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these are very broad timelines because once we get into the site plan process there are some things that are out of our hands in terms of how fast that moves along I did want to show in case you you have been there's a project website a2dropoff.com if you haven't been there it's got all the background information if you did see the three conceptual designs that we were working with originally this is the final conceptual design that was created and we did incorporate um stakeholder feedback and made a few changes the largest one is that this main building that you would drive through this is where you drop off like single stream batteries Electronics things like that um originally had traffic on both or operations on both sides of a center drive through line and we it was redesigned to have one long linear building so all the operations can be on one side and the cars you know that are coming through the drive-through would drive this way the other big addition is we added this space here and I apologize if this is very small I will see if I can zoom in it's also on the project website where you can look at it this is a reuse space um a space noted as a 5 000 square foot building for some future re you reuse activities that would be defined so um commissioner Graham did you have a question I did entry off Flat Road or entry off the main entry to the compost center and and mrf and over the scale entries good answer um yes but for two different traffic streams so this is plat over here on this side and I can show you a different image I can pull it up that puts you more in the world of where this is located and that entrance would be for the passenger vehicles for those that are coming to drop things off that traffic is indicated by a red arrow on this site design and there is a proposed access road this way that goes this is the city's existing Compost Facility that goes across that railroad easement this way to enter the wheeler Center so the blue arrows represent the heavy truck traffic and those trucks would would enter the wheeler service center in the existing gate off plat where the scale is but then they would be able to access the compost site through that interior axis road so there was a strong desire to keep the industrial heavy truck traffic and the passenger vehicle traffic separate from one another so that will allow that to happen good thank you thank you you're welcome okay so I encourage you to check out our website if you have um any interest in kind of seeing the the other stuff that's been put together for this project and the last thing I just wanted to touch on a few things that we're working on we do have a contract at the Ecology Center for marketing Outreach and education for all of our programs and one of those work areas is around social based social based marketing campaign um we are working with them now uh to hold focus groups to start thinking about attitudes and behaviors towards trash Recycling and compost and develop messaging that would motivate more people to participate in those programs we're also um our compost program we have never we do bi-annual composition audits for our recycling stream we've never really done an audit looking at our compost stream and that is something that we agreed to do in um the First Amendment to our operating agreement with we care so we will be doing an audit of that material it'll be more visual than weight based but it will allow us to see what the contaminants of concern are for the compost stream so that we can do education and Outreach around that we have a group of a20 ambassadors that have an interest in that area and we're working with them on a project we've also been piloting some multi-family uh property Outreach for recycling and then hopefully for compost as well as we start to develop those programs move in and move out move out for the spring of this year is going on now it started yesterday we'll be open again tomorrow Sunday Monday and Wednesday but we also are looking to broaden what we're doing with move out and we've had some great conversations with our partners at the University and let the apartment association and others about looking for more collaboration to do to provide additional programs and services to keep more material out of the landfill we've talked to others a lot of other university towns other cities people are doing a lot of creative things and we think that there's more that we could be doing here um to recoup some of that material and keep it from going into the trash also um Brian mentioned we had a couple of areas where we thought we could interface with the commission and the zero waste working group um you know recently reconvened and I think one of the things we might talk about there if there is interest is starting to research around c and d and deconstruction ordinances looking for examples of how other cities have structured them what their approach and timelines for implementation as well as looking to see what we might need locally to support that so and that's a another area where we're hoping that we can work with the commission on researching those ideas and look to see what might work for us here in Ann Arbor and that is the end of my remarks I want to thank you all again for the opportunity and if there's any other questions I'd be happy to take them at this time um well thank you Sarah this is all very thoughtful and um things that seem to be moving in a very good direction so thank you so much um Chris you have your hand up I do I I'm reminded when I was a boy when I would see Burma shape series of signs along the roads um it seems to me one way that people will bring recyclables compost materials particularly in is to have some sort of electronic signage where you might give them messages it's astonishing to me how much especially plastic trash comes in with compost loads it's just ridiculous that that isn't separated out before these guys put this stuff in their trailers and whatever they're bringing in primarily compostable but serious trash and you could educate um you might have to do it in Spanish as well as English with signage on the incoming Road uh and might help a little thank you um Lucy you have your hand up thank you thank you for this presentation it was really wonderful and Incredibly exciting um I have one quick question actually two quick questions one is I know that you guys have been really entrepreneurial and won some great grants for the Dos to to support that how much of the 6.528 million and actually probably higher than that will be covered by the grants great question so we have 850 000 of grant funding from Eagle to put towards the project additionally Washington County has given a soft commitment of around a million dollars towards the project that cost sharing has not been set up yet but that's the the figure so um close to two point million will be covered by other funding sources but that still leaves um a good amount that the city will be covering and I will just chime in that is subject to approval by the Board of Commissioners still at the county um we're not going to take that forward until we're ready to go out for then it seems like a more perfect time once we get that site plan approves from Pittsfield then we're we'll be ready to move forward wonderful wonderful and then I wanted I wanted to know a little bit more about how the ReUse site was envisioned to be used and I just toured the Murph and it blew me away um that and the wastewater treatment plant are currently my favorite places in the city but neither of them lets me walk my dog there so won't be a freaking visitor so and um one of the things I learned at the Murph is that they're going to do Outreach with Perpetual um to find out people's I guess preferences or I'm not exactly sure what they're looking for but people's feedback around returning containers and you know I guess where would you do it what what would make you participate what would be attractive and I wondered if um I don't know if you wanted to say something about that because this commission could certainly um promote that to their own networks and um I think the engagement is at the end of May and I think I don't know if some of it is is any of it an online survey or is it most of it virtual so actually that was more than one quick question I'm sorry um so I guess starting in Reverse I I think that that Outreach and engagement that live zero waste and Perpetual is doing um is in person um Sean you can correct me if that's wrong but yes they are looking for feedback on how to expand the reusable container program and scale it up so the wide we um we did partner with Perpetual on an EPA Swiffer Grant which is their infrastructure grant for recycling um to ask for additional funding for the Dos as well as including um some infrastructure to collect the containers we've not heard um yet any outcome on that Grant but I know that Perpetual I think has other funding and is looking to move that forward um either way so that is exciting I want to say it's May 22nd is that right Sean uh so May 22nd is going to be an event that is focused on uh government officials nonprofits and business owners um and then there will be I believe two or three other events that are for the general public to attend um I had a meeting with them last week and it sounds like the the main focus is on these in-person events but they do plan to have some virtual engagement opportunities right and then council member to your other question about the ReUse space at the dos the programming for that is not known at this time we just knew that it was a priority and something we wanted to incorporate into the site design from the beginning so between the project team that's been working on it which is recycling Ann Arbor Washington County the city and our design consultant RS all that expertise together felt that the size and space that you saw on the concept plan would support a robust reuse operation if I could say one more thing I want to tell you that um I assign my students in my class to do a project and one of them did a flea market uh as part of Spring Fest at umich and so I think that in terms of uh having options other than just disposing responsibly of the things you don't need I think the students are geared toward I think they would love to sell their stuff but you know we could even perhaps persuade some of them to swap it and the ends end and beginning of the year are good times because you know you you move into a new size residence uh and you need things that you didn't need when you were in a dorm so there's I think there's stuff we can do and there are a couple of student groups that are active and um and I would love to help in whatever way I can and see us really um tap into some of that energy that those young people have thank you very much I will remember that offer and so he um get that planning started um John mursky you have the floor uh Kudos on a really good presentation this is one of the best presentations we've had at least that I can recollect in quite a while so thanks very much and also thank you the three of you for spending part of your Thursday evening with us I know that probably wasn't your first choice so thanks very much I have four very quick points um the charts um were helpful um John kellerwort and maybe I think one other person made a comment or two that might be good to footnote about these being weight based and things like that so um if we sort of update and reuse those charts it'd be great to add those footnotes um my sense is that you're absolutely right about moving away from diversion rate and looking at tonnage to landfill um but one of there's a couple of I think good reasons for continuing to use diversion rate because it is a can be Illuminating first of all a lot of other communities use diversion rate and secondly it is a rate it's something that is uh normalized and one way of of normalizing tonnage to landfills do it on a per capita basis and then you can Benchmark again you know just absolute tonnage to Absolute tonnage is is not something that you can easily Benchmark diversion rates or attendance rate to landfill or something that you can uh Benchmark and it it provides some level of elimination so I think that's something to consider um but I I generally agree with the the movement away from that um I just want to make um two two suggestions that you don't have to respond to um first is I'd like um staff to look at exploring providing some level of resources to Raa for better maintenance of the r to Z uh recycling guide it is linked to the city's website and I've been told by three different people in leadership at Ria that they don't have enough resources to do that and it's not necessarily always up to date and it's not necessarily always um as I understand it even consistent with staff's understanding and I don't know how much money that would take but please reconsider that maybe talk with them about what might be appropriate and then the last thing is I had posed a question by email and I'd received a good response but I just wanted to put it out there for everybody else to know and that is an energy commissioner had recommended to me and I passed on the idea of put putting solar on the roof of the Murph I understand that the city has a lot of other things that it's juggling right now but I really think that's something that should be put in the parking lot as far as I recollect it's it's a a good south facing roof there is a load that corresponds almost exactly to when solar power is being generated so you can actually just use the power right on site and it just seems to me it's something that is really a good idea and should be considered for the midterm let's say um or whenever appropriate so those are the four points and again thank you very much um Mr Sigma so you have your hand up you have the floor thank you and thank you for all the comments the great questions and we're we're happy to be here and to be able to support this group um I did want to make one comment when as we were talking about funding for the drop-off station um we are also continuing to explore other opportunities so just so you're aware that that's no the the funding sources that we've identified are not the the end game we're still continuing to look for new opportunities um and then I guess the last point I'd like to make is that I am offended by council members dishes comment that the Wastewater Plant is one of her favorite locations and not the drinking water plant because I was the one who gave her a tour of the drinking water plant and obviously that did not resonate well with her so no it's so stupid that's what I meant I've never been to the voice I will do a quick plug though and let you know that we do have an open house coming up on May 6 from 10 to 2.
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so um you're all welcome if you do are interested and haven't been we will be doing tours for four hours of the city's drinking water plant thank you thank you uh miss pachowski you have your hand up yeah um Brian I was going to make sure Brian gave a plug for the water plant open house but I'll spend top of that one right away um the one thing that we were remiss in not talking about and I apologize what's the cost of service study that we have planned for solid waste that is something uh that that's long overdue and we're committed to doing that we're working right now on an RFP but basically when the solid waste millage was set up it was decades ago and we were thinking trash and then even just really in the infancy of recycling and things have expanded so much um yeah the millage sort of remains as it is and so uh performing this cost of service study over the next year will really help us understand where all you know the millage money is and how we can maybe look at programming and being more strategic about expanding programs so just wanted to give an update on that we'll have more to come and if um you know probably the next meeting we can tell you where we are with that all right thank you um oh um um Molly um just one just one question um yeah but it's a solid waste millage up for uh for Renewal that's a great question I'm not yeah I'll check into it okay it's not soon I know that much because I think it was just renewed not that long ago um uh Shannon you have your hand up you have the floor yeah thank you all um and um I'm wondering I was just in uh Vancouver a little while ago and um they had bins for textiles for cycling in the apartments uh apartment buildings and I'm just wondering is there any kind of scenario where that you all are considering that for the future I know that you know sometimes I have stuff that is just like you you can't give it away if it's got too many the socks have too many holes or you know whatever it is and I'm just wondering what you just wanted to ask the long-term question around that right thank you um I do know that in the solid research management plan textile recycling was one of the things that was identified as a program to explore so we haven't that would I think was recommended more of like a curbside program for collection um however I know there are some dropboxes they're not affiliated with the city I've seen them around so I can't speak to who collects them um but related to your idea of or the thing that you were mentioning about putting them in apartments for usable Goods that is one of the things that we know some communities have done around move out is actually had it takes a lot of partnership though because you have to monitor them carefully but put collection boxes closer like in in apartment comp or in properties where there's a Lobby where there's a space that can accommodate it's not a fit for everything that's why I think it's a mix of programs to address that but to collect usable things um but textile recycling is on our list things don't have updated this time on yeah I can add to that at the when we put together the solid waste Resource Management plan and looked at the curbside program we looked at some other neighboring communities that we're offering and we found out that a lot of those textiles um even like the holy socks they're turned into regs and used you know so they are being reused um and that's something that if you continue to explore as we yeah if Sarah should look into this more so it could be it's probably going to be a combination of things that we offer great thank you um commissioner mursky you have your hand up you have the floor yeah I thought I might respond to that real quickly and by the way Shannon thanks for the tip maybe that's a good place for all of us to look um Steve and I are members of a group called The Washington waste Coalition and we've talked about this and um a lot of textiles um when they go to for example um the various resale stores there's some materials that are then uh they're not judged to be usable there and a lot of those are shipped overseas and there's a lot of stories that indicate that a high percentage of that actually then just ends up being dumped somewhere um and then there's another problem with textile recycling in that you have got all kinds of different materials and even materials are mixed materials and usually if you have different kinds of uses like insulation and things like that um they they have to be a particular material they can't be mixed with you know a mixed material with spandex or with polyester or this and that or the other so I think maybe we could learn from Vancouver I would think that they're pretty uh Advanced on these kinds of things but there seem to be a lot of pitfalls with with doing is not something that's easy to do um so thanks hey thank you one last thing if I make and that is um could um Sarah's presentation be posted to register I don't know if it has been in the meantime but it wasn't a couple of days ago thank you yeah all right well thank you everybody um thanks for your time and uh I think it's been very it's well appreciated so um let's move on to the next item on the agenda which would be reports from committees other commissions Council and chair so let's start with a report from from the uh natural features committee Chris I noticed in the paper today that the contract is approved by the council for the consolidation of the city's Master planes which I understand is going to include the natural features management plan I guess I would say it is time to respond to the environmental commission's request to have our participation at the table and how that plan develops at least with regard to natural features it won't be satisfactory to cast our opinions and wishes and desires with the general public we want to be at the table a duly noted um I'll have a comment I have a comment during the chairs report about this as well so let's move on to the pollinators thank you uh I want to uh thank Steph and Sean and Commissioners Gruber Ackman and and um Dale for participation in getting us to our new program that is the evolution or you could say the metamorphosis of nomome into the pollinator aware Yard Care Program um and so I guess I would say it launched this week we had a really nice article in the newspaper yesterday it's been on uh a few social media things I believe um and Sean has informed us that we've had something like 50 people register for the program in order to get a yard sign which is really nice so this program has yard science available it's really nice they have some instructive information on them so that people walking by will get information that's relevant to supporting pollinators which is avoiding pesticides and having native plants and a QR code that goes to our website that is linked as a hub to multiple sites within the city website entire website that includes uh oh thanks Sean there we go that includes nap and um the Water Management I'm not saying the right name but Jen Lawson's Department um so that people we're not doing being redundant within the city services and we also have references to outside organizations um so there you have it I'm really pleased I was I had to be convinced but I am particularly pleased that that we moved from focusing on a single month to focusing on the entire year and meaning the entire um life life cycle of of pollinators that contribute to life and natural features in our city oh hi council member Ackman you have the floor I just wanted to chime in to say that there was also a really nice M live article that had commissioner Mitchell some pictures and I just thought it was a good insight into what different people in our community are doing to support pollinators so we'll miss that check it out it's great all right um Chris Graham you have your hand up here you're muted you're muted I'm sorry kudos to Rita for um making this absolute Blossom this spring I I was afraid we were going to lose this program and and uh uh she really deserves a lot of credit for uh really expanding it this year well thanks Chris I really do want to pass that that credit on to many other people because it was quite a a broad effort please do yeah it's wonderful to see um okay let's uh how about zero waste working group yeah hi uh thanks to uh Sean's quick efforts in your inbox is the link to the report uh completed recently by the U of M sees Master students on the circular economy initiative uh they presented to the environmental commission a couple months ago but this is their final report that they've wrapped up uh they also presented last Monday along with Jenny Petoskey from the city to a wide group of City staff planning Public Works OSI resource recovery solid waste on kind of the big picture of everything that's been going on with the circular economy initiative I think some of our next steps with that work is the kind of Outreach and engagement strategy that we're putting together based on some uh work that a consultant is doing right now uh aiming for equity in those efforts uh I think that'll be our biggest Next Step um but we're also thinking about how to really keep the energy going around this work Lisa anything you wanted to add to that I think you covered all of it I think we have had a brainstorm and a couple of big ideas but until we are sure that those have support from staff we don't want to flip them that's prudent okay um let's see um the water quality work group did not meet but Tom Sarah do you have anything that you'd like to let us know about uh no I don't have any updates at this time okay thank you um I'll schedule a meeting for uh for the next month um let's see so let's move on to other commissions um how about energy three quick updates uh we passed the natural gas resolution basically in the form that we originally considered it in um this evening uh that was one point of our agenda second main point was that Missy Stoltz presented the natural gas franchise um situation that was after it had already been approved by Council um so if anybody's interested in details on that I encourage you to go into legendstar and look at the last meeting where there's her presentation um and I'd just like to point out that uh as as Missy has has presented to both Council and us there's you know lots of potential um options and ways that this could go uh so if you're interested in some of them uh one idea is and this is implied also in the the name of the agenda item in the energy commission and that is that the natural gas franchise could be transitioned into something called a a heating uh franchise so instead of supplying natural gas to provide heat that you actually provide heat directly through geothermal and that's being piloted into the city of Boston um and there's a non-profit there called heat h-e-e-t and if you Google that um then you can find out what Boston is doing and um actually it's my understanding that the city just received a grant from the doe to run a pilot of a District geothermal system in the Bryant neighborhood I think it was a million dollars or something like that um so obviously that's uh obviously going to be obviously really a a regional um possible Trend you know there's even other kinds of things that could happen in California and other places um they're mixing in hydrogen into natural gas um and testing that out as a possibility so this could explore you know lots of different opportunities um for the city and it would address what Chris talked about earlier not just new developments but all the customers that we currently have so um keep your attention on that and like I said go to legendstar and then finally I just thought I'd mention that we're having elections um next month and um both I as chair and Carlene Calvin Garcia are both termed out our bylaws state that you cannot serve more than three years um in your office and so there will be a new chair and vice chair of the energy commission and potentially also a new liaison to the environmental commission so those are the three things we covered we talked about the the elections and the duties and things like that those are the three things that were on our agenda thank you all right uh thank you John um oops sorry okay um let's go for um parks Parks advisory hi we uh we just met last week um some updates are solar installation has begun and our Parks properties that had been designated for that program um the parks are going to be participating in the the new and improved pollinator aware program I think several Parks have been earmarked they're going to have areas um that will have less mowing happening over the course of the summer um so thank you I know Rita was involved in that in talking to the parks department about that um Fuller Park is has been designated potentially being a part of the bicentennial celebration next year um summer camp uh getting the the parks department right now is is heavily involved in getting ready for summer camps getting the pools ready liveries um golf courses and all that so um a lot of activity there and apparently the summer camps have been um the the enrollment there has increased um over the past few years and they're um excited about a big year this year for that and then finally um in January that some of the fees for the for golf and the um canoe libraries will be going up so that's about it thank you um planning yeah we've had two meetings I was able to go to one because I've um been sick and the one meeting that I attended the big item on the agenda was um the credit union that's over on Plymouth Road and I would say that um how it pertains to to this body is that it was a um a special exemption use because they were looking to do a drive through and we denied them because we have discretion there and um because we are trying to move away from drive-throughs and car dependent uh design and they also didn't have um really much going on in terms of sustainability so we had more discretion with that vote um they uh I think are um thinking about trying to come back and change their plan so we'll see what happens as that comes um and before I hand it off to Lisa who's going to cover the next meeting I just wanted to respond a little bit because I I did talk with um our planning manager about natural features kind of being involved in some of that and what he said is that the natural features a portion of the master plan will definitely be updated um what he said with this next effort what he said though is that um there really needs to be a whole Community discussion around priorities because there's I know that we've been hearing it on Planning Commission they're there's a lot of emphasis right now on um increased housing as well and so he indicated that we really needed to have a bigger conversation about where the community is in terms of priorities with with changing some of those things um and so uh that he hopes that we'll have a robust dialogue around that during the um the information kind of during during those sessions so um come out and make your reviews known I'm sure many other people will too um with with that whole process but that uh that's kind of where things are right now um and is that we we really need to kind of figure that out you know with with our own Community about what where we want to put um where we want to put our energy for that so I just wanted to report on that and then I'll hand it over to Lisa to go over that some changes that were discussed for the new Transit Corridor um yes thank you Shannon um well we had a funny meeting because um we had six numbers there but one had to recuse themselves because their uh their employer owns property along the tc1 corridors and so that meant that everything we voted on failed because we had a sub Corp but um but um uh but so we voted on we voted on some tweaks regarding automobile related uses on the tc1 corridors and we voted to change Auto and Truck and Equipment Repair and auto sales and rental from a uh to it it would be normally prohibited along tc1 but there was robust discussion of that when we rezoned a stadium and so we changed it to a special exception use staff had actually recommended that it just be a permitted use and that they felt that so long as it conformed to the form that we have along tc1 it would be fine but the Commissioners wanted to make it a special exception use um I didn't vote with them on that um and uh so that that failed four to one so I had four votes in blah blah blah very funny then um the we also decided that automobile Services have to be located in an enclosed building and that failed with a unanimous vote of approval um that's the way to put it uh and staff didn't really have a chance to kind of um analyze whether there were unforeseen consequences of that one but um when that by the time that comes to council that'll be foreseen and I anticipate having a chat with you commissioner Gibb Randall about that meeting in full so that um I can understand where you can maybe help me understand better how the discussion unfolded um there and I can fill you in on some other stuff but your voice was missed I can tell you your expertise hey thank you um anything on Transportation my darling yes sorry it just took me a minute to find the mute button um we got some carbon Reduction Program grants so 1.18 million dollars in carbon Reduction Program funding for two projects that support both a20 and vision zero which is our transportation plan uh the first is a project that will happen in fiscal year 24 that will convert All 4 000 some odd low efficiency DTE owned street lights to LED fixtures that are about 1.2 to three times more efficient the second is a fiscal year 26 project that will fund the planning and the implementation to create I've heard this called a variety of things you could call it a bike Boulevard a Greenway and all ages abilities bike network uh on West Washington Street which has been in discussion for quite some time I understand that's it great thank you um so let's see Council Council report anything I would just say that we passed the 415 uh Washington uh PUD which pre-entitles the property to be developed and we added um a requirement at the table to make it at least so you can only if I get this wrong uh already okay yeah okay all right thank you um anything else no okay um so just for the chair um I have a brief just a brief um question um which should involve some discussion and that is that um there's been some talk about um about um about miscommunication and misalignment between staff and the commissions I'm not just talking about the environmental Commission now um and it occurred to me during some of the discussions I had especially with um Council woman dish that um the zero waste work group that she works on has regular staff participation in the working group and also as I recall um from conversations with Chris Graham um the ordinance changes that were worked on for many years um you know for natural features um were were done in conjunction with a staff member until a few years ago so I'm thinking that the working groups we we could probably all become more efficient and effective if all the working groups had regular participation from a city staff member and I would just like to throw that out there and um and I'm hoping um to explore this um so I'm open to any ideas or any discussion we don't necessarily have to have it tonight but we can I'd like to have it at the next meeting we might have some discussion and um and um I'm not sure what all the city administrator's opinion would be about this but uh it's been a tradition and it seems to me that it's been a fruitful tradition um that's been lost for some of the working groups especially the natural features working group since the just before the pandemic and some of the other groups so um um Sean you have your hand up you have the floor yes thank you um I'll just chime in and say uh that this has been discussed as something that staff wanted to bring towards the environmental commission as well um so thank you for bringing it Forward um uh chairperson Brown um there are commissions such as the energy commission where it is in the bylaws that there must be a staff liaison to every working group uh the environmental commission is not one of those so it is not written in the bylaws um but we did want to bring forward the recommendation that their BSF lies on all the working groups um so I certainly would uh support um having a conversation about that at an upcoming meeting okay well if um if the city staff is in agreement um why don't I just send a memo to you and um ask uh ask for volunteers for who would like to participate in the different working groups sounds good thank you okay um um council member dish you have the floor I think this is a great idea moving forward and um I wondered though if maybe we should consider um ask for staff feedback on prioritizing our working groups because there it may be difficult to staff all of our working groups and um but I heard you know I mean Sarah Mason called out a couple of things that she was hoping for participation on and obviously natural features is a key group and obviously pollinators are steaming or buzzing along however we want to put it and also have staff support so but it might be good for us to kind of take a holistic approach to our work and think about um I think one of the reasons why the zero waste working group has been successful is first of all that we worked on the circular economy initiative which was kind of a little bit of a shift but not really because those are just terms but also because we thought about lending our energy and expertise in an area where the city wants to move forward but doesn't have the capacity so we don't want to the way we would love to have this work is to have um our capacity fortify staff capacity rather than our commissions working groups spreading staff thinly so maybe before you sent that forward we might think about reviewing our working groups and just thinking about our priorities more um more holistically if if that's not if that's okay with folks no that's a great suggestion I mean in particular like the water quality working group a lot of what are what's written into our our man our our mission um involves actually not just the city staff but also the county water commissioner and their Huron River Watershed Council so um that's the place where I think it needs a little uh especially needs some more thinking and discussion okay so um the next item on the agenda is a report from staff um um Sean Reynolds posted um a staff update registrar um so Sean do you want to do you want to let it stand as it is or would you like to highlight a few things or uh yes that document is available for everyone to view I do want to highlight the two items that are at the bottom from the city of quirk's office um those are that commission reappointments are going to be on the city council agenda on May 1st for their first reading and then on May 15th for their second reading um and approval from city council uh once they are approved Commissioners who are up for uh reappointment which is several of you on the line um should receive your reappointment letters from A Serial on us before May 31st um also the clerk's office is going to be hosting an orientation for new and existing board and commission members um that's going to be a 45 minute presentation and then a 45 minute q a that will be in mid-june the data still being finalized but it will be recorded and available for later viewing for those of you who are not able to attend um we do highly encourage all commissions to depend to get a refresher on the commission uh roles and the handbook that I did send out in a email a few weeks ago as well um so those are the two main updates there also uh stage that didn't make it into document because we heard after I put this document together uh is the announcement that commissioner mursky made earlier about the grant for um uh uh geothermal um so I don't have the exact amount that we uh were awarded in front of me unfortunately um but it was a 13 million dollar total grant that went out by the doe uh to 11 different communities and we are one of those 11 um and that will be focused in the Bryan neighborhood on efficiency and prevents rooftop solar and battery storage for heating and cooling of 262 different households uh the Bryan Elementary School Brian Community Center a mental health facility and also the public works um so we are very excited about that and those are our enough well yeah I'll just say Sean that um there was an article in mlife this afternoon that was posted online about that and I think the number I remember is Psalm 588 thousand dollars for that Grant for a district-wide geothermal project you know to for the whole neighborhood plus you know the community center and Mental Health Center and so and also wheeler and uh the the wheeler site that the city owns so that's um yep and John mentioned uh as well so um and also I want to remind everybody that um when we're when we meet in may we will have our appointments and we'll also have a part of the agenda item will be an election uh for chair and vice chair so you know so be looking for nominations then um so that will be in uh the next item on the agenda is items for the next agenda so we will have a vote um once the new new commission is formed under the chair and vice chair um an overview of the nap activities from City staff um especially focusing on invasive species management so um are there any other suggestions for agenda items for May I don't hear or see anything so um the next scheduled meeting would be May 25th 2023 at our usual time Thursday at 7 pm um this oh this starts our the next item on the agenda is the second public comment period so this is another opportunity for persons to speak for up to three minutes uh please call one eight seven seven eight five three five two four seven and enter meeting ID 922-9696-1644 uh this information is also displayed on a meeting agenda and video feed City staff will select callers that have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of your phone number in order to electronically raise your hand to indicate your desire to speak please press star 9 on your phone you will hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area and mute any television and background sounds so that we may hear you clearly please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments and be patient there can be a delay of up to 30 seconds before a connection is established so again press star 9 on your phone if you wish to speak um is there anybody on the line yet Sean we do not have anyone online okay well let's wait 30 seconds just to be sure and then we'll return the meeting and I'm sorry it went past nine o'clock but I think it's been a very good meeting anyway and I'm relieved that it did go till 10 14.
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like last time uh let's see is there anybody there yet Sean there is not okay well I declare this meeting adjourned at 9 24 PM thanks everybody
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I'm just very proud of you and it's an honor for us to be here tonight we want to welcome everybody to Burlington High School senior board night this is an occasion of happiness for all and as we gather together to celebrate this auspicious evening this goes without saying that the award ceremony is amongst one of the most treasured Occasions in Burlington High School as it provides us with the opportunity to reflect on this preceding year feel the support of our community and share the achievements successes and future plans of our seniors I'm excited about what everything's happening tonight miss I want to give a big shout out to Mrs Donna Poland [Applause] um those of you who have been here for four years know the hard work that they put in together I I've been in education a long time and I don't think I've worked with harder working individuals that have that that insight for you and have that vision for you and work as hard as they are as hard as they have or what's going to be delivered tonight so with that let's get started and I'm going to turn it this Donna Bullen is going to start with our local scholarships so we're very excited because tonight we're going to give away over 125 000 in local scholarship so uh some of our presenters FFA did have a banquet last week and they gave away 2 200 uh in scholarships we just want to recognize those students so if you'll stand as I call your name Casey Bland Aaliyah Cole Hallie finnerty Grant Hague Brett Rand Toby Rivas and Tori roselian congratulations we do have a few students at State FFA tonight so if they're not here then that's why our first scholarship is the Ducks Unlimited John Redmond chapter scholarship and Mark and Carol Harris are here to present it thank you will welcome class of 2023.
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Rock call please hi Mike Davenport here Christopher Espinoza here shirelle Fuller here Jenny hagstrom here Terry pavisich [Laughter] nearby Nancy cupka here Luca palowskus here Caitlin Vincent here thank you okay we have a horrible stand for the pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay we start with student perspectives I'm gonna actually go hang on yeah it's cool there you go all right good evening um today for students for student perspectives at South High we are celebrating student achievement and Communications so it's actually threefold presentation but under the umbrella of achievement in Communications so you're gonna hear from our blueprint staff our yearbook staff and ihsa short film so English teachers in the room will appreciate three different modes of medium in which to communicate and we're super excited super proud of them um so I'm going to start by introducing Ava into Caven come on up okay [Applause] there you go all right so you two are going to introduce yourself talk about blueprint and then all right all right hi my name is Russell I am a senior and I graduate I'm serious we're just going to talk to you about our school newspaper which is called the blueprint s um so how to join Advanced journalism that's kind of just the basic term for Google Play class um most people take the prerequisite which is journalistic Expressions um and you can kind of just learn throughout the journals in the course and you also sometimes get to freelance on the website or in the print in some cases um or in my case I got a recommendation for my English teacher my sophomore year and um I was able to take the course by junior year and again my senior year we also have a couple other journalism related classes at South such as TV or radio and I know some people who take those as well as well as blueprint the same year um and if you get recommendations um what is blueprint and blueprint is Advanced journalism it's a four-year course um we run it like a real Newsroom so like you get the experience of if he was wanting to be a journal list of like that environment um it's student-led so we just we have our teacher who's in the room with us but we usually take control of everything and how it's run um we designed to create the physical newspaper we handed out this year we had five Cycles some years it is a little bit different five to six is usually where we're at and we also publish online on South blueprint we try to publish at least a couple times a week and we even do it during the summer so we have been um we're getting some and then we also have the chance to compete at ijea or ihsa which last week we placed third at ihsa state competition [Applause] we also won our sectional this year so we're really proud of everyone who was participating in that and um some of the yearbook folks also were there too so [Laughter] um a little bit about our website we publish in five plus categories that includes news opinions entertainment features and sports um we also do fun quizzes and listicles and every article and everything we have is an original photo which I think is really unique and I didn't know that going into blueprint but um I've really gotten good at taking photos and I think it's just something that um it's just really fun to do and we have a lot of different people specific people to keep it here as a photo and graphics editor um so he can kind of take care of all that yeah um and then we also edit the pages of the newspaper um we have a 12-page spread and each section of people takes care of a couple different pages and it really holds you responsible that's what I like about the class um I'm an editor-in-chief this year and I stand up in front of my whole class just like this every day and talk about what we're gonna do each day and um it's really given me a great experience of being ship and I know everyone in the class really loves to like the family environment that we have we're having a party in a couple weeks and yeah we're just really excited we also disturbing the newspaper so every time the cycle comes out we walk around to classes with carts of full of newspapers um and it's just really a fun environment and I really love how we get to um be ourself and come up with segments that is not normal for really news sources or whatever and just get to make the blueprint our own in our home oh we have one more time sorry um the blueprint is like she said taking responsibility and taking the experience of being in a newsroom news a real Newsroom in like yeah we call it the blueprint lab and we just really get the work done and whatever we receive before awards called um best of snow online um and that is really like a strong rewards if you guys don't know a journalists but um in ijea and ihsa so we're really proud of you all right yeah um we would like to introduce the ihsa short film which is Bradley Mason [Applause] hello everyone I'm Joshua traga and I'm a senior at Downers Grove South High School I'm Bradley padovic I'm also senior at South and I'm Mason thousand I'm also a senior in southern Pennsylvania so this year we uh created our School's First short film and in terms of how to join you'll have to contact Chris Blum um yeah sorry Mr Blum and you'll have to include any of your previous film or editing experience all of your creative ideas you can even submit a rough draft screenplay he's basically the guy that will run the whole Logistics of it getting it together he was a great help to us this year so so the short film is a yearly competition held by the ihsa that started just a few years ago um and any students in ihsa high schools can submit it as long as it's under five minutes and um I think it's technically a part of speech and debate oh yeah because we traveled with the GI team so the group into our team from South we traveled with them because the storm film was held at the same time as that competition and so the fun thing about the short film for ihsa is that the short film has to be made entirely by students so all the acting editing shooting writing directing all of that has to be made by us and our fellow students now Mr Bloom did help quite a bit in terms of budgeting transport all those things but when it comes to the final product it's basically all our creation so yeah it's really exciting because this is a very very new thing um like it says there it's only been in the ihsa competition line for about three years or so and we were happy to go this year and compete and we place about seventh overall out of 48 with a rating of superior so very good so our short film was titled you'll never guess and uh we submitted it for the ihsa uh drama short film competition which was directed by myself Mason Bradley and NB Bandera um and then as Bradley was saying earlier yeah our sponsor was Mr Chris Blum but then we also had a bunch of like help from different staff members along the way um we kind of talked to like um Mr Evans who helped putting props or any prop um stuff that we needed we had Mrs primals to be a chaperone she actually made take over the world next year because Chris bloom had sorry Mr Blanc has a lot going on already so uh Mrs Primos may take over to help him out with that which would be amazing to have her how about with that she was actually the one that got all of us together for this today we uh all met through uh our same English class making videos for that and start making videos in English class all three of us we made the rules of Wall Street other videos yeah that's how we got recommended it into the director position before I just said so what's up um and just to continue on um the film kind of for us what we filmed is about a student kind of following different rumors and um trying to figure out like what was going on but you learned later that it's kind of a story that talks about how these rumors get out of hand and they can kind of twist the truth and make like turn people's good images for the worst and how we shouldn't really kind of like fall for these false women were so there's a good message and it's also entertaining a little bit of core aspects in it too we got one that judges to jump back we got a little jump scare us we're proud of that but uh yeah he watched in a dark room he hated us for that um and then yeah we had a lot of students that were part of it as Bradley was mentioning some specific ones we also like to shout out who's uh Rihanna Ziegler she was like kind of our manager with keeping us on time because we always really want to make sure the scenes are right but we didn't want to like shoot till midnight either so she kind of kept us on top of that and making sure everyone's in the right spot so even though there may not like um even though there's us as the directors there's so many the other rules that we learned that come into this so yeah we have the people of charge for keeping us a test we had the makeup artists we had editors such as Xander sparaja who spent like 13 hours I think just going non-stop editing on our short film and it was only five minutes the amount of editing it goes into it is insane and then we had yeah makeup artists as I was saying and a bunch of other people and we're grateful of also the group are giving us some of their cameras and equipment to help all this come possible so it's great how we can all work as a community and kind of just work with everyone here and together to get this all done and then um yeah perfect so the benefits of short film provided a great experience if you're looking to pursue a film career so like a lot of things that I learned while I was doing this like sometimes people that go into a financial it's a fun and short film so it could be easy you know you think it's kind of like I always remember a video around fun with it but there's like a lot of things that go into the video learn that while you're doing it so if you're interested in film it's really good experience to kind of just like see how real film works and like all the aspects that go into it and maybe when you fit in with all those aspects another thing that goes into that is you're working with so many different students and Josh editors makeup people just people helping you stay on track and it's really awesome to be able to work collaborative collaboratively there's a bunch of different students and I knew that's actually the best part is just hanging out with all of our staff members and all of our actors and everybody who helped out and it was just awesome being there with everybody foreign competition field and that's just really cool experience within itself free time and now we'd like to introduce yearbook [Applause] film I I will have them forwarded to us thank you yeah because until it's only 25 minutes so watch it in the dark don't watch it in the dark I'm a senior editor on our yearbook style and I'm Mia Casa and I'm also a senior editor on the yearbook staff so just some general information about yearbook um so it is a class A lot of people don't know that but it is like a class that you can join and get credit for every year um so the class is made up of Staff members um four editors this year which is us and two other girls um and our advisor who's misso truck um there is an additional option to join yearbook Club if you like don't have the room in your schedule or you just like want to go and not have it be so like strict in a class um but the staff Works throughout the year to gather information to create pages about literally everything in schools that includes sports activities every club and then for editors in the beginning of the year we choose the theme of the yearbook and we design the templates with which the staffers use to put their pictures and their stories in and everything like that and we create a style guide as well as an edit edit pages in each deadline and if you see on the screen those are the four editors it's myself and Mia as well as Haley Fredricks and Julia Brown door so we weren't sure how familiar you guys were with the type of yearbooks that we create we wanted to give you an anatomy of a yearbook spread so you can get a little taste of what we do in class every day so first is our cover mock-up that's actually with the cover of our yearbook is going to look like so keep it secret we haven't released it to the students yet just for you guys to see pretty sure they're not watching yeah I'm pretty sure they're not watching the public yeah really it's still a secret okay so we're so proud of this covering of this book I'm really excited I submits their newspapers as well so we're excited to see how this yearbook does next year and then just a reference this is what an example page of a yearbook looks like this is actually taken from a sports template that me and I and the other editors created so you'll just see some buzzwords there's primary headlines where you title the page so the students can figure out what's going on in the page there's a feature story in past years we've collaborated with the blueprint and used some of the stories that they've written and credited those authors as well just to kind of get some variety in our stories in our yearbook um you can see we have options for team photos and many many photo spots those are the blue squares and rectangles that you see we try to get as much coverage of our students if possible and then you'll see little modules because this is a sports page you can see there's scoreboards there's polls we just really want to get as many students covered in our yearbook as possible because there's such a diverse population of dgs um so next some accomplishments and opportunities you get from being um on the yearbook staff so this year we received a Bronze award for last year's book which was New Horizons from the Northern Illinois Scholastic press Association otherwise known as nispa and this included um several honorable mentions um for coverage our theme and concept and design we also received a Golden Eagle Award which is like the best of the best you can get for our 2020-2021 book out of the blue our staff is also given the opportunity to compete at journalism sectionals and state along with blueprint this year all four editors actually made it to State and our yearbook copywriting person which is me received third individually at State and then our team placed third overall excellent very good foreign and then just to talk about some of the benefits of being on yearbook you get to learn about different leadership skills so being editors me and I really get to learn how to talk to people how to help them figure out their Pages how to like correct mistakes things like that and positive criticism um you get to collaborate with other staff members and make friends as you see there's a picture from prom and just some selfies that the editors and I have taken because you really get to build some um deep friendships with the people on staff because you spend so much time creating this yearbook and working together and collaborating you also get to meet different students and staff through interviews and working on pages because we do like to focus on getting as many student perspectives as possible we like to interview students we like to ask them questions like what's happening in this photo how are you feeling when this happened so you get to get a lot of different perspectives from the students and the staff in our community and no previous classes are needed to be eligible to join anyone can join our class anyone can join the club you can do both at the same same time it's really a flexible setting and just overall you get to create the book that students will look back on for years to come which is honestly something really special and it's amazing seeing the book at the end of the year seeing all of your hard work go into it and knowing that the students are going to appreciate it and look back at it it's just it's a great feeling all right [Applause] questions for any of our students well I got some I I do too yeah so all right what's a listicle a couple weeks we kind of got together because we're like okay we need stuff going up over the summer so we stay um on track and so we're staying trending um so I know I've done top 10 list singles before um and one of our most popular ones is top 10 hardest words to say with a lisp it kind of always is um yeah so just top tens lists of things that we like or things that we want to share so yeah terrific thank you yes and um uh I just want to say Mr Boom uh mizo truck and Ms long are awesome aren't they yes they're awesome so yes I had students that were involved and actually I think my daughter Andrea who is going to be graduating this week from college it was really you know being part of blueprint I think that that steered her into wanting to be a teacher because of that experience you know having to kind of run things a little bit and organize and and you know run the class so it's excellent you never know where this might take you so are there plans to do anything um in college oh that was terrible I'm sorry no I just want to know from each group if um this is going to be a kind of predecessor for what you want to do in life Clark Kent access I was in college okay how about the film guys because you know right now there could be a a writer strike so they might be amazing scholarship for Augustana excellent school good school very good very good how about the blueprint or the well your book personally I'm not going to be going into any type of related but one of our editors Julia she's going into marketing and specifically the graphic design element of it and she was first introduced into graphic design and all of those things through the yearbook um I'm gonna go into teaching in English because I've always loved to write which is why I went to state for your book copywriting um and I just also like loved like the leadership aspect and like that really ties into being a teacher okay very good very cool do they still have the journalism camp in the summer um they stopped it and they haven't picked that back up yet bummer okay all right well you guys are all doing a fabulous job we we look at the yearbook every year when it comes out and yep and we're we're just really proud of it and I read the blueprint when we get it so so that's always save 10 for the office and we say this specifically goes to the dishes so we really appreciate it because it kind of keeps us up to what you guys are thinking and and doing in in school so we really appreciate that and I want to see that five-minute film oh yeah right you'll get us the link yeah we'll get it too any any chance video announcements might be okay sounds good thank you thank you thank you thank you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right we have our final student board member reports who's up first go first yes I can't go first okay so it's more so like the final stretch now there's obviously only a few weeks left um everyone's trying to get everything together and just keep their confidence up and get through all these great exams that are happening this week and obviously there has been a lot of stress with students and changes going on such as the exams and just trying to get through all the activities but that's why North has come up with so many different things just to boost everyone's Spirits one of them being that we had one of our graduation concert last Thursday which was amazing and one of a film music composer named Jermaine I might butcher the last names stagles yeah stego came in and commissioned a piece called True North in honor of Mr T A teacher who has been at North for around 30 years so that was really nice and heartwarming to see and also to kind of recognize students who have been doing great at North we have our senior awards ceremony this Wednesday that's occurring around 7 PM which is going to be exciting to see as well and today specifically because it is decision day everyone decided to wear their apparel or shirts even just a hat or something to show off where they're going different people going to the military different people going to college or automatically going into a career which is really nice to see the community of students that we have created over the last four years um also because of the season and it's the final stretch a lot of the sports are also ending and it gets pretty emotional because you've been with these people for so long and you've created this home environment with everyone and there's things such as conference and state coming up it's going to be amazing to see how our teams do it in the end and just kind of pushing towards the goal of doing their best and just kind of keeping up that positive spirit that North applies every single year and with the positive spirit everyone is so excited for our prom on May 17th which is going to be really nice going to the Bolingbrook Golf Course and just Gathering everything and getting ready and prepping just seeing everybody just get together and figure out what they're going to do with the rest of the school year and what are you gonna do Luca when you leave I graduate um I'm going to Indiana University for accounting very good all right it's doing the right thing so at South we've had a very busy past few weeks but very exciting um last week our PE Department had a wellness week so all week long there were different activities for students to promote I'm just living a healthy lifestyle some of the top two things that I liked that week on Tuesday they brought in a lot of different vendors from the community people um representing different organizations like a counseling company different like drug awareness people who had a lot of candy on the table for students but also a lot of fun activities so that was fun just to interact with the different vendors and learn a bit a little bit more about certain issues related to living a healthy lifestyle and then on Friday there also was a triathlon for students to compete in I personally did not do it I helped to run it as a peer leader but my younger brother did it he said it was a lot of fun they got a lot of free stuff just for competing in it so it's just a fun thing that students can do we also had our clear leadership day for seniors last week we went to a banquet hall heard from guest speakers uh had different activities to help us like learn more about the transition into college stuff like that we had different scenarios where we worked through with different staff members had different conversations with other students and kind of had to learn a little bit about the transition coming up so that was really fun and very informational we also had our commitment Day celebration last week since our prom was this weekend so we had everyone wearing their college shirts or whatever their plans were for the future we got ice cream sandwiches through the College and Career Center to celebrate our decision which was really nice and then they also had a table full of free college things that you could take so if you found your college you could take like a banner or a shirt or whatever that they had and we also have our senior awards ceremony on Wednesday which would will be really exciting to just honor all the accomplishments that our students have made this past four years and we did have our prom on Saturday which was super fun it was really nice we had um like a Hollywood movie night type of theme so there was a red carpet there was a big Archway to walk through it was really fun the fireworks were really beautiful that they set off at the golf course and it was just a fun night to be with friends and kind of have the last hurray before graduation and then we also have AP testing coming up which is a big stressor for students but it is a reminder that we are almost done so everyone make it through you can do it and you can get good scores you worked hard so that's just what has been going on itself what are you gonna do I'm going to Mizzou next year and I am majoring in political science with a pre-law track very [Applause] good but I just want to say thank you guys this has been a very good year and we so appreciate your input and reports and your participation and just thank you thank you for the opportunity I appreciate it thank you make sure you come the next time because then there's cake don't miss the kids yeah yeah Monday night studying yeah with friends okay that's all the food groups right survey says all right buddy as I I missed two weeks ago I am back uh also two weeks ago I said that you know the last month and Woodridge Park District were in our Commons uh during resource looking for students who are looking to work over this Summer that was really successful so we're gonna broaden that Community table in the Commons um next year um for students looking for jobs um and then also the fire department the EMTs also went over really well senior exit survey just we students have been taking in their counseling um their final senior counselor meeting so I'll be back to talk about that um you know probably uh over the summer or the beginning of next year um and so yeah it's been it's while seniors are starting to wind down we're still winding up getting through the end of the year um so a survey results here we go I was actually thinking I was kind of like the the fifth letter of the yearbook right um that you know you talk to a lot of people you're taking a lot of information you end up with a big book right so I have all of my stuff sort of spread out here um I will try to you know go at a pretty manageable Pace um I'm not in a rush I knew that I was one of the only people on the agenda um so um you know hopefully I won't take too much of your time but it's important so I'm just gonna sort of go through this also one of the things I was thinking of as I was putting it together um when you student teach right they give you an activity right where and I'm sure um Luca and Caitlin have done this in class where you put up agree on one wall disagree on the other wall and you have two people split and you kind of go um that's kind of good for like primary grades when you're just trying to get them to convert you know start talking and then sometimes you put four and you know um four signs in each corner it kind of develops out those choices a little bit um with high school kids as a teacher I would go to the stairwell and I would say if you 100 agree with something you stay on this Landing if you 100 disagree go down to the floor and I choose your stare um so you're going to see in the way I sort of break out the results sometimes I'm just showing you agree disagree because the results have sort of done that that you you all have access to all the raw breakdown I posted it anyone at home can um check that out um and then sometimes it starts to break out a little bit between staff students and families or maybe across the four grade levels and so it's like the four corners and then other times the staff at one school versus the staff of another school versus the families of 10th graders versus the family of 12th graders versus ninth grade students so I do do the stairs and I know that that can be a little overwhelming look at all that data but I would rather talk through it um and have everyone feel comfortable about it and have any questions that you have for me so um I'm just ready to just Buckle in all right okay so um just you know this is again about the communication and so um as I sort of been breaking down the results um as as the yearbook does and the newspaper does newspaper interviews me a lot so um I had a couple interviews last week um and so um you know students are you know invested there's a class um for our sophomores at South that have asked a bunch of Administrators to come in um so I believe I'm going in with uh principal corny on Friday they've already said like I've given them all of the results I've given to you and they're studying those now um to offer suggestions about what they think should happen for next year um and it's a government class and this is part of their classroom kind of policy um with Ms Berg so um we're excited to start working with them as well um I'm starting off with the family and Student Response rate this slide looks a little bit different um than I did first semester I wanted to break down the numbers so you can see who responded what their you know overall responses were so we have 4 656 students um and so obviously the same amount of families um 40 of our student population participate in the survey and 23 percent of our families did that's about 400 fewer students mostly Juniors and seniors that did not participate in this round of the surveys that is up about 310 families so there was 600 or 760 families in the fall and we're at 1070 now of those families and of those students 231 students offered a free response um and then 1 641 either skipped it or they may have answered the question n slash a or no thank you um or something like that not at this time um and that's the same with families so 216 families opted to give a free response as well 854 either skipped it said no said you know not at this time or thank you um and then free response overall that's of our overall student body so not of our overall respondents that's so our 231 comments represent about five percent of the student body and about four percent four point six percent of the families underneath you can see where their response is broke down there's also starts to show a difference between how families responded and students responded in some areas if you look at access and resource structure 23.4 percent of students responses had something to do with access and resource either saying that they like their group they don't like their group I don't like the lessons um you know again please stop the videos um or uh families saying you know maybe some of this time could be moved back into the schedule or I've noticed a change from when you change the pass schedule something of that nature so while their responses from both families and students they do vary I would say you start to see some differences on student concerns that if you notice 5.2 percent of the students responded with some kind of concern either saying I could use more structure or I would prefer to see my my teachers every day whereas 23.4 percent of the comments from families or around student concerns so you can see that while families feel more strongly about the concerns around structure or at least from those respondents than students did prefers one scheduler or the other we did a sort of a breakdown if if a family member or student said why can't we just do all black days that fell into that category um there was actually offered quite a few different kinds of schedules um under this some kids said let's go back to eight periods and so that's sort of all of that fell down in the same same category if they didn't come out and explicitly say something about a specific type of schedule it's not tagged there but you'll also see that those percentages add up to more than a hundred percent because the longer the response the more tags it had right so I may have read through a comment and it said I'd like to go back to an eight period day my student needs more structure I don't know not sure about access and so I'm tagging it tagging it tagging it so one comment may appear in seven different categories I would say the trend for families had multiple tags trends for students single tag they if they were going to free response they were telling me one thing and one thing only um 10.4 percent of the responses from students 13.9 didn't necessarily have something to do specifically with a schedule all the time um talked about concerns of not having a lunch or just Assessments in general now you know now my student has a lot of tests on Tuesdays um or mentioning the four period four switch a couple saying like I'm looking forward to that others saying I don't know that lunch may be early so that's kind of the breakdown for families and students I did the same thing for staff we have 620 staff members that includes paraprofessionals teaching staff counseling staff Dean staff all of that 414 responded in the fall it was 342.
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on behalf of Ducks Unlimited John Redmond chapter we present the Dutch unlimited scholarship to Tori rosalian [Applause] next Brenda klubeck Will present the Burlington Rotary Club scholarships foreign ERS I wanted to thank you for applying for the rotary scholarships all of the all of those that you did um so I'd like to announce our scholarship recipients and they are Abigail Crutchfield and Trey famous [Applause] three times [Applause] three scholarships the Liberty 4-H scholarship goes to Hallie finnerty and Toby Rivas in the amount of 250 each [Applause] thank you the community blood center would also like to award Hallie Kennedy with a scholarship of five hundred dollars [Applause] the student leadership team would like to present president Rachel Hernandez from the scholarship of a hundred and fifty dollars thank you our presenter for the Aaron Shively Memorial Scholarship was unable to make it this evening but we would like to present two Scholarships in the amount of 500 they go to Tristan devony and Justice King [Applause] thank you [Music] then the mark Bowlen tracking CTE scholarship in the amount of 500 goes to Aaliyah Cole [Applause] the Burlington James scholarship and the amount of 500 goes to two students Josie Pfeiffer and Kennedy Noonan [Applause] Hunter Spencer will now present the Christian Life scholarship the pastors of the Coffee County Evangelical ministerial Association it's mouthful so I'm going to be using the abbreviation for the rest of it established a Christian Life scholarship out of a desire to promote public Christian lifestyle among high school students we attend to recognize students who have demonstrated Christian virtues in their daily lives this was not a scholarship attended intended for a student who simply attends church even though we value regular regular Church attendance we desire to recognize students who present a constant Christian witness in all areas of life constantly demonstrating Christian character dependability and willing to serve and willing to serve others it is my pleasure to present this 500 Christian Life scholarship on behalf of all of the Pastors in the CC EMA to Abigail Crutchfield foreign superintendent Craig Marshall will now present the quartile show good evening poorly Bell was a long time Coffee County resident we just lived west of Burlington he and his sister were both quite involved with and concerned about the education of Youth in this area he was a local farmer and became involved in giving away a scholarship each year while he was still living he did this by interviewing various seniors and making his own personal choice one of his last requests was to maintain an amount of money for the funding of one or more scholarships annually to a BHS graduate with the help of friends he laid out the procedure to be followed in choosing the recipients of these scholarships since his passing his scholarship guidelines and the traditional poorly belt VHS scholarship have continued the recipient this year is Hayden Seitz [Applause] the next two scholarships are part of the Floyd Lewis foundation and they will be presented by Casey Lewis [Music] hello congrats uh to all the seniors that is the Deborah Gates Lewis believe scholarship in honor of my late wife Deborah who is my high school sweetheart right here in the same in the same building she's succumbed to breast cancer about five years ago uh but not before leaving a Legacy of Love Grace and selfless ideals she found it enough for profit foundation called the believe project which has supported hundreds of breast cancer patients in Warriors just like her and this scholarship was established to support local graduates as they move on to their next chapter embodying those same traits so I'm proud to present the Deborah Gates Lewis believe scholarship in the amount of two thousand dollars to Ella Hermann foreign next I'd like to present the Floyd Lewis Foundation proud American scholarship uh the mission of the mission statement for the Floyd Lewis Foundation is providing Community Support with an emphasis on patriotism compassion and furthering education Floyd was my grandpa I loved him quite a lot and he set such an awesome example for me and I learned a lot from him the board of directors for the Floyd Lewis Foundation feel today's recipient fully embodies the ideals of the foundation as demonstrated by their patriotism service to community and goals Associated to their education it's my honor to present the Floyd Lewis Foundation proud American scholarship in the amount of one thousand dollars to cadenish [Applause] next Brian Payne will present the MH Bill Simmons Memorial Scholarship foreign good evening everybody my name is Brian Payne I'm the senior director of operations of the Simmons Pet Food plant there in Emporia Kansas Simmons Foods was founded in 1949 by Bill Simmons and it's now on its third generation of ownership the company has 26 facilities Countrywide and branches clear up into Toronto Canada has over 8 000 team members Simmons has multiple different bu's chicken being its largest feed ingredients propane Division and North America's largest private label pet food supplier with one of its campuses here in Emporia Kansas about 40 miles away Simmons initiated Bill Simmons Memorial Scholarship fund shortly after his father's passing Mark the second generation owner donates scholarship money to the children of Simmons employees scholarships are based on act GPA sat need and field of study it is my honor and privilege this evening to give out the scholarship for Mark and Todd they can't be here tonight for you graduating seniors uh always remember something as you walk through life some people want it to happen some people wish it would happen and others wouldn't make sure that it happens by the look of the table here it looks like this graduating uh glass is going to have plenty of awards and plenty of good travels as they close this chapter and open the next the recipient for the Bill H Simmons memorial fund is Howie finnerty in the amount of twenty eight hundred dollars [Applause] next the FCCLA scholarship and the amount of two hundred dollars goes to Ella Herman and Kylie Price thank you foreign Arnold scholarship is one thousand dollars per semester for four years so it's an eight thousand dollar scholarship we have three the winners are Ella Herman Cadence ish and Tory rosillian the Harold W Ziegler Memorial Scholarship in the amount of one thousand dollars goes to Tristan devony [Applause] thank you the Loni Jasper Memorial Scholarship and the amount of five hundred dollars goes to Tory rosillian the friends of Coffee County Hospital scholarship in the amount of 500 a semester for two semesters so the thousand dollar scholarship goes to Ella Herman [Applause] foreign body Ford built Ford tough scholarship and the amount of one thousand dollars goes to Hallie finnerty [Applause] thank you the physics export scholarship gave the amount of one thousand five hundred dollars we have two recipients they are rent keg and Harley Young [Applause] wanna hold my back the rod Hoover Memorial Scholarship in the amount of one thousand dollars goes to Madison Hawley [Applause] we have four recipients for the cat Packer scholarship each is for 500 the recipients are Abby Crutchfield trading Bayman Rachel Hernandez and Cadence ish foreign County Sheriff's Reserve scholarship at the amount of 500 we have two recipients they are Casey Bland and Cody long [Applause] the deputy Troy a Roger scholarship in the amount of one thousand dollars goes to Harley Young thank you the Wildcat scholarship we have an anonymous donor who loves Burlington Burlington High School and all of the students and our donor is giving two Scholarships in the amount of one thousand dollars they go to Toby Rivas and Wayne Roar thank you the Laurie show Rand Memorial Scholarship in the amount of one thousand dollars we have three recipients Rachel Hernandez Tory rosillian and Harley Young [Applause] the William F Bill Bauer career pathway scholarship in the amount of five hundred dollars goes to Cody long thank you the Burlington firefighter scholarship and the amount of five hundred dollars goes to Tristan devony and Grant hay [Applause] the Ottawa Co-op agriculture scholarship goes to Kelly finnerty foreign Douglas Memorial 4-H scholarship goes to Hallie finnerty the Francis East Spielman Memorial 4-H scholarship goes to Ally vanity the Ottawa Cooperative scholarship in the amount of 450 goes to Brad Pitt [Applause] the Coffee County Farm Bureau scholarship and the amount of one thousand dollars visitori rosillian and Grant hey [Applause] the undershare of Ken Roney Memorial Scholarship and the amount of 500 goes to Ella Hermann and Landon Myers [Applause] the chapter peo growth itself growth self-control scholarship in the amount of 500 goes to Cadence ish the next scholarship is the Lawrence Legacy scholarship Lauren Martin is the daughter at longtime USD 244 Educators Terry Martin and Tim and Jan Martin though she was quite Young when she passed Lauren left a legacy behind of kindness hope and resilience I'm very honored to present these one thousand dollar scholarships the Lawrence Legacy scholarship goes to Cody long Heidi price and Harley Young [Applause] thank you the Ellis Foundation rooted in rural skilled trades program scholarship it's a four thousand dollar scholarship renewable for a second year so it's an eight thousand dollar scholarship and it goes to Christian Smith foreign French Memorial Scholarship uh if you are a recipient please be advised they will mail you a letter to tell you how much your individual scholarship is they don't tell us that they only have told me we have 10 winners the total is ten thousand dollars so I don't know who's getting what but we have 10 winners and they are Josie favor Chloe gamble Lily and gero Tegan Harris Madison collie Rachel Hernandez Ella Herman Hayden fish Gabby Lyons and Amber McCarty thank you that's a good idea the VFW Post 1030 scholarship in the amount of one thousand dollars goes to Abby Crutchfield [Applause] and now I'd like to introduce Judy stooky she will do the present the pieces of Patrick scholarship and then all of the BHS alumni scholarships good evening it's my pleasure to represent the Burlington High School alumni Scholarship Foundation and being presenting scholarships that we manage the uh Foundation the first thing that you'll do when you graduate seniors is become a member of the Alumni Association and we look forward to having you attend our reunions that are held every two years they're held in even numbered years on the third Saturday of June so help us keep track of where you're at and address to send things to you the first off I'm also a member of the pieces and patches quilt field and go out of Garnett and we have a scholarship for a Coffee County student and this year it goes to Burlington High School senior colleague price [Applause] thank you okay the first scholarship for the association is the gladiola Bowman Memorial Scholarship in the amount of five hundred dollars and that goes to Gabby Lyons [Applause] foreign scholarship in the amount of 500 goes to Kennedy Noonan [Applause] that's the Burlington High School alumni association scholarship in the amount of 750 dollars goes to Abby krutchfield [Applause] the bill Freeman Memorial Scholarship in the amount of one thousand dollars goes to Cody long [Applause] the Deborah Roth Memorial Scholarship is the amount of one thousand dollars goes to Ella [Applause] the Jay Howard and Laverne birkbeck family scholarship an amount of one thousand dollars goes to Kennedy noon [Applause] The Glenn o May scholarship in the amount of one thousand dollars goes to shalin Weber [Applause] the Sally J Donahue Memorial Scholarship in the middle of one thousand dollars goes to Madison Hall [Applause] the Margaret Dolores Decker Memorial Scholarship in the amount of one thousand dollars goes to Amber McCarty [Applause] the John a Decker Memorial Scholarship in about one thousand dollars goes to Tory Brazilian the Jane Keith Knapp scholarship an amount of one thousand dollars goes to Gabby Lyons the Kirk man wearing Memorial Scholarship and about one thousand dollars goes to Tegan Harris [Applause] the 20 kids family scholarship and out of one thousand five hundred dollars goes to Trey famine [Applause] and thank you the king of family scholarship in the amount of two thousand four hundred dollars goes to Tristan devony the Albert Clara May and Rory Mathias Memorial Scholarship in the amount of three thousand four hundred dollars goes to 80 sides thank you the Maria Isabel Lang Memorial scholarships and this is a one thousand dollar scholarship that is renewable for three years actually a four-year four thousand dollar scholarship there are two of them this the recipients are Casey Bland and Brianna Becker [Applause] all right laughs the Elmer Dean and Marjorie Herr scholarship in the amount of four thousand dollars goes to Marley um [Applause] the warm and Gladys Decker Memorial Scholarship in the American four thousand dollars it goes to how they entered it thank you so much graduating high school Greener pastors as they all say it's your responsibility Palmer Dash it's your responsibility to to make contact with the alumni association in order to obtain your scholarship and attach to your certificates it tells you where and who to contact and what we um I will say we had a couple of kids this year that didn't even apply for them after they was awarded them so well I get a little cranky sometimes we hand out these and then they don't even ask as to what it takes to get them so last but not least we have another Anonymous donor has given us [Music] money present scholarships three of them in honor of Missy and Frank hate and they are Abby Crutchfield Alex Edwards and Michelle Phillips [Applause] and I thank you all very much and good luck in the future we're so blessed by our community to uh be so generous to our students and congratulations to all of you I know you're going to put that money into being used you're gonna go do great things as Brian Payne mentioned just look at the side of our table what you have achieved in high school we do have um outstanding seniors in each of our curricular areas and this is like it's going to start us off standing senior in art is Nicholas Bartley foreign outstanding senior and family and consumer science Cameron clay [Applause] outstanding senior in FCCLA Kylie Price [Music] [Applause] outstanding senior in FBLA cadence-ish [Applause] foreign [Applause] outstanding senior in language arts Tegan Harris [Applause] outstanding senior in math Landon Myers and Madison Hawley [Applause] outstanding senior and science Trey Heyman [Applause] outstanding senior in social science Tremaine Boyle [Applause] outstanding senior in band Madison Holly [Applause] outstanding senior in technology Tucker Wright [Applause] outstanding senior in theater class Tristan debening [Applause] outstanding senior in theater Productions slash actress Michelle Phillips outstanding senior in theater Productions crew Abby Crutchfield foreign congratulations seniors now we will present some special Awards I will be presenting the Kansas Governor scholar each High School in Kansas can nominate one student as a Kansas Governor's scholar the requirement is that the student ranks at the top one percent of the graduating class congratulations to this year's Kansas Governor scholar Madison Hawley [Applause] next is the Ronald Reagan leadership award the Ronald Reagan leadership award is a prestigious award that is presented to a graduating senior who best exemplifies Drive humility and service before self the staff at BHS chooses the recipient of this award congratulations to Parker West [Applause] the next award is the Dale M Dennis excellence in education award the Dale M Dennis excellence in education award is for a senior who exhibits a desire for Learning and excels academically the staff at BHS chooses the recipient of this award congratulations to Madison Hawley [Applause] Mr Marshall will now introduce the Kansas Masonic Foundation exemplary student award the Masonic Lodge recognized students for being exemplary in their schools recognition could be for academics leadership overcoming special circumstances were just because they are an all-around good kid the staff at BHS chooses the recipients of the Kansas Masonic Foundation exemplary student award they are Cadence ish and Hayden sites [Applause] The Acacia Citizenship Award is voted on by the staff and is awarded to one female student and one male student who best exemplify the characteristics of respect responsibility and reverence this year's Keisha Citizenship Award winners are Cadence ish and Hayden Thomas the Debbie Roth school spirit award is for a student who best exhibits school spirit the staff of VHS chooses this award recipient and he is Michael Torres thank you we are now going to recognize the students who have earned a certification while in high school so when I name the students please just stand where you are the following students earned their certificate as a certified nursing while in high school they are Cameron clay Aaliyah Cole Trey Bayman Chloe gamble Amanda Harris Ella Hermann and Lillian Giro one student earned her certificate as a certified medication aid while in high school she is Ella Herman [Applause] two students earned their certificate as a certified home health aide while in high school they are Chloe Gamble and Lillian Giro the following students earn their CPR certification while in high school they are Chloe gamble Lillian Giro Rachel Hernandez and shailen Weber [Applause] the following students earned their OSHA 10 certification while in high school they are Aaliyah Cole Gavin conkle Trenton Davison Tristan deviney Alex Edwards Holly finnerty Grant Pegg Cody long Cody Myers Brett Rand Toby Rivas Wayne Rohr Tori resilient Alex Smith Christian Smith and Parker West [Applause] we have three students who earn technical certificates Cody Myers earned his level one welding certificate from Neosho County Community College Wayne Rohr earned his automotive technology technical certificate from Flint Hills Technical policy Alex Smith earned the industrial engineering technology technical certificate from Flint Hills Technical College we will now recognize our career Pathways vocational curriculum concentrators and please stand at your seat when you're named a vocational concentrator is a student who has completed three or more credit hours in a single vocational pathway with at least two credits being a combination of Technical and application levels and achieving 80 percent on the course competencies or better they have not obtained an industry recognized credential in the vocational pathway for agriculture animal science pathway Casey Bland [Applause] agriculture power structure and mechanical pathway Nicholas Bartley thank you family and Community Services pathway Kaylee Marie Josie fafer Ella Herman Morgan Landon Myers Kennedy Noonan and shaylyn Weber [Applause] teaching and training pathway Cameron clay Abby Crutchfield Gabby Lyons and Amber McCarty web and digital design Amanda Harris Justice King Michelle Phillips and Tucker Wright a vocational completer is a student who has completed three or more credit hours in a single vocational pathway with at least two credits being a combination of Technical and application levels and achieving 80 on the course competencies are better Additionally the student has obtained an industry recognized Prudential or passed a third party end of pathway assessment for agriculture animal science pathway Aaliyah Cole Holly finnerty and Tori resilient foreign Ty for agriculture power structure and mechanical pathway Gavin conkle Grant hay Cody long Cody Myers Toby Rivas Wayne Rohr and Christian Smith [Applause] we have the Heisman high school scholarship nominees the Heisman Corporation encourages seniors to nominate themselves for this award if they have participated at in athletics at the high school level the following students are our nominees so if you'll please stand Rachel Hernandez Cody long Kenny Noonan and Harley young Rachel and Cody were identified by the Heisman Corporation as our school winners the NCAA curriculum consists of four credits of English three credits of math three credits of science three credits of social studies and for additional credits of any of those areas and or foreign language the following students have completed the NCAA curriculum please stand at your seat Courtney Christensen Hallie finnerty Ella Hermann and Cadence ish thank you Scholars curriculum the state of Kansas offers a scholarship program for students who have completed a prescribed curriculum of four credits of English four credits of math three credits of science specifically biology Additionally the state of Kansas then uses a special formula to identify the top curriculum completers as Kansas State Scholars who then can apply for the state of Kansas scholarship for the 2023 designation year the average State scholar had a GPA of 3.92 and an act composite of 28.
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so we have about 66.8 percent of our overall staff responding 101 staff members offered a free response 75 of the staff skipped it so the the overall percentage is about six it represents about 16.3 percent of the staff 24 of the respondents you can see that the student concerns about accountability and behavior um similar to the families right 23.4 but 43.6 um of the staff had some pretty significant concerns about cell phones homework time policy you know things like that um if it was about uh resource or access about um whether or not it was a positive one about I'm seeing my students more in past days or concerns about the lessons or positive or negatives about students with intervention that all fell under access and resource if it was about time feeling strapped for time not feeling like I have my feet under me that fell under instructional concerns for 25.7 percent it was pretty focused on as you can see from the data about instructional or student concerns we did have a few other concerns about um asking about the exam schedule or suggestions for professional learning and so um but it's the same with the staff for her first one schedule or the other if they specifically mentioned eight period day hybrid black or offered a different version of a schedule I also tagged them in that and so it was about 18.8 percent of the comments had something like that in it because you seem to respond well to breaking up by goals I've broken up by goals again all right so instead of just going through like I did last time top to bottom we broke it up into goals I also worked with the teacher committee based around goals okay so you'll see that when I have the staff the staff feedback committee uh that there's three slides that are kind of placed through here when we felt like we got to a spot where we needed to talk we did the slide I typed up the notes they read over the slide before we left to make sure that that accurately represented their thoughts and then we did that again we did that on Tuesday and then we did that on Thursday the first goal is about accessing teachers right how can we make sure that students have more access to teachers I would say that this the staff and the students still feel like we have ways to go on increasing that right students have said that while they appreciate and the overall agree that second semester they've had more access to their teachers than they had in the past also staff has agreed um and their families have agreed that they have had better success they'd still like that to continue that you'll see at the very bottom there's no been no change for my student in this area and I did get a couple of questions why did I do that second semester when I didn't do overall no change first semester in the feedback from families every time I'd click into other there was usually a comment from a family or a student saying the schedule hasn't impacted my student they turned in their homework before can you please place a no change or not applicable answer um that they didn't want to choose agree or disagree and so they were choosing other or that a family last time set at the end I skipped several because my student was already on time and prepared for school so you'll see that with the overall no change I will try to point out sort of where families sat in that and also where a staff sat in that because there is a very distinct difference in a couple of the areas specifically around homework and specifically around being advocates for themselves the staff no change means something very different than the families know change also we asked about experience do you have you um developed a good relationship um that 67.7 of uh the groups overall agree um 32 percent disagree that um you know it's a fairly consistent number across I didn't highlight anything um you know as yellow you'll see that in some of the slides I highlight things yellow because the percentage seems out of whack with the other numbers it's pretty consistent about the different groups um and so that is something that's positive it's not a huge jump up but it is something that progressed over the Year this year this is the slide that I was mentioning earlier about students and teachers feeling like yes I'm really glad that we made progress on student support with the past and that yes we do have more access but if you look at the time um the time to study right that far outweighs and student support with the past far outweighs any of the other choices for Access that that while our Juniors appreciated the Khan Academy College financial aid presentations more than our freshmen clearly um that um that was something very specific to that grade level it's not a surprise that our freshmen felt better about the relationship building and were more appreciative about the Alice training they're to a new building I want to know what I need to do in emergency same thing with severe weather drills they're 20 versus the seniors 12 that's not surprising and so with this this that we took a break and this is what we talked about um on the committee that we do are going to continue to increase the amount of days for students and staff to connect for help having Wednesdays be a past day um and then Thursdays be a lesson day is likely something that we're going to continue that um some of the things we talked about is how can we avoid some of the mistakes that we made and roll out for resource and for Access that we did this year that we started the year thinking let's get a bunch of lessons sort of not quote out of the way but like let's do them right off at the beginning that was a stressor for the staff and for the students and then also it's possible that that helped lead to some negative feelings from some students around access or resource because it was a task rather than something that they were finding value in so some of the the programming and the restructuring um was more of like you know not only just starting fresh but starting like I'm overcoming a hill of something um partially of our own creation there so um and the staff we talked about varying even the formats from the beginning do we do some shorter videos with staff-led discussions some video LED if it's like a state requirement like media literacy that we have to show to the state that we have done that um and then there was also a lot of talk about having student leaders like North Stars or possibly blue crew or do we develop another sort of like senior group that can help lead some of those things whether or not it's about reminding students about academic and behavior expectations sometimes that does come better from other students than it does from staff we know that our blue crew and our North Stars do something with our freshmen during orientation and so this would be also a good follow-up for them also it helps you know start that bonding throughout the year I know that Jill urzig from Downer South has offered a proposal for like a softball tournament that she wants to do with senior access to end the Year we're in discussions about how that might work we're hopeful that it will but as we're working through the year staff are volunteering maybe there are some ways that we can create more bonding periodically throughout the year whether or not it's competitions against other access groups and then also pbas competitions to reward some of our students for expectations about academics and behavior how can we leverage access to do that you heard from Dr DeMent about reintegrating video announcements that has been something that students have been talking about and staff the the TV program is really strong at both schools and you know we want to make sure that students have an opportunity to see those so those are the committee feedback so we're going to continue with that um and this summer I've asked for hours from Dr Thiele about to work with staff members and some also some administrators to start talking through like if if this is what we need to grow in how can we Implement that with all the voices around the table making sure that we're not going down a road of lessons that puts is overly cumbersome for the staff but are it's working to address academic and behavior concerns the staff have plus engaging the students because we do in the end want to continue to build on the relationships between the staff and students and also to make sure that the students feel like they're getting as much out of it as they would in a normal class or that it's enhancing their ability to perform in one of their classes so before I go on is there does anyone have any questions so far nice okay great okay so goal two um I'm sorry could you speak a little bit more about the um the teacher committee how many representatives are there from so um we actually had eight teachers with me on um Tuesday and about eight on Thursday um that a lot of it was conflict based right it's after school so um in the fall I think I had about 25 staff members and so that same group was invited um and so um but with coaching and spring Sports and all that kind of stuff that it was smaller than it was Arwen I'm sorry uh principal lip in principal DeMent were also there and so they they weighed in I also had a couple of chairs there so um from both schools so there were representatives from both schools as well thank you yeah so here's where we start going on the staircase okay so when we ask the question about currently implementing deeper Extended Learning activities due to additional class time on those black days you can start to see a pretty significant difference in grade levels okay so our ninth graders um you know sitting around 70 percent agree and our seniors sitting around 46 percent agree it comes out to an overall average of about 59.3 for our students versus 40 for our families um you know someone had asked you know I've been showing I went to exec Council DLT so I've shown um these slides to a lot of the leaders and also the teacher committee and um the question comes up why is there such a difference between the families and the students um or when we kind of look at the next Slide the teachers the students and the families um and I try to talk about the teachers are responding for all of the students they have in front of them so if I have 150 students and I'm asked about my classroom I'm asking I'm answering about my classroom and all of my kids so students are only responding from their experience right there if we get to a question about homework or my teacher that they're talking about their eight teachers not just the one teacher and so there's already a difference there um and then some families even in their open comments will say I asked my student before I filled this out and they said because sometimes families are only getting what the student chooses to share with them that day whether it's positive or negative and so um also the families aren't necessarily the same families of the students who filled it out and so there is a bit of perception that's wrapped up and all here and so I do just want to like as we're looking at the differences um I'm not under the assumption that the 70 percent is a full picture um nor am I under the assumption that the 30 is a full picture that's why I've sort of broken it out across all of those stairs I will say that the 21 percent um you know for our seniors that if you look at senior comments overall that they do feel pretty strongly about it they've had so many schedules in their High School career and they feel that and um totally legitimate feeling and so they absolutely have expressed that here the no change um that most of the families and students with no change fall on it feels like maybe it's an uh two periods pushed together right so that they haven't felt that change as much so um while some families that follow no change felt like yes they had that experience in the fall and they're still failing it now that I would say that that if if I were to give it you know a 50 50 it weighs more on um families saying that I haven't felt that yet as much as I thought I would at this point in the year the staff you can see for it's the second question so it's the one on the right that we asked Are you able to implement deeper in Extended Learning activities on Black Days and that is an overwhelmingly positive number now if if I went to every staff member and said like is that every black day like no I'm right and so that's that's also in part of it that there are feelings about the difficulty of going back and forth between the two schedules but they're also reflecting that yes I am able to make that change that it is slightly improved from the fall and I think partly the shift in the way we were doing professional development from first semester second semester helped more personalized professional learning I think that that had an impact here but on the other side I do think it's important to note that this is one of the most strongly degree that I strongly disagree questions that we asked will I have I'm confident that I'll be able to teach the same amount of curriculum and or skills I have in past years this one does tend to fall across Department lines I don't love to break out by departments I feel like it becomes like oddly divisive right even as I was kind of going through the the school averages I I don't want it to seem like well south or well north um it just it's just that's the way it is but if you look at this one you'll notice differences in the schools later in the survey but this one's pretty consistent and so in digging back through um that if a staff member is feeling like they're able to implement some deeper learning activities they're also more likely to answer positively on the skills question and then if I'm answering negatively or I'm disagreeing or strongly disagreeing with the Extended Learning I'm also falling in with the strongly disagree here so that is that is a concern that staff members have voiced that it's you know fairly consistent from first semester as well so can you go back to that yeah so this is something that I just totally perplexes me and I and maybe you've said this and I've just kind of missed it but on one hand people feel confident or they don't feel confident that they've been able to meet the to teach the same amount of curriculum but on the other hand they feel confident that they've had success in deeper learning so I I don't yeah I think Ryan would if you go back to what you talked about at our last board meeting some of the complexities no so so if if I am like you know right BC calc was today right am I right a BC calc was testing today I think physics C was also testing today um that I I may have I may have been able to implement a deeper Extended Learning activity and I've been trying to do that on my black days to do it but did I get to exactly the same spot that I did last year it's possible that I didn't and when I'm feeling like oh my gosh I didn't get to the same spot I did last year I I do it's you know like I said last week or two weeks ago um teaching is a calling and you take all of those scores super personally um and that when you're going through it the first time in a different mode it it you don't feel like you're getting to the same spot and I have you have to teach things a little bit differently and when you're in the moment you're thinking you're going to get to it and it's you don't and so you have to think how am I teaching the skill differently I don't have the same review that I was able to do before and so you do feel a little bit of a cumulative effect for it in two slides you're going to see something that I think will help break down the understanding um so um here it's pretty consistent across the way right this also ties into what we're just sort of talking about here if I feel like I'm not going to be able to get all of the same skills in or get all of the same curriculum in I am going to push through right because I want to make sure that I'm getting to it and you know I know that some some people say that it's oh well it's only sequential courses probably feel that way not the case um that there are I so I did I did do a breakdown um of different departments and kind of where they sat um with certain numbers I was surprised by them I again because I didn't want to like break people up my departments I would say that it's not all the sequential courses that feel negatively about that and it's not all Humanities courses that feel the opposite it is it is kind of a mix I would say that lab courses are finding more of a positive reaction um our PE staff you know um and so uh but this one again that because you're not seeing your teacher every day or because you feel like oh my gosh I'm hitting two topics in a day the families and students have clearly reported that they're feeling that looking at these to Nancy's Point some of it seemed like it was um yeah yeah so for this one it's saying that it's it's not you're pretty high that it was not that they sell it feels like two periods rather than deeper and Rich and then if I go back to the other side and if I feel like that so so the difference between what the staff so I'm I'm able to implement deeper and extended learning activities that yes they are able to do it and they are doing it they feel regularly and so is that regular practice always making it home or is the student seeing it in every class and so I think that does impact perception right if if on my Wednesday I am feeling like I'm getting deeper learning activities but in my classes on Thursday I feel like I'm not hmm it's so it's so it's hard because I'm not asking them about every individual class they're answering about their classes and so that that perception is also part of it because I'm only talking about my classes as a teacher and I'm doing it but that student is with is not with me eight periods of the day and so that is part of it as well right a student that's having deeper a deeper learning richer experience in six of their seven might answer this as no they're not because it's not in every class or five of their seven right they could be pulling out the one where they don't feel that way rather than the majority of the ones in which they do especially if they're not doing well in the class and though that's the class that they feel like is doing the opposite or conversely they're being really successful in the class and because of that even though the other ones may not be they're going to be responding positively so that's why I ask multiple questions all right so like so so here we go with uh benefits and challenges from staff right so um this is staff that have said that they're implementing deeper activities right and so if you look across the staff average it's about 57 I think it's like 57.1 um oh moderately agree agree or strongly agree and then you you come to well with the extended periods I have more time to engage my students in discussions workshops projects you start to see a pretty big difference between the schools and it's only 40 percent and so it makes you wonder why is that so different um you can see that I try to get to the question in several different ways so the first one is about activities in that block the second one is about structure in that block and then the third one is about rigor or um like kind of uh intervention within that block and so you can see that they're feeling better about the strategies than they are about the making sure that that structure is is under their belt and then also um with the difficult lessons and so that as a teacher I may have chosen one two or all three of these or I may have chosen none I'm like yes I'm doing that but am I choosing this as a benefit because I was able to choose as many as I wanted to um on that and so I think the main division here is that um it's talking about the specific aspects of what is that deeper enriching experience look like okay goal three was about reducing stress this actually sections a little short so and then there's a staff feedback so now that we've experienced the schedule for most of the year I feel like I've adapted well to the schedule at this point um again it's a pretty high number especially I think when you think about the strongly disagree here about the teaching the same amount of curriculum and or skills right that they're starting to get used to the ebb and flow of the week but you know are are they fully there yet no right but they've definitely said that they've adapted better to the schedule and it is slightly improved from the fall here's where we start to see a pretty significant difference and you'd think that there wouldn't be such a difference because it's like numerically provable right um that I could if I collected all of the students names who took the survey which we don't um and tagged it to their absences during the school year we'd be able to see it now students overall across the board so 55.8 percent of them overall agree that they have fewer absences and are more engaged at the beginning of the day here's the overall no change where I say it's very different between the staff and the families in the first survey when we asked families and they were saying please give us a no no Change option or a not applicable option the response that went with it is my student no matter what the schedule is my student will be present and engaged each day and so for families and for students that respond to the survey right more of our compliance students who I asked them to fill out the survey so they filled it out are going to be represented in the 1872 and so they are going to agree yes I come to school on time and yes I do my homework now opposite staff this is one of the first questions where we get a zero percent right so strongly agree at North zero teachers um chose it and only 1.5 percent um of the South staff and this one sitting at 68.5 percent um as overall disagree and that no change is no I was concerned about absences before I'm still concerned about absences now and so there is a fairly significant swing between perceptions of families and students on the survey than it is with staff on the survey I'm sorry are you saying for that that perception is that there are more absences and tardies that that they strongly disagree that they there's fewer absences and tardies and that they're more engaged at the beginning of the day they are no they disagree with that statement with that statement and that because the no change would be it's the same as it used to be same Z yeah okay it was bad in the fall and it's still bad that and and I will say that I mean since we're brought it up that teachers when when I speak with them many of them talk about that this that being a big struggle about how can I do deeper learning activities if there they're not there and if if I and they're in their phones and um so I think not doing their homework so I I do think that those three factors and you'll be able to see this on the staff feedback um here that um the first bullet so at this point I paused the data and I said how are we feeling now and they're like okay and this is when it came up that the homework absences and phone issues are affecting classroom instruction possibilities that we need to revisit our grading procedures our homework procedures our retake procedures to make sure that we are keeping students accountable as they navigate their additional freedoms um oh yeah go ahead so you're saying that um a student uh is gonna do the same type of work whether we start at the earlier time or at a later time is that um so I think the staff is saying that they have not noticed a change with kids being absent that it was it was a struggle last year it's still a struggle and if they miss on a block day it feels doubly bad now I will say that Kelly and Karen I'm sorry Dr zerner and Dr Taylor um uh did a homework or sorry a uh an absence analysis for first semester our highest absent rate date is on a Tuesday which was a surprise we thought it would be a black day or Friday um so we're gonna check that again to see if it continues to be um Tuesday now I don't also know that some families have said that it now feels like Tuesday is the day I give most of my tests and so is that no also why we're having higher absences on Tuesday I don't know that answer um but I suppose that could be something that factors in to it for some students but I think overall um one teacher talked to me after the meeting was over and said you know it's just that we at first we looked at grading procedures and then we started to change the space and then people started to shift the way they do business like you know students and change coming out of the pandemic and then we came back and then we're doing a new schedule and so taking the time to look at how all of five of those things work together you know new space new schedule creating homework retake to make sure that we're not creating icebergs right that if if there's something in a policy that is impacting or sorry in a procedure that's impacting instruction then let's look at that procedure and what adjustments do we need to make and so that's something that they felt pretty strongly about also interventions during resource with students we talked about this quite a bit and it also crossed over to the second day and so this is where I think families and teachers feel it the most student students have not reported that but I I I'm that doesn't surprise me um because again the the students that are reporting on the survey also are likely not having excessive absences or um decent two or more courses so um we have talked about do we have a specific intervention for students that structures some of their time and resource because they have excessive absences do we do it by missing assignments should we do it by the dnf report that we already run um and what is that entrance and exit criteria how how do we identify that if we identify it by D's and F's in a course that is a very different reporting than if we do it by missing assignments if we do it by missing assignments how do we make sure that it's for students who are missing assignments that impact our ability to say whether or not they have mastered the content that's required for this course rather than a couple of assignments like I did really well on the test that was the daily homework assignment you know like there might be one or two of those but I don't know if that student would be up for intervention for that type or is it a combination of all of them um and then you know we when we got into the second day it was like how do we staff it where is it going to be and so those questions are a little bit harder but again as we're looking at that's my second committee this summer and I'll be reaching out to staff to see who would like to be on that is specifically talking about investigating interventions so that we can start the year with something for students who need that structure and then also aside from interventions that some of families and some students actually said I would love if my study hall were in a smaller environment um and you know instead of having the study hall in the Commons for freshmen should it be in a smaller classroom so that they get used to using that time to study because they're in a classroom environment and that's the classroom is where they're doing most of their work or for our students who have said that they could use a more quiet structured space during resource that if the library is full what is our second spot for that so that students can use that time in a quiet way and so those were some of the conversations that we were having as a staff I would say that our conversations around the first two bullets were the deepest because I think that that sometimes times the interaction of the questions is tells more of a story than the individual questions do and so that's why we were stopping after every couple of slides in order to kind of dig into that a little bit yes anyone have any questions at this point before we move to the next spot all right so goal four was about social emotional learning also College and Career planning also about you know students being able to have the opportunity for student choice so here we're on the sort of uh two sides of the room right there was a lot of agreement in these areas if you um again look at the breakdown and I just want to mention again for readers at home that you can go and download any of them it has all of the breakdowns if you want to see how these numbers are made up um so uh if you've now that you've experienced it um for most of the year um how am I using the resource time more effectively students overwhelmingly has reported that they are using it more effectively this that was also an uptick in our seniors um typically I was seeing a huge difference between our freshmen and our seniors um that that Gap wasn't as strong here um and then also the no change right there were some students that felt like no I'm sitting on my phones uh and some students are like no no I've been using it so the 10 is a little bit more evenly split um the families still I think based on their comments feel a little bit more strongly that many of their students need more structure in that and so whether or not that's like the SAT prep during a resource that we're offering where parents can sign their students up for it we're also thinking about do we do a Career Cluster sign up where parents can you know may not be for every career but we're going to do this Career Cluster and this month and is that sign up in resource is that structure kind of meeting the needs of everyone we're making sure that the College and Career planning is happening for students who need that structure other students who are using their freedoms well can other students that we need for intervention that we can pull them from it and so it seems as if that choice layer is going to become more and more prominent rather than drop in because students have reported that sometimes I fully intend to go mm-hmm and then life happens um and so or I forget by the time the announcement happened till I got to Resource which also has happened um so the next part is about building and structure for seeking help from a teacher counselor social worker again very positive response this question is new I don't have Baseline data on growth from this one this is just am I do I have the opportunity to seek it out um you know I think that we've talked with C Triple S that would feel that if we can come up with a structure where we're more available during resource time and flex their professional learning time to a different period is that something that we could do I think that number would even go up from there and so you know as I meet with C triple s next week and the week after so I think next week it's South the week after it North when we're working through the access and resource schedule I know that that's going to be on the docket there I've broken this out with the averages again because it's vastly different between the three groups so um student advocacy on the left and missing assignments on the right and you can see that the overall grade from the staff that these are some of the lowest numbers that we see across the survey and yet overall agree about self-advocacy and time management from the students is on the higher side that we see throughout the survey as we talked with the staff um a couple of the staff members said like I don't maybe we need a lesson on what uh time management better self-advocacy is because it seems like we're working from different definitions um that um I do think part of it is you know based on like am I getting my work done and do I feel good about it um from a student's perspective and then um from a staff perspective if I'm thinking about all of my students how many of them would I say were functionally independent with self-advocacy and time management and I think that is a difference but nonetheless that is something that we need to work on we have to also bridge that gap between um like what's going to be the format that's going to engage the staff and the students in that discussion in Access because me producing a video on time management skills and go and do it um and so you know you know that's that's part of it and I do think that having our seniors um just I was part of the opening staff for Matia Valley in 2009 we only had sophomores and freshmen to start off and we quickly found out that our sophomores were far behind in their ability to do many of these things because they were 8th graders and eighth graders to the King of the Hill they went to a freshman center where they're the only class of their King of the Hill they came to Metea where they were the King of the Hill junior year they were King of the Hill so by the time they got to senior year um many of them started seeing friends not get into the school that they wanted for the first time not getting the scholarship the sophomores were becoming captains of the teams all those kinds of things um and that was a tough lesson for them we had to start really explicitly working some of those skills into our classes doing a Career Unit in English was something that we did to get them to understand like gpas matter I know you don't think it does this first semester sophomore but it does um and so some of those senior lessons that you kids pick up is something where I feel like if we're going to really use our senior leaders and access um that this is a great way of doing some of those things because until uh when you have an elderly gentleman like myself say it um that it doesn't hold that much weight because I graduated in 1989 from high school high school was totally different shut up I said Terry it gentleman Square happened on my graduation day June 1st 1989.
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our state of Kansas Kansas State Scholars are Courtney Christensen and Hayden fish we then had two seniors who took Allen County concurrent classes night classes online classes Etc to earn the required 64 college credit hours needed to earn the associate of Arts degree from Allen Community College those students are Madison Hawley and Rachel Hernandez the act the ACT test is used for College admission course placement and scholarships the state of Kansas pays for every student to take the ACT for free as a junior the highest composite score a student can earn is a 36. VHS will have plaques located in the Commons recognizing students who have earned a minimum composite score of 30. this year we have two seniors who are members of the ba B8 we've announced their score they did say yes Tegan Harris will earn the Bronze award for earning the third highest ACT score which is a 29.
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um Karen that was for you a good date pull out um and so uh also for homework right when you start missing assignments sometimes our younger grades don't feel that as much and some of our seniors know what it's like to dig yourself into a hole and have some advice that they're going to listen to more and so I do think as we look back at I I know the staff feedback was for the first goal was much earlier in the presentation I do think that this is going to play out specifically in Access next year specifically for our younger grades well I think some of that is life skills you know if they can understand how to dig themselves out you know they can use that their whole lives so not put themselves in that position to begin with yes yeah yeah but give them the skills to do that and if we can do that in classroom situations I think that that would be a huge plus yes and and for students who can't pick it up there then we put in the interventions and resource and for the students who can't pick up interventions or resource how does that know it comes to like a Scott tier three um mtss structure where sorry I'm using a lot of jargon um uh multi-tiered systems of support tier three is a student who's not getting it in the classroom they're not getting a sort of overall intervention and now you need something very very specific for your needs and so but we do think that with a mixture of access and some intervention structures and resource that we should catch most of the kids yeah yeah targeted um so this one actually I I put this slide in specifically because um of the DraStic swings between groups okay um that between our seniors and freshmen on some of the questions there's a 20 swing some of it's only 15 um but um so for example benefits and challenges for students with the extended periods I've had more time to prepare for and complete assessments 55 percent of our freshmen chose that as a benefit of the schedule and only 30 percent of our seniors did and that's a pretty big difference I would say one significant contributor is likely AP courses the difference between the course load that you take as a student in AP courses your senior year versus the Slate that you may take as a freshman is likely going to have an impact on there and then I also highlighted the um the imbalance right the imbalance is you're feeling it more as a senior than you are as a freshman and also families are feeling it more than their freshman students or their senior students are so that I do think that also just to highlight I didn't highlight any of the boxes but the very last one about students socializing and using their phone during resource instead of accessing a teacher that students recognize that it's a bit of a problem for them the parents recognize it and the staff this is the highest um unanimity among the staff is the very bottom line about students socializing with their friends and using their phones instead of seeking out help from them during resource so um this is the highest number across any question across the survey both semesters and so I know there's been a lot of work on the phone the phone procedures and I think that other people will kind of talk about where we're at with that but I would say that this one kind of works in connection I think last time I talked about late start we didn't it wasn't we weren't watching students on their phones kind of like in their beds or like waiting for their rides or hanging with you whatever um when it was a late start but if they're not doing their homework and they're on the phones in your class and you walk through the commons and you see that they're not doing your work there that's you feel that and so I think in working interventions and looking at our grading procedures and homework procedures I think that that will help those numbers a little bit but again those are those are some tough conversations that students one teacher told me as I was walking through she said well I had a student uh I went up to her desk and I said so do you own that phone or does that phone own you and she said oh the phone owns me and I'm okay with it she kissed her phone she put it down on her desk um now I said did you were you able to refrain from laughing because that's a pretty hilarious comment from student but also upsetting um so um it is that students recognize that our families recognize it and so looking at that I think is something that's important right because I don't I think I don't think our families want us to have teachers be saying like put your phone away put your phone away put your phone away and we scramble them I don't know didn't know no no um but uh so that that is yes no that is that's a touch point though and I think um if you asked any staff member that they would agree that that's a touch point for sure um and then also if a student misses on um a block day catching them up right that if I'm already I'm like reworking my plans and you know all that to then have a student miss that day and help that student catch up that that can be overwhelming for sure so I I have a question for the record I'm looking at my phone because my notes are on my phone reject that because because I think that that's an assumption that people jump to Radio One do do students ever use their phones for work because you probably noticed me on my phone tonight too I've been making some notes about what we're doing I've been playing some game or something right that's all right I think I think that we do tend to we see somebody with a phone you know that they're not paying attention in fact they may be paying attention and I think that's something that we need to keep in mind in the discussion say I I have I mean I mean what's your time tonight to see if you hit them and I also keep my password it does not stop me from looking at other stuff when I go to it I got all kind of crap it up all the time so I it will make me for sure there's no easy answer to any of this right yeah it could be a productive tool yes it can be a distraction overall I think most people will tell you it's designed to distract to grab your attention away from what you're doing and focus it on that one thing that you can be sure of is they're not going away that our students will become adults in adult settings and we'll have to learn to manage it just as all of you have been doing during the board meeting tonight we like share responsibility with our families and helping students learn how to navigate that world that involves these devices right that we share a part of the responsibility in that yet at the same time like what Ryan said our teachers attentions can't be distracted 24 7 by those devices right they have work to do in class you can see there's a lot of frustration about being able to get through uh the activities and materials and things that they've been that they have planned our teachers spend a lot of time being very professional and strategic about the things that they want to do in their classroom and it frustrates you right when and sure you yourself are looking at how you are doing this but if you're a classroom teacher with yes 24 to 32 kids in your classroom it's 32 or 24 or whatever different experiences going on that you as a classroom teacher trying to manage on top of all of the other classroom things you're trying to manage so it's a whole it's a compounding I think variable that has been introduced into the classroom especially following the fact admittedly for two years we told kids get on your phone because that's where school is right and now you're saying get off your phone because that's not where School is right right so there's so many interwoven factors as Ryan tried to point out today that on their own a kid with a phone taking notes in classes not distracting right but it can be and um when you factor in all the other changes that have happened in society and schools and everything else it makes it a very complex situation to try to sort through and for a teacher that's trying to do that for you know 20 plus students in their class at the same time that they're trying to do what they planned on doing in that class it's it's very difficult what we're asking teachers to do right very very you know so yes for me it doesn't seem like that much of a distraction I'm an adult that can manage it most of the time right um but for 20 plus teenagers it is it's a lot to manage but we share responsibility in helping them learn how to do that so it's not an All or Nothing thing that we're in here it's complex it's not but isn't it also telling that the sorry the the family's rate is about 40 I think that's a problem the students are closer to 30ish percent and the teachers are almost at 90.
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[Applause] Courtney Christensen earned the silver award for earning the second highest ACT score which is a 30. Madison Hawley earned the Gold Award for earning the highest ACT score in the class of 2023 with a score of 33. Madison also receives a special award for the state of Kansas in recognition of her ACT score which is 11 32. congratulations ladies thank you and then it's now my pleasure to introduce the National Honor Society sponsor Melissa Hayes [Applause] following seniors are members of the BHS chapter of the National Honor Society they will wear a light blue and gold court at graduation please hold your applause until all are on stage president Josie Faker vice president Cadence ish secretary Ella Hermann members Casey Bland Brenna Booker Courtney Christensen Abby Crutchfield pet Trey famous Ali finnerty Teigen Harris Madison Hawley Grant hey Rachel Hernandez Cody long Gabby Lyons Amber McCarty Kennedy Nunes Michelle Phillips eight inside and Tucker Williams [Applause] to the hall let's go up there and Harley yeah [Applause] [Music] the NHS NHS students make a good looking group congratulations young people [Applause] Chris good job don't worry next we have our honors graduates students can graduate with honors based on their cumulative seventh semester GPA students graduating laude have earned this cumulative seventh semester GPA of 3.2 to 3.49 they will wear a red and white Honor Court at graduation please hold your applause until all are on stage they are Casey Bland Tremaine Boyle Aaliyah Cole Alex Edwards Chloe gamble Lily Darrow Justice King Kennedy Noonan Kylie Price and Tory Brazilian thank you [Applause] congratulations thank you students graduating Magna current body have earned a cumulative seventh semester GPA of 3.5 to 3.79 they will wear a red and silver on record at graduation please hold your applause until all are on stage they are Brenna Booker Kaylee Marie Tristan debening Tegan Harris Grant hey Gabby Lyons Amber McCarty Reece Oregon land and miners Tucker Williams and Harley young of course you do services congratulations [Applause] anybody else students graduating summa laude have earned a cumulative seventh semester GPA of 3.8 to 4.0 they will wear a red and gold Honor Court at graduation please hold your applause until all are on stage I'm going to begin with Shaylin Webber and my deepest apologies we miss you on the NHS additionally we have Courtney Christensen Abby Crutchfield Trey feyman Josie Pfeiffer Hallie finnerty Madison Hawley Rachel Hernandez Ella Herman Cadence ish Cody long Michelle Phillips Hayden sides Parker West and Tucker right thank you foreign medicine Cadence and Parker to stay [Applause] each year Burlington High School recognizes the top 10 percent of the graduating class by identifying them as BHS honor Scholars they will wear a medallion at graduation congratulations to the following students who are VHS honors Scholars Courtney Christensen Josie favor Hallie finnerty Madison Hawley Cadence ish and Parker West [Applause] congratulations [Applause] I don't know our final activity is to recognize each senior announce kind of what your future plans are Etc so Nick Bartley time for you to lead the way [Music] [Applause] Nicholas Eugene Eugene Bartley plans to enter the workforce [Applause] as you know Casey Bland plans to attend the University of Kansas and major in elementary education State University to major in business she has earned 33 college credit hours and has received the Freshman merit scholarship from Wichita State for Maine and Boyle plans to attend Kansas State University and enroll in the Army ROTC program and majored in history Zoe Danielle Brown plans to attend Kansas City Kansas Community College and major in culinary arts cosmetology and embalming she is finished third team college credit hours while in high school Haley Marie plans to attend Eric Fisher Academy major in cosmetology she has received the cosmetology scholarship from Eric Fisher Academy Courtney Nevaeh Christensen plans to attend the universe she plans to major in journalism and electronic media and Communications and information [Applause] has received the volunteer scholarship from the University of Tennessee Cameron May clay plans to enter the workforce as a certified nurse's assistant she has earned 11 college credit hours through Allen County Aaliyah Renee Cole plans to attend Fort Scott Community College major in nursing she is in 36 college credit hours and will receive the endowment scholarship from Fort Scott Gavin Blair konkel plans to enter the workforce he has earned four college credit hours while in high school yeah Abigail Grace Crutchfield she plans to attend Pittsburg State University major in elementary education she has earned 33 college credit hours while in high school Trenton Dakota Davidson plans to attend North Central Kansas Technical College and major in heavy machinery operation Tristan Michael devony plans to attend Hutchinson Community College major in fire science he has earned nine college credit hours Alex deal Edwards plans to attend Wichita State University major in biomedical engineering it is our 23 college credit hours Trey Brayden feyman plans to attend the Kansas State University major in industrial engineering and he has earned 46 college credit hours scholarship commitment from Kansas State and the Royal Purple scholarship from Kansas Josie Eleanor Pfeiffer plans to attend Wichita State University and major in biology Josie's earned 45 college credit hours and earned the merit scholarship through Wichita State Ally May finnerty plans to attend Pittsburg State University and major in biology with an emphasis in pre-dentistry Hallie's earned 37 college credit hours entered an academic scholarship to Pitt State Chloe Elizabeth gamble blames who has been to attend Pittsburgh State University and major in nursing Chloe has earned 24 college credit hours through ACC and 12 college credit hours through fhtc [Applause] Thoreau claims to attend the ocean Community College and major in nursing Lillian has earned 12 college credit hours through fhtc [Applause] I've got to change it in here Lillian is going to a house Amanda Leanne Harris plans to attend the University of Colorado at Denver to major in criminal justice Amanda has earned five college credit hours through ACC [Applause] the Washburn University to Tegan has earned 21 college credit hours through ACC [Applause] ost-based Engineering Madison has earned an associative arts degree through ACC Madison earns the following scholarships the KU Chancellor scholarship KU engineering scholarship KU College of Engineering National Honor Society scholarship and the most valuable student scholarship from the Elks Foundation Grant Allen Hague plans to attend Fort Scott Community College the John Deere program to major in diesel technology Grant has earned 10 college credit hours through ACC Rachel Alexandria Hernandez plans to attend Kansas State University to major in accounting Rachel has earned an Associates of Arts degree through ACC [Applause] Ella Kate Herman plans to attend Wichita State University to major in nursing and minor in American Sign Language Ella has earned 53 college credit hours and earned a marriage scholarship to WSU Kate's Lynn ish plans to attend the University of Kansas to major in exercise science Cadence has earned 51 college credit hours through ACC and earned the Traditions scholarship from KU [Applause] Justice Jewel King plans to attend Emporia State University to major in business justice has earned 45 college credit hours through ACC and earned the success scholarship from the Jones Foundation Cody Robert long plans to attend Pittsburg State University and major in free medicine he's earned 30 Allen County College credit hours [Applause] Gabriel Ann Lyons plans to attend Emporia State University major in elementary education she's earned 30 college credit hours and she receives the success scholarship from the Jones Foundation [Applause] plan to attend Emporia State University and major in elementary education she's earned 24 college credit hours and she receives the success scholarship from the Jones Foundation Colin Matthew McManus plans to attend Iron Eagle welding institute and major in welding me Spielberg Morgan plans to attend Washburn University and continue in the Kansas Air National Guard his major is Political Science and business he's earned 30 college credit hours he'll receive a National Guard scholarship and the GI Bill thank you Landon James Myers plans to attend Pitt State University his major is undecided he's earned 32 college credit hours Kennedy J Noonan plans to attend a Wichita State University and major in health science she's earned 43 college credit hours and receives the merit scholarship from Wichita State Michelle Lynn Phillips plans to attend the Wichita State University her nature is business with the pre-med track she's earned 30 college credit hours and she receives a freshman merit scholarship from Wichita State Kylie Breanne price plans to attend Allen Community College her major is secondary education and family and consumer science she's earned 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I mean yeah and you know I like I for some reason on the basketball day I thought school day ended at noon so I started texting my niece Emily hey are you guys taking the bus we had a full out conversation right and then I found out later school they ended at 12 30.
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Tucker Alvin Williams plans to enter the workforce chapter James Wright plans to enter the workforce as part of the Wolf Creek radiation protection team foreign young plans to attend Emporia State University majoring in Business Administration she has currently earned 50 college credit hours from Allen County Community College she also has received the general scholarship from Emporia State University the success goal and the success scholarship and the through the Jones Foundation [Applause] you guys as we come together all of this could not have happened ready working together for you sooner so let's give them a round of applause so in closing I express my heartiest gratitude to Mrs Bullen Miss Acton our teachers our your the parents out in here that are supporting these wonderful human beings sitting in front of us and our community members for the collective efforts that are brought forth today whatever our students have achieved so far would never have been possible without this endeavor the stage is said and ready for all of you guys on Saturday May 13th yes yes congratulations once again and thank you all for attending have a great recipe [Applause]
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and I was so then I had to have a very tough conversation why why were we able to have a Fallout conversation while you were in class um that you know that just like that just happens and so on whether it's knowingly or unknowingly right that there there is contact between home and students during class um and then they're also doing other things you know so um that I do think that you know that it's it anytime that you start working through a new procedure specifically around something that everyone feels very strongly about there's I think everyone acknowledges across the world right now that there's a phone problem um but it's it's not easy to lock all of that down because you're right like I'm a lead adopter in technology I never have my I don't have my phone with me now I you know people text me they they all know if you need to get a hold of me they call my husband and he answers because he's always on his phone and I am not um but he also takes care of everything that we need to buy or anything and I don't do any of that and he does it all in his phone um so I'm the benefit I'm the receiver of the benefits right um he's the benefactor um on that so yeah I mean it's it's a it's a tough it's a tough one and so I think that as as we grapple with students and their freedoms right that not all the students are going to love like being pulled back on the phones or using interventions but I do think that the with putting structures in place and seeing that if I do that right thing or if I'm doing this thing or if I don't do this now I can do this in that is just retraining those behaviors and so how do all of those things work together well and that's my question I guess which was actually not about my phone but I was just making an excuse because the fact that I keep my nose on my phone I didn't mean to make I was so self-conscious about your faults I'm sorry well we're having a conversation sure oh yeah but my question was this I mean again this is what I kind of struggle with after having looked at Their audience yeah so we have students who feel they're they're better able to prepare during their day [Music] but we have both um uh staff who feels that there's there's too much downtime and then in the data elsewhere both students and staff felt they had down not productive time yeah so I guess I'm I'm just trying to figure that out sure if if they're not using that time to prepare better but they're but they're better prepared overall so so for students with that that's so in creating an intervention you just want to make sure that you're not just sweeping making a decision that like takes everything you know like when I were pulling back on on autonomy all the kids were like right because like what I said okay if everyone does what you need to do for third quarter I will start putting back an autonomy so there was a autonomy for juniors last week I think there's one for sophomores next week I think there's one for freshmen the week after that um and that is because like that you follow the past procedures there's less people cutting that fine I will we will put those things back in there but you don't want to do a sweeping one right so for our kids who are using it well and can manage that time we want to make sure that they still have that time but for students who aren't whether or not they start getting decent or after their classes they start missing multiple days right for students who are chronically truant we need to make sure that we have them in a space where we can get them caught back up and what does that look like how long will they be in that intervention so they can earn their way out and there's a connection between I have this space because I'm doing what I need to do and that it's not uh you know we're not trying to kill the love of school for students and so there really does have to be a direct because this is happening this is happening because as soon as they lose that string it's just you don't like me and I don't like it here um so we we are we have to balance that line of making sure that students who are all of their homework turns in they they're on time they should be able to go to the coffee bar and hang out in the Commons and use their phones if they want to because they're all caught up and if students you know are using their time really well outside of school um and they're passing their classes and great but if they're not then when they're with us what are the structures that we should put in place in order to help teach them that so they can graduate out of those interventions and then experience that space like the students who maybe didn't need an intervention to get there so those structures to be determined would be like the teacher would refer them for that because or they would Institute some of those or a mixture of both yeah so it's so that's working with the staff on it so if if I am running I'm not to get into the Weeds on like how we run reports or whatever but um I if I'm running one uh an intervention based on missing homework assignments that is something that's a teacher referral because it's not just about the number of assignments that are missed it is how is this showing evidence of their learning which helps me make their grade right if there's too many of those that would be a teacher referral if we're only doing it on if a student has two or more D's or F's that's a report we can run that I can you know so yes and so I think it depends on where that committee Falls how many different you know things that that it's definitely not going to be a Ryan sit in a room and come up with a procedure it's gonna be more people at the table than that too bad oh well yeah I also want to I just want to point out part of the reason we made this change was Queen we knew students were graduating from our schools and did not feel prepared in how they manage their time to think that we would start this this year students would have magically coming off of a pandemic know how to be effective we were hearing from our 18 year olds that were leaving us that this was a spot that they struggled with so to think that our 14 year olds joining us this year would be great in this time would be folly at the same time that hour and a half resource time I will point out what we pointed out last last week was the hour and a half that before was Monday morning and nobody knew what was happening at that time right so once again if that student the whole year went and saw their counselor once over all of that time over the course of the year instead of eating Captain Crunch Monday morning it was more productive over the course of the school year than what it was in the past right so we look at this through the lens of Educators and parents and like we want Perfection out of our students we want them continually using their time productively we don't even hold ourselves to those same standards as adults that 100 of our time is going to be productive nor should it be right there's a mental health aspect of this there's a time management there's a social aspect to this when you talk to our students about how scheduled they are over the course of the day do you have time to hang out with your friends no I don't I I leave school I go to this practice I go to this trainer I sit down I do homework I have no time to socialize if they're getting some of that interaction during that time it's a plus and we also know that as I've shared with the board multiple times this year we do have a segment of our students that have nowhere to be safe in this world other than in our space and if that is 78 minutes a week where they feel safe and taken care of and that's their 78 minutes a week that they get to pick what they do with it whether it's on their phone or otherwise for that kid that is time well spent for that kid so we are making over arching very broad statements about what's happening for all of our students and our teachers here we also have to acknowledge for certain numbers of our students they're getting exactly what they need maybe they're not but what Ryan's talking about is the pathways to make sure we're continually looking at this and getting better in all of those ways for all of our kids but we have to acknowledge that we're making pretty broad reaching statements here as we look at perception data right people are picking something on a scale of perceptions and we're we're looking at it that's why the information Ryan's about to get into to preview he's going to look at some longitudinal data here and what we learned from the first time to the next time that's going to be very telling data for us over the next several years of where are we making progress in these areas where aren't we where concerns remaining as we look at this data over time wow thanks so before I get into the longitudinal data I just have one more section so um this one is about increased time for teachers and professional learning planning with their colleagues so um you know positive on all of them uh agreed uh or overall agreed about having more dedicated professional learning time in the schedule right there's there's other things that we do during that time whether it's course team time or building meeting or something like that um but from the adjustments that we made we so we saw overall growth um then so through personalized professional learning this question is new for a second semester we uh first semester we put on hold personalized professional learning as we try to do building learning on getting used to the schedule and then we brought back PPL for second semester that was a huge positive in fact many teachers in the first survey talked about how they wished we had started PPL in first semester and then at this point of the Year we're you know we've been on our journey with um with common experience and that how confident are they that they will be able to complete their work um 77.9 agree with that and that's a slight uptick from the fall as well right yeah so this one kind of surprised me um that 29.4 percent felt that they strongly disagree overall disagreed that they have more dedicated time for professional learning in this schedule why why would somebody I mean I'm trying to and it's not that there's no change because we have overall we have so these are people who are saying that they have less time yeah how is that possible so I do think that the professional learning that we did in a late start right all of the staff is together yep and now their professional learning is broken into whichever Lunch Period they had on a Monday Tuesday Friday day so if I so Rob and I are on the same course team he is lunch fifth I have lunch sixth he's doing his professional learning Fifth and I'm doing my professional learning six in PPL sometimes we're on the course team we're doing the same we're choosing the same professional learning because we want to grow in the same area because we're on the same course team that having that divide and not being able to do the learning with him at the same time that is a stress factor for some teachers not everyone is is doing it that way so I'm work with an instructional coach and so they're in their professional learning isn't you know tied to really anyone else but others work in teams um and so I would say that um staff members that disagree with that that by not having the professional learning with everyone at the same time has they've felt an impact on that okay the other thing is we have students in the building during that time so things happen right oh sure before you do it on Monday morning there are students here now school is going on while they're professional learning and there's there's things that happen that will draw you away from that so depending on your role and your responsibilities and your the students you're responsible for you can get torn okay between those things and I would also say for um departments like C Triple S um they're participating in the building-wide professional learning and at times they've voiced that I don't feel like this fits my role as well as it maybe fits the teaching staff role and so earlier in the presentation I talked about you know when I meet with them that we may be talking about how do we Flex their learning a little bit different if that's possible and that I think also answers some of the professional learning like my dedicated professional learning time well for my role I feel like I have less because we're looking at a block teaching and I am not a classroom teacher but this was my professional learning time and so how do we differentiate that for groups that are not um teaching staff but our staff in the building I think we you have some we'll get to it right like some thoughts on how we addressed it because I I my reason for asking the question I think it's important I'd like to see 100 agree there I think it's it's absolutely essential that the that our staff feels that they've got enough um time to do their professional learning that they need to do and I think earlier when I talked about um things that I wish I could go back and do differently from the fall right or that that we as a what whatever me at all of us could have done differently about spacing things out I think as you know Rob leads um the professional learning across and talking about how are we spacing that out as well so just like I'm looking at spacing drills out spacing lessons out okay um that Rob has been developing a schedule with the leadership team um about like one what other priorities how are we limiting them and then also hopefully I'm not stealing a presentation from you am I I don't I'm not on this okay that's okay fine um how do we know that like okay we're spacing out Department time so there's equal time for that and also PPL and then also building learning so you know when I'm looking for El learning I'm already going to be put in a cycle so it's not building learning building learning building learning course in time oh now PPL it's it's being planned for spreading out now if it wasn't maybe more compressed this year because they didn't do it in the first time um so I think yeah so the PPL was more compressed second semester and building was compressed first semester and so the staff because they get to choose their topic that's most applicable for them in their classroom they want that and they want to spread out throughout the year and so that's something that we're working on it's actually a really good point that you bring up Jenny is their personalized professional learning the whole design around it is that they focus on one topic over a long period of time with multiple touch points this year because we were adjusting to this schedule we moved all of that to second semester so while the intent on the goal of learning is to spread it out over a long period of time they actually only experience that within the second semester yeah so that might be why their perception is I have less time because I didn't get that full experience across the entire year so you have certain topics that they can pick and then yes that they can pick and then it just spreads it out every Monday for eight weeks it used to be Mondays now it falls on their our PD period in this yeah maybe it's a Tuesday but yeah exactly it goes on okay that's good thank you there were benefits and challenges for the staff and also for families around or sorry for staff because it was goal five is all staff um and so I put them back to back with the benefits and the challenges so you can see that that there is a pretty you know there's a divide among people's experiences so I appreciate the extended planning time on block days 67.9 percent of the north staff chose that that was one of the highest benefits the staff chose there but then I'm having difficulty adjusting my curriculum in their courses which is their planning right 33 did chose that as a challenge in the schedule it basically comes out to about a hundred percent um and so you can see that it sort of goes back and forth that you know you can break it down where um again that there does seem to be trends across departments um but um you know I I given the school averages here oh sorry before I get to that um I also want to just point out that there's I didn't think that I would be doing this until I started kind of digging through the data I do find that on the challenges and benefits between the two buildings that here is where you start to see a pretty discrepant you know kind of thing so um I when I talked with the committee um there were North and South teachers there at both committee and they they said like oh I would want to know like why is it so different um so I am going to go to both schools and just show them some slides although again everyone has access to all the materials it's all posted um I do want to sit down with staff members specifically on these results and say like why do you think that is that there's such a difference because you know while yes um it may be that 73 of the north staff answered this question and like you know 80 or 82 percent of the South staff I don't think there's enough of skipped versus answered to account for that large percentage um and just so just as a side note you know over the next week or two I'll be talking with a lot of Staff members at both schools and just pulling up a slide and saying like why why do you think that is um that there's such a difference because you know our staff they do talk across buildings um and so um just hoping to get a little bit better insight into that so at this point we had finished all of the goal questions and so we talked again like so now what are you feeling and so um talking about the PD specifically um for C Triple S um and then also um one of the staff members asked about like is there a way that we can make sure there's more alignment between professional development like because at times there's a different topic at one school than there is for another you know obviously our apis and our principles are helping to with our instructional Specialists trying to come up with professional development that is specific to their building but um you know is there a way that we can ensure that and Rob like I had said had done an activity to try to align our our topics a little bit more for next year so that it doesn't feel like anything's new we're building on something um also the shifts and resource came up and specifically more structures we we talked about how do we do more sign up things we talked about the career exploration also a better utilizing peer tutoring and resource that came up how do we uh in asking the question to students I didn't put that in the slide because it didn't seem most students said that they were unaffected by um by the schedule and how they chose their courses for next year however there was a percentage about 10 across different grade levels that said I'll be signing up for something whether or not I'm going to be an aide or find some kind of service opportunity within the school day so we'd like to tap into those kids for peer tutoring during Resource as another way for students to better use that time and then also there was a lot of talk about how do we offer a more engaging activity that will prevent kids from thinking oh early release that they think more about how do I stay connected to my community right um someone said when we went to high school school was like Friday Night Lights like every week right that like everyone were all the you know at York we all wore the green and it was all you know I think and it seemed like homecoming Fridays every week right um and that has changed and that you know if students have an opportunity for early release that that and they're in good standing Juniors and seniors um that they have that opportunity and so what uh beyond the academic ones what other opportunities can we have much like um the competitions that we were looking to do quarterly in Access what are some things that we can do with our students and so that will be you know a conversation for Dr zerner um Dr Taylor and um and Miss Martinez and I as we kind of work that out and then also when we are talking interventions that that committee will also look at what are some other activities that we can offer when we look at the interventions um you know that we continued the conversation because this is now after looking at most of the data all the way through we talked about guided resource and guided study um do we look at a model that we had used before I believe South is using something of a guided resource right now if I'm correct principal lib yes um and so and then also we talked about just the structures of it right um is it how do we refer it through the counselors through Alpha teams do I um because we're looking at student Choice software where it's going to make it so much easier for students to choose where they want to go during certain accesses is there a way that we can use that to identify a student who has early release or not is there a way we can use that to identify a student who's been put into an intervention so that it's all kind of filtered through an app that we can easily check those things from so so it became day two and after all of the data I sort of got into the um getting into the nuts and bolts of how and so there needs to be far more people around the table for that tomorrow we have executive Council on where all of the APS and building leadership and District leadership are there and so I'll start I'll be starting to ask them like who would like to be on what committee before I start reaching out to the staff and ask who would like to be on those committees so I can lock down what my funding is going to be and who's going to be working on what and we'll be doing that work while I'm doing summer school what by the way sign up for summer school if you haven't signed up yet so those were comments from your small group where you said you had about eight people on from each yes I would I would say though that the interventions that that comes out in the free response from a lot of the staff okay so the the need for intervention from family and for staff that this is a conversation that's sort of started with the comments that rolled into committee um so there were other benefits and challenges that were on the survey that didn't fit under a goal I call them stamina focus and flexibility um so starting off with students and families um you can see about better managing the homework load the 20 difference between seniors and freshmen and then also the 20 difference in their families so the percentage you know while the students still skew higher it's interesting that it's again it's about the same if you look at the the gap between the two the bottom I put on I was trying to highlight anything that sort of skewed above um 30 as we as we get into the summative data but here those bottom four challenges I was intrigued by the inverse like you know relationship that students if they don't see it as a concern like I students uh you know I have too much time during my day right 14 of the freshmen versus 23 percent of the seniors feel like they have too much extra time in their day versus 53 of the Freshman families and 50 of the senior families that you know the difference it's it's pretty much across the board if the families don't see it as much of a concern the students do if the students don't see it as concern the families do and that inverse relationship um is just an interesting one um but um I think that um you know it's always it's always good to err on the side of structure so we're still going to be looking at the structures and that students who are doing well with their free time that they don't they won't be impacted by the interventions but the students that are struggling with it um will be and um that this is again I put this up there not because um it gave me a ton of info I'm still gonna have to go um and talk with the staff um but uh the appreciating the variety right there's a 20 swing between North and South um and then also the level of exhaustion at the end of the day 61 at South and only 47 and a half percent at North and so um that that one you know I'm gonna have to dig into as well so I did an overall summaries um and this is um based on fall to now data I took questions that we asked in common um so if I've asked it in the fall and I asked it again um I put both of them there so first two columns are staff fall the now second two our students fall now third families fall now um I highlighted it green if there was progress on that goal I highlighted it yellow if it was neutral and I highlighted it red if it went back um and so um if you look at access and I have developed a good relationship right 69 whereas in the fall it was 52.3 percent so that's a pretty significant jump right that's expected they know each other better they've sort of gotten in the Rhythm um the the freshman in their access that are going to have those teachers for the other three years right they're investing in those relationships um and then our senior access teachers will have freshmen next year also about adapting well to the schedule this point it was 55 percent agree now we're at sixty percent agree so it's a five percent increase um which you know I think over the course of this year I'm pretty happy with that percentage increase um and then we start getting into the yellows and um no changes right so deeper learning activities 49 and now it's 51.5 percent I could have highlighted that green but I also thought like you know it's pretty close um it's within my margin of error um and so I sort of left that there also you can see with the families and the students that because of the no change there that um while uh you know the percentage may have like stayed the same or slightly dipped or something like that um until I have more no change data I didn't want my slide to unnecessarily skew positive or negative I just wanted the results to speak for themselves so I highlighted it yellow the professional learning um so the building it was building level professional learning in the fall and it was personalized professional learning in the spring you can see that huge jump so I do acknowledge that the jump is going for from building level to personalized level and so while it's the same question that is the shift I think that caused that huge jump in positive missing assignments right I asked do they have fewer missing assignments than in years past in the fall and I asked since first semester that it was a low percentage in the fall it is lower in the spring so homework for sure you can see the other two Reds about the curriculum which we talked about earlier and then also absences and tardies that missing assignments phones apps and tardies that is that is a huge touch point with the staff for sure you'll notice that there's another color up there it is orange it was kind of not red but it kinda not yellow and I didn't want to fudge it um so yeah it's like it's again it's a stair thing right it's see I'm the one who does the 0.25 ask Miss Hardy I just did interviews for her she's like it was either four or three I'm like I know it was a three seven five um so um you can see that while the percentage like for students it went from 68.9 to 60.9 um the but the no change in there I felt like oh my gosh like it's the it's it seems like it's no change and um and positive because the they disagree didn't really change and it's the same amount of students and so um we kind of put that there um and so that the trend data I would love to say that um we made progress on every single goal um we did not and so I think that when the committee talked about our procedures it comes out um both qualitatively and quantitatively and so then I know that that is something that we have to address and that's why it's going to go to committee this summer um and then I thought I would just you know across the bottom uh because I was spacing it out through goals sometimes you can kind of get lost through all the different goals about like what are the positives that came out of this what are the negatives so if it was 30 or higher from any of the groups choosing it I put it up there so if one third or more chose it as a positive in the schedule I placed it up there um you can see that um you know the extended planning time is something that the staff really values um also finding balance in their school day um that has been uh productive and then also that with the deeper learning part that part of it makes that group about the extended periods about discussions and workshops so that was the activity that people felt strongly about but again you can see the differences between the two schools on some of the questions here at the top um from students right being able to better manage their homework load um ironically when you ask about the block days and better able to focus on their classes it's a much lower percentage um and so like I think it's because I chose the word focus and they were thinking can I focus through my individual classes rather than focus on my classes for the day um and so I may change that word in that question but then I don't know what it'll do to my longitudinal data um for families again managing the homework load came out as their top benefit also being able to do retakes the Juniors and seniors in good standing I did end up putting n slash a some of our families have multiple students so you might even see in the Raw data it may have been like 8.3 percent of the Freshman families feel that way well it's because that freshman family also has a senior and so it kind of came out in both but because they weren't Juniors or seniors I put and slash a there since um that wasn't a question for freshmen or sophomores and then here's the top challenges um for the staff we talked about the phone one already and then also absences and then really it it gets down to students being able to use that time right um sometimes students when they choose my category was prefers One schedule or the other students saying like why can't we do the block day like we did two years ago um and I think sometimes the students don't fully remember that when they were in the black periods during covid they like they could be in school from their bed um that they could turn off their screen and go to the bathroom and come back um and all that kind of stuff and so um that while we've done extended periods before this is real like a real extended period um probably for the first time for them because they're actually sitting in desks um and you know uh that they we can see if they're participating or not or things like that um from students again that you can see that like the exhausted part um that we talked about the deeper riching experiences before um the sea Day lunch being too late during the day um I'm glad the percentage went down because that just means that the students remember that I flipped that period so they don't have to worry about that anymore um and so uh homework I think uh increased amount of difficulty of homework the families and the students actually don't have the same percentages across that and you can see that here so too much time throughout the day comes the top family challenge um and that is not the top student challenge but I would say if you look at the phone response that's also probably the top for the staff so adults are feeling one way and the students definitely another me so I gotta say thank you yeah thank you that's so much work I really I really enjoy really I mean you know I could really get into the weeds I you know I think partly when when Hank said like let's just put up all of the raw data online so anyone can download it I think that was partially so that I wouldn't go so into the Weeds on my slides um but I do think it's important because again uh one you know I loved teaching and I still like in my heart I'm a classroom teacher um and so I do think it's important to talk about all the different things and how they work together um and so uh while I know it's a lot of information I really appreciate you giving me the time I hope I didn't go too fast or too slow for you and I know you know like always following up with students is impossible because they're always amazing um and so uh if you do have any questions um I'm happy to take them now I know that we've been doing them throughout um but then also if you have additional questions later you know I'm always happy to come back especially after I talk with staff and students when I get my committees together and also try to figure out the difference between the two campuses I'm happy to come back and talk more as phone thing is is it more is it two different things being on your phone when you should be listening versus being on your phone like when you could be seeking help or I think they feel equally as strong about both just um that having having looking up when you've done your opening slide and you look out at the class and you see heads that's rough I mean that's just that's just a rough thing um asking a student to put their phone away I would say most students will do it on one but then when they pull it out again and then again and then put it on their desk and it flashes like it's a lot um and so um I think if students knew how hurtful it feels when they go on their phones I think our students may not go on them as much or would be less likely to but you also don't want to like you know like have like you know you're hurting my feelings you know but it is it's it's hard it's hard so I think it's not just they're on their phones they're not coming to me it's they're on their phones in class they're taking their phone to the bathroom they're it's that it's yes do we have any classes that use phones for like surveys and such yeah sure yeah so it's gonna be sometimes it's gonna be yeah sorry that's so much but would it be more like okay everybody take out your phone and do this you know versus and I think and I think Benny's teachers I mean everyone has their own thing but you know like everyone this is your reminder please put your phone away I do not want to see them I mean I think many teachers start with that phrase um others will you know like everyone put your phones at this spot in a desk face down so I can see them so that you know you're not like you know I mean gosh when when I was teaching there was still like the they would put it in their sweatshirt and they would text without even looking and you're like so you don't even uh and I still don't know how they do it but you know I mean well every class is every teacher have to make a call out on every class or does a teacher just have a rule and you know I'm in this is fit class and her rule is right now it is it's at the teacher's discretion currently and that's why we're talking about we've heard from our staff that they would prefer that there be at least a default Baseline across the school so that's what we're working through what Scott will talk a little bit about his work with the parent-teacher advisory committee but that's what we're working on to bring the board this summer with student handbook and some language in there that would be at least a default expectation across the board knowing that teacher it's a it is a classroom management classroom resource decision so classroom still teacher teachers still need the ability where yeah we're going to go outside and take pictures of this so you know every I remember you know trying to get enough digital cameras for a classroom was impossible now every kid has at least one in their pocket right so it's a balancing of when is it appropriate to use it and one isn't it um yeah I mean it's just like it was just like listening to music when you're working independently that if you ask five different English teachers we're all gonna say five different things like I didn't allow my students to listen to music because I don't think that you can really write effectively with music playing but whatever that's my thought um but then before my music teacher and I told my kids if they wanted to listen to musicals that's why yes but my but my teaching partner for years she like is like just said like the minute you were working independently you absolutely can listen to music as long as when I say let's come back everyone's earpods are out because that's also kind of part of it you know like you can have earbuds in and they're like super hidden now um and so you know fighting those Tech battles are a challenge for sure I mean I think the world is fighting the check challenges right now right so well pretty soon it'll be so I have just a couple of more broader yeah comments one 77 percent of families chose not to participate in the survey so when we look at you know how we wait what we're what we're looking at here I think there just there needs to be some understanding that that you know the family responses were not as strong as we would have liked them to be it's not that the information there isn't useful right but it's not as as detailed and as useful as it could have been otherwise and and and so certainly if you are motivated to say something you've you really you really love it or you really hate it right you might be motivated to participate whereas if you're okay with things maybe you don't bother taking the survey and I think and so um so I think there's there's something there um to consider um appreciated very much the fact that we had um 67 percent of our staff participate in the survey and and so I I give heavy weight to to that just because I know I'm getting some good good data there right and we had 40 percent of students so not as many students as we would have liked but I don't know how many could we reasonably expect too right I mean they're pretty busy people so um so there's that um and wanted to also remind everybody that we didn't survey last year or the year before that or the year before that right so we could have very easily um you know asked a lot of questions about how do you like the eight period day and what's good and what's bad about that right so this is an exercise in in evaluating and making what we're doing right now better and and maybe we should have been doing this before but you know we're doing this now and and and I'm glad that we're doing it but it does make things difficult because you don't have you talk you mentioned longitudinal data right we don't have anything to compare this this well many of the things that we're measuring weren't even an option under the Alaska right yeah right I'm I'm hoping that the increase in staff participation and increase in family participation from the fall um that I selfishly I hope that because they see that I'm presenting out the data and that I'm working with people to help help improve you know things that they're bringing up that more people are responding so I hope that that continues to go up um so encouraging was that that was an increase it was an increase from for staff and families students 310 families and about 70 staff members students a slight decrease but we heard you know from Seniors that were like I'm out of here yeah 153 fewer Juniors and then uh just lastly as we heard in a recent meeting hey we haven't seen a big change in the number of A's B's C's you know that um all the great distribution has remain For Better or Worse right so when we look at when we look at that like ultimately that GPA it matters right and and what we can what we can say is that thus far we haven't you know by this making this change in the schedule it hasn't negatively impacted um those grades which I think is a real Triumph as I said previously because this was a pretty big change and and the students have been through a lot of change the last few years and so um so this is I still think really promising um I there's I'll stop there yourself thank you also I'm I want to you said for our students it's been a lot of change it's been a lot of change for our teachers teachers too right so the fact that thank you for you know we haven't seen a dip in student performances huge kudos to our staff who have absorbed like four years of continual change and changes in society like we've been talking about tonight and have still been able to help keep students at least there where we've been in the past I would expect that we'll all get better as time goes on moving on moving past this but um our our teachers have put in a ton of work throughout the pandemic and now that whatever this is post pandemic if that's what it really is but um you know they they deserve a lot of credit for all the work they've asked a lot and they've delivered yeah absolutely do we have access to any of the free responses from from staff as as board members would we have access we don't publish those because when they're submitted it is with the intention that a very small group of people are going to look at those and they're sometimes very specific things about themselves or staff members that it is not collected with the intent that that will be shared okay wider than Ryan's Circle that's that's analyzing it that's why he brings you kind of the summary of those responses and the staff committee read those with me okay so it's that very small group but people are named by name people talk about their own specific circumstances in it it is definitely not intended and when we put that survey out if that was going to be the case we'd want to say in advance like all of this information will be made public that's never the intent we because if you do that then people will kind of may couch their responses that that might be released to the public we want that committee to have as raw of responses and honest of responses as possible so we have to protect the confidentiality of that that information in relation to the um cell phone policy from from this the responses that you got was there any suggestions from from staff as to how to go about addressing those issues um no other than like we need to do something usually in all caps um and I'm not joking yes um and so I think that um the teacher yeah I was gonna say like I think Scott is going to talk a little bit more about that when he comes out so I'll save that nugget for him yep okay yes preview all right any other schedule questions I just want to say thank you and you know we had incredibly helpful you put into it it was really very helpful I am a data nerd so I'm good it's a good thing surprising [Laughter] all right Scott you're up that's all right all right yeah well we met uh Wednesday April 19th eating so I thought I would try to challenge Ryan tonight and take you minute by minute through that meeting let's go oh thank you I'm probably going to step out but you keep going I promise I'll be back I'll be back but uh we were um so we met over at South we went through our path coordinators talking about our path program that supports students that is to support them in an in-school intervention okay excited about that and the feedback that we got about their presentation their data just the program itself was just outstanding from the parents um more through our our Google form that they provided feedback on we had a mixture um with us we'll be a mixture of staff and parents uh Jenny and Mike were with us so you can jump in at any time too um and um so that was wonderful we spent uh some time looking at the cell phone uh proposed kind of changes we did that in kind of a small table top exercise and then came together and kind of shared out I'm just going to read some of the notes that I took because I thought it just it was an amazing conversation when I felt bad because I did we went 10 minutes longer on it so we kind of shortchanged my array which was okay because it was our special ed data and that's totally fine but I'm just going to read through some of these and you guys can jump in um some of it was talking I'm going to read just the list kind of quickly but to look at um the definition of like how do you define reasonable time frame uh maybe looking at out of sight instead of not being seen or used uh many of the tables were in agreement that they appreciated that the district was looking at how to support the teachers definitely concerns like we've heard from Ryan so some of this will be a little repetitive but um definitely wanted teachers to focus on instruction so I wanted to have us keep that in mind but also there were some comments made about um you know how do they parents do appreciate that they can communicate back and forth with their student during the day I wondered how that might affect that talked about whatever we change make sure it's strong communication both to the parents and students and obviously the staff but really they were kind of focused on parents and students so they knew what are the expectations um we talked a lot about um you know focusing on also you know if there's students if the majority of the students are are falling expectations to focus on the students that weren't you know following those expectations um wanted to know what other schools are doing um I think too it was it was not to interrupt but it was important to not make work for the teachers like enforcing this policy taking time away you know is is going to be a challenge and it's difficult to gauge what they have to do right now in terms of like you said like sometimes they say when you come in put your phone here so I can see it you know and you know we don't want it to become like okay that's your first infraction and now that's your first infraction and and then what happens too so they get one in first period and then they go to your class and do they get another one and you know I mean like are we just making are we making we don't want to make it worse but we need to have at the same time I mean the intersection is the behavior in the classroom right so it is it's you don't want it to take away from it but like any other student Behavior there needs to be a consistent reinforcement of those expectations in the classroom for it to get better right so uh but we also need you know and that's why it was important to me with parents we need parents reinforcing this too when we reach out and say like this is an issue and a teacher reaches out or Dean reaches out we're going to need some helpful reinforcement from parents at home saying yeah it's also my expectation that the teacher doesn't have to talk to you about this again right yeah and we just I mean we don't it's disruptive now I'm sure but we don't want to make it more more it's just a challenge right because that's yeah no that's great um you know talking about obviously you know respecting the teacher or the time for instruction um blogging the interventions and how to manage all that and just be you know respectful um and then uh you know talked about you know again like other schools but also what is our elementary schools doing we talked a little bit liability of phones and you know all that um uh you know about uh you know student rights about phones and things like that and um uh and you know phones are expensive um and um yeah I mean that was kind of the most of the feedback that we got um from The Forum about cell phones um really focused on just appreciating that you know hearing from the surveys and just the cell phones are just on the radar right now that the district is looking at supporting teachers through a collective systematic effort with that so um that was kind of I think a lot of it with the cell phones and then we did move on to just sharing a little bit of data about special service our students that have IEPs in their suspensions that they receive and the the really goal that was me just highlighting looking at the data and saying by looking at this school Year's data we will focus on looking at that in more detail in the summer to try to make you know decisions so it was more of a think aloud exercise of going in my head of how do I look at data and I'm like Ryan I love data so I think it helps us and it's great um and um and then Gina presented about the Consolidated District plan um and and from there we just some other Google former got some good feedback we were small But Mighty we you know we're in person this year we did have more attendance uh last year being through Zoom but we did like the fact that we're all together and to kind of just you know there was a lot of great feedback so yeah I'm doing a lot more sure yeah you think next year it might be possible to allow um both to happen yeah someone you could participate through Zoom instead of being there almost have to do two separate ones but yeah it's just so different to plan yeah yeah it's hard to do both I think we need to encourage getting back into them I always say that you know and I know you said this too I mean our parent-teacher advisory whether it's bigger or small over the years the feedback that's coming up has really driven a lot of what we've yeah you know we've added you know social workers the path program you know really started by talking with our parent-teacher advisor group and introducing the concept and and now it's it's happening and now the board is supported you know Patrick and Michelle to be full-time in that role um so we're excited about that so I mean it doesn't matter what the sizes we still get a great feedback so that's and we could discuss how that might look next year sure we're back I just said it just reminded me of room and zoom that's what we used to call it when it was the hybrid Romance it's definitely something to considerable sure any questions thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you no comments no reception visitors okay uh you have my Clicker [Laughter] either you got to give it back or you got to drive but no no so we now need a motion for the closed session for for the purchase or lease of real property for the use of the district including meetings held for the purpose of discussing whether a particular parcel should be acquired student disciplinary cases and the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees specific individuals serve as independent contractors in a park recreational educational setting or specific volunteers of the district or legal counsel for the district including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee a specific individual who serves as an independent contractor in a park recreational or educational setting or volunteer of the district or against legal counsel for the district to determines validity so moved Mike again shirelle thank you very much Mike Davenport aye shirelle Fuller aye Jenny hagstrom aye Terry pavasich aye Joanna Vazquez Drexler aye Christian Espinoza aye and Nancy kupka hi you're going into closed session there will be no motion other than adjourning I would just like to take one last opportunity to thank our student board members thank you very much [Applause] thanks [Laughter]
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foreign alrighty welcome to the May 2nd 2023 regular meeting the annivers Planning Commission for detailed information please look at the agenda that's provided um Mr Leonard or mix Kelly will you call the roll commissioner Gabe Randall president commissioner Abrams here commissioner Soviet here commissioner Mills here commissioner Hammerschmidt here commissioner dish here commissioner Lee here commissioner Clark commissioner white here we have a corpsman thank you we will move on to the approval of the agenda item number three may I have a motion commissioner Lee and commissioner Mills any discussion none all those in favor say aye aye motion passes already minutes of the previous meeting we have uh April 18th from 2023 may I have somebody move that commissioner Mills second in by commissioner weich any discussion of the minutes none okay all those in favor please say aye aye aye okay motion passes alrighty we are on to item five which is reports um from uh Administration City Council planning manager Planning Commission officers we will start with you I couldn't find anything that was really of direct interest to Planning Commission you might be interested to know that we did vote to dissolve the brownfields plan Review Committee okay let's see yeah um staff report uh no report from norport still finalizing your work session agenda for next week so it'll be a surprise okay be waiting with baited breath I'm sure did I see commissioner Abrams for reports yep yeah I just wanted to say that the ordinance revisions committee met last week and discussed revisions to the ordinance surrounding clubs conflicting land use buffers and the commission will be seeing some proposed revisions coming to you in the near future all right any other committee Liaisons or reps no all right uh okay well we will move then on to our opening public comment which is item number six this is an opportunity for persons to speak up to three minutes about an issue that is not listed on the public agenda uh we'll call First on people who are in the room and then we'll move to remote participants to speak during this public hearing remotely press star 9 if using by phone or use the raise hand feature if you enter 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 sell out colors at a razor hand using the last three digits of your phone number or by name of those are accessing 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 area and mute any television or background song so that we may hear you clearly is there anybody that would like to speak who is present not looking like anybody so we will anybody in the queue remotely we do [Music] call her with the phone number ending with five three four you have three minutes to address the Planning Commission hello this is I want to mention a few things I'll begin with my support of the resolution that you received from the righteous Commission in support of an ordinance to that actual gas connection new construction and major Innovations one of the hats that I work with is at a landlord I participated in that capacity on the Green Restaurant we haven't seen the final plan for implementing that in the housing code yet but my small company has begun doing Energy Efficiency in anticipation of that we've been doing things like investing in upgraded electrical samples swapping out gaps water heaters gas water heaters gas dryers and gas stove Etc we installed an EV chart at our office that was offered free of charge to any of our tournaments with the help of our tenants that are in the school or environment sustainability we installed a rainbow and we'll be doing more we intend to do our part we support regulations to hold us to that we hope the city will support regulations for new construction and major Renovations as well the deficit a carbon deficit a new projects that aren't sustainably built but it did make it so it's very difficult for us to fall out of that hole by 2030.
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foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign he's also inspiring Financial Independence for other boys all over the world keep going be a leader not a follower King Monty is the founder and CEO of an inspirational clothing line for kids based in Arizona so the name of your company is called we King bro we Kings bro at just 12 years old he has come up with a way to inspire other boys to get curious about financial Financial Independence for other boys all over the world keep going be a leader not a follower it is 45 founder and CEO of an inspirational clothing line for kids based in Arizona so the name of your company is called weekend bro we Kings bro at just 12 years old he has come up with a way to inspire other boys to get curious about financial Financial Independence for other boys all over thank you Jonah from foreign thank you you and would always appreciate feedback to see if there's anything more that you want but miss dumelian's tried to kind of capture some of the variances that would be things we would look at and go huh why did this happen so that way you know we can kind of give you the benefits of perspective as um as you're looking so with that I'm going to turn it over to miss Duma thank you uh Madam president members of the board Dr Lewis and our accept team this is our final budget for fiscal year 23 ending June 30th um we just remind you of some budget assumptions that we made for this final revision it is based off of an April report which in effect is March data as far as ADM average daily membership um and then our carry forward as we talked about even at our December Vision there is a higher amount of carry forward in this budget than even we want to carry but it's a large amount of vacancy savings um is really and then some of the stuff that we have in Esser has also provided us with more carry forward and then I do have S your impact there this this budget does reflect us bringing back some costs that I'll talk about later um as of January originally we were going to try to wait until July 1st but I'll explain why we brought some things back a little bit earlier um the next one just shows it's on the cover of the budget as well um for you to see but the next page really goes into some of those uh comparisons so what I've done is compared it from our first legal budget that was adopted on July 1st I believe typically at the end of June but this one was July 1st where we're at now and for those of you who have seen a few of these presentations you typically see us come in with a projected budget and then they say cut your budget in December and then by the time we get back to our May revision we're pretty close to where we started off that's what you can see here we did pick up some m o and some unrestricted capital budget capacity there and our average teacher salary did increase we started with that three percent because that's the raise that we gave to our teachers for this fiscal year that longevity that also came through the meet and confer process last year really impacted teacher pay as well so you can see the difference there that it made it went from three percent to seven percent in the May revision it is actual numbers so we kind of estimate at the beginning of the year and even in December because we're still hiring people and people are leaving the May is current data and and an average is applied so that's where we sit on that one and then as Mr Mann uh mentioned I picked out a few of the very big variances that you see in the budget um the first two I kind of put together because a lot of it is the same for both of these departments and that's physical plant and transportation um you will see on on page one of the mno budget you'll see an FTE increase so we've been able to hire more people in those positions so you can see that as an FTE change the other thing that we did was also coming out of that meet and confer process last year all the custodians went from 11.5 contracts to a 12 point contract 12-month contract and then for our bus drivers we earmarked 10 positions that could move from a 10-month contract to a 12-month contract to cover some of those special Transportation situations in the summer we still have some sped Transportation that's done in the summer for like Aces and some of our private um private us um placements thank you and then we also have for summer school and now we have these drivers on on for 12 months to help with some of that um those were pretty much expected we also have the you know longevity and professional growth also was a big impact for our classified staff so those being two of our larger departments they were impacted like the teachers were with that longevity increase um and then the one percent raise um the other thing I wanted to mention and this is specific to our Plant Services is that if you'll recall esser-1 that was really hyper focused on a couple areas not like the sr2 and 3r now where it's a little bit wider and you have a little bit more to choose from that was really focused on PPE supplies but also custodial sanitation so when we had that Grant we bought a lot in bulk so that we could get the best price and we could get it in quickly and make sure that during all of that demand for product we had it in stock we used a lot of that that all through last year so we didn't have to make a lot of those purchases out of mno we had it all in Esser so last year was kind of deflated this year we're kind of seeing it back up to normal but it's even above normal because of the cost of goods and services they're running very high right now um the student support area again impacted slightly by that one percent raise but heavily by that longevity and the professional growth change that also came out of the meet and confer um from last year and those negotiations but there's also an increase in FTD and so the increase in FTD and regular Ed are things like your duty AIDS any AIDs that help that are in a non-instructional role and also like Ed sex those are all in that 21 range so that's where that increase came from and then School administration this is one of the areas where we brought back assistant principles we originally put those in Esser when we were trying to get the compensation study we were trying to free up funds in mno to pay for that we were intending to bring those back July 1 but in order to free a budget capacity in Esser for the stipends that will be going out this year and next year we move them back as of January 1.
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foreign is that you on the phone how are you fine sir thank you welcome thank you yes it is foreign [Applause] good evening it is Tuesday May 2nd 2023 and we are here for a work study and brief board business meeting thank you for being here we appreciate it I'm calling this meeting to order and we'll go directly to our presentation and discussion topics for this evening beginning with 2.01 Master Capital planning update district-wide facility assessment presentation Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board members and our featured guest for this evening Mr Thompson can you hear me yes I can all right Welcome to our meeting um tonight we'll thank you we have three presentations uh the first one is on Master Capital planning and of course this is a biggie in terms of the district-wide facility assessment this kind of lets everybody know what they saw and what they observed and what it means for Gilbert Public Schools not just now but in the next 30 Years so I'll turn it over to miss betz and you can introduce your guests so good evening governing board members Dr McCord president wood so first I wanted to introduce our guests at the table so first I have to my right Mr Tim detlaf it's one of the principals of ameresco and to his right is Mr Mitch Boatman right vote minister and then also here is servanan Bala with Orcutt Winslow and he's um beside behind us to provide additional support if needed uh this is a follow-up to a presentation we made with you at the time it was Graham Maxwell that was on the phone we did a WebEx that presented the pilot results to you um but this is this tonight's presentation represents the completion of all of our facilities to include district office facilities and with that I'm going to hand it over to our partners from ameresco awesome thank you very much get into it here yeah you get to drive tonight Mitch and so here we go so before we get into the approach we wanted to take a step just make sure you're speaking to them make sure we capture it for the livestock I got you thank you thank you so before we get into the approach we wanted to take a step back and discuss some Asset Management best practices and how how it aligns with our scope of work so the first Asset Management best practice is to understand your Capital renewal needs in both these short and long-term perspective the second one we have listed here is to establish standards across the portfolio to align with your organization's mission and then three is to develop a prioritized Capital Improvement plan that identifies an adequate amount of funding to maintain your portfolio and the best part of our scope of work is that it was designed intentionally to match those best practices we have developed life cycle cost profiles for each one of your facilities across the portfolio we have Quantified the short-term and long-term renewal needs we have also ranked or prioritized those needs based on risk both current risks and potential risks and we also produced a handful of reports that will help you evaluate some key metrics and make some informed decisions on the portfolio and getting into the approach we wanted to start with some key Concepts So within asset planner there are three main levels those are assets elements and actions assets you can think of as buildings they have a particular function size square footage Etc and then there are elements elements are the different systems that make up a facility so in this room there is flooring elements stealing elements lighting elements Etc and then there are actions actions are are the work that each element requires whether that be a repair replacement install upgrade and the most critical part of all three of these is that they're aligned so they tell a consistent story if you have an old building it's in disrepair the systems that make up that facility and the work that that facility requires should reflect that it's in rough shape and let me pass it off to my colleague Tim to discuss our data development approach so we recognize that you already have and had data and one of the things is that most organizations we deal with that data sitting in disparate buckets and what we're trying to do here is come up with a consistent and standardized approach to harvesting that data number one but also then reporting back that data so that you can make management decisions as to where my next investment needs to go so one of the things we do in the blue boxes is we look at the age the size the number of floors and the type of use of the facility so it's an elementary school or high school or whatever it might be uh we use that basic data to then pre-populate a database and we use asset planner which is the the software tool that we use for that purpose and it does three things it identifies like Mitch said all the building elements that make up that that particular school so from roof to foundation and everything in between mechanical electrical architectural structural it identifies all those building elements we then attach a cost to each one of those elements and then the third piece and probably the most important piece is how long are those systems going to last based on when I installed them how I'm maintaining them Etc but we also want to make sure we have a clear distinction between what we call practical life versus theoretical life because there are all kinds of theoretical standards out there that say you know a chiller should last this long an air handler should last this longer carpeting should last this long it comes down to many factors which is some of it could be use some of it could be will even joke sometimes and say it's use and abuse but sometimes it is just I don't have enough money to maintain these things so my life cycle becomes less so we track all of these practical life cycles for every single building element in your entire portfolio so building by building and then school by School site by site Etc campus by campus once that's done that creates a baseline The Next Step then is to really start bringing in existing data so do you have data and you do and your team has provided that kind of data to us we bring that in we look at what how you're maintaining this stuff because that affects life cycles we look at existing data that you've already amassed over over time and then we'll we'll do some staff interviews we'll make sure we really understand what's going on physical instruction at that point the database is now getting smarter and more informed and then at that point we go to the street and we physically put boots on the ground we walk the sights look at all the elements that are in this profile to now confirm based on visual inspection and condition and that ultimately then creates a a significant database for every single school every site every building in your portfolio and that then helps you figure out well what's my next move with respect to funding appropriation turn it back to Michigan oh and I should say one of the things you'll see is that inside the database is just a plethora of data all the building elements all the the materials condition assessment reports pictures prioritization all of that stuff is sitting in this database and that's what this this particular life cycle template is designed to show thank you so for our facility condition assessment process as Tim laid out before anybody ever gets to site before any audits are assigned our team of assessors are starting starting with a bunch of data already so when an audit is assigned and then downloaded to their mobile device they're not walking into your schools with a metaphorical blank piece of paper they're there to validate and update the information that's in there already to perform that validation and update they're they're focusing on Gathering four main points of data the type age functionality and condition of each building system and the reason they're they're Gathering data on those four main points is because those are the main determinants of remaining useful life so if you have a roof it's brand new it's functioning exactly as it should it has its entire theoretical life cycle remaining vice versa if you have an older roof it has holes functionally poor leaks there's not much life remaining in that roof once all of those data points are gathered for the entire portfolio our assessors will then upload that data directly into asset planner and the photo that you can see on the screen is really a tracked changes of these templates so what it shows is the areas in white are fields that were 100 accurate and did not need to get updated while they're on site the areas in blue are fields that would have been updated or modified from the original template the areas in green show stuff that was not a part of the original template and was added while it was on site and then vice versa the red Fields show stuff that was a part of the original template and removed so we went through every single facility from the foundation to the roof and in between to perform this validation and updating of these templates let me pass it off to Tim to quickly discuss our pilot all right I have a question just one question on this so you've done this and we have a complete up-to-date analysis right now is this something that we can keep up to date on our own or is this something where every five years or every 10 years you need to come back and redo this process yeah we we prefer not to go down the updated every five-year path the idea is you're spending significant amount of energy and effort to create this data and the nice part is that you now can your staff now can actually go ahead and update this this stuff inside asset planner okay that's good to know thank you it's much more efficient that way and so we just keep on top of it we can always have a current um assessment correct it's a living breathing Capital plan versus you know static Excel spreadsheets okay all right thank you moment we're having technical difficulties excuse me we'll take this quick commercial breaking that's okay are there any other questions yeah I did I did have one other question just because I think um I hadn't thought of this earlier but we're going through this um this is you know maintenance this is routine what about something catastrophic I just I this came to mind because I did hear um the nsba present speak he was one of he's from California and he was his school district was one of those districts that had a fire and you know several schools separate poems some board members had their homes burned and so he was discussing um the challenges of rebuilding after such a catastrophic event um is there anything that we need to be thinking about as far as that goes when we're looking at this well we'll hope and pray that does not happen number one yes but uh the information that is stored now in in asset planner will actually help you figure out what your next Investments need to be for example if a school was burnt completely uh hopefully we're avoiding that because we're identifying hey you need to fix this fire alarm system or you need to fix these certain things so trying to catch those things but something like a forest fire that's a little bit of a different issue and uh we we know what the what it will cost to replace and rebuild the school in its entirety because we have those costs in here so at least you have that but uh we don't have a way to prevent no no I just it's just um I just wanted to understand better so thank you okay Mr Thompson did you have any questions while we're waiting for a second uh no questions really I would think that in a catastrophic event like that we'd have insurance for things to replace or uh six things that are damaged in something like that is that right that would be correct we we have coverage for something like that of course the full replacement value would be um probably much different than the actual value but um yeah we would get some money back I mean the point that this person made was that because of the catastrophic situation and the fact that many people had damage that prices were much higher than they had anticipated and that was part of the challenge that the insurance they probably needed more insurance money but you know gentlemen in your experience because I'm sure you've looked at thousands of schools and in school districts and hopefully I'm not putting the cart before the horse but just what do you see as just common issues as it relates to the infrastructure on campuses throughout schools and in Arizona per se yeah I mean that's a big question and there's a lot of answers sure um I think the that's true the one thing we do see is that uh school districts typically will go ahead and fix things that are visible uh so the exterior the Interiors walls finishes mill work things like that washroom Renovations upgrades which are all necessary and wonderful to do and what typically gets missed is everything that's behind the walls so what we refer to as MEP mechanical electrical Plumbing and those end up being and becoming the larger ticket items over time especially as you you build something and and uh your your overall portfolio right now is about 32 years old on average right which isn't bad it's just it is what it is and stuff ages and what happens is all those mechanical systems they start to come do they have a longer life cycle than maybe flooring or something like that so you're already replacing lighting you're doing all of these sort of things things that you can see but it's all the mechanical systems that start to catch up and that's that's usually the stuff that surprises everybody in in Gilbert we had we were building a lot of schools you know sometimes what two or three at least one a year but sometimes two or three in certain areas and all of those things are coming due in a lot of different ways so thanks for the commercial break we appreciate it you're welcome it's always my security I just gonna have to fix that so there's a couple slides here that you have seen before so when we did the pilots we looked at uh Campo Verde Oak Tree South Valley those are three sites we looked at September and December time frame uh so at the end of last year and there were a whole bunch of insights found from that uh particular assessment to start and you may recall seeing something like this which had about a nine and a half million dollar backlog of things to do so mechanical electrical architectural structural interior finishes things like that all these different colors and bars represent different systems and you can see that in this particular example of the three sites combined on one slide each bill each site by the way has its own picture this happens to be a the roll-up of those three the pilot and and you can see that over time over the next 30 Years different Building Systems will age and different amounts of money need to be spent to maintain and preserve the these facilities so that was the pilot that was back in the day not that long ago then we moved into a a uh the district-wide portfolio Mitch you want to talk about that for just a second yeah certainly um so regarding some portfolio statistics district-wide the first thing I wanted to point out is is something that I'm sure you all know and that's you have a big portfolio it's about 4.8 million square feet it is made up of around 250 buildings and if they were all torn down today and you were tasked with rebuilding them it would cost you about 1.8 billion dollars to rebuild them like for like can you define building so for the people that are watching online think that we might have 250 schools yeah yeah so building is their typical the horizontal infrastructure so camper Verde I believe that was made up of five different buildings um I believe there's a yeah science wing and each one of those was their own individual asset owned mechanical systems um all that thank you yeah of course and the one thing that we can say with confidence about uh facilities is that there's a tremendous amount of predictability when it comes to buildings and that is because the majority of them are designed with the 50-year life in mind and historically about 35 percent of a facility's value comes due in the first half of its life in the first 25 years typically a bunch of items but smaller ticket items so flooring finishes wall finishes lighting equipment water heaters stuff like that leaves about 65 percent of a facility's worth that will come due in the last half of its life in years 26 through 50.
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I'd like to wish the target planner Jessica Hahn all the best I did notice something in the news article about his retirement that he helped develop a plan for lowercase that called for a mixed juice or the village and it says a vision now realizes well the first half is correct I participated in that conference plan process about 20 years ago and I'd like to compliment Jeff and other staff who did an excellent job and we got a very good comprehensive plan is developing two-thirds developed and one-thirds trying to do later unfortunately the Morningside plans apply with the comprehensive planner that Jessica Hahn did such a good job we didn't get an excuse Urban Village as the article continued we got a token less than one percent in the words of Staff reviewing the Morningside project quote the development is expensive 30 more seconds a single use residential with an accessory retail space end quote now we'll be talking about that later but I do want to mention uh some of the other puds that have been brought in with affordable housing benefits you and we know that the puds are indeed file with the number that Kenyan have come in and provided both affordable housing excuse at the time of the Lower Town application it was said that easy same thing your time is up Mr stahlberg I'd just like to provide that thank you anybody else in the queue no other hands raised okay we will move on to item number seven which are public hearings for the next meeting on May 16th we have two new public hearings scheduled for the May 16th meeting I would note that that um or I know that it's May 16th uh one is um uh the city of Ann Arbor petition the state of Michigan to approve the annexation of a number of Township Island Parcels in Ann Arbor Township the state of Michigan Licensing Regulatory Affairs Department recently improved the annexation of 11 Parcels 2775 Newport 2737 Newport 2466 Newport 2318 Newport 2354 Newport 2108 Newport 1375 bird 1429 bird 2114 Victoria Circle 2118 Victoria Circle and two one two six Victoria Circle the city of Ann Arbor is now initiating the rezoning of these Parcels to r1a single family detached zoning District the second public hearing is for South Town rezoning site plan and Street vacation at 1601 South State Street this is a project with three petitions to develop the blocks surrounded by South State White Street Henry Street and Stimson Street a petition to rezone a block of 10 Parcels from r4c to c1ar with conditions with an offer to reduce the maximum height limit to 100 feet set a maximum vehicle parking limit of 0.25 spaces per dwelling unit and set minimum active open space requirement of 50 square feet per dwelling unit second a site plan for city council approval to construct a two hundred and twenty thousand square foot mixed-use building with ground for retail office and child care space and approximately 215 apartments and third a petition to vacate the public alley in the block site the site includes addresses 1601 South State 1605 South State 1607 South State 1609 South State 1611 South State 1606 white 1608 white 1610 white 16 12 weight and 714 Henry the site is 1.7 Acres currently zoned r4c okay thank you for that plethora of addresses that we got with both of them I'm sure we will all remember that for next time so we are on to item number 8A which is 999 Maiden Lane site plan and rezoning for city council approval this is a project including a rezoning petition to amend the conditions of the C1 AR campus business residential with condition zoning designation by removing the condition that the property shall only be developed as the 1140 Broadway plan project site plan as may be administratively amended because two of the three approved buildings have been constructed and a site plan application to construct a hundred and eighty thousand two hundred twenty two hundred square foot seven story residential building on the parcel B of The Beekman on Broadway development replacing the previously approved building with similar dimensions in this location zoning district and development site site are 6.4 Acres Building B site is 1.4 acres addresses include 1100-1200 Broadway Street with 999 Maiden Lane okay we get to have a petitioner presentation for up to 10 minutes so you all can step up to the microphone and I'm assuming you all have worked out the digital presentation well good evening I'm Ron much I'm a principal with Morningside group and I'm joined tonight by my partner David Strasbourg seated to my right he's the president of Morningside also via Zoom we have the rest of our Consulting team we have our zoning attorney Bob Carson from the Carson Fisher law firm we have our civil engineering and entitlement consultant Tom covert with Midwestern Consulting we have our transportation engineer Julie Kroll with fleece and vandenbrink and we have our project architect Adam Toma with hcam Architects and we would be pleased to answer your questions this evening thank you thank you okay give me one second not completely prepared um before you this evening are two are actually two petitions let me make sure loud enough um before you are actually two petitions um one is uh 1140 Broadway rezoning it's considered a rezoning even though the designation on the map will remain c1ar with conditions more in a second and there is a site plan um project name 999 Maiden Lane a site is located on the north side of Maiden Lane between Broadway Street and Nielsen Court there's a location map in the staff report for the zoning a tiny bit of background the site is 6.4 Acres um as mentioned and in 2017 it was zoned c1a r with conditions there are three conditions um one um there we go here's the good there are three conditions that have been offered accepted and are now in place one is at the height of any part of a building or structure on the property is a maximum of seven stories and 91 feet which is further restricted in the area most close to Trevor Creek Four stories and a maximum height of 60 feet second condition is the maximum height limitations in more specificity about that they include architectural features such as the parapet walls but exclude structure certain other structures there is a cap on that the excluded structures still do not extend more than 20 feet and there is currently a condition that the property shall only be developed as the 1140 Broadway planned project site plan as approved by Ann Arbor City Council on December 4th 2006 December 4th 2017 as well as any administrative amendments to the site plan that phrase administrative amendments is the key for this evening the applicant is um it's considered a like I said it must be processed as a rezoning but the request is ultimately to strike the third condition to take it can be explained as to rezone from c1a slash r with three conditions to c1a slasher with two conditions um the first two would remain the height restrictions and the specificity about what's included in the height restriction but the requirement that the property shall only be developed as the original 1140 Broadway planned project site plan with any administrative amendments be struck what is proposed for development than the site plan petition um the the 1140 Broadway zoning district has been developed it has three components to it it has a building a which is a multi-family apartment building which surrounds like a donut a parking structure it also has a second apartment building in the C position and then it currently has a vacant site which had an approved apartment building um that was constructed with a square base and then an L-shaped building on top of that square base square base of parking the proposed development is specific to that building C it would not be a building with a square base and an L-shaped building on top of it but it would be an entirely C or u-shaped building the development would have no parking of its own on its little site but it is part of the larger development which has access to a 400 some space parking structure um notable features of that site plan are that it is set back a minimum uh the proposed building is set back a minimum of 14 feet from Maiden Lane and 17 feet from Nielsen Court the internal streets which are considered uh which are private streets they're actually not meeting the definition of a street but for discussion purposes let's call them a street they have been named Gordon Lane and Charlotte Lane um the proposed building is set back 14 feet from those uh 14 feet from one 20 feet from the other standard five foot wide sidewalks are located on in the public side on Maiden Lane and Nielsen Court as well as on the private side adjacent to Gordon and Charlotte Lanes there's a class a bicycle parking storage area inside the building one for each unit and a few additional ones are provided outside um for just this Building B Spot there will be 15 new sparking spaces installed same as originally planned they are parallel or perpendicular to the private streets and this makes for a total of 30 spaces exterior surface spaces and I was wrong I said 400 it's 579 parking spaces in the structure there'll be two EV Chargers installed with these new spaces exterior adjacent to building um adjacent to Building B we have reviewed the site plan for the standard standard development standards review and it meets all of the applicable development standards um including the proposed conditional zoning statement of Second Amendment conditions if accepted um there are at the time the staff report was written there were a few comments or outstanding issues from staff there was a comment provided by our sustainability office a comment provided by The Parks and Recreation Department regarding the parks contribution requested increase to match the proposed number of dwelling units the applicant has agreed and there is at a restatement of the development agreement attached that will be forwarded to city council to reflect that um the transportation department unit had not completed their review at the time the staff report was written verbal discussions indicated that the issue was related to the um validation of the traffic impact analysis I know that the applicant has provided um a letter just today I was not able to check in with our transportation staff but this project the Planning Commission is a recommending body for this this project will still move on to city council and depending on the outcome there is time to verify that and schedule and keep following the process there um regarding the site plan nope I didn't mean that regarding the rezoning um our staff analysis or staff opinion is that um the the site is mostly developed and so the purpose of this condition has largely been satisfied the condition to match the site match the development with the um site plan and there does not seem to be a compelling reason to to continue that condition particularly the um proposed site plan the style is in is in keeping the all the architectural elements are in keeping but the change did exceed the administration what could be approved with an administrative Amendment which is now called the site plan for Planning Commission I'm sorry planning manager approval um and we think that the unified development cone standards for any development in the c1a slash R District um should apply without any further modification or um um or condition we are recommending conditional approval as a whole of the rezoning and the site plan subject to verifying those outstanding staff comments and I'm happy to answer any additional questions and I know the applicant and his team is also here as well um so we often hear from the developer first and then from you but I presume that was kind of your analysis that we're not going to hear anything else from you in terms of your report okay so we still have yet to hear from the developer then or no that was the extent of their presentation that they wanted to provide they're available for any questions okay I get it okay alrighty okay so we then will move on to the public hearing this is an opportunity for a person to speak up to three minutes about the 999 Maiden Lane site plan and rezoning for city council approval we'll first call on participants who are here and then remotely to speak during public hearing press star nine if listening by phone or use the raise the hand feature 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'll raise their hand using the last three digits of your phone number or by name you'll hear an automated announcement the host is allowing you to speak for either method please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments is there anybody present who would like to speak at this time come on up to the front just state your name and address and you have three minutes good evening my name is Dawn mccleskey I live at 1306 Pontiac Trail at the corner of Kellogg um I walked here I grew up in Ann Arbor on the west side and I lived away for half a lifetime I moved back in 2020 after about 20 years away I've lived in San Francisco Washington DC and a very large city in Russia that nobody has heard of um so I can see coming back that the area around Ann Arbor has fallen into significant sprawl and I also perhaps too generously interpret the downtown the current Downtown Development as of response to that to try to um limit the footprint of of ourselves on the earth bring people in make it more pedestrian and non-motor dependent pedestrian friendly non-motor dependent and I I see those goals as deeply Ann Arbor and I appreciate that um what I see in the actual development as it's unfolding however is an entrenching of suburban social isolation there is not enough opportunity for people to congregate and without the Shops and and mixed use that the original plan of this development promised what we're seeing is basically a place where people will only be able to go and be alone in their Apartments the people on the first floor with a 14-foot setback that's less than this they will never be able to open their windows or their curtains in their Apartments I was trying to walk up Swift the other day yesterday actually made full eye contact with somebody who's just doing um homework on his floor and trying to hang out with his cat and he was really startled by the closeness of my presence the little warehousey things at the point of more and Swift so I strongly encourage you to not approve the residential only aspect of this plan social is dystopia in the making it is built you might as well build a warehouse to store people in because they will only be enclosed in their homes um people need shops we the residents of the neighborhood we need shops we need cafes we need sidewalks that invite us to come out and congregate in places where we can be together okay after the pandemic we are definitely knowing that being together is important and especially with the with working from home I work from home I would love for there to be places for me to go without my car which we only have one of because we believe in not cars so please don't approve this it's a bad idea thank you is there anybody else present that would like to speak come on up hi my name is Steve Kaplan I live at 406 North Division um and um I have so some I pay attention to development in the area I pay attention to I've been involved in some development in the area the idea of what we want from development and what it should what should be included in that development to get what we want it is an ongoing discussion with every single one of them and I think everything I just heard from the person before me I couldn't agree more with I think that you know we're we're struggling with a need for density in this town and getting room for people to be closer together and able to walk to the places where they're employed so that they don't use cars and I think we're doing a good job and I think this this particular development does an excellent job of that um but I also think that some of the other goals that we have are facilitated by these developments even if they don't integrate these things and what I mean by that is retail and community space don't necessarily have to be in a building for that building to help facilitate them you have to have a certain amount of critical mass of density to be able to support the store or the restaurant or the shop or the Gathering space they don't they don't sustain themselves otherwise I've seen too many of these where we want to have this empty space in the building because we're you know we we envision what's going to go there but we aren't the ones that are going to open that shop we aren't the ones that are going to pay the rent on that and if we don't have enough people that'll go actually sit in that place and buy the coffee or buy the croissant or do whatever they don't they don't sustain themselves especially now when there's a dramatic shift in what we're demanding from retail and office in Ann Arbor where that's in dramatic flux it is a it's an it's an unfathomable risk to ask a new developer to say hey just speculate on this empty space even though there's a bunch of It kind of morphing everywhere in town right now um what this building will do these buildings will do even without a big space to congregate is bring the people that will support anything that comes next here and this part of town as well as other parts of town they are iteratively developing and this is the perfect first step to get the next things that we need because now those people are there to actually support these other things that we want that I want as well thanks thank you come on up to the front take this off so you can hear me better do I have to do something with this for short people um you can probably push it there you go great I know there is little we can do to stop this thing please identify yourself yes I'm sorry I'm Laura Stroh I live at 1327 Broadway thank you um I know there is little we can do to stop this third building from being built have you seen the first two buildings they are ugly with cheap looking panels they are way too large for the neighborhood moreover they have resulted in many losses to the neighborhood we now have a wind tunnel on Broadway and the third building will probably exacerbate the wind tunnel on Maiden Lane that was caused by the erection of the second building instead of enjoying the Sun as we walk there we are in Shadow for a good part of the day the view of the Broadway Hill is compromised as you travel from downtown we no longer have a view of the river valley and The Greenery in the skyline on the other side of the river because of this building these buildings that have already been built not to mention the loss of seeing the sky is this all petty no these are human desires to see this guy and the landscape and feel the Sun this project has created an aesthetic desert in our neighborhood it is a shame that our City's master plan doesn't prevent this kind of development the humorous thing is that the city allows such things to be built and then asks us to be enthusiastic about public art as if that can compensate us for the blight of huge unattractive developments except this project might urge you to include more amenities before giving the final building your approval they will ask for more so-called affordable housing for example and you might be willing to try to push the developer on this issue however the Damage Done to the City by this development cannot be ameliorated by a trifling number of apartments that must be rented to people who earn less than 60 percent of the median income those aren't even poor people likewise the environmentalists cannot be appeased by laughable concessions as Morningside has made like heating the tiny swimming pool with solar panels neighborhood activists want more retail and with several hundred more residents in these two phase in these last two phases we surely could use it the developer will boast at an Asian grocery store will be opening in the second building and of course we are really happy about that but his refusal to include retail in the third building is just Unforgivable so how do we justify approving projects such as these they are ugly they impact negatively on our lives they adversely affect the environment and they and they don't adequately address our concerns we are told that we need more housing to expand the population to support our infrastructure I've read my marks so I know that capitalism requires constant expansion of the economy we want and deserve more than we are getting in this drive to keep growing we need to figure out how to have a city with a healthy economy and decent housing for all without ruining its livability in the process what a boon it would be if you would make a stand for livability and not approve this final building in the Morningside project thank you thank you is there anybody else present who would like to speak you can just come on up thank you Mary Mary Underwood from 1219 Traver and could I ask that that the members who speak in microphones I'm sorry but I didn't hear much of was what was discussed as as about the project when when you spoke um earlier I'd like to agree wholeheartedly with Don and with what uh Lori just Laura just said um I I I don't know if I'm more alarmed at the what the developer is trying to do or what the city is trying to do if you really are trying to meet the sustainable goals you can't do one thing for a developer and then do another for another one you can't be led by developers you have to do the leading yourself and tell the developers what we want for this town the priority is we decide what we want not let the developers run with the lead for this and that's really all I'd like to say and remind you of thank you thank you was there one one more yeah sure Andrew stroe 1327 Broadway I'll keep this very short I hope you're planning and not merely approving developments in the city on a piecemeal basis larger issues should affect your thinking and decisions for example you might require that this building involve mixed use or you might require that the building be all electric you have to start sometime if you're going to achieve carbon neutrality you can't keep putting it off that the developer made a bad choice by putting in some of the infrastructure for gas should be irrelevant here well perhaps you could address affordable housing in this building is affordable housing just housing that's affordable to someone require that some units be set aside for truly affordable housing and make certain that those affordable housing units are filled thank you anybody else present yeah thank you chair good Randall my name is Ken Garber I live at 28 Haverhill Court um yeah I agree with Miss Underwood about the need for consistency and holding developers to standards when it comes to environmental impact I want to speak this is the sustainability features of this project they fall way short you know that um Mr Leo alluded to osi's latest memo they're recommending that the building's use of gas be minimized to back up in critical systems only if this 180 000 square foot building uses gas heat throughout I calculate that it will generate an annual 1 238 metric ton CO2 equivalent emissions just from gas combustion this would be partially offset by reduced commuter emissions of 349 metric tons four net annual emissions of 889 metric ton CO2 equivalent from natural gas combustion I've in past meetings I've detailed how I arrive at these calculations um to me that three years into the a20 plan this is unacceptable um I would think a vrf system variant refrigerant flow would be ideal vrf sends varied volumes for refrigerant from a central air source air source heat pump to evaporators that control different spaces in the building meaning the heating needs of each space individually they're now routine in buildings of this size including in areas in similar climates or even colder also it's not clear to me how much solar the project will will include I remember that as of January the petitioner wasn't intending to install any I think it sounds like based on the staff report they had changed to some extent I just don't know how much Switching gears I have a technical question about the affordable housing I've read that the petitioner will be adding six arguably affordable units a 60 Ami to the 15 already agreed on for the the whole project three buildings for a total of 21 units County Brownfield coordinator Nathan vote also cited the 21 number recently the 15 original units were folded into the Brownfield plan my question is where are the funds for the six new units coming from the existing Brownfield plan allocates 2.5 million for this um medc guidelines by the way didn't allow for Brownfield funds to be used for this purpose of the final plan switched the 2.5 million to the parking structure which medc does allow um but I'm still left wondering where where is the public money if any for the six additional housing units coming from but that's a small point it's mainly the big issue for me is again that the building go with electric HVAC and avoid gas as much as possible um Mr Leo mentioned conditions on approval I couldn't tell whether she is including the OSI recommendations in that condition I hope I hope that is actually one of them thank you thank you to anybody else present who would like to speak do we have anybody in the queue virtually thank you Tom stalbert yeah three minutes to address the Planning Commission hello again in Ann Arbor this application does not apply with the comprehensive plan nor with current planning and conditions a different as far as sustainability I find morningside's response to the staff recommendations unsatisfactory and frankly insulting I think Ken Garber did a great job so I'll skip it to parking this parking is no longer required for any project in the city of Ann Arbor sustainable if that option hasn't been supersede warning sign would have had to provide those community community benefits in exchange for eliminating parking now that UDC changed it's crazy it's part of a positive changes that came out of the lawsuit Power by The Neighborhood against the city over this development I continue with the plant project part of the UDC that was not an applied how many affordable housing units could we have had we not superseded that UDC change that lasted the comprehensive plan calls from the excuse Urban Village the previous approval and the current revised application those are 100 residents that's this application does not apply with the comprehensive mixed use development especially at the locations such as this are part of our City's current and initiated in my opinion that should be adhered to at this location the choice was only Justified because of that zone capability but there were zero new excuses and only a half percent has Allah possible well you can't pencil out there's [Music] they should include excuses thank you we have other people in the queue we do Daniel Adams you have three minutes to address the Planning Commission hey good evening um Daniel Adams 1016 Daniel Street um I think that you know the math here is really 200 Apartments versus 80 condos that's what I understand um to be at stake here with the resilient request relative to the changes that are being proposed to the originally approved plan that's Matt and that's the strongest argument in my view to approve this project um we have a housing crisis and I don't think we can afford to turn down that kind of um density proposition given the current situation that we're in um I think a lot of folks who have spoken tonight um I understand why my argument doesn't resonate um many of these folks um you know bought their homes decades ago um the local Landmark just spoke um he acquired a lot of his rental properties decades ago um to them the considerations that they spoke of sunlight when um you know I get all that I understand aesthetically why that's troubling to see some of the changes that have happened um you know to me I bought my house in 2012.
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um we do have some significant costs remaining at Esser that will come back um to the mno budget in July 1 when we present the New Year budget um the highest one on that list for me is probably substitute teachers so we've been doing daily subs and the FMLA long-term Subs all out of Esser right now those will be coming back to mno I usually budget about 800 000 for that so that kind of gives you a ballpark figure of what's coming back in mno next year when we start um and I think that's all I had for that one and then we always just include some future budget considerations and many of these you've seen it's the ongoing concern with ADM the inflation funding versus the actual cost of goods if you'll recall our funding formulas are based on a two percent inflation cap and you can all see that the cost of goods and services is rising much higher than two percent but unfortunately that's just the nature of school Finance we've got the one-time nature of Esther I've already talked about some of those costs that are going to be shifting back in the fiscal 25 and I believe we have a committee that's formed or will be forming to look at kind of weaning ourselves off of Esser and where can these positions fit which ones do we want to keep so there's a lot of decisions that need to be made around that so we'll have a committee that kind of looks at those and works with the Grants Department and um Mr Mann and I um to see where we can fit some those costs are what trade-offs we need to make and then of course we have no permanent solution for that aggregate spending limit so that's going to hang out until they have a an actual fix in place they're going to hang that over our head each year until there's something permanent in place and that's really what we had prepared for you but we are ready to answer any other questions that you had as you reviewed the documents that we sent out thank you I appreciate your time board members do we have any questions or comments Miss Jeffrey um can anyone tell me what our current enrollment is yeah let me see um well I can ADM we have probably a better idea yeah usually enrollment is like in the 15 to 20 higher than ABM okay just because of the nature of the way that ABM works but um on the budget sheet what you can see is it's showing uh 2023 is 47.94 um I don't have the 100th day report in front of me but my guess is it's probably closer to that 5 000 Mark in in enrollment even though the funding is marked based on that other number because of the way that the the way that they calculate that EDM number thank you 47.94 47 is the current 80 .
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and one thing we found very interesting about the chart that's on the screen and I know it's small so what it shows is the amount of square footage that was constructed in each decade and that bar in the middle there in orange represents the 1980s Gilbert constructed about 930 000 square feet of area building area in the 1980s and to miss Sheila's point in the 1990s and 2000 about 75 of your portfolio was constructed and although that may not seem like it was too long ago the average age is 32 years so Circa 1991.
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I've lived here um my entire life in the area um and I remember what this what this area of lower Town looked like in particular this Parson looked like before the beacon project began um this has been a tremendous success for this area it was it was a dead zone um the reason why retail couldn't survive was that you know it just was not a vibrant thriving uh neighborhood in terms of the amount of density and the people living I understand that the neighboring Africa sort of demanding retail but um you know they were either insufficiently enthusiastic about it when it existed uh decades ago or they were they were insufficient and numbered to sustain and the way to reverse that in the way that the way to create the demand um to call um you know retail back into this this area of this community and sustain it is to take um take the proposition that's staring that's in front of you tonight to honor an apartment versus 85 minutes um that's the map please approve this thank you no other hands raised Okay so emotions which I will read together the anniversary Planning Commission hereby recommends that the Marin city council approved the rezoning of 1140 Broadway by accepting the offer to amend the conditional zoning statement of amended conditions to the room to remove tying development into the district to the 1140 Broadway plan project site plan and subsequent administrative amendments and accept the conditional zoning statement of second amended conditions the second motion is the Ann Arbor City Planning Commission hereby recommends that the Marin city council approved the 999 Maiden late site plan subject to addressing outstanding comments from engineering and transportation and First Amendment to 1140 Broadway development agreement okay we have moved by commissioner dish talking to by commissioner weich we are in discussion anybody want to kick us off so maybe maybe I'll start with the kind of retail concerns and I am excited uh with the contract that's been approved for comprehensive planning and specifically Nina gret Partners is part of that comprehensive team that even during the interview process was able to pull up metrics for our area for our city looking I think tc1 is kind of a very kind of vibrant discussion right now about the ratios of retail to housing um I can't I'm not the professional in this exact category but really some of the early feedback that we got prior to them really digging in is that not everything can have retail the critical mass is not there for every project to have retail and we've seen that with the George as well and so it really is kind of right sizing all of our projects relative to the amount of beds adjacent and sometimes it's the cart and the horse and really we need to see more housing before we see that critical mass of retail to follow um kind of I'm excited to see like there are other things coming in right like Lower Town bars coming to the corner uh which has also had to go through the zba we're right at the you know Crossroads of that process of removing parking minimums and it really they needed to request to have zero parking to make that project feasible as a local small business owner so I think we understand within this neighborhood it's really difficult um with our current policies to even make those projects work and they have to go through additional hurdles to find the feasibility so I I understand that there's like always desire for more third places right that's a lot of what makes our communities but we have them here I mean plate Sushi like just a name drop all my favorite little spots like right around this area um are there and I think that it would be great for them to have more customers um in a walkable radius um and through that momentum we can see more development right we've got the Broadway development right at the riverfront that we can see both momentum and add more retail too so um I don't really have concerns in losing the retail I think I agree with one one uh commenter about exchanging of larger condos a smaller quantity of them for apartments relative to the access and affordability of just adding more units to our housing stock and as I read it right like we're looking at c1ar looking at the conditions here but everything else we've moved away we do not have planned projects anymore so that's also kind of how I review this project plan projects don't exist and we're a body both recommending here but reviewing this relative to the conditions of our UDC yes we want things we want electrification but we cannot like require them of buy right projects uh I know that this one has a little Nuance to it I believe but uh it's not in the Pud category of measuring some of those exchanges in the same way uh and so for that understanding that this is meeting the intent of the original plan uh I just I guess I kind of want to speak like make I have two two-fold to kind of wrap up this comment one comprehensive planning I think is going to engage the whole community in understanding better what our retail to housing ratios really should be not what we think they should be with professionals running those numbers um which can help us strategize some of this zoning and those expectations better so that these conversations don't come kind of at the last minute saying I wish I could but nobody actually stepping up to the play we wish we could see this but nobody stepping out of the plate to say I'm gonna put my money there and start the business um and I think part of that comprehensive plan is really going to help everybody be enlightened to what that mix is um and then my review is that being so closely related to C1 AR so um robustly kind of developed to this point I don't see like a lot of deviation relative to what we're looking at today uh that I don't have discomfort relative to approving this project so I don't really have further comments but I wanted to kind of add that plug for conference plan thank you commissioner dish so I want to thank all of the ward one residents who've come out to speak both for and against and to express concerns and uh uh realistic hopes for the project um I I want to highlight some of what I see as the benefits of the project but I also want to take some time to ask a couple of questions to allay some of the concerns because I think that reasonable concerns have been raised so I'm really pleased I'm sorry I realize I'm not let me use my use my public speaking voice so everyone can hear me I'm pleased to see you convert what you had expected to build is an 80 condo project into what is actually an infill project that's where we get greater density where there's existing infrastructure and uh so you've converted this into an infill project that will bring 196 units of rental housing to a site that's within a stone's throw of a major employer which is the hospital and in walking distance of shopping entertainment and central campus this proposal fully Accords with the city's current policy on parking which is that we no longer require parking minimums we think there are better uses for land than car storage and we regard that as a desired element that people reduce parking that's why we do not require a developer to trade us something we want for providing fewer parking spaces as if that were a privilege we're happy to see that they are willing to experiment with fewer parking spaces and in this case it I I think we may have a little bit more than speculation to go on to be confident that the parking will be okay but I did want to ask you about this and so can he go yeah okay so um I I wanted to understand you were originally zoned for 0.9 spaces per unit and what's been the actual demand you can yeah yeah I'll be up and down I don't have to bend over this way okay so to answer your question right the original is only required one space per unit we worked with the zba to lower that to 0.9 per unit realizing that given the multimodal kind of location proximity to employment that um that that would be proper we thought it was maybe a little heavy but you know we didn't know what the real demand would be but now we have the benefit of operating the first building now for two years so it's a very unique situation to have what we have the parking deck built in the first building you can operate it before the other phases are developed so what we found is is that the actual demand for parking in this particular project is 0.6 spaces per unit and just to clarify something so that's particular to this project in this location I wouldn't suggest that that's uh you know you throw that metric around and start using for other projects if you're in the CBD you might look at it differently but just for our unique circumstances that's the that's the ratio and if it continues at that rate you would have sufficient capacity and there's is there any reason to think it won't continue at that rate well we um there's no reason to think that it won't continue at that rate we do have even the lease up happening for the second phase that we're going to deliver soon and even that ratio is coming in around that number even a little bit lower right now so we're encouraged by that I would say that given the number of spaces in the deck and on the surface parking 0.6 times the 736 units there's enough parking in the deck and on the surface to not only accommodate 0.6 but to leave a reasonable buffer not just for guests and for handicapped accessible stalls but also for the retail parking and for it to the extent when the ratio fluctuates a little bit over time it's not a static 0.6 thank you I know some of my constituents are concerned that because you charge for your parking which not denying that you ought to but because you charge for your parking there could be over there could be folks who are actually not purchasing your parking but parking in the neighborhood are we seeing overflow in the surrounding neighborhood no and if and if there were we would see it already if people didn't want to park in the deck because they didn't want to to pay for it they would have to park their car somewhere so to my knowledge there is I don't see any of that happening okay and one is to the question of solar and I noticed that you had proposed to install solar on the top of the parking structure perhaps the first time this went around and that wasn't approved sure I could speak to that and some of you may remember this this was back in 2017.
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