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we have a planning meeting with the facilitators um that Lewin Felicia will be part of on Tuesday the 16th next week so we look forward to um talking about um the results of the focus groups that were held in January and looking ahead to planning for next year at that May 22nd meeting the students did a nice job of outlining all of the events taking place in May and June all the exciting events in your folders tonight you have some invitations to next week's from Cherry Brook primary school art show being held here which is next Wednesday May 17th and then the following week on May 24th we'll have the art show at Canton Intermediate School and we also have the wonderful musical concerts that were listed um Claudia and I try to put all of those on your board of ed calendars that they were sent so keep referring back to those to keep track of all of the upcoming events and I couldn't let um this week go by without recognizing all of our teachers for the outstanding work they do this is teacher appreciation week and I know you all feel the same way about our our outstanding staff who always go above and beyond and it's also Nurses Appreciation week so please um we want to make sure we thank Diane cedaro our nursing supervisor Ryan Townsley our school nurse at Canton Intermediate School and this is Jessica Bailey our school nurse here we appreciate all the TLC they give our students and staff throughout the year that's my report about this evening are there any questions you may have for me online anybody Erica or Felicia no thank you okay thank you I just thought this uh invitation to the art show for four through six is just great and if you opened it up there's a note to Mr Case hello Mr case I hope you're able to join us this year at the art show we are really proud of our work this year Seraphina grade six so I just think that's great that's that's why we're here sure okay from the chairs report just a couple of things for you this morning I spent the morning at a cave Forum at uh in Rocky Hill it was a negotiation um kind of a primer on things to expect what to look like what what the negotiating team should look look like uh from um from a board of education standpoint they also went over some of the uh the grievance issues that are in the state right now and how certain things are handled I found it to be extremely helpful we're fortunate we have cave that runs these programs for us from the time to time so um um and thank you for making sure I was registered in that so um the second thing is I I want to also add my congratulations on the Canton celebrates which went extremely smoothly and I want everyone to know I'm out of lunch and the reason being is I I bet Mr uh Bishop that this thing would go Way Beyond the the two hours expected and guess what it came in under he had it planned uh thanks to Mr scheidler so now I'm going to be out of lunch so um it was positive feedback about the scheduling and how it went this year great I hope you like food trucks so so anyways the the final thing I want to bring the board up to date on is um uh through the para through the Peril bargaining unit um they have they they struggled this year they've had a difficult year uh some of it um you know is is um has been caused by um the certain environment that we're in as far as hiring goes and things of that nation and that nature but um our Paris as much as we love our teachers too our our pairs tend to be the uh we say this all the time but we mean it they are the backbone of our of our school system and without the Paris I think we would lose our teachers and it just it's one of those gender pieces if if that comes out everything starts to fall apart so um they've asked us to uh kind of sit down with them and listen Mr scheidler and I along with the superintendent um has uh We've now had two meetings one with Cherry Brook Paris and uh today with the Middle School Paris middle school and high school middle school and high school Paris excuse me and here's the theme and this is no surprise to any board member um we we know that the salaries are low we know that there's a revolving door because of our salaries we know that they go beyond uh the Call of Duty sometimes and for very little pay so our commitment and I think this board uh up and down has said that this is something we have to look at we knew that when that contract was signed and we saw that we were just coming up to minimum wage there was going to be some work to be done there um so that's something we have to look at the contract that does not open again until 24 25.

the students were amazing musically they were amazing with their conduct with their flexibility with their teamwork and to watch friendships flourish um the students here tonight will tell you more but my favorite was watching how the students created different groups on different days and sometimes they would be with friends they made in high school on the lacrosse team and then another day you would see that same student with their neighborhood friend that they've been together with since Cherry Brook but perhaps grew apart over the last several years and reconnecting with their friends from kindergarten and like it just was such a warm and special uh time for the students to have so much fun and also play um and sing um I came to you and I asked last June for this group of kids to be a lighthouse for our musicians in our district and they came through the choir was given a superior rating and they were had a wonderful performance the band got an excellent rating as well as a best-in-class designation for students it's like being in a we're a class s school for sports right and so in our designation we were considered Best in Class um we didn't have any behavior issues on the trip like I I just I can't say enough of how what a special special thing this is so today we have Lauren one of our Triumph officers here to speak about it as well as Bella and Simone who you know very well and then we'll wrap up with a photo slideshow that Mr Jones prepared to give you a sense of of what the students experienced thank you Lauren Bella hi everyone my name is Lauren I'm a Triumph officer um I thought the trip was just great I think it was definitely one of the highlights of my year I just can't all the memories I think I'll have them for the rest of high school going into college um one of my favorite moments from the trip was the cooperation and the passion for music and the passion for working together as musicians from our exchange with Horizon High School so um a day before we actually performed for the festival Disney judges um we did an exchange with um a very new high school actually two years old high school in Florida called Horizon High School um so their jazz band played for us and we got to meet their band drafter and their jazz bandractor um and we were also with Hall High School so Hall High School their Jazz fans played and their band played um and then our high our band and our choir um sang and played and it was really special just to be able to be in another building but feel that that music like had transported us to this other place and we felt comfortable performing with these people that we had never met before and with this director that we miss San Antonio had only really spoke to um over the phone and um with email and it was really special for me um to see all of my percussion buddies working together because it's very equipment heavy so we had people with people who had like checked bags on the plane had been lugging these huge suitcases everywhere with tambourines and all this stuff and so we got all this to Horizon High School and also the high school and set up all these instruments for us and um with the Horizon High School people our percussionists and the Hall High School percussionists people who none of us had ever met before worked together as one team like we've been working together for forever we had that percussion section absolutely Flawless in place in about five minutes left I think it was the best organization I've ever seen from any high school students and that was just amazing because I had never really seen people um we're together in that way we had never met each other before and just seen that power of music and their shared love of percussion and music and being in this special place was just really transformative for me thank you great okay all right so I'm going to talk a little bit about our actual um performances we had done on Saturday that week I have a little bit random done just to keep myself together but um I thought it was really cool that we had the opportunity both in the course to kind of perform in like really cool venues that we wouldn't normally ever get an opportunity to do so with um for choir it was the Saratoga Springs Resort and uh band was the Disney's contemporary resort and it was just very beautiful venues very good Acoustics it was just like very nice um you know exploded to different bigger venues that again we wouldn't have normally ever gotten an opportunity to perform in um and then afterwards we got very fun and engaging workshops to do for uh 15 minutes or so with one of the judges I know for choir we worked a lot on more accurate pronunciation of you know other languages we did Dynamics work so we got to do a lot of fine tuning with the songs that we could then apply to our music as we performed it later in the year or with new pieces we'd learned and then same in the band they learned a lot about you know taking music off the page and being very expressive with it um so that was very informative for us and um I think we were all able to better understand like emotions as we were playing in singing which I found very valuable and I think it also performing their places in a more serious and challenging environment that again we normally wouldn't get from just our you know yearly performances just in the auditorium that are more for enjoyment of you know our parents and whatnot being able to be not necessarily a competitive environment but just a more challenging where we have to hold ourselves to very high standards and have very good etiquette and stuff like that I think that was definitely a very new environment for many of us that was also very um I think it was very fun and it was nice to have that challenge when we are normally in that type of environment great excellent okay so I'm going to talk about like the friendships and just kind of like the social aspect of the trip but I found the trip to be so I want to say redeeming because we lost all of these experiences in past years and my grades didn't get to go to um Washington DC so that was the year of covet for us and there has been such a disconnect in our grade I felt like we haven't been as close and this trip really got us back to like I think where we were I think we bonded in so many different levels like we stayed up with 40 hours like we did not sleep but we were all together and it was fun and we were all going crazy together and um getting angry with each other because we're so tired but it was so it was so amazing and I know I personally like Miss Anthony she was talking about I each day kind of I stuck with similar people but you know each day we just add on a new person who were like hey like you want to join us and um this one kid I became really close with and he's a senior I've never talked to him in my life and then he joined our group and it ended up going on like the scariest roller coaster with him like music and it was just great because I felt like you know I'm making these great memories with people I didn't even really know um so it was just a really overall good trip I am so glad I decided to um you know go on the trip because originally like I had quit course last year and I rejoined this year um and I'm so glad I did because now I just have such a better like bond with everyone even and more specifically just like the chorus like it was it was great and I saw so many people with different groups like it was it was really interesting to also see like who was going with who um I really I really enjoyed that so it was great it was a good trip all right and I think I have the the video slideshow so let me pull that up and I will play that for all of you Lauren I played the sousaphone in high school so I can empathize with you about carrying large musical instruments getting them on a plane when I went to Florida in high school so did you get to go I did nice with my big tuba nice all right here thank you foreign [Applause] I have to say I know you started off your presentation by thanking the board and everybody else but the board wants to thank you because I think Simone you said it best it brought us back it got us back to where we're supposed to be doing these types of things and um so we're extremely grateful for the organization and the time you must have put in the sacrifice you made from your family but thank you for doing all that for us and getting us back so my pleasure we'll see everybody at the parade we'll see you at the parade any other questions no okay all right um that moves us right into uh we're going to have public forum are are the parents here for public forum per chance are you just listening okay good right because I didn't want to delay much more Mr Emery okay very excited about this Mr rammer you have quite an act to follow here the Disney trip you got to sing your presentation so um so to our students thank you for that um yeah thank you for sharing your thoughts on the prep very very meaningful very inspiring thank you thank you um as I said earlier uh tonight's the first meeting at each of our schools and we have the pleasure tonight to hear from Mr Abe Emery uh Mr Emery is no stranger to Canton uh Mr Emery has been working in Canton as our math science coordinator for the last several years after having an exemplary uh teaching uh career in New York City he came to Connecticut was an administrator in another school district and then we were able to lure him here to Canton and we'd certainly benefited and especially this year during the principal's leave I asked Mr Emery to to become interim principal here at Cherry Brook primary school and Mr Emery excitedly said yes and took on the challenge and has really been been a steady Force here at the school during a time of transition and so I'm pleased to introduce to you if you haven't already met Mr Amery and so tonight we'll hear our presentation on what we have as far as student data in both reading and math then this ramrey will talk about some of the highlights of this school year at Cherrybrook thanks for all your hard work Abe and thanks for being here tonight uh well thank you Mr Case Mr Bishop board members and Community I'm humbled and honored um you know it's been a humbling and honoring honor an honor experience the past few months and I'm just really thrilled to be here tonight and kind of share with you the highlights from Cherry breakfast here here first and foremost Cherry Brook is a joyful place for all Learners and staff our staff I tell them every day every week in a staff memo they do an amazing job engaging our children and fostering their growth both academically socially emotionally behaviorally um we have a few pictures here I'm not going to go over all of them but the picture there the children at the on the carpet it's just a picture of some first graders and as we all know a big focus in primary school is early literacy and here is just a picture of kids enjoying a literacy game learning about vowels and those snap words I have a picture from our newly formed Cherry Brook singers our third graders had the honor of going up to UConn with Miss card and I'm meaning some of her professors and meaning some of the students that are majoring in in music education so one student said it was the most magical experience ever I did tell Miss card for next year to schedule an extra hour so they can go to the dairy the Dairy Bar there and get some ice cream and then I have a picture there of our Unified sports season um it was my first year participating in it and and it just it was amazing to see the partnership and and and the love between you know the students within all grades the staff that was there the commitment of the staff just helping the kids and then there's just a picture of families and and staff and and the unified athletes participating in the classic parachute game um and then just a picture of one of the many book buddy groups that we have going on at Cherry Brook [Music] um so if we turn to the next slide um you know the next three slides are really going to just highlight kind of the core and the core of the work we do here at Cherry Brook so everything that we do is um is is rooted in our vision and our mission um the vision of mission helps us to make those decisions the best the best support students um on the next slide you know with everything um you know the challenges that we were faced this year um you know staff you know met every challenge with collaboration kindness and integrity um we partner with our students Educators and staff and community and every time we do that we we come at it with that collaboration mindset kindness and integrity um you know we always look forward to those collaborative opportunities with with families with staff and students and and we know we at the end of the day we we always are happy because we've tried our best and and we we always hold each other accountable for that um the next slide is is again something that's um familiar with you it's our vision of the um cam public schools graduate and at Cherry Brook you know we're the foundation of the building and we're setting that foundation for our students as they move forward to in the Intermediate School to middle school and high school so we really take pride at you know establishing a a solid foundation that's going to help our students achieve um that Vision vision of The Graduate when they walk across that stage well they already laughed when they walk across that stage you know in June to receive their diplomas foreign kind of highlights the district's Focus for the 22-23 school year um we've focused um our work on learner growth and success and obviously the culture and climate of our of our buildings and of our staff the next few slides just take a look at some of the theories and actions that were set in the beginning of the year that are again that are the focal of the work that we're doing one of the big ones is if we continue to keep all of our decisions rooted and student student-centered learning practices um you know we'll ensure that achievement and ownership and the achievement of the public schools vision of The Graduate will will happen and we'll we'll occur um the next slide looks at um students as the core of our instruction um you know we're always we always have students at the center of the decisions that we're making um we continue to develop and engage students in curriculum that's going to be rigorous that's going to be relevant um to students and relevant for them to to achieve those foundations of the vision of The Graduate of being critical thinkers creative thinkers communicators collaborators and and obviously compassionate citizens um the next theory of action talks about school Community if we create a school community that is inclusive and Equitable for all students and families then we'll have a safe and engaging learning environment that meets the unique needs of each Community member thereby increasing student achievement and the next theory of action focuses on on our environment our school environment and and the people that make up our school environment so for each person to thrive in our school environment it needs to be a safe place in which each person needs are met and differences are respected and regardless of one's you know gender race disability socioeconomic status you know every member of our community is included valued and listened to when a person feels truly seen and accepted um you know they're open to meet greater challenges and find greater greater success now um I'm going to go over um the work and the things that have happened at your work for the 22 23 school year um in the coming um slides I'm going to highlight the academic goals that were set at the beginning of the year um and then I'm going to go over some achievement data in regards to reading and math K through three um the beginning of the year uh the school goal um that was set with that students will improve their performance in the areas of reading and Mathematics um the indicators of success that the school decided to use to measure measure growth and measure student achievement um where the Dibbles reading assessment math end of the unit assessments and and star assessments the strategies um that we were focused on this year was the utilization of new resources that were implemented to support literacy instruction at Cherry Brook things such as phonics and phonemic awareness skills and in programs the specific programs of Foundations Hagerty and and some of our new unit reading summaries um we've been systematically looking at um understanding the information that we're getting from students and making sure that you know we're systematic in understanding it and making the next best decision to support student growth um you know we do that through in-house meetings you know weekly team meetings professional development days and as I shared earlier in the coming slides I'm going to highlight um the beginning of the year data and and relate that to mid-year data we don't have the end of the end of the year data just yet um in the next couple weeks we're going to be working teachers are working right now on some end of the year reading assessments you know we'll be giving some end of the year assessments obviously in the coming weeks but I'm just really excited to kind of highlight and celebrate the amazing work that our students have done you know to this point um so you all know Dibbles is called the dynamic indicators of basic early literacy literacy skills um it's the only assessment that's been approved by the state of Connecticut for assessing literacy instruction specifically at the primary school level um Dibbles are short checkpoints that are ministered to monitor how children are acquiring early literacy skills and just some some of the skills that we assess and it's not limited to this are letters and name fluency oral reading fluency non nonsense word fluency and segmentation um on the next four slides I'm going to show and know some of the growth that we've seen from beginning to end of the year I really want you to pay close attention to the green colors because the green colors highlight the students who are at proficiency when they've when we've when we've gathered that assessment of when they've taken assessment I also want you to look at some of the bands that are yellow and orange because as you'll see from the change from Fall to Spring I mean fall to winter you'll see a shrinkage in some of in some of those bands and that's a good sign that means that our students are moving within bands and and and and showing growth so kindergarten Dibbles [Music] at the beginning of our year 53 of our students were at at the proficiency at the proficiency rate range by mid-year um we were near 63 I want to note like at the beginning of the year having 53 of our kindergartens kindergartners in the green is is really great I mean we have kids kindergarten all teachers are being a teacher at every grade level is really hard but our kindergarten teaching teachers are amazing because because they have students who come into that door not knowing a letter not knowing a letter sound some kids who are reading so the the literacy skill is so diverse so for um for them you know for our kindergartners to come in at that percentage this is kudos to obviously the community but also the growth that we've seen from Fall to mid-years just kudos to to our staff our teachers our dedicated teachers you know um support staff that have you know have been you know making sure that children are are moving moving forward um so I'm I'm optimistic that when our end of the year information comes in we're going to continue to see that trend of continued growth again I just want to highlight if you look at the from fall to the mid-year you can see the the um the decrease in the red and an increase in the yellow and an increase in the darker green so we're having kids move ahead in bands which which is describing and showing us growth the next slide um takes a look at first grade Dibbles um again I'd like to highlight the growth of students um within the bands at the beginning of the year we were at 53 at mid-year we were at 63 so a 10 increase in student um achievement um this is really great because literacy wise first grade has the highest jump for reading levels and and literacy Acquisitions so we're having kindergartners come in over half of our kindergartners are coming in with some really solid skills and when our teachers get in front of them they're responding to the instruction responding to the curriculum that we're providing them and showing for us so again just as I shared with kindergarten I'm optimistic that you know our continued Trend upwards will happen so when you illustrate the um the growth let's take in the first grade from 50 53.4 to 63.1 so is that a good I mean how do we what do we compare that against like is the durg it's 70 or is it during it 50 or and is there a way to compare sorry about that no no problem I might be able to jump in on that because that's a that's a great question this this being um a a local assessment is not something that's reported to the state and it's not something that is referenced out um that's referenced out into the the broader area yeah that's good I I'll just interrupt for a second so the budget passed uh because it didn't meet the minimum again but the uh the count was 214 people voted yes and 332 voted no but uh in order to validate the election or the the referendum you need 10 of the electorate uh we fell well below that so the budget automatically passes just like it did last year so so good news um disappointing that not more people came out I wouldn't hold um the ratios to any um you know it is what it is but it's such a low turnout so it's about I guess that would be about five percent seven percent last year we had a 3.7 turnout Bob Bob vessels providing me with the information so he was sorry to interrupt just letting everybody know sorry no worries so my question was here and I I don't know if you if there's a comparative to this against other districts or so on and so forth no there isn't okay it's it's a it's a norm record so this is a national test that's really sure uh led by the University of Oregon so when we're looking at 63.1 percent that our our professional or above with that that is Norm referenced across the entirety so we're saying that already kids based on that based on that assessment at that time 63.1 percent of them are already uh proficient or above on that and that continues to track forward with an expectation and an increasingly higher level of rigor it's it gets more difficult toward the end of the year sure but kids continue to be able to grow with that and you see those those zones keep shrinking with that uh the green and growing and the yellow and orange uh shrink this is one of the assessments that's been approved by the state for screening of Dyslexia it is a really valuable assessment um and and one of the ones that is most like highly most highly related highly rated within the state for uh for efficacy so it's something that we really appreciate okay go on John or are these numbers compared to historically comparative where we we usually are around the this time of year next year or are we way below or way above or historically we're we're actually doing pretty well I would say that as we get on to our our third grade we actually are doing Beyond where we have in the past with that but I'd be happy to be able to pull in some additional longitudinal data the only difference is um we have only used this dibble's eight assessment last year and this year it's a slight difference from historical but I could get that information to show last year to this year different cohorts but happy to do that sorry no John mentioned a big piece of Jeff this is new to us and so two years into it and and so you know it's it's right now it's you know it's stressing those critical foundational skills and you know giving us that good information you know good good information about you know plan um with second grade Dibbles um it's impressive here that we nearly had 75 of our second graders at the beginning of the year within that proficiency band on on the measures that we were measuring and by mid-year um um almost near you know near 80 80 77.2 percent again I just want to highlight it's so important when when we think about student achievement is we always look at growth for every child because a student who might be lower on the continent Continuum is still making growth as compared to someone who might be at the higher end of the Continuum so the growth is really important and really important to note that um the increase in in the darker bands the shrinkage of students within you know the yellow the yellows and the red that means they're responding to what we're doing and and growing and and achieving so that's you know that's something to celebrate um third grade um came in again at almost near 80 at the beginning of the year and they've maintained um you know they've maintained that again um you know there's been some there's some slight changes there and some of the Bands again green the darker green getting bigger more students in the higher level of proficiency um again it's really important to note that when we're a third grade reader the text complexity is a lot harder we're asking kids to do higher level reading and so it's it's nice to see that what they're doing in the in kindergarten first grade and second grade is is is spilling over into third grade um I also want to note that this was our cohort who were remote Learners in kindergarten um and in first grade these some of these students participated in the hybrid model of instruction or or were in the remote learning option so um it's you know based on those factors you know they're doing they're doing really really well with that um I also want to kind attribute like growth K3 to um just kind of the work the staff has been putting in with the new resources that we've been provided by the board um you know even with coveted restrictions now lifted you know teachers are able to pull students for small group instruction we weren't able to do that in a coveted you know restricted classroom you know research says that's what moves students so being able to pull groups being able to offer small groups for for tutoring is really moving kids in that positive direction professional development a lot of our time here at Cherry Brook what up from what I've learned since being here since the middle of January a lot of time has has been spent on um really giving teachers a time to unpack the new resources work together look at the student information and and you know and plan for their for their students um and um teachers teach not curriculums and our teachers are educated by the science of reading so they're really spending the time understanding how children acquire literacy skills and really focus on that science science of reading um next um we're going to take a look at a slide that highlights star reading for grades two and three um it's really nice as a district um to have a universal screener for star and and for math it's a nice measure to measure our curriculum to measure the work that we're doing with students to measure the interventions that we may be putting in place in the classroom outside of the classroom um and you'll see here this is a highlight of grades um two and three students with their Lexile summary and what Lexa with the Lexile framework for reading is is a scientific Pro approach for measuring reading ability and text complexity so you know as as students read higher level texts they're they're higher level readers um you can see here for second grade we we had a Lexile level average at about 97 at the mid-year we jumped up to 280.

thank you so much moving to item 7.1 public comment on agenda or non-agenda items um hopefully we have any blue cards Mickey Carpenter good evening Dr Beau Board of Education cabinet thanks for having me here tonight um I just wanted to give some gratitude out there for everything that ausd does for your students it meant also for the city of Azusa the partnership has been a privilege to be a part of and as it continues to grow and strengthen um I just can't tell you how much that means to those of us who work in the city but we really recognize how much that means to our residents we are serving the same families we're serving the same children and our partnership throughout the year is is quite amazing but unpressed in an unprecedented way last summer through your support we were able to provide free summer programming for five weeks and two weeks of of swim lessons or 277 children in the ausd so for that we are very thankful we appreciate the continued support and partnership and we look forward to more uh great work together want to say say again how much we appreciate your work with us on all in for Azusa the city uh community-driven collaborative effort through that effort we have just received another round of funding to continue that work as we bring more Recreation more integrative Services um that reaches the whole child the whole family and certainly the whole community so we look forward to continuing to work with you on that um and and look forward to all the great things that come so thank you again support thank you so much is there anyone online wishes to make public comments we have no hands raised online thank you now moving to item 8.1 comments reports and requests by the Board of Education board vice president Rodriguez Pena will begin with you okay um good evening everyone first of all I want to say Happy Teachers Appreciation Week to all our teachers uh this weekend I attended to CSEA Chapter 299 recognition banquet and I want to congratulate unsung hero Sandra arkenberg she's a secretary at Valleydale Elementary Sandra is a treasurer of csca and also serves on the negotiation team well-deserved I want this beautiful CSEA water bottle and also um do gift cards to the show and to The Habit so I want to thank CSEA I went to Gladstone High School the secondary student Spotlight art show it was amazing artwork was beautiful portraits and ceramic um dishes I guess there were dishes and we have so many talented students here at Azusa Unified School District I always enjoy going to the spotlight but rather it'd be there playing music or they're doing their artwork and dancing and we have a lot of great kids and I'm glad we're able to serve them here um Apu champ graduation I want to congratulate all the students from Paul Magnolia Lee Elementary it's a nine-week course that they meet with a mentor from Azusa Pacific University and I want to thank Azusa University also for their partnership the um I want to announce the uh 2023 San Gabriel Valley ROP Foundation scholarship winner from Azusa Unified School District it's elvada Alvaro Rocha Torres from Glaston High School the advanced art graphic art multimedia teacher Mr Hague when he was asked you know when when he was asked you know what did Ro make a difference in his life he said my skills U.S team has allowed me to grow and become mature and a team leader it has shaped me into confidence to be a confidence person who is ready to go to college and it's really great to hear students speak that way when they're in high school and they're ready to go to college and he was very well deserved of this award I went to the elementary middle school open houses great turnout in middle schools and and the um elementary schools I've seen some of the projects with uh meet the Masters California Gold Rush wow I didn't realize they should do that I did that way way back when I was in school so I'm like oh that's they're still doing that but I spoke to many parents and staff members but it was bittersweet to go to the middle school I'm getting emotional because I knew that it's the last time that I would be attending three middle schools I won't have to go to one Middle School next time but it's yeah I'm gonna miss everyone thank you thank you board member Benavides I too would like to say happy Teacher Appreciation Week every teacher out there not just in Azusa but elsewhere and then um I'd like to uh just congratulate all the children and the students that were here with their artistic talent and I and all the dedication and hard work and partnership with the city of Azusa it's definitely a partnership that we can Embrace and with future endeavors and it's nice to hear that the swimming program is coming back I see a lot of good things that are being done for our students and I I really think that it helps the community and families come together so thank you for all your hard work um with that partnership and I'd like to wish everyone a Happy Mother's Day board member Greer I too want to wish a happy Teacher Appreciation Week again uh all the teachers out there but I do want to say especially to the teachers here in ausd thank you for all of your hard work and again I think we we get to see just snapshots of that and we even got to see some of that uh even here this evening and so just thank you to all uh the teachers out there um in addition to that I realize that this is the last time that we are all gathered here together before uh the school year ends and so I just have some encouragement to uh all the students out there this is the home stretch so so stick with it um but my that that same encouragement is to the teachers [Laughter] and others out there it's a home stretch so hey hang in there um and and uh just look forward to uh being gathered and at the different School sites and and just celebrating the achievements of our our students um and and uh just looking forward to that it's always always a great time of the year so hang in there be strong you're almost there Finish Well not to repeat everything that my colleagues have said but kudos to everything that they've done said but and I was going to bring that up too this is the end of the year and this is just not a typical end of the year we we are closing all the three middle schools to combine them into one middle school and I I you know I'm it I'm also emotional in the sense that um being in the district for over 40 years myself um it's it's a it's it's a great change because we know what great things are going to come but at the same time you know I I just want to encourage all of you guys the field agree but it's okay and um that we put our best foot forward that we're able to feel own it and then put our best foot forward because this is not about us I'm sorry this is not just about me this is just not about us this is about our children our posterity and how we react and how we conduct ourselves right with all the changes happening just remember Grace Grace and we're all in this together and how we move forward with our best foot forward is going to determine how we you know come back in August and so my daughter asked me mom why can't there be um three months of summer school I mean uh summer and not go to school and so I had to explain she's a third grader well you know there's so many days and so forth and so forth and she said well I wish there was more she really loves school and I know that a lot of you guys do too and you love your school right now where you're at and you know what as parents too we need to give that emotional support if our if our schools are closing and um you know with that being said Happy Mexican Mother's Day tomorrow May 10th so yes I I celebrate May 10th and I celebrate on Sunday so happy Mother's Day to all of you guys and your mothers if you're a man and your mother your wives um and to the to the teachers again thank you and finish strong you guys got this I believe in you have a good one thank you I Echo all of my colleague sentiments around Teacher Appreciation Week Mother's Day finishing the year off strong and looking at all of the work we've put in this past year to kick off next year uh really strong Investments we've made in people in infrastructure and programs I'm very excited to see what happens next and I too am headed toward the June 30th Sunset of of the school year thank you very much moving to 9.1 Mr Ortega thank you Dr Beau I'd like to call Natalie De La Cruz from Azusa High School good morning everyone so here is this is a high school sport report Azusa High School softball defeated a B Miller on Friday in her first round of CIF playoff matchup with 8-0 way to go Aztecs the Aztecs are playing against Sacred Heart in Montebello on May 9th let's use a track and field participated in CIF competition on Saturday May 6 in Carpenteria we would like to recognize the following athletes for setting personal records on Saturday Jasmine oregoron in the 200 meter Jonathan Rudder in the 110 and 300 hurdles and the 4x4 relay team and the triple jump Jeremiah Potter in the 100 meter and 4x4 Relay Team Alexis Suarez and the 4x4 Relay Team Jax is strong and the 300 hurdles and 4x4 Relay Team Alexis Sanchez and shot put and Thomas Castaneda in discus Azusa High School welcomed Azusa and Glaston parents to the zooza Youth and Family Center on May 5th to discuss a welcoming School environment students from Azusa and Gladstone facilitated Community circles and listened to parents Mr Fernandez would like to thank the city of Azusa for their continued partnership and support for parent events this year we also welcome elac parents from Glaston high school and Azusa High School to work on parent engagement policies and The Homeschool compact on May 15th at 9am and the Azusa High School parent Center Azusa High School celebrates teacher appreciation this week with a range of activities at Azusa High School Azusa teachers will enjoy an ice cream social on May 10th we appreciate the Aztec teachers and all the teachers in the zoo Unified Azusa High School is excited to announce that three Aztecs took took exams last week in American Sign Language to possibly qualify for the state seal of biliteracy and American Sign Language these criteria were recently released by the state of California and Miss Lisa Aguilera and Christy Farrelly work together to bring this opportunity to fruition thank you that is all thank you Natalie May I please uh ask Carolina Dominguez from Gladstone High School to do her report good evening everybody um congratulations to Mrs perdomo's art students Jennifer Vallarta and Abigail Sanchez for taking first and second place respectfully respectedly in the 31st congressional district art contest Jennifer and Abigail's artwork will be displayed in Grace the politano's Congressional office in Washington DC moreover Jennifer and a parent will be flown out and stay in Washington DC to be honored with all the congressional district winners What honor for Jennifer the 31st congressional district consists of Azusa Baldwin Park Covina Duarte Almonte Glendora industry Irondale La Puente La Verne Monrovia San Dimas West Covina and the unincorporated communities of avocado Heights basil and valendita this makes two years in a row that Gladstone High School art students took first and second place in addition Gladstone High School also had two honorable mention winners 80 Gonzalez from Mr O'Brien's class in Adie Mata from Mr Mrs perdomo's class great job JHS Gladstone art Department the JHS boys baseball team played a competitive first round CIF game against Fillmore High School although they came up short they played a very competitive game great job Gladstone High School boys baseball and the rest of ghs athletic teams were a competitive season some upcoming events on Thursday 5 11 JROTC Awards night cafeteria 6 o'clock P.M to 7 o'clock P.M drama performance Little Theater six o'clock P.M to 8 o'clock P.M Friday 5 12 drama performance in the Little Theater 6 o'clock P.M to 8 o'clock P.M Wednesday 5 17 senior Awards night gymnasium 6 o'clock P.M to 8 o'clock P.M Friday 5 19 junior senior prom Aquarium of the Pacific 8 o'clock P.M to 12 o'clock P.M and Wednesday 6 7 graduate graduation ghs Sports Fields seven o'clock P.M to 8 o'clock P.M thank you thank you Carolina um and now our attention over to Daphne Panetta from Sierra High School to give her report good evening all Board of Education members and attendees last year we started the month of May off successfully with a site visit from wasp and students completing the AP government and AP art exam on Wednesday May 10th we will have our last poet volleyball game against San Antonio as Sierra has our Juniors have started their s back testing this week on Tuesday May 23rd at 9 30 a.m We will host our senior women's brunch the senior men's lunch will be on Friday May 26th at 10 30 A.M the highlight of the month will be our senior scholarship and award evening on May 25th at 6 pm at our NPR the seniors are gearing up for graduation with several end of the year activities including the senior sunset on June thank you Daphne um I like to uh just uh congratulate the adult school they held a school career fair um it was very very well attended we had lots of companies there looking to uh hire and um I was told that our students were offered on the spot jobs and so congratulations uh for everybody I know the city was out there as well for everybody coming out uh to uh to do this event uh it was really really nice uh to Daphne's point at Sierra High School we had the opportunity to go to uh wasp um and the team was uh very complimentary of the school the staff the students and the parents they said that the message was consistent amongst the groups and so they gave a lot of kudos for that um they were impressed that we had so many programs and so many offerings for our Sierra High School students and so just want to be thankful uh a wask visit um is a lot and so I appreciate all the staff students and parents who came together to make that business successful um I also want to show my appreciation to the Azusa leaders for Learners Foundation uh this Saturday they will have a fundraising event uh those proceeds uh come back to our students and to our staff members and so just want to show appreciation uh to the foundation for everything that they do for our district we are an open house season so I was able to go to Slauson Middle School and to Ellington tkh school walk into classrooms talk to parents talk to students talk to staff eat enjoy and so just again lots of things to celebrate especially when you see the quality and rigor of the student work that was being displayed I also want to uh share uh thank you for uh certificated uh the certificated week uh where we we highlight a week for everything that our certificate staff does for our students encompasses uh our teachers our nurses our counselors uh all of the certificate staff that really come together to to provide our students an A plus education so thank you good evening I too would like to which all of our certificated staff this week and just expressed my gratitude for all that they do for our students and our community it is a work a heart but a lot of effort so appreciative for them I would also like to recognize our students who competed this Saturday our ausd elementary and middle school track meet who um track team who moved on to the San Gabriel Valley meet and now we have students who will be moving on to the Downey competition coming up in June I also got to visit a couple of of our elementary schools for Open House season I was at Paramount Elementary School as well as Lee school and it was wonderful to see all of the student work and a great turnout from students and families and again highlighting all of the efforts of our teachers and staff good evening all um I would like to share and stay in happy um certificated Employee Appreciation Week um this week and last week I was a I had the honor of going to the fabulous Sierra High School open house where we had a lot of baked goods and I got to see a lot of art um also last week we went to Dalton Elementary School also another good sale bake sale we had some good fresh popcorn so that was exciting I'm happy to announce that we have resumed our fencing installation at Lee Elementary School yes we are and then we are rolling into our playground equipment for all our elementary schools and I'd also like to join the chorus of happy certificated Appreciation Week um and I really want to just thank our teachers for the hard work that they do um teaching is that profession where all professions grow from so lifting up our teachers and really celebrating the the hard work that they do day in and day out it really is a labor of love and we appreciate you um uh in the coming weeks we'll also be celebrating our classified employee week as well so I also want to say thank you to our classified employees for the hard work that they do and really enable all of us to do the work that we do for our community I also had an opportunity to attend the open houses I was at Center Middle School and I really really enjoyed just to see the culture and the the um the flavor um literally speaking of the school um but also just to see the interactions of our teachers our administrators our employees working with our community uh seeing them interact with them and really showcase the hard work that they're doing I um had an opportunity last week to go to Lee Elementary School um and that was a super fun really seeing the the community interact and then I was able to also go to Valleydale um as well and even though it started to rain towards the end um you could see that the parents and the and the staff that was was there were still excited about visiting classrooms and engaging with one another so um very very very nice thank you thank you moving to item 10.1 approval of the consent agenda may have a motion make a motion to approve second moved and seconded Miss Pineda your any comments and your student preferential vote yes any other comments or discussion by our board members I'll call for the vote and the motion passes unanimously moving to item 12.1 Miss Camacho thank you sorry about that good evening Dr Beau Board of Education superintendent Ortega and cabinet tonight I will be sharing Azusa unified's attendance support system which is aimed at reducing chronic absences we'll Begin by just reviewing the differences between truancy and chronic absence truancy counts unexcused absences and relies on legal and administrative kinds of solutions and interventions chronic absences count all absences excused absences unexcused absences and suspensions suspensions the emphasis around chronic absence in terms of support is looking at what kinds of positive strategies or how are we looking at root causes to to reduce our system is organized in weird models beginning with those foundational support that are aimed at all of our students um and looking at as a whole school how are we promoting positive conditions for learning where students are more likely to want to come to school and be engaged in what is happening there are tier one um which is um Universal preventions are aimed at encouraging better attendance and prevention effort before students move into that area of falling into that percentage that would get them at at Chronic absences our third tier is that early intervention piece that early intervention piece again looks at how are we now identifying those students who are falling into that category of chronic absences and how are we beginning to look at the supports that are necessary to help them re-engage and our most intensive supports are at the tier three and those are our students who are missing the most school which would be 20 or their absences are at 20 or more of the school year so in looking at the tier one which are the universal supports um and Azusa unified um we began by really looking at how are we communicating um clearly schedules and expectations um around um attendance how are we providing parents and families with educational opportunities around the importance of attending school regularly and the impact of excess and the impact that excessive absences have on the academic program and learning for students and creating a space where students are welcome and engaged and have that positive interaction and connectedness with the the adults on campus looking at how we recognize and celebrate um good attendance as well as improved attendance when students are moving into you know who maybe have struggled a little bit and um are beginning to to come back and and show improvements in how are we recognizing that our tier 2 early intervention pieces that are in place are attendance monitoring which is collecting data at regular intervals to identify where students are at in terms of their attendance um who is that that tier one area or tier two and who are at year three in order to identify how we are providing those supports and when we're looking at tier two that attendance monitoring becomes really critical because we want to look for patterns and how do we begin to bring families in to to provide some supports that might include home visit that might include you know making some connections to see what are some supports that might be necessary you know is there some before school care that families need in connecting them to our expanded learning programs through think together or after school types of supports again because chronic absences look also at suspensions we want to look at how are we implementing some Alternatives um to suspension um uh before we move into that area as a support for students um and again just really identified those root causes to be able to provide the appropriate supports to get students back at school and I can ask your question sure now or wait to the end go ahead so my question is regarding the the tier one yes School in the school um is monitoring students attendance so do we have an attendance clerk there or do we have a specific person we have at the secondary level well we have our clerk who helped to monitor they might run report but also um principles assistant principles will look at those reports part of our collaborative data opportunities also include then looking at how are we tracking those students who we are identifying you know when we'll run reports or who is at that 10 percent or just below that 10 percent to identify those and does the community liaison still do home calls some of our schools are still doing home visits we don't have we haven't um done the model where everybody goes out on the same day but we are looking toward developing that schedule for the coming school year so all these theories include the elementary middle and high school correct all grades and recognition I know that they had a recognition in the elementary school right in middle school but they do not have it at the high school I think it's really important that we do continue on up to 12th grade thank you and again our tier 3 supports are those um very intensive supports for those students who are missing the most school and really that begins to look at very individualized supports um you know are there um connections to outside agencies that students or families may need are there housing issues are there some stability support that we need to connect them to if that's the case utilizing our student and family support specialist Alicia Torres sharp who um you know does that Outreach support to connect families to to outside resources sometimes this might include bringing our students to a Student Success team where we include families teachers other staff to identify what support the student and family needs to to help them get back in a good pattern of attendance and again sometimes that might include referrals to counseling agencies or whatever it is that the student and family are meeting and sometimes these students at this intensive level do are referred to the student attendance review board that's art and sarb area and and moving into those those types of interventions and um are we still um in the process of trying to find someone well Maria Mahia you know she's been gone for quite a while and I know that she dealt a lot with the parents and she strictly worked on attendance here at the district office do we have a person that does is doing that at this time yes so that work has been shifted in the student support office I know for Hernandez has taken on some of that as well as our student and family support specialist Alicia Torres Sharp okay so again we look at our model um by how are we beginning to engage parents and families um in the importance of regular School attendance and how that impacts learning how are we recognizing good and improved attendance I know oftentimes the focus has been on perfect attendance but I think there's also um it's important to acknowledge um improved attendance so that students um efforts and families efforts to to make improvements are also being recognized as well and again regular intervals of monitoring data to ensure that we are tracking students and providing support in time and not when things have have gone too far and organizing personalized and individualized supports for families in order to to help them come back thank you Miss Camacho any questions just one one question um it's my sense that part of the pandemic there was kind of like a if you're not you know unless you're vomiting or or have a hundred and something fever then go on ahead and come to school and it's my sense that that has shifted a bit so is that correct in my in in the Assumption and one first of all and then how does that affect our how does that affected our data therefore so there's been I mean I've been of course with all of the ups and downs and changes that we have gone through through covet in terms of when can you when can you come to school what are your symptoms and all of those things um you know utilizing our program specialist Melissa Lofton who is one of our our district nurses who leads up that department and you know providing some bullet points and guidance um for families and staff and you know making some determinations as to you know when is it okay to send kids to school if it's just a tummy ache um you know what are what are those things and and how do we communicate that so we've put together um some PowerPoints for families at the ed services level um to share out some of those bullet points um to families but it's re-educating that that piece no I was just gonna add um and correct me if I'm wrong I think part of it also is um on both sides and I think that sometimes due to uh home fears of sending a child uh to school uh because they feel sick or they heard somebody sick but trans and to answer the question again correct me if I'm wrong uh chronic absenteeism is a Big Time Statewide problem uh because of kobit prior to covid uh chronic absenteeism Even in our district uh was relatively low uh but now you are seeing districts 30 40 50 60 percent chronic absenteeism and so Azusa has not been immune to that our chronic absenteeism rate uh has also has also been High um again because of the pandemic and so I think I applaud at services and um really trying to promote uh recognize and celebrate attendance and to start kind of Shifting that mentality that if you have the sniffles it's okay to still come you have a little tummy ache it's still okay to uh to come um and so a lot of work to be done in that in that Arena so our our still um or yes we still have been Distributing um the free covet uh home test I mean in case like if they're thinking their child is ill or that you know just to be help help them also feel secure they can go to school but um yeah I appreciate that we're having a campaign and attendance because I know it's very very important especially right after the pandemic um they can know that it's okay you know they don't all have to stay home I have a question um two questions are there any uh particular Trends among subgroups um there are so what the trends show and it's interesting because the trends again are Statewide is um the grade levels with the most um significant um absences or significant significant amounts of students who are in that chronic absenteeism range are in the TK and kindergarten range um some of that is attributed to or or what has been shared is you know when students are young and entering School sometimes their immunity isn't bolstered enough and they have a tendency to get sick or when our kids are young you know if they have the tummy ache they have the stuff for more inclined um to keep them home because we think it's just Tinder or TK or preschool but again it's that education piece and helping parents understand you know those um Early Childhood years are important in developing or reinforcing good habits in terms of of attendance and and really support that men in those areas but that trend is seen and we see that Trend here in our district as well those uh two grade levels have um the the more significant amount of students who are in that chronic absenteeism rate thank you and then my last question is as a board how can we support the district's effort to mitigate chronic absenteeism um you know discontinuing to Echo um the importance of students being at school and um you know um um you know our schools are wonderful places to be you all get to see all of the rich wonderful things that occur and you know any day that's missed we missed we miss the kids when they're not at school so you know just echoing those sentiments I think are are important as well and we are also looking ahead at launching um a big attendance campaign at the beginning of the school year um you know bringing out our attendance banners and and having some um fun things going on to celebrate attendance so we will be inviting all of these to those special times thank you moving to item 13.1 update of surplus property Mr Ortega thank you Dr bo uh next week on May 17th will be our third uh Surplus property AKA 711 uh committee meeting on Wednesday at uh 5 PM um at that meeting we will be sharing with the committee some data that they had requested and so tonight uh we will be sharing uh that data with you all as well and so I'd like uh to call on Latasha to walk us through uh that particip that particular data sure so what we have on the screen um are the predicted talks um to bring our remaining our Surplus sites to parity um and as far as parody just meaning for the infrastructure networking IDF cabinets HVAC and vice versa I want to stress that these amounts are based on this year's projection so depending on the time of when the decision is made or when construction takes place we would have to account for inflation so as you can see here there's about a 1.2 million dollar difference from our lowest school to our highest school as far as the amount that will need to be invested into the school for operational purposes foreign this was a piece of data that was requested by the 711 Surplus property committee and so we wanted to make sure that that was shared with the Board of Education as well um at our previous board meeting uh we also um highlighted or shared that at this meeting um we would like to provide the Board of Education an opportunity for board members to share some initial thoughts um about what they might be thinking um we could do a surplus property again the committee had requested like you know as we're going through this process what what is the district thinking like what what is there um they they do know that all of this is Uber preliminary and that nothing's binding there's no action tonight um and so this is just again just some first thoughts um in terms of what and maybe you have not maybe it's n a maybe there's there's nothing and that's that's okay as well uh but I'd like to turn it over back to uh Dr Beau um and uh again if we can hear just some initial thoughts from the Board of Education why don't we just kind of take a structured route couple rounds and we'll begin with board vice president Rodriguez Pena okay so um my thoughts of looking at the school closures and also the schools that are remaining my thoughts are actually okay so um the adult transition and the longfella those two School sites they do not have parking they do not have most needed is handicap parking at all when you go there you have to go around the block to try to find a parking uh to let your child out but um I I would like to probably see them in one of these um schools that that will be closed also um I would like to see a community center in our community we did not have a community center where we can um you know have concerts concerts or you know we all have to go to certain School sites but we it would be nice if we had one Community Center for everyone to go to one place because it's okay we never know where we're going I mean it's going to be in a glass time to be the zoo so is it going to be at the elementary is it going to be you know at Sierra High where we have or we're just saying we're always freezing in there but when we have our teacher right Arturo so just saying it would be nice if we were in a place that were comfortable um and and uh Sierra High School also I I was in the Wasps I heard some concerns of people talking about parking thinking about that it was like in a busy street and speaking about the classrooms that they you know don't feel they're too crowded or even the um the weight room the gentleman had two big giant classrooms and he was at um but the other Sierra and then now the time to Mr margosa they turned him into this one little spot here so um that green said you know that was a decision that was made but now that they're there I feel they don't feel that they fit and do you have anything to say that about them yeah since you go to Sierra High School you're okay I do like that they do have the cafeteria that they didn't have before and and you know they they have their um cafetorium and that's really nice but I just think that that's my thoughts as I'm looking at the schools that are closing but I see other schools that I think that are in need degree that we shifted I mean move to some of these other facilities for a comment I know some of the ideas that we shared in our past meeting we talked about the community center and I I really think that it's something we should embrace as the district where we can not only just use it as a community community center kind of like a One-Stop for for our students and parents but I also think that we can use the utilize it as a kind of an event center and also maybe release it or somehow if there's other Community Partners a lot of non-profit that are also looking for space because there's a lot of um we don't have a lot of land that's available so this this is a very great opportunity for the district to capitalize on on becoming a partnership not just with the city but with other non-profits within the city and maybe even embracing those in the surrounding Community because I think we're all kind of in the same boat sometimes we're looking for space I also think that in speaking with Mr Ortega I I I didn't realize about the space and at Sierra High School and it had had been moved and so I too had a concern about that and I think this is an opportunity I mean there's there's this kind of preliminary right now we're just kind of sharing ideas and I I would for me personally I I would like to kind of just just think back you know I I really want to see the sizes again I know last time we we had kind of like a site plan and we had more of a visual I mean I I hate to sit here and think about these ideas and not be able to refer back to that on the site plan the square footage and what kind of space we're looking at some of the green space I think we need to really look at all those things that um that you know our vision for this for not just you know for here for our students but also the community because we have to take the community into consideration so I really I know there's a lot of great ideas here at the table I think that we need some kind of a social services component and I think that would be great for the students I think there's a lot of um opportunities right now that we really need this is a great opportunity for our students to really uh help help them you know provide wherever the need is look at those opportunities and look at this opportunity that we have together and I really feel that as a board and a district we should reach out to our teachers because they're the ones they're the kind of the front line with students and maybe we can do like a survey just to get an idea what the need is like internally because we don't know that we we don't work with the students we hear it but I don't know that's just kind of my thoughts right very preliminary so we're to tap back to board vice president Rodriguez Pena and then we'll continue with board member Greer I guess we're going to add one thing regarding Sierra High School you know also I just learned that they um don't have a place to play their Sports they have to go to another school to use their field that's how small they are right so I think it'd be nice if they had their own field their own you know better parking and and regular facility for their classrooms that was my last comment thank you board member Greer so in my at this stage certainly um I don't have any opinions about any particular School site so what needs to happen I I appreciate and recognize that uh that there's a committee that's really going to dive deep into some of these things to be able to make some recommendations my My Hope though as as we get to the end is that there is not any I'm really just hoping for not a cookie cutter um response um I think that instead being able to see a menu of things that I think are are available to us and some creative options the first thing that I think is important is that we consider what are our District's needs so I unders I think I shared at the last meeting I'm I'm I was surprised and slightly frustrated about uh the Sierra High School thing because that had not come up when we talked about moving to our high school over to where where it is now and so I guess how can we ask the questions into the future um so that we don't find or our next iteration of the board doesn't find itself at this in this place can how can how can we do that work and do that homework so that we we have just thought about those things um and not asking a board 10 years later to to hear that in 2023 the board made this decision but didn't think about those those future things so so that's that's one of the pieces what are the district's needs as we project into into the future um I I would I almost can't or see a scenario where we don't have some type of community services centralized location I see that we have uh Mickey here with the city and and the great work that's going on with all in uh for Azusa and so looking for ways how can we partner there and and just what are what are some of the other creative things with Community organizations um as you all know I'm uh pastor at Pluto Community Church homework house is on our uh campus there at Foothill Community Church but we'd love to see are there are there ways or options for a homework house to expand and to look into others I would just love to see what are some creative ways to partner with um with our community um and and have some centralized services that already exist and make some space to invite some new organizations to provide some uh services to our city um as we dream um what what some Partnerships could look like and then I'm I'm more hesitant around sale just because when you when you sell something then you you don't have it and how can we retain some assets again to have some leverage for it for future boards to make some decisions um I was but still I I wouldn't personally wouldn't be opposed if we looked and saw that there was one or something that really made a lot of sense um I didn't I had not thought about or heard the idea of some partial sales and so when we look at the size of some of our site I could see there being some sites that are kind of I don't know how the the correct terminology but looking at selling portions and still retaining uh portions of of those sites I like the idea of that um as uh to have some revenue and how do we how do we directly do that and then and then convert that to to some projects that that are that are highly visible and and and and carry a lot of weight within our our community um and I'll and I'll leave the board the committee to to think through and staff to think through and dream up what some of those things can be um lease same thing what are some some lease options that could actually generate some Revenue um but again that's that's further down on my list it's important for Revenue to be generated but as we look at some of the community services I'm less concerned personally about Revenue generation and more about what we're able to offer within the city and then what are some other creative things that just makes sense as we look at some of the sites and so wild idea things uh they were talking about housing what could that look like if there was housing that was being provided for uh for staff or or or yeah for Teacher housing or um I know that there's been conversations around property swaps and what would it look like to take this property swap it for another property and and now we have a property that is more conducive to some creative ideas and so um would love to see some creativity baked in um and some options with them some really thought through um fun creative ideas to capitalize on this this moment that we have right I actually just have one question and when I look at the underground utilities for Central Middle School wasn't this completed already no what did we do underground at Center I am not aware of underground utilities at Center I I just thought we we had so we have you're saying we haven't dug up Center from I understand I will double check but that is my answer I think it was in the last six years okay I will double check it I I think there was something done there the only reason why I'm saying that it could have been Plumbing because if I recall on Cerritos they ran into a block right of a cement or something in it that so they had a certain plan and they had to go around the plan right so they did I will double check this evening it was just coming but underground utilities would it be a different avenue but I will double check that and report that out yeah thank you um I will try my best to be concise uh so when I think of a healthy City healthy District I think about um a great place to live work and play and then also to learn and I think um I'm I'm agreeing with my colleagues comments around harking and access and um athletic debate um I will make a specific request Mr Ortega if we could um organize a visit to Fernando Ledesma high school it's uh in the Amman Union High School District they have an amazing new gym and um uh uh Jim and uh weight room that they just built um I think that is really a vision for what um we can do for continuation school students um again as a vision right as an example um so learn live work play um I'd like to to think about what our our criteria and our goals around Recreation both as a district and also in partnership with the city what do we want the Souza Community to have in terms of recreational space what do we want our district Inner City to have in terms of places and centers that promote Health and Wellness and um I I think that looking at creative ways to retain ownership of our property but also generate revenue and how do we partner with um in a non-profit after school partner like and I'm not naming a specific group but like a boys and girls club to come in and lease one of our facilities providing another Rich opportunity for after school and wraparound programming at one of our sites that's built that's built for kids right not an office building that's inverted but a site that's really built for kids with parking and restrooms and and field space um and I think for me the a site that I think makes in my opinion makes sense and I know there's been discussions at the city level off and on with different people and different iterations is um particularly looking at kind of the one of the center Central spaces in our city and that being Slauson Middle School and looking at its unique location mirroring Memorial Park and that being a central place for recreation and Civic engagement um and and athletic activity um Slauson being one of our larger sites um it's very nice nice and square it's very open and I wonder if we're dreaming big and saying what um I'm never before seen thing could we have there could that be um a joint partnership with the city and other non-profit or for-profit Partners to use this loss in space as a soccer field as a district-based food pantry that could serve our families first and Community second um could it be a place where we could house a Wellness Center um maybe in partnership with a healthcare organization that makes sense for our community and given the square footage and the acreage of the site could it also be a place for a school Farm or a community garden and could we do all of those things and say that the between Slauson and Memorial Park this is a essential hub for recreation athletics and wellness that benefits the entire community and um those are my initial thought and I'd like to add to that regarding um central location I feel that it's off the 210 Freeway we do not have anything that is or our community and I I know that Memorial Park they do have a community garden already and it's off the 210 Freeway and this is another thing that we're asking when we had the community meeting regarding um and I'm looking at Center School to be honest with you so the the students or the children or the community can go there and also participate in the wellness center they had I'm not sure I'm sorry Mickey but I'm not going to ask the question but they had a Wellness Center at the old um sister city house I'm not sure if it's there any longer that had the nurses from Apu would come there but it would be nice if they had the same thing on the other side of the 210 Freeway just to be we're talking about Equity equal you know fairness that's what I how I feel and I just wanted to um share that um I am less concerned about a site in particular but these types of resources I I want to kind of echo um board member Greers I really would like to see a vision kind of you know thinking out of the box for lack of a better word but you know maybe with I mean technology what's always changing maybe a tech center I'm just thinking of ideas I know the city when I was working with city of Azusa the city has always looked at building a library maybe there could be a partnership with incorporating a library some ideas like that were brings the partnership both they're collaborating with the city uh just really getting creative and seeing what we could do I mean this is an opportunity we really have space here to work with and that space is not it's really for the community for the students so I I think we really need I would love to see the committee really come together and collaborate with on the thought of working with the city and partnership and I mean library book students so and there's a lot of things that happen at the library we have seniors reading the students so we you know come up with the coffee or something coffee with the cop or something so we really need to embrace that and and really think partnership and uh board president what you shared actually triggered just a couple of extra thoughts I said I wouldn't get in to create you know certain creative options but but it triggered some thoughts I think as we as we look at some of the recreational opportunities and Facilities that are out there and yes ways that we um share constituencies with with the city and so if we have fields in there yeah there are there are soccer teams and there are uh little league and there are different how can we partner with some of those entities um if what would it what could it look like if we were to to kind of carve out and have some space for a district field even if it meant that we it's not something that we are able to fully tackle uh now but but we were to carve out space to kind of begin that and and it's something that could be built upon um and if there was something some of these types of things disrepeed or other things I think it's the city in general um outside of the school district I think would be able to utilize those facilities and those resources so yeah just really big on on partnership and what are some of those things that we again we can dream and be very creative in this Junction any other comments thank you so much moving to item 13.2 approval resolution 22 23 27 declaring the month of May as Asian American and native Hawaiian Pacific Islander heritage month is there a motion motion to approve 13.2 second moved and seconded any discussion I I have um some discussion um I uh look I'm grateful that we have this resolution at our board meeting and that we've done it for the past couple of years at least and I want to take this moment to recognize the contributions of Americans of Native Americans of Asian native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander descent I um the contributions of those individuals in arts science culture language and food and um as as much as I take this moment to celebrate I'm also taking this moment to raise awareness and consciousness of some of the dark spots in our history regarding um Americans of Asian descent beginning with the 1971 Los Angeles Chinatown Massacre the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act the internment of over a hundred thousand Americans of Japanese descent during World War II the 1981 murder uh race-based murder of Vincent chin in Detroit and more recently the covid era the unprecedented rise in hate crimes against Americans of Asian descent um and at the ti again at the same time that we Embrace The Duality of our identities and our participation in Civic life the contributions and some of those dark spots I think are things that we need to hold dear to inform our future and what we do with our our U.S public education system and um so again I take this opportunity I know there are many people in this room that are the first in their family in their household in their community in their school and I want to get to the point where where um as much as we celebrate the first that we are promoting and supporting the next of us in our community and so with that um Ms Pineda your any comments from you and your student preferential vote on this item yes thank you so much and now we'll move to our vote and the motion passes unanimously moving to item 13.3 resolution 22 23 28 declaring the month of May as National mental health month is there a motion motion to approve 13.1 approval resolution 22 23 28 declaring the month of May as a national mental health month second moved and seconded any discussion and Ms Pineda yes thank you so much more members will move to a vote motion passes unanimously moving to item 14.1 we have Miss dahura good evening is that better okay no it's not um frequent the title this is the family and cabin this evening I have the pleasure of sharing information about the Unified School District partnership with over 34 million Americans according to you in September 2016 Governor Brown said methane emissions reduction targets of California which is sp 1383 in a Statewide effort to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutant and that August must be reduce organic waste disposal by 75 percent rescue for people to eat at least 20 percent of currently disposed surplus food by 2025 I first reached out to popia in 2020 when the organization received brand from the Los Angeles Department of Public Health funding was to facilitate the partnership between copia and school districts to ensure compliance by donating any Star Plus food products to put banks in that although we have seen a significant decrease in food West in our schools we still have Surplus Foods especially right before the long holiday break with an increase in food costs and the cost of living including security continues to be a problem for a large number of people and I'm glad to share that this food will go to individuals in our communities that need it instead of the trash and this is where our partnership with cook Tom Hewitt from copier will now share some additional information regarding the partnership or two entities of established and how it has benefited our community and surrounding area so hello can everybody hear me thank you for thank you for welcoming me into uh your board meeting today I come from a household of teachers so uh this is definitely meaningful to me and uh it's been a pleasure working with azus Unified School District to distribute food surplus Stella had mentioned there is a substantial problem with food waste in this country uh over 40 percent of the food is wasted and that's the equivalent of about 119 billion pounds of food so picture the Rose Bowl Stadium 90 000 seats in Southern California and visualize that filled to the brim with food waste that's how much food is thrown away every single day so where does that go it goes into landfills and uh 24 of all U.S landfills are filled with uh food waste which contributes to greenhouse gas and unfortunately that food is not being diverted to the over 34 million food insecure Americans that are in need and a solid mention not not only is donating the right thing to do but it's actually required in the state of California in January 2022 California passed SP 1383 because Municipal landfills are the third largest emitter of methane across the state 20 of the state's methane uh is a gas released from landfills and this plan was put into place to decrease the amount of short-lived climate pollutants by 75 percent uh by the year 2025.

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so thank you so much Sarah Dana thank you so much for all the time you've provided all right we do have two other student teachers who are unable to make it here with us tonight Unfortunately they were unable to make it with their schedules but Emma Roy is another individual that we would like to present a letter of intent to provide her a position for next year and she's accepted [Applause] and our final student teacher is from Regis she her name is Giselle Sanchez she goes by Gigi and we tried as hard as we could to get her to come work here next year but then she got a full ride to go study English in England so she's going to go work on her master's degree there and I've told her she always has a place we guarantee her a job here in the future and we hope that we can recruit her to come back if she decides to come back after her sojourn in England so thank you very much we really appreciate that you were able to support and we look forward to having you work for many years with us Sarah thank you come on here well can I just stay down there for the next child for sure can I do that how are you so it's gonna take us a little bit to get there you guys go first um principal Menard can you come up here all right we'll stay up here you can go together I'm sorry yeah I would go down there yeah you guys can hold her hold that in front of you there you go thank you yeah yes we need you guys let this amazing program yeah thank you thank you congratulations thank you I'm going to ask Dr botano to sit down because our next agenda item is also um for him well and before we move on I just want to thank our amazing HR department and Dr McKenna if you're watching us um because this is something that um I know we've wanted for so long and I'm so excited that we have grown our own teachers and they're going to be back and and teaching our students that they thank you experience life with so thank you so much for leading us and um especially bringing back new Partnerships that we have lost for whatever reason it's a lot of work and a lot of great work thank you but we have even more great news I love tonight this is great news yeah this is the fun part so uh about a year ago I reached out to a partner that both Jeff and I had experience with over the years University of Dubuque it's a smaller private college in Iowa that produces absolutely amazing teachers and we've partnered with University of Dubuque off and on for the last almost 20 years and Chad said I would love to bring students out to see Adams 14.

again young and old we're there to break down barriers and make sure they access this important service so thank you thank you so much [Applause] all right um we also have a proclamation director of Zubia would you please read the proclamation yep happy too sorry so I have to apologize to everybody I actually had surgery on my foot so if you guys see me being antsy and I can't go down the stairs is because I my foot's in a cast so if you hear me bumping against the thing it's all good I'm not kicking stuff Proclamation Mental Health Awareness Month May 2023 whereas mental health affects millions of people in the United States each year across all demographics and it is important to understand its physical social and financial impacts to reduce stigma and advocate for Better Health Care whereas mental health conditions are common among school-aged children in the United States with one in six children experiencing a mental health disorder whereas less than half of Americans struggling with mental illness receive the treatment they need and treatment numbers are lower among marginalized communities including people of color people identifying AS lgbtq Plus and low-income households whereas according to the Colorado Health Institute 26 to 30 percent of high school students in Adams County report symptoms of depression making it one of the counties with the highest rates of depression among youth in the state whereas recognizing that early intervention and proper treatment can improve mental health outcome Adam's 14 partners with organizations like Kids First Healthcare and the Griffith Center for Children to provide our students with access to high quality resources and counselors therefore be a proclaimed that the Board of Education of Adams County school district 14 on this date May 9 2023 declares may as mental health awareness month and invites all of our staff to engage in conversations to better understand mental health the steps we as Citizens can take to protect our mental health and the need for appropriate and accessible Mental Health Services for all people let this Proclamation enter into official record to the school district may have a motion proclaiming May 2023 as mental health awareness month so moved a second thank you Ramona broco Please Mr Amador aye Ms Estrada aye Ms Molina aye Ms dubia aye thank you everyone um I think this Proclamation Highlights part of the priorities that we've identified in our strategic plan around social emotional learning we hear you we think it's very important and I'm very happy that we're taking steps to address that um I also agree with what Whitney said we need to address the stigma of mental illness especially within our Hispanic culture I recently read that only two out of ten latinos with symptoms of mental illness talk to a doctor about it and only one in ten contact a mental health professional so it's it's something that we we struggle with and it's great that we're addressing it with our students starting young so thank you next on the agenda is National teachers week May 8th through May 12th uh Proclamation director zupiah once again I ask you to read another one one more yes yes thank you so National teachers week May 8-12 whereas Adams 14's vision is that our students will graduate empowered inspired and equipped to be who they want to be whereas through their dedicated efforts to ensure our children learn the knowledge and skills needed to be successful in college careers in life our teachers help accomplish the district's Vision wholeheartedly whereas teachers spend countless hours preparing lessons evaluating progress counseling and coaching students to be the Future Leaders of our communities whereas teachers are the backbone of our society enabling the incredible potential of our youth and service servicing as role models to instill positive lifelong values in them whereas just as we know a student's circumstances do not dictate their potential we know that having an Effective Teacher is the most important in-school factor for Student Success therefore be a Proclaim that the Board of Education of Adams County school district 14 on this date May 9 2023 declares May 8th through the 12th 2023 as now National teachers week and extends its sincere gratitude to all of our hard-working Educators that make a difference in the lives of our students every day let this Proclamation enter the official records of the school district thank you so much may I have a motion proclaiming May 8th through 12 2023 as National teachers week a motion to approve second roll call please Ramona Mr Amador aye Ms Estrada Ms Lovato aye Is Molina aye Ms Zubia aye thank you um I'm beyond grateful for our teachers you all Inspire love heal coach encourage and Lead every single day I wish we could celebrate you every single day please know we appreciate you and thank you this week uh next on the agenda is audience comments at this time we'll begin our audience comment period just a reminder that we allow three minutes per speaker this evening we have one speaker Joanna Rosa science did I mess up your last name I'm sorry signs oh well and I I should know that because that's one of my favorite singers sorry but it shares your last name thank you so much my name is Rosa signs um I haven't been in the district uh I appeared 2018.

um as far as I understand dams are also re-licensed um by I guess I don't know some federal agency do you know if the re-licensing is tied to the contract with DTE if there is a different um set of deadlines that are either before or after that so we are license exempt so we don't have a license and that was done intentionally at the time when we were commissioning the hydro because they were trying to incentivize um Hydro production at the time so we didn't have to go through all the hurdles associated with the licensed hydropower so we're we're compliant with all of the rules that all hydropower needs to do but we are licensed exempt and so we don't need a real license okay so these are these questions are not necessarily an ecological order um we're going to be updating the comprehensive plan and I'm just going to throw a hint out there maybe also to our council members that maybe the dams and what we do with the dams and what that might mean in terms of free-flowing and not free-flowing and what that means in terms of land use and things like that maybe that should be a small element of the comprehensive plan I'm just going to throw that out there as an idea obviously if some of the dams are decommissioned like Argo or Superior or whatever then that might although Superior wouldn't uh wouldn't be in the anniversity limits but that's just throwing that idea out there I'm wondering if um if Ann Arbor were to um have a municipal electric utility um whether it's an seu or some other form if there's any value um that the seu might see in generating higher power um and I mean this is probably a long way down the road but it may be something to think about I mean it is a very um resilient kind of uh Source I mean if you have a power outage or something like that it could you know that could Supply a resilience Center or something like that um I mean that's not the only alternative to doing that with other storage methods coming online but it might might be of something that's of interest to a municipal utility so it's more a statement than a question um the other question um that I had is Alan Creek is basically in a pipe and I'm wondering if Hydro power could be generated by water flowing through uh Allen Creek it may not be a whole lot um but it's already contained and maybe there's an opportunity there I sort of Doubt we'd want to do anything that the other Creek sheds because otherwise there's probably negative ecological impacts but we already have that in with Allen Creek I'm wondering if anybody's ever had that idea before whether it's looked and been looked into we haven't specifically looked at Allen Creek but we have looked at in pipe hydro and that is something that we're an area that is is a little newer um so there may be opportunities there the challenge with you know when you're looking at something like that is um you know where where who's going to get the power so are we going to be just putting it into the grid which has challenges in terms of you know again we're not getting a favorable rate yeah um so it's when we've looked at things like that in the past it's can we utilize the power at a city facility where we can where we can offset our power costs which is a lot more lucrative than paying DTE like a third of what we would be paying for it if we had to buy it from them exactly um so and when you look at something like Allen Creek where you have lots of flow for a very very short period of time and then address that is that conducive or not so um it could be explored we have not explored it in detail um but um you know if that's it's something that we could could be looked at right right yeah my son did some very small Hydro projects um when on farms in Australia actually and um so it's it's done it can be done very small scale feel again that might be something that's of interest to the seu although because the intermittency maybe it's not of that much value um and then the last idea that I had which is probably not realistic given the run of the river operating conditions that the that we have is you know essentially with pumped Hydro you have you know a a bank where you could uh um behind the dam where you could let the dam essentially uh let's say um fill up at night an extra foot or something like that and then generate at a higher rate during the daytime when there's higher higher energy demand and that Energy Service might have a better return than just a constant flow um so I mean that's a little bit off the wall but maybe it's something to look into at some point if especially if we're going to be retaining those yeah we're not we're not able to do that under our current permit operating conditions but we haven't I have not really explored is this something that could be entertained or not it would be a question we need to ask and what my guess is is that that would put when you when we were licensed exempt it's probably going to open up a lot of environmental impact things and things that we'd have to study um associated with that so but it's not a deal breaker it's something possibly that could be looked at but I have not looked into it okay good those were my questions uh does anybody have any additional uh ideas um councilmember breaks I don't apparently does um with the cat um but I just wanted to respond quickly to the concept of the comment around the comprehensive plan um well I think it's sort of interesting there's a lot of things that I think we want to do with our comprehensive planning process um we tend to not be uh at least I don't believe the scope of it this time around is to be very site specific and so it's unlikely to go into the details actually in any part of our community around um how we might use or re um reuse and reimagine certain spaces um but um sort of I think addressing sort of bigger issues that may more impact our ordinances and how we update sort of our our land use plan that way but um there may be opportunities during that process certainly to provide feedback to it and get the discussion started and otherwise any others Brian thanks again so much that was very informative I think as as usual um when you dig in deeper things get more and more complicated so it's good to be exposed to to those levels of complication that we probably didn't necessarily think about before so um I think with that um you're welcome to um uh leave the meeting our next point is maybe something of interest um so next on the agenda is a discussion of the ninth circuit um Parts decision relative to uh Berkeley California's um ban on natural gas and what I thought I might do is um provide a little bit of background for Commissioners who maybe haven't been following all the details as well as maybe listeners who are not aware of the situation so first of all I'll start with the local situation um as of now um three commissions the environmental energy and renters commission all past resolutions um you're familiar with that resolution because we passed it um and that's all within the last month dealing with um natural gas and uh connections for new construction um I think everybody's familiar with those uh two resolve Clauses in the case of the environmental commission they actually split those up and they voted on them separately with two different vote totals um one was ten to four um for the first resolution and the other was 14 to zero on the second so the first resolution resolve Clause I should say uh related to um asking the city administrator to work with city planning to draft and pass uh a uh an ordinance Banning natural gas connections with extremely limited connections for all new construction and then the second uh resolve Clause asked the city administrator and the sanding Planning Commission to draft and pass a number of um to look at a number of measures that the city um and uh could basically Implement that would incentivize all electric construction as well as we added some additional um qualifiers in there um making it also sustainable healthy reliable and affordable um and the situation in Berkeley is Berkeley passed uh a a ban and we're going to hear from Noah in a second more about that um the repeal is certainly relevant um to the first resolved Clause uh of the resolution that we passed um just some additional background information it's noteworthy that there are a hundred and four jurisdictions in the United States that have passed zero emission building ordinances so this is not just a handful or 10 or 20 or 30 there are a hundred of these um those are tracked by an entity called the building decarbon Coalition and they have a website and it includes information on each of the ordinances by project type occupancy and scope um in light of all this two weeks ago some of you may have seen this covered uh in uh M live um after well excuse me first of all I was going to talk about the City council's action but before that actually even after the Berkeley uh uh decision by this uh the court of appeals um New York State agreed to a budget deal which also includes a ban on new natural gas connections and a state of New York spokesperson stated that the ban will not include any provisions for municipalities to opt out of the requirement so that's interesting that in spite of a federal court coming to a ruling the state of California is planning on going ahead with its own uh ban and then in light of everything that has happened um last Monday city council unanimously approved what I say last Monday that's not yesterday that's a week ago um unanimously approved a resolution calling on City attorney to provide as soon as possible a public legal opinion regarding the ninth circuits uh decision in the uh case in Berkeley which is called the restaurant California Restaurant Association versus the city of Berkeley um and the resolution includes uh several whereas Clauses that I think are are relevant first of all it says whereas advisory commissions to city council such as the energy commission renters commission and the environmental commission have passed or are considering resolutions requesting Council to investigate achieving eight to zero goals through a zoning ordinance that imposes restriction on fossil gas Connections in new developments for major remodels another whereas Clause States whereas city council approved resolution R23 uh 101 directing the city administrator to negotiate a new or amended gas franchise debt to the fullest extent possible is aligned with the city's a20 polls and then the third I think important whereas Clause is whereas city council is currently prioritizing negotiations of the city's gas franchise in order to reduce fossil gas consumption and achieve the a20 goals it then says um oh where's the result Clause um yeah basically the resolve is what I mentioned that the City attorney is to provide as soon as possible a legal opinion regarding the decision so um with all of that um I think it's uh fortunate that we have as a fellow energy commissioner um Noah Levine who is an attorney uh and before um actually um city council passed their resolution last week um Wayne Apple Yard former chair of the energy commission suggested that I reach out to Noah and ask him if he'd be willing to take a look at the situation in Berkeley and present that to the energy commission and we received that or I received that from Noah and then somewhat belatedly but I reached out then to Joe to include it on today's agenda so I'm hoping that Noah's analysis helps inform not only us but also potentially the city attorney's evaluation and so I'm going to turn it over to Noah and I think Noah has a couple of slides that he's going to present and then make some comments and then we'll open it up for discussion okay thanks for that uh helpful introduction John I will attempt to share my screen here foreign are you seeing the PowerPoint presentation yep okay cool um there we are great yep uh I think I yeah you're good now even bigger maybe okay I don't know if that's bigger but anyway okay cool cool um and yeah uh thanks again John for the introduction uh I will say that this is a bit of a quick um study that I did on this but I I do think it is instructive but um the document that I that was first posted on legislite um it might have a few typos but in any case I I do also have to point out before I get started uh a quick legal disclaimer that applies to the presentation it also applies to the document if you had originally looked at the document it wasn't on there but I did have a legal disclaimer very similar to this one added to the document uh that is awesome also on registrar I believe this PowerPoint should be available on registrar but it was uh created very late so some of you may not have seen it uh which is totally fine because I will be going through it but just the disclaimer is that this the information uh contained in this presentation is provided for informational purposes only and should be and should not be construed as legal advice on any subject matter I don't represent uh the city of Ann Arbor and I don't represent the energy commission these are my own opinions all right so try to go through this as quickly as we can but uh us a little case history uh 2019 the city of Berkeley passed their natural gas ban it was called prohibition of natural gas infrastructure new buildings Berkeley Municipal Code chapter 12.8 um a little sort of uh footnote although it is I guess more than a footnote is that in California they have a State Building Code which cities can enact as is or they can make amendments to it um essentially this the state building code is a floor and cities and all Studies have the ability to enact stricter standards there is somewhat of a process I believe that the state has to approve it now I just want to be clear that Berkeley did not go through that um I believe they're building code is in chapter 10.

it was a response to the 1973 oil crisis um it has been amended a number of times since then but um originally it was certainly that was the purpose of it was to respond to that and they gave it the full title an act to increase domestic energy supplies and availability to restrain energy demand to prepare for Energy emergency at emergencies and other purposes and the part that is really most relevant here is um the Epica directs it's good directs the department of energy to set Energy Efficiency standards for appliances and it does here's the express preemption language no State regulation concerning Energy Efficiency energy use or water use of such a covered product shall be respect shall be effective with respect to that product now at the at the district court level the court looked at this statute and they took kind of a narrow interpretation of it and they they actually upheld it in favor of Berkeley um so they won at the trial court um and the reason that the trial court or the district court in our federal system is what they're referred to um the reason I did this is for two main reasons one is they were giving deference to an area of law historic historically the province of state and Rogue excuse me local regulations so historically states and cities have it's have been considered to have uh the main power in our federal system to regulate for the safety and well-being of citizens now certainly over time as the federal government has gotten bigger they've certainly intruded upon this but um this the courts still do give some deference um to making sure that uh these this historic area isn't totally trampled upon and so basically they're looking for something that's that's pretty clearly um stated another another sort of technical thing that's getting a bit in the weeds is they relied on a legal precedent that there's a presumption against preemption um again the idea being that we want to be really clear if we're going to not allow a state or local government to do something um because of preemption and again any finding a fraction should needs to be clearly stated in the statute um so with that background um The District Court look at the ordinance and said it doesn't facially regulate or mandate any particular type of product or if sorry if the ordinance does not facially regulate or mandate any particular type of product or Appliance then it's not preempted by ebca and in other words Epco only prevents the direct regulation of of appliances not does not prohibit local laws that might indirectly affect the use of regulated appliances so as we know this case was appealed to the ninth circuit and um they definitely saw things differently um they looked at Epica and they said Epco preemption is broader and that it extends to regulations that address the products themselves and the on strike and excuse me and the on-site infrastructure for their use of natural gas the appeals court decision hinges in large part of its understanding of the term energy use they said energy use is based on consumption that happens at the point of use and that this means we measure Energy Products not from where the products roll off the factory floor but from where consumers use the products and so essentially by preventing natural gas appliances from being connected to the infrastructure that's essentially regulating their energy use to a level of zero and um a person language says you're not supposed to be regulating the energy use of these products I would also point out that while the court didn't make a big deal about it they didn't they said that because of this Express uh language they said that that negates the presumption against uh preemption um and so just to be clear the presumption is sort of like a thumb on the scale uh in One Direction or like a presumption of innocence in criminal cases it's something it makes it a look like an extra sort of Burden that you have to overcome in when they saw the express language um they relied on precedent um which they said uh meant that there was no longer to be that presumption um they also saw that there was an explicit exception in the preemption section of ebca and they said that was further confirmation that ebca preemption extends to building codes because it provides this exception for a building code that meets seven very specific requirements which if you want to take a look at those they're footnoted in the document on registrar but in essence it says the code must allow for an option for a builder to meet the code requirements using national natural gas products and so they could require in return other offsets um if that's the choice that a builder would go to then they would also have to do something else like better insulation more energy if you know extra maybe efficient appliances possibly solar power it you know it'd be up to the municipality to come up with something um I would also point out the ninth circuit also uh rejected similar arguments from the Department of energy itself who filed an amicus brief um quick explanation amicus briefs can be filed by pretty much anyone uh for appeals cases or Supreme Court cases um and I also show in the next two bullets that there were several States and the City of New York as well as environmental nonprofits that also were on the side of Berkeley uh just to give you the lay of the land here on the other side you had um some Big Industry groups that were going against Berkeley and also submitted briefs not surprisingly American Gas Association National Association of home builders and National Association of Manufacturers but the the court uh really only spoke to the ones made by Doe technically it was U.S attorneys on behalf of doe um and courts will give this a little more Credence um than others that want to submit Anarchist amicus briefs but and so basic argument was pretty similar by U.S attorneys which said that state and local regulations that impose energy conservation standards or similar performance standards for the efficiency or energy consumption so and I saw those uh epic only prohibits state and local regulations that impose energy conservation standards or similar performance standards for the efficiency or energy consumption of certain appliances and as we know the court also rejected this uh again they said prevention's not that narrow and looking at the plane meaning the plain language of the statute that ebca requires a broader interpretation and also added that the ability to use covered products is meaningless if consumers can't access the natural gas available to them within the city of Berkeley uh one other thing I want to point out quickly um there was a concurring opinion um the decision was unanimous but there was a couple of Judges that wanted to also add a concurring opinion which basically they agree with the overall decision but they wanted to add something else they wanted to say basically um it's you know it's not binding but it it is interesting sometimes and in this case uh the concurring opinion um in the JoJo Scanlon seemed troubled by the Assumption in the majority opinion um again the majority opinion assumed that the presumption against preemption would be negated by that Express preemption language it in Epica and he goes on to reference the fact that occurring to him he thinks at the Supreme Court level there's conflicting lines of cases that uh it's not really clear to him uh that there's whether there should be a presumption of France in here or not but he ultimately determines that at least looking at the president and the ninth circuit that uh he he is bound to hold that presumption against preemption does not apply to the expression Express preemption provision before us today so again this is kind of reading between the lines but you could infer that without this presumption he may have descended from the majority opinion and this is something maybe that other judges would see differently in another circuit um which gets us to the current case status um as according to my knowledge Berkeley hasn't fully decided whether to appeal the case they don't have to they could appeal they could do what's known as an on Bank appeal where the entire ninth circuit instead of three randomly selected judges which is normally what you have the entire nine circuit would rehear the appeal or they could appeal to the Supreme Court um in our federal system you're guaranteed one-ups or neither of these appeals are guaranteed the courts could decline to even hear the appeal essentially um one interesting thing I'm kind of curious if they're going to do is just kind of pass a new law that is structured differently possibly doing what other cities in California have done that Berkeley chose not to do which would be amending their building code so I'm I'm very curious to see if that's what they'll do but at this point we don't know okay so getting back to how this might impact Ann Arbor um strictly speaking the ninth circuit's decision does not have binding effect in Ann Arbor so if you look at this little map here you can see the area that the ninth circuit uh has a jurisdiction over on the west side of of our country and some other little territories there clearly not Michigan Michigan is in the sixth circuit uh what's known as the eastern district of Michigan now any other any other lawyer any other judge will have to take a look at this case it'll have to be reckoned with um because at this point it's the highest court out there saying making a determination but you know this is what we refer to as persuasive precedent in legal parlance and again uh sixth circuit or any other circuit for that matter outside the ninth circuit they they are allowed to make their own legal determination if they come up with something different it's possible that could be a reason why the Supreme Court might get involved but any case um another thing to point out is the decision uh these decisions are very fact specific so just because a band like Berkeley is a struck down if another band comes along that doesn't look like Berkeley's um that that doesn't necessarily mean that this decision will apply to that man um a good attorney will try to if it comes to it you know we'll try to distinguish a different band and say why it's different than Berkeley is and why the ninth circuit decision really isn't even relevant and again just to remind you it's the red areas that Berkeley was Banning so you probably couldn't ban the appliances either but maybe you could come up with something more creative something different than what Berkeley did um so just to go through a couple potential options that we we might still be able to do um even if you know even with this nine circuit decision out there Weighing on us um again it's not binding on the stick circuit so we could potentially pass it's like Berkeley's um Ann Arbor has the same sort of ability to pass benefits uh for public health and safety um again we would have to reckon with the ninth circuit decision and there is another little wrinkle um in Michigan we might have to deal with State preemption by the Michigan building code um the bill the Michigan building code does not have an Express preemption Clause but to my knowledge it's never been challenged and no city has ever attempted to really um pass something that would run counter to the building code um that they're possible that there is that that has happened but not to my knowledge um so with these these two arguments that that does uh probably give this option A a bigger a bigger risk um of being struck down just because there's these these two hurdles um that we have to overcome it it's not to say that we couldn't do it but that's just um two things we'd have to consider um and I know as John has mentioned and as most of us are aware one one thing that we've come closest to doing is using Ann Arbor's zoning Authority too bad natural gas use um this of course is different than Berkeley's ordinance uh which used the city's inherent police powers now again I don't I can't find all right I'm not aware of a case that uh did something like this and it's a bit unclear how a court would interpret a zoning regulation with respect to epca um certainly an argument can be made that a zoning regulation bang natural gas use would also be preempted because it kind of does a similar thing to what Berkeley was doing um but again um you know it all depends what zoning regulation we come up with um on the other hand a Berkeley has been specifically banned the national gas piping which seems pretty directly tied to the Appliance um a zoning regulation potentially could be structured in a way that would seem further removed from a regulation on the gas appliances themselves and while Africa does mention zoning uh sorry building code regulations it doesn't specifically say anything to my knowledge about zoning regulations so um that being said um the exception to preemption inepca might be another way to go it might not get us exactly what we want um and possibly we could do this you know as a general ordinance as I already kind of explained through our cities uh police Powers um that's one way to do it I'm uh another thing would be a zoning regulation that complies with the building code exception spelled out um it it does specifically say building codes and not zoning but again this is just an idea um and since zoning regulations are usually something that come into play in new and approval for new projects um maybe this is something we could do again it's a bit of a spitballing brainstorm and would certainly require further research but that is certainly something that could be looked into again it's not going to be a total ban on natural gas connections because to meet the exception it can't be it has to be some sort of Regulation that favors that could favor all extra developments but still leaving Hope in some way to comply uh with the regulation to still allow natural gas uh we could hopefully accomplish something creative here um some sort of offsets that um would give us some benefits even if natural gas is installed um and hopefully maybe we could even structure something that maybe not right away but maybe over time developers see okay this is actually easier to just do it all electric and maybe it's cheaper so that is another possibility lastly we get to Natural Gas Distribution franchising this is something that admittedly I've looked at the least but it was pointed out um and I got this idea from the nine circuits opinion itself so I will say um let's see so it was in response to another argument in defense of the ordinance so uh Berkeley this is the Court's language Berkeley finally contends that preemption here would mean that the city must affirmatively make natural gas available everywhere interjecting this argument the court stated that our holding doesn't touch on whether the city has any obligation to maintain or expand the availability of a utilities delivery of gas to meters uh in one of the other concurring opinions by Judge Baker he also wrote that nor is there any indication from its text or structure that Epica speaks to the distribution of natural gas if a state or local government terminates exhaust existing gas utility service or to declines to extend such service Epco likely has no application again this is going to require further research but uh there may be there may be something here that we can do um especially since our natural gas franchise is being uh negotiated for renewal all right uh last slide so some final thoughts and recent development which I can go through quickly because uh John did uh point this out as well so any natural gas man in my opinion is going to face opposite opposition probably in the form of a lawsuit um there's just way too powerful interests with too strong of a sign Financial incentive to try and stop such bands but I mean I don't think you know I don't see that as a reason necessarily um to not do it um the ninth circuits decision also is not the last word I'm not sure gas fans and Epica preemption as well um there's certainly going to be more court cases more challenges uh this could end up at the Supreme Court depending on what other circuits do um and so we you know we could we could wait around we could maybe get greater certainty in but I mean it could be years before we have that kind of certainty and I don't really think you know we've declared a climate emergency so clearly uh you know the time is of the evidence you know we can't really afford to wait years to do nothing now as John John already mentioned uh I believe it was the May 1st anniversary council meeting that that resolution asking the City attorney to provide an analysis of the ninth circuit opinion um in relation to Ann Arbor um and I certainly applaud city council for doing this um I you know what I've seen over the years is that I don't see as much collaboration as I would like to see with the city attorney's office and this this is I think is one example where a more collaborative approach with the city attorney's office will be warranted um I mean this of course assumes that city council is supportive of limiting future natural gas hookups in some way um so I would really recommend that going forward we getting the city attorney's office and office of sustainability working together to come up with a resolution that they both think will give us the best chance to succeed now we do have to be careful with giving City attorneys advice out uh we have to keep it confidential but the uh the attorney client privilege I do not think would be broken as they say uh by including Missy Stoltz or John mursky um you know I've I've seen this in corporate settings um not not personally but observed it you know a lot of Corporations have attorneys that work hand in hand with uh business people from the beginning of a project to the end to help you know answer the potential legal questions that come up and and vet things and so I really think that that type of approach just coming up listening and then sending it to the city's attorney's office waiting two months and then they come back and say sorry you can't do that I would rather have them in from the beginning and as I said a more collaborative approach I think would be the best way to go I will stop sharing my screen and uh strategy video again here thank you Noah I'd like to open things up for discussion questions uh commissioner McKenna thank you so much no that was so informative thank you for sharing all of that um one thing I didn't hear you mentioned was uh state law preemption um where are you so I can speak to you yeah um because I believe that the state law and the state building code right like regulates the use uh enter both Energy Efficiency and also the the kind of supply of utility services so wondering your take on that and then I also wanted to share that yeah I totally agree with you in terms of working with the city attorney's office and it just based on what you outline for us of course you're a lawyer but it makes me feel like um it's really the structuring um kind of the language of what gets ultimately uh you know considered for passing within the city government is um is all about that language and that's that's kind of like what's going to make or break it um so thanks for sharing all that uh yes thanks I I did go I did mention it quickly but it's possible you you missed it and I didn't give a full analysis of it um in full disclosure this there was so many discussions between me and John earlier about looking at um State preemption um specifically when we were considering the zoning regulation um I believe it was a Home Builders Association wrote a letter basically arguing why we were preempted from doing it and I I did take a look at that and certainly you're right that is something that we're gonna have to contend with um a zoning regulation might be a way to possibly avoid preemption and I will say that um uh from uh a commenter that comes to our meetings he has gotten in touch with the original people that one of the original drafters of the building code who according to him that was not their intent to preempt uh locals look cities from you know doing their own thing now quite frankly um I haven't looked at the legislative history to tell you what it says but the Assumption I think has been that it does preempt um but again I don't think anyone has really ever challenged whether or not the building code does print it there certainly isn't um very expressed language doing so um I do think there is some language that says that yes cities can't essentially make their own building codes so we would but that's not what Berkeley did either like like I said they they they could have done it through their building code but they didn't so again um it's something that is going to be a dual a dual threat is State preemption and federal preemption commission Peck I mean I think my connection is strange since I'm in my office but um what about using a tax structure hmm um yeah yeah I mean you're saying like what are we taxing I guess I have a hundred dollars a nano liter of natural gas oh I see what you're saying um yeah I I I really don't know I'd have to look into what the taxing uh Authority that the city has is it I it it might be possible as far as I know it's very very restrictive in Michigan but it's again something to look at I think it's not you know a bad idea a council member Briggs yeah um I just want to say thank you to Noah for um putting together this presentation and going into it it's really helpful to to go through the the facts of the case and understand how it is you know similar and different from um what we what we've been contemplating but certainly as you're writing this is certainly guidance that everybody's looking at right now which is um to the point that um Council was very aware that this is a point of interest um to multiple Commissions in the city that commissions have as you saw in the whereas Clauses of that resolution um it's it's very unusual for the city attorney's office to provide a public opinion on an issue we have confidential information for a reason um but because there is so much interest in this both amongst our advisory commissions and amongst the community at large um we wanted to make sure that we provided some um some guidance from some some thoughts from our city attorney's office um on this matter so um that will be something I'm sure that folks will be interested to see if it's coming out but um recognizing that um there will be things that our city attorney's office will not be saying because they they need to be kept confidential as well because that's guidance that's provided but I do want to um just say a little bit about how the city attorney's office works in the city um which is obviously it's an advice it advises Council and it also advises the organization as a whole so there is there is that collaboration that is happening or um between staff and the city attorney's office quite frequently in terms of those conversations um the free flow of ideas and you know and we also have um we've brought in specialized staff as well for for certain OSI related issues that we're able to to work with as well but um so you know Dr Stoltz for example one would be something of this this nature would be um a part of those those internal um confidential briefings as well so um in terms of how far out those that that information can go that's that's obviously um they serve a certain purpose in the organization um so we have to be be careful about that but um I'm happy to provide more information or I'm sure Travis will be happy to speak to you know kind of have that the role or the functioning of the the attorney Administration yeah uh thanks for uh clarifying that uh collaboration exists and um something else I was gonna say that slipped out of my hand but anyway chime in here and say that uh I hadn't seen Nova slides before he presented them tonight um and um the suggestion that I'd be involved is maybe something that uh Noah thought maybe came up in in email exchanges or conversations but it wasn't something that I specifically um recommended or asked for and I I can imagine it would be unlikely that someone like me would be involved um just because I'm sure and I will be chair anyhow uh after this meeting and there's probably people in the city's orbit I'll call it that way that are better qualified to interact with the city attorney and with staff than than I am um but I think that's maybe the general thrust is to to bring in multiple inputs maybe even from the University of Michigan there may be legal experts there that uh would be um uh willing to provide either pro bono or you know a fee service on on Consulting on this matter I think that's maybe the the more broader with a broader funnel yeah that's correct and you're uh okay uh you're right um you know you do have to be careful about how big a sphere that you expand that to but and it is a little bit unclear but certainly um it is greater that the client as defined in the client attorney privilege is greater than just city council it does it certainly extend to senior staff members um arguably it could extend the City commissioners too but we don't have city of Ann Arbor emails which does complicate things yeah and you're right I mean it's so definitely senior staffer um are included on in the relevant um conversations on certain topic areas um because that is it's critical that they also um have that guidance and advice as well um you know I guess I would just like to speak that to the point that um you know we are we're definitely as needed on different issues um you you will see for different issues that the city um is facing whether it's Gelman or you know different OSI we we bring in um we will um contract Professional Services with Specialists um in certain legal areas when we need that for certain different types of cases that we may not have that inside expertise on so that's something that the city um has a has a history of doing and certainly um will continue doing you know we'll continue to do moving forward and we certainly do within OSI issues as well so um it's important we um you know this is a highly functioning Professional Organization and so um we'd look at each of these issues um recognizing that um just like in Berkeley there's there's a lot of different entities that are paying attention to these issues and we need to make sure that we are operating in a way that is um you know fulfilling the policy goals and the the values of our community and also um being responsible stewards of our of our tax dollars council member Edina thanks um and I'll just briefly follow up a little bit on the uh mostly because I know that this is not unique to this body and some of the other commissions that I work with I know that there are a lot of times where Commissioners in particular would like to have kind of more access to Legal staff and and legal advice and those types of things and um I want to acknowledge and this is not specific obviously to John or to any of the other chairs that we would work with but in any of these circumstances a lot of the times that we have this privilege as I know so many of you know is because we're talking about potential litigation that the city might be engaged in and the more people who have access to that information the more chance there is that one person could break that trust um and and if that happens we're suddenly broadcasting our potential you know legal case our legal position out to those who might sue us who are those who are watching a commission meeting or um and so keeping that sphere really really close particularly on things like this where we are working with an issue that's working its way through the courts and we're um we're paying attention and we're learning and we're also developing our own legal strategies to move forward it's really important to keep that that Circle pretty close other comments or questions I'm going to weigh in with a few thoughts of my own um first of all I wanted to go out a little bit so that we look at the resolution that we passed at least with both resolved Clauses and look at this issue a little bit more holistically um so what we've been dealing with specifically is the first resolve Clause related to a ban or what we also indicated would be one with potentially limited exceptions and I think maybe that's something that also be considered um when I'm crafting something if we were to take that route and hopefully the city's attorney would would consider that so maybe there are ways of and apparently Berkeley may have done this as well but that's something obviously to look at is is how how limiting it is versus uh you know if it's it's a little bit looser then maybe it provides the the latitude that allows us to um pass um legal review at uh um at whatever level is uh finally going to make a decision just wanted to throw that idea out secondly what I wanted to mention is um well I actually have a question there's there's this idea of home rule and Noah what what does that mean in a case like this and does it apply to the city and what rights does it give to the city or or you know in a case like this is that at all applicable uh I have heard people throw this around um that that we have we're what's known as a home rule state and yeah I believe that mostly applies to Regional or to local zoning laws that we have the ability to do that it's not regionally done um I suppose I I apologize I'm not sure if it applies to other things so much but I would say that um at least I I think oftentimes that can apply to building codes too but if that was the case I think that's negated by the state building code for the most part um so maybe yes there still is this background principle of home rule but there's been other stuff that's layered on top of that over the years that really has stripped a lot of that home rule away and I think mostly what exists now is our our zoning authority to make um zoning decisions that aren't done regionally but again I'm a little bit uncertain about that okay okay well maybe it's something again that cities attorneys uh the city attorney's office would uh would look at in terms of its applicability in this case what I wanted to do is focus at least a little bit on the second resolve clause and contrast it to the resolution passed by Council last Monday so um the second resolved Clause is something that I would encourage Council to consider it's not even mentioned in the resolution that it passed on the Berkeley case um but I'd like to pass on that I sent a list of seven different possible ways we talked about measures that could incentivize all electric construction I sent her and encouraged her to share them with anyone she wanted including other planning Commissioners as well as Brett Leonard um they ranged from everything from a moratorium and cities often declare moratoriums when they're trying to settle something out so that might be a strategy that the city could take there are jurisdictions in Washington County that have uh past the moratoriums and even extended those um and that might be something to look at uh there was the idea that uh commissioner Peck brought up about taxes another way of looking at is fees we provide we we charge a number of different fees um maybe there's a way of doing that so like I said there's there's um seven or eight different things um that uh I think and just even looking at those might set off a brainstorming session with people within City staff that might come up with other ideas so I really want uh to emphasize that we shouldn't um neglect that and the other thing and then uh then I'll recognize you uh council member Briggs is I'm I'm personally very concerned with the idea that the franchise is going to solve our problems um so first of all the franchise uh runs through 2027 that doesn't mean that the franchise agreement couldn't be reached before that um and that would um preempt the existing potentially the existing franchise but remember the franchise um only governs um how gas is going to be delivered and how there might be a transition and I think first of all we have to recognize at least I'll speak for myself I'm not certain that DTE is going to be um particularly interested in advancing Ann Arbor's interests um that means it might drag its seat in the negotiations um it may not be a good faith actor um in in how it deals with the city so it it probably does not benefit um from reaching any kind of new franchise agreement that meets the conditions of a20 I mean DTE came out in writing and said that they are opposed to the Natural Gas Provisions um in the a20 plan so it's pretty clear that they they are not uh interested in in accommodating Ann Arbor's interest the other thing is that even if we had a fantastic new franchise agreement um that doesn't the whole time between now and when that is signed uh as we've seen with essentially one approval per month of new natural gas construction uh construction um those potentially are going to continue to be approved certainly by right construction I mean we the city cannot do anything with buy right and once those are are installed or once those are built those natural gas supplied assets are going to continue to burn natural gas for many many years and the kinds of things that our solutions for getting away from natural gas like um geothermal or Wastewater geothermal or moving to biogas or using hydrogen or a mix of hydrogen these kinds of things are not going to be introduced at the flip of a switch so even if we have a wonderful new franchise agreement it's very unlikely that we're going to be significantly reducing the flow of natural gas for many many years and so I'm I'm really concerned with the the one whereas clause in the resolution uh that is passed by Council and then also um Shannon shared a Shannon Gib Randall Planning Commission share shared an email exchange that she had with Brett Leonard where Brett said to her let's see if I have it here in front of me um he wrote um no in and she well Shannon wrote This Way um I got an email from John mursky about timing for natural gas ban any news for me on that front I am enthusiastic to work on the carrots and sticks approach that I brought up a few weeks ago if the band seems infeasible um for a long time frame and then Brett responded no as the city council has directed staff to pursue pursue a new or amended gas franchise I think that makes sense for the Planning Commission to weight that outcome in the incentive-based approach would be difficult to implement currently in the context of other work priorities EC EG tc1 or uh zoning premiums or other ordinance changes and the upcoming upcoming comprehensive plan so the concern that I have is that we are putting our eggs in one basket potentially with a natural gas franchise and in the meantime we're continuing to have new construction that is going to be natural gas connected and burning natural gas for a long long time so I just wanted to express those publicly those are my my thoughts I'm I know that they're shared by others and I hope that the city actually in light of uh Noah's presentation looks at the first resolve clause and the possible approaches there that would differ from Berkeley look at also what it could do in terms of measures to incentivize all all electric construction um and and not just um consider the natural gas franchise I think it should be doing all three personally so that's my input and council member Ricks yeah thanks um I guess I wanted to provide an update that um we are in the midst of developing a resolution around the incentives the second resolved Clause around the incentives and um obviously this is budget season right now our next meeting for city council is a big one in terms of adopting cities budget not to say that this is not an important topic but that is the focus of of staff and Council right now um but I would anticipate that um we are likely to be seeing that that resolution go to council um in in early June um so uh that that is on um staff's radar um it's in on the radar excellent news attorney's office um and and um multiple council members are are working on that so um that's an update there um I would also like to note that that that conversation um obviously everything that that we do is as council members and staff members and and commission members really is is open to foia and it's it's public information and that's how I operate in terms of everything that goes out as well um but that may not have been um you know that email communication between uh um staff member and Planning Commission and a Planning Commission member might have been um sort of a point of discussion for within Planning Commission at that point in time so I guess I would be be cautious about um you know reading those types of emails over um and kind of in this setting I'm not sure it's just for your information I asked Shannon if I could um read it in this setting she contacted Brett and Brett fed back that I could okay yes and I also shared the information about the resolution that was passed last last Monday so thank you thank you for saying that that that's helpful I'm glad that you did that um so anyway we we are working on this um and um you know I at least from my perspective and I I think from all the colleagues that I have spoken to um city has passed I'm an emergency um we recognize that we have adopted 20 30 climate neutrality goals um and we have a staff and a city attorney's office that is recognizes that this is a priority for not only for our community through our adopted plans but also through Council and so we have a lot of energy and resources directed on this issue and we're trying to to move forward in a way that we believe is is the most productive for this moment in time and that does not mean that the decisions that the approach that gets made today um will be our approach for the indefinite future um but that um especially when we're beginning negotiations we are certainly going to do our part to begin those negotiations in good faith does anybody else have anything that they want to share okay and we will close that agenda item and then go on to commission business and that means specifically election of officers as I mentioned in our last meeting our bylaws limit officers from serving more than three years in their individual office uh that applies to both Carlene and me um I as chair and Carlene as Vice chair and so um what we want to do tonight is um elect a new chair and elect a new Vice chair um I think it's also appropriate that we uh review the liaison to the environmental commission that's not officially an office that's governed by the bylaws but I think it's something that makes sense that we review one more time uh or at least on an annual basis I should say uh and so what I thought we would do then first is um open up nominations for chair of the commission um we'll take nominations uh you can nominate someone else you can nominate yourself uh and so I'd like to open uh the floor for nominations for chair of the commission and by the way um the um after the election the new officers will assume their roles as of June 1st do we have any nominations commissioner Macomber and traditional radina First maybe our council member redeem and then Commissioner of a congress uh thank you um I nominate uh Carlene Colvin Garcia per chair and can I nominate somebody for a vice chair as well why don't we do one at a time okay okay um Carlene um do you accept the nomination thank you so much commissioner McCumber I really appreciate that and I am going to decline your nomination thank you though uh councilmember adino I was going to ask if anyone had previously expressed any interest to you um leading into this meeting um and if not we might have an awkward round of people declining nominations um that being said I'm going to put someone on the spot because I'd already indicated to him that I thought he might be a good chair and so he can decline us if he's going to but I'm I'm going to nominate commissioner Berkowitz I don't know if I can nominate actually I'm going to suggest that someone should nominate you're you're a voting member of the commission so I would assume that you can uh thank you councilman for Regina I'm definitely interested but candidly um I'm at a really interesting point in my life uh personally and professionally and that was not the perfect time for me to step into this role I also feel a little bit new on this commission I'm still kind of learning the ropes and the Cadence and um some of the Roberts rules and behind the scenes things so I would just like a little bit more time but I am interested in the future thank you though we won't we won't let you forget that or we won't forget that I should say um I I understand so um I have not been partied any discussions um with any Commissioners uh so I I I can't shed any light I understand that there was a conversation between um Joe and one commissioner and I don't know what that led to or any specifics and I don't think we want to talk about that here um so but I just wanted to share that um at least from my perspectives there hasn't been any discussions um Carlene and I had a brief discussion um about ourselves um and you know anybody is is able to change their mind um I don't know if anybody else had approached um Joe or Carlene but um I'd continue to like to take nominations if anybody else is interested in stepping forward laminate um Alex Commissioners are you uh interested I I think I'm gonna respectfully decline I appreciate the thought thank you so I'm gonna I'm gonna nominate someone and that individual should feel free also to um speak their piece uh I'm gonna nominate uh commissioner Smith Charisse are you interested at all in in serving uh thank you very much for the the nomination I am also going to respectfully decline the chair position uh that said I would you know maybe interested in the the vice chair position um so good to know uh councilman verdina yeah I think that leaves Commissioners McKenna and overpeck right of people not leaving the commission so so if neither of you raised your hand we're just going to keep going so I I will nominate uh commissioner McKenna all right everyone had a great time for me personally and um yeah I just I just don't think I can take on the role uh silence is golden or in this case maybe not so golden we really do need somebody to step up um and I I've a member of another group now where I serve as as uh the the vice or the co-lead um and I have to say that you know Carlene and I have collaborated a lot and um I think if two people step forward um then you can split duties um you know I talked in the last meeting about the things that I do that doesn't mean you have to do all of those things and that doesn't mean that the chair has to assume all of those duties you can split them up um in terms of uh preparing for meetings as I mentioned yesterday uh five of us met to consider new commission applicants I did some Preparatory work as chair that doesn't mean that the chair has to do that that means the chair could delegate those things or or just simply reach out an agreement with the co-chair to do that so I would encourage um people to think about stepping forward in light of that um and uh commissioner McCumber you want to ask us to that too hopefully um so I have a an orthodox idea um John would you consider accepting a nomination as Vice chair and um uh if John accepted nomination as a vice chair would you consider a nomination reconsider a nomination for chair I'll let Cherise answer first foreign probably have to respectfully decline um unless you know kind of roles and responsibilities perhaps look a little bit different I heard the you know term co-chair if there was you know some you know flexibility there I may reconsider but again just want to be mindful of um you know how much I take on at this time again just personally professionally and what makes the most sense for me but absolutely interested in you know kind of supporting the the commission uh the best that I came commissioner McKenna yeah I just wanted to hear a little bit more about the timeline like uh given the stalemate that we seem to have um I mean I I totally I think all of us are um kind of in a tough spot um I don't know so yeah what what happens from here um I mean knowing that we can't spend you know another 45 five minutes in this place Point uh looks like uh council member Adina has a great idea that he's excited to share with us I I don't know that if it's that it's a great idea I just wanted to kind of build on what John has already said which is that you know on on top of the fact that um you know I would say that that John is of all the chairs that I work with on my commission is probably one of the the kind of the most engaged and leading uh the commission and and puts probably the most time in I would say um and it's clear that he's really really passionate about this but he does really I would say go over and above in terms of the work that he puts in um and so uh I will and with that I wanted to acknowledge I don't believe John is immediately leaving the commission right and so John is not leaving Carlene is not immediately leaving Erica and I are still here um and and Joe continues to be a great support person and so I hope that no one feels that they have to be as um you know there there will be a significant support system in the five of us in place to help make sure that there is a smooth transition and that whoever steps into this role can step into it comfortably um and that may mean that there's kind of a ramping up period where there is a support network around you kind of helping you to build towards that especially as some of these you know other professional or personal things that are going on build out so I don't want you to feel like you're going to step in on day one and everyone else is going to disappear um we will all still be here to support kind of your development as a leader of this body agreed uh commissioner McCoy and then councilmember Briggs yeah I'm curious um with what like Claire said is if this has to be votan tonight I think there's also a handful of people who aren't here from my understanding I'm I'm not well there are a few people that aren't here but actually um commissioner Kerber is not here and he's stepping down and commissioner uh Kendall Conan is also not here she's stepping down let's see about this and he said he's not interested at this time okay okay and then perhaps perhaps not for I mean we didn't get to the environmental commission uh liaison but I just wanted to note that I know in the past um like the person who decided to do that was like relatively new so um if if there ends up not being someone here interested I think you know we haven't had someone I think for a while so uh we could also offer that up to it sounds like there's going to be a lot of new people soon so I think that's also an option perhaps not for chair and vice chair but um the third option so if it doesn't have to be decided tonight that would be quite something if we uh the mayor nominated someone Council approved them and we anointed them cheer all in the matter of one month councilmember Grace yeah um I just wanted to make sure I formally uh we called on everybody around the screen so commissioner overpack I don't know if you uh uh would consider um stepping into the the chair rule or not thank you councilwoman Briggs I am sorely tempted but I'm also um I just don't have the bandwidth I have got a job that is keeping them on my toes um and Ember stop laughing um and I uh I just can't add more to my plate you have some amazing opportunities occurring here at the University of Michigan and I want to be able to do my job and take advantage of them thanks thanks though thankfully I understand commissioner Levin we haven't tagged you yet either any any thoughts or anything you want to share with with the rest of the commission to as far as stepping forward uh yeah I mean I guess I'm kind of in a similar thinking of other people I also I think I have to look at to how many how much longer my commission goes till not that I couldn't potentially renew it I'm not sure if I'm going to do that but I actually don't I think I have maybe a year do you know Jeff I was just going to say that regardless of anyone's term length technically the the officer positions are all one-year terms regardless and you know it continues each year so even if you only have one year that is fine either way I don't know off top of my head what your term is but both for you and for everyone else you know you're not committing to serve as chair for three years at this point in time you can certainly choose you know if you know test it out for a year if after a year like that's way too much work it's fully acceptable to step back at that time so exactly just noting that for in case anyone's you know concerned about length of term and all that yep and no I know for sure you're you're you have at least one more year I I don't remember if it's one or two I think it's it's either one or two okay yeah thanks so just as a really quick recap we have obviously the meetings that the chair and vice chair uh preside over with uh mostly the chair so far with John but you can actually split it as well between both roles um and with the support of Joe and a participation from from all of us as far as the scripts the setting of the running of the meeting um so John has created these really great structures for like how to run the reading and scripts that's something that we can also provide for the incoming chair um so there are templates for for the entire role for you to for you to um utilize if you if you don't want to create them for yourself from scratch the other thing is there is a monthly meeting that's 30 minutes where we decide on upcoming topics uh for the meetings based on availability of speakers based on interest from the commission and then at the at the beginning of of the year we have a meeting that we decide on um and you are you've answered surveys from from us requesting you know topics so we go over the entire list and then we decide what we're going to be um covering and And discussing for the the first leg of the year and then we we do that like quarterly and uh so it's it's very it's very contained times that we meet and uh so it's not that overwhelming yeah and just in case it wasn't you know clear who does what and all that stuff like everything that gets uploaded to legendstar everything that gets uploaded and put through that system like that's on the staff liaison not a thing that the chair has to worry about um or vice chair or anything like that so a lot of those you know um administrative processes go through um on my end so yeah and and I don't have to say this but I will say this Joe is doing an excellent job as liaison um that uh there were there were issues in the past with things getting posted registrar and things like that I mean I Joe has been really really uh great and consistent um I mean you you can see for yourself registrar is almost always up to date um and if there were for example late materials like today with Noah's presentation that's simply because um this was a late request of actually presenting in this forum and so and he wanted a particular slide deck so this is no no reflection whatsoever on JoJo's doing a great job and he's a great partner for both Carlene and me um it sounds like um we have a stalemate um and I don't want to just uh wait out somebody um tonight that that's really not fair what I would uh encourage uh people to do is think about this uh we will be bringing on some new members but I don't think it's fair to ask them um to do that um maybe there are some people that Talk Amongst you about uh this you feel free to talk to me and Carlene uh councilmember Briggs and councilmember Adina as well as to Joe um I just would say that uh maybe we leave this for right now um is anybody have any objections to that okay so is everyone kind of close I mean if they would really want to have like a partner instead of like you know Chair by share maybe two co-chairs anybody who's kind of close everyone's got their poker faces on oh come on I can see Claire you're kind of interested in same in you Cherise yes a little and so Alex you too I can tell I think I just want a little bit more like personal time to consider it given my just my my program and everything I have going on in my life understood totally understand uh did you want to share anything you had your hand there for a second yeah I mean the longer this goes on to say okay or like do it but if we wanted to wait till the next meeting that might be helpful to me to figure out some decisions that I will be making in my personal and professional life in the next couple weeks yeah yeah okay why don't we do that I mean I I think um we've heard from everybody there's a significant reluctance and that's not going to change by having uh another five minute wait or whatever so I think everybody's sleeping over it people having an opportunity to talk to each other that makes a lot more sense um what about um environmental commission liaison um does anybody um have an interest in doing that um I mean why don't we have to go through formal nominations um is there anybody that's that's interested in in stepping up and taking that on I mean I I I'll I'll volunteer to do it again it's something that I enjoy um but uh we've had situations in the past there was a period where um I think it was Edie um Juno that uh served in that role for roughly roughly 18 months um before she moved away from the city um and if anybody wants to step forward now that would be great I think you'd learn a lot from the opportunity um again it's relatively little commitment there's a meeting once a month and what you do beyond that is up to you just like almost any other volunteer role there's no you're not really taking on any chair kind of rules um commissioner Levin I mean certainly I will I'll let you do it John but I was gonna say I I would be interested if no one else other than you wants to do it uh okay good um commissioner um Smith yeah I don't know if this is the right time to bring this up but you know perhaps as a future agenda item um if we may consider kind of the overlap in our work with the Planning Commission as well as the Transportation Commission and think about whether or not it makes sense to have a liaison there as well that's something to consider so why why don't we do the following why don't we table everything no and I can talk um I I have no problem um in handing things over to you Noah and then you could punt back to me if you're you know that that doesn't work out why don't you and I talk and we handle all this then in next month's meeting um I think uh I don't know how we work around the bylaws but we'll just uh simply say that I'll I'll chair the next meeting my wife may not be too pleased with that but uh that's that's okay and uh hopefully we'll have a better discussion and a few people step forward so uh commissioner Levin and then councilmember um radina and then um commissioner Peck yeah just another real quick suggestion again I I don't know if the bylaws allow this but maybe we could have some sort of caretaker Arrangement where where there's like a rotating every month somebody else does it until we get a permanent person just a suggestion I don't know if that's possible but okay something we can talk about maybe I don't know Joe you may have to talk to someone in the attorney's office um about this I mean they've been ones that have um written and updated and interpreted the bylaws up until now um council member Dina thanks and maybe I should defer to Joe but because I was like I was actually going to suggest also if anybody has you know questions or ideas if you know Commissioners McKenna and Smith if you guys both decide you're kind of interested and maybe we'd be interested in a co-chair position or something like that um you know that would probably also require an amendment to bylaws and so um but if that's something that you're interested in maybe have a conversation with Joe ahead of time and that way we could come prepared for that possibility as well at the next meeting um so Joe I'm I'm maybe offering you up as if anybody has questions or wants to maybe express interest to reach out to you yeah obviously the time commitment of the chair is not in the meetings because whether you're chair or not you're in the meeting just as long as everybody else um so as Carlene said um that kind of work is uh pretty much per script um and then it depends then on what you do outside the meeting uh and that's going to depend on each one of you individually commissioner Peck and then Joe yeah I just wanted to say John thank you so much for being a such a good chair I think he just intimidated us all by being so thorough and and dedicated and inspirational um but I also have a solution and that is uh you do a name change I wish I could I'll run that by my wife too and see what she says well thanks for the compliment I appreciate that Joe I hope you have another idea that's better better even than that one you know yeah clearly uh no I don't necessarily have a solution um but I think just in terms of like Logistics because of the way um you know bios work terms work all that kind of thing because you know technically your you know your terms do run through you know the end of May um so that you know that that at least gives us you know enough time to you know under that to kind of set up the next month's agenda kind of a deal um so you know we will at least be able to handle that and I think you know first first thing on the agenda will be um you know the elections that we would kind of formally move um to that um obviously like in the meeting you know whoever's ends up stepping up and being elected two chairs not gonna be required to then run that full meeting because you will have no notice um like we can handle that on our ends we'll figure out some some solution for that um yeah I will I'll just reach out to make sure to see what kind of things we have on the clerk's office um again just looking directly at the bylaws as of right now um again officers shall be elected for one-year terms um so any you know it gives some stuff on like when the votes and stuff should take place um you know if if we're looking at other sort of solutions it would require an amendment to the bylaws which are things that you know can be done it's just again another another possibility there um so those are kind of where we're at on that end um again just offering up my you know myself all of us more than happy to talk to anyone um you know at literally any time um you know we can go through kind of what are the you know what are the requirements what are some of the you know responsibilities things like that um as well as talk through you know time commitments obviously everyone has so many things going on um and these are all valid reasons um to you know not be interested at this point in time um but more than happy to just kind of talk through any of that to see like you know if there's those concerns if you know what uh where we can work around with those concerns kind of find out um you know what what kind of options could potentially work so have you do that all you know I think everyone else has offered up that as well um so please reach out to us in this time as we all reflect and I'm going to say this with a little bit of just um but this is to the nominating committee um when we nominate candidates maybe we need to think that we need to nominate people like me that are retired and and have all kinds of free time that are willing to step forward to serve as chair because if we nominate all these really super Dynamic people that have families and have jobs and are getting their phds they have other priorities than someone like I do so maybe that's something to think about going forward council member Briggs that's a good point um but I I just wanted to make sure that I said um thank you to you John and to Carlene um really your leadership on this commission has been incredible um both of you and I know that um you will spend an incredible amount of time on both on subcommittees and an organization of of the agendas and research and um you know it is it's um it's apparent obviously in terms of how people see the rules um stepping into them um and it's been apparent in terms of the outcomes of the commission as well um but I think you know you've you've both done an outstanding job and um really really appreciate your service to the commission and for those who are contemplating you know what's coming next um as Travis said please reach out to me to Travis to Joe and we're happy to talk through it with you obviously both traps and I serve on a number of different commissions and so you know we see how the role plays out in in a variety of different different places um you know the so happy to have to talk through what your concerns are and you know what your interests are too because um you know this is hopefully something that you know is is enjoyable for everybody so thank you it is it is a pleasure to serve it's um it's obviously some work but it's also a pleasure and uh so yeah consider that as well okay so we're gonna move on because otherwise we're going to be here all night uh Energy report and then news um uh from each one of the uh Commissioners and from the council members will do it in that order yes give me one second I think something happened with Trish who dropped and I okay creating them okay um yeah reports on OSI side um so one just because we we talked about it uh both at the last meeting and this one um just wanting to note that the city is going to be hosting a couple listening sessions for folks to share their ideas about uh the sustainable heating franchise uh here uh in in what that could mean in Ann Arbor uh there'll be uh currently scheduled meetings are uh May 11th at 6 pm and May 16th also at 6 p.m um you can register on our our website uh those those will resume um also the uh we'll be looking at additional opportunities to provide uh feedback outside of those those are just ones scheduled at the moment and people can also share feedback uh Anytime by emailing franchise feedback a2gov.org so if anyone is interested in learning more and providing feedback there's a couple opportunities there um also putting out because this will happen in advance of our next meeting but a20 week will be happening in the first week of June um for those unfamiliar there's a week full of events uh you know some hosted by OSI some hosted by the various um collaborators um around just kind of all things that's happening around a20 um as well as just all the different sustainably work on in the community uh there's gonna be a lot of different events pretty much one well there is at least one event every day some days of two or three events um so uh keep an eye on uh the sustainabilities uh events page um to see what events are happening if you're interested in any of them uh we'd love to see out there um and the last thing I want to note I believe uh many of you have seen But for for those who have not um just recently the city of Ann Arbor we've been selected by the department of energy uh to receive up to uh 588 thousand dollars to design a geothermal heating and cooling system uh we'll be uh designing it uh in Bryant neighborhood on the city south side uh looking at a loop geothermal system that would be paired with efficiency and rooftop solar uh also looking at battery storage and all that to cover at least 75 of the neighborhood's Heating and Cooling load um would also be incorporating uh the local school in the area a County Community Mental Health Center and the city's wheeler service center facility all is part of that um so and just to be clear this is a a two-phase grant from the Department of energy the first phase which is what we were awarded for is a design phase so that's what we're getting start we're going through the negotiations and we'll be working on with that all of it is going to be co-designed with residents directly in the neighborhood to make sure everything works for them and then at the conclusion of the first phase doe will look at all the different designs from the different communities they were awarded in Phase One and down select a certain subset of communities uh for dollars to do implement so right now just in the design phase and then you know that will last a year and then after that um there's the potential for um implementation dollars on that end so that is what I have for now thanks Joe by the way um I asked Joe to put all of you on the OSI newsletter so hopefully you're receiving that and getting updates um that that way as well uh and so I encourage you to read that and that way you don't have to um we don't have to joke or each and every one of the points that are in the newsletter in this meeting then too um updates from the council members I feel like we've discussed the thing that I would have given you an update on which is the uh requested uh public legal memo um so I don't think we need to wade into that again um and then uh just a more General update we are very much in the midst of budget uh so our next uh we have budget uh Amendment deadlines this week and then um next council meeting will be the consideration of amendments in adoption of the budget I have a quick question on that um I'd send an email to the two of you and then I started going through the 400 or whatever pages of the budget and probably made it through 100 or so I did not see a summary of climate millage spending is there is there a summary of that similar to what the city put out prior to um the um vote in November where there was a two-year budget where there could be a comparison of what the at least uh pre-voked uh proposal was versus what is actually proposed in the plan I didn't see that like I said if either of you seen that um it's not laid out like that in the budget um in the way it there's not no comparable page that you could go into go to as far as I'm aware in the in in the budget document that would kind of give you that comparison um it's because they kind of get it put into different buckets um in terms of how the you know it's thought of in terms of budgeting terms um certainly that and Joe you may want to speak more to this but um this you know it's uh that is the guiding document um in terms of allocations um I realize things are budgeted on a departmental basis and not by the millage basis the the concern that I have is is that the city voted for seven million dollars in additional spending the one line item that I saw was that there's an additional eight and a half heads um for sustainability um and I assume most of that is going to be in OSI but there were a whole lot of other you know specific kinds of commitments I guess you'd say I mean I think that's the way missy also portrayed it in a presentation to the energy commission that uh we the city would most likely not be deviating significantly from that two-year plan um I also saw your question that you submitted council member Briggs and I saw the response um from City staff and it just seems to me that it the seven million dollars is just going to be Blended in and Noble no one will have any means of really seeing how the proposed spending is actually being translated into actual spending questions I uh I don't have additional context on like how it fits in with the budget because I don't I'm not I'm not the budget here um but you know one of the things we you know are trying to do is be as transparent as possible like we said we we changed as little as possible on our end from you know again what was put before the voters um and uh you know trying to report out um as best we can you know previously you know we've done our annual reports every year on what's kind of happening uh we plan to continue that going forward but based around that uh funding cycle um to you know as as clearly show as we possibly can here's here's where that funding is going um because this was a you know a substantial amount of funding put forth from the community so we want to make sure we are showing where that funding is going um and how it's being implemented good anything else to add from either council members okay uh go ahead councilmember Briggs anything I was just gonna say I mean I think your point around just making sure that there's transparency and clear communication is it's a priority for I think for all of us to make sure that um the community understands how the millage is being spent um and you know that's that's certainly a priority um as we go through this and as we have yet after certainly as we have the adopted budget good yeah and and and I will also just add I mean there there are a lot of pieces in here I know that this is the one that that you're probably most interested in given the work on this commission there are a lot of places where you'll see you know a bigger bucket of funds and you won't see like each individual expenditure in the document that we have um and a lot of that is because some of it is being Guided by previously adopted policy and right so right so in this specific example we as Council have already spoken on how those allocations should be made and so beyond the the additional staff support that may be funded through millage dollars um to to accomplish some of that work um you know if there are contracts or things like that that need to come forward those will all come through Council and you will see where those dollars are coming from and so you'll see those allocations as they're being made okay thank you I'll give a brief report um on the environmental commission and I wanted to mention one other thing and then we'll open it up to other Commissioners um if they have any news uh very very briefly environmental commission um uh it passed as I mentioned the natural gas resolution that we talked about earlier was split in half um and I mentioned that so I won't need more details the only other thing that was I think of significant interest is uh we had a solid waste update um Brian stiglitz um Molly but I'm not going to pronounce his name right majeski um and um Sarah Mason um presented the salad waste uh budget both Financial there were a lot of uh detailed questions that were answered on the finances um as well as some high-level metrics the one good news is that overall trash to landfill is down for the third year in a row and if you look at it on a per capita basis they didn't provide that but it probably even dropped more on a per capita basis so that's a good Trend um the one thing that I wanted to share and I'll keep this brief because it is late but I was going to go into a little more detail I read a a blog post today it's called heated and they reported on the record profits of the fossil fuel industry just the top four uh companies um in that like our Chevron Exxon BP and shell they earned in total just in the first quarter over 33 billion dollars in profits and um it was pretty interesting um Exxon for example said um their record-breaking performance was driven by new volumes of crude oil and fuels from the startup of new offshore developments and refining facilities and as the author wrote this is exactly the opposite of ending new fossil fuel developments which the I I um iea says is the only way to stabilize the planet at a relatively safe level of warming and then the other thing that they talked about is that also several of these companies are scaling back their pledges to fight the climate crisis BP announced in February that it was backing off its permit its promise to lower emissions by 35 to 40 percent by 20 30 lowering it to 20 to 30 percent Joe also said it would not increase spending on renewable energy this year and Exxon pulled back funding from its much advertised LG biofuel effort so this is just a reminder what we're all seeing on on TV and the media is really contradicted by a lot of the actions of these entities and then they the blog went on and talked about some of the things that what 33 billion dollars could do in world hunger for a year and U.S homelessness for four years fun FEMA's budget for three years by flood insurance for every home in the state of Louisiana etc etc etc so this is you can see what what our addiction to fossil fuel is is uh going to and what it's also not doing so I thought I'd share that with you and then open it up for any other comments or news from other Commissioners and if there aren't any then we'll go to public input anybody have anything to share I know it's probably too late so okay seeing guns uh let me get up my my little script here so um this is an opportunity for persons of the public to provide input for up to three minutes if you are watching on CTN please call 888-788 uh uh zero zero nine nine sorry I lost my place there and then 877-853-5247 and enter the meeting ID 956-8718-7876 this information is also displayed on the meeting agenda and the video feed City staff will select callers that have raised their hands one by one using the last three digits of your phone number to raise your hand uh please press time star 9 on your phone you will hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak and then finally please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments um caller ending in one three four thank you Mr Lang and Garber 28 Haverhill Court Cara mursky and vice chair Colvin Garcia have been great in their leadership roles I really thank them both for their many years guiding this commission you've made a huge difference um well thank you um tonight we heard a fantastic legal analysis of the Berkeley decision from commissioner Levine and an excellent discussion um I was glad to hear from council member Briggs that there is some kind of resolution in the works to incentivize all electric new construction um I still think we should aggressively pursue an ordinance probably a zoning ordinance that would ban new natural gas connections the gas franchise negotiations absolutely do not substitute for that we need immediate measures in March the city approved 320 gas burning Apartments on Pontiac Trail 78 gas burning town homes on Platte Road last week a 195 unit 180 000 square foot gas burning building on Maiden Lane this month or next something else and on and on so it just can't continue I see the city council resolution incentive package is really welcome um I suspect it'll trigger a whole new discussion a few um probably premature comments on this I would be opposed to the public paying developers to install heat pumps as was recently done through the Brownfield plan for the village of Ann Arbor for its 164 for sale units we all have a shared responsibility for addressing climate change including developers and it's really little or no sacrifice on their part except that they have to change the way they do things the building life cycle costs electrification are comparable to gas if not better and any utility operating cost difference can be mostly wiped out with a combination of on-site solar and Energy Efficiency measures along the lines of the 2021 iecc um or passive home standards even better instead of subsidizing developers directly or indirectly instead we should ensure that their Pro forma's incorporate the social cost of carbon for example as commissioner overpeck was suggesting um some kind of tax or fee Burlington Vermont earlier this year 30 seconds Burlington passed a carbon pollution impact fee of 150 per metric ton carbon for new construction it was approved in a referendum with 67 percent of the vote that's the sort of thing I hope to see with the stack staff recommendations that will be coming in June thank you for considering my comments thank you thank you for your comments any others uh no further callers okay uh items for the next agenda so as Carlene mentioned Joe and Carlene and I had a call last Monday um where we talked about a number of possibilities um Joe do you want to summarize what we see as being up to happen then we'll take other recommendations um we don't have any that are necessarily confirmed but a couple options that we've talked about is potential uh if there's updates on heard um if and potentially an update on the report or the annual report yeah greenhouse gas inventory if we have it in time at this point maybe not super likely um but our annual report um from on a20 generally comes out so we might be able to get something by then right okay other other ideas so heard was another uh that was one of the things that we talked about with Joe that he just mentioned is a possibility also green rental housing program is something that will follow that we've obviously talked about that in this um and the idea is that uh um The Herd resolution the home energy rating disclosure would come first um Noah go ahead uh yeah I think I'm gonna email you about this Sean but just wanted to put it out on public record um maybe this is not right yet but maybe at some point I'm curious to hear from DTE about their new time of day uh billing oh yeah how that might be affecting Energies yep okay we'll add that to the list um so just before we adjourn um I wanted to recognize oh um commissioner McKenna oh I just wanted to quickly mention this of the time times time of day right and uh have some initial numbers from a really small case study of 50 homes um that I could share unfortunately it won't be here in June but um I can either share it and have somebody else present it or um yeah do it next time we could do it in July or later than that that'd be fine yeah cool so the other the last thing I wanted to do is um recognize the Commissioners that are stepping down um first of all as I mentioned um commissioner um Kettle coonan is stepping down she's a youth commissioner and she's uh I think finished school and gonna be moving away so I want to recognize her for her service um commissioner Kerber um served for three years he's stepping down he couldn't be with us tonight he's in Washington state and he's got family obligations um then we also had um commissioner McCoy uh thank you very much Amber for your service Ember served four years on the commission and I know that you've been juggling a lot of things between your PhD studies as well as your role as Geo vice president so thank you for all your service in those regards and then finally I wanted to recognize commissioner McCumber um commissioner McCumber has been on the energy commission for 13 years so that is really amazing that's twice as long as I've been on it and that's just fantastic to think that we have that level of commitment and that level of um at annuity that's been on the commission and that's been very helpful I think to me and all of us and we really appreciate Bridget your's service and thank you very much and thank you again to all four of you um for your service on the commission but especially to you Bridget um thanks very much so did you want to say anything I just wanted to say thank you John and thank you to everybody for serving um it's such important work so it's an honor yeah and with that uh thank you all of you for your service again thank you especially to our council members who are probably just about meeting out today um and uh with that it is what time uh I get a see look at my watch 8 58 and I declare this meeting adjourned and I'm going to ask all of you again to sleep over the chair and vice chair position so that we have somebody that leads this group going forward thanks very much and have a great rest of your evening thanks everyone bye-bye

so all right so first up I'd like to call up [Music] thank you Marshawn is the first ever recipient of the ASCA Georgie and Calvin good student scholarship that's valued at 1250.

so every all the dollars that we spend that has to be our justification all right so what is the difference we have three different estabill's sr1 was passed in March and it ended in September of 22. and it was very highly flexible later but there weren't a lot of restrictions as far as SC1 and then SO2 came around in December of 2020 when it was passed by federal government and it ends this September 9 30 23. it was also very highly flexible it did have a few more restrictions from the federal education department one of the things is that we had when I was spending s as necessary and reasonable so we had to ask ourselves that question before we even spend it and then finally episode 3 back ends next September so we are currently still spending us the free money um and uh ss3 is the most restricted about the three bills and it requires a 20 set aside for addressing math and Ela learning loss and so we had to always at the end all the money that was spent had to beat that 20 percent all right excellent okay so how much did we get so sr1 the first bill we got was 950 000.

and I was the second Eagle Scout in that troop oh wow so now that goes back a long time ago yeah too too long who was the first day Lincoln I'm sorry I missed that I said who was the first Eagles called Abe Lincoln um Brady if you could uh if you could fill us in on your uh your Eagle Scout Journey please I appreciate it um yeah so I joined scouting in first grade uh for Cub Scouts um and ever since that first meeting when we shot bottle rockets I was just kind of hooked on it um so I stayed through Cub Scouts and when a lot of my friends dropped out um when they graduated that I just kept going into Boy Scouts and I joined Boy Scouts in sixth grade so I've been kind of going at this for a long a long time um and just recently I did my um project my Eagle project which was building a 73-foot boardwalk over in the um the bologn reservation right over there um so it was over a wet area of land and I um did everything from kind of organizing it to getting the permits to raising money and um buying the lumber and then I had a bunch of volunteers come and help us um build the bridge over a course of about two days cool yeah you have to lug out the generator and all that for the cutting of the wood and all that stuff um no so we actually cut into the wood in the parking lot because it was about a half a mile in the woods oh wow and it was not very easy to get in there um so we just kept the generator in the back of a truck cut all the wood in the parking lot and then build a sort of cart out of the actual Lumber hauled it in disassembled the car walked it back out and then just did it over again my quite an experience thank you for sharing it with us all right thank you thank you good luck in school and make sure you come back and visit us and someday teach you that would be nice all right thank you thank you Brady what troop were you in I was in troop 73 except three okay foreign moving on to Communications donations articles public participation I see nothing okay um Equity uh audit report this is going to require a vote the superintendent and principal zelinski will be thought on will give us a report which was given out at the last meeting who wants to go first Okay so we've done it uh first of all the equity audit report uh which was completed in March uh was uh I think you got a copy of the report it's really one of the most critical uh documents that we've uh had done in I would say the history of the school with regards to the uh anticipated impact it's going to have on the school as we Implement many changes based on this report and some of the work we've already done so far because we believe having an equity policy that promotes everything that this audit uh was done for and if you look at the first slide which it says that why was the audit conducted to provide root cause analysis of persistent opportunity for gaps for students who have been historically marginalized to inform the work of developing systems to increase the capacity of District stakeholders to bring about more Equitable outcomes and experiences and the work that we will be doing over the next five years as it will also be outlined in the Strategic plan and as we complete this report our principal zielinski will give you some more information but it will drive much of our work everything from curriculum to uh our our opportunities for students to have equal opportunities in all programming and and curriculum and uh Sports in every aspect of of our students education trying to provide real true Equitable access for all of our our students the data that was collected to perform the equity audit student data which was performance attendance course enrollment graduation Dropout and discipline some of the documents that were utilized to come up with this report were school policies school committee policies handbooks curriculum professional development offerings and our budget uh student family and staff surveys the Panorama equity and inclusion survey which we did earlier this year and the Panama I mean the Panorama Panorama Family School relationship survey so uh at this time uh principal zielinski will continue thank you so the report that you have last meeting we gave you the full Equity audit but we also recognize it's a large document so um the next part of this report I want to share is our instructional leadership team and members of our administrative team we went through the report and all of us kind of broke into teams and we were assigned us a section of the audit and we tried to make it so it was in relation to their role in kind of their special areas and so we looked at the um the whole audit and we identified Next Step so there was a a protocol that we used we jigsawed the section and what this document that I'm sharing is and I'm not going to go into the full detail is really kind of our analysis of it I will be sharing this with the entire staff tomorrow about our faculty meeting we're also going to be giving them an opportunity to kind of make comment and add to what we found we wanted to parse this up because as I said it's a large document it's dense and we wanted to at least have a starting point so I'm as you probably noticed in the audit there's um there's different categories categories that the audit addresses policies and planning teaching and learning social emotional learning safe and supportive schools family engagement teacher and principle diversity and school funding these audit categories closely align to what you'll see our strategic plan is actually broken down into as well so the next section I'm not going to go through everything but I did want to point out some highlights the protocol that we used is we looked at everything and we decided to identify areas where we can drive where we can actually move forward next year and use and really take some action whether it be part of our school Improvement plan our plan over the summer to implement next year we also noted notice many areas where we need to pause and we need to take a step back and say what do we need to consider is there potential barriers for us to be able to implement are we able to really drive yet and the third area is it's almost like cat and you'll see it's a category of red and it's really something that's important but we really have identified these areas as areas that we need to research further before we try to implement so um the areas that we've identified in Drive and you'll see the little key just to keep it clear that has like a little red so for example p and p aligns with it was notice in policies and planning and so just a few things we know that we need to create a school-wide vision for a diversity belonging Equity inclusion a lot of the report outlined that and diversity Equity belonging and inclusion also comes through not only in policy and planning teaching and learning and social emotional learning so you can see it kind of goes through the categories um so we also pointed out we're going to be doing a lot of work with teaching and learning on curriculum curriculum teaming and increasing it's more exposure to cultural responsive and diverse perspectives and course materials we not only saw this in the audit but we also see we saw some of this come out in other surveys that we've seen particularly in the Strategic plan so I'll let you kind of go through the drive part I don't want to take up too much time um some areas that we decided we need to pause and really that doesn't mean we're not going to address anything but we need to kind of consider what else is needed is it funding is it resources that what else do we need and so some of the pauses um you know it's our admissions policy we know we can we consistently are trying to move our admissions policy to make sure that we are aligning and it's um that we're improving and looking at data we're also reviewing mtss and how we can move it forward looking at MCAS performance we want to take a look because that was pointed out in the audit we want to make sure that we have enough information on what is getting in the way of our high needs students and um just you can see some of these all different pause areas so we also have these areas that require further data and research and just a few of those that were pointed out in the audit that we feel we need to take a pause and identify the correct people and resources to um address it's just going to take a lot longer one of the things is all these areas in red as well as the yellow is the green we can make sure that all of this is kind of inside that Five-Year Plan so we might not be able to accomplish everything in the audit and address it in one year but we have it here synthesized we want to get feedback and comments from our our staff to find out if there's something else that they would add in these categories and then we want to use all this information in our planning and so if the um that that's pretty much where we're at it was a great exercise for our team because I think if we all try to do it individually it would have taken a long time but separating it out and relying on people's areas of expertise we were able to come together and at least have kind of a synthesis of that large large report thank you any questions for either superintendent or principal John my notes I hear that we need to vote on this this evening is that your recommendation that uh when we have the uh yeah oh no we're not voting no okay we're going to bring uh at some point we're going to work with the committee to come up with the equity policy for the school which would be outlined in the Strategic plan okay uh and then at that time okay Mrs Fitzgerald yes um this is a wonderful report ambitious but is there a financial part to this in order to go forward and if there is has it been included in the budget starting July 1st John yeah so some of some of the work will be done through our professional development plan which we we've we do have funding in our next year's budget that'll be uh which a lot of the some of that funds will go towards this in our professional development a lot of professional development work moving forward is going to be uh Equity uh targeted within a lot of our initiative whether it be curriculum uh whether it be social emotional learning and we have funded for that also uh the uh five-year strategic plan also also outline uh some of the ways that we'll fund this initiative over the next five years anything further further stuff to come okay our review of the capital Improvement funding this will require a vote John so um in order to make change in our budget um we were in we know at the get-go once we've submitted our budget to our communities our non-foundation budget which we were requesting 1.5 million dollars for Capital Improvement funds which we typically request 500 000 um we were asked first by the City of Lawrence if we could reduce that by 500 000 especially in the fact that they were going to spend 300 000 on purchasing the hangar for us and so in order to do that which will have an A minimal impact on Andover North Andover but a little bit of a larger impact in Methuen uh I would need we would need to committee to a vote on reducing the non-foundation budget uh the capital Improvement uh funding item to one million dollars versus 1.5 million which may I think one of the I think we would be fine with that given that we had planned on spending 300 000 of that money for the hangar so it's really not as bad of a hit as you might think it is it's really only 200 000 and the fact that our community is still willing to provide a million dollars which is 500 000 more than last year I think we still be in good shape and it'll help strengthen our Capital Improvement budget to help finish some of the projects that we will have ongoing next year so I would make a recommendation that the committee vote to approve the reduction of a motion please discussion okay um is this request only from the City of Lawrence as all all the cities it will impact all the communities it will impact the city launch the malts because they have 71 percent of the students so that extra 500 000 to the City of Lawrence is about 350 360 000 savings for them which is about what the hangar cost it's a little a little more than what the hangar costs so I'm probably the only one making the request uh right now they were the ones that started the request we have submitted to um I think Methuen had some uh we got some feedback from methune on that but Lawrence really was the one that was most interested in seeing that uh change so this is Fitzgerald yes I'm just wondering I understand the reasoning why they would like to not have to give us as much as we asked for but um I am concerned about our Paving project which we know is going to be well over a million dollars and the capital that had been set aside for will that be directly impacted from this or will it just mean us putting another Capital project on hold for a bit uh it won't it shouldn't have an impact on I mean it should not have an impact on the paving because we're funding the paving from our end account which we've allocated 1.5 million dollars from there when we still have about 300 or so left after that and end so we hope that the project comes in somewhere between 1.5 1.8 we could uh if we had to we could go to this fund to uh add additional if the project comes in a little higher we could go to this particular line item or Capital Improvement item to fund the other 300 000 let's say which I think would be comfortable with that as we still have a substantial amount still in there in the account so we'd be close to about 1.8 million if once this is goes through somewhere around there I believe for the thing what is the time frame in which we have to expend that e and D money um there's no time frame we we cannot have over five percent of our budget in the end account as long as we're under five percent in in our e d accountant can stay in there right John what's going to be the impact for this one what's going to be the impact um for method oh from a throw what's the impact going to be so for Methuen it would be about a hundred thousand dollars more uh it could be a hair more like 500 and 20 000 or so it's in that I mean 120 000 or so but between 100 and 120 000 because I think they're at 22 or 23 percent at 23 percent uh they would be at about 102 000 I mean yeah 102 000 20 000 I mean 120 000 I would say about that anything further did you have a question no all those in favor any word opposed Co-op report in your packet uh June calendars in your packet wellness policy update the wellness policy presents glts wellness policy for a review for the next meeting John you need to speak on that just that uh you we the wellness committee has reviewed our present policy and has made revisions uh to the policy that our uh are important uh and we'll have a help us ensure that we have a a policy in uh everything from curriculum to our health programs for both our our uh students as well as our as our adults in the building as our staff that's in the building in things that we will do over the next couple of years to help improve the wellness of our staff and encourage people to everything from eating better to exercising more and doing uh all kinds of activities uh both as a staff and for our students that will help us improve the quality of our health for the members in our community so I think it's a great plan uh we'll let you read through it compare it over the next couple of weeks and then ask you to vote on in a couple weeks and we'll open it up for questions or concerns at that next meeting okay any questions for superintendent John the aviation hanger please update on it so the um the aviation Hangar the City of Lawrence has approved to purchase the hangar for glts uh with no strings attached I contacted the airport commission the uh Airport Manager and on May 16th we will be on their agenda for approval as well basically for the city to approve the city to purchase the hangar that's what's required uh uh based on uh their bylaws and they will also at that time uh talk about utilizing it for a school in I'll make a case for them to approve uh utilizing the hangar as a school as well at that time so that will be next Tuesday I think yeah next Tuesday a week from today uh 6 30.

next year yeah 24 25 but we'll begin the negotiations uh a little sooner to give them some glimmer of hope to try to come to some agreement and we can do this we can have informal conversations with them on their contract to see what we may be able to do to um to make them feel more appreciated the second thing they brought up was training and uh fortunately we have Barbara McLean that's taking a look at what type of trainings additional training so they're asking for trainings on certain areas so we're going to look at ways that we can improve that training and through that training ability to earn more stipends and to kind of move up the ladder that way and the final thing is uh you know better communication today we heard that uh the Paris feel that um you know they would like to be more active with some of the paraprofessional days and hearing what's going on in the school so they're not left on their own uh so much so they feel like they're in the know things that are fixable so um I was appreciative of the the approach that they took I was appreciative of the uh uh the spirit of collaboration and trying to find a solution um and so we're going to continue to stand that we've taken very good notes and uh there's some things we'll begin to get behind this year but is the new superintendent comes on we'll make sure that we can make some adjustments for next year um and not get caught kind of flat-footed um with the way certain things are so I I wanted to let you know that that is happening there's one more meeting that will happen Thursday um I don't know if we're going to continue okay we're going to reschedule that I can't make it and Mr shiver refuses to fly back from Italy I find that to be selfish but we'll do what we have to do so so but we'll reschedule that for when Joe's back and I can make the meeting so those are the uh three things that I wanted to mention um as we go into the final meetings of the year of course Mr Emery is going to be giving his uh School Improvement plan so will the other principles I think it's important that we hear that so that we are we are the um we are the bridge now into the next Administration so what we hear uh we can't necessarily make too many uh changes or effect this year but as we sit down in planning and we go over our uh our team meetings over the summer these are the things we have to carry with us with the new Administration so um just want to remind you if you can make those meetings that's fine uh graduation is the ninth last day of school it's the 16th just keep those things in mind and of course you have a list of the the calendar from uh from Claudia on all those different things that's all that I have any any questions for me any questions online okay for the parade that was something that's for the board right right the Memorial Day Parade will will be coming and I'm sure Mrs antonuccio will tell us that there will be watching them kind of March around the track and getting ready I think uh very shortly but yeah that we will be marching on the 30th if we can uh I think it's the 29th um you were so nice uh our board um Representatives carried the banner for us you're probably somebody in it is somebody going to be playing an instrument or no no if you've got Christine all right so maybe you'd consider carrying the uh the banner again for us okay well just a quick question sure there's you mentioned like they want to be a part of training and stuff are those things that like they're not in attendance that day is there is there funds available to do stipends and stuff until the contracts renegotiated so last year they were included on every professional development day and then there was feedback that that wasn't best for many of them because of their time commitments some have to work another job but what would you agree to for next year is that they will all work during that professional development time the teachers are having their professional development they're going to receive it at the same time so they'll stay for the full day on those two-hour relax days then they'll be paid for that okay yep thanks okay uh closing out that part of the uh the agenda then we'll turn uh to Mrs antonucci do you want to leave thank you Lou um for several months uh leading up to this April um Mrs antonucci our director of Music we're so fortunate to have Mrs antonucci here in that role and she had a vision for taking uh the students to Disney and um continued I think Mrs antonucci you had that Vision right before the pandemic and then the pandemic hit uh but you didn't give up on your vision and you worked with the staff and the students and planned what turned out to be I know a very successful trip so um tonight we wanted to spend some time hearing about the trip um this is antonucci I'll turn it over to you if you have any comments before our students talk about their experience just so you know Rachel yes sir the Disney stock went up while you were there that stock was taking a jump just so you know is my volume okay are you able to hear me yes yes thank you thank you so thank you for accommodating me this evening my first grader went home sick today so thank you for allowing me to present from home we have Lauren Bella and Simone in attendance in person and they will all make some remarks about different aspects of the trip shortly before I really get into that though I have to thank the board and the administration and ever all the parents especially our Canton parents for music for your tremendous support of Music this year from the return to the dedicated music classroom at Cherry Brook the starting of our new Cherry Brook singers what a wonderful group that's turned out to be CIS we've returned to our full complement of ensembles three grade level bands three grade level courses enrichment ensembles chamber day they are back in full force this year we're so proud and the teachers and students are working so hard for their upcoming concerts and at the middle school I feel so fortunate that my office is adjacent to the rooms they work in and all the duct work allows me to hear all that beautiful music I have to say that I hear almost two years of growth in our seventh and 8th graders in just this school year alone and the 8th graders are really looking forward to their adjudication later this month such a special time so thank you all for your kind support of K-12 music our trip was tremendous we had 82 students and 10 chaperones in grades uh 10 11 12.

85 you know by the end of the year um we want we want second graders around the 450 Lexile level so we're making those those jumps for third grade students came in at about a 364 Lexile average mid-year we were at 450 by the end of the year we want them near 550 Lexile um so this is a really nice this Universal screener is a really nice measure to see how how children are responding to the reading instruction that we're doing in front of them every day the information is also really good to help us kind of plan for future you know future curriculum um decisions April 5th before we go on from this can you share with the board a little bit about um why we do the assessments that we do um the the paper and then the digital for grades two and three just so there's an understanding about why that's not happening for kn1 yeah so K and one it's all about being appropriate and we know we have really young kids and we get a lot of information K1 well all grades but in K1 at the heart of a lot of the information and um skill of figuring out where kids are at comes from that face-to-face time that teachers have um with those students so if you would walk into a kindergarten room first grade room you're going to see kids face to face with their teachers seven seven teach seven kids around one teacher a kid giving a teacher a massage on the back which I saw this week which is wonderful but you know it's that face to face it's making sure that we're appropriate they're little kids and and you know making sure that they're they're seeing seeing their teacher here and helping them guide them through that that early early learning so that's kind of the appropriateness of it um the next few slides we're going to take a look at some of the math achievement um to this um from Fall to mid-year um as as we move forward from kindergarten first second and third grade you're going to notice kind of area specific areas that we're targeting here in kindergarten we've been targeting counting and cardinality counting cardinales kind of the important foundation of of math it suggested that students who have counting in cardinality good counting cardinality skills when they're leaving kindergarten are are more likely to be more likely to be successful as mathematicians later on in their academic careers um so you can see we have a lot of green there and that that graph to the right we have 82 percent at this point in time 82 percent of our kindergartners are meeting proficiency when it comes to accounting and cardinality in first grade um you know we're expecting kids to have a good foundation of accounting and cardinalities leaving Kindergarten now we're going to first grade and and a focus has been on those numbers in base 10.

this bill also sets a goal to rescue at least 28 of currently wasted edible food by 2025 and redirect the food to people in need and in your case uh those individuals within the local community Azusa is ensuring compliance by partnering with covia and providing that they are redistributing the maximum amount of food to local non-profits instead of sending it to landfills therefore being in compliance of this regulation and copia exists and has been recognized across multiple Publications most recently as one of fast company's most Innovative companies in a social good category because we make the process of donating is easiest hospital for organizations such as yourself so when food surplus is available not every non-profit wants the food that you may have to donate there are limitations in availability of non-profits when food surplus is available the capacity that they could take and the types of food that they are able to accept Topia has over 8 000 Partners Nationwide from food banks to women shelters veterans homes after school programs and more so we can ensure that any donation whether it's pallets of fruit of or croissants from azusa's donations they're all going to non-profits that want each donation are able to share it within the local community and to those that are in need and since we began this partnership we've been able to achieve some amazing success and make a Major Impact we've been able to help our planet by diverting over 43 000 pounds of CO2 and we've also been able to feed over 8013 meals to those local individuals in need and when you start talking about numbers uh the size it could be different called to uh to understand so just putting it into easier terms that's uh almost ten thousand pounds of food donated uh the equivalent of almost a million gallons of H2O the water saved uh which is uh the equivalent of over 238 gallons of gas not being burned or uh 1.6 million of glasses of water being uh being saved so it's truly amazing what we've been able to accomplish together and what your organization has been able to do within the local community as well as for the environment in a short amount of time and it's important to understand who these donations are serving this food is being directed to local non-profits within a food safe distance for redistribution such as the uh social model recovery systems program and the express Workforce Foundation you could see some great testimonials uh up on the screen right now uh that uh your donations have contributed to so we definitely look forward to continuing this work and if there are any questions uh feel free to ask thank you any questions or comments by the board I just want to say thank you for uh this partnership I used to work at the city of Norwalk in their social services department and one of the things about the city of Norwalk it was very unique because there's only four cities within L.A county that actually have a social services department and they actually had um Food Bank so I was able to see how much and we had the Harvest program so I was able to see how much recipients would come in we would have people coming in they didn't have to have our service or be residents of the city because we were also provided food from the regional food bank but it was really good to see that the recycling of food going back out to the community to those people that are understood so I I just want to say thank you for the zooza for and yourself or really getting out there and putting implementing this into place I think that we could continue to grow the program because there's always people in need right especially right now with with inflation and in the classified foods and goods and services um I appreciate program and the work you're doing thank you I have a question um are you aware of any other local school districts engaging in this type of effort yes I believe and uh Tom could correct me but I believe Walnut unified is doing it I believe El Monte was um and the reason why all school districts have to be put back so oh I I know I've got both school districts that have jumped on board and I'm sure Tom has a list that he could share with thank you yes there are several school districts that we work with and uh one of the reasons why donations from school districts are valued by non-profit organizations is the high quality of the food and the nutritious value of the food because you're already serving it to uh to your students so we definitely appreciate working with the school districts such as yourself board member Greer just a quick question because I don't see it listed here anywhere incredible partnership is there a cost to the district for this partnership or is this a what and and what is that and or is this the partnership that we have with him uh initially there was no cost because copia had received a grant from La Department of Public Health but um starting last year they supposed to pick up the food so for every donation there's a six people 60 dollars yes yes is that every year or monthly or how often does it every donation they pay every donation yes but we don't we don't really have that many donations at the last donation they picked up was in December right before the holiday break and we haven't given them any other donations since then so it's about 60 dollars per donation I'm thinking right before we go on summer break they may pick up another small donation so it really is um I believe it's a good investment because one is the food goes to people who need it and it doesn't go to the trash but it also helps us clear out our freezes so when we return from the bread we we have enough space to store fresh and when you say 60 dollar donation distance for clarity that I mean where we say hey come and clean us out at Azusa High School and that's 60 or okay so do they go to the different School sites and pick it up or uh is that they have like a no they go to the different School sites so what I do is when we have a donation I'll contact them I'll say I have five boxes of USDA donated chicken that I tried to serve as students and they didn't like it so they will send me what both QR codes to put on each book I scan them into the system the system registers them sends them to the food bank then they send the food back to that particular site where that's good yeah I think that's great because you know I just hate to see food go to waste or food going to the trash but it can be given to someone that's in need that that's beautiful that's great any other comments thank you so much thank you moving to item 14.2 this is an info action item Mr Ortega thank you Dr Beau um we wanted to make this item an info uh action item so we can just take a little bit of time uh to discuss uh what this is in terms of our next level of Safety and Security we wanted to provide space for questions about this next phase um and we just wanted to make sure that the board was the board and the community were well aware of uh of this next uh piece that we are looking to implement to again increase the Safety and Security of our schools and so I'd like to turn over to Latasha to explain um what this is thank you so yes so this is our next phase of our security infrastructure implementation um this will install intercom systems throughout all of our district offices facilities as well as our district office this intercom will be placed at the front entrance Door of our campuses allowing a visitor to be able to Ping again to say hey I'm here it allows for video communication as well as audio communication um we through this device we can actually unlock the door from either administrator's cell phone iPads or several devices it does not require one person to be stationary so I would like to share a video so we can all see exactly what this looks like I'm going to hope that I did this correctly for audio purposes I'm gonna pause this clearly nothing is playing I appreciate Ricotta's roadmap their attention education and that they're able to let us fail it's super flexible for us we can add that we need at our own pace and that's just so this will be okay thank you um so this will be the next level of implementation um it will go in conjunction with our Access Control doors um so this will be just the added level of security go ahead okay so my question is um who's who the person's gonna be in charge at the school site that's going to be monitoring and allowing people in because that would be someone told Jose I mean if you're busy and you're yes so that's one of the the great um aspects of the ricotta intercom system it does not have to be one designated person so I could be a site administrator walking throughout my campus and I can get the alert on my cell phone I don't have to literally be stationed in the front office um I don't know if that helps answer the question but my question okay so everyone's cell phone is going to be the secretary the principal or is there a screen that they're going to be looking at are they going to all be looking at their phone yes so we will actually install the application on um we could do it on our desktops um that's at the front desk we could also do it on tablets iPads and cell phones so we can actually have the um application on several devices so if if we'll see the secretary walks away or the clerk you know and the principal will have it on his or hers also yes ma'am oh okay okay this is for all site all site at this rate at this rate Miss Natasha just because I asked the same question um because this is this is a piece in the global system that we have already started to implement so from the cameras to the sensors to the access controls and now this is just one piece that's going into this kind of system that were that were that we're implementing so um I think I use Murray just just to use Murray so again I walk up doors locked I'm gonna probably do some signage and some some educating and some promotional stuff I just click on it hey I'm not a stranger to it because in my uh kids districts this is what they do um but not everybody right and so we just ping hey I'm here to pick up my kid oh Miss Ortega maybe you know if I already know I'm just gonna let them in right away um but this would add again another and we're talking about visitor management system because we're also that's another piece that's going to come into this uh this complements that whole Suite of Safety and Security any other questions may have a motion make a motion to approve 14.2 second Miss Pineda yes board members the motion passes unanimously moving to item 14.3 may have a motion question to approve 14.3 second moved and seconded is there any discussion yeah could we elaborate on this for the community yes so this is the bid award for the path to travel which will give us um Ada access and a walking pathway um between the foothill the current Foothill Middle School which will be Azusa Timberly name Azusa East as well as the back way on the Azusa campus I guess I and I ask because we had talked about blocking off streets we had talked about you know adding cul-de-sacs we've talked about bridges and so this is where we are can we just describe what this what this will mean for uh those in the community who are or who have been tuning in this particular item yeah so this is a partnership um with the city um so we will be doing the path to travel which will be a cement slab along the grass field of both campuses and then the city will be assisting us with the crosswalk where the students will actually safely cross from one um corner to the next to just cross um across the street so it would not be any road closures no cul-de-sacs this the walkway where the students will safely walk across during passing periods and the crosswalk would include not just the painting but also the carving now again for the ADA compliance The Carving out of the curbs because right now it's just it's a sidewalk and so carving that out to make sure that it's a it's a pathway so our students will have to travel North two blocks to use the crosswalk that's there right now uh and Latasha to uh board member Greer's Point uh just so the community um like a sidewalk correct correct but in our property yes and correct me if I'm wrong is it eight foot ten foot okay 10 10 feet wide and so along if you're I'm sorry I'm not a visual per I'm a visual person but if you can visualize the baseball field on the back of Azusa campus it will be like an l-shape of a sidewalk that will lead you on to the main campus and if you're on Foothills campus the big outer field once you enter the gate it will be a cement path that will lead you along the fencing directly to the um first um bungalow on the campus nor uh traveling parallel to Linfield uh on the north side of the campus so think about the corner of Rockville and Linfield that's where they will enter um the foothill side and then this walkway which is uh 10 feet will run parallel Woodland field um from that corner until you get into the interior of Foothill which is that first wing of classroom you know I wanted to ask and who will be monitoring these two um area and Azusa High right are just going to be running across the street right there no ma'am no mail so both campuses um we have um two opportunities um by the main focus will be our campus security positions that both campuses will be unemployed with okay great so I I know that this is a bid for The Pedestrian pathway and I think at a previous occasion we talked about closure or Bridge or another method of travel I recall I asked the question about the crosswalk if it was going to be with additional reflectors or with lights or would there be a poll um lighting where someone pressed a button and I say that because this is a new crosswalk or that street and drivers are not going to be used to looking for pedestrian has that been discussed with the city can we get an update on it I will definitely I'll definitely get an update on what kind of crosswalk uh we're looking to for the city is looking to um construct there thank you yeah if there's not going to be a like there um you know the the type of crosswalk that is from uh goodness is it from like 5th 4th Street I think for Slauson they have like the bright you know they push the button for The Pedestrian they have a big bright light coming through um is that something that is going to be brought as well I will again I will ask the city I'm not 100 sure so two blocks north uh I think to Dr Bull's point two blocks north there's a crosswalk but it's just a painted I mean that's all that's all it is and so I will ask if this new crosswalk because I don't know how frequent that crosswalk is used this one will be used actively throughout the day uh to see what kind of increase in visibility um this crosswalk will have um so I will I will ask that that that question because also I've seen a stop sign that has lights on it and then I also seen um in the middle of the street they're they're sloshing lights you know in between I mean if they're not going to use a push button one you know there can be some kind of um then pedestrian knows like you said that it's true it's new they're not going to be no to stop or no you know if you don't know the area you you wouldn't know that any other comments by board members just a question would it be possible to get a maybe a uh I I can foresee a lot of questions coming up this uh about this and so I I would I would appreciate being able just to kind of see a mock-up I appreciate the the description of kind of what's been talked about but I I'm not even I'm not picturing it so it might be valuable um is that something could be provided in an update for us to be able to see what what the thinking is um the current thing sure it'll be this week even if it's a picture right right a drawing a draw you could yeah those are figures are okay too thick figures okay we could do better than that though but thank you yeah and those designs are already uh complete so not not a problem is there I don't know if the city did like a traffic study or if there's data on that but maybe explore that or see if they if anything like that to look at I can I can again I can explore that with uh with the city manager in the city um I believe originally when we were thinking um bridge tunnel like those kinds of things and yes that would be some extensive uh studying and surveilling surveillance that would have to take place but I will see what kind of what level of that for a crossbow even just like a traffic count I think they can monitor Miss Bonita um I wanted to know if when the kids are going to the back of Foothill from that crosswalk do they have to walk through the grass like every day to get to the actual campus that's a great question so this um approval of this bid award will allow for us to install cement so they could um safely walking cases a rainy day um and avoid trip hazards okay thank you you're welcome yes thank you so much board members will vote the motion passes unanimously moving to item 14.4 may have a motion make a motion to approve 14.4 second moved and seconded is there any discussion seeing none miss me NATO yes thank you board members the motion passes unanimously 14.5 may have a motion make a motion to approve 14.5 second moved and seconded any discussion being none Miss Pinedo yes board members motion passes unanimously 14.6 may have a motion motion to approve 14.6 second moved and seconded any discussion being done Miss Pineda yeah board members motion passes unanimously 14.7 may have a motion motion to approve 14.11 second moved and seconded any discussion um I asked several questions regarding the refrigeration um I want to know um what are we doing with the refrigeration of the schools that are being closed they have freezers and refrigerators what are we going to do with those so we're currently having an audit of all our nutrition services equipment and then once we have the conclusion of that audit with the recommendations of one the useful life for the items and work and repurpose it we're going to repurpose all the items at a location that can house it but it's our ultimate goal you're welcome did you have another question any other questions yes thank you and board members motion passes unanimously 14.8 may have a motion motion to approve 14.8 second moved and seconded any discussion being none Miss Pineda yes thank you board members motion passes unanimously moving to item 14.9 may have a motion make a motion to approve 14.9 seconds moved and seconded any discussion a real explanation on this one please yes so we're currently a part of the San Gabriel Valley Co-op and so to ensure that the co-op it is utilizing the lowest as receiving the lowest price um per item that we're selling for our Commodities and we go out to bid as a co-op um this is for the fresh bread so this allows us to have the lower the lowest price available for the entire school year but the lowest price doesn't mean does it taste good Ness yes yes and so that that's one of the advantages of being a part of the co-op so it um we're getting great quality bread at a discounted price because there are so many districts joining forces to buy in bulk you're welcome any further discussion being none Miss Pineda yes thank you board members hope I think through the motion pass unanimously motion passes unanimously moving to item 15.1 resolution 22 23 29 may have a motion to approve moved and seconded any discussion Ms Pineda yes thank you board members the motion passes unanimously 15.2 may have a motion second moved and seconded any discussion being none Miss Pinedo yes thank you board members the motion passes unanimously moving to items 16.1 through 16.6 these are info items uh Mr Ortega if you could give us an introduction thank you Dr Bo om on a quarterly basis the California school boards Association AKA csba provides the district uh with recommended policies regulations exhibits and bylaws uh that should be updated either because um a new Ed code a new government code a new law that has been passed by the government that needs to be enacted and so on a quarterly basis we receive these recommendations from csba I would say 97 and above uh what you what we bring to the board um is that is exactly what the recommendation of csba is uh if there ever were to be a deviation or there has been a deviation then we would definitely call that out to the Board of Education and so this this uh this what you see here for first reading are this quarter's recommendations thank you and to our board members are there any questions for the superintendent or cabinet regarding these proposed policies and bylaws just I have a comment so I just wanted to um this is a new learning process for me but I know that when I meet with um superintendent Ortega there's several questions I have but I really want to make the community aware that although this item comes up quarterly you said so although it comes up quarterly those that watch the board meetings um I think it's really important to look at these items because it's the changes that happen at the state legislature and and really how it's impacting the schools and policies and regulations that are changing so um I know it's it's kind of at the back of the agenda but I I really you know if you look at it like there's stuff on school safety that I mean they were talking about just changing the terminology of what you know what what defines a weapon and and you know I thought that was really good because things get overlooked and it's not we think of it maybe not as a weapon or we don't see it because we're not familiar with what people consider weapons but um so and because we you know there's everybody's concerned about school safety so I just really wanted to and not just the safety piece but the fact that things are changing there was another item in there that um talked about the Pledge of Allegiance and things that are are very patriotic to us as a country so I just really want to encourage the community to look at these uh amendments that come through the school district because really they come from the state and there's very limited if I'm speaking correctly Authority that we have as a board so we have to look at them and um sometimes we have to agree to disagree so I just I just really want the community to be aware of thank you Dr bull if I may put a plug um to a board member benavidus's uh comments uh just to make it known that all of our most current board policies uh can always be found on our Board of Education section of our website and so if anybody ever wanted to see what the most up-to-date policies are uh they are they are located there thank you so much moving to item 17.1 adjournment may have a motion make a motion to approve 7 17.1 second Miss Pinella yes thank you and board members before you log out please vote the motion passes unanimously we are adjourned at 902.

so we've been working for the last nine months and we made it happen and so for the past week we've had five students from the University of Dubuque not just teaching in our district to learn what it's like to teach in Adams 14 but living in our employees homes with our staff so they have these great conversations during the day about teaching and then at night they go home and the conversation gets to continue with another teacher or with a counselor or somebody from the school and then they ride back to school in the morning and it's back to work you may have seen them Saturday and Sunday they've all volunteered at the soccer tournament and so they were out in fact they were supposed to go hiking all day Sunday in the mountains and if I'm not mistaken you all went back to the soccer they went back to soccer and we had a couple of winter winning teams right oh and I keep asking what was the highlight I keep hearing soccer so it was supposed to be instruction but I keep hearing soccer so um again I'm going to have uh Drew come up and do the announcement for um the university but Chad biermeier is here to he's one of the he's the director of uh student teaching placements in the the College of Ed and he's he came out with his students and it was a great experience and we have already told him how wonderful student teaching is here and so we're hoping to see five back again when it's time to student teach that's fine all right thank you for having me back up so um I used to think that Iowa only produced corn what we're learning is they're producing phenomenal teachers and we're really thrilled to start this new partnership and to gain their trust and to bring them out here we've already taught as as Nathan indicated we've already started talking about plans for next year and we're really hoping to see this continue to grow in many ways I'd like to start off first by recognizing our Adams 14 staff members they were hosts so I don't know if you are familiar with with the process but these individuals came and they lived in their homes they brought them back and forth to to school or to to all other other locations as well and shuttle them throughout the metro area for different events so I want to First bring up our host family Representatives so uh Kayla Havens Emily sipley Christy Johnson and Sheila Burns if you could please come up [Applause] so these individuals they were really willing to just share their spaces and share their homes and I'm very thankful for them because I told our Our Guest teachers that if we didn't we didn't find out of the home they'd have to share their spaces with my two teenage daughters and that might have worked out fine for him I'm not sure how they would have enjoyed that but you know it was the alternative so I'm really grateful that all of them were able to share their spaces and share their time and share their lives with them because it means a lot and as as was indicated before they get the pre and post conversations it really helps them understand what happens at the schools so I'd like to bring up some of our guest teachers who are coming to us from Iowa Olivia can you come on up yeah Dorian come on up Lexi Samantha and Sarah [Applause] so these individuals some of them are in different years of school some of them are sophomores some of them are Juniors and oh and thank you very much for coming up too if you didn't know notice before we actually have another individual who's up here this is Dr Button excuse me Dr beer Meyer who has accompanied them at the Suburban that's parked out front that's been him he's been basically an Uber driver for them for the entire week shuttle them around from as far as Mead to all the way down to Highlands Ranch and everywhere in between so can we just give a round just for a chat dear Meyer in addition to the roles that he's played as shuttling around he's also visited all their classrooms he's working with them as their Professor back in Iowa as well and helping them kind of through the thinking process and really helping them understand what it's like to be a student teacher and to work in different classrooms so we're hoping that all of you decide to come back here and in anticipation of the moment that you decide you want to come we're actually going to offer you a tentative letter of intent of a job to come back and work with us one day so I'd like to give these to you now and then I know we're going to have a photo so don't move laughs all right could we have a round of applause for these amazing individuals and I think we're gonna have Quick photos so don't go anywhere yes we'll stand up again we'll be back here there we go you don't want to leave us by yourself thank you yes thank you [Music] Madam president Dr Lauria there are two Math teachers a physical education teacher two elementary teachers in that group that will hopefully be coming back and I have one last piece of information to share they weren't able to come this evening but I did want to let you know that we had our first meeting for our Aspire program and we had 14 of our paraprofessionals come to the boardroom last week and talk about signing up to become teachers in the future it's a 900 per year program for them to get their bachelor's degree and we hope that we have our first cohort of 14 going through that program on their way to become teachers in our school district so thank you very much for this opportunity tonight thank you so much great work [Applause] that is awesome um we covered two agenda items in one so thank you um next up is our May 2023 classified staff recognitions um this is um yes um Earth is uh knowing tradition every month we recognize uh some of our head here got it all right we're gonna start again thank you madam president members of the board as EDSA Tradition now we recognize every month our some of our classified staff employees for their hard work for going above and beyond and always being a cheerful and and um you know individual in their own departments these are individuals that are selected by their peers by their supervisors or uh by by colleagues so um definitely not something that is centrally done it's it's by their peers so I would like to invite uh it's um if Olivia osornio is here Olivia osornio is instructional para serving a long as a long-term sub is gifted in English and Spanish and is able to connect with both students and Families she has the ability to build High trust in relationships and with everybody around her and is able to plan explicit lessons with her teammates including the math teacher and ESS staff and administration she is always willing to take feedback to improve her practice to better serve our students Miss Olivia has an encouraging and positive spirit with our students and it has a positive impact on their students learning and growth she is very dedicated in her working and her hard work is making a huge difference for our students growth in especially English language arts Miss Olivier is often here late at Rocio Elementary planning and she is a positive role model for students and other instructional parents Ms Libya has taken ownership of difficult situations it has lifted our students to reach new levels so we are very proud of Miss Miss Olivia we have a certificate for her and also a check token of appreciation from our partners so we every every month we give a 300 check for them as a a little tiny token of appreciation so um that's what I have today thank you Dr Lydia and congratulations Olivia I'm sorry we missed you uh next on the agenda is our may substitute of the month recognition um Dr Lydia back to you yes Madam President we actually expanded this program because we do we did start with classified employees but then we also know that we Depend and enjoy very much our substitutes and we are working with a an organization or company that helps us retain or or have great substitutes in our schools so we decided to start recognizing the hard work because they just like our peers and teachers come many of them are here uh on the long term and they come day after day to make an impact on our students so today we're recognizing Cecilia Moreno Hernandez Cecilia Moreno has worked with a Monaco Elementary Community since the beginning of the school year in October of 2022 is is um Miss Moreno here no all right um her Monaco staff members have stated the following regarding her performance and dedication to learning um Syria has been I call her Cecilia but he's actually Sally and my apologies Celia has been an asset to the team because even though English is a barrier for her she has been very professional with all her responsibilities at Monaco and has not given up she practices English in the building and it is awesome to see her grow she is a fast learner and willing to grow in areas that are needed out of all of our responsibilities I want to highlight that she has not missed one day since she started and is always on time and friendly to everyone in the building I am very happy that she has become part of the Monaco's family and we hope she can and will come back to Monaco next school year so we also have a certificate and a little token of appreciation for her because coming every day it is a commitment we know life happens sometimes we feel exhausted sometimes a little headache when we wake up which are things that we all go through but there's a true commitment on on in in understanding that our presence in the classrooms on time actually makes a huge difference for our students and she is a testament of this so I we want to recognize her as well wonderful congratulations Celia and um yes [Applause] show us a picture right we're gonna go to their schools we know where they are we can find them yes uh next on the agenda is 3.5 uh May is Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage month and we have a proclamation uh director Zubia would you mind reading the proclamation happy to Proclamation Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month whereas the month of May is Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage month which celebrates the contributions and histories of individuals of Asian and Pacific Islander descent in the United States whereas the terms Asian American and Pacific Islander include people with ancestries from the continent of Asia and or the Pacific Islands of malintia melanesia Micronesia and Polynesia whereas Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have played crucial roles in writing this country's story from building the Transcontinental Railroad to advocating for labor law changes fighting multiple Wars and many more contributions whereas Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have shaped this nation's fabric while facing persistent discrimination and violence throughout U.S history including but not limited to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Japanese internment camps established during World War II whereas Asian Americans still experience discrimination and violence and threats of violence towards them only increased during the coronavirus pandemic whereas Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage was first recognized as a week-long event in 1978 and Congress later made it into a month-long celebration in 1992 whereas Adams County school district 14 recognizes the Great Lengths and efforts that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders must undertake to be heard and seen due to systematic injustices and inequalities therefore be a proclaimed that the Adams poor team Board of Education and the Adams 14 superintendent proclaimed the month of May as Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage month and recognizes these people's tremendous contributions we encourage our staff and community Community to observe recognize and celebrate the culture Heritage and contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to our country our state our cities and our schools let this Proclamation enter the into the official records of the school district thank you directors that we may I have a motion proclaiming May 2023 as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month a motion to approve thank you Ramona Rocco Please Mr Amador aye Mr s Lovato aye Ms Molina I miss Zubia aye thank you so much um next on the agenda is mental health awareness month Proclamation um Dr Lydia I understand we have a video to show yes Madam president I will ask actually Allison she is our mental health coordinator and members of kids first I see Whitney and Brianna if they can come up here if they want to share some of the um things that we are doing and they are doing we're partnering our community I know it's not the only organization that provides mental health but we do have a um a video they actually asked us if we could partner with them in creating a video that can that could be shared with the community and this is the video that you will see here foreign can I get Cameron in here to help me that's that's that's a new look that was for Joe Priceless right yeah oh and this morning if you just whenever you insert read it and then I put a new one okay yeah so I just read it I don't have to say anything thank you [Laughter] you're just doing it on purpose we're just teasing you about them they're freezing of the you have to have fun video right stupid there we go Kids First Healthcare is [Music] foreign [Music] this could look like asking questions such as what I'm hearing is can you please tell me more about your feelings how does your body feel take time to give your student your undivided attention and listen to what they have to say remind them that you're there for them and that you're there to support them [Music] see important status here are some behaviors to look for that may indicate your student might be struggling with a mental health concern lack of appetite weight loss or weight gain decrease or increase sleep sudden lack of interest in activities in school expressing feelings of loneliness or nervousness irritability or anger isolation from family and friends foreign [Music] Healthcare we'd love to have you join us on May 2nd for our upcoming Community advisory Council we'll have experts from Kids First Healthcare and from Adams 14 school districts to talk to you about children's mental well-being we'll have resources information mini workshops and we'd love to have you join us remain second 5 37 PM Adams City High School the hope to see you on May 2nd hi great video welcome thank you I'm Allison I'm the mental health coordinator here for Adams 14 School District thank you all for your support of mental health especially in the years post covid the mental health concerns of our students have continued to increase I'm happy to report that starting next year in all fifth grade classrooms we will be pilot or using after a pilot riding the waves which is a suicide prevention program and all seventh and 9th grade classrooms will have signs of suicide which teaches youth how to notice signs of depression and themselves and their peers and how to talk to an adult if they're worried about themselves or others we also and you guys have the um contract approval later even though Hanson and Monica Hanson and Monaco are becoming one school next year we're still asking for nine school-based therapists from Griffith Center for Children because we currently have weightless at multiple schools just due to increased need we also partner with Kids First Healthcare and they have a school-based therapist that's one day a week at Kearney and four days a week at Adams City High School this year we've gotten to use our Mental Health crisis response team as well in response to a couple incidents over this school year and are doing a lot of professional development with our wonderful school counselors School social workers and school psychologists their jobs are thankless and I'm always appreciative of all that they do they go kind of under the hood so to speak outside of classroom teachers and so they also deserve to be recognized as a part of this month because they are day in and day out holding space for the social emotional Wellness of our students last week we had an event with kids first where we partnered and had little mini workshops for mental Wellness as a way to kind of give that information out to families as well so I'll try to to them if they want to talk at all as well about mental wellness and again thank you all for your support of the mental health and wellness of our students thank you hi good evening I'm Whitney Gustin Connor executive director of Kids First Healthcare thank you for the opportunity to speak just briefly tonight and we'll all of your participation in this video as Allison had said child and youth mental health has become at that crisis level and to have leaders in our district in our schools show that mental health is a part of all of our Lives the stigma sometimes the shame is unnecessary um our communication to our kiddos is all feelings matter um and we do everything to break down those barriers um we're up to now five mental health professionals in our clinics in addition to the school-based health centers we have mental health services available at our new clinic at 7190 Colorado Boulevard um the event on on May 2nd was a big hit really building upon the history that director Zubia has established with our community advisory Council this was one where we brought in a number of community members lots of questions engagement parents with kiddos who are old and young we had presentations by Allison by our medical director our lead mental health professional who's a great event that we expect to continue with that so and very much appreciate this partnership and the opportunity to serve the kiddos of Adams 14.

uh helped you with a lot of community work where um we had a motto of Step Up or step down and we had three board members and one superintendent stepped down for the biliteracy bilingual program so I have some skin in the game know the parents and I'm back I'm back under the Youth Empowerment agency um a contract worker in Adams City Middle School and I have had the honor to see Bianca again what an amazing individual you guys have here um so so happy to be here um however my question for you this evening sorry oh my gosh I'm sorry no you're fine okay my question is the budget I um I'm wondering what contract Youth Empowerment agency has with you all and to my understanding to my understanding it is public record so I was wondering if you would be so kind to share that with me I don't know if that's via email or do you let us all know now I don't know how that works but I'm wondering what the contract is with that um okay thank you for your question yeah there's a couple of ways you can um do a quarter request I don't think that's really necessary because it's public information sure but um Sheila uh and Sheila Burke will follow up with you and we'll get that to you thank you so much for allowing me inside I teach an entrepreneur class and refocus room and I have to have such an amazing time with the students I appreciate it great thank you thank you for joining us and this was just the one we only had one all right thank you Joanna um next on our agenda is the superintendent report uh Dr Lydia I'm president members of the board I have a couple of this is again off Madam president there you go members of the board I have um a couple of quick updates besides the ones that you uh that we have brought to you and also a video to show you so I'm going to start with um just recognizing our students at the high school aliyahcevedo she was honored at the capitol for her leadership and advocacy this was a couple of weeks ago I know some members from our staff went with her Ms Ronnie bricklial and Stephanie Redd it's went with her and I I think you actually and um councilwoman Douglas yes yes one of our council members for the City of Commerce City and I just want to highlight she was here with us last month and she was receiving also the recognition for her leadership and advocacy for this young age for the the community with um she is Ian so we are very proud of having her she's not even a senior I want to say she's in 10th Grade so it's um just the level of leadership that she has displayed is unbelievable so I want to highlight her once once again because she was honored at the Capitol um and also we have a staff member who was selected as the assistant principal of the Year by the koalas the Colorado Association of Latino um administrators and superintendents and uh this is Nathan cavadera he is at Kearney middle school so I think it's one more piece of evidence that we have phenomenal staff members we're bringing new members who are phenomenal as well you saw them earlier so uh the district just continues becoming stronger and stronger I do want to also thank the academic leader the academic team Sheila Josh principals in really um everyone else all the way from um you know our bus drivers cafeteria workers nutrition workers our teachers front office really every single staff member put was all hands on deck to ensure that our students were going to be here taking the CMAs test we have record high levels of participation which is actually phenomenal for us not only you know for accountability ranking but also um you know us as a as a community demonstrating how interested each one and committed each one of our employees and students are on moving forward the district so thank you thank you team uh it was hard work I heard um actually that Dr Cochran was seeking out for students maybe even moving vans from one place to another picking up students look at the list so it was really all hands on deck so I just want to to acknowledge their hard work because it's for our students and lastly we do have a video about the World Cup that happened this um this weekend I have some stats here for you we have 279 players I was one of them um sadly I don't know if that was a good thing or you know for my team because you know they were telling me you're off uh what is it called off all sides there you go although I heard it a million times I couldn't like I'm of what uh off-site um I was taking picture when I was then being passed the ball uh you know from afar I'm doing this to take a picture I was just having fun when everybody was taking this you know game very seriously so we have 279 players um who represented 20 countries and these were employees alumni and students who decided uh or who selected the country they wanted to represent of course I was representing Costa Rica but then all the different countries were forming one team so we had members there in each one of the teams coming from um different backgrounds um supporting different uh countries but at the end of the day it was one color sure and um and I cannot I cannot explain how many times I saw our students just being supportive of each other just being and um just just demonstrated great sportsmanship and even consoling each other when they were losing some of the kids were crying when they were they were taking it seriously we have 22 teams uh 32 games and 40 volunteers um we had um actually I'm gonna ask Mario Marquez who come up here because I want him to share a little bit also of it and as I present this stats I can tell that he does take seriously soccer let me just let me just show why so we have a game 64 that were representing Qatar 2022 32 in Adams 14.

uh don't quote me on that but um this is a separate um ordinance that they passed essentially using their police Powers uh so-called police Powers which gives uh cities and states the ability to pass laws for the general uh safety and Welfare of their citizens so with with that they passed this ordinance that said natural gas infrastructure shall be prohibited in newly constructed buildings I believe there was a couple minor exceptions which I won't get into here but the key is the definition of what is natural gas infrastructure so what it actually are they prohibiting so they Define natural gas infrastructure as fuel gas piping other than service pipe in our connection with a building structure or within the property lines of premises key part extending from the point of delivery at the gas meter as specified in the California mechanical and plumbing code now here's a little visual that hopefully will explain this a little better so yellow that's the service line coming in from the utility to the meter that's not being regulated the red after the meter then you have the pipes that lead up to your individual appliances this kind of looks like a house but it doesn't just apply to homes it's businesses so essentially the Berkeley ordinance prohibits the red piping from the meter to the various Gas Appliances you know here we have typical ones that you might have like water heater furnace and stove so shortly after it was passed California Restaurant Association on behalf of their members filed suit in Federal District Court um they obviously are most concerned with the ability of their restaurants to have natural gas stoves and to be cleared no one's saying that you can't have natural gas stoves and existing structures these are new newly created newly built commercial structures um that they would be prohibiting it from um and so uh California Restaurant Association argued that the Federal Energy policy and conservation act abbreviated Epica preempted the ordinance a quick explanation of preemption it's a legal doctrine that allows a higher level of government to limit or even eliminate the power of a lower level of government to regulate a particular subject um this can be done thank you language um excuse me written um okay sorry I'll try to get a little closer I know you okay let me try something that's weird um sorry about that uh I did notice a couple of you were breaking up on me when you were talking I will maybe stop my video I don't know if that'll help but okay so let's go back so I'll go back over that last point is is that better at all John sounds better yes okay hopefully it'll it'll stick I know like a couple of people glitched and I guess maybe that was on my end but in any case um hopefully it won't happen everything was fine up until this uh definition of preemption okay gotcha so preemption is a legal doctrine that allows a higher level of government to limit lower levels of government or even eliminate the power of a lower level of government to regulate a particular subject area Um this can either be explicitly stated in the statute but it doesn't necessarily have to be it can be implied by the overall structure of the statute um real quick I mean this probably is obvious to most of you but at the top of our system we have federal laws um quick side note that in addition Federal agency regulations can also Trump uh state laws so but basically you have federal states states can also Trump things um that cities want to do by preempting them okay so epca originally passed in 1975.

[Applause] [Laughter] all right area [Music] [Applause] of the Arizona school boards Association scholarships and that's Daniel Keystone [Applause] [Music] thank you the recipient of the Hispanic Native American Indian caucus scholarship also valued at 1 250 congratulations [Music] thank you okay let's give it up for the families [Applause] [Music] all right so we will get started with our seventh grade season and that was the real prank thank you both can agree she is the daughter of Vera Lee Clark and Laura safrano her home Villages himself her favorite class is math with Mr Carlos and her favorite teachers are Miss Claudia Martin and Mr Enriquez and they is a musician and loves to rock out on the electric base of the BSC cougar white event after graduating from Bobby kiwi High School Chicago going to college at UCLA she plans to study Italian and Russian to become an interpreter or a lawyer one person that she greatly admires is her friend Dean she respects me because he always keeps up with his work helps others with their problems and helps out the homework congratulations Nevaeh [Applause] our eighth grade student of the month is Laurel Frank [Applause] District her favorite class is math with Mr Jones she doesn't have a favorite teacher because she enjoys all her teachers equally after she graduates from Bobby high school she plans on going to college which college she will attend is still under exploration she plans on studying engineering and becoming a successful professional one person that she greatly admires is her mother because she pushes her to only see her best at anything and everything congratulations congratulations Laurel [Applause] thank you all right our freshman can see another month [Applause] his home Village is [Music] he is a proud member of the Future Farmers of America he enjoys all his all of his classes and teachers equally no favoritism here after graduating from barbecue high school he plans on joining the workforce and seeing what the world has to offer one person that Jeffrey looked up to is his brother Robin he respects him because Ronnie works hard it helps him to push himself to be better congratulations Chad Lee [Applause] our sophomore student of the month is Nathaniel Garcia [Applause] Nathaniel is a sophomore costume of the month and his Guardian is Brianna Garcia gives home villages to Bobby inigochi District Nathaniel is an athlete playing football and running in track in the field his track and field events are running the 100 meter 200 meter in the 4 by 100 meter relay and the 4x400 meter relay from the family's favorite class is English with Mr salahan his overall his favorite teacher overall is Mr Nice after graduating from high school Nathaniel plans on attending college and continuing his development as an actor his career aspirations are open but he's considering becoming an artist and Nathaniel would like to thank his Guardian Brianna for all of her support and encouragement over the years congratulations [Music] [Applause] and our junior class student of the month is Zachary and so [Applause] um his own village is District his favorite class right now is white up with Mrs Lucas and after graduating from Robert Calgary High School Zachary plans on attending to uscc he plans on developing a successful career in construction if he could Zachary would make the world a better place right by building high quality homes for people to live in congratulations thank you um [Music] [Applause] all right and our senior costume of the month is Destiny Norris foreign athlete played volleyball with the lady Warriors she is a number of student councils serving as the vice president of the senior class Destiny's favorite class is photography with Miss Lopez after graduation this spring she was open to attending college Destiny is considering attending the Institute of American Indian arts in Mexico becoming artist one person she is greatly admires is her grandfather Keith Norris because he is a great artist and teacher congratulations [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] relax [Music] good evening everybody my name is Gary Fox I am the principal of the alternative campus board members superintendent appointment superintendent Diaz and uh all you nice folks out here that hung around for us so we're doing we're going to talk about our Middle School student of the month first this is a seventh grade young man Anthony come on up Anthony Matias is a um without saying that's why he's here but he's a true learner he takes Martin everything that has to do with using his brand from Scrabble to chess to teaching himself Russian one day I was hey I was sitting there and he's on the computer and he's working so hard and I said Anthony doesn't look like you have to do anything and he answers me in Russian so I said great let's see if Edgenuity has Russian it doesn't we put an email in them we're trying to get it for him wonderful young man it makes you so proud to be a part of our campus Anthony Elizabeth foreign [Applause] [Music] I see his name everywhere I hear about him I hear people talking good things about them please come up [Applause] [Music] Netflix is here to film something because he's out front and he looked like an actor to me at the hair the wind was blowing and I got this I got something down with the teachers when I asked questions about about Governor Mr wendia uh because we're looking through the transcripts like this dude's closer than than he may know I'm not sure so with constant effort constant work he's come in in the last three months he has produced a lot more importantly you know we can tell you the six courses the well over 50 activities you can go through all that but more importantly you can know him as a human this is not the last you're going to see in this kit this this kid you gotta Kick this young man because Miss Amanda is going to make sure Miss Hermes is going to make sure he becomes a teacher because I'm going to make sure he becomes the next baseball coach Bob Cubans [Music] thank you heck of a family man too old [Applause] thank you very much I want to say thank you for all the parents and grandparents um relatives of being here tonight and get excited to see everybody here supporting your students and all the efforts that I've made to bring me your wonderful things about our students it's also amazing to hear what they plan to do when they finish it um do you ever need help I'm here for you because I can find my daughters [Music] I'm here for that but they do once again [Applause] or anything else [Music] foreign [Music] number three before the student council report for our um First Responders who didn't need to be recognized and be on their way okay does anybody want a second all in favor of the movement Anna Marie Stevens aye Sylvia Hendrix Elementary report president one of the members of the board members of the community this is a very special statement as well um we have uh this opportunity I'll be segment to acknowledge people that are that go above and beyond uh to support the number can't read about the community on the map based on the behaviors and actions that commitment to our community may I please have please uh Lewis to share the first again in the war good evening board members and community members staff so we wanted to um give a himdog award to the thought of them fire department we would like to nominate the Donald fire department for always helping us out at the intermediate campus they are always in hand when we request assistance from Reading to our students assisting our fifth graders on the day drops to fire drills our students are older which has never stopped them or hesitated to come to our campus instead they are creative and making their visit fun the fire department truly has shown their dedication to always making our students feel special by being one of our sisters our Brothers Through the Bible King system we also have I think Caitlyn Manuel who is isabindi house and we have a homicide who's the Amistad most importantly happiness still safe by making sure we do our fire drills correctly they were also the first Department to be placed in a bubble key with pride they helped us cheer for our students before they were placed into a house when asked if they had any supplies that they could give our intermediate staff or teacher being appreciation week they did better by supplying all bosd teachers lunch on Thursday so thank you to the Donald Trump Fire Department thank you I am for um the firefighters that came because one of them is actually a previous student of mine in third grade so Caitlyn [Music] so we have an award um we will be giving you a plaque the flag wasn't ready in time so we will be um sending over the plant to the fire department so if you would like to stand up here so we can take a picture [Applause] thank you appreciate you thank you congratulations [Music] [Laughter] foreign [Music] thank you [Laughter] [Music] uh if y'all are leaving really quickly guys just a real quick giveaway from the government But ultimately the Partnerships and the collaborations and everything that you all are able to do and have been able to do the show True model of what it means to be part of the community for our students it is definitely felt and genuinely we sent our gratitude to you as a governing board because without you I think that we definitely know it will be a little bit more of an effort for us to have to really kind of engage with the kids so thank you so much for what we do and that's what we're Christians [Applause] be safe thank you so I have another one um I believe he is watching on YouTube um for his um nomination and his mom so we wanted to nominate Demetrius Flanigan fowles intermediate staff would like to nominate Demetrius Flanagan travels for the hymnsong award Mr Flanagan Foust the son of Miss Flanagan our very own being able specialist at the intermediate and a Santa 49ers player before we became famous he attended our school on many occasions to talk with our students and to do assemblies we understand he is a very busy man and love that he thinks of us by sending our students video messages to buying our staff lunch for teacher appreciation today or what is Monday gift so he bought all our teachers Little Mexico so thank you um Demetrius and and family his heart and dedication to making a difference among others shows us that no matter who we are or where we are thinking of others is a blessing that we are so proud and honored to have him think of us so thank you Demetrius and thank you Miss Flanagan [Applause] my next nomination intermediate campus would like to nominate sorello Flores [Music] [Applause] has stepped up in many ways from the first day that he has stepped on our campus he truly is the example of the Bible King ways of learning by using outside the box teaching strategies every time we leave this classroom it feels like we just left the concert with academic accomplishments through the music and students taking over The Learning in the classroom Mr Flores is also a leader among his colleagues he planned and organized a cultural dance to share with us and the community without hesitation while studying for his PhD and will be graduating soon Mr Flores thank you for everything you do and making sure to acknowledge every student and staff on their accomplishments and celebrations he was the first one to text me to happy National principal day so thank you Mr Flores [Applause] thank you we're coming and that was ready for his new house [Applause] [Music] on the words of also members of USD um [Music] based on the master levels in addition busd has also established that 80 of the students will score 70 or higher during the 2022-2023 Academic Year be with the offer after school tutoring and creative recovery under the supervision many of our teachers have demonstrated a commitment by supporting students after school also on Saturdays three tutors whose students have blossomed and demonstrated as exponential growth the first two tutors that I would like to bring to everyone's attention is Miss armenta and Islam between both teachers and students completed 21 courses we also result in a very sometimes graduating this year the third uh Twitter is Mr Marco Marcos Mr Marcus's group not only have one of the highest attendance after in the after a degree program but also the students are Mr Marcos supported group 1.1 years in million and 1.1 years in math please [Applause] thank you [Applause] thank you oh thank you thank you very much [Laughter] again one night thank you Ben again that I feel like is absolutely part of the overall cause team that we are seeing flourish so thank you so much for everything that you do that is a piece or a part of everything that we're trying to do for this entire community and I truly truly truly believe that we have very high high hopes and expectations and we genuinely want to make sure to write this Express so thank you so much for your coming and your time and your passion and all of your love that you are able to give all of our children into people bless you thank you Mr Spirit president the members of the board at the same time I would like to take an opportunity to remind our parents that we're here to collaborate and work together we do have a high expectations but we also have a lot of supporting ways so that we can meet those expectations and a friendly reminder we need a proud after school would ensure the students they have the opportunity to be successful we have credit recovery not only after school but also on Saturdays we will we're very proud that we are going to be also provide you not only uh Summer School uh baby well but we also want to be doing an extended our corporated with the summer school friend recovery as well as dual enrollment to ensure as soon as they can start getting ahead yes you do have a high expectations that we have also a lot of supporting place um we want to be part of the solution and we want to be part of the support thank you president foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] we are here to highlight a few accomplishments from the school year to start off we would like to thank you for having us here at the board of meetings and giving us a chance to share our voice this has given us an opportunity to practice our public speaking and Leadership skills that we use and will continue to use to better serve our community we started off the Year by attending a leadership conference at Marana High School that happens gave us the momentum we needed to plan the fall semester we started off by having a meet and greet by letting the student body meet all the class officers after that we helped the school with the RCA house election we then had our big fall event which was homecoming following we then observed the natural hygiene where students and staff took a pledge to be drug-free that led to our Halloween festival we finished the fall semester with a trip to Atlanta to visit the Ron Clark Academy during the spring semester we were very busy with on-campus Community Services projects and planning activities that focus on our school's sports teams and overall mental health for our students our main focus however is our senior class our goal was to motivate them to finish strong we know the role to their senior year was not was not an easy one so we wanted to remind them that they are not alone and um I would also be doing a little song [Music] forever [Music] [Applause] at this time we would like you to enjoy this video we hope to continue some of our projects into next year and employ the ones that we couldn't do this year next year foreign [Music] thank you [Music] thank you foreign [Applause] [Music] about my young leaders and behind amazing incredible sponsor this would not happen without a leadership of a great leader that is fortunately I mean in supporting them so they concerned I am not only part of my study Council leaders but also please [Applause] all right it truly shows it truly shows how how great the kids are actually um encourage and so thank you experience thank you all for being true models for these different music all right um [Music] thank you for the report um you're the only one here so thank you your team isn't here thank you for everything you're doing for your um specifically thank you you have a beautiful voice um yes yes I see a lot of interaction there at the high school and I've been I've been there a couple of times and um visit one of the classrooms and um everybody was having a good time we had lunch with them so you know IMR on the students there thank you facility thank you for your report you know I I knew I went with you to the uh to the legislative um and [Music] um I could tell with the way you we're taking care of us not just me but helping portion of all you love your students that you have great respect for yourself Elders if I am an elder yeah thank you man uh thank you [Music] okay okay Impossible on Passage that are available and singing and all those things I could do yuriates for sure because it didn't take it it takes a lot of search so I think it's much more encouragement qualification especially here in certainly needed [Music] which is our elementary and secondary school the emergency room [Applause] good evening superintendent Venus yes yes I'm not really excited professor 101. all right what exactly is Esser it's the elementary and secondary school emergency relief fund um this was Federal funding for Education during the covid-19 pandemic and while we always just say Esser it actually was three different grants one two and three and spending Esser you would basically have to ask three questions are you preparing for coping 19 preventing covid-19 or responding to covert 19.

um then an S of two the second Bill we got almost 4 million and then SO3 was the largest one with 8.8 million and so you have to remember with s is three our set-aside is 1.7 million so it's a lot of money that we have to set aside all right now next slide so how was sr1 spent um I just put this little graph together because there's a lot of different pieces I try to categorize everything so this is our 950 000 that we had a lot of this money has gone to laptops and internet if you think about the timeline of when this one came out it was right at the beginning of covid um that's when we sent all of our students home in March of 2020 so most of the money was spent on making sure all the students had laptops had internet and also PPE supplies because at that time we still had teachers in the classroom at the schools making sure all the schools were taken care of we also had some salaries and benefits that was mostly for overtime for people and for transportation workers um because we had the paper Security on campuses when nobody was there um and then a few other little things technology supplies indirect costs social so those are just like smaller tasks um next is our SS2 setting and so you'll see notice that for S of two we have spent a lot of money replacing HX um this was spent on I believe the primary and the intermediate replacing all of the hvacs one of the uh requirements with Esser was to actually make sure the air quality was good so we had a lot of HVAC issues we also spent a lot on technology supplies so all of this beautiful equipment that was paid for by Esser in the classrooms too um again we also spent more money on PPE and laptops and everything and then the transportation in our two buses three um this this is a budgeted amounts we have not spent all of us in three because we still have another year end it this is where we have this is what we have budgeted so salaries and benefits is about 34 um and I'll show you that breakdown here in a minute um you will notice that 25 of this has gone to retention bonuses and the benefits with that so um we've had we have one coming out this this Friday and then we've had kind of one last year we'll have another retention bonus next year so we're trying to reward our staff for staying with us uh professional development and travel those are both about three percent of the total Esser three the majority of that is Ron Park Academy the hvacs I came out of sn3 these hvacs were for the teacher housing so all the teaching housing had replaced housing a tattoo AC units uh we have we have bought more laptops and more internet so we've continued to replace laptops and continue to pay for internet for students um through the the whole home in 19 pandemic um and then some instructional supplies and then the other the one percent there I just a little mix of everything we have some have subscriptions like I ready for our third grade for dyslexia screener and then we also have a playground equipment and a marquee so just a few little smaller things that mix in there and then finally next slide so the salaries and benefits break down this is kind of this is where it is right now this is actually going to be kind of Shifting some so this is salaries Plus benefits so this is a salary plus a 30 and then also over three years the large majority of this is going towards our tutoring so all summer school all after school tutoring all intercession tutoring that is going to be paid for out of sm3 so this year and next year so this summer school and next summer school and then also interventionists are current counselors SEL coordinator we have teachers on assignment which is kind of our subs the exit Administrative Assistant as the program manager and our math coach those are all coming out of sr3 that doesn't necessarily be mailed in with SRS some of the positions will be finding other funding or with split funding and then the ones in blue those are actually in our Set Side so the reason we move them and is s23 is because they count for the set-aside amount and then they'll move back to their other Grant moving them and that's all any questions can you also operate for the uh attachments yeah so um these the 400 Pages those are all of the the itemized spending um I those these are just important some eye visions so I I don't know how if you have a lot of time over the weekend you can go through all of them it's um I I be careful some teachers I guess might come up on salaries I think I try to edit that out but um so it's just it's basically an itemized report on everything when you spent for us or um SO3 has not been spent completely we still have money to spend on it so it's because it's still extends until next year but the other two are pretty much done finishes this September I have a question of the money is going to go away and the year 2024 what's the plan after that so most of the positions already were funded out of other grants like Title One and so any any positions will go back into Title One or title or whatever the other funding wasn't happy whatever it previously was positions like myself at that position will go away so I'm fine I'll be doing something different at that time thank you and I like the ways breakdown you know it's easy to see you know where all the the money went right I like that thank you oh [Laughter] I'm just thinking for the report and it does um have a lot of detail and I know that you you should have all that detail um but for me it's just it's good perfect I mean the accountability [Applause] but I also wanted it's all budgeted um yeah we analyze it at the end of the fiscal year to see if there's like certain positions if we don't hire them or if they if they leave and we can analyze it and move things around but ss3 is harder because we have a 20 set aside so if we have to make sure we always have that there and it has to be set on something and that's exactly um it's in the same it's all in the same brain again so I just said we just have to keep track of it basically yeah we're talking about these either is this all all these um it's awesome yeah yeah because they're all they're all federal government grants so um actually up to five years after they end yes they can still yeah that's a question I was thinking and I can't okay please the only thing that I know that the community is what exactly was to sleep you know that I'm grateful for because I think the absolutely does give us a good standpoint oh here we go right there but uh but as far as the um any spend it I guess come September 30th yeah that's pretty much yeah S3 as it hasn't been spent yet but um I have it all budgeted so that it is oh yeah all right um [Music] Miss Hendrix thanks guys are we doing some type of evaluation you know how successful is that help us yeah all our all the actual schools that are in the summer school we have to we're tracking all the data so that is um were any of the um though that expired what were you able to carry over no no there's no carryovers yeah we have to make sure it's all exhausted descendants thank you [Applause] I've been on number five is our book we've got like super sporting board financial report s [Music] thank you I am presenting me thank you for somebody that student collects an activity a report okay [Music] I added the line so that it to be a little bit and serious I don't know if it's kind of what it is just an unclean white background CDC of Costco please let me know that's distracting I can change that and I wanted to try and go to order um of the clubs that we have listed on report so attached to find the fiscal year 23 Student Activity auxiliary balances through April 30th the Student Activities account had deposits totaling 14 201.52 the elementary student council had receipts totaling three thousand one hundred and ninety dollars from teacher lunch sales and including those sales the high school student council had a disbursement of 465.29 for a payment of an Amazon order class of 23 received a donation of seven thousand eight dollars from the Desert Diamond Casino for the senior class trip and a payment of 421.60 went to an Amazon order class of 24 had receipts totaling three thousand six hundred and ten dollars for profit s on scrolling here we go um class of 24 had receipts totaling 3 610 for prom ticket sales concession sales and Catering for barbecuing District office they also have disbursements of 650 to pay for the topical Warrior bag for prom in the class of 25 received 192 dollars for baseball concession sales class of 26 received 282 from baseball conception sales the girls basketball is disbursement of [Music] 5 and the boys basketball team has been the disbursement of 763 degrees for payment of an invoice to TA sports apparel LLC for shooting the shirts finally the 8th grade promo account had a disbursement of 514.36 to pay for an Amazon order the ending balance on April 30th 2023 for the Student Activities account was 104 485.58 I'm down below at the Student Activity their student auxiliary portion um student auxiliary have deposits totally 1913.84 cents two um the elementary for for instance Scholastic Book Fair sales High School had a disbursement totaling 378 dollars and three cents for three ESN Sports invoices the ending balance on April 30th 2023 for um student auxiliary was 3447.23 do I have any question on um Student Activities or artillery Sims on to our um April expenditure report s so attached we have the fiscal year 23 expenditures in April 30th um 2023 the antidote reflects a budget balance of 974 and 98 cents we have 10 months into the into the school year and everything remains in good standing grants are currently moving expenditures from SO2 to SO3 you got to see a little bit of that um and that just means the POS that are built to sr2 might be greater than what they should have been so we have to move we actually we are expecting another deposit from B rate and itca and teacher housing expenditures are moved into impact Aid as payments are made depending on this one amount s overall we have a 76 I'm sorry 46.47 or 18 million 860 724 and 46 Cent budget balance excluding encumbrances and we have received 23 million 1053.13 so far in Revenue stream s 580 on Student Activities and at 8 15 sorry 850 for Student Activities at 855 for insurance funds do I have any questions on the okay The Shield there was a question that I was not able to answer um yesterday can you take me back to the first stage of these documents there was a specific by nylon the person was um [Laughter] [Music] I don't know so this grant my eyes wow the question was what is that right it also shows me again about a little over five years ago and it um good evening so the itca grant was a grant that we received about five years ago and uh any leftover money was deposited in there as we that account pretty much uh given it over to Aggie and her group so that she can go ahead and spend it for any of the kids the other thing is there there's a little bit more money in there so we try to allocate so what you're seeing is a budgeted amount so it may be looking as it's negative but at the end by by the time they start cleaning up it will Zero up so there's no need to worry about it foreign there's more money [Music] I'm sorry purchases all those things in this area can you repeat the question and and I believe last through those questions the budget or purchasing for us continues softball our best basketball we're also particular because I normally have a um yeah what sports are up for um and if it's a uniform that is staying with the school um that is to be provided by the school so if we don't have money to cover that then the school does have to take and usually that comes out historically what it's been and I think the athletic director keeps track of the rotation calendar okay it's giving you my information on that um or I think those will hold up during so I don't know exactly what happened before we left off um on that I can get more information [Music] can you explain what uh lost um textbooks I think what is that about the stage oh yes um [Music] I've only changed names on our um our fundings sometimes and I don't know if that was maybe that we had in the past that is still and what you don't say sorry because peanut is the roadway from the mom's textbooks again the 7 500 that's allocated there it's just the budgeted amount to start the year with and during the year if there's any Replacements that need at any of the schools that need to replace any of the textbooks that's the economy course let me go through and that's the coding that we use so we may use it and and maybe not at the end of the year so it'll go back to the general fund and then redistribute out at the end for the new school year thank you yes I can go over this at the budget um if we would like to put that money elsewhere if it's not being used it's lowercase and this I would report is to hold from our vision system so um I can go in I know [Music] I'll be funny cats like everything else and go revisit that too on my channel and correctly anymore we've been doing a lot of digital myths the reality we could if you want to keep a small budget because there's still textbooks thank you um are it's just um we were pretty conservative and just you kind of went off to what we had last year so but something new and we just have to move it in um move my knees into that fund um when we go in and revisit okay it's also too um if we have put in for new um we get new grants or new um budget sources money coming in and we have to create a new line item for it um that also gets created and if you haven't gotten you know half peels in the system for it with the money and it's coming um sometimes we have those allocated out too you can see essentially um but it doesn't have a reflection and so that revenue does come in and it's listed on our books and the community yes Vietnam yeah okay yes and and obviously we can't pay anything out of it until we do have that money at the county because they won't let anything through that so we usually have the backup that we send to the county um with that deposit that's coming and then they let us know once they have a minute and we they have reported it on their end as a deposit permit and then we enter it on Art and so um that's when we reconcile at the county make sure everything back [Music] .

the students were amazing musically they were amazing with their conduct with their flexibility with their teamwork and to watch friendships flourish um the students here tonight will tell you more but my favorite was watching how the students created different groups on different days and sometimes they would be with friends they made in high school on the lacrosse team and then another day you would see that same student with their neighborhood friend that they've been together with since Cherry Brook but perhaps grew apart over the last several years and reconnecting with their friends from kindergarten and like it just was such a warm and special uh time for the students to have so much fun and also play um and sing um I came to you and I asked last June for this group of kids to be a lighthouse for our musicians in our district and they came through the choir was given a superior rating and they were had a wonderful performance the band got an excellent rating as well as a best-in-class designation for students it's like being in a we're a class s school for sports right and so in our designation we were considered Best in Class um we didn't have any behavior issues on the trip like I I just I can't say enough of how what a special special thing this is so today we have Lauren one of our Triumph officers here to speak about it as well as Bella and Simone who you know very well and then we'll wrap up with a photo slideshow that Mr Jones prepared to give you a sense of of what the students experienced thank you Lauren Bella hi everyone my name is Lauren I'm a Triumph officer um I thought the trip was just great I think it was definitely one of the highlights of my year I just can't all the memories I think I'll have them for the rest of high school going into college um one of my favorite moments from the trip was the cooperation and the passion for music and the passion for working together as musicians from our exchange with Horizon High School so um a day before we actually performed for the festival Disney judges um we did an exchange with um a very new high school actually two years old high school in Florida called Horizon High School um so their jazz band played for us and we got to meet their band drafter and their jazz bandractor um and we were also with Hall High School so Hall High School their Jazz fans played and their band played um and then our high our band and our choir um sang and played and it was really special just to be able to be in another building but feel that that music like had transported us to this other place and we felt comfortable performing with these people that we had never met before and with this director that we miss San Antonio had only really spoke to um over the phone and um with email and it was really special for me um to see all of my percussion buddies working together because it's very equipment heavy so we had people with people who had like checked bags on the plane had been lugging these huge suitcases everywhere with tambourines and all this stuff and so we got all this to Horizon High School and also the high school and set up all these instruments for us and um with the Horizon High School people our percussionists and the Hall High School percussionists people who none of us had ever met before worked together as one team like we've been working together for forever we had that percussion section absolutely Flawless in place in about five minutes left I think it was the best organization I've ever seen from any high school students and that was just amazing because I had never really seen people um we're together in that way we had never met each other before and just seen that power of music and their shared love of percussion and music and being in this special place was just really transformative for me thank you great okay all right so I'm going to talk a little bit about our actual um performances we had done on Saturday that week I have a little bit random done just to keep myself together but um I thought it was really cool that we had the opportunity both in the course to kind of perform in like really cool venues that we wouldn't normally ever get an opportunity to do so with um for choir it was the Saratoga Springs Resort and uh band was the Disney's contemporary resort and it was just very beautiful venues very good Acoustics it was just like very nice um you know exploded to different bigger venues that again we wouldn't have normally ever gotten an opportunity to perform in um and then afterwards we got very fun and engaging workshops to do for uh 15 minutes or so with one of the judges I know for choir we worked a lot on more accurate pronunciation of you know other languages we did Dynamics work so we got to do a lot of fine tuning with the songs that we could then apply to our music as we performed it later in the year or with new pieces we'd learned and then same in the band they learned a lot about you know taking music off the page and being very expressive with it um so that was very informative for us and um I think we were all able to better understand like emotions as we were playing in singing which I found very valuable and I think it also performing their places in a more serious and challenging environment that again we normally wouldn't get from just our you know yearly performances just in the auditorium that are more for enjoyment of you know our parents and whatnot being able to be not necessarily a competitive environment but just a more challenging where we have to hold ourselves to very high standards and have very good etiquette and stuff like that I think that was definitely a very new environment for many of us that was also very um I think it was very fun and it was nice to have that challenge when we are normally in that type of environment great excellent okay so I'm going to talk about like the friendships and just kind of like the social aspect of the trip but I found the trip to be so I want to say redeeming because we lost all of these experiences in past years and my grades didn't get to go to um Washington DC so that was the year of covet for us and there has been such a disconnect in our grade I felt like we haven't been as close and this trip really got us back to like I think where we were I think we bonded in so many different levels like we stayed up with 40 hours like we did not sleep but we were all together and it was fun and we were all going crazy together and um getting angry with each other because we're so tired but it was so it was so amazing and I know I personally like Miss Anthony she was talking about I each day kind of I stuck with similar people but you know each day we just add on a new person who were like hey like you want to join us and um this one kid I became really close with and he's a senior I've never talked to him in my life and then he joined our group and it ended up going on like the scariest roller coaster with him like music and it was just great because I felt like you know I'm making these great memories with people I didn't even really know um so it was just a really overall good trip I am so glad I decided to um you know go on the trip because originally like I had quit course last year and I rejoined this year um and I'm so glad I did because now I just have such a better like bond with everyone even and more specifically just like the chorus like it was it was great and I saw so many people with different groups like it was it was really interesting to also see like who was going with who um I really I really enjoyed that so it was great it was a good trip all right and I think I have the the video slideshow so let me pull that up and I will play that for all of you Lauren I played the sousaphone in high school so I can empathize with you about carrying large musical instruments getting them on a plane when I went to Florida in high school so did you get to go I did nice with my big tuba nice all right here thank you foreign [Applause] I have to say I know you started off your presentation by thanking the board and everybody else but the board wants to thank you because I think Simone you said it best it brought us back it got us back to where we're supposed to be doing these types of things and um so we're extremely grateful for the organization and the time you must have put in the sacrifice you made from your family but thank you for doing all that for us and getting us back so my pleasure we'll see everybody at the parade we'll see you at the parade any other questions no okay all right um that moves us right into uh we're going to have public forum are are the parents here for public forum per chance are you just listening okay good right because I didn't want to delay much more Mr Emery okay very excited about this Mr rammer you have quite an act to follow here the Disney trip you got to sing your presentation so um so to our students thank you for that um yeah thank you for sharing your thoughts on the prep very very meaningful very inspiring thank you thank you um as I said earlier uh tonight's the first meeting at each of our schools and we have the pleasure tonight to hear from Mr Abe Emery uh Mr Emery is no stranger to Canton uh Mr Emery has been working in Canton as our math science coordinator for the last several years after having an exemplary uh teaching uh career in New York City he came to Connecticut was an administrator in another school district and then we were able to lure him here to Canton and we'd certainly benefited and especially this year during the principal's leave I asked Mr Emery to to become interim principal here at Cherry Brook primary school and Mr Emery excitedly said yes and took on the challenge and has really been been a steady Force here at the school during a time of transition and so I'm pleased to introduce to you if you haven't already met Mr Amery and so tonight we'll hear our presentation on what we have as far as student data in both reading and math then this ramrey will talk about some of the highlights of this school year at Cherrybrook thanks for all your hard work Abe and thanks for being here tonight uh well thank you Mr Case Mr Bishop board members and Community I'm humbled and honored um you know it's been a humbling and honoring honor an honor experience the past few months and I'm just really thrilled to be here tonight and kind of share with you the highlights from Cherry breakfast here here first and foremost Cherry Brook is a joyful place for all Learners and staff our staff I tell them every day every week in a staff memo they do an amazing job engaging our children and fostering their growth both academically socially emotionally behaviorally um we have a few pictures here I'm not going to go over all of them but the picture there the children at the on the carpet it's just a picture of some first graders and as we all know a big focus in primary school is early literacy and here is just a picture of kids enjoying a literacy game learning about vowels and those snap words I have a picture from our newly formed Cherry Brook singers our third graders had the honor of going up to UConn with Miss card and I'm meaning some of her professors and meaning some of the students that are majoring in in music education so one student said it was the most magical experience ever I did tell Miss card for next year to schedule an extra hour so they can go to the dairy the Dairy Bar there and get some ice cream and then I have a picture there of our Unified sports season um it was my first year participating in it and and it just it was amazing to see the partnership and and and the love between you know the students within all grades the staff that was there the commitment of the staff just helping the kids and then there's just a picture of families and and staff and and the unified athletes participating in the classic parachute game um and then just a picture of one of the many book buddy groups that we have going on at Cherry Brook [Music] um so if we turn to the next slide um you know the next three slides are really going to just highlight kind of the core and the core of the work we do here at Cherry Brook so everything that we do is um is is rooted in our vision and our mission um the vision of mission helps us to make those decisions the best the best support students um on the next slide you know with everything um you know the challenges that we were faced this year um you know staff you know met every challenge with collaboration kindness and integrity um we partner with our students Educators and staff and community and every time we do that we we come at it with that collaboration mindset kindness and integrity um you know we always look forward to those collaborative opportunities with with families with staff and students and and we know we at the end of the day we we always are happy because we've tried our best and and we we always hold each other accountable for that um the next slide is is again something that's um familiar with you it's our vision of the um cam public schools graduate and at Cherry Brook you know we're the foundation of the building and we're setting that foundation for our students as they move forward to in the Intermediate School to middle school and high school so we really take pride at you know establishing a a solid foundation that's going to help our students achieve um that Vision vision of The Graduate when they walk across that stage well they already laughed when they walk across that stage you know in June to receive their diplomas foreign kind of highlights the district's Focus for the 22-23 school year um we've focused um our work on learner growth and success and obviously the culture and climate of our of our buildings and of our staff the next few slides just take a look at some of the theories and actions that were set in the beginning of the year that are again that are the focal of the work that we're doing one of the big ones is if we continue to keep all of our decisions rooted and student student-centered learning practices um you know we'll ensure that achievement and ownership and the achievement of the public schools vision of The Graduate will will happen and we'll we'll occur um the next slide looks at um students as the core of our instruction um you know we're always we always have students at the center of the decisions that we're making um we continue to develop and engage students in curriculum that's going to be rigorous that's going to be relevant um to students and relevant for them to to achieve those foundations of the vision of The Graduate of being critical thinkers creative thinkers communicators collaborators and and obviously compassionate citizens um the next theory of action talks about school Community if we create a school community that is inclusive and Equitable for all students and families then we'll have a safe and engaging learning environment that meets the unique needs of each Community member thereby increasing student achievement and the next theory of action focuses on on our environment our school environment and and the people that make up our school environment so for each person to thrive in our school environment it needs to be a safe place in which each person needs are met and differences are respected and regardless of one's you know gender race disability socioeconomic status you know every member of our community is included valued and listened to when a person feels truly seen and accepted um you know they're open to meet greater challenges and find greater greater success now um I'm going to go over um the work and the things that have happened at your work for the 22 23 school year um in the coming um slides I'm going to highlight the academic goals that were set at the beginning of the year um and then I'm going to go over some achievement data in regards to reading and math K through three um the beginning of the year uh the school goal um that was set with that students will improve their performance in the areas of reading and Mathematics um the indicators of success that the school decided to use to measure measure growth and measure student achievement um where the Dibbles reading assessment math end of the unit assessments and and star assessments the strategies um that we were focused on this year was the utilization of new resources that were implemented to support literacy instruction at Cherry Brook things such as phonics and phonemic awareness skills and in programs the specific programs of Foundations Hagerty and and some of our new unit reading summaries um we've been systematically looking at um understanding the information that we're getting from students and making sure that you know we're systematic in understanding it and making the next best decision to support student growth um you know we do that through in-house meetings you know weekly team meetings professional development days and as I shared earlier in the coming slides I'm going to highlight um the beginning of the year data and and relate that to mid-year data we don't have the end of the end of the year data just yet um in the next couple weeks we're going to be working teachers are working right now on some end of the year reading assessments you know we'll be giving some end of the year assessments obviously in the coming weeks but I'm just really excited to kind of highlight and celebrate the amazing work that our students have done you know to this point um so you all know Dibbles is called the dynamic indicators of basic early literacy literacy skills um it's the only assessment that's been approved by the state of Connecticut for assessing literacy instruction specifically at the primary school level um Dibbles are short checkpoints that are ministered to monitor how children are acquiring early literacy skills and just some some of the skills that we assess and it's not limited to this are letters and name fluency oral reading fluency non nonsense word fluency and segmentation um on the next four slides I'm going to show and know some of the growth that we've seen from beginning to end of the year I really want you to pay close attention to the green colors because the green colors highlight the students who are at proficiency when they've when we've when we've gathered that assessment of when they've taken assessment I also want you to look at some of the bands that are yellow and orange because as you'll see from the change from Fall to Spring I mean fall to winter you'll see a shrinkage in some of in some of those bands and that's a good sign that means that our students are moving within bands and and and and showing growth so kindergarten Dibbles [Music] at the beginning of our year 53 of our students were at at the proficiency at the proficiency rate range by mid-year um we were near 63 I want to note like at the beginning of the year having 53 of our kindergartens kindergartners in the green is is really great I mean we have kids kindergarten all teachers are being a teacher at every grade level is really hard but our kindergarten teaching teachers are amazing because because they have students who come into that door not knowing a letter not knowing a letter sound some kids who are reading so the the literacy skill is so diverse so for um for them you know for our kindergartners to come in at that percentage this is kudos to obviously the community but also the growth that we've seen from Fall to mid-years just kudos to to our staff our teachers our dedicated teachers you know um support staff that have you know have been you know making sure that children are are moving moving forward um so I'm I'm optimistic that when our end of the year information comes in we're going to continue to see that trend of continued growth again I just want to highlight if you look at the from fall to the mid-year you can see the the um the decrease in the red and an increase in the yellow and an increase in the darker green so we're having kids move ahead in bands which which is describing and showing us growth the next slide um takes a look at first grade Dibbles um again I'd like to highlight the growth of students um within the bands at the beginning of the year we were at 53 at mid-year we were at 63 so a 10 increase in student um achievement um this is really great because literacy wise first grade has the highest jump for reading levels and and literacy Acquisitions so we're having kindergartners come in over half of our kindergartners are coming in with some really solid skills and when our teachers get in front of them they're responding to the instruction responding to the curriculum that we're providing them and showing for us so again just as I shared with kindergarten I'm optimistic that you know our continued Trend upwards will happen so when you illustrate the um the growth let's take in the first grade from 50 53.4 to 63.1 so is that a good I mean how do we what do we compare that against like is the durg it's 70 or is it during it 50 or and is there a way to compare sorry about that no no problem I might be able to jump in on that because that's a that's a great question this this being um a a local assessment is not something that's reported to the state and it's not something that is referenced out um that's referenced out into the the broader area yeah that's good I I'll just interrupt for a second so the budget passed uh because it didn't meet the minimum again but the uh the count was 214 people voted yes and 332 voted no but uh in order to validate the election or the the referendum you need 10 of the electorate uh we fell well below that so the budget automatically passes just like it did last year so so good news um disappointing that not more people came out I wouldn't hold um the ratios to any um you know it is what it is but it's such a low turnout so it's about I guess that would be about five percent seven percent last year we had a 3.7 turnout Bob Bob vessels providing me with the information so he was sorry to interrupt just letting everybody know sorry no worries so my question was here and I I don't know if you if there's a comparative to this against other districts or so on and so forth no there isn't okay it's it's a it's a norm record so this is a national test that's really sure uh led by the University of Oregon so when we're looking at 63.1 percent that our our professional or above with that that is Norm referenced across the entirety so we're saying that already kids based on that based on that assessment at that time 63.1 percent of them are already uh proficient or above on that and that continues to track forward with an expectation and an increasingly higher level of rigor it's it gets more difficult toward the end of the year sure but kids continue to be able to grow with that and you see those those zones keep shrinking with that uh the green and growing and the yellow and orange uh shrink this is one of the assessments that's been approved by the state for screening of Dyslexia it is a really valuable assessment um and and one of the ones that is most like highly most highly related highly rated within the state for uh for efficacy so it's something that we really appreciate okay go on John or are these numbers compared to historically comparative where we we usually are around the this time of year next year or are we way below or way above or historically we're we're actually doing pretty well I would say that as we get on to our our third grade we actually are doing Beyond where we have in the past with that but I'd be happy to be able to pull in some additional longitudinal data the only difference is um we have only used this dibble's eight assessment last year and this year it's a slight difference from historical but I could get that information to show last year to this year different cohorts but happy to do that sorry no John mentioned a big piece of Jeff this is new to us and so two years into it and and so you know it's it's right now it's you know it's stressing those critical foundational skills and you know giving us that good information you know good good information about you know plan um with second grade Dibbles um it's impressive here that we nearly had 75 of our second graders at the beginning of the year within that proficiency band on on the measures that we were measuring and by mid-year um um almost near you know near 80 80 77.2 percent again I just want to highlight it's so important when when we think about student achievement is we always look at growth for every child because a student who might be lower on the continent Continuum is still making growth as compared to someone who might be at the higher end of the Continuum so the growth is really important and really important to note that um the increase in in the darker bands the shrinkage of students within you know the yellow the yellows and the red that means they're responding to what we're doing and and growing and and achieving so that's you know that's something to celebrate um third grade um came in again at almost near 80 at the beginning of the year and they've maintained um you know they've maintained that again um you know there's been some there's some slight changes there and some of the Bands again green the darker green getting bigger more students in the higher level of proficiency um again it's really important to note that when we're a third grade reader the text complexity is a lot harder we're asking kids to do higher level reading and so it's it's nice to see that what they're doing in the in kindergarten first grade and second grade is is is spilling over into third grade um I also want to note that this was our cohort who were remote Learners in kindergarten um and in first grade these some of these students participated in the hybrid model of instruction or or were in the remote learning option so um it's you know based on those factors you know they're doing they're doing really really well with that um I also want to kind attribute like growth K3 to um just kind of the work the staff has been putting in with the new resources that we've been provided by the board um you know even with coveted restrictions now lifted you know teachers are able to pull students for small group instruction we weren't able to do that in a coveted you know restricted classroom you know research says that's what moves students so being able to pull groups being able to offer small groups for for tutoring is really moving kids in that positive direction professional development a lot of our time here at Cherry Brook what up from what I've learned since being here since the middle of January a lot of time has has been spent on um really giving teachers a time to unpack the new resources work together look at the student information and and you know and plan for their for their students um and um teachers teach not curriculums and our teachers are educated by the science of reading so they're really spending the time understanding how children acquire literacy skills and really focus on that science science of reading um next um we're going to take a look at a slide that highlights star reading for grades two and three um it's really nice as a district um to have a universal screener for star and and for math it's a nice measure to measure our curriculum to measure the work that we're doing with students to measure the interventions that we may be putting in place in the classroom outside of the classroom um and you'll see here this is a highlight of grades um two and three students with their Lexile summary and what Lexa with the Lexile framework for reading is is a scientific Pro approach for measuring reading ability and text complexity so you know as as students read higher level texts they're they're higher level readers um you can see here for second grade we we had a Lexile level average at about 97 at the mid-year we jumped up to 280.

so we've shift to focus to numbers and base 10. it's a higher it's a higher level of numerical literacy you know now now we're asking kids to learn how to learn about place value um number Concepts operations measurement and so you can see here at this point in time 82 percent of our kids are are within that proficiency band of that numbers and base 10 standard get second grade again we're focused on numbers in base 10. um and 82 percent of our kids are are hitting the mark within that proficiency band for numbers and base 10.

again young and old we're there to break down barriers and make sure they access this important service so thank you thank you so much [Applause] all right um we also have a proclamation director of Zubia would you please read the proclamation yep happy too sorry so I have to apologize to everybody I actually had surgery on my foot so if you guys see me being antsy and I can't go down the stairs is because I my foot's in a cast so if you hear me bumping against the thing it's all good I'm not kicking stuff Proclamation Mental Health Awareness Month May 2023 whereas mental health affects millions of people in the United States each year across all demographics and it is important to understand its physical social and financial impacts to reduce stigma and advocate for Better Health Care whereas mental health conditions are common among school-aged children in the United States with one in six children experiencing a mental health disorder whereas less than half of Americans struggling with mental illness receive the treatment they need and treatment numbers are lower among marginalized communities including people of color people identifying AS lgbtq Plus and low-income households whereas according to the Colorado Health Institute 26 to 30 percent of high school students in Adams County report symptoms of depression making it one of the counties with the highest rates of depression among youth in the state whereas recognizing that early intervention and proper treatment can improve mental health outcome Adam's 14 partners with organizations like Kids First Healthcare and the Griffith Center for Children to provide our students with access to high quality resources and counselors therefore be a proclaimed that the Board of Education of Adams County school district 14 on this date May 9 2023 declares may as mental health awareness month and invites all of our staff to engage in conversations to better understand mental health the steps we as Citizens can take to protect our mental health and the need for appropriate and accessible Mental Health Services for all people let this Proclamation enter into official record to the school district may have a motion proclaiming May 2023 as mental health awareness month so moved a second thank you Ramona broco Please Mr Amador aye Ms Estrada aye Ms Molina aye Ms dubia aye thank you everyone um I think this Proclamation Highlights part of the priorities that we've identified in our strategic plan around social emotional learning we hear you we think it's very important and I'm very happy that we're taking steps to address that um I also agree with what Whitney said we need to address the stigma of mental illness especially within our Hispanic culture I recently read that only two out of ten latinos with symptoms of mental illness talk to a doctor about it and only one in ten contact a mental health professional so it's it's something that we we struggle with and it's great that we're addressing it with our students starting young so thank you next on the agenda is National teachers week May 8th through May 12th uh Proclamation director zupiah once again I ask you to read another one one more yes yes thank you so National teachers week May 8-12 whereas Adams 14's vision is that our students will graduate empowered inspired and equipped to be who they want to be whereas through their dedicated efforts to ensure our children learn the knowledge and skills needed to be successful in college careers in life our teachers help accomplish the district's Vision wholeheartedly whereas teachers spend countless hours preparing lessons evaluating progress counseling and coaching students to be the Future Leaders of our communities whereas teachers are the backbone of our society enabling the incredible potential of our youth and service servicing as role models to instill positive lifelong values in them whereas just as we know a student's circumstances do not dictate their potential we know that having an Effective Teacher is the most important in-school factor for Student Success therefore be a Proclaim that the Board of Education of Adams County school district 14 on this date May 9 2023 declares May 8th through the 12th 2023 as now National teachers week and extends its sincere gratitude to all of our hard-working Educators that make a difference in the lives of our students every day let this Proclamation enter the official records of the school district thank you so much may I have a motion proclaiming May 8th through 12 2023 as National teachers week a motion to approve second roll call please Ramona Mr Amador aye Ms Estrada Ms Lovato aye Is Molina aye Ms Zubia aye thank you um I'm beyond grateful for our teachers you all Inspire love heal coach encourage and Lead every single day I wish we could celebrate you every single day please know we appreciate you and thank you this week uh next on the agenda is audience comments at this time we'll begin our audience comment period just a reminder that we allow three minutes per speaker this evening we have one speaker Joanna Rosa science did I mess up your last name I'm sorry signs oh well and I I should know that because that's one of my favorite singers sorry but it shares your last name thank you so much my name is Rosa signs um I haven't been in the district uh I appeared 2018.

um I think I understand that one we had 214 yellow cards at the Qatar World Cup in 2022 and we have only eight in our Adams 14 so this is a true comparison of Qatar World Cup of 2022 to us we had a Qatar 2022 for red cards meaning kicking out an individual um player zero red cards and Adams 14 and 172 goals two or three per game at Qatar 2022 and are ready to shout for this one 305 in Adams 14.

so every all the dollars that we spend that has to be our justification all right so what is the difference we have three different estabill's sr1 was passed in March and it ended in September of 22. and it was very highly flexible later but there weren't a lot of restrictions as far as SC1 and then SO2 came around in December of 2020 when it was passed by federal government and it ends this September 9 30 23. it was also very highly flexible it did have a few more restrictions from the federal education department one of the things is that we had when I was spending s as necessary and reasonable so we had to ask ourselves that question before we even spend it and then finally episode 3 back ends next September so we are currently still spending us the free money um and uh ss3 is the most restricted about the three bills and it requires a 20 set aside for addressing math and Ela learning loss and so we had to always at the end all the money that was spent had to beat that 20 percent all right excellent okay so how much did we get so sr1 the first bill we got was 950 000.

so please set our calendar our payroll calendar um so that our staff was informed of when these payments were coming because I know um in the past um being in payroll before we didn't have you know we've had to wait on information for 301 Monies to be paid out um all the staff or all the teachers had to be evaluated and then we needed to get the information [Music] so we didn't know exactly when those were going to be paid out this year however we set these dates so now we have deadlines that they have to be met by and so and so payroll isn't just waiting by you know waiting to put these monies in because we know that our teachers um are budgeting because they're not paid throughout the whole year um just because of when school ends and when school starts um they there might be a little bit of lag between payment so we like to let them know when the to expect these extra checks um so that they can budget for the summer so this year we have our retention segment is being paid out this week and then we try to make it in between regular payrolls obviously for the amount of work that it is for people to have it done but also so that they can have checks in you know a check coming um in between a regular patient so and that's typically at the end of the year because they need to be evaluated and um and placed in the correct category of payment and so typically it's after the school year has been to come out towards the end of May beginning of June I think it's the first week of June this year you know in the past um administrators they're pretty well cleaned up the other findings are there any findings now our audit firm is still complete um reviewing the final audit um but we were informed so far and and we still have time to answer back on but I think there was seven um findings out of everything this year and there was a lot of extra that they did have to audit because of the SR grads and um a couple extra audits that they had done performed um but so far um they have found seven and I think we're um questioning a couple to make sure they have the correct information [Music] but we will have as soon as I get final word on that and I have a report in my hands I will issue that out to yes I just have not received anything yet this is just um our utterly um giving me a call and letting me know that information but there's not been anything um in writing today okay thank you okay okay thank you please members of the community because thank you good evening again you have any more members report right now and I hope you did you just go back I do want to highlight our attendance um [Applause] [Music] percentile um third grade have the main team not since last month so yeah [Music] um I do want to highlight that we did that's 100 of our third grade students for the age [Applause] begin testing our Kinder students for reading Roots weeks we can do that at the end of the year if you can please scroll up we did have I'm sorry McDonald's um if you see their MMD means Mastery not determined and that just means that some of those students Report with they have their sounds that they're so they're struggling with blending um we had had quite a few kids placed in our three and up um our goal is to get them into an R2 when they start first grade so to see that many kids sleep we do want to highlight one student in Kinder placed in a second grade reading club [Music] but we want to make sure that we don't set them up to fail we won't put them in a second grade reading class in the first grade reading class because now that you can read fluently one answer that because so um we were really excited about that as well um so now when you can watch our highlight videos from last month I do oh I'm sorry I do want to thank my teachers and staff um I have an amazing staff at our primary campus it is gentrification week and we have planned activities out for them for the whole week not as much as what they truly do deserve as you know our teachers deserve who are watching [Music] thank you [Music] right now [Music] how many sizes into the playground what happened [Music] all right [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] reading oh my gosh that is so cool so thank you thank you for everything thank you president Adams on board and it is foreign [Music] um I hope you had a chance to look at my board the intermediate board report um I like to um say thank you to the community um for stepping up we every person that walks in our in our door of the intermediate we always find some way of trying to bring them into our community at the intermediate and ways of how they can be involved and how um they need to come into the classrooms as well as helping our teachers and so as they were coming in we asked them about how can they help our teachers for teacher appreciation and so there was a lot of people that stepped up the dawn of the legislative Department the found out the key Association the behavioral health Response Team the Donovan Special Services Program the fire department there is a lot of people that came in just to help support our teachers by giving them supplies supplies providing them with lunch and so thank you to the community that means a lot to our teachers and to get some traditional meals we had a traditional meal today and and the teachers are so excited to taste the food and get some pop overs that's not traditional food but it was still good and they got to learn the history about it and why um it may not be our traditional food but it is it is in our history of why we use it so um thank you to the community and thank you to the whole um busd District staff who will help to add our own Star Wars event we had many Smiles many students walked away with activities that they did and it was more rewarding to see the community that came together by bringing the Galaxy and dancers together uh and Miss Larson for creating our own dance group we never had one but we made one and the kids are so excited and the community came together and made their outfits for them because they didn't have outfits so we came up with all that within like two weeks and so thank you to miss Martin for organizing that and for the students for stepping up and doing the dance and singing so it was a team effort in it so thank you foreign [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] completely [Music] awesome [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] yeah and we're gonna get those sixth graders back up over 90 yes and I just want to say congratulations on all the hard work that was done for the Star Wars theme um I didn't get to go but I know my daughter took um the kids that she was watching and she said there was a whole lot of people and I hear it was one of the biggest events for the community so I really am I'm gonna say thank you for everything that you're doing at your site and for all of those um uh community members that come and donate and to spend time I really I really think that that's um the kids are benefiting from it and it just shows so thank you thank you Mr Diaz I would like to also give a shout out uh but um I want to take a moment to also give a shout out to our pH of the device for the district case that drove seven and a half hours to join a service event in our food in our foreign thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] um and I hope you were able to get the pictures that he also wanted to share with you foreign [Music] because he said it was just for um for your view only and I'd like to thank the young men that helped with that in Mr Venus for the time to contribute to the to this way and so I know one of the plants because the renewal just happened is when we do the work for our new teachers one of the places that um is on the agenda is to stop at the Children's right so you know you may get to see some of their donations some people um I'd also like uh to thank the junior class the nursing class sponsor Leila Ochoa for a wonderful prom the kids looked amazing I don't know I'm sure you guys got to see pictures on Facebook but they were dressed during the practice and it was just it was a fun night I also want to recognize Waylon Martin and the Cooper baseball team for going under the Connecticut season [Music] [Applause] and also shout out to coach Valdez and the softball team for a great season as well that's it um also [Music] oh yes um as we also we're in testing season so seventh and eighth grade 100 testing our high school had either 95 percent of 10 percent tested um as well so and and this is going to attendance Mr Eastwood but there are attendants this month [Music] and if we leave that's all and so here's our video [Music] thank you foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] question comes [Music] thank you for uh continuing to um support our young men and I know that with the children um it was only for the young men to um do that so um I'm glad that we have um somebody to guide them and to continue to guide them and that we keep doing this um as long as possible thank you awful um the recipients of the awards the scholarship I want to really say thank you to um to the staff at the school for everything that they've done to help those young men to be successful and to receive those Awards thank you I couldn't remember there's um the attendance right is there yes [Laughter] thank you [Applause] come on spots [Music] good evening and board members superintendent ideas thanks for adding me up again before we get to any of this this happened last week it doesn't count really or um April but I don't want it to wait till June Mr Alvarez has had a really successful Mesa experience this semester with us and they have been culminating event at the GCU just last week and this we have a student of the year in the Mesa program in Isabella Garcia the reason she was chosen was they looked at certain traits like empathy creativity curiosity resilience calculated risk action resourcefulness tolerance ambiguity and she was chosen so I would just like to take a moment to read what Mr Alvarez wrote about her and what was recognize up there in Phoenix Isabel has been a standout student and future engineer she's demonstrated throughout the year her dedication curiosity and knowledge of the scientific and Engineering Process she has attended all the practices and events and has shown her dedication by creating time and space for her and her team she's been a role model for her peers and has shown me as her advisor her ability to overcome obstacles and restraints she's always thinking of the next steps and ensures that she only gives one what she knows to be the best she solves her intelligence and her work and her passion and her communication it is Mr Alvarez gave him great pride down on me Isabel Garcia for that recognition so thank you and just to highlight some of um what she said thank you some of the very cool things that have happened on our little campus um this month last night they went to Chase Field for Science and Innovation workshops that we put on by Boeing Lockheed Martin McDonald Douglas it was a huge event for the kids got to be out on the field and and do really move South uh we've had Teo Susan come into us we have gone to tocc and gave them a tour of what college life is like we made the University of Arizona twice in a month and the best and by far what you'll see in the video the noise of the journey into Earth was where these Mexicans and a couple extras went to the same out of your mind and they were able to go underground they were able to mine some of the elements and I call them rocks but now I have a seventh grade crystal ball explained to me with the rocks in her backpack on so it was a super very cool experience that I don't think these kids would have ever had and then my best part of the month was Mr Diego they didn't be there for it was the students on a Friday plan to have an idea of food day where they brought everything in they made they cooked it they taught me how to do things um that I've never done before and then they fed our our Guinness so it was a very very fun month for us so I am right before a video whenever you are Mr Bates [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] sometimes [Music] so in the video you can see where they were preparing the food that was built by Jessica puelo one of our students she saw the cinder block she said can I build this and Miss Larson said build a way now she's gonna go help us learn the intermediate campus to build um there was a name for it I'm sorry Jessica I'm sorry Jessica has been watching but it was just really neat to see them to take control of what they would get any questions am I the only one [Music] um thank you uh Mr Fox really can be doing for the kids and I I really appreciate that um the students out here at your uh site are going off cations and visiting places that they probably would never get to go um and also that encouragement to to take the initiative to move forward not only after graduation but you know life and that is really amazing I love that um I Really Wanna I I know that there's like about a hundred students at 135 135 and it just amazes me to know that there's only three teachers teacher but he's a very very resourceful man that we now utilizing in the classroom to give ESS Services he also has his breakout session so he so phone number yeah well for that many kids at your site where the teachers that are there for them and how much they're accomplishing that is really amazing so thank you to the teachers um not just at that site but all of our teachers but I really I I think about those teachers at years like a lot a lot because the kids that are there um sometimes they don't have that hope and and they regain that when they get to your site so I really want to want to thank you for that I think the teachers they're thinking thank you [Applause] opportunities and learning um and you can see it in the students then you can tell it you spend a lot of time getting to know these students memorable and that's what our students need um thanks again to Mr Alvarez yeah I also wanted to um send my appreciation for the time and the efforts that all you that all your teachers and yourself with that have given students and I know on a personal level that you you are very appreciated I think Fred enjoys you and the school and the teachers and you know and the work that she's accomplishing to developed yeah I'm supposed to call Fred out so congratulations Fred Thomas for uh going 6-0 with your with your Middle School baseball team they had a great both the boys and the girls are a great set of seven games up at all this weekend it was a pleasure to be there to watch and um you know Go Mama Michelle I I'd like to thank all the principals and pull around their um the other projects that I've been made this month and um I'm really proud of the attendance and and all the things that's going on at the school and I think that's the reason why the kids are coming to school because they're making that um thank you they forget now um comparison to everyone else making effort to make sure that we are going to terms that's all of you oh no to all of our principles I think especially because I know that this school year is generally it is um like the challenge I think especially with this war in the studios and you know wasn't it wasn't anything but I definitely done so much videos um it does not go without appreciation like I know that it's it's what we enjoy especially as a community member um but as a board member genuinely we have a very very good strong community group of individual seems to think new um does not go unnoticed um just from from I know especially not just business but each of us whatever Israelis is on the gold we're really getting it in his sense in it and I think each of us kind of carry that same amount energy so it's it's it's good that people hear from all of us and here and it takes something else we'll go ahead and move on to number seven our property of High School District open board member reports I'll go ahead and really quickly just talk about um I want to say continue again to the secondary campus um that probably miss lucer everybody I was on the selection committee for the Santa Native American caucus um scholarship and it was super special for me to see something barbecuing yeah submitted their scholarship applications and and the stories and it's impactful so please do not misinterpret what we're setting as a bar of expectation for our students as we don't appreciate that they come from a very hard places to learn I think that it's very important to understand that this board genuinely genuinely wants the best and if we set a bar that is going to be just a little bit higher I I hope that this community to get behind the fact that that's how great we think of our students and great think of our staff and the capabilities that we have to be able to see them succeed there are so many so many heart-wrenching stories about what happens but [Music] the fact that we can fill this room to celebrate our students is is definitely where we I know I get the motivational drug to continue to speak here every single every single month and to be able to support each of you a student including University as abortion especially when you're serious because I have a very wrong especially when it comes from this these five people and everybody else and in the whole entire Community when it comes to something that happens within the mission I've definitely given us a peace of mind when it comes to how that's going to carry out so thank you so much better if you want to continue to express from my standpoint as a board member it is never to put down our views or to not acknowledge that they come from hard places it is definitely though you say or you are who you can't achieve better and more than just believing you are doing yourself that same kind of effort because if I let you just settle then I feel and you should know yourself anybody else I know myself yeah unfortunately I think um [Music] but um so I just wanted to share um some of the conferences and meetings [Music] of course like like four or four of us educated the national school board conferences [Music] this the speaker the keynote speaker was brought up to Stage along with one of the staff members of um I also attended a number of workshops related to the pictures of the districts are resolving and coming up with ways they upgrade to upgrade and and put ways to do extractions and security Killers uh parent involvement and we are very informational um also there was uh also we as Support also had a workshop that we uh did and I think it was very is it uh very many questions and the aware of that you know I think they understood you know that and that only it's not only about them that anybody stands up is important and then also I attended that our BMXs I've been a pmh that's happened to visit on April 25th along with the administrators from the high school classes and I really appreciate it though thank you enjoying the administrator it gives us firsthand information [Music] so we visited a few summer great classes today and too much classes and I also attended the Star Wars comedian game it was very enjoyable um I actually only was able to be there in the last hour of it I got off work um [Music] job is there any uh strong deaths and they actually came down to the floor down the other community also the development students or page that we had a wonderful videos come on stuff and they also they also have their own social meds they also came together one and it's really good to see Beverly that's the way it actually drove them actually it doesn't make so much time and so um and also I I wasn't able to because mother happy dancing it was fun but um so even though I only was able to pick um continue myself [Music] and as the school year ends it's ending I think he's standing in a positive way I'm thinking about student Administration and the continuous work of student Lobby of morale and Community involvement which you know are all entity I would like to appreciate the work and all you do and we are here to support you in your efforts thank you anybody else um if not um I didn't submit a written report but on April 13th we were part of a group that introduced um superintendently the South District Council so that was um I didn't know that South District Council had such a big number of Representatives I thought it was this little but it was um it gave us a chance to practice and that was really cool and then also um April 21st I just didn't want to access um gratitude for all those that put together the prom for the genus um it was it was just amazing to see um my own daughter who is really quiet and and wouldn't go uh out in a dress be dressed up and and really ready to go and I remember her saying that she was sore the next day and I asked her from what she goes out dancing yeah yay so thank you for everyone that um that took part in that um Monday May 1st was officially principal's day so I really really wanna say thank you to all our principals for the amazing work that you've done within this year and you can see that in the scores and you can see that in the attendance you can see it in in in the kids and I really really want to say thank you for for um Rising I guess because I know that we expected a lot and you guys are you guys are just amazing your classes and you can see that with the children every day when you go to school you see that within them so I really I really want to say thank you for everything and um when you see has already that you know what that means I really have that respect for you so thank you for that Amendment for this um this week the 8th through the 12th is um teacher appreciation week I really want to say thank you to all our teachers every one of them um I've always told my kids when they were little when you go to school now I don't know if this is happening or not but I've always told them when you go to school be respectful to those teachers because you know what their day doesn't end when you go home they stay up they stay up late they come in early they have families but yes they're working on stuff to um make sure that they're prepared in the next day so you know it takes a lot of to be a teacher and I remember one of my daughters I was you know she's really good at math and I told her you should be a teacher she said no way I'm like why not she goes because I know how we treat them I'm like we'll start cleaning them like that you know but like that you know you guys that you teachers you take on a lot you take on a lot and I really want to say thank you for for for being there for the students because it's gonna matter when they leave here they're gonna remember you those of you that have uplifted them when they were down they're gonna remember I promise you and it's it's just an amazing feeling when you see that people thinking [Applause] foreign [Music] factors I mean once a month or a couple of months so the great people I remember [Applause] uh my report is from the last National Conference we went to in Florida um it was um teachers that were there were there um presenting this um the topic owners starting post-secondary um successful in high school and the school there has to be 3 000 students and 400 staff they start engaging with their students early and staff are available to help students about future goals a hundred percent of the students graduate as well development personal Reliance learning Network including outside mentors who partner with them several um technical schools there and they earn credits college degrees Online High School and um about financial impact the students and families started saving money oh not saving money and in there for their future college so they teach them how to save money and they tell them how how much College costs so they know the course of college they are learning about grants and scholarships and also they have mentors come into the school side um and and um they um they may have they might be managers or police officers or um so they they're they're there to tell them to students what um what um they what is needed to get into that level of what college courses and they need to learn their future goals um business partners or um invited to help students the courses needed to get into college all information provided to the students so they can prepare themselves for that career they want they want to get their but their their goals but their future they want to be having um this type of mentors the students start thinking about the goals jobs they like to go to um what they learn more about it then but then most important that the stress was that they learn more math and a lot of reading cool it is understood that students there hear a lot of their have a light on their plate their responsibility to create an environment where students can Thrive isn't simple it's important that family engagement can make a difference what happens when the student focuses on family engagement we've had better grades more consistent attendance fewer and behavior issues increase ability to learn students and teachers and administrators surrounded by support and everyone wins thank you [Applause] also bring it to the Warrior games and uh and what the softball game one time and uh I missed that Community gave this past Friday but I had an emergency and um that was I was supposed to do a classroom visit but um it was canceled a bunch they went over there and and asked them Miss Lewis one that you could have what great class and I wanted to see my my granddaughter's class but they were having dance dancing on the Seattle and speaking with her getting them ready for that community yeah I think I think she's doing an amazing job as a culture thank you um thank you for what you're not the members of the community and you know we're going to proceed out to me guys what we've done this before but I need to acknowledge a couple of Beats number one I want to take what um I if you want to know why teachers are angels without me um you can follow up on the message on Facebook along with the other three stands that I have with us it's gonna be great I encourage you to see um how I want to thank my teachers um not only about drivers is about professional teachers and our professors but I know there's only one day for principle which is something but I think it should be moving around thanks to those positions over here all the ones that also have one of the toughest jobs I invite our families what you see every month is what they do each month but I invite everyone to see what what happens every single month and then the plan that goes behind the support that they have that they provide to their teachers I also want to clarify to the community that accompany board members they do sign up for classroom visits and they are in the classrooms and they they have there will be no jobs that they also have the opportunity to join to see the calendar [Music] we have a chunk of money that was invested as part of business but I'm inconspiration of that proposally as well as with um how to put together regarding our children program to Showcase uh the growth of our students in this particular year and foreign program has been successful in accomplishing the mission of the district by enhancing and maximizing the learning opportunities of all students that great with the Holy Spirit electrical system implemented a violence literacy continuously is multiple to spot the history and gets their experience feel the structures and maintain success we have created the spreadsheet every week with a student's current progress in math and reading based on generated support and success stated for each child's problems and today foreign students completed and consistently extended the tutoring sessions as it shows are the names of the students who have perfect attendance for newly graphic attendance congratulations to all of you this happens because of our religion tutors and staff to encourage them to attend regular regularly she doing was healthy person on most days the number of students wrote Because of some students advocated to attend cheaply some fairies wanted their child to be able for teachers require their students what they took away as part of the student's success for six months the students spend their time after school were enforced replica Great Value delivery opportunities in mass and reading new successes maker for grades three to eight and legitimate for high schools is a comparison of November and April beta as measured by main rape placement score all children groups made a significant grade level growth in math and reading mathematics went up with a range of 0.17 points to 1.13 and really from 0.27 to 1.12 what tourist points mean it basically says our tier 2 students went up basic difficult roles bad water to a one year level placement growth we use the Apex for agility for high school students one tutor has students who completed one or two courses that generates a total of 23 courses completed and one tutor on the other hand has 18 forces completed Saturday Credit Recovery is still active and students can still join in with the tutors until May 20th here is a schedule foreign [Music] sessions at the primary campus it will be in person once can be downloaded online at Facebook page and thank you for putting this video presentation together to highlight the growth and also to celebrate our teachers and not only have a regular day job and also they also give out their part of the afternoon to continue to support our students and at this point we can open it up if you have any questions comments for the after school program if now we can proceed with that as part of the prescription Sylvia but I was just wondering about my daughter should appear in um did you have a breakdown of what how many people working yes and he was one of the president and then um do we know what do we have uh Summers I know that the administration uh so this only there was 135 students but I've been checking a little more accurate number uh our goal is to have 300 students we need 200 students Gateway and we need about 100 students on 9-12 and it opened up not only for year two but also schools this one will have one Kinder and the most agenda right now is the junior class um the one attend the summer school program um what oh um students and we have space for seven um [Music] okay though I have seven students for first grade and I have many students uh second grade 14 3rd grade 15 all three it's also one of the most um enrolled numbers 121 Street grade 14 students Grade 9 students seventh grade C students eighth grade five students ninth grade seven students age grade 10.

85 you know by the end of the year um we want we want second graders around the 450 Lexile level so we're making those those jumps for third grade students came in at about a 364 Lexile average mid-year we were at 450 by the end of the year we want them near 550 Lexile um so this is a really nice this Universal screener is a really nice measure to see how how children are responding to the reading instruction that we're doing in front of them every day the information is also really good to help us kind of plan for future you know future curriculum um decisions April 5th before we go on from this can you share with the board a little bit about um why we do the assessments that we do um the the paper and then the digital for grades two and three just so there's an understanding about why that's not happening for kn1 yeah so K and one it's all about being appropriate and we know we have really young kids and we get a lot of information K1 well all grades but in K1 at the heart of a lot of the information and um skill of figuring out where kids are at comes from that face-to-face time that teachers have um with those students so if you would walk into a kindergarten room first grade room you're going to see kids face to face with their teachers seven seven teach seven kids around one teacher a kid giving a teacher a massage on the back which I saw this week which is wonderful but you know it's that face to face it's making sure that we're appropriate they're little kids and and you know making sure that they're they're seeing seeing their teacher here and helping them guide them through that that early early learning so that's kind of the appropriateness of it um the next few slides we're going to take a look at some of the math achievement um to this um from Fall to mid-year um as as we move forward from kindergarten first second and third grade you're going to notice kind of area specific areas that we're targeting here in kindergarten we've been targeting counting and cardinality counting cardinales kind of the important foundation of of math it suggested that students who have counting in cardinality good counting cardinality skills when they're leaving kindergarten are are more likely to be more likely to be successful as mathematicians later on in their academic careers um so you can see we have a lot of green there and that that graph to the right we have 82 percent at this point in time 82 percent of our kindergartners are meeting proficiency when it comes to accounting and cardinality in first grade um you know we're expecting kids to have a good foundation of accounting and cardinalities leaving Kindergarten now we're going to first grade and and a focus has been on those numbers in base 10.

and then third grade um there's a big I wanna I wanna note that there's a huge jump in rigor from second grade math to third grade math we're asking kids to demonstrate a higher level of math application and and show us what they've acquired in previous grades um I want to note that you know we're we're near 60 right now but that was the mid-year that was the mid-year Target I'm I'm optimistic that when our end of the year information come comes in you know will be higher than higher than that 60 um we have a great curriculum that spirals throughout the year um in third grade it spirals a lot it's very rigorous you know students are at that higher level of um mathematical application where we're asking them to solve multi-step problems um word problems so they're really faced with with um some really good challenge challenges and as I said I'm expecting additional growth as we get that end of the year information um time in and then the next slide takes a look at our star map um unified score summary um so just like Star reading we're utilizing star math as an additional Universal screener to measure student achievement and growth I'm really excited about this um in my fourth year in the district when I first started here in Canton we um we did not have a universal screener for Math and having this has been so powerful for our teachers and and for for not only for our teachers but you know for everybody just to help plan for instruction um you know to support student growth and Student Success it's been a really nice indicator on where we need to kind of put some more focus in in areas that we might not need to put as much focus in you can see here our kids are doing really well based on the unified score summary so it's telling us that that the children are responding in in second and third grade are responding you know responding to the instruction that's happening in the classroom they're responding to the Bridge's math curriculum you can see that our fall unified score summary was at around an um winter it was at a 908 um and the target for the mid-year is 900 so we were we were above that mid-year Target and for third grade um our fall unified score summary was at a 9 39 in the spring it was at 968 and a target for the mid-year for third grade is around a 9.50 so they're right on track of where they need to be and where they need to be heading there any questions before I move on to climate and culture february-ish about that's right yeah early February the next slide takes a look at our climate and culture goal that was set at the beginning of the year um the goal the second School goal was focus on climate and culture so students and families will be actively engaged in the school Community some celebrations I want to report out on our today our monthly attendance average at Cherry Brook has been near 91 so we have 91 of our students wanting to come to school which is which is wonderful um I want to celebrate the student participation in events we've had a tremendous amount of events um offered here for our students anywhere from field trips we're going back out on field trips the I wonder we have the upcoming art show the music performances Unified sports and we have a ton of assemblies um coming up and we've had some assemblies we continue um our our school support team continues to work as well as myself continue we continue to work and examine our child study and student intervention process for supporting kids with academic and behavioral needs um so we're really excited to be looking at that and and continuing to move that work forward and then another celebration is something that um when I came on board um in January you know my a real focus of mine was just really getting to know that even though I was in the building for the past three years I was only here for two and a half days a week and a much different role than I am and now and so um a lot of my time in from mid-January so probably even it's happening even today but it was really getting into classrooms getting to know the kids getting to know the teachers um getting to know families making those connections and so the cbps Gazette that I started a few weeks ago with the help of obviously of our staff is is this really a celebration all of all of the amazing things that are happening here at our school for our children and um it's just it's just I want to get that information out to everybody because the work that's happening here is is truly truly magical and amazing um and finally some of the overall School celebrations um yeah as I shared earlier with all of you um and I joke with the staff here at Cherry Brook I I in my memo to them every week I just say I have a paragraph that that stays in there is how much I appreciate everybody here you know here at Cherry Brook um that's first and foremost the staff here is incredible um what could have been a really challenging year here at Cherry Brook um the staff handled it with Amazing Grace combat compassion commitment and dedication to our kids so I'm putting that on the record that they are amazing here um and I sincerely thank them um just everybody from from our Paris to our to our custodial set to our kitchen staff to our teachers to our families who come in it's been amazing um again the families and friends who have supported Cherry Brook in various ways has been amazing from from parents who've run assemblies for us monitors parents who come in as monitors lunch monitors recess monitors who've helped kids with supported and um created some class activities for for them so thank you to the families and friends for that um again another celebration is just the implementation of more literacy instruction here at Cherry Brook really focused on the science and reading um within our classroom so I thank you the board um you know Mr Bishop um Mr case for your continued support for giving us the resources and tools that we need we need to address to address our Learners um and then um again I want to celebrate just the resources that we have in our building that can kind of identify those kids that are in crisis and and it's been amazing to have the staff here to help us because without them we wouldn't be you know addressing the needs of of every single child so um there's oh there's so many successes and so many celebrations but I won't take up all your time but um you know I welcome you like for some of the upcoming events that we have we're going to have um an end of the year all school assembly um which most likely will be outside because we're gonna have a Cherry Brook singer sing to our school um we have class celebrations coming up we've continued field trips coming up we have the children's Fair coming up which I'm really excited to be a part of um we have folk dances Field Day books we've had our book fair so there's a lot of wonderful things um happening here at Cherry Brook um and that's that's that's Cherry Brook um any questions you know I think about uh quite the journey that you've been on because um we started in September having you come in because we wanted to congratulate you on a great job running the Student Academy the summer school program and then here you are in Cherry Brook and this was a great presentation but uh questions for Mr Ameren yes sure um no thanks for the great presentation direct clear and it's great to hear you tonight talk about Dibbles my question John and I spoke briefly are not necessarily maybe maybe not appropriate for for Abe and they may not be able to answered tonight they're more like you mentioned we're kind of the bridge you know with Kevin retiring and the transition here I just wanna I feel like I wouldn't be responsible if I didn't um say that before things that I have to say or ask the questions um and I think the context of it is you know I've had the privilege really of following Cherry Brook for 20 years really following me and and being enmeshed in early childhood in our state you know Kevin asked me to testify they asked me to testify at the Capitol um I had the privilege of doing that um I visited schools you know the joy of being on the Early Childhood task force for many years so you know it's it's just this is coming from a different lens maybe um and Gabe I mean a did a wonderful job presenting so once again this is no questions the staff here is amazing they've conquered amazing things with children um it's more about Early Childhood in general and you know I really want to look at the love I would like to see the longitudinal data of Dibbles um you know this is this is great and we're looking at an isolated you know like this year like where do these children fall right now but what we have used Columbia University readers and writers college for 17 plus years in Canton the state you know is now questioning the use of that I know Kim's doing a phenomenal job you know the science of reading and new phonemic awareness and you know um phonics programs but I love I really want to see the data because you know we went from half day kindergarten we went to full day kindergarten and this is not just a Cherry Brook this is across the whole state across the whole country we are we are pushing more and more on young children on on the teachers on the children um you know we're increasing the curriculum and it's been increasing increasing increasing increasing every year for the past 20 years and then we talk about this Mental Health crisis we talk about you know covid the effects um we know children are on screens more in school than they've ever been we know they're on screens more than they've ever been at home so the whole landscape of a childhood has changed I mean that's I think we'd be in denial to not acknowledge that so I look at like what can what can Canton do this is our only Primary School what happens here in Cherry Brook is the foundation the foundation for these Children's Life the foundation for their the rest years in can so um you know I want to see what the data shows you know if it's showing like wow Phenom then we know what we've been doing is working and then obviously you've been looking at the data and tweaking it um but you know one of the bills they're looking to pass and I I haven't you know one of the ones they testify was clay-based learning they're looking to actually pass a bill that requires play-based learning for pre-k through kindergarten I am Paul that we 've asked the bill for that but that's where it's come to an education we have to pass a bill to require I mean I these are I don't want to micromanage and that's not our job as support but I think because we are the bridge into new um next year I think I want to know more you know in in this thing we talk about climbing culture if we build a strong Community with our students and their families and students will feel safe resulting in increased achievement I mean there's thousands of Articles books research that tell you children feel safe and they feel happy their achievement levels will go up so um you know it's great that we're looking at the achievement today but I want to know what Cherry Brook what what it what it's showing over the course of of many years um to see that what we're doing is really effective and then I'd like to know in the fall or when it's when we report again no there's no data I mean we have the SEO rubric and all that they came out but there's no data to show us how young children really feel or you know the play-based learning I want to I'd like to know we talk about you know the reading and writing and the math very essentially correct and of course that's the priority but like what I want to know more what our young children in Canton are doing for play-based learning they're talking about at the Capitol about passing a bill they want to require it in pre-k through K and then they want to permit it in grades one through five so like this is coming from the state you know but then we have Charlene Tucker who testifies that she wants to put cursive writing and World language in kindergarten which was a phenomenal debate amongst representatives in her about how much more can we squeeze in kindergarten so you know we talked about being a lighthouse District let us be the lighthouse district for Early Childhood for for bringing play-based learning back you know it was squeezed out it's been squeezed out it's not just in candidates across the whole state across the whole country so I I really would like to see what we're going to do to you know bring it back it's not that we're not doing wonderful things every day here but really to bring it back the play-based learning part um and having you know a closer look which we were starting to do with our early childhood task force and Kevin will not be here but I I just these are some questions that that I have for our subcommittee for Cherry Brook and that's why I put in the context of like nobody has to answer tonight but I'd wanna I really want to know more about that other part of the whole child I think go ahead I'm sorry sorry uh Mr Daniels again Kim just you know you bring up you know you bring up some really great points and I think the piece of the longitudinal beta of Dibbles I think over time as we continue to you know implement it we're going to have that information for you so next year will be your three I believe so that's a good good time of longitudinal data to start looking at some things is now what three years of information um I think our curriculum just being in the building and walking around and seeing our children in action specifically kindergarten um you know our curriculum our math curriculum our literacy curriculum it naturally embeds opportunities for kids to play so we have teachers um that were on that committee um you know that play-based committee really implementing centers um with all types of centers math centers um centers of of how to shop go shopping imagine it to play engineering centers I was in a room where kids are singing you know singing singing um singing that is embedding some of the literacy skills that they that they've been learning with with high frequency high frequency words and snap words on um you know in one of in some of the first grade classrooms you know building communities and building cities vow cities so drawing and building and that and playing a baseball game with with SNAP words so I think our curriculum is is you know honoring kids where they're at and knowing that you know we kids are very tactile and they bring in information many different ways so it's it's it's reassurance it's being in the building since January knowing that you know some there are opportunities in our in our new curriculum and in our curriculum where kids are are having that opportunity to really kind of explore that play-based piece and that that collaboration and cooperation with with their peers in the class um so and while we have a ways to go yeah boy I'm seeing more play-based learning this year than ever and as Donna will attest we spent um quite a bit of money at the end of last year providing play-based Learning Materials in every single classroom and that's thanks to your advocacy came before that so I'll admit we have a ways to go but I'm seeing more of that I appreciate the honest appreciate responsive feedback and once again like you know thanks to you for for recognizing the need and having the Early Childhood task force you know that we were in some work of that and I remember Dave you were a part of that there's meetings and then coca came along and that obviously changed the whole dynamic within an early you know an elementary school so we were picking up momentum so it's nice to hear that maybe you know maybe we haven't been in forms of the you know the effect of that and so that's where I'm coming from you know and we have um Heather um Antonella and Kate dolphin are are Mac science coordinator here and then Heather Sentinel our esteemed coordinator learning Commons teacher so Dave I know they've been they've attended some PD through the state on play-based learning and have been really doing a nice job implementing some of that within classrooms but specifically with our learning Commons with the work that they're doing in there giving those kids those opportunities to really you know um really use what they're learning class from and use it for like a play constructive play type of atmosphere so it is happening it's you know you know is it perfect yet no but we're definitely it's at you know yes exactly they're going to be able to be two great leaders to be able to support that that's part of why those two have gone out in that professional development so that so that you can build you can build that in a place and then scale it out and funny enough that was a conversation that the four of us had four years ago so you've been a champion of this and let's stay on I think you raised some great questions I'd like to hear some of those answers too but obviously that's not for tonight and we should carry those over they'll be in minutes so let's let's stay on those things okay all right thank you for that and thanks for the hard work thank you for your time any other questions for Mr scrambler you're good all right well thank you everyone I I appreciate the opportunity so and I thank you for your time thank you thank you for hard work no problem okay uh good report Let's uh let's continue on we'll go to public forum at this point this is the point of our program that we allow for any input um any comments that anybody wants to make I don't know if you want to speak in public forum tonight no okay thank you anybody online that would like to speak for public forum um we've got nine people so if you are joining us online and you want to make a public comment you can go ahead and use the Rays fan feature zoom and I will call on you by your Zoom name and you'll be allowed to talk anybody online would like to make a comment tonight if you do just raise your hand and let us know your name and your address for the record I don't have any raised hands okay so uh hearing none will close out public forum and we'll move on to our information reports and we'll go to the assistant superintendent schools Mr Bishop thank you Mr Daniels uh and thank you board for the opportunity to share tonight I wanted to to share that our state testing is underway uh we anticipate that coming to a close um throughout the the next week and Beyond um but we're looking forward to being a lab that's taken care of for us um in our next meeting uh Sarah Jones who was our student and family engagement director she's going to be coming to be able to uh greet you all but I just wanted to be able to give you an update on some of the work that we have been able to do so far to this point in her partnership um and and support with uh as a liaison with the open Choice program we've had several meetings with leadership from open choice to be able to make those connections and facilitate some conversation which has been fantastic for us and even opening up some new avenues for us this year and Beyond and then she has also had an opportunity to that all of our our students who participate in open choice at the at the high school level too and have an opportunity to be able to speak with their students those students as well she was excited to get some snacks out to be able to support there um I'm going to follow up on the great news from the um Walt Disney trip and I'm going to see a little bit of Jeff Moore's Thunder because I did get a chance to go on the Washington DC trip with the eighth grade class and I think it was sapped and sold for so many people to be able to go and have that kind of uh opportunity for students I will say unequivocally that it was the finest trip that I have experienced in my number of years going with the Canton Middle School um Mr scheidler all you know I I don't have the same reference point that you have with that but it was it was uh outstanding our students were impeccable it was well organized well planned so thank you to Tina Olson and Jeff Moore for all the work and our leaders who put that on but a very very worthy experience our summer Academy registrations are out there's going to be some additional information at our curriculum committee meeting tomorrow about some of the Middle School office that will have to we completed our camera walkthrough with the organization that we provided the preliminary approval for for the RFB so we're expecting to be able to get final information advice to move forward on that summer project and then um just an important thing to be able to to note we'll be sending out information uh this week on community family and guardian surveys this is a great opportunity for us as a district and for our schools to be able to receive feedback um from our um from our families and our Guardians on the communication with schools and the connection with schools this information we'll be using as we go into the summer and beat and work on the continuous Improvement plans for our schools and for the district as well but I I just want to make sure that folks know that that this is valuable for us and that as this information comes out please please do venture to uh provide us some feedback it does help us to be able to get better and we appreciate that opportunity uh we will follow that up in the next week with all of our staff surveys for all of our staff and all of our schools and then that followed subsequently with surveys for all of our students as well any questions for me all right thank you okay thank you John um moving on to the financial report uh if you want to tag team with Russell yep got it um if you can see in your packet I wrote up a summary the same as last month the board of sorry the finance committee actually met prior to this meeting uh and went over all the financials and details so at a very high level um we're continuing to watch Special Ed this month you'll see that special ed actually went down by 59 000 but it'll be going back up in May as we already know that information so it's always uh uh you know a little bit volatile uh so we'll see what month end of May brings for that but with the special ed expenses we are still planning on receiving the uh excess cost reimbursement of about 76 is the latest information that should be coming in actuality hopefully later this month and the Hartford billing and my summary actually it says 852 I believe that number should be 872.

uh helped you with a lot of community work where um we had a motto of Step Up or step down and we had three board members and one superintendent stepped down for the biliteracy bilingual program so I have some skin in the game know the parents and I'm back I'm back under the Youth Empowerment agency um a contract worker in Adams City Middle School and I have had the honor to see Bianca again what an amazing individual you guys have here um so so happy to be here um however my question for you this evening sorry oh my gosh I'm sorry no you're fine okay my question is the budget I um I'm wondering what contract Youth Empowerment agency has with you all and to my understanding to my understanding it is public record so I was wondering if you would be so kind to share that with me I don't know if that's via email or do you let us all know now I don't know how that works but I'm wondering what the contract is with that um okay thank you for your question yeah there's a couple of ways you can um do a quarter request I don't think that's really necessary because it's public information sure but um Sheila uh and Sheila Burke will follow up with you and we'll get that to you thank you so much for allowing me inside I teach an entrepreneur class and refocus room and I have to have such an amazing time with the students I appreciate it great thank you thank you for joining us and this was just the one we only had one all right thank you Joanna um next on our agenda is the superintendent report uh Dr Lydia I'm president members of the board I have a couple of this is again off Madam president there you go members of the board I have um a couple of quick updates besides the ones that you uh that we have brought to you and also a video to show you so I'm going to start with um just recognizing our students at the high school aliyahcevedo she was honored at the capitol for her leadership and advocacy this was a couple of weeks ago I know some members from our staff went with her Ms Ronnie bricklial and Stephanie Redd it's went with her and I I think you actually and um councilwoman Douglas yes yes one of our council members for the City of Commerce City and I just want to highlight she was here with us last month and she was receiving also the recognition for her leadership and advocacy for this young age for the the community with um she is Ian so we are very proud of having her she's not even a senior I want to say she's in 10th Grade so it's um just the level of leadership that she has displayed is unbelievable so I want to highlight her once once again because she was honored at the Capitol um and also we have a staff member who was selected as the assistant principal of the Year by the koalas the Colorado Association of Latino um administrators and superintendents and uh this is Nathan cavadera he is at Kearney middle school so I think it's one more piece of evidence that we have phenomenal staff members we're bringing new members who are phenomenal as well you saw them earlier so uh the district just continues becoming stronger and stronger I do want to also thank the academic leader the academic team Sheila Josh principals in really um everyone else all the way from um you know our bus drivers cafeteria workers nutrition workers our teachers front office really every single staff member put was all hands on deck to ensure that our students were going to be here taking the CMAs test we have record high levels of participation which is actually phenomenal for us not only you know for accountability ranking but also um you know us as a as a community demonstrating how interested each one and committed each one of our employees and students are on moving forward the district so thank you thank you team uh it was hard work I heard um actually that Dr Cochran was seeking out for students maybe even moving vans from one place to another picking up students look at the list so it was really all hands on deck so I just want to to acknowledge their hard work because it's for our students and lastly we do have a video about the World Cup that happened this um this weekend I have some stats here for you we have 279 players I was one of them um sadly I don't know if that was a good thing or you know for my team because you know they were telling me you're off uh what is it called off all sides there you go although I heard it a million times I couldn't like I'm of what uh off-site um I was taking picture when I was then being passed the ball uh you know from afar I'm doing this to take a picture I was just having fun when everybody was taking this you know game very seriously so we have 279 players um who represented 20 countries and these were employees alumni and students who decided uh or who selected the country they wanted to represent of course I was representing Costa Rica but then all the different countries were forming one team so we had members there in each one of the teams coming from um different backgrounds um supporting different uh countries but at the end of the day it was one color sure and um and I cannot I cannot explain how many times I saw our students just being supportive of each other just being and um just just demonstrated great sportsmanship and even consoling each other when they were losing some of the kids were crying when they were they were taking it seriously we have 22 teams uh 32 games and 40 volunteers um we had um actually I'm gonna ask Mario Marquez who come up here because I want him to share a little bit also of it and as I present this stats I can tell that he does take seriously soccer let me just let me just show why so we have a game 64 that were representing Qatar 2022 32 in Adams 14.

and I was I was watching I you know I heard grandparents that's my grandkid the one who just scored the fourth goal here so all praise of the team reached their finals and categories of pre-K Elementary one three Elementary four five secondary six eight and secondary nine twelve in each one of these players uh basically everybody who reached Sunday um final will receive a free three-month membership to play soccer at the city at Soccer City in Aurora so we also have members from Soccer City who partner with us and are extending this phenomenal opportunity for our students and now that summer is coming they're going to be able to go and play we did see the passion in each one of these individuals going to the end and actually on Saturday as well but thank you so much I know um you know Mario if you want to come up here and start getting your place um if um according to Mario in his stats um I always joke that Mario as an engineer he thinks pipes you know and how one thing connects to another through pipes because his background is an engineer so he says that if this were a MasterCard commercial yes uh then budget will have twenty five thousand dollars uniforms would have cost eleven thousand dollars Flax One Thousand ball six hundred watching a middle school soccer player come for Comfort an opponent student after a lost game in watching a preschool player's kids or medal that is priceless [Applause] represented from soccer city of Aurora here as well so Mr Marquez our chief office if you would like to introduce them yes tonight with us we are honored with the presence of three representatives from soccer Siri Aurora and as you may know the relationship between Adams 14 and Soccer City Aurora was governed by a contract yes for the rental refuse but it was actually fueled and sustained by a common Love of the Game and so I'd like to bring up here Wilmer and Emily Faye [Applause] hello my name is Rudy Villalobos first of all I want to thank God items 14 and Mario for giving me the opportunity to speak today it truly is a blessing and a privilege I live in Aurora with my wife and three daughters I work with the Colorado soccer Foundation at Soccer City Idaho as a facility and League manager I grew up playing soccer in Southern California My Three Brothers Mino first hand the impact sport can have on kids I see it every day at Soccer City and again this weekend I was able to witness it again with your guys's World Cup event the way the presentation was from the beginning from when you drive up with the flags to showing every nation that can be presented out there was just something that Drew them my attention is incidentally as a soccer professional who runs tournaments and leagues out of Soccer City I know how much effort and time it takes and effort to make them successful so congratulations to every single one of you for an incredibly successful weekend I mean hats off to every single one of you guys for what you guys produced this weekend um with that being said maybe a kid score their first goal maybe a kid did a new move they've been practicing or maybe just shared some laughs with somebody's having some Dippin Dots which happen plenty of times at our front desk and got to bond with many kids either way the memories in the community that you helped create this weekend will be long long lasting and hugely impactful on the kids and their families for many years to come I mentioned us at the Colorado soccer Foundation is to provide access access to soccer for all kids who want to play We believe that our work that the work you did you all did this weekend was directly aligned with our mission and we are excited to continue exploring ways to evolve our partnership with you guys I know I now would like to introduce Emily Faye the director of programming our Colorado soccer Foundation to speak a little bit more about our work thank you guys thank you [Applause] my grandparents lived in the trailer park at 72nd and Highway 2 and so I have spent most of the family picnics of my childhood at the Gazebo directly behind here so I'm having some Nostalgia today um I grew up in Aurora I've made friendships with people from across the world through the game of soccer and I now have the privilege to be the program director for our soccer after school program which is in Partnership and collaboration with about 25 Public Schools across the Denver metro area we know and we believe that learning happens in and outside of the classroom and we know and we believe that character happens in and outside of the classroom and the extension of soccer after school is building these teachers or these custodians or these paraprofessionals and training them to become coaches and to extend their time and their relationships with our students into those after school hours that's something that we hope we can extend in partnership with you all at some point um and even offer pickup play right an unstructured form of the game in its most beautiful form so with that I'm going to introduce Wilmer Barrera muchisimas gracias foreign [Applause] [Music] I wanna I wanna give you credit to this man who really put a lot of hours and and and it's a privilege that you guys have a please do that thank you Mary and like uh I'm not going to repeat you guys know all the mission uh but on behalf of Colorado soccer Foundation I hope that this partnership continue with you guys thank you so much and I will have this quote Casablanca movies I had the feeling that this is the beginning of a new friendship so thank you so much guys thank you my only claim to fame in this whole thing is that in the afternoon of Saturday May 6th I failed to block a high-speed shot from Nathan Cabrera the game of vipers versus pythons and that is why he won the award of top scorer in that category yeah so uh he can say that he beat somebody that is 40 years he's senior yeah can say that but I would say that Nathan is very very good I know that my reflexes are not the same my my head know exactly what to do but he's very very good and it was how beautiful um also what Wilmer calls uh this man is actually a team of very very talented dedicated people that put a lot of passion into the preparation for this and we have some of them here tonight Karen [Applause] the people from the arms 14 Foundation that helped us with all the administration of the money Chief Moss that kept us trade with all of our spending attorney Salazar that went through that contract and Tommy several times get this out of there that cannot be there so yeah that's why we have a contra that works the master of the audiovision Nathan [Applause] provided by the operations Department transportation and all the logistics math Dr Cochran was in several of the uh the conception meetings for this and so a lot of what the registration system looks like is because of the feedback given by Josh [Applause] those are only a few there's an army of people that worked on this people coming from out of the woodwork to offer uh help and that is why this this vocal was made possible a lot of people worked on this volunteers and employees from here amazing and I um I see also volunteers were here including sitting you know around me because I just want to play right but they were actually volunteering I went there to uh to have fun uh but there were referees um you know modern president was getting out pizza and really everybody was supporting it was just the vibe of um what you know of those two days it was just it was just incredible um truly the beginning of a new era for us in Adams 14 uh where I know the importance of feeling that belonging of being part of something great right so uh you know our um friendship and our partnership will continue but fair gain because I'm all about fair game we have spots for you you can come back to our district it's springtime so we're in the hiring season right but at any time uh because definitely Sports and soccer is especially is in our veins and I want to take this opportunity before we show the video to give this to Mario because just like it was shared his outstanding leadership and commitment to the other 14-hour soccer World Cup 2023 uh made it a great success it is with great appreciation that we recognize Marie Marquez thank you for setting the bar high for future years by bringing student staff and Community together through the beautiful game of soccer so we I do have a little plaque for you and um so yeah maybe you know come up here because we cannot come down here yeah they can come up come here yes come on everybody everybody everyone everybody that made it our foundation people Josh Mr Josh Mr Dale Mister everybody yeah of course let's play I said play the role let's do it all away three one two three there you go [Applause] thank you Mario thank you Cameron because I always blink see yeah yearly that's not really how I look like this looks like I'm always with one eye some Madam president the reason why um you know I I do want to take a special recognition um for for this work in in Marius leadership is because this is nowhere near or around his job description um this is something that one day as he shared uh he said I have this idea where the parking lot we were leaving a meeting it was late at night he said I have this idea because we've been talking about how can we um Implement your vision and experience have everybody experience the vision of this board to bring the community together to to just share in in until our students that you know they belong here so he had this idea and I just said um you know make it happen and then I got out of the way right so um it's not in his job description but I know there were hours and hours in it so um certainly thank you thank you for that you can watch the video it's a short video [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] yeah this this is just a preview because we're gonna have a a whole video with um action um with the actual action of the students so we're working on it but this was just a little preview of how exciting that was for this award that needs to be caught tomorrow into at least 100 pieces and you shoot it um yes we're going to be creating a documentary of what happened this weekend and also in the days and weeks and months leading to uh the the preparation for this to go with that then there is a survey that has been circulated this afternoon for all the participants to come in and express their opinion about the event a section of the survey is about any good memories or anecdotes that people want to let us know about so here's one uh if that wasn't enough during the World Cup I found family there is a teacher by the name of blanca Martinez she's the wife of Jose vermouth and they are a couple of teachers that came through the international program from Spain you remember that my favorite team in Spain is Atletico yeah there was an email when Jose was talking about his children and I could see by the the names that they are from that part of Spain I didn't make a big deal out of it at the time that's addressed what I needed to do and let it go through a casual conversation a very unlikely conversation in the field I mean because many things have needed to happen for us to start talking it had to do with him seeing the logo of that theme on my shorts and there was a talk it so happens that Blanca is the needs of my cousin in Spain my cousin in Spain is Marta Martinez listen and Blanca is Blanca Martinez and when I went to Spain and went to the stadium to watch my favorite team I did it with a season ticket of her father We are family and so uh I am now one of you because uh the people in Commerce City are all related that's how we roll thank you thank you thank you thank you you're always one of us yes yes that's right that concludes my updates Madam president thank you Dr Lydia um yeah I had the pleasure of attending it was amazing I I caught myself I get teased I have uh Kleenex up here because I cry but there were happy tears and I was like just focus on the video but thank you it was an amazing event um I also want to congratulate I think they're playing right now are girls uh Varsity soccer team at the high school were uh League champions and they're playing their first round uh right right now so good luck to them and yeah we have we have great soccer going on here can I just say that um in attending uh I have family Who had who were playing so you're right a lot of us are related so um so they they informed me uh they were playing and I heard back not only from family but extended family of our neighbors and everybody else that we need to do more of this that really does um you know create a community it creates more relationship building and it's nice to actually show the kids how to have fun and not all be about the stress of academics but also uh you know how enjoying the Simplicity of just hanging out with family and friends how powerful that is so thank you for that because I think that's what we've been asking for for a while as the board is we used to have things that brought Community together and we need to do more of it so thank you thank you for like you say setting the bar high but um you know it's a bar that got moved somehow we need to bring it back up so thank you so much all right thank you for a great report this is a great start to a meeting now on to the business um we have uh the approval of consent agenda items uh 6.1 through 6.7 uh may have a motion to approve the consent agenda items so moved a second thank you Ramona roll call please miss dramador aye Ms Estrada Ms Lovato aye Ms Molina I miss Zubia I thank you um we do have those available um on board docs if you have any questions next on the agenda is 7.1 approval of the agreement between certified Teachers Association and Adams County school district 14 for the upcoming school year um I believe we have a presentation that is correct Madam president members of the board um I do have a team Nathan and Jason is here is the president of the certified teacher Association uh we had a very successful I would say again for the second time a successful negotiation season and uh Dr Bowden if you can come up here and share a little bit um we'll share your presentation not a little bit show it all thank you so much Madam president Dr Lauria members of the board with your permission I'd like to bring two three actually additional people up to this stand with me this evening uh Jason from the certified teachers union from the classified Union and I wanted to bring all of us together at one time for the presentation because this was truly a collaborative effort we made a lot of progress we worked on a lot of big issues this year we tackled some things that had been really outstanding for years that just needed to be addressed and I don't think we would have been able to do it if it wasn't for the collaboration of all the members of the negotiating parties and so the very first meeting that we got together we talked about what we want to accomplish how we want to accomplish it and the way that we're going to accomplish it by working together and everybody looked at each other and said we got this and for roughly four meetings we went through four meetings about that and every single meeting it was exactly the same we walked in we set the agenda and we got this and it was a true collaborative effort so I'm going to very quickly just highlight some of the big things that we did and the reason I've asked them to come up with me this isn't working but that's okay I can pretend there goes um is that the the throughout the negotiations we're very careful to make sure that what we were doing with the certified we were also looking at on the classified we wanted to bring the two groups together as much as possible because there's been a lot of confusion on how certain things are handled how do we handle it for certified how do we handle it for classified so as you can see the negotiating teams are on the board our Focus for both the certified and the classified was really to clean up some language that we had we had some very confusing language in both agreements that when we went to administer things it became very very confusing because the language wasn't clear if it wasn't clear for us an Administration how could it be clear for our employees in the classified or in the certified to understand what the agreements letting them do telling them they can do and guiding them so we wanted to clean up language throughout the the document the other thing that we wanted to do is we wanted to make sure that we addressed personal time off currently we have a lot of different types of sick leave available to us which is wonderful but it gets very confusing do I use temporary time do I use sick leave do I use vacation what do I use and how does that look at the end of the year honestly I've been here almost a year I still don't know which ones to choose when I'm having to to pick a day so if if the person administering it doesn't understand it how can we expect our custodians or our teachers to understand it so we work together to change how we do and earn personal time off and the last is that we we realized that we really didn't have a comprehensive leave program especially for our newest employees when an employee's been here for a while and they qualify for family medical leave they have protection but for our brand new employees who just show up if something catastrophic happens we didn't as a district have any type of protection for our folks and we all agreed we we had to change that that wasn't what we wanted as a district so those are the big Focus items we also we have a focus on renewed descriptions for our jobs we have some job descriptions that go back many many years and it's not what we do anymore and we we go round and round about how do we compensate people but if we don't understand the job duties we don't understand the workload we don't understand the impact of the job we don't understand the effort it takes to get the job done it's really hard to be Equitable in how we compensate so we made a commitment both certified and the classified we made a commitment to each other that we are going to work together to have job descriptions for every single position for every type of club for every supplement that we do so that we can hold people accountable but that we can also compensate people appropriately and equitably based on the work that they're doing in the classroom or in the bus or in the cafeteria or in the office or wherever they happen to be and so that was a a big focus and the final focus of course compensation right we got to look at compensation so it if you'll go to the next slide for me so the language that we really looked at was in the sick leave bank and we looked at both classified and certified the sickly bank had some very confusing language so employees who wanted to use the blank may not know that they could use it or may not understand how to use it so we spent a lot of time really cleaning up when do you qualify for the sick leave Bank how do we contribute days to the sick leave bank and then if you're in the sick leave Bank how do we make sure that we're Equitable and how many days you're given for the certified we looked at our supplemental pay I think a couple months ago we heard in fact a staff member come and talk to you about being a coach in supplemental pay so we wanted to address that because we knew we were using some data that was really outdated and we wanted to honor the work our employees did so we focused on the supplemental pay and cleaned up some of the language so that those employees who are working in the fall in the winter in the spring with different sports or as a director have the ability to be compensated appropriately for that and then we looked at our stipends and how much we're paying for those critical needs positions some of our positions we're having to Outsource because we just can't find applicants so we want to make sure that there are employees working in our district and committed to us so we looked at our stipends to make sure that we were being Equitable in making sure that we're going to attract great staff and great talent to our school district another accomplishment that we were able to do was temporary disability leave temporary disability is kind of a new word for us going into negotiations we had a lot of different kinds of leaves parental leave extended parental leave child they're just too many to name it was very confusing so what we did is we standardized on one type of leave so our employees whether they're certified or classified were being consistent and Equitable because it takes all of us to educate a kid a teacher classified we've all got to be together on this so we came up with an idea called temporary disability leave so an employee who's been here for over a year would qualify for family medical leave which gives them an ability to be out for 60 days 12 work weeks and have job Assurance when they come back that their job is waiting for them but for our newest employees we didn't have anything like that so we created TDL which is very similar to family medical leave it provides them job protection from day one so that if they're in a car accident on the third week of school they know that we want them back and they're going to be welcome back in 60 days if somebody's on temporary disability leave or family medical leave and the 60 days ends right now we don't have a lot of protections for them so TDL picks up where family medical leave ends and provides extended protection throughout the rest of the year and gives our folks an opportunity to really become healthy and return to work effective in our in our classrooms in our in our all of our different departments to service our kids so if you were to look at the agreement on the certified side that's 14-2 on the classified as 13-4 as I mentioned earlier we looked at sick leave because it was so confusing we standardized on a single type of leave our employees now earn personal time off at the end of the year if they don't use all their personal time off instead of trying to figure out what I get paid for what roles to what they can cash in up to five days or they can choose to let it roll but it rolls to personal time off for next year so if I were to be given I'm just going to use a random number of 10 because it's easy if I were to get 10 days this year and at the end of the year I didn't use them next year I get 10 days and my 10 days from this year is added to next year and I'll have 20. if I get sick next year I have 15 days that I'm okay and have coverage at the end of next year I can still cash in five days if I want to that personal time off is consistent with the classified and the certified because we felt it was important that we have one single way of administering how we earn sick leave and so it's a great what we think is a team we thought it was a great benefit to our employees to have that available to them and you can see on the certified agreement that's number 13-1 and on the classified is 13-1 in the agreement and so the next slide I think is is probably the most telling slide of all of this work that we did we basically took chapter agreement chapter 13 14 Article 13 14.

um then an S of two the second Bill we got almost 4 million and then SO3 was the largest one with 8.8 million and so you have to remember with s is three our set-aside is 1.7 million so it's a lot of money that we have to set aside all right now next slide so how was sr1 spent um I just put this little graph together because there's a lot of different pieces I try to categorize everything so this is our 950 000 that we had a lot of this money has gone to laptops and internet if you think about the timeline of when this one came out it was right at the beginning of covid um that's when we sent all of our students home in March of 2020 so most of the money was spent on making sure all the students had laptops had internet and also PPE supplies because at that time we still had teachers in the classroom at the schools making sure all the schools were taken care of we also had some salaries and benefits that was mostly for overtime for people and for transportation workers um because we had the paper Security on campuses when nobody was there um and then a few other little things technology supplies indirect costs social so those are just like smaller tasks um next is our SS2 setting and so you'll see notice that for S of two we have spent a lot of money replacing HX um this was spent on I believe the primary and the intermediate replacing all of the hvacs one of the uh requirements with Esser was to actually make sure the air quality was good so we had a lot of HVAC issues we also spent a lot on technology supplies so all of this beautiful equipment that was paid for by Esser in the classrooms too um again we also spent more money on PPE and laptops and everything and then the transportation in our two buses three um this this is a budgeted amounts we have not spent all of us in three because we still have another year end it this is where we have this is what we have budgeted so salaries and benefits is about 34 um and I'll show you that breakdown here in a minute um you will notice that 25 of this has gone to retention bonuses and the benefits with that so um we've had we have one coming out this this Friday and then we've had kind of one last year we'll have another retention bonus next year so we're trying to reward our staff for staying with us uh professional development and travel those are both about three percent of the total Esser three the majority of that is Ron Park Academy the hvacs I came out of sn3 these hvacs were for the teacher housing so all the teaching housing had replaced housing a tattoo AC units uh we have we have bought more laptops and more internet so we've continued to replace laptops and continue to pay for internet for students um through the the whole home in 19 pandemic um and then some instructional supplies and then the other the one percent there I just a little mix of everything we have some have subscriptions like I ready for our third grade for dyslexia screener and then we also have a playground equipment and a marquee so just a few little smaller things that mix in there and then finally next slide so the salaries and benefits break down this is kind of this is where it is right now this is actually going to be kind of Shifting some so this is salaries Plus benefits so this is a salary plus a 30 and then also over three years the large majority of this is going towards our tutoring so all summer school all after school tutoring all intercession tutoring that is going to be paid for out of sm3 so this year and next year so this summer school and next summer school and then also interventionists are current counselors SEL coordinator we have teachers on assignment which is kind of our subs the exit Administrative Assistant as the program manager and our math coach those are all coming out of sr3 that doesn't necessarily be mailed in with SRS some of the positions will be finding other funding or with split funding and then the ones in blue those are actually in our Set Side so the reason we move them and is s23 is because they count for the set-aside amount and then they'll move back to their other Grant moving them and that's all any questions can you also operate for the uh attachments yeah so um these the 400 Pages those are all of the the itemized spending um I those these are just important some eye visions so I I don't know how if you have a lot of time over the weekend you can go through all of them it's um I I be careful some teachers I guess might come up on salaries I think I try to edit that out but um so it's just it's basically an itemized report on everything when you spent for us or um SO3 has not been spent completely we still have money to spend on it so it's because it's still extends until next year but the other two are pretty much done finishes this September I have a question of the money is going to go away and the year 2024 what's the plan after that so most of the positions already were funded out of other grants like Title One and so any any positions will go back into Title One or title or whatever the other funding wasn't happy whatever it previously was positions like myself at that position will go away so I'm fine I'll be doing something different at that time thank you and I like the ways breakdown you know it's easy to see you know where all the the money went right I like that thank you oh [Laughter] I'm just thinking for the report and it does um have a lot of detail and I know that you you should have all that detail um but for me it's just it's good perfect I mean the accountability [Applause] but I also wanted it's all budgeted um yeah we analyze it at the end of the fiscal year to see if there's like certain positions if we don't hire them or if they if they leave and we can analyze it and move things around but ss3 is harder because we have a 20 set aside so if we have to make sure we always have that there and it has to be set on something and that's exactly um it's in the same it's all in the same brain again so I just said we just have to keep track of it basically yeah we're talking about these either is this all all these um it's awesome yeah yeah because they're all they're all federal government grants so um actually up to five years after they end yes they can still yeah that's a question I was thinking and I can't okay please the only thing that I know that the community is what exactly was to sleep you know that I'm grateful for because I think the absolutely does give us a good standpoint oh here we go right there but uh but as far as the um any spend it I guess come September 30th yeah that's pretty much yeah S3 as it hasn't been spent yet but um I have it all budgeted so that it is oh yeah all right um [Music] Miss Hendrix thanks guys are we doing some type of evaluation you know how successful is that help us yeah all our all the actual schools that are in the summer school we have to we're tracking all the data so that is um were any of the um though that expired what were you able to carry over no no there's no carryovers yeah we have to make sure it's all exhausted descendants thank you [Applause] I've been on number five is our book we've got like super sporting board financial report s [Music] thank you I am presenting me thank you for somebody that student collects an activity a report okay [Music] I added the line so that it to be a little bit and serious I don't know if it's kind of what it is just an unclean white background CDC of Costco please let me know that's distracting I can change that and I wanted to try and go to order um of the clubs that we have listed on report so attached to find the fiscal year 23 Student Activity auxiliary balances through April 30th the Student Activities account had deposits totaling 14 201.52 the elementary student council had receipts totaling three thousand one hundred and ninety dollars from teacher lunch sales and including those sales the high school student council had a disbursement of 465.29 for a payment of an Amazon order class of 23 received a donation of seven thousand eight dollars from the Desert Diamond Casino for the senior class trip and a payment of 421.60 went to an Amazon order class of 24 had receipts totaling three thousand six hundred and ten dollars for profit s on scrolling here we go um class of 24 had receipts totaling 3 610 for prom ticket sales concession sales and Catering for barbecuing District office they also have disbursements of 650 to pay for the topical Warrior bag for prom in the class of 25 received 192 dollars for baseball concession sales class of 26 received 282 from baseball conception sales the girls basketball is disbursement of [Music] 5 and the boys basketball team has been the disbursement of 763 degrees for payment of an invoice to TA sports apparel LLC for shooting the shirts finally the 8th grade promo account had a disbursement of 514.36 to pay for an Amazon order the ending balance on April 30th 2023 for the Student Activities account was 104 485.58 I'm down below at the Student Activity their student auxiliary portion um student auxiliary have deposits totally 1913.84 cents two um the elementary for for instance Scholastic Book Fair sales High School had a disbursement totaling 378 dollars and three cents for three ESN Sports invoices the ending balance on April 30th 2023 for um student auxiliary was 3447.23 do I have any question on um Student Activities or artillery Sims on to our um April expenditure report s so attached we have the fiscal year 23 expenditures in April 30th um 2023 the antidote reflects a budget balance of 974 and 98 cents we have 10 months into the into the school year and everything remains in good standing grants are currently moving expenditures from SO2 to SO3 you got to see a little bit of that um and that just means the POS that are built to sr2 might be greater than what they should have been so we have to move we actually we are expecting another deposit from B rate and itca and teacher housing expenditures are moved into impact Aid as payments are made depending on this one amount s overall we have a 76 I'm sorry 46.47 or 18 million 860 724 and 46 Cent budget balance excluding encumbrances and we have received 23 million 1053.13 so far in Revenue stream s 580 on Student Activities and at 8 15 sorry 850 for Student Activities at 855 for insurance funds do I have any questions on the okay The Shield there was a question that I was not able to answer um yesterday can you take me back to the first stage of these documents there was a specific by nylon the person was um [Laughter] [Music] I don't know so this grant my eyes wow the question was what is that right it also shows me again about a little over five years ago and it um good evening so the itca grant was a grant that we received about five years ago and uh any leftover money was deposited in there as we that account pretty much uh given it over to Aggie and her group so that she can go ahead and spend it for any of the kids the other thing is there there's a little bit more money in there so we try to allocate so what you're seeing is a budgeted amount so it may be looking as it's negative but at the end by by the time they start cleaning up it will Zero up so there's no need to worry about it foreign there's more money [Music] I'm sorry purchases all those things in this area can you repeat the question and and I believe last through those questions the budget or purchasing for us continues softball our best basketball we're also particular because I normally have a um yeah what sports are up for um and if it's a uniform that is staying with the school um that is to be provided by the school so if we don't have money to cover that then the school does have to take and usually that comes out historically what it's been and I think the athletic director keeps track of the rotation calendar okay it's giving you my information on that um or I think those will hold up during so I don't know exactly what happened before we left off um on that I can get more information [Music] can you explain what uh lost um textbooks I think what is that about the stage oh yes um [Music] I've only changed names on our um our fundings sometimes and I don't know if that was maybe that we had in the past that is still and what you don't say sorry because peanut is the roadway from the mom's textbooks again the 7 500 that's allocated there it's just the budgeted amount to start the year with and during the year if there's any Replacements that need at any of the schools that need to replace any of the textbooks that's the economy course let me go through and that's the coding that we use so we may use it and and maybe not at the end of the year so it'll go back to the general fund and then redistribute out at the end for the new school year thank you yes I can go over this at the budget um if we would like to put that money elsewhere if it's not being used it's lowercase and this I would report is to hold from our vision system so um I can go in I know [Music] I'll be funny cats like everything else and go revisit that too on my channel and correctly anymore we've been doing a lot of digital myths the reality we could if you want to keep a small budget because there's still textbooks thank you um are it's just um we were pretty conservative and just you kind of went off to what we had last year so but something new and we just have to move it in um move my knees into that fund um when we go in and revisit okay it's also too um if we have put in for new um we get new grants or new um budget sources money coming in and we have to create a new line item for it um that also gets created and if you haven't gotten you know half peels in the system for it with the money and it's coming um sometimes we have those allocated out too you can see essentially um but it doesn't have a reflection and so that revenue does come in and it's listed on our books and the community yes Vietnam yeah okay yes and and obviously we can't pay anything out of it until we do have that money at the county because they won't let anything through that so we usually have the backup that we send to the county um with that deposit that's coming and then they let us know once they have a minute and we they have reported it on their end as a deposit permit and then we enter it on Art and so um that's when we reconcile at the county make sure everything back [Music] .

third grade please live um 11th grade we have 19 students and 12th graders we have five students thank you sir another question and from those students there are attending arms and then we're going to graduate at most of them when I graduate are goal is that other one graduate um the reason we have a good time to be able to provide that opportunity it is without intention and it is a part of our support to families and our students not only to provide salary but also summary school extended and there's two Summer School uh programs especially for grade recovery um it is also supposed to ensure that every single one graduate it is going to be a not only us promoting the service a very supportiveness to make sure that they obtained but also students giving us the best version of itself this summer to ensure that they complete the program as well um me encourage them require [Music] um I just wanted to add that's why we're running to Summer sessions um we're gonna have a gym in July um so those that our credit prescription can make up their credit and then the plan for next year is to offer in-person After School Credit Recovery um each quarter so that way they can earn a [Music] on the weekends during interception to prepare graduation okay well like eleven let's go together [Music] sometimes oh no okay [Laughter] no I was just wondering if you're here tomorrow or your academic counselor you're working or are pulling in those students that are sufficient and going over you know encouraging them to sign up for summer school and also um because I I actually called the customer because I wanted to know what my brain says where are they at work Reddit but um also um I don't hear it being uh advertisement foreign [Music] so yes the counselor is reaching out to all of those students and we just have to be mindful she's one to 400 students and so sometimes it's a Cascade into every single student but one of the requirements for the incoming senior class is a parent or Guardian is going to meet with her in order to go over where they stand for graduation and develop a plan if once needed if they're significantly credit sufficient in order to be graduation requirements and in Caddy up to that is since they can't participate in any senior activities unless that meeting has been held Guardian so that would be we just have that open communication half a year long to plan alongside the families um to support their students they'll be happening um in July so what we want to do is we want to make sure that all of the students who are current seniors are able to finish their credit recovery classes that they're in and if they attend some she wants to be able to provide the most up-to-date information so [Music] if they credit she can add that or take a full credit during summer school she can add that and then just say this is what they need for the rest of the student s I know she's been in some we're looking at the enrollment foreign until [Music] and then be able to call them in and say Hey you recommend that you take summer school based on this is how you perform this junior yes it is important to also to highlight that there was a collaboration between the high school and Mr Martinez in which they have redesigned the Bible's report on report card to highlight and flag with the students are great and efficient so that's one for every which you know Mr Martinez [Laughter] the uh we've been working together and work basically what that means is customizable report where you can see the credits attempted and the credits completed and also it shows my category so that way the student can actually see the amount of credits that I've attended through this the amount of credit that's beat it these are the categories or requirements that it has and that there's also a script in there that explains two parents and also the students of what level of credits they should be completing or the Freshman software students and seniors and then also the contact information for cancel and then on student view they're able to go in there and click their over their official transcript so they can actually go in there and track your official transcript as well as their dates yeah so apparently they can look over the crankshaft student information report card and students can do the same thing so I'm sorry so what did you say that we've put on those real-time scene where you're shooting today you can see that yeah in regards to credits we do a mass gradient synchronization and we do it for credit attendance will be it and then before and after the quarter there's also a great updates and attendant taxes so that is basically anytime you want to go either you can just see what the current rate is it also has the email contact information for the teachers and then all summer school was cut along campus that is great um all uh um it's all going to be in the primary in the primary um construction that is going to be happening we are consolidating all the programs at the brand new thank you instantly this summer and yes that will allow us for operations Department activities because we will make up for the cheaters that you didn't have I feel like we're not so convention thank you all so much with all the information [Laughter] [Music] I apologize for all the commercials but they're important to be able to bring it to the attention of our community but that is performed with new purposes yeah I just want to see you at the sales District Council initiated what I feel I absolutely needs to be you're all looking on that is that Community involvement that's very involvement that self-advocation for yes my child and I mean we heard this evening we're not unconsiderate of the fact that there are uh parents that work who work there are things that we need to be mindful of but it is also the responsibility your child's education by the horse but we're also not seeing our citizens there that we're trying to make sure I will open up I want to continue to open it up barbarians we're going to give our 200 and if by us giving us a foreign [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] on the second year of this project and it will be very brief and under this provision of Mr Anderson and this is part of the presentation that we are bringing up to hrdc to demonstrate the effectiveness of what we have three quarters uh going to uh next one next one next one I'm almost there I'm almost there um I'm gonna start with this one this is our Kinder Ela uh the the first half he shows how I was included the students started um when it comes to you know if you see them it's still not good in the middle of the year but one of the ones to highlight is now how the progress after three quarters what the students have demonstrated in in yellow in Kindle if you go to the next like Mr Bates um you can also see what happened in the map you see how the students started in the middle of the year and what it looks like by the third quarter and it's like when you see now the first screen some of these students is understating here in the program and you can see how they started stronger and now by third quarter you can see they are even even stronger um in ela where we see that one Mac the next anniversary it's like firstly in math you can see it as soon as they are continue to show the progress in now not only learning uh dla math when it comes to sleeping or the Opera yeah and the next one but nevertheless we continue to see when you see that pretty test in the process uh you can see the same way in the LA next one second reading math um second grade math um as you can see even though this song bro uh this is only in three quarters this is when we start to see that the the greatest impact the younger we start teaching the model awesome a more comfortable they they can also uh the APO to be able to learn it next one this is in our fourth graders um with what I want with the Highlight is not only the brand in the beginning as a compresses the process and the last one is the fourth grade no no that's it so I wanted I'm gonna ask everyone please give me his uh uh for the work that she is [Applause] I would like to know play my video I'll ID my April I like uh through the events of those requirements my name is April highlight the group [Music] stay tuned the amount of people give us when you give opportunities to come together as a community to celebrate our students who is [Music] this event wanted to give a shout out to our parents are loud to join the basketball softball team like he was doing easier who was the same special thanks CEO leads to ladies and friends what did Madonna the father or basketball Warriors or the amazing [Music] okay this end was done this month we advocated for history by doing that before exclusivity B would be possibility chairman Norris who addressed governor of us with the USB resolution we joined you know Broadway club we need to share the great team taking place in our district and everyone's effort who we are praised with challenges I'm on April 2023 of instructional teams have completed 1 600 AED class of humanity everyone's Russian observations along with the value of feedback given the features will continue to guidance into how we can reach our community thank you Peter for opening your doors and paying your team for all your classrooms during April the USC Community had the opportunity to represent organization who is not leaving including The tocc Apprentice inauguration the DLC dual language enrollment for discover program and of course every opportunity that we have to a very important series thank you everyone for representing me [Music] starting to be fun and moving forward I'm inviting students to strap our families and the entire Community to make every effort to spend more time connecting with one another let's be present to celebrate each other it's a kind congratulations to our Bounty every middle advice for an amazing thought of you and thank you more member band for passing down the empowering skills thank you and celebrated School transportation department in Bountiful in high 15 for your valuable feedback during your 20 minutes no 20 when we reflection means your feedback will help us all in immune system and last stay completely summer school information paid and cut it for all the human being okay and most importantly effectively small through teacher appreciation without very much [Applause] uh president buddhia to finalize the the superintendents before um I want to thank operations for the trading opportunities and also um compiling the list of what is to be completed the summer foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] policy in in Reporting System situation along with the upcoming company that we have [Applause] the program thank you for everything that you have uh a problem it's in three quarters and also a thank you Ross for SFP and it's the progress on our kitchen uh like we've taken a lot of money but also we hope is that this summer in the campus will have our family our new kitchen and also for the sunrise house 30 for the [Applause] foreign [Music] foreign number nine is our coaches and Club sponsors uh four this is just for your information uh coaches and Club sponsors are closing for media Justice coach Elizabeth or VHS Euro sponsor number 10 is our first meeting of the Arizona school board's policy advisory 744-747 well again first reading so please if you do have any comments questions concerns um make sure to have them ready for the next time we even address it fairly confident much information that has been advising in such places in responsibility [Music] everything but that move on a letter ethics are action items is linking number one is the second reading that leave Opportunity School District policy adoption GCF Dash e e without objection I want you to approve is there a second secondary sequence all those in favor of the motion Juan Podium annery Stevens aye Sylvie Hendrix Ella Mae gracewood aye Kathleen Vance myself motion carries the teams are discussion impossible I'm sorry yes this is a discussion impossible approval of revision or Bible community second question all those in favor of the motion one one year Anne-Marie Stevens aye Sophie Hendricks Ella Mae Greasewood aye Kathleen Vance myself technology [Music] is basically the president will become so more um technology department has made it easier in how they account for not only all equipment but also how to hold families have been purchasing with Ezra Fundy uh the the this document is providing the updated fees um that I couldn't support so that we can move on to looking to the next year in upon your approval we'll be able to obtain roll out this information appearance [Music] all those in favor promotions aye Kathy Vance oh sorry excuse me actually number four was taken down earlier this is [Music] and one day is exclusively devoted to provide them towards our new teachers as well as provided self-introduction to one language uh having said that um I'm familiar for a more to support uh the planning hours as well for Fe so we can should moving forward also but for last year we opened it up to all the members of our permanent teachers our staff that will begin our providing peaceful words not only for our new teachers but also anybody else that would like to continue to join us and learn more about them [Music] all those in favor of the motion uh Warren with you and I'm receiving aye Sylvie Hendrix felony Greasewood aye Kathleen Vance motion carries degrees president of India and members of the board are one of you who play hard for the big boys out all the big districts by also having some money um I've been said that I came uh two four support with our finance department and our student that I think it's money to be able to entice all the features and what it is from what they're doing and possibly other states so I'm begging you to please support me in this endeavor so that I want to start the year with all classrooms uh filled with the teachers um and to do so I like to have a thank you [Music] there's no questions all those in favor of the motion one would you Anne-Marie Stevens aye Sylvie Hendrix Elementary Kathleen Vance next item is the question and possible approval of um [Music] coming here that way I can bring some additional duties and responsibilities uh of the houses um and our our goal and in collaboration with the finance and crimes apartment also in looking at his salary to give or adjusted um based on all of the different duties and a total number of people that he supervisors we asking for your support or just not only is that about also the salary without five-year uh foreign [Music] is and this is a question just in general about it was there has there been any consideration because he's already doing that now but you're asking for information Instagram like consideration yes I'm at your mercy yes okay again I'm in the motion and that will be my consideration I mean [Music] um that no but this is only considering next year but because in the par in the case I don't you have to find the funding first people say I would agree also when I'm with yeah we can bring it back yeah [Music] no I mean I'll approve with that recognition [Music] for that consideration work go right no don't agree and yes and we bring it back because we'd have to get the details on the 20 weeks because they already have the funny resource for next year but what is it looks like for this evening [Music] all those in favor of the motion uh one would you Adam Marie Stevens aye Sylvia Hendrix that would make Greasewood um Kathleen Vance myself motion kitties [Music] it's such an impossible [Music] foreign [Music] laughs [Music] number six is our discussion on the submission of proposed issues for consideration of the 2023 political agenda and I feel like if you're like what you're doing I don't know can you bring up the comments for last year uh number nine no no no about this one no just scroll down you should be able to see the comments no no it's not showing no I don't see anything cool okay so this is due it's because he's not looking at we're looking at Executives oh okay so this is due May 24th um so what I do have for a special board I shouldn't be talking about snow but is a job description approval uh another teacher for summer school and then this political agenda if you want to have a special board if you're not ready [Music] um I think that you know we've always um looked at the political agenda and and looked at our you know our site um and I think that we should be able to just get that out of the way now because I think that has that really changed um the adequate um and Equity Fund and the school districts means National I I wanna I wanna keep that also to preserve local um straight the local control I think that for us should be number one and then the the funding also um and then also the outcome for our students improve the outcome for all students uh Arizona Rural and remote schools and the schools Safety and Security [Music] um I was also looking at these schools yeah yeah but if if we have local control we could have uh you know like with that housing be part of that local control yeah and I think the majority of the other boards also push back to local control but perspective of what this is decision is to pointedly give to the Arizona legislature or today is the association being these are the things you need to consistently be talking about I'm trying to say any law or any adjustments or legislation that's going to come forward religion housing dollars [Music] we control what we do here since well we don't have to talk about it foreign but also I think freedom for top five uh Soviet local control which is number one about district schools [Music] yeah three times um required public record of accountability notification improve up close for our students different rationales because we including immigrating students including well I can give all this together underneath one district schools to at least that maximum Union [Music] crickets um just in my opinion it sounds like you guys were talking about the same thing you talked about the last couple years and the way your top five priorities are so um it's up to the board I mean basically uh preserving and strength and low control with that rationale of opposing legislation uh improve outcome for all students adequately and equitably fund school districts with two other rationales we have a rational so it's up to you if you want to move forward with the same thing that you had last year the additional items were required read these already the additional ones yeah so I don't know it's the will of the board um on on if you want me to proceed with the same ones to present at the law conference or do you want to have more discussion [Music] um understanding whether he wants back um [Music] um so that that was across all jurisdictions state travel organization all of those things that was something that was just kind of a football game foreign [Music] look at that I didn't hear it you need to um [Music] so I think one was approved outcome for all students two is Arizona's rural remote schools is that correct what was three control and then accountability for taxpayer dollars was that right yeah okay where does the Transportation or housing company to pray because I know we talked about it we always talk about it and then that's rational much as it talks about maximizing for competitive salaries is [Music] on the housing situation because especially for a trials there's no houses so if we have that as the um under that title and then our rationale that day number one will be housing waiting I mean we could do it like that intensification foreign education is one of our priorities so are you seeing that like you've never winning if there's something that we culturally want to make sure there's including political questions [Music] and we don't have to follow what they're seeing here we can dictate whatever we want Swedish serve or should be under the rules to consider um [Music] is give me a list I know this um the kind of Milky I don't think they were doing that the private school they weren't um reporting maybe they have not been recording there's some money that they got and spend it you know I kind of don't I think that's why they put this one so we need to make them accountable okay so I'm gonna write up uh the top five and the additional and then I'm going to start using the rationales for a few of them for housing and transportation and um improve our control safety so I'll work on this tomorrow and get it out to the board members for you for submission before submission and then from July I think you guys have to vote on the delegates for that conference sounds good you want an action from us right now then uh you can get the motion to create agendas or discuss um all those in favor Stevens hi Sylvie Hendricks I would make grease caffeine Bass emotional care liturgies all those in favor Juan bondia Anna Marie Stevens aye Sylvia Hendricks Ella Mae grieswood hi Kathleen Vance motion carries [Music] thank you okay uh Mr Dizon was speaking to me about a summer Retreat uh I don't know when you guys are available I wanted to hopefully lock down some dates here last year the summer Retreat landed on 625 and 6 26.

so we've shift to focus to numbers and base 10. it's a higher it's a higher level of numerical literacy you know now now we're asking kids to learn how to learn about place value um number Concepts operations measurement and so you can see here at this point in time 82 percent of our kids are are within that proficiency band of that numbers and base 10 standard get second grade again we're focused on numbers in base 10. um and 82 percent of our kids are are hitting the mark within that proficiency band for numbers and base 10.

um that we uh will be getting for uh or we have billed part third four that would also offset those special ed costs fasting to uh come in close to budget there's still some uh items to watch the K-12 Transportation fuel utilities heating oil substitutes uh you know a lot of fmlas uh going on right now so that adds some costs uh and like a cost of custodial and other supplies so um we are still planning on coming in close to but we will know better at the end of May Russell you want to add anything to it oh no Donna covered pretty much everything but it seems like it's very accurate from what presented into those do you want to explain the um sure the uh CIP yeah so that way when we move to our approval right this evening I have submitted uh uh two motions uh to reallocate CIP funds uh we have uh uh about forty five thousand dollars uh in a an unallocated interest income account in our Capital uh plan our Capital fund uh so with that we have an unexpected cost for uh an elevator repair at CIS uh that is uh pretty important uh because it's the control board so to speak is Obsolete and on its last legs and if it blows uh then that operator or the elevator will be inoperable uh for for some time so um the inspectors have uh recommended that we go ahead and replace that now and be a little proactive so that cost is nineteen thousand eight hundred dollars and it was unplanned uh so we thought that that would be uh good use of funds in the CIP to allocate that for that elevator repair uh also we had a CIP approved last year of 25 000 for some High School auditorium lighting improvements uh that has in actuality the the quotes are a slightly more than the 25 000 so we are asking also from that uh unallocated interest income account to take 1 360 uh from that account and add it to the auditorium lighting account is is that been uh partially done uh the only thing that's been done is is really a screen has been moved but uh we had trouble getting some vendors in there we needed a few vendors to to bid but I think we've got that ironed out because we wouldn't have noticed a difference it's going to be done during the summer I've already majority okay any questions for Donald uh for Donna or Russell any questions Felicia or Erica no okay why don't we move uh we'll move forward we'll take up those actions in a minute let's go to the uh consent agenda Mr Case okay thank you this evening is part of the consent agenda uh we have the approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of April 18th 2023 the special meeting of April 18 2023 and the um break excuse me the special meeting which was Canton celebrates uh last Tuesday May 2nd also as part of the consent agenda tonight we have three um three resignations one which includes one retirement I'll begin with um with Mrs Kaufman this is Lynn Kaufman who has been a school counselor at Canton Intermediate School um for over um 15 years close to 20. um is announcing her retirement after 20 years in education so she will be retiring on June 30th 2024.

um I think I understand that one we had 214 yellow cards at the Qatar World Cup in 2022 and we have only eight in our Adams 14 so this is a true comparison of Qatar World Cup of 2022 to us we had a Qatar 2022 for red cards meaning kicking out an individual um player zero red cards and Adams 14 and 172 goals two or three per game at Qatar 2022 and are ready to shout for this one 305 in Adams 14.

13 14 and 12 and 30. basically we took two entire chapters of the agreement two entire big chapters tossed them out and started from scratch and built it for what our employees need and what's going to benefit our employees may not be the easiest thing to administer but it's what's right for our employees and so I can't I can't express enough the work that both these teams did in negotiations to truly understand this and ask those in-depth those super rich questions how does this look what happens if this happens so that we could produce really a very robust personal time off that we can all be proud of and that should outlive all of us and hopefully we'll never have been doing this one again because it was a lot of work but it was it was work that was worth the effort a couple other major accomplishments on the certified side we worked with some language giving us the opportunity to have a late start once a week with professional development so our teachers have the ability to continue that great PLC work that they're doing those those great things are happening that are pushing our classrooms and our teachers to that next level to be successful and there was a lot of language around that that we had to go through and both sides were really really accommodating to each other listened and I think that's my biggest takeaway from this we all listen to each other every time somebody would talk everybody gave them the the respect and the honor and listened and not just because they had to listen but because they wanted to listen they wanted to learn and a lot of Minds were changed on on all groups of people as we went through this process the just a couple more quick accomplishments um for compensation we wanted to honor and we wanted to be Equitable with all of our staff and this was really really important to both the classified and the certified in the past we've given raises but our steps and typically around eight or nine which means once you've been in Adams 14 for nine years if we give a step raise there's no step for them to go to so they don't really get an increase in compensation and we as a group on both the classified and certified thought that that doesn't do a very good job of honoring our most uh our most dedicated employees so what we did is we um we proposed them we both agreed on a step raise for all employees for those employees who are at the end of the pay scale rather than being frozen we added an additional step so that every employee including those 9 10 12 14 veteran teachers in in classified everybody has an opportunity to get a step raise nobody is frozen nobody's locked in everybody got a step race we also added a one percent Cola we'd like to have added a huge Cola but we have to also be conscientious of our budget and make sure that what we do is sustainable so it was a one percent Cola and then the district is covering the increase in medical benefit costs which did go up this year and so we didn't want to give our employees an increase in compensation and then take it away in benefit costs so we covered that entire cost so they'll be able to see the entire increase in their in their paycheck on the certified side we also looked at the longevity and we increased longevity one percent so that our folks who've been here a little bit longer have that extra little little added to it and then again we adjusted stipends based on that one percent on the classified side we had to make some adjustments to some of our scales some of our folks were not being paid at the same rate as some of our surrounding districts and we do a survey to determine how Denver how all the other school districts are paying each group of people and so if we were at at the average of everybody else we were okay in our race is we're fine but when we had a group that fell below when another school districts around us started paying a certain group of of classified more than we were we knew we had to adjust because we need to stay competitive and we need to stay equitable and so we had to make some adjustments too I think it was five of the scales five of the scales and we had to move a couple of groups from one scale to another scale just because we wanted to make sure that we honored the work that they're doing and the effort and the responsibility that they have to our district and so that was the major accomplishment on compensation we left with a couple of of takeaways because we can't get it all done in one one year this is a multi-year thing and so what we are taking away on the certified side is that we're going to be watching the universal Pre-K roll out this year how that looks we're going to be making sure that we're honoring all of our Pre-K teachers appropriately and that we're not that how we roll This Out is consistent with the agreement because the agreements is there for a reason so we want to make sure that we're doing that so we're going to have a committee that's going to continue to monitor that throughout the year on the classified side because it's such a different way and it can be very controversial we're going to be monitoring how we evaluate compensation through those surveys to make sure that this is the right solution for our school district and that this really does honor all of our employees the best that it possibly can so we're going to continue to work we have meetings that we'll be doing throughout the year to make sure that the the compensation ranges and how we evaluate those are being done correctly so that is basically what we accomplished in a very short period of time we started in January February and we've worked collaboratively as a team since and so I would like to invite Jason Wayne is there anything you'd like to today hi you guys hear me on this thing yes um well I think a lot just a second everything Nathan said uh I do want to just you know sort of big picture point out that like when we win the corporate war on public education in 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so please set our calendar our payroll calendar um so that our staff was informed of when these payments were coming because I know um in the past um being in payroll before we didn't have you know we've had to wait on information for 301 Monies to be paid out um all the staff or all the teachers had to be evaluated and then we needed to get the information [Music] so we didn't know exactly when those were going to be paid out this year however we set these dates so now we have deadlines that they have to be met by and so and so payroll isn't just waiting by you know waiting to put these monies in because we know that our teachers um are budgeting because they're not paid throughout the whole year um just because of when school ends and when school starts um they there might be a little bit of lag between payment so we like to let them know when the to expect these extra checks um so that they can budget for the summer so this year we have our retention segment is being paid out this week and then we try to make it in between regular payrolls obviously for the amount of work that it is for people to have it done but also so that they can have checks in you know a check coming um in between a regular patient so and that's typically at the end of the year because they need to be evaluated and um and placed in the correct category of payment and so typically it's after the school year has been to come out towards the end of May beginning of June I think it's the first week of June this year you know in the past um administrators they're pretty well cleaned up the other findings are there any findings now our audit firm is still complete um reviewing the final audit um but we were informed so far and and we still have time to answer back on but I think there was seven um findings out of everything this year and there was a lot of extra that they did have to audit because of the SR grads and um a couple extra audits that they had done performed um but so far um they have found seven and I think we're um questioning a couple to make sure they have the correct information [Music] but we will have as soon as I get final word on that and I have a report in my hands I will issue that out to yes I just have not received anything yet this is just um our utterly um giving me a call and letting me know that information but there's not been anything um in writing today okay thank you okay okay thank you please members of the community because thank you good evening again you have any more members report right now and I hope you did you just go back I do want to highlight our attendance um [Applause] [Music] percentile um third grade have the main team not since last month so yeah [Music] um I do want to highlight that we did that's 100 of our third grade students for the age [Applause] begin testing our Kinder students for reading Roots weeks we can do that at the end of the year if you can please scroll up we did have I'm sorry McDonald's um if you see their MMD means Mastery not determined and that just means that some of those students Report with they have their sounds that they're so they're struggling with blending um we had had quite a few kids placed in our three and up um our goal is to get them into an R2 when they start first grade so to see that many kids sleep we do want to highlight one student in Kinder placed in a second grade reading club [Music] but we want to make sure that we don't set them up to fail we won't put them in a second grade reading class in the first grade reading class because now that you can read fluently one answer that because so um we were really excited about that as well um so now when you can watch our highlight videos from last month I do oh I'm sorry I do want to thank my teachers and staff um I have an amazing staff at our primary campus it is gentrification week and we have planned activities out for them for the whole week not as much as what they truly do deserve as you know our teachers deserve who are watching [Music] thank you [Music] right now [Music] how many sizes into the playground what happened [Music] all right [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] reading oh my gosh that is so cool so thank you thank you for everything thank you president Adams on board and it is foreign [Music] um I hope you had a chance to look at my board the intermediate board report um I like to um say thank you to the community um for stepping up we every person that walks in our in our door of the intermediate we always find some way of trying to bring them into our community at the intermediate and ways of how they can be involved and how um they need to come into the classrooms as well as helping our teachers and so as they were coming in we asked them about how can they help our teachers for teacher appreciation and so there was a lot of people that stepped up the dawn of the legislative Department the found out the key Association the behavioral health Response Team the Donovan Special Services Program the fire department there is a lot of people that came in just to help support our teachers by giving them supplies supplies providing them with lunch and so thank you to the community that means a lot to our teachers and to get some traditional meals we had a traditional meal today and and the teachers are so excited to taste the food and get some pop overs that's not traditional food but it was still good and they got to learn the history about it and why um it may not be our traditional food but it is it is in our history of why we use it so um thank you to the community and thank you to the whole um busd District staff who will help to add our own Star Wars event we had many Smiles many students walked away with activities that they did and it was more rewarding to see the community that came together by bringing the Galaxy and dancers together uh and Miss Larson for creating our own dance group we never had one but we made one and the kids are so excited and the community came together and made their outfits for them because they didn't have outfits so we came up with all that within like two weeks and so thank you to miss Martin for organizing that and for the students for stepping up and doing the dance and singing so it was a team effort in it so thank you foreign [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] completely [Music] awesome [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] yeah and we're gonna get those sixth graders back up over 90 yes and I just want to say congratulations on all the hard work that was done for the Star Wars theme um I didn't get to go but I know my daughter took um the kids that she was watching and she said there was a whole lot of people and I hear it was one of the biggest events for the community so I really am I'm gonna say thank you for everything that you're doing at your site and for all of those um uh community members that come and donate and to spend time I really I really think that that's um the kids are benefiting from it and it just shows so thank you thank you Mr Diaz I would like to also give a shout out uh but um I want to take a moment to also give a shout out to our pH of the device for the district case that drove seven and a half hours to join a service event in our food in our foreign thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] um and I hope you were able to get the pictures that he also wanted to share with you foreign [Music] because he said it was just for um for your view only and I'd like to thank the young men that helped with that in Mr Venus for the time to contribute to the to this way and so I know one of the plants because the renewal just happened is when we do the work for our new teachers one of the places that um is on the agenda is to stop at the Children's right so you know you may get to see some of their donations some people um I'd also like uh to thank the junior class the nursing class sponsor Leila Ochoa for a wonderful prom the kids looked amazing I don't know I'm sure you guys got to see pictures on Facebook but they were dressed during the practice and it was just it was a fun night I also want to recognize Waylon Martin and the Cooper baseball team for going under the Connecticut season [Music] [Applause] and also shout out to coach Valdez and the softball team for a great season as well that's it um also [Music] oh yes um as we also we're in testing season so seventh and eighth grade 100 testing our high school had either 95 percent of 10 percent tested um as well so and and this is going to attendance Mr Eastwood but there are attendants this month [Music] and if we leave that's all and so here's our video [Music] thank you foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] question comes [Music] thank you for uh continuing to um support our young men and I know that with the children um it was only for the young men to um do that so um I'm glad that we have um somebody to guide them and to continue to guide them and that we keep doing this um as long as possible thank you awful um the recipients of the awards the scholarship I want to really say thank you to um to the staff at the school for everything that they've done to help those young men to be successful and to receive those Awards thank you I couldn't remember there's um the attendance right is there yes [Laughter] thank you [Applause] come on spots [Music] good evening and board members superintendent ideas thanks for adding me up again before we get to any of this this happened last week it doesn't count really or um April but I don't want it to wait till June Mr Alvarez has had a really successful Mesa experience this semester with us and they have been culminating event at the GCU just last week and this we have a student of the year in the Mesa program in Isabella Garcia the reason she was chosen was they looked at certain traits like empathy creativity curiosity resilience calculated risk action resourcefulness tolerance ambiguity and she was chosen so I would just like to take a moment to read what Mr Alvarez wrote about her and what was recognize up there in Phoenix Isabel has been a standout student and future engineer she's demonstrated throughout the year her dedication curiosity and knowledge of the scientific and Engineering Process she has attended all the practices and events and has shown her dedication by creating time and space for her and her team she's been a role model for her peers and has shown me as her advisor her ability to overcome obstacles and restraints she's always thinking of the next steps and ensures that she only gives one what she knows to be the best she solves her intelligence and her work and her passion and her communication it is Mr Alvarez gave him great pride down on me Isabel Garcia for that recognition so thank you and just to highlight some of um what she said thank you some of the very cool things that have happened on our little campus um this month last night they went to Chase Field for Science and Innovation workshops that we put on by Boeing Lockheed Martin McDonald Douglas it was a huge event for the kids got to be out on the field and and do really move South uh we've had Teo Susan come into us we have gone to tocc and gave them a tour of what college life is like we made the University of Arizona twice in a month and the best and by far what you'll see in the video the noise of the journey into Earth was where these Mexicans and a couple extras went to the same out of your mind and they were able to go underground they were able to mine some of the elements and I call them rocks but now I have a seventh grade crystal ball explained to me with the rocks in her backpack on so it was a super very cool experience that I don't think these kids would have ever had and then my best part of the month was Mr Diego they didn't be there for it was the students on a Friday plan to have an idea of food day where they brought everything in they made they cooked it they taught me how to do things um that I've never done before and then they fed our our Guinness so it was a very very fun month for us so I am right before a video whenever you are Mr Bates [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] sometimes [Music] so in the video you can see where they were preparing the food that was built by Jessica puelo one of our students she saw the cinder block she said can I build this and Miss Larson said build a way now she's gonna go help us learn the intermediate campus to build um there was a name for it I'm sorry Jessica I'm sorry Jessica has been watching but it was just really neat to see them to take control of what they would get any questions am I the only one [Music] um thank you uh Mr Fox really can be doing for the kids and I I really appreciate that um the students out here at your uh site are going off cations and visiting places that they probably would never get to go um and also that encouragement to to take the initiative to move forward not only after graduation but you know life and that is really amazing I love that um I Really Wanna I I know that there's like about a hundred students at 135 135 and it just amazes me to know that there's only three teachers teacher but he's a very very resourceful man that we now utilizing in the classroom to give ESS Services he also has his breakout session so he so phone number yeah well for that many kids at your site where the teachers that are there for them and how much they're accomplishing that is really amazing so thank you to the teachers um not just at that site but all of our teachers but I really I I think about those teachers at years like a lot a lot because the kids that are there um sometimes they don't have that hope and and they regain that when they get to your site so I really want to want to thank you for that I think the teachers they're thinking thank you [Applause] opportunities and learning um and you can see it in the students then you can tell it you spend a lot of time getting to know these students memorable and that's what our students need um thanks again to Mr Alvarez yeah I also wanted to um send my appreciation for the time and the efforts that all you that all your teachers and yourself with that have given students and I know on a personal level that you you are very appreciated I think Fred enjoys you and the school and the teachers and you know and the work that she's accomplishing to developed yeah I'm supposed to call Fred out so congratulations Fred Thomas for uh going 6-0 with your with your Middle School baseball team they had a great both the boys and the girls are a great set of seven games up at all this weekend it was a pleasure to be there to watch and um you know Go Mama Michelle I I'd like to thank all the principals and pull around their um the other projects that I've been made this month and um I'm really proud of the attendance and and all the things that's going on at the school and I think that's the reason why the kids are coming to school because they're making that um thank you they forget now um comparison to everyone else making effort to make sure that we are going to terms that's all of you oh no to all of our principles I think especially because I know that this school year is generally it is um like the challenge I think especially with this war in the studios and you know wasn't it wasn't anything but I definitely done so much videos um it does not go without appreciation like I know that it's it's what we enjoy especially as a community member um but as a board member genuinely we have a very very good strong community group of individual seems to think new um does not go unnoticed um just from from I know especially not just business but each of us whatever Israelis is on the gold we're really getting it in his sense in it and I think each of us kind of carry that same amount energy so it's it's it's good that people hear from all of us and here and it takes something else we'll go ahead and move on to number seven our property of High School District open board member reports I'll go ahead and really quickly just talk about um I want to say continue again to the secondary campus um that probably miss lucer everybody I was on the selection committee for the Santa Native American caucus um scholarship and it was super special for me to see something barbecuing yeah submitted their scholarship applications and and the stories and it's impactful so please do not misinterpret what we're setting as a bar of expectation for our students as we don't appreciate that they come from a very hard places to learn I think that it's very important to understand that this board genuinely genuinely wants the best and if we set a bar that is going to be just a little bit higher I I hope that this community to get behind the fact that that's how great we think of our students and great think of our staff and the capabilities that we have to be able to see them succeed there are so many so many heart-wrenching stories about what happens but [Music] the fact that we can fill this room to celebrate our students is is definitely where we I know I get the motivational drug to continue to speak here every single every single month and to be able to support each of you a student including University as abortion especially when you're serious because I have a very wrong especially when it comes from this these five people and everybody else and in the whole entire Community when it comes to something that happens within the mission I've definitely given us a peace of mind when it comes to how that's going to carry out so thank you so much better if you want to continue to express from my standpoint as a board member it is never to put down our views or to not acknowledge that they come from hard places it is definitely though you say or you are who you can't achieve better and more than just believing you are doing yourself that same kind of effort because if I let you just settle then I feel and you should know yourself anybody else I know myself yeah unfortunately I think um [Music] but um so I just wanted to share um some of the conferences and meetings [Music] of course like like four or four of us educated the national school board conferences [Music] this the speaker the keynote speaker was brought up to Stage along with one of the staff members of um I also attended a number of workshops related to the pictures of the districts are resolving and coming up with ways they upgrade to upgrade and and put ways to do extractions and security Killers uh parent involvement and we are very informational um also there was uh also we as Support also had a workshop that we uh did and I think it was very is it uh very many questions and the aware of that you know I think they understood you know that and that only it's not only about them that anybody stands up is important and then also I attended that our BMXs I've been a pmh that's happened to visit on April 25th along with the administrators from the high school classes and I really appreciate it though thank you enjoying the administrator it gives us firsthand information [Music] so we visited a few summer great classes today and too much classes and I also attended the Star Wars comedian game it was very enjoyable um I actually only was able to be there in the last hour of it I got off work um [Music] job is there any uh strong deaths and they actually came down to the floor down the other community also the development students or page that we had a wonderful videos come on stuff and they also they also have their own social meds they also came together one and it's really good to see Beverly that's the way it actually drove them actually it doesn't make so much time and so um and also I I wasn't able to because mother happy dancing it was fun but um so even though I only was able to pick um continue myself [Music] and as the school year ends it's ending I think he's standing in a positive way I'm thinking about student Administration and the continuous work of student Lobby of morale and Community involvement which you know are all entity I would like to appreciate the work and all you do and we are here to support you in your efforts thank you anybody else um if not um I didn't submit a written report but on April 13th we were part of a group that introduced um superintendently the South District Council so that was um I didn't know that South District Council had such a big number of Representatives I thought it was this little but it was um it gave us a chance to practice and that was really cool and then also um April 21st I just didn't want to access um gratitude for all those that put together the prom for the genus um it was it was just amazing to see um my own daughter who is really quiet and and wouldn't go uh out in a dress be dressed up and and really ready to go and I remember her saying that she was sore the next day and I asked her from what she goes out dancing yeah yay so thank you for everyone that um that took part in that um Monday May 1st was officially principal's day so I really really wanna say thank you to all our principals for the amazing work that you've done within this year and you can see that in the scores and you can see that in the attendance you can see it in in in the kids and I really really want to say thank you for for um Rising I guess because I know that we expected a lot and you guys are you guys are just amazing your classes and you can see that with the children every day when you go to school you see that within them so I really I really want to say thank you for everything and um when you see has already that you know what that means I really have that respect for you so thank you for that Amendment for this um this week the 8th through the 12th is um teacher appreciation week I really want to say thank you to all our teachers every one of them um I've always told my kids when they were little when you go to school now I don't know if this is happening or not but I've always told them when you go to school be respectful to those teachers because you know what their day doesn't end when you go home they stay up they stay up late they come in early they have families but yes they're working on stuff to um make sure that they're prepared in the next day so you know it takes a lot of to be a teacher and I remember one of my daughters I was you know she's really good at math and I told her you should be a teacher she said no way I'm like why not she goes because I know how we treat them I'm like we'll start cleaning them like that you know but like that you know you guys that you teachers you take on a lot you take on a lot and I really want to say thank you for for for being there for the students because it's gonna matter when they leave here they're gonna remember you those of you that have uplifted them when they were down they're gonna remember I promise you and it's it's just an amazing feeling when you see that people thinking [Applause] foreign [Music] factors I mean once a month or a couple of months so the great people I remember [Applause] uh my report is from the last National Conference we went to in Florida um it was um teachers that were there were there um presenting this um the topic owners starting post-secondary um successful in high school and the school there has to be 3 000 students and 400 staff they start engaging with their students early and staff are available to help students about future goals a hundred percent of the students graduate as well development personal Reliance learning Network including outside mentors who partner with them several um technical schools there and they earn credits college degrees Online High School and um about financial impact the students and families started saving money oh not saving money and in there for their future college so they teach them how to save money and they tell them how how much College costs so they know the course of college they are learning about grants and scholarships and also they have mentors come into the school side um and and um they um they may have they might be managers or police officers or um so they they're they're there to tell them to students what um what um they what is needed to get into that level of what college courses and they need to learn their future goals um business partners or um invited to help students the courses needed to get into college all information provided to the students so they can prepare themselves for that career they want they want to get their but their their goals but their future they want to be having um this type of mentors the students start thinking about the goals jobs they like to go to um what they learn more about it then but then most important that the stress was that they learn more math and a lot of reading cool it is understood that students there hear a lot of their have a light on their plate their responsibility to create an environment where students can Thrive isn't simple it's important that family engagement can make a difference what happens when the student focuses on family engagement we've had better grades more consistent attendance fewer and behavior issues increase ability to learn students and teachers and administrators surrounded by support and everyone wins thank you [Applause] also bring it to the Warrior games and uh and what the softball game one time and uh I missed that Community gave this past Friday but I had an emergency and um that was I was supposed to do a classroom visit but um it was canceled a bunch they went over there and and asked them Miss Lewis one that you could have what great class and I wanted to see my my granddaughter's class but they were having dance dancing on the Seattle and speaking with her getting them ready for that community yeah I think I think she's doing an amazing job as a culture thank you um thank you for what you're not the members of the community and you know we're going to proceed out to me guys what we've done this before but I need to acknowledge a couple of Beats number one I want to take what um I if you want to know why teachers are angels without me um you can follow up on the message on Facebook along with the other three stands that I have with us it's gonna be great I encourage you to see um how I want to thank my teachers um not only about drivers is about professional teachers and our professors but I know there's only one day for principle which is something but I think it should be moving around thanks to those positions over here all the ones that also have one of the toughest jobs I invite our families what you see every month is what they do each month but I invite everyone to see what what happens every single month and then the plan that goes behind the support that they have that they provide to their teachers I also want to clarify to the community that accompany board members they do sign up for classroom visits and they are in the classrooms and they they have there will be no jobs that they also have the opportunity to join to see the calendar [Music] we have a chunk of money that was invested as part of business but I'm inconspiration of that proposally as well as with um how to put together regarding our children program to Showcase uh the growth of our students in this particular year and foreign program has been successful in accomplishing the mission of the district by enhancing and maximizing the learning opportunities of all students that great with the Holy Spirit electrical system implemented a violence literacy continuously is multiple to spot the history and gets their experience feel the structures and maintain success we have created the spreadsheet every week with a student's current progress in math and reading based on generated support and success stated for each child's problems and today foreign students completed and consistently extended the tutoring sessions as it shows are the names of the students who have perfect attendance for newly graphic attendance congratulations to all of you this happens because of our religion tutors and staff to encourage them to attend regular regularly she doing was healthy person on most days the number of students wrote Because of some students advocated to attend cheaply some fairies wanted their child to be able for teachers require their students what they took away as part of the student's success for six months the students spend their time after school were enforced replica Great Value delivery opportunities in mass and reading new successes maker for grades three to eight and legitimate for high schools is a comparison of November and April beta as measured by main rape placement score all children groups made a significant grade level growth in math and reading mathematics went up with a range of 0.17 points to 1.13 and really from 0.27 to 1.12 what tourist points mean it basically says our tier 2 students went up basic difficult roles bad water to a one year level placement growth we use the Apex for agility for high school students one tutor has students who completed one or two courses that generates a total of 23 courses completed and one tutor on the other hand has 18 forces completed Saturday Credit Recovery is still active and students can still join in with the tutors until May 20th here is a schedule foreign [Music] sessions at the primary campus it will be in person once can be downloaded online at Facebook page and thank you for putting this video presentation together to highlight the growth and also to celebrate our teachers and not only have a regular day job and also they also give out their part of the afternoon to continue to support our students and at this point we can open it up if you have any questions comments for the after school program if now we can proceed with that as part of the prescription Sylvia but I was just wondering about my daughter should appear in um did you have a breakdown of what how many people working yes and he was one of the president and then um do we know what do we have uh Summers I know that the administration uh so this only there was 135 students but I've been checking a little more accurate number uh our goal is to have 300 students we need 200 students Gateway and we need about 100 students on 9-12 and it opened up not only for year two but also schools this one will have one Kinder and the most agenda right now is the junior class um the one attend the summer school program um what oh um students and we have space for seven um [Music] okay though I have seven students for first grade and I have many students uh second grade 14 3rd grade 15 all three it's also one of the most um enrolled numbers 121 Street grade 14 students Grade 9 students seventh grade C students eighth grade five students ninth grade seven students age grade 10.

um this year those same dates I think would be 6 23 and 624 if I'm not mistaken or something uh Saturday Sunday is anybody available 6 24 625 or is that San Francisco yes sir 17. [Music] um 24th uh but the 17th and 18th or something um foreign [Music] me too long seven eight questions foreign [Music] thank you [Music] Friday every Saturday [Music] and Tuesday 13th is our school board how about the 11 and 12 Sunday and Monday 11th and 12th January oh wait okay [Music] oh no we're coming back from Flagstaff laughs [Music] I have 18 19 purple hello [Music] 18 19 12 18 by 19. it's like let me make the first one it's locked let me make preparations the rest should be pretty simple back to school event just for your information 724 at the Desert Diamond the desert the BDC governing board went ahead and approved us for fourteen thousand dollars to pay for the event uh the ASP Summer Leadership institutes in Flagstaff and you're all registered we all have hotels okay good I just had to book it because they fill up that day you all have hotels at Little America rooms at Little America uh ncai we've been invited uh to present at the conference so we need to grab a board member or two to go June 4th through 8th and then I just put the nature States on there for your information just so you can write them down and be prepared yep [Laughter] oh yeah 18 is Father's Day [Music] yeah I don't have a father nice every day we're not going to be able to be there on Father's Day what about on Monday um what about Monday and Tuesday thank you so what day no 18th and 19th okay [Music] [Applause] Sylvia thank you again [Music] how those uh Andrew Stevens that would make greasework kathleenberg foreign