there are a few things I'd like to comment on on today's agenda welcome to related to board members I just wanted to I not sure as many of you aware over a year ago as a foreign [Music] what the terms are but I would like to acknowledge that I'm available for 3.04 regarding early intervention I'm not sure what's going to be discussed so I may be able to add comments to my non-agendized item comment if something comes up as you're addressing that but I just like to um state that in terms of early intervention I strongly support funding and resources for language acquisition for our preschool as well as are and training opportunities for our experience and rural area teachers who are working with our youngest children there is a high high needs for services in the rural areas for our campus to children I'll jump down to 6.04 I have been out of the loop a bit since my son graduated in 2017.
what's the resolution like a goal something that you want to accomplish maybe a change in your life do anything like that oh it's a good more than two hours of sleep a day all right wow chaos I'm here with Maritza Maritza what year in school are you I'm a senior senior last semester of high school congratulations as we got into this last semester did you make any New Year's resolutions for 2023 um I plan on spending more time with my family trying to connect more with them before like off to college and stuff that's a great goal how are you working on that resolution so far not so bad that's bad I think it's going pretty good so hopefully stays like that throughout the year all right Wildcats I'm here with Jenny Vargas January in school area senior senior congratulations excited about your last semester of high school yes very did you make a New Year's resolution for 2023 uh to keep going to the gym keep going to the gym all right so January 13th is quick day that's where most resolutions fall apart how's it going so far I'm still going so it's not falling yet yeah 20 days in she's still going to the gym keep it up Jenny all right well okay that's I'm here with David Murray David what year in school are you junior did you make any New Year's resolutions as we turn the calendar uh yeah my New Year's resolution is to drink two and a half gallons of water a day how many of those do you have to drink you cannot be for real two two and a half how's it going so far not bad not bad I mean it's 7 45 in the morning you almost got one done don't you yes keep up the good work more Wildcats I'm here with Leslie Leslie and Taylor Taylor love the year musk Taylor stand warm what year in school are you guys I'm a senior senior so as we head into your last semester of high school did you guys make any New Year's resolutions uh not really stay on top of my grades finish strong right you're a senior you want to finish strong unless you're going to put you on the spot it's not too late to make a resolution can you make a resolution for 2023.
there were no questions comments or concerns brought to me I don't believe that then you were brought to Mr Hamilton or Mr middle camp the recommendation is to approve them as presented most of them are changes due to Legal references and whatnot there was one question in there regarding whether or not we require unvaccinated people to get tested the answer is no and so um that will be duly reflected in the policies there but recommendation is to approve them as presented any questions discussions comments I mean like I'll just second what Mr Gordy said reading through and they were you know this was a large list of administrative updates um you know the last round there were a few a few items to just consider that were unique based on district and such but these were very admin you know very much administrative so I I didn't receive any comments or inquiries either but just that that was my read anyone else when I would like to make a motion to approve the second reading of the press pass policy 110.
um this last statistic actually is a little more impressive now because we've received um the highest patient experience we're in Japan from healthgrades organizations consecutive years um we are a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network so um that is not a an easy thing to do that took about seven years for them to welcome us into that Network magnet is specific to nursing um I believe seven percent of hospitals in the world have received that designation for nursing care we've done that um for 12 years running now we're applying for a fourth cycle in the fall LeapFrog is around Hospital safety we've received an a there is no a plus Just Foods a is the highest rating we get see that many years running and then partnership for excellence you may have heard of the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality award there's an education track um there's a health care track and that validates our business practices we receive the highest level State award the governor's platinum in that two years ago um specific to Orthopedic care Medicare who is the largest Healthcare payer in the nation ran a program for three years that we were in specific to joint replacement so this on the spectrum of complexity and costs and all of those things this is um as far as you can get on the complexity scale with orthopedic surgery we are highlighted in green there to help us stand out but we should stand out anyway because we're the only program in the state to receive the highest rating stories what it says is excellent excellent and nobody else does okay so again this is just to give you a sense of the quality of our program okay so this is a typical Center of Excellence patient Journey these blue dots happen at home the blue dust at the end happen at home and in the middle there's those kind of wire stray dots um I talked about Walmart earlier so a patient is seen at home by a physician they fly somewhere they have surgery they come back home and PT happens at home and they fall for the surgeon at home who did not do the surgery that's not how our program works the Physicians um that that were introduced in our video they were adamant about that last stock is green that happens with everything you haven't gotten that by now so there there is an initial encounter at home so somebody needs to go see someone um their provider of choice whatever that is that says yeah I really think you need to probably see the surgeon at that point it's a shared diagnosis between that provider and ours um there's a referral that would happen there's a virtual consult that can happen uh if there's any rehab that needs to happen Physical Therapy ahead of time that would happen happens traveling to and from town but then we're going to take over to the next part of this and we have worked really hard to make this easy um two people their full-time job is to help patients through this program so they're going to help get the notes from the other position make sure everything gets back to them set up PT all that kind of stuff again there's PT at the end there always is with orthopedic surgery and then that final follow-up visit is going to happen with the surgeon who actually perform the surgery that was really important to our adults uh I won't go through everything here the point of this site is to show that almost every Orthopedic for spine surgery that we offer is included in the program the few things that are not if you can't read them the things that you don't ever want to happen the one and two if they do you don't want to drive in an hour to have some takes so it's a trauma accent things like that those are actually everything else you can think of is all those things are included in the program what we have seen a lot of are knee Replacements hip replacements um carpal tunnels really common among education as well those are the things we see a lot of through this program um that's those dots every one of those represents an employer in Indiana who's partnered with us and who's sending us patients I already mentioned 58 000 lives We performed 114 surgeries through this program the first year and um of those 114 people 22 have already come back to us and said I had such a good experience I want to schedule the follow-up service so I had my writing done I want to have my left done or I had my shoulder worked on I want my head things like that that is a really uh shocking statistic to us as Dr Wood says nothing to have surgery so have them elect to come back the second time within the year is kind of mind-blowing so um I went through these things before I said other programs guarantee these things we do as well the last thing that I want to mention about the way we designed the program we made a comment about zero hour um we recognize that it's an inconvenience for a patient who lives here to come to us and for this to work it's a voluntary benefit everywhere that we've implemented um to steer people to make them incentivize them to consider it beyond the quality and the experience that they receive uh the employer we have priced this at a point where the employer is saving money in every case compared to what they would pay anyway to get legally but they are also paying for 100 of the surgery results so the employee has no other costs this doesn't run through their insurance it's done on a just basically a cash payment thing system we say we're going to lower the price it's at a price the school system can afford it can be completely any questions yeah that's the end of my thank you for giving me so much yes thank you it was Maybe just so the board is very clear on how does our process work right now for an employee that may have to have a surgery and how is moving to this um save the employee but also Brown County experience absolutely so if you want to focus on oh technical questions yeah robotic surgery on the knees we do not do robotics okay just like I can tell you why if you are no you don't okay there's a good reason well why so we don't think that's the surgical outcomes don't tend to justify the extra time but I'll defer to your expertise focus on the employee and or dependent experience right now look we don't have this program in place right now so what happens with the employer dependent who needs surgery uh you know they have maybe a primary care physician that is uh maybe referring them or saying hey I think you need to see an orthopedic uh position that happens they determine that they need surgery in that instance that employee would have their if they haven't met it would have their major medical deductible to meet and they're out of pocket whatever plan they're on currently so again they would have that expense they could pick and choose whatever provider wherever they want to go to have that type of surgery um what we've also found with this program because we have vetted this uh very strongly it just so happens that one of the the most uh uh prestigious one of the most prestigious uh hospitals is right here in Indiana so I don't know if you're familiar with the rant study that was performed uh gosh it's going back almost five years that the Rand study has been in place and what that did was a study initially started in Indiana that wanted to look at specific services and procedures that hospitals performed in Indiana and how did they differ with the price so that was a very telling study that determined uh inpatient and outpatient type of services and what the cost was for those services and how much they differed with different providers so that really was became a part of this transparency that you're starting to see from not only Healthcare Providers and hospitals but but also with insurance companies well I say that to to say this uh Hendricks Regional Hospital we have we have the savings we have the numbers uh we're seeing anywhere from let's just take a knee surgery for example the cost of that just the surgery is roughly 30 000.
so we ended the month of December with a Reserve balance of 884 000 that's about point eight months in claims Reserve we know that we'd like to be at about two months of claim reserves so we're beneath that as we hit January the new HSA plan year begins because employees uh first dollars will be spent until they meet their deductible and won't hit our claims you know we do expect and certainly hope that over the next three to four months we see our claims are below the million dollars per month expected and so that'll help us buoy up the Reserve balance and that's medical benefits at this point in time so I'll stop if there are any questions and then there is one more agenda item and which is an update on the 2324 budget meetings which I'll let Mr grippo you can do that one thank you Mr maciano um so uh firstly for me um I guess my only question was um you did a uh a little write-up here about our electrical rates going from eight cents per kilowatt to 24 cents per kilowatt is that locked in because you had you mentioned something else here about 12.94 and so I just yeah I'll explain so the ray lock that we had at about eight cents expired in December during the months of January and February we do not have a locked in rate so we are we are basically paying a rate based on a daily fluctuation and the we came in at around 15 cents for um January month to date which isn't too bad considering that ever sources rate is about 24 cents per quick kilowatt hour right now we were able effective in February to lock in at the 12 cent rate and that will take us through November so we do have a lock beginning in February it's the best we could do you know we we really went after the market aggressively but electricity rates really jumped over the last year and we I wish we could have locked something in before we knew there was a spike coming but who knew right so um you know we we will be over budget in in our electricity category that's accounted for in the finance report and we'll continue to monitor it and you know hopefully as we get through the remainder of this year we'll see electricity rates come down overall and you know we would be in a position to walk you know on the later part of this year and there is some good news oil prices you know have come down and kind of stabilized you know we're still below 80 per barrel you know we you know we had crested ninety dollars per barrel so that might be a good lead indicator but we will see what happens uh any questions no okay yeah go ahead thank you um so with regards to the rates what you're saying is you've locked in a rate basically below 24 cents or beginning February we're 12 12 cents and and change no I'm saying like right now no we are not locked until February right so I mean in theory if we have a polar vortex in the next two weeks the price of electricity could Skyrocket because all the natural gas gets sucked up for Home Heating and we're exposed to that in terms of financially we're exposed to the rates going up to a dollar per kilowatt hour or even more than that well if that happened we would just go back to eversource okay got it so that that's available to us but we don't need to do that just yet okay and you can do that like on a 24-hour cycle or something like that probably would take a bit longer than that but all right let's we could get back to eversource that is always available to us all right so yeah I just asked that you'd be mindful of it because if you're literally are out this is this is part of what goes back to literally Gray Davis getting recalled in California and Schwarzenegger being elected governor blackouts in California this is um those rates can so I don't know the exact rate you have but if it if there's no cap to it it could go way up not to just 24 cents but it could go way above that so just to be mindful of that always looking okay but you know you just said a dollar that's um have we ever seen that this is not in Connecticut no but this is probably that moment in time because what's happening in Ukraine and natural gas I'm not saying it will happen but literally we've been lucky that it's been so warm and it is what happened back in California 15 years ago or whatever it was directly related to electricity prices spiking blackouts happening um just to be mindful of it and to maybe find out what the turnaround would be if you wanted to switch over to eversource how long would that take yeah I'll check we do have a consultant that helps us with this Rachel Bogger so I'll touch base with Rachel but she's kind of looking at the markets for us constantly yeah so um she's really good I'll talk to her all right thank you okay foreign I'd say at that point if we went to Dollar kilowatt it almost sounds like you'd pull up the emergency generators and run on diesel but do that you would shut everything down you know unplug the school yeah it could be it could be an option yeah well hopefully that won't happen but it could from what I've seen from the weather anyway um uh yeah that's possible um let's see report on budget meetings uh so uh we had uh let's see we had the uh superintendent's uh presentation last week um let me see hold on I'll just I had a I made up a little cheat sheet actually so we could put all the fun news all in one place it's actually uh Dr Solon you put it right here here it is remember you asked me why so here we go um so um this nice little sheet here is that um uh Dr Solon made our uh a budget request uh the uh the uh budget that we are currently uh having hearings about and examining um the request is for um an increase of 6.46 percent uh that's five an increase of 5.2 million dollars for a total request of 85 million eight hundred and seventy two thousand dollars um uh on Tuesday we went over medical benefits uh there was a another topic uh Mr massiano if you could uh refresh me uh what did we went over medical benefits and certified non-certified oh yes yes of course all of our uh employee costs um and uh that unfortunately wasn't super enlightening because we were sort of in familiar with a lot of that already um but it's great for the public to know and to kind of know that I think we're up to almost 70 percent of our budget is uh fixed or no what was it 94 of our budget is fixed costs essentially salaries yeah it's actually uh contractual obligations such as for transportation right yeah everything right exactly and we went over a portion of that uh on Tuesday and we will continue to do that next week um so that's sort of what's happened in the last two weeks in a nutshell are there any comments or questions and yeah I think it's um important especially maybe this year as we go through budget season two um to just point out that we are growing as a community right uh Cheshire is growing our grand list is growing as well as our population and our school age children in this town are growing and so um that is really behind why our Bud why are budgets going up and it's and um I just think that we should all be looking at the positive side of the reason that our budget is going up it's it's not all doom and gloom right it's it's because we're growing so I just wanted to put the positive spin on that thank you Anne um Faith um I guess I'm one of those negatives but um I just would like to point out that most of what we're seeing is increases in salaries and benefits that are beyond our control I love that cheshire's growing um I love that my property values are growing and I do hope that our grand list is growing with actual Commerce and not inflation but um I am real concerned and I think I've made it pretty clear about what's going on in in how to bring these costs under control and how to um curb the mandates that are costing us so much uh you know this is money that needs to go to our students it needs to go to our facilities and a lot of what we're seeing um and I'll raise more of it as we discuss it to me is um borderline frivolous uh and I don't know how to get the message to Hartford that they have to cut us some slack but um Ian I totally agree with you I am very happy that our community is growing as it is and that we're seeing the growth in our elementary kid Elementary grades uh because that is the future of Cheshire um but there are a lot of people who are going to be hurting with this budget and so um you know that we have to be mindful of that as well so thanks thank you Faith any other comments okay uh seeing none uh that will conclude the finance committee uh we'll move on to the legislative committee uh Mr White I think thank you Adam can I back up for one second on just a question about medical benefits uh yeah go oh yes yeah go ahead yeah thank you yeah just um an administrative question so we we're budgeting a million dollars a month for medical benefits for clients um so we have a balance right now about eight or nine hundred thousand and we've now hit a peak of close to 1.7 million for one month administratively we could I don't think it's crazy to think we could go into deficit in one month it would be highly unlikely but it could happen so here's my question at what moment in time does that really matter to us is it in February when it happens or is it at the end of the year in June can you just move the money around from a timing perspective that it doesn't matter right now or would it matter right now well if we did go negative we would have to make sure that we we buoy up the reserve so we could one way to do that would be to reduce our expenditures and as I said we have a 50 hold right now on non-payroll expenditures the other thing we could do is request funds from the Town Council as part of the as you know part of our normal course of action um but I will say this if we do you know go negative the likelihood we would go negative is from a large claim or series of large claims and so there would be reimbursement on the stop-loss side so I as I said here today I don't believe will be negative for the year so it could happen yeah so in short initially we're drawing off operating budgets to cover the business right all right in time if you know been talked about a stop loss reimbursement you net all that out there comes a point where we have to spend operating and we can no longer draw off that to cover the balance that wouldn't be February that would be May perhaps if we're still in the red we need to have a conversation with the council if we're not then no harm no foul kind of thing okay something we're obviously we're closely monitoring has been said January uh the historic trend is as we enter the new claim year the claims are less than they have been in previous years but as you saw in our budget presentation what's driving costs are not sniffles they're on on really unfortunate substantial medical issues that some of our employees have endured um the likelihood that that continues is small and we pray that that's the case for those individuals and us but we're going to closely monitor it okay yeah no thank you for all that yeah my my key concern was just could something happen in the next few weeks where we actually need to act in a quick fashion and you're saying no we need to be on top of it but we still have through the end of the year to the end of the talent fiscal year to work through it okay that's all I was wondering about thank you thanks Adam legislative committee uh thank you Adam so uh a week ago the legislative committee met of the committee of I'm the chair's chair of the legislative committee um we met to uh discuss possible requests of the legislature their session opens in January it runs until June when they I think that's when they would usually be done with a lot of their bills um anyway we brought forward I don't think we didn't bring forward anything from any particular board members of course we're all welcome to do that maybe in future years something like that will happen but what we did bring forward was a list of I think six items that were requested by the superintendent um I think we all agreed that they were um worthwhile requests of the legislature and with that I will give it to the superintendent if he has if he wants to add any commentary to it about the particular items or anything else uh you know on our website we have the legislative uh items that were submitted to Hartford it's an ongoing dialogue over the next couple of months is um you know Senator Sampson Representatives upcus indicated last week you know will probably be asked to share our perspective anything that we share certainly all of us are welcome to do so individually uh not as representatives of the Cheshire board of education but remember you're a member who sits on the board and have it have a unique individual perspective if there's something that is going to be testified upon from a representative of the the body that should come through us on the legislative committee or the bore full board um that I would submit testimony on or one of us could submit testimony on um it's just kind of a how this should play out over the next couple of months the legislative session uh formally gets underway the 25th I mean bills are submitted now but the the actual session starts the 25th doesn't close until June 7th so this is an extended session that they'll be meeting this year and um I think it's important to note that um probably the the biggest point of discussion with the uh the right right to read legislation which um you know we're just talking about you know testimony for legislation and it was at least for me it was revealed that I'm sure some of you knew that already but uh that that legislation was not did not have a hearing it was part of the implementer bill if I'm not mistaken which means it was put in uh right at the end of session where there was no opportunity for uh public discourse um so in that case we weren't able to uh Administration or board members from apparently all around the state as uh chairman uh paragini uh uh not testified but uh said at that legislative meeting that uh you know not none of the school districts and many of them are sort of against that legislation um didn't have an opportunity to speak about it um but it is important that when we we have legislation we're all interested in I know a few years ago there was a one on regionalization of some kind of services or regionalization in general where we're able to submit written testimony um and so that that's something we that we have that ability to do um so that we don't have to actually attend and you know travel to Harvard to attend a person that we can submit written testimony unless of course it's banned for some reason which I don't know if that's ever happened but it's made maybe it's happened uh but I just wanted to add that comment yeah in fact I'll make one more comment on it when you mention the right to read uh there to me there are probably at least two different issues here which is the actual program that's being that the Public Schools across the state are being directed to use so the first point is using the program the second point is also the transition and this is like a fast track like do it now oh transition which just doesn't really in my opinion I just think it's really wrong I think if the state wants to direct the public schools to do things that's within the right in in general terms but I also think that for any transition uh you should be given some time to make it happen in a deliberate way and that's not really happening here in this situation with regard to the right to read legislation Sam yeah um you know I appreciated the dialogue and them coming in to speak on what our ask was and so forth and I did ask the question of what their agenda um plan for an agenda moving forward um wasn't very much a clear answer but at least representative zepkus gave us that she was forwarding a bill on um education I guess um as part of the process I appreciate the ongoing dialogue so the question is basically you know we have allegedly breakfast coming up soon what's our next step because clearly we're not the only District that has concerns um and so for people listening what what can they do to support our ass and so forth the I would I think if you're new to the information the a good place to start would be reviewing the PowerPoint that our legislative committee and board put together that's available on our website from there certainly you know I I appreciate that our uh Representatives our delegation from Cheshire is accessible you know by reaching out to them um you can just Google Cheshire delegation or uh go on the state legislature website and reach out to the individuals who represent our community the legislative breakfast is invitation through you know board members and and local representatives to engage the delegation the area representatives and that'll be coming up uh in February for you I sent out an invitation if any of our board members are interested in attending that and available that morning uh certainly welcome to come and we can express to that audience there that day as well our perspective on this issue and and provide that feedback anyone else It's Quickly um I think we need to be mindful of something that was brought up at that meeting which is um perhaps trying to have that meeting with our legislative Representatives at an earlier date than right when the session is starting so later in the fall yeah so I agree on that I think I don't know if you remember Jeff I think that I probably brought it up in November we tried to bring it schedule something in December nobody was available from the legislative we also had you know the the November referendum was uh yeah real priority at the time the other reality here is that we could hold this in September but what happens is two weeks like what's occurring now before the session where there's really uh a lot of meetings around these things all these proposals come forward um I think you know the lesson the takeaway is early but ongoing communication so I agree that you know maybe an initial connection earlier in the fall is beneficial but there's so much spaghetti that gets thrown at the wall that you could never anticipate um at the beginning of the session that it's important for us to follow that up and uh to give you a sense I'll share with the board some of the proposals that have come forth I sent you an email the other day but every day at this time of year there are new um ranging from uh nonsensical and outlandish to potentially meaningful well it gets passed forward so I'll share that with you thank you for that extra for that explanation same but to Anne's point though having an early yes but also kind of recapping it and I know we don't have meetings in the summer but somewhere close to when the session ends I'd love to have them come back and give us an update here's where we started in the process and how did we end and moving forward what's next step for the next session that's all Oh no just as a a point of clarification Tim I think you said something about the the state uh Department of Ed can impose their will on board of educations I believe you're incorrect on that we are we enforce state law which of course is what they did they they got they got a law passed for this uh right to read which is now they're imposing their administrative powers to enact the law just as a point of clarification you know I I yeah I was avoiding the Nuance I just so the legislature had to sign off on that and they did whether or not they actually knew they were doing that uh I don't know if I can give them benefit I will let's just leave it there it was in the bill and it passed so um is there any other uh comments uh for legislative committee no okay uh moving on to planning committee Mr martelly thank you Mr crippo um tonight actually the planning committee Matt in this room at 6 15 and started looking at the preliminary draft of sorry I started looking at the preliminary draft of um The Five-Year Plan with the 2023-24 projects just to reiterate or to remind folks we look at the five year but we approve projects uh each year moving forward um so you know this year it's different than my board service over the past four years on the planning committee as we actually have an idea as to what projects are gonna well we know what projects are going to happen so we aren't looking at doing upgrades too schools are going to be coming offline so now we can really focus um available dollars towards projects to stabilize and continue to maintain our existing School infrastructure um I don't think it's appropriate to get into specific projects tonight we just saw this for the first time this evening and we're going to work as a committee to kind of Pare down and look to see what makes the most sense for 23 to 24.
and then for the 23 and 24 school year 24 25 and so on you'll see in blue the Democracy projections 12 189 we've made an adjustment given we've already outperformed that and estimated that we would be what we did was we essentially just added 100 students every year 12 out of 289 you'll see 12 288 from the demographer again we've added 100 to 12 Etc and so we wanted to provide a little bit more detail until the board has not seen this back up so I just want to make that clear just one of these are new slides for us providing back up to those whole numbers and so this slide is focusing specifically on students with disabilities and they talked about the enrollment growth in that area so if we start with 21-22 we had 700 students last year and that number includes Pre-K and so the grade number at the bottom are Pre-K students the blue is K-12 so we have 1716 and as of year to date we have grown about 25 students in Poland and that's just K-12 but then in pre-k and Kelly keeps saying we're growing we're growing growing in pre-k we've had to go grow growth of 42 students to date with our pre-K schools so we Pre-K students so we've had almost 70 students to date and those are special ed numbers as of right now then you'll see the projections of 5 with growing by wrong to almost 75 students minus 24 25 23 24 I'm sorry so these little projections for next year here are our multilingual students or English language learners and I'll start with 2122 and you will see the the Staffing request really aligned to the previous slide in this slide here because you you will see we have an estimated almost 250 students additional students we've had specifically in this area so we we had last year 3736 students and you will see the growth of almost a thousand additional students just of English language Learners this requires significant special Staffing for the students and again you'll see that reflected in that house thank you and again and it's the last slide on enrollment and it really just walks us through a breakdown K5 6 8 and 912.
we are going to look into our School climate responses and I'm going to talk about our elementary students and then miss Dalton will go over to secondary students so elementary students are students third through fifth and most noticeable thing here is we saw an increase a big increase in the responses so the responses from Spring 2022 which was we recorded uh 2042 responses in a fall survey so that was a very commendable increase um we also see here that to your right you see how the data has been disaggregated based on gender grade level student rates so this student race is how the students have been um you know their districts ethnic and race identification this how how it's been recorded at the district during student registration and enrollment um you are going to see a small difference when we move on to the next slide is this um when we look at the student race the subgroups um do not have one very specific race which is are we going to see which is the Filipino Race So in our next slide we're going to see um how are climate data for our students race and ethnicity has been desegregated so there are two columns here excuse me I'm sorry for the interruption just a quick question if we have questions um would the two of you prefer that we hold them to the end or ask them as we go please if you would make a note of them was that at the end I'm sorry yes yes okay thank you thank you part of the interruption that's fine thank you no worries um so so we see here how the students have been um you know the students have been grouped uh depending on how they have identified themselves so in the left we see how students have they have self-identified and the races are on the left you see here that um they have self-identified in different categories like American Indian Alaska native Asian black or African-American Hispanic or Latino Filipino native Hawaiian other Pacific Islanders white two or more races or ethnicities while on the right we see that the students here are the the data has been uh based on how the school registration how how they have been identified by the school registration so on the left we are going to mostly focus on the sense of belonging data which is also School connectedness how well they feel they belong to school we see here there is a the sense of belonging has shows a decrease of seven percent for the black or African-American so that was a very significant change and if we go to the right column where uh students have identified based on their race and ethnicity in their you know during their registration we see that there has been a decline in the sense of belonging for Hawaiian or other Pacific Islanders and for the American Indian or Alaska native what we also try to capture some of the student voices of Alum Rock and here we see the teams mostly include uh concerns around bathroom food safety so the question and this is something they responded this was like um not a multiple choice but this was a short response and the questions were what are two things that this school could do to improve and uh one of the things the students mentioned were being kind to others not judging people or being mean to each other and then what are two things that the school is doing well and the response that really caught my eye was I think overall they should keep breakfast and lunch because sometimes the child's parents can't provide food for the child they should keep recess and then it talks about you know how it is important uh For Recess for students it's time for them to stretch breathe play and go use the bathroom this very deep thoughtful responses and now we'll transition to the school climate responses for our secondary students in grades 6 through 8.
this is the schedule Financial Trends page for the general fund General funds the largest operating fund of the school district what this page will tell us is the current state of the general fund prior to your history and also the projected budget for the following year so this page tells us that the district had an operating Surplus in the past three years and is projecting a surplus in the future year as well overall Ada has declined slightly and that has been a trend across pretty much the state um overall enrollment has declined and long-term liabilities have declined over the past three years as well that being said I'm hoping to answer any questions you might have for the district report that all sounds good any questions I don't okay sounds like you did a fantastic job as well as our department our financial support we just come and check this oh I know that so kudos to everyone thank you Nancy do you have any other comments no just do um really do want to thank uh staff um Karen orc and Joe kimono as well to lead the team it's a lot of work um daughters are here for an entire week but even prior for getting here there's a lot of information we have to upload and um it just you know and then the staff as well it's it takes um many many months to even get to here so do you want to thank the staff and absolutely um Bobby's team as well thank you thank you yes thank you all of you good all right 9.3 Bond audit report for fiscal year 21 and 22 information and he's anything on that so yes so Bobby will also be again okay all right all right so this is specifically related to The Measure h building fund um this report it's two partners a financial statement report and also a performance report on the financial statement side the district did earn an unmodified opinion as I mentioned that's the highest level of assurance with no material misstatements or significant deficiencies on the performance side um what that report entails is US testing transactions and comparing them to what's allowed under California State Constitution Article 13A and also what your voters approve the measure age to be used on so we'll take that project list that was approved on the ballot measure and compare it against the sample of transactions we pulled for testing we pulled roughly 98 of the total expenditures from the fiscal year and noted that all of those align with what your Waters approved and also the California state constitution that being said I'm happy to answer any questions you might have one measure h any questions all sounds good yeah done a good job thank you thank you thank you excellent job I'm just curious are you from Rancho secamanga um our office is in Rancho but I'm I'm from Orange County oh okay I was thinking you have a drive tonight thank you thank you appreciate it thank you next item is 9.4 uh resolutions 20 22 23-e-10 white out tobacco week 2023.
and with registered sex female at Birth less uniform experience-based knowledge among participating experts than in 2015 and the documented prevalence of detransition it is most unfortunate that our government and most social media platforms continue to stifle this important information just as they did with catastrophic results during the during the covid pandemic what is really needed now is not to be the suppression of opinions but open and robust debate in the medical community and among the public as how we might best treat children for what might be an essentially psychological condition the swedes have outlined The Profit scientific approach thank you anyone else wish to address the board okay last call anyone else was to address the board seeing non-motionally closed by Mr abadrabo second by Mr Paris um is uh Tiffany here oh there you are would you like to come up and give you a report foreign a brief update on the CHS winter sports the boys varsity basketball team beat Tech on Tuesday and the final score was 66-61 the boys had a game today at Clifton High School first versing Passaic Arts and Sciences Trader winning 58-42 the next game will be Saturday at Bloomfield versing Bloomfield at 1pm the girls varsity basketball team had a game today at Parsippany versing Parsippany the next game will be Saturday at Hoboken versing Hoboken at 11.
I'm doing my own thing but I am back and want to be part of this community pbsd will always be a second home to me it was my son's home from the time he was three years old and I don't know that that's ever going to be able to let go of that I wanted to acknowledge um superintendent right command's hard work over these many years that I have gotten a little bit behind but I have seen your tremendous effort and you faced many many challenges so I'd like to thank you for your work and I hope to see you continuing on with the agency and I hope that your evaluation resolves are positive regardless of some of the challenges that the agency has faced I will hold an account and other challenges and that is all I have to say thank you for your time and I will see you thank you Karen Feldman good afternoon can you hear me as the microphone on hello ah there it is um good afternoon board president Nigro superintendent reichmann and members of the asdb board my name is Karen Feldman I'm the supervising teacher on the deaf side of the house in Region Three it's that time of the year to conduct performance evaluations and offer contracts as one of the agenda items for the board to discuss leadership contracts for the 23 24 school year I'd like to give you some first-hand insight on the itinerant programs and the work that Jay Johnson's been doing we were requested to provide feedback last year on um J and Senior leadership however we have not received a request this year for directors nor any other senior leadership to give feedback on performance two years ago the board moved to recommend on the on the recommendation of the associate superintendent and superintendent to create and hire a director of itinerant programs Jay was hired we were right smack dab in the middle of covid yet Jay hit the ground running and worked to start the redesign of the itinerant programs his message was clear we need to align our efforts across the state while making sure we do right by students Jay diligently worked to learn about itinerant services and the needs of sensory impaired students he's traveled from one corner of the state to the other change is hard yet change for the good has happened my entire career has been spent at asdb all 27 years of my teaching and Leadership career has been with the itinerant programs I've been a teacher and the last 20 years a supervising teacher so I have lived and worked with the many Changing Faces of asdb administration and the itinerant programs over the years this is the first time as a supervising teacher that I've worked collaboratively with other leads and supervising teachers across the state various roles within the itinerant program have been tightened up processes and procedures that make sense and work have been implemented Jay has been Forward Thinking supportive while doing what's right he believes in communication leadership and compliance Jay hired two regional directors who are phenomenal leaders who support and execute the redesign he's been doing exactly what he was hired to do I don't believe the board receives unbiased truthful reports on the work of that Jay is doing or the progress of the itinerary programs it would be a mistake not to offer Jay a contract for the 23 24 school year all of the work that has been done will be dismantled before a decision is made about offering Day a contract please solicit feedback from the staff who work with him directly don't rely on the biased views of the administration thank you Doris Waltman good afternoon superintendent reichmann president Nigro and members of the board my name's Doris Waltman I'm one of the supervising teachers for region 3.
um well I think this year I want to start going to the gym because I said I was going to last year but I didn't end up doing that you got 11 months 11 and a half months still to get it done all right Wildcats we're off to a great start in 2023 it's not too late to set some goals maybe you're falling short already of some that you did set still time to get back on track have a great Friday and a great weekend
I'll make motion thank you Tammy 20 seconds Lisa seconds she beats out Tyson it's gonna be quicker next time there's no money on the table so all in favor aye aye any opposed any absentions our discussion item is our facility study we kind of touched on that a little bit here so we'll just add I want to thank Mr Schumacher and Ms Hines for um walking all the buildings with me um my feet were tired at the end of the day I don't know if I've walked or put that many steps in for a while but we took a tour of all the buildings checked doors talked to administration at the buildings looked at that from a Safety and Security point of view I'm bringing it up in the facility study because we did look at like Eagle View is packed we've got facility concerns there the Middle School's got plenty of room but it's the newest of the buildings the high school is also full uh Parkview is at maybe I think there was one room that's still able to be built into and so it's it's just as we look forward to the facility study and we start looking at our Safety and Security concerns and whatnot it was just we ended up having a couple of conversations about our facilities and where our students are and Staffing so I just want to thank them for that day and uh it was some good discussions so very good anything else for facility individual board member comments do we have anything for the good of the order president prerogative I was just going to Echo uh my appreciation for Lisa and Tammy for taking an entire day to go through that it's nice to be in the buildings and actually see things firsthand and gives us a very unique perspective so thank you both for doing that thank you for using your feet I I closed that Circle definitely and we'll watch sounds good all right I think we do we have an executive no action items after okay so basically we do have uh items to discussed in the executive session over Mr grudy just said we don't have any action items as a result so unfortunately you guys can't stay for the executive session but you're welcome to come back and see us adjourn a few so desire so with that I'd entertain a motion to adjourn into executive session I'll make a motion thank you second let me roll call on this yep all right real cool please thank you yes yes sir yes yes Perfect all right well thank you foreign oops ready all right welcome back everyone we just conclude our executive session there's no action items as a result and with that I'd entertain a motion to adjourn oh my goodness Dyson make motion and a second all in favor aye any opposed
comparing that to other providers you can see anywhere from fifty to sixty thousand dollars because you're a self-funded plan that is directly affecting the uh employers out of pocket and what they're paying for those type of services we don't want to make this mandatory we want to make this an optional but it's such a great experience and we do understand there is travel involved too but the incentive of choosing Hendricks Regional is that the employee does not have a deductible to me does not have any out of pocket and we also recognize depending on how far you're traveling because it's regional centers Rachel's partnered with us to allow a one-night overstay at a hotel for their significant other so again there's just some incentives in place because of the cost savings not only to the employee but ultimately to the employer which will help again hopefully lower the those premiums that we're seeing year over year you have a question the anesthesiologist it's included it's a long clue may or may not know is you get through this surgery bill because it isn't covered by that insurance and you get uh yeah that's a good question and how do you partner then with someone here to do the rehab because I just went through this with my mom in October she had her knee replacement and then you know so we feel that physical therapy is probably as important as the surgery because without them and um so when we started this we said before we do one surgery we want to make sure we have um our protocols explicitly written out these will be here too and there's a reporting structure in the business that to ensure that what we've prescribed is actually what happens if someone doesn't do that doesn't happen yet we wouldn't send patients to them anymore um and we've done that throughout the state so meaning you're partnering with for instance the value of Health which is one of our major probably not IU but there are other um I mean there's independent Physical Therapy groups that we've partnered with but it just depends on the area right but that's the one that's in Nashville so I mean that's that's my concern is that 84 needs to use the applications for therapy she needs to go to the closest facility because it's important to us we're not going to exclude anymore as long as they're willing to right I'm just talking about that distance issue yeah depending on where you live depends on where the closest cardiac can be average therapy surfaces are and applications like you said earlier correct [Music] yeah as much as possible because otherwise you're just wasting your time one sorry one of one additional incentive what this program is a cash incentive that the employer would be responsible for as well again it's just accounting for you know the travel if you will depending on the surgery we've put in place a 500 anywhere from 500 to 1500 cash incentive to the employee for choosing Hendricks Regional Health too so again just another uh incentive if you will to uh that the employees are aware of to help with the travel if that is an issue too so you're going to pay the employee the employer does so where does that money come from so we call it a shared Savings Credit so we report on the bill that you you miss them out for it and then we put an additional credit onto it the employer agrees to pay attention spaces to the income tax yeah so it would be taxed as normal yeah so it it just depends on how expensive essentially the surgery was because the more expensive was the chambers point I don't know if I have that it was a slide that I had that shows that you would easily say depending on where you went for like an irreplacement he's like twenty thousand dollars so in that case the employee would get a 1500 check to offset the process yeah they're real yeah any other questions thank you sorry no thank you all right you're up next um it's incredible so I might call it a problem that's uh you can pay cash for 40 50 less now one thing we have in common is that is in regard to my or our expects um education program look at that doesn't look nice thank you as the CEO of our sex I started this company right from covet hit which is a terrible time to start a business I didn't know it was going to be a global pandemic uh partner for a little bit resilience I got to got to know some of the competitors in space and worked really hard to do things better and created a very effective model that's helping a ton of people and that's why I started Arts protect was to help people I come from kind of a interesting Healthcare background and we'll get into it well let's just say I had a chance to look at a lot of RX claims data from self-insured companies so mature groups like yourself and it just blew me away I said how much money these brand name medications would cost me generics are great we've got health engineering but these brand name medications most of the time offer no generic option members and being someone who's status diabetes family has some issues yeah that just drove me crazy and so I just signed up to find a better way um that kind of walk you through the model and what we do um but essentially the solution or the conclusion all right but you know we focus on high phosphoraneous meds um the member gives the medication for free when they enroll into our program okay this is awesome no copay no pain um well at the same time your plan is going to save a significant amount of money so I'm going to walk through how that happens uh has anyone heard of personal importation kind of a fancy term whatever all it means is receiving certain medications from outside of the U.S sounds crazy it's not why is that well most most medications are made for actually outside um there's a lot of groups that do what we do a lot of groups that don't do things the right way and because of that it presents a statement a certain stigma right medications are important you can't just import meds from wherever it's because they're cheaper cheaper is not always better right so RX protects you know myself and my advisors and the pharmacists I have on staff we set out and said let's try to eliminate that stigma and the way that we go about that is providing a strong peace of mind at knowing one where the medications come from so we're working with McKesson and only with McKesson McKesson is one of the largest drug Distributors and suppliers across the world supplies many of the medications that you take here in the U.S globally recognize you do things the right way and make a medication for McKesson is a medication from the castle so we said one supplier that's going to provide a certain peace of mind and knowing that it's a medication from investment right a lot of meditation from Joe's Pharmacy in Turkey or whatever so I'm silly but it's true some people do that one country we have a pharmacy in Winnipeg Canada provides every medication that we dispense out of our Pharmacy when we dispense of that go straight to the doorstep so we maintained full control over the supply chain that sounds like a no-brainer but no one in space for like doing that they get it from multiple countries multiple suppliers multiple pharmacies and whatnot I wouldn't be able to sleep at night if I did that so we're taking care of people we're taking care of medications so we've eliminated a lot of variables that are out in the market today by utilizing from fire one country one Pharmacy essentially how it works very very simple I put Lily's logo on here this could be any manufacturer or any good Pharma company just an example but because the medication goes from manufacturer guess and picks up that head from manufacturer sometimes fantastic USA sometimes it's a test in Canada go around a reason but they take it to our Pharmacy in Winnipeg and then again instead straight to the doorstep it's a streamlined process we know where the vet is the entire time our Pharmacy enables the bed the right way we do um we utilize this process knowing that this truly is the most simplified way and if you ever looked at if I was to draw on that whiteboard kind of how medications usually work it would be kind of a spider web of a mess right and there's a lot of contingent well if this person or this person they get feed they get feed they get to feed and one of the reasons why medications are as expensive as they are it's not necessarily a big farm it's big Pharma Plus five six other metal so we bypass those folks for a circumstance and in doing so we can deliver medications um which to you all will be 30 to 40 less to the unit 30 to 40 net savings to the bottom line after our fees scanner mentioned we got very small percentage of folks because we are really just targeting the brand name meds right we don't want to mess with you know snacks are great stay on the generic that's opinions on the dollar you know that's a good deal for you but this small group of folks gender said three to seven percent I say five to ten tomato the idea is it's not a lot of people that are accounting for a large percentage okay so we go in we help just those folks um we do common specialty so Humira Enbrel Tech fight era spellara maybe it sounds like they're speaking in a foreign language at this point but if you had all those names put dollars next to it it's not a good scene you got 50 Grand a year 84 Grand a year you know 48 Grand a year right one person imagine a couple people and that's a big problem so we come in with those folks or you're watching TV yeah yeah in another country and they're not allowed to advertisements but our cost Advantage out of Canada yeah because we are dispensing from Canada we can take advantage of Canadian and pricing you're different in Canada or as great as our Healthcare System is there's some cons to it one is obviously the cost of that so we go to Canada and say we use USPS to ship to that patient right we have a tracking number the minutes dispensed can we get in front of the member here's your tracking number abstract it together and keep an eye on it it's all good it's a mail order program nothing new a lot of networking programs here so they catch on real quick but here's kind of the ticker so when I say net savings our fee is already been accounted for yeah okay so 30 to 40 net safety to your bottom line last year across every client on average our clients say an average of six thousand one hundred and forty dollars per person that enrolled into our program now that's different across the board depending on how big how many people on insulin versus whatever but I don't know if there's any Math teachers in here right you wouldn't need very many people uh to suddenly say into the same speakers right and that would be our Target um we have other school systems that were doing very very well with uh we have 30 people enrolled in one reporting another 17 and one you know they enrolled great we're gonna save you money you know it adds up quick so our clients are saving well into the six figures with a few approaching seven I think they're a little bit larger can I ask you a question yes about that because that seems pretty impactful right so I just want to clarify by the newspaper enrolling for client that's from coming schools is saving that perk employee that would choose to go with this for the prescription drugs yeah yeah and so okay well you would pay the cost of the medication through my program don't cost to remember but the cost of the medication through our success is going to be 30 30 to 40 percent less they've gone to CBS for sure bypass ing which we're paying it we're definitely different yes I just wanted to make it clear you are paying a lot of money for medicine that's the incentive for folks enroll most enrollees I think for every per person Etc they're on 1.7 medications through our program so more often than not somebody will send us two to three strips because around more than just one brain so maybe we only help 20 people but it might be more like you know 50 medications so that's how it adds up and Export that large dollar savings comes from um but yeah we eliminated to co-paying the doctor will remember this is a voluntary program Force anyone to do this as much as you'd like to foresee because it's from Canada you cannot make it mandatory that's one of the laws that congress has passed to allow this to have a certain contingent we have to abide however the messaging can obviously come out um and say Hey you know the work on messaging together I kind of know what works based on other clients just raising that awareness but the overall theme is very simple it's if you know you are a dependent are covered under our benefit and are taking one or more of the following medications you're eligible to get your medications appropriated it works wonders people like free especially when these medications are going in their family finances every month or every month I actually had the chance to look um I received some RX claims data of your expert plan I suppose a little while back but it's still relevant to go over just as examples of course there was no PHS and no patient health information I don't know it was just the list of meds and how much you spent through the plan meaning if David over the past 12 months without us there right whatever Pharmacy these folks went to this is what cost your plan you can see you know if you look at sky Rizzy okay there's only four stress for Sky Racing but it costs you cost you sixty seven thousand dollars four strips this is where I like to face yes for whatever time period That's this data um whereas if you kind of scroll over Sky risen through loss what it cost you 55 000 So You're Gonna Save twelve thousand dollars from one person my results we would have saved 31 000 of Tesla 11.
um additionally we the names escaping me hired a consultant to do space needs look Anthony and Associates um we they met over the past month or so I did start looking at our existing school facilities to start the space planning needs for the future it doesn't look we're going to be in situation for trailers for this coming year but moving forward we're going to keep a close eye on that once we actually have a report um we can share that with the full board that's that's pretty much that's the update if everybody has any questions um if I may um so the uh consultant uh Anthony um for the trailer so there's has there been any uh initial analysis on needs or that's what we're hire the consultant to sort of a report on that's what we hire the Consultants to work on and we we met with um Emmy O'Brien the principal at Doolittle and and Scott Jeffrey the principal at Highland along with Richard facilities director uh with Associates from antonazy they did a quick tour of the building they have the layout of the building they have the floor plans and more detailed construction documents for both buildings they understand what our potential need might be over the next three years based on enrollment so they're going to start in the background you know working on some ideas and we'll have a follow-up meeting you know to sit and go through and and talk into some more details so work's begun we'll have the information we need from them in in a few weeks for further discussion with the planning committee but it'll be two to three months for them to issue the the report that we're expecting from them and the series of recommendations may not be and I don't expect it to be limited to just adding trailers there may be ways to repurpose some of the spaces that we have or any other creative ideas that you know they or we may come up with um you know to try and get through year one year two and and year three when the new schools are built and we would be able to redistrict so it's just really Bridge strategy to get us to when the new school's built thank you any other questions for planning committee okay moving on to policy committee and call on myself um so uh we had a uh well a rather brief um uh policy meeting on uh let's see what was uh Jan on January 10th um by the way I believe I did figure out my technical problem but that's a whole nother story um so uh we reviewed uh two policies for a second reading uh strategic goals performance standards that's a zero zero two five um for let's see uh what was the change that we did oh two oh to adopt the Strategic goals that the board had already approved I guess we started to do that one backwards um and uh we uh had all of our questions done a meeting prior so uh we moved that for a second reading uh uh the second policy the second policy move for second reading was our nepotism policy uh which we um uh again in a prior meeting had uh strengthened our policy to sort of reflect um current events so that it can remain strong and fair [Music] um uh we moved to a uh next we did a third third and final rating for the administering of medication opioid opioid overdose prevention uh the admit the emergency administration of naloxone which is a um an inhaled substance that uh prevents um or helps prevent overdoses from fentanyl or if you have an overdose from fentanyl it perhaps prevents uh death or Serious injury right right um and so we will be uh moving that hopefully uh into uh enforce this evening um and that we can concluded uh around the source at 6 51 PM according to the uh notes I have here um so I would like to make a motion um that the uh Cheshire Board of Education give a third and final reading to policy number 5141.213 administering medication opioid overdose prevention emergency administration of naloxone and direct the superintendent to put said policy into immediate effect do I have a second on that motion um Sam so you can go up first uh is there any comment or discussion on the motion seeing not oh and go ahead basic question that I'm almost embarrassed to ask is is Narcan the same thing as yeah yeah yes okay thank you yes good question I don't know my drugs yes I guess what's that's the uh official medical name for it I guess um so all right uh seeing no other uh further comment uh all in favor unanimous of those present thank you okay um are there any other standing committees that need to report I don't see anything on the agenda no okay next we'll go to the approval of minutes for meetings held December 15 2022 and January 12 2023 uh would someone like to make that motion uh Faith go ahead move that the Cheshire Board of Education approved the minutes from the meetings held on December 15 2022 and January 12 2023.
you'll see the gradual growth with Pre-K and that those numbers reflectively left to right K5 you will notice we are beginning to Flatline and even lose a couple of students in K5 the unfortunate thing is and AIS is a is a great example of this we've we've had decreased enrollment at AIS as an exam but not enough to reduce teachers because we have to have at least 22 to 24 students depending on the grade level at every class we can't have any more than that so for years we've had three sections in every grade level at AIS similar to other schools that create claim for example we've typically had two sections at every grade level if we don't have enough but if but if the decrease is not is not significant enough to reduce it down to just two teachers per section at AIS there's really no cost saving opportunity so the K5 numbers yes there is a reduction across the system but not enough across the system or in one building to reduce that in millimeter and six eight um our middle schools um I I would argue that don't get me wrong because principal Donovan and High School staff also need relief middle schools need relief uh 12 has been a problem in terms of population growth in those respective buildings the middle school after this year will begin to get some relief the bubble that we have experienced in the high school is about well they're in the bowling there right now the bubble was at the middle schools were at the end of that bubble a little over a thousand students at Broadview Middle School just under a thousand now for the first time in the last couple of years at Rogers Park so you'll see the numbers really flatlining at Rogers Park as a result which is High School on the other hand continues to do different things and we had year to date so we have a 3691 students we understand here today at the high school this is and I don't have the number in front of me to clicks so excuse me but this is a unfunded number unbudgeted number because these numbers have grown since last year's October once Edition so between October 1 last year budget season by the time we were requesting Dan Donovan and Danbury High School has received more students and so that 12 210 and I'm sorry at the bottom you'll see the 12 210 that number will be growing to about 12 300 next year at least close to 55 students but again we still need to address the Gap from last year because it was unbudgeted and unfunded and we'll have a slide to show all of the what we call overages we have five sections as a teacher Contracting is supposed to teach I was a socialized teacher so I would teach five classes in social studies but because we have more kids but Dan may not have five new sections to offer to hire a new teacher but he may have three because of enrollment growth and so I I take a sixth class Mike takes a six class Kelly takes a six class and those are the overages that are on budgeted in the system and again you'll see kind of a roster over those overages then the next page um and this is where I began to hand it off or bring this to staff and this is really to address the enrollment growth I just walked through so at this time Dr casimiral principal Donovan they will tag teams and then I'm sorry Switzer Paul will be other assistant superintendent as Kelly members thank you um so the next slide represents really the kind of bigger buckets of Staffing across the district based on the enrollment that Mr Wilson just presented the first two lines on the left you can see that those are really the services that are needed in terms of the increases that are that are required based on the enrollment and then the last three lines of the slide really represent sort of the aggregate staff uh core areas of electives and so on and so you can see that our ESL my label needs a growing we need a total of eight ftes in that category specialized people Services an additional eight Middle School about three is what we're projecting at this time high school 13.5 which is really a reflection again of that large shift in enrollment but also just to the sheer size of the high school and then safety Advocates an additional five FTE for a total of 37 and a half fdes at 2.6 million dollars exercises and so we are fortunate to have Dan here tonight to talk a little bit about the high school Staffing specifically because I think it's important to understand uh when there is a request on you know what how we arrive at that number but then also what happens when we don't actually get that number but just to Dan while you're making your way up to the to the table um for next year we have proposed 0.5 FTE for an Academy administrator so if we begin our part as part of our plan for the hiring of additional staff in that area we'll also have an additional 200 or so students and and to participate in some of the training as well that will happen as a result we have the opening um six ftes in core classes uh so those are certified teachers for total 480 000 three empty pools for Academy for counselors um both are needed just in terms of enrollment but also they're in court for the Academy launch as well and then four ftes of elective class teachers uh to meet graduation requirements and so Dan will talk a little bit about kind of how we arrive at those numbers and then um talk a little bit about some of those overages that Mr Wilson referenced earlier thank you hey principal Donovan how are you doing thank you for having me I appreciate the opportunity from this week you know when discussing this with Mr Spang and looking at the numbers that I projected it was that we needed the question always comes up as to you know where does that come from how did you come up with that number and I thought it would be and asked if I could tell me kind of speaking explain how I come up with these numbers just so I really have an idea of what goes on uh you know the first part there's two parts to this and this is my seventh Year's old family high school and dating backs about my second or third year I had a meeting with Dr Sal and Joe Martino at that time we laid out a plan because two things were coming to a head that we all knew about one it was graduation requirements in the state of Connecticut that was 21 to 25.
I'm so sorry Miss talking I know you you want us to hold it to the end but I need to assets now just so I understand better as you're going through the tables that we're looking at with the Plus or negative numbers are those plus or yeah there you go thank you are those indicative of individual students or a percentage and if it's a percentage is it a percentage of that um population or of the the entire sample it is a percentage of that population that responded to the survey thank you very much at a percentage of the entire ethnic group okay thank you so sorry but that will help you understand what you present yes and so as I mentioned for the secondary responses there is an increase from Spring 2022 of almost 1 000 students that is definitely a bright spot in the spring we had 1181 students to respond for this false survey 2157 was the number of secondary students grades six through eight again the categories of race that you see on the slide are those that were indicated at enrollment foreign on this climate data heat map as they call it you'll see the orange the shades of orange to indicate areas of concern and the green are areas where there are positives with the sense of belonging and school connectedness connectedness um the group that had the least sense of belonging was native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders with minus eight percentage and the second least sense of belonging for race ethnicity self-identified students that responded was American Indian or Alaska native with the second column you'll see no red or orange for sensible longing and school connectedness connectedness now trying to speak slowly in case the echo is disturbing for those that are listening and we can move to the next slide oh I just want to make note that there there is no more Echo so it's wonderful oh nice great to hear I'm still hearing you on my end but no worries about that so this uh belonging is basically captured in this statement I feel like I am a part of this school so with the students who self-identified their race and we did go over each of the categories both for the district's categories of race and those students who self-identified on this slide you will notice that the black or African-American students reported the strongest favorability here over native Hawaiian or Pacific Islanders students who had 43 percent but if you reflect back on what Mrs Basu said just a while ago the black or African-American self-identified students still did not have a strong sense of belonging this slide is showing the gradients of belonging for these three races so when you look at the marginalized groups black or African-Americans sense of belonging exceeds that of native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander but I do want to highlight all three ethnic groups black or African-American native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander and American Indian and Alaska native are marginalized and have seen declines with a sense of belonging and now I'm going to speak to our families and caregivers you will see once again the category of self-identified race or ethnicity which includes Filipino it is not on the a district enrollment they're lumped together in Asian but we know that is not a monolith or any other racial ethnic group so these are the self-identified family respondents which totaled 3214.
something second any discussion there's a roll call vote Miss Guero aye Ms Percy aye yes hi I just went blank Smith Smith looking right there Miss Reynolds okay and I vote all right that's 5-0 ouch uh 9.5 resolution number 2022-23-r-02 National School counseling week so Luke second second okay very good this is a roll call vote Miss Guerrero aye Ms Percy aye Ms Smith Miss Reynold Trejo it's five zero we love our counselors and we want to honor them yes yes yes Consulting Services agreement 9.6 so I moved second I have a motion in a second and is there any discussion on this seeing none all in favor say aye aye aye opposed that's five zero 9.7 agreement Vatican Classen I think I said that correct Associates second any discussion I did have a question um can you create a brief background on the Acoustics in the anime high school gym yes of course so um with this contract so um the NM high school gym is a little bit different than some of the other gems because it's like a concrete and so um with some of the ceiling tile that we are trying to replace right now we do need to have an acoustic engineer to go in and take a look to see um what needs to be done to that um to that gym to this point to improve the quality of the sound there so this contract will allow us to hopefully um after tonight uh tomorrow we'll send over the contract to start the process of um getting the report from this consultant for that to identify what work needs to be done and then after at that point we're hoping to get the report back at the end of February and then at that point then we will be working um with the mains Department to see if the project would need to be bid out or when can we do it in-house as well and so depending on what needs to be done then we need to either bit and that would take you know usually a couple months or if something that um you know that we can do in-house um then we would self-perform that work and the interim director Albert Guerrera is here if there's any additional questions that you may have okay um is there and there was so there wouldn't be an anticipated completion date until after the report yeah so we would need to see what the report uh come back in at the end of February and then we will assess at that point what um we need either bid out or perform the work and then obviously we're happy to report back once we get the report okay you're welcome thank you a question are any other gyms in our district uh have the same type of construction as this one um you know most gyms it's you go in there and it's very noisy when they try to make a presentation it's um yeah so I was just wondering if there was any similarity good evening uh no Jim to my knowledge is the only Anaheim gym is the only one that is bare concrete all walls and a concrete roof deck okay the other gyms including Junior highs they have some sort of tiles paneling throughout so Anaheim is the only one that doesn't have it all right thank you appreciate it yeah thank you so saying any more questions okay all in favor say aye aye opposed five zero Educational Services revised board policy multiple policies this is the second reading second action item okay any discussion all in favor say aye aye opposed five zero number 9.9 group booking conference agreement Hilton Garden Inn any discussion I think not all in favor say aye aye aye opposed 5-0 9.10 agreement National Federation of high school sports so I'll move exactly second I have a motion in a second any discussion questions now I've already asked this question about you know it's the parents that pay it's like stream s do you have to to subscribe to it and then in other words it's like another streaming type you know yes so so essentially anyone across the country the world right if they have access to the link uh they can they can watch their nephew niece right brands on what watch them compete in a sport and they pay a fee just like they would pay admission to come into the gym for a basketball game or a football game they're paying the subscription to watch the the game live stream and then the district as a result gets I think 20 of the of the commission right for for that which goes back of the sales yes and keep in mind the schools district we're responsible for paying game officials and they're not cheap so the gate that we get from just in-person contests and now the live streaming will help offset those costs unfortunately we still don't get enough money in from gate to even cover those costs because game official um just like we've gotten raises they've gotten raises too so it's got it's gotten expensive so this helps offset those costs is there any anticipation of what type of Revenue we're getting you know I I can always speak for like my own experience because my my sons and daughter have competed then after the pandemic they can't continue with the live stream and I know like for grandparents and folks who can't attend a game like tonight it's raining there was a game they don't want to go out they can watch it online so we don't know the good thing there's no cost to the district we only make if people do subscribe we're just allowing them to put their cameras up and uh correct and then are those cameras available for other events if the gym hosts yeah so I I so I looked into that so so right now they're in the gyms they're on if they'll be on a field so most likely boys girls soccer uh those those fields and they're also in the pool area so for water polo and swimming but we do have an opportunity if we we should so desire the district to work with this company to potentially place them in an Amphitheater um to see acquire performance so so that we'd have to work up The Kinks with the sound because right now with the sports you really don't get the sound you're just watching the the the game the cameras I think have the AI where they follow the ball but for choir or band performances I'm sure we could do it we just have to figure out the how the sound would work well there going to have cameras in the gymnasiums aren't they for like basketball yes yes okay for basketball wrestling and volleyball feels likely for soccer and uh well for soccer and then um the pool area for swimming water pool I have a question so you call it a subscription but you also call it like analogous to like paying is it pay-per-view or is it like a one-time subscription there you have either or so you can pay the one time for to watch a contest or you can pay like an annual subscription and then you get access across the board so the annual subscription is more but you get that full-time access then we're going to put a camera in Dr Freed's office yes and that might be entertaining maybe not as our team how is this going to just going to roll out say we say yes to this going to roll out do they just come tomorrow so we'll work with Brad manami's office we'll work with our athletic teams right to make sure that when they come into the gyms or Fields they're not interfering with practice from what I understand it's not terribly difficult to set up but we'll just coordinate a time with them they already know that this is on the agenda so once if if approved we'll coordinate some times for them to come out and they'll just work through our high schools to set these up I know there was a question about Junior highs right now our Junior highs only have intramurals so it's one quarter a week so we didn't we didn't opt to put this in the junior high gyms at this time it's really the high schools where the interest lies is this a wireless setup uh I think there's some I think it is uh I know there's there's like Two Nuts and Bolts they put into the wall and then they put they put that as Wireless yeah I don't think there's any wires that connect to it okay right thank you uh so all in favor say aye aye opposed thank you 5-0 9.11 contract independent cycle educational assessment Dr B.J Freeman some moves second Motion in a second any discussion seeing none all in favor say aye aye opposed 5-0 9.12 contract independent cycle educational and ermhs assessments I won't read the rest I don't think it's necessary okay second any questions no scene done all in favor say aye aye aye opposed five zero 9.13 agreement industrial hearing and Pulmonary management DBA Western Health so many uh questions seeing that all in favor say aye aye aye opposed 5-0 9.14 a memorandum of understanding is University of California Irvine School of Education Motion in a second any questions seeing that all in favor say aye aye opposed 5-0 9.15 educational Consulting agreement Dr Jeremy Arnold so moved second any questions nope seeing that all in favor say aye aye opposed 5-0 Human Resources before the agenda was adopted we pulled 9.16 9.17 9.18 9.19 so we are now on 9.20 which is Con initial contract proposal auhsda 2 CSEA and that is information only and 9.21 public hearing initial contract proposal we opened public hearing anybody wishing to speak seeing none close the public hearing 9.22 initial contract proposals csea2 auhsd and that's information only 9.23 public hearing initial contract proposal CSEA to auhsd we open the public hearing anybody wishing to speak seeing none we close the public hearing 9.24 initial contract proposal auhsd to Mid Managers Association MMA information only 9.25 public hearing initial contract proposal auhsd to Mid Managers Association MMA open the public hearing anybody wishing to speak being none we close the public hearing 9.26 initial contract proposal MMA to auhsd information item only 9.27 public hearing initial contract proposal MMA to auhsd we we open the public hearing anybody wishing to speak seeing none we close public hearing 9.28 public hearing the exposure of collective bargaining agreement with askme a-f-s-c-m-e we open the public hearing anybody wishing to speak seeing none we close closed public hearing 9.29 adoption of the 2022-23 collective bargaining agreement with afsme so moved second we have a motion in a second any discussion seeing none all in favor say aye aye aye opposed that's 5-0 9.30 certificated administrators classified confidential and classified management salary schedules don't move second I have a motion in a second any discussion seeing none all in favor say aye aye aye opposed 5-0 9.31 compensation for superintendent assistant superintendents and District Council so move second we have a motion in a second any discussion seeing none all in favor say aye aye aye opposed 5-0 okay consent calendar uh any items to pull I have uh 10.7 II and 10.8 any other item being wish and wished I'd like to pull money to be pulled ten sorry I'd like to put 10.30 10 what 10.30 10.30 uh 10 16 for me and 10 19.
the boys varsity ice hockey team will be having a game tomorrow at Montclair ice skating rink at 4 versus Newton go and support our ice hockey team the varsity swim team had a meet today at the Boys and Girls Club reversing Paramus Catholic the next game will be Saturday at 9 00 a.m at PCR versing PCI the meet will be a county tournament so go support our swim team West University team won their big North championships beating PCI in the finals and becoming top five in state the next match would be Saturday at West Milford versing West Milford at nine and go support our wrestling team indoor track last meet the boy scored second place at legacies and the girls got third place the next track meet will be Monday January 23rd at 4 30 pm at Ocean Breeze Staten Island moving forward to events and fundraisers the senior class will be during their annual Mr Cupcake fundraiser the donations will be going towards the senior activities like senior prom all order forms along with the payments will be due Thursday February 2nd cupcakes will be delivered on Tuesday February 14th on Valentine's Day please contact miss karafine or miss a video for any questions Key Club is holding a pie in the face contest starting this Monday January 23rd and will be collecting meant monetary donations up until January 28th students and faculty compete to raise donations for ocean of Love of non-profit charity dedicating to help children and their families fight cancer this is our way of building Community engineering school of spirit while raising money for a loving cause you can donate through PayPal cash app or venmo for more information you can find on the CHS Key Club Instagram page the official Pine will be happening Monday January 30th the junior semi-formal dance AKA Junior Prom will be held on Thursday April 27th at the Grand in Totowa tickets will be on sale February for the event the CHS musical is hosting at Applebee's Flapjack breakfast on Sunday January 29th between 8 to 10 a.m at the Clifton Commons Applebee's tickets are 12 and may be purchased at the door the cast will be serving at the event Sam Samuel zip Bell placed fourth at the co-ed classic singles tournament at the bowler City and Hackensack Sam wrote honor scores of 256 243 and 207 Clifton Bowling also finished third at this year's PS pcca County bowling and tournaments the CHS competition share is now 4 and 0 in Minimates for the big North Championship they move on to next week mini meets on January 23rd at Riverdale High School against Ramsey and esai go and support our CHS competitions cheer team thank you Tiffany foreign we appreciate all the you know people don't realize the time that you have to get all that information uh and share with uh with the Clifton community so again we thank you for all that you do okay um we're next gonna move on to um uh our um presidential volunteer Awards and then the student of the month Awards so we'll start with uh the uh student file excuse me the president's volunteer service award who has those uh presentations of members of the board Central Administration faculty and Clifton Community my name is John O'Reilly and I'm a social studies teacher who is representing the Key Club of the Clifton High School I am here today to congratulate two pillars of the Key Club at Clifton High School as well as the entire Clifton Community Alberta jabril and Jose Suarez Gonzalez albera and Jose have the honor of receiving the very prestigious presidential volunteer service award this award is one of the most prestigious awards given to outstanding individuals who according to the program are using their time and talents to solve some of the toughest challenges facing our nation Nation guide by the corporate corporate the corporation of for National and community service and independent agency of the United States government individuals of all age groups throughout the United States are chosen for exceptional work on a local state and National level these two fine young men went beyond the criteria necessary to be worthy of this award which shows their level of dedication first I would like to congratulate our barrager Brill for his over 108 hours of community service throughout Clifton High School nice job nice job foreign despite facing numerous challenges in the past four years especially the covid-19 shutdown albera still lent his time tutoring children throughout the district feeding the homeless providing care package for soldiers overseas and Families in Need contributing to various community service organizations and as well as being a natural leader for the Clifton High School Key Club he is filled with passion curiosity and vision and it is those qualities that have enabled him to thrive as vice president of the Key Club organization these past three years he is an amazing organizer Works incredibly hard and brings out the best in all he works with as his teacher I could also verify that albera is one of the most intellectual curious and good-spirited young men that I've had the privilege of working with Alberta Miss Turk the entire Clifton Community are so and I are so proud of you we've been blessed to have you as part of our organization and are thankful for your efforts [Applause] today we are going to give albera his certificate and a letter from President Joseph Biden as a congratulations for his hard work and he also receives a medal for distinguished service [Applause] you're more important than I am um that's right thank you congratulations your uh recognition of Alvarado jabriel resolved the Board of Education recognized Clifton High School senior jabriel and earning of the president's volunteer service award al-barah earned bronze for 108 service hours congratulations on the achievement and if I can read this certificate of achievement this recognition is certified to alvarajibril on behalf of Clifton Board of Education Administration for the president's volunteer service award bronze 2022 with sincere congratulations on your meritorious achievement with recognition by resolution of the Board of Education this desire to excel as a formula to a lifetime of success your efforts have brought distinction to you your family in the Clinton Public Schools signed by President Jim Smith and superintendent schools Danny Roberts congratulations okay [Applause] brother coming up yes sir yes I know you're good give him a noogie congratulations Paul and finally Jose Jose Suarez Gonzalez Jose from my understanding and Miss Turk if she's listening uh she could correct me at school tomorrow but there are no key clubbers at least in my seven years of working as an advisor that have reached 271 hours in less than two years of community service this accomplishment is impressive enough but you are also looking at the New Jersey Key Club Governor the highest position given to anyone within the Key Club organization foreign for communicating to all key clubs throughout the state of New Jersey and he has done so effectively he has already established numerous networks between clubs and increased Clifton's involvement in numerous State projects Mrs Turk and I are astounded by the work ethic that this young man has done in just such a short amount of time and we know that this man is going places Jose we are very proud of you foreign thank you congratulations [Applause] so recognition for Jose Suarez Gonzalez resolved at the Board of Education recognizes Clifton High School senior Jose Suarez Gonzalez narrating the president's voluntary service award Jose earned gold for 271 service hours congratulations on this achievement Jen [Applause] experience president Smith so through you to the uh board secretary to VA there's just some edits on the revisions on the um the the notations of the minutes here that need to be made the hours need to be changed to coordinate with Mr O'Reilly said and Mr jabriel's last name is spelledoro okay we'll make those uh the Minnesota reflected yes um Clifton students uh these students tonight that Mr Riley just presented um truly are outstanding and remarkable students and we are so proud of all that you do and um but not only are we proud of the students um but miss Turk and um are still um Teacher of the Year Mr Riley um do a tremendous job in coordinating and organizing the Key Club which is a tremendous organization that we have in town so we're very thankful and proud of the Educators and the students that do such a great job so congratulations to all of you and I lost my voice somehow but I don't I'm covered negative so um okay uh next we're going to go on to students of the month um again just a tremendous achievement that these students achieve out of um how many students in the high school almost 3 000 students in the High School uh to be chosen as uh your grade level student of the month is truly a remarkable achievement that you should be very proud of so let's hear about our students uh freshman who has freshmen I have okay uh freshman Nicholas Nores Nicholas favorite subject is social studies because she enjoys learning about past events and the way people lived long ago Nicholas is most influential teacher has been Mr stepnesky because he has taught him about discipline and hard work which has also positively impacted his grades Nicholas's parents Inspire him to reach His Highest Potential and have supported him throughout all of life's ups and downs Nicholas is a member of our Mustang marching band and the trium music Society this certificate of achievement recognizes Nicholas Nores on behalf of the Clifton Board of Education and administration for CHS freshman student of the month January 2023 with sincere sincere congratulations on your meritorious achievement with recognition by resolution of the Board of Education the desire to excel is the formula to a lifetime of success your efforts have brought distinction to you your family and the Clifton Public Schools congratulations Nicholas foreign you are how was I got another number congratulations [Applause] sophomore yeah okay you can go so sophomore student of the month is nosley yildiz nosley is a hard-working student who has been enjoying her geometry geometry class at Clifton High School because it helps her develop her analytical and thinking skills nosley credits Mr Stewart for her success at CHS because he has helped her acclimate to the school has encouraged her to break barriers try her best all the time and follow her dreams nosley's mother has made has been her role model encouraging and supporting her as she moved to the U.S two years ago nosley serves as our Key Club secretary and as a CHS Mustang Ambassador in the future Nestle wants to pursue the students at Montclair State college program during her junior or senior year this recognition is certified to nazli yildiz on behalf of the Clifton Board of Education Administration for CHS sophomore student of the month January 2023 with sincere congratulations on your meritorious achievement with recognition by resolution of the Board of Education the desire to excel is the formula to a lifetime of success your efforts have brought distinction to you your family and Clifton Public Schools congratulations foreign thank you [Applause] Junior Cameron zutek Cameron is ambitious hard-working and kind whose favorite class oh has always been mathematics because he just loves numbers Cameron credits his success in school to his parents who Inspire him and selflessly do whatever they can do to support him Cameron not only takes his academic classes seriously but he is an outstanding soccer player for our boys at boys varsity soccer team Cameron attributes coach limbrick for helping to shape mature young man he is now but also for instilling a sense of pride in all that he does Cameron is all Cameron also managed to find time to play soccer on a club team he is a member of our athletic Training Club and a coach's younger children's basketball and soccer Cameron help hopes to play soccer in college and professionally and plan to major in marketing or athletic training in college the res the certificate reads certificate of achievement this recognition is to certify that Cameron tsutic on behalf of the Clifton Board of Education and administration for the CHS Junior student of the month January 2023 with sincere congratulations on your materius achievement with recognition by resolution of the Board of Education the desire to excel is a formula of lifetime of success your efforts have brought distinction to you your family and the Clifton Public Schools signed Jim Smith president of the Board of Trustees and Danny a robotazi superintendent of schools congratulations Cameron foreign thank you [Applause] senior Amelia przovsky Amelia is kind smart and always respectful Amelia's favorite subject at chs's Art because it allows her to express her thoughts in a creative way and provides her with freedom to just create create without having to be perfect Amelia's most influential teacher has been Mrs Fox because she inspired her to get back into art and renewed her love for the subject Amelia's sister is her role model providing her with advice and guidance Amelia strives to be just like her sister who is strong smart and independent after graduation Amelia plans to attend college and major in architecture certificate of achievement this recognition is certified to Emilia przovsky on behalf of the Clifton Board of Education and administration for each CHS senior student of the month January 2023 congratulations Emilia [Applause] I know my colleagues will uh agree with me um that those presentations are the best part of a Board of Education meeting we enjoy that tremendously and our town should be very proud of these young men and women that attend Clifton High School so um great job thank you yeah if there's any students that wish to leave they're welcome to do so but we have a lot more part of the meeting coming up uh recognizing and honoring um our great staff at Clifton High School so um do you want me to do that next 31.
I've been employed at asdb in many different capacities from teacher to top Administration I have seen the agency at peace and I have seen it in turmoil I've witnessed change that has been poorly implemented and when it has resulted in greater communication effective change and positive growth toward the future I'd like to share my observations and experiences working through the implementation of the solidity of the itinerant programs under Jay Johnson's leadership the board and the superintendent had a vision for itinerant services that would bring them together and move them along the same path with the same procedures and processes through this process the Attorney Services would provide excellent and consistent Services Statewide this Vision has been formulated shared and implemented through the outstanding leadership of Jay Johnson the executive director of The Cooperative programs Jay has followed the four pillars of success the superintendent reichmann established with the support of the board as with any restructuring progress can begin Rocky with resistance from staff who do not like change with consistent vision and wisdom Jay has established excellent communication and relationships with staff and districts across the State of Arizona there's clear communication shared that does not waver and moves itinerant Services forward toward a positive direction following the four pillars this has resulted in greater team building collaboration and service to students staff from across the itinerant programs offer support and instruction to one another traffic staff travel to different itinerant programs to provide services and support this is due to the establishment of an organizational culture where staff are encouraged to collaborate and share their experiences and expertise Jay has modeled this approach by demonstrating respect to staff with knowledge and experience and sensory impairment Jay also carries out the fourth pillar of effective Resource Management he streamlined systems of data collection and documentation his vast knowledge of special ed law has led to Greater compliance with idea Statewide all of our processes and procedures have been examined to assure continuity in implementation his comprehensive accumulation of information has resulted in greater fiscal management across the regions Jay has done exactly what he's been hired to do align itinerant programs and services across the state he's Faithfully carried out the four pillars of success under his leadership the itinerant programs operate cohesively and effectively Jay has made me a great believer in the power of excellent leadership I've seen changes in increased success in the operation of itinerary program there is much to celebrate and greater achievements to come with Jay Johnson as our director if any of this isn't a doubt please do not hesitate to reach out to the director's supervisors and the leads that work with Jay directly thank you thank you Marcy berenberg my comments most of them have to do with continuing a reichmann's contract and that I feel like it's not a great idea she has not engaged with parents as we have had severe concerns with child safety on the PTSD campus when we have asked to meet with her she has denied she has said that things are out of her control and that things are within the board's hands however that is completely opposite to what the policies and procedures in online are we have asked her for reference of what policies and procedures they're following in regards to these issues that we're having on the pdsd campus and nobody will respond to that she recently put out a letter stating that the Ombudsman is available to help families who have concerns on campus and we have reached out and got very minimal responses that we can only assume came from Direction not to engage with us in finding resolutions to the problems these problems are so severe that three kids on the PTSD campus have safety plans naming a teacher as an aggressor that should never be the case my son had to stay home from school for four days because the school would not determine what a reasonable distance would be for it and when I was guaranteed he would be safe if he returned to campus two other students went home in a complete emotional breakdown that same day this should not be an issue on our campuses the board has been aware since the beginning and I realized that I didn't know the policies and the progression at the beginning however even with not knowing that I feel like it was the right way because this issue is huge this particular instructor has been allowed to torment children for years and many many people have come out it is the pdsd metoo movement and nothing is apparently being done or at least it appears not to be done my son has come home from school and said they care more about the teachers than the students that shouldn't be the case he is a deaf student this is the place where he should be this is the place where he should be able to learn I have learned that many students have left because of this and teachers similar to her they bring about what the culture on campus is because she's in a leadership role yet she has been retaliating against teachers who speak out against her leaders need to be able to accept some criticism leaders need to be honest with their staff and they need to engage this isn't happening for us this isn't the first time I dealt with this with Annette either back in 2020 with the covid policies I complained about issues when things were in an english-only format and she and Courtney ghosted me back then and then acted surprised when we went to the media I was very forthright this time that I didn't want to hear any surprise when we went that direction I know that there are teachers that are embarrassed to be working for this system now because it has become such a social media outrage and nobody has an idea of what's going on with it no parents have felt updated [Applause] thank you yeah the remaining of the um agenda items will be posted online there were emails thank you next is 1.04 information items superintendent's report superintendent Reagan good afternoon president Nigro members of the board assistant superintendent Martin assistant superintendent Cooper and members of the asdb community welcome to the January 19 2023 board meeting today I am going to be giving a brief presentation on the state of the agency I want you to know the year 2022 was a challenging year for all of us if we look back at the beginning of January 2022 that is when we had the omnicron covid variant increasing dramatically we had many teachers and staff and students fall ill and then when we were back into the classrooms full time we discovered that our students who are already behind were even further behind because they were missing so many of the in-person activities within the classroom and especially our younger students preschoolers the kindergarten to fifth grade those students did not have appropriate social emotional growth and development like we expect from our students so we have had some significant behavioral issues on campus within the 2022 year it was challenging we all know that we Face challenges but I would like to take just a little bit of time to talk about our accomplishments because we do have some accomplishments from 2022 and I asked our leaders to send me their accomplishments they were most proud of in 2022 and I got so many I can't list all of them here for you tonight or else we would probably be here until midnight but I did select a few of these comments that I would like to touch on and share with you the board to show that we asdb agency and our leaders and our teachers and staff have been working hard every day we've been showing up to work showing up for our students our staff's there our bus drivers are there every day our people are committed to providing the best education and support for all of our students So speaking of pillar one that is effective communication and relations and in 2022 we successfully hired a new ombuds person and that is Donna Williams she started last fall and she has already been working with our staff our teachers and some other members of the community to provide them with information and support and mediation so what you just heard I am a little puzzled fine because I know that Donna is busy working at the next board meeting on March 2nd Donna will provide you with the report of her work and activities since she has begun with the agency we have added a new agreement with school districts and if you notice in 2022 from our last board meeting you all approved three new school districts that are charter schools and so we now have agreements with these our itinerant program is continuing to expand and serve more and more students throughout the State of Arizona Lisa yankarelli sent me her ideas and they are going to be teaching a braille or they have taught excuse me interpreter error a braille literacy class two parents and which we have never done before so many parents took this online Braille literacy class and began learning the basics of Braille so that way they are able to help their children who are visually impaired with their homework and then the fourth thing I wanted to say connecting with pillar one is that the Tucson campus has been working with the National Park Service in order to design the Anza Trail footpath and that trail is right next to campus on the east side and I think next week on Saturday there will be some sort of celebration of an opening ceremony for the trail and that is in collaboration with Tucson asdb campus and the National Park Service pillar two one thing that you asked us to do and we weren't able to successfully accomplish is collecting data from school districts all over the state about their student assessment scores of course this is for the students we serve and so we've been monitoring our strategic plan report and the dashboard you will see there on the dashboard that we have now collected data on itinerant students and their assessment it is not for all but we have enough I think about half of our half of the itinerance of students that we serve the odd organizational development division have been working with both campuses and teachers who teach grades first through fifth to learn how to teach and conduct assessments with the bilingual grammar curriculum so that is teacher trainings that we have been started that we have started as of last fall and we'll be continuing into the spring and that emphasizes the BGC curriculum for our elementary students for both Tucson and Phoenix we have done intervener trainings and interveners are those individuals who work with our students who are both deaf and blind and our deafblind student population is growing on both campuses including six deaf-blind preschool students here at the Tucson campus so we really have a need for more interveners and so we will be providing trainings for them pillar three we are currently in the third year of the emerging leaders program currently we have 23 liters emerging emerging leaders within the program and they all have different projects that they're working on if you are curious and would like to know more about that please ask and I will be able to get together a presentation about what they're doing and how they are developing their skills one example I can give you I will give you a little bit later on we've established a language policy committee and that a language policy committee was established about a year and a half ago so we're starting to have discussion we were starting to have a discussions about that long prior and it has taken that responsibility very seriously the committee has taken that responsibility seriously and taken the time to collect a lot of research and information from different schools of the deaf and finding out what their policies are and collect all that information together and figure out what is the best collection of policies that can be put together for us so they finished the first draft of that report and hopefully soon we'll be able to present that policy to the board to overview to overview for overview and approval and that language policy once it's established that's not the end of it it's the beginning so it's the beginning of the process of how we can create a cultural shift that needs to happen to align with the language policy before as you know we have have the sunset audit in 2022 we had one finding that one finding was that we needed to do a multi-year capital plan and we've already gotten that underway in the agency so I wanted to discuss with you about the beginning developments of that Master facilities plan and we're working on setting up a new student information system our current student information system is antiquated it doesn't need our needs anymore so we've been working very hard to establish a contract with a new vendor and we're going through that process now with the state procurement rules and making sure we're going through all of the lender providers and trying to transfer that project to the new sorry to Pardon The Interpreter transfer the information to the new student information system one more thing I would like to mention is related to pillar three the organizational culture one of our emerging leaders Karina Johnson developed a training a training model rather with others on deaf sensitivity and awareness and that training curriculum has been finished they reached out to me to ask me to start with the leadership team last fall we already did start to plan a schedule for that for that cultural training to be provided in the spring semester and you would have seen the email on this February will have a two hour training and in March and as well as in April so six hours total of deaf cultural training and all of our leaders will participate in that training and you are also invited to join us if you would like pillar four coming back to POA four one really creative idea in region one I'm in itinerant services they recently closed their central office and instead it was replaced with UPS so that means that they have agreements with local schools and teachers who live and work in that area where they're working they can go in and use those office spaces those computers printers equipment and have smaller meetings in those areas I think I don't remember how many hubs there are in northern Arizona in that region but it's a very unique way of approaching how we provide support to our itinerant teachers who live and work in rural areas of the state so we'll see how that works so now it's 2023 so looking forward what will we be working on we're already working on developing relationships with state legislators the governor's office we've reached out to state legislators and let them know what we're working on and what we need we will have a meeting with the governor's office with David I think next week president macro on Monday yes next week Tucson and Phoenix campuses are looking at re-establishing the parent staff organization Phoenix has an active parent staff organization or had part of me prior to coven and when the equivalent outbreak started that was put on pause and so now we're trying to re-establish that get it going again and we're hoping that the parent groups parent group will meet in February for that so we're hoping to see that established as well in Tucson again so pillow two for this year some of our staff and teachers have taken training with the Arizona Department of Ed on PBIS positive behavior intervention support to learn how to provide more positive behavior supports to students in our classrooms and that process the PBIS system establishing we're hoping to contract with what's called the ber that's also part of PBIS it's an approach to student Behavior so that the assistant superintendent Martin has been working on that so perhaps he'll mention that in his portion we will be working on re-accreditation so five years ago we got our first agency level accreditation from advanced that's called cognia so every five the every five years we go through the process again of getting reaccreditation and we will be focusing on school improvements if you remember the title one we got that four or five years ago there was a lot of work that we had to do to meet those requirements it was in that process and we're starting that process again we're starting with the assessments we're developing an education plan so all the elements of that process are starting again and we are actively looking at And discussing site plan step Pardon The Interpreter CTE plans and transition support from high school to post High School and as I just mentioned Deaf culture training those will be happening so I think I'm going to wrap up with starting the work on the Master's facilities Master facilities plan and also in year two with analyzing the Compensation Plan and staffing needs for the agency so I just listed quite a few things touched on different areas that's not all encompassing if the just it's just an idea of the work that we've been doing so far and we'll continue doing this year in 2023 so 2023 is going to be a very busy year and I'm excited there are very positive things happening in the agency maybe I don't do a good job advertising about all those positive changes and saying hey let's look at all these cool things that we're doing maybe I don't do a good enough job of that but I'm going to try to do better now so I'm hoping that we'll be able to collaborate continue doing this important work in 2023.
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