places there's not a lot of eyes on them in the evening time and just considerations for maintenance and potential for vandalism as well um you know we've talked a bit about it and kind of given the complexity of the design process projects um you know it's probably going to be pretty difficult to kind of integrate public art into the design of these spaces so we've been really kind of thinking that public art is something separate from the contractor work you know possibly it could be added at the same time or afterwards um but that's something we've been kind of thinking um at this point and so for um location options on the tunnel you know we could talk about whether it's something um on the wing walls and the sides like these orange areas whether it's something within the actual um concrete Culvert itself this brown thing on the exterior facade or within it um there's some concerns from our design team about you know not being totally aware of what the vibration from the railroad above could do to something within the tunnel itself so they said you know it's probably okay but we can't say for sure and then you know probably the the um simplest option is you know something in Jason into the tunnel on the site and then similarly looking at the bridge you know there's opportunities uh near the bridge so there's potentially a proposed like a river Overlook spot um you know it could be something near the bridge and the border to border Trail on the south end or it could be added onto the bridge itself possibly on the railings or um we're considering maybe Piers that act as Gateway features on either end of the bridge itself so just some of the areas we're thinking that public art could be and then some of the ideas we've been throwing around um you know is there some you know really interesting sewn design you know on the tunnel facade or wind walls or applied to the bridge itself um something that still feels of the setting and of the Earth whether that could qualify um you know looking at is there art embedded into the wing walls um you know or embedded to the stone these are some Andy goldsworthy installations that were done um you know other options are you know for the tunnel um possibly a mural inside this is one in the Netherlands with um tiles that were printed and then you know obviously always an option for a statue you know something Standalone near it um you know always a little you know I I intentionally included this one the stainless steel um kind of abstract sculpture because it is something that's very contrasting with the environment around it so just being um you know something for discussion you know also these kind of slabs of stone um are really interesting but thinking about like things like safety and whether people can see if someone's hiding behind there or or what they're about to encounter um a lot of opportunities for for statues and Standalone art pieces another thing we thought could be interesting is a Monumental Cairn um these are kind of uh traditionally much smaller in scale but kind of Trail markers where there's stacked stones and again two Andy Gold's were the interpretations of a kind of um monolithic version of that and whether you could have one at either end of um you know these two gateways into and out of the city on the border to border Trail and then lastly um this is kind of a Whimsical one um you know some sculpture that was added to bridge railing um I mean it may be more abnormal the bridge you know there's something that could be added after the fact um that's within the scope of you know the cost that we have in the budget we have to work with um and so you know just pulling this back up for um opening up discussion you know two other things to consider um you know we have relatively modest butts and budgets I know that um public art can be very expensive and so in this you know 35 to 45 um you know budget if that's you know what would be appropriate for these projects you know what we could expect could be accomplished and then we've also heard um you know from some of the hwpi folks that there may be donors um or members that would be interested in kind of bolstering the art budget for the tunnel specifically and so um you know how that could work with kind of this um you know the public art commission process um and how that could affect things um so with that I think I just like to to open up to all of you we'd love to hear your questions and you know really this is kind of our first time talking to you we very much expect to be back um any questions you have healthy yeah um I'd just like to say how very wonderful and exciting this is and um it's great that you're thinking in terms of what what art can you put in there um because as you rightly say people do go out to experience nature but there's always a fun surprise and something that people of all ages like when there's a really good piece of art that that relates well to the environment and um you know even something like the very contemporary looking steel sculpture at a very um kind of natural curve like a grass in the wind or something like that so it didn't seem out of place in that way in amongst the grasses so I think it's it's wonderful the the the the difficult part in a way is figuring out how you solicit um artwork and how you decide where those where those uh additional art pieces could go um within the tunnel for example the the flooring I mean I remember one of the tunnels recently by the river near Barton was it was it had poured with rain when I went and um the day before had been massive downpour and there was so much water around and so I feel like something with tiling or something that that's made out of very non-slip or very um you know rugged and and textural tiles would be a really good project to do that would be useful in as well as beautiful um and there there are some things like that which are useful especially those cans and things like that so you know oh yeah we're up to here now and I'm not as lost as I thought I was and that kind of thing so a lot of the art can be can be of use as well as just beautifying things and and making it more fun and interesting foreign about um you know water and the elements out here um you know because of the floodplain levels and the fixed elevation of the railroad we do anticipate that the tunnel will have water occasionally um you know likely in the spring it won't be there all the time that's another thing to consider um you know in addition to the railroad vibrations above there could be additional constraints and or aware of tear on whatever art um is implemented if there is Art in that area thank you Sophie and Hillary Allison I saw your hand next yeah um I think some of the questions you had asked was about um like except what is public art and what is acceptable art and the process so um I would just say personally like I love seeing the stone and other design aspects that help enhance the area however the more advanced projects that you showed with the stone built like the sculptures built into the side and other options is what I would Define as public art rather than just great design um and I would encourage you to go that next step with this funding because I think that's what we're hoping to see is not just a beautiful Archway but a beautiful Archway that's enhanced with some artists um work um and I hate to limit the type of art by and and you know like when you put out the call to the artists if you have all these different areas and I would even include under the bridge over at Gallup because there's people that go under that correct and boats and stuff as opportunities for places for art um and leave it open to their creativity um specifying obviously what the budget is and you know what there are some certain restrictions and things like that and you know notifying them that it probably would happen after the construction um in the Bandimere case um but you know I don't think that you really need to say we're only putting a bid out for a sculpture or we're only putting out a bid for something underneath it um I think really leaving it open gives you more flexibility and could potentially give you more submissions we do have on our website site and maybe Bonita's already shared it with you I'm not sure but we put together several years ago our suggested way of doing a um call for art and how you should run the process including engaging with the community and having them be a process of the selection a part of the selection process so um that would be like our guiding document of how we think it should be done if we haven't updated that in a little while but I think it still stands the test of time um and of course you know along the way we are always here to help and put in our two cents great but yeah it's really exciting I think the I think the stuff that you guys identified is great like those are exact great examples of what would be awesome to see there and so you're already thinking about it you're already finding awesome examples I think you don't need us to to lock it into something specific um I think keeping an open mind really is the best route um I know it would be nice to have it like let's do this um and make it more simple but I you know I love to leave it up to creativity yeah yeah I think that's a great great point I think we're used to working in the world where everything's defined before it's built and we plan for years so um yeah you know I think one thing that we're thinking was if we did know ahead of time if there was a statue or something that we would design around or have a platform for integrated but I suppose just thinking about you know as the design moves forward we could also kind of do the call for art and get some of that information still have some time to react to it just given the long design time frames we have exactly like when you're getting some concrete blade you could get the foundation for a sculpture if you know you're getting a sculpture but um yeah that's why it's great that you're talking about these things this early on and hopefully could you know get that locked in before you'd have to go backwards and do stuff like that mm-hmm yeah and I guess one thing that I'll just kind of piggyback on that is uh the the tunnel space is a pretty tight spot to be working in a lot of that is railroad right-of-way so we will have to play some restrictions on the artist in terms of what they can and can't do because Amtrak will have to approve it and that's a process that an artist does not want to do I can almost guarantee that it's more than our art budget just to have them look at our engineering plans so um yeah I think that that that's one of the aspects of this um and then also like was mentioned but if there are opportunities for us to incorporate something within the tunnel that's why I think we wanted to start on this early because if it if there needs to be an engineering consideration due to the weight of the stone or because the artist needs a platform in this location or something like that we can accommodate that now but we won't be able to accommodate that once the design passes a certain point so that's why we wanted to start the conversation today thank you and uh John I saw your hand up great uh and I I agree with what Allison said but let me say that if you can get an Annie goldsworthy I will donate money to have an Andy goldsworthy piece in our town I don't care what he wants to do or he wants to put it you know I mean it's worth it so uh uh but um and along with what Allison was saying about what is art um uh I would like to encourage you to think about more than sculpture uh but not to exclude sculpture I mean you know there's a there's a planning term Place making and and that that kind of brings to me what what art is about it's about creating a place and uh it can be a lot of things you you can do it with and uh I I know you you had said that it's very difficult to incorporate our within the design I I I I know it is but that is the most Exquisite art and if you just look at what goldsworthy has done and really that Amsterdam mural that that is incorporated really kind of in the design and uh so uh you you've done your homework as well I mean that's that's the good thing you've you've taken a look at other places and um two places that come to mind uh well the tunnel let me just deal with what Pete was saying about the tunnel um uh Chicago has some wonderful artwork and tunnels right by the the the Riverwalk and they incorporate light and so you could you know rather than I noticed on the one tunnel it's there you have just a strip of neon uh going down well you could be creative with that in terms of the color and how it's sort of washing that tunnel and um and and make it you know very creative and it could be incorporated you know as a part of that but you know uh the uh the the the um uh I I I I would hope you you wouldn't be too discouraged about trying to incorporate design that that's the goals standard of percent for R which is this this incredible program that we had here briefly uh the other thing was the bridge the going across uh um I forget where it was but your your family park yes yes and um uh Seattle has these wonderful bridges that they literally incorporate text uh with within the bridge elements and it is it's a discussion about uh uh the use of water where water comes from the value of water and these kind of aphorisms and sort of best pride and all this kind of stuff through text and getting it tells a story and um and it it can teach you things and Seattle has done some wonderful things in libraries doing exactly that putting text kind of on the floor of libraries so um and and that could be incorporated within those planks uh and and you could um you know there's all different kinds of ways of sort of doing it um so I uh I I would encourage you to think outside the box in terms of our Beyond sculpture Beyond something that's just kind of stuck on uh so and I mean Pete said it all I mean you came to us because you wanted to do it before the design got going that's what we were hoping that that we could do is that uh uh that um and we have a public art idea book and so we have probably three or four hundred different images of murals of all kinds of different things around the world uh but I I would I would explore uh Seattle and uh and Chicago I think Victoria uh island has uh has some public art and and and in that respect uh as well uh um but let me talk a little bit about about the Outreach and so the one thing that you know I've been on the art commission way too long but the one thing that I realize if the community isn't a part of that process no matter what you do even in Andy goldsworthy they'll probably thumbs down it so you you really do your Outreach and you know I mean and Mary thiefos knows how to do this better than probably anybody but you know I mean an Allison has has been here you know the the artwork that is really appreciated I mean painting a a rock on Huron is a beloved piece of art a rock a boulder I mean you know because people use it they love it so the more that you can do this is the start but the more that you can do in terms of that Outreach and getting ideas and getting people to participate and to help uh it builds a constituency for your artwork and there's nothing worse than a wonderful piece of artwork that is ignored or or or you know derailed and the dry saddle piece uh in in Ann Arbor is one of my favorite artworks but people hate it they literally hate it because it it was imposed on the community as opposed to you know grown up from the community so um I just went all over the place but in any event uh think outside the box and we're always here we'd be willing to help it any way we can so thank you can I ask just a brief follow-up on that I really appreciate those comments um with regards to community process and selecting an artist or maybe this is a question for Mary but um what's the best what's the best way to go about that because we don't want to go too far down the community process Road without an artist to you know we we have uh you know several step process to uh you know to sort of it's trying to get it into a concept you know and how you get the concept is going out and asking people so you kind of have public meetings something like this and telling us what you would like to see here you know giving some ideas and which do you like best in that and and there and and we have it on um I think um of Anita or Allison has it I mean so we we have best practices exactly well the you know you you should excuse me um kind of get this concept kind of out of the community without having any particular idea so you needs public meetings and then you know then you you narrow this concept down and then you you have kind of a task force that even refines this even more and those people on the task force are from the community and and then you then you have a a jury of of of people that know what they're doing with public cars you know maybe a half dozen people and so that jury sort of refused reviews it down to maybe two three or four and maybe just three and then you have a you know the top three that you'd be satisfied with whichever one of those three makes it and then you put it out to sort of a public you know kind of online we don't really care what you do but some type of that that that first of all defining the concept by brought out reach and really what that does is it educates people that hey there's an art project going on oh it's going to be down here oh they asked me yeah I didn't know what you know so you get to talking about that then you get a task force of people that have been kind of through this and maybe represent elements of the community and that task force sort of refines the concept and then that concept is a um a call for artists and you can do it two ways you can do it a request for proposal or a request for like you would select an architect or something so and it you know I I would recommend that you don't you know narrow the artist so you just you you say that we like their work and we're confident that these people could really sort of Do It um and then they you know you get to depending on how much money you don't have a lot of money if it was a larger budget you would give them a stipend to come to town and maybe do a Marquette of something and then that maquette would be voted on by by the community but you don't have that much money so it's it's really kind of getting getting all those elements to kind of focus down into uh the top three and then you know let the community at large kind of you know pick from the top three that's just my idea and you can see nine other people and they'll all have probably different approaches to it but that's pretty in line with what we have put together in that document thank you John and I hope that you had your hand up um yeah sorry I'm getting another another bite here um I was just thinking Some some things about the way art is used and um with the tunnels of what John was mentioning about the light I mean the way a tunnel it appears when you enter it is part of the safety feature I don't know whether it actually makes it safer I suspect it does if it looks bright and interesting and welcoming um and has something in there that you would want to go into as a place it's very different from kind of scuttling through under one light so I mean the the feel of the tunnel is hugely important in how how people feel about using it um another thing about art is the interactive nature of some art um obviously kids love walking along low walls and sculptures that people can actually handle or climb on or or aren't in any way delicate or really important especially in a park setting where Nobody's around you need to have it you not only need to have it but it's desirable to have it so that people can lean on it sit on it climb on it without anything bad happening um the the interaction with the environment there's a wonderful wind sculpture which nobody ever sees because it's in the back Garden of the Ford Library the Presidential Library in on North Campus and it's this incredible sculpture that does all kinds of different things with the wind and you'd never believe it was only a light wind that was making it all those things it's just amazing um another thought I had was about seating obviously seating can be just a park bench but seating can be a 101 different things and that's a real good opportunity for having some kind of um that's integrated into the into the actual physical environment and then the last thing I was going to mention was about um with looking for artists is that if you can get a sort of open invitation just well whether it's open or whether it's individual invitation to some artists to actually come to a site that you have sort of marked as a possible spot and have them talk with you about what the constraints or needs or or criteria are for that particular spot and they can get inspiration from the place but also understand how you see it from a practical point of view and that makes it much easier for the artists to get ideas I think if they're they're getting the inspiration of the place and the understanding of your requirements as well thank you selfie um so these are such exciting uh projects and we definitely want to be there to support you along the way um just something Mary and I actually just worked on a project with the water treatment plant a mural and the way that we helped uh was just joining some meetings with their staff to help with putting together that proposal uh the call for art uh reviewing that reviewing the initial artists having those conversations so that's something that we can definitely do we can be there along the way to kind of help guide that process um so we're definitely willing um to to sit in on any meetings that you might want our advice um along the way yeah thank you I'm very much appreciate it yeah one one quick last comment I'm sorry uh there are a bunch of artworks along the um uh the border to border Trail and in the Parks uh I I think it's called the uh can you imagine art and uh those projects some of them are absolutely spectacular uh we only paid the artist five thousand dollars it was an RFP I was absolutely Blown Away part of what it was is that we promoted the fact that the artist's artwork would be incorporated within the Ann Arbor collection and that and it was going the placement of it it was going to be on this border to border Trail so you might you that that might be a real asset to leverage as a part of of your sort of promotion that uh you know everyone wants to have it in the collection of Ann Arbor and the border to border Trail gets a lot and they'll get increasingly more folks so just as an aside um one question I have is just I guess talking a little bit more about the process I know you mentioned there's um this resource online that will definitely uh review but just thinking more about like how the concept is developed and how the community is engaged do you have an example of any projects that that went through that and what that kind of looked like because I guess for me I'm just wondering is the concept um you know things that the art should relate to such as we want it to be about water or is it something more prescriptive like we're looking for a seating element um I don't know I liked you know early on you kind of mentioned like not putting a box you know making the box too tight to kind of allow for artists to interpret things so just kind of looking for your um kind of idea of what that concept that the community would be providing input on might look like Allison you're muted Allison this isn't a perfect example because they already had identified specifically they were going to do the wall but um one of the projects the bridge over by on Stadium by the Michigan Stadium um that was actually managed by the art center but that was a city project and they put it out for a call and didn't specify what had to go on the wall so it could be a mural it could have been and so they got all sorts of different types of submissions obviously the final submission is those Metals sculpture pieces that were installed which probably wouldn't have been submitted had they said we want to put a mural on along you know or and and put it specific to that um but yeah I mean that process they specified that they wanted something that was safe in the environment so like there's a lot of traffic with cars there so there were certain restrictions on what could go there I would see in your proposal you it have identified and and I think it's great that you want something that is more of a natural theme that fits in with the environment and the water treatment plant they specifically said they wanted a mural or something that celebrated the history of the water treatment plant so those sorts of specifications on the themes of the project um sort of maybe materials even if you have specifications on materials um that kind of stuff and while you already have some of those ideas I think that engagement with the public could help drive that a little bit further and have some further ideas about what people want to see when they walk past those types of environments and um maybe hone it in a little bit more but those calls I I feel like they're in our resources somewhere and you could you could look at those we definitely have the water treatment plant call somewhere that you could look at as far as like the restrictions they put on on that call that was a much more specific because they specifically wanted a mural but it goes into like themes and timelines and all that kind of stuff which will give you the basic Bare Bones of what you would want to include in that great thank you that's helpful and I wouldn't shy away from this that I mean in your presentation it's very clear the aesthetic that you're going for because you have so many visual examples and that's absolutely fine to put in a call for art I think that can be helpful um it can help guide an artist but artists have obviously wonderful creativity so they are going to take that and run with it um you know the call for art as Allison mentioned for the water treatment plant was pretty specific and did mention um even certain you know art genres um Diego Rivera as an example the Detroit industry mural so there were actually you know uh visual examples of pieces of art that they that they liked um and we got things that were very close to Diego Rivera and things that were very far away and you get everything in between so it's not bad to add those visual examples for sure great I just have a comment um Hillary and Peter thank you so much for the presentation I think the part the Parks have been an incredible partner to Art and public art over the years and um I I've just I've watched it happen I think the border to border Trail is just blossoming um so just amazing work on that I live out in Waterloo so I'm seeing lots of construction in that area um with the border to border the comment that I want to make is you don't have to let everybody give input on the design you're you're welcome to create a steering committee of folks that are kind of a cross-section of the community and I would encourage youth voice you know I would think about we would want to sit at the table um you know creating a press release to get excitement around this is always a good starting point MLive is great for that um so you know you really get to shape this how you want and you know there's lots of different examples on how to do that you know are you keeping this like Regional is this the regional call is this a national call you know like um so thinking about that and you know funneling in what's important to parks and you know if this is a pilot project for you um you know keep it insular keep it small but you know let the community know what's happening I think people just like to know what's going on um I I was on the the um the committee that's selected um that worked to select the artist that Allison was talking about and it was an arduous process um multiple panels just so many things going on and then ultimately a lot of people were unhappy with the art so you really get to you really get to make this how you want to and you know certainly you know shouting it out and letting people know what's going on but you get to design it and I'm happy to be a resource I didn't notice a chat but I was going to throw my email into it if I saw one but I don't see a chat option but Tree Town murals at gmail you're more than welcome to reach out to me if you have any questions or need some resources about how to put out an RFP or an RFQ thank you I appreciate that thank you Mary all right thank you so much Hillary and Peter um these are amazing projects and we are again so happy to support in any way that we can thank you for coming tonight um does anyone of anything final words to say before we move on to our next item on the agenda all right thanks again Hillary and Peter thank you thank you so I think the the next item we're gonna go back to report from staff and Vanita that was oh no what we just talked about of course so we were we will move on then to report from committees um and so first on the agenda we have the nominations and leadership team of John and Allison um on our 2022 leadership report and I will hand the floor over okay thank you um I think everyone's received the report uh regarding um our survey which we have been doing since 2017 is just trying to get people's idea of what what they're looking for in leaders and who they think best fill that and if there's any uh interest in being one um that um Allison is uh is going to step down because of uh uh like all of us many other things that uh layouts and he means there I mean Sarah not Allison yes Sarah and um uh so um um we we would hate to to put you through another year Sarah but thank you very much uh and uh um and no one else seems to be interested and as I indicated in in the report um um that um um Allison uh and myself are willing um to have our names put forward only if there's no one else that wants this this is not something that uh you know um we probably have a lot of other things I know I do I'm sure Allison does so but we're willing to do this until we can recruit uh some other leaders and um um I have I have emailed back and forth with Jamal and I think maybe Jamal might be interested in and continuing um uh as Vice chair uh for another term I see his head shaking so that lets me off the hook yes so um and um that I have had discussions with Mary everyone thinks Mary would be great I agree uh but Mary has uh so much on her plate uh you know uh she probably would do it if we twisted his arm but I'm not so sure it would serve her or the art commission best so um um the recommendation uh um from our our committee would be uh for uh Allison uh to step in uh for the chair and and Jamal uh continue as the vice chair um and um uh and then I I'm willing to really focus time on trying to recruit some folks and to and to sort of build um in particular this Leadership Council that we've talked about it's a council that is already formed uh that we have kind of missions and stuff like that where we just don't have anyone it's it's a body that we can appoint ourselves uh members too and um so uh and I have talked with Mary about uh working uh together uh to try and activate that and hopefully that could give us a um uh new people that wanted to just you know tip their toe into the the art commission kind of uh uh uh community and see what it's like and maybe we'll get some interest out of that um so that's our plan it's um uh I wish there was a better plan but um so and that that's our report and our plan and uh we're more than willing Allison and I to answer any questions you might have Allison do you have anything to add before uh no you covered it all um John called me after we got all the surveys and nobody wanted to be chair and just kind of said you've done it before you want to do it and I said if I have to so um the thing is is I ideally would just be doing this for a year while we kind of recruit more people who might be more interested in doing the leadership roles maybe Jamal you'll find more time on your plate and more comfort in the potential of being chair after another year as I share um so that's kind of what we were going with but I obviously um stepped down for the position for a reason so if there was anyone who wants it it's open as well but I'm not going to leave us an alert so I do appreciate the the um the nominations and I do see this as a role that I could really thrive in the timing is a little tight for me so I'm going to use this next year to kind of see and really Ponder because I want to give it 110 but I I don't I wouldn't want to um just fill the fill the place I I I'm really um I see a lot of potential with the public art commission um in our growth in the way we develop our own community and so when talking to John uh about like really growing this Advisory board or friends of the public art commission I I do also see this project that I'll be embarking on with the underpasses as being a huge step in that direction there are a lot of people that are coming into my circle that are supporters of public art that have dollars that have buildings that have interest um so I'm kind of I'm going to use this year to kind of see how this project goes which is so epic um and then hopefully grow this advisory team and then potentially in the future step into the role as chair but I do need some time to think about it healthy yeah I have a question about the um what do we call an advisory team the group is this the list that we made of people who might be interested in in supporting the art Commission in some ways and it seems to me there there are two aspects there are people who would want to support in terms of finances or maybe publicity or things like that and they're the other people who might want to support in a in a more um Hands-On way in whether it's finding artists doing art themselves considering doing art considering being on the commission and they're not entirely the I mean there must be overlap but they're not entirely the same group and I don't know are we going to have some sort of meeting with them what's what's the plan the ideas we've created a group that's that's that's broad so we're not saying you you have to meet at any you know I mean one meeting a year is all the commitment we're asking and that you're willing to list your name on this group and you know that's all the commitment we're asking from them then it's up to us to create uh some way in which these these individuals um can be engaged and um at the at the very start I imagine it's just being giving them information so giving them information about what we're doing what what our plans are and what aren't going on and just so that they have a way of of getting a feel for for what's what's going on so but you know I mean the first step is to answer a lot of the questions that you you brought up Sophie what how would it happen and and what would they do and uh you know I think we have a name and that's it and we have no members and uh so um and that we can appoint them so I think that um you know Mary and I if we can work together we can uh throw some ideas out and uh you know in in a few months we hope to be able to to pull together some sort of a plan and people can you know uh refine the plan and then we can you know move forward uh with yeah but you know Mary brings up a very good point I mean she's being going to be engaging a number of people I mean from kids to donors and I think I I see it what I what I was reading into what she said is an opportunity well hey you know if you want to get even involved why don't you allow me to you know put your name forward to the art commission for yada yada and you know on the immediate question is what do I have to do well you don't have to do anything you just have to bring an interest and to be your name on a list of other people that are also interested and we hope to these are the benefits that you'll receive so that's kind of our Our Hope and this is just a a broad brush sort of outline draft that you know we'll be able to kind of uh refine it but uh I think Mary has something to add so I just want to point out that administrative roles within the Arts in our community have really shifted um the Ann Arbor Community Foundation the Ann Arbor Arts Center a new administrator to city council the new DDA director we have a new team a new force of people that if we position ourselves well that we can get art on the good side of all of these people and that we can really start to create a new conversation in our community and that excites me so that that I think believe there is a working group for that leadership group uh to wrap up this working group's work of nomination we are not nominating or voting uh for chair Vice chair today I believe that will happen at our other December meeting um per the earlier discussion so at that time you guys can either put your hat in the ring for a chair uh or just vote is my understanding Sophie yeah I still feel like we could use a couple more members I think we spread a little bit thin everybody seems to be on several committees and I don't know if we would want to make that happen and if so how that would happen to um open up to a couple more members is that a possible thing that's part of the leadership working group um is getting those applicants we have applicants that Vanita has put together that we've looked at and made some recommendations um but that was I believe one of the goals of the leadership working group which includes um chair and vice chair though I don't see why another commissioner couldn't be on it as well to help but we do have one one vacancy right now um and we do have applicants um but we also have uh as we saw from the leadership survey some ideas about people uh to reach out to and invite to apply as well um which is always open I believe to any of us on the commission so so if we did want to have more than one additional commission member would that go through the city council or how would it happen would we have to sort of put in a request so you know how does how would that work anybody know we only have just one opening Sophie um I think all boards and commissions um have a standard number um I'm not sure why the our commission ended up we'll have a total of nine right yeah um but I can check into that with the the city clerk if there's an option of adding additional people of just I'm not sure why the number is set thank you Benita you're welcome and I just wanted to say a thank you to everyone for allowing me to be chair and um learn a lot this year um I'm just really thankful to all of you um you have all just enriched this experience so much and I will obviously still be here and I am just so thankful uh to Jamal you're an amazing Vice chair and um hopefully we'll continue to be an amazing Vice chair and uh John as always being a great cheerleader to uh to try new things and Allison you are a fantastic chair and um you got it going on so thank you to everyone um so I guess um the voting will obviously happen at that December Retreat which we still need to decide a date uh of when that can be so I don't know if that's something we want to try to decide um on this call I think that might be better as an email thread where we can try to designate a time and date yeah December is almost over y'all it is yeah it is to discuss this ASAP in the world of retail it seems like there's a lot longer but but yeah I can send emails out to you guys and and get a couple of dates and check the main uh City calendar for um openings again uh it can be during the week we could also do on a Saturday it doesn't have to be in the evening it could be midday it could be morning um so once we select the date and and how folks are most flexible we can get it fairly quickly hopefully is this going to be in person or virtual um I could do either or John but you said you prefer virtual so that'd be fine it's not that I I will not come to an in person so that's fine so that and that and that's fine with me all right yep no let's just keep it virtual then because we for all participation yep thank you all right so I think we're gonna move on then to the next um committee uh which is just going to be special projects we do have a note about the golden paintbrush um flyer that's finalized and opening nominations for Golden paintbrush 2023 um so the special projects working group met um yesterday and we talked and Vanita actually emailed at the perfect time the finalized flyer because we all happen to be on a call at that time so that was amazing we're committee and we were able to move forward with uh with the golden paintbrush um uh 2023 so we are going to open those nominations and then we're also hoping to this kind of goes into the communications working group slightly but place an ad in the January Observer um uh Ann Arbor Observer the January issue um just shouting out the paint golden paintbrush award and the fact that nominations are open um special projects we will continue as the process um goes on to uh tweak maybe some of the um judging criteria we had for judges last time and just kind of smooth that process out but we want to make sure that we get the nominations out and communicated about first and foremost um so that's kind of the major action item from special projects and um selfie oh and you're on mute yeah I have done some some tweaking of the documents from last year which um hopefully these Special Projects group have and I think Bonita I shared that folder with you also and it should have in it off the top of my head the judging criteria a PDF showing what the nomination form should look like and FAQs and maybe there's one other thing anyway but four things which are for the the 2023 nominations to start coming in and and hopefully that means that the graphics department or whoever it is would be able to put the nomination forms and those other information on the website so that people can actually start nominating and it's open for when the ad appears in the in the Observer so let me know anybody if you feel there's something missing or errors or confusions um would be that would be good thank you selfie um so we discussed some other things during our special project update but I know that we are coming up on time here so um I'm going to move to our next um working group which is the CIP working group um so uh that is Allison and I currently if anyone else wants to join there is a couple openings there obviously we have some great things being done with these uh Parks um projects which all come from that CIP work and I just have to thank David Esau if he's here he is listening um a lot of that work he did helped help that process move forward so we did receive the 2023 CIP list and Allison and I from Vinita and Allison and I will meet in early in the new year to discuss some of those projects and recommendations for art enhancements Allison do you have anything else yeah I think that's where we are with that so thank you for getting us that list Bonita um thank you and then how about business owners and developers Sean any update nothing to report okay thank you um the Outreach working group I believe marionetta Peggy and Sophie do you guys have anything anything to report on the Outreach front Sophie's always a great note keeper Note Taker Sophie do you have anything we did all of me yes we did we we did me and um we were we were thinking of various things we should be doing really um including the ideas that we'd had earlier and hadn't really I don't know this year nobody seemed to be able to get our act together very well um so we were thinking it would be very nice to be able to put some things onto our website and I I I'm not sure what we can and can't do with the website but it would be lovely to have something like some interviews with the golden paintbrush awardees about their work um and uh website could could maybe have links to things like local calls for art I don't know whether that's possible [Music] um we talked about trying to link to other art which is public in Ann Arbor but isn't the public you know our collection whether that would be a possible thing to link to like the U of M is the obvious one um yeah we the website is something that we talked about quite a bit because we feel that it isn't alive enough and it it needs to have be more attractive in some way that people would go to to find information to find something about art events or calls for art or things about art that are happening in the city um and and make it you know change more often um I think that if I'm wrong the the overall Graphics and Design of the website is fixed is that true so we're gonna change that um I'm sorry Sophie could I ask Peggy a really quick question as you guys were meeting um kind of along the same line I think Peggy had sent some information to me as well um well so I have a question about a community calendar versus having things added to the website because I think we've we've visited that before with City officials and because the public art commission is an advisory body um I believe what they're going to say that there is not the website is not for things like that so I'm wanting to know if what you all might be interested in doing might be better served through some of the um community calendar items that we may have through some other City Avenues um so I could look at that and and I could double check again with Communications I have a feeling that I know Communications will they don't want us touching the page we're going over right now a complete overhaul of the whole city um website removing Pages trying to make standard pages with standard information and standard links um for for the public but linking outside of that to other art institutions and things that I I'd have to do a little bit more checking but I'm wondering if a calendar some other other mechanisms might work to to do that too okay that that's really useful thanks Bonita here okay I can check on that yeah we were just interested in having a way to make it more interesting more lively so yeah and have more pictures and have more more pictures on it so I mean yeah it would be nice if it could be a bit more visual including yeah like a slideshow of our collection or the winners of the public of the golden paintbrush or things like that you know that would be nice A little Eden video Snippets of interviews with them if possible but I don't know whether that's a thing that could happen let's see what we can find yeah it seems serendipitous that you guys are working on a whole overhaul of the website in general for the city so um a good time to put in some requests and see what can happen yeah the other thing we were wondering about was um the the CIP the garytown development that John was talking about earlier for example um do we have any involvement in calls for art for things like that or is that left up to the developer or how does that work anybody um it is on our it is within our CIP right it is a project that was selected so it still would have the option of um going through our um don't we have a a a a a a booklet of the our art selection process um we we do have a pamphlet or there are some mechanisms and some steps that we use for that um but if it's not yet a sign we'd be looking at the same kind of thing that just happened with the board of the Border Trail once that project is assigned to somebody if there's art there we know that there's art there it's just a matter of who who it is assigned to and I'm not sure Sarah if on that list it might have had a staff name attached to it already so we could start reaching out in that way as well yeah I I don't remember it really depends which carry down project you're referring to so are you referring to the one that's on the corner of Catherine and of course yes because that one yeah that's a city project and that I think is through housing um then there's the one that's like right behind Detroit filling station and that's a private one and so then we don't actually have any affiliation with that other than when they present their plans to John who as part of the design review board he gets to put in his two cents and say put in public art um and kind of tutor horn that we that we exist right and so that's the only real input we have and then you know they could always come back to us and use us as a resource if they so please um but as a private developer they don't have to do anything beyond what's already happened that project yeah no I think John that you you already uh encouraged them and I think that they took you up on the ideas of having various bits of Art in that project the one behind The Filling Station the canopy and so forth but I think what Sophie's talking about is the one that the Housing Commission has that is a CIP uh and so I'm assuming that was identified as potential and that they uh the Housing Commission is wants it to be a creative Community Center so and they have locations on the outside of it for so at the uh the design review board I recommended a rotating gallery on the Arts outside and they like that idea and uh so that they're actually planning to give um preferential treatment or or preference to a certain amount of residents that are artists however that's defined so they actually want artists to live there and the ground floor is to be gallery and exhibition space and the outside is going to be designed in such a way the bricks has to be indented so that you could have a narrow three-dimensional or visual work on the north side of the building so um you know at the moment it's just getting the building uh and together there's there's nothing that is uh public art that's being integrated within the structure other than this gallery-like space I guess so that's the best that I can share with you at the moment and I like the idea of for any new CIP projects that are approved and then assigned that we send out a packet that maybe includes that information on recommendations for how to hold a call for art um and an invitation to come to a meeting um something like that Allison did you ever hand yeah um I love that idea so let's do that Sarah um but the other thing I was going to say as far as making the website more lively I think our hands might be tied a little bit with the website but I love the ideas of having interviews of like the golden print brush people and having more pictures um that's more better paint what we're doing but maybe the better Avenue for that would be through those cities Facebook page and you know we haven't had the best luck of this in the past but we can always submit information to Communications and ask them to share it so like if you guys come up with ideas and you have content or images that you want to share I think the more we send stuff to them the more likely it's going to get shared right special projects working group even adding a kind of like standing agenda item to our meetings where if there is any if people just have any ideas for post post ideas that we could give to the city Communications um just kind of have a an added agenda item so maybe that's something we discuss further at the December retreat but yeah right if we have the photo and the copy then who knows what could happen um so great well um if there is not any more from the Outreach working group I'm going to go ahead and move on to Communications that is myself and Allison and am I forgetting anyone on that group did we have someone else join or was that wishful thinking marionetta did you join that one marionetta did okay wonderful so we haven't met but it sounds like we have some great ideas for things that we can start doing and of course um Communications about the golden paintbrush so that Observer ad all that great stuff is going on now and um and hopefully we can meet soon and discuss uh more ideas and I'm sure more will be generated at our um Retreat uh Allison and marionetta do you have anything you'd like to add okay great fantastic um then we do have our fundraising working group and I believe that is Mary Allison and myself um we did meet um to discuss um Allison actually will you take the floor for this I know that you you understand a little bit better than I would um what is going on so um as you all know we have the um small little bit of a money that we earn interest in our money over at the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation um and so we were talking about having a specific process for projects to come to us to submit for funding each year for some of those dollars so we kind of discussed what kind of ideas we would want to put forward and what that budget would look like what that process might look like and kind of got the ball rolling on that we haven't put together the criteria yet or the application but that's our next steps is to get that going and hopefully get submissions and maybe Grant out some money in 2023.
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right yeah the idea is is that this mini Grant could really generate some interest across the community I could see it bolstering projects maybe not funding entire projects but being um just an additional coverage and I think it's important for the public art commission to to be more active and have our name on more projects big and small I love the idea of mini grants I think that you know some of these projects have massive you know budgets and it's really important that that happens but for a great many artists you know a few hundred dollars can make a massive difference and uh you know then you get lots of little things springing up here and there which is which is always going to be fun and interesting and would certainly be a reason why people might come to our website if there was a way of getting planning for things so you know and then and then those people will have more input to us as well so it all you know has a positive impact I think thank you selfie Allison and Mary um so I believe that is our last working group um so before we adjourn for the evening does anyone have any final thoughts um anything you would like to add marionette I just have a question since um kind of knew I haven't been to a retreat before so I know that nominations is going to be on the agenda but what happens at a retreat that's different from what happens in our regular monthly meetings it's a time to brainstorm for the future and set goals so this um this meeting helps generate a plan document so the 2023 annual plan that will go to city council so we can kind of give them an idea of this is what we'd like to do in 2023 so we're all on the same page so it's a lot more I've experienced it as a brainstorming session a collaboration and it's actually one of my favorite meetings because we get to do idea talk and then we get to implement it for the rest of the year as best to our abilities um but that would be my interpretation of the retreat does anyone have anything else they'd like to add about that description I think it's a really fun and kind of casual time to really put your ideas on the table I believe it's a closed meeting is that right it's not open to the public is that correct Sarah um sorry I know it's open it is open oh it's open okay usually no one comes and usually we do it in person um but right uh so I mean I I've I just attended one of these um a number of years ago and it there was a good Synergy I think it's a great way to kind of grasp the next year and really put some challenges to the to the commission and um collaborate you know that's that's what we what we get to do thank you marionetta um does anyone else have any final thoughts right well I have one shout out um I know that York is holding its winter Artisan Market um this Friday and Saturday from noon to four Sophie I know you were in that right last last year last time yes there are going to be some amazing artists there so just wanted to give a little shout out to that event uh Sophie well if we're shouting out events then also this weekend at the same time there's the winter art tour which has 11 venues minus one and a 70 80 artists I'm not sure how many and uh so if you look at the winter art to a website you'll find who they all are and some of them are open Friday Saturday and Sunday and some of them are just open one or two of those days so you have to check out who you would like to visit not the website winterart2.com that's awesome Sophie I also want to give a shout out to a tiny Expo which is happening at the Ann Arbor District Library I think that's just one day though Saturday foreign making I think at that event also which is kind of fun um 4M venue is hosting an artist meet and greet with one of um The Guild artists and he'll have work up there if you haven't been to the new Forum venue space over where uh Lucky's like the grocery store used to be it is phenomenal and I highly recommend you go for this event just because you can do art stuff and see their space all at the same time and get good food and drinks so and when is it a tiny Expo it's on Saturday from 11 to 2.
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everything's on Saturday and Sunday this weekend I heard about that new place and I have been dying to go um it sounds amazing um yay so look at this so vibrant this weekend lots of options of things to do and celebrate art so um with that um I will make a motion um to adjourn uh this evening's meeting or yes I'm making the motion and then I have a all right and then can I have a second to adjourn oh second thank you um all right then any discussion final discussion just thank you Cynthia for being here nice to meet you thank you thank you for having me nice to meet you all and um and all right oh sorry and Olivia yes thank you Olivia thank you so much for having me this was super interesting great great and feel free to come back again awesome thank you all right so then um is there immersion emotion to adjourn all in favor all in favor okay so we are adjourned thank you all have a wonderful meeting or a wonderful evening
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all right I'd like to open the regularly scheduled meeting of the Clifton Board of Education for Thursday December the 8th 2022. if you'd all please rise for a salute to our flag followed by a brief moment of silence I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you roll call please Mr abidrabo here Mr Awad here miss basford here miss Beltran Mr Canova Dr Danny here Mr Paris here vice president Daley president Smith here we have a quorum uh mission statement the mission of the Clifton School District in an open and reciprocal community is to provide all students with a quality education to develop the skills necessary to become literate lifelong Learners who are responsible and productive citizens contributing to a Democratic Society in an ever-changing world the open public meetings act the New Jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right to the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provisions of this act the Clifton Board of Education has caused notice of this meeting to be publicized by having the date time and place thereof posted at the city clerk's office Clifton Public Library Administration Building senior citizen Nutrition Center on cable TV in the local press and on the district's website it is also mailed to presidents of parent teacher organizations this meeting will be tape recorded in accordance with policy zero one six eight Mr uh Mr Canova um uh could not be here this evening uh his brother is getting married so he had to decide which way to go and uh we wish uh we wish his brother much happiness and Miss Beltran um is coming from work so uh she will be here uh shortly okay uh we're going to do some presentations first so if I could uh we'll do the students of the month first uh I don't know who has what who has freshmen all four are out Mr President yes freshman Nadine Judah Nadine's favorite class this year's Orchestra she loves learning new music and is grateful for the opportunity to play with her other talented student musicians much of her inspiration comes from her parents who value hard work and always support her next in her extracurricular activities Nadine manages her busy schedule and challenging courses by devoting time for homework and study time Nadine curly plays cello in the CHS Orchestra and has also played the violin since she was six she's a member of the winter track team and plans on running distance events in the spring as well congratulations Nadine foreign much stuff here um uh Brian waslinsky is he here hi uh Brian is our junior class student of the month Brian is on the Academic Decathlon team volunteers with the Key Club and is also a member of the National Science and English honor societies Brian excels in biology and credits his AP Bio teacher Mr vitello for igniting his passion with engaging assignments Brian aims to be a research immunologist and hopes to find his way to better treat autoimmune conditions congratulations Brian foreign on behalf of the Clifton Board of Education Administration CHS Junior student of the month December 2022 with sincere congratulations on your meritorious achievement with recognition by resolution of the Board of Education the desire to excel is the formula of a lifelong of success your efforts have brought distinction to you and your family and to the Clifton Public Schools congratulations Brian thank you very much [Applause] sorry Valen it's like bumper cars tonight these chairs I think something thank you Mr President uh sophomore is Alexander Jacob mcmowitz Alexander you're here today okay thank you great Alexander is our sophomore student of the month Alex thanks his parents for being positive role models and for the continued support Alex's most influential teacher at CHS has been Mr Beckham Ms Beckham excuse me who who made language arts fun engaging and left him with a love of reading Alexander participates in economic decathlon and the Key Club and has met plenty of new people while having the opportunity to give back to the community congratulations Alexander thank you is Paris Frederick here yes hi Paris Paris is our senior class student of the month she enjoys all of her classes at CHS and is heavily involved in the music program and Performing Arts shout out to all the CHS music teachers Paris [Applause] Paris plays the violin Viola cello piano and is also a talented vocalist in the choir and tenor section leader she started in many performances in her High School career including sorry she's starred in many performances in her High School career including Beauty and the Beast nine to five and we'll have a principal role in this year's spring Musical besides Arts paris's member and captain of the Mustang cheer squad [Applause] Paris dedicates your strong work ethic to her mother Yvette Frederick who is always supportive Paris is planning on studying economics next year and is currently applying to colleges congratulations Paris is [Applause] I think I think she needs to learn another issue [Applause] you know I don't know about other board members but I I think that is by far the best part of our meeting is recognizing uh great achievements from great kids so uh congratulations to everybody and um if you would like to exit now would be a good time if you'd like to stay you're more than welcome okay uh we'll do uh we'll do uh pbsis next no video tonight Mr shahada but thank you false alarms I like the dim I like the dim lights though it's cool I dig it um hi good evening everyone Mr President Smith vice president Daley Dr robertosie Commissioners and Central Administration thank you so much here we are December thank you all to the students um before me for putting such great effort and um into living life and doing what they love most but thank you also tonight everyone for allowing us the opportunity to showcase what we do best in the pbsis world tonight we're showcasing our district overall Mr gengaris is the superintendent of schools and myself had the opportunity to present at our the PBIS National Conference this past uh October in Chicago it was amazing to say the least it was amazing on so many fronts because we got to showcase on a national platform International actually because we had International guests we were able to show all the hard work and dedication that goes on in our district with pbsis implementation so here we go um let's see alrighty actually let me go back here so a little bit of a little bit of background um the PBIS Center that you see in front of you to the right is funded by the U.S Department of Education Office of special education programs and the office of Elementary and secondary education the center on PBIS supports schools district and states to build systems capacity for implementing multi-tiered systems in schools districts and states these multi-tiered systems approach and and building that framework provides us with social emotional and Behavior Support the alignment that occurs in our district within the counseling department and the curriculum Department in general is outstanding and folks are noticing across the board we were asked by the national Center and the Department of Education to present on what we do in Clifton so first up we had the school climate transformation Grant director's meeting out of all of the folks that were selected in the 2019 Grant Clifton Public Schools was asked to Showcase what we're doing with pbsis implementation that doesn't happen in a silo that happens because we all work collaboratively in making this happen what we also did was um present at the PBIS leadership Forum which is the center's conference annual conference so here are a couple of really cool interesting facts about those days there were about 5 000 in-person and virtual participants from various states and countries we were asked to present of course on our district-wide implementation our success and our challenges right because we wanted to make it real and people learn from what is real which is what we're doing as a result from the outstanding participation from Mr gingero and his passion for Safety and Security and how it aligns with the hardening and softening of school and school security we were then Clifton Public Schools was then asked to further record a podcast for the University of Missouri I'm boasting about what we're doing in particular not just to toot our own horns but to really show to the community the effort and the love that staff have for our students and how we're making this happen thank you again for allowing our students and staff to shine at the Board of Education meetings this activity along with everyone's day-to-day belief in providing all students with a quality education to develop the skills necessary to become literate lifelong Learners who are responsible and productive citizens contributing to a Democratic Society in an ever-changing world is what the one Clifton Community is honoring through the PBIS framework thank you all so much and happy holidays to all foreign [Applause] each month you do a tremendous job of highlighting um another school so um we truly appreciate and uh having the opportunity to show everyone internationally now that what Clifton does is is uh such a great thing so again thank you to you and to your team um I'm now going to um have Tiffany and Elena Lee it was close come on up and do your report thank you the winter season had just begun the varsity swim had their first meet today versing Passaic and they won the next Varsity swimming will be next Tuesday on December 8th at 3 at the Boys and Girls Club the boys the boys varsity basketball team had a scrimmage game today versing West New York Memorial the next scrimmage game will be on Saturday at 10 at the Clifton gymnasium versing Randolph the girls varsity basketball team had a scrimmage today versing West New York Memorial the next scrimmage game will be on Saturday at 10 at Caldwell the Clifton United Varsity ice hockey team won both of their scrimmage the home opener for hockey is tomorrow at Montclair State Arena versing law form law Fair Lawn F4 come and support the hockey team lastly The Varsity bowling will have their scrimmage tomorrow at the bowler City at 4.
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like to ask our governing board president Christine Pritchard who will administer the oath of office to come up forward and we'd also like to ask Miss Don Densmore who has won re-election and will continue on our board to come forward to be sworn in as well as Miss Jennifer Drake would you come on up Miss Drake as well all right and we're going to need you to to talk into the mic you feel okay with that you want me to hold stuff are you okay without the mic I agree with that statement are you good okay very good then let me get out of the way officers and employees required to take loyalty oath form classification as governing board president I will administer the oath of office to Don Densmore and Jennifer Drake at the conclusion of the swearing-in Louisa Brown a testing officer will give further instructions to governing board members regarding the signing of the oath of office document and provide notary services Ryan McGinley will take photos during the event to post to the website so before we get started I have something for each of you are there roses and when we first look at roses we just note how beautiful they are which like the two of you but we always look at the top part of it again but roses are Hardy and again our eye initially goes to the bud and in this instance it's white white represents Purity and for the two of you I just felt it was fitting because your intentions your vision is always so pure whether it be advocating for parent rights students school choice academic achievement all that you've advocated for it's coming from a place of Purity in your heart and I've always recognized that for both of you and I just so appreciate that and then equally as beautiful but I don't think people typically see it as beautiful as the stem of the Rose um there's thorns on it and some people don't really necessarily recognize that as something um of quality or value or beauty but as you'll see the stem of a rose is very firm and Hearty and strong and not easily broken and the Thorns symbolize adversity and the two of you have had a lot of to face a lot of adversity over this election cycle and you've done so with Grace and your firm values just helped you continue to persevere through all you've had to endure and it just adds to the overall beauty of both of you so please keep that as a gift and with that we will continue on with our ceremony um okay so at this time I call forward Don Densmore before any officer enters upon the duties of the office the officer shall take and prescribe to the following oath or affirmation I will read the oath of office in sections and then pause to allow you to repeat out loud the section just read I Dawn Densmore do solemnly swear I Don Densmore do you solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution and laws of the State of Arizona that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of Arizona that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and defend them against all enemies foreign and domestic and defend them against all enemies foreign and domestic and then I will faithfully and partially discharge the duties that I will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of the office of governing board member for dicer Unified School District number 89.
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thank you okay um where's my paper when I need it em k EPT greasy executive session yes get emotions thank you they're ready okay we are now resuming the right the red key I know we just kind of talked about it but um in January the study said yeah you know good um or find out you know what's what's been done what future plans there are perfect yeah we can so the January study session we're going to do a bond update so we're going to talk about Bond projects we're going to do something else that I uh we need to talk about Silverbell oh yeah which is not the bond but it's part of that financial piece and then we'll put in an elrc at the end it's perfect okay thank you all right uh the next item is future board meetings that's January 12th um on the net can I have a motion I hope that we adjourn a second all right you guys have a merry Christmas oh
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thank you okay good evening and welcome can I call the meeting to order and have a roll call please foreign all right thank you let's go ahead and please stand for the pledge in a moment of silence of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you now we're moving on to item D which is recognition and presentations Mr Lewandowski can you join us a little down there foreign in 2007 Mr Lewandowski was reelected in a certain executive league for the last 16.
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as we use [Music] he has been on the wrestling team for three years Brian is a business member of track and field teams and a three-year member of Creighton has played basketball he plans to attend elite welding Academy in Cincinnati to become a kite broker senior Bryant Merrick [Applause] senior pirate Tristan Smith is the son of Jeff Smith Tristan is a four-year member of the wrestling team after graduation he appointed he plans to attend college getting a degree in computer science senior Tristan Smith welcome good evening everybody my name is Riley Spears and this is Blake Collins um thank you for joining us tonight for the Greensburg versus Jenny County wrestling meet uh we will be here commentating for you tonight um uh all right so let's go here we've got um who we got here Owen got Owen Owen long and this is the only JV matchup this is the only JV match of the night wrestling the um two two Owen currently has a 2-0 record that are locked up right now not a whole lot going on they keep saying Kaiser still locked up about a minute remaining Kaiser goes to try to snap and Bone down out of bounds Kaiser being aggressive here foreign [Music] two points Greensburg one point [Applause] was two points yes two points for Greensburg all right 2-0 after one as Owen long looks to stay undefeated on the season ah funny word foreign Kaiser is in the down position I wasn't trying to hold on one Escape point for Kaiser scores 2-1 set it up we're still locked up here minute and 25 remaining in the period not a whole lot action going on here this is our first fight of the night it's a JV fight bird match Kaiser shoots doesn't get it foreign out of bounds minute and three remaining score is 2-2 close five this is this one's got head coach Kurt Neiman up and out of the seat some action here Kaiser gets around two points [Applause] takedown for Kaiser the score is uh two Greensburg two Jennings County four we've got about 35 seconds left in the period looks like Kaiser is trying to pin in this period can't seem to get Owen flipped around here 20 seconds looks like I almost just gonna try to wait out this period three two one [Applause] there's the period no pin score is Greensburg 2 Jennings County 4.
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foreign welcome everybody who's joining us tonight for the school board meeting and we are live streaming the event so please note that green light is on so we are live let's also welcome those who are joining us ing as a web so the first item on the agenda is the consent agenda items I believe Earl that you want to make a motion to remove yes I'd like to remove some of the claims there on the agenda okay so the first thing we'll do is we'll take a vote to remove claims bill has made a motion to remove claims from the consent agenda so I will need a second I have a second from Tony any discussion all those in favor and then now I need a motion for the additional consent agenda items okay so I have a motion by Travis do we have a second second by Earl any discussion all those in favor um so now we'll move down to community non-agenda items so I would ask present to speak on any item that's on the agenda or any other item item hearing none we'll move on a couple of things that we want to voice our appreciation tonight is Tony and Susan's last board meeting so I think I'm going to have you stand up and come to the middle of the tables so we won't face you all so because you y'all now but Susan and Tony have served of course the school board and um I know that not everybody is on a board or especially not on the school board this takes a lot of dedication a lot of work and I know that both Tony and Susan have the heart for this community and for our schools for our Public Schools so I just want to personally thank them for the work that they did it's been a pleasure getting to know the two of you as a co-board member and it's been great to work with you all so thank you both very much [Applause] foreign and I know Nikki shared but there were cookies and some lemonade or some punch out in the hallway so grab those cookies as we celebrate these two moving down to new business under Administration curriculum and instruction yes I'd like to recommend Carrie manowitz as the Director of curriculum and instruction and I'm asking for approval of that I have a motion by Earl I have a second by Pat any discussion all those in favor 7-0 [Applause] yes thank you I'm super excited about this opportunity and I appreciate your support well we're excited to have you in this different role so thank you foreign I can't believe you didn't bring any singers with you that is that is our go-to sometimes sorry they were still performing yeah and if we are dedicated to making this upon transition for Hayden Elementary so we will make sure to search and we'll support them during that process add a priority under programs food we have a food service presentation yes Stacy Green's here to share with us some exciting options that we are going to have available for the high school yes I'm excited um hello everyone good evening I'm excited to present um you have in front of you I believe in your patents a serving Line This is what I would like to present um for the high school I'd like to implement two serving lines which you see one here not the long ones that one jutted out with a um registered a double register stand and I would like there to be two of these two fruit and vegetable bars so that they can be self-served by the students we would give them their main dish item and let them just help themselves to the fruit and vegetables I did this where I came from and it increased student participation immensely and that I also implemented Works bar and The Works bar would have it would be full of fruits and vegetables to kill your burgers their sandwiches up this would allow us to also increase our menu options from two to three with the addition of scratch and homemade items we have currently implemented lasagne chicken alfredo Asian chicken nachos I'd like to make sure that every day there's a homemade or scratch item available at the high school level for sure the little ones they just love the ancient important you know corn dogs but I will work with the high school first and then hopefully Implement something like that at the middle school going into the first of the year they're going to try pot pie buffalo chicken Subs I'd like to add country fried steak chicken parmesan enchiladas and assorted sub this will cost in the area of two hundred thousand dollars on which food service has the fund balance to offset that so I just I just wanted to share with you the excitement I want to make it a warm and welcoming experience for the students and not so institutionalized um so when they walk in it's a place they feel that that is their time to eat and to enjoy their experience in um in the cafeteria and their fellow students and Friends Stacy has done a fabulous job making that food service balance have more opportunities for the kids and done some Innovative things so we appreciate for bringing those our kids so we will bring this back for approval our next meeting if you have any questions at interim please just reach out let us know yeah please do thank you so much I also would like to share our um it's kind of remained steady um the jcsc staff principals Administrative Assistant secretaries Nikki and I are all working together as a team to make sure that we communicate with the households Keith and it has also been a big part of that making sure emails are sent home to the parents um phone calls are being made at the um and this is all for our policy phone calls are being made at the school level um and daily emails like I said when the when they fall below was zero in their account we do want to make sure and we are making sure that all students do get a full reimbursable meal if they want one so the state says that they can't charge their Gatorades and their chips and things but if they want a full meal they are getting a full meal um so that is where the charges come from but we want to make feed our kids and that we have fun doing it so um that's we've had a lot of Success With It we have to brag on our principals to help families and Community donors who've been angels to us and filling in those needs and helping pay off some things when kids need it so it's oh it's a it's a huge team effort and the principles and there's because they have the hardest job of making those home they know their parents best and I did a hobby oven I swole over Christmas break in the combi oven then that will just have since that since the state took the um Friars out years ago it's just been really hard to get that whole grain breading to the Perfection it needs to be in the taste this will help with that and so I'm helping I'm hoping that I know the quality will be better so that'll be implemented and have already that's actually was purchased gosh gosh I want to say eight or nine months ago what has taken that long with covid with but thank you any questions on anything no thank you so much for your time happy holidays thank you thank you thank you so again I uh thank you very much for coming we appreciate that all of the great information this was an informed item and this will come thank you grab some cookies on the way out thank you next under professional staff we have recommendations you have several record his first recommendation is for Haley Gibbons for Jade BMS English teacher asking for approval okay I have a motion my path do we have a second second by Travis any discussion all those in favor 7-0 next is our annual High ability contacts this is a stipend this is part of a ECA annual position and so those are for Brush Creek Cody Robbins Graham Creek Teresa Ragsdale Hayden Luanne Gantt nve Casey Downey Scipio Emily ponsler Sand Creek Abby capes Middle School Sabrina Nicholson and Tara Kelly that split and then at the high school Charlie wolf so I have a motion by Tony do we have a second second second my path any discussion all those in favor and the next is for our Title One tutoring program with St Mary's for the school year we do this at each year as part of our in-kind services for the title so asking for those tutoring positions for Meredith inman's second semester only Liz Morris Angie Kelly and Sandy Kershaw had a motion by Earl do we have a second second by Susan any discussion closed in favor then we go down to support staff recommendations a list of recommendations asking for approval for Ralph Baird for Sand Creek custodian full-time depart-time Savannah Kinnear Sand Creek Elementary parapro full-time depart time Pamela Craven as a district sub nurse cheyanna Cravens as a high school special ed parapro Rhonda Daniels as a Scipio special ed peripro James fuels the corporation bus driver from eight hours to six hours a day Leah Harriman as a high school music parapro and Jason Jennings as a corporation bus mechanic do I have a motion to accept those recommendations I have a motion by Susan do I have a second by Travis any discussion all those in favor um and then under finances we have several donations yes Coffee Creek Church 250 to Grand Prix pre-student and students in need nbic 250 to nbe for the title books and supplies Jennings County Public Library 500 to the Scipio Elementary Scipio Methodist Church 100 to the Scipio students in needs instructions and lunch Jennings County Purdue Extension Office 45 dollars in canned foods to the high school Panther Pantry Rose Acre Farms a case eggs to the High School culinary arts class hardwood Farms a thousand dollars for the to the high school for the winter formal Emily and Mark Greenwald five hundred dollars to the Jennings County High School alternative education Thanksgiving dinner Leanna Matt matern 100 to the alternative education Thanksgiving dinner Tempest tool and die 250 to the high school black cat racing team local mowing services a hundred dollars to Black Cat racing team at the high school Steve elsner five hundred dollars to the High School culinary arts class Mid-American Safety Solutions 500 to the high alternative education Thanksgiving dinner James County Community Foundation 2022 classroom Grant to high school teachers Pam lovegrove 364-42 Debbie Jackson 297 70 and Tracy Martin 57 and 26 Cents Zion Baptist Church 500 to the hope food program joys of giving thousand dollars to the Hope food program and joy of giving from an anonymous donor in honor of Bob Kent three thousand dollars to the Hope food program asking for approval to accept absolute second I have a motion in my pad I have a second by Tony any discussion all those in favor 7-0 [Music] sub pay rate so asking for approval to increase our sub pay rates are having quality substitute teachers in our classrooms is absolutely critical we think that increasing our rates will make us become communities so that our teachers need to be out for illness or for training that we make sure to have someone in qualified with our kid so asking for the high school someone with a high school diploma for the rate to go from 70 a day to 95 an associate's degree 75 to 100 bachelor's degree from 75 to 105 a teaching license 90 to 120 and recognizing needs for licensed teachers as expected by the state are retired teachers Jennings County retired teachers in good standing asking 238.39 and that would begin on day one with no more delay of when that pay rate could change so asking for approval of those rates motion by Tony do I have a second I have a second by Chelsea any discussion just a comment that we're right at or above anybody around around us aren't we so I want to make sure everybody hears that if you want a good job we pay more and there's people from yeah should be here any additional discussion hearing none all of those in favor next we have the ready Grant match commitment letter we have reached the exciting point and the ready Grant process that we are ready to ask for approval of our match commitment so this is a letter that will make sure that we can get the matching dollars from the so we are committing that we will bond for one million one hundred and thirty six thousand one hundred and one dollars which we matched by the Community Foundation so asking for approval of the official letter that we can send that we are in agreement ready to move forward asking for emotion motion by Travis we have a second by Pat any discussion just to make it clear this is uh directed towards skilled trades is that right that is correct skilled trades any additional discussion hearing none of all of those in favor 7-0 we have a resolution a couple of resolutions yeah the normal resolution because our next meeting will be till January treasure death prior action to the January 12 2023 meeting and allow the treasurer Deputy Treasurer to make transfers of appropriation within education Debt Service and operations in order to make balance major classifications okay do I have a motion Emotion by Susan do we have a second second by Tony any discussion all those in favor 7-0 second resolution is the normal year-end resolution with uh getting things balanced for the form nine it's a resolution authorizing treasure Deputy Treasurer to make temporary transfers from a fund to having a sufficient balance on having a depleted balance for the 1231 cash flow motion by Travis do I have a second by Susan any discussion all those in favor um next we go down to property yeah um you have the proposal from I'm asking the board this proposal is for Architects and Engineering Services roof replacement work at Grand Creek Elementary School area 5 which is just the canopy by the gym roof repairs at Brush Creek Elementary Sand Creek Elementary Hayden Elementary and masonry related work at home for development so this is just the engineering and services I have a motion by Pat do we have a second second by Tony any discussion all those in favor thank you um and then under operations let's talk about the calendar yeah asking for approval of the 23-24 school year Master calendar it's been selected from three options by the jccta and discussed by administrators so asking the board for approval okay do I have a motion to accept the 2022 or 2023 2024 calendar have a motion by Travis do I have a second second by Susan any discussion all those in favor 7-0 and then next under the agenda is claims and I believe a girl you wanted to make a motion to remove one item from the claims list yes to table it uh the Indiana School Board Association do sometimes okay and that is for 250 yes so the motion on the floor is to remove the isba dues for 250 dollars to table that do I have a I have a motion do I have a second a second by Chelsea any discussion yes then meeting yes correct any additional discussion all of those in favor to table this item s about that seven uh and then we'll take the rest of the claims all together as a group so now I'm looking for a motion to accept the additional claims from I have a motion by Tony do I have a second I have a second bite then Susan Susan we'll text Susan um any discussion okay all of those in favor now we're down to other nothing Well if there's nothing under other then I will entertain a motion to adjourn just one quick I'm going to miss these two I really am they come up with some good stuff that make you listen and some cases make you change your mind but I they're really dedicated people and I'm very proud to get to know them and be associated with the thank you yeah I like to say also that I appreciate all the support in the past 16 and a half years notice my wife she stayed she came to two meetings [Laughter] laughs [Laughter] she's out in the hallway enjoying the cookies I just appreciate board has been you know really enjoyable our ups and downs but everybody came together and did what was fascinating first I do appreciate it I've been looking looking around and seeing the people that you know you know and in two years I taught schools and Susan probably more than that but they're [Laughter] mean it though [Applause] you're on camera Tony don't worry about it Hi man watch that over and over and over foreign [Applause] foreign but anyway real real quick you know and nickels you like come up and take it over to the system and moving into the positions they're in it's great because you know I knew those kids years ago and and they're not kids anymore I think man how old am I but anyway I remember Carrie Carrie you're sitting out and this was back in the good old days we had to change we've moved around on health and PE so we we just put wherever we were at so we were in the old cafeteria at the old school and she had to remember it but we used to have to go in and clean the tables uh of ketchup and french fries and all stuff the kids would help so you know those are good old days but anyway I just I appreciate it I will miss it but I won't miss it so you know it's it's time and I'm glad I see this two new members coming on so it's definitely a great experience thank you all speech I follow Ed I don't know I just thought about all my individual members on this board and I really appreciate Tony he's The Voice now he always had Pat you couldn't ask for anybody to even to be more passionate about patient s Travis he's the best desert and Angus got outstanding leadership skills so nice that she here's our industrial inside because she doesn't come from the world of Education she can give us all that's awesome insight into how the real world works and she's also what our Millennial is that right it tells us that you know we don't do chalk and chalkboards anymore and then Earl yeah girl you know there nobody like her I'm barbecue Barbecue League so uh four years on what Tony you know fill in the pencil paper mode and I think that's the thing that I've enjoyed working with everyone I think Nikki's done a tremendous job stepping in stepping into the new role and I'm very encouraged by all the new things that I see happening and good luck girls I think it's worth recognizing of course the board members that are are leaving and this will be their last board meeting but again the two have who have been elected to join us um starting in January so we'll look forward to um board training with the two of you and then onboarding you and we'll we look forward to learning from you all because for me all right then I will entertain a motion to adjourn I have a motion from Travis do I have a second second
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