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this slide shows the chart comparison between the parent response and the general student responses and so you'll see the mean response number and then the number that were included in the count they were asked to rank each indicator between one meaning I am not ready or my son or daughter is not ready and four being very ready the student felt very ready to meet the indicators or the parents felt it was a four um that their son or daughter was very ready to meet those indicators I want to highlight some key findings that came about from student belonging as they went through because we first asked students about participation in courses and clubs and activities and teams then we asked them about portrait overgraduate indicators here are some findings from the 221 student responses of the 221 students 154 participated in a CTA course or a CTE course 79 of those students completed the mic the major clarity micro credential course of employability skills and 96 of those 154 students were completers so they did the at least two years in the CT program and then were considered completers 90 students of the 100 I'm sorry 90 students of the 221 participated in the AP course with 67 sitting for an AP exam 118 students participated in the visual arts course and 98 participated in a Performing Arts course roughly 50 percent of those students in a Performing Arts course also participated in a local state or national competition 58 of student respondents participated in at least one club or student organization and 51 of the respondents participated in at least one sports team 34 percent of respondents participated in a non-school sponsored club team or youth group and 70 percent of respondents were employed during their high school years of those students 51 worked 21 or more hours each week these key findings speak to the live students are leading in our community outside of our campus Gates and these findings also provide some baseline of what we can grow within our existing programming structure at CHS so to the wandering affirmative not statistically but there was a higher rating once we pulled the data for those committed level students and they we looked at their indicator rating so it was higher but we definitely cannot say it was statistically significant hmm the data speaks for itself this indication from this survey and the satisfaction survey we'll speak to in a minute speaks to the fact that the programming at CHS the framework seems to be working but we can strengthen those opportunities within the framework of courses and extracurriculars and clubs the lowest rating across parent and student groups and in conversation with groups in the district and leaders in the district we saw in the data that the lowest rating across parent and student subgroups was critically evaluate complex information through analysis and open-mindedness I'm okay with that because when I think about what is something that you can impact cross-curricular at any age group you can work with students and talk with students about critically evaluating something that they're learning about or talking about or discussing and help them to do a good analysis through open-mindedness so I feel like that's something that can definitely be impacted and in conversations with different groups I believe they would agree if I have any Bob Ross fans in the room a happy accident was that the survey senior survey was done in March I'm sorry end of February before spring break then in may we did the student satisfaction survey and so that was students in grades 7 through 12.
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once we pulled the data of just CHS students because keep in mind this pilot project for Castle was just CHS their highest rated areas of satisfaction or course offerings and classroom support we know that the framework is there for us to keep building on and strengthen the interpersonal and interpersonal skills students need to be successful and be able to more confidently say they're ready to meet the portrait of a graduate indicator results were shared with multiple stakeholders throughout the district to include Dr Wyman Dr Dukes Dr Fountain principal Loftus John scroghem just to name a few leadership got this presentation previously the conversation with principal Loftus and Jolene Peterson their department chair for counseling brought into focus of next steps in order to continue the work of helping students be prepared for their post-secondary path be it enrolled employed or enlisted so this just highlights a few of those things we'll be supporting CHS and strengthening additionally I reached out to Dr Goolsby to support her team and to develop a survey for their senior students to get a better idea of their feelings for preparedness to meet the portrait of a graduate skills knowledge and characteristics our school direct School District recognizes our graduates need to be prepared for a multitude of post-secondary paths some of which we don't even know exists yet the work is Guided by our instructional model and the portrait of a graduate the professional competencies highlighted in the portrait of a graduate are direct connections to the social emotional and behavioral skills parents introduce and build at home and that we hope to reinforce on our campuses you've had a lot thrown at you in the last 40 minutes what questions do you have about anything so is this an ongoing effort where every year we'll be doing the same thing and just in comparing results from year to year yeah that would be our hope and that has been our discussion that this is something we would want to continue as our instructional model and the portrait of graduates stay in play and that's also what drove us reaching out to Dr Goolsby at ccs and the online school that has seniors to say how can we continue hearing our student voices and how we're helping them or where we're not and then take that feedback to grow okay I have one question yeah um I think this is great is there have you thought about doing like any postgraduate any of those that like they're in college and they thought oh what what what what made me ready for this and what should I have done different like what could have helped me a lot more yep that's a great question because you're speaking to um what's being talked about nationally right now and I only know that because of conversations throughout these last 10 months of doing a fifth year survey to so that when they've been out to say what did we miss and what did we do well for you so um I would love to explore that with our district team um I do know correct me if I'm wrong marketing or anyone else that there is a way to capture students that graduate from us that stay within the state and go to our colleges and universities that we could potentially do that um I don't even know if you have like for example of course I have three and two of them are out and I can talk all day about what they I mean my oldest one is like the best thing he ever did was take the business math class because it got him thinking about real life um the ones that's in college says the best thing she ever did was take Mr Robinson's class because it had him it had her ready for what what she needed to do in math um so it was it's interesting to listen to them so I mine aren't anomalies of course so uh it would just be interesting to see what they feel was and and to compare what they thought before they left and then they left and like what was I right or wrong you know or yeah and Madam president as you say that I am thinking about um having been in the district close to 10 years now I'm paying attention to um new employees hired on I'm starting to see names that I had at the high school that it may be that this is something we can explore with Combs graduates that come back to us right and maybe reach out to them so I will definitely take that into consideration we have a great Foundation though it looks thank you okay thank you thank you all right so one more 10.3 discussion information on the capital bonds and uh mno overrides on the discussion from uh last month uh there are some slides I'm not going to go over in great detail I just put them in their case Bob you had some questions because I know you weren't here so I included those but but it's I'm not going to rehash all the stuff that we talked about last month um again this is just the uh what applies to an override again it's more of a reminder of the types overrides that are there um the lengths of the overrides and taxing Authority again it's it's was in the last month's slide um and the same with bonds but I put it here just as a reminder this is what we're talking about if we're going to talk about this particular topic um uh going forward we talked about why would we even consider going out the competition for salaries um is probably the biggest issue when we start to talk about uh if we're talking about retention that kale was talking about relative students we also talk about retention uh relative to employees no Ms Tucker you asked me to get you some data which you'll get which is about a retention and part of that's driven by salaries to be totally honest there's other issues besides salaries that someone may leave but that's that's a ongoing issue so when we talk about what happens with pro and con or pro and con for why we do this there were the competitiveness is is a big deal we talked a little bit about election Cycles again depends on who you talk to I did talk to a pollster uh this past weekend that I went out of conference I was at and he had he particularly has concerns with the 24 election others may not have quite as much concerns but that's just because of the potential polarizing nature of the 24 election and then historically Eminem overrides I'll just say you're talking about that dividing line or trying to get the media to come across Meridian and pick up the information that's over here while that there is a dividing line there relative to the passage rates and what's occurred to the west of Meridian as compared to the Eastern meridian so there is a factor of canal versus Maricopa and again the percentage of families with kids in the district if only 25 percent of the kids or 25 percent of the families are connected to school and 57 percent of those families are not attending her school then we're running about a 12 percent margin of what we're going to move forward with some additional information because I know Mr Ray had asked me a question and I did not give an answer last uh month but I am prepared to give an answer this month but uh normally Pinal County would not want to give us the numbers um until after you call for the election uh but in talking with them they did give us a number for us to run the election this year be 125 000 again that's not factored into this year's budget doesn't mean we can't afford it it just means that's a significant cost Associated and I know it's one that has to be taken into consideration some cases where people have run the budgets on a regular basis they have a line item for elections even if they don't go out they fill that line item on and off here just so that they have the dollars available in the future year when it comes time to go out so I when I was in Tempe Union they had very much success with overrides and bonds but every year they made sure that that line item was filled so when it came time to run the election on year three or year four depending on what it is they had money in in a line on them I don't believe that's something that we've done in this District we can but that's where that 125 becomes a significant impact in comparison if we had the money available so that 125 is for this year an off year if we were to proceed in 24 an on-year election year it should be lower because you're splitting the cost against me against the number of entities that are doing it what what's that number it depends to be quite honest honest the conversation if you're going to hand count votes I'm going to guess that number's gonna go through the roof and so you may not see a decrease if you're going to maintain the way it's been done in the past then you're probably going to see a decrease so so there are some factors of play out there that that could change it but but traditionally you should see a decrease on uh on a major election gubernatorial or presidential the other issue is able to look and find if you remember back in 20 those uh you that were on the board we went with high ground public affairs Consulting to survey of Voters to support a modern override and the indication was a little over 50 percent I reread the report and actually what we got was they asked the question of likely High efficacy voters and they asked the question of before they explain some things so part of the survey when you get into the survey data they kind of ask question would you vote for uh mno override to support Chrome District then they had a whole bunch of questions that kind of explained some things and then they came back and said now that we've told you this would you vote in favor and so it was a little bit above 50 percent at the beginning it was actually below 50 percent 49 when they asked the follow-up question and so because of that the recommendation is generally you wouldn't go out unless you're pulling around 60 percent we don't know what we're pulling we could be pulling 60 we're not going to be able to pull a community service we're not going to get high ground or Paul Ulin hired before July so that means you're not going to get a survey until August which means you're behind the eight ball before we even start those two pieces of information I did not have at the last meeting but I purposely wanted to go out and find it based on the questions that were were provided now I was asked by Mr Ray what's happening around the East Valley you can see what's going out I don't know with AJ I know they're not going out but I don't know what their the conversation is Chandler is going out 24 Florence to my knowledge is not going out Gilbert 100 million Bond and key a continuation of 15 override therefore it's not a tax increase for Gilbert Higley is having some issues with superintendency right now and and so I don't know that they are going to go out for anything but I'm not quite sure if they did it beforehand you see Kyrene I didn't get the amount from the bond of the bond from the superintendent but again a continuation Mesa 500 million and a continuation Queen Creek 98 million and a continuation Scottsdale continuation the two Tempe Schools aren't going out only because they passed both of them last year so they don't have to go out so that's kind of what's happening in the East Valley again those that are definitely going out are on the other side of the dividing line of Meridian Road they're not on this side of the drive hiding line of Meridian Road good or bad right or wrong that's just to keep in mind in the case of Mesa they are advertising the largest bond in the history of Arizona there's a fight because Phoenix Union I think is trying to get out to be the highest Bond so a Phoenix Union might be going for 600 million but you can see that the monies are going north and North because of the cost of what it takes to to build things so if we were to look at a 24 timeline I would anticipate something starting after the election so the beginning of November is the election and this would be a rough schedule of what you would do you'd start the planning in November you'd look at a consultant in February or March you get a con Community survey it could be April could be may you probably start to do a pack especially if you thought the community survey based on the initial return was good and then you'd call for the election in June now the truth of the matter is didn't call for the election in November if you wanted there's no time frame that tells you when you call for the election however once you call for the election then the election laws come into play and you are bound and you're kind of restricted in what you can talk about or not talk about so most districts will call it a May or June but I've seen districts call it in February and March because they think with their pack they can do more work through the pack for a longer period of time you have to have a cult by using the second week of July so you say June just to take care of everything because you have to get Pro con statements and there's a whole bunch of timelines to follow this kind of gives you that timeline from July through to November okay so again this was on the slide last year if you wanted to go at 25 instead of a 24 because of the politicization that's taking place then you would just modify you might give yourself more lead time to Kayla's uh presentation into Ms Hargis some of your questions you may start with an action plan that is really a two-year action plan that speaks to retention uh and selling the district and what we're doing and then you may do a dipstick of what is the community and in May of 24 and what is the community in May of 25 to help you understand whether that is effective and then we go on 25 I'm not suggesting 25 or 24 I'm just saying if you do a 24 timeline it's one way if you try to do a 25 timeline obviously it changes a little bit because you have more time to do some things okay you know I was looking at the plan that we put together for the 2016 bond election and when we were organizing all of this is it was in July and then we really hit the ground running in August and I've got a whole page of all the activities we had to do and and the monies we had to raise and the contacts we had and it's a lot of work and with only a 50 percent positive or 49 percent I don't know that the atmosphere is right right now but it goes back to where to Kayla and the work she does if we can keep pounding out positive about Combs within our community and turn that perception to a very positive perception and maybe if we say we don't go this year but we go next year and in the meantime we just get the word out about Combs and change the perception then do a survey to see if that's worked it almost seems that that's a more logical approach to trying to force something through this year in my opinion right and that's why I believe so this background information I'm just I'm just gonna I just shared it like you say in case you had questions but I'm not going to speak to it um but that's why I'm putting a recommendation Mr Ray asked me last time uh and I was non-committal but based on the research and based on what you're just talking about uh my recommendation would be we do not go out for an override or a bond this year I just don't think I think it's a setup to not be successful and then we can do the work as you spoke of and others to look at 24 but then quite frankly we'll be here next year maybe it's May instead of June and based on the information it might be no it's not worth it in 24.
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let's go to 25 or maybe the information maybe there's a 65 percent uh rate of support within the community and so then we'd say yeah let's go ahead and do it in 24.
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just because we have the support but I would just say that just given the cost just given what the last survey told us uh and just given the time frame especially when you you look at nowadays we're receiving 16 on terms of early ballots and uh uh turning ballots in you you really only have until about October first and and then everything's done yeah so and open to any questions or and then what we're looking for is just if everybody has the same kind of feelings as as Mr Delano then that would be the direction that tells me what to do next and we can speak to this if you decide to push it off even on Monday on the board retreat about some of the things we're talking about relative to some of the goals there but I'll take any questions or comments um it was mentioned about how um people in the community talk to each other so you know it's not just a coma's parent talking to a coma's parent it's a Coleman's parent talking to an ala parent talking to somebody else um if we could somehow get people into our schools Community open houses or whatever just to get them to and those who don't engage with us right now get them to engage with us and I don't know the best way to do that but that would be another thing that we can look at some some kind of Engagement activity there are there are some things that I'm that some of us went to uh this spring and that I'll bring some information to the retreat about a possibility I think some of the work and the reason why we're recognizing uh encantara tonight and we'll be recognizing there's a church group I'm sorry Sue what's the name of the group Central Christian that's done a tremendous amount of work we're up we will give them the same kind of award in July as as we did to encantara again for the thanks for their really their getting into our schools and they have people through lots of different circles and that's part of that building processor you're talking about so there's a couple different things we're looking at I think that if we're going to do that I think that we should call for the election before July because it's it's a long process there's a lot of work to be done um also um can we get that Community um survey done or whatever they do the or the Consultants yes that done before we call for an election yes you can you can get it done at any time that's why in the in the 24th timeline I suggest we go out for it around March or February and then it's just a matter of when would you like to run it the the as I recall from reading the survey results the actual run time of the survey itself is usually just three two or three nights it's just a randomly we're going to pick April 23rd 24th and 25th and then they give you results again you could bring them on board in January and you could run the result you could run the community survey in March if you wanted to um I just randomly put those based on your direction we will tighten that up but we would I would try to get results in your hands no later than April board meeting so that there's a time to decide you want to do something in May or something in June in terms of calling for an election next year so we would kind of back our way out of that and figure out when do we need to go for because we have to put a bid out because there's two or three different players out there that may want to be participating in it and so we would put a request for proposal from the companies and go forward but we could easily we could request it in November and talk to them about what came out of the November election and even look at when we be the best time to actually do the survey so what do you guys think about putting it on like having it put on a certain agenda like in January we revisit um I think we need to have the results of a survey first in order no I'm saying to say whether we should even have the survey correct like let's say January we say okay let's move forward with with with somebody or should we do that in December to move forward with it in January I think I think December is too close after the election I I agree people are going to be still saying that we can at least say we're going to move forward that then they can get their quotes so it'll still that still takes time right if you told us to do something to December with the Christmas holiday right you're probably gonna to have the recommended person at the February board meeting um yeah if you go in January you might get February but depending on how long you have to do it might be March so so I wouldn't disagree with you Ms Hargis to say that that December at least to start the process right so that we can then say you know and and truthfully depending on who we talk to they may have a varying strategies depending on their belief system of what the 24 election is going to look like so you may have someone telling you to do a couple different things because they believe it's more polarizing or it's less polarizing based on the number of things that are currently happening and could happen in the future okay that's good so the next one um discussion and consideration or approval of superintendent agreement so we're going to go into executive session yes all right um can we do that in like 10 minutes okay that'd be great wait we can have the discussion yeah we're gonna go yeah can we go in there no and do it in 10 minutes can we can you give me a 10 minute break oh no I'm like I think it's gonna take a little more longer than 10 minutes to have that discussion sorry I didn't I didn't understand you can have a 20 minute break no no no I might not even eat him but anyway okay do we need to move to take a break and move to go into executive we need to move to going to Texas sensor do we Okay um I'll make a motion to go into executive session I want to say at eight o'clock yeah okay all right you only have eight minutes it's all right all in favor all right motion carries volume to zero six minutes okay not me
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to have the new people here um so welcome to the June 15th meeting of the Ann Arbor renters commission um the can you hear me I can hear you I just lost the hold on okay okay here we go right yeah Cynthia okay great gotcha um so the the purpose of the renters commission is to advise the city council and the city administrator in matters affecting renters in our city the Ann Arbor renters commission is made up of voting members who are appointed by the mayor and approved by city council we have some new members joining us today uh two non-voting city council Liaisons council member Regina and councilmember Harrison and one non-voting liaison to the uh housing and Human Services Advisory Board I believe that position is still vacant it's from hhsib the human the housing and Human Services Advisory Board to us and then there's two non-voting members representing different landlord perspectives um and a non-voting representative from the University of Michigan Student Legal Services Gail Rosen who can't be here tonight so to speak to speak during any of the public comment opportunities you will be able to speak through the webinar link or by phone for phone access please call 877-853-5247 meeting ID 935-8080-19451 that's uh 935-8080-1941 to be called on to speed callers must press star 9 if listening by phone or use the raise hand feature if you're calling through the web link and the web link is a2gov.org forward slash renters commission meeting that's a capital r c m so renters commission meeting and you'll be called upon by City staff and um you will have uh three minutes to to make your public comments and you will be reminded when there's 30 seconds left if you're you're coming as well so moving on to roll call that's item number two as we go through the roll call since a lot of us don't know we at least the new members and vice versa uh I think it'd be good if we first of all you have to say where you're calling from say your name and if you could give a brief introduction uh all those you know you can mention if you were just appointed or if you hold one of those positions the specific positions like I mentioned or if you're representing a landlord perspective for example or a tenant perspective so one more time that's where you're calling from introduce yourself and what your perspective is here so I'll go down the list um commissioner Chen is not here commissioner Peterson hey folks Lucy calling from Ann Arbor uh Vice chair of this commission and I'm a graduate student at University of Michigan if we're giving quick intros s welcome commissioner Kelly hello I'm here uh calling from Ann Arbor uh just a general commission member uh my background is in public health I'm a public health professional welcome commissioner droppleman hi I'm Bob droppleman I am one of the non-voting landlord Representatives we are I am a small very small uh uh landlord uh uh in terms of units rented um and I also work in it welcome commissioner else who is absent today uh the commissioner Jordan else is the other landlord representative on the commission um oh yeah go ahead Bob uh just wanted to also say that I'm calling from Ann Arbor um commissioner Lowe's uh hi Jeff Lowe's uh I am a commission member I'm a high school teacher and I live in Ann Arbor welcome Jeff commissioner Tibbetts hello I'm Jamie I'm calling in from Ann Arbor my background is in social work and I am a current graduate student at the School of Social Work welcome Jamie commissioner Rosen gets Gail Rosen that's the representative from U of M Student Legal Services she can't be here tonight close enough and then commissioner Ratcliffe hi I'm commissioner oh sorry I'm rosinita um and I'm calling in from Ann Arbor um my background is in education and in visit disability Justice and Social Services we're very very happy to have you here uh commissioner Thomas good evening everyone my name is Arthur Thomas I'm calling from Ypsilanti I'm currently uh temporarily off work from the city of Ann Arbor's Park and Recreation and thank you for having me thank you for being here I love parks and recs that's that's awesome um commissioner Pitts well you are muted uh we still can't hear you actually there you go okay I'm so sorry uh can you hear me now yes okay all right Perfect all right my name is Kim I'm from Ann Arbor I'm absolutely new uh so just trying to get the fill of things right now um I guess I represent for the residents uh the housing I live in housing and um I do housekeeping done that for a few years um kind of transitioning into gardening now so I'm a big Gardener for um the property that I live on okay it's lovely and um do you go by Kim um I like Kimberly Kimberly yeah yeah now I I think we started off we had a conversation in the very beginning of the commission about whether we're going to call each other commissioner so and so or if we can use first names and I think everyone was okay with first names but if you do prefer to be referred to by your title just let me know and uh we'll try our best to do that totally fine um commissioner good hi I'm Colin in from Ann Arbor um I have a background this is my first meeting I have a background in non-profit work and did a handful of years as a tenant advocate welcome okay council member Regina hi everybody uh I apologize for being late I was coming from another Community event with council member Harrison um I am council member Dina one of the council Liaisons to uh the to the renters commission Travis is fine um and I represent the third Warden Council which is uh kind of from campus out to Southeast Ann Arbor um and Welcome to our new Commissioners I'm so excited for all of you to join us and and participate in the conversation in the dialogue thanks wonderful councilmember Harrison I I think I saw you in a car so if you're not able to talk right now that's okay we can come back later I can I can no it's okay I I go in the car coming back from an event though is that with with council member Regina so hello I'm calling in from Ann Arbor I'll be on camera soon I'll be home shortly um I represent the First Ward and um really really excited to see our new Commissioners on tonight I love the diversity um we're off to a good start here so that's uh that's great and and Welcome to our to our new uh Commissioners thank you for being here thank you it's second all that thank you everyone for being here um my name is Zachariah um I'm currently the chair I'm also um just a tenant in town I live next to the VA hospital and um so I'm obviously you know calling I'm representing a tenant perspective um I work as a research assistant at the local Cancer Center um but obviously I'm quite involved with the ventures issues in the city I look forward to working with all of you and um before we begin um I see that yeah we would just go right to the approval of the agenda next but before we begin I just want to say a few things um I think if for the people who are new you can always ask questions I might not necessarily know the answer to it but I will defer to Travis or to Kristen and they will probably know the the answer so it's always okay to ask questions that's not just the new people it's for everybody um it's okay to not know who's voting and who's not at first you know we're all learning here and um um if there's a if ever a situation arises where you feel like you know you you're not sure about you feel like a discussion went it was a bit implied or you know you weren't happy with how somebody would talk to you or whatever let's we got to figure these things out so you can always email me about anything with questions if any concerns conflicts whatever you have my email you have my phone number text me call me anything and we'll figure it out so I want to make you all feel as welcome as possible okay thank you I might also just note I I know also Cynthia may have all of the answers as well I know that she talked to several of you uh the new folks as you were thinking about joining so um she is also a wealth of knowledge yes I second that I second that absolutely um so we move on to the approval of the agenda now just as a reminder and for those of you who weren't here at our last meeting in may we weren't able to meet a quorum so in order to host these meetings we have to have at least six voting members present um if we don't have that then we can't hold an official meeting um which means we can't make decisions on behalf as as the commission um and another thing to mention before we get started here uh is that these meetings are broadcast on uh CTN so that means that people can access them online or on TV I think it's it's still Public Access TV great so uh you know just be aware that people can see you and there are common they're Spectators on right now attendees so um at a last meeting we didn't meet Quorum so we weren't able to hold an official meeting um so when we when we start going to like the approval of minutes which is item number five we will be not approving last meeting because we didn't really have it like for May but the the one before for April so let's get in the first one is approval of the agenda item four um do we have a motion to approve the agenda before us okay okay I saw resonita first so move by rosnita do we have a second seconded okay seconded all right so we have a motion to approve the agenda um before we go on vote on the agenda there are I have a few suggestions for the commission um it's up to all of you but I think it would be good if we postponed a couple items here to our next meeting since the our agenda is getting a bit long here uh let's see 7- D and 7-e those are two things here it's liaison to the we would be choosing a liaison to hhsib which is another city board and the second one officer elections it's where we elect the chair and the vice chair I think we should wait one more month so our new members feel more comfortable and they know the commission and if they want to run for those positions they'll be able to do so uh so if anyone is interested in postponing those two things you could make a motion now I'm I'm I think a motion that we delayed that until next time okay motioned by Arthur do we have a second for that second by Jamie okay so now we'll vote on taking postponing those things moving those off of our agenda all those in favor say aye all right all those opposed to postponing say nay okay with that the agenda is amended so now we have this amended agenda before us now we vote on whether or not we adopt this as our agenda sorry for all these steps here but it's important I've been assured uh so all those in favor of adopting the amended agenda say I okay all those opposed say nay okay so we have our amended agenda before us it's the same as the one that you received just minus uh seven Dash D and seven Dashie okay next we can move on to are there any questions about what just happened there before I move on no no great okay now we can move on to approval of minutes that's um item five this is approval for April's minutes if that's correct yes um so do we have a motion to approve the last official meetings minutes well I have a question about that for those of us who are new should we abstain from voting on the approval of those of those minutes it's a good question I don't think you need to abstain I believe you can vote on that but yeah you can this is sorry this has come up in in other meetings it's always a little a little awkward uh because yeah you haven't but you can always check them for like any clear errors or things like that we generally you would be allowed to vote on them often folks who weren't here don't move or second them just because they don't feel comfortable with that but you can't move them yes yes thank you I will motion to approve thank you Jeff do you have a second I'll second by Arthur great all is in favor of approving last minute last meetings minutes say I I all those opposed a name okay with that we approved our last meetings minutes for April now we get to item six which is our first general public comment session Kristen would you like to leave that from public comment comment disowned by calling 877-853-5247 or 888-788-0099 entering meeting ID 935-8080-1941 for anyone who is attending the zoom meeting you can use the raise hand feature um to raise your hand and be called on to speak and anyone who has common impressed scar 9 to raise your hand you'll be want to speak you can address the renter's commission for active clean amounts here [Music] I didn't know what that is okay so we can move on to item seven and that's all of our business things we have to discuss the decisions we have to make uh we'll start with 7-a which is a presentation from the Human Rights Commission which is another commission in the city government I recognize Leslie hello very nice to be here and I am here with Linda Winkler and the two of us hi everybody thanks for having us yeah we're here because we see the potential of partnership we do things very similarly we're going to talk a little bit about what we do and how we do it and hopefully you will also see opportunities and when there are when opportunities come we will have a bond already and that's why we're here so let me begin can you uh share I'll share my screen I guess is what I'm doing from beginning can you see it no not yet good because I can't somebody has to say share a screen and I haven't done that and I don't know I don't have an opportunity to do that oh you haven't set as a co-host so you should be able to be able there um right don't it's not a share screen with it okay um I don't see any opportunity to do that let me go back to the zoom aha here it is okay now can you see it yes yes thank you wonderful that's just luck okay the Human Rights Commission one of the things that you know what you should know about us is that we have for years does very little work with rentals and housing and all of a sudden from about 2000 2001 we 2021 we have gotten a lot of complaints and we are learning um okay human rights protections are at every level of government as I'm sure you know um for housing at the federal level there is there is the um Fair Housing Act there is and there are and there are hug rules in the state we've got um Elliot Larson civil rights law in the city we have a number of ordinances that have to do with civil rights foreign our Ann Arbor non-discrimination ordinance is one of those it's our main ordinance and we're responsible for enforcing that ordinance the ordinance establishes 26 um protected classes starting with age and going all the way to weight and alphabetical order the ones that are highlighted in blue are ones that are special to the Ann Arbor human rights to the city of Ann Arbor age arrest record color disability for example all these that are just white are also protected at the state level by Elliot Larson educational Association ethnicity family responsibilities um government ID cards Etc the ones that are in blue are just available because they're in the Ann Arbor ordinance reinforce all violations of all of these in housing practices in public accommodations Employment Practices and other kinds of practices that have the effect of discrimination of one of the protected classes and housing we predict discrimination of that sort on all aspects of the Rental process the renting itself the pub the publishing of uh of available housing rule setting the terms and and policies that people have you know that people have to practice when they're renting terminations or evictions um we do a fair amount not that much so far based on most of those protected classes um there are we get that we we have had them we can talk about what they look like what they you know what happens to them but many times those are cases that can go also because they're protected by state law they could also go to Michigan Department of Civil Rights or um the Bearer fair housing center of Southeast and Mid Michigan and they have more um because they're working with state laws they have more opportunities and can deal with bigger issues so but we can refer them and we often do to those groups what we're getting now is our complaints about source of income that's this is a new one and this is probably our biggest um source of complaints around housing source of income source of income has been on the Ann Arbor ordinance for probably since its Inception um maybe even before 1970 1978 but it never had a definition and no one knew what to do with it and it was hard to enforce we started getting complaints about what looked like source of income issues and we inquired and found out that because we didn't have that there wasn't a good definition of it in the ordinance for example and and guidance in the ordinance that it was hard to um to enforce so we offered we wrote a uh an amendment to amend the ordinance with a good definition and here is the definition source of income basically it's more complicated than this but basically what it means is any source of income paid directly to an individual derived from any lawful profession or occupation any contract agreement loan or settlement alimony for example child support any benefit or subsidy program including housing assistant Assistance or housing Choice vouchers and of course that's where we're getting the most um complaints about um there was also we knew that that landlords were asked for um for evidence that person who was renting had three times the value of their month of monthly rental assistance since assistance is income and people with vouchers couldn't always do that there's a statement in the in the ordinance that says any qualified assistance program shall be treated as income in the amount of three times the value of that monthly rental assistance so that is also covered by the ordinance no person shall fail to account for any tenant or prospective tenant's entire source of income that includes that three times that the voucher amount when using a financial income standard for entering into renewing a tendency um so that is basically source of income it is it is landlord saying if you don't make enough money if you don't have a job that gives you this much income we will not accept you or we will not accept vouchers even when you know when the voucher could in fact be used as source of income for your rent we had a second we have a second um ordinance that we also enforce and it is called fair chance access to housing ordinance this came about because we had people coming into the commission explaining that in Ann Arbor it was almost impossible to get housing if you had um a felony on your record even if that felony was years old even if that felony was minor and had nothing to do with housing um we started to look at it because you know you want felt you want people who have been in prison and have served their time to have a second chance we did research we found out that in fact there was no evidence that people who had this kind of background or any any poor um renters than anybody else people did not landlords were not um were not liable for renting to a person with a background of a felony and that this was the fair thing to do to say that in fact if you have a felony or the landlords can't ask whether or not you have them it prohibits landlords from using criminal history in the tenant selection so people with criminal records have a fair opportunity to compete for rental housing this is a new ordinance and it it requires that this poster be a company you know request you know advertisements for open rental and it and for any housing provider that's got an office or someplace where people come it should be shown there at all also um so we're doing those things um we know that you'd probably see renters a lot who come to you with complaints if the complaints have to do with this kind of thing you probably should send them our way we we we talk to those people we mediate we uh informed the landlords of the law and if we can't do anything we help the we we we find a way to help solve this problem um we can we can mediate we can refer it to the City attorney we can talk to people who have attorneys already um people can use this law to get Fair a fair outcome so that's what we do um so if you find somebody if you have people who come to you and have this kind of a problem please send them to us um we are very committed to fairness and renting and if there are ways that we can help you please let us know Linda do you have anything you want to add to this I'm afraid I lost connection there for a little while I didn't hear I yeah I didn't hear everything you said okay um I I do want to clarify one thing and you may have clarified it no that when I exited after I exited um that it's not just uh the fair chance access to housing ordinance applies to anybody with any criminal background history at all so um a landlord cannot um cannot require any background check and if they happen to become aware of any criminal background information they can't use it as a reason to deny somebody um uh as a reason to not rent to somebody um and we have had a fair number of complaints under that ordinance which I don't know if Leslie mentioned was just passed in 2021 maybe a year and a half ago so it's relatively new and um yeah there's an education piece that still needs to be happening with with landlords although the city did send to every registered landlord um notice of this new ordinance so they should have it um uh so we have received a number of complaints under that ordinance generally all that's required is for us to call and say hello this is the Human Rights Commission calling um we understand that you are still doing background checks or that uh it's typically that they're doing the background checks um and that do you know that there's a law in Ann Arbor now that says you're not permitted to do that and sometimes landlords are surprised by that maybe they didn't read the notice that that the city sent um but we haven't had any instance where uh they say well I'm not gonna I'm not going to comply with that you know we don't know for sure whether with the next tenant that comes along they do the same thing and the Tenant doesn't know to contact us um but that's what we do and so far we haven't had really any pushback on that similarly with source of income because the definition was only recently clarified and expanded on there are still I think quite a few landlords in Ann Arbor who don't know that they are not permitted to say to a potential tenant I'm sorry I don't accept housing vouchers um and In fairness to them um really until even just a month or two ago the Ann Arbor Housing Commission that um that kind of oversees a lot of the voucher programs made it sound as though on their website as though opting in was optional they've since corrected that and they have a link to our ordinance and they're now telling um telling landlords that no it's not optional you have to you have to accept vouchers now vouchers don't always cover the rent landlords are free to to charge what they want um and sometimes you know the vouch is just not going to be enough um that that's complicated uh a complicated system that I don't I don't pretend to understand but um we do sometimes call Jennifer um oh help me Leslie sorry hall right at the Housing Commission yeah um for assistance on these things when they arise um and yeah so I mean in general I guess we're here just to say you know if you get wind of anybody who feels that they're being discriminated against under any of those categories they should go to our website file a complaint you can just submit it online it's very simple uh there's a section for the non-discrimination ordinance and a separate a separate complaint for the fair chance access to housing ordinance um and if we can help we usually will send them somewhere um to some other resource where hopefully they can get help and similarly we've actually received calls before you guys existed about issues that really are in your purview now and we didn't have anywhere to send them to um and maybe now we can um uh we received a a call Reese not that long ago from a mother of the student who was uh renting at one of the new fancy apartment buildings who said that the landlord was um was basically providing a carrot and a stick saying if you don't uh re-up you know a month I was maybe within weeks after she moved in I'm going to raise the rent more for next year as a way to get around the the you know the new rules that are in place um I did tell I think Travis about it just uh hopefully it got to you I'm sure it did um but you know so hopefully we can partner and um because we we get all kinds of housing complaints many of which we really can't help with if they don't fall under one of these ordinances so I think that's it do you have any questions um I had a couple of questions the first one about accepting a Housing Voucher so then I just moved back to Ann Arbor during the pandemic so some of this is newer to me for Ann Arbor so does this mean that that if someone has a voucher and they go to someone or an apartment complex that previously didn't rent to Section 8 um holders or tenant-based voucher holders that now that landlord has to sign up to be oh a landlord and go through the inspection process and all that correct correct yes correct um and I should I should add that under our ordinance under both of the ordinances actually people have the option of filing a complaint with us or they can bring a private right of action with a lawyer um and there is now pending a lawsuit at least I think it's still pending the the law clinic um at the University of Michigan brought a suit against a um a landlord management company in town that was refusing to accept vouchers so they're choosing to go the you know the the the court route and and I'm sure that's putting all the other landlords on notice we'll see what happens with that case but yes in answer to your question they do have to jump through the Hoops that are required to accept vouchers now which I think does mean a a another inspection and filling out forms um it doesn't though mean that they have to charge a rent that um that is low enough that the person with the voucher can afford to live there um so they can you know charge what they want okay thank you and my second question um goes to the background checks best just a criminal history background check right so you still can do a credit check right correct given what's happened ever since we've had the eviction moratoria right and there's been such an increase in cases in the um was it the tenant courts I just called the eviction Court um for a number of individuals since that money that we did have is starting to run dry and there right and people do get evictions on their records is there anything to protect or help them when trying to attach to new housing in the city you mean because they have that infection right because they have been noticed even if everything got paid off it could still be that they have that notice you know you'd have to ask a lawyer about that I'm afraid I don't I don't know of any way that we can help with that what do you think Leslie not yet but we can look into it I don't I don't know yeah um I was just thinking about the future because of yeah no that's a good question right now now it is a good question we'll look if that was it for me thank you thank you thank you those are really good questions and I see um Arthur's hand raised the question is if you were to find that a landlord is intentionally trying to charge more just to avoid the voucher system and what what what is in place to correct that with that landlord do you mean with one person he's saying that it's more expensive than it really is right just to avoid having to deal with the voucher because like you just said previously uh a landlord can charge what he wants so if he has let's use a thousand dollars for instance to get in but once he find out that this person has a voucher and he decides okay well now the rent is 1500 to avoid having to accept that person with the vouchers if we can show I think Linda you'll let me know if that's true I think if we can show that that the landlord then rented it the place for the original price it's starting to look like discrimination and we can do something about it I mean it's a case it would have to be made is that true Linda if that sounds right to me I mean we haven't encountered it um uh you know I'm not sure we haven't encountered it I just know in my conversations with Jennifer Hall basically you know landlords can charge what they want but they can't charge they can't charge what Leslie's saying they can't charge more because to get rid of somebody and then lower the rent again you know that that would be clearly um uh discrimination on the base as a source of income um uh it's a it's a great question um and I don't know if it's happening it might be but no one has brought it to our attention if you if you get any you know if you hear that it is let us know yeah foreign thank you another really good question thanks Arthur and I have some questions I guess to begin I think what you're hitting on there is that like it's it's yeah well I guess one reaction to what you've just said I suppose is that it might be really difficult to determine what the landlord's reason is for offering the price that they're offering so even if they offer more and it could be because they don't want to take someone with a voucher it's almost impossible to prove I would assume so one question I have is how are you aware of any system to try to test for that like any sort of auditing system yeah or do you do that yourselves one of the reasons that that fair housing house is so good is that they 'd Shopper kind of kind where they then they have a slew of people who've been trained to act as though they are you know going to do this renting for example and we'll see if everybody is treated the same and for some of these kinds of questions that is the best way to find out if somebody is doing that the other way is to find out again you know again if you for example have gone to a um tried to rent a place and they were told that the place has already been so you know it's just been rented and then you somebody somebody goes the next day and finds out that it's not been rented you you started you start amassing circumstantial evidence which we can confront the landlord with the more you know I mean you start coming up with a case and a landlord and uh and the Human Rights Commission or an attorney could use that information to try to get um recompense thank you and that's the fair housing center of Southeast and Mid Michigan right okay gotcha and they also do these activities for local laws as well it sounds like now only when node has the fair housing act and I'm just looking in their little brochure now I think there are um I I'm not sure I'll have to look at the current lawsuit to see whether because they were the ones that sent it to the law clinic and I don't know if they did a little bit of testing themselves on this um or maybe they didn't need to because it was so blatant um and the landlord was just saying no I'm you know I'm not going to take vouchers I don't I I should know but I don't know if if the Fair Housing Act um or federal HUD law you know has these source of income kinds of protections yeah I don't know about source of income I feel like they do I think I've read that somewhere in which case I think the fair housing center could do testing but I'm not sure about that but we have no you know we're like you we're a bunch of volunteers zero resources and and we're just not set up to do testing like that um it would be really nice especially when we get like race discrimination claims it's it's so hard to prove when you're not without that you really need that and fair housing will absolutely do it in a sort of race discrimination kind of case and we often refer cases to them and they're great okay thank you and I if you haven't been in touch with representative Jason Morgan who's sponsoring legislation in the state level to ban sorts of income discrimination great okay I just want to make sure because I think if you have any insight that I'm sure they'd love to hear from you um and then just last question we'll move on from me anyway um the you mentioned that landlords can't obviously discriminate based on source of income but uh sounds like they can still discriminate based on your overall income is that right so if you don't have enough income uh you know even if following the rules that you mentioned with the three times if it's if it's through a voucher for example they can still deny you know he's done that that's my understanding yeah but they have I mean if their rule is that it has to be three times the yeah then they can't because the rule has to apply to everybody equally right right okay so they can still have rules based on the amount of if they say you have to make a million dollars a month and you don't yeah are you asking if like if someone if the rent is you know fifteen hundred dollars and a person has a voucher if if the person has to make forty five hundred dollars or if the person just has to have the 500 because that's because the 30 is their portion of the rent um if they how much what were you talking about I did a bigger number normally um because before here I was living in DC and to see in DC would give like a really nice poster that was like really easy to understand and so it's like um say the love number um if the rent was say 300 a month right I mean it's a hypothetical extremely hypothetical but rent was 300 a month you have a voucher you and your income level is you know if you have a hundred dollars a month but you have a voucher which covers that other two-thirds then you are you qualify because three times the income is met with that voucher right correct um is that what you were asking or are you asking if the rent was like you know eight hundred dollars and all you had including the voucher was three hundred dollars um I guess I was just asking about General requirements for what your income has to be in order to to rent some place so I'm I apologize I got a little lost in the numbers but yeah so I was just wondering you know can they lay down rules based on saying if if uh you don't make a certain amount then you cannot rent here and they'll take into consideration the vouchers and triple that and all that stuff you know I mean yeah anything that that can't that can't be you know pinned as discrimination based on having a voucher you know that's particular to the person with the voucher would probably not be something we could touch these are um yeah but it gets congratulated over the vouchers and we do often have to go and ask legal services or ask Jennifer Hall you know what about the situation situation yeah just the reason why I ask is because I think I've run into a few situations where the parents of a student are abroad and aren't able to give the income or aren't able to really deal with the people the paperwork but they still require the student renter provides the income amount in order to rent there and I was wondering if that was actually allowed or not um no it's it's actually not I mean right Leslie puts a definition up I mean if they can get the money from the family is that what you're asking it doesn't have to be the students it can come from any Source yeah I think there was an issue with yeah okay yeah so long as it's filed in with my parents okay okay and that's what source of income is it's money is money yeah it specifically says a gift too yeah so okay yeah right yeah so okay that makes sense thank you all right um moving on to Lucy yeah thanks it's really great to have you both here really love the presentations yeah I hope we can keep collaborating I wanted to ask two questions one is you said that um you've received a lot your housing has taken up a lot more of your attention in recent years and I was wondering if you had insights on why that is and then my second question uh with the fair housing act it seems like the enforcement is going really well and that Human Rights Commission that's kind of your purview and that there's good systems for that we've had a bit more trouble with enforcing some other tenants right stuff so I was wondering if you could tell us what how why and how you've been effective at that oh I don't know if I don't know how effective but I mean we actually think there should be way more I I will answer your first question and the reason we have more is I think because of the source of income being redefined and um kind of out there in a way that even though it's been in our ordinance for years people weren't aware of it and landlords were were able to uh just say no we don't accept hasn't vouchers this is all brand new so there's a learning curve which involves these complaints and then educating the landlords and the same is true for the fair chance access to housing and not being able to do criminal background checks because that too is new so I think that explains why we're getting more um because those are the two categories that we're seeing more of the the other thing I think is two things one is that we we are working with professionals who know more than we do and who we can turn to for help um so that we've got buy-in before it's passed um secondly we have extra buy-in with this poster for example and we've circulated the poster and the idea with people who are returning from prison and their forming a a group of support for this kind of thing telling people who are out of prison arming them with the information so that they go to the landlord already prepared for somebody to ask them so that they can say see you don't have to well you can't no you don't can't that's right that's right you can't thank you so much Julia yeah um I think it just really helps you know having the fair housing um Center and it would be great if for General tenants issues there was an equivalent non-profit that could um pick up and address the problems and had a team of um attorneys because in Fair Housing law you can sue for attorney's fees and that's much more difficult in general tenant cases um and Zechariah I don't know if that was all clarified for you if there's something I could clarify more I did work on fair housing for a number of years in Chicago much thank you Julie if I have any I may follow up with you on that he doesn't make sure I'm crystal clear on it but I don't want to take up the commission's time so are there any other questions could I have one more thing I did take a look at your your good website I mean for a new commission it's got a it's got a lot of good information on there and I went to the tenant resources page um and you do very nicely talk about how if you feel like you've been discriminated against um contact the Human Rights Commission be great if you could add a separate blurb about the fair chance access to housing ordinance uh and with a brief explanation about it you know about landlords not being able to do criminal not being allowed to do criminal background checks and if they do or they're insisting on it or they use any information about your criminal background to deny you a rental then file a complaint and Link our page again so if somebody wants to just add that that would be great thank you Linda I I just made a note here and we'll bring it up at the we have this tenant Education meeting um where we usually talk about how to educate tenants through our website among other ways and I'm sure we'll talk about it there and make sure that's added and thank you Kristen for all your help with with the website thank you to everybody who has helped I'm very happy to hear that yeah okay any other questions I just have one go ahead my only question is we we are talking strictly about Ann Arbor right Ann Arbor is the only one that falls up under that umbrella that's right okay okay no no yeah we do we have to turn people away all the time they think they live in Ann Arbor but then but our non-discrimination ordinance and the fair chance access to housing only applies to the city of Ann Arbor yeah yes all right thank you thank you okay anything else all right and what's the best way to get in contact with the two of you the rest of the commission we can provide email address we put it is there a way for us to yeah um don't see a chat things there's not a chat I'll connect to you okay Christian I saw you just I'm muted I'm happy to send that information out okay great thank you so much for having us yes thank you thank you very much for your presentation it was much appreciated take care bye thank you both bye okay wonderful I really appreciate that presentation um and uh with that I think you know if you have any questions I guess directed to two of them um and Kristen's gonna share that content information so you can move on to 7-b uh zoning housing sustainability presentation and discussion that's a consultant from planning services so Megan I understand is going to present to us hello welcome hello thank you for having me um just want to give a little background on the project and who I am and and whatnot and thank you so much for having us here um my name is Megan mass and minakum with Carlisle Wortman Associates we're an urban planning consulting firm that's here in this that's located here in the city um and a lot of our staff live in the city um and we were asked by the city planning staff to work with the Planning Commission to look at zoning downtown and premiums and what they incentivize um a presentation and a report were in your packet but before we dive into that I wanted to give a brief one-on-one on zoning and um also on how premiums work um so if anyone is an expert in zoning I'm going to apologize right now um for the next five to ten minutes um I recognize that not everybody is as enthusiastic as about as I am um so just want to have everybody on the same page um so zoning is an ordinance in your City that says what can happen on a piece of land what use inside a building or on the or on there so I rated my kids Lego box so this is say this is a piece of land and then it says where a building can go on it and how big the building can be and then um also once it's on it where the yards can be so how far it would have to be set back from from a from a property line and what Ann Arbor has done since the 1960s has said in our downtown we want to incentivize some things so we've always offered extra building blocks if you will so that's the reason I use the Legos and this you're going to hear me say far a lot and that's Florida area ratio and a hundred percent far is like with this where the Lego is completely the building completely covers the lot so this is 100 far but then it doesn't have to be the developer or the Builder they can put these blocks any way they want um as long as it complies with other requirements that the city might have in order to get things that the city can't require the first one was pedestrian amenities so that's 100 far what they've done is they've offered extra building blocks so more far so then you got more far for providing something to the city um usually not that much and I'll go into a little bit more about that but does anybody have any questions about what zoning is and how these bonus fars work that are called premiums well great I'm so glad that my children like to use Legos and then Kristen um I I can share my screen yes okay I am good here all right can I get a thumbs up or a nod yes okay great um and then I am going to just click over here so um we're on the cover page right downtown zoning and then um excuse me I just want to make sure I'm in the right place okay and then we'll go down to a team the team we're gonna no that did not go ah there you go so do you see team introduction team and project introduction um yeah thank you um so uh just went went over that briefly but we've been working with the Planning Commission um for a number of months now um and then if you're interested in looking at all the materials um there was a link to that page in the report that was given to you and all our reports with a lot of data behind them um are there and I'm going to hit the highlights of what we've done um is um but tonight want to go over current premiums what they are what our research was and what the assumptions are of the planning commission based on that research what their goals are and they asked us to come to you to ask you for your opinions on two policy options that they're looking in and of course at the end we would say thank you so current premiums um so those are those building blocks remember this is what they offer building blocks for um is Affordable residential units and this is the D1 or D2 districts only so that's in the downtown districts um and I'll have a map for that in just a bit later there's also um and those are three tiers and the percentage is dependent on the percentage of affordable affordable housing dwelling units provided and that's where people have to um work with um Jennifer at the Housing Commission and then um they get permit they they they work through that system and sometimes it's developer Pro the developer providing those units and sometimes they can pay in lieu um also there's Green Building so if anybody is lead is a certification that's been internationally known for over a decade now and you basically a building or a site gets a different score to that's what you can see is 50 100 and 250 percent with silver gold and platinum um these are things that the city can't require due to state law um State the energy code and the building code are set at the state level so these are things that the the city can't require whereas if you go to California or some other states individual cities change their building codes in order to get in order to require some of these things historic preservation also was one where they gave 50 far so 50 of that lot um that pedestrian amenity amenity that's been since 1966 um and they have a complicated they have a formula of 10 square feet to with a maximum of 8 000 square feet so we're making everybody do math there's definitions of what an arcade is in our Plaza and also incentivizes public parking and that's in the D1 District only when I see one those are where the tallest buildings are so where it's the most dense um and that can get up to 200 percent when the parking is available to the public I'm not going to necessarily go through all of these these the D1 D2 are the districts that we're talking about tc1 is along traffic corridors C1 and C2 and R4 are near around the downtown um and this shows where they're allowable by right where the they allow bonuses and where there's a maximum height um and the message really that we want you to take away from this slide is that in that tc1 you can see and those are outside the downtown along major corridors um those buildings could actually be bigger than buildings that are in downtown and when you look at planning and zoning traditionally that's a very odd situation usually your tallest buildings your densest areas are allowed in the downtown um and so that was something that we what we highlighted for the Planning Commission something that they were thinking about in terms of not only maybe changing what the incentives are but then also do we allow more building blocks by right or in the downtown so we were asked to review a number of things in order to help the Planning Commission have context for these decisions number one we went over City plans and policies and those were from 2000 until now we looked at projects in the downtown and when we looked at that we looked at permitted projects that were built sometimes there's a lot of projects that go through and they get that they get approval but they don't get bills or they change in a major way and so when we have you'll see a graph in here pretty soon where it has the number of dwelling units that's the number of dwelling units that were built not that were approved and sometimes those are different we looked at Market data and also best practices in similar communities and we conducted a number of interviews with City staff um some elected officials um also we're interviewing developers non-profit and for-profit right now and when we looked at the premiums and how they've matured over the years as I said the first ones were in 1966 and the things in bold those are big changes the things that are in regular fonts so the things that are in regular font um so in like 1998 1988 definition changes these are things that were minor these are things more that clarified things or added a smaller standard these up here are really big changes so in 1966 that's when the premiums were first introduced so the first time you got you have have optional building blocks in um it was added a residential premium because at that point the city recognized they weren't getting a lot of as many residential units as they wanted especially in the downtown they were getting a lot of office um in 2009 based on um coming out of some Mass planning that they did for the downtown the city changed those incentives to really then look at these kind of what we're calling a large menu so incentivizing affordable housing Green Building public parking historic preservation so that list that I talked about in the beginning that's when that was introduced and then in 2019 um when there was when and context has been provided by City staff was that at 2019 it seemed like development would never end in the downtown that development was going to come no matter what there was lots of people banging down the door and at that point they said you know we really need affordable housing and so they combined that residential and affordable housing premium together because they recognize that over time they weren't getting the affordable housing that they wanted um and Link those two together however what happened um and we can see that as we looked at population changes over time so we took data from esri market analysis so um that's data from a national source and they look at census blocks and so we looked at the census blocks that are in the D1 and D2 and said okay did it change and in 2004 there was a downtown residential task force and they set a goal of a thousand new housing units in the downtown by 2015.
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[Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] I have to make sure pressure there you go hang on I'm going to call this come on I'm going to call this meeting to order for the workshop Thursday June 15th June 2023 at 5 30 pm roll call I'm here Melinda sabraski Charlene Diaz here Fred rushed in here Barbara zarzicki here Sheila Burnett here are you gonna play that nonsense again can you do that no not yet oh this is the workshop see without my little guilt pink things um we're looking forward to this it sure does smell good up here would you come up here and tell us about this please I'm Elena with Chartwells and I brought Stella and Sheila with me tonight we're just going to kind of sum up the year and talk about our new recipes for next fall oh thank you um agenda um like I said we're going to talk about the new recipes and the new programs that are coming in Fall um some of our success stories and some of the results of where we landed this year in terms of meal counts um that's from Bullhead middle I believe um so I thought it was a really cute picture though to include the kids showing appreciation during national school lunch week Anna Elena can you hold on just a second Ethan can you turn her mic up a little bit not not from back there from here with me I should have that's not as bad as we were signing all the contracts you're right yeah it's pretty rough yeah is that louder I could hear you okay but I just wanted to be sure it was on the recording of people in the room could you okay okay the people on in the audience could hear you okay sounds good um can you go there you go um just trying to sum up what's important to you what's important to the students what's important to the community obviously student satisfaction student interaction meeting their needs student voice and then student focused menus these are pictures from the community or from here we have a Desert Valley why don't we have blueberry crisp we made homemade that is the strawberry spinach salad that we also featured blueberry crisp down below you can see it actually plated at Sunrise and then lunch lady Kudos from our team and that I believe is estella's grandson at Desert Valley enjoying mood boost so okay next slide okay so Global eats we have mood boost we have student choice we have Discovery kitchen so now we have Global eats Global eats is kind of the international version of Discovery kitchen so today we're featuring some recipes this was the first time we made any of these so I apologize ahead of time it really trying to play with some of the flavors and we tried to pick recipes that we knew that we could do in the schools and either through samplings or actually featured on the menus so in in your little gift bag we have recipe cards for you so the potatoes are from Italy the Italian seasoned red potatoes the Brussels sprouts which are Kung Pao brussels sprouts there's a lot of Kung Pao sauce so they got a little they're a little dark but we're playing with the you know the brown sugar and the sriracha sauce kind of mix um also we had to scale them down a little bit so um the Cucumber Riata is in the little square strange one that's from India um we're not sure we think that it should be served with like a naan bread or like a warm Pita so that moving forward that's kind of what we'll do um but it it's different it kind of tastes like tzatziki sauce to me but we'll try it and play with it it has cucumbers for cilantro um what else was in there I made it I should remember um yogurt a little green onion some cumin and coriander so it did sit for a couple hours and the big bowl is the Carnitas Bowl it has a shredded pork brown rice um a little side of black beans and then a pineapple salsa so it is kind of a multi-faceted recipe the chips go really good with it actually the chips go really good with the Cucumber Riata so just something different um definitely different flavor profiles so we're hoping that the kiddos will kind of like it some of the recipes are more geared towards the middle and Junior but I think we could kind of play with some of obviously not the Kung Pao brussels sprouts but um something that we can maybe play with flavor profiles for the little kiddos so that's kind of global eats um yep they're they're different um but it's a really cool neat program there's a lot of marketing um stuff that we can get we couldn't get the cute little backpacks so um Sheila as brilliant as she is bootlegged uh the logo on um the tote bags just so that you had something as a takeaway they're really cute actually I really like the tote bags and then she also made the cute little recipe cards so we are very lucky to have you have talented people I do do I am surrounded with it's cute isn't it it really is and if you you are welcome the uh recipes are actually from there's renowned chefs that have owned these different um countries um and so they're the ones that are working with Chartwells and Compass to develop more recipes and the program there's passports for the kids with stickers little luggage tags all kinds of fun stuff and we've ordered everything so we will be well equipped come August um any questions on global eats before I move on okay um this is uh mood boosted Desert Valley we are going to do it at Sunrise Diamondback next year and then Circle back at Desert Valley um these are just some really cute pictures of the kids they really enjoyed it a lot um and they really were very well behaved okay next slide next slide um these are just some more pictures from literally from Desert Valley and them enjoying the swag and here's some more just um a kind of a synopsis of the swag that we got I keep going backwards um okay Discovery kitchen was something that we have been doing and we did start to really ramp up um in really featuring we started in December with the spice classes that we did at Desert Valley and Diamondback and then um in January January was Road road trip we featured a couple of Chicago style hot dog didn't really make a big splash but then in February we started doing um Regular promotions with Discovery kitchen if you want to flip to the next slide February we did a smart snacking with actually carrot sticks and we roasted them and they actually taste like sweet potatoes once they were done so we kind of tricked the kids um so that was fun and then we had contests with the teams as well those that did the the recipes and the Integrity took pictures promoted it used the display like you saw it at Sunrise used with the blueberry crisp and then we had the strawberry spinach salad there were prizes repeatedly we had Sunrise Diamondback Desert Valley Bullhead and Fox Creek all win so it was a slam dunk it really was coyote kind of is a different setup but for the most part they all embraced it and did a fabulous job really enjoyed it I mean we have tons of pictures of them slaving away with measuring all the because they were very complicated recipes and so it was it was really appreciated and the kids really enjoyed it March was a half baked potato very simple the not so spicy rice and beans not such a good hit but we tried it it was good uh the Tangy broccoli and cranberry slaw was a big hit and the roasted Roma potato wedges and the uh with the dipping sauce they did a buffalo ranch which was really tasty the potatoes actually is a very similar profile to the potatoes that we feature tonight very similar we used um so a lot of these recipes were to utilize DOD and brown box so we had a lot of potato wedges so the potato wedges look worked really well may was a spinach strawberry salad with with Citrus dressing that was very complicated yes it was good it was but the blueberry crisp I think out of all of them were the biggest hit hot or cold it was delicious but it was a very complicated recipe so okay for our newer board members actually for any of our board members would you explain what DOD and brown box are sure so the district gets annual entitlement from the USDA in terms of it's based on the number of meals served a couple years prior so it's a large amount it was close to 200 000 I believe this year and so you get the opportunity to order through brown box which is ingredients off of I and actually Brown boxes but they're ingredients that you can get or DOD which is the fresh fruits and vegetables so we pretty much I was living off of what was ordered prior which was a great mix so we kind of split between the two we actually overspent which was good because then it's it's we're over utilizing the dollars that are available or the benefits so it's all good um so the brown box will come in and like potato wedges we had unbreaded chicken fillets really good ingredients which allows us then to use into the recipes into the lunch program and it used to be called commodity come on yeah not called that anymore no um and it's it's a great way to utilize federal funds and offset the cost of the program so instead of the district or us purchasing it from Cisco or outside vendor typically and historically the prices through brown box and DOD are less so it is a savings all around um in a variety in DOD is pretty spectacular and it's all all made in the USA and everything from brown box is also made in the USA which is a requirement of us to purchase American so it helps um you could go to that here's some of the pictures they were posing having fun um enchiladas was a new recipe that we featured that was on the top one at Desert Valley huge hit they did a spectacular job it was a big portion but the kids really liked it so um there's Bullhead with the potatoes in that case she used the real potatoes not the potato wedges and so forth it was it was pretty good um the next slide these are just some Kudos that the schools had had provided the team and then some of the prizes so national school lunch week was in May so Bullhead is wearing their aprons and posing with their cake desert Valley won one of the they all won but she won that they're just posing with their prize from one of the the discovery kitchen and then same with Sunrise so it's kind of cool They all loved it and they loved they love their popcorn and their root floats they had a great time um okay next one so Chartwells has a program called cheers where every month we recognize one of our staff members for going above and beyond and typically we have used all of our you know us Colorado and Mojave but again Bullhead kind of takes the prize so this is just the second semester they uh we had a winner at um Desert Valley in January we had a winner at Fox for February we recognized both drivers Don and Jay in March which are true team members and in April Sam at Diamondbacks so it was a it was a nice second semester for Bullhead and they get a certificate if they get up the the bullhorn and then they get a nice pin for their for their uniform they enjoyed it very much next slide so meals in relation to same number of service days were down as prior year but there was a little less kids in the building so that would equate to it overall participation is up 16 but the actual meal counts were down um so uh you know we're still working at it Fox Creek was the big one because they went from breakfast in the classroom last year to just in the cafeteria so that was a dramatic decrease Junior High kids Juniors think they do not have to eat yep until they get home and then they hit the refrigerator yeah it is really amazing to see how many kids even though it's free just choose not to eat at the junior high level I don't understand um they'll get fat that's what they do yes I'll get that oh that's just that's awful awful um so what's next obviously we wanted to finish a strong uh strong school year and transition into summer which ended today which was was really well participation was was really strong at all the schools we have Kinder Camp starting up July 10th Sunrise Desert Valley and Diamondback and we're ready to go for that we are in the process of really buckling down and planning for next year planning our training planning the catering that is coming up and really we have ads placed for any any positions that we have we have a couple and some floaters so we're really really working hard to get get ready for opening which is just around the corner when you think about it and then also third we'd like to kind of do a little refresh whether it's just some new signage something just to kind of freshen up some of the areas um you know we've done a lot with daily menu signs something simple we've you know we're changing up the colors that the staff is going to wear for next year we've offered purple blue and black so just just little subtle changes just to kind of freshen it up some colored aprons and so forth and that's really it and you're getting a bunch of new a bunch of new equipment it's so Spectacular from our Esser funds because that was one of the things identified when we did the strategic planning for the grants for the uh recovery money and so those things have been ordered Jen's been busy ordering those for for the kitchen so replacement of some equipment and some additional equipment some additional yep and then we're getting ready for the daycare so that's very exciting very exciting Child Care yep yep so so that's really it if there's any questions or comments happy to to answer this isn't the kind of school lunch I had I know it's really it's changed a lot over the years and the you know what the students are more sophisticated their their taste palettes are a lot more than when I was in kid when I was a kid and they're willing to try things too they're you know they're very willing to try things especially anything fruit yes they only eat fruit until the cows come home so they'll try anything fruit and let me take the Brussels sprouts any day yeah and actually the students are really good good I'm glad Diamondback um on the salad bar she was doing watermelon radishes fresh brussels sprouts cut up all these different items and the kids were going crazy over them so um that's a subtle way of kind of sneaking in some new stuff but salad bar at Desert Valley did increase lunch participation and I think it's because the the fruits and vegetables they could take what they want and what they want I'll take the cucumber sandwich too cool it's a little different we are we have been so pleased with the program um uh we've been pleased with it all along but it's been particularly fun uh since Elena came because she's trying all these things and gets the kids uh you know kind of wound up in a good way and um and I know that the crew is really happy working with Elena because I see him smiling lots more than they did for a while and um and then uh if you all recall when we did our strategic planning they did the lunch and it was amazing it was wonderful and I will tell you I've not heard complaints and believe me I would have heard some I've not heard a single complaint this entire year from a kid a kid's parent good good teachers anybody about school lunches and that doesn't mean that they liked everything necessarily but it just means that nothing was such that they felt like they needed to bring complaints to you know to this level so they thank you thank you thank you I we are really blessed to be part of such an amazing team so everybody at all the schools but thank you thank you very much thank you thank you good thank you very nice I wish I hadn't eaten earlier away for just a minute here yeah I'm glad that I didn't eat okay so yeah Lance Lance is going to try to get up for us the there we go and get up those policies okay so uh every year when there are some changes from the legislature asba gets busy making changes in the policies so that we're sure that we're in compliance with the law so uh this is and I will tell you this is a fairly small set but we also know the legislature's not done for the year um so uh so Lance if you'll pull the first one up and this is a chance just for you all to discuss them and whatever the policies are actually on the agenda for first reading tonight so no action uh any regulations or exhibits are not on tonight's agenda there's no point in approving a regulation or an exhibit until the policy is approved so all of those will be on for the July meeting with the second reading um so uh this one has to do with curriculum development and you can see underlined the the the section that they've added and that looks like it's a new law it is it is a new section in that law and really all this is doing is formalizing um this is saying that the curriculum committee which we've had for a long long time that it is just making it formal that the curriculum committee is a governing board required committee and therefore is subject to open meeting law okay I can set up as a superintendent I can have an advisory committee or that kind of thing and it's not subject to open meeting law necessarily but the things that are required in policy so for instance meet and confer those committee meetings are subject to open meeting lawn so we record them seldom to any Outsiders come but you know they're they're open to the same or they're under the same regulations and that's all this is doing is formalizing this process okay got it okay and then this is following up committees you know review uh and art schools pilot programs then they will make a recommendation to the board for a curriculum adoption or textbook adoption and once again uh any of any of those committee meetings are now subject to open meeting law and I think that's the only change I you will know yeah stay right there please you will note that there's some very distinctive things here and these are not new in this law but very distinctive things that some folks have been a little nervous about that you know we couldn't teach let's face it history is is messy human history is messy and um and so there are times when you know when it's appropriate for us to talk about the mess so maybe we don't make the same mess again um and so you know social studies and social studies and history teachers have been a little nervous about the conversations to say well okay you know are you going to restrict us talking about some of those messy times and you can see from this it's very clear that that's not the case okay next one uh each year we submit to you Jen Jen prepares and submits to you our supplemental materials approve approved list and so you can see the changes here and once again the considerations of those are will become with with uh I don't know the specific dates on on these laws but we'll um don't know the specific dates but I know that it's not they become effective 90 days after they are passed by the legislature so I suspect we're getting close to the 90 days at this point and so from now on that particular process will be subject to open meeting law and I will tell you we haven't particularly done it that way we've involved our our principals and our coaches and those things but we haven't we haven't announced it as a public meeting in the past so this will this will result in a change in how in our procedures oh Carolyn are we still using any type of hardbound textbooks or is everything yes oh yes we are yeah and and those have to be on display you know if they're if they're recommended uh if it's an on if it's a a digital kind of um uh supplement or those kinds of things and we're considering those uh then we have to make them we have to have the links to them uh available on our website um for the same length of time we would have them sitting out here in the lobby for instance okay in this one you can see quite a number of changes that have to do with administering medications to students Carolyn I think I don't know if it's can you scroll that let's go down a little bit if it's this one or it's the oh keep going right there on the B see where it says inhaler device an annual written documentation from the pupil from the student's parent and we've crossed out or Guardian yeah and um Fred asked me about that before the meeting and I'll follow up on that we don't do these came straight yeah yeah these came straight from asba but we can certainly ask them because it is yeah because we have lots of Guardians yes we do um yeah and that would make it a little tricky if it's if it just has to be the parent you know and there's a couple spots I think on this particular form that have that have crossed out Guardians so and the other thing Lance would you scroll back up does this one have the little yeah see the little note here about its information purposes only and that we can check with our attorney I'll check first with asba and then I'll touch base with our attorney to see if he's got any other insights into into this um um you all can change policies or you know modify them or whatever as long as you're staying within the law but since most of us are not since none of us here as a lawyer um uh you know it's probably in our best interest to take the word of the attorneys who've been working through these from asba but occasionally we occasionally asba will send us something that as a district as a community has become a standard for us and it's not outside the law it's within the law and so we choose to say I choose to say to you okay consider this this is how this was worked out with board members and community and whatever and it doesn't match what asba is recommending it has been reviewed by our attorney so sometimes you will see that there are minor changes and in some cases bigger changes between what we have in our policy book and in our policies and what might be in other districts policies and vice versa you know the way you can tell if it's been modified by the local governing board is if that c is gone at the top um so or here where you can see where it says uh copyright 2023.
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foreign at this time I would like to call the meeting to order please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States thank you next we have B1 audience with individuals Ms Densmore thank you this is the time for the public to comment members of the board may not discuss items that are not specifically identified on this agenda pursuant to ARS 38431.01 action taken as a result of public comment will be limited to directing staff to study the matter responding to any criticism or scheduling the matter for further consideration and decision at a later date in order to facilitate accomplishing the business of the district in a timely manner a time limit of three minutes will be imposed for each individual or group addressing the board when you approach the podium please state your name for the record and first we have Janet LeBlanc good evening my name is Janet LeBlanc a few months ago the board voted to purchase sava's curriculum for a one-year period with the intent of researching and pursuing other Publishers as part of that research I would like to recommend that the board take a serious look into this curriculum that is put out by Hillsdale College as you will see by their brochure this curriculum is offered free of charge Yes you heard that right it's free Hillsdale College was founded in 1844 with a mission to provide all who wish to learn the education necessary to preserve civil and religious liberty in America they understood like the founders of our great nation that free government requires independent virtuous and knowledgeable citizens who would not want that for their children what school would not want sound learning for their students well here it is and it's free of charge and please don't claim that this curriculum is too focused on religious views unlike Savas that has CRT and SEL embedded within their curriculum these courses are a true pick and choose option there is no embedding their curriculum offers courses on politics History Literature philosophy and religion economics and Mathematics and Natural Sciences all are A La Carte choices and again it's free please take a further look into this curriculum as a possible Contender for adoption as a free resource this would not only free up thousands upon thousands of budget dollars it would also allow Dysart to start eliminating the strings that are attached to federal grants federal grants hold Dysart Hostage to certain stipulations that don't always live up to Dysart values just like the agreement you are about to enter into in consent agenda item number one this is the time board to make changes for the betterment of Dysart its students and the community as a whole thank you for all you do thank you our next speaker is Mr Larry LeBlanc excuse me good evening my name is Larry LeBlanc the dedicated folks behind me are not the ones that need talking to it is we the people that need to listen to the dedicated moms and dads and qualified Educators and American Patriots who sincerely care about the future of our children and are willing to screen all that is being taught to your very child it's time to come forward in just 20 hours of research of only a few grades Janet and I revealed CRT and negative scl in numerous curriculum books from grades four to six imagine what you well-educated folks will reveal if you take part to ensure sound learning occurs all the time for all of our students the tyrannical Behavior you are seeing today in the media is just a self-imploding smoke screen to keep your eyes off the real fire the fire is in a curriculum be part of the solution by stepping forward with your support your ability to discover wrong and your patriotic Duty to keep this great country on course imagine what your great talents will reveal your support towards your school board and staff is strongly encouraged Don't Be Afraid fear is not from God the United States of America is a great Republic and we the people are not sure are going to keep it God bless America thank you thank you that was it sorry thank you next we will move to item C1 superintendent update Dr Dean thank you madam president members the governing board cabinet in our community we're very excited to announce some things that have happened this summer um and to provide information to our community about a great kickoff uh to the summer which will lead to a fantastic start of next school year I'm excited to let the board know that summer workshop was a success and all the planning that had gone into summer workshop from I guess about October on really came to fruition during the summer workshop week I know that several of our board members had opportunities to um to go through some of our summer workshop sessions and our teachers did a tremendous job not only in working together to refine our curricular standards and to maximize what we do each school day but our teacher leaders did a great job in teaching that as well and so whether it was a second grade math group or a High School PE group or or a high school econ group Middle School social studies group it was great to watch our teachers work together additionally last week our school administrators our principals some of our directors and uh four members of cabinet attended the PLC Institute in Vegas and sessions LED afterwards by Dr croto and just a tremendous way for us to rededicate back to the essence of what plc's are supposed to look like and to really drive that forward for next school year and so I'm very excited about the work that's done and very excited about the team as they move forward and look ahead I would like to let the board know that summer school is winding down for our students and that will be over before we knew it know it additionally next week at West Point Elementary School we will have active shooter training with law enforcement that will be led by our Navy Seals I'm not our Navy Seals but our finest military Navy Seals they will be conducting active shooter training one day at West Point information will be provided to West Point Elementary School Mr musee will actually be talking to the businesses that are right next to West Point Elementary School because it will be very active training and so we won't make people to understand this is a training it's scheduled and it's not live happening so we're very excited about that it's a great opportunity for our school district and after 18 years of coming to and participating in board meetings in this outstanding School District that is my final superintendent update thank you Dr Dean do we have an update from the incoming superintendent Dr crowto how many times I have a new superintendent update I'd like to thank you all so very much and I hope it didn't get in my hair that's right no sincerely thank you it's been my honor to serve this district for the last 18 years and it's been my pleasure to work with each and every one of you very closely this year and um I look forward to your continued successes there are going to be many um Dr Kota will do an exceptional job and um I look forward to being your biggest cheerleader in the community so thank you all very much I mean thank you thank you we will move on to C2 governing board update um I'll start this time Dr Dean sorry Joe I know I'm breaking it up um on behalf of the board in addition to your beautiful confetti that we just gave you we all chipped in and got you another gift thank you you love my wrapping it's beautiful I've got a six month old baby at home sorry well five months almost perfect thank you very much oh goodness um I'll go ahead and finish and then we can all go on I did not make the PLC conference sad face but it looks like sounds like everybody else did and got a lot out of it was great I'm so glad that we got that we had people going it's awesome I was able to attend summer workshop just to tour it and see what was going on and it was awesome it was incredible I mean just to see our teachers who chose to be there who chose to be engaged and I think when I went I was on Thursday so it was later in the week so normally you know later in the week people are like tired and they're kind of you know off task whatever but no everybody was on task everybody was engaged everyone all the teachers that we saw were actively participating in everything so it was absolutely wonderful to see that so and good luck well so this being I'm with Dr Dean I just wanted to thank him for the hard work and dedications he's put into our district over the years and say once again how much I have enjoyed working with him in the various roles he has held during his time in Dysart I wish him outstanding success in his future endeavors as he embarks on his easy peasy dream job with AIA they're going to be awesome and you're going to be missed so thank you so much and we will definitely miss you and look forward to your cheerleading debut um also had the opportunity to attend some summer workshop sessions appreciate the opportunity to go along with Dr crota and Dr assai I would agree with what Miss Schaffen said every room that we went in everyone was just completely engaged and it was just great to see a lot of good things happening over the summer and it was heartwarming just to see how many people were interested in spending their summer just learning more and of what they can do to help our students succeed in the upcoming year so that was great also last week I had the opportunity to attend the PLC conference put on by solution tree the content was great and I think our district team of Administrators came back with some great strategies that they can share with their School site teams I'd also like to specifically thank Dr crotto for his vision as it pertains to the why behind the multi-faceted benefits in attending this conference while the topics presented provided valuable information our district teams can use on their campuses the team building that took place was also a specific goal held by Dr crotto I wasn't sure if I'd be able to attend due to my work schedule but it was very clear that having board members attend and be a part of the collaborative process was very important to him and having attended I can see that he was 100 right Not only was it valuable for me to learn about how plcs would be implemented in our district but it was also refreshing to spend a couple days getting to know our administrators sharing the debriefing that occurred between and after sessions and learn a little more about each other so thank you again Dr crota for Raging this opportunity and seeing the value in positive relationships between the board and administration I sincerely appreciate it all I have I also attended a few of the summer workshops and it was just really nice to hear from many of our educators existing and brand new to the district how much they were gaining from the experience I would also like to especially thank Dr crotto for presenting the workshop concept to our district and I really do think that it's Innovation like this that will truly make our students successful I also attended the PLC conference with our district and site leaders this was an incredible experience for me to be able to connect and collaborate with our principals I believe that collectively we gain different strategies in building a really Dynamic and exciting culture and have renew have a renewed sense of purpose in Student Success um I would also just like to thank Dr Dean for the last little over a year and any and and Beyond because you have been even not in the superintendent role you have been a great support to me as a board member and you will be dearly missed that's it I also attended the PLC conference in Vegas as a new board member I learned a lot it was a great experience I was extremely excited to be there I met a lot of great um principles staff Administration going to the breakout sessions I learned a lot took a lot of notes still going through all my notes I still have my little green book a lot of a lot of things that they went over stuck out to me especially about they were very focused on Student Success academic achievement and I could tell just by coming back in the conference room at the end of the day and collaborating at our at our tables listening to everybody discuss what they've what they listen to and what they learned the enthusiasm in their voice you can hear the dedication on how they want to come back to the district and Implement what they learned so it was very very exciting to hear I was I was very impressed um so I just want to say thank you Dr croto for allowing me to go unfortunately I didn't get to go to any of the workshops but I did take the week off to go to the PLC and it was very worth it so I just want to thank you for allowing me to be there and that opportunity and Dr Dean you are going to be missed I'm going to miss your your one to two minute videos [Laughter] so but thank you for everything that you've done you know I only got to work with you a little a little bit but in that little bit I've learned a lot so thank you and thank you for your support um I also attended the summer workshop and I it was really interesting so thank you so much for putting it together I think it's a great idea especially for the new teachers in the district and I just want to say thank you to all the leaders and the teachers who participated in these workshops I know it's summer and that was very encouraging to see but thank you for your service and Dr Dean thank you for your service to to dice art and AIA is really lucky to have you all right thank you with that we will move on to item D1 I will entertain emotion I'd like to um move to approve the consent agenda items as presented with exception of item E1 moving that to action discussion could we also move 16 also e16 so motion to approve consent agenda items as presented with exception of E1 and E 16 e16 moving both items to action discussion I will second motion carries oh sorry motion carries no I thought I saw it up there okay so we will move on to item F1 Dr Dean thank you madam president members of the governing board cabinet in our community this evening Dr crota and Dr assai will introduce these items I would note to the board that due to an unexpected issue today West Point Elementary School will I'm sorry Kingswood Elementary School will not be presenting this evening they will present at a later time so with that Dr kroto thank you Dr Dean Madam president members of the board we will begin our CIP presentations tonight with Cimarron Springs and the principal uh Miss Ginger Richards Ginger it's all yours foreign president governing board Dr teen and cabinet my name is ginger Richards and I am the very proud principal of Cimarron Springs Middle School I would like to share with you the latest news coming out of Cimarron Springs this year we celebrate our initial results from aasa with increases in ela for grades 6 and 8 and in math for grades seven and eight this shows that the work we've been putting into increasing student proficiency is working in addition to traditional academics we are also celebrating CTE and Spanish in CTE our students enjoyed guest speakers field trips to West Mech and to all the Dysart high schools to visit their CTE programs we are creating a larger room so they have room to grow we are adding different modules that better align with the high schools and support more interest from middle school students in Spanish the Spanish two students went on a real life experience field trip to Rio Mirage where the students were only permitted to speak Spanish once entering the building everyone had a great time they had great food and the staff at Rio Mirage were truly impressed on how well our Spanish two students spoke in addition to academic celebrations we have to acknowledge Athletics and arts in athletics our girls basketball went 11 and 1 and were number one seed going into the playoffs our cheer squad received the trophy for being number one in overall in the district boys basketball received the trophy for being number one in the North Valley Athletic Conference which is a makeup of three districts also we had our very first boys volleyball team thanks to our partnership with Willow Canyon and I see you're wearing their shirt this evening Dr Dean their boys volleyball team came over during our lunch and hosted an exhibition game in clinic to get our boys hyped up for this new sport our band went to the aboda regional and state competition at Regional they received a rating of superior with distinction which is the highest score a school band can receive and at state competition they received a superior ranking but like all schools we have challenges student attendance is one big challenge we can't teach students who aren't there another challenge was our teachers doing coverage for classes that did not have substitutes this causes them to miss out on common prep weekly prep connects and they miss out on having time for data analysis with their teams in addition having teachers out in general hurt students and this year we did have an unfilled position and positions where the teacher resigned or went out on leave I would like to highlight some academic successes though we celebrate our ESS read 180 Lexile scores with an overall increase of 35 percent we are number one in the district for this 8th grade academics we are specifically noting 8th grade as they are the only grade that went up in all subject areas we believe this is because we had a full staff that collaborated well and took ownership of each student and their individual needs to grow in their learning as for academic challenges we need to strengthen our effective intervention time and we need to take a good look in action with our fifth grade academics after speaking with our fifth grade teachers we believe that departmentalizing the fifth grade and having them change classrooms after every class was just too much for our younger students so how are we working on these challenges we are imp we are implementing the PLC structures and collaboration actually we're strengthening those because we have been doing it we know that when teams plan based around the four questions that lessons are more targeted and formative assessments are more frequent we noted a lack of formative assessments this year in grades that lost ground and think that PLC is focusing on the correct level of standard assessing this daily and monitoring and adjusting in real time will get the grade levels that lost ground back on track the next thing we will do is I that we are doing is identifying students for Math and Ela Labs based on the 2223 Benchmark and aasa data there is a need to create guaranteed and viable curriculum and while we can't guarantee that students have mastered every single standard we can focus on getting all to Proficiency in the bulkier ones as such we will identify these in tandem with the district share them with students and parents and have students track their proficiency to Mastery we will then Zone in on these power standards for our interventions to strengthen our intervention tier 2.
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all right perfect sounds good all right it is seven o'clock we will call the meeting to order welcome everyone to the June edition of our school board meeting and we'll begin with a roll call please Kelly Moyer here Greg Meyer here Lisa Schumacher here Tyson search we have a quorum and I misspoke earlier this is actually our public hearing so welcome to our public hearing for June uh baby would like to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance with me please I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States [Music] awesome thank you all right now we'll have our presentation of our fiscal year 23 amended budget yeah it did change from last month to this month a little bit I've had no questions comments or emails regarding it the Ed fund did end in a deficit of 281 736 dollars in the operations and maintenance was also a deficit of 107 540 107 547 um everything else was in the Surplus except for capital projects that one was the big one that was four hundred and three thousand nine hundred and seventy however we did put on a brand new roof for quite the price we actually went up there and uh walked it because it is done and the Middle School roof is beautiful just ready to be used um the Ed fund will end with a but with a balance of 8 million three hundred thousand the O M fund ends with three million seven hundred and eighteen thousand so although we don't like to see a deficit it's not that um extreme in fact we don't need to do a deficit budget summary or a budget plan because our deficit in the operation and maintenance so out of all the funds the Ed fund the O M fund the transportation fund and the working cash fund those are considered the operating funds and looking at those four funds we were only what the state would say sixty four thousand seven hundred and seventy four five dollars in the red when you look at the total fund balances of 17 million 105 000 of those operating funds that's point three percent we were out so I mean it again we don't want to be in a deficit but right now it's not a time to panic but we will keep an eye on it again nobody made any comments this is the first year without the incredible influx of federal Esser funds and so um that probably had a little bit to do with it but that's the presentation it is a public hearing does the public have any comments you know does the board have any comments so just for clarity that the new roof will be it's expected to be a 20-year roof for what's yeah it's it's got a warranty for 20 years and so in 1918 years I would suggest you do the same thing that you just did which was put on that that coating for you know two million dollars we were able to put on a new roof that would have probably cost a full replacement of eight nine million so it's it's a it's a brand new product and it's a white kind of almost a fiberglass so they they lay down a material and then they put down a resin and a fiberglass mat and then they encapsulate the whole thing so on top there's really no seams everything is seamless and it's white instead of the black so it it doesn't track the energy in the summertime and just a really good product there was a product similar to this that they were using before but could not be renewed this one can be renewed every time we did a [Music] right well I'm talking about this one still we we did a scan and we replaced any wet insulation so as long as the roof is solid We're not gonna have that again so if we keep up with it we do have a 20-year warranty so we know this problem is solved for 20 years Mr security saying 18 19 years from now we can actually redo the same thing and just reapply this coating and so this is going to be a cost saving for the district for the next 50 years I mean it's a is a really Innovative and good project and we did the same thing on the Eagle View the Eagle View it was a this was the Big Brother of the Eagle View project but yeah it is something I would recommend we do with the high school as well because they can pretty much replace the roof without taking the HVAC units off without replacing all the curbs because they just I liken it to the Linex that you can put on a truck bed when it's beat up you know you just you spray it's not Linux but that's it restores it back to yeah exactly but it saves the district a lot of money and it's it's really a very Superior product so um Chris and I walked the roof with the contractors and and the inspectors and everything and and uh was really impressive and we had Shea Roofing was the contractor on it and they actually went way above and beyond they even painted all our Stacks so everything just looks nice and I mean they really did a little extra work for us that they didn't charge us for and it really shows on the the craftsmanship was incredible I guess yeah everywhere tangent on that sorry about that but all right any other comments with that I'd entertain any motion to adjourn from our public hearing thank you Andrea do I hear a second yes Andrea Corey yes Helen Boyer yeah Craig Myers yes Lisa Schumacher yes Tyson search yes all right that concludes our public hearing we'll now run into our regular board meeting welcome everyone to our June board meeting and unfortunately I think we do need to do another roll call please in case somebody snuck out in the last two seconds yes Adam pumpkin Andrea Corey yes Billy Moyer here Craig Meyer Lisa Schumacher here all right well can we get in public good have you been a long time very well all right any public comments on this section move on to our correspondence I believe that is do we have any correspondence do we have any all right all right no public comments no correspondence this is going to be a fast meeting all right we'll move on to our consent agenda Mr skirt if you'd be so kind to walk us through that yeah it's our active time of year we've got um seven resignations uh Lauren foreign is halftime art and paraprofessional she's gonna take a full-on time position Don Kessler and RTI 8 I believe she's also going to a full-time teaching position Jeannie Rice Middle School she's not resigning us but she is stepping down from the middle school student counselor co-advisor uh Kelly Christensen that's the Eagle View nurse we'll be going to I believe Giants not Granite City let's call it China City Lucas child's custodian has resigned uh Quentin Spivey has resigned he was the middle school high school business person and the eighth grade assistant baseball coach um we hired him a month or so ago the unforeseen circumstances Megan vartanian is the third grade teacher that we're accepting a resignation for and so those are the resignations we've got support Personnel Jenna Stewart is coming back to us as a paraprofessional Rebecca Weiss also coming back to us is a paraprofessional Tanya voigy East is a new bus driver and Amanda shouldlinhoffer Island stereo nobody communicate better than I my apologies High School library Aid um and then we've got some Employments Olivia Rogers is with us today she's going to be the new um PE teacher over at Eagleview and Caleb Muth is going to be the special ed teacher we do have one leave of absence we got a letter today uh Chloe Alexander she's the middle school cheerleader um she's expecting coach not cheerleader yeah Cheerleading Coach yeah she's not a cheerleader well you said Julie yeah no basically she's gonna uh she's expecting a child and so she's going to be stepping down for this year we're gonna need to find a sub replacement but that is a leave of absence not a resignation to my understanding and then so the vacancies that we have is still an RTI Aid a halftime art teacher um a school nurse a custodian the business teacher we're gonna have to hire again an assistant baseball coach and an elementary uh teacher we also need a middle school cheerleading coach for next year given all of that information the administration recommends that you approve the consent agenda can I ask one question just to make sure that Brad signed the treasures report because it's not signed in our packet so he did sign it he did sign the original perfect any questions comments suggestions concerns all right here none I'd accept a prior to entertainment motion to approve the consent agenda as presented I'll make the motion thank you Tyson do I hear a second Marine seconds roll call please yes yes perfect unanimous welcome aboard so congratulations welcome and thanks for attending tonight it's nice to put a face with him what's his name all right move on to our Communications reports and presentations and rolling report is in your packet it's summer time so we're gonna dispense with our building report our assistant superintendent is Springfield Springfield getting smarter and that leaves us with our superintendents report um our financial conversion is moving along as I told you we had software unlimited and now we're moving to link which uh is going along quite nicely accounts payable will be up and running come July 1st in fact there's been a few purchase orders for next fiscal year as we've tried things out secretaries have entered them they've gone and I've approved them and it seems to be working very nicely the best part about this is it's paperless no more paper POs to be signed varied around it's all electronic all the information's there but you'll get that payroll we're still doing the conversion on that we hope to be up and running with in September so um July August you know the data comes over but then in September it'll be on the new system that's when the teachers are starting their new contracts as well so it will be a smooth transition there um again we're going to be moving to paperless with that where the goal is to start doing all of the leave requests electronically so that there won't be all of this signing and shuffling of papers there either um we do need a special meeting um as far as facilities goes I got today a proposal for the survey of the land at the high school that needs to be done in the survey of the Braum shukoff Park that we're looking at doing some parking with so I need to get those approved and I'd like to do those I couldn't add them to this agenda because I got them today apologies but we I would like to get those approved before July so just so that we could be moving across on that so let me know what your availability next week is I need at least four of you we've also started negotiations everything's going well we've met once but we will go into closed session to discuss that there is no action after closed session stay if you want but there's nothing that's going to be done afterwards um and that's it for the superintendent's report perfect all right move into the business section of our meeting I asked for Action so the first one is the approval of the fiscal year 23 amended school budget yeah the administration recommends the board approved the budget as a presented as we said it was um there were no comments no issues concerns questions really uh and I'd like to get going with the Auditors so approved questions discussions motions whatever you like to make a motion to approve the budget nobody wants to spend money that's good that's a good sign I have a motion do I have a second oh second two seconds roll roll call please Andrea Corey yes yes Kelly Moyer yes Fred Meyer yes Lisa Schumacher yes Tyson search yes Maureen Friedrich yes unanimous again our Item B is the approval of the 2023-2024 student handbook for all schools this is a yearly activity it's a yearly action um we review the IPA they look at the legal changes and make sure that these are the recommendations for the handbook changes and then we go through and look at some of the issues to get more clarity so that those issues are resolved there's always some things that you clean up that are kind of amusing you'll note that we remove the parking privileges for the Eagle View and Parkview students in their handbooks no need for them to be driving to school but uh I'm a Cozy Coupe or something out there you know there's always something that that your day so Administration recommends the board approved those as presented so as we start registration people can see the handbooks they actually were cleaned up very nicely from last year yeah or at least let's have it what am I going to say anything she said very nicely I said they were cleaned up very nicely all right here's the comments suggestions Corrections you guys are lively bunch tonight I actually had something and now I can't find my where I marked it there's something with respect to in all the buildings where kids can't wear coats hats or anything and basically it says in the building well obviously kids can wear their coats to school yes school and they can wear it to the right Locker you can't wear it in the classroom I mean like I think that's the point right yeah that was the only thing it it's not a big deal but it was also awarded weird like obviously nobody's not going to send their kid to school with the coat and hat on because but the way this reads it says you cannot take your code you can't wear them in school before you enter the pill yeah yeah so it it's so minor but anyway it just it irked me a little bit okay I'll make a note of that and I highlighted it I'll send it to you all right well we I would entertain a motion to approve the handbook as written with the exception of the clarifying the language of the wearing coats understand that kids will be able to walk into the building after the cold outside with a coat and jacket they will then take things off as they go shorts and t-shirts year round yeah next year it'll read 15 minutes they have 15 minutes yeah it's page 14 people dress code student appearance and it's all of them yeah cats coats bandana sweatpants and sunglasses may not be worn in the building during the school day I mean you know to clean it up is that the heist Public School I only read the stuff that was red that starts it that's just 14 but they all read the same way that is kind of weird perfect we can make that change is that emotion um emotion to mind perfect and accept the rest correct awesome awesome thank you for watching all right all in favor there's no is there a fees in the handbook okay perfect all right any opposed any extensions all right well actually there is it says what the pre-kb is intuition based we wouldn't interroll called them since there's money involved roll call Foreigner here Greg Meyer yes this is Schumacher yes Tyson search yes Maureen Friedrich yes Adam Hopkins Henry Court yes we are unanimous thank you our next item is the approval of the intergovernmental agreement with the Illinois Department of Health Care and Family Services yeah we get Revenue through Medicare and through the Health Care system and so Gina and I were trying to find the last time that this was they've adopted it we didn't know the last time it was approved the recommendation is to approve this as presented um if this is one of those things I need you to approve or I'm not going to get the revenue and so hopefully you don't have any concerns with it any questions concerns comments letting me like to make a motion to approve the intergovernmental agreement with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services how many commotion thank you Tyson do I have your second oh second Andrew seconds all in favor any opposed many extensions it perfectly passes next is the proven over intergovernmental agreement with the city of Columbia this was a late ad and it hasn't gone through the city yet so I'm um We're not gonna have an action item on this this time we'll table that to July or special meeting we want the city council to look at it as well we're looking at 20 years agreement and then it'll go year to year from there but basically it it's that we're going to build that parking and then we would be able to have our students our high school students park up there and they would use it other times so that the section that comes up from the stairs yes if you're tied into the stairs and we're going to put railings on those stairs because there's no railings on those stairs yeah my only thoughts I was going to mention this in section four on page two of three is that I I know the the whole purpose is to have parking for wild school's in session so obviously we have a great need for parking when there's events afterwards if there's a play if there's this or that this doesn't say it gives us exclusive possession to park there from seven to three but it doesn't say anything about afterwards and I don't know if there's any way to add some verbiage that um during I mean there's always after school activities that's the thing like there's always something's going on but it seems like we have our major traffic crunches is when there's a play or when there's something made you know something afterwards yeah and I think the my reading of it all is that anybody would have first come first served parking there and so people could park there I don't know if we'd be able to even monitor like if someone's just walking the park and they want to park there on the night of a play yeah I don't know if we could police that or we had we had the discussion with the with the city um personnel and basically all the afternoon because the park is available to all citizens all the time we the priority was really to restrict it during during actual school first student parking because any extra you know after hours or extra good it might be people attending so we didn't actually want to limit it just student parking because then that would eliminate the Public's ability to park there to also be a spectator so that's that's the issue with because it'll be a permit basically they'll get a permit tag just like they do so we know that they don't want to restrict it at night if my child has an assigned parking space up there and I'm going to all play or a football game I shouldn't think that my parking you know like when you go to a football game they have assigned parking but you know someone else is going to park in your student spot right even though it's assigned at that event so if you have an assigned parking spot up there and you go to an event first come first serve first come first serve okay and do I understand it correctly too that the city is wanting the district to pay for all the expense to bring the road up to our construction and all that but then we can allow it for public asset and yet time during you know non-school hours so is the city going to be helping with the expense at all or it's just something that they're expecting the district to do because we want to use it for parking yeah I think this is we're looking at doing it and it's a mutually beneficial because we're going to use it for parking we don't have any other place to really put the kids for parking and so we're gonna foot the bill on this and then so not like not like a lease like we are over here right okay yeah so we build it and then they make the city maintains it after we after but I read we had to maintain as well we would do snow removal it's like so once we did the initial cost to make it the parking lot that we need for the extra parking spaces for high school then if there's additional maintaining after that I read that it'd be either we'd come to an agreeance and we both would split the cost that's how I understand it when I was reading it I think that's after the lease expired then it became a shared deal but I think during the term of the lease I think it's on us I would I would referring to that I I think what you're saying ordinary maintenance is you're right snow removal I or salting that kind of thing uh any like if there's a huge pothole well I don't think that's ordinary maintenance so we would have to come to an agreement with the city as to how that's going to be right handled even while I mean it could be year one and that happens but yeah but we would have to reach an agreement so I don't think it's implied it's 50 50 by any means I think it's just an agreement that needs to be reached yeah yeah well then also we need to clean the language a little bit on the signed parking spaces because it says we're going to let her and then remove the letters and that sort of thing we don't want to be re-striping and renumbering and removing numbers so because they're only gonna they're only got a number so many of those spaces up there so section four section seven and what was the striping section I think it was in the email yeah I don't see it yeah it's section six it talks about being numbered or not numbered so it just languages needs to be cleaned up a little bit I think just a little bit got it I don't I don't think it's a and big deal on either side no this is good this is why we're looking at it this time and then we will I believe that um Mr brim is going to bring it to the city council on Monday's their next meeting okay so we will table that as an action item for our next meeting then yeah or future meeting all right so we'll go on to item e which is the approval of the first reading of board policies press issue 112.
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I took a screenshot a call a meeting to order we'll start with the pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all I want to welcome everybody to the school board meeting this evening and remind everyone that we are live streaming tonight's school board meeting so also welcome those who have joined us um online um the first item on the agenda is the consent agenda items if I will I will entertain a motion to accept the consent agenda items I have a motion by Earl tagger do I have a second by Chelsea any discussion all those in favor six uh um next we'll ask if anyone is president who would like to speak on any item that is not on the agenda hearing none will move down to Old business I believe we have a Neola policy looking for approval of our wellness policy we've had this in effect prior to covet but it is now to be back in back in policy annually so asking for approval so I have a motion by Pat do I have a second I have a second by Cheryl any discussion all those in favor six seven next under new business we have a um something under programs for Frontline comparative yes asking for approval for Frontline comparative analytics program we'll be using sr2 funds to help us meet a strategic plan action step of studying our staffing number and ratios so this software that allows you to do that for compared to other districts pretty Innovative stuff great so do um Nikki's asking for a motion to approve that program but have a motion I have a motion by Chelsea do I have a second that second by Mary Lynn any discussion all those in favor 6-0 next a return to instruction plan yes I'm asking approval and as a construction plan every six months it's time but because we're back in school Traditional School documented that there's no need for a special plan and that we're asking for approval just to Document program purposes did you hear that but so Carrie's asking for approval for um turn to instruction plan do I have option I have a motion my Earl do I have a second second by Cheryl any discussion all those in favor think so just checking on you over there next we have a patient our parent a square proposal so asking for approval to use Grant funds to purchase a parent Square program this is a communication platform and this would allow us to increase how quickly we communicate with our families and our parents in a crisis or just everyday communication it offers texting emails phone calls it's a pretty impressive platform we've got some glowing recommendations from other corporations that are currently so asking for approval to use the grant Monies to purchase that program do I have a motion so the motion by Maryland do I have a second second by Pat any discussion no this this is this is and yes it can be used as an app any other questions no all those in favor six seven next under professional staff we have some recommendations yes please um we have a recommendation that Lacey Coco will be hired coach that hope Ferguson be hired as a Sand Creek Elementary teacher Ashley gay also be recommended as a Sand Creek Elementary teacher Catherine jacket is being recommended for the Jennings County Schools elementary instrumental teacher position that's a new position that's been created and Megan Matthews is also being recommended as a Sand Creek Elementary teacher So Lisa has presented these as recommendations do I have a motion to accept them as a group motion by Pac do I have a second by Maryland any discussion all those in favor 6-0 and I'd like to let you know that one of the teachers that you have just um voted to approve is here today it's hope Ferguson and hope you don't know this yet I don't think unless Mrs Webster filled you in so if you will they love they love the beaches [Music] it's a special walk so if you'll start on that side congratulations I've been here my whole life thank you congratulations well thank you for being here as well so and welcome to the team so I think we have one other recommendation yes um we also have a recommendation that TJ Newton our Jennings County High School head football coach have a contract extended through the 24-25 school year do I have a motion to accept that I have a lotion by Earl do I have a second second by Pat any discussion all those in favor six up next we'll move down under support staff or several recommendations um we have a recommendation that Brad Barber take the position as the Jennings County Middle School head soccer coach Brian beiswanger be allowed to serve as a Jennings County High School volunteer assistant track and field coach Dylan Eaton be hired as a Jennings County high school custodian on a full-time basis Thomas Forney was a genius County School summer custodian internship intern and that has needed to be terminated effective June the 9th asking that Sean Hill be hired as a Jennings County School tech support individual asking that Caitlin Hurley be hired as a Jennings County Middle School head volleyball coach asking for the recommendation that Paulo Lashley be hired as the Scipio Elementary head custodian on the second shift so she would be the chef's supervisor Linda minger be hired as the north Berman Elementary custodian I'm sorry I read that incorrectly Linda had been a Northbound Elementary custodian and she is wanting to transfer to the Jennings County Middle School jcec custodial position that has asking that Sarah Snyder be hired as a Jennings County High School cook asking that Blake Thomas be hired as our Jennings County Schools Bus Garage mechanic asking that Conor Waldo be hired as a Middle School lifeguard and lastly asking for Chuck Worrell to be moving from his past position at the middle school in jcec to the Scipio Elementary head custodial position okay asking for approval of those recommended as a group I have a motion by Chelsea do I have a second by Mary Lynn any discussion all those in favor 6-0 I have someone else I'd love to introduce to you off it's okay we love we love when we get that visitors Mr Blake Thomas is here today this is our new mechanic as of that vote and uh Blake has decided that he's going to join the rest of the family every time his mother-in-law here is back here and it's like Caroline so join in the rest of the family he's coming to the good side [Laughter] congratulations thank you yeah yeah we love to keep it all in the family that's right welcome to the team we're excited to have you and look forward to seeing what you can do so we have some additional recommendations yes the next recommendation is that Rob can't be hired as a Jennings County High School heads boy head boys basketball coach look I have a recommendation I have a motion by Earl do I have a second second I have a second by Pat any discussion all those in favor six so and one more yes lastly I'm we're asking that Christy sigler's um contract as the Jenny's coming High School head girls basketball coach should be extended through the 24-25 school year the recommendation recommendation do I have a motion I have a motion by Mary Lynn do I have a second second by Cheryl any discussion all those in favor six seven and then next under finances a couple donations I'm asking approval to accept is Maryland Whitcomb 540 to the athletic department for plaques to commemorate the 22-23 basketball boys basketball season and Jenny's Church of Christ two hundred dollars to the Jennings County High School Panther pantry I have a recommendation to accept those donations do I have a motion I have a motion by Chelsea do I have a second second by Cheryl sure you're gonna have to Quicken up a little bit any discussion is I don't believe so thanks Mary [Laughter] any additional discussion hearing no discussion all of those in favor and I have a five oh and I have one of stay okay next I have a resolution that needs approved to be four weeks until our next meeting the normal resolution authorizing treasure Deputy treasurer of the school corporation to make payments of claims with outboard action prior to July 13th and allow the treasurer Deputy Treasurer to make transfers Appropriations within education Debt Service operation funds in order to balance major account classifications okay I have a recommendation to accept this resolution do I have a motion motion by path do I have a second second by Maryland any discussion all those in favor six seven gonna miss you guys next under property asking for approval for the disposal of old social studies textbooks we have approved a new series [Music] tried to give them away to our kids and we still have some more that we pose up we're real old real hey we have a recommendation to dispose the old social social studies textbooks that have not been taken up by kids do I have a motion to accept that motion by Pat do I have a second second by Chelsea any discussion Excel now down under relations we have several mousse yeah so the first three asking approval I don't know if you want to take them together or separate but but they're the same mou just with three separate School corporations we have hired a teacher to provide services for our deaf hard of hearing students and we do not have a full caseload so we are having her go to three corporations for a full-time job so do you want to take those together or separately I think we can take them together if you can just list out the three corporations of a bakery so the three corporations are South Harrison Community Schools Scott County District 2 and South Central Area special education Co-op okay um so again we're taking the first three items under relations that's the nmo you with those three schools that have been named um in order to provide death and hearing impaired services so do I have a motion to accept that that mou an emotion by Chelsea Drive a second by Cheryl any discussion all those in favor success so that gets us down to number four the fourth one is our mou with um OVO Head Start that we provide services for CE that need speech OT we so that's an mou with them to provide services okay okay do I have a motion to accept that mou salute motion by Pat do I have a second second by Maryland any discussion all those in favor you did six seven next in mou with Ohio Valley opportunities Head Start and this is just our annual agreement for title um program requirement same as it was it was okay well you with no changes same as last year do I have a motion to accept that motion by Chelsea do I have a second second by Pat any discussion all those in favor six oh and then last but not least we have um research item asking for approval to work with mckibben's demographic research they will provide us with enrollment Trends so they will use our fall count to help us project what enrollment will be for the next together they've worked successfully with other surrounding corporations that are working with their work so using Grant funds for that and asking for approval do I have a motion to approve I have a motion by Cheryl do I have a second by Chelsea any discussion all those in favor fix it I believe we're down under others I believe we do have an idea okay you may go first okay I do have an additional support staff recommendation I'd like to make please for Alexandria Caldwell to be hired as a genise County School Corporation tech support individual hold on okay yeah I've got a motion by girl do I have a second I have a second by Mary Lynn any discussion I believe this position the hiring of this position is pending hiring requirements are met so I just wanted to make that clear any additional discussion hearing none of all those in favor six seven and then we have another one and then I just want to say congratulations to our boys golf team for making it through sectional and qualifying to go to Regional and then our boys track team for winning sectionals second year in a row why do you believe so just a big we're proud of you and congratulations to those two teams thank you for sharing them um any additional items that need to be brought before the vote for tonight hearing none I'll entertain a motion to adjourn motion by Pat do I have a second by Chelsea all those in favor fix it
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foreign thank you ready begin all right congratulations to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you everyone for your participation in that recognizing our great nation and as I say that we all know that there's there's issues that are taking place not only locally but Statewide and nationally and throughout the world so I'd like to just take a moment of silence and just think about uh hoping that there will be a calmer and cooler Minds prevailing as we move forward uh from the from in the days to come thank you thank you now we'll have the closed session report out by our Clerk thank you president O'Neill item 4.1 the Board of Trustees completed the superintendent's performance evaluation and discussed goals for the coming year 4.2 no reportable action taken regarding property negotiations item 4.3 the Board of Trustees by a vote of 5-0 approved the settlement agreement in Orange County Superior Court number 30-2019-01104360-cu-p-o-cjc item 4.4 no reportable action regarding existing litigation 4.5 no reportable action regarding existing litigation 4.6 no reportable action regarding existing litigation 4.7 no reportable action taken regarding negotiations 4.8 no reportable action taken regarding Personnel 4.9 the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to accept the agreement with employee hr-2022-23-303 410 the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to make the following transfers effectively July 1st 2023 excuse me Todd swans assistant principal Dale Junior High School Randy poggio assistant principal South Junior High School Catherine McGillivray sorry assistant principal Sycamore Junior High School Sergio Hernandez assistant principal Sycamore Junior High School Sonia Cortez assistant principal Walker Junior High School the Board of Trustees unanimous unanimously good goodness unanimously voted to make the following appointments effective July 1st 2023 Daniel Danny Arredondo assistant principal Anaheim High School Claudia Ruiz Flores assistant principal Anaheim High School Veronica Kelly assistant principal Anaheim High School Jenny Lee assistant principal Cambridge Virtual Academy Eric tenorio assistant principal Cypress High School Cheryl Campos assistant principal Kennedy High School you can applaud at the end Robert Bobby Flores assistant principal Magnolia High School flowers excuse me Nguyen assistant principal Magnolia High School foreign item 4.11 the Board of Trustees unanimous unanimously voted to make the following appointment effective July 1st 2023 Christie Gutierrez coordinator educational related Mental Health Services [Music] my report I'd like to make one correction for Veronica Kelly she will be assistant principal of Ball Junior High School my apologies test to see how you could withstand it you said Anaheim I said Anaheim I apologize no problem sorry so um I'm gonna ask for uh Daniel Eric Dondo to come forward say a few words [Applause] um I just want to say thank you for um giving me the opportunity to come back to my home district and my alma mater to Anaheim High School the best high school in the United States it's gonna be it's gonna be a true honor and I'm very grateful um to have an opportunity to work with the admin team there we're going to establish a lot of success and we got a lot of work to do and I'm gonna pour my heart out to the to the community in this District that made me and produced me who I am and thank you Mom and Dad for always being there for me [Applause] Mom and Dad please stand up we want to applaud you too you can stand up thank you and wife and children family thank you Danny thank you next uh Claudia Ruiz Flores good evening everybody first of all I would like to thank the Board of Trustees and cabinet members for having giving me so many opportunities at Anaheim Union High School District for 20 years I served as a counselor where I was able to build wonderful relationships and build a strength that are that now move me into the administration world so as I embarked into Administration I have to thank so many people for being my mentors I would like to thank Professor Goldstein I know you're here my professors in the lead program my colleagues in France for providing me with a safe space to Blossom I am so grateful and and I cannot continue without saying thank you to my husband and my son and my daughter who have been there been my strength through this journey their unconditional love and support I thank you for that I would like to also thank my Anaheim high school for embracing me and thanking me and taking me as I transition into this wonderful journey of like and um Danny said you know we have a lot work to do but we're going to do it with our heart and believing that every day will be just one day at a time I am grateful for what I have but I'm yet very enthusiastic for what I could see it to come at Anaheim high so thank you so much [Applause] thank you next of Veronica Lee [Applause] well hello um gosh what can I say thank you so much for the opportunity thank you for your investment in me that is huge I know that that doesn't happen everywhere um and there are so many people here right it's really hard to name everybody because there's always you know there are people who did even just little little tiny things right to help you get to where you are and so I'm just going to put it out into the universe that I just want to thank everyone who's helped me to get here I appreciate the opportunity I mean I really truly believe in what we do here um and I'm just so thankful and super big thank you though to my family who's taking up an entire row there um because this is really hard work and when you get Veronica Klee you get the entire Kali family with you and so thank you so much [Applause] next is Eric tonurio [Applause] okay good evening board president O'Neill members of the board superintendent matsuda and cabinet I want to express my appreciation for being appointed as assistant principal to serve the students and staff of Cypress High School from a gear up tutor 13 years ago to an English teacher at Anaheim and most recently a tosa at Cyprus I'm humbled by the trust you continue to place in me I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to my Incredible family who's here in this section here [Applause] [Music] and you have them stand up so we can see them they stand Mom Dad two brothers are here my sister [Applause] thank you so and also to my loving wife Evelyn who's also here and our three wonderful children Elena Eli and Ezra thank you for your unwavering support throughout my journey I'm grateful for the sacrifices I would also like to express my gratitude to all my mentors throughout auhsd specifically superintendent matsuda Robert Saldivar and Jennifer Brown your guidance wisdom and belief in my abilities have played an instrumental role in shaping my career I would also like to highlight the csuf auhsd lead partnership and our amazing Professor Dr Goldstein who's also here thank you for guiding us thank you for guiding us in our leadership Journeys over the past two years in closing I'm filled with the sense of purpose and dedication to this role I'm committed to upholding the values that auhsd represents with the support of my family and the entire Cypress High School Community I'm confident that we will achieve the unlimited you thank you [Applause] next we have Robert Bobby Flores [Music] [Applause] like tenorio we are overly prepared but that's okay or president O'Neill board trustee Board of Trustees Mr metsuda and cabinet thank you for the opportunity to serve as assistant principal at Magnolia High School home of the Sentinels I'm both humbled and honored to be working alongside Mr Chao the team of Administrators staff and students at Magnolia High School upon reflection as a district and over the years you have invested in me and cultivated my talents as a teacher lead now as an assistant principal I'm looking forward to cultivating the talents of both our staff and our students all in an effort to achieve the district's vision of unlimited you I would be remiss if I didn't think Mr Saldivar and so we're back there Mr Kairos for their mentorship Insight compassion and honesty Dr Goldstein and Mr matsuda for being Visionaries and creating the lead program and challenging me to lean into my Edge needless to say I'm a proud product of the lead program lastly I'd like to thank my partner Michael farmer Farmer friends family both biological and chosen for their support along the way go Sentinels thank you [Applause] unfortunately we have three individuals that are not here this evening so Mr Jackson is going to read tell us a little bit about each one okay great so uh first we have uh Jenny Lee at CVA she says I would like to thank the Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees as well as Mr matsuda Dr freed Mr Saldivar and Mr Jackson for the opportunity and honor of representing our auhsd schools as an assistant principal for the 23-24 school year I would also like to thank Professor Jennifer Goldstein and the auhsd lead program for not only preparing me for this upcoming position but for providing the space and support to tackle challenges like equity in our schools I have forever been changed from these experiences as a classroom teacher for many years I am truly excited for this new opportunity to work as an assistant principal I am committed to do my best each day to serve the students staff and community of the district thank you again for entrusting me to this position thank you we have a quack win and um he says um first I am incredibly grateful to the Board of Trustees for appointing me as assistant principal at Magnolia High School I came to the Anaheim Union High School District in 2021 as one of the assistant principals for Dale Junior High School in my two years as assistant principal of Dale I have learned so many uh so so much about the wonderful things that this district has to offer for for students and I have so enjoyed supporting students staff and community in learning through the five C's and the career preparedness systems framework I believe that all students can be successful and this has always guided my educational leadership and I hope and intend to continue this as the assistant principal at Magnolia High School okay and we have Cheryl Campos who will be going to Kennedy High School I would like to begin by thanking the Board of Trustees superintendent Matt suda and the cabinet for the honor of being able to serve the auhsd community as the assistant principal of Kennedy High School when I joined auhsd six years ago I found a mission and vision that aligned with my own principles and a place in which I could Thrive as an educator I am inspired each day by the students staff and communities that strive to create a better world through unlimited you I would not have been able to have been on this journey without the love and support of my family first thank you to my mom Teresa for always believing in me and supporting me through all of my Endeavors thank you to my kids Avery and Kade who are the source of my inspiration and my biggest cheerleaders finally to my husband Joe wow thank you for on his unwavering support and making me believe that anything is impossible I am incredibly grateful for this opportunity and am excited and eager to join the Kennedy community and serve in this new capacity thank you Mr President I think uh week owe all eight assistant newly assistant principals uh of Round of Applause for this evening okay moving on to 6.1 classes did you announce our coordinator yeah oh okay I'm sorry Christy Gutierrez come forward [Applause] sorry about that it's okay I'm a shark person thank you everyone I'm so blessed to be here um Renee Brown is my inspiration she's also a licensed clinical social worker and so from her words courage starts courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen and so I am so blessed for these one to two minutes to be able to be heard and seen I want to share all my gratitude to our board members thank yous for recognizing my efforts my commitment to improving our Mental Health Systems I was very fortunate to be part of lead 2.0 have for more than half the room is here privilege to learn from the award-winning doctor Goldstein from Cal State Fullerton as well as the opportunity to get to know even better and learn some more tricks and tools on how to be a great leader from Dr matsuda Dr colon Dr freed Brad Jackson thank you so much for your time wisdom and patience with myself sometimes not knowing half the time where I am like eight o'clock on a Saturday morning Manuel's asking me to do some mindfulness meditation and I'm like all right I'm back in my element after that so thank you for letting me do that um I was also able to build lasting relationships with some of the most brightest talented people I've ever met are Future Leaders from lead 2.0 Amy Maya Celeste cougar who's not here in Carl these are my boss people Amy and Celeste are probably the epitome of fearless female leaders so thank you she doesn't like to be acknowledged very much that's why I should look like she's like running out the door but um when things seem really impossible Amy always tells me and even when she's out or not next to me it's going to be okay and I always remember that and that support that guidance kept kept me going um I know that you say that I've earned this on my own but honestly it's not possible without your support Carl Celeste and her support so thank you and of course my parents thank you for being here mom dad my dad definitely um taught me both of them the value of grit hard work never giving up and so I take that with and also for watching my kids um when I'm at work or I plan to teach yoga or de-stress from a stressful day at work at the yoga studio my daughter's Madison and Kylie who are also here thank you so much I worked so hard not just because you're super expensive but also because I want to make sure that I lead by example I want to make sure that you see that I can do hard things I can and I'm doing great things and I hope you take after me always remember that you have to just trust yourself and be nice to people is what I tell them last but not least I could not have survived this big huge District without my work family my team the strongest team of mental health experts that I know consisting of my ever-growing arms teams of psychologists program Specialists sped teachers who I thought would be here but not quite yet they are the epitome of the best team I could not lead and continue to lead and do my job without the cohesion of a well-oiled team so my journey is going to be even great and more exciting as we do things together so everyone this acknowledgment really motivates me motivates me to do more it motivates me to continue my endless pursuit of really improving the mental health system of our our students emotional and behavioral needs I am so ready to lead I plan to lead with passion with dedication with Grace thank you everyone yeah and I didn't mention that Christie's the new newly coordinate point of coordinator of educational related mental health services so that's her title so I I like to uh recognize all the families that have supported all the newly appointed peoples tonight so congratulations to all the families and thank you for your support [Applause] thank you now moving on to uh 6.1 classified employees of the year the Board of Trustees would like to recognize the Anheim Union High School District 2022-23 classified employee of the year nominees listed on the agenda and there's 25 of them they will not be here tonight the 25 classified employees were recognized during our virtual event on May 11th for their exemplary service to the district students and the community the Board of Trustees Echoes the statements of appreciation and recognition recognizes the efforts of these dedicated employees and acknowledge the value of their contributions the Board of Trustees applauds these employees and their contributions to the district so let's get them all a big round of applause thank you moving on to 6.2 Calif Orange County classified employee of the year 2023 uh and uh so he is not just a nominee but he is the employee of the year the Board of Trustees would like to recognize Jaime Carranza for his distinguished service to the district so we're going to have Jaime come forward you see there he is [Applause] congratulations thank you as the aboard assembles into their positions yes the Board of Trustees would like to recognize Jaime Carranza for his distinguished service to the district Mr carrasso was selected as the Orange County classified school employer of the year for 2023 representing the food and nutrition services category Jaime was named 2023 California classified in school employee of the year by state superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurman Jaime is a senior warehouseman and his responsibilities include ensuring School sites received their deliveries working with drivers and maintain the fleet trucks handling food and supplies as well as keeping the warehouse in order Mr Carranza created Transportation routes for the delivery of meals during their remote learning period of the pandemic and he would step in If a driver was out sick additionally Jaime has been known to jump into the food production line when there were minimal staff in the Central Kitchen in order to complete production for school sites Mr krasa has served the district for over 23 years and has built a reputation of respect and appreciation the Board of Trustees celebrates Mr Carranza for his achievements congratulations Jaime [Applause] thank you [Applause] next page next is 6.3 leadership education for Anaheim District called lead the following will be in attendance this evening and we asked him to come forward to be recognized uh Lorena Cortez holy Applause Until the End please Stephanie Felix Robert Flores Christie Gutierrez Hightower Veronica Kali Stephanie lesma Palomino Susana Mesa Paolo Rosenberg Michael Switzer Eric tenorio and Angelita White our partnership with the California State University of Fullerton thrives as we continue to offer a tailored District program for certificate of Staff interested in maintaining the pr their preliminary administrative Services credential or pass in 2018 auhsd and Cal State University Fullerton collaborated to initiate this program which saw 20 aogc staff members successfully complete the 18-month course today we celebrate the graduation of our second cohort these dedicated individuals have completed the rigorous lead program and are now eligible to apply for California a certificate of LGBT for administrative services or preliminary administrative Services credential we recommend the hard work we commend their hard work commitment and determination in reaching this important milestone the lead program is co-led by esteem cfuc csuf faculty and our District Administrative cabinet our cabinet members serve as co-instructors alongside CS csuf faculty for all courses ensuring participants have direct access to both auhsd leadership and csuf professors the collaboration provides an invaluable learning experience with a focus on Equity diverse Learners English Learners and professional growth please join us in welcoming our newest lead graduates congratulations [Music] [Applause] and I just wanted to recognize Jennifer Goldstein from csuf as as one of the lead coordinators thank you wait a minute part of the lead team you have to stay at the board meeting I can't leave [Music] all right that's good so that was 6.3 now we have a student speaker through convert camposano enter Campuzano we'll give him a minute and I don't don't go home Anna don't go home with them sorry everybody's gone can we adjourn the meeting I mean nobody's there business staff Anna you're extending the meeting time Anna's working the crowd here a passing review in the military I'll stand there as everybody walks by yeah [Laughter] all right Mrs Piercy is back with us all right next we have a student board speakers Andrew uh kind of posano [Music] good evening members of the board um people left in the audience um I wanted to just support today to speak on an issue that has been facing our students recently this year um my name is Andrew Campuzano I am a yeah thank you can you guys hear me yeah okay perfect um my name is Andrew Campuzano I am a youth commissioner for the Anaheim second district um I am also a pointista I am a 4.0 GPA student and I'm here on behalf of my students and my fellow Scholars um I come from a dreamer household my father came here attended auhsd and um he always tells me to push myself and to work hard for everything it is when I go to school I go with the mentality that I'm here to work and um something that we have seen is that the board has decided that we may no longer have sashes at our graduation and that upsets me as a student simply because for me sashes represent us as a student as students and as Scholars um sashes mean more than just something that we wear at graduation and something that's decorative they represent our accomplishments and they represent what we have worked so hard for um me as a student I have seen many challenges and many setbacks I had to take up a part-time job and then I had to go home and work very very long work and finish my homework after working those long night shifts um and that's tough and it's sad to see that I'm working so hard and I may not be able to Showcase that um and I do know that we have presented the alternative of pins but for us sashes have just shown so much of a symbol and they've just really grown on us um the reasons why the district has not put up sashes as a new question is funds students and clubs and organizations are willing to put up the funds and we have seen a number of petitions that have um been willing to pay for the sessions okay um and another reason is the less academically inclined but I am living proof right now that any student can wear sashes and it's not simply because we are smart it's because we work hard and we are willing to do what it takes to present ourselves um please help us please hear us out please look at these petitions and help us achieve the unlimited you thank you thank you Andrew next we have matzo no that's fine no oh I'm sorry wait a minute yeah just hold on for a minute I only have one student speaker form yeah is there another speaker okay all right uh next we have reports of associations I see nobody here from associations see no one here from PTA for 7.3 so now we have public comments now okay that's fine okay our Castillo come forward and you need to talk to the young man about the age difference don't call me old man I need to set him straight I haven't uh colored my hair so really young just just go well okay thank you no good evening it's nice to hear this young man fighting for something that he feels is right and respect I also was a uh I'm a 50 years in the martial arts Kung Fu and with and uh the ancient Chinese were uh sashes there were no such thing as really belts and it would be an honor to wear a sash when you're getting your colors yellow red and you know to signify who you are so I like to support you on that and I hope maybe there is also people that can uh out there with 513c maybe so we have some great people like Bill terminos and people like that maybe they can talk to and and help the funding with those that can we did that also and times where we were as uh uh lulac a legal Latin American citizens and we would go to these uh hotels and the young kids that wanted to graduate and we bought them suits so again you know know for me as being a product of the school third generation is my my niece and my grandniece and the kids and all that you know that's why I come I used to come here a lot I used to participate and be the only one in the audience as a and also the City School Board and you know my my objective was I seen what I had to go through and I saw the changes back in the days we all went through them especially the ones that uh have been on the board a long time and the diversity of changes of the language and everything so and again I come not to ever attack anybody is to come and tell you how when what happened to me or how I went through it because I shared it that I saw others going through the same so my my opportunity to come here and speak to the board here is to Enlighten how we went through those changes but with again respect this is my the martial arts we have to learn respect so my whole thing is not to attack and try to use the right wording to not to offend but um and those that times when we were offended um I wish to try to bring it in the lighters aspect of uh so that's understanding that we're not you know we need to come together and the changes and this young man I hope that you all support them because it's your you know that's the duty of the the board is to help the children help the kids and that's mine too so I'd like to um you know again um being respectful to the youth and getting them as their young adults and they should be heard and again as I advocated for young uh men that were sometimes they get into a little trouble I would speak to the principal and change the outcome because they listen to them you know and uh because I was there too and I wanted somebody to believe me and so uh I said why are we gonna throw somebody out five minutes education and be out in the street we need to educate them and I even went to other districts other cities and they um listened to that and thought well yeah we are you you know for for education and all those people that they did uh did not expel they became you know good parents and and people that uh serve our community and our in our as as in our our military and everything else and I come from a background at my uh we call them the ants but they're like second cousins so they're older and uh they were part of the Head Start in the bilingual I have a teacher a a cousin like if I want to say aunt that was in the elementary the elementary school district they were teachers and uh young young ladies that I ended up raising some young ladies that became teachers and uh went on to other cities when they moved and you know when they marry their their High School boyfriends and are living well and doing business and so the education was that even at elementary I would take them go to their uh uh you know to their City boards and all that to try to uh support them and so uh that's my goal is to keep the kids off the streets and have them you know be be productive so I just wanted to thank you guys and I'll come by and give you some little history but today we had some children I thought it was when I got to talk like anything negative but you know when there's children I don't like to have them hear things that adults should you know only hear thank you very much and good evening master quality good afternoon Buenas Tardes I spoke to you again in the Nawa meshika language the ancient language of the Mexican Chicano indigenous peoples um just want to say that I was at the Anaheim City Council and I you know mentioned about how we came here with a a state recognized tribal member uh um gabrielanos and how he felt how we feel in the Barrios in their in all these bodies here in the city of Anaheim where how we feel about the term colonists at Anaheim High School how it's important to change that name because what it represents so myself and Artie and other organizations work in these varios we have a Mexican Aztec dance group we meet every Monday and Friday um in Downtown City Hall in the back area actually myself and Dr Jose Moreno a couple other people in the community helped build that playground we're getting dirty and sweating out there it's really nice to get to know the community and I just wish that some of our people would be more involved you know but sadly in every Barrio when I say Barrio is like you know it's a small community of Mexicans indigenous peoples Chicanos that live together band together work together as a community and so there's a lot in every and everybody there's a liquor store I don't see those liquor stores in Anaheim Hills and uh it's it's like um it's like we're being set up in this Matrix to not succeed the point that I'm making here is when I was 12 years old I came and I spoke for Chicano history Chicano studies I was 12 years old I wish we can look back I'm going to look into that when I came and spoke here um my grandpa taught me educate uh don't know what language history and uh I got my bachelor's at The Institute of American and arts I'm an alumni one day I'll get my sweater I'm actually heading that way we meet uh every summer time we go over there there's a thing called the Indian market I recommend all of you to go in Santa Fe New Mexico the Indian market and uh we have a museum you know and we just come together band together and we have meetings about what issues we talk about like the school mascot the school names in Anaheim Hills we have a school called the Comanche Warriors that's very unappropriate actually no Comanche tribal members and when I they asked me what were you from Anaheim oh what could you go to Katella Anaheim and what's the name of your high school or the colonists whoa why is it called the colonist man they did a lot of bad things to our ancestors and still to this day if you know history you know you're present and your future like me abuelito would say Arturo so it's very important that we work with the gabrielenos and Jeremy um is is going to be emailing you Dr there's a anthropologist that will be emailing you I forgot his name um and also uh I was going to have a military a Chicano Mexican-American military veteran that was going to come and speak and he's a park razor park ranger here as well but he couldn't make it you know I wish he was here because it would keep it going but it takes time it's very hard and um there's just a lot of traffic out here right now guys it's really expensive for some of us but one day maybe I'll be in the school board from the city council or I I when I became a U.S citizen my router from Oaxaca a Vietnamese lady interviewed me over there in Santa Ana on the one of those floors upstairs government building she says any questions for me I said yes uh can I become now a president of the United States of America just says sadly no uh because uh there's like laws that you're supposed to be born in the U.S that really broke my heart you know because if I did I would become from the first Mexican indigenous that speaks now at Spanish and English to honor the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848 there's a treaty that was signed and even Native American treaties have been broken it hadn't been promised Holland is the first Native American woman to uh run for secretary that's a very big position that she has so she's changed those names like Squad it's a very racist term or a man that black horse we work with her she got rid of the mascot Redskins you know NFL football team so there's changes coming we're organizing we're working with students and everybody sadly I see a lot of my people doing drugs and alcohol and that really breaks my heart and to end we come with the big heart with mucho respect with a lot of respect I have a lot of respect for you guys it's a lot of work it's not easy to do what you guys do and with time we can heal together and a lot of people my friend Raul was a football player Anaheim high school he committed suicide and I was teaching him about history about the colonists and he started to wake up more about his roots you know and he never liked his dark skin maybe one day I'll talk about how I was ashamed of being dark I wanted to be white I would put lime limone on my skin I don't want to talk about the kids I get kind of emotional but thank you guys [Applause] next 9.1 adoption local control and accountability plan lcap an annual update removed second you have a motion in a second there's nothing to or doctor it's just yeah yeah just want to make sure that there's nothing to say okay all right um so we have a motion a second all in favor say aye aye opposed 5-0 uh 9.2 resolution number 2022-23-b-14 committed fund balance this is for the general funds second Motion in a second any discussion uh okay Miss uh Gutierrez I'm sorry it's okay okay yeah O'Brien or Neil O'Brien yes Miss Percy yes Smith yes yes I I vote I sorry about that Jessica probably won't be the last time yeah all right six point uh nine point three four oh no yeah just turn the page resolution number 2022-23-b-15 adjustments to income and expenditure general fund and resolution number 20 22-23-b-16 adjustments to income and expenditures various funds uh all proposed budget all funds and we'll take both at the same time 9.4 resolution number 2022-23-b-17 education protection account so move second motion a second any discussion I had a question certainly uh it says that the um okay my question is are there any other restrictions to this funding um besides the administration administrative salaries described and then I would like to describe like an um sorry I can't read my own writing would you can you describe what an administrative cost would be so for for this account basically is a a um so when we get our base dollar from lcff so um whatever balance we don't get from this account then this week at the state age so basically whatever portion into this account they said just we um charge the teacher salaries into this account that's what we're doing so we don't want to charge any admins or you know principles we don't judge any of that into this account benefits included to them yes yes we can do all that as well and so but basically this is not enough to pay for you know like the the total net so we um charge um some of them into our base um dollars run to a general fund it's just a it's just another account to account for the money for that is that the only restriction uh yes for now I mean it's it's not enough to charge all our salaries over so we just charge um the maximum into the account okay prior before we didn't have this in the past but something that's newer so any other questions seeing done Miss Guerrero aye Ms Percy aye Smith aye vote I five zero 9.5 resolution number 2022-23-ft f-09 approval of notice of exemption for the district-wide HVAC and ventilation Improvement project that's a roll call vote any discussion yes I had a question um are we exempting this from the facilities master plan is that what the exemption I just need clarification of what we're exempting exempting this from going to siqua or yeah so these these um a lot of these units are like for like Replacements so we are using the um bokeh from the Esther dollar so basically these um it's a the same unit we're exchanging a unit out so it's there's no so there's no yes exactly okay that helps yes it does not require that sequel um process and it's faster okay thank you any other questions see none Miss Guerrero aye Ms Percy aye Ms Smith aye Mr Randall Trejo aye and I vote I Business Services 9.6 agreement North Orange County Regional occupational program reimbursement for facility improvements so I moved second motion a second any questions then all in favor say aye aye opposed 5-0 9.7 school resource officer agreement city of Anaheim second Motion in a second any discussion yes yes okay um yes um so we appreciate the collaboration between the city and the police department for being a stakeholder and addressing our school safety but I just wanted um to ask I know this is not the first Sr SRO agreement we have we have some with our other surrounding City cities yes can you speak to that yes definitely so um currently we have one SRO in the city um in the city of Cyprus so um and basically that one is our serves the three schools within the Cypress Community the second one we have is with the city of La Palma and um that serves the Kennedy High School as well as Walker and so we are extremely excited to enter this agreement with the city of Anaheim and I do want to take this time to thank the deputy chief Rick amedares for um helping with the entire process he has also met with our team at the district office as well with under the direction of Dr Adam Hernandez as well and so we are looking um I know that we're very excited about this process and the city has expressed a lot of interest in this and would like to further even expand the program so that's why we are hearing from them as well and so once this is approved we will be meeting with them again to go through that but I do want to to thank um the deputy chief for all his hard work to get his agreement done this quickly as well yes thank you and then um the agreements with Cyprus and La Palma they also utilize grant funding so those that are using grants um so since this is a um something new we're bringing back um we are cost sharing this item with the city of Anaheim at this point our goal is to look into grants so that these can be fully paid for for the city of Cyprus as well city of Palma we do not pay into those programs and so we're very optimistic with the deputy Chiefs to explore um Grant funding's um shortly so that's our goal okay that was gonna be my third question thank you thank you to clarify oh so okay I was just gonna ask ask about the grant do you are those grants ongoing or do you know with La Palma and Cyprus so far they have been ongoing and so whatever they need from us we will make sure that we work with them to get those grants and so um obviously these um police chief they do know each other and so I've also um talked to um the deputy chief if he needs any support from from me I do know the um the Chiefs in Cyprus as well that we can definitely tapped on them and to ask to see what other different things that we can possibly apply but I believe they do expire in 24 25 yes 24 25 is the one where they're always 425 in Cyprus they're both the same right oh okay but we I think they are continually applying for Grants like constantly so the department police departments are doing it right yeah no but I just didn't know how long the grants were and it was you know okay three years so and just for clarification um this is really the first time that that the high school district has had too uh pay into this this is the first time correct and also uh uh Mr matsuda could you explain the difference between an SRO and a typical officer and what this means yeah there's a big difference between the two we've been working very closely with all of our police Chiefs and Deputy Chiefs on the criteria in the training for the school resource officers and I think as the community is aware that there are there is tension between the the police and the community members including some of our young people so we're working very closely in terms of making sure that the right disposition and profile and training of these school resource officers are you know are appointed and selected and the the sros on the west side are are really really good people in terms of their ability to connect with young people and to connect with the community as well as the staff there so we're monitoring that very closely trustee I'd like to know what weapons do sros carry they just like any police officers they do have a sidearm yes but they will be um they're not in the full uniform they have a special uniform designating them as a school resource officers and so there's a difference in even their physical appearance years ago um Anaheim Police Department had a community policing program and probably 30 years ago I would go out on ride-alongs with them and it's a wonderful way to get into the community to observe from their ears and their eyes and their experiences and you learn a lot about the community you live in and how it is worked with the different entities and I'm just thinking we have a new mayor and it would I think be very valuable for her to do a community policing drive right along and I think these SRO officers are very competent of meeting young people talking with them connecting with them understanding what their lives are about and um so thank you okay any more discussion okay see none all in favor say aye aye opposed thank you uh thank you sorry go ahead I was just saying thank you to Nancy for working on the project uh appointment and resignation of citizens oversight Bond oversight committee members 9.8 so move second no Motion in a second just I wanted to uh thank uh form our the Committee Member that has resigned Mr uh Grant Rowan for his time that he has put in and we do not have a new a new person selected yet yes so welcome to uh Miss Alvarez so any other discussion Christina all in favor say aye aye opposed gratefully aye and thank you and thank you yes thank you thank you thank you and thank you 9.9 release lease back agreement Scorpio Enterprises DBA Air Masters air con air conditioning district-wide HVAC Replacements so moved check it okay and that's an RFP 23 2023-08 so we have motion a second any discussion see none all in favor say aye aye opposed 50 9.10 leastly spec agreement Scorpio Enterprises DBA Air Masters air conditioning Anaheim High School hydronic uh piping RFP 2023-08.
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and we looked at this we saw that by that has that increase you know you hit that increase we've we've hit that increase and so that task force was achieved they wanted it to be achieved by here but it didn't get to it didn't happen until until around here the other thing you'll note is like right here in 2010 when you have that census you could see all of a sudden that line for the next census in 2020 the trajectory of it the slope of it changed and it increased in terms of the rate of residential units that were being built in the downtown so without looking at that you can associate some of that to this probably we need to dig a little bit deeper but there's an indication so then we were asked to look at number of housing units that were built by projects and what whether they use premiums or not and the Planning Commission asked us to look at these policy windows so and a2d2 is the um that group in 2009 that's how the city returned referred to it at that point um here from 2009 to 2018 was when they had this had this large menu here in 2000 2017 to 2019 they broke it into two-tier system to make it simpler to understand for developers and in 2019 there was that change for affordable units being required as part of any residential premium I also had the Great Recession in here in 2009 to 2012 and then obviously in recent years we've had the pandemic um affected everybody in a in a way but it also affected the real estate market in a very real way at that time and you could say that it still might might be in recovery um and how what's being built and what's their market for hasn't really shook out yet but you can see pretty solidly up until 2014 most of the things being built in the downtown didn't use premiums I mean use premiums so they use the blue and then after you had this two-tier after you had this change to require the require affordable units with residential started to have more projects that were being built so whereas in here we had three projects that were being built with with premiums over here you can see it's one to one one to one two to one in these subsequent years um and the premiums the the premiums deliver a lot obviously especially when they're using residential premiums they deliver a lot more housing units um and so the question was the question from the Planning Commission is is really the premiums developed are they delivering what we want Zechariah I see your hand up yeah sorry to interject here but I just want to clarify something on the y-axis there is that the number of units that's the number of units and then each um and then the number above each bar is the number of projects approves that year yes approve that year okay thank you I just I was a little confused thanks no no thanks for clarifying it's hard to and they're just they're just dwelling in it's not affordable housing units correct they're just dwelling units not affordable housing units Jeff I see your hands up um yeah just to kind of back uh piggyback um so in the if you know for if you look at 2013 it says there's 302 units are those 300 units divided amongst the two projects yes okay yes yes yes absolutely okay any more questions I'm sorry the the two-tier system can you recap that just one more time because I think I lost that so the two-tier system did was it it said all of these get x amount of premiums all of these get another oh no no no that's not it the two-tier system was that um we have uh we have a gate you have to meet a certain amount of of Green Building standards in order to even get a premium and so they had that and then you and then then that unlocked the long laundry list and you still have that so you so what you still have is there's a gate they have to meet the gate then that unlocks and then they have this long menu that a developer could choose from whether they're a non-profit developer or for-profit developer okay I'm taking from your body language that that is clarified yes thank you okay all right I'm gonna move to the next slide if that's okay um so also one of the things we looked at was what property is really eligible for premiums so I keep on saying the D1 D2 and that's shown everywhere in brown and everywhere in green and just to orient people so um this is South U um and then here's Liberty and then I believe City Hall we go down here on to 5th Street City Halls right here um so the brown and the green are all places that are Zone D1 D2 but the green are the only places within the D1 D2 that are eligible for that are eligible for these premiums because in that in the in the 2009 changes they said premiums are only available in places that are not historic districts and then there's no flood plain so you can see that that brown takes a lot of a lot of that area out then also planning staff asked us um to look at when we looked at the permits to say okay anything that's been built in the last 15 years we don't think that that's going to be redeveloped in the next 10 years so let's in some way graphically take those out of the equation so for instance right here on North Main Street there's been two new two new projects um those um those we're going to say aren't going to be redeveloped um so really those kind of take those out and the gist of this map is that there's a limited area where the premiums can be used right now then we look through City plans and policies um and on the top here these are all the things that the premiums incentivize affordable housing residential pedestrian activity um greater mix of land uses Energy Efficiency preservation of historic buildings public parking as you go here and down here these are all the plans and policies that have been put into into place by the city we started in 2003 um with the Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority Tiff plan so that's what's saying what the DDA is going to do um 2006 and 2009 this is the the ones that came into the a2d2 master plan you have a sustainability framework in 2013 the Allen Creek urban trail and are we're moving together towards Vision zero so that's in transportation and carbon neutrality and so these work down from from you know as far away to his nearest you can see as we go down we get less check marks so really these incentives while they seem they were doing a good job of delivering what your plans and policies were in the early odds as we move in time to the 2020s they're not delivering on what your stated goals are um and they're not structured too so when we presented all this to the Planning Commission we asked them to come to agreement on assumptions um and I'm not going to read through these I'm going to hit the highlights um but basically we're assuming that that an equilibrium of development types is important in that downtown um but also recognizing that developing the downtown is more difficult and can be more expensive than elsewhere in the city a lot of times you're knocking down a building or you're adding to a building and that is inherently more expensive than if it's a vacant site or if the site is only covered 25 whereas in the downtown a lot of times the building is 80 or more of the land covering it um also recognizing that since 2019 there's an affordable housing millage that's been passed but um so with every new building you get new tax dollars that go towards affordable housing but really in talking to folks in the city who are working in affordable housing that that millage is not enough to be the sole source um also recognizing when you're looking at premiums there's a number of them that are aren't eligible for premium so you've got a significant number of properties um and when we looked at what the current downtown residential development is delivering it's either high-end low-scale residential buildings um so four stories luxury condos or student housing what the market right now is not delivering is attainable high density housing downtown um and the Planning Commission really wanted to recognize that attainable density in the downtown not only provides places for present and future in Arbor rights but it also influences Regional stability by providing access to housing region-wide and a walkable mixed-use place but also when we talk to developers and when we looked at the data those current premiums are not being utilized for a variety of reasons some of the things that have been cited is that they're complicated that they um sometimes um staff and developers or lawyers disagree on What premium is what um and there's not so and also for developers it was hard to have a long a long menu they they very strongly said a shorter menu is better So Jamie I see your hand up yes thank you um on your previous slide I was just curious if um because the what you just said kind of jogged my brain um so if there's not an expiration on these like I see that first one goes to 2033 if there's no expiration are these still like up for grabs or so these are plans that are still guiding the city um okay this master plan land use element the city is going is hired a consultant um and they are going to start a master plan process to update that Master Plan um I believe in the fall um so generally from a good planning principle point of view anything that's more than 10 years old um sometimes gets a little questionable um and really that's when the time that the the city should start looking at um whether to update it you know to update that and say whether it's still whether it's still it's still valid or whether it needs to be tweaked or whether it needs to be updated in a more comprehensive way okay thank you uh Travis thanks and just just for everybody on here if you have been paying attention to the city as well um you will not hear us referring to the work that we're doing right now as the Master Plan update so we are now referring it to our comprehensive land use uh plan and so if you've heard us talking about that um that is the same thing when when we update it we will be changing the the terminology there thank you for the clarification Travis all right um so then we asked the Planning Commission what are really your goals for the downtown um and these premiums and they said number one to increase housing downtown and that was just the number of units um and they recognize that maybe we can't do all of these but they wanted us to go to stakeholders like you the runners commission um with all of these and get input and including on these policy the two policy options they also wanted to explore as a goal increasing sustainability including Energy Efficiency in the downtown um as I mentioned before some of those things we can't require um do the way things are set up in Michigan um also to increase accessibility in the downtown and that meant barrier-free units or universe or units that are built with Universal Design so that anybody of any Mobility can use them um also to increase housing attainability or affordability in the downtown and then when we're looking at that we're really talking about 60 percent of the area median income um or that could be 60 80 100 that you know that's something that that can be further defined at as we go along and that's something if you want to talk about tonight we would really welcome that um and also to increase the diversity of housing options um again I feel like the market is just delivering these high-end residential um low density you know three to four stories and then really high density student housing so in terms of variety of buildings looking for something in the middle of those where um it's not you know some of that might relate to the number of bedrooms because student housing is often or just five to six bedrooms um but then also there might be a price point in there and there's a way that there would be a variety of ways to to look at that and measure that so the two policy approaches they wanted us to talk to you about is a small menu um so taking that large menu and decreasing it to either something dealing with housing or something dealing with sustainability or maybe just two options that are very very clear or um whether it's a choice to have no premiums and just increase the number of building blocks that you could have in the downtown and would that be an option um what that would do is that would likely increase the number of residential units and bring more money into the Millet more money into the affordable housing fund via the millage so are what we'd like to have is talk to you about what your thoughts are and each approach would it achieve the Planning Commission goals and do you think there's any unintended consequences and with the permission of the group what I would like to do is to stop the share screen unless somebody really needs the visual um and then have everyone talk and I'll take notes would that work or does somebody need the visual sorry I okay I see a thumbs up I'm going to take that as agreement um so let me get to the zoom and stop the share all right so what are people's thoughts on that small menu whether it's housing or sustainability and you say housing or sustainability you're saying that it's going to be the items that will move us forward more towards the the goals that the city has for the a20 plan is that right for the a20 plan or for creating more housing units or taxing affordability and under housing does that also is this saying that it's just rentals or does this also include purchase it you know condo options for people who are of middle incomes as well so since you were saying you know luxury or student housing or rentals it could include both um it could include include both purchase or rental um and does it also include the um because it's at one of the stated goals was increased accessibility does that also then when you're seeing housing or sustainability also include uh you know saying hey here's a premium when you're putting in the Universal Design aspects yes that could that would be on the table so I think what we want to know from you is what are your thoughts what would be most important from your perspective what do you feel would achieve the planning commission's goals and do you think there would be any unintended consequences and just to clarify where sort of choosing between the small menu option versus the no premium option yes okay but you can feel free to suggest something else or wander they really wanted your input I mean I I guess I could just say I think my initial reaction I appreciate the presentation there's a lot of great info in there that I think I will need more time to fully digest but I think just my initial reaction is preferring the small menu option driving more affordable housing development rather than I guess sort of more of the hands-off approach of just letting people develop and then hoping that generates more funds that could be used for affordable housing thank you I prefer the small menu option if there's a way to if there's a way to streamline it for the Developers so that we can get those needed benefits then I think that that's really important um there's always going to be some type of unintended consequence whatever whatever you do right like right [Music] um and I know that sometimes it seems it can seem like an Ann Arbor it's you know is it County versus student and so for some it would be like an unattended consequence would be that the students who were forced to live outside of Ann Arbor what been occupied downtown so you'd still have kind of a transient population there um where you'd have a turnover every certain number of years um but on the other side of that I think that if you add units where they can be what you have you know the ability for people who are more middle income to be able to make purchases then it could incentivize it so that we don't lose students after they graduate and they become and stay Ann Arbor residents um as well as in the near term attracting more people or a closer term attracting more people to actually be able to buy units in the downtown thank you all right um I see Julia's hand up hi um I generally don't do well with either or um I think that there's plenty plenty plenty plenty of room for Ann Arbor to be denser than it is and I think that uh the slight offering of premiums hasn't been enough to do affordable housing and you couple of times mentioned because there is some State prohibitions um and I'd like to encourage the city to perhaps pass a resolution to encourage Lansing to get rid of the preemptions it has on things like inclusionary zoning and that if we had some mandatory requirements sure you want to build these luxury units you have to have a percentage set aside for affordable units instead of just trying to get at the premium way because it hasn't worked all that great um so I I would like to see some change in the zoning laws to allow for increased density and I definitely do want there to be more affordable housing so if a premium is going to suddenly start working great in that procedure I'm all for it okay so more of a a yes and increase the density but also have a premium to offer specifically around housing affordability okay and then Zechariah I see your name your hand out yeah I second um Julia's comments there but I have a question about the affordable housing units uh for so what period of time do they have to remain affordable according to the the definition you know can they be affordable for one year and then they no are no longer no no no no it's um I believe it's affordable in perpetuity so um I think there's a formula with housing that I think is 10 years and then if it's rental that it is that for a certain amount of time I think Travis though has a clarification probably on that where I have seen it a couple of times where we've added it into it's been for like a period of 99 years um and which is essentially in most cases the life of the building um and so but yeah generally it's a pretty significant period of time yeah if not in perpetually thank you good to know yeah and yeah thank you for clarifying that and I think one potential downside to having uh let's see no premiums and just including the AFR right area four ratio okay uh would be that you might get if you were affordable housing units in the downtown area but then the affordable units because of the money that would bring in for the millage would then be built kind of further away so you might have a sort of a segregated effect based on income over time I'm not sure if that would happen but that is a concern I have and I think that I know a lot of planners want to see mixed income areas um which I think would be ideal and then um and if you I guess this is really under both situations we're not guaranteed to have our sustainability goals met but I think that if to choose between the two of those the shorter menu May have provide at least some benefit in terms of meeting our sustainability goals well I'm not sure if just doing AFR wheel to the same extent well I'm actually not certain about that so scratch that okay all right um I'm gonna take the hands in the order I see them so Travis Jeff and then Lucy it's it I I just Zechariah is it okay that I'm calling people's names because you're the chair I really shouldn't okay thanks no take him as you as you uh have a time all right so Travis yeah thank you um I will be really brief because because it's too much from this conversation but to in response to Julia um I did want to acknowledge that the city the uh uh ending State preemption of inclusionary zoning uh or exclusionary zoning is in our legislative policy agenda um we are actually not only asking for the repeal of the prevention of preemption we're asking the state to incentivize uh allowing duplexes triplexes and quadplexes by right um so that it's not just something we can do but that other cities are incentivized as well and we also went a step further that and part of our agenda as well is uh asking the state to mandate that affordable housing planning be part of every city it's a statement mandated comprehensive plan again because we don't want to just look at a solution for Ann Arbor but we want to look for we know that this housing crisis extends beyond our borders as well um but those are priorities for us at the state level um so I just wanted to to inform that as well I know that um that conversation is existing outside of the this is very much focused on within our current parameters but I just wanted to make sure that that was out there thank you Jeff uh yes thank you um my question is about um you know we've talked a lot about affordability um correct me if I'm wrong but the definition for affordable is based on the local median income right yes okay um is there any discussion about I'm you know I have to look up the number I haven't looked it up but I assume for Ann Arbor it's relatively high for Ann Arbor residents yeah um uh some sort of methodology that would incentivize um going you know somehow lower than that to become truly affordable for folks especially in in terms of increasing diversity in the neighborhoods okay um yeah when we talked to the um when we talk to the non-profit housing developers um they talked a lot about how um it's difficult to build housing on the lowest end for affordability so that zero to 25 percent um Ami um but also when you're building those one of the reasons that it's difficult is that um there's a lot of services usually that's involved and then also there's management of the building and that's something that for-profit developers are not good at um and so there's kind of a I think once you decide what the priorities are it's easier than to say okay this is where we're going to Target um so um I guess my question back to you Jeff is that do you feel it's a what do you think feel in terms of affordability and there's a range of affordability what do you feel is most important to Target or incentivize with these premiums um for me you know I I think about um you know folks that are working in our downtown areas you know um uh gig incomes things like that that are both um you know they're sporadic sometimes uh you know predominantly tip and you know wage earners things like that um that you know might not be making that Ami and then you know we want them to be on time with them to live in the places where they work things like that you know we've got these bike paths everywhere but you know the people that would use the bike paths to get to work actually live in a place where they can use the bike path to get to work that kind of thing and then I'm going to throw it to Christian Kristen did you have something that was clarifying out on this no I just had my hand raised I saw Arthur raises hand a couple of times because he was raising us okay Arthur all right Arthur you were after Lucy I will not forget you all right um anything else Jeff no thank you oh you're welcome thank you uh Lucy yeah thanks for the presentation I want to Echo Julia's comments and I think Jeff's comments about the income is really important though probably either of these plans uh don't address that issue so that's you something that we should talk about that's the commission if the the median income is getting higher and higher and that's not a very good metric for creating affordable housing I in terms of the options the the small menu seems like definitely the better one to me I have serious concerns about the second one but with that said it's not clear to me that the small menu is is um really sufficient for meeting our affordable housing goals I'm to be honest it's I don't understand the technicalities of it so it's hard for me to to Really weigh in but I think is let me ask a question actually so that I can understand if you you can buy yourself out of the afford building affordable housing units right like that's the in lieu of and is that included in the small menu still um that could be on the table for small menu um what we've heard from developers is that they would prefer to the 100 in lieu right now that's it's not an option underneath the premiums um but if somebody did a PUD which is a different zoning animal um and also keep in mind this is one of many of your tools um for meeting your affordable housing goals um this tool is not suited to be the only one um anything in zoning is a bit of a like blunt force Hammer um and sometimes you need a more uh fine-grained tool um so that aside um what we've heard from developers is if this was changed and an affordable housing requirement was there they would be more likely to take it if it was 100 in loo um but um there are some Optics to that in terms of being able to you know buy quote unquote buy yourself out of it um and that the city might not want to offer that and or also there's some things with um there's been some questions about whether that is a hundred percent legal 100 in lieu being an only option for a premium whether that um noses up to that um impact fees which are not allowed under Michigan in Michigan um so okay I guess I guess I would say like if the small menu can account to me it's a problem that the developers can do the 100 buyout so if there's a way to inhibit that with the small menu that that seems like a problem that we should also be trying to solve to build more affordable housing thank you all right and Arthur I promise that you were next or Lucy are you done anything else yeah thanks for answering my question really appreciate it thank you Arthur okay I I am so glad that she was so eloquently able to say that she didn't really understand it all because I feel the same way however uh the way Julia addressed it and the things that she said the comments the way that she uh approached it I totally agree with that my only thing is trying to understand the affordability because the Kmart a Walmart greeter and the Walmart manager those are two different affordability incomes right so you know it's it's it's just kind of difficult to try to figure out what level of income is Affordable to who and to which development that was my question okay um and um this question of affordability and what it is always comes up whenever um whenever the city or other municipalities I'm working I've worked with have this conversation and really what helps is to have numbers so if that and the average median income moves and so when I said 30 Ami if the average unit we're just going to use even numbers if the average median income is a hundred thousand dollars then 30 Ami means that it's 30 it's thirty thousand dollars a year is that and then you can use those ranges to Target who that housing is for um and that can be over set period of time as Travis said it's usually what the when the policy you're trying to do it for the lifetime of the building okay all right clarify Arthur somewhat okay yeah it's a difficult thing and it and it and it moves and then also I think it helps if you can put a you know a just like you said a Walmart greeter or a Walmart clerk those are things that people understand that we all understand and we can put a face to what it to the housing that we're creating affordability yes and at this point I think that the Planning Commission hasn't gotten to that point they're they're choosing whether they do the small menu or nothing at all and then if they choose to do something with housing then then that's when they start looking at where those are and also that this might change over time in five years or four years if it's not working you can change your zoning and update it can I get you to put yourself in my shoes for one second sure yeah you know more about both of the plans that we're discussing than anybody else on this panel if you had to make a decision if you had to vote on this which way would you go um I would probably do what Julia asked um which is a yes and that you increase the base far and then decide on one thing that's most important to you and then incentivize that yeah you you kind of you kind of you kind of backpedal on that because you what would your decision be what would my decision be personally right there we go okay um well I'm not a city resident so I live inside of Township for full disclosure um personally with the things that I know is that um I would do I I would I would uncap the far to increase it and then have just one incentive for housing affordability and then I would work with the experts in your city to see which group needs it the most and would have the most impact with that I thank you I hate I hate putting you on the spot like that but that was the only way I could try to get the clarification that I did it thank you no problem I appreciate you Arthur thanks all right okay so um the hands up that I see I've heard from you before and I just want to make sure that from Robert Kimberly um Cynthia and John that do you have anything to share before we go around again Robert one thing I would say is that uh developers have a lot less choices uh have very few choices in this matter um I I've talked to some and the financing uh is is usually uh quite specific in controlling so I think that that is an issue that uh you know I I I know that there's even the non-profit developers who really want to do things frequently cannot because they can't get financing so um we should I mean and I don't and I think that you're you're well aware of this but I I would hope that we would not um you know get ourselves in a bind where financing is is less available or more expensive or something that's going to uh kind of act in opposition to to these these uh these objectives which you know I very much agree with them I just don't know if the financing uh supports it or how we How We Do policies that that uh sort of incentivize the financing excellent point that is very true that it's not just the developers themselves who are making choices it's their financiers um and they have certain parameters that they're looking for and they've gotten more and more conservative um over the past decade in terms of what they'll Finance all right so I see Rosita and then Travis um I don't live downtown and so I don't know the answer to this one but currently or during that time or I guess also during that time period when we saw when you showed us on the graph the exponential growth there of the buildings how many of the people who are living in those buildings are families like people who have kids um is it mainly people who are single or a childless couple like yeah I don't have good data on that um what I do know is just for clarification I've been part of these conversations with the city um in 2013 and 2017 when I work for a different firm um and in those cases I when we looked at what had been built the majority of things that had been built were student housing with the incentives um so that was the majority of housing it was four to five bedrooms um that during that big during that Spike after 2009.
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by Arizona school boards Association so when we make any changes that do not match what is sent out by asba we take the C off because we've broken you know we've changed it from their copyrighted version yes sure okay we have to carry the emergency meds on us at school but that's not addressed here seizure emergency medication is it not I think it's in the next policy or maybe it's here yeah I remember reading something in it I think it's in the other policy there's a policy oh there we go but it says we can create the superintendent shall create procedures to administer seizure management management plans for students diagnosed so it means this is this is telling us what we have to do so it's telling us we have to develop a plan and then that will become a regulation or an exhibit and um uh so we would want input from especially those of you who are who have to be trained and we by law have to have uh at least two people on each site trained the question has come up from a couple of the parents in regards to transportation they want their child to oh yeah as possible um and you know their bus ride if they have the seizure can the bus driver carry their emergency medication on that and I did ask Willie um about it and he said that he asked his couple powers that be at the state level and they said it would be District policy that we would go by and I couldn't find it anywhere because we don't have it yet okay perfect so um and it wouldn't be in that case it would be a regulation because we would be setting up our plan so we would build that into the plan okay yeah great questions okay let's do the next one you're gonna be running out of time here you need paper under that one okay so here's the regulation that they've sent um and um and so if we want to do an additional right um so if we you know if we need to have our own procedure our own plan so at that point then we would come back to you and this would be jlcd-r one and we would have or ra sorry and then we'd have a jlcdrb that would be our plan so that it's you know specifically for us yeah if you would please yes it says an administrator May designate a School employee to administer medication so yeah you can carry all you want to in your pocket and as I said we have to have at least two yeah per site two precise employees subject to final approval right and um and Kate is talking about uh some students who several students we have several and um and because of the way our programs are designed they tend to be at one school so we will have multiple people at that site trained um you know because the kids will be on the playground or in hallways or in the cafeteria or whatever so we will have multiple people trained for dealing with seizures at that site particularly most of this one I think was diabetes yeah the diabetes part did not change one more okay so this is see this okay so they've listed it as an exhibit so this is where we will develop ours and they're suggesting some things here so okay so I'm glad that they've produced the form for us given us a form but we still need to have the steps and the procedures okay some doctors have better forms that they use or whatnot and there's one that's put out by um big seizure group or whatnot that is floating around out there as well so when we go to when we go to do it I can bring those with me and then we can consider what forms we want to approve as the you know as the district forms so okay all right do I have a motion to adjourn the workshop I make emotions when you join the workshop I'll second that motion Arlene Diaz all those in favor I'm Melinda sabroski hi Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rushton I Barbara zarziki aye Sheila Burnett okay I'm going to call to order the regular meeting of the school board on June or July excuse me July Thursday June 15th 2023 I'm sorry I saw it Thursday instead of July at 6 p no X 602 or thereabouts roll call Melinda sabreski here Charlene Diaz here Fred Rushton here Barbara zarzicki here Sheila Burnett here I invite you to say the Pledge with me please stand if you're able I pledge of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all citizens present we'd like you to sign in in the back of the room it's a way for us to keep track of who's here and who's not so please do that we're doing the call to the public uh this is the time that the public may speak to the governing board regarding issues within the jurisdiction of the governing board and subject to reasonable time space and Mana restrictions as the governing board May establish see policy b e d h comments will be limited to three minutes per individual unless specifically waived by the governing board at the conclusion of the call to the public individual members of the governing board May respond to criticism made by those who have addressed the board may ask staff to review a matter or may ask that a matter be placed on a future agenda however the governing board cannot take action on matters that have not been noticed in advance as part of the agenda do we have any calls to the public gave you anything no okay nothing moving on I need a motion to adopt the agenda I'll make a motion that we adopt the agendas presented Charlene Diaz I'll second the motion Fred Rustin all those in favor I'm Melinda sabrowski hi Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rushton hi Barb zarzicki aye Sheila Burnett I want you to look at this list when I opened this last night I said oh my goodness I know this is incredible this is truly truly incredible um I I just can't say enough you're going to read the list I am not going to read this for that it's way too much for me to read just giving you a hard time yeah I mean it's it's incredible it was fantastic um I can't thank people enough they're just it's fantastic it's other incredible okay okay I assume that a lot of the gift cards were the ones that we gave away at the end of the school year no these are ones that were specifically for that school oh really or uh teacher appreciation holy cow yeah the ones we gave away at the end um uh we purchased so no and and I suspect we should have more lists like this because there were lots of things donated to the other schools as well and so we can only put on here what they have submitted to us so um this is actually for one school holy cow teachers are appreciated yay very nice huh thank you everybody Dr Stewart have reports for it superintendent's report okay so um you have all the various documents there um Lance would you pull up the one that is the cumulative report please thank you so uh May was not awful it was not wonderful but it was not awful and I thought it was interesting that we ended up with 222 for a total that'll be interesting but one of the things that I truly appreciate about this that you all recommended and ask that we do it this way is this gives us a really good Baseline set of data to work from from for next year so that we can really make some comparisons as we Implement some of the behavioral changes and behavioral uh management plans and changes that we intend to make next year so that we can see if those if those changes are making a difference and uh well I will tell you that we all know that there's you know usually a year a group you know second grade group or a third good group that are a little more challenging than others sometimes but when you look at that you could actually see it where um I think it's third grade that was a little bit more of a challenging grade level this year and so it was kind of fun to see it in in numbers because you know you as an administrator or a teacher you always see that or you know that but you know you never write it down but no somebody says well what's your evidence and you're kind of going oh I don't know I've just seen a lot of third graders this year yeah yeah we kind of see those key years you know we've got third and sixth and eighth grade but um yeah and I think that I think you're right Charlene this will be a that will be interesting to track next year too so um okay uh if you have questions about any of the other things on there I'll be happy to address them before I give you some some miscellaneous update kinds of things actually I do want to show you Lance would you show the project tracker yeah that's the one I was going to ask so you see a number of things that are solid bars so you can see some things that are done so some were done earlier in the year like the uh the um Wellhead city sewer the early one when we did the whole restroom thing here um uh the Diamondbacks student entrance you see that it's gone Way Beyond the time that we had anticipated and um and uh in fact we could have marked it completed last week except the last bit of work was totally unacceptable and so Mark met with the superintendent for the job actually the superintendent came to the school to check on it uh the same about the same time Mark arrived and as soon as he got out of his pickup so he was like 60 or 70 feet away from the work as soon as he got out of his pickup he verbalized his discontent with the quality of work of his subcontractors so they are busily redoing some things up there but you see that our this is really exciting to me way ahead of schedule the 61 the initial 61 HVAC units and then the follow-up 30 units so 91 HVAC units installation in the district is complete they are all in and then we have over the course of this year probably have had a dozen that have been others that have been replaced by sfob so we have replaced over a hundred of our over a third of our HVAC units this year alone so I'm pleased that that project is done we're working on the carpet replacement uh they're Sunrise has been going really well Middle School next door has been going well um the crew showed up last week to start at Coyote and it was it was amazing what they got done in the first three days in all of the rooms that they were taking out carpet and whatever they had all of those rooms done in the first three days and started the actual work on the concrete on the fourth day so they're they're going gangbusters over there um and then fire pianos those with that whole replacement of all of our fire alarm systems would be complete except for the supply chain and uh and so for a couple of the sites we're still waiting for the actual panels to show up they're all the actual the actual panel that goes in the wall in the office so what are they doing they've done all the rewiring they've done all what is the the school doing if the panel's not well when we had school going on we had to have what was called 24 7.
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the next thing that we have done is that we have sched a new schedule for fifth grade instead of having them rotate every single class we are changing our fifth grade into two pods for teachers two each blocking classes together like science and math and Ela and social studies this lessens the movement of students and gives the teachers more opportunities to know and work with individual students based on their needs and now I will end like I do always at Cimarron Springs after announcements that's the news and go stallions do you have any questions I do um when you said hold on let me find it that your reading went up 35 that is wonderful the Lexile scores for read 180 yes so can you give us an Insight on what you did well um one of the first things that we did was hire a very experienced resource teacher for our special education students she came late in the year and she we had a contract teacher before that she took the bull by the horns and just really dug into the read 180 Program and completely did it with complete Fidelity and made sure that the students were tracking and monitoring and celebrating all of the small growth areas that is wonderful thank you I just want to congratulate you I didn't realize that you were the only school that had eighth grade go up in all subject areas that's amazing and I'm sure that your feeder High School is thankful because I know that's a that's a concern basically what what who the high schools inherit you know basically that determines how much work they have to do so I'm sure they very much appreciate as do the students and families that you're presenting students that are where they need to be and ready to learn ninth grade so good for you thank you thank you very much I hope Adam Schwartz appreciates that okay thank you so much thank you Madam president members of the board our next presenter is Amy Michaels from West Point good evening Madam president members of the board Dr Dean and members of cabinet my name is Amy Michaels and I am the proud principal of West Point Elementary School and it is my pleasure to be here tonight to share with you the progress that we are making towards our continuous Improvement plan so as we talk about celebrations one of those is our K3 reading curriculum rollout we have received positive feedback from teachers on the professional development that was provided and specifically teachers felt supported when they came back to campus our TLS worked very hard with those teachers to understand how to connect the curriculum with the standards we are proud of the progress that we made on strengthening El instructional practices for our English Learners this included training on El standards supporting teachers with integrated and targeted instructional practices providing walk-throughs with feedback to teachers and providing before school tutoring that targeted language acquisition campus approvement projects and beautification of our campus had a or as another celebration as it impacts our climate and culture as you know we had a long construction process with our new driveway we have a Fresh coat of paint a new roof and classroom window wraps were installed the last week of school and I do want to sneak in one more celebration that's with our arts and Athletics our campus had Willy Wonka performance at the end of the year and we're working to strengthen our dance band and Orchestra programs our flag football team we're champions of the region our baseball team was a runner-up and our cheer team had first place trophies for small group and two third place trophies as well like all campuses we have challenges our first is Staffing we know that our most important resource is our teachers and our staff some of our challenges this year with Staffing were that we had five teachers resign in the fall after the start of the year one of our first grade sections was unfilled all year leaving a class size of 32 first graders if you can even imagine two math interventionists and a social worker also remain unfilled and we are currently still working to fail for this coming year absenteeism was a struggle just like you heard with Miss Richards we had 195 staff absences that did not have sub coverages so when I calculated how many prep coverages that is it's 1 755 missed preps that's a lot student absenteeism is another struggle at West Point it's consistent across the country we had 200 students with 18 or more absences and that's just a lot of learning loss we do have some successes to celebrate the initial third grade aasa data indicated that we have double-digit growth in both in third grade for reading and for Math and our third graders also had higher than expected acadiance growth and we also anticipate that we have nearly all of our grades showing growth in proficiency on aasa so with successes they also can relate to our challenges so while we did show growth we continue to have challenges of large numbers of students who are minimally or partially proficient in both reading and math and two of our grade levels had lower than expected growth on their Dibbles marks so what are we doing the plan that we have in place to address our school challenges is through professional development we will have three focuses refinement of our PLC process school-wide behavior management support and instructional best practices so to refine our PLC practice we really want to put a focus on learning collaboration and results our theme for next year is moving learning forward and as we believe that there will be a shift from teaching to learning that we will see our proficiency levels and scores rise our IAP staff survey indicated that we can continue to improve by holding students to high expectations for behavior and academics one Innovative program that we are starting to address this is called zap zeros aren't permitted which will be run by our newly acquired academic interventionist the zap program will start in 5th through 8th grade and it will provide students who have a zero on any assignment time during their lunch before or after school to make sure they're getting support to finish those assignments and complete their work we've found that missing assignments were a consistent struggle with our fifth through 8th grade students and resulting in lower than expected number of students earning honor roll or principles list so the zap program is one way that we will work to increase the number of students who earn these honor recognitions and create a culture of learning and with that do you have any questions thank you very much um just quick question about the zap program how are you Staffing your before and after school availability so our academic interventionists which is our newly acquired Position will be in charge of that and so it won't be every day we'll have strategic days that students will be available to come either before or after school we have also set aside budget money where teachers can get paid to do that as well thank you thank you next we will move on to F2 Dr Dean thank you madam president members of the governing board cabinet in our community I'll turn this item over to Dr crota for presentation thank you Dr Dean Madam president members of the board cabinet and guests By Request of the governing governing board member we have a quick presentation on our provisions of waters related to our our Student Activities that are starting In the Heat of the summer so who supplies our water in a nutshell our athletic trainers on our high school campuses they provide water jugs for all our Sports including band if requested and with that the the athletic trainers have sports medicine students who intern with them and they are often the ones who assist on this task so when the athletic trainers are off campus obviously the head coach is going to be responsible for preparing water jugs and making sure that our students have plenty of water on why the activities are taking place so it's very important that the head coaches are in constant contact with the athletic trainers or the athletic directors to figure out who's going to be there when they're going to be there just to have that communication so they know that the students have water also as a note on this presentation is the athletic trainers are constantly they have um they have weather bulbs and they're constantly determining the weather conditions on our Fields so when it's time for increased water breaks how much amount of activity or Outdoors those are called wet bulbs that they monitor that comes across their phones we just got brand new ones for them so they checked the humidity levels and with that there's heat guidelines that you can see listed there as far as when our students should participate and it's relative to the humidity and the temperature outside so we have a constant a constant watch on that especially as it's starting to get hot now and and this week and next week and we definitely have a plan on who is supplying water and and how students get water so with that I will stop for any questions thank you for putting this presentation together um I just have a couple questions when it comes you mentioned band in here and I really appreciate that because that's where my brain automatically goes just being a band mom but obviously we have the concern with sports but with band it's it is this stating that athletic trainers are going to provide water for marching band athletic trainers will provide water um if requested for the band so they again they have to be in communication um and then as long as they're on campus that sometimes they're not on campus so they're not available but they will do it we've been in touch with all the athletic trainers and talk to the athletic trainers so they will be able to do that if requested and that they're there at the same time okay so obviously this is not just for an active game District sponsored game but this would be for practice that's correct and and summer camps correct okay so um I just wanted some clarity at no time well we might accept the offer obviously at no time would a parent organization be responsible for providing water for students Madam Madam president member Densmore um they I guess I guess that they can right we don't require them to do that that is obviously the school's responsibility and the head coach or the sponsor of the band right to fulfill that so they can do it we don't tell them they can't but it is not required of a parent's Club to do that that is a school responsibility and obviously the coach or the sponsor's responsibility right um I think with most of our our Sports and Outdoor activities especially over the summer just in the warmer months I know that it's it's common for a coach or a teacher or sponsor for whatever you know however you want to phrase that to request that the students bring their own water to the field and that that's practical and it makes sense correct but in the event that a student forgets their water at any time would we not allow a student to go and obtain water would we ever tell a student that they cannot leave the field to go get water absolutely not obviously we tell our coaches and our band teachers they are to build in breaks in their practice schedules we have those meetings with them and more breaks needed as the temperature rises and it gets hotter obviously and it depends on what type of activity um you know if you're in a football practice for instance and you're covered with pads and a helmet you need to pay attention to that because that's a hotter environment but if a student needs water a student should be permitted to get water if a student forgets water there should be an Avenue of which a student gets water it's very dangerous in these hot temperatures to not have water and stay hydrated so with that I will add two it's important for our coaches and our athletes to stress that hydration doesn't occur during practice is an all-day thing you can't catch up in a two-hour practice to be hydrated for stuff you haven't not been drinking all day after you drink soda all day and all the stuff where you didn't drink any liquids to think you're going to hydrate during the activity when you're using a lot of liquid so it's important for our athletes and our band members that they're drinking water all day long to keep that hydration up it's very important and we stress that thank you so much okay quick question looking at the heat guidelines I remember many many many years ago and I think Dr Dean you were probably put in charge of this um project at the time we didn't have we I was concerned about heat index and how it's much different than temperatures and how it pertains to students and being hydrated and things like that is that what this is do we still have that in place Madam president member Pritchard yes you are correct it was many years ago yes you are correct I was put in charge of that project and the degrees that you have in front of you are heat index numbers the wet bulb Globe thermometers measure heat index so they take into account both heat humidity and any wind factor as well when they measure that and we to this day send out heat alerts in the months of August and September and sometimes October so everybody still follows us you are correct that's great thank you and I do have a question is it up to the individual sponsor or coach to determine what 25 work and 75 rest looks like yes in a way um because they're in charge of building their practice schedule so they know exactly what they're doing when when they're doing that so yes we put the coaches in charge of that because they're in charge of their practices so yes and this information is given to coaches and sponsors okay there's a preseason meeting with every single sport in our district so Elementary wise as well as high school-wise I I may add as well that there are times often or there are many times where especially football coaches will push the start of practice back in terms of time cross-country coaches will practice early in the morning or late at night to make sure that our students are in the best environment possible the AIA ironically to reference them in my last meeting the AIA also has heat acclimation requirements that students or student athletes must participate in in order to be active in each season thank you you're welcome okay next we will move on to item G1 Dr Dean thank you madam president members of the governing board cabinet in our community this evening will bring uh to the board a recommendation to reclassify the uh superintendent uh executive assistant from grade D to grade e the board has received information via email on this item previously do we have any questions okay then I will move to approve the job reclassification for the superintendent's office as presented second motion made by Crystal Chapman seconded by Don Densmore motion carries we will move on to G2 Dr Dean thank you madam president member of the government board cabinet in our community this item is a yearly item that's brought to the board that names those in the district who are able to enter into written agreements contracts purchase orders and property control it consists of cabinet our purchasing administrator and our Director of Finance thank you do we have any questions let me just clarify that for just a moment they're the ones who are able to sign the agreement thank you okay I will move to adopt the resolution naming authorized signers for a written agreements contracts purchase orders and property control for the 2023-2024 fiscal year motion made by Crystal Chapman seconded by Joe Grant foreign motion carries we will move on to G3 thank you madam president members of the governing board cabinet and our community this evening I will turn this item over to Dr polling good evening Madam president members of the board cabinet Community Administration is proud to recommend Nestor Felix for the position of assistant principal at Valley Vista High School for the 23-24 school year Mr Felix received a master's degree in education relationship from Capella University he has extensive educational experience as well as five years administrative experience with Glendale Union High School District he will receive salary and benefits commissioned with the position his education and experience his resume is attached for Board review a comprehensive selection process was used to identify Mr Felix for this position and with that Mr Felix is with us this evening and with that I'll stand for any questions thank you do we have any questions okay I will move to approve the appointment of Nestor Felix as high school assistant principal motion made by Crystal Chapman seconded by Christine Pritchard motion carries congratulations [Applause] thank you we will move on to item G4 Dr Dean thank you madam president members of the governing board cabinet and our community back to Dr crotto you mean Poland I'm sorry Dr polling thank you it's one of the doctors and it's not me thank you madam president members of the board cabinet community we are proud to recommend Angela bonds for the position of assistant principal at Sunset Hills Elementary School for the 23-24 school year Miss bonds received a master's degree in educational Administration from Grand Canyon University thank you she has extensive educational experience it is currently the school data Improvement specialist for Dysart she'll receive a salary and benefits commensurate with the position her education and experience her resume is attached for review and a comprehensive selection process was used to identify Miss spawns for this position and Miss bonds is also in attendance tonight and with that I'll stand for any questions thank you do we have any questions all right I will move to approve the appointment of Angela bonds as Elementary School assistant principal motion made by Crystal Chapman seconded by Don Densmore motion carries congratulations [Applause] next we will move on to G5 Dr Dean thank you madam president members of the governing board cabinet in our community because you've heard from all members of a cabinet this evening except one we felt it was important to give the other one an opportunity to speak as well and so Mr Hicks will be providing information on the 23-24 proposed budget thank you very much good evening Madam president members of the board superintendent Dr Dean um uh thank you very much for this Mr Hicks I don't think your microphone's on it is on my apologies um I guess uh I'll be missing this banter mrex I think your microphone is off again I know we've talked a lot about the budget in the last few months um and and oh my God Renee can you check the lights thank you thank you very much Mr Hicks is your office locked oh God never shared that story um so have we've been talking about a lot of the factors going into our budget for Nick oh my God is this for real going on right now I'm sorry we appear to be having some technical issues I think that we're probably good more confetti cannons I know I think we're good though all right thank you very much ah [Laughter] hey they did it to me too so we're good I guess I didn't think of it as abuse until you get it done to yourself sorry I apologize for that okay Mr Hicks we are now ready for your proposed budget all right thank you very much so as we have worked through the budget stuff the last three months a lot we actually started back in October November working on student projections we worked on our student benefit package our records retention Stipe in January the benefits in February the IBA recommendations from last month are legislative budget process our legislative budget from last month the projected increases utility rates are inflation impact our minimum wage the with all of that The Marvelous Miss marydale spidel and her amazing team take all of those different inputs and they um take the state budget forms and they put it all together and so we now have our state our actual proposed budget that we are asking for approval the approval of this budget it will allow us to post it it is a two-step process which is a very good thing because what we want to do is be able to post that this is our approved proposed budget that will be considered and July 13th so that our community has a chance to look at it so once uh tonight's done we will post it on our website we'll get it done posted on ade's website all the appropriate postings so that our community can take a look at it I know that I stated during our IBA recommendations that our Arizona legislature did an amazing job for school districts this is the second year in a row that they've gone above and beyond with funding beyond what my projections were and where I was hearing we were going so we were very appreciative of that and we're very appreciative of the support of our community that provides to our budget as well so we're very thankful the additional funds there were additional funds that came out of it out of the budget process with the legislature as discussed during our IBA recommendations our IBA process was to not commit those funds and just to hold them for the future for next year's budget and so this has all those additional Revenue but we really just put it into our reserves and not committing it to Future expenses so with that I will wrap up the proposed budget and stand for any questions thank you Mr Hicks thank you very much do we have any questions Dr Dean do you have any questions I do not have any questions at this time okay with that I will move to approve the 2023-2024 proposed budget motion made by Crystal Chapman seconded by Joe Grant oh Jenny Drake motion carries thank you next we will move on to G6 Dr Dean Madam president members of the governing board cabinet in our community this item was pulled from consent for discussion and I will turn it over to the board thank you very much hold on just a second we're not sure this is actually is a real technology glitch okay we're good now okay um we're doing the um right yeah six more days can can you um you share where in the budget the funding for this comes from Madam president officer um are you asking exactly what page it's on page one of eight and line sorry um line four under purchase services it's for the greater Phoenix management council is that what we're talking about okay so I'm sorry which bucket uh page one of eight on the budget you said where in the budget does it come out I believe that the question is the code fund Eminem sorry ml fund sorry you're welcome but thank you when you said where in the budget and I got the whole budget here perhaps we could go over the revised budget or the proposed budget again it's over from every page if we'd like to go through page he got all excited I asked a budget question what was what was the answer to that question Eminem Dr Dean since you have had have attended these events can you speak to the benefit of this Madam president member Densmore I can speak to the advantages that we've had in being part of guppy Mac so Dysart school district has been part of guppy MEC for as long as I've been at the district office which has been 15 years perhaps earlier than that we are one of the larger districts in guppy Mac as a matter of fact I believe the largest districts consists of us Scottsdale Chandler and I believe Deer Valley are the largest school districts that are involved in guppy MEC the benefits come from a couple of areas guppy Mac provides workshops throughout the course of the school year that are attended by our educational services staff so our director of curriculum instruction and assessment are curriculum Specialists attend these meetings and there are opportunities to engage in collaborative work with school districts across the county to work to really share stories of successes look for instructional strategies that are being beneficial in various School populations and to to refine our instructional approaches as it comes as it relates to what we bring back and and discuss and share with our staff additionally guppy Mech holds workshops for superintendents and those workshops consist of some similar opportunities conversations related state board the State Board of Education guppy Mac serves as a as a liaison between school districts and the State Board of Education as well as opportunities for legislative pieces as well guppy Mac was one of the groups that was instrumental in working with the legislature both last year and this year one of many groups that worked with the legislature increasing funding to education from a purely personal perspective guppy Mech was an opportunity this year for me as a new superintendent to collaborate with 59 other superintendents and and really focus conversation on what was best for students not only in our district but for the valley as well and while there are at times differing views in terms of what that is it's great conversation that leads to opportunities to bring back to to our piece it's a great for a new superintendent it's a great opportunity um for collaboration with a large number of other superintendents that you would not typically have as well as the Education Services benefits those are the pieces that I would say that we benefit from thank you and I know that you mentioned um some other staff attending these meetings but this specific item for this specific IGA is that just for the superintendent attendance um Madam president member Densmore this specific item is for the entire guppy Mech package so our yes our I believe it's a three-year agreement that we enter into with guppy MEC um is it is it five I'm sorry yeah a five-year agreement and um I believe unless I've misread and someone can clarify for me that this is an agreement that is for the whole package the amount that we pay as a district is or that all districts pay is based upon your student enrollment and we are as we are one of the larger districts in guppy Mac we are in the the highest tier and I believe the amount for the district per year is ten thousand forty nine dollars or ninety four I may have had a little bit of a dyslexic moment there would you say as far as like what as far as new superintendent goes ASA do they provide a lot of that guidance and mentoring and education Madam president uh member Pritchard I think the answer to your question are these are two different um two different organizations the the biggest piece from a mentoring perspective that's provided to superintendents in the state now is through Grand Canyon University and their superintendent collaborative Network I was part of that Dr crota was signed up to be part of that as well and that is free of charge to uh to school districts you're provided a mentor the Grand Canyon University works with you work not only with your Mentor but with Grand Canyon University four times during the course of the year that's great mentorship ASA and guppy Mech have different uh different missions and different approaches in terms of what they're doing guppy Mech is focused substantially more on the educational end of of schools ASA is focused more on the school administration and um and administrative type tax tasks correctly just in looking at their budget am I reading it correctly where it looks like the majority of that of their revenue goes toward the salary of the executive director and the advocacy coordinator salary of like 260 000 of the four hundred and five thousand Madam president member Pritchard according to this document that would be correct I would note that in just looking at this uh quickly that um it states that that is salary and benefits for both of those pieces so that would be a total package for the two staff that are listed there with guppy MEC but still the majority of their revenue that goes to that it would appear to be more than 50 percent and I just saying Peoria I don't see them on the list as being members we probably don't have any information as to why Madam president Pritchard I've never worked in the Peoria School District okay I was curious if you knew why they weren't on here I do have a question so when you have these professional developments who designs the workshops and the programs how has that decided what is going to be presented to the superintendents and the people attending these sessions Madam president the answer is uh to that question is that guppy Meck also holds uh boards for each area uh so there is a working board for the education end there's a working board for the superintendent end as well we have had we have had our staff serve as presidents of those boards in the educational services end or or working components in that board as they work to design that so we've had a really big hand in that in the past in terms of that piece as a new superintendent I felt it was inappropriate for me to be part of that board even though I've been parts of other boards before and then how closely does the guppy Mech how closely do they work with the Ade Madam president I'm not certain how closely they work with Ade I do know that that they as well as ASA asbo other alphabet organizations you know seek out opportunities to work with both the legislature the State Board of Education and Ade as well in terms of their frequency I don't know the answer to that question and then do you know having attended some of these what types of subjects what types of professional developments what are some session topics that are presented to a superintendent or anybody else Madam presidents are some of the items that they discuss are ways to work successfully with the State Board of Education legislative um Connections in how to work with your local legislators which is a very important thing to do to communicate with our local legislators I know Mr Hicks wears out his computer every year in turn you know emailing information and providing that and and it's important that our legislators hear from education leaders in their communities so that they understand the issues that are faced there those are a couple of the big projects additionally you've seen in many CIP presentations that absenteeism is an issue it's an issue not only in the state it's an issue in the country so timely topics such as that would be items that are discussed and you know sharing of ideas of how people are being successful or seeking out ways not those are just some small examples of of things that happen in guppy neck thank you sure I have a question um when you talked about the legislative part if if we weren't if the district wasn't part of this could you still contact the legislators and discuss Madam president member Drake anyone can contact a legislator at any time um you know this is like okay and then since we've attended over the years and obviously we've benefited from it what have we brought back to Dysart that's been a positive influence from this from participating in this for so many years what have we benefited from it Madam president member Drake I will tell you that up until this year of the last 15 I have not been involved in the education side of the district office my piece has been more related to support services Athletics overseeing High School components that weren't education based and so from the last several years I can't answer that question I will tell you that as a new superintendent I found it to be incredibly valued valuable and I would state that it would be the same for Dr crotto the value that he would receive in in going into this agreement would be it would be very beneficial as a brand new superintendent and I believe that there's an out clause in the guppy Mech agreement with a 90-day notice I believe there's an out clause as well I did notice the out clause um so with that said we would have to do this if we were to approve tonight and if we found that it was not being beneficial we would need to cancel 90 days prior to the next renewal is that am I understanding that correctly Madam president member Densmore the out clause asks that or requires that um that the cancellation be 90 days prior to the end of a fiscal year okay so it could be as early I would say February probably is your safest bet March that's probably the March timeline is what you would be looking at if you were to enter in and then consider terminating the agreement April May June March would be the time that you would that conversation would would need to happen my math was a little off there with February and do you have any insight what kinds of things does this coordinator do the the coordinator that they pay in the guppy Mech Madam president the um from my understanding um the coordinator not only works with the various boards sorry executive director I'm sorry is that what it means I'm sorry that's the correct um yeah the my understanding the executive director uh works with the various boards in leading the board for Education Services and the board for the superintendent uh planning workshops works with them to plan those pieces he facilitates all of the company meetings throughout the course of the year he is he is the liaison between the State Board of Education and the 60 school districts um he's the one who would seek out opportunities to meet with the governor's education staff Ade uh as well as the State Board of Education and then would also facilitate conversations as it relates to guppy mix um concerns and or support interest to the legislature as well so if I'm looking thank you so much thank you for that thank you if I'm looking at the budget the executive director salary full-time is 160 Grand 930 for the whole package and then is is this how it's broken down the contract it looks like it's got 160 930 dollars for salary benefits and then it's got Consultants another eight thousand um then we're paying indirect costs and dues and fees I'm not quite sure do we know what the dues and fees are or is this are these memberships for the executive directory and the and the advocacy coordinator or these memberships for our superintendents and staff who are part of this Madam president uh I'm going to assume um that it's the first part of what you discussed it is not related to benefits for our staff however one piece I might add is that um there's nothing timely to tonight's agenda with this and we could actually seek out additional information from guppy Mac and or have their executive director come to the next meeting in July and answer questions directly to the board or provide information directly to the board as it relates specifically to their budget I'm I'm not involved in their budget enough to answer those questions okay because it looks it looks like he's getting a base salary but then they're getting all this other money I don't know if it looks like does it look like this is stuff we're paying or yeah understand that you know I their their membership or their their budget is based upon membership dues um I believe that they are again I'm going off my own understanding and not knowing their budget but I believe that I know that the vast majority of their budget comes from membership dues uh in terms of exactly what that breakdown is and where it goes I don't know the answer to that question but we can get that for you thank you and I'm just curious because there's a lot of mention about another school district in the IGA document are the meetings located at that school district Madam president member Densmore I believe you're referring to the albuqueria school district so um the the handling of the budget for guppy met goes through the Iowa Fria School District however the meetings are held throughout the county and the they could be anywhere from there was one held in the southwest Valley recently earlier in the year there was one held in jail Combs School District which is a really long way away from here right they're held in the North Valley and they're held all over the place yes they thank you they rotate I'm feeling like we probably have overwhelmed you with a lot of questions about this and I'm sorry I just don't know the answers to some of them no no that's okay yeah but I um I like the idea of maybe tabling this until the July meeting how everyone else feels and we can certainly reach out to um to Mr Carlson their executive director uh and and gather more information and um make sure that Dr croto has that for you for the next meeting uh does anybody else have thoughts I'm fine with tabling it um I moved to table the IGA with guppy Mac bringing that back into in the July meeting motion made by Don Densmore seconded by Christine Pritchard I believe it's John the 13th good to get who made the motion done done seconded by Christine motion carries next we will move on to G7 Dr Dean thank you madam president members of the governing board cabinet in our community um this item was requested to move from consent to action discussion I'll turn it back to the board thank you did you do it again did we do it again oh yeah I got it I do have a question on this um is there a way that I could get what the process for this is the correct process um Madam President we members of the board we advertised pushed it out on Facebook we had a Google form that they submitted a letter of interest we collected all the names some of them sent in resumes took all the eligible candidates that met the criteria could not be an employee that you know live within our district took it to Cabinet discussed everybody and brought those three recommend the ones an incumbent but talked about the names for recommendation because I know that one of them currently served as a chairperson so they didn't have to reapply they didn't have to submit anything they were just just reappointed nope they submitted a letter of interest and so they did send us an email saying yes they're willing to continue to serve okay okay so there wasn't an interview process it was yep is that unusual interview process um Madam president I don't I think this started around 2009 2010 so I wasn't here at the very beginning the last six years we've just had vacancies when we promote we don't get anybody sometimes we just take whoever we can get um and so really we're just looking for letter of interest there's not a lot of qualifications we're looking at an overview we're looking at making sure there's an oversight reviewing recommendations and making sure that we're looking out for the wellness and well-being of our employees through the benefits plan so really there's only three criteria there's no job description that you need to do any of that you just have to be present and pay attention and give us your honest feedback how many people did we have apply we're trying to decipher the exact amount my assistance out what is it um Madam president member Pritchard uh we believe we had 11 people that actually started the process to show interest of which six actually continued moving forward we had a couple of employees who were interested they are not eligible to be part of this board who provides recommendations back to our governing board our rigorous interview process and if they're we're looking for two people and we had 11 and then down to six I was just curious as to why we wouldn't have give those people the opportunity to speak to their talent or experience rather than just having it be a subjective conversation Madam president member Pritchard the questions are valid we are using a process that was developed in 2009 when we started the employee trust board and we've just Contin been continuing with that process to the best of my knowledge and can I ask can you just kind of give us an overview what exactly does the the board of the trust what exactly is their role for our district can you just kind of clarify that for everybody um Madam president members of the board because we have a self-insured trust we're required to have a board and that required to be four times a year that is the legal requirement we have bylaws um that I give a little bit more definition and really they just listen to presentations they vote to support recommendations but all the power rests with our governing board so they do not have authority to change our benefits plans or packages normally before not normally every time before I brought any benefit decision before the board I make sure I run it by far by them but first just to make sure they're on board sometimes they'll frame just uh inquiries and questions about how and what we're doing and that will frame what and how we're doing and how we're presenting different benefit packages to the board and then do you feel like um the benefits trust the board has been successful and accomplished all of its goals in the past years Madam president members of the board the only legal requirement is they meet so that yes they meet that requirement so we are in compliance from that standpoint we have actually there's a couple of our benefit Wellness items that have come out of members on there really it was through their own experience of their own employees said hey we do this can we look at it and and then we looked at it and we have implemented it so there has been some successes but the biggest thing we want is we don't operate in a vacuum they represent our community and we want to know what we're doing and what we're providing and they just listen and give us their feedback thank you and these these meetings happened just once per quarter um Madam president members aboard we do it a little bit more but yes a minimum once per quarter okay they're in board docs so you can go back and see we post all of ours we follow the open meeting law we have recognize if there's any guests there I think there's been one in six years or two in six years but we do the same thing and we have follow-all open meeting law who who all is present normally outside of like the one-time visitor but who's who's President so it would be the the Board of Trustees yourself and then who else Madam president members of the board I am a member so I am on the board or um and then we have my assistant who takes all the notes to make sure our meeting goes well we have our benefits manager Miss Janice peel and our Director of Finance Mary Dell will be there sometimes we'll have our benefit consultants and sometimes we'll bring in Blue Cross Blue Shield people or different benefit providers um that may happen once probably once a year on those type of things do we have any other questions okay all right with that I will move to appoint the trustees to the employee benefits trust board motion made by Crystal Chapman seconded by Joe Joe Grant thank you motion carries next we will move on to H1 request for future agenda items Madam president I'm not sure if it's proper but I have about a three-page list that I would like to encourage for future agenda items uh timer where's the timer when Renee how about them lights do we have any requests I yeah in lieu of the the recent conversation I would like to request a an item to discuss the process to appoint future Trustees for the benefits trust board are we able to include like just in general like all appointed boards how the district does that or do you just went specific to trust I like your idea all boards committees whatever we want to call that Madam president member Densmore Miss Pritchard you can ask for any agenda items you'd like after July 1st but yes um the the all kidding aside um cabinet would be happy to provide that presentation do we have any others all right with that that leads us to i1 another confetti cannon for Dr Dean just kidding motion to adjourn the meeting I move that we adjourn the meeting motion made by Crystal Chapman seconded by Don or Joe Jenny pick one Jennifer Drake it's hard to hear like I hear a voice down there but no I didn't I did not vote no I didn't thought about it I always think about it motion carries we're adjourned
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this is the first reading um I did not look through them yet we have the first reading and then we approve the second reading next month um between then and now I will read through them I suggest you do as well Andrea Corey has stepped in for Scott middle camp and Adam hemkin is still the other person that's the go-to for the policies so as you're reading through it if there's things that you see that you need to correct let us know but other than that we recommend that you approve the first reading of the press policies and we'll have some questions we have to answer yeah next week I'll go through them in more detail and I'll email you all my thoughts and be like to make a motion to approve our first reading of the board policy press issue 112.
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Motion in a second discussion seeing it all in favor say aye aye opposed 5-0 9.11 lease lease back agreement AP Construction Group Inc DBA air plus District white HVAC Replacements RFP 2023-08 second any questions discussion seeing none all in favor say aye aye aye opposed by zero 9.12 selection of least lease back contractor for Cypress High School track and field RFP uh 2023-23 so moved second any discussion I have a question okay and this was uh okay this is uh AFE Sports for this project can I ask Patty is that the new name of the because when we were at the city council meeting on Monday the map I thought it started with an H yes so yeah oh that's the architect okay architect is Huckabee Architects so yes so they um was awarded that project um last year and it's already at the DSA level so okay so we're ready to get a radio contractor um to go so that when the plans comes out from the divisional State architect we are ready to go we're ready to go okay got it because I I was confused here I thought wait a minute I saw a different name but that was the architect okay any other questions nope seeing none all in favor say aye aye opposed five zero nine point one three selection of least lease back contractor for orange view Junior High School site improvements RFP 20 23-24 so second we have a motion in a second any discussion seeing that all in favor say aye aye aye opposed it's 5-0 ah we have 9.14 open this is the public hearing for ethnic studies courses so we open a public hearing anybody wishing to speak on it seeing none we close the public hearing next is 9.15 public hearing revised board policy 7807 and in parentheses uh independent study first reading that's information only and open the public hearing anybody wishing to speak seeing none we close the public hearing 9.16 Title One school-wide program status Polaris High School so moved second second Motion in a second any discussion seeing none all in favor say aye aye aye opposed not five zero 9.17 memorandum memorandum of understanding mou Cypress College supporter Magnolia High School cyber security pathway hello second any discussion exciting exciting yes all in favor say aye aye aye opposed 50 9.18 was polled prior to the adoption of the agenda so we move on to 9.19 Grant award teacher residency implementation Grant so I moved second Motion in a second any discussion yes the quick um explanation of what this means it's a grant opportunity to help address some of the teacher shortages that we're faced with the state so it's a student teaching program where the student teachers in this program get reimbursed for their tuition fees Etc but and they get additional wraparound Support Services through their teaching student teaching experience and if they complete I think so many years I think it's five years of teaching then they get reimbursed with their with all their fees and whatnot so it's a great way to encourage folks to get into the profession with a lot of their their costs covered and this goes to 20 20 .
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so the most of those buildings were not um were not being occupied by families and then anecdotally from staff is that the buildings that are being built 2019 to now that are not using premiums are usually for um couples or um they're but they're luxury units so um there's not a lot of family housing being built and that in talking to the non-profit developers sometimes it was when the frustrations was that families aren't necessarily looking to live in the downtown they might want to live adjacent to the downtown or in neighborhoods where there's more places where there's yards and parks and that are much more accessible right but as we do rezoning it for more density we're going to be losing some of that excess Green Space that we have from outside downtown and so that's something asking because if we're looking towards what the future of the Ann Arbor is going to look like then what happens to people who even if they were living downtown as they were younger and now there aren't those you know single-family homes that you had from before and they want to be able to have a family um are the units being built accessible for that and part of it does go into the affordability like what Arthur was asking what the Walmart clerk um although in this case I would say Target because that's what's down downtown or even you know I I had previously looked at what the salary was for say a first year nurse um at U of at U hospital and put this out you know and the salary for that is isn't really that high the same with someone who's teaching in their first couple of years even when you combine the two right and so if you were going to do was it far versus the premium um which one would be which one would attract them could attract a family at that uh salary point okay I hear what you're saying so if I can repeat back the is it the same answer well what I'm hearing from you is that there's a concern about a family or two income family that's making a teacher a nurse and would they be able to find housing in the downtown that would be affordable and attractive to them um in uh at a stage of life where they have a family right something where they're going to stay long term so they're not turned into transient and having to move once they start that family okay thank you for that clarification stay long-term okay got it thank you that's an excellent point anything else all right Travis did you have more to share oh no okay okay first need I'm going to assume that you you said um yeah I'm done I just noticed my hand was still always there it's hard on Zoom it's hard on Zoom so all right Travis yeah and I will I will try to be brief I know we've been having this conversation for a long time but we we're having a really good conversation and um we don't often get to have these kind of like open-ended brainstorming sessions so I actually have two questions for the group um as somebody who will eventually have to make a decision on this and Megan as the facilitator here feel free to shut me down if you think that they're not helpful to the conversation um so going back to actually Lucy's original uh or one of Lucy's comments um around the concerns of payment in lieu um I guess Lucy maybe this question is for you but maybe more directed to the to the body also is um what is the I guess what what is the primary concern with the payment in lieu what is the the end goal that you're looking for is it more affordable units or because I I see the benefits of both right we we hear from if with a payment in lieu we can often turn that into more units but then we're also creating the potential problem of segregating affordable housing from market rate housing if every developer is doing payment in lieu and so as a policy maker I would be interested in hearing from all of you kind of what when we're kind of balancing those priorities potentially more units but they're not mixed in with mixed income or forcing some mixed income is there is there a priority for the body really that's for anyone and Lucy also you I don't mean to put you on the spot if you don't have an answer for that either um and so just something to think about if anybody wants to chime in [Music] yeah Arthur I think it's more so for the diversity because you have older people that the seniors you have younger people that you know want to find a way to live and to stay in the Ann Arbor area you know and so you have to try to come up with a way to and I know this is hard to defend them to to please everyone because no one can come up with a plan that's gonna make everybody happy but when you start talking about diversity you know that there's not always the same income levels for everyone you know so you have to try to make the city of Ann Arbor home to everyone that wants to live and be a part of Ann Arbor okay thank you I think this is this is touching on what Julia said earlier about the state level action on inclusionary zoning which would allow the city to just require a certain percentage of affordable units I think if we knew that the repeal of the preemption for inclusion of inclusionary zoning was likely or imminent then at least in the short term I as a tenant would feel like okay we just need to maximize the number of affordable units in the short term and eventually we'll have a better solution down the road because I am concerned about the you know the segregation issue but as a long-term solution I think the more we would leave the the pain Loop of of doing affordable um I'm sorry it's pay in lieu of uh building affordable housing units right building and managing the affordable housing units right and to be clear they're not just buying out of it they're paying into the affordable housing fund into the right which would add on top of the millage money so i i as a long-term solution I think it's really it's not satisfactory right because um the longer we let that go on the more segregated the city would get in terms of income um and that's not good but it's just short term just because of the the severity of the crisis I feel like I would be supportive of it if uh if we knew that the long term a better long-term solution was coming let's see yeah I don't have as good of a sense of this as I want but my thinking is that I'm not sure if this is true if there's um developers who are already building downtown or wherever and they have a timeline for where they want to build because they're motivated by getting it done and renting out those units and those affordable it's kind of um the opposite of what's sacrificing I'm thinking like affordable units will be created more quickly if they don't um if that if the affordable housing units are on the back of the developer because I'm pretty sure that the um all affordable housing units that are done by the non-profit developers this is kind of what Robert was saying it's a lot harder for them to get those projects off the ground and so it ends up taking a long time to build some more affordable housing which is why I feel like it's a it's a problem if developers choose the or if they're consistently and always choosing the option of uh paying in lieu instead of making space for more affordable affordable housing units and it's my suspicion that they um that it's the preference of developers to do that because it's easier on them not to have affordable housing units because when I read the reports of here here are all these new building projects and then the teeny tiny number of them that are affordable is a problem it's a problem for diversity and it's a problem for making space downtown for affordable housing and yeah I mean those are the buildings that are being built quickly and we have to make sure that some of that many more of those units are affordable I feel like the in lieu gets in the way of that could be wrong though I'm really this is I'm just spelling out the logic I haven't studied this or anything I'd like to learn more about it because I think I'm from Ann Arbor for a long time but I lived in I was living in California and in DC and they're the experiences that it takes a long I mean it's more expensive to build there but it takes quite a few years for the city you know to get enough or the Housing Authority I should say to get enough money in the payment in lieu or the pilot in order to be able to then build that affordable housing complex um I assume it doesn't take quite as long as there but look here because it is the cost per square foot to build just isn't as much however just out of curiosity how long does it take when to fill the coffers enough to be able to to build that next complex for the city minus the afford the the millage and and you know the potential bond that you guys are passing that could pass I can give a very brief answer although you know at some point Jennifer Hall might be uh the best person for to answer that um but but ultimately I mean one of the so financing is absolutely uh one of the challenges and we we have projects right now that were actually slated for approval that because of the high cost of construction they're getting delayed um and and because the the cost per square foot was just astronomical um and so we are running into that challenge um one of the one of the benefits of having the dollars in the affordable housing coffers is that you know Jennifer has said to us before that one of the things that the Housing Commission can do is take every one dollar that a private developer would step in and probably turn it into three dollars from from matching from private funding sources and also um federal federal and state grants that she can take advantage of that they couldn't take advantage of um and so we can generally kind of much generally as a rule I say that we can kind of triple the the investment in affordable housing with a payment in lieu but it does create some of those other challenges and so um thank you to everyone for the feedback on that and then Megan if you'll bear with me I have one more question for them but I think maybe this is more directed to what you're getting at um but do you know what kind of a rough estimate for how long it takes with that it depends on the size of the project uh right so like some of our projects are much smaller than others and so it would take a significantly smaller pool of money um and then also right now because housing caught or because the construction costs are so high it's taking a lot more money than it did a year or two ago but it's still several years though right I don't know yeah and and for any developer whether it's for-profit or non-profit usually from beginning to end it's a five to seven year project so from when they have the idea and have an option in the land to when they've either totally have that housing up and rented or they've totally sold sold all the units out of it it's a when do when does when does the city I guess get the or the Housing Authority get that payment then from them in that process is it like when the Project's approved increments along the way okay I believe they get it when they look to when when they're first looking to get building permits so they have to put that in and and so when they're first starting to break ground or things like that and that can be typically I think that's a year after they've gotten their approvals and some their their approvals at Planning Commission City Council so um so if the city wanted to use the the pilot money um to build like a 100 unit complex then roughly like how you know how long does it take to build the coffers for that it it it it depends on how much money is coming in from other payments how much money is coming in from the millage and the millage I I I I mean I I don't have the answer and I think that would be a hard thing to figure out with the millage because we've got we don't have good data we just you just went through a pandemic which really affected the rate of building um so um I I and I can see it is is your question it's part of your question dealing with time is it yeah it's just time because as we because even if you take you know the dollar out to make it worth three dollars each time it's still it still takes a long time when you have when you have to do it that way correct um it still takes some time you're you're going to see the the affordable housing millage build funds in that affordable housing fund um and then from the moment you got that dollar to the city let's say somebody paid in lieu that it depends the city could already have a project that they're looking to do that they can immediately put those funds into and the but they're probably planning that will probably affect their plans five years down the road in terms of can I look for more property can we can Kim you know can we do this can we do that and some of it also um is it is staff and managing too because you have to manage permits and things like that and so the more housing you build the more housing you have to manage as well so does the payment only really make that much of a difference if we have the affordable housing mileage or if we had bonds um to the millage the millage is something the city could borrow against and that in lieu the analogy I would make is if you think of the in-loo payments as bonuses those are funds that you're not expecting or banking on along the way to come into your affordable housing fund um and there's a CO there might be an opportunity cost um in terms of a developer might choose not to build as many units if and their financers might say we are uncomfortable with you building we're uncomfortable with you you know managing 20 of the units as affordable so we're going to pull our financing whereas the financer might be more comfortable with a hundred percent in lieu because they can just put that in and that's something that they can put in their calculations and be done with so all right and sorry then this this will be a really quick one um I promise um so and so the other reason that we're doing so this is the second time that I've seen this presentation and Megan thank you because I know one of your partners did energy commission um this is really helpful one of the reasons we're going to all these commissions I believe is because as you saw from that original one of those original slides there were a lot of priorities that we were trying to incentivize with premiums um you know one of the things that I'm personally encouraged by right now is that I'm not hearing anyone talk about that you know we should be incentivizing more parking spaces using land for parking spaces um but um one of one of the questions that I think we're trying to get at from going to all these commissions is what are the priorities from all of these different interest groups around the city all of these different um constituencies and I think what I'm hearing pretty loud and clear at this table is that affordability and affordable housing is the top priority um but I know that you know we have we have a number of other prior for the city as well and so you know sustainability is one of those things and so to the extent around you know I I think I'm hearing maybe consensus around this group really wants us to to utilize premiums a small menu of premiums to impact affordability foreign and then and then after Julia I'm going to turn it over to Kristen because you guys have gone over two hours I don't know how long you usually go I I would just like to add to that Travis is that I do feel that affordability is easier if definitely and with density you will have a reduced carbon footage no question it's cheaper to heat an apartment than it is a single family house it's cheaper if you can walk to the co-op instead of having to drive there um I will reach out to Jennifer Hall with housing commissions [Music] education needed um last year kind of I think kind of in the fall or maybe it was late summer there was a really small um a small group of renters Commissioners attended a presentation and I think it would be helpful to get something like that again especially now that we have um I think since then six or more new members so um I'll reach out to be this one [Music] affordability process for students answered um and then also thank you to Megan this was a fantastic presentation um really answered the group's questions thoroughly um so thanks well thank you for the opportunity and thank you all for spending part of your evening with me I know your time is valuable and I really appreciate um your time and your input thanks for coming you're welcome thank you thank you very much okay so um that was a great presentation I know we're going kind of late um let's see moving on to the next point of business which is 7-c the tenant education committee engagement event presentation now I know it's very late one second I apologize um yes so the uh Senate education committee presentation and I was wondering do you all feel that we should go forward with that presentation tonight or should we postponed again it was already postponed once it's running so late I guess I'd be inclined to postpone if the others are on board with that is it time sensitive at all I guess that would be my question answer Jimmy no okay no not time sensitive um I would just say if anyone has a chance to kind of look through the slides and um especially for our new Commissioners if you have any interest in like joining us for further conversation I know it's hard when you haven't gotten the full background um but um we would definitely welcome you to attend our education committee meeting and we can give you more information about that too I just put in my time slot Jamie thank you Jamie for organizing that I think that that would be best so um what's the procedure for once we already have adopted agenda uh for amending it you can um move to postpone that I know um motion postpone second and then vote and then obviously say to the foreign [Music] okay do we have a motion to postpone that item motion okay motion by Patrick to postpone to our next meeting um do we have a second by Lucy all those in favor of post reporting item 7-c uh to our next meeting which is a July meeting say I all right all those opposed to know okay with that it is postponed and we can move on to our next item which is I believe eight let me check on the agenda really quickly here yeah so 8-8 with reports from Commissioners committees and other and or work groups so um let's see um we can begin with commissioners so are there any Commissioners who would like to offer a report to share with the commission this could be any you know an important event that you were able to attend something that you were made aware of recently that pertains to the business of the commission just raise your hand if you have anything to whoa whoa whoa oh Arthur go ahead I didn't see your hand I just put it up I just have a quick question I was no uh speaking with uh the fair housing group and they was telling me about the tester program that they have set up where they sent in uh potential renters to see if they're going to be denied and I told them at the time that I would be interested in doing that now that I'm a member of this committee would that be any type of conflict to be doing uh undercover secret secret undercover duty of trying to find out whether renters are going to actually turn me down or would that be a conflict I don't believe so however I think that you might want to discuss this offline just because of the nature of what you might be doing um oh I might have gave myself away um yeah well yeah don't worry about it but let's go ahead yeah I would suggest me to be talking to John Riser offline he's on right now but John is is the attorney for our our commission so he might be able to best answer that around a conflict okay well everybody else had heard it just void I said that okay um yeah thanks for bringing that up Arthur so briefly um I have a few things to share first of all we we do have a few different committees uh under the Rangers commission I unfortunately didn't write out a list here but one of them is tenant education uh one of them discusses enforcement and we're discussing how the city enforces rental laws in particular we've been focusing on right to renew and the early leasing ordinance however that could change um and I don't think there's a regular meeting committee outside of that but I could be wrong anyway as we as we plan these meetings we'll keep we'll extend the invitation to all the Commissioners so if you'd like to get involved in any of these side projects going on um that you're more than welcome to and we'd love to have you on top of that as new Commissioners uh there's a I think there's an orientation happening um the information was sent out Thursday is the 29th of June I can't remember yeah anyway that it was either 29th of June great so uh Kristen you emailed that that out to everybody I encourage everyone to attend whether you're brand new or not um there's a few other things that I would encourage you all to check out including the bylaws of the commission uh the open meetings act a description the open meetings Act of Michigan um we can send those documents out if those haven't if it hasn't been sent out to everybody there's certain things that we have to do as members of uh this commission we can't be making decisions between behind closed doors um or having discussions with the entire commission without behind closed doors we had to be very open about it had the open meetings act we'll get all that information out to you um and then just a quick report from me I was able to attend the meeting of the Detroit tenants Association um it looks like they are pushing to pass a version of right to renew for the city of Detroit because of some issues they've run into um that's exciting and I think there's going to be opportunity to collaborate with them on that as well as this uh issue of right to counsel which would guarantee tenants the the right to to have legal counsel uh in the landlord tenant court so the very interesting things if you're interested in either those let me know and there's plenty of interesting housing events that I'll be sharing with everybody that's all for me though any other reports okay so we can move on to uh eight Dash B report from hhsab liaison we don't have one at the moment that's a liaison from hsib to us um then 8-g report from staff Kristen all reports first was um that Zach Ryan mentioned the training coming up in a couple of weeks the clerk's office is putting that on um definitely highly recommend you attend if you're not able to attend it will be recorded though so you'd be able to watch it later um I miss out on the question asking um so I think I think that would be really great to do I'll also send out information on the open meetings act that Zachariah mentioned um another update let's see city council passed on resolution earlier this month that allows boards and commissions that have been deemed electronic only the rental commission is one of those um and you previously weren't permitted to meet in person now um four times um per year and that would just have to be by wallet so you have to vote um to schedule an investment meeting after four times so I wanted to make them all aware of that since that's something you've really expressed a lot of interest in in the past um the main update thank you very much Kristen Lucy did I see your hand go up no okay no worries um it's mistaken there so we can move on to item nine which is our second public comment session um Kristen am I leading that oh you know I see Arthur's hand up go ahead Arthur I just have one one uh quick question is there something wrong with Christian's microphone because she's the only one that I have problems hearing it breaks up you you were a little quiet and breaking up there Kristen oh I apologize um what was I a group um the gist of my update was that um previously this group could only meet electronically and now you can meet him at four times per year and you would just have to vote um in order to do that so there's some other logistics that we'll have to consider if you want to do a live in-person meeting we'll have to consider um room availability whether or not Smith was available to televised available to this group and it wasn't previously available all right thank you for clarifying uh so item and if you don't understand some a comment that's made because of digital issues or otherwise just yeah they ask exactly like you said Arthur thanks uh so item nine second general public comments Chris somebody like to leave that 788 [Music] -0099 and I'm trying meeting ID 935-8080-1941 or um to join the zoom meeting you can go to a2go.org renters commission leading and if you are joining in the renters Commission meeting with the zoom link you can press or you can use the raise hand feature to indicate that you'd like to be called on if you are calling the number and Community identity benign to raise your hand so what let's see we have um if anyone uh watching would like to address the learn transformation go ahead and raise your hand now right now no attendees have indicated okay thank you Chris and I thought we could move on uh to our last item before adjournment which is uh Communications we have four different Communications here before us so we'll start with um that people friendly streets outcomes report um let me quickly share my screen here and let me know if if anyone has a hard time accessing these attachments in the future just send me an email and I can explain uh so this is from the the DDA and the city is there any specific like feedback that are looking from us to hear from us um it was just forwarded to me to share with the group um some of the outcome the planning staff shared it okay gotcha are there any comments questions discussion about this okay I think it's fine that we read through this on our own time great yeah for the new folks and maybe those of us that aren't so new where can we find this again so you can oh go ahead oh it's um it's linked on the agenda that gets sent out so next to every agenda item there's a blue file number that is um underlined if you click it it will bring you to uh where the city has all of the um links or attachments included under different items on the agenda true yeah it's right here if you click that it'll bring you to a website as Kristen said with all the links okay um let's see let's move on to the next attachment which is um an informational sheet talking about the uh recent Amendment to the housing code to require smoke um sorry to require carbon monoxide detectors in all rental units um so this is something that we had talked to uh council member uh Cornell about um and this was passed by city council so it's been implemented and this contains some uh information I think to be shared with landlords um so that they can come up to code uh so are there any comments questions about this okay I think it's a good example for what how to inform people after a law change has occurred the issue is just making sure that the target audience gets them we'll move on to um we had two emails regarding Courthouse Square any questions discussion about these I wanted to ask um if Christian had you been in touch with those people and like are they expecting the renters commission to do anything or was this to inform us of I believe it was too informed I corresponded briefly with the person with information on how to contact Janet um and and a little bit of back and forth to that effect um I think I believe that this was the the sender's kind of request for compliance on that third reads the complaint stage yet maybe it has analysis up from last month it's been a long time um since they've requested so um I can check in with John and Janet um thanks appreciate that that would be great thank you Kristen okay so we can move on to our next item item 11 which is German at the end of our meeting so do we have a motion to adjourn motion by Arthur grab a second like my Patrick all right um all those in favor of adjourning say I [Music] was supposed to say okay with that we have adjourned thank you everybody um feel free to contact me anytime and I look forward to working with everybody on all these issues thank you
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um now it wasn't really but it meant that during the day when people were there working they're supposed to be an individual identified as the fire watch who's supposed to be going around and checking everything all day we did the best we could with that you know I'm not going to lie and tell you that we had a designated person who spent eight hours a day walking around doing that but we had a couple of people at each site that it was you know it was a regular kind of thing and we were abiding by the spirit of that regulation but all of our buildings are our fire uh have fire um uh sprinkler systems and so that that makes them a bit more safe the issue is triggering those systems so that's one reason you want people walking around is um you know so that if they needed to they could trigger those systems but it's just the panels really right now that we're waiting for to finish all of that up so any idea when they'll get here the last word is for the last one to come at the end of July so maybe before we realize how many are we waiting for two yeah so um yeah I mean I could worry about it but that would be wasted energy because there's not much I can do about you know where things are and how they're getting here and and that kind of thing so okay um let's see security cameras are done uh fencing is done we've got a couple of areas that we've added on that we've added to the fencing list but otherwise that's all done um the one that has to do with Desert Valley special ed playground you notice that that's all kind of on hold but you also see on tonight's agenda that that I'm asking you to approve the contract for that um and uh so it's it's fun to see some of these become solid lines as opposed to you know the kind of shaded lines and and that kind of thing um we have one shaded line that is humongous I'm going to give you some update in just a minute about the den project okay I will do that um Lance would you also go back and show the um the work ticket report um this one I wanted you to see because you can see at the chart at the bottom the huge number of uh Open tickets are you know created tickets during uh during May and um and then what a good job they've done of of uh trying to address those so our facilities people are hopping all the time it's also one of the reasons that in may they took care of fewer of the old outstanding ABM ones is because we had so many of our new ones that needed to be addressed right away but they still took care of 25 of the old ones so I'm hopeful that before too long we get that whole leftover ones and I think some of that 414 leftover ones probably are things that we continue to get new new work orders about and just haven't gone back and you know and matched them up so they're coming right along with stuff and they're boogieing so okay so in terms of miscellaneous things I do want to talk about the den project um today I received a document from the city uh because we the the g-con folks put in paperwork to the city to start the process of rezoning our piece of property and uh and so there's a timeline so by the middle of July the rezoning will be done and about that time is when we should have the engineering report done and um uh and um the plan for how how it's going to how the property what the property is going to look like so I had that document they sent it to me they didn't tell me it was about that property they just said we need you to sign this document and um so I emailed back and I said is this for all of our district properties what is this for and she emailed back and she said no this is for the property at 24.99 Mercado and that's the first anybody has given us an address and when we'd ask in the past they'd say we have no idea what that address is so we now know what our address is for that property so of course each of the housing units will be you know like it'll be like 2 24.99-1 or Dash two or whatever kind of thing but I was kind of excited today to get an address I thought well that's making some progress two weeks ago the architect was here uh he was on his way through town wanted to see the property in person um Brownie's drone did a bunch of God he's grown up it was a typical Bullhead windy day his drone didn't like it very much but he got some pictures uh next Thursday the engineer and the g-con the project manager will be here to walk the pro walk the property they've seen that you know they've seen all the elevations and the topos and the you know and the photos and those kinds of things but it's not the same and Fred can tell you that it's not the same as walking the property and you might want to join us that day if you're available I'm not sure what time they're going to be here but it's next Thursday so I'm excited about that so I am hopeful that we will be able to do a groundbreaking something or other about the time that school starts about the time the school starts and I talked to the project manager we're now meeting weekly virtually and I said I said in my head a clock is ticking um I said what does this look like to you for September of 2024 and he said this is still doable this is fine we're we're on track that made me feel a bit better the other thing that happened in the last month is some clarification that as long as we have this under contract uh and and you know and it's moving it does not have to be complete on on September 30th of 2024.
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I'll make the motion Thank you Lisa during a second thank you Adam roll call please this is a Schumacher yes yes Andrew Corey yes Kelly Moyer yes yes that concludes our action items and we're into our discussion items which we'll start off with our facility study we kind of hit a little bit on that earlier Mr Myers and Mr hemkin and I met with um Cobalt which is the owner's rep and um FGM architects today and went over the the site plan you've got them at your place these are still rather rough but you can see kind of the idea of where the competition gym would be where the um Auditorium would be how new classrooms would be their first floor office area um a lot more details need to be put into these pieces but this gives the footprints we did go out I sent out um requests for services on a construction management company at risk they would be the ones that would coordinate the bidding and the construction through the three phases am I missing anything Mr dryers Mr things you want to point out it was a long meeting this morning but I think it was a good one afternoon I mean I I would say just as you said this is a rough we had a lot of discussion about flow and you know some other ideas for altering this so this is you know I would say it gives you an idea of what's going to happen but you know by no means doesn't mean that that's the exact location of where stated classes are going to be or even the sizes some we had discussion about different walls and utilization of space and layout and you know a bunch of other things so but it is going to uh and then they pictures do show what um you know there will be new labs in addition to the the gym the auditorium some specialized stuff a couple elevators being added so yeah if you have any questions about the what you're seeing there feel free to ask us and you know we'll be glad to share more of the conversation but it was multiple hours just hashing through this picture alone um to come through you know so that everybody could kind of I guess formal formulate uh some discussion or just go through discussion on what we think will work well Mr Reeves was part of the discussion as well to kind of represent the faculty there um so yeah so we're looking forward to the next draft it's kind of like writing a book you'll have multiple versions before we get to the final but at least this does give an idea and then uh you know the very the front page I I'm a visual person so I find it helpful to see where the building will be the footprint will be impacted so and then one other comment with the parking is always a question with that upper parking lot we will basically net out to about the same number of parking spaces we currently have so we're losing some where the competition's going Jim's going we're losing some at the front where the inter the new front entrance in the auditorium will be but that upper parking lot will effectively replace what was displaced so that's part of the reason that the school is looking to pay for the parking lot because we are having we're having a net loss and we have we're constricted in space so it is very much in our benefit to maintain the ability for students to park at at least the same quantity or number as we have currently so it will be very close within probably 10 or 15 parking spaces of what we have now when we're complete it will also the upper parking lot will also give us more flexibility during the construction process we're planning on having that done before construction starts the new parking lot so that will help with some traffic flow and ease the burden on the school as a whole while construction is underway for their Innovations so he has this construction happening in increments yeah they will be in Phase you know what like what will be the first NO phase we haven't got that far yet that will be between the the CM the construction manager and our bidding process and then the bids that come in that'll all be part of this probably the negotiation and proposal process of what the contractor thinks is best for them to start and most economical as well as what works best for us as a district to minimize impact so there's a lot of factors that will it's kind of fluid at the moment what will be first um it'll we're going to be teaching in the building while it's sure going on so we have to maintain operations all the time so summer time is going to be a fast and furious flurry each year during it but that's at least that's the that's our goal so hopefully that answers a few questions because I know that parking lot you know while it's it's separate and you know that's why we're working with the city to try to get that done that agreement done quick so that we can get that parking lot done before they break ground and all this stuff takes multiple months to get through just procedural stuff much less getting it on contract and then getting something done so when Cobalt they first came to speak to us um they said we had to kind of Target a number of students for them to start doing the designing and all that did we come up with a number um we've come up with a few numbers and um it's all over the place I mean no one knows what the crystal balls what what uh right now this is plus 13 rooms is that where we ended up core classrooms core classroom Jazz yeah so with as far as the number what we had to use as a baseline when we were talking with the city they there's up to 800 houses approved in the next what 10 or 15 years whatever for the community the the state's recommended multiplier was 1.2 kids per house um so that basically took us to a thousand new kids in the district if if we use that multiplier we're not sure it's going to be quite a thousand but that would add you know just shy of 400 new students to this to the high school they were planning on 350. and this is we're doing a 20-year plan right so it's basically just you know 80 kids per class so we're we're planning for three 300 plus more students in the high school in the fourth grade within the four grades is our Target to be able to accommodate um because we're trying to make this a 20-year solution to where we don't have to where we don't have availability as soon as we're done um if if it stays on Pace and a lot of this space um I will say that we're some of the space we're not going to outfit right away because we're doing this for future growth so we're not going to spend everything right up front as far as putting all the bells and whistles in it because this is some of his planning so build the space and then you can go through the expensive outfitting all the the details for additional students as needed so some of it will be Flex space and just classroom space so we're trying to make sure that we maintain that balance of what's you know what do we have to spend now in order to have an opportunity later and then what are our current needs to address for right now and and you know make sure we're smart and you know we also looking at all of the different options so we're not going to have you know like for instance you know like the auditorium isn't going to you know I can say with almost certainty um the auditorium won't have everything we need to be a full-on Performing Arts Center it will be a base it will be basically an auditorium up front because and then as we grow and as funds become available later we'll be able to outfit more stuff as far as AV or type of thing so we're trying to find what that balance is we will do as much as we can within reason and what you think makes sense with our current current student population while providing opportunity and flexibility for future improvements and growth so what you're seeing here also why it's going through multiple iterations because we would love to have you know whenever we whenever the discussions took place with fgma and a lot of the fact you know the different interest groups within the school The Faculty that the I think the cooks and the maintenance staff and administrators and the teachers you know everybody has a different wish list there's no way we're going to be able to accomplish everything everyone wanted that's just not feasible so we're trying to pair that back to what's feasible and you know maximizing the return on our investment to make sure we're improving as much as we can within a budgetary constraint so however we did talk elevators we did talk bathrooms and we did talk storage which were three of the people that live in the high school know those are the three things that would be you know we've got a wing that doesn't have an elevator on it our bathrooms are not adequately sized and I love Educators but boy can they hold on to things they need storage and where will there be a point when communication starts rolling out to parents in the district are and it's not just going to go to high school parents it's going to go to our entire District yeah for it okay education plan this this is all a very transparent process where you know we're we're helping book and and questions and we want to share everything and one of our biggest challenges is to get everything we can Within our budget and without burdening the community I want to acknowledge Adam he has spent just a a ton a ton of time on this and you know when we get into this meeting position we had a three and a half hour meeting today we are going through every detail to down to desk positions and if we move this over here and we do this and you know the Architects are kind of looking at us like we don't normally do this you know and we're like well why are we doing why were you spending any money here because we don't have to change this we can do this or that and it's really you know we're challenging them there's no doubt about it we joke today that we probably saved five million dollars just in our meeting today which I don't think this too I'm not interested and happy to Glad changes they need to be they need to be impactful Adam knows this the school so well and he knows what has been done or what we've been Remodeling and and we're going to them going hey look we just spent a bunch of money on on this area we don't need to move it we don't need to change it it's good you know let's let's spend our money where it's where it's needed and uh I said this is this is a whole different plan than you guys saw originally and we we moved to Auditorium for example and you know we just kind of a it was stuck on the end and we were going to get rid of the greenhouse and that sort of thing we said that's really stupid to have to rebuild those those are functional buildings why why can't we just design around them and so we're we're challenging them and uh I think it's it's the process is is working very well it takes time to remove barriers it was a good discussion good meeting today and we are moving forward sometimes it feels slow and there's other times where it feels like I can't keep up but the average any other questions beat that dead horse wow so we'll go on to our individual board member comments I think they have anything they'd like to contribute tonight feeling you wouldn't that President's prerogative again you guys have hurt more than me than you needed to deal with for one evening so I'll spare you that we do have Mr Grody alluded we have the executive session there are no action items as a result of the executive session you are more welcome to come back and watch us adjourn we understand if you don't want to with that I'd entertain a motion to enter executive session for the purposes of appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of a specific employee of the public body or legal counsel for the public body including hearing testimony or on a complaint lodged against an employee of the public body or against legal counsel for the public body to determine its validity pursuant to five ILS Yes 120 2c1 and also for student disciplinary cases pursuant to five ilcs 12-2 C9 and thirdly placement of individual students in special education programs and other matters related to individual students pursuant to five ilcs 120 2c10 make that motion I'll make a motion thank you Tyson dryer second thank you roll call please yes yes yes rejection thank you all for joining us this evening all right we are back in our regular session do a quick roll call please uh Noreen free yes Adam himkin here Andrea Corey yes Kelly Moyer here Greg Meyer there Lisa Schumacher here Tyson search you're right perfect we have a quorum uh no further business or action as a result of our executive session with that I'd entertain a motion to adjourn so I moved thank you second a second second all in favor hi that concludes our meeting it is
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correct and I believe off top my head it's 15 teachers five and bilingual support and then 10 or either math or science stem related okay great opportunities yeah it's really a good thing because it had become difficult I think for as far as I'm as concerned when I my one of my last years of teaching I had a student teacher through Cal State Fullerton they expected them to student teach all year long and not work so it's like wait a minute how are these people supposed to survive you know so this is at least helping them a little with I Hope they've eased up on this not working thing but it's helping them with tuition and that and so but then one other thing about this I because I'd ask Jared a little bit more about this if they have this money uh forwarded to them in other words they pay their tuition and all that they have to agree to teach four years after their student teaching and then if they don't teach the four years it doesn't have to be with us it's anywhere they have to then repay that money that was spent on their tuition and such within the state of California within the state of California I would imagine yeah okay anything else okay all in favor say aye aye opposed 5-0 next is uh 9.20 Amer agreement West Coast University Inc any discussion see none all in favor say aye aye opposed five zero 9.21 revised board policy 6317.25 in parentheses 41 19.22 professional attire first reading so moved second okay this is information only but I think we're all in agreement so no more action on that one yes okay next is 9.22 and this is a information item only but I would like to bring up this is uh on exhibit r I would like to make a recommendation this since this is the first reading I guess I should read it revised board policy ten three two five in parentheses 9323 meeting conduct revised board policy number of adult student members and terms of office first reading so I would like to make a suggestion on in exhibit R the third paragraph I'd like to change some of what it says here says the board believes that late night meetings deter me public participation can affect the board's decision making a building can be a burden to staff and then I'd like to change the reading to say regular board meetings shall be presided over by the president or his designee in an efficient manner keeping in mind that those in the audience are community members students and District employees are attending on their own time and they need their personal rest before attending to their next day's affairs Ryan where did you say did you say that third paragraph third exhibit r page one third paragraph okay and it would be um I will start over again it says the board believes that late night meetings deter public participation can affect the board's decision-making ability and can be a burden to staff I'd like to strike the rest of that paragraph and and add this instead regular board meetings shall be presided over by the president or as designee in an efficient manner keeping in mind that those in the audience are community members students and District employees are attending on their own time and they need their personal rest before attending to their next day's affairs so that is a recommendation I would like to add to that it is sometimes very difficult to think about people that come here commute to work and are here 8 30 in the morning is that when when Connie comes and Paulina 7 30 7 30.
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that was what the Clock Was ticking in my head was that it all had to be done and I said that to Mike Mike Keller is the project manager and he said oh I know he said but my target is to have it ready in August of 2024. so he's even set his own his own date up a month so that was really refreshing to hear so okay um any other questions about the den project right now the the preliminary plans for the houses are that they are three bedroom two bath um about 1200 square feet so not real big but nice two-car carports um uh wood siding shingle roof I'm trying to think what I'll say how many units were you looking at that's the part we're waiting on is once the engineer tells us what how much dirt has to be moved and those kinds of things um um because the more dirt that has to be moved and the more stuff that has to go into the infrastructure so into the you know the the grading and the sewer and the water and all of that the less money there is for housing uh so they haven't given us a number yet but um uh but when Mike talks with me you know I say five six somewhere in that you know because originally we thought we would get 15 of our 20.
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