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um when this is about the junior Police program at Farrington I'm born and raised and live in kaliki Library over on the library oh um sorry I thought this was still the other one okay I'm sorry we'll confirm with the education chair she says that we will allow you to testify the two previous resolutions oh okay thank you thank you John um so going back to um I'm born and raised in Kalihi and um I've also worked in the doe and currently I work at DHS and I do a lot of Outreach in the community and I do share the same sentiment with Senator Kirk Favela that these programs that once were Upon a Time did a lot of Justice to the community a lot of good community service came out of it and for some reason through the decades such great programs have been done away with for whatever natural attrition or things that have happened but for the community that I currently live in I have seen it um become kind of derelict and it's more like a US versus them a lot of the youngsters feel like HPD is the enemy or we fight them or we don't cooperate when we need to and um I want to change that rhetoric that we are one Oahu and men and women in blue are also our community leaders and they're family members too and we're not separate so I want to create I don't know that's why I came up with this idea of that pilot program that we take care of each other and we're not separated and that also helps for my community for the youngsters to have great jobs and um to have that mentorship program to stay out of trouble to be healthy to have good practices and to also be Community leaders in their own home so that's what I wanted to share thank you so much thank you we're going to move back to study concurrent resolution 70 and scr63 is there anyone else to testify on these two Library resumes yes hi Amanda um I was wondering if I could request the same um can you keep it to one minute though okay yeah okay so um I'm gonna be testifying in support of the junior Police pilot program um you know while we do support the intent of the measure um it is kind of lacking into planning um and the presenting of the policies for the pilot program the resolution is vague and ambiguous um is it the intention of the pilot program to train students to be then dispatched as officers is it the intention to provide vocational training and Workforce Development to prepare them for After High School to replace senior officers um is the intention to replicate an existing pilot program you know before taking action on this resolution it employers for further consideration for other pilot programs there are three Junior pilot programs um and exists to our cares uh research knowledge we research these three one the GPA program two the law enforcement explorers program and three the Guam Junior police cadet pilot program the jpo program is implemented through hpd's Junior police officer program and it started in 1921 and gpos are trained in leadership civic responsibility and help ensure the safety of fellow students as they arrive at and to preference School the law enforcement explorers program also from HPD trains students to use excessive force to break open doors and to use firearms the Guam pilot program um curriculum conceptualizes friendship Harmony and understanding so therefore um you know it's very vague and ambiguous but we are in support um you know because we really want to elevate this resolution um and the intention for safety in our communities thank you thank you for the opportunity to testify is there anyone else we should testify on setting resolution 70 and Sr 63.

this meeting including the audio and video remote participants is being streamed live on YouTube you will find links to viewing options for all Senate meetings on the live and on-demand video page of the legislature's website this is a meeting and your and YouTube live stream event will include this 3 30 agenda of the committee on education in the unlikely event that we must abruptly end this hearing due to Major technical difficulties the committee will reconvene to discuss any outstanding business today April 3rd at five o'clock P.M in room 229 and a public notice will be posted on the legislature's website I'd like to take this time to remind our testifiers that due to time restrictions on our hearings we will be limiting testimony to one minute for testifier per bill for people participating remotely please remain muted and video disabled until shortly before it is your turn to testify when I call your name on Meet yourself and your time will begin after your minute is completed staff will mute you so that we can move this hearing along in an orderly and efficient manner to you we start with Senate concurrent resolution 34 and Senate resolution 28 urging the Department of Education to create a priority list for repairing public school fire alarm systems foreign stands on its testimony in support of this measure thank you very much for your support but [Music] thank you we have we have a number of schools about 40 that the fire alarm systems are in three stages of being a critical port or affair we have challenges dealing with a provider that that can repair these systems we constantly work with them but it's just a backlog of of being able to repair these On Assignment basis systemal services available no services available the neighbor islands are here and how long has this been going on oh some of them are are a while five six years old we have a protocol what is what is called a fire watch protocol that each of the schools uh have a system because the Alarm Systems fail there's a protocol that they follow in case we do have a fire situation at these schools in particular so we have a backup plan primarily it deals with staff if there's a fire and then there's an announcement of PA system that goes out to our classrooms uh asking uh the staff and students to evacuate and if we can manage that fire with our own extinguishing protocols we try to manage it but it concurrently it's a 9-1-1 call fire department and police department so you put down the probably be about 68 million dollars to fix so and have you ever had two friends the funds for this yes oh it's a repair and maintenance comes out of the repair maintenance priority the lump sum that you give us so how much money in the past have been allocated to I've got to get that for you senator okay and so at the first looked at alternatives because I would assume this fire alarm system is Antiquated very much so so is that Alternatives that you guys walk down then there's a National Fire standard that uh dictates how we do these alarm systems there's not much options to it but the systems are just old that's a problem there are they're obsolete but is it only here or is this Nationwide or what I'm not sure about Nationwide but just getting the services to get that accomplished is is difficult or has been difficult well you would think in this age of digital that we would be able to do an alarm system that wouldn't cost this kind of money but I'm just surprised that the department hasn't been proactive in looking at how to solve this yeah and I think it has to do with the national standards um you know one would think a wireless system would work but it has to home run back to a system at the main office and that system alerts the fire department so if we have to rewire it's all about a home run back to that that box so to speak how do you home run now um it's all hardwire yeah I know but if it's not working or if it's not and you have a backup the backup is what it's it's the firewatch using really staff and the audible systems right so you're already not using the what what the standard is that is required when you pull it boxed it Pull Station it it automatically homes runs and goes automatically to the fire department so when you have a a false pool you've got to call the fire department to let them know it's a false alarm if not they will respond it just automatically brings back to them right so you're saying the system is not working if I pull the alarm now at one of the schools is that working in these 40 schools they're not working yeah so if they are not working and are you following a policy that is acceptable the National Standard that you're required to follow yes it's a it's a firewalk standard that we comply to both nationally and locally with the fire department okay I'm just like a hard time understanding that the system is is obsolete in your following uh secondary type of standard pitch to me a newest kind of system would probably be better than your alternative right but the secondary standard is something that nationally of schools have also it's a manual system a firewall system basically you have the automated system and the manual system so until we fix these automated systems we we follow the firewatch manual system so it's there any thoughts or any possibilities that something else will come up to the face current automated systems what I'm exploring is really to train our old our own people to fix these sending them to the the fire systems that are sold so we can repair it ourselves right now we're waiting on a on a professional or a company to fix the systems that that hasn't been it's I would I would tell you it's not successful at all because we're waiting on on the repairman to repair our stuff I think we have to train our people to do it and no other company um alarm system company like home alarms none of them can do it um I'm not sure Senator but I will check check on that when when I in another life when I was at the convention center we had the same problem you know the fire alarm systems are just not at the level of adequacy so you bring in all these other contractors to to try to fix it for you that's not only the audibles but the light systems that all gotta and tested tested and tested and test it all the time so so the fire department have they um they must know that you guys have this issue where they don't have a good solution either no no yeah I think it's a little more technical not not that the firemen are technical but it requires some specialty equipment and when we uh the when the audibles go out and The Strokes go out takes a different kind of skit set wow so in the meantime part there is there uh any thought of using what a poems use there's those types of fire alarms I'm I'm not sure Senator the magnitude of of a home alarm system versus a school that has 40 or 50 classrooms maybe a little more complex for a home system to manage well I would think that it's probably better than you know depending on a person running to each building to tell you that oh there's a fire evacuated and it's probably like 20 bucks a pop but if you guys are not really buys it in bulk I'm sure you can get it much yeah my greater concern is is in the evenings or at night when we don't have staff there uh that that a fire occurs that that is highly problematic for us everybody's going to pull them yeah that's where probably hopefully the neighbors will hear it or somebody at the fire engine the fire station will hear it be called and it will come correct yeah I mean luck is not a strategy but we've been fairly fortunate at this point that we haven't had a kind of magnitude of fire as you can imagine in in the older schools of the rural areas where most of the buildings are wood becomes highly problematic for us but that's not the preponderance of the buildings that we have the fireline systems are not working yeah I think um though the department should do a little bit more resurgency nationally there is this is an issue and you know are there other Solutions I will tell you I have signed off on about six or seven work orders to fix the system so it's not like it's we're not proceeding it's just we can't get a contractor to do 30 or 40 tomorrow there's just not enough contractors to do it but we will continue to explore other options thank you thank you um so one of the realize causes that the National Fire Protection Association and Life Safety Code commonly known as NFPA 101 requires school to have functioning fire alarm systems and so if you don't have a functioning fire alarm system then what because they find are you folks put on probation what happens nothing I'm not I can't give you an answer for that right now Senator but I will I will find out okay because it says you're the king Intermediate School in cardio has not had a working fire alarm system for seven years konawaena Elementary School that auto service for two years so it sounds as if yeah this is something that has just been ignored and I can I can understand having the problems but the fact that I don't know that you guys are taking a really proactive if you're not the king of what they're doing across the country Across the Nation seeing what other Alternatives they are it seems like you know well we're trying to fix them we really can't and we're doing it but that's what it sounds like yeah I I can appreciate that now you know so I will tell you we're working hard at it we just haven't had the kind of success that we need to fix all these but if you're not looking at it I'm sorry you're not looking at it across the country I'm not looking at Alternatives and you're not working hard at it you're just working out but then whatever you have without thinking outside the box and thinking okay we can't get people to do it then what's our alternative what are the observatives if you had listed all the different Alternatives you guys are working on then that would be something else but you're not well I'm not aware of it but let me get back to you on it although the efforts we've put forward on this thank you see it anymore but we used to have that triangle ping Terry you ring on but then everybody comes off kids yeah I would say it's a pretty effective too it was a smaller school not 3 200 kids at Campbell but you know that was effective for the little kids just want to bring that up yes you're you're absolutely right I actually saw one at Kilauea Elementary School a couple weeks ago and yeah okay thank you okay anyone else here is n't actually why you never sign up to testify I have to manage like 500 games so yeah so do we fight yeah I'm just saying that in the future if you get really busy we may not be able to call you so okay I will send in a testimony after okay okay that's good that's good um okay so about to introduce yourself yes Angela Melody young testifying on behalf of cares um in strong support um because of some of the ongoing conversation um I just want to provide comments um that there was an incident that happened at its school but this is relevant because you can kind of see the complications of figuring out the solutions for this um so in 27 in July 2017 an incident happened at Kapahulu um and it was the most destructive um fire in Hawaii history and then the city ordinances were signed into law and then DPP has to get involved so since that time um they still have not implemented Life Safety assessments for the fire infrastructure within um condos and high rises so you can see that since 2017 till now that's five years so this sort of process to navigate the resources to implement safe Fire Equipment um it takes a long time and perhaps um CPP can be consulted because um Department of planning and permitting from the city okay yeah and then also because the city um passed a lot of ordinances for the fire code um so um that could be something to look at for implementing um when implementing at schools thank you thank you for the opportunity testified moving on to scr56 requesting the Board of Education to review various programs and subject matter areas for implementation of public schools we have only one person scheduled to testify dance in Honda Vice chairman members of us an education committee my name is Danson Honda and I am tested fighting in support of Senate Club current resolution 56.

okay the 38 was was reduced to 27. yeah so we've been adding classroom teachers to reduce class sizes over the last couple of years um Chad uh you've been a secondary teacher and a secondary administrator as well and I think had a chance to research this model is this a model that you support in your position of a person who is helping with our money situation absolutely yes although we're asking for an additional appropriation is this money that should be available to us yes during the course of this year for with the revenues that we're expecting to have both through revenues and existing cash balance if revenues for some reason were flat okay okay um what what fun would the money come from with this resolution this would be education fund knowledge education anytime we have ongoing it's an ongoing every year cost particularly for personnel that's where it belongs okay okay so the education fund would be made up of dollars from the state level so my income taxes my sales tax I pay all the different things that go into the state right they come back to us from a tuition funding that's correct so if I so it doesn't impact my local property taxes that's correct education fund is not funded by local property taxes at all okay so besides the education fund what was the what's the name of another fund that might be thought of that the money's coming from the only other places where we currently play we pay some salaries out of Grant funds but the only other significant portion where we pay teacher salaries from is the referendum fund that operating referendum okay now that fun maybe in confusion just making sure that Community is aware that fund does come from property taxes that's correct right so the F taking from the education fund just making sure that it is clear that there's not an increase to people's taxes with this request for an appropriation that's correct okay what was the increase with the referendum 5.3 million dollars per year for eight years towards teacher salaries alone and then an additional separate amount for added support staff classified staff salary increases so someone would demonstrate that we're using that money well we come back in eight years well less than that now 2028 and have to ask for it again okay um are there any administrators salaries in the spend of those referendum dollars zero so the tax okay um so given that and as we look at the modeling is the education fund the only fun we can use if we choose to increase administrators it's the it's not the only phone we can use but it's the only fund we currently use for administrators that aren't Grant funded um I'll give you the couple of examples of exceptions to that that come from the operations fund um Nick Williams and Brett Bozeman because they are the operation side of things they come from the operations fund okay okay all right but these positions being building level administrators all building level administrators are funded from the education fund currently okay thank you Chad uh Charles Gina Chad anything in terms of other questions that we've heard um as as people have considered this this possibility that you would you would want to comment on that I didn't didn't ask you a question about okay all right any questions from the board before Nikki we would open it up for Public public comment saying that I am absolutely positively behind the team approach and the relationship building approach that this model um would hopefully produce my question is this how how much consideration was given to being able to shift to such a model either with a reshifting of current staff members or with just or with a significantly more it's significantly minimal increase to adding staff members thank you I'll take a shot of that question I think the best answer from where I sit is we are doing it with as few people as we can in terms of implementing a system or a model um similar to the one that we saw and similar to the one that we we benchmarked so I think I think we are doing it with as few folks as we possibly can in order to implement a similar model I'll just I'll just add to that I I agree um you well you know this all right I'm going to point out something that's obvious public schools are not every public school is staffed tightly as tightly as they could possibly be to serve the the needs of students we can't just increase revenues um you know by increasing profits by selling more widgets and so the revenues we come in we staff with the people we can afford primarily as much of that going towards the classroom as possible so it's not as though in a maybe in a private setting a private sector setting where you can reduce one sector of your business and then redirect those resources towards another sector here you know we basically we basically are staffed incredibly tightly yeah and then when researching the model Mr Grimes we we started with a review of the current staff we had and how those positions could fit into uh this model and and then took it from there in in terms of trying to create a number that would get the best and and most immediate results um and even in in some conversations we're advised that maybe an additional administrator was going to be necessary example Columbus's to be able to make the model work where we started off with two there was asked to to increase that to three um and as you know administrative cost is can be significant any other questions yep so I want to Echo Mr Grimes the statement that I'm 100 behind and supportive of the team's approach um I did have some concerns after reviewing um Miss London did send us the list of all the teachers and surveys feedback and many teachers identified this as rushed and needs to be in conjunction with other things and other items so I want to make sure that those themes are covered and whatever approach is brought out and the themes that I saw was how are we going to handle advisory period which I believe is after when I was there so that's one theme truancy limiting the number of resource periods disciplinary action and increased communication I think when we get to that final structure we need to make sure those themes are accounted for to make sure that we have Frontline buy-in of this approach because I was concerned I think out of the 50 or 70 responses Miss London uh sent to us I think one or two from the high schools was in support of the timing and the pro approach most of them were go with the approach but did feel that it was rushed so it's more of a statement on making sure that those themes are included in whatever Final Approach comes here appreciate that maybe just echoing that but um but to emphasize there was there were quite a few comments from teachers about um the the implementation of advisory if it was consistent across the board and I think that's really really important actually it fits in here with this new model well because I think this is true at both schools that advisory advisories are by grade level um and and they're also the purpose of advisory one of the main purposes was to have a relationship building time with students so I I would hope that part of this process is to revitalize the consistent implementation of advisories yeah so just so uh everybody has a perspective on where Brownsburg High School stands within the state of Indiana it's the it's pretty highly ranked they have a 99 graduation rate they have 78 reading proficiency 57 math proficiency so there are some things that they're doing right but just this there's two pages front and back to the surveys you can see it's yellow I didn't print it yellow so I actually read this uh I tried to understand it as best as I could and it's been mentioned by two or three other people now that in-class support is one thing I would add it sounds like teachers wish to have more help in the classroom they'd like to have smaller class sizes review of advisories on the list there were comments about discipline in the classroom attendance tardy hallway passes all these things that kind of tie together advice advisory is hard to advise kids that don't show up to the classroom they don't get a grade for it so what's the advantage for them to be there so we collectively have to look at that now and understand from you the teachers and parents that are out there that are involved with this every day what what doesn't doesn't work I think one thing that I saw more than anything was the restructuring is happening way too fast and I don't think I would disagree too much with that I think there's one of the suggestions I had requested was can we do one school instead of both just to make sure we have processes procedures in place that work rather than going out and trying to do it a little too fast in two schools and get overwhelmed last thing we want to do is have teachers pulling their hair out because they can't manage because it's so much different happening so fast and the kids will not benefit from that so so I think there's some things there I think this is looks like for the people that are at home watching playing at home there's a lot of people out here in the crowd and I would imagine that there's a decent number of you that are wanting to talk about this so it'd be really interesting to hear what you have to say and it's probably consistent with this and I think we've had several people talk to it so I'll be quiet now thank you Mr major any other questions or comments from the board before we turn it over to the public no okay I think we do have a couple of people who wish to speak on this topic so and a reminder they did not have to sign I think a couple of them started signing in yeah but that's not necessary for the public here so so I think the process is you can just come on up state your name um do we give three minutes three minutes um open open mic night okay if I like to comment ask questions comments on the appropriation yes sir yes okay you get I think that was coming sorry why not thank you if you just wouldn't mind stating your name to get us started I'm a homeowner in Columbus and Bartholomew County I also um several rental properties here locally so I pay my taxes I'm a teacher at Columbus North High School and a member of cea I've lived in Columbus for most of my adult life I felt compelled to speak tonight in regards to the proposed restructuring of the high schools at a cost of 1.2 million per year I'm concerned about the lack of data regarding the major change the lack of input from stakeholders and a proposed amount of money to be spent these concerns have prompted feelings of bewilderment and Grave concern in me and although it's difficult to do so I'd like to separate my teacher response from my homeowner taxpayer response as much as possible because I'm wearing two different hats so first of bewilderment and that is largely connected to my role as an educator in the community the Administration has developed many initiatives over the years for the high schools they include that are not limited to PBIS udl advisory block schedule have it to mind social and emotional learning senior projects the three R's gross mindset I grad and so on I may be missing a few some teachers are feeling the effects of initiative fatigue at this point it's less than two years ago we've restructured our school day for Block scheduling and advisory during the pandemic the rationale behind that was not graduation rates by the way but relationships with students unfortunately the advisories are staffed only by the teachers the department chairs counselors principals themes Etc do not staff the advisories so that relationship building has continued to be between teachers and students and not administrators and the students that would be a very easy change to us I think and it would cost absolutely nothing these initiatives were all supposed to advance student academic and social success all the initiatives have required time training and resources from teachers and administrators and now the administration is asking for another initiative to restructure the administration of eastern North again over the course of the last few weeks cea asked for evidence of whether the established initiatives are working or not we did not get a definitive answer that included statistics and data just an anecdotal answer perhaps the administrators might share their data with the school board but they have not shared it with us I think administrators have an obligation to provide statistical data to the board members about their initiatives and the success or failure of them as some of them are not working or actually producing results counter to Student Success in regards to factors such as attendance and graduation rates then we need to eliminate them before trying new initiatives in addition the restructuring is taking place very quickly with virtually no input from stakeholders such as the community at large parents students who have really good input when you ask them or teachers the only survey that was done to my knowledge was done by cea members we shared this with the administrators the teachers Deans counselors and principals are bewildered and uncertain about the future parents and students are largely in the dark about these proposed changes am I cut off or may I finish one more minute to allow you to finish okay I come from a lower middle class family where I had to pay my way through college and I'm a single parent so I like to think I'm able to budget I would like to suggest that you require the administration to supply data in print of the success or failure of their initiative consider asking the administration to go back to the drawing board and try to find a way to do the restructuring without spending any money and if you must move forward with the initiative would you please consider a faith implant starting with the seniors if the data suggests that we're moving the needle on graduation rates and a statistically significant way then consider adding classes but one at a time in a fiscally conservative way um I appreciate your listening as the school board members you represent the voices of the 52 000 Plus members of the community and I hope that you will consider that thank you thank you Miss hand is there anyone else who would like to speak on the appropriation topic hello if you just wouldn't mind sharing your name before you get started you probably yes ma'am please thank you I didn't mention that before I'm sorry I didn't see him I could hear her my name is Carla Craig I am a homeowner and also I am the library assistant at Mount Healthy Elementary and I guess my question would be what impact on the amount of teachers that we get to have will having more administrators cause so that's that's my question um my comment would be that we know that children get their basic personalities by like about the age of three um and it to me and I I haven't heard a lot about this so um it doesn't sound like a bad idea but I would think that starting at a younger age would make more sense um we need to make sure that our elementary school children are able to read and do math and social studies whatever before they get to high school so that would be my comment I don't quite understand why the focus is after they've already missed so much school and they've already got habits um it just seems like it would make more sense to start at a younger age is there anybody who'd like to respond to the questions some of those were kind of phrased as questions I'm just asking my response to that I don't disagree that we need to provide supports all the way from pre-k through 12 if we would invest dollars specifically and only at let's say ages K through two at this time and it's successful for the purpose that we were working on which is graduation rates we won't know that for 10 years so the investment that we are looking at at this moment in time are is very specifically at the high school recognizing that there there are efforts that have to be worked on and done throughout the entire school system thank you Dr Roberts anyone else like to speak good evening my name is Laura Daly I am head of the business department at Columbus North High School and a resident of Bartholomew County homeowner to as Barbara mentioned and just wanted to offer some comment this evening not to reiterate to many of the things that have been well said before my opportunity to speak but we have many things in place uh all with the hope of we want students to graduate we do all have that as the same goal um so but how do we go about that work and so many of the things that we have in place that have been mentioned I don't know if igrad was mentioned but adding igrad years ago and uh all the things that were to come of that our block schedulings and advisory were some of our most recent changes that we went through to help support social emotional learning but also building collaboration with students and relationships those are things why do kids come to school relationships okay and the things that they enjoy but how do we get them there and we are concerned as well as teachers that the graduation rate is declining but how do we go about it I would really like to challenge in this process to one slow down and really look at are we going to get the results that we're hoping to get we aren't Brownsburg but our what kind of projections can we do to see what results we might could reasonably expect some actual numbers some statistical analysis and some data there to support that uh would be one thing so I'm not completely opposed to the idea but being more methodical and how we go about it and implementing it we have rushed to implement things in the past Bridge and we learned a lot from that and I hope that as we are certainly wanting to urgently address the declining graduation rate but be thoughtful in how we go about the work so that it's meaningful and builds credibility with students and builds collaboration and credibility across our building to support the initiatives um and I think that's all I wanted to say thank you thank you Miss daily okay no go go ahead you had time left keep going there was something else that was coming to my mind in that because here's what I wanted to say and it kind of dovetailed from the last comment but I hope that in this process of evaluating things I hope that we would um really take some courage to look at our entire district and how we're doing some things and maybe there are some things that we need to combine resources how can we better utilize some of the places where we're already diverting Monies to and that takes courage to make those kinds of changes but really looking at what are some systemic changes that we can make to help pay for some of the things we want to do of these other initiatives but just combining those resources and using them most effectively so taking that systems approach to things and really Having the courage to flip that and see what is it that we can do differently to achieve that better graduation rate thanks for giving me the opportunity to say that thank you okay anyone else who would like to speak on the preparation topic okay thank you we will vote on this item a little bit later in the agenda okay oh I'm sorry sir go ahead hi my name is Tony London and I promised myself I wouldn't say anything tonight but being a politician myself I find myself incapable by the way I'm a Republican I don't know if that matters or not but as a general rule I have a problem with additional Appropriations particularly a additional appropriations of this size and it's just a general uh issue I have with them I think such a wholesale change should be done at budget time I do feel like I try to stay as informed on what the school's doing because I have have a daughter in bcsc and had a son in bcsc and and I uh this is a big big leap it's a big change and um everybody in this room wants graduation rates to be a hundred percent and it sounds like a fantastic project but I would ask that the board table this request at this time so as more information can be gathered and uh and that the it wouldn't require an additional appropriation but would be done at budget time thank you thank you Mr London Miss London you don't need a introduction but if you wouldn't mind saying your name just to be formal about it it's nice of you to say it's normally my husband Mr London that doesn't need the introduction and people know me as Tony London's wife how does Amy London a school teacher her parent or now I have Kate's mom or Charlie's mom um I just first of all I want to say thank you to everybody who's taken time to look at this especially Mr Edwards everybody who went to Brownsburg I I really appreciate that on Thursday all of the employees from bcic have the opportunity to hear Dr Mark Brackett speak and um as the title of his book is permission to feel the subject has given us a lot of permission to feel there's a lot of emotions around it for lots of people whether it be money whether it be duties jobs information they got from a survey I'm asking you to look at the data I'm asking you to as a board to ask for the data my point is that if your car breaks you're not going to just decide well I'm going to get a new car and I'm going to go spend I think I heard some of my husband say this morning it's forty eight thousand dollars now for a new car is the average you're not just going to go buy a new car you're going to take it to the mechanic and say how can I fix what I've got going on and that's what I'm asking you to do as a representative as the president of the Columbus Educators Association our members as the exclusive representatives of teachers in bcsc our members are asking you to look at what we're currently doing and see how it is impacting our graduation rate and then from there how can we take those awesome folks that we have those udl folks those folks working on PBIS there's classroom folks how can we take them and make our graduation rates better see what happens let's see what information we get maybe we'll get the information that says no we need to implement what's going on at Brownsburg high school and do something similar here I don't know because we don't have that yet so as president of CA I'm asking you on behalf of our members table this vote take some time to look at the data look at the current practices that we have in bcsc and decide where to go from there thank you very much I appreciate your time thank you Miss London well hi I'm Amy Menefee just as a parent I have a daughter at East so I'm really not sure what the discussion is about it sounds like it's a huge change for what's going on so I don't know how many parents even know what this changes or how it will affect our children um I think that we I want to thank we've been having some school board meetings public engagement meetings about transparency I think has been a great thing with the school board I want to thank everyone that's been doing that and this is part of that discussion with the public engagement transparency is a big issue especially for parents to know what's going on so I'm concerned as a parent knowing that there's a lot of teachers wanting there to be a pause on this big change so I just wanted to speak for parents who may not even know what the change is and what the plan is it may be a great one but I don't think a lot of parents know what the actual change is okay I might just respond real quick Mr Wilson Amy um the the March board meeting I don't know if you were here at that particular okay okay so we did have a presentation on it then and then they we had a strategic planning session on Friday March 24th that was open to the public too and also reviewed the information of the board and then I see Janna sitting in the front row here she did an article on it just the last couple of days so we do we do have a couple of situations or have had some opportunities to take a look at it but in short the the concept of the model is to create teaming um at 9th 10th at 11th and 12th grade so as an example The Freshman Class nothing would change in the classrooms for them but the support structures outside of that the model would indicate they would have an assistant principal for that class an academic or instructional coach for that class A guidance counselor for that class Administrative Assistant for that class and then those individuals would follow that class through graduation so when you hear the comments about developing relationships and so forth the job of those individuals assigned to that class is those kids and their families and getting them across getting through our school corporation and having them success so in a very basic way that's that's the model that we're that we're talking about so in order to implement that model um and in the way that we would like with the number of people I just syndicated that's where the additional Staffing would come in outside of the classroom you're welcome I think the big concern though is if someone doesn't come to a board meeting or you know happen to watch it online that there's no information going out to parents um people you know to know what's actually happening here which we've been talking about like at that meeting I know that there you guys are trying to address that kind of stuff to find more ways for people to know what is going on especially when there's big changes like this that are take you know costing a lot of money so thank you for your your time thanks Miss man interrupt ion Dr Robertson we communicated to the parents at all through parent Square about this change I don't believe it was in the okay this past yeah so yes okay any other the other folks that would like to speak on this topic okay thank you very much for the engagement much appreciated okay next all those folks standing at the back of the room it's your it's your moment okay Columbus North High School State Gymnastics finalists yes we'd like to invite the Columbus North athletic director coaches up Mr Lewis will turn over to you or however you wish to to start things coaches otherwise but first of all I just want to thank the board for allowing us to get recognized tonight um our girls did a great job of kafina at a very high level this year we're actually able to reach the podium as a team and individual which we have a name which we haven't been able to do in the last couple of years so I'll pass the mic to Kayla so that way she can give you some stats on how our season went thank you for having us all tonight and for recognizing this wonderful team they did awesome this season and they worked together as a team and we couldn't have accomplished everything that we did so I kind of wanted to give some looks at what our season was so during our regular season we only had one loss we were conference Indiana Champions we had two all-conference gymnasts Rhys Euler and Lindsay Mullis we finished second place at sectionals and regionals fourth place finish at state and then at state resuler was first team All-State she finished fifth on the Vault second on the uneven bars fourth on the balance beam and then fourth in the all-round so we had a very successful season I just want to kind of go into our state meet we knew that we had to work as a team together and we knew that it took all individuals to make us able to finish in Podium and going into the last event we were neck and neck with another team another couple teams and it took everybody just fighting for it putting their utmost effort to accomplish it and we are super excited for everything that we were able to accomplish yeah you're gonna introduce the girls okay well anyway I'm Bob Arthur um and uh good evening everybody good to be up here again I'm glad uh as Caitlyn said to have the entire team early in the season we were on the floor getting stretching and and I said you know it'd sure be nice for you guys to be immortalized uh with the picture in the Hall of Fame with a fourth place or better finish and they pulled together and did that um you know the excitement for me at that meet was like playing the championship game although I knew we weren't going to be in the top three just but we did Duke it out with four other teams for fourth place and and it just so happened we were the last team up on vault and uh Lake Central and Columbus North are pretty much tied at the end of three events and Lake Central is up on vault first and they scored a 27.1 or 27-2 we at that point had to have a 27-1 to win the meet and um alley down where's Ellie Ellie right there was uh got up there and did an eight nine which was uh her the second best season Vault so I couldn't have expected any more out of her uh Lindsay was the next competitor and scored a 9.2 which I think was probably maybe your third best Vault score so we couldn't expect it anymore out of her now at that point now we've had an eight nine and a 9-2 so we had a nine point average we needed 27 so we needed Reese to go up and score at least a nine nine one and uh she knocked it out of the park it's just if you would have put in a bat since we got the championship game going on uh it was two seconds left in the game she shot the three-pointer to win to get us up there so it was very exciting for me it's probably one of the more exciting um I want to say hello where's Barb I want to say hello to Barb yeah Barb is actually one of my former gymnast it goes back a number of years for her project see in mind I'm not going to tell you how long ago but but I will tell you that I also coached her daughter so that gives you a little bit of an idea uh anyway I'm just so happy and thrilled to be here tonight and have the entire team here because that um it's it's nice to be up here and have an individual recognized but it is absolutely fantastic to have our team and it was a team effort the girls didn't get to compete were the ones that were pushing the ones we had a very tight grouped on where the scores were it made the coaches decisions a very tough to decide who was going to be put in for those meets and we actually even you know made adjustments right up to the end to play the odds but anyway I've talked enough I'll let Caitlyn do the introductions all right so I'll go ahead and introduce each person on our team Miriam niang Reese Euler Laney Acton Lindsay Mullis Braden Bostic Ellie mcinteer Evie Richards r1tn Jaden Greenlee and Hannah Perry and we have two seniors with us tonight as well which are Lindsay and Miriam who this was a great accomplishment for them to have for their senior year [Applause] I'd be remiss if I didn't also introduce one of our other I we she's an assistant by name only she's a very productive member of the coaching staff she's been here for I'm not gonna divulge her privacy either she's been there she's been at it as long as I have so um uh anyway Sandy was here with us at least two nights every week and when we got closer to the end of the season she was in there with us pumping these girls up every night and her expertise and experience was a great value thanks Andy [Applause] [Laughter] situations [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you that was fun okay next on the list we are full of recognitions tonight it's nice to be able to recognize people Mrs Wilden so we have Sid Jane Maverick challenge State finalists so get Laura back up here with uh Sid different hat yes how lucky I get to speak twice right um good evening and and thank you my name is Laura Daly I'm head of the business department at Columbus North High School and um and also a sponsor of the business planning competition Maverick challenge Maverick challenge has been sponsored for many years by our Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce so I would like to thank them for the many years that they have done that and and recognize that Maverick challenge is being embedded now with another business planning competition at the state level called innovate within but since 2008 Columbus North can be proud because every year we've had a Maverick challenge winner from our high school how many years that is to do that math but anyway so that's a good history that we have had we're really proud of that and that continued our students have collected thousands of dollars in their winnings from the competition and they've used that money to seed it into their education maybe personal development I heard there might have been a cruise for someone but also maybe they've seated those things into entrepreneurial endeavors so as that is being merged into the innovate within competition uh we'll we hope to be taking part in that as well but for Maverick challenge I want to talk this evening about Sid Sid created a business plan and his business was called Sid's Studios a digital media marketing business which delivers original and professional and it is professional social media content to customers at an affordable price the mission of Sid Studios is to empower businesses and individuals to build their brand and showcase themselves to the World by growing their online presence so sent presented his business plan at our local round of Maverick Challenge and he was first place there so check number one fifteen hundred dollars right he then also earned a spot to go on to the regional competition competing with the other counties and I'm really proud to say I think this was the first time we had someone placed first at the regional so he collected another fifteen hundred dollars I believe for that um and and while at the same time uh preparing for Maverick challenge he also was preparing to present his plan for innovate within and has made it through the first round there and is planning to present his plan in April so we'll see if there's more checks and accolades to come I feel pretty confident there are I'd like to also say that Sid is participating in Deca and uh just returned from a State Convention where he was elected a state officers vice president of marketing and that is another first for Columbus North to have a state office holder with Deca so we're really proud of that um and did I mention he's a junior so we still have him for another year he maintains an a average uh even among his AP courses took a look at that today he actually runs his business Sid studios and is making someone he's done some great work for businesses and organizations like Tipton Lakes athletic clubs Club k-pops if you've heard of k-pops create for a cause I think he even did something for bcsc right yeah so anyway I'm honored and proud to introduce him to you this evening for this recognition and thank you for this opportunity Sid Jane [Applause] thank you [Applause] your time to shine Sid hello hey guys my name's Sid like Mrs Daley introduced me I really want to thank the community because my business would be nothing without all of you um I especially want to thank Josh as well as he provided me the opportunity to pair with bcsc I have some great Visions for my business and overall growing the community of Columbus who various Endeavors that I want to explore and I want I'm just glad to be a part of the community in Columbus because you guys Empower me every day so thank you so much he definitely has that entrepreneurial mindset so I'm excited to see about what he's going to do in the future okay Dr pleet I'm glad to be part of the amazing recognitions this evening at this time we are going to turn our Focus to recognize the 2023 NF Soldier teacher Award winner and to introduce this great accomplishment and recognition I asked Marcia van neymen to please come up here she's the assistant director for iupuc Center for teaching and learning thank you that's just a tough act to follow with all these student accomplishments but we're up to the challenge thanks for sharing time this evening to recognize an exceptional educator in our community as a reminder the fulture award was designed to recognize the impact teachers have both in and outside the classroom this award is named for local teaching Legend Edna B Folger who invested more than 46 years excuse me of her life educating students in Bartholomew County the award celebrates dedication and innovation in teaching and learning the ability to motivate students and to form lasting relationships with peers students and their families and to recognize the Educators contributions to the community outside the classroom the folder award is funded by saiho Insurance Services we're sorry that John is unable to be with us tonight the Community Education Coalition Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce and the iupuc center for teaching and learning are co-sponsors now for the drum roll Angie Ginder is a dedicated and talented educator who goes above and beyond for nearly 25 years Angie has used relatable experiences humor or any other tactic to keep students and colleagues excited to be at school she puts relationships first and everything else second she builds these amazing relationships with her students their families and her colleagues by listening with a Caring Heart to keep her curriculum fresh and engaging for students she regularly reads books and articles about teaching and learning designs daily opportunities for Hands-On activities Angie attends professional development and shares what she's learned with colleagues all while using her extensive knowledge of curriculum content and holistic student development in her teaching her Innovative instructional approaches have resulted in several Grant funded projects and awards including the William and Sally Handley excellence and teaching award Angie serves in leadership roles as a corporation science mentor and at Rock Creek on the continuous Improvement Council where she encourages colleagues to dig into assessment data to understand how to push both the school and the students in a positive direction Angie meets every student where they are and embarks on an academic Journey unique to each student her students feel safe happy and appreciated as she creates a positive classroom environment her classes have received the perfect attendance award multiple times which demonstrates her engaging classroom atmosphere and she encourages leadership development by pairing older students with kindergarteners thus giving them experiences demonstrating patience and empathy her sixth grade students gained organizational skills academic and social problem solving skills and leave her classroom as well-rounded highly motivated Learners ready for the next step in their educational Journey Angie's positive impactful relationships indoor Beyond any one school year as her former students invite her to extracurricular activities including dance competitions probably gymnastics athletic events and graduation ceremonies please join me in congratulating Angie Gander the 2023 Edna fulter outstanding teacher [Applause] thank you so much apologies to those of you who have heard that now three times um I want to thank my colleagues the students and the student families who nominated me for this award I'm honored not only to receive this award to be but to be on the list of Edna Folger recipients who were my own former teachers and having spent my entire teaching career at Rock Creek with some of the most amazing Educators in bcsc I'm also thrilled to now have Rock Creek on that list as well so thank you so much [Applause] thank you now it is time to recognize more teachers that are in room tonight with many family friends and colleagues to help celebrate them for the Teacher of the Year this is our third annual teacher of the year recognition and just to let you know a little bit about it there were nominations open that opened up in the middle of January through the middle of February and they were open for one month and nominations could be made from staff members students parents and community members and sometimes they're family members wanting to celebrate them because they know the work they provide to qualify for this award they must have at least three years of teaching experience in bcsc and the nominations once they're all gathered I provide them to the principals and the department leaders and there is a committee that is formed within the school or the department they review all nominations and the part they don't like is making the determination of who it is they want to celebrate a person but they like to acknowledge everyone that's been nominated as well so we are going to watch a video of the winners from each of the buildings and then we'll talk a little bit more and then have them come up and recognize them foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] so of those winners we can say that we had 519 nominations that exceeds the previous two years of the amount of nominations we received we will be recognizing 19 teachers this evening if we count this year as a year of service for all the teachers being recognized collectively the teachers have 300 and 306 and a half years of experience serving our students in the bcsc community that is only their bcsc experience may not account for experience prior to bcsc um the next thing after this is that they want to be considered as bcsc's teacher of the year the one that will be announced in August they have a to complete an application that's been shared with them by May 19th a little bit of good thing I'm not handing out certificates or anything because we're going to buy them some little bcsc swag for being their building winner so that they'll get to select and this summer a bcsc committee will meet to review all the applications submitted to determine the bcsc teacher of the year that will be recognized during an August meeting and the teacher that does win the ultimate award for bcsc has nine months to prepare their application for the Indiana Department teacher of the year recognition so at this time I'm going to introduce the teachers and they will come up line up and at the end shake hands with all of you so Clifty Creek's Teacher of the Year Melissa strevel she teaches kindergarten [Applause] CSA fadre a teacher of the year Shelly Huff fourth grade [Applause] [Laughter] CSA Lincoln Elementary Diana Roberts second grade [Applause] Mount Healthy Elementary Robin Anderson kindergarten Parkside Elementary Jenny Taylor second grade Richards Elementary Corey Renner fourth grade [Applause] don't y'all squish right there there you go you're right there perfect wonderful Rock Creek Elementary Korea Hill third grade [Applause] Schmidt Elementary Becky Lawson kindergarten [Applause] Smith Elementary Lisa Haynes stem teacher Southside Elementary Robin Keel third grade [Applause] Taylorsville Elementary Kevin sweet fourth grade [Applause] Central Middle School Michelle fee librarian [Applause] Northside Middle School Molly fountains social studies [Applause] East High School Jennifer Carroll English [Applause] North High School Nathan Schieffer math we can kind of Squish around curve around it doesn't matter we can work it out we're teacher we got all this we can we make everybody feel included here okay CSA new tech Carter screen social studies [Applause] CVP Julie Caruso social studies [Applause] C4 Mike Ward criminal justice [Applause] Pre-K Early Childhood Shannon Martin Early Childhood teacher [Applause] standing in front of you just recognize the dedication and service that they provide to our community and our students each and every day they are an example of the rest of the amazing teachers that work for us and I'm glad that they were nominated by those who recognize their talent and the Committees for also recognizing and it's a great pleasure to be here this evening and saying thank you for all you do for our students and our community at this time it's time to shake some hands thank you [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] such major [Music] [Applause] ity [Laughter] [Applause] this makes sense [Laughter] [Applause] somewhere on the other day especially it's very cool pleasure [Laughter] YouTubers [Laughter] [Applause] okay we're gonna get back on the track if I have Parkside Elementary here to present a best practice tonight this is good evening thank you board for taking a few moments tonight to allow us to present what we think is the best practice at Parkside Elementary School as you can see on the screen we want to talk tonight a little bit about reading foundational skills and something we're doing at Parkside that we think is working anytime we think about uh instruction and learning at school we always take a look at it through the udl lens first and we think that what we're presenting tonight fits very well in that model in that framework of udl as far as multiple means of representation and multiple means of Engagement so as you watch a couple of videos that we have in here what our teachers have to say think about that while we're going along also we also like to spend a little time with our uh the Strategic plan because we try to base everything as Dr Roberts knows around the Strategic plan and we also feel like what we present tonight to you will also fit very well with equal Equitable access to all as far as they're learning a little bit of History before we get started the bcsc elementary curriculum team did a book study last spring I believe and it was around the science of reading and the book was called Shifting the balance Dr hack Jeannie long and the rest of the curriculum team has since then started a leadership Series where they brought in teachers and my two teachers here attended that and they did the science or reading at one of those that day we also at Parkside Mrs bodart my two teachers and so forth took two of our PD days this year and worked with our K-2 teachers on the science of reading the book study they did we did a book study with them as well I'm sorry K through three teachers actually and all the classified staff that worked with instructionally with those students as well to improve what we're doing with reading Foundation skills so I'll let Dana this mod art talk to you a little bit more about the history of that and where we're going hello everyone my name is Dana bodard I am the assistant principal at Parkside and just to give you a little bit more background so several years ago we started implementing um a reading strategy of multi-sensory so that's seeing hearing saying sounds words manipulating Hands-On engagement with kiddos we have practiced that through K through two implementing that so that we can be consistent across the school across our building and we immediately started to see results with our kiddos an example is our I read scores last year went from 77 passing to retakes a month later at 87 passing so we see a lot of the things that we're doing supporting the data so that's a little bit about how they're doing it but the science of reading the Shifting the balance really gets into the the what what are what is it that they are working on so during the very first book study that we did the very first PD day that we had we had we're having some discussion around the science of reading and Ashley Christ Johns and Allison Beckner were both very in just passionate you could see the passion in them behind this and so I'm like okay we got to pull them on board with us like I need you to help lead this so I quickly not too quickly but I quickly turned it over to them and wanted them to leave because I know um as well as many people you know if if the teachers are the ones that are doing it and saying it then it must be good right so I'm going to go ahead and turn that information over to them so they can share with you exactly what it is that we're talking about so let me start here with Ashley hi everyone thank you for having us um the first thing that is important information when we look at our best practice we're talking about this evening is the fry sight word list this is a bcsc adopted tool that we use it was developed by Dr Edward Frye of the first 1000 words well not first 1000 words broke into groups of 100 based on the frequency of use um together they make up 90 of the words that we see in children's literature and spoken words so bcsc like I said uses this as our common tool of a word list to gauge um where our students are at so what we have done is kind of shifted our thinking from sight words um from being sight words would be something that you can just read when you see it and for us adults that's lots of words but when we're looking at kindergartners through second graders it's really not that many words until they get some more practice so what we have done this year is broken then into smaller groups based on a phonological or phonics based pattern um so this way students are more successful at decoding the words and learning to read them rather than just memorizing them from rope memorization um we have seen this with South Side as well and they went ahead and did all 300 words rather than just right now we just did kindergarten's first 100 they did all um sorry all 300 words and um have seen great success with that so we look forward to doing that next year just to reintroduce myself I'm Allison Beckner and like Dana said Ashley and I were just super excited when this started because we're both very science people this works but why does it work and that's really how my brain works and I know that we're not the only ones um so the next part that we're going to talk about just a really big buzzword right now that you're going to hear is phonological awareness um so what we're going to start with is this graphic to the side this is Scarborough's reading rope so it is a rope that is entwined with many many different threads so basically it explains that skilled reading takes a complex combination of many skills which fall under either language comprehension on the top or word recognition on the bottom so to have successful language comprehension we have to have our students have to have an understanding of background knowledge vocabulary language structure verbal reasoning and literacy knowledge really complex but it breaks down every single part and then the second part of that is the word recognition and that also has its own skill set that includes the phonological awareness the decoding of words and sight word recognition so um as you'll see the arrows to the side as readers become more highly skilled with lots and lots of explicit instruction and practice the comprehension becomes increasingly strategic and their word recognition becomes increasingly automatic so we're stepping away from the flash card what is this word into let's teach the code and as you're more exposed to it it will become automatic so as we said as readers become more highly skilled those two will increase and that's where you're getting that more tightly wound rope um phonological awareness like I said that buzzword that you're going to hear a lot um it's a big piece of that word recognition that bottom piece you'll see there Shifting the balance that book study that we did um it defines phonological awareness as the umbrella term for any work helping students learn to notice and or manipulate sounds in speech this has no there's no words in involved in this this is just sounds and this is that huge Foundation um so that might be how many words are in this sentence how many syllables are in this word let's produce rhyming words let's break apart this word and change change individual sounds so you're going to see up next an example of intentional phonological awareness practice in Mrs krystron's classroom whereas she is doing a hegerty lesson and hegarty is a research-based 35-week curriculum of daily phonemic and phonological awareness lesson plans so you'll see that next oh [Music] compound words we have two parts of the word and you're gonna blend them together for me are you ready foot ball football baseball so that was just a little snapshot of that um and like going back to the Rope it is very complex with as you see a lot of different parts this is just one tiny little piece but it's an important piece nonetheless so now you're going to ask does it work so what we have so far is thirty percent um growth and phonological awareness from August to December is what we're measuring and that's measured by an oral blending assessment something similar to what you just saw her do those with kids typically we do that with our whole class but we can also do it in small group for re for remediation purposes or for attention span purposes and even more exciting on the bottom 67 percent of kindergarten students are proficient in phonological Awareness as measured by our winter nwea map assessment reading assessment and that's what we use across the district to test our reading so we're really excited where we're at and we're going to keep working okay the next piece that we look at when we think about our foundational skills is guided reading and in the past guided reading has been based on leveled readers um which involves a lot of guessing words unless they know the sight words um so what Alice and I have done is looked at how can we make it sequential how can we make it decodable and how can we make it multi-sensory and a um sorry I lost my spot and a lot of this is still practicing those high frequency words but in the how can we decode um we've been we work with students on segmenting sounds you saw a little bit of that in the video with my students and then thinking about what letter identifies to this sound and then how can we blend sounds together to breed and so that is where we are able to pull in text and kind of get phonics and phonological awareness during our guided reading time we're about to watch a quick video of Miss Beckner teaching guided reading and her students will go through their high frequency words and it's amazing to see them decode them and then they will show you how they can decode a word to encode it which is writing it down foreign so these are our high frequency words words that we see all the times in our disposable okay what's this word damn let's check it um yep the next one is that's the heart word is it a couple more see this one this is the Heart part that e e e c two more dad and this one it's it's good reading so now we are going to do some tacking mapping spelling okay I'm gonna give you a marker put your lid on your marker and get ready to listen here we go all right the first word that we're gonna tap don't start writing yet the first word that we're going to tap is the word Bud say it but let's tap it uh how many fans three three so draw three lines but a d three lines now we're gonna spell it right say Bud again what letter spells buff excellent Bud oh that's a d can you flip it around for me okay what's the next sound in Bud say it again bud but uh uh what letter says uh you you that is correct that is correct and then we have one sound left Bud uh d d [Music] exactly so this is what you should have I know those B's and D's can get tricky those B's and B's can get tricky can they Max can you turn around that b after we thought our job is to check it so we're gonna say the sounds we're gonna Point watch me we're gonna go one two three and then blend it back together okay ready say the sound touch your first letter go boom uh but did we get it kiss your brain kiss your brains all right can you stop it I just turned around and told Dana like I'm so proud of these kids and it's like these aren't even my kids that are my best readers these are my we call them our bubble kids where they have really great really great foundations but you could see how proud they are of themselves and then the next piece is we're reading we're reading we're putting those words in those skills into books and it's just we're at that point of the Year where we're like it's working it's paying off and it's better than ever before so with that um we can kind of see our data here um as of December nope this would be sorry um quarter 30 and a quarter three we have 72 growth in Reading CBC words as measured by your CVC list which is our words like cat Rod where you have a consonant vowel consonant and we also have um as of December in our NWA map Reading assessment 60 of kindergarten students were proficient in word recognition which is a big deal as we were only halfway through the year our next steps as I said previously would be looking towards how can we align K2 to make the phonological pattern fluent from what they know in kindergarten all the way up to second grade and how can we merge those with our multi-century approach and with our current reading series hmh um we are exploring more phonics sequentially aligned text to use during guided reading some more books that kind of match those patterns it's hard to find them as this is a big shift everyone seems to be undergoing right now but we're confident we will find more resources and if that's any the best way to fit high frequency words into the scope and sequence of just making sure we're putting words in front of students that they can read and that we are not just expecting them to memorize thank you questions I noticed they gave the mic back to you for the questions I'm not sure how to take that they have the answers but hey I have a silly one you did you did this like kissing sound and it goes from here to here what what was that kissing a brain because they did such a good job they were kissing their brains yeah it was a little something okay thank you okay no problem no problem it's a feel-good I'm interested in I think you mentioned that you had focused a little bit on particular best practice in a professional development day maybe one two three professional development days in a row or we took a couple I'm sorry how far back does it go so this year in two of our professional development days that we had through bcsc in our afternoon breakout sessions we we took the kindergarten through third grade teachers and and their uh other staff members that are instructionally involved and we worked with them on that and we took the fourth fifth and sixth grade teachers down to another breakout session and actually worked on uh vocabulary and building background and things like that so we've got another professional development day coming up what what will be the focuses this time we'll be at North High School oh okay a little bit different social emotion okay thank you different take this time yeah I appreciate the attention to measures that you put into the presentation I heard uh tracking I read scores um and then I think there were two different measures where we saw significant Improvement um 30 percent increase for this and a 72 percent increase yeah thank you phonological awareness and then scores on the nwea What Would We compare those two what what would these measures have been like two years ago before we started this initiative well we we met with our grade levels today in data meetings and we were looking at some of that not necessarily that but some of that and I believe if I'm not mistaken they were better than last year I can't remember two years back but they were better than last year and and as it shows up here they were improved from August or September to December and then the third quarter as well but they were better than last year you want to say something well and prior to nwea we did have Dibbles as one of our measures that is measures our phonemic awareness and our phonics piece as well so sorry aren't you going to help me here um so that was one of our measures that we would use along with other measures within the reading adopted series but the nwea gives a much better I think idea of how they are doing as far as the phonological awareness and the phonics pieces and then I'm sorry one last Sorry Miss Wilson one last question I'm guessing that your continuous Improvement Council focuses on this in a little bit in each of their meetings or are they helping you track this at this point they are not we we have a school guiding team that is a different group of teachers that we meet with and talk with that we put together and of course our continuous Improvement Council hears about things but but they're not always involved in different things that go on this was actually rsgt that was working on this it's one representative from each grade level that's involved in that similar to the cic but but not the same group say the name of that one again I'm less familiar with that the school guiding team thank you they work they work a lot with instruction and learning and curriculum and learning Sergeant um one thing you were talking about the PD days and stuff and what we've done in the past and what we're doing going forward as far as I am aware we do get Although our next PD is going to be at North around social emotional Wellness we are going to have the afternoons where kindergarten teachers from across the district are going to be grouped together first grade teachers from across the district are going to be grouped together and that is something that we are so excited about because it hardly ever happens and we're not the only people doing this so we're just really excited to say um thanks for your help on this what's happening with this so we're really looking forward to that to continue as well I do have to back up and say though Mr Center answer to your question before the PDS took place we did speak with the cic and would they helped develop what we would do with each breakout session in the afternoon so yes they were aware and they did decide on that so there thank you I appreciate the answers thank you real quick if I can piggyback off that because what I like what you just said first off thank you for doing the positive reinforcement I don't think I give my team cookies at work I don't know that the kiss the brain would I think I'll get laughed out of the building but it's it's every kid responds to something different it looks like you've got them to respond positively to that so great job with that the last piece that you just said is what I like to hear the cross-pollination of ideas and not just ideas but good ideas so I'm a little curious as to you your team uses this tool I would assume there might be differences in tools at different schools so I'd be really curious to see what historical data shows for performance at schools the different elementary schools along with how your performance has improved by using this tool and if this tool is superior to others may not work at every school but which schools would it work at and how you might be considered experts for the use of this and train your peers in some way so I guess I'll look over here in the back if there's a way Dr hack that we could maybe look at performance of this I know we're looking at a lot of math material coming up as well but in this case if we've got something that really works thank you I have a small question is it any way that you can send this home where parents can also help with their kids do you do that Reach Out and ask how can I help my student with their sight words and I said well first we need to know our letters and sounds so we can read and then we can work on those CVC words and what I did was I copied off some of our hegarty which is the phonological awareness pieces and decodable books and said you know this book only uses the letters a m I guess S2 because it's like I am Sam and just practicing like that in a sequential way and I set those home and that parent has relayed back that it was super helpful rather than sitting there with flashcard she actually has two boys in kindergarten so rather than doing flash cards being able to sit down and have the same lesson going on at home and reinforcing them how to do things and not just um memorizing it thank you I give more down there sure Dale um but first of all to follow up on that I know sometimes with new curriculum there's parent nights where parents come in and actually get to maybe do what the kids do or see it have you done any of that or is that something you might do to to re-teach parents how to help their kids I guess again we were just having those same conversations in our data meetings today so I I can't say as a school as a whole we have not done that but I believe some of our grade levels are thinking about doing some of those things and we may as well as a school and I got two other quick questions so phonological awareness is a new word for me tonight I'm going to try to use it in in conversation over the next week we'll see if it fits but remember is is it a I'm assuming it's a sub score from the nwea okay um and you might have said this but so you're doing this in kindergarten or first and second doing at the same time or is it kindergarten first year this year first grade next year currently we work on phonological awareness phonics all that in kindergarten first and second grade what they are doing being more intentional and and working with a certain skill or a certain Blend or whatever is just kindergarten right now we would like to be K one two we've made a little bit of background work these ladies ladies have um working with their first grade peers and second grade peers on realigning those hundred words that they were talking about so they have done that with kindergarten first grade has done that with with first grade and second grade has to but that work came kind of a little bit towards the middle of the year so they're waiting to start to implement that next year where they can be more intentional with the words that they're introducing along with the score stories and and things like that so we're we're moving in the right direction fairly appreciate the videos that really helped to see it in action we wish we could bring kids with us tonight but we figured since you know the this is the next best but I love the idea of sharing those videos with parents too many other questions before you step away just a one question not related to the presentation but thank you for the presentation ladies um also nicely did you just move into some new classrooms so how was that we were in the gym for those of those that don't know Parks I just went under our kindergarten we just moved into our new classrooms the whole building is being renovated and we were in the gymnasium for an undisclosed amount of days um we made it work because we knew that there was a wonderful um end result and our first Monday in our new rooms I had writing time with music on and my kids are all focused and I almost my dramatic self almost had tears because I was like this is how it's supposed to be but it's incredible like it it allows all of us to collaborate and work as a team and to use our support staff and to be able to pull kids into our small group rooms and be able to see them through the glass and have our common spaces and I'll let you see students reported back two we did like my new classroom and there was a lot of feedback of my new classroom was quiet my new classroom was beautiful my new classroom helps me so it was really exciting and I agree that the students are really excited about our common space where we can actually fit all of our about 100 kindergartners in there at a time and they really enjoyed that either academically or through play they love the new space thank you again for the presentation thank you for your patience in the gymnasium that had to be a little challenging we're glad you're in a new space now thank you for the time sorry if we took a little long great topic thanks [Applause] hello everyone my name is Laura usley I'm the udl facilitator at Central Northside and McDowell my teammates will introduce themselves when it's their turns to speak I'm here to present to you tonight about the secondary math adoption so for our committee members Corey Williams is my counterpart at the high schools and at McDowell and she and I work closely with Brittany Coomer our coordinator for instructional technology because we know that we want to ensure that whatever we even look at would be something that would fit with our current techno or current infrastructure that Brady can help us like muddle through the I'm sorry I'm stuttering I'm a little bit nervous that the infrastructure for technology that we currently have so right away we included the department chair so we have Mr Branham and Mr Vogel from Columbus North and Columbus East and then we talked to them and we we know we knew that we wanted to make sure that we included a variety of Math teachers all grade levels both required classes and classes that are maybe accelerated High ability teachers and not so we just really wanted to make sure that we were selective about our committee we wanted a special ed representative we just really wanted as many eyes looking at the potential materials as possible so our goals for this year so we started out we wanted to reflect on what we currently use so we took a look at the resources we're currently using and we wanted to prioritize what we considered our significant areas of need um we wanted to make sure that when we selected resources we were being sure to be intentional about including resources that implement the eight highly effective teaching practices from the National Council of teachers of math we wanted to make sure that we evaluated a wide range of resources not just looking at a few or not just looking at maybe just the most popular we wanted to look at a wide range and finally we wanted to make sure that we selected resources that really fit our non-negotiables and that will truly enable our our students to achieve success in mathematics courses I almost said our children because all of us on the committee also have students who are currently in bcsc from elementary through High School in math classes so we really wanted to make sure that we were intentional about selecting the best possible resources and I'm going to hand it off to Corey um and like Laura said I'm Corey Williams I'm the udl facilitator for Northeast and then we split McDowell um so our timeline this started last May pretty much when we wrapped up social studies about a year ago we hit the round running again and got going with math and so Laura and I met with our department chairs um and Mr Jensen to kind of begin planning this process throughout the fall we had our vendor presentations we utilized a lot of the time on PD days so we didn't have to pull teachers and have subs for that which was the first time we were able to use those days for this process so that was pretty fantastic and we had vendor presentations and there is a rubric they are linked for you if you want to see how we evaluated it but it is a rubric we've been using for the last several years and then we tweak it and make it subject area specific each year and then January and February we had our kind of one two some subjects three top choices and we worked with for our second year in a row spin bridge and our representative there Charles did a fantastic job with our vendor negotiations and got our quotes back to us we were able to have our course feed calculations and final decisions made right before we left for spring break so kind of nice to have that that done before we left these were the vendors that we looked at and these came from where a year behind with the rest of the state in terms of adopting and so the math Caravans were last year so we were able to get a good list from those math Caravans last year um from Ed reports which you'll hear about later from nctm and from teacher requests so we asked the teachers what vendors you want to see what have you heard great things about and this was the list they came up with so these were all of the vendors that we then reached out to requested materials from and then had presentations from and before we kind of then get into our selections we just wanted to say the state standards are our curriculum for all of our our courses and so what we're seeking approval for is new resources that will help us support the implementation of these standards so first up with our choices I'm presenting for new tech tonight they don't have a department chairs Zach Schroeder their teacher did a fantastic job representing their choices on our committee um but isn't here with us tonight so these are the CSA new tech selections so for algebra geometry and Algebra 2 which you'll hear later kind of the core high school math classes they selected hmh into math and you're going to hear later that this aligns with Central's selections um so the CSA Central students will then use the same series when they get into high school so there is that vertical alignment for those students for their pre-calculus and calculus it's also hmh um and then they don't currently offer probability and statistics or finite but they do plan to offer those courses so they wanted to go ahead and include those Selections in this for approval and so those are their selections a couple of notes that Zach did pass along um part of the kind of justification for why they picked hmh especially for those core math classes is with their problem-based approach they don't necessarily teach the standards in order they're going to teach them within their their projects the problems that they're currently solving and this gives them that flexibility to be able to pull in where they need things when they need it and so they really felt that this series gave them that ability to have that flexibility that they need that's kind of unique to their pathway so those are the new tech choices and I will now pass it over to our other department chairs to share their choices good evening my name is Brad Branham I had the privilege of serving bcsc as a math department chair at Columbus North High School and also North Side Middle School um I want to start by just a huge thank you to Corey and Laura as well as the rest of our adoption committee for all their fantastic work in this process thank you to the board for giving us the opportunity to present tonight and a huge thank you to Eddie about a year ago I went to nctm Regional Conference in Indianapolis and immediately came back to Eddie we met together and we made a commitment to try to be as unified as possible in our selections tonight so without further Ado starting with North College Prep AP and dual credit we are essentially re-adopting the same curriculum materials from the previous adoption you'll see that there's increases in price for both pre-calculus and AP stats I believe that to be mostly due to the new additions as well as inflation surprisingly we have a slight decrease in AP Calculus and finite math I could only attribute that to Charles with Sprint Bridge as with some good negotiation techniques we have our largest class ever of calculus 3 this next year of 24 students and their resources come from Ball State and are paid for through the bcsc gifted and talented Grant and then our eight our standard statistics and trigonometry have opted to use current resources along with a website called stats medic which provides free effl lessons for every standard of those courses and so there will be no student fee for those two courses hi I'm Ed Vogel I'm the math department chair at East and uh at Central Middle School again I want to thank our committee they did a fantastic job I want to thank the board for taking time and I'll have to say that Mr Nowlin it's a little weird being up here with you being on that side of the desk we've done a couple of these done a couple of these together it's weird to me too it's weird to you too um like like North we're adopting really a lot of the same materials that we've really used the last six years with really two exceptions one being a different pre-calculus book by the same vendor our teachers just felt like a change was needed it's structured a little bit different but really has a lot of the same Concepts and and it uses the same type of teaching strategies and then we're also switching our AP Statistics book to Bedford Freeman and worth the practice of statistics and the reason for that is our teacher is very problem based and uses stats medic quite a bit and that book really aligns well with the use of status medic as well as being the most popular AP book for statistics um and so you can see again a lot of the fees that we have there are really in line with with uh with what North has a lot of those are actually decreases and so you know one of the things that we did is we chose books is we also wanted to be as Frugal as possible and so um you know like North we're going to continue to use the same problem stats book that we have for our semester course to try to save our students and parents money a rationale with our AP dual credit courses we feel like since we've used them they're excellent resources they have a lot of they they develop concepts with procedural fluency over time and the student engagement in those classes has been very high can you go go back one next second quite frankly the the biggest reason of us continuing to use the the resources from last adoption is the amazing amount of success that we've experienced in our AP and dual credit classes we currently have 401 students enrolled in AP or dual credit math classes with very high passing rates our cnhs Indiana Math League team placed second in the state of Indiana for the past two years second only to Penn High School and above very high performing schools such as Hamilton Southeastern Fishers Cathedral West Lafayette right next to Purdue Bloomington South and many others uh moving forward for our course classes for both East and North we are excited to announce that we will be going with imagine learning from illustrative math even though this is a new curriculum you can see that there's modest increases in price for both Algebra 1 and geometry and even a slight decrease in price for algebra 2.

so I just want to take a second to explain that we were in a little bit of a tricky situation with CPM because they have new edition slash series coming out in two to three years and because we aren't really be able to see though that the new series we couldn't really justify adopting that since we couldn't see it so we decided to stick with the same addition throughout the course of the next adoption and if we wanted to purchase new textbooks for every student one-to-one with the same Edition that price was going to increase to over 29 which is almost triple the current student fee and these are very high quality textbooks so Eddie and I both felt like we could use the existing textbooks and just adopt digital only producing our families a savings of four dollars for algebra one geometry in algebra 2.

if my members any questions for the librarian okay if not we'll take a brief recess reconvening the joint committees on education and Public Safety and intergovernment intergovernmental and Military affairs the chairs have discussed scr-40 and sr34 and we would like to pass out this Resolute these resolutions with a change and this the change would be requesting the the Honolulu Police Department in conjunction with the Department of Education to establish and operate a junior Police pilot program At Doe high schools any questions on that recommendation if not pass with amendments sharehold side and Senate resolution 34 chairville side with amended Vice chair votesai Senator kanuha all right Senator Richards all right Senator Favela all right five eyes recommendations for psfc recommendation to pass these two resolutions with amendments any discussion we have not Senator elephantiago yes okay thank you on the next resolution Senate concurrent resolution 70 um urging Congress to amend the federal copyright law to explicitly protect current lending practices for non-profit online libraries the two chairs have converted would like to pass this measure out as is any discussion we have not Senator elephantiago yes the five members president from Public Safety and Military intergovernmental Affairs and you know lots of lots of presentations thank you and for the committee on education same recommendations here both side Sheriff what's up ended any reservations any members voting with opposition hearing none five members president for thinking that concludes our yeah Bridger good afternoon and welcome to the 3 30 committee on Education meeting today is Monday April 3rd right it is 3 30 and we are in hearing room 229.

my passion for financial literacy which is one of the things identified in this resolution began due to overcoming personal finance for struggles and eventually becoming a homeowner which I credit to financial literacy beginning last year I testified at Board of Education meetings urging the board to take action during this process I was to learn about the history of previous financial literacy efforts since 2003 60 pieces of financial literacy legislation were introduced in A legislature some of them passed which designated April as financial literacy month it established two financial literacy task forces and it has repeatedly urged action I read through all 60 pieces of this legislation including the center current resolution that you introduced in 2021 sir godani and I am inspired that over the course of two decades and unfortunately two recessions that all these people independently came to the same conclusion that financial literacy is essential and should be taught in school recently I had a pleasure of meeting with assistant superintendent Terry usijima from the doe and Alison krunchige executive director of the Boe and we discussed and agreed that the board would be the best authority to implement a graduation requirement but we also talked about the need for the legislature to provide funding to ensure a successful implementation and I'm hoping that by Bridging the communication gap between the legislature the doe and the poe that I can help make this idea finally turn into a reality thank you for your consideration and some members questions yes based on everything you've said and I've been here through all of it and they haven't done it yet um and unfortunately there were many resolutions prior and without action taken um so as I mentioned in 2021 Senate conference resolution 152 it urged to Boe ndoe to coordinate with bcca to implement a financial literacy graduation requirement I actually contacted dcca and they said that they had and they have emails showing that they reached out to the doe and they did it they didn't get a response um yeah I I don't I don't think and and I talked to organizations as a Next Generation personal finance and they actually offered a grant for the doe to implement it and they they stood it into it so unfortunately I don't film this alone would be enough to urge action thank you thank you yes thank you chair explain your passion for this okay yeah um so I I was born and raised in Hawaii um I grew up in a single income family of four and um for the first 20 years of my life um I didn't know what it was like to sleep on an actual bed um I I had to sleep on the living room floor on a phone that matches because that's all that my family could afford um and I I basically grew up with the idea that you know by working hard going to school getting good grades going to college that you know that was the key to success right and that's something that many people believe to um um but you know um and and in high school I became involved in student government and I began interacting with people from all walks of life and you know I I realized that you know a lot of people who do these things that they still end up struggling in life and in many ways I became disillusioned with our education system right um and and and you know my I began focusing more on what was going on outside of school and I was going on inside the school right and then my my grade slipped and you know my my senior year of high school um you know I was I was you know in in a mess right um I actually didn't work at high school graduation um I had to take a remedial course over the summer because um I didn't pass one of my classes right so according to our education system I was a failure um you know despite you know having accolades such as being a student member of the board and whatnot right but according um grade wise I was a failure um well I I was able to get into college but about halfway through I was in a financial mess um you know I find that really interested in that you know students who have no Financial knowledge can take out student loans open credit cards right um yeah so um you know I had five figures and student learned that about the Maxwell credit card and that that forced me to learn about my finances and that really opened up my eyes and realized that this was a key component missing from our education system right and learning to manage finances um and although I wasn't making money yet I had established a solid Financial understanding right I graduated college in 2019 um but by the time I started looking for a job in 2020 that's when covert hit right so I went through all that hassle getting my college degree and nobody wanted to hire me um um so but but one important thing I learned from financial literacy is that um it's it's not wise to rely on one source of income and when you know times change right um so so while while most of the world was still struggling trying to figure out what was going on um I always problem solving I always identifying opportunities that were available during the pandemic and I'm very proud to say that just two years later um since the beginning of covert I became a homeowner and and I did that by working as a food delivery driver about things or nobody right but but that's because of the financial education I learned how to identify opportunities right during difficult times how do you grow your money right and and and that's became that's made me really passionate about helping people to have that Financial knowledge right I think our education system right now is really a singular track I'm giving people so you know for college readiness right but you know that that's not the path that many people are taking or or should take right um I I was uh I was in student government in college so I was a student body Treasurer and and honestly I don't think a lot of people who should have been there like just financially speaking I wasn't A wise choice right so um yeah I yeah this this is everything's made me very passionate about this and I I'm really trying to figure out despite all these previous efforts that we didn't make it happen I'm trying to figure out what is the key to making it happen and and that's what brought me here today thank you thank you appreciate that that passion obviously comes through thank you thank you senator yes thank you perfect thank you thank you so much terrifying you know I think we agree with you we've been chair and I and our members have been trying to we've had a number of bills that we've tried to pass and adopt and it goes over to the house on this is financial literacy but you're right you know I I bring up the fact that resilient to early college early Ed but we're not teaching the things that the kids need to learn in high school they don't know how to interview for a job so the colleges are finding out that they get a degree and they go into the workplace and they can't get the job because they they don't have interview skills they don't have social skills so our schools need to get back to the basic home economics you know kids can't even sew a button boys can't support to hug their path my son brings me as fast as love a budget but is those kinds of practical things that you need to learn besides becoming book smart and and college ready you're not ready for life so we need the Board of Education to understand that and I'm not sure how we do that so thank you for bringing it up and don't give up because thank you I'll keep the level as well thank you so much just just um a point of interesting a point eventually is that the real question is so if you do a course with financial literacy then what do you give up what curriculum do you give up because there are so many hours in the days yes that's right classes in a day right yeah so um if it makes any of us feel any better this is an issue that the board is now looking at and they are going to have my understanding and I wish your boss was here they are going to form a committee to to look at this issue and the curriculum and grad requirements so that's very good and although I'm concerned that you know it's always late to the gamers about 17 States or so that have a financial literacy graduation requirement um so while that's bad um I guess the good thing to come out of it is that there's a lot of Precedence there's a lot of things that we can learn from and how these 17 States implemented it and you're right um you know some states they did take away you know a credit to add a credit others have found ways to creatively put it into the curriculum um the way I think that it would work best in Hawaii is through the social studies elective credit um in there I know the department was also interested in making it part of the personal transition plan requirement and so there are different ways to make this happen without making a sacrifice in other areas yeah and and we can learn from the president set by other states thank you thank you really appreciate it and I'll give a plug to Waipahu High School um and uh former principal kitayashi that we had well actually it wasn't him it was established before he came on they actually have a credit union and all their school girls run by the students and that really teaches financial literacy and helping the students who participate as well as their parents who have are participating in the credit union on stock market follow stocks and so that's how I learned about the invest in the stock market I guess that was before my time because it wasn't yeah okay moving on to scr 161 at Senate resolution 187 requesting the Department of Education to rename noelani Elementary School to President Barack Obama noelani Elementary School in honor of United States President Barack Obama and to testify just come on the afternoon chair Vice chair members of the committee thank you very much the renaming of a school goes through process through its School Community Council it's a very rigorous program uh just recently this year we did a name change for uh princess Ruth formerly known as Central so it went through its process and the school was renamed through the school Community Council and it moves up to the superintendent and to the board for final approval so the process is there we suggest that we exercise that process and any name change in the schools thank you members questions you know I I seen a resolution or maybe even a bill I'm going around I don't know that's it but my concern is um to the native Hawaiian community that roads buildings freeways airports everything that has a significant name foreign [Music] Elementary School before we even consider having a resolution like this we should consider what was the actual what was the name actually chosen because we change McKinley High School from what it says hello High School something like that but we kind of keep changing names because of a president or somebody that having no significance to the area or the district because as far as I concerned he had a chance to have something named after him but he decided not to bring the library to Hawaii and the income and the economic development they could have he chose to put it where his wife lives so he had a chance and I know he's not asking for his name but if that's the case it should allow me for a library and the stuff that they said they want an honoring of him but I don't think we should change the school name and as we find out what is the significant change of the name before we even considered going to that route because you're going to have a position guys barbarians so these are the things that they should change they should check before they putting in a resolution to change their name to somebody else that already has a name for a school it's not a new school but whatever to Kapolei middle it's called Kapolei middle then they realize it's not in Kapolei it's another Beach so they had to change them to Honolulu you see what I mean because they never check of the region and significance of the region of one of the part of that's all that's just my comment sorry thank you senator thank you we have Andrew Crosslands written testimony in opposition Cheryl B written testimony and opposition anyone else here wishing to testifying this measures at one minute starting now imagine with Melody young testifying on behalf of cares and strong support um Obama served as the 44th President of the U.S a history is the American story values from the Heartland and middle class upbringing and a strong family hard work and education as a means of getting ahead and the conviction that is life so blessed should be lived in helping others um when Obama was elected president he there was no other African-American uh presidents to be in the office um the framers of the Constitution always hope that our leadership should be limited to should not be limited to Americans of wealth or um to those of privilege subject to the prejudices of their time many of them owned slaves most of them would not have foreseen an African-American president um and you know um in 1988 Obama went to law school and then he joined a small Law Firm specializing in civil rights um and um yes he coordinated with churches to improve housing conditions and to set up job training programs in the community um and therefore we are in support of the resolution thank you for the opportunity to testify questions foreign to scr190 and sr174 requesting the Department of Education to develop a strategic plan to meet the locally sourced food goals establish an acts 175 and 176 session laws are publicly justify Michael monicato initiative good afternoon Cherokee County Vice chair kid members of the committee Michael municata here on behalf of the Oklahoma initiative we'll stand on our testimony in support of this I just want to highlight a couple points share if I may I know we're running low on time but uh you know we we all have the the right uh mentality to try to reach our goal of getting more local food into our school meal system it's a gargantuan Taps it really is but this legislative body has sent a signal to the state of Hawaii that we're we're definitely interested in getting there 30 by 20 30 50 by 2050.

with this adoption students will be getting digital access as well as consumable textbook materials that they can take home the consumable textbook materials give them somewhere where they can write their work on a daily basis without having to provide it themselves or have the teachers provide that for them and also it gives them kind of a portfolio of sorts of their work throughout the course of the year so our rationale for illustrative math again it follows a lot of the nctm principles for teaching practices and also orchestrating productive math discussions each lesson starts or provides videos and written lesson summaries so that parents have an idea of what students are doing in in the classroom strong emphasis on teaching math and context and also in data literacy and then it also integrates a lot of mathematical Technologies the most important of those being Desmos which is now part of the the SAT it's a Tech Tool that's used there and so the familiarity of students using that using Desmos is going to be very important illustrative math received a perfect score 36 out of 36 on Ed reports for usability and I believe that's due to the fact that their lessons following launch explore summarize format that fits perfectly with our foundational udl principles to begin with with the launch is to help students understand the why that they're learning the math for that day I think it's a great follow-up to the math talks that are taking place across many of our bcsc elementaries and it can be given in a variety of formats as listed here so that it stays fresh with students each day the launch is followed up with an Explorer which is where students are trying to access the learning goal for that day in a variety of different ways to remain engaged they use a variety of different resources and manipulatives some mentioned earlier another one added on there is spreadsheets are integrated within the um within many of the lessons which I think is a very employable skill for students each lesson ends with a summary a lesson summary that both students and parents can see that kind of are the key learning takeaways for each lesson each lesson also provides a cool down which is illustrative Mass word for an exit ticket so that teachers can gauge the the effectiveness of the lesson and what students understood well and didn't and informed future instruction one more thing practice problems are spiraled to try to get retention over time and not just short-term memory for a test and then forget moving on bcsc accelerated this is this one is a continuation of our previous adoption for the most part our Algebra 1 geometry and Algebra 2 through the accelerator program will be using CPM similar to the last adoption pre-algebra 7th grade will also be using CPM which is new to us we felt like that kept it consistent because the students who take pre-algebra in seventh grade will then take CPM with algebra 1 after that and then CPM geometry and then CPM Algebra 2 so to get a little bit more vertical alignment you might be surprised to see that there's a little bit of a price decrease for Algebra 1 geometry and algebra 2.

for pre-algebra you'll see the price increase and that's that 29 I was talking about for the other three we don't currently use that curriculum those curricular resources for pre-algebra 7th grade so we would need to purchase textbooks for the students also those come with a student toolkit so our rationale and Dale can correct me if I wrong but I think we've used CPM I think for the last three adoptions I believe um and so is you know it's been a good a good book for our students a good resource for our students again we talked about conceptual development with procedural fluency over time with the spiraling of CPM students are very highly engaged and it really provides a smooth transition from middle school to high school throughout our accelerated honors classes similar to our AP and dual credit courses at the high school our biggest indicator for why we want to continue with this curriculum is our very high level of success that we're achieving with students using this curriculum and we have a high percentage of students going above proficiency on both Island and nwea our 2022-23 math counts team plays first place in the individual on Team chapter competition we sent six students to the state competition at Purdue University and we just see an increase of students asking to accelerate and take more math because their experience is so rich and they're feeling successful in those classes at Central and North Side our Mass 7 and pre-algebra classes we've decided to go with the hmh into math series and if you notice the fee there 29.53 CSA adopted really the same the same series uh and so um you know the difference with that is that they're adopting the really the textbook you know just as a resource um with with this adoption uh our our seventh grade and eighth grade would be receiving uh consumable textbook similar to the illustrative math and then a really powerful um digital tool with waggle that I'll talk about here in just a second but so that that's that's really the difference between the two prices so it's a pretty big increase but we feel like we're getting a lot of bang for our buck so Waggles and adaptive practice uh response Tool uh to student performance we're really excited um hmh has just acquired NWA and and we know that NWA is a big predictor of Student Success uh and so um we're excited that we can use some of that data we're collecting from taking mwa and then using um using waggle to be able to fill in those gaps for students that they've got based off of their NWA data they've got tons of tech tech enhanced type questions it includes language supports for all students and routines of language development that allow students to listen speak and write about different mathematical situations um it's going to allow our teachers to leverage data it's a very data heavy program teachers can get immediate immediate formative incentive data and then they're able to really adjust instruction based on that data that they get that period to be able to give students really what they need and then it's got a complete Indiana standards alignment with resources which which we know is very important one of the things I'm most excited about to math is that new topic that students are exposed to begins with an activity called spark your learning and Spark your learning is intended to be an open ended task that is in context that's intended to help students connect prior knowledge with the new content you can see here that it promotes mathematical discussions and helps encourage productive struggle which is one of our eight highly effective nctm mathematical teaching practices in addition to our curriculum resources we are asking you to consider approving a district license 7 through 12 for Delta math which would be an additional 1.62 cents per student if you can allow me just one second here to geek out on math um so the way this works is if you look here down here at the bottom part this is a geometry assignment students are asked that if they have this two-dimensional figure they are supposed to try to visualize what three-dimensional figure would be created if they rotated it 360 Degrees about that axis now when they're given that problem they're given choices and they have to try to visualize it on their own however if they have trouble visualizing it they can click the see example button and Delta mask will play a video like this to help them visualize that and then it will produce a new problem similar to this one to allow them to try to visualize this helps connect something that they learn in Geometry with later the disk and washer method for calculus one of my favorite Parts about Delta math is to help students build a growth mindset if you know if you picture practice and math you might think of a worksheet with 10 questions one thing that's fantastic about Delta math is you can set it up to where they have to actually attain Mastery meaning that you can set up to where they have to practice until they get 10 right versus just hey here's 10 and whether you've got it or not you're done with the worksheet so it really helps students have a growth mindset um you can spiral practice you can get any sort of combination of skills for an assignment students can see a worked out example all kinds of accessibility help you can display problems in other languages you can also because it's online you can zoom in and zoom out to make larger text or larger visuals and help students make connections between all of our different representations so right now we have several teachers at the secondary level that are utilizing Delta math the free version and so here are some differences with that we get for the dollar 62 and I'm not going to read the entire list but I'll Point um point out a few of them that are I think are highlights which are which are quite a few of them one is to be able to to print assignments to PDF for students that may have that in their IEP they may they may be able to take that home students can actually upload their work and so you can actually see the student work that goes along with with the problem since this is digital it is canvas and it does have canvas integration which which we know is important um I'm excited that you can embed videos so so you can actually provide instruction right now um Brad talked about students if they miss a problem they get a they get a worked out problem you can they they can kind of see that but you can also put you can embed videos to be able to provide instruction for students and and practice for students teachers create can create their own problems with the with the integral version um you can make assignments for individual students small groups and then you can also change the uh the uh the due date times for for individuals uh and then the other one is co-teachers you can you can foster collaboration through this by adding co-teachers you can add uh enl teachers you could add your special ed teachers you can you can add igrad you could add a lot of folks that are going to have access are going to be working with these students in summary all the series that we've presented to you today received green ratings in all three categories from Ed reports all of these curriculums have students as not only consumers in math but producers of math and most importantly our teachers are very very excited to roll these out to students and the engagement levels that we're going to see based on these curriculum resources and I'll wrap this up although all the Laura stole my thunder earlier um you know all of with with the with the student students comment and our kids you know we we all have you know majority of us have kids that that you know are taking courses in in bcsc myself we I have four I'll have one of these next year one at Central and I'll have um two that are linking two that are Lincoln and so when we're adopting these resources um we're doing it as Educators trying to make sure that we're giving the students the best possible resource that they can that we can use with them that's going to make them the most successful you know but selfishly as parents we're also trying to do that for our own kids and so um I I thought our committee was very conscientious and and and not only trying to pick great materials but also try to be cost effective and uh I'll turn it back over to Corey I think here to wrap things up um so we did do some benchmarking with other districts for these three main vendors so CP a.m Avon Community Schools in Crown Point Community Schools also use that series hmh Perry Township Imagine Learning the illustrative math this is the last year was the first year that they had that in Indiana so there weren't any Indiana schools that had been using it long enough for some data but our representative there was able to provide a school district in Wisconsin and one in Illinois for that so we were able to kind of look into some districts I know Brad contacted a few districts and so we were able to speak to people who have been using these these materials for in some cases several years um all of our resources that vendors provided to us a lot of the sessions were able to do virtually one of the benefits coming out of covid um and so we do a lot of these virtually and we're able to record them um some came in person though but we have online access so everything for the the series that we presented to you tonight are linked on this Google doc that is accessible to anyone who wants to preview them or if any time over the next few weeks because then we'll be back I think on the 24th for you to vote it's all accessible for you to look at preview before then if you want to see any of the physical samples some of the companies do send us physical samples not all but if you want to see any of those you can reach out to any of the four of us and we're happy to facilitate you coming in and looking at any of those materials but everything is digitally linked on that that Google doc that you have access to as well that I think we've done we've done adoptions for three years now and that's been part of our our practices all along so questions thank you for the time you guys all put into this and especially with your committees too um one thing that I'll ask um actually two things Delta math was an extra add-on it was like a dollar two dollars is that an optional add-on for kids that may want it some may not or is that going to be pushed to all kids if it's voted to approve it it would be everybody 7 through 12.

this meeting including the audio and video remote participants is being streamed live on YouTube you will find links to viewing options for all Senate meetings on the live and on-demand video page of the legislature's website this is a meeting and your and YouTube live stream event will include this 3 30 agenda of the committee on education in the unlikely event that we must abruptly end this hearing due to Major technical difficulties the committee will reconvene to discuss any outstanding business today April 3rd at five o'clock P.M in room 229 and a public notice will be posted on the legislature's website I'd like to take this time to remind our testifiers that due to time restrictions on our hearings we will be limiting testimony to one minute for testifier per bill for people participating remotely please remain muted and video disabled until shortly before it is your turn to testify when I call your name on Meet yourself and your time will begin after your minute is completed staff will mute you so that we can move this hearing along in an orderly and efficient manner to you we start with Senate concurrent resolution 34 and Senate resolution 28 urging the Department of Education to create a priority list for repairing public school fire alarm systems foreign stands on its testimony in support of this measure thank you very much for your support but [Music] thank you we have we have a number of schools about 40 that the fire alarm systems are in three stages of being a critical port or affair we have challenges dealing with a provider that that can repair these systems we constantly work with them but it's just a backlog of of being able to repair these On Assignment basis systemal services available no services available the neighbor islands are here and how long has this been going on oh some of them are are a while five six years old we have a protocol what is what is called a fire watch protocol that each of the schools uh have a system because the Alarm Systems fail there's a protocol that they follow in case we do have a fire situation at these schools in particular so we have a backup plan primarily it deals with staff if there's a fire and then there's an announcement of PA system that goes out to our classrooms uh asking uh the staff and students to evacuate and if we can manage that fire with our own extinguishing protocols we try to manage it but it concurrently it's a 9-1-1 call fire department and police department so you put down the probably be about 68 million dollars to fix so and have you ever had two friends the funds for this yes oh it's a repair and maintenance comes out of the repair maintenance priority the lump sum that you give us so how much money in the past have been allocated to I've got to get that for you senator okay and so at the first looked at alternatives because I would assume this fire alarm system is Antiquated very much so so is that Alternatives that you guys walk down then there's a National Fire standard that uh dictates how we do these alarm systems there's not much options to it but the systems are just old that's a problem there are they're obsolete but is it only here or is this Nationwide or what I'm not sure about Nationwide but just getting the services to get that accomplished is is difficult or has been difficult well you would think in this age of digital that we would be able to do an alarm system that wouldn't cost this kind of money but I'm just surprised that the department hasn't been proactive in looking at how to solve this yeah and I think it has to do with the national standards um you know one would think a wireless system would work but it has to home run back to a system at the main office and that system alerts the fire department so if we have to rewire it's all about a home run back to that that box so to speak how do you home run now um it's all hardwire yeah I know but if it's not working or if it's not and you have a backup the backup is what it's it's the firewatch using really staff and the audible systems right so you're already not using the what what the standard is that is required when you pull it boxed it Pull Station it it automatically homes runs and goes automatically to the fire department so when you have a a false pool you've got to call the fire department to let them know it's a false alarm if not they will respond it just automatically brings back to them right so you're saying the system is not working if I pull the alarm now at one of the schools is that working in these 40 schools they're not working yeah so if they are not working and are you following a policy that is acceptable the National Standard that you're required to follow yes it's a it's a firewalk standard that we comply to both nationally and locally with the fire department okay I'm just like a hard time understanding that the system is is obsolete in your following uh secondary type of standard pitch to me a newest kind of system would probably be better than your alternative right but the secondary standard is something that nationally of schools have also it's a manual system a firewall system basically you have the automated system and the manual system so until we fix these automated systems we we follow the firewatch manual system so it's there any thoughts or any possibilities that something else will come up to the face current automated systems what I'm exploring is really to train our old our own people to fix these sending them to the the fire systems that are sold so we can repair it ourselves right now we're waiting on a on a professional or a company to fix the systems that that hasn't been it's I would I would tell you it's not successful at all because we're waiting on on the repairman to repair our stuff I think we have to train our people to do it and no other company um alarm system company like home alarms none of them can do it um I'm not sure Senator but I will check check on that when when I in another life when I was at the convention center we had the same problem you know the fire alarm systems are just not at the level of adequacy so you bring in all these other contractors to to try to fix it for you that's not only the audibles but the light systems that all gotta and tested tested and tested and test it all the time so so the fire department have they um they must know that you guys have this issue where they don't have a good solution either no no yeah I think it's a little more technical not not that the firemen are technical but it requires some specialty equipment and when we uh the when the audibles go out and The Strokes go out takes a different kind of skit set wow so in the meantime part there is there uh any thought of using what a poems use there's those types of fire alarms I'm I'm not sure Senator the magnitude of of a home alarm system versus a school that has 40 or 50 classrooms maybe a little more complex for a home system to manage well I would think that it's probably better than you know depending on a person running to each building to tell you that oh there's a fire evacuated and it's probably like 20 bucks a pop but if you guys are not really buys it in bulk I'm sure you can get it much yeah my greater concern is is in the evenings or at night when we don't have staff there uh that that a fire occurs that that is highly problematic for us everybody's going to pull them yeah that's where probably hopefully the neighbors will hear it or somebody at the fire engine the fire station will hear it be called and it will come correct yeah I mean luck is not a strategy but we've been fairly fortunate at this point that we haven't had a kind of magnitude of fire as you can imagine in in the older schools of the rural areas where most of the buildings are wood becomes highly problematic for us but that's not the preponderance of the buildings that we have the fireline systems are not working yeah I think um though the department should do a little bit more resurgency nationally there is this is an issue and you know are there other Solutions I will tell you I have signed off on about six or seven work orders to fix the system so it's not like it's we're not proceeding it's just we can't get a contractor to do 30 or 40 tomorrow there's just not enough contractors to do it but we will continue to explore other options thank you thank you um so one of the realize causes that the National Fire Protection Association and Life Safety Code commonly known as NFPA 101 requires school to have functioning fire alarm systems and so if you don't have a functioning fire alarm system then what because they find are you folks put on probation what happens nothing I'm not I can't give you an answer for that right now Senator but I will I will find out okay because it says you're the king Intermediate School in cardio has not had a working fire alarm system for seven years konawaena Elementary School that auto service for two years so it sounds as if yeah this is something that has just been ignored and I can I can understand having the problems but the fact that I don't know that you guys are taking a really proactive if you're not the king of what they're doing across the country Across the Nation seeing what other Alternatives they are it seems like you know well we're trying to fix them we really can't and we're doing it but that's what it sounds like yeah I I can appreciate that now you know so I will tell you we're working hard at it we just haven't had the kind of success that we need to fix all these but if you're not looking at it I'm sorry you're not looking at it across the country I'm not looking at Alternatives and you're not working hard at it you're just working out but then whatever you have without thinking outside the box and thinking okay we can't get people to do it then what's our alternative what are the observatives if you had listed all the different Alternatives you guys are working on then that would be something else but you're not well I'm not aware of it but let me get back to you on it although the efforts we've put forward on this thank you see it anymore but we used to have that triangle ping Terry you ring on but then everybody comes off kids yeah I would say it's a pretty effective too it was a smaller school not 3 200 kids at Campbell but you know that was effective for the little kids just want to bring that up yes you're you're absolutely right I actually saw one at Kilauea Elementary School a couple weeks ago and yeah okay thank you okay anyone else here is n't actually why you never sign up to testify I have to manage like 500 games so yeah so do we fight yeah I'm just saying that in the future if you get really busy we may not be able to call you so okay I will send in a testimony after okay okay that's good that's good um okay so about to introduce yourself yes Angela Melody young testifying on behalf of cares um in strong support um because of some of the ongoing conversation um I just want to provide comments um that there was an incident that happened at its school but this is relevant because you can kind of see the complications of figuring out the solutions for this um so in 27 in July 2017 an incident happened at Kapahulu um and it was the most destructive um fire in Hawaii history and then the city ordinances were signed into law and then DPP has to get involved so since that time um they still have not implemented Life Safety assessments for the fire infrastructure within um condos and high rises so you can see that since 2017 till now that's five years so this sort of process to navigate the resources to implement safe Fire Equipment um it takes a long time and perhaps um CPP can be consulted because um Department of planning and permitting from the city okay yeah and then also because the city um passed a lot of ordinances for the fire code um so um that could be something to look at for implementing um when implementing at schools thank you thank you for the opportunity testified moving on to scr56 requesting the Board of Education to review various programs and subject matter areas for implementation of public schools we have only one person scheduled to testify dance in Honda Vice chairman members of us an education committee my name is Danson Honda and I am tested fighting in support of Senate Club current resolution 56.

um it's a great goal to have and now it's just a matter of how we get there I think what this resolution tries to do is to establish some of the the items that might be helpful in getting there um I should teach a strategic plan would be very helpful it would start to show our Direction on where we're going as a state how we're going to try to get more Farmers involved how we're going to start to implement menu development how we're going to start to work with communities to try to get more of this food here to serve our local Kiki throughout our school system so we're very supportive of the Strategic plan and we're also supportive of getting a resource in the in the coordinator position to really dedicate the time and energy to looking at this and we understand that Doe is tasked with quite a few you other priorities across our state so really having some dedicated resource and a strategic plan would be helpful just real briefly Our Testimony has quite a bit of things within it it's it's for consideration chair um of what we would think a strategic plan might entail some of the details that might be helpful should you consider amending this resolution to add that in thank you very much chair thank you member's questions moving on Brian Miyamoto written testimony and support and Randall tanako written testimony and opposition I guess he's going to speak thank you to everybody's chair um we we fully intend to have a operational and a strategic plan um there's a whole lot of elements that go into this not only from uh the production kitchen but how we work with our Farmers distribution redistribution to our schools when the product's complete menu selection development there's a whole lot of parts to it but we fully intend to to have a a plan as part of our our financial model to make this work so thank you very much for your time thank you members questions yeah thank you chair um I'm very passionate about this one and you and I have top story you are the you meaning Geo is the largest restaurant in the state now and um you just made the comment that you will be having a plan coming forward for agriculture as a whole to understand that plan you know we proverbially have the chicken or the egg syndrome and I appreciate all the fun there meaning uh agriculture doesn't know what direction to go unless we have an idea of what direction you guys want to and this is a resolution to push for that plan for Testimony before there's been of support of that plan because that also is a plan not just for you guys but for agriculture as a whole this is why I am encouraging this not to push you hard to do something that you're not going to be doing because you just admitted you're going to be doing it but this helps agriculture plan because if you say uh we have 20 30 guideline to get to but it's going to take years to ramp up to get it there and agriculture needs to know what you guys are thinking publicly so then they can respond and that's why it's so important to get a plan can you please comment on that yeah you know um Senator it's it's never the why it's the how is the tough part of of this plan and I agree with you because if we don't partner with the former the farmers they can't align products that they provide to us so I could be out there with all of these these ideas but the farmer is a Cornerstone on how we're gonna get to these goals they have to produce for what uh for what we need and what kinds of food which is the other Cornerstone is our menu development because if our menu development is not aligned with what the farmers can produce then we've got that dysfunction the volume production coming out of the Central Kitchen uh is is critical because the once again the farmers have to produce and they should know what we want them to produce without that we've got this disconnect correct type and then finally the the the issue that we we have to watch carefully is Waste Management we could produce and I think Senator Kimmy noted this at another hearing and I talked about oranges right we 1.5 million pounds of oranges uh that we consume on Maui but most of the stuff is trashed so once again the alignment now we are we going to produce things on the plate that is consumed that reduces our waste so all of that those those cornerstones are critical to how we're going to get there and like I said it's not the the why it's the how we do that correct and so in my mind I see this as a living document that you're working on in concert with agriculture but if we don't have something to work off of we're both flying blinds so that's why I'm pushing so hard and you know it you should note that our objective is to maximize what the farmers produce if you can have a grade eight tomato that belongs at Royce and a great big tomato that we should be making tomato sauce out of and maximize the revenue for the farm so that's the the key to this when we roll with this yeah and I agree with that but without a plan you're not doing it so that's why you will have a plan I don't think the board's gonna let me go too far down the road without a plan that's okay because I won't let you go thank you chair thank you um and just to know members that there is at 175 which was passed in 2021 which requires the DOE to have 30 percent of food surgery this is immobile in public schools by local be local by 2030 and for them to submit a plan to the legislature each regular session beginning 2022 they have it's here thank you man thank you the last item on our agenda is scr 210 and sr150 requesting the Board of Education to report on ways to increase access to extend learning opportunities or course credits for non-traditional and external learning experiences um Justified David miyashiro Way kids can Aloha chair if you don't even Vice chair Camden members of this committee thank you for hearing scr 210 Sr 150 Hawaii kids can stand on our written testimony and strong supported this resolution with a few quick notes so imagine that you are in the greatest School in the world what would you see most likely an abundance of opportunities so that learning can be completely personalized for each student also world-class teachers with overflowing wisdom knowledge and lived experience lastly the learning students did would give back to the surrounding Community well I'm happy to share that all these elements exist in Hawaii right now with the classroom serving as a community as the community serving as a classroom through non-profits employers and local networks there is literally no limit this serves priorities like real world learning and financial literacy we talk about a teacher shortage but we actually have abundant kumu in the community please move this resolution forward thank you members questions or by Elizabeth Robinson is anyone else here wishing to just require this measure smoothly thank you I don't know did you guys have this one I don't see that the board has no testimony I also have a written testimony and support by Aaron Mendelson a public school teacher okay if you're to that thank you chair race chair Angela Melody young testifying on behalf of cares against strong support um the Alternative Learning Program Branch provides Statewide support to schools and districts for the development maintenance and enhancement of the Alternative Learning programs services and support for at prop for students um the Alp Branch provides um services such as support to schools to network with other professionals and create professional Learning Community opportunities and it coordinates and facilitates the state alpss guidance committee and the leadership work group and it also provides Technical and professional support to the school and complex area leadership um so alpss strives to provide supportive and nurturing environments that help students to grow Thrive and to rise above adversity um and it also improves academic competencies and enables them to meet the hydro adopted state standards and requirements and within the alpss setting Innovative instructional strategies are applied to students in their learning um so and also it develops appropriate behaviors and social emotional um developments within the students and provides um support for After High School and prepares them for um post Forbes College um so thank you for the opportunity to testify very strong support foreign education so um scr34 and sr28 we're amending it to urge the Department of Education to create a priority list for repairing public school fire alarm systems as well as looking into acceptable alternatives recommendation of the chair is to Transit with amendments chair bull sorry cheerful time many members present oppositional nuns thank you for scr56 requesting the Board of Education to review various programs and subject matter areas for implementation in public schools recommendation of the chair is surpassed as is shareholds are how's this that's it I could have any numbers without um thank you for scr 161 and sr187 requesting the Department of Education to rename noelani Elementary School to President Barack Obama on noelani Elementary School in honor of U.S president Barack Obama the recommendation of the chair is going to defer this as this is a matter of the school Community Council for scr190 Sr 174 requesting the Department of Education to develop a strategic plan to meet the locally sourced food goals established in Acts 175 176 session laws of Hawaii 2021 recommendation of the chairs to also defer this as again this is uh looked at in app 175 requiring reports already for scr 210 and Sr 150 requesting the Board of Education to report on ways to increase access to Extended Learning opportunities or course credits for non-traditional external learning experiences recommendation is to pass as is Terrible's eye to 10.

so I just want to take a second to explain that we were in a little bit of a tricky situation with CPM because they have new edition slash series coming out in two to three years and because we aren't really be able to see though that the new series we couldn't really justify adopting that since we couldn't see it so we decided to stick with the same addition throughout the course of the next adoption and if we wanted to purchase new textbooks for every student one-to-one with the same Edition that price was going to increase to over 29 which is almost triple the current student fee and these are very high quality textbooks so Eddie and I both felt like we could use the existing textbooks and just adopt digital only producing our families a savings of four dollars for algebra one geometry in algebra 2.

so the teachers would have access so it's the way that they do their licensing at Delta math and so you can either do it by school or by District but at district 7 through 12 we actually got a discount if we do it that way otherwise it's just by school but then it's still every student in that school and I can speak and Nick Cantu from the parent perspective our eighth grader her teacher used it this year and it's been a lifesaver um on nights when Nick hasn't been home yet or Monday nights when he's been here with you all I've been using those videos to uh to re-teach myself some algebra one with my eighth grader so it is incredibly worthwhile I'm an engineer so I could use some new math teaching myself so it's different now I didn't think math was different than it was 25 years ago but it is so the other thing I would ask I do appreciate you guys looking into benchmarking Dr hack put together a really good uh just a one-page document that showed performance at those schools aligned with the tools that they're using I would just ask maybe if you could share that Dr hack with Dr Jason Dr Edwards that they might be able to put together some similar document because it's it's helpful to see not just that other places are using different tools about how they're performing I know there's a lot that goes into the performance of a school corporation or a high school but if we can see how those tools align it's probably a decent indicator as to whether or not those tools are are assisting in that performance or not so so I would just asked for that if you would help please thank you sure thank you all very much and I was just I saw a lot of AP and I may have overlooked it does North or east either either School offer any ACP courses financially okay Mr Nella and I knew I know I just knew um so I so there were there was a lot of stuff there but the ones that are used for core which I think was hmh for middle school and then the illustrative math um are the digital talk to us about the availability of Spanish uh the the hmh for Middle School um is available in in Spanish um the uh illustrative right now the algebra 1 is available in Spanish um with probably plans to to move to geometry and algebra two um and and we're exploring resources to to be able to if we can utilize you know Google translate things like that that we're doing right now okay and and also my questions are around those because those are the newer of the of all the all the complexity there um so talk to us about professional development for rolling it out and how that would might involve not just Math teachers but special ed teachers and ell teachers so a luster I was just emailing the rep end of last week after our conversation with Brad so we'll still work on kind of finalizing exactly what's involved but every company involved has PD options that will be kind of rolling out you know hopefully here before the end of the school year but then over the summer but then most of them also have options that we'll be able to pull into on the PD days next year but illustrative math for sure being the new one hmh will be the two that we really need professional development on because we're relatively familiar with CPM and some of the others so and that will include the support teachers especially yes yes yeah yep we did that with Ela and social studies too didn't we we really yeah and and finally thank you I know how much work goes into this I was just going to add that uh RPD PD day coming up on Thursday Brad and I part of part of that time uh when we have the the afternoon to be able to work uh with departments which is is really nice that we're adopting the same thing so that we not only can share within our building but also you know across the district uh part of that time is going to be digging into a lust driven and hmh in those grade level groups uh and and part of our exit ticket that we have you know at the end of that time is really going to be asking teachers you know where does that professional development need to be directed what what issues are we having what you know to be able to implement that what what what do you need and so that's going to be one of those questions that hopefully our teachers will answer um and give us some feedback on during that BD day just one more quick follow-up I believe both curricular resources electric math and into math it's an automatic with adoption two-day in-person training and then also an option of four virtual sessions that are more specific and then they have lots of a la carte PD that you can order so to speak based on our results of what we hear from our exit ticket thank you so much for the presentation and the time and effort that you put into it I don't think anybody on this panel can answer my question so I'm looking at others in the room maybe Mr now alone or Miss Dr Roberts I know year in year out there's discussion about the materials fees and the impacts on parents and there's been some discussion in the state house this year about whether or not that might change has that legislation move forward or is it dead at this point or no not dead but it's it's wrapped into the budget itself at least to the house version and so the Senate is reviewing that at this point and I would I would hope that at some point the next two weeks because the session's about to run out we'll see what the Senate version says but the house house aversion has the governor proposed that um textbook fees resource materials would be covered by the state in the budget the version of the budget has the tuition formula the dollars that come to the schools paying for that so it was not a new line item for textbooks it did the expectation in the house version is that you can cover it with the money that's calculated the formula that they currently have so the Senate is weighing all that having conversations and we'll see what that that uh what their version looks like and then I guess that that makes me Wonder will there be consequences to districts that choose materials that are more costly would they keep the savings if they lower chose materials that were less costly do you have any idea how that would work I I don't um no and if the legislation goes through when they're talking now about a budget that would start in July yeah July 1st so there would be a change maybe for the next academic Year yes back to Chad's budgeting usually has three different um uh dollar situations he's working on a July 1 to January 1 to genuine July one of July one again to January one yeah three different phases I just wanted to add that it's more complex as are most things than just having the governor say we're going to pay for textbook fees some districts have textbook fees pay for Chromebooks so there's an annual fee that pays for that we do not we happen to pay through that through the operations fund some of these activity fees that pay for example for toner usage in a building those aren't accounted for a lot of times when people think about textbook fees but curricular materials are defined differently in every District the definition is the same but they're applied differently in every district and so it's going to be interesting to see how the legislation plays out but our folks have to continue with the textbook adoption process that we know best keeping in mind when when the opportunity presents itself to be frugal we do so but in most cases inflation is going to hit as hard this year thanks for standing there while the answer [Laughter] [Music] very nice job thank you all very much and and as you said just for for those in the room this will be voted on in the next board meeting on April 24th so Brad and Eddie was it intentional to wear blue and orange for tonight's presentation just curious hey I believe we have one more presentation tonight is that right Dr Roberts uh Legato program Dr Heck and Dr Parsons enough well thank you for having us and I guess we're batting cleanup tonight uh and it's been a little bit of a wait but I tell you we are really excited uh to do that and as well worth our weight uh this is actually about a seven year uh ago process that this happened and we've been in implementation now for five years I believe this is our third update and this is probably gonna be the most exciting update that you will have uh since the creation of Legato and I do want to give a shout out to our school board even though many of you are not on it at the time but also to Dr Roberts because a dual language program in a in a community like Columbus a more rural setting is not common and you have to go against status quo Trends to be successful in certain things and he took a chance on Legato uh and he put it in Clifty Creek and it's this dual language school has just flourished in our students and our communities and the lives of our families so I'm very grateful for bcsc I'm grateful for that you guys took a chance for our kids and put them first and I think you're going to see today in our program our Legato the great things that happen and this is gonna be a first I'm actually going to speak very little uh I'm going to turn it over to Mr Happy our assistant principal and uh Gracie patina hi everyone thank you for having us um this first visual is just uh to show how much we truly have grown since 2018.

my passion for financial literacy which is one of the things identified in this resolution began due to overcoming personal finance for struggles and eventually becoming a homeowner which I credit to financial literacy beginning last year I testified at Board of Education meetings urging the board to take action during this process I was to learn about the history of previous financial literacy efforts since 2003 60 pieces of financial literacy legislation were introduced in A legislature some of them passed which designated April as financial literacy month it established two financial literacy task forces and it has repeatedly urged action I read through all 60 pieces of this legislation including the center current resolution that you introduced in 2021 sir godani and I am inspired that over the course of two decades and unfortunately two recessions that all these people independently came to the same conclusion that financial literacy is essential and should be taught in school recently I had a pleasure of meeting with assistant superintendent Terry usijima from the doe and Alison krunchige executive director of the Boe and we discussed and agreed that the board would be the best authority to implement a graduation requirement but we also talked about the need for the legislature to provide funding to ensure a successful implementation and I'm hoping that by Bridging the communication gap between the legislature the doe and the poe that I can help make this idea finally turn into a reality thank you for your consideration and some members questions yes based on everything you've said and I've been here through all of it and they haven't done it yet um and unfortunately there were many resolutions prior and without action taken um so as I mentioned in 2021 Senate conference resolution 152 it urged to Boe ndoe to coordinate with bcca to implement a financial literacy graduation requirement I actually contacted dcca and they said that they had and they have emails showing that they reached out to the doe and they did it they didn't get a response um yeah I I don't I don't think and and I talked to organizations as a Next Generation personal finance and they actually offered a grant for the doe to implement it and they they stood it into it so unfortunately I don't film this alone would be enough to urge action thank you thank you yes thank you chair explain your passion for this okay yeah um so I I was born and raised in Hawaii um I grew up in a single income family of four and um for the first 20 years of my life um I didn't know what it was like to sleep on an actual bed um I I had to sleep on the living room floor on a phone that matches because that's all that my family could afford um and I I basically grew up with the idea that you know by working hard going to school getting good grades going to college that you know that was the key to success right and that's something that many people believe to um um but you know um and and in high school I became involved in student government and I began interacting with people from all walks of life and you know I I realized that you know a lot of people who do these things that they still end up struggling in life and in many ways I became disillusioned with our education system right um and and and you know my I began focusing more on what was going on outside of school and I was going on inside the school right and then my my grade slipped and you know my my senior year of high school um you know I was I was you know in in a mess right um I actually didn't work at high school graduation um I had to take a remedial course over the summer because um I didn't pass one of my classes right so according to our education system I was a failure um you know despite you know having accolades such as being a student member of the board and whatnot right but according um grade wise I was a failure um well I I was able to get into college but about halfway through I was in a financial mess um you know I find that really interested in that you know students who have no Financial knowledge can take out student loans open credit cards right um yeah so um you know I had five figures and student learned that about the Maxwell credit card and that that forced me to learn about my finances and that really opened up my eyes and realized that this was a key component missing from our education system right and learning to manage finances um and although I wasn't making money yet I had established a solid Financial understanding right I graduated college in 2019 um but by the time I started looking for a job in 2020 that's when covert hit right so I went through all that hassle getting my college degree and nobody wanted to hire me um um so but but one important thing I learned from financial literacy is that um it's it's not wise to rely on one source of income and when you know times change right um so so while while most of the world was still struggling trying to figure out what was going on um I always problem solving I always identifying opportunities that were available during the pandemic and I'm very proud to say that just two years later um since the beginning of covert I became a homeowner and and I did that by working as a food delivery driver about things or nobody right but but that's because of the financial education I learned how to identify opportunities right during difficult times how do you grow your money right and and and that's became that's made me really passionate about helping people to have that Financial knowledge right I think our education system right now is really a singular track I'm giving people so you know for college readiness right but you know that that's not the path that many people are taking or or should take right um I I was uh I was in student government in college so I was a student body Treasurer and and honestly I don't think a lot of people who should have been there like just financially speaking I wasn't A wise choice right so um yeah I yeah this this is everything's made me very passionate about this and I I'm really trying to figure out despite all these previous efforts that we didn't make it happen I'm trying to figure out what is the key to making it happen and and that's what brought me here today thank you thank you appreciate that that passion obviously comes through thank you thank you senator yes thank you perfect thank you thank you so much terrifying you know I think we agree with you we've been chair and I and our members have been trying to we've had a number of bills that we've tried to pass and adopt and it goes over to the house on this is financial literacy but you're right you know I I bring up the fact that resilient to early college early Ed but we're not teaching the things that the kids need to learn in high school they don't know how to interview for a job so the colleges are finding out that they get a degree and they go into the workplace and they can't get the job because they they don't have interview skills they don't have social skills so our schools need to get back to the basic home economics you know kids can't even sew a button boys can't support to hug their path my son brings me as fast as love a budget but is those kinds of practical things that you need to learn besides becoming book smart and and college ready you're not ready for life so we need the Board of Education to understand that and I'm not sure how we do that so thank you for bringing it up and don't give up because thank you I'll keep the level as well thank you so much just just um a point of interesting a point eventually is that the real question is so if you do a course with financial literacy then what do you give up what curriculum do you give up because there are so many hours in the days yes that's right classes in a day right yeah so um if it makes any of us feel any better this is an issue that the board is now looking at and they are going to have my understanding and I wish your boss was here they are going to form a committee to to look at this issue and the curriculum and grad requirements so that's very good and although I'm concerned that you know it's always late to the gamers about 17 States or so that have a financial literacy graduation requirement um so while that's bad um I guess the good thing to come out of it is that there's a lot of Precedence there's a lot of things that we can learn from and how these 17 States implemented it and you're right um you know some states they did take away you know a credit to add a credit others have found ways to creatively put it into the curriculum um the way I think that it would work best in Hawaii is through the social studies elective credit um in there I know the department was also interested in making it part of the personal transition plan requirement and so there are different ways to make this happen without making a sacrifice in other areas yeah and and we can learn from the president set by other states thank you thank you really appreciate it and I'll give a plug to Waipahu High School um and uh former principal kitayashi that we had well actually it wasn't him it was established before he came on they actually have a credit union and all their school girls run by the students and that really teaches financial literacy and helping the students who participate as well as their parents who have are participating in the credit union on stock market follow stocks and so that's how I learned about the invest in the stock market I guess that was before my time because it wasn't yeah okay moving on to scr 161 at Senate resolution 187 requesting the Department of Education to rename noelani Elementary School to President Barack Obama noelani Elementary School in honor of United States President Barack Obama and to testify just come on the afternoon chair Vice chair members of the committee thank you very much the renaming of a school goes through process through its School Community Council it's a very rigorous program uh just recently this year we did a name change for uh princess Ruth formerly known as Central so it went through its process and the school was renamed through the school Community Council and it moves up to the superintendent and to the board for final approval so the process is there we suggest that we exercise that process and any name change in the schools thank you members questions you know I I seen a resolution or maybe even a bill I'm going around I don't know that's it but my concern is um to the native Hawaiian community that roads buildings freeways airports everything that has a significant name foreign [Music] Elementary School before we even consider having a resolution like this we should consider what was the actual what was the name actually chosen because we change McKinley High School from what it says hello High School something like that but we kind of keep changing names because of a president or somebody that having no significance to the area or the district because as far as I concerned he had a chance to have something named after him but he decided not to bring the library to Hawaii and the income and the economic development they could have he chose to put it where his wife lives so he had a chance and I know he's not asking for his name but if that's the case it should allow me for a library and the stuff that they said they want an honoring of him but I don't think we should change the school name and as we find out what is the significant change of the name before we even considered going to that route because you're going to have a position guys barbarians so these are the things that they should change they should check before they putting in a resolution to change their name to somebody else that already has a name for a school it's not a new school but whatever to Kapolei middle it's called Kapolei middle then they realize it's not in Kapolei it's another Beach so they had to change them to Honolulu you see what I mean because they never check of the region and significance of the region of one of the part of that's all that's just my comment sorry thank you senator thank you we have Andrew Crosslands written testimony in opposition Cheryl B written testimony and opposition anyone else here wishing to testifying this measures at one minute starting now imagine with Melody young testifying on behalf of cares and strong support um Obama served as the 44th President of the U.S a history is the American story values from the Heartland and middle class upbringing and a strong family hard work and education as a means of getting ahead and the conviction that is life so blessed should be lived in helping others um when Obama was elected president he there was no other African-American uh presidents to be in the office um the framers of the Constitution always hope that our leadership should be limited to should not be limited to Americans of wealth or um to those of privilege subject to the prejudices of their time many of them owned slaves most of them would not have foreseen an African-American president um and you know um in 1988 Obama went to law school and then he joined a small Law Firm specializing in civil rights um and um yes he coordinated with churches to improve housing conditions and to set up job training programs in the community um and therefore we are in support of the resolution thank you for the opportunity to testify questions foreign to scr190 and sr174 requesting the Department of Education to develop a strategic plan to meet the locally sourced food goals establish an acts 175 and 176 session laws are publicly justify Michael monicato initiative good afternoon Cherokee County Vice chair kid members of the committee Michael municata here on behalf of the Oklahoma initiative we'll stand on our testimony in support of this I just want to highlight a couple points share if I may I know we're running low on time but uh you know we we all have the the right uh mentality to try to reach our goal of getting more local food into our school meal system it's a gargantuan Taps it really is but this legislative body has sent a signal to the state of Hawaii that we're we're definitely interested in getting there 30 by 20 30 50 by 2050.

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for pre-algebra you'll see the price increase and that's that 29 I was talking about for the other three we don't currently use that curriculum those curricular resources for pre-algebra 7th grade so we would need to purchase textbooks for the students also those come with a student toolkit so our rationale and Dale can correct me if I wrong but I think we've used CPM I think for the last three adoptions I believe um and so is you know it's been a good a good book for our students a good resource for our students again we talked about conceptual development with procedural fluency over time with the spiraling of CPM students are very highly engaged and it really provides a smooth transition from middle school to high school throughout our accelerated honors classes similar to our AP and dual credit courses at the high school our biggest indicator for why we want to continue with this curriculum is our very high level of success that we're achieving with students using this curriculum and we have a high percentage of students going above proficiency on both Island and nwea our 2022-23 math counts team plays first place in the individual on Team chapter competition we sent six students to the state competition at Purdue University and we just see an increase of students asking to accelerate and take more math because their experience is so rich and they're feeling successful in those classes at Central and North Side our Mass 7 and pre-algebra classes we've decided to go with the hmh into math series and if you notice the fee there 29.53 CSA adopted really the same the same series uh and so um you know the difference with that is that they're adopting the really the textbook you know just as a resource um with with this adoption uh our our seventh grade and eighth grade would be receiving uh consumable textbook similar to the illustrative math and then a really powerful um digital tool with waggle that I'll talk about here in just a second but so that that's that's really the difference between the two prices so it's a pretty big increase but we feel like we're getting a lot of bang for our buck so Waggles and adaptive practice uh response Tool uh to student performance we're really excited um hmh has just acquired NWA and and we know that NWA is a big predictor of Student Success uh and so um we're excited that we can use some of that data we're collecting from taking mwa and then using um using waggle to be able to fill in those gaps for students that they've got based off of their NWA data they've got tons of tech tech enhanced type questions it includes language supports for all students and routines of language development that allow students to listen speak and write about different mathematical situations um it's going to allow our teachers to leverage data it's a very data heavy program teachers can get immediate immediate formative incentive data and then they're able to really adjust instruction based on that data that they get that period to be able to give students really what they need and then it's got a complete Indiana standards alignment with resources which which we know is very important one of the things I'm most excited about to math is that new topic that students are exposed to begins with an activity called spark your learning and Spark your learning is intended to be an open ended task that is in context that's intended to help students connect prior knowledge with the new content you can see here that it promotes mathematical discussions and helps encourage productive struggle which is one of our eight highly effective nctm mathematical teaching practices in addition to our curriculum resources we are asking you to consider approving a district license 7 through 12 for Delta math which would be an additional 1.62 cents per student if you can allow me just one second here to geek out on math um so the way this works is if you look here down here at the bottom part this is a geometry assignment students are asked that if they have this two-dimensional figure they are supposed to try to visualize what three-dimensional figure would be created if they rotated it 360 Degrees about that axis now when they're given that problem they're given choices and they have to try to visualize it on their own however if they have trouble visualizing it they can click the see example button and Delta mask will play a video like this to help them visualize that and then it will produce a new problem similar to this one to allow them to try to visualize this helps connect something that they learn in Geometry with later the disk and washer method for calculus one of my favorite Parts about Delta math is to help students build a growth mindset if you know if you picture practice and math you might think of a worksheet with 10 questions one thing that's fantastic about Delta math is you can set it up to where they have to actually attain Mastery meaning that you can set up to where they have to practice until they get 10 right versus just hey here's 10 and whether you've got it or not you're done with the worksheet so it really helps students have a growth mindset um you can spiral practice you can get any sort of combination of skills for an assignment students can see a worked out example all kinds of accessibility help you can display problems in other languages you can also because it's online you can zoom in and zoom out to make larger text or larger visuals and help students make connections between all of our different representations so right now we have several teachers at the secondary level that are utilizing Delta math the free version and so here are some differences with that we get for the dollar 62 and I'm not going to read the entire list but I'll Point um point out a few of them that are I think are highlights which are which are quite a few of them one is to be able to to print assignments to PDF for students that may have that in their IEP they may they may be able to take that home students can actually upload their work and so you can actually see the student work that goes along with with the problem since this is digital it is canvas and it does have canvas integration which which we know is important um I'm excited that you can embed videos so so you can actually provide instruction right now um Brad talked about students if they miss a problem they get a they get a worked out problem you can they they can kind of see that but you can also put you can embed videos to be able to provide instruction for students and and practice for students teachers create can create their own problems with the with the integral version um you can make assignments for individual students small groups and then you can also change the uh the uh the due date times for for individuals uh and then the other one is co-teachers you can you can foster collaboration through this by adding co-teachers you can add uh enl teachers you could add your special ed teachers you can you can add igrad you could add a lot of folks that are going to have access are going to be working with these students in summary all the series that we've presented to you today received green ratings in all three categories from Ed reports all of these curriculums have students as not only consumers in math but producers of math and most importantly our teachers are very very excited to roll these out to students and the engagement levels that we're going to see based on these curriculum resources and I'll wrap this up although all the Laura stole my thunder earlier um you know all of with with the with the student students comment and our kids you know we we all have you know majority of us have kids that that you know are taking courses in in bcsc myself we I have four I'll have one of these next year one at Central and I'll have um two that are linking two that are Lincoln and so when we're adopting these resources um we're doing it as Educators trying to make sure that we're giving the students the best possible resource that they can that we can use with them that's going to make them the most successful you know but selfishly as parents we're also trying to do that for our own kids and so um I I thought our committee was very conscientious and and and not only trying to pick great materials but also try to be cost effective and uh I'll turn it back over to Corey I think here to wrap things up um so we did do some benchmarking with other districts for these three main vendors so CP a.m Avon Community Schools in Crown Point Community Schools also use that series hmh Perry Township Imagine Learning the illustrative math this is the last year was the first year that they had that in Indiana so there weren't any Indiana schools that had been using it long enough for some data but our representative there was able to provide a school district in Wisconsin and one in Illinois for that so we were able to kind of look into some districts I know Brad contacted a few districts and so we were able to speak to people who have been using these these materials for in some cases several years um all of our resources that vendors provided to us a lot of the sessions were able to do virtually one of the benefits coming out of covid um and so we do a lot of these virtually and we're able to record them um some came in person though but we have online access so everything for the the series that we presented to you tonight are linked on this Google doc that is accessible to anyone who wants to preview them or if any time over the next few weeks because then we'll be back I think on the 24th for you to vote it's all accessible for you to look at preview before then if you want to see any of the physical samples some of the companies do send us physical samples not all but if you want to see any of those you can reach out to any of the four of us and we're happy to facilitate you coming in and looking at any of those materials but everything is digitally linked on that that Google doc that you have access to as well that I think we've done we've done adoptions for three years now and that's been part of our our practices all along so questions thank you for the time you guys all put into this and especially with your committees too um one thing that I'll ask um actually two things Delta math was an extra add-on it was like a dollar two dollars is that an optional add-on for kids that may want it some may not or is that going to be pushed to all kids if it's voted to approve it it would be everybody 7 through 12.

so those two pirates on the left Maisha patino image they were our first a kindergarten Legato teachers so in 2018 they rolled in just fresh and ready to explore and then this picture on the right was just taken this just a couple weeks ago but that's how many teachers and tears we're up to now I'm just about 20 there are actually a few missing in this picture but we have just grown and gone from just two teachers bouncing ideas off each other to a whole team that can work together and collaborate and come up with great solutions for our kiddos some numbers behind that so in 2018 we started off with about 62 kids um in two kindergarten classrooms in a Pre-K room and we have gradually just grown that each year this year we're up to 10 classrooms with 220 kids we're Pre-K pre-k through fourth grade and this year we've actually seen the highest number of applications so our application process similar to the CSA programs we roll out and we've doubled an application since 2021.

um it's a great goal to have and now it's just a matter of how we get there I think what this resolution tries to do is to establish some of the the items that might be helpful in getting there um I should teach a strategic plan would be very helpful it would start to show our Direction on where we're going as a state how we're going to try to get more Farmers involved how we're going to start to implement menu development how we're going to start to work with communities to try to get more of this food here to serve our local Kiki throughout our school system so we're very supportive of the Strategic plan and we're also supportive of getting a resource in the in the coordinator position to really dedicate the time and energy to looking at this and we understand that Doe is tasked with quite a few you other priorities across our state so really having some dedicated resource and a strategic plan would be helpful just real briefly Our Testimony has quite a bit of things within it it's it's for consideration chair um of what we would think a strategic plan might entail some of the details that might be helpful should you consider amending this resolution to add that in thank you very much chair thank you member's questions moving on Brian Miyamoto written testimony and support and Randall tanako written testimony and opposition I guess he's going to speak thank you to everybody's chair um we we fully intend to have a operational and a strategic plan um there's a whole lot of elements that go into this not only from uh the production kitchen but how we work with our Farmers distribution redistribution to our schools when the product's complete menu selection development there's a whole lot of parts to it but we fully intend to to have a a plan as part of our our financial model to make this work so thank you very much for your time thank you members questions yeah thank you chair um I'm very passionate about this one and you and I have top story you are the you meaning Geo is the largest restaurant in the state now and um you just made the comment that you will be having a plan coming forward for agriculture as a whole to understand that plan you know we proverbially have the chicken or the egg syndrome and I appreciate all the fun there meaning uh agriculture doesn't know what direction to go unless we have an idea of what direction you guys want to and this is a resolution to push for that plan for Testimony before there's been of support of that plan because that also is a plan not just for you guys but for agriculture as a whole this is why I am encouraging this not to push you hard to do something that you're not going to be doing because you just admitted you're going to be doing it but this helps agriculture plan because if you say uh we have 20 30 guideline to get to but it's going to take years to ramp up to get it there and agriculture needs to know what you guys are thinking publicly so then they can respond and that's why it's so important to get a plan can you please comment on that yeah you know um Senator it's it's never the why it's the how is the tough part of of this plan and I agree with you because if we don't partner with the former the farmers they can't align products that they provide to us so I could be out there with all of these these ideas but the farmer is a Cornerstone on how we're gonna get to these goals they have to produce for what uh for what we need and what kinds of food which is the other Cornerstone is our menu development because if our menu development is not aligned with what the farmers can produce then we've got that dysfunction the volume production coming out of the Central Kitchen uh is is critical because the once again the farmers have to produce and they should know what we want them to produce without that we've got this disconnect correct type and then finally the the the issue that we we have to watch carefully is Waste Management we could produce and I think Senator Kimmy noted this at another hearing and I talked about oranges right we 1.5 million pounds of oranges uh that we consume on Maui but most of the stuff is trashed so once again the alignment now we are we going to produce things on the plate that is consumed that reduces our waste so all of that those those cornerstones are critical to how we're going to get there and like I said it's not the the why it's the how we do that correct and so in my mind I see this as a living document that you're working on in concert with agriculture but if we don't have something to work off of we're both flying blinds so that's why I'm pushing so hard and you know it you should note that our objective is to maximize what the farmers produce if you can have a grade eight tomato that belongs at Royce and a great big tomato that we should be making tomato sauce out of and maximize the revenue for the farm so that's the the key to this when we roll with this yeah and I agree with that but without a plan you're not doing it so that's why you will have a plan I don't think the board's gonna let me go too far down the road without a plan that's okay because I won't let you go thank you chair thank you um and just to know members that there is at 175 which was passed in 2021 which requires the DOE to have 30 percent of food surgery this is immobile in public schools by local be local by 2030 and for them to submit a plan to the legislature each regular session beginning 2022 they have it's here thank you man thank you the last item on our agenda is scr 210 and sr150 requesting the Board of Education to report on ways to increase access to extend learning opportunities or course credits for non-traditional and external learning experiences um Justified David miyashiro Way kids can Aloha chair if you don't even Vice chair Camden members of this committee thank you for hearing scr 210 Sr 150 Hawaii kids can stand on our written testimony and strong supported this resolution with a few quick notes so imagine that you are in the greatest School in the world what would you see most likely an abundance of opportunities so that learning can be completely personalized for each student also world-class teachers with overflowing wisdom knowledge and lived experience lastly the learning students did would give back to the surrounding Community well I'm happy to share that all these elements exist in Hawaii right now with the classroom serving as a community as the community serving as a classroom through non-profits employers and local networks there is literally no limit this serves priorities like real world learning and financial literacy we talk about a teacher shortage but we actually have abundant kumu in the community please move this resolution forward thank you members questions or by Elizabeth Robinson is anyone else here wishing to just require this measure smoothly thank you I don't know did you guys have this one I don't see that the board has no testimony I also have a written testimony and support by Aaron Mendelson a public school teacher okay if you're to that thank you chair race chair Angela Melody young testifying on behalf of cares against strong support um the Alternative Learning Program Branch provides Statewide support to schools and districts for the development maintenance and enhancement of the Alternative Learning programs services and support for at prop for students um the Alp Branch provides um services such as support to schools to network with other professionals and create professional Learning Community opportunities and it coordinates and facilitates the state alpss guidance committee and the leadership work group and it also provides Technical and professional support to the school and complex area leadership um so alpss strives to provide supportive and nurturing environments that help students to grow Thrive and to rise above adversity um and it also improves academic competencies and enables them to meet the hydro adopted state standards and requirements and within the alpss setting Innovative instructional strategies are applied to students in their learning um so and also it develops appropriate behaviors and social emotional um developments within the students and provides um support for After High School and prepares them for um post Forbes College um so thank you for the opportunity to testify very strong support foreign education so um scr34 and sr28 we're amending it to urge the Department of Education to create a priority list for repairing public school fire alarm systems as well as looking into acceptable alternatives recommendation of the chair is to Transit with amendments chair bull sorry cheerful time many members present oppositional nuns thank you for scr56 requesting the Board of Education to review various programs and subject matter areas for implementation in public schools recommendation of the chair is surpassed as is shareholds are how's this that's it I could have any numbers without um thank you for scr 161 and sr187 requesting the Department of Education to rename noelani Elementary School to President Barack Obama on noelani Elementary School in honor of U.S president Barack Obama the recommendation of the chair is going to defer this as this is a matter of the school Community Council for scr190 Sr 174 requesting the Department of Education to develop a strategic plan to meet the locally sourced food goals established in Acts 175 176 session laws of Hawaii 2021 recommendation of the chairs to also defer this as again this is uh looked at in app 175 requiring reports already for scr 210 and Sr 150 requesting the Board of Education to report on ways to increase access to Extended Learning opportunities or course credits for non-traditional external learning experiences recommendation is to pass as is Terrible's eye to 10.

so the teachers would have access so it's the way that they do their licensing at Delta math and so you can either do it by school or by District but at district 7 through 12 we actually got a discount if we do it that way otherwise it's just by school but then it's still every student in that school and I can speak and Nick Cantu from the parent perspective our eighth grader her teacher used it this year and it's been a lifesaver um on nights when Nick hasn't been home yet or Monday nights when he's been here with you all I've been using those videos to uh to re-teach myself some algebra one with my eighth grader so it is incredibly worthwhile I'm an engineer so I could use some new math teaching myself so it's different now I didn't think math was different than it was 25 years ago but it is so the other thing I would ask I do appreciate you guys looking into benchmarking Dr hack put together a really good uh just a one-page document that showed performance at those schools aligned with the tools that they're using I would just ask maybe if you could share that Dr hack with Dr Jason Dr Edwards that they might be able to put together some similar document because it's it's helpful to see not just that other places are using different tools about how they're performing I know there's a lot that goes into the performance of a school corporation or a high school but if we can see how those tools align it's probably a decent indicator as to whether or not those tools are are assisting in that performance or not so so I would just asked for that if you would help please thank you sure thank you all very much and I was just I saw a lot of AP and I may have overlooked it does North or east either either School offer any ACP courses financially okay Mr Nella and I knew I know I just knew um so I so there were there was a lot of stuff there but the ones that are used for core which I think was hmh for middle school and then the illustrative math um are the digital talk to us about the availability of Spanish uh the the hmh for Middle School um is available in in Spanish um the uh illustrative right now the algebra 1 is available in Spanish um with probably plans to to move to geometry and algebra two um and and we're exploring resources to to be able to if we can utilize you know Google translate things like that that we're doing right now okay and and also my questions are around those because those are the newer of the of all the all the complexity there um so talk to us about professional development for rolling it out and how that would might involve not just Math teachers but special ed teachers and ell teachers so a luster I was just emailing the rep end of last week after our conversation with Brad so we'll still work on kind of finalizing exactly what's involved but every company involved has PD options that will be kind of rolling out you know hopefully here before the end of the school year but then over the summer but then most of them also have options that we'll be able to pull into on the PD days next year but illustrative math for sure being the new one hmh will be the two that we really need professional development on because we're relatively familiar with CPM and some of the others so and that will include the support teachers especially yes yes yeah yep we did that with Ela and social studies too didn't we we really yeah and and finally thank you I know how much work goes into this I was just going to add that uh RPD PD day coming up on Thursday Brad and I part of part of that time uh when we have the the afternoon to be able to work uh with departments which is is really nice that we're adopting the same thing so that we not only can share within our building but also you know across the district uh part of that time is going to be digging into a lust driven and hmh in those grade level groups uh and and part of our exit ticket that we have you know at the end of that time is really going to be asking teachers you know where does that professional development need to be directed what what issues are we having what you know to be able to implement that what what what do you need and so that's going to be one of those questions that hopefully our teachers will answer um and give us some feedback on during that BD day just one more quick follow-up I believe both curricular resources electric math and into math it's an automatic with adoption two-day in-person training and then also an option of four virtual sessions that are more specific and then they have lots of a la carte PD that you can order so to speak based on our results of what we hear from our exit ticket thank you so much for the presentation and the time and effort that you put into it I don't think anybody on this panel can answer my question so I'm looking at others in the room maybe Mr now alone or Miss Dr Roberts I know year in year out there's discussion about the materials fees and the impacts on parents and there's been some discussion in the state house this year about whether or not that might change has that legislation move forward or is it dead at this point or no not dead but it's it's wrapped into the budget itself at least to the house version and so the Senate is reviewing that at this point and I would I would hope that at some point the next two weeks because the session's about to run out we'll see what the Senate version says but the house house aversion has the governor proposed that um textbook fees resource materials would be covered by the state in the budget the version of the budget has the tuition formula the dollars that come to the schools paying for that so it was not a new line item for textbooks it did the expectation in the house version is that you can cover it with the money that's calculated the formula that they currently have so the Senate is weighing all that having conversations and we'll see what that that uh what their version looks like and then I guess that that makes me Wonder will there be consequences to districts that choose materials that are more costly would they keep the savings if they lower chose materials that were less costly do you have any idea how that would work I I don't um no and if the legislation goes through when they're talking now about a budget that would start in July yeah July 1st so there would be a change maybe for the next academic Year yes back to Chad's budgeting usually has three different um uh dollar situations he's working on a July 1 to January 1 to genuine July one of July one again to January one yeah three different phases I just wanted to add that it's more complex as are most things than just having the governor say we're going to pay for textbook fees some districts have textbook fees pay for Chromebooks so there's an annual fee that pays for that we do not we happen to pay through that through the operations fund some of these activity fees that pay for example for toner usage in a building those aren't accounted for a lot of times when people think about textbook fees but curricular materials are defined differently in every District the definition is the same but they're applied differently in every district and so it's going to be interesting to see how the legislation plays out but our folks have to continue with the textbook adoption process that we know best keeping in mind when when the opportunity presents itself to be frugal we do so but in most cases inflation is going to hit as hard this year thanks for standing there while the answer [Laughter] [Music] very nice job thank you all very much and and as you said just for for those in the room this will be voted on in the next board meeting on April 24th so Brad and Eddie was it intentional to wear blue and orange for tonight's presentation just curious hey I believe we have one more presentation tonight is that right Dr Roberts uh Legato program Dr Heck and Dr Parsons enough well thank you for having us and I guess we're batting cleanup tonight uh and it's been a little bit of a wait but I tell you we are really excited uh to do that and as well worth our weight uh this is actually about a seven year uh ago process that this happened and we've been in implementation now for five years I believe this is our third update and this is probably gonna be the most exciting update that you will have uh since the creation of Legato and I do want to give a shout out to our school board even though many of you are not on it at the time but also to Dr Roberts because a dual language program in a in a community like Columbus a more rural setting is not common and you have to go against status quo Trends to be successful in certain things and he took a chance on Legato uh and he put it in Clifty Creek and it's this dual language school has just flourished in our students and our communities and the lives of our families so I'm very grateful for bcsc I'm grateful for that you guys took a chance for our kids and put them first and I think you're going to see today in our program our Legato the great things that happen and this is gonna be a first I'm actually going to speak very little uh I'm going to turn it over to Mr Happy our assistant principal and uh Gracie patina hi everyone thank you for having us um this first visual is just uh to show how much we truly have grown since 2018.

um so we had we had over well over 100 applications this year for just our two incoming kindergarten spots kind of where we're going from here so we will continue rolling through until sixth grade at Clifty Creek so next year we'll have our fifth grade classroom and then at sixth grade the year after and then continue filling out those sections in each grade level so when we are pre-k through sixth fully we hope to be around 15 classrooms with about 350 students to help us get there um this year is our first year that uh Maisha patino moved from the classroom to be an instructional coach she has been instrumental in really improving our practices and helping align K4 our Pre-K for our efforts um from Clifty Creek the Legato students will travel to Northside we are currently working with Mr Burton at Northside to see how that will look and how we'll develop that program and from there the the idea and the goal is to go to high school and get the Seal of multilingual proficiency from the state so this is just a an opportunity that we're thoughtful and planning pre-k through 12th grade for our kiddos and Maisha patino will now share even the better things about our program hola buenas noches everyone thank you for for allowing us to be here it's truly um just a blessing to be here but you might ask yourself what is legal and I know many of you are so um Legato Spanish Immersion Academy is a two-way immersion program other report asked to uh dual language immersion and you can see just our beautiful kiddos here smiling it is a program where we use two languages of course Spanish and English or academic instruction but I also providing that gift is what we call a gift of our bilingual education and the opportunity for our students to be bilingual bicultural and by literate and you might ask yourself what are these three beautiful B words right and uh bilingual means that you have the ability to speak and listen in two languages and by literate means that you're able to read and write in both languages as well as well and uh like all those Spanish Immersion Academy we're just so grateful to have that opportunity not only to be bilingual and biliterate but also by cultural because we are providing our students with the opportunity of becoming I'm just Global Learners and being able to look through different Pathways look through different cultures and be diverse and be able to seek other opportunities within their classroom setting within their school setting and their community of as well So within legado we have our students who are becoming proficient in both languages and Spanish and English and you might ask yourself as well who is legalo our students are what make up legal it's all of our students are English language Learners and our Spanish language Learners it's a whole group of kiddos who are coming together to identify their own cultural identity grow through academic success work together to just grow in in what they're learning in the classrooms what they're learning in the community and it's just beautiful to see that they're all coming together as one and they're growing together and learning together which is at bcsc which is so grateful to be part of a school Community like Clifty creek and a program like legado and of course the district that Embraces culture and it's not only your students in legalo it's also our teachers our passionate teachers our dedicated teachers our teachers full of energy who go into the classrooms every day with a smile with great enthusiasm being those Advocates and of course those teachers who are just shimmering the wealth of being culturally diverse allowing them to speak in two languages and just being there for their students so that's who legado is and you might ask yourself as well how does it work well our program to a language program has a 80 20 instructional model which of course Spanish is our target language and we're Pre-K and to first grade is taught we have their 80 20 models so 80 every day is taught in Spanish and 20 is English and you might say well what's that 20 in English it's roughly around 30 minutes of our day that it's literacy instruction for our students from pre-k to first grade well they're exploring um all kinds of activities where our teachers are committed to providing those authentic activities for our students where they're growing in both languages and Spanish and English and as they go throughout their Elementary School years leading into a 50 50 balance from their fourth to sixth grade years so it's it's truly impressive to see how our teachers are are striving to create those authentic activities for our students and igniting that Curiosity for learning but more importantly the Curiosity for language and the world around them and allowing them to be diverse Learners and just being curious of the world around them so it's truly amazing that the word that our student that our teachers and our students are doing I'm not only in the legal Spanish Immersion Academy but also within Clifty Creek because it's we're a family and we're very proud to be a cougar family and we always sit in the hallways we agree all everyone um we we say hola we say bonjourno it's really beautiful to see that we're all a cliff decree Community working together together learning and just for the betterment of our students and you can feel it whenever you walk into the hallways you'll also might ask yourself why choose Legato and we have two testimonies here from many many families of their just their testimony of saying why they chose legado and how that it just impacted their life story and it's beautiful to see that parent involvement and commitment is just key and crucial in a school studies especially in these are two of her families her current families in legado there's a Spanish and an English version so you can read those if you'd like but it's it's beautiful to see their commitment and um just that that they're a key and crucial point to the success of our students our our school community and our bilingual program so our our families are are a key a key point to to legado and it's it's beautiful to see their involvement parent meetings are a must as well in legado Spanish Immersion Academy because we see teachers that parents involved within our school building and um a year ago when I was in third grade we were able to have parents just come in one morning and just explore the classrooms of legado Spanish Immersion Academy it was beautiful to see and hear them say this is the first time I'm hearing my kiddo speak full sentences paragraphs in Spanish or English they were able to go into kindergarten classrooms all the way to third grade and Pre-K and it was just I mean it's just beautiful to see the parents commitment that they were there they were in their enthusiasm as well and they're their leaders for their kiddos any apparent involvement is more than welcome in ligado and of course Clifty Creek and it's beautiful to see that it could be like a morning like that where parents are immersed into our classrooms or where our students are maybe at the Raiders theater in Spanish for our second grade classrooms we see our parents there and it's beautiful to see their commitment there what makes legado special you will see here testimonies of current teachers that we have in legado and dual language is a very beautiful field a very interesting field as well and challenging at the same at the same time but within legado we do have our 100 teacher retention and that might be a number to some but to me that's very beautiful to see because our teachers come excited their enthusiasm is their their commitment their passion is there and their dedication as well and every morning they greet their students with a smile they greet their students with an Ola and they're ready to get the day started there might be some difficult days there might be some days where where uh maybe what am I gonna do today what's my my goal for my students today but they're greeting their students with a smile and you can have these testimonies they're in Spanish and English of what their what our teachers feel and their sense of belonging in in Clifty Creek so it's not only about legado it's it's all about our school Community as well and we truly love Lego but we truly love being a cougar family and you can feel it and and we just love that sense of belonging within our school building and part of a district that also Embraces uh cultural diversity as well as well so this is what makes legado special and not only are teachers but also our students they are our true Champions here um in legado and I asked them okay kiddos now I would love for you to tell me a little bit of why you love legado why you love being a bilingual learner what is so special about uh being a Clifty Creek cougar and this video speaks more than a thousand words like a picture and I'd love for you to hear them because this is what this is what they told me I like Legato because my teacher can help us grow a bean and I like Legato because all of my friends can help me if I need help and they're all my best friend I have my best friend out of my whole class named Melissa and she helps me with like everyone foreign is [Music] these were two siblings fourth grader and a first grader and just sharing about their love for their classroom their teachers and being a bilingual learner next we have two second graders a second grader sorry and a third grader and then just sharing a little bit more about why they love being a bilingual learner activities [Music] I like Legato because we do a lot of fun stuff and I do a lot of fun activities with my classroom and because I I love reading and writing and all the stuff that I learned about in my classroom it's been some great years of hard work and such a beautiful Journey that we've been all together in legado and we're really excited to wear um legado will be in the next couple years and how much we'll grow but we do we do say it all the time um being bilingual is a superpower and we can just see that with all of our students and these are just two extra videos that we had but um thank you for the opportunity legado has grown because of that commitment because of all of our commitments at bcsc and we're excited to see where it will continue to grow thank you [Applause] any questions always give the mic back to the principal that's what I'm learning she made sure of that right okay what questions do we have team um thank you so much for the presentation I was curious about the stats a little bit on the number of applications versus the number of seats available I think it was at the kindergarten level we've got two classrooms at each grade level now K through four oh was it twice as many applications as we had seats formed sure that's a good question so in kindergarten we accept 52 students 26 in each class but there are 20 students already coming in from pre-k so of those 56 we have 36 spots to fill and we had a hundred applications that had come in to fill in those spots okay so we have two classrooms at every single grade except fourth grade right now we have one fourth grade classroom that was our first cohort and there's 27 students in that classroom but after we we progressed through they go through sixth grade eventually we'll have two in each grade But as time goes on there is of sometimes kids that will fall out for various reasons movement Etc that would cause that number to go down a bit but we start with 26 in each classroom in kindergarten what are we thinking about the the Demand versus the supply the the demand for the program versus The Limited number of seats that we have I think the demand is appropriate right now uh it's a very unique educational environment in a dual language program and a lot of people are very intrigued about it and we're seeing our numbers go up because more people are learning about it more people are hearing about it the word is getting out our greatest success is the Word of Mouth from our families and uh the number of siblings we have coming into the program so often and and often we select our students we want half of our students to be Spanish-speaking native Spanish-speaking students and have to be non-spanish native Spanish-speaking students so there is a complex process in selecting those kiddos to make a a healthy and Equitable dual language classroom environment so there is a process in it and we sift through all those applications and um I think it's an appropriate place we're in right now for the learning process of it any other questions yep um well I two questions that are connected um my grandchildren actually started in a duolingual school in Kalamazoo Michigan and then they moved to Louisville and did not have one available I wonder if you have had kids move in from other places that were in dual language programs that started not in kindergarten but they fit into your program we have and we're excited when we're able to have those students come into Columbus and often it's the benefit benefactors of cummins or Toyota bringing those families in and they're excited I think a huge Testament is we've had several families move away for their their families employment and they enroll their children into dual language schools where they go and similar to us those students take an assessment to ensure they have the correct Spanish ability in reading and writing to go into the program and our kids continually our parents will communicate back with us that they said this is one of the highest kids we have in our in our program our 80 20 model is not always common in dual language a lot of schools in the midwest run a 50 50 model but we run an 80 20 model and it's very effective I'm so glad we chose that it is the right model and as you see in some of those videos our kids are blossoming in their Spanish and along with that is there a way for students who might not have been in a dual language but they think they might fit do you have some way that you test them that they might come in after kindergarten I'm thinking you lose spots so can you do you have ways to fill those spots I guess that's correct and we feel uh quite often Gracie will do assessments quite often if families that move in into our community and we have a lot of families that move into our community that are already native Spanish speaking and if we can be a resource of help for them if they can come into our community be plugged into a classroom know the teacher's language right away and have success on day one that's a huge win not only for that kid but for for our school corporation compared to them going into a classroom where they don't fully understand the teacher we're sending homework the parents don't and cannot read because of the language barrier and they feel disconnected but when this kid comes into our program they can literally pick up the phone call the teacher understand what's going on feel connected immediately come into our front office be met with by someone that speaks in Spanish and just feel welcomed they feel at home uh it's a it's a great feeling to see our families blossom in that and I would say in my six years of clippy Creek a number of our Hispanic families that come into our school building each day has increased dramatically the idoe certification it was on one of the first slides uh can you say just a couple sentences about what that certification is and what it would mean sure it's it's a it would be on their diploma and it's part of the certification that they can test in high school so the the goal is that they will go through Middle School Northside Middle School in the global pathway studies that they will receive their their continued Spanish education there but then when they go to high school that they would have the opportunity and they would have the choice to become multilingual in that process as well maybe they pick up Mandarin maybe it's French Japanese Italian they have that opportunity and we're setting that up so that you know I always pick on my son my son is in the program and he would want to take Spanish one in high school that that would be his genius idea but we're gonna create we're gonna stop all that and be able to have them do that before they pay Spanish one through four before they get to the high school is the goal so that they if they want to continue on and become multilingual that opportunity is there but then we'll give them the opportunity to be able to test in that proficiency to be able to go as a I think it's called the Seal of bi literacy on on their diploma which is a a big deal in the state of Indiana and for colleges and for employment we want our students to be bilingual more than that we want them to be by literate we won't be able to communicate uh effectively both in spoken word and in written form um with their with the people that they'll be working with I really appreciate the the picture of all of the teachers it looks like a great team you brought great energy tonight um the whole team did thank you for the presentation and the videos in particular were really enjoyable that was awesome thanks good job thank you [Applause] okay for recommendations you know me I'm pretty linear so I'm going to start here at the end with Mr Bryant you know okay Mr major I think yeah so the first thing I think others might say this too so anybody that's walked down that hallway thank you to Parkside and all the students have put to that artwork together it's kind of nice I when I first walked down there when I got here I really didn't even recognize it to be student artwork because felt like it was in the right place so great work there I did reach out to two different principals so I did get responses from Kelly McIntyre at bcsc pre-k obviously Pre-K there's no athletic or academic accommodations but from a staff perspective she mentioned Stacey O'Brien at Smith has a lot of passion and joy for everything she does does a great job giving up time outside normal hours to serve students families and teammates and she's a reason why the pro one of the reasons why the program was strong I hope I don't mess the name up but Lindsay Linda Weber from fadre also provided a response mentioned that the math bowl is working hard to get ready for the next competition here in another week Stephanie Keel first grade teacher earned her recertification and project-based learning and one thing that's really nice to hear too that might be another few future best practices third graders scored 15 percent higher in I read than last year so that's a that's good to hear that as well she gave me a couple other things but in with respective time I think I'll hold those back the last thing I want to talk about real quick is um one of the people I work with brought up that Smith Elementary had Vex robotics competition about a week and a half ago or so at Lucas Oil with there was about 130 other elementary schools there and uh Smith placed third in the state and that qualified them for the Vex World competition in Dallas Texas in May so I want to thank Lisa Haynes and Casey Volts for their efforts there leading that initiative at Smith thank you Echo Mr Majors contributions also in particular want to thank all of the uh CSE employees whether they're staff members or teachers and all the parents that have been involved in all of the presentations that we've had this evening you think about all the support behind those students that we recognized all the work that went into the math curriculum and great presentations about best practices tonight so thanks to all those folks thank you um for me I'd like to recognize Mr Phillips and his financial team I got to participate in a financial audit closing meeting that was very exciting um but I've been involved in many audits as part of my day job and and I think the good news was there were no I'll call them major findings everything was kind of minor administrative things opportunities for improvement we don't know how lucky we are to have a school system that's financially sound and we have a great team looking over that for us so that's that's a blessing not every school system has that so thank you thank you for the team for that there's a lot of prep work that goes into those things and then also to Mr Burnett Josh um gosh it's late I'm a morning person okay so if I missed last names I'm sorry Josh but but the teacher of the year video these these collages that we put together you just do a great job like giving us a window into the day of the life so nice work thank you uh three quick ones uh first one Friday March 24th I had the opportunity to visit Columbus signature Academy and so thank you to Mr Reed the principal and student Abby shoot who is headed to Purdue next year to study chemical engineering for the great tour and explanation of all the good things that are going on there accommodations congratulations to Columbus East Senior student athlete basketball player Sage Stahl for being named to the Indiana All-Star team that's kind of the Apex in Indiana of basketball player's dream and Sage next year Headed to ISU to play basketball she's the fourth All-Star in Girls All-Star in East history in the first in 16 years and then lastly and this was on the across the top of the front page of the Republic a little over two weeks ago but more than a thousand Indiana high school students started the participation in the Indiana poetry out loud and Columbus North Junior sharifa darshana moon jaluri was the Indiana state champion and will represent Indiana in the 2023 poetry out loud National Finals so very very cool there yep and keep going with that um one of the things that I found just recently was the bcsc C4 culinary team is going to the National Championship in May at the National Pro start Invitational in Washington DC so I'd like to congratulate it actually shows all four high schools from Bartholomew County with Coley Hera and Tyler Martin from Columbus North Alexis Janis Cisneros from CSA new tech Brittany Gonzalez Tapia from Columbus East and Wyatt sessions from Hauser so when you're at the end yours get taken but so um but I had accommodations for Lisa Haynes the only thing I will add I tried to look up today how I could help support they're trying to raise money to go and I couldn't find it so I asked her tonight because she was here as the the Smith teacher of the year and and anyone who's interested she said contact Smith Elementary directly if you want to donate to help them get to Dallas or Houston wherever they're going Dallas and the other I had was stripa with the Poetry out loud I will just mention um so there were over a thousand that started there were 14 State finalists and one of those besides sripa was Austin Menifee from CSA new tech so there were two from Columbus in the finals okay thank you okay next I believe we have school board member reports let's start with Dale switch it up um so the Columbus Youth Development hosted a Youth Empowerment Summit at the Columbus Learning Center last Friday and I attended part of it it was it was awesome there were about a hundred Bartholomew County High School students from east north and Hauser many of them were from the igrad programs at East and North the whole thing was put together by student ambassadors which I learned about is a really cool these are people that are identified as with leadership potential who aren't necessarily students who identify with leadership potential who aren't in leadership positions so they they get together they learn about leadership and they put together the program they had four breakout sessions boundaries and being me diversity which was presented by our own Mr Edwards adulting in 2023 three I was curious about that one but the one I had to go to was successful failing and it was tremendous and and their keynote speaker was Hannah Omar who talked about her own um failing and succeeding from failing thanks coming up later this month both on uh both happen to be Saturday April 29th to kick things off that morning at South Side 8 30 will be the third annual good better best 5K the the winner of What's called the out of the box teaching award will be announced and then presented a big check that morning at 8 15 and then later that day from 11 to 3 uh Beast the school foundation in partnership with the visitor center will be offering architectural tours of three bcsc schools Schmidt Smith and Richards tickets are twenty dollars and proceeds go to benefit the school Foundation information for both of those things at bcsf stars.org oh now sorry legislative report this came up earlier um first of all thanks to Senator Walker for being one of the four Indiana Senators that participated in kind of a halftime report if you will that was put on this session or the halftime report of this session put on by the school boards Association as I think Dr Roberts said earlier a little bit less than 30 days left in this legislative session it's scheduled to end Saturday April 29 and the piggy that everybody seems to be probably waiting for the Senate Appropriations Committee is is slated to vote on the Senate Republican version of House Bill 1001 next Thursday April 13th and so that will be the third version of the state budget the governor's version of being the first the house Republican conversion being the second and then the fourth version will be the last and prior to that there will be an updated revenue forecast to come out in the near future fingers crossed from for good news from that revenue forecast I would say particularly for fiscal year 25 where where the current House Bill budget is is I would say rather lean to say the least several bills relating to K-12 education that have made it out of the house and are scheduled for hearings there are many of those this Wednesday April 5th and gosh I will I will stop there I was going to go on a little bit with more with deadlines and process but I'll stop um the Bartholomew County Redevelopment commission had their meeting today so so um this committee guys is just starting to spool up so we're just starting to collect Tiff dollars I think they have about a hundred thousand dollars in the bank that we talked about today so we have a few meetings this year not a lot of money to spend on any big projects they're just accumulating wealth to help support Redevelopment kind of up in the Tiff region near the Edinburgh malls Leah Byers was was sworn in today as a new member of that committee and then I think the next meeting is June 5th to talk about approving a resolution and we'll have some more information on some of the tax District changes and I think Chad that's the one that you'll want to come that you you'll want to come to as well on June 5th okay last Monday evening the 27th of public engagement subcommittee met again we had great conversation and continue the last meeting we kind of worked on the goals what would our goals be for public engagement as an organization and I think as we move forward we'll be going from that what our goals are into how to achieve our goals foreign this month the Health Trust did not have a meeting and uh the city Redevelopment commission did meet on the 20th there was nothing new to report from last month the meeting was very short it was nine minutes long there was a note about the grand opening the 1821 Trail downtown that is this Thursday at 9 00 A.M that you all should have bought your bricks for last year when I encouraged you in every single board meeting to do so Mr bright give me anything nope nope nothing tonight okay next we have cabinet reports Dr pleep the cabinet report this evening is about a calendar change and right now I'm just in a foreign view of the requests that we're going to make at the next board meeting on April 24th if you haven't heard on April 8th 2024 about a year from now there will be a total solar eclipse in our area and we are in the pathway of it I know Dr Boseman is in a lot of conversations with those in the community about that day it's predicted that the eclipse will create challenges in communities all across cities in our state so there are a lot of state and Community city and county conversations going on about what the day will look like as it impacts the operations of the city and county including schools we had conversation with cea and with cabinet members and we are looking to make a change to the school calendar come back to you at the next four meeting for that so we can inform our families before this school year ends so they know next year's changes to the calendar the change that we are asking about is to move our bcscpd day from Thursday March 28th that's the day before Good Friday and to move that ask to Monday April 8 2024 so with that change students will come to school on Thursday March 28th as a learning day and then we'll be off Monday April 8th and while staff will be participating in MPD opportunities which creates the next question if depending on how the community is we'll impact that will that be on our 2000 employees the PD committee will take all that into consideration from city and county and to make the decision of how we will maximize the use of the PD day for learning opportunities for all employees on that day so again we will be asking at the next meeting on April 24 to move the PD day for March 28 2024 to April 8 2024.

so those two pirates on the left Maisha patino image they were our first a kindergarten Legato teachers so in 2018 they rolled in just fresh and ready to explore and then this picture on the right was just taken this just a couple weeks ago but that's how many teachers and tears we're up to now I'm just about 20 there are actually a few missing in this picture but we have just grown and gone from just two teachers bouncing ideas off each other to a whole team that can work together and collaborate and come up with great solutions for our kiddos some numbers behind that so in 2018 we started off with about 62 kids um in two kindergarten classrooms in a Pre-K room and we have gradually just grown that each year this year we're up to 10 classrooms with 220 kids we're Pre-K pre-k through fourth grade and this year we've actually seen the highest number of applications so our application process similar to the CSA programs we roll out and we've doubled an application since 2021.

thank you and and just as a reminder the solar eclipses meant to pass through Columbus around what time of day Dr please you would have been close to our dismissal around 2 30 3 o'clock I believe that's the area three o'clock okay and the whole thing is you're thinking well that's already dismissal why not a learning day but there what it is is it the increase and the concern and challenges for City and County officials is they believe all the visitors from all over our country will be coming to the area and there are different areas and it's like it will stop movement it'll stop roadways it'll stop anything like that so it's happened previously in other communities and enough so that we have a lot of communities across state that have their own website and little taglines probably selling T-shirts and all that but it only lasts about five minutes I believe but it is something that people want to come and be part of and we'll be welcoming many guests to our community on that day thank you yeah so just a reminder on that whenever we have a calendar conversation we like to give that to you as as kind of a first reading as a first reading and then come back to you after people have had a chance to think about it community's been informed to to have a vote the next time so that's we will have a recommendation for approval on April 24th okay and then geobond Phillips so this is just a reminder for you and kind of setting the the meetings to come we've discussed a couple of times in public meetings that we intend to pursue a Geo bond this fall um first action would take place in April and we post notice of public hearings and then we have four public hearings that are part of this approval process just because the Geo bond is above a certain dollar amount there's additional steps required so there'll be a public Hearing in April two more in May and then the final one in July and then the bond sale we anticipate will be sometime in August After we receive updated assessed value for 2024 and just a reminder this is a tax neutral bond issue that we're able to do because we refunded just this last a couple of months ago the 2013 projects at a lower cost and then also the 2003 projects we make that last payment this calendar year so all of those things will come to you in the next next few meetings thank you Mr Phelps okay next section of the agenda I believe we have public comments uh I believe there's one individual who'd like to speak tonight John Appleton I believe if you wouldn't mind correcting the way I said that if I was wrong apple b sorry about that oh I see it now my name is John Appleby and I am a resident of The Shadow um Shadow Creek subdivision here in Columbus this is Karen Abel she is with Brighton Realtors here in Columbus as well um I'm a fairly new Resident to Indiana and unfortunately due to the sudden passing of my wife I've had to put my home up for sale and in this situation we've discovered that for some reason my home is the only home that is sending children to Mount Healthy whereas everyone else around my development is going to South Side so I am seeking the boards help to redistrict my property to Southside Elementary um Karen was able to get a contract on the house and unfortunately the contract was voided due to incorrect School District information so I'm not just looking at this for myself but I'm looking at it for the future of any families that are going to own this home you know as we grow up typically we love our friends to be surrounding us and we all want to go to the same school so that is the reason for my request I am going to pass you a map which kind of illustrates the scenario my home is down here in this corner that's the only homegoing amount healthy whereas all the blue is south side my address is 1938 Creekstone Drive Columbus what I'm asking of the board is what my few further steps would need to be if any and I appreciate your time and your consideration of this situation if you have any questions of me this job will be may I take a photo of this that's just from my records thank you thank you well that's being passed down I I am thankfully new to anything districting related and I don't understand the process at all for for things such as this could anybody just give some background information on how how this how these things happen or work I can give a little bit but redistrating itself is a relatively complex process um that area was redistrict in 2011 I believe when there was overcrowding at South Side so lines drawn in in the neighborhood and some homes then in Shadow Creek are going to Mount Healthy in other homes are going to to South Side with I don't know exactly we'll have to dig into that one in terms of that one house surrounded by others or whatever that case might be but it's it's a about 12 years ago that was created and that's the circumstance so there certainly are homes or families who can see South Side Elementary but go to Mount Healthy the kid's good about healthy so is this something that we can control or is this going to like the zoning board no it's a redistricting or deciding where students go to school is it was able word eventually a board decision yeah they did not just we'll do we'll do stated and this is understanding the challenges um changing one house it was probably not what you could do you'd have to look at that entire situation or circumstance any other questions for Mr Appleby from the team we can have a couple of people take a look at that and at least have further conversation we're sorry for your loss sir thank you for coming to talk to us tonight appreciate it so in no further steps that I need to do at this point no we will need to do do we have your contact information [Laughter] thank you sir okay next we have a requests for approval Dr Roberts it's quite the list um so I'll just uh review and then we'll take it from there um a lot of things we've had several meetings even though we only had one regular session meeting in March we do have the minutes of that meeting but also minutes of executive sessions on March 8th March 24th and March 28th as well as a strategic planning session on March 24th so you guys were together quite a bit supplemental contracts you have a list of those as well field trips and professional leads are included for in your packet as well as our school fundraisers we have claims in payroll um the claims for March 6 were just a little over a million dollars the payroll about 7.1 dollars and that payroll covers the check dates of March 10th and March 24th included the work period from February 13th through March 12th so a month it also included some extended season athletic payments as well as some scheduled B and C coaches payments so there were some additional payments in there we also have from Dr Boseman a request to receive permission to award a guaranteed maximum price or GMP Amendment a second one for heating ventilation and air conditioning for Schmidt Elementary School uh we also have a request from Dr Boseman and AJ McKeon to declare certain school buses as Surplus and then have the ability to donate and or trade or sell those we also have a recommendation for the elementary math resource adoption so similar um meeting you heard a presentation from our team that's listed there so as a first reading and now we're asking for your approval tonight the secondary math adoption was was a presentation tonight we will ask for its approval on April the 24th the next meeting uh we have a privilege Jewel agreement settlement so that was a long process and probably do people do realize that nationally a lot of individuals had joined into this lawsuit against Jewel and we do have a settlement amount of of approaching three hundred thousand dollars to the school corporation so we need to approve that settlement and sign paperwork and move that on so we're asking for your approval to settle with Jewel and receive uh approximately uh three hundred thousand dollars for for that the we also have based upon the public hearing today tonight a request for that 2023 additional appropriation resolution that was uh six hundred thousand dollars and then we do have uh the upholding of an explosion examiner's determination regarding student discipline there was an appeal to that so we're asking that you uphold that and that is the list of items I have letters a through K are my recommendations thank you Dr Roberts do I have a motion Miss swelden before we uh take a vote I would like to request that letter J be removed and voted on separately the additional appropriation resolution okay Mr McIver is nothing more than that is there except just one member asking that being moved off okay okay we'll take letter J out of there so recommendation would change to a through I and then K do I have a motion real quick um I do have one question about age and once we get through a motion in a second then we go for questions and comments if you're able to okay is that okay yeah I could wait I'm Mike's teaching me okay I'm following rules here Robert's Rule okay yeah yeah can we do that then please so yeah so Mr major request for letter H to be pulled out as well so that recommendation now changes to a through G I in case of whoever's making that motion and since I missed the meeting for k I will abstain from that vote so do we need to vote on that separately yeah okay so yeah because I've traveled I I think so Mrs will and so recommendation based on those three being moved out of the consent agenda item we would have a through G which takes us through the um typical a through e and then the guaranteed maximum price Amendment for HVAC is Schmidt and the declaring school bus is a surplus so a through G and then also the approval of the Dual agreement settlement letter i a through G and I move that we approve the consent agenda items in number three letters a through G and I as presented thank you Mr Grimes do you have a second second thank you Logan all those in favor a question yeah real quick the only question I have is this uh Jewel agreement what is that money going to be put towards yes real good question Mr major what we want to do is make sure that we use that dollar Mount somehow toward the issue that was caused right we joined into the jewel lawsuit because there has been a tremendous increase of vaping uh what that Remedy or solution looks like for us we don't have that Mr Phillips in terms of receipt of those dollars we signed a paperwork get things in we're looking at a a a a single dollar knot to begin with and then a couple of years of smaller dollar amounts right right and it's the total settlement amount is just under 300 000 we expect to actually collect more closer to 200 000.

um so we had we had over well over 100 applications this year for just our two incoming kindergarten spots kind of where we're going from here so we will continue rolling through until sixth grade at Clifty Creek so next year we'll have our fifth grade classroom and then at sixth grade the year after and then continue filling out those sections in each grade level so when we are pre-k through sixth fully we hope to be around 15 classrooms with about 350 students to help us get there um this year is our first year that uh Maisha patino moved from the classroom to be an instructional coach she has been instrumental in really improving our practices and helping align K4 our Pre-K for our efforts um from Clifty Creek the Legato students will travel to Northside we are currently working with Mr Burton at Northside to see how that will look and how we'll develop that program and from there the the idea and the goal is to go to high school and get the Seal of multilingual proficiency from the state so this is just a an opportunity that we're thoughtful and planning pre-k through 12th grade for our kiddos and Maisha patino will now share even the better things about our program hola buenas noches everyone thank you for for allowing us to be here it's truly um just a blessing to be here but you might ask yourself what is legal and I know many of you are so um Legato Spanish Immersion Academy is a two-way immersion program other report asked to uh dual language immersion and you can see just our beautiful kiddos here smiling it is a program where we use two languages of course Spanish and English or academic instruction but I also providing that gift is what we call a gift of our bilingual education and the opportunity for our students to be bilingual bicultural and by literate and you might ask yourself what are these three beautiful B words right and uh bilingual means that you have the ability to speak and listen in two languages and by literate means that you're able to read and write in both languages as well as well and uh like all those Spanish Immersion Academy we're just so grateful to have that opportunity not only to be bilingual and biliterate but also by cultural because we are providing our students with the opportunity of becoming I'm just Global Learners and being able to look through different Pathways look through different cultures and be diverse and be able to seek other opportunities within their classroom setting within their school setting and their community of as well So within legado we have our students who are becoming proficient in both languages and Spanish and English and you might ask yourself as well who is legalo our students are what make up legal it's all of our students are English language Learners and our Spanish language Learners it's a whole group of kiddos who are coming together to identify their own cultural identity grow through academic success work together to just grow in in what they're learning in the classrooms what they're learning in the community and it's just beautiful to see that they're all coming together as one and they're growing together and learning together which is at bcsc which is so grateful to be part of a school Community like Clifty creek and a program like legado and of course the district that Embraces culture and it's not only your students in legalo it's also our teachers our passionate teachers our dedicated teachers our teachers full of energy who go into the classrooms every day with a smile with great enthusiasm being those Advocates and of course those teachers who are just shimmering the wealth of being culturally diverse allowing them to speak in two languages and just being there for their students so that's who legado is and you might ask yourself as well how does it work well our program to a language program has a 80 20 instructional model which of course Spanish is our target language and we're Pre-K and to first grade is taught we have their 80 20 models so 80 every day is taught in Spanish and 20 is English and you might say well what's that 20 in English it's roughly around 30 minutes of our day that it's literacy instruction for our students from pre-k to first grade well they're exploring um all kinds of activities where our teachers are committed to providing those authentic activities for our students where they're growing in both languages and Spanish and English and as they go throughout their Elementary School years leading into a 50 50 balance from their fourth to sixth grade years so it's it's truly impressive to see how our teachers are are striving to create those authentic activities for our students and igniting that Curiosity for learning but more importantly the Curiosity for language and the world around them and allowing them to be diverse Learners and just being curious of the world around them so it's truly amazing that the word that our student that our teachers and our students are doing I'm not only in the legal Spanish Immersion Academy but also within Clifty Creek because it's we're a family and we're very proud to be a cougar family and we always sit in the hallways we agree all everyone um we we say hola we say bonjourno it's really beautiful to see that we're all a cliff decree Community working together together learning and just for the betterment of our students and you can feel it whenever you walk into the hallways you'll also might ask yourself why choose Legato and we have two testimonies here from many many families of their just their testimony of saying why they chose legado and how that it just impacted their life story and it's beautiful to see that parent involvement and commitment is just key and crucial in a school studies especially in these are two of her families her current families in legado there's a Spanish and an English version so you can read those if you'd like but it's it's beautiful to see their commitment and um just that that they're a key and crucial point to the success of our students our our school community and our bilingual program so our our families are are a key a key point to to legado and it's it's beautiful to see their involvement parent meetings are a must as well in legado Spanish Immersion Academy because we see teachers that parents involved within our school building and um a year ago when I was in third grade we were able to have parents just come in one morning and just explore the classrooms of legado Spanish Immersion Academy it was beautiful to see and hear them say this is the first time I'm hearing my kiddo speak full sentences paragraphs in Spanish or English they were able to go into kindergarten classrooms all the way to third grade and Pre-K and it was just I mean it's just beautiful to see the parents commitment that they were there they were in their enthusiasm as well and they're their leaders for their kiddos any apparent involvement is more than welcome in ligado and of course Clifty Creek and it's beautiful to see that it could be like a morning like that where parents are immersed into our classrooms or where our students are maybe at the Raiders theater in Spanish for our second grade classrooms we see our parents there and it's beautiful to see their commitment there what makes legado special you will see here testimonies of current teachers that we have in legado and dual language is a very beautiful field a very interesting field as well and challenging at the same at the same time but within legado we do have our 100 teacher retention and that might be a number to some but to me that's very beautiful to see because our teachers come excited their enthusiasm is their their commitment their passion is there and their dedication as well and every morning they greet their students with a smile they greet their students with an Ola and they're ready to get the day started there might be some difficult days there might be some days where where uh maybe what am I gonna do today what's my my goal for my students today but they're greeting their students with a smile and you can have these testimonies they're in Spanish and English of what their what our teachers feel and their sense of belonging in in Clifty Creek so it's not only about legado it's it's all about our school Community as well and we truly love Lego but we truly love being a cougar family and you can feel it and and we just love that sense of belonging within our school building and part of a district that also Embraces uh cultural diversity as well as well so this is what makes legado special and not only are teachers but also our students they are our true Champions here um in legado and I asked them okay kiddos now I would love for you to tell me a little bit of why you love legado why you love being a bilingual learner what is so special about uh being a Clifty Creek cougar and this video speaks more than a thousand words like a picture and I'd love for you to hear them because this is what this is what they told me I like Legato because my teacher can help us grow a bean and I like Legato because all of my friends can help me if I need help and they're all my best friend I have my best friend out of my whole class named Melissa and she helps me with like everyone foreign is [Music] these were two siblings fourth grader and a first grader and just sharing about their love for their classroom their teachers and being a bilingual learner next we have two second graders a second grader sorry and a third grader and then just sharing a little bit more about why they love being a bilingual learner activities [Music] I like Legato because we do a lot of fun stuff and I do a lot of fun activities with my classroom and because I I love reading and writing and all the stuff that I learned about in my classroom it's been some great years of hard work and such a beautiful Journey that we've been all together in legado and we're really excited to wear um legado will be in the next couple years and how much we'll grow but we do we do say it all the time um being bilingual is a superpower and we can just see that with all of our students and these are just two extra videos that we had but um thank you for the opportunity legado has grown because of that commitment because of all of our commitments at bcsc and we're excited to see where it will continue to grow thank you [Applause] any questions always give the mic back to the principal that's what I'm learning she made sure of that right okay what questions do we have team um thank you so much for the presentation I was curious about the stats a little bit on the number of applications versus the number of seats available I think it was at the kindergarten level we've got two classrooms at each grade level now K through four oh was it twice as many applications as we had seats formed sure that's a good question so in kindergarten we accept 52 students 26 in each class but there are 20 students already coming in from pre-k so of those 56 we have 36 spots to fill and we had a hundred applications that had come in to fill in those spots okay so we have two classrooms at every single grade except fourth grade right now we have one fourth grade classroom that was our first cohort and there's 27 students in that classroom but after we we progressed through they go through sixth grade eventually we'll have two in each grade But as time goes on there is of sometimes kids that will fall out for various reasons movement Etc that would cause that number to go down a bit but we start with 26 in each classroom in kindergarten what are we thinking about the the Demand versus the supply the the demand for the program versus The Limited number of seats that we have I think the demand is appropriate right now uh it's a very unique educational environment in a dual language program and a lot of people are very intrigued about it and we're seeing our numbers go up because more people are learning about it more people are hearing about it the word is getting out our greatest success is the Word of Mouth from our families and uh the number of siblings we have coming into the program so often and and often we select our students we want half of our students to be Spanish-speaking native Spanish-speaking students and have to be non-spanish native Spanish-speaking students so there is a complex process in selecting those kiddos to make a a healthy and Equitable dual language classroom environment so there is a process in it and we sift through all those applications and um I think it's an appropriate place we're in right now for the learning process of it any other questions yep um well I two questions that are connected um my grandchildren actually started in a duolingual school in Kalamazoo Michigan and then they moved to Louisville and did not have one available I wonder if you have had kids move in from other places that were in dual language programs that started not in kindergarten but they fit into your program we have and we're excited when we're able to have those students come into Columbus and often it's the benefit benefactors of cummins or Toyota bringing those families in and they're excited I think a huge Testament is we've had several families move away for their their families employment and they enroll their children into dual language schools where they go and similar to us those students take an assessment to ensure they have the correct Spanish ability in reading and writing to go into the program and our kids continually our parents will communicate back with us that they said this is one of the highest kids we have in our in our program our 80 20 model is not always common in dual language a lot of schools in the midwest run a 50 50 model but we run an 80 20 model and it's very effective I'm so glad we chose that it is the right model and as you see in some of those videos our kids are blossoming in their Spanish and along with that is there a way for students who might not have been in a dual language but they think they might fit do you have some way that you test them that they might come in after kindergarten I'm thinking you lose spots so can you do you have ways to fill those spots I guess that's correct and we feel uh quite often Gracie will do assessments quite often if families that move in into our community and we have a lot of families that move into our community that are already native Spanish speaking and if we can be a resource of help for them if they can come into our community be plugged into a classroom know the teacher's language right away and have success on day one that's a huge win not only for that kid but for for our school corporation compared to them going into a classroom where they don't fully understand the teacher we're sending homework the parents don't and cannot read because of the language barrier and they feel disconnected but when this kid comes into our program they can literally pick up the phone call the teacher understand what's going on feel connected immediately come into our front office be met with by someone that speaks in Spanish and just feel welcomed they feel at home uh it's a it's a great feeling to see our families blossom in that and I would say in my six years of clippy Creek a number of our Hispanic families that come into our school building each day has increased dramatically the idoe certification it was on one of the first slides uh can you say just a couple sentences about what that certification is and what it would mean sure it's it's a it would be on their diploma and it's part of the certification that they can test in high school so the the goal is that they will go through Middle School Northside Middle School in the global pathway studies that they will receive their their continued Spanish education there but then when they go to high school that they would have the opportunity and they would have the choice to become multilingual in that process as well maybe they pick up Mandarin maybe it's French Japanese Italian they have that opportunity and we're setting that up so that you know I always pick on my son my son is in the program and he would want to take Spanish one in high school that that would be his genius idea but we're gonna create we're gonna stop all that and be able to have them do that before they pay Spanish one through four before they get to the high school is the goal so that they if they want to continue on and become multilingual that opportunity is there but then we'll give them the opportunity to be able to test in that proficiency to be able to go as a I think it's called the Seal of bi literacy on on their diploma which is a a big deal in the state of Indiana and for colleges and for employment we want our students to be bilingual more than that we want them to be by literate we won't be able to communicate uh effectively both in spoken word and in written form um with their with the people that they'll be working with I really appreciate the the picture of all of the teachers it looks like a great team you brought great energy tonight um the whole team did thank you for the presentation and the videos in particular were really enjoyable that was awesome thanks good job thank you [Applause] okay for recommendations you know me I'm pretty linear so I'm going to start here at the end with Mr Bryant you know okay Mr major I think yeah so the first thing I think others might say this too so anybody that's walked down that hallway thank you to Parkside and all the students have put to that artwork together it's kind of nice I when I first walked down there when I got here I really didn't even recognize it to be student artwork because felt like it was in the right place so great work there I did reach out to two different principals so I did get responses from Kelly McIntyre at bcsc pre-k obviously Pre-K there's no athletic or academic accommodations but from a staff perspective she mentioned Stacey O'Brien at Smith has a lot of passion and joy for everything she does does a great job giving up time outside normal hours to serve students families and teammates and she's a reason why the pro one of the reasons why the program was strong I hope I don't mess the name up but Lindsay Linda Weber from fadre also provided a response mentioned that the math bowl is working hard to get ready for the next competition here in another week Stephanie Keel first grade teacher earned her recertification and project-based learning and one thing that's really nice to hear too that might be another few future best practices third graders scored 15 percent higher in I read than last year so that's a that's good to hear that as well she gave me a couple other things but in with respective time I think I'll hold those back the last thing I want to talk about real quick is um one of the people I work with brought up that Smith Elementary had Vex robotics competition about a week and a half ago or so at Lucas Oil with there was about 130 other elementary schools there and uh Smith placed third in the state and that qualified them for the Vex World competition in Dallas Texas in May so I want to thank Lisa Haynes and Casey Volts for their efforts there leading that initiative at Smith thank you Echo Mr Majors contributions also in particular want to thank all of the uh CSE employees whether they're staff members or teachers and all the parents that have been involved in all of the presentations that we've had this evening you think about all the support behind those students that we recognized all the work that went into the math curriculum and great presentations about best practices tonight so thanks to all those folks thank you um for me I'd like to recognize Mr Phillips and his financial team I got to participate in a financial audit closing meeting that was very exciting um but I've been involved in many audits as part of my day job and and I think the good news was there were no I'll call them major findings everything was kind of minor administrative things opportunities for improvement we don't know how lucky we are to have a school system that's financially sound and we have a great team looking over that for us so that's that's a blessing not every school system has that so thank you thank you for the team for that there's a lot of prep work that goes into those things and then also to Mr Burnett Josh um gosh it's late I'm a morning person okay so if I missed last names I'm sorry Josh but but the teacher of the year video these these collages that we put together you just do a great job like giving us a window into the day of the life so nice work thank you uh three quick ones uh first one Friday March 24th I had the opportunity to visit Columbus signature Academy and so thank you to Mr Reed the principal and student Abby shoot who is headed to Purdue next year to study chemical engineering for the great tour and explanation of all the good things that are going on there accommodations congratulations to Columbus East Senior student athlete basketball player Sage Stahl for being named to the Indiana All-Star team that's kind of the Apex in Indiana of basketball player's dream and Sage next year Headed to ISU to play basketball she's the fourth All-Star in Girls All-Star in East history in the first in 16 years and then lastly and this was on the across the top of the front page of the Republic a little over two weeks ago but more than a thousand Indiana high school students started the participation in the Indiana poetry out loud and Columbus North Junior sharifa darshana moon jaluri was the Indiana state champion and will represent Indiana in the 2023 poetry out loud National Finals so very very cool there yep and keep going with that um one of the things that I found just recently was the bcsc C4 culinary team is going to the National Championship in May at the National Pro start Invitational in Washington DC so I'd like to congratulate it actually shows all four high schools from Bartholomew County with Coley Hera and Tyler Martin from Columbus North Alexis Janis Cisneros from CSA new tech Brittany Gonzalez Tapia from Columbus East and Wyatt sessions from Hauser so when you're at the end yours get taken but so um but I had accommodations for Lisa Haynes the only thing I will add I tried to look up today how I could help support they're trying to raise money to go and I couldn't find it so I asked her tonight because she was here as the the Smith teacher of the year and and anyone who's interested she said contact Smith Elementary directly if you want to donate to help them get to Dallas or Houston wherever they're going Dallas and the other I had was stripa with the Poetry out loud I will just mention um so there were over a thousand that started there were 14 State finalists and one of those besides sripa was Austin Menifee from CSA new tech so there were two from Columbus in the finals okay thank you okay next I believe we have school board member reports let's start with Dale switch it up um so the Columbus Youth Development hosted a Youth Empowerment Summit at the Columbus Learning Center last Friday and I attended part of it it was it was awesome there were about a hundred Bartholomew County High School students from east north and Hauser many of them were from the igrad programs at East and North the whole thing was put together by student ambassadors which I learned about is a really cool these are people that are identified as with leadership potential who aren't necessarily students who identify with leadership potential who aren't in leadership positions so they they get together they learn about leadership and they put together the program they had four breakout sessions boundaries and being me diversity which was presented by our own Mr Edwards adulting in 2023 three I was curious about that one but the one I had to go to was successful failing and it was tremendous and and their keynote speaker was Hannah Omar who talked about her own um failing and succeeding from failing thanks coming up later this month both on uh both happen to be Saturday April 29th to kick things off that morning at South Side 8 30 will be the third annual good better best 5K the the winner of What's called the out of the box teaching award will be announced and then presented a big check that morning at 8 15 and then later that day from 11 to 3 uh Beast the school foundation in partnership with the visitor center will be offering architectural tours of three bcsc schools Schmidt Smith and Richards tickets are twenty dollars and proceeds go to benefit the school Foundation information for both of those things at bcsf stars.org oh now sorry legislative report this came up earlier um first of all thanks to Senator Walker for being one of the four Indiana Senators that participated in kind of a halftime report if you will that was put on this session or the halftime report of this session put on by the school boards Association as I think Dr Roberts said earlier a little bit less than 30 days left in this legislative session it's scheduled to end Saturday April 29 and the piggy that everybody seems to be probably waiting for the Senate Appropriations Committee is is slated to vote on the Senate Republican version of House Bill 1001 next Thursday April 13th and so that will be the third version of the state budget the governor's version of being the first the house Republican conversion being the second and then the fourth version will be the last and prior to that there will be an updated revenue forecast to come out in the near future fingers crossed from for good news from that revenue forecast I would say particularly for fiscal year 25 where where the current House Bill budget is is I would say rather lean to say the least several bills relating to K-12 education that have made it out of the house and are scheduled for hearings there are many of those this Wednesday April 5th and gosh I will I will stop there I was going to go on a little bit with more with deadlines and process but I'll stop um the Bartholomew County Redevelopment commission had their meeting today so so um this committee guys is just starting to spool up so we're just starting to collect Tiff dollars I think they have about a hundred thousand dollars in the bank that we talked about today so we have a few meetings this year not a lot of money to spend on any big projects they're just accumulating wealth to help support Redevelopment kind of up in the Tiff region near the Edinburgh malls Leah Byers was was sworn in today as a new member of that committee and then I think the next meeting is June 5th to talk about approving a resolution and we'll have some more information on some of the tax District changes and I think Chad that's the one that you'll want to come that you you'll want to come to as well on June 5th okay last Monday evening the 27th of public engagement subcommittee met again we had great conversation and continue the last meeting we kind of worked on the goals what would our goals be for public engagement as an organization and I think as we move forward we'll be going from that what our goals are into how to achieve our goals foreign this month the Health Trust did not have a meeting and uh the city Redevelopment commission did meet on the 20th there was nothing new to report from last month the meeting was very short it was nine minutes long there was a note about the grand opening the 1821 Trail downtown that is this Thursday at 9 00 A.M that you all should have bought your bricks for last year when I encouraged you in every single board meeting to do so Mr bright give me anything nope nope nothing tonight okay next we have cabinet reports Dr pleep the cabinet report this evening is about a calendar change and right now I'm just in a foreign view of the requests that we're going to make at the next board meeting on April 24th if you haven't heard on April 8th 2024 about a year from now there will be a total solar eclipse in our area and we are in the pathway of it I know Dr Boseman is in a lot of conversations with those in the community about that day it's predicted that the eclipse will create challenges in communities all across cities in our state so there are a lot of state and Community city and county conversations going on about what the day will look like as it impacts the operations of the city and county including schools we had conversation with cea and with cabinet members and we are looking to make a change to the school calendar come back to you at the next four meeting for that so we can inform our families before this school year ends so they know next year's changes to the calendar the change that we are asking about is to move our bcscpd day from Thursday March 28th that's the day before Good Friday and to move that ask to Monday April 8 2024 so with that change students will come to school on Thursday March 28th as a learning day and then we'll be off Monday April 8th and while staff will be participating in MPD opportunities which creates the next question if depending on how the community is we'll impact that will that be on our 2000 employees the PD committee will take all that into consideration from city and county and to make the decision of how we will maximize the use of the PD day for learning opportunities for all employees on that day so again we will be asking at the next meeting on April 24 to move the PD day for March 28 2024 to April 8 2024.

thank you after returning fees somebody has to get some of that dollar and then so 50 of That's supposed to come sometimes sometime towards the end of this calendar year and then two smaller payments each of the following two years and I think Dr we were talking about this said it best we would love to use that in a way that actually helps kids stop vaping we just need to put together a group to to really look at that and see if the best use of that is yeah and I I that's where I was kind of ahead it was is this going to be treated like a restricted Grant where it has to be spent on certain things and it sounds like it most likely is it does it's not required to be that way but we would like to look at it that way and bring you a proposal as to how those dollars would be used probably our Wellness Council being a good one to take a look at this from a district perspective and come up with a recommendation thank you okay just since it's a one-time source of funds we'll look at using the funds in a one-time kind of way mostly yeah again we have those couple of extra payments that will come out after that first one but yeah we're looking toward a one-time thing that does not result in us having an unfunded situation or cliff okay all those in favor of recruiting consent agenda items a through G and item I say I oh there's a post Mission approved thank you I think next we will move on to uh letter H which is elementary math resource adoption so any moves that we approve item H elementary math adoption thank you Mr nallen do I have a second second thank you Mr Grimes any comments or questions yeah the question I had was related to the document that Dr hackson out a week or so ago and it was a good breakdown of different School corporations and the fifth and sixth grade proficiency levels of each along with their math resources our our go math puts uh I'll just go off with sixth grade is around 40 percent math proficiency looking at I believe it was Eureka Math that we're proposing other school corporations Marion schools obviously they're newer only having used this tool for two years 25 percent Northern Wells two years fifty percent and uh Batesville uh two years 47 percent compared to Envision maths of Oz uh New Albany which is comparable to us maybe about a hundred person 100 student difference is uh 45 to R40 Center Grove is 58 percent and Batesville or sorry Batesville is 47.

thank you and and just as a reminder the solar eclipses meant to pass through Columbus around what time of day Dr please you would have been close to our dismissal around 2 30 3 o'clock I believe that's the area three o'clock okay and the whole thing is you're thinking well that's already dismissal why not a learning day but there what it is is it the increase and the concern and challenges for City and County officials is they believe all the visitors from all over our country will be coming to the area and there are different areas and it's like it will stop movement it'll stop roadways it'll stop anything like that so it's happened previously in other communities and enough so that we have a lot of communities across state that have their own website and little taglines probably selling T-shirts and all that but it only lasts about five minutes I believe but it is something that people want to come and be part of and we'll be welcoming many guests to our community on that day thank you yeah so just a reminder on that whenever we have a calendar conversation we like to give that to you as as kind of a first reading as a first reading and then come back to you after people have had a chance to think about it community's been informed to to have a vote the next time so that's we will have a recommendation for approval on April 24th okay and then geobond Phillips so this is just a reminder for you and kind of setting the the meetings to come we've discussed a couple of times in public meetings that we intend to pursue a Geo bond this fall um first action would take place in April and we post notice of public hearings and then we have four public hearings that are part of this approval process just because the Geo bond is above a certain dollar amount there's additional steps required so there'll be a public Hearing in April two more in May and then the final one in July and then the bond sale we anticipate will be sometime in August After we receive updated assessed value for 2024 and just a reminder this is a tax neutral bond issue that we're able to do because we refunded just this last a couple of months ago the 2013 projects at a lower cost and then also the 2003 projects we make that last payment this calendar year so all of those things will come to you in the next next few meetings thank you Mr Phelps okay next section of the agenda I believe we have public comments uh I believe there's one individual who'd like to speak tonight John Appleton I believe if you wouldn't mind correcting the way I said that if I was wrong apple b sorry about that oh I see it now my name is John Appleby and I am a resident of The Shadow um Shadow Creek subdivision here in Columbus this is Karen Abel she is with Brighton Realtors here in Columbus as well um I'm a fairly new Resident to Indiana and unfortunately due to the sudden passing of my wife I've had to put my home up for sale and in this situation we've discovered that for some reason my home is the only home that is sending children to Mount Healthy whereas everyone else around my development is going to South Side so I am seeking the boards help to redistrict my property to Southside Elementary um Karen was able to get a contract on the house and unfortunately the contract was voided due to incorrect School District information so I'm not just looking at this for myself but I'm looking at it for the future of any families that are going to own this home you know as we grow up typically we love our friends to be surrounding us and we all want to go to the same school so that is the reason for my request I am going to pass you a map which kind of illustrates the scenario my home is down here in this corner that's the only homegoing amount healthy whereas all the blue is south side my address is 1938 Creekstone Drive Columbus what I'm asking of the board is what my few further steps would need to be if any and I appreciate your time and your consideration of this situation if you have any questions of me this job will be may I take a photo of this that's just from my records thank you thank you well that's being passed down I I am thankfully new to anything districting related and I don't understand the process at all for for things such as this could anybody just give some background information on how how this how these things happen or work I can give a little bit but redistrating itself is a relatively complex process um that area was redistrict in 2011 I believe when there was overcrowding at South Side so lines drawn in in the neighborhood and some homes then in Shadow Creek are going to Mount Healthy in other homes are going to to South Side with I don't know exactly we'll have to dig into that one in terms of that one house surrounded by others or whatever that case might be but it's it's a about 12 years ago that was created and that's the circumstance so there certainly are homes or families who can see South Side Elementary but go to Mount Healthy the kid's good about healthy so is this something that we can control or is this going to like the zoning board no it's a redistricting or deciding where students go to school is it was able word eventually a board decision yeah they did not just we'll do we'll do stated and this is understanding the challenges um changing one house it was probably not what you could do you'd have to look at that entire situation or circumstance any other questions for Mr Appleby from the team we can have a couple of people take a look at that and at least have further conversation we're sorry for your loss sir thank you for coming to talk to us tonight appreciate it so in no further steps that I need to do at this point no we will need to do do we have your contact information [Laughter] thank you sir okay next we have a requests for approval Dr Roberts it's quite the list um so I'll just uh review and then we'll take it from there um a lot of things we've had several meetings even though we only had one regular session meeting in March we do have the minutes of that meeting but also minutes of executive sessions on March 8th March 24th and March 28th as well as a strategic planning session on March 24th so you guys were together quite a bit supplemental contracts you have a list of those as well field trips and professional leads are included for in your packet as well as our school fundraisers we have claims in payroll um the claims for March 6 were just a little over a million dollars the payroll about 7.1 dollars and that payroll covers the check dates of March 10th and March 24th included the work period from February 13th through March 12th so a month it also included some extended season athletic payments as well as some scheduled B and C coaches payments so there were some additional payments in there we also have from Dr Boseman a request to receive permission to award a guaranteed maximum price or GMP Amendment a second one for heating ventilation and air conditioning for Schmidt Elementary School uh we also have a request from Dr Boseman and AJ McKeon to declare certain school buses as Surplus and then have the ability to donate and or trade or sell those we also have a recommendation for the elementary math resource adoption so similar um meeting you heard a presentation from our team that's listed there so as a first reading and now we're asking for your approval tonight the secondary math adoption was was a presentation tonight we will ask for its approval on April the 24th the next meeting uh we have a privilege Jewel agreement settlement so that was a long process and probably do people do realize that nationally a lot of individuals had joined into this lawsuit against Jewel and we do have a settlement amount of of approaching three hundred thousand dollars to the school corporation so we need to approve that settlement and sign paperwork and move that on so we're asking for your approval to settle with Jewel and receive uh approximately uh three hundred thousand dollars for for that the we also have based upon the public hearing today tonight a request for that 2023 additional appropriation resolution that was uh six hundred thousand dollars and then we do have uh the upholding of an explosion examiner's determination regarding student discipline there was an appeal to that so we're asking that you uphold that and that is the list of items I have letters a through K are my recommendations thank you Dr Roberts do I have a motion Miss swelden before we uh take a vote I would like to request that letter J be removed and voted on separately the additional appropriation resolution okay Mr McIver is nothing more than that is there except just one member asking that being moved off okay okay we'll take letter J out of there so recommendation would change to a through I and then K do I have a motion real quick um I do have one question about age and once we get through a motion in a second then we go for questions and comments if you're able to okay is that okay yeah I could wait I'm Mike's teaching me okay I'm following rules here Robert's Rule okay yeah yeah can we do that then please so yeah so Mr major request for letter H to be pulled out as well so that recommendation now changes to a through G I in case of whoever's making that motion and since I missed the meeting for k I will abstain from that vote so do we need to vote on that separately yeah okay so yeah because I've traveled I I think so Mrs will and so recommendation based on those three being moved out of the consent agenda item we would have a through G which takes us through the um typical a through e and then the guaranteed maximum price Amendment for HVAC is Schmidt and the declaring school bus is a surplus so a through G and then also the approval of the Dual agreement settlement letter i a through G and I move that we approve the consent agenda items in number three letters a through G and I as presented thank you Mr Grimes do you have a second second thank you Logan all those in favor a question yeah real quick the only question I have is this uh Jewel agreement what is that money going to be put towards yes real good question Mr major what we want to do is make sure that we use that dollar Mount somehow toward the issue that was caused right we joined into the jewel lawsuit because there has been a tremendous increase of vaping uh what that Remedy or solution looks like for us we don't have that Mr Phillips in terms of receipt of those dollars we signed a paperwork get things in we're looking at a a a a single dollar knot to begin with and then a couple of years of smaller dollar amounts right right and it's the total settlement amount is just under 300 000 we expect to actually collect more closer to 200 000.

Green Castle was the other one that was Eureka that was 38 my my concern with um Eureka is that in two out of three of the cases where Eureka is used their performance is less than ours and three out of three Envision is greater so I just I know there's a lot of work that was put into this I just kind of want to understand a little bit about um what the what the differences between envision and Eureka and why it looked a consistently perform better for students I'll appreciate anyone answering thank you so glad you were able to read the Friday notes and let us explain a little bit more about the process as well as data collected around the state I will let Gail respond to that just making sure we understood the question first as well as all the complexities that go into all those scores when they adopted how they did PD how they rolled it out are they consumables so there are other things that aren't listed on that sheet that really that really make up the curriculum and the components of what happens inside that math class so while there are a few facts on there there are multiple multitude of many things that happen within that math classroom so that's that's one big reason that we like Eureka Math because we really are going more into complex math I know that you're asking specifically about enVision Math and that is not one that even landed as our one of our final three again looking around those eight principles of teaching mathematics and where our kids are and where we want them to go and teachers understanding that we're missing that conceptual piece so really looking for a program that would help us as teachers to be able to help students so things like manipulatives and exploration and what does that mean and multiple strategies and and even to go back to what the secondary people said tonight that conceptual development with procedural fluency coming with time so it's not going to be an immediate overnight that we might see a change it's going to take some time but then that can't be taken away from us because we have that conceptual development not just procedural fluency we can teach kids to do a problem we can teach the steps to the process but if that Pro if that application has changed if the scenario is changed if the student has to make a decision about which process to use that's where we're struggling so we really wanted to find that piece that would help us to build that framework so that we continue to grow I can't speak specifically to Envision don't have that material in front of me I don't have my paperwork in front of me to to speak directly to that program but I do know that it didn't even land in our final three okay thank you okay anything else thank you all those in favor of approving item H elementary math resource adoption say aye all those opposed motion passes unanimously thank you thank you uh next we will move on to item J 2023 Edition appropriation resolution that we discussed quite a bit tonight do I have a motion for item J I I don't know if this is appropriate so maybe I can get some help but I would move to table this to our next meeting in those gaining additional information for the request of the teachers and um citizens that spoke tonight volunteer I'm not sure we've got the recommendation nobody's made a motion to approve it so let me go ahead and make a motion and then you can table it or does this table first or table second okay that's what that's what I'm requesting is to the next meeting yes okay I have a motion to postpone item J do I have a second for that motion second okay all those in favor of a motion to postpone and just to be clear we would post be postponing the decision to our April 24th meeting is that what I'm understanding the motion to be yes and I'd like to with that I'd requested that we have more data and background consistent with answering some of the questions that were requested earlier so if it's been moved and the second we could have questions before we vote right right I thought you were about to ask us to vote yeah no no we can we can ask questions but again our vote when we come back will be a vote either to postpone it or to continue with it in the agenda and vote so I I think the appropriate question is to ask Mr Edwards what impact would that have um if what I'm still struggling with myself is do we do this 2023 or do they do this August of 2024 but but Mr Edwards could answer if we do vote to postpone and we're still looking at implementing in August 2023 what does that do does that make sense I'm thinking about hiring and what that time what that does the timeline about filling spots so what you just mentioned is exactly what we would end up facing so if we postpone then ultimately we're delaying posting jobs uh having interviews typically when we post a position it posts for about two weeks and then we look at the candidates and get them scheduled in for interviews as quickly as possible so um if we if we delay then we are looking at uh pushing that pushing that timeline back in in the stat becomes relevant then is we have folks in our ranks who will apply for some of those positions um and we we expect that some of the folks in our ranks apply for those positions because we've been getting them ready um for whatever's next for them and so um that will cause a backfill and we will have to then go out and fill those spots and so if we know that's happening the sooner we can um get in front of that then strategically it gives us a better opportunity to get positions filled before say June um or or July which which sometimes happens but we we want to stay in front of that and I I think my concern is consistent with what you heard earlier from people that spoke I just when I read through I don't I don't know how many people read through the survey information but when I read through it it was fairly consistent with the over 50 teachers that responded I think it was actually in total closer to 80.

thank you after returning fees somebody has to get some of that dollar and then so 50 of That's supposed to come sometimes sometime towards the end of this calendar year and then two smaller payments each of the following two years and I think Dr we were talking about this said it best we would love to use that in a way that actually helps kids stop vaping we just need to put together a group to to really look at that and see if the best use of that is yeah and I I that's where I was kind of ahead it was is this going to be treated like a restricted Grant where it has to be spent on certain things and it sounds like it most likely is it does it's not required to be that way but we would like to look at it that way and bring you a proposal as to how those dollars would be used probably our Wellness Council being a good one to take a look at this from a district perspective and come up with a recommendation thank you okay just since it's a one-time source of funds we'll look at using the funds in a one-time kind of way mostly yeah again we have those couple of extra payments that will come out after that first one but yeah we're looking toward a one-time thing that does not result in us having an unfunded situation or cliff okay all those in favor of recruiting consent agenda items a through G and item I say I oh there's a post Mission approved thank you I think next we will move on to uh letter H which is elementary math resource adoption so any moves that we approve item H elementary math adoption thank you Mr nallen do I have a second second thank you Mr Grimes any comments or questions yeah the question I had was related to the document that Dr hackson out a week or so ago and it was a good breakdown of different School corporations and the fifth and sixth grade proficiency levels of each along with their math resources our our go math puts uh I'll just go off with sixth grade is around 40 percent math proficiency looking at I believe it was Eureka Math that we're proposing other school corporations Marion schools obviously they're newer only having used this tool for two years 25 percent Northern Wells two years fifty percent and uh Batesville uh two years 47 percent compared to Envision maths of Oz uh New Albany which is comparable to us maybe about a hundred person 100 student difference is uh 45 to R40 Center Grove is 58 percent and Batesville or sorry Batesville is 47.

it was 83 that's what I thought I focused on the 50s that were secondary education because they were going to be impacted the most by the change and it felt like it was very consistent throughout their commentary that it was restructuring way too fast I think that um if if we're able to I know we've had a lot of conversations around this but if we're able to put some slides together kind of a better understanding of how these processes are going to work how the change is going to impact we've talked about data there were a lot of comments in that document the I think like advisory for example that might be simple to change might not fit anywhere within this model that we're trying to implement but are we looking at and listening to some of our largest stakeholders which are our teachers right I know Amy had mentioned earlier that a lot of parents aren't aware and so I think it just it's a huge change right I know it doesn't might not feel like it but it is a huge change uh to the teachers to the parents and to the students that I think it's worth just taking three more weeks so I'm not thinking three more months but I think three more weeks might be good enough for us to come back look at you know one last time maybe have people look at this maybe we set up a quick committee or something to look at the stakeholder feedback and understand is there anything different I know in this there were a couple of really interesting models that people proposed on how they could more fundamentally change a lot more than just adding a couple of Administrators at each school so I think there's just some other ways that we might want to look at this so I'll be quiet there okay thank you for that Mr major sorry Dale another question um based on some of the feedback we heard could you tell us was was the stakeholder process used in coming up with this and if so tell us a little bit about that so this um this this wasn't a stakeholder This was um this was uh designed or thought about or conceptualized um among the um cabinet in in that team and so we started having conversations about what that would look like and started finding um went out and found that model and that was something that we looked at in began having conversations that way and yeah so I'll respond to that deal in terms of there's a very specific way to go through the stakeholder engagement process right you throw things in the middle you got the who I want how and you start working through it all those bases were covered without going through the the actual having the process in front of us and moving that and what I mean by that is from the whose standpoint we try to engage all stakeholders and I know we hear that this has been rush but it's a concept that began November December looking for Solutions and then getting out to all stakeholder groups that are tied to our school corporation ccic the business advisory Council the diversity Council I whatever those different groups we have as a school corporation cea and having discussions and certainly uh sometimes when those are going to get pushback as to whether or not that solution is the best but from a who part we had a list of the key stakeholders that had to be addressed in a conversation had did that and then the next part of the stakeholder engagement process model is having a shared understanding of the data the data was our graduation rates are to have been declining over the last couple of years and they need to be improved so the next part is is the what and what targets can you set we have to improve those graduation rates what numbers that have to be 90 has been stated I think we can be higher than that but set targets move on and then the last part is how right and so from a house standpoint when this idea was identified we then sought you know where does it seem to be the best and then done the best Brownsburg was cited as that prime example we followed that we've been asked to Benchmark and Benchmark probably the best in the state in regards to at least performance on graduation rates did that and then built the model based upon bcsc and how it could best be worked so I just answer that in terms of that formal process you're probably thinking about but in terms of making sure we hit all each of those pieces around that wheel we did the process I always felt guilty as a department chair if we didn't do yes yes um okay so I have one more question about what we're voting on I this this is a really tough one for me um if we approve Appropriations does that mean we're also improving the model as written and I will say the reason I ask that is I get I think the history behind the three assistant principles at East is that two it was just too much work so three makes more sense but I'm really not sold on how we're fitting those three in where one assistant principle has two classes that they're responsible for and the others each have one if that's something that that people at East will have a chance to work on down the road that kind of makes a difference to me like I so my question is are we voting on The Appropriations or are we voting on the plan so there's a very specific sheet with those in your packet that was to vote on appropriation so so we've taken time to make sure to explain the model and the reason that we're requesting that that different amount or that additional amount for the school year or calendar year um but but it's you're voting with an understanding of the direction we're handy with model right but you're not that's a really good question the the technical question is you're voting on the appropriation and giving approval for that money to spend period without any explanation that resolution as to how exactly it might get spent but we're defining for you the you know the direction that we would like to go with that money does that make sense Chad as you're reaching for your microphone correct exactly what I was going to say yeah it doesn't it doesn't mean we will hire those positions just means we have authority to spend those dollars on salaries and benefits from the education fund but but to piggyback on that into the question and the timing uh Mr now and if if approved out of the appropriation I mean our intent you know to Mr Edward's point about delaying would be to begin posting positions and at least getting to the point where that model can can begin to be realized it doesn't mean changes would be made like you're indicating something wouldn't be reviewed in in some some change made suddenly decreased or whatever the case might be but we would start the process of hiring and and just as a clarification if we if we delay three weeks or delay today the work that needs to be done on clarifying exactly how this is done taking some of that cea input and I'll need a very specific list from the board just exactly what you're asking for say that I will need a very specific list from the board as to what you were looking to have on April the 24th so the motion in front of us any other questions from the team okay the motion we have in front of us is whether we want to is to delay item J to April 24th I had a motion I had a second all those in favor say aye I I oh there's a post all right do you have a count on that Mr MacGyver boy okay so motion to delay is denied do I have a motion to approve item J additional appropriation resolution I make a motion that we approve item J okay thank you Mr Bryant Drive a second okay thank you Mr Stenner all those in favor say aye aye aye conversation I have additional conversation I I just want to clarify we're talking about starting in August of 2023 and having the authority to spend the funds during that part of the year between August and December when you are leading us through the budgeting process Mr Phillips will this continuation of this initiative will be baked into your new budget for calendar 24 correct and I realize I think Mr Edwards said we're getting pretty close to the point where if we want to do something different August 23 we need to appropriate the funds and start start the ball rolling if we want to wait till August 24 to to have a different kind of initiative then that would be baked into the budgeting process that you'd be doing later this year yes yeah I just don't want to wait I'm not sure that we have the perfect plan now but I think appropriating the resources continue to development of the plan which can be closely monitored by the border I feel that we have a responsibility to closely come after that going forward I'm going to support motion thank you Mr Stenner just to also kind of see where my head's at least we started by talking about our core beliefs tonight we said our community and School District are stronger when we partner with one another and tonight what I heard was we all feel like our graduation rates need to improve there is not a question that anybody raised that said we don't have work to do and that we need to improve I also heard from various sites that we all think a team-based system is a winning solution what I think I'm hearing a lot of disagreement about are all of those details that in my opinion will never be worked out delayed Perfection is is an impossibility I'm a continuous Improvement A wise man once told me you can't steer a parked car um I I think we need to move I think waiting another year is another year worth of kids that we're maybe not providing the best opportunity for so although I agree with Mr Stenner I don't think everything's perfect now I think there's there's time for people to work together to make it the best first step that we can make I I don't disagree with that and I think from the strategy session one of the questions I had was can we look at doing this at one school and not both and that was not agreed upon so jumping in with both feet sometimes is a little dangerous as well so I think we my opinion again is if we wait which it sounds like we're not based on the vote we just took we just negated listening to all this feedback was given from teachers that they want to hear more they want to talk more they want to have a conversation and so we just told them no so I that's how I view it maybe that's wrong but I'm not an educator I never ran as an educator but what I ran at was trying to get parents more involved teachers more involved with the board more transparency and right now I feel like with respect to this we we had a lot of feedback that might not have been I guess taken serious okay thank you Mr major yes Dale oh good sure yeah I mean I just want to Echo I mean I guess and I'm 100 supportive of the team concept and honestly I want this to happen and I want this to succeed I have two issues here and that's where my vote is and honestly I still have it circled I don't even have which way I was Voting because I'm still that's how toss-up but I'm concerned one is we just talked about positive affirmation and being heard and Miss London presented a lot and I I'm with you the 80 20 principle has to be applied on that feedback but just getting answers on those four common themes at a high level I think puts a lot of teachers at rest hopefully the other thing is as Miss Menifee has been at every public committee subcommittee so far I believe I'm correct and so I would assume an Engaged parent as a child at East High School and that she doesn't know about it then I'm concerned and so those are the two things just to kind of give feedback of where my head is at that's that's where I'm struggling okay thank you Mr Schultz sir I was gonna wax philosophical here so I think we're all interested in change and I think people I know people approach change differently one way to approach changes let's get it all planned out so we know exactly what we're doing and then let's do it and the other is let's jump in and start doing it and fix things as we go I'm more comfortable with the first but I'm not the one who's going to be doing this um so so I am okay letting us move forward I would say two things um I'm disappointed that there wasn't more involvement um with the people at the high schools earlier and I realized it was a quick thing that kind of came up but but the pushback we're hearing is that that when people heard about it bits and pieces kind of on the Fly and I would so I would hope if we move forward with this that there the people at the high schools are involved in a much greater way um not just here's our plan now do it but but in Baldridge they always talked about not getting below the line like here's our goals for you you decide how to do it and I would like to see an opportunity for that yeah and real quick one more thing um I'm not against the team part of it but it's the how you eat it Alpha it's one bite at a time I think that my my opinion is we go slow we go fast so yep thank you Mr major okay um so I have a motion and a second to approve the 2023 additional appropriation resolution as presented tonight if I can ask as we vote if when you say ah you also raise your handsome Mr MacGyver can get an appropriate account for me okay all of those in favor say aye I all of those opposed all right motion passes four three thank you I'd like to just take just two seconds here and playing uh Live Oak and again um I do wholeheartedly um agree with the team concept and I I am absolutely behind any attempt any deliberate attempt to help build relationships not only with kids but also their parents and Guardians and not just you know and not just with kids that are at risk of not graduating but but with all kids and and you know certainly the end goal to help kids and do everything possible to get their diploma however it's just in good conscience I I believe there's just way too many questions concerns that I have right now to support this specific model I would say I am an educator and I am familiar with a lot of very different models of this teaming concept throughout you know they take on all shapes and sizes require you know different Staffing at different levels and again I'm just a lot of questions concerns about the details of this plant at this time thank you okay I believe we are moving on to item K which is to uphold expulsion examiner's determination regarding student discipline Mr major did you yeah I understand from this because I was traveling for work at the time this was helpful thank you thank you Mr major do I have a motion for item k a move that we approve number three item K to uphold the expulsion examiner's determination thank you Mr Grime stove a second second thank you Mr Schultz all those in favor say aye aye aye all those opposed motion passes thank you okay Human Resources meant recommendations Dr pleake I request approval of item four uh the approval of the HR recommendations as presented this evening Dr plate driver recommendation to approve Human Resources recommendations I move that we approve number four HR recommendations as presented by Dr pleek thank you Mr Grimes to have a second thank you Mr major all those in favor say aye aye aye oh there's a post motion passes Dr Pleak and then Mr MacGyver last item okay thank you Mr MacGyver do I have a motion to approve the human resources determination as presented tonight I move that we approve item number five the HR determination as presented by Mr McIver thank you Mr Grimes drive a second second thank you Mr Bryant all those in favor say aye aye oh there's a post aye motion passes with five two okay next we have schedule of upcoming meetings um so if uh there we go yep that one okay great so our next regular board meeting is on April 24th um in this room at 6 30.

Green Castle was the other one that was Eureka that was 38 my my concern with um Eureka is that in two out of three of the cases where Eureka is used their performance is less than ours and three out of three Envision is greater so I just I know there's a lot of work that was put into this I just kind of want to understand a little bit about um what the what the differences between envision and Eureka and why it looked a consistently perform better for students I'll appreciate anyone answering thank you so glad you were able to read the Friday notes and let us explain a little bit more about the process as well as data collected around the state I will let Gail respond to that just making sure we understood the question first as well as all the complexities that go into all those scores when they adopted how they did PD how they rolled it out are they consumables so there are other things that aren't listed on that sheet that really that really make up the curriculum and the components of what happens inside that math class so while there are a few facts on there there are multiple multitude of many things that happen within that math classroom so that's that's one big reason that we like Eureka Math because we really are going more into complex math I know that you're asking specifically about enVision Math and that is not one that even landed as our one of our final three again looking around those eight principles of teaching mathematics and where our kids are and where we want them to go and teachers understanding that we're missing that conceptual piece so really looking for a program that would help us as teachers to be able to help students so things like manipulatives and exploration and what does that mean and multiple strategies and and even to go back to what the secondary people said tonight that conceptual development with procedural fluency coming with time so it's not going to be an immediate overnight that we might see a change it's going to take some time but then that can't be taken away from us because we have that conceptual development not just procedural fluency we can teach kids to do a problem we can teach the steps to the process but if that Pro if that application has changed if the scenario is changed if the student has to make a decision about which process to use that's where we're struggling so we really wanted to find that piece that would help us to build that framework so that we continue to grow I can't speak specifically to Envision don't have that material in front of me I don't have my paperwork in front of me to to speak directly to that program but I do know that it didn't even land in our final three okay thank you okay anything else thank you all those in favor of approving item H elementary math resource adoption say aye all those opposed motion passes unanimously thank you thank you uh next we will move on to item J 2023 Edition appropriation resolution that we discussed quite a bit tonight do I have a motion for item J I I don't know if this is appropriate so maybe I can get some help but I would move to table this to our next meeting in those gaining additional information for the request of the teachers and um citizens that spoke tonight volunteer I'm not sure we've got the recommendation nobody's made a motion to approve it so let me go ahead and make a motion and then you can table it or does this table first or table second okay that's what that's what I'm requesting is to the next meeting yes okay I have a motion to postpone item J do I have a second for that motion second okay all those in favor of a motion to postpone and just to be clear we would post be postponing the decision to our April 24th meeting is that what I'm understanding the motion to be yes and I'd like to with that I'd requested that we have more data and background consistent with answering some of the questions that were requested earlier so if it's been moved and the second we could have questions before we vote right right I thought you were about to ask us to vote yeah no no we can we can ask questions but again our vote when we come back will be a vote either to postpone it or to continue with it in the agenda and vote so I I think the appropriate question is to ask Mr Edwards what impact would that have um if what I'm still struggling with myself is do we do this 2023 or do they do this August of 2024 but but Mr Edwards could answer if we do vote to postpone and we're still looking at implementing in August 2023 what does that do does that make sense I'm thinking about hiring and what that time what that does the timeline about filling spots so what you just mentioned is exactly what we would end up facing so if we postpone then ultimately we're delaying posting jobs uh having interviews typically when we post a position it posts for about two weeks and then we look at the candidates and get them scheduled in for interviews as quickly as possible so um if we if we delay then we are looking at uh pushing that pushing that timeline back in in the stat becomes relevant then is we have folks in our ranks who will apply for some of those positions um and we we expect that some of the folks in our ranks apply for those positions because we've been getting them ready um for whatever's next for them and so um that will cause a backfill and we will have to then go out and fill those spots and so if we know that's happening the sooner we can um get in front of that then strategically it gives us a better opportunity to get positions filled before say June um or or July which which sometimes happens but we we want to stay in front of that and I I think my concern is consistent with what you heard earlier from people that spoke I just when I read through I don't I don't know how many people read through the survey information but when I read through it it was fairly consistent with the over 50 teachers that responded I think it was actually in total closer to 80.

um however um I would like to ask the team if um we can agree to have our subcommittee meetings that Monday prior on April 17th last week there was at least some dialogue in terms so yeah we just didn't have everybody there and and I wanted to do that in person so if I could kind of look through can people make the 17th work I'm seeing the committee those have been starting at six right yes oh six o'clock at six feet typing at the wrong time okay six o'clock on April 17th I think I'm seeing confirmation from people we can make that work Nick can you change that to six o'clock on the slide and get rid of that excellent or that question mark and then we can at least have it and then correctly noted and then as um you know we kicked off these subcommittees we were hoping to get to a point of recommendations that we could Implement in the new school year and so much like some of our other um initiatives new ideas we're going to have our first reading and then a vote so I think the idea is the agenda subcommittee seems to be a little bit further along we'd like to Target having a first reading in the April 24th meeting so you guys will have a chance to meet on the 17th and then on the 24th we will hear what that team has to say and then we'll we'll kind of move forward past that with the public engagement if that is the case a reminder to that group which is chaired by Mr Grimes that we would want the document about Wednesday to get in your Thursday packet okay great very good great okay anything else guys we didn't do that but that's up to you skipping it on purpose I didn't know if you were skipping it on purpose I'm a person that could do that sometimes but I will allow for an input review do we have anything else to discuss team tonight are we worn out try to go real quick I uh I value um the conversation that we had tonight on a topic that we disagreed on and I want to make sure that the I do feel sure that the administration um as it moves forward on the team concept at the schools will be open to input will be ready to incorporate input that we've already received from the cea survey from a variety of other sources uh I think approving the appropriation tonight was the right thing to do I think going forward we need to continue to refine the implementation plan as best we can and I may be wrong but Mr Phillips I think the additional appropriation would allow us to spend up to that amount but does not require us to spend a dime thank you everyone else yeah yep yep I'll start at the end again well I just want to say having the teachers of the Year from each school and um and the Edna Folger awardee gave us a small sliver of all the great things and the video was really cool too but it just gave us a sliver of of what we're all about and it's teachers and kids and I just want to thank Dr Roberts I know you got back with a couple of the parents on the policy changes they both followed up with me I would just encourage that we get those posted this week so yeah we have the public committee that can get that engagement as well and then also they have time to provide input by the next meeting yeah Mr Schultz thanks for bringing that up I made notes to myself to bring that up to you so we would have had it on the the list for approval tonight but did not have that posted so we made sure and made those changes made it hopefully a little bit more easier for you to read and understand got it out to the parents as Mr Schultz indicated and then simply I did not direct that it be posted on the website so that should be done thank you so again real quickly back to regards to you or to the additional Appropriations I I would I do have a list of very specific questions and concerns and and would be glad to have a conversation it might be a lengthy discussion but I would be glad to have that discussion with anyone thanks again to those that spoke during the public hearing thanks to all the presenters and all the time they took in preparation for this evening and congratulations again to the large amount of students and teachers here this evening on that were recognized for all their accomplishments continue okay I think we're done for tonight real quick are you sure Todd I don't know if you have time on Wednesday evening but I think Dr Roberts mentioned that he would like to have a list of things that we want to see so I think it would be beneficial that I mean even if it's just you and I that we could sit down and if that's if that's okay with you I don't know Amy if you have anybody that would want to sit with us and talk about those things maybe Wednesday evening if that's possible I know it's short term but that gives us the ability to have those concerns put on paper and gives plenty of time for review analysis and response okay we'll let you guys we'll get back with that we'll let you guys work out a time okay great anything else meeting adjourned thanks

it was 83 that's what I thought I focused on the 50s that were secondary education because they were going to be impacted the most by the change and it felt like it was very consistent throughout their commentary that it was restructuring way too fast I think that um if if we're able to I know we've had a lot of conversations around this but if we're able to put some slides together kind of a better understanding of how these processes are going to work how the change is going to impact we've talked about data there were a lot of comments in that document the I think like advisory for example that might be simple to change might not fit anywhere within this model that we're trying to implement but are we looking at and listening to some of our largest stakeholders which are our teachers right I know Amy had mentioned earlier that a lot of parents aren't aware and so I think it just it's a huge change right I know it doesn't might not feel like it but it is a huge change uh to the teachers to the parents and to the students that I think it's worth just taking three more weeks so I'm not thinking three more months but I think three more weeks might be good enough for us to come back look at you know one last time maybe have people look at this maybe we set up a quick committee or something to look at the stakeholder feedback and understand is there anything different I know in this there were a couple of really interesting models that people proposed on how they could more fundamentally change a lot more than just adding a couple of Administrators at each school so I think there's just some other ways that we might want to look at this so I'll be quiet there okay thank you for that Mr major sorry Dale another question um based on some of the feedback we heard could you tell us was was the stakeholder process used in coming up with this and if so tell us a little bit about that so this um this this wasn't a stakeholder This was um this was uh designed or thought about or conceptualized um among the um cabinet in in that team and so we started having conversations about what that would look like and started finding um went out and found that model and that was something that we looked at in began having conversations that way and yeah so I'll respond to that deal in terms of there's a very specific way to go through the stakeholder engagement process right you throw things in the middle you got the who I want how and you start working through it all those bases were covered without going through the the actual having the process in front of us and moving that and what I mean by that is from the whose standpoint we try to engage all stakeholders and I know we hear that this has been rush but it's a concept that began November December looking for Solutions and then getting out to all stakeholder groups that are tied to our school corporation ccic the business advisory Council the diversity Council I whatever those different groups we have as a school corporation cea and having discussions and certainly uh sometimes when those are going to get pushback as to whether or not that solution is the best but from a who part we had a list of the key stakeholders that had to be addressed in a conversation had did that and then the next part of the stakeholder engagement process model is having a shared understanding of the data the data was our graduation rates are to have been declining over the last couple of years and they need to be improved so the next part is is the what and what targets can you set we have to improve those graduation rates what numbers that have to be 90 has been stated I think we can be higher than that but set targets move on and then the last part is how right and so from a house standpoint when this idea was identified we then sought you know where does it seem to be the best and then done the best Brownsburg was cited as that prime example we followed that we've been asked to Benchmark and Benchmark probably the best in the state in regards to at least performance on graduation rates did that and then built the model based upon bcsc and how it could best be worked so I just answer that in terms of that formal process you're probably thinking about but in terms of making sure we hit all each of those pieces around that wheel we did the process I always felt guilty as a department chair if we didn't do yes yes um okay so I have one more question about what we're voting on I this this is a really tough one for me um if we approve Appropriations does that mean we're also improving the model as written and I will say the reason I ask that is I get I think the history behind the three assistant principles at East is that two it was just too much work so three makes more sense but I'm really not sold on how we're fitting those three in where one assistant principle has two classes that they're responsible for and the others each have one if that's something that that people at East will have a chance to work on down the road that kind of makes a difference to me like I so my question is are we voting on The Appropriations or are we voting on the plan so there's a very specific sheet with those in your packet that was to vote on appropriation so so we've taken time to make sure to explain the model and the reason that we're requesting that that different amount or that additional amount for the school year or calendar year um but but it's you're voting with an understanding of the direction we're handy with model right but you're not that's a really good question the the technical question is you're voting on the appropriation and giving approval for that money to spend period without any explanation that resolution as to how exactly it might get spent but we're defining for you the you know the direction that we would like to go with that money does that make sense Chad as you're reaching for your microphone correct exactly what I was going to say yeah it doesn't it doesn't mean we will hire those positions just means we have authority to spend those dollars on salaries and benefits from the education fund but but to piggyback on that into the question and the timing uh Mr now and if if approved out of the appropriation I mean our intent you know to Mr Edward's point about delaying would be to begin posting positions and at least getting to the point where that model can can begin to be realized it doesn't mean changes would be made like you're indicating something wouldn't be reviewed in in some some change made suddenly decreased or whatever the case might be but we would start the process of hiring and and just as a clarification if we if we delay three weeks or delay today the work that needs to be done on clarifying exactly how this is done taking some of that cea input and I'll need a very specific list from the board just exactly what you're asking for say that I will need a very specific list from the board as to what you were looking to have on April the 24th so the motion in front of us any other questions from the team okay the motion we have in front of us is whether we want to is to delay item J to April 24th I had a motion I had a second all those in favor say aye I I oh there's a post all right do you have a count on that Mr MacGyver boy okay so motion to delay is denied do I have a motion to approve item J additional appropriation resolution I make a motion that we approve item J okay thank you Mr Bryant Drive a second okay thank you Mr Stenner all those in favor say aye aye aye conversation I have additional conversation I I just want to clarify we're talking about starting in August of 2023 and having the authority to spend the funds during that part of the year between August and December when you are leading us through the budgeting process Mr Phillips will this continuation of this initiative will be baked into your new budget for calendar 24 correct and I realize I think Mr Edwards said we're getting pretty close to the point where if we want to do something different August 23 we need to appropriate the funds and start start the ball rolling if we want to wait till August 24 to to have a different kind of initiative then that would be baked into the budgeting process that you'd be doing later this year yes yeah I just don't want to wait I'm not sure that we have the perfect plan now but I think appropriating the resources continue to development of the plan which can be closely monitored by the border I feel that we have a responsibility to closely come after that going forward I'm going to support motion thank you Mr Stenner just to also kind of see where my head's at least we started by talking about our core beliefs tonight we said our community and School District are stronger when we partner with one another and tonight what I heard was we all feel like our graduation rates need to improve there is not a question that anybody raised that said we don't have work to do and that we need to improve I also heard from various sites that we all think a team-based system is a winning solution what I think I'm hearing a lot of disagreement about are all of those details that in my opinion will never be worked out delayed Perfection is is an impossibility I'm a continuous Improvement A wise man once told me you can't steer a parked car um I I think we need to move I think waiting another year is another year worth of kids that we're maybe not providing the best opportunity for so although I agree with Mr Stenner I don't think everything's perfect now I think there's there's time for people to work together to make it the best first step that we can make I I don't disagree with that and I think from the strategy session one of the questions I had was can we look at doing this at one school and not both and that was not agreed upon so jumping in with both feet sometimes is a little dangerous as well so I think we my opinion again is if we wait which it sounds like we're not based on the vote we just took we just negated listening to all this feedback was given from teachers that they want to hear more they want to talk more they want to have a conversation and so we just told them no so I that's how I view it maybe that's wrong but I'm not an educator I never ran as an educator but what I ran at was trying to get parents more involved teachers more involved with the board more transparency and right now I feel like with respect to this we we had a lot of feedback that might not have been I guess taken serious okay thank you Mr major yes Dale oh good sure yeah I mean I just want to Echo I mean I guess and I'm 100 supportive of the team concept and honestly I want this to happen and I want this to succeed I have two issues here and that's where my vote is and honestly I still have it circled I don't even have which way I was Voting because I'm still that's how toss-up but I'm concerned one is we just talked about positive affirmation and being heard and Miss London presented a lot and I I'm with you the 80 20 principle has to be applied on that feedback but just getting answers on those four common themes at a high level I think puts a lot of teachers at rest hopefully the other thing is as Miss Menifee has been at every public committee subcommittee so far I believe I'm correct and so I would assume an Engaged parent as a child at East High School and that she doesn't know about it then I'm concerned and so those are the two things just to kind of give feedback of where my head is at that's that's where I'm struggling okay thank you Mr Schultz sir I was gonna wax philosophical here so I think we're all interested in change and I think people I know people approach change differently one way to approach changes let's get it all planned out so we know exactly what we're doing and then let's do it and the other is let's jump in and start doing it and fix things as we go I'm more comfortable with the first but I'm not the one who's going to be doing this um so so I am okay letting us move forward I would say two things um I'm disappointed that there wasn't more involvement um with the people at the high schools earlier and I realized it was a quick thing that kind of came up but but the pushback we're hearing is that that when people heard about it bits and pieces kind of on the Fly and I would so I would hope if we move forward with this that there the people at the high schools are involved in a much greater way um not just here's our plan now do it but but in Baldridge they always talked about not getting below the line like here's our goals for you you decide how to do it and I would like to see an opportunity for that yeah and real quick one more thing um I'm not against the team part of it but it's the how you eat it Alpha it's one bite at a time I think that my my opinion is we go slow we go fast so yep thank you Mr major okay um so I have a motion and a second to approve the 2023 additional appropriation resolution as presented tonight if I can ask as we vote if when you say ah you also raise your handsome Mr MacGyver can get an appropriate account for me okay all of those in favor say aye I all of those opposed all right motion passes four three thank you I'd like to just take just two seconds here and playing uh Live Oak and again um I do wholeheartedly um agree with the team concept and I I am absolutely behind any attempt any deliberate attempt to help build relationships not only with kids but also their parents and Guardians and not just you know and not just with kids that are at risk of not graduating but but with all kids and and you know certainly the end goal to help kids and do everything possible to get their diploma however it's just in good conscience I I believe there's just way too many questions concerns that I have right now to support this specific model I would say I am an educator and I am familiar with a lot of very different models of this teaming concept throughout you know they take on all shapes and sizes require you know different Staffing at different levels and again I'm just a lot of questions concerns about the details of this plant at this time thank you okay I believe we are moving on to item K which is to uphold expulsion examiner's determination regarding student discipline Mr major did you yeah I understand from this because I was traveling for work at the time this was helpful thank you thank you Mr major do I have a motion for item k a move that we approve number three item K to uphold the expulsion examiner's determination thank you Mr Grime stove a second second thank you Mr Schultz all those in favor say aye aye aye all those opposed motion passes thank you okay Human Resources meant recommendations Dr pleake I request approval of item four uh the approval of the HR recommendations as presented this evening Dr plate driver recommendation to approve Human Resources recommendations I move that we approve number four HR recommendations as presented by Dr pleek thank you Mr Grimes to have a second thank you Mr major all those in favor say aye aye aye oh there's a post motion passes Dr Pleak and then Mr MacGyver last item okay thank you Mr MacGyver do I have a motion to approve the human resources determination as presented tonight I move that we approve item number five the HR determination as presented by Mr McIver thank you Mr Grimes drive a second second thank you Mr Bryant all those in favor say aye aye oh there's a post aye motion passes with five two okay next we have schedule of upcoming meetings um so if uh there we go yep that one okay great so our next regular board meeting is on April 24th um in this room at 6 30.

that is the motion moved by commissioner dish and seconded by commissioner Mills we are in discussion commissioner weich um because the seu is in the motion that we just did could we split them out that is to say to deny the Su but approve the site plan or because we've read the motion together we would have to vote both down you can take the motion separately but then the site plan is not going to comply because the SCU would be required but yes you could you could take them separately okay great thanks commissioner Lee thank you a quick question on the topic of electricity electrification in the report the comment was that various operational and maintenance issues that would almost certainly be realized of a fully electrified building were to be incorporated could you expound on that and like what kind of various operational maintenance issues that you guys were anticipating from a fully electric system Phillips I'm cops in Black Architects um the issues are are really operational as well as cost and maintenance so the non-uh electrified system that's been referenced frequently or is uh requires significant more maintenance and operational cost than than the traditional system for a facility of this size and so it the decision on which direction to go with the system is more about the system itself than the actual fuel so that's an ongoing discussion but at this point we have not designed the mechanical system although traditionally we use a boring we normally use a more traditional field system that the bank is is uh more comfortable with and is is both economical and something that's more maintainable there isn't actually a like a list of things I'd like to be able to give you like a a list of like problems with for example heat pump systems there really isn't anything like that it's more of an opera a facilities operation question that each business has to uh has to address okay um thank you I'm okay thank you does anybody else want to expound on that sure I think a few of us would commissioner dish yeah okay so I guess we could start there since we just started there but so I don't mean to be ungenerous but did you just say that because we are not accustomed to electrification we didn't explore it and we don't think it will work it I mean that sounded like that was your answer um I would say it's not about whether it'll work or not it's it's just a it's way Downstream of planning so that this is a facilities operation question as opposed to a planning question so when it comes to engineering a building uh we get into into a lot of issues uh that make up the facility in general so it's not a matter of it not working it's a matter of it functioning for the for the business in question in this case we do have of clients that have used all electrical systems and uh are are are happy with those but it it's it's not a one-size-fits all it it's easy for for to kind of generalize and and want to say that that one particular system will fit any facility that you want to apply it to but that's not the case and I think that's one of the things you're finding across the community where where various business owners are finding that that there isn't a one-size-fits-all electric solution for everybody if there was then this would be a no-brainer everybody would just say sure you know that that's not an issue but it is a concern and one that each business has to address so then your emphasis is more that you haven't designed the Mechanicals for this building yet we have designed a we've done a number of buildings for the credit union and so our our inclination is is to to continue with systems that have worked in the past however that is accurate we have not designed the the system for this building yet that is true yeah because you were saying that this is a I think you said it's a building thing not a planning thing well that's that's subjective of course I probably shouldn't have said that so it it's it's it's a it is a building engineering issue though for sure sorry I'm confused so I'm going to let someone else follow up because I must not be trying it seems to me when I look at this building and I've worked on several that are all electric and that have heat pumps and solar and things like that that this building is actually particularly well set up to be able to have a system like that um I'm a landscape architect I'm not an architect but I will just say I've been associated with many projects that have these kinds of systems you have a one-story building you have a ton of roof area you have an area of green area in which you could do some sort of you know underground system for this too whether they're a loop system or or Wells and it gets harder as you go up as your energy demands go up and as you have less area to be able to set up solar so um it seems to me based on sort of reading between the lines and I guess I just sort of want to understand it seems to me that it's because you all didn't kind of start thinking that way from the beginning that you've ended up where you are rather than you know it it it didn't seem like that was one of your goals and and I think that part of what we've been hearing from the community um and also what we've been discussing here for months years is that we want people we are trying to um there's a lot of things about the direction of this Corridor that feel like are just not being addressed here at all there's a lot of things about the the direction of where a city wants to go it feels like it's not being addressed here at all so I've been on Planning Commission for seven years now I would say if this had come through seven years ago I would have a different opinion about it but it feels like it's just not hitting it's it's I don't know how staff informed you around drive-throughs but we've been rejecting them for years now so it just feels like this is sort of falling like that you all haven't been listening to what has been discussed at this table um so there's a lot that I just brought up there around energy and around um use and around kind of our goals but uh and we understand that we can't mandate you to do this I just find the response lacking in terms of it's going to be hard for us to take care of when I know of many projects that are doing just fine with that that are using these kinds of systems quite well hi I'm Deanne Ramos I'm with the University of Michigan Credit Union just to let you know I wanted to make mention that we have two locations where we did do the heat pump system and we did that back in 2015 and maybe 2018.

this slide is from the FY 22 auditor General's District spending report for Gilbert and the instruction is 59.6 percent our classroom spending is at 73.5 and non-classroom is at 26.5 percent you'll see the peer average there in the pie at 57 percent which is lower than Gilbert note that our peer average is our peer operational peer group these are considered very large districts with 15 000 students or more these are not necessarily neighboring districts so our peer averages are Mesa Chandler Peoria Paradise Valley Deer Valley this mountain before you go on will you explain real quick why the instruction is 58 in the aquifer but 59.6 percent in the auditor's general report just briefly you want to take that one sure so when the the presentation of functional area spend is presented in the annual comprehensive financial report it's indicative of a different set of funds than what the auditor general uses for purposes of this presentation that's the main difference in general historically what has happened is that the presentation in the annual comprehensive financial report has been a little bit less in instruction than the auditor Generals Report it's just the the pieces that go within the classifications that that report then cause instruction that's correct they label it as instruction it's actually the same it says so the um the chart of accounts that relates spend by that functional area is pretty much National so the annual comprehensive financial report uses the national definition it's just the funding sources that are included okay so um that's the that's the major difference okay thank you I had a question before we move on can you just go through and tell us what's included in instructional spending what's included in student support spending and instruction support spending sure what the what is that instruction is anything in the classroom this would be classroom teachers paraprofessionals student support would be our attendance clerks our nurses instructional support would be the curriculum side of the house Library thank you you're welcome so this is a five-year spending history for Gilbert Public Schools we are down slightly in dollars instruction uh dollars in the classroom transportation is up slightly food service is up considerably we'll talk about that in a minute non-classroom is up so the transportation piece also um just we wanted to compare fuel costs and show you kind of where some of that's increase may have come from when we compare the last few years we always try to bring FY 19 into the picture because that was our last normal year so in FY 19 our fuel spent was just over a million dollars in 21 it was 673 000.

I do anticipate these expenses to increase because this is only invoicing through January and reference in reference to my except expense spreadsheet this is under the category of instruction and structural support we're also going to be over in our insurance line item we learned earlier in the year that we had to purchase a multi-factor authentication for all of our devices if we didn't purchase this we were going to lose our cyber security coverage so this wasn't budgeted for so cost wise for BMS and Bes that it's gonna it was an additional 3 000 and into Hondo 6000 so in these I'll follow under the categories on the spreadsheet of Maintenance and operations so looking at the schools quickly individually under BMS under instruction and structural support we currently have the savings of approximately a hundred thousand dollars I anticipate the savings to decrease this these line items are not encumbered there's some line items that are not encumbered like professional development supplies and materials and now we know that legal is going to go over budget the overage should be able to be made up within this line item since we're forecasting to have a savings due to a teacher being currently on leave under maintenance and operations we currently have assistance in BMS of approximately 29 000.

welcome to the April 4th 2023 meeting of the animal Planning Commission for detailed information about the meeting you can consult the agenda down usually at the end at this end my teacher what's that oh sorry um let's see next Kelly will you call the roll or Mr Leonard whomever makes sense yes I'm actually going to ask uh planning manager Leonard to do it I was supposed to go the other way [Music] commissioner Gibb Randall present commissioner Mills here commissioner dish here commissioner Clark here commissioner white here commissioner Abrams commissioner sovay here commissioner Hammerschmidt here commissioner Lee here we have a quorum this evening thank you alrighty approval of the agenda can I have a motion by commissioner Mill seconded by commissioner dish any discussion on the agenda all those in favor say aye aye motion passes um okay minutes of the previous meeting item number four we have two so I'm going to take them together this is from January 24th and March 21st of 2023 very fourth not 24th oh January 4th 24th fourth sorry typo in my end um let's see moved by commissioner sovay seconded by commissioner Lee any discussion of the meeting minutes none already all those in favor say aye aye motion carries all right item five which are reports from City Administration City Council planning manager Planning Commission officers things like that why don't we start with city council commissioner council person dish I answer to both the North Maple rezoning and development agreement and site plan were warmly and enthusiastically passed by Council last night that was the final approval and I don't think anything else was relevant to you but maybe uh let's see anything from planning manager uh just a couple updates for our working session next week we're anticipating a presentation from the Ann Arbor DDA who had recently completed a downtown market analysis kind of a snapshot of the state of downtown post covid and the like so we'll be uh just a brief presentation during that working session next week and um I just do want to note I know that there's a Communications uh section on the agenda we have a fair number of handouts for you this evening we endeavored to pull a lot of the communications from the previous meeting where this petition was scheduled and it had to be postponed due to some weather related events and some uh due to the weather the catastrophic weather and so originally we had pulled those meeting materials but in front of you you have a series of Correspondence that the commission had received prior to that meeting um relative to that petition again the commission's already seen all those but we did assemble those and print those off so that's based on the volume this evening perfect okay thank you any other commissioner offices or Liaisons go ahead commissioner sovay or steam it last week we discussed how the UDC measures Building height as well as grade plane so we're evaluating um that a little bit further right now for consistency and I have something to report from environmental commission and commissioner dish you should feel free to add into this if you'd like there is a resolution that's being put together on prohibiting natural gas connections um for that and I know that there's uh you know movement afoot on staff and to be researching that however there was another element that I thought might be interesting for us to consider because we you know we've heard how stymied you all have been in terms of legal and things like that and you know issues that you're running into we you know get reminders on a weekly basis from all the people that are trying to sue us on things on things like this so one of the things especially on both sides of that issue yeah right right yes we that's very true um but one of the things that the the second part of the resolution um was around things that we have more control over so potential for restructuring of fees or priority processing or being able to give tax credits which clearly wouldn't be our purview to be able to do but that will be I'm heading towards uh city council has not been passed yet but it'll be heading towards city council so if this were to pass and then city council were to pass it then it would come back to us so I just wanted to give you all kind of a heads up that that's in the works and um and if we you know are feeling like the pace of this other this other momentum is is feeling kind of frustratingly slow because of a lot of things we can't control here are some things we actually can control so um I just wanted to put that in front of all of you to be able to think about that as we're moving forward okay on to item uh number six which is public comment this is an opportunity for persons to speak up to three minutes about an issue that is not listed on the public hearing on this agenda so anything tonight for the credit union would not be now that would happen later when when we're discussing that so we'll First Call in people who are present here and then we'll call on folks who are remote and to speak during this public hearing remotely press star nine if listening by phone or used to raise the hand feature if viewing through the web link for phone access call 877-853-5247 and enter meeting ID 977-6634-1226 and to unmute press star six City staff will select callers that have raised their hand using the last three digits of your phone number or by your name if you're viewing through the web link you'll hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet place so that we can hear you clearly for either method please state your name and address at the beginning of um of your comments is there anybody here that would like to begin public comment on things that are not on tonight's agenda making sure give Randall Ken Garber 28 Hammer Hill Court you can guess my topic you already introduced it the gas ban ordinance um yeah you just said that we're getting all these legal threats I've been carefully reading the correspondent by any Commission and I've only seen one threat from the law firm of McClellan and Anderson for the Home Builders Association of Michigan or hbam maybe there have been others but I've missed them this same law firm and age Bam are also threatened the state legally over new Energy Efficiency standards in the state energy code which is under revision hbm is a very backwards looking organization which local Builders broke away from many years ago to form their own group I know you can't entirely ignore legal threats but hey consider the source here hbam um I've been meeting with developers on this issue and what has most struck me is frankly the complete absence of any sense of shared responsibility for the climate crisis joining our Collective effort they say it's not their problem or imply that I know they have their proformas but most don't even pretend to care so we really need this ordinance we're not going to get voluntary compliance except a huge cost to the public purse um perhaps we can work out an incentive structure as chair give Randall just mentioned but um I'm not optimistic I mean did we really think that we could do this without upsetting people invested in the status quo it doesn't work that way the a20 plan three years in is unraveling because it's coming up against powerful forces that are violently resistant to real change that includes the construction industry and many developers not all but the answer is not to back down over 90 cities and Counties have now restricted gas and new construction there have been a few lawsuits but those cities are holding firm in your packet you'll find petitions with 125 signatures in support of a gas ban ordinance from new construction I ask you to stand with everyone who signed this petition and all the others who would have and against those who seek to continue the insanity of locking in new fossil fuel infrastructure for decades to come you know there are there are those who oppose the gas ban and the assumption that developers will flee the city for the townships worsening sprawl lowering density I don't think that's going to happen okay but let's say it does this is like saying gee these companies want to discharge raw sewage into our River but if we ban that they'll just go across the border where sewage isn't regulated and we'll miss out on all the benefits these companies bring so forget the rossly woods ban this is not how change happens this is how you perpetuate the status quo change happens when you take a stand against the harmful activity [Applause] thank you anybody else present who would like to speak for three minutes okay we will move on to item number seven which is public hearings for the next business meeting or I'm sorry we never even went to the virtual thing yes we got to go to the virtual thing sorry about currently No Hands raised see I knew that I could just sense it um anyway so on to uh public hearings for the next business meeting uh we have one a new public hearing scheduled for the April 18th meeting it's a proposed unified development code modification this is a proposed amendments to permitted and accessory uses in the tc1 transit Corridor District a proposed amendment to chapter 55 section 515 table 515 primary use table and the accessory use table and use specific standards to allow some automobile related uses in the tc1 zoning district and some tc1 Building height modifications all right thank you so we are then moving on to our regular business which is item number nine on 9A so this is for the University of Michigan Credit Union site plan and special exemption used for City Planning Commission approval this is a proposal to build a new 4740 square foot building with three drive-through lanes and 22 parking spaces on this one acre site located at 2929 Plymouth Road the parcel is zoned o for office a special exemption use is requested for the three drive-through teller Lanes the staff recommendation is approval we're going to start with a petitioner presentation for 10 minutes evening commissioners my name is Ted Hirsch I'm with Midwestern Consulting we are the Civil consultant for this project um here with members from the the ownership University Mission Michigan Credit Union the the project architect Hobson black and the general contractor JS Vig so I think everyone or most people are kind of aware we're the project is just to give some context um here West to US-23 and Plymouth Road just east of Huron Parkway and just getting a little more granular see that m city testing facilities to the southeast and we have Prairie Street on our east of the the site Thurston Elementary to the north providing a little more context here from a zoning and future Lane use perspective just highlighting the the existing zoning map showing that we're Zone o office and the future land use element of the comprehensive plan being consistent and showing that is office as well um just to give a little background on the the characteristics of the project so University of Michigan Credit Union does have space in the Traders Village Center a little bit West of this project site so part of what this project accomplishes for the owner is it allows them to to move into a larger space than what they have in this rented space or at least space the expansion of the building and area gives them things like a conference room things that they can use to better serve their their members provide stuff like Financial education mortgage facilitation the the site plan does include a drive-through something that has been basically requested and by their members and something that they felt is an important facet of the the project to include again this this site in the expansion of the the the building area gives them better opportunity to serve their members purchasing the property allows them an ownership of the land rather than a lease situation that they currently have and then just kind of highlighting the fact that there's no rezoning no variances requested or required for the for the project as proposed it does include a land division So based on the the evaluation of their needs and the chosen location does provide more Site Area than uh what they need to accomplish their goals so um the lane division provides opportunity to to allow them to accomplish that and then provide potential uh area for future development there is landscape modification included with the project um based on the street tree placement along Plymouth it's kind of an existing condition where existing Street trees along that stretch are located outside of the right-of-way and um a few of those many of those are Landmark trees that we're intending to maintain and again just kind of maintain that existing condition the staff is recommended approval of that modification so and obviously as mentioned before the drive-through that's included with the the site plan would require your approval of a special exception use moving on to the the site layout so um here you can see that there is kind of the the modest building and uh parking fields and and drive Lanes uh the drive-through located behind the building kind of tucked away um and then this second parcel uh left it'll be cleared of you know all the existing building and parking area and then um left just in a vegetated situation so there is access from both Plymouth Road and Prairie Street currently the Prairie Street approach for the existing site that's to remain in that in its existing place the the approach on Plymouth the existing approach is a little bit further west and that'll be highlighted a little bit earlier that that's getting moved a little bit further east again with the intent to allow for future development of that resulting split parcel um in in this kind of central dry vial to act as shared access Ingress egress um the the proposed layout does move this new building closer to the road than um the existing building kind of creates a little bit more of that pedestrian scale layout the it also increases the setback from the residential to the north there's 22 proposed parking spaces which is the I should say was the minimum required at the time that this was submitted there was a minimum of 22 spaces and a maximum of 28 so um they felt that ownership felt that the 22 was something that they could certainly um initially move forward with um and adequately serve the site there are four deferred parking spaces at the northwest or I'm sorry the northeast corner that are included the project includes six proposed electric vehicle installed parking spaces um for the requirements at the time that is more than double the the required um I believe it was two that were required um for EVR parking spaces are included uh again just slightly over the the required minimum and then from a kind of multimodal perspective there are additional bike hoops bike parking spaces that are minimally required for the development so as I mentioned before the the existing curb cut on Plymouth that approach would be removed and essentially relocated towards the center of the the entire parcel and then with that split it would would lie along the Eastern edge of this resulting second parcel again the existing curb cut and Prairie to remain there is an existing bus stop that would have to be shifted just a little bit to I think 30 feet to the east 75 feet to the east uh 30 feet east of the new approach um to accommodate that relocation and that's been something that was coordinated um with the Trans the Transportation Authority and they uh kind of provided Direction on that location from a utilities perspective pretty simple there's adequate existing infrastructure from water and sanitary as well as storm perspective this slide highlights the water and sanitary so out in Prairie Street there's both available water and sanitary Mains the water being 12 inch is adequate size no no need for upsizing um there would be a relocation of the the Taps for the leads so new leads would be accommodated on that main and that would be the same for the Sanitary Service as well we'd make a new tap for that currently the existing site doesn't have any detention facilities or really any stormwater management quality or any other facilities other than conveyance there's some catch basins on site it's all parking and building impervious surface that drains into the catch basins and then directly out to the city storm sewer and Prairie Street so the project the project provides underground detention here in the North End some new storm sewer to capture as much of the site runoff as possible um there's no infiltration opportunity so the the volume provided is 120 percent of the 100 Year Storm Volume in addition to all of that although there's no infiltration there is a proposed rain Garden kind of in the center of this drive-through Loop in which the is that my time if you just want to wrap it up wrap it up real quick so uh got the building here um just a couple of different views um highlighting a couple of things here the the walk-up ATM that we do have I think that was something that was um maybe not as well pronounced on the site plans just wanted to make sure that that was identified um the drive-through we had kind of discussed with planning staff that the the owner is willing to accommodate are open to accommodating whatever it kind of means to to provide bicycle access through that drive through whether it's signage or what other special accommodations there might need to be um it does have um energy efficient Sustainable Building Materials probably during discussion the project architect from Hobbs and black can speak a little bit more to that so I can wrap this up so obviously our goals for the meeting are to to review the details of the project discuss with Planning Commission address any questions concerns comments um and I know there's been significant communication from residents that I'm sure all you are aware of so to address your questions as well as theirs and um and then get actions on the special exception use the site plan approval and the landscape modifications that's uh the long and short of our goals for the meeting thank you thank you Mr Chang anything to add uh tissue did an excellent job of giving a pretty good overview of the site just a couple of things just to highlight there is a walk-up ATM machine also as part of this proposal at the northwest corner there's also conflicting land use buffer that's 30 feet wide the required minimum is 15 feet wide which will screen from the residents to the north otherwise I'm available for any questions you may have thank you okay we are going to open the public hearing so this is an opportunity for people to speak up to three minutes we'll call in individuals first who are present and then we'll move virtually to speak remotely press star nine of listing by phone or use the raise the hand feature through the web link for phone access call 877-853-5247 and enter meeting ID 977-663-41226 to unmute press star six City staff will select callers that have raised their hand or by name if access into the web link you'll hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area is there anybody present who would like to speak on this project you have three minutes to address the Planning Commission please state your name and address first hi thank you good evening my name is Stephan Aaron basic I'm a Ward 2 Resident of Orchard Hills at 2142 Yorktown Drive I want to voice my opposition to these proposals as a resident of Orchard Hills I believe that this project makes little sense first umcu already has a suitable location over on their existing building in Plymouth Road demolishing a building that is in good and usable condition is wasteful and short-sighted second the special exception use of adding drives through Lanes is not conducive to a2's a20's climate-friendly Vision as this will encourage more driving and increase idling emissions right next to our neighborhood pool dolphin pool speaking of the pool this situation could also create a potentially unsafe environment where unscrupulous individuals may link may be lingering within a few dozen feet of young children at play moreover this land could be better utilized with mixed retail or gentle dense City housing I would appreciate if we could put a stop to this proposal and eliminate umtu's wasteful plans to expand a bank that is simply not needed also just to note I am a umcu member thank you very much thank you anybody else present who would like to address the Planning Commission on this project thank you chair Gabriel Ken Garber again I don't live in the neighborhood so I don't have I have a different perspective I look at this and I say another new gas burning building I mean really we can't Electrify a single Story 4 800 square foot bank branch that sits on 1.73 Acres I know we're splitting this into two parcels but why not put in a geothermal field now across both to serve this building and maybe a future one um the contractor was JS Vig I know they have experience with geothermal Wells um I'd love to hear their explanation about why they can't do this as indicated in the staff report maybe we'll hear that I hope we don't hear the thermal the thermal degradation argument that circulating cold water through the ground will freeze it over time that's been disproven even in colder climates than ours as long as you're also running hot water from Air Conditioning during the summer um as always I calculated the greenhouse gas impact and natural gas combustion uh I'm gonna go through the boring figures you can ask me later comes to 44 metric ton CO2 equivalent emissions a year a couple of solar panels and a rain Garden do nothing to reduce this and I'm not counting on necessary emissions from Vehicles idling in the drive-through Lanes other cities are Banning drive-throughs altogether in 2019 the Minneapolis city council passed an ordinance banning all new drive-throughs including for banks because they increase greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution the petitioner's framing of this drive-through as a public health measure is just silly um so we already heard from One Credit Union member I also own the number I want to remind anyone who may be listening that despite the Credit Union's name it's not owned by the University rather it's a member-owned Cooperative I'm a member and so and this gentleman and of course many others we all own the credit union not the you and not the executives who came up with this plan according to the Credit Union's December 2022 call report uh the umcu has member deposits totaling 1.15 billion dollars representing 85 percent of total liabilities that's our money so if you're listening and you remember join me at the Credit Union's annual meeting on April 25th three weeks from today to protest this plan any member can attend the meeting takes place at the Jackson Road branch and starts at 5 PM hope to see you there thank you anybody else present who would like to speak on this project do we have folks in line virtually we do there are currently seven hand raised and our first color is ernan Roca you have permission to speak hello I am my name is Hernan broca I am one of the neighbors that whose property is divided just by things from the proposed project and I would like to raise a concern besides several other concerns that were already stated I would like to raise a concern because I didn't hear apparently heard that they are they are projected charging stations electric charging stations for cars besides the the drive-through which I actually opposed to um that would create a significantly higher traffic in that area and actually I didn't hear that the proposal considers to in case it gets approved which I I mean I don't know what would be the final the final approval I didn't hear anything about building a privacy things that separate the houses there are just next to the to the I mean to that project building because as you can see these cars will come with lights with with noise with everything I think and it doesn't have time it could be in the middle of the day it could be in the middle of the night so that we create a huge disturbancy for the neighbors that live just I mean that that lead just next to that property and I also post this increase of driving because of the of the already stated things related to the pool that is near this this property which is a a public pool for the neighborhood which a lot of traffic from children and everything else so it actually is a danger in my view and so um in case of these are approved they finally I still think is important that the builders consider at least a privacy fangs they are tall enough and compact enough to reduce the disturbance to the private neighborhood houses there that's it our next caller is Adam yes you have permission to speak hi this is Adam jaskiewicz 1430 Las Vegas Drive I spoke to you some time ago about a drive-through bank and the West Stadium Corridor at the former car dealership lot I urge you not to allow a drive-through bank at that location fortunately you did not however a few years ago Planning Commission approved a drive-through for another bank across the street on the old car wash lot development has now started on that bank so it appears the First new development since zoning the West Stadium corridors tc1 is going to be a drive-through Bank lovely if we are serious about our goals as a city we need to do better we are in a climate crisis we have pledged to cut vehicle miles traveled in half we are in a traffic violence crisis we have pledged to eliminate KSI crashes a20 Vision zero we won't get there if we keep building car Centric developments we won't get there if we don't get serious about Transforming Our strodes into livable spaces usable by people with all modes of transportation another drive through bank does not get us there we are also in a housing crisis there's got to be a better use of this land than yet another drive-through Bank you have the discretion to decide whether or not to allow drive-throughs please deny the special exception use for this drive-through Bank thank you our next caller is Eric the car you have permission to speak hi this is Eric Zucker from 2435 Prairie I'm adjacent to this project on Prairie Street I'm also calling to oppose the seu for the three-lane drive through here as the last caller said we're in a climate crisis we are in a housing crisis we are not on this side of town in a drive-through Bank crisis we have seven within a one mile stretch some of them are vacant that umcu could have repurposed but instead they're choosing to build this one on a neighborhood street at the community engagement session held previously uncu did not send a representative just a representative from The Firm that's building so they were unable to answer our questions as a community contrary to what the staff report States the drive-through meets none of the requirements of an seu which I'll go through Point by Point uh first it says will it be consistent with General objectives of the city master plan the answer is no a new drive-through runs counter to our stated missions a20 Vision zero goals number two will it be compatible with the existing and playing character of the vicinity no there's no other bank here with the drive-through which exits onto a neighborhood street especially one with an elementary school in a neighborhood pool within sight number three will it be consistent with the character of activities no Prairie is a residential street people walk and bike through this area and walk to the pool there we do not need to encourage more Auto use on Prairie Street four will it be detrimental to the peaceful enjoyment of the neighboring property this is a pretty obvious yes all the neighborhood all the neighbor are speaking with one voice and telling you that it is oddly the staff report rementions that the drive-through is behind Plymouth Road from the bank so it's not visible from Plymouth and won't detract from peaceful enjoyment but it's pretty visible from Prairie and pretty visible from folks backyards so I'm not sure why that was ignored but the sight lines along Plymouth were prioritized in the staff report and five will it be detrimental to the natural environment well it encourages driving idling our use instead of the current bank where people use it as a walkable Bank uh it's closer situated to the north campus a lot of students use it and also this site was requiring the removal of two Landmark trees so yes it is detrimental this area is already a prime example of a 15-minute neighborhood the existing umcu Branch down the road is a good part of that adding a drive-through Bank creates more problems than it solves and we'd be better off with none of the current drive-throughs here but if there are to be drive-throughs umcu could just repurpose one of the vacant ones next door thank you our next color is Jacob kitsman you have permission to speak hello my name is Jacob Pittston my wife kids and I live at 2851 renfre Street in the same neighborhood as this proposed development my son attends Thurston Elementary School and we frequently walk and bike around the neighborhood including to the pool that's about a few hundred feet within a few hundred feet of this velvet we strongly oppose this development it offers no potential benefit to the neighborhood as it stands you can't swing a cat without hitting a bank here you've got the existing Credit Union branch PNC Bank the Huntington Bank the Key Bank the bank of Ann Arbor Comerica Bank Flagstar Bank Hans bank and Chase Bank and possibly more that I've missed within a mile stretch we do not want and we do not need any more retail Banking locations the consultant spoke of the site layout offering a potential for future development however this is entirely unspecified and may not be fulfilled this development itself would represent a major missed opportunity to add office space retail or potentially housing along a vibrant Transit Corridor that is that Services the university and in fact the entire city nevertheless the Planning Commission must rule on the narrow proposal that is presented here not on the big Promises of some future development the addition of this drive through would bring additional traffic from a high-speed arterial Road onto Prairie Street this threatens to worsen congestion near an elementary school in a neighborhood pool at times when there is a high density of both vehicle traffic or pickups and drop-offs as well as parents and kids on foots on foot bikes and scooters it appears there has been no serious study into the potential impacts of this proposal upon pedestrian safety as you've heard it runs entirely counter to the city's stated Vision zero goals and the a20 carbon neutrality plan this project appears to come from a 1960s mindset not a 2023 one it does not Merit a special exception use and I urge you to reject this application thank you our next speaker is Libby Benton you have permission to speak and there are four more hymns raised after Libby all right sorry hi my name is Libby Benton and I live at two three five nine Prairie Street which is just up the street um from this proposed drive-through bank I have two kids ages two and six um and we are members of the ohap pool that's just across the street from this site um where we swim and there's a lovely weekly outdoor yoga class in the summer um and we um walk bike and Drive by the site daily and I am asking that the Planning Commission deny the request for a special use exception um this drive through um having adding the drive through here does not fit with the current character of our neighborhood or the future plans um our neighborhood is already remarkably rockable um we're able to walk to some middle school and Elementary School pools a hardware store pharmacy Library grocery store um and that's really what drew our family and a lot of other young families recently to this neighborhood um and the city has already made investments in helping make our neighborhood um walkable including bump outs along Prairie uh um a roundabout on Nixon and Plymouth bike Lanes along Nixon and um in the city's overall goal for this the city's overall goal for this neighborhood and participant but in particular and the city in general just doesn't align with a a drive-through the city is committed to you know expanding and improving 15-minute neighborhoods and our neighborhood is already well on its way to being a 15-minute neighborhood and we need to make more investments in neighborhoods like ours to keep them that way and expand them and this city is it you know is committed to increasing density along Transit corridors to reduce driving and this is just an ideal location where I'd love to see more retail commercial housing so that more people more families can access the great amenities that we're able to um and the city is committed to making places roads like Plymouth Road safer in areas like this safer for walking and biking to encourage that over driving and approving a drive-in in this location goes in the exact opposite direction um because you've got people swinging in off of uh Plymouth who are just driving through coming onto our residential street um and I'm really and I'm really concerned about um you know the kids there and the potential for these roads um so I would really ask that you deny this special use permit and I look forward to city council and the Planning Commission moving in a direction that makes it even easier to build more density here thank you our next caller is Michelle Hughes you have permission to speak hi um so yeah I have a lot I have the same opinions a lot of these people that the this drive-through is a terrible use of this land having a single story building here is a terrible use of the land and I would rather see something that is um going to advance some of the city's goals rather than going directly against them um I uh I'm sorry I work at that existing building for 10 years and um that um Plymouth Road is a horrible nightmare Strode there um it's definitely Car Land and I think that rather than acquiesce to that we need to be going against car culture at every opportunity um I would uh so there's a bus stop directly in front of the building but there's a bus stop you know if you're coming from the other direction there's a bus stop across the street and you have to cross Plymouth Road which is a horrible nightmarest Road and uh there's no help there's no um mid-block crosswalk there there's no safety Island um and so um you know it would be scary to approach this Credit Union location whereas the current Credit Union location there is a mid-block crosswalk with an rrfb um the um I used to walk from uh 299 Plymouth to you know the Plymouth Mall in the Traver Village to do lots of stuff get lunch go grocery shopping and stuff like that and um you have to cross um you know you have to you have to walk down the sidewalk in front of a gas station and a bank and uh neither of them ever shovel the sidewalk in the winter so um basically the whole neighborhood right right around you know that it's just it's um it needs to be improved for pedestrian safety is what I'm saying and putting another uh bank that you have to walk across um that's going to be far removed from everything is a terrible plan a drive-through is just going to encourage everyone to drive um and people who are currently going there using other methods it's going to make it difficult for them um so yeah this is the opposite of what we need please deny the um special exception use for the drive-through we still have four hands raised there were a few joiners our next caller is Michael Anderson you have permission to speak hi I'm Mike Anderson I live at 2844 Briarcliff I'm about half a block away from Prairie uh right near where the uh the dolphin pool is and right around the corner from where this location that we're talking about is um I just want to uh reiterate and emphasize a couple of things that people have said the first is is it true that there was no traffic study conducted with the Plymouth Road and Prairie Street I mean I find that hard to believe because you know during the school year at rush hour in particular that is a very busy place not only with cars with people dropping off uh their kids in the morning but also with uh with people walking with their kids to school and kids walking by themselves so any uh reasonable person would expect there to be a traffic study done to measure that during the school year but there should also be a measurement of it during the summer when oh when the dolphin pool is going on because it's not just people a few at a time over the course of a day wandering into the pool there are also lessons being held and it being from a half a block away and then a person who walks his dog I can tell you that when that happens uh again there's a lot of congestion there's car spikes and lots of kids lots of uh of very young kids and that's something that one would hope would be taken into account before he's citing an issue like this but I understand that there's been no traffic study done uh finally the the and I won't take all of your time but the other thing is uh this the the dolphin pool has been there for a long time I started going to it when I moved here in 1973 uh that was a while ago and Ann Arbor at this end of town looked very different then if you went up Nixon Road in those days you found Farms now you find that Nixon road is busy with lots of traffic because there's a lot of construction up that way that too asked the traffic uh through Prairie as people try to get around getting on to Nixon from Aurora which is the street a block away from there and instead cut down streets like Briarcliff and exit onto Plymouth Road from Prairie so it really really can be a mess which you would know if there had been a traffic study which I understand there hasn't been so anyway I uh I hope that nobody moves forward on this until a proper study is done and the safety of children particularly children is taken into account thank you very much our next caller is praveena ramaswami youth permission to speak hello my name is pravina ramasami I am a umcu member and a resident at Bromley which is the neighborhood that backs on to this proposal I will say that many of the people have called and have the same concerns I do I am wanting the Planning Commission to really evaluate this area if you go and see uh from a traffic studies proponent from Plymouth Road the backup will go from Huron Parkway all the way down that center lane this morning I saw it go all the way down to Georgetown Street it was backed up fully morning when school starts you'll start seeing people trying to turn left and right out of Prairie and on to Prairie from Plymouth Road so this intersection that has a 45 mile per hour Lane you'll see a lot of congestion just from the existing traffic and then to know that there is a proposal for three lanes to go on to a neighborhood street onto Prairie they come on and off that will cause even more problems I have counted seven buses from this Ann Arbor School District that come down Prairie in the morning and leave at three o'clock so these are all areas that are already highly congested um also a concern of mine is this is the space that you're proposing a single-use building in a community that's in a community and in a T1 Zone where it's a Transit Corridor for very few people to potentially use we are in 2023 in a digital world I don't understand why we need another large Bank second umcu it currently is in a great location from an accessibility standpoint it's a near the students near the bus lane it's walkable it's bikeable it's accessible I'm not opposed to UMC coming but I would love them to be part of a community where there's more use of that space where there's a daycare center retail what not to make it more part of the community rather than the cookie cutter bank that you see throughout the city that's just a single-use large building with three huge Lanes going into a neighborhood so I really asked the Planning Commission to really think about what the future of Ann Arbor is what the future of Plymouth Road is and really think about how we want to move forward as a city and as a community and the people that live here we we want it to be bikeable walkable and we want to make sure that it's safe from a traffic perspective so please do a traffic study and understand what happens every day on that street and how many near-misses I have seen and I have actually almost had so please reconsider or consider not proposing going forward with this proposal thank you our next speaker is John pork you have permission to speak everybody [ __ ] you [ __ ] this I muted that collar due to vulgar language and we're going to move on to our next caller which is Brandon Currington you have permission to speak foreign Currington you have permission to address the Planning Commission I will come back to Brandon Carrington Alex Lowe you have permission to speak hi this is Alex 340 phone would happen Commissioners and frequent views are probably familiar with me from their regular calls in favor of approvals of pretty much every new development including the Avalon development on the old Ann Arbor Gary site and the proposed houses on platform so with that in mind I'd like to say no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no this looks terrible this honestly seems that like uh uh the Planning Commission version of a homework assignment rushedly done it uh in class with uh before the teacher the teacher picked it up we and it I I can I can I can see why someone would uh I would want to do that rather than thinking through more fully if they don't uh uh want to uh to uh have to fulfill the obligations of tc1 when it inevitably comes uh uh to this corridor so instead they just sort of rushed through half her project in uh in hopes that uh that they could sneak under the uh their their radar before tc1 so that that's that kind of throws me the wrong way already but then there is so there are so many other things uh that I think are ridiculous about this and having to move the bus stop and all of that why why is there even a coconut on Plymouth for this rock the current curb cut is right next to another uh another curb cut workout deal with PNC Bank they have plenty of uh of of space and there's uh on on their lights they're the tiny little uh Bank building is a postage stamp in in a sea of that of asphalt and and what and there's already there's also a code on on Prairie Street but do you need two curb cuts for uh for this yeah why not why not just uh have have one and what about all of that parking geez that is a lot of uh uh uh parking for uh for somewhere that uh that these days sell them uh has many uh uh people in all in all this seems like just just at a terrible idea let's put some mixed use in there instead thank you I'll try one more time for Brandon Currington you've permission to address the Planning Commission uh hello my name is Brandon Kerrington can you hear me because my mic wasn't working last time I'm wondering if y'all can hear me we can hear you all right I'm uh Brandon kirkton I'm a deputy and I live on North Flagstaff um I I have an issue regarding regarding the mosques in the area there's just a lack of mosques and um I just generally think that we should build more mosques uh uh thank you and uh thank you that was your last caller okay I'm going to read their proposed motion and then we will go into discussion there are two so I'm gonna take read them together the first one is the Ann Arbor City Planning Commission after hearing all interested persons and reviewing all relevant information finds the petition to substantially meet the standards in chapter 55 the unified development code section 5.29.5 special exceptions approves the umcu special exemption used for a three-lane drive-through Bank facility with the following condition this approval is based on the following findings number one will be consistent with the general objectives of the city comprehensive plan of office uses in the area and number two the proposed use will not adversely impact traffic pedestrians bicyclists circulation or Road intersections based on the location the proposed use is consistent with other surrounding uses traffic impact the second motion is The Honorable City Planning Commission hereby approves the umcu site plan subject to number one demolishing the existing structure on site number two dividing the subject parcel from the parent parcel and number three a landscape modification for the location of Street trees outside the public right-of-way as required in 5.20.10 of chapter 55.

so it isn't a system that we did explore we would consider exploring it again when we did it at that time the technology wasn't quite there we were far ahead and so those systems have not worked properly and so that is what kind of has made our decision to go revert back to the traditional mechanical systems so it doesn't mean that we're not willing to go that route and look at it again if that's something that the Commissioners would request that we do but just to let you know we did consider that for this location but because of the difficulties we did have in the past is why we've looked at going backwards so I hope that helps a little bit clarify some of that okay thank you commissioner Lee and the follow-up and it was mostly out of curiosity because I did find that description of various maintenance and operational issues would likely be fully realized it would just seemed vague to me so um I appreciate that you guys have done heat pumps in the other two locations um and that's but you guys have had bad experiences with them so far so that that is helpful it doesn't mean that the technology hasn't improved and we wouldn't consider maybe looking at something different for this location sure thank you you're welcome um I I was planning on actually asking questions about something else unless somebody else wanted to ask more questions on this topic okay um one of the things I wanted to say that I really liked about this is the rain Garden the storm water retention so I just didn't want to positively note that this currently is a you know an asphalt site of a parking lot and that the the fact that this can actually retain water is actually very helpful the other question that I wanted to ask was what's happening with parcel 2 would it remain office and what are some of the discussions around from a continuity of urban form standpoint what are some of the thought process behind the remaining 42 percent of the land on parcel 2.