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um some of us decided to start the scholarship in honor of members of our class who had passed the scholarship is to recognize students who exemplify the good citizenship we experienced growing up in Rio we decided to touch the future from you we received so many excellent essays and recommendations that it was tough to choose only one of you this year's winner is respected by his peers teachers and other adults he represents the values that the members of the class of 1968 remember learning so well here his kindness generosity and work ethic are sorely needed in today's to learn and grow not just intellectually but with an eye towards being an all-around good student I am so happy to prevent to present this one thousand dollar scholarship our 17th to Nicholas butcher [Applause] next I would like to invite up Justin condolucci to present the Brielle Spirit award [Music] [Applause] good evening my name is Justin condolucci and I'm a 2013 graduate of Braille Elementary School I attended throughout Elementary along with my triplet sister and brother Carter and spring to second grade I was diagnosed with I fought hard on Beat it I want to have a return Plaza while I was in sixth grade then unbelievably the cancer came back again for the third time right before graduation during freshman year at Madison High School I had a bone marrow transplant with my sister as a donor unfortunately nine months after that I realized yet again in 2015 I opted into an experimental trial that used my own immune cells the Target and kill the cancer cells it worked and in April I celebrated eight years in our mission thank you [Applause] I'm very blessed to call myself a four-time dancer tonight around it all I knew I had a lot of support of my teachers administrators and classmates here at Brielle Elementary to thank them and to pay it forward my family has been sponsoring the real Spirit award at each uh each uh Ceremony this award is given to a student who has endured prevailed despite what life has done this year's recipient of the Brielle sphere divorce so it's a great spot [Applause] that is truly the type of success story would love to hear thank you Justin so next we are going to do our traditional eighth grade Awards but before doing that I would like to say a couple of quick words um first I'd like to say that it's been a pleasure to get to know this eighth grade graduating class you've known them a lot longer than I do have but I think we all can agree that they certainly have a lot of laser laser spirit and a lot of Blazer personal each of these individuals brings their own unique qualities to school every day and say it's me coming to school each day for me something that I look forward to each and every day they easily could have looked at me as the temporary guy and not paid much attention to what I say but I have to say that was not the case at least not to my face so I want to thank each of you for making my shorts today thank you graduates I also wanted to thank the entire staff the teachers the aides the all staff custodians for pulling together and helping to make the last six months as smooth as possible I really truly appreciate all of it to the Board of Education it's been a pleasure working with you we've Just Begun getting to know each other so hopefully I'll see you around town finally I want to say a special thanks to miss love and Mr Mr school I have to say went Above and Beyond on a daily basis and I can't accurately describe how hard they've worked these past six months we're all very fortunate to have both Miss love and Mr Savia here at embryo Elementary School working hard for our show Connecticut thank you both so much in your brochure in your pamphlet tonight there's a description of YouTube Awards so please take a moment to look at that as we're announcing the awards and I would like to let you all know that the work recipient should see Mr Savia in the gym during the seventh grade receptionist being held compliments of our seventh grade class afterwards to receive your Awards and your scholarship check when I call your name please stand to be recognized the academic award sponsored by the Board of Education goes to as you know Cecilia eskeras [Applause] foreign overall Excellence sponsored by the Brielle PTO Rose Healey and Adam Roberts the books this year Emerson Emerson writing award from the Carlson Family Jordan Sisk [Applause] the Jordan scholarship award from Christine Chen 1994 Bes alumna John michelia [Applause] the Barbara Mason scholarship award from the Mason family Chelsea Columbo [Applause] the English award from the Brielle Library Association Lexi dread foreign C Walker Award from the Board of Education Conrad Johnson [Applause] the science award from the Brielle Student Government Cecilia ascaris [Applause] the highest achievement in history award from the Board of Education Griffin Tomlin [Applause] the Spanish award from the pre-op Board of Education Abby Dorko [Applause] the Art Award from the Women's Club of Brielle Lexi Trent and Christopher [Applause] the technology award for the Brielle Student Government Stephen Europe [Applause] the Robert Carver instrumental music award from the Brielle Board of Education Nicholas Couture [Applause] the olive League local music award from the bes friendship Club to Mia Bromley and Avery captains me and Avery please remain standing for a moment because you also are receiving the drama award from the bes friendship Club [Applause] the Deborah Wagner award from the regional Brielle PTO Audrey Lafferty and Blake McAllen [Applause] outstanding athletic award from the real booster club Kayla Moretti and Logan cleaver sportsmanship award for the Brielle Student Government Gabby restivo and John michelia [Applause] safety award for the Brielle Volunteer Fire Company number one Emmett Whiting [Applause] most improved award from the Board of Education Curtis purcella [Applause] community and school service award from the Brielle Student Government Cameron lindstra and Conrad Johnson leadership and Citizenship Award for the Board of Education Adam rodericks and Audrey Laughlin [Applause] the charitable contribution award for IFC United Cole Kaufman [Applause] the and E Lorenz Memorial award from the Des Moines petrula and Rhys Lendmark the Brielle Spirit award in honor of Justin condolucci Amy sponsored by Amy condolucci Grace bonavita [Applause] the real Blazer and Beyond award sponsored by the Board of Education Logan Cleveland and Marie Gonzalez [Applause] great job everyone thank you very much I know that Awards we are about to award the diplomas so I'd like to invite Mr Xavier to assist and Mrs Jones to come up to and diplomas to our graduates the moment we've all been waiting for true winter Lockhart Lockwood Shane first ever and then Robert Whiting [Applause] Kayla Lynn Moretti Bachmann [Applause] Charlotte Estelle Vermont [Applause] Jonathan jaros Jones [Applause] Delaney Jace Crow [Applause] Ashton Gingrich [Applause] Quinn petrolo [Applause] Dylan page [Applause] [Music] Maggie Mae sayano Eden Daniela amarelli [Applause] yah Bromley foreign [Applause] Chase Dean Hawley [Applause] Josephine Gonzalez [Applause] Caroline bonavita [Applause] Nicholas Joseph Demarco [Applause] Dax Klein Peyton Palin Atlas Rose Aaron Healy Jack standard senior girls mascaras [Applause] Griffin Henry tomly [Applause] Keegan Kingsley died [Applause] Curtis J porcella [Applause] Stella Network [Applause] Emily Grace Ullman [Applause] Ryan Avery salvatoriello [Applause] install Philip Devereaux [Applause] Selena says [Applause] Elizabeth [Applause] Adam Joseph Roberts Jonathan James correct [Applause] Christopher Jacob Jacob s [Applause] John Barry Michelle [Applause] foreign Johnson [Applause] Audrey Catherine Lafferty [Applause] Logan Scott Cleveland [Applause] [Music] Blake Alexander [Applause] ridiculous butcher [Applause] o [Applause] so in this time before presenting the final class of 2023 we'd like everyone to turn their attention to the stage where we have a lovely presentation honoring all of our graduates so we'll hit the lights Mr Savia please enjoy [Music] I believe [Music] thank you [Music] baby I believe [Music] it's down in your tears [Music] your friends [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] I do already [Music] everybody [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] thank you everybody [Music] but we are called to help our friends [Music] cause that's what friends are supposed to do [Music] we just can't fall asleep [Music] help our friends [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] again [Music] don't close [Music] to me [Music] thinking everything [Music] on me [Music] too [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] thank you don't forget [Music] go to church together [Music] we're gonna change [Music] pyramids [Music] foreign [Music] the tree [Music] foreign [Music] talk to me [Music] foreign [Music] you're still looking [Applause] [Music] pictures [Music] foreign [Music] and now it is my great honor to present to you Brielle Elementary School class of 2023.

the reason for this move is that we we think asba's policies that they've done a phenomenal job but the trust is also the group that we uh that backs us up on our policies and is they are attorney groups that support us and they've started this and we believe it would be a good fit for Gilbert public schools and so also you'll see an agreement I'm asking for your approval with the understanding that there may be some changes to the agreement uh miss Page has brought some things to my attention that I will connect with the attorney tomorrow but this will get be able to get the ball rolling and if there's any changes to that agreement I'll bring it back on July 25th for that approval of those changes thank you board members is there a motion so moved thank you Mr Thompson it's been moved is there a second second thank you Mrs page is there any discussion I just wanted to clarify um so if there's language changes in language in the service agreement you'll bring him back July 25th for approval correct but if you talk to Legal and they're okay with the language that tonight is the final approval correct okay so if based on what we talked about briefly if they don't agree but I still have an issue with it we can bring it back for discussion okay yeah I have no problem okay thank you for doing that thank you um I have some thoughts I would like to share okay um the governing board is elected Community Representatives uses policy to delegate to the superintendent the authority to manage the day-to-day operations of the district and to prescribe how that should be done student parental and employee rights as well as federal and state statutes court cases and best practices all must be considered in policy policy is an important responsibility of the governing board I'm concerned about receiving policy Services through the trust rather than the Arizona school boards Association for three reasons number one I'm concerned that there is an inherent conflict of interest for the trust the insurance provider and prepaid legal services provider now becoming a policy provider number two I am concerned that having two entities providing policy to the 230 school districts in Arizona will eventually increase costs for all of us and number three I believe in local control the non-profit Arizona School boards Association is governed by a president president-elect Treasurer and secretary as well as the board of directors elected by Arizona School Board member districts at State and County meetings these are all serving school board members these people are accounted to accountable to us as school board members in a member district the asba's mission is cultivate excellence and locally governed school districts for these reasons I will be voting against the agreement for policy services with the trust and I'd also like to add um if you'll notice the effective date is July 1st 2024 this will give us ample time to crosswalk our policies that we currently have with the blanket policies that already exist for the trust and we're able to add or delete anything we own it just as much as they do when it comes to that and so on a monthly basis when we have our policy meetings we will be able to bring back and give you updates of where we're at and have discussions about things that we feel are pertinent to our policy manual thank you anything further when does this agreement need to be signed I think if we have approval of this tonight we can move forward and they will be flexible with this when it comes to signing an agreement but we'll need to get that done as soon as possible okay if there's no further discussion um I I think that this will be an effective way to meet the legal requirements of policy and still we still have the opportunity just as we do now as a board to weigh in on the local control and make sure that we have the best needs the best interests of our Gilbert Public Schools students teachers staff and families in in our policies but we'll have that legal continued legal representation and I'm in favor so if there's no further discussion though then I will call for the vote all those in favor of approving Arizona risk retention trust policy Services agreement for implementation to be effective July 1st 2024 please vote by saying aye any opposite name nay thank you that passes for one okay that takes us to 8.03 entity profile change with Arizona Department of Education Gilbert Global Academy Dr McCord governing board members currently Gilbert Global Academy is a K-12 Arizona online school in aoi entity beginning with the 2324 school year Gilbert Global Academy will provide instruction for 7th through 12th grade students no longer k-6 for this reason there's a need to modify that with the state and so this is a formality and a procedure we need to go through just to make sure that they have this coded correctly down there thank you Dr McCord board members is there a motion so moved thank you Miss Humphries is our second second thank you Mr jetty is there any discussion seeing none I will call for the vote all those in favor of approving The Entity profile change with Arizona Department of Education for Gilbert Global Academy as explained by Dr McCord please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with me thank you that passed by zero 8.04 to consider discuss amend if desired and if deemed advisable to adopt a resolution approving the governing board's argument in support of the special maintenance and operation budget override election Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board members this is a continuation to a degree of what we had a conversation about at our our work study a couple weeks ago and during that work study we basically utilized a former template for a pro-statement related to this agenda item for the operation maintenance and operations override and we did some wordsmithing during that time I had sent you a copy of what I believed we landed on to a degree but I also asked for any kind of updates Gabby would it be possible to put this up on the screen I think it's page three of the resolution one of the resolutions at any rate um so I have provided you those of you that provided me with some revisions I provided all of you with those revisions from yourself as well as others and I guess the best thing that we can do and I know this is clunky when you're up on a dice and you want to you need to word Smith things so we'll just all be patient with each other and I'll try to capture anything that you guys want to discuss and make changes with and then we will give it one final read for your approval at the end of the discussion is that okay that sounds good thank you I wanted to just mention that this is required by law that we provide this so that's correct thank you something that that's one reason we're taking the time yeah we're just not having fun right well I mean it is but well I guess I'll begin the discussion I I looked over these and appreciated all the inputs I actually I don't know if we could start maybe with Mr Thompson's as maybe the basis and then maybe go from there if people wanted to add or subtract from that would you would you be okay with that everybody that's fine okay okay so if we kind of start with um the and you checked it was 188 total Words which it's we don't have a word do we have a word count I don't know if that's right for my version my version my feet might be more than that that's what I was thinking too so I wonder do we have a word I'll I'll work on it you guys mine when I have to be a certain amount yeah you have 200 words when I counted I believe it was 205.

all right we're doing good was there any other specific things that you wanted some freeze or well I I think we should just go sentence by sentence and then uh word Smith each sentence okay um I again I I think keeping it um down a little bit so I I can see your support has allowed Gilbert Public Schools to remain competitive so I can go with that um but I also think the way Rhonda has written it is just fine um and and it seems a little wordier here so again I think I prefer Rhonda's uh sentence there but we can come back to that one when we've gone through some of the other okay we just mentioned it down below in the bullet points yeah so to me it seemed a little repetitive but we can leave it in there I'm I'm totally okay with that too okay well let's go to the third paragraph then and we'll come back to that one so GPS so leave it as is for now and then we'll come back GPS is that okay GPS continues to prioritize these resources is that okay Miss Humphries if we come back to that one like oh you want to come back to it and yeah because I was trying to sim I preferred Rhonda's version but we didn't really decide on that so we can come back to it though okay let's come back to go to the next one GPS continues to prioritize these resources for the direct benefit of our students this is confirmed each year by the Arizona auditor Generals Report which ranks GPS among the most efficient districts for dollars spent in the classroom and has one of the lowest administrative expenses I saw that you crossed it out and it should be expense um expenditures I thought yours I um I don't think that's where I changed it I think you had some things crossed out but then at the end you just put in the commas yeah that was what I put in at the end I had tried to add a sentence okay and it didn't work out so I just so I stood off so you were fine with the lowest administrative expenses um I I think I yeah I do think it should be expense not expenses Justice the lowest expense okay um so that's that's fine I I can go either way I think um maybe uh Chad has clarified this a little bit more in the way that he structured this the sentences okay so we can go with um what Chad has said on this one okay and then should we just go to the next sure so this budget override he he has it as this budget override the budget override I think did you have a specific more reason for this I think it just makes it uh less generic making it specifically this not just the or a budget override okay kind of a commitment within it basically I can go with either that's fine continuous will directly benefit our students and families by and Mr Thompson's is maintaining salary competitive competitiveness to retain and attract highly qualified teachers and staff okay I looking at those sentences from the three different ones that we have for myself I prefer our original bullet points because what I think is the most important in that first bullet point is the retaining and attracting highly qualified teachers and employees the that's the why the how is by maintaining salary competitiveness so I I feel like it's a stronger sentence if we put the Y first and the house second um because that to me that just makes it a stronger bullet point but that's fine with me okay um now miss miss Pages divides it into four you want to tell us about that a little bit in this page your thoughts on that um it just seemed like campus Safety and Security and then um kind of seem like its own kind of It kind of yeah almost a standalone issue and I like actually how Mr Thompson warded this um but it just seemed like Safety and Security is different than student health their mental health and academic achievement I don't know if we need four bullet points that might be too much I don't I I would rather keep it more simple and one of the things just going down to the bottom bullet point is that if we're going to use um this language we want parallelism so we want retaining providing continuing we can't change a tense right there sorry I checked my grammar book no I understand are you talking about Shane's the one that's up on the screen that you want to keep is that what you're saying the original yeah the original bullet points is what's up on the screen yes okay sorry I'm looking at three different pieces of paper I'm I'm lost justice so am I so when you say original I'm just wondering which one I'm talking about the the ones we settled on at the end of the work study so that's the one on the screen if we want to word Smith out a little bit I guess we could but um when I saw uh Mr Thompson's and I was looking at it this afternoon I did pull out my trusty grammar book to check on parallelism and so because we're an education institution writing is really important so retaining and attracting maintaining providing continuing I think those all have to be in the present tense so that that's my I think we're all fine with that so do we want three bullet points or four and do we want to do we want to just go with if we do three do we go with what Mr Thompson said or with what we have um what I think if we're gonna leave the original we just go with the three I mean fours I was a little iffy on that um the original reads like it's supposed to there I mean it makes sense it's not as wordy so are you saying go with three but on the first bullet point have the first bullet point be like the one on the screen yes and then the second two bullet points are from my paper but instead of continued continuing and instead of upholding maintaining um yes but we'd also put have to put providing and providing resources in order to keep that parallelism um I I can go with that I I still like the original bullet points but I can go with it if we make it providing and continuing [Music] where do you want providing click on Doctor look on the second one oh you're saying upholding campus safety and providing resources okay yes yes okay you were like did you see that sorry um but I let's go back to the first bullet point because I do think retaining and attracting highly qualified teachers he's the most important he said to go through he said to use that okay okay sorry so we're going to use that we're attracting highly qualified teachers and employees by maintaining salary competitiveness after that and then a comma after support and then a period after class size reduction because it is the end of the sentence so even with the bullets points uh yes it's still you you could leave off the commas but you I think you still need a period at the end of class size reduction does that count as a word definitely okay well then you've got yourself a deal so I also want to be clear you said comma after support but we're not using the bullet from this from the from the one on the screen yes yes I just mean to come after after the end of holding campus safety and providing resources for student health and academic achievement comma after qualified teachers so instead of a period yes you've got it he's got a period of No period at the end that's fine so okay if that's grammatically correct then let's go with that okay and then continuing continuing funding for class size reduction yes that's the way we read it okay see that these two from his does that sound odd continuing funding it does but I think it is it makes sense and we are saying part of it is we have been doing it so we want to say we're still doing it um is there anything after reduction period period right just checking yeah just put all the functions so miss Humphries you checked your grammar book for that um bullet points I know that's what it is yes because on it's parallelism it's a sentence you've just divided the sentence up by having bullet points but it's one sentence and all of those verbs have to have the same tense and this okay I've never seen it that way but okay okay I just looked it up and it says if it's a complete sentence yes it didn't use it period okay excellent all right and then the next paragraph is so now we're to the sorry bottom I think we do and need an and after academic achievement comma and so um I hope that doesn't mean we have to erase a word somewhere else it does does it we still have three words now we have four words to erase if we add that okay well let's do that and then we'll figure that out okay so then the next oh yes after the bullets are we finished with the bullet points yes yes we're good is everyone okay finishing with the bullet points to go to the next you guys okay okay the next part so in Mr Thompson it says the funding provided by this budget overhead continuation will preserve the excellent education our students receive and our community expects and deserves I'm fine with that I think that's good okay and then we are grateful for your ongoing trust as we humbly ask for your support by voting yes this November to the budget override continuation do you have something Miss pitch sorry the thing about trust no do you want to guess again no no just tell us no because I I know you mentioned that last at our last meeting and I was looking at it now and I'm thinking like maybe she's on to something and which one the where is the very last we are grateful for your trust and then at the meeting you made a point of saying trusting Trust of what oh okay I don't like the words humbly yes that's that's okay as we humbly I if you take that out and say we are grateful for your ongoing trust and ask for your support by voting yes I think that makes it much stronger I agree sorry but if you're saying humbly I don't think it's very humble that's my bias I like it but we're down on Words anyway so let's okay yeah for your ongoing Trust and ask for your support that takes out a few words by humbly voting no I'm kidding and ask for your support by voting yes this November and maybe we can take out this November take take out this November again it's repetitive it's going to be we haven't we haven't put November in any of it though no but it's on the ballot it's it's October November I don't think you need that well this language isn't going on the ballot this language is going on the information pamphlet right yeah I actually think it's important to put November somewhere because it's not a an actual election year okay okay do we have room for it there and ask for your support by voting yes this November I would put for the budget overhead continuous and then we'll see how many words we're at oh that'll be you said four that's just replacing order right yeah that one's just replacing I miss you jetty if you think it's important too but November shall we put it up at the top it doesn't matter I just think somewhere okay that's what I was thinking okay and then does the budget override continuation need to be capitalized at the very last sentence yes yes it does let's let's be consistent how about um Gilbert Public Schools remains competitive within the East Valley by maintaining competitive salaries and reduced class sizes that takes out four words and where are you at now I went back to the second paragraph oh instead of saying your support your support has allowed just put Gilbert Public Schools remains competitive within the East Valley by maintaining competitive salaries and reduced class sizes that takes out four words okay I'm going to ask you to repeat it one more time so we took out your support has allowed and we start with Gilbert Public Schools take out two and then change it to remains competitive within the East Valley and I would capitalize the V on East Valley by maintaining competitive salaries and reduced class sizes yeah and I took out that last language is because we're only highlighting two things that we're maintaining that we're competitive where so we're not competitive with school safety school security with resources for mental health so I I didn't like that I that's why I took out maintaining competitive Sellers and reduced classes so maybe we just put maybe sentence in there maybe we go back to GPS ranks but if we're just using Mrs Pages for the second that second paragraph yeah I just didn't want to pigeonhole us into why we're competitive just for two things because all of these things help all the things that we use this override for really help us absolutely be competitive in our all of these bullet points and we're already talking about competitive salaries and reduced class sizes in the bullet points so I think if we just end it with so if I just say the existing 15 over I contributes approximately 35.8 million annually to the GPS maintenance and operations budget thus allowing the district to remain competitive within the East Valley yes I I do like that better okay give me a minute it's hard to read three pieces of paper at the same time absolutely and everybody has great input so it's hard to put them all together and come up with a collective hold what do you think about that Mr Thompson or Mr jetty I think yeah I think it's fine what about um so did you see where that is that's okay so what about changing thus allowing to this allows is there a different is there a difference I like that we're right there look where he's so ending instead of look at yes okay you are so putting a period after operations budget period this allows the district to remain allows this really shouldn't start a sentence with this how about back to your support yeah we could put that in if that's your support we have to allow we have to what is this it's the same thing so what if you say your support allows the district has allowed the district to remain competitive or will allow or allows I would say your sport allows your support in the past your sport now your support in the future your support allows okay the district remain competitive your support allowed yeah foreign [Music] ninety words see I can kind of let's put 10 more words in there we go well we each of our names that's would you guys like me to read this whole thing to you yes as as we have it yeah and there's no way we can put it up on the screen uh there probably is if you give me I haven't connected with this okay it's a different laptop but all right this ought to be good to Gabby and she can put it up yeah you want me to do that too for you okay I'll uh send it to you in an email that way we can all see it thank you for being scribed that is not an easy task doctor record [Music] all right sent [Music] the one the one question I am looking at these points well let's see how we've gone when before I say anything here it is is ready I'll still read it to you so we have another Gilbert Public Schools governing board is asking the community to vote Yes for the 15 maintenance and operations budget override continuation the existing 15 override has contributed approximately 35.8 million to the GPS maintenance and operations budget your support allows the district remain competitive with the East Valley GPS continues to prioritize these resources for the direct benefit of our students this is confirmed each year by the Arizona auditor General's report which ranks GPS among the most efficient districts for dollars spent in the classroom and has one of the lowest administrative expense this budget override continuation will directly benefit our students and families by retaining and attracting highly qualified teachers and employees by maintaining salary competitiveness upholding campus safety and providing resources for student health and academic achievement and continuing funding for class size reduction the funding provided by this budget override continuation will preserve the excellent education our students receive and our community expects and deserves we are grateful for your ongoing trust and ask for your support by voting yes this November for the budget override continuation a couple couple things um your support allows the district to remain competitive within the East Valley where are you at um second sentence Within the East Valley instead of with the East Valley competitive within yeah okay I gotta find it I'm sorry I'm just wrong what paragraph second second paragraph oh within there it is gotcha then do we need to go down since Mr Thompson brought up this budget do we need to go to the next sentence this funding provided by this budget or the funding provided by this budget just my grammar people so we have this budget again in a funding provided by this so the funding provided by this budget override is fine right okay let's see um I I think we need a change on the second sentence in the third paragraph when I just said it's not great to start with this this is confirmed each year by the auditor General's report which ranks GPS among the most efficient districts um what if we said the auditor general Arizona auditor General's report confirms this each year and ranks Gilbert among the most efficient districts I like that I do yeah because you're not supposed to start remember what you said yeah I hope so the auditor general the Arizona's report confirms this each year and ranks GPS among the most efficient districts blah blah blah [Music] all right here this is this is confirmed each year by the Arizona otter Generals Report the auditor generals we're just putting auditor general at the beginning of that sentence yeah we're just checking out okay yep I'm just kind of flip flop in it yes say it again the auditor general the Arizona auditor General's report confirms this each year and when it ranks GPS I like what you said before earlier and what how do you say handbrakes and what did she say sand Rings yeah Andreas among the most efficient districts yeah and the rest of the sentence stays the same gotcha that's what I have now that I'm reading this again does that is there a does that make sense and ranks GPS among the most efficient districts for dollars spent in the classroom and has one of the lowest administrative expenses we could make that a new sentence so we could say by ranking instead of and ranks or which my my concern was that very last part has one of the lowest administrative expenses it seemed like that does that go with the least on administrative expense and no you can't say that what if we just end it after classroom well I think it's important that it's important we just have to get a significant so I think I can live with that I just wondered if if that sounded a little I changed the word from expenses to expenditures do I don't know if that makes sense administrative experience I don't know it doesn't matter to me okay and I think how about the lowest administrative cost s drinks GPS among the most efficient districts for dollars about the classroom and has one of the lowest administrative costs I like expenses better yeah okay I think that's right that's great I think it's good okay going once well I'll read that read that to us one more time just the that paragraph okay the change this is the Arizona Auditor's general report confirms this each year and ranks GPS among the most efficient districts for dollars spent in the classroom and has one of the lowest administrative expense okay it's not parallel that's what that's what it is changed the lowest administer with with one of the with one of the lowest administrative expense that might be better instead of and has so after district for dollar spent in the classroom and with one of the lowest administrative expense mine is not updating so I can't see no none of them so read read it one more time I'm sorry okay the air which which one you want me to read the one you just read the Arizona Lottery General's report confirms us each year and ranks GPS among the most efficient districts for dollars spent in the classroom and has one of the lowest administrative expenses one with one of the lowest administrative experience instead of has yes instead of hand has yeah get rid of and has rid of the and it has and just says which that's better to me that sounds like I think that's what I was waiting for today it didn't sound right yeah just testing and I think you also put and after report but I think which sounds better okay instead of oh I like that instead of and ranks GPS yes GPS where am I so right here confirms us each year which which okay because that is the report so just to comment though those are two separate items within the report they have classroom spending and administrative expense so just so you know so in other words it's not it's not because we have the low that we have the highest spend in the classroom that's why we have the I wanted to make sure you knew that they're not necessarily related right yeah right yes do you think that this paragraph I still think it delineates us so I I'm sorry I'm saying the liberate I'm saying that they're both deliberate we right so which makes it which sounds to me like it's because we have the low the highest spend in the classroom it the result is that we have one of the lowest administrative expenses that's what that said to me and I just wanted to make Ellen you all know that those two things are two separate metrics in the auditory Generals Report I think maybe an easy way to get around maybe an easy way to change that is instead of saying spent in the classroom with one of the lowest spent in the classroom and one of the lowest administrative experience that'd be good General's report confirms this each year by ranking GPS among the most efficient districts for dollars fit in the classroom and one of the lowest one of the districts with the lowest just one of the lowest administrative expenses expense because we're already talking about the district sorry the honors Arizona auditor General's report confirmed seats each year by ranking GPS among the most efficient districts for dollar spent in the classroom and one of the lowest or in the lowest for administrative expense I think it does need expensive okay I think it does one okay yeah okay okay I think that so let me read it one last time the Arizona Auditors general report confirms this each year by ranking GPS among the most efficient districts for dollars spent in the classroom and one of the lowest for administrative expenses that is better I think that's great now read it backwards I I probably couldn't could you change the font on that oh all right so we good yeah can you read the whole thing one more time you bet Story Time with Shane here we go Gilbert Public Schools governing board is asking the community to vote Yes for the 15 maintenance and operations budget override continuation the existing 15 override has contributed approximately 35.8 million to the GPS maintenance and operations budget your support allows the district to remain competitive within the East Valley GPS continues to prioritize these resources for the direct benefit of our students the Arizona auditor General's report confirms this each year by ranking GPS among the most efficient districts for dollars spent in the classroom and one of the lowest for administrative expenses we could take out each year we don't need to say that actually that we don't have to say each year we just we got plenty of words the budget override continuation will directly benefit our students and families by retaining and attracting highly qualified teachers and employees by maintaining salary competitiveness upholding campus safety and providing resources for student health and academic achievement and continuing funding for class size reduction the pr the funding provided by this budget override continuation will preserve the excellent education our students receive and our community expects and deserves we are grateful for your ongoing trust and ask for your support by voting yes this November for the budget override continuation so I have two things should we capitalize budget override continuation in the second to last paragraph sure yeah yes and then I'll let you do that and then okay and then in the since we've got words left over in the first sentence can we put in November at the end of the first sentence a very first sentence maintenance tonight yeah Gilbert Public Schools governing board is asking the community to vote Yes for the 15 maintenance and over operations budget override continuation this November all right we've got it in once and this is my thought about putting it in at the beginning is that most people are going to be voting in October most people are going to be mailing in their ballots after they arrive so they'll be voting before November I mean a lot of times we say mail your ballot by October 30th so we do have November once this election maybe you could say this election that's what I was thinking as an alternative okay and not like we need to make it wordier more wordy I I don't think we really need it but I but most people won't be voting in November they'll be voting in October and it's actually an all mail-in ballot so actually almost everybody has to vote what's the date of the election the seventh the 8th the seventh so actually if you're going to mail in your ballot and be safe you got about by October 30th isn't it only mail-in value yes it's only mail-in ballot so everybody's going to be voting in October there's actually one voting spot but in in Maricopa County not in Gilbert it's somewhere else no no there's one voting spot at the guilt the Gilbert district office it's not just a drop off so I so they're allowed to vote in person okay but I think election is synonymous November people are going to know what we're talking about so you want that or you don't want that Rhonda I I think once is fine down at the bottom okay okay I I don't think we need I don't want to say this election because I feel like it makes it a little bit more political not political it's just we have to go out to voters and ask it's democracy okay I'm not sure about that when you participate in Democratic voting no I don't I'm not gonna okay horror score okay so how many words Dr McCord how many words were we at um 188 okay 270 no oh no wonderful okay I think if everyone's okay with this then I'm I'm going to at call for a 8.04 so I'm calling for a motion so moved thank you Mrs page it's been moved that we approve the wording as we've gone through tonight um it's been moved is our second second thank you Miss Humphreys it's been moved and seconded that we adopt the resolution approving the governing board's argument in support of the special maintenance and operation budget override election as we've outlined tonight is there any further discussion I appreciate everybody working on it because I do think that when we put all of our heads together it got better so thank you agree yep thank you all right see no further discussion I'll call for the vote all those in favor of adopting the resolution approving the governing board's argument in support of the special maintenance and operation budget override election please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with name thank you that past five zero that will take us to 8.05 policy development First Street policy IGA curriculum development Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board members all policies are first well yes all policies tonight are first reads please know to the public that all of these policies have went through the first process with the policy committee and we bring him here tonight the first policy 8.05 IGA curriculum development basically States it's the addition of substances meetings of the governing board authorized textbook selection committees shall comply with open meeting law requirements ARS 15-721f or 15-722b thank you Dr McCord is there a motion so moved go ahead second okay was that miss Page yes okay Miss page and thank you Miss Humphries it's been moved and seconded is there any further discussion so again this was this is a amending our policy to reflect a change in the law in the legislation make sure we're up to date and this is just the first read but um seeing no further discussion I will call for the vote all those in favor of approving the first read of policy IGA curriculum development please vote by saying aye aye aye any opposed with Nate thank you that past five zero and 8.06 policy development first read a policy igd curriculum adoption Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board members uh first read of curriculum adoption igd um is essentially the same thing it is just but I want to make note and we'll catch this in there's in our policies some of them we have the board and we're changing all those as we go along to the governing board um in this first program says Governor we need an n in governing but the only thing added besides those words was the same as before meetings of the governing board authorized textbook selection committee shall comply with open meeting lab requirements in the ARs statutes are there thank you Dr McCord board members is there a motion so moved thank you Mrs page it's been moved is there a second second thank you Mr Thompson it's been moved and seconded that we approved the First Street epoxy igd curriculum adoption is there any discussion I do I do have a question I did want to ask Dr McCord previously these were committees considered superintendent committees and now they're being considered board committees which is why they need to follow open meeting law is that my understanding that's the understanding because um yes that's the best way to put it okay all right thank you in policy IGA governing board authorized in I'm sorry in IGA it said governing board Dash authorized and here it just says governing board authorized is there a is there a correct way in IG in the previous previous in the previous policy that we just looked at it was meetings of governing board Dash authorized and in this one I think it means the dash I think it does need that yeah we'll we'll remove that I don't think the dash needs to be there okay okay well whichever way we'll figure that out yeah okay yeah and then go check my grammar thank you thank you for bringing that up okay so is there any further discussion on igd curriculum adoption no CNN I would call for the vote all those in favor of approving the First Street at policy igd curriculum adoption please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with nay thank you that passed five zero and that will take us to 8.07 policy development first read a policy ijj textbook supplementary materials selection and adoption Dr McCord thank you madam president board members the only addition to this is you guessed it the same thing it says public review underline and then it has the same phrase that we used in the other two policies do we want to put governing board it says yes meetings of the governing board yes I'm just I don't care yeah no no no that's what it should say okay great is is there a motion I move that we approve the policy with the changes just noted thank you Mr Freeze it's been moved is there a second second thank you Mr Jetty it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion I'll call for the vote all those in favor of approving the frustrated policy ijj textbook Dash or slash supplementary materials selection and adoption please vote by saying aye aye and any opposed with nay thank you that plus five zero that takes us to request for future agenda items 9.01 is there anything that needs to be noted tonight if not please let any further agenda items know be known please to Dr McCord or myself and we'll now go to board committee reports I have nothing to report tonight so that will take us to 10.02 town of Gilbert liaison Mrs page nothing to report tonight thank you 10.03 Gilbert Education Foundation and audit committee Mrs Humphries two things I wanted to report the Gilbert Education Foundation will be having we'll start their business leader breakfast quarterly in August and then we have a cornhole tournament a fundraiser in September they're already looking for sponsors for those events so anyone interested can contact the Gilbert Education Foundation I just wanted to share I was at the Arizona School Board Association Summer Leadership Conference and uh Petra Allen Kuntz came up to me and introduced herself when she found out I was from Gilbert because she is a Gilbert alumni who is currently serving on the Safford School District board so I thought that was pretty exciting and I wanted to share and she told she told me she's Stella Gilbert tiger and she bleeds gold and black thank you Miss Humphries 10.04 Insurance trust representative nothing too late for tonight thank you miss you jetty and 10.05 legislative representative Mr Thompson nothing tonight okay that will take us to 11.01 our meeting dates Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board members our next meeting is July 25th which is a business meeting August 8th is a work study and brief board business meeting August 15th is a policy meeting and August 22nd is a business meeting so July 25th that will be our first day of school and we'll have a board meeting first day of school so we'll have a lot to report on excellent wonderful thank you I don't if there's no further concerns about meeting dates or okay we will or did you have something okay then that will take us to adjournment um board members is there a motion I move that we adjourn thank you Mr Thompson is there a second second thank you Miss Humphries it's been moved and seconded that we adjourn all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye aye any opposed with nay thank you we are adjourned foreign

probably don't even have to watch no uh good evening uh I presented the information to you uh about my comments this evening some other comments I had and also a copy of contract for mental health services but if you last meeting on June 6 2003 after public comments regarding the mental health support for Kent Middle High School students we should approve to your December 13 2022 meeting following my time as chairman Daniels indicated I would be receiving a reply I'm disappointed and I have not received any written or verbal response to date nor in reviewing the minutes did I see any of you choose to comment on the June 6 meeting tonight I request you had to agenda the topic discussion possible action on the mental health support program for Canton middle and high school students being provided under contract entitled mental health coaching contract with Health Management Systems America signed by Kevin DK superintendent schools dated 1220 2022 such an addition to your posted agenda may be made by a motion or any member of the board second or by any other member and passed by a simple majority in accordance with Robert's Rules of Order I provide each board member president with a copy of the contract under Section 1.0 hmsa sculpting Services the contract States the client organization shall comply with the attached business service agreement referenced herein in my review of the documents provide in response to my foia I've not been able to locate such a BBA document the board staff has continued to search for BBA and through their efforts this afternoon I received a copied response to the board's staff from staff at hmsa stating apologies for the delay and closes the general BBA pending our new business development executive being on board and I am sure I'm not sure if this document was already executed I'm not able to secure copy of a briefly in A Brief Review of our file for Canton looks like nobody's on first base well I endorse the efforts of the Board of Education to support students mental health needs it is obvious to date that participation and services under the hmsc contractor not net expectations unfortunately this contract was approved by the board at your December 13 2022 meeting despite concerns and unanswered questions by board members I request he refer to the issues and questions that I've raised in my comments at your last meeting and those additional written issues and questions I'm providing to you tonight under separate cover is my determination this program was severely flawed in both his development implementation and the results of one less than acceptable I realize you're doing many good things on the education side I think that you need to focus your improvements on some of your fiscal and business business manners thank you I think we'll try to get you out get back to you because I'm sorry you haven't gotten it yet so thank you thanks for coming tonight appreciate it okay anybody else for I guess that's it for uh public forum all right so let's move to the consent agenda Mr Case if I could just say Mr Barlow I'll make sure Mrs mizikowski gets back to you with answers to your questions so thank you for your comments um consent agenda tonight consists of approval of the minutes of the June 6 2023 regular meeting and there were two additional items added to the agenda we um prior to the agenda being developed we have two resignations one is from Ms Colleen Barnhart who has been a middle school social studies teacher for the past several years Mrs Barnhart is relocating um and uh unfortunately he's resigning her position so I ask that you approve this letter of resignation Mrs Barnhart is an outstanding teacher and she will be greatly missed also we received a letter of resignation from Ms Michelle trab also an outstanding World Language teacher who has served students in our district at all levels and um I know Ms tribe has come to the board before so you are aware of all her hard work and helping to teach our students to be globally aware and so again she will be greatly missed so I ask as part of the consent agenda tonight do you accepted letters of resignation both effective June 30th 2023.

in town so I just don't see what the rationale but pushback would be is we're trying to bring in you know a less costly option yeah don't pushback amounts to some of the questions that came here although much increased class size I know if the Press on just get too big let's get an aid into the classroom you know is it's all the things and you know I explained this you know to David and in particular because he he probably had the most um you know all the strongest opinion out of the group and explain that we would do this after we did everything else after we filled up you know all the spaces and repurposed whatever we could inside the building after we increase the class sizes you know that's when we would have to do this that was the purpose of doing the study I mean it's part of our planning right you know I had it so and the new enrollments can't be pushed to other schools but we already Dr Solomon already moved that particman Avenue townhouses which is supposed to be according to the map Highland post any students coming right now to go to chapter so you know again we'll do as much of that as we can with those opportunities but that that that one was easy because it's a new development and those parents definitely students enrollment in school together which makes sense for the future if they're at jam and now they can go to the new York State for sure I think one of these series is that remember so even if we do 300 000 one year 215 you're going to still trigger referendum and your gas and taxpayers for money for trailers request change for this year yes if you're looking at leases it might help you stretch your years and you didn't look at everybody we're gonna we're gonna continue to be creative this year seek where Roman is and then we'll come back when I'm kind of talking about that I'm gonna have to come back for planning you know present enrollment give you a good picture of what else we could do you know because I think pretty much there's not going to be many more space moves we've been made and we'll present you know the options of you know putting you know teachers on the cards and doing all those types of things and then we'll have to you know give our best estimate as to where we where we think we need additional professional spaces I'm not sure if it's here um do we have a calendar uh drop dead dates for decisions because you would mention 10 months in time for new fabrication so if we're talking September right then that would have to be decided by November of this year um so we would also have to probably need to go out to market for used classrooms before that probably at least like I'm just guessing three months before that to get some sort of idea where you could agree on something it's not too early to be reaching out to to your favorite relocatable class yeah yeah you have your three contacts this one that I just quoted as Nadler so let's um Steve I was going to reach out to business officials unless questions today um yeah this is a couple of local companies actually put a local rep and then I'll take whatever information you have I was just waiting to see how much I actually have but that's a great point that there's trying to get ahead of it is certainly something that's worth doing yeah the lease for rental purchase of a second hand one right but I think the different options pricing those movies versus the purchase just on the timing of this I'm thinking that if we were going to do the used at least to use that has to get into that we have to have that in the budget this year and we need to basically give the council probably more information including better numbers so yeah I think we probably do go get proposals for people who have used ones that are coming offline you know in next summer fidelian Connecticut because they they get they get a seal for disabled communication they can read they can they can re-certified for other states but um you know it's it's nice if they're local or or even you know if it's a place that the code is more consistent from state to state but some place some place nearby is good for a lot of reasons code will be more similar but also shipping costs will be lower transport right so I'm thinking that's a takeaway task unfortunately but that that gives that gives us more information to the council as they we go in this direction now or we can talk about new ones but understand that you know as of July your capital budget is done and this is just off the table that's not an option how is the request S I thought I'd I think I was kind of I don't know request is to address the likely to add temporary classrooms at Highlander questions the other thing that you know in the back of my mind which Michael at least have talked about is we may be able to go to the state reimbursement you know I've never seen my instructions right so the key the key timing on this is September we know our moment actual and then I think we do have enough time to move even if we have a place in order for something right bill but we're already working within Cooperative purchasing agreements with these guys so so you can pull the trigger fast when the time comes yeah you don't have to say wait a second but my concern is that my concern is the referendum is if it goes over 500 000 find it extremely unlikely the council is going to be really interested in going out for a special reference which means it's I mean you know you know yeah so it's it's got a they probably needed by August at the latest because I'm thinking they vote on the capital budget in July July but they would still be able to do I'm thinking that they're the real issue with the 500 000 threshold is not the July 11th date but in theory they would be able to probably still do uh vote on sending an item to referendum by like September 1st with one of the issues that I think everybody can understand is actually getting absent to balance printed the referendum's got to be on there so there's got to be time to print it and stuff like that and this is all based in law I think so they might be able to July 11th may not be a hard date but yeah I think we probably need to give them something I'm thinking something even before you get your September numbers yeah but why would we need to go to a restaurant well if we get if we get numbers back that are say 550 000 and then we say this is what we want to do now maybe we take toilets out and drop them to 350 000 and you can play with it but if we at least at least two years well if it was leasing then it was going through the operating budget and then it's monthly costs so you can what I said earlier though if sorry if I missed that time the council approved 300 000.

do you know how long that HVAC funding is available but I'm seeing I see two limiting factors which is time because it could only be good for one year or it could have budgetary it may have just like a one million dollar bucket of funding when that's gone they're done I'm just curious if either of those are there so with the timing the bigger one for me the money they never fully funded on so but with regard to the time we could air condition that then I mean if we have to do it this year I'm not really going to be that good old air conditioning done this year before we have other discussions so the legislation was basically a couple of lines that has to navigate translated into what department in the state is actually going to be responsible is that it's it's the department of administrative Services osc GNR this will become part of the grants that you can get before roof of energy uh Code Compliance Ada as an example so they're holding this in under that non-priority Grant so you don't have to wait until June 30th it's a rolling application crisis so if it gets folded in that way think of what's Happening it just becomes one of the eligible uh non-priority Grant really quick but this is I'm thinking this is one of those situations where we just don't fully funded at 100 instructions [Music] yeah okay is good because it's almost done with the capital project so let's see where we can um if it's not going to happen in the next month or two whatever planning committee needs again just give us an update that I'm comfortable looking forward okay then how close with this yeah um chosen to end up on there right if we the way it works is they'll do the they'll do the audit they'll give us the report if we go forward and sign an energy performance contract then this gets paid for them over the term of that contract let's say it's the team here and if we don't go forward and there is no Unity performance right we don't open anything so they make it really easy at least to get you know the initial part that's done they do all the heavy lifting up product s how many more years are left in the existing I think there's more I think about 2014 I think 17.

there are no other changes to the assistant superintendent's contract including his salary and fringe benefits may have a motion make a motion to approve 15.8 second moved and seconded any discussion seeing none I'll call for a vote and the item passes for zero like a direct reflected item passes 4-0 moving to item 15.9 consideration and approval of amended employment contract for the superintendent this also is an action item the amendment to the superintendent's contract extends the term of the contract by one year from June 30 2025 to June 30 2026.

okay Kevin we got a word Smith okay can you take five words out please sure sure so what I tried to do what I tried to accomplish in doing this especially like well in this first part was try to make it as try to put as many things in there as possible that would um that would reflect what we're asking the voters to do and when we're asking them to do it so it's clear what we're what we're looking for so that's why I put in November but we could take that out if it's if that's just stating the obvious um I was going to suggest I I do like Rhonda's copy so I was going to suggest instead of vote this November vote Yes that takes that one word um and then leave it the first sentence the same so take ronda's sentence um basically I think um well actually she doesn't have she just has vote Yes she doesn't have in favor of so or maybe not sure that does short instead of it gives the same message okay so you're saying so to vote Yes this November um I did say that but um I don't think we need this November okay I mean because it's going to be right there on the ballot so I think that's redundant okay um so I was just going I just like Rhonda's first sentence but if you want to put in favor of yeah the 15 okay to do that in favor of or just to vote Yes well I think because we don't know the word count let's start with the vote Yes the current word count is 206 words okay okay well then if we go to yes that way we can look at the other points and maybe not have to re you know that's an easy way to take out a few words so what I'm hearing you say is Gilbert Public Schools governing board is asking the community to vote yes this November no no no it's Rhonda's first to vote Yes for the 15 maintenance and operations budget override and continue my schedule my reasoning for putting yes was going back to the policy or no the The Retreat that we had with our surveyor who said to use the words budget override and so we want to make sure we have the word yes in there as often as we can so that when they're going to vote it's a yes yes yes okay that was my I think that was my reasoning for putting it in there was to try to duplicate that word I think that's I when I saw yours I thought that was a strong way of saying it so if we do that first sentence as Rhonda has written it then it makes it a little bit shorter and we can work through the other surgeons yeah I also capitalize continuation isn't that would that be in it says budget it says budget override continuation on the ballot calling capital letters right we just need to capitalize continuation yes okay okay 203.

and let's say we need another 200 000. we go to the emergency fund what's the council which is already in the operating budget so writing appropriated money yeah so you would have to go okay but here's another so here's another concern I'm going off a memory again what we originally presented with was two different tools each for a million bucks and now we're saying one school maybe for 300 000 but that maybe we're thinking the other school is 300 000 would that be split up into two different referendum questions I I guess I kind of feel like we're playing through fire on this one not in a bad way but um just be careful about it you know the stuff better than I do but if we do need to get it to referendum that's the concern that I have because the council is not gonna I can't believe they have a new special referendum to this great yeah I don't even think if I was like if you were gonna ask me I would say there's no way it just seems like an exorbitant amount of money every time very space yeah so just you know take that out and you multiply It Out by spend lots of money I think we have to wait and see I think this is worse case we've got plans we'll be come September let's see where we are bring it back to this community enrollment is on the data and then we decide I mean the businesses were ahead of this plenty right and we are playing right the bad news is it's a real potential problem that we're gonna have to wrestle to the ground until the new schools are open and uh what's the possibility of putting it in the parking lot is that something that you looked at further and discussed with people rather than like having people watching what we're talking about yeah right that's that's the least desirable from Logistics point of view um because that that is actually a crowding area for students so the other okay the other two options are better on that particular site and there's not a significant medicine okay yeah plan left I think is a little bit easier to put them in you have to check what's in there first plan right they're nice and tucked away yeah it'll be interesting position with that do you Recollections that requires a site variants [Music] you're talking about of course yeah we own all this right yeah the only problem option one is the furthest way if you use the bathrooms it's the purpose partial order just probably I would say it's pretty close to the Border okay okay well you have to be the side setback was the distance from the property no that's what I'm wondering if the things yeah I mean it would have to be service yeah my guess it's pretty close if you look at the GIS you know Jared at the Palm GIS is pretty close okay yeah just zooming in on the old drawing it looks dead on at the corner and then it floats into two or three feet sounds like what a nice school would do for their neighbor probably um we did set it at 30 feet and then 20 feet away so you have to yeah you know do a full code work up on where your openings are working with Portables people closer there are things that can be done I like actor too though right and personally that's my that's my favorite because you can have toilets the principal really likes option one she can't have toilets over there because it's tucked in the back yeah it makes a little Courtyard it's got a nice connection so option two now in that area there is there's playground equipment yeah and the estimate the process right right yeah they're negative aspect about two is that it um interdicts access to the back area for emergency responses I don't think they're driving fire trucks back there necessarily but it does a little bit it's not horrible to deal with for sure so we're driving through the playground no but it does you know it's bigger than a playground that's for sure 100 feet your distance back right and you're not getting in between the school room right you would probably have to put a pathway or a roadway through that bank on that foot that way if you did that Forum provided that clearance without a good deal with other stuff well that's a good fire engine anyway they're backing up you know to get out of that space out of the out of the discussion that's what they typically work for which is there enough I don't think there's a hybrid it's all storm water yeah no um all right ideally I'd like to see the upper grades out there as you eliminate kindergarten we have no bathrooms uh I think it's just for developmental appropriateness also specialists or or specials but I'd like to limit the amount of traffic to a special so how many questions you're going to guess five but I'm sorry I'm showing four and four that was from the older study yeah you know what's what's third important third grade there is that that would be the class that's moving up for your Rising purpose yeah another class sizes are increasing over too much in Highland would be formed also pilot it works seven okay yeah yeah listen I'm not looking at the plans I'm looking at the enrollment study and they've got seven in Kinder K through third grade and then six of that yeah what's that let's save a ton of special left because pictures sped in the basement again yeah well back in the day so this to my view is like you didn't come back in the basement yeah and then in our talks over there it sounds like you've had one of them we're as possible definitely do it know them already but um September I'm sure there are schools open September where they could use some trailers yes you know the restoration of all of that but suspect now it's probably even the time to check right because they want to be transporting them and installing other things yeah well as soon as you get into conversations with them too I think for instance when we got lucky with the we had that well and we were talking about that with them earlier it might be influencing what they decide to put on the line you know well and even if you're looking out three years you know it does so say here too you know you you decided to gamble and not go with one at least you have a line on one for year three so I just want to hear that I really I'm glad to pull it we're even just listening to talk about Town Council see how you can come in like if the water slowly instead of all at once yeah I just hate goodbye um that's just amazing yeah I just would hate to buy them especially oh by the way so you know I just feel like they have no air is feeling too little okay Mike Warren did we learn in trailers at Island School are they still there right no I think I think it's important too bad things sort of segregating right uh we got the school's got support from everybody and I think movie move School modernization along you need to keep that in mind thank you modernizing for everybody all right and there's a 50 reimbursement on eligible costs now but APA City According to some new legislation that apparently snuck its way into the environment of the bills yeah all right so where are we are these folks free today when you're going to give us the po about yeah yes okay thank you so much thanks thank you very much thank you so much thank you very much determined in terms of five without dollar under visit after State funding or before no it's not a statement okay yeah so if you have thank you good night if you have a 600 000 project but you know in person that you don't have to go referendum yeah thank you all right so are we on item four okay so Capital Construction Group it's next step so this um I've provided a new package so it's basically a proposal from energy and if you look up on page two um the way the compensation would work but this is really the only item to discussing this particular topic so the proposal for manager is on the compensation that they if we go forward and they do this audit which is free to us and then that audit results in an actual energy performance contract that's approved to funding the energia would get paid out of that performance contract directly and if it's a 10 million dollar or greater project their fee is 4.75 of the 10 million so 000 and then if it's a project we could see it from 4 million to 10 10 million they are costs for their their rate goes up to six percent and then Max is that at 80 on very small projects so just a little pressure everybody's memory these fees are based on the agreement that they had based on procurement CCM did so we don't have to go to bid if we want to use this because it's already put in today of these costs are in line with what we did back in nine years ago now with MLS up the difference is that we hired at marisco and then higher energy reversed I feel good as we were hard enough for us to do the study then we could take it to the next step if we wanted to go forward with this and I mentioned this and I mentioned that time manager Sean Kimball as well we should do this in conjunction with the town because it would be a larger store project than the potentially more items that would have a quicker payback and make the energy performance contract actually worked yeah drop down the percentage right that just does drop down the percentage the ones that was over 10 million but it's 10 million or greater 4.75 so and I numbers so really the question you know for the planning committee is do we want to go forward with the next step which is to present it to the town through Sean and get there by and before we need to receive any questions so or option two is interesting go to bed I'm not sure different pricing if we did that and then if this is already pre-med so that is my suggestion is ask show about it and just ask them if you could get it on the council agenda in the next month or two and if it's not going to happen I don't need to know why we'll just move forward ourselves but I think our cost savings perspective it makes sense to me right and honestly I find it hard to believe that this is something that anybody I don't know anybody who opposes Energy Efficiency yeah so what is suspected it would be worth it to do it and I mean not a small piece of the puzzle because we're square foot rate what do you think it might eat whether it's whatever might be incorporated in a roofs solar I'm taking it too little right now but any of the projects overall that can fall into here yeah but we do have a number in mind where it might like a range where it might plant District wide yeah in my in my from my perspective the attractive part of this is that they'll actually help us with the scope definition you know that's something that I myself glad myself you know that's hard hard thing to get a handle on you know it's going to have an independent you know independent Engineers coming outside and take a look at the infrastructure take a look at our equipment you know and then you know try to at least do uh you know life you know by the age of the equipment trying to determine you know this is our progression of what we need to replace and I just really do to improve the facility through energy efficient you know technology or what happened let's find the answer so one of the one of the last pieces of the discussion we had 10 years ago whenever it was was the Payback right because you had 50 million dollars of projects to do what is a 50 year payback is it worth it for a building that's already 50 years old yeah I do not what do you got to do yeah doing for the 15-year Payback like so one year others are 25 year payback I mean I think that's still roughly the magic number the 15 million 15 years yes in terms of payback now here's the thing that's interesting the HVAC grants we have 12 million dollars or so of work if we wanted to air condition a Google and dog right so right there if we if let's say it's all about because it's probably not what I was born now you've just reduced cost by six million dollars and they will help us with that so now your payback improves on anything else you do because now you only have to cover six million across not 1200.

and we did that in one Junction yes we did so that's right like that yeah were you out of council for that no it's not when it actually I think it was 2014 left we could have taken time to go do the project um so we have six years six more so we had two well yeah yeah you would have two controversy it was yeah not to complicate things but we can foreign as well it gave me quite up before the end of the term when we had a discussion we have the Ruffles if we were there but there is a there is an option for advice obviously a Catholic whatever they financed us there is an option to buy out of the contract if that came and passed I would think that by and large segregated yeah each specific energy conservation measure ECM is like these windows at the high school and then that's the north side and then the South Side would be a different ECM now if we are retrofitting something that amaraska did 10 years ago maybe we'd buy out that part of the contract or the whole contract uh I mean there could be some crossover or we just say I'm not going to bother with that because they do all the other ecms which I think for the one we did I mean it could have been a thousand different specific items around the town yeah the big ones the big ones were Highlands electric Keys the electric key at the back of the high school that got removed we installed the rooftop units on the island and then all the LED lighting and the classrooms in the hallways those were the biggest the conservation measures abcm and then a lot of the weather stripping and things that are smaller the toilets of the water conservation electric motors that were replaced refrigerators to your point like weather strippers on that for years so yeah yeah so yeah those ecms are like they're not platforms at this point you're still holding the money though the contract yeah you know the second time around we would we would avoid some of the little itsy bitsy stuff that really doesn't have much value it created a lot of work yeah I mean yeah you did replace some refrigerators yeah they used to the gas fillers there could be I'm thinking that part of it was driven by the ever Source incentives so the way John set up could be trying Etc as well so we need to be a bit more diligent yeah yes [Music] the next one school modernization phase two for discussion I know honey I think really you know we have to start figuring out timing and what do we want to do because we we know the schools that have not won't be touched as part of there is one so this is just an open discussion I I mean obviously we know how good success with the first phase of school modernization of committee was formed councils committee you know with a lot of bordered cooperation so what are we just trying to kind of things um what do you guys um so um what we've faced and we went to referendum the issue that we were facing was an increase in enrollment or Elementary School I think it's fair to say that new schools based on all the discussions I resolved in these rules for Highland and Doolittle that's not a big discussion point right now I'm not sure I'm thinking that the to fall on where where we were with increasing enrollments to be thinking about God would be one aspect if God is a question What's the timing on it when does the student population hit Dodge and when would we need to begin working on modernizing and then two years before that like we did with this we probably had a two-year window for Council organizing the subcommittee or committee and getting out to reference I think that was two years right that one's a solid two okay so and someone it got slowed down a bit because of covet yeah because I replaced Catherine so it was probably three years September right before we got elected um so three years and two months later it got slowed down by covet so we could still say I'm thinking we still say at least two years for something like that so let's just say it was and then dot is um let's just use the construction for elementary schools is it a three year window to your window three years it's definitely three years and it's actually a little bit more than three years if you look at you know when we hired The Architects and the orders red that's like open until 26.

do you know how long that HVAC funding is available but I'm seeing I see two limiting factors which is time because it could only be good for one year or it could have budgetary it may have just like a one million dollar bucket of funding when that's gone they're done I'm just curious if either of those are there so with the timing the bigger one for me the money they never fully funded on so but with regard to the time we could air condition that then I mean if we have to do it this year I'm not really going to be that good old air conditioning done this year before we have other discussions so the legislation was basically a couple of lines that has to navigate translated into what department in the state is actually going to be responsible is that it's it's the department of administrative Services osc GNR this will become part of the grants that you can get before roof of energy uh Code Compliance Ada as an example so they're holding this in under that non-priority Grant so you don't have to wait until June 30th it's a rolling application crisis so if it gets folded in that way think of what's Happening it just becomes one of the eligible uh non-priority Grant really quick but this is I'm thinking this is one of those situations where we just don't fully funded at 100 instructions [Music] yeah okay is good because it's almost done with the capital project so let's see where we can um if it's not going to happen in the next month or two whatever planning committee needs again just give us an update that I'm comfortable looking forward okay then how close with this yeah um chosen to end up on there right if we the way it works is they'll do the they'll do the audit they'll give us the report if we go forward and sign an energy performance contract then this gets paid for them over the term of that contract let's say it's the team here and if we don't go forward and there is no Unity performance right we don't open anything so they make it really easy at least to get you know the initial part that's done they do all the heavy lifting up product s how many more years are left in the existing I think there's more I think about 2014 I think 17.

yeah so we've got three full school years so it's it's a 3dm plus window so for for the elementary school modernization we're talking basically a six year window including coveted and again that's the new construction yeah the renovations won't take yeah but if you're also not doing it during the school year well who knows how it works out but we're probably looking we'll probably need for renovation we probably need at least four years from the time when the council decides assuming the council wants to do this the council wanted to appoint a committee until a building is renovated new or new construction at least four years maybe five years so when does the population hit uh off the top of your head it was you know it was about eight years after when we started looking at it okay so let's call it you know five years out before we really start to get to the point where God capacity starts to reach its Max it's dive-sized I've forgotten is God properly sized or if we're seeing that if we just stay grades seven in the Navy yeah and assuming that we could go back to the days sure um but I mean I and this I'm thinking more like if phase two and obviously but I mean in the short term obviously we're missing any sort of major Capital funding expenditure for referendum for this coming November for next November I think we should be leading them out of renovation project that was wrong with us okay well I'm just saying we're planning we're appropriating money this year for watching the AC yeah I think it's in Europe three what do you what's in the third I thought we put money plan which will be available July 1.

and we did that in one Junction yes we did so that's right like that yeah were you out of council for that no it's not when it actually I think it was 2014 left we could have taken time to go do the project um so we have six years six more so we had two well yeah yeah you would have two controversy it was yeah not to complicate things but we can foreign as well it gave me quite up before the end of the term when we had a discussion we have the Ruffles if we were there but there is a there is an option for advice obviously a Catholic whatever they financed us there is an option to buy out of the contract if that came and passed I would think that by and large segregated yeah each specific energy conservation measure ECM is like these windows at the high school and then that's the north side and then the South Side would be a different ECM now if we are retrofitting something that amaraska did 10 years ago maybe we'd buy out that part of the contract or the whole contract uh I mean there could be some crossover or we just say I'm not going to bother with that because they do all the other ecms which I think for the one we did I mean it could have been a thousand different specific items around the town yeah the big ones the big ones were Highlands electric Keys the electric key at the back of the high school that got removed we installed the rooftop units on the island and then all the LED lighting and the classrooms in the hallways those were the biggest the conservation measures abcm and then a lot of the weather stripping and things that are smaller the toilets of the water conservation electric motors that were replaced refrigerators to your point like weather strippers on that for years so yeah yeah so yeah those ecms are like they're not platforms at this point you're still holding the money though the contract yeah you know the second time around we would we would avoid some of the little itsy bitsy stuff that really doesn't have much value it created a lot of work yeah I mean yeah you did replace some refrigerators yeah they used to the gas fillers there could be I'm thinking that part of it was driven by the ever Source incentives so the way John set up could be trying Etc as well so we need to be a bit more diligent yeah yes [Music] the next one school modernization phase two for discussion I know honey I think really you know we have to start figuring out timing and what do we want to do because we we know the schools that have not won't be touched as part of there is one so this is just an open discussion I I mean obviously we know how good success with the first phase of school modernization of committee was formed councils committee you know with a lot of bordered cooperation so what are we just trying to kind of things um what do you guys um so um what we've faced and we went to referendum the issue that we were facing was an increase in enrollment or Elementary School I think it's fair to say that new schools based on all the discussions I resolved in these rules for Highland and Doolittle that's not a big discussion point right now I'm not sure I'm thinking that the to fall on where where we were with increasing enrollments to be thinking about God would be one aspect if God is a question What's the timing on it when does the student population hit Dodge and when would we need to begin working on modernizing and then two years before that like we did with this we probably had a two-year window for Council organizing the subcommittee or committee and getting out to reference I think that was two years right that one's a solid two okay so and someone it got slowed down a bit because of covet yeah because I replaced Catherine so it was probably three years September right before we got elected um so three years and two months later it got slowed down by covet so we could still say I'm thinking we still say at least two years for something like that so let's just say it was and then dot is um let's just use the construction for elementary schools is it a three year window to your window three years it's definitely three years and it's actually a little bit more than three years if you look at you know when we hired The Architects and the orders red that's like open until 26.

okay all right if they put plenty money in that there's 23 24 so yeah July 1. and then the actual expenditure of 6.9 million and 25 26. that's for pacing for air conditioning yeah we said how do we follow the comprehensible project we increase the improvements which we might be able to Fast Track well that's what I'm just thinking performance if I was if it's something that we can plan this year costed and then two referendum a year from this November and knowing the state's going to pay 50 of couldn't imagine that's not then you have all your own life in schools by the time that project is done that that use rules will come on problem yeah so what I'm thinking then was what I'm taking away from tennis versus projects 48 years though that's eight years the question is what what point are is that class going to max out dad or or be appropriate to have yeah so I'm saying it's about five years from now five years from now we need to look at a Duty or else we're going to be at work I don't think I'm going to run out of space at the top right because if we'd have 900 right just random numbers that means we can have classes at 450 and 450.

yeah so we've got three full school years so it's it's a 3dm plus window so for for the elementary school modernization we're talking basically a six year window including coveted and again that's the new construction yeah the renovations won't take yeah but if you're also not doing it during the school year well who knows how it works out but we're probably looking we'll probably need for renovation we probably need at least four years from the time when the council decides assuming the council wants to do this the council wanted to appoint a committee until a building is renovated new or new construction at least four years maybe five years so when does the population hit uh off the top of your head it was you know it was about eight years after when we started looking at it okay so let's call it you know five years out before we really start to get to the point where God capacity starts to reach its Max it's dive-sized I've forgotten is God properly sized or if we're seeing that if we just stay grades seven in the Navy yeah and assuming that we could go back to the days sure um but I mean I and this I'm thinking more like if phase two and obviously but I mean in the short term obviously we're missing any sort of major Capital funding expenditure for referendum for this coming November for next November I think we should be leading them out of renovation project that was wrong with us okay well I'm just saying we're planning we're appropriating money this year for watching the AC yeah I think it's in Europe three what do you what's in the third I thought we put money plan which will be available July 1.

but that's roughly so we went to our teams to that right I mean since I've been on board since you've been on the board right pendulum's gonna swing to the other side and teams are going to have that so that's great in five years part of the issue with that especially the other part is just the amount of all your common spaces are too small and your parking and the driveway but I would never well so that's that's another Factor let's just say we did not want to do new construction Parcels that are available will change over time I just think I mean your speakers with 80 million or 16 years still gonna happen no parent parking no field space where are you going to put on tomorrow there's just not enough unless you I don't know how you would do it honestly without a requirement like to build a nice Middle School to function with you know it could be wrong button you're going to spend a lot of money in fact yeah it might impact the the rebate the state right where are you going to put an auditorium and gymnasium is probably the size of cafeteria and supports racism parent parking I just don't see how you can build a town and there's no other property that we can see here a new board has to face what we already have established and we can accelerate this because we have this favorable you know consensus in the community about the who died somewhere I think one I think one other thing to keep in mind what you're talking about which Parcels if you're talking about doing a new property you can't do I find it unlikely that a parcel Lake in the North End somebody just donates 30 acres to us or 40 acres right on the southern New border I didn't drive the whole stop that just vote against it there's no way they're dealing with traffic yeah pick up kids now if it was a high school for two years and seniors maybe you could say you could handle yourself if you're doing a lot of driving it's I do think it would be a huge problem for that for that so it'd be very very much like specific where you could do something like that so one of the recommendations right now this is as an aspect on renovations to Dodd Middle School and says future face of the plan a study should be conducted to determine the actual construction and I think I'm sure that there's not that much appetite to form another School building or school modernization committee but it worked I think that's ultimately what has to happen you know as you look at phase two I have to put together a group and I say you yeah a council to put together a group to start looking at this in earnest and I did what we're doing that work that that should continue because that'll that'll actually give us a little bit of an insight into some of the renovation obstacles that we've got you know in the mix to do a little Windows roof which if you're doing a renovation those are certain things that you would do anyway so what you were saying what you were saying before is just off the top of your head you're thinking you would recommend getting uh Renovations or new construction for Dodd or from completed five years from there is that where you were thinking what I was saying is that your population will grow is going to start yeah yeah five years out okay um yeah I agree with you on a committee because I do think that it works I think it works well it takes time um but you need to get buy-in Wallingford you didn't do a committed decision and that's all right yeah I mean I just like I'm thinking like first we have the long term right [Music] right Focus attention and capital money towards renovations scores while we plan for the next large phases of the project or is it nothing here well if we're going to put all the energy into planning for another 80 million that's great what are we doing you know the years leading after that probably has been about here we're just gonna do nothing well what I'm thinking is what I'm thinking of business that was let's see if we can move forward on an energy performance contract in a fairly expeditious manner and keep our eye on the bigger picture with regard to Doolittle because that's the one I think is the school that's got the most yeah yeah and that could roll out in the next 12 months right because if we have how much AC is 7 million and we're getting State reimbursement so that's like three and a half okay so it's really I think it's just some real improvements to do little not yeah not everything is energy related um but we keep the keep the list and get an idea of how to do that move forward on manage contract and keep the discussion going about where the opportunities are where rich could use another 10 or 20 million dollars um so when would we want to start talking about putting together committee or a Steering group or whatever I think it's it's we're bundling it with the two little discussion so at this point I think we can accelerate the job conversation because they've done most of the legwork already yeah we're not starting from scratch but that we know the fact we've done the research you know I'm going to take also from the again taxpayer perspective it seems so I don't disagree with you but it seems though I'm gonna go to there's another referendum for dude a little soon and then a few years down the line and then another I just in like it's always a constant you know is there a way we can just do this all at once somehow I think that's a discussion um [Music] but foreign taxes and uh it's probably more palatable to many households to you know three percent per year instead of like that one getting 30 maybe three percent per year for 10 years rather than 30 in one year like wow I just think that I just think a lot of people probably have that they don't even necessarily they're not even necessarily thinking about it their budget that closely related they hope they get a raise because they know taxes are going to go up but it's just kind of baked in I mean with inflation and stuff it's different but I do think staggering it from a tax perspective is helpful who would the committee be would it be more to that planning committee or would it be similar to you know with counseling before a point voters in town maybe board liaison liaison collaborative no I agree with that 100 what they did before yeah I mean the first I mean since I've been here for the first attempt was done by the board the council did appropriate money for the study but wound up in the recommendation for a middle school that failing the council who did approve their dick up to the voters school modernization committee which was you know much more collaborative important and Council the committee was formed and to get approved for the two schools so I think he's trying to stick with what's working yeah [Music] and I think you'll have more like Anderson now that all the schools are taken care of they can all see that oh eventually we're going to need time right yeah as knew was that your new schools are but at least all of the elementary schools have been touched and then it's like okay now Community all these kids are going to be going to the Middle School and that's consistent with what was released this first piece was phase one and phase two of three because we decided at some point so and this might be a Jeff thing where when we do redistrict that I just don't want to see Highland continue to be taxed with special needs it just seems like that's where we travel them all so I look along those lines at the human North End you know what's been introduced in the design discussion is to have additional Elementary and pre-k program but in the case six portion to have some of the programming that's at Highwood you know moved into the North to the north and as I mentioned earlier programming more than 23 to 24 school year so we do start to you know have that president's you know the more intense programs that three schools potentially if we do delivery from a teacher lens it's more people to mainstream children they follow me to one school yeah whatever their careers on that front so is so would it make sense for us to ask the work about asking the council um or even just I would travel a little bit find out if it's deeper way for the moment I mean I don't see why we wouldn't happen I think I'm happy to discuss it I think we should and I also think if for whatever reason the council is just not hot on it at this moment I think you know revisit it get an idea like okay so when or do you have a reason if you don't like the committee idea okay we can figure out other options but if you do like the committee idea and you agree with phase two whatever phase two is then when should we do this because like then it was saying you know if we're thinking about having a bad renovation or new construction done in five years yeah we discussion yeah special Fox team a little bit right should referendums aren't though I mean I do have to say that if there's ever going to be a time to get oh yeah we have 50 for new construction and renovation for HVAC oh really yeah those nine state titles things I just got some details today is the athletic field is that only for school operators so parking Rec does not qualify so we have to do is we have to train to the Department of direct fields that last temporarily all right Rich you're up item number six they do have some Athletic Field improvements yeah just awarded a contract today actually to begin uh sign and study for renovation of mclarity Athletics options baseball field I would just ask for everything yeah because yeah it was prior to this it would have been I think Southington they they failed at the difference in last year that they were looking for 9 million so they're going to take their fields actually yeah it's not synthetic it is a football field but they were trying to get baseball trying to get a additional Fields okay all right yeah this is a typical summer believe it or not um so just for focus on capital projects we have a bunch of these going on right now Chester High School window replacement we're actually almost 50 percent if you do um demolition so that's going very well uh mod materials frames glazing as well in hand so we're not going to be dealing with lead time issues um and that is anticipated to be completed on on schedule before the start of school minus limbo is that your puppy just too yeah it's just a really it's the same doors we're going to replicate the design of that the front entrance yeah so it's gonna it will look but that's going to be a replace and actually we just meant that the fire marshal and building official today so we've got green lighted on that and that's going to happen Chester High School we're doing some masonry reporting uh dot uh we are replacing a South section of the library the north section was replaced last year so that'll be 100 and keep in mind I'm working with capital budgets so some of these dollar amounts are we're trying to use all our Capital uh to get us as much fun as we possibly can do a little Southwind bathroom Renovations are underway actually that demolition is 100 so they're starting to do all the plumbing and the floors and then the sanitary lines in place so that's going well it was going well as of the moment and that finishes all the all the multi-fiction yes absolutely staff bathrooms so then we would move on to the next School dot with the bathroom or the basement right um do a little north entrance sidewalk replacement schedule uh to start demo should begin after the Fourth of July weekend Highland exterior lighting replacement an enhancement project is underway um so if you take a ride by Dodge you'll see that the electricians are out there trenching away I don't know yeah we're going to be installing all new uh photo self-controlled exterior lighting on the building most of it will be Dom lighting similar to outdoor and then Doolittle could have been set up all the parking lot lighting will be step drivers so built into 10 and then see slow motion so it won't be leg polluting and be very energy efficient so that's underway we're also increasing some parking space over there by removing a berm and we're going to install you know crushed stone deck so at least that way cars teachers and staff whoever decides to park on top of the hill won't have to do that any longer and eventually we'll get it designed correctly and paved but for now it's a it's a we're trying to sneak that in um so I've lost a personal apartment which is sure they needed and then Paving repairs we plan on restricting some some premises over at the little upper playground and then replace some of the road adjacent to the Western at the high school so um for maintenance improvements and repairs I mean I'm not going to read all of these so I'll hit the big ones district-wide obviously the training of uh sfg which is our new cleaning contractor they actually began Thursday Thursday and Friday so performance demobilized Thursday and Friday was a little bit of overlap SMG has come in they've actually started their work prior to the official start of the contract which is July 1st so um they're they're you know they seem to be uh they seem to be uh I don't know if I'm excited but they certainly are have their staff on on hand their rope Crews already in the schools getting the cleaning stripping the waxing floors Vector sand have also been pretty instrumental in keeping that you know training then keeping them alive so on and so forth but they've certainly brought enough horsepower on board that's working out well we do have interior Renovations which we've touched on a little bit of that Chapman and Highland related to student enrollment uh we have various playground pieces of equipment uh Chapman Highlands and do a little that we're replacing primarily uh the Nets I think they call them like netscapes so over time you know UV just destroys the plastic that uh that's you know that's what the Mets are basically composed of and there's no replacement you have to buy the entire unit so we have that contract that you were planning on replacing those where that playground is it doesn't come into play it's actually yeah okay trailers uh we're doing a slew of HVAC control the BBC conversion so we're still running HVAC and ventilation with compressed air or at least controlling it we can press there so we're eliminating where we can and installing the directors will control we have some rooftop units with bad heat exchangers we're replacing a number of different doors throughout the district the high school we're doing both exterior doors and interior fire door Replacements which are sorely needed so we've been picking away at that annually and trying to do a percentage of them the high school is I think a pretty decent shape after this year we'll be a good trip on that now let's see my favorite quote was sitting back for weeks is there correspondence on this no it will happen are the schools thinking ownership of that that's what it is uh yeah I'm in the classroom in daca's hours yeah but that's still the silver is from salting the roads I don't know we're not taking responsibility for the pond per se right but we did request in our capital budget funding to replace the Outdoor Classroom and the dock the there is um the Town Council and I talked shown about this does have on their capital budget to do something to include that pond so we're trying to see can we do this fall at the same time it would make sense kind of get the pond back you know to a much better condition and then make the Outdoor Classroom very useful again and that's the call I could have sworn but when I was on the council 20 years ago the town took ownership and directed it I could be wrong that's what I'm assuming this is not usually do that like it's a flow issue my simple point is I don't think I I when I got that email oh yeah I was just like I just don't feel like the board has any responsibility for that I feel like it's a separate issue yeah I just want the broken down for a long time so I was hoping to keep Rich happy my life is better [Music] uh we're going to continue with window replacement we are doing two classrooms uh room 10 and 27 so that typically in addition to renovating the windows we also replace the mill work and you know put in a new shopping so we we've been doing that and only at least for the last you know seven eight years maybe yeah how many do you know off top of your head where you're at this will probably put us at about 50 percent units that are still buried in there so we clean it up pretty well um let's see what else various acoustical ceiling tiles replacement we do have the new Greenhouse installations related for homestead school here I'm also going to we're also going to spend money and put a decent Basketball poll and hoop assembly as we did in Doolittle and Ireland last year that's that basketball pull up there was a little tired fix that we do have a third floor bathroom renovation that we're going to do I have a lift spring replacements for a couple on Windows we did it on the portable side last year this year will be on the Houston side and then uh you know Replacements of various pieces of equipment around the maintenance for our specifically doors and then a fan quality unit which provides air conditioning for the live office which is absolutely Paramount it could be able to keep protecting anybody around routine annual maintenance inspection this is things that we do every year Health ability is pavement maintenance you know all our all our gymnast and cafeteria floor maintenances we have to go through our annual playground equipment elevator emergency lighting fire extinguisher so on so forth um I did add septic tank rejected public grease trap cleanups a lot of people are surprisingly don't realize we still have certain tanks and petitioners so we do some clothes do have to be pumped out annually and then in case of the Thirsty well twice let's get in there we do uh HVAC duct cleaning we go through it's going to be the high school and we're actually starting back at the beginning so we've done one full cycle you know we do that based on the amount of budget money we're able to we're able to get and then my staff is busy right now doing classroom Furniture swaps we're trying to hit up all the classrooms you know prepared for next year ahead of the cleaning service tearing them out again it's better to do it now than that after the floors are going to clean it is completed so yeah we do have a busy summer not busier than any other summer but it just gives you a couple uh gives you an idea of what we try to accomplish in the course of nine weeks I'd like to move this stuff right there right yeah that is certainly the point okay with regard to the inspections I'm just curious uh some none are all are covered by your staff most of this actually is is contracted contracted right so yeah so like even like for athletic equipment that has to be certified inspector elevators fire you know the fire um you know lighting emergency lighting fire extinguishers has to be by a certified contractor maintain all that I mean some of it where we can do an inspections primarily for hvc and things of that plumbing repairs wouldn't be fixtures belts filters clean that's of course listening to that mentioned we do internally but a lot of this are are you know I don't have the subject I don't have body wagon so I can't pop off suction things so some of this some of this is a specialty specialty services that we need to hire to make sure that they've been completed and documented so not necessarily this year but from time to time if you if the schools or the town have coincidentally have somebody that could do the inspections with you would you normally communicate whether you just cross over on something like that well I don't think the time I mean typically the only crossover that I'm aware of is I have two um uh e2s on stuff and we help them maintain like fire alarm control panels so we do the rest of them we do you know to the extensive service they're starting to get to check right if you're aware of something yeah the two sides have conversations and probably would have but you don't have necessarily anybody getting hired with that yeah and then a lot of this stuff I mean a lot of this like you know elevator inspection they have to go through the same vendors estate certified vendor yeah yeah how many elevators do we have in the schools well five plus uh six figures okay and then with the new schools I'm sure it'll be at least one of each other yeah no it does the car seat is it right Chapman yeah I think gems Island s so that's it in a nutshell I just want to say thank you because I know how much work for all this is and I know how it is to deal with contractors and this also like you know when we were going to the post office from modernization issue and if you see a list like this and we shared that the schools yeah the schools are tired so we're kind of prepare for myself I appreciate it yeah I think a lot of people I mean it's less short ing here so far seven years people are impressed like especially walking through the ice cream you know they're thinking so much nowhere to facility and a lot of it is due to you know how our staff upkeeps our contractors or keep it you know when it's broken and fixed right so those are things that I've helped you know obviously disclosing you know be a more pleasant place I mean I came from working at that's not the case here as much as you can um I remember a discussion about one town in New Haven County where people here in Cheshire were saying well why are their taxes so low or why don't they ever have tax increases there they didn't have a capital budget and there was no maintenance done for like decades Yeah well yeah it wasn't it wasn't I thought it was different but prioritize you do what you can you can't even have the time you have in order to do schools open on September whatever I can look as best of the game yeah and I'm lucky you know our organization is lucky we have a you know the CEO who's Pro maintenance you know Pro you know improving things so that makes a big difference too funny well yeah absolutely Council provides a certainly we get funding to do something capital projects that we can get more but you know hopefully we can do some of the bigger things in the capital plan you know particular people keep running effectively until they can be replaced all right without anybody have anything else I'd like to share with the SMG yes or there is the same as the previous uh as far as scope yeah there's something called on office it is we're not taking the garbage out associated with it it shouldn't be this part of the reading bed we did actually I think we added a couple of things as far as scroll codes alphabetically as with all Scopes and contractors becomes a challenge in making sure that they execute 100 of the scope usually I have a 80 20 rule get them to 80 last year you're you know consider it a win but unfortunately that's something that's a daily daily uh exercises and keeping up with uh with our contractors but as far as the contract itself it's very similar to what performance I've had in the past few years so nothing much ultimately it'll be up to them I mean it's minor but anyway here yeah yeah and that's consistent that's you know someone didn't get the bathroom clean one day [Music] I mean and I I measured that by the amount of her place if I had 50 per plants in a week it's not a good thing if I get physical flights in a month then you know it was a metric that we use it's the phone ring of electric the phone doesn't ring they're doing it's in the park my phone rings too much then their fault begins yeah so be pretty uh we're pretty uh aggressive as far as ensuring that the level of service connecting especially since it was abrupt that that you issue came about right okay that's transparent to us right now so it's a new company is in Old companies oh yeah yeah well yeah right now yeah okay thank you thank you thank you

okay all right if they put plenty money in that there's 23 24 so yeah July 1. and then the actual expenditure of 6.9 million and 25 26. that's for pacing for air conditioning yeah we said how do we follow the comprehensible project we increase the improvements which we might be able to Fast Track well that's what I'm just thinking performance if I was if it's something that we can plan this year costed and then two referendum a year from this November and knowing the state's going to pay 50 of couldn't imagine that's not then you have all your own life in schools by the time that project is done that that use rules will come on problem yeah so what I'm thinking then was what I'm taking away from tennis versus projects 48 years though that's eight years the question is what what point are is that class going to max out dad or or be appropriate to have yeah so I'm saying it's about five years from now five years from now we need to look at a Duty or else we're going to be at work I don't think I'm going to run out of space at the top right because if we'd have 900 right just random numbers that means we can have classes at 450 and 450.

right now we only have ninth grade but we still continue having the majority of the high school as a comprehensive High School 10 11 and 12. so there's an overstaffing if you will uh to ensure that the academies are going to start as they need to and that overstaffing um will be decreasing as the academies grow so uh the first two years are the most costly because it's almost having two small schools in one um but it's going to start tapering down as soon as next year because some of the staff in in the senior grade for example can be moving um uh down to to the new ninth uh that year 10th Grade Academy but you will see a slide uh further down yeah um I raised my hand and I always forget if I'm driving or what I'm doing in these scenarios um I I just want to quickly interject I think um these last two slides for me um really highlight the importance of tracking these different things I'm I almost think we need to um create a separate line item completely for these unfunded State mandates that we're receiving because to me it's it is truly skewing our finances I mean we need to know where we need to be allocating these additional resources and on paper it's showing just like uh Mr ma said you know it's like oh you know we're doing all this investment in our instructional well not really it's actually an unfunded mandate which of course is doing great things and will eventually go away but it's not allowing us as a board to assess what initiatives are working and what aren't um and I I know how much work it goes into moving to a project-based kind of financial reporting so thank you Mr moss and to your team um but I think it's going to be really important for us to talk about what we're investing in these academies whether it's instructional support uh whether it's capital investment um and and that's including in any initiative we do so the Pre-K I think that's going to be a huge thing um and even something as simple I say simple but option 5B where where we're um changing the way our schools run there's all of these things associated with that that I think we need to capture to almost build a financial history and and um really what's happening in the district so we're not looking back and wondering like how did we have to transfer out 15 million dollars from our reserves um this is why so I just wanted to add that quick note thank you for allowing me to interject you bet no that's a good idea we could put something together storing some of the the history over the last five years and moving forward where we go forecast wise uh forecast models almost done we're get getting close uh to unleash that and that that'll be something I can't wait to tie into um one thing on on this forum you can see on the transfers down below we're only transferring three million dollars to cap reserve and also the cop fund um we're going to use a lot of the fund balance that is carrying over this year in cap reserve and I'll get to that slide down at the end but I just want we still have to show it within the general fund uh revenues and expense that yes we are transferring money again it's just not as the the amount the last two years that have been uh moved over so that helps us out in the long run and we're still going to be able to do a lot of the projects that uh we have plan to do so and boilers and those kind of things that need to be done in the buildings but we do in the next two three years need to do really look at getting a bond measure going and trying to get the community behind us and and get get some of these dollars to help the general fund not have to fix nickel and dime things that should have been done years and years and years ago so yeah um can you speak a little bit about the Central Services increase of two million dollars because I think instructional Services uh the big items right the the three million you explain the two million for instructional staff um support and um I think uh those those pieces with as dog explained with all the orders right the accreditation the reorganization and again the accreditation uh forcing us to even spend um almost almost three times uh more in substitutes that we were thinking just because of the teachers that um that that didn't come because thinking that the district was going to be closed so they uh went elsewhere so those are part of those um orders that have created such an impact on our um on our um Fund in our district But Central Services have 2.2 million dollars is very unique so it's not an extra expense really so different way of allocating this fund so if you can speak to that a little bit for for the board in in the community watching Love You So in the years past you always had an insurance Reserve fund and you would transfer two million dollars to it and then on the financial audit it showed you transferred two million but then you got 2 million back and it just skewed everything since we're not a fully funded Insurance District which I hope we never go that way I took that fund away it rolls up into the general fund anyway so I just took the expense put it within the general fund expense so that's why it looks like that is is the way it is if uh if I had left it you would have saw that we were going to transfer five million dollars instead of three million dollars in transfers so now it's just moving all of the property uh and liability and auto insurances unemployment insurance workers comp insurance we move it all under the umbrella the general fund and we manage it within the general fund instead of its separate own little fund because we can still do it in the general fund it's by its own uh program code so it's just easier and it makes it simpler and it makes it more transparent because you're not moving five million dollars over and then bring in two million dollars back when uh the audit comes and then everybody's like well you put 2 million in but then you took 2 million out and it just made no sense to me so we did got rid of that fund and we also got rid of the fee fund as well because that's the print shop and uh the warehouse and preschool and things like that well they really can't sustain themselves that well anyway so we just moved them back into the general fund put the expenses as well in the in the general fund and the revenues will go on general fund so it just cleans it up makes it easier and I think the Auditors will even be happier because that's two more funds that they don't have to worry about now it's all going to be right within the general fund and it allows us to track the expenses throughout the year and be reporting back to the board and the quarterly updates of how much it has been spent rather than basically I move it from the back pocket to the front pockets and then back again so it's just moving the money from one site to another that makes it very difficult to track but this way it's easier um to track and for the board to uh you know be monitoring the expenditures there Madam president thank you the so that on the opposite end of that is that why we see the almost three and a half uh million reduction under transfers out is that where previously lived okay thank you correct you you would have saw if we had that still in there we would have been transferring instead of three million dollars five million so yeah it just makes it look cleaner I think and and will make it a lot easier for everybody to track um as you can see fund balance down at the bottom that hear about three weeks ago I went into Dr Laurie and I'm like well we're down to 12 million dollars in schuette what and I was doing the same thing and we uh this is when we just said nope we can't be there so we gotta we gotta get I mean even with the 7 million the state took away or didn't take away from us but mandated us to spend think if we had that seven million we'd be right where we are right where we were last year even with the raises that we we have given the past two years so there's some things there that uh play in um yes we're gonna have to take some out of the fund balance this year and possibly next year until those go away and then we can build it start building a backup I hope that makes sense any questions because I know this is a very heavy slide that we're going to go in details as I've said by and you will be receiving by each one of the categories here in expenditures how each one of uh for example taking the first one 42 million dollars is being spent yeah and the differences um one question that I had that clarified for me is about the revenues the one to the third dark line uh or bullet in there there's no bullet that subtitle there uh revenues federal revenue if you see the actual for 19 20 is a little bit over 3 million then it goes to 2.8 then 21 22 3 again uh last year we received again three million dollars next year we are expected to get 8.2 these are the taxes or the monies that we get from the federal um Federal funds for the Arsenal that we have there because as Doug explained last time that is land that cannot produce any kind of Revenue with uh property taxes or anything because nothing can be built there so the federal government gives the neighboring or the districts that are impacted by that um a revenue so it fluctuates from three to 2.83 right up and down this year we're getting the the low end uh of of that I can I would not be able to tell you how the federal government calculates that uh but if you see the pattern it fluctuates between three and some change to 2.8 uh so we're expected to get this year Dr Lydia you made me think of a good question um talking about Federal money where and how is the coveted relief money uh reflected here that is in the uh grants fund and and it's coming down the next couple slides remember last week we only had like three million dollars that we had budgeted well now we're up like 17 18 million dollars back to where we were because now we're starting to get all of our Awards in and our federal programs Department they've really been going after grants uh it seems like every day we're getting hey uh you got this grant you got this grant so those are starting to pour in now and their writing grants as fast as we can get them to ride them uh we're looking for all sorts of different grants so may I ask why um why we don't have a grant Revenue line is that kind of an odd question to ask why isn't that counting to offset some of our expenditures you'll you'll see that in the grants fund when we get down there you'll see the revenues coming in and then some of the things you know that cover salaries benefits and those kind of things as well and it's this is our just our general fun we're talking about now that's my confusion I'm sorry okay thank you you're good that's a good question because that's why I said at the beginning it's almost like buckets right we receive from one run from the other um so that it it Paints the picture of if this is the salary and the monthly basis you spend it and you don't extra stuff you go to the savings account which would be the the fund balance uh but the grants are separated and I specifically asked them let's let's separate them in buckets because it creates a lot of confusion because although we say we went from almost four million 3.6 to 17 million dollars in Grants why do we see a you know a a deficit here of Aid that we still need to cover well it's because the grants are very specific to what they were written for so we cannot just use any grants to pay for any expenditures uh so so as our fund going back to your question is not here however here is the impact of not having asthma right because uh three years ago there were 71 positions that were hired using Sr funds so of course we knew they were going to end and every District knew that you know when those answer funds were ending it was going to feel like the Great Recession so those positions were moved from Sr to General causing us you know such a number of positions and things that now without s are we needed to cover here then uh that generated the second layer of the central office restructure uh to ensure that we were smart with our funds and that our funds moved closer to our students our resources uh so although you don't see DSR funds here you see the impact of not having s or any more in those eight million dollars so there are a lot of pieces that go into it and as we receive more grants like Doug said now we're being awarded all them many brands that we in our team applied for uh your uh and we'll see you know being the champion for it we're increasing uh 13 to 14 million dollars in Grants but very for a very specific use that we'll discuss in a bit hey Doug can I ask a question about the federal uh the federal revenue that we get from um for the for the Arsenal Rocky Mountain Arsenal yeah so do you know which I mean because you said as so would affect the surrounding District so that'd be Denver us 27j do you know how they would how how they how much they get on their Grant around there because I feel like as we go farther into this with those funds um they've opened up that land for Denver and 27 day to start building on and it seems like they're they're starting to get the revenue for some of that housing there and how they would not increase some of it for us because we're still probably one of the more highly affected um of that because we're dead center because Denver has started to build all that stuff behind Dick's Sporting Goods Park which used to be the Arsenal and they've built houses businesses and then you go up along 96 um out there all that used to be part of the Arsenal now that's 27j um so I'm just trying to figure out if there's something um there that we we should be getting more because they're still the one that's mainly impacted where those ones are now starting to get revenue from it I don't know if that's something we can look into or if it's something we can ask a question about no that that's something new to me um that's good to hear and I'll uh I'll do some digging and see what we can find out I thought all that federal land was untouchable and uh that's why we were getting the the impact Aid money that we were getting um to help us out but if somebody's going out there and developing within those areas we do yeah so expect money or somebody what's going on yeah everything behind Dick Sporting Goods Park needs to be the federal uh used to be the Arsenal so now that's all Denver property because that's where they built on the uh the street right across the street from the new what is it Northfield I think Northfield high school that they have for Denver public schools all those housing that used to be that used to be the Arsenal so it wasn't able to be built on and then I believe the Arsenal used to run all the way up to 104th which now it 96 to 104th is all 27j and those are all those housing developments out there that are building being built so that all of that used to be Rockman Arsenal what they did was about 10 years about 15 years ago they changed the pH level that can be built on the Arsenal so it can be higher pH levels and they started to build housing there but it's all Denver and 27j now that's getting that property tax okay no that's great to know well I'll do some leg work maybe get a hold of the county maybe even get a hold of the government and just see how all that is uh divvied out and divvied up so I'll do some check-in I I didn't know that there was any building going on being new and stuff uh I always thought impact Aid money you know was strictly just that those grounds they can't be touched and but now that you're telling me they can be I'll I'll do some leg work on them all right thank you you bet I see your hand up yes yes I I just want to clarify we can still raise our hands this way right because it makes more sense than if we just keep jumping in um I just wanted one really quickly around James Quest um Mr amador's question is um you might want to ask about the buffer land and because Adam City High School is built on the buffer land which was also the Arsenal at one point in time so there's buffer areas around the Arsenal where you can build and then there's the Arsenal area that is totally restricted from being built on and so that's where the Wildlife Refuge is that there is buffer land that went around and some of that was donated to the city and then the city donated the property that Adams City High School sits on to the school district that's kind of how that happened and I have a feeling that the new builds around are also part of the buffer land that was around the main area so I would double check and make sure that some of those questions are asked that way so my question though just to clarify when I'm looking at the fund balance is I I'd like to know on it's been a while since I I maybe I ask it all the time is um I know we have to have certain amount of reserves certain months I think of reserves um to be okay so what how many months of Reserve are we supposed to be at and are we there and is the projection from what I'm hearing if everything keeps going down um by the time that we start I mean I want I want to be proactive here is where I'm getting at and I want to be reactive that next year we're going to be looking at this and saying oh yeah for the next two years um our our reserves have gone down to the point where we won't be able to manage if we have a crisis um because we are not at however many months we have to be uh when it comes to reserves so I guess that's my question where are we and what does that look like what is that projection looking like because I know I heard you say and we've said it many times that we would love to get a bond pass but um not but but yet I should say yet I know realistically how difficult that is to get a bond test and I want to make sure that we are doing what we can now to be able to have the the dollars we need to maintain our our reserves where they need to be so that you know in God forbid another crisis situation we're not you know caught with our patents down like they say without the the funding that we need to continue operating so if you could just Enlighten us as to what that looks like so so over the uh next few years we are going to have to tighten tighten our spending and that's that may be Cuts especially if we keep losing kids um that that's that's a big driving factor into all of this is the amount of students we're we're losing and if that keeps up we're gonna have to start making the tough decisions and you know in one of the slides last week you know I said we're gonna have to start having those tough discussions with the board and saying you know if if we keep losing the kids the way we're losing them right now we're we're gonna have to it's gonna be Cuts but it's going to be people in programs and back to the old day of well maybe you only have one PE class and maybe you only have one art teacher and that's it and they service the whole District you know I know it hadn't been that bad here but I I've seen it where it comes out to that um right now fund balance wise if we can stay around the 18 to 15 million dollar range that's going to cover expenses for two three four months um you know hopefully God willing that'll never happen um but as long as we can watch our spending and that's something we're going to bring up to principals and directors and Chiefs and everybody who's managing things we're not just going to go out and start spending money like like they have the past couple years um I'm putting into place this coming year POS have been just the principal approves the purchase and it's approved and P cards you know I loved when I got here I'd love to almost basically get rid of all the P cards and because that's that's an open mic for anybody to just go out and buy something and we don't know it until we get the receipt and the invoices so I'm going to implement something where we're going back to more POS principals are going to need to approve a PO then it'll go to the chief of that department and then that department once once they approve it it'll come directly to me and then I will make the final decision whether or not they need something or not I I don't want to micromanage per se because I don't believe in that but we do really need to watch our spending um this year alone we spent over uh we spent a lot of money on just food and it wasn't just you know departments it was schools they were just spending money and spending money on food and I was like what are you guys having a pizza party every week or what's going on here so we we are looking in into some some of those kind of things uh we're looking at overtime um we spent a lot of money on overtime this year and we're starting approval processes now in fact we've started it now because we pulled I wanted to see how much are we spending in overtime each year well it was substantial enough for me to say Dr Lauria we need to stop this and uh I mean there were some staff members getting 18 19 000 extra this year and I'm wondering why that person was even allowed to get overtime in the first place when for for the position they were in so we are implementing things as we find them um I don't know how long this has been going on but uh as we're like Dr Laurie said pilling the onion here we're finding more and more and more things that we can adjust and make better and and generate more dollars for our students rather than uh not good spending habits and practices so we're looking into all that and uh but I I think find balance wise we are in good shape right now um absolutely I like the monitor it monthly I really do and uh the last I'm one that hates to see any fund balance go down but with when we're having to spend seven million dollars a year right now that's that's taken some of our fund balance every year right and you guys and you guys have seen that the last four years and thank God it I don't want to say this badly but covet hit well you can look at the year 20 21 you only spent 60 million dollars well then the next year you jump up because oh we cashed all that in put it in fund balance but really you didn't you just moved everybody over to the uh Esser funds right well now the Lesser funds are going away and guess what now we're having to catch back up because of some things that they did two or three years ago that are affecting us now right and director Sylvia slide number five um spells out that the board policy requires for the fund balance to be five percent of the um no no less than five percent of the general fund expenditures so if we're spending eight million that would be uh no less than uh five percent of the 80 million in expenditures and the tables three percent is that correct doc so it will be the three from board policy for General funds expenditures plus uh the table that by law we have to to reserve in our fund balance so that would be a total of approximately eight to yeah eight uh eight percent of the expenditures uh and if you round up uh being at um 80 million dollars in expenditures which is a little less but if you round it up um that will make it [Music] um you know less than five million dollars in the General in in the um pandang and and I saw that I think my question is more towards the months I I want to correlate the amount the percentage amount with actual numbers so what those mean um to you know something more understandable than the percentages and so it makes sense that um we have a certain amount of months that we can operate with just that um and to me that that's where that's where we want to be uh proactive and realize that as long as we keep a certain amount in there to cover us for that amount of time um we should be good right and so to me that's that's the importance so yes I I did see the the percentages as you guys know I'm I I guess I'm percentage uh not as percentage Savvy as many other people because I like to see the full numbers and to see the full picture of what that means so um that would be about eight million dollars that we need to have in our fund balance no less than that going less than eight million dollars will be too risky um we'll be able to cover by Statute what we need to have set aside by for Tabor but not for the policy the board policy right so eight to ten million dollars I would say it's um is as a minimum that we what we want to see there we also do not want to or we need to keep in mind that if we are considering going back to the voters for a bonds or additional you know Mill Levy to pay salaries for teachers if we think of bond and meal Levy Mill Levy being uh we can use that money and things are not tangible meaning salaries or benefits you know things for teachers whereas bonds specifically for the buildings if we want to go back to the voters for any of those two if we have a fund balance that is you know three four times you know what we the policy says you know the normal answer could be like you're saving money what you want some more right so we want to use it um in four years our buildings have not been uh taken care of we spoke about this uh the facilities three years ago called for 100 I mean 130 million dollars to fix all the buildings this was three years ago now it could be three times as much because of the inflation so um so we know we have agent buildings that have not been maintained so we have been in a reactive mode for a long time um but but you know in the next few years we really need to try to get in front of that wagon and and become a little bit more proactive in fixing and maintaining even boilers and waiting for them to you know break and and then we have to purchase new ones well and on top of all of that I think um I just want to ensure and I think we we've tried to set the the board and in support of that manner is we still are very aware and respective of the climate and culture of the schools because when we started talking about taking away art and um extracurriculars and um well on paper and in practice moving to a PO system makes sense but when I have conversations with students and it's you know we can't even get roses for a fundraiser that we're doing for student council because we have to plan six months in advance and I just want to make sure we're we're balancing the two um and and we don't take away from our our students and our families before we get to that that Dire Straits points yes yes totally agree and that's what uh we're doing uh that we started that exercise with the restructure of central office right it's not necessarily uh it's it's been very um strategic and smart and when and where we're spending funds and making making sure they're closer to the students so that that will be the the number one Focus as we continue um this process in the next couple of years any further questions yes I have one last one um is did I miss it or do do we no longer have a line item for Capital like I thought we had some Capital dollars um left or do we not have any you have Capital dollars it's in the capital reserve fund that'll be down that's the two or three million dollars that uh we are transferring to a different fund to help with capital dollars and we still do have the bond fund but that's to pay off the old Bonds on the high school and all stuff and those type of things so that that's pretty much most of the capital dollars you have to fix up buildings and stuff for this coming next year okay thank you I think um Maria's had where where mine her head went where my head went I thought this was like our overall summary of all the funds so that might be helpful to talk about um in our next meeting as well and maybe we'll get to it but we're starting off with the general plan life my head when said the overall and so I'm like sorry the next lights are easier because this is the big picture and I said this is the heavy one so uh but these are good questions because it helps us frame our thinking now going into the small portions yeah is definitely if no further questions let's move to the next slide please so this is the revenue one you guys saw this last week it hasn't changed at all I wish it did I wish it went up a bunch more but it didn't uh so let's go to the next slide please this is based on expenditures now that's changed um I didn't have a chance to change it today yet because I was about 10 minutes till the meeting started to even get this done to where it's at so and I had a lot of help today I mean kudos to Nathan and and Mario and for putting their stuff in and and helping out and uh I appreciated them with them trying to do that as I was still going in and taking money out of this account now to this account now to this account so it's been a team day I'll tell you that all week it's been a team day so um this kind of just breaks down and these numbers will change with what we've uh made changes to now uh to date so as you can see expenditures what five days ago was 86 million we're down to 84.

you got 151 units this is still a net gain of 113 units over what we have currently so I think it's uh it's good meaningful uh Place making uh I think it's very challenging to have a development not feel like it's turned its back on something right what's what's the front what's the back I think it does a very good job of kind of really having all dimensions of this feel a pretty welcoming so um overall matches with the sustainability element improves the built environment and increases sustainability especially on a life cycle assessment basis meets the intent of the current land plan even though it's 2009.

so hundreds hundreds of days and policies have been loaded for the system they're currently in direct so they're not publicly accessible there's two steps that need to be completed one is to [Music] which is great we just have to format them and then publish them so in that regard and regarding trainings that will be required one on the formatting and then one on how to react to produce this system in production so it doesn't get new policies and make them searchable there's you need to figure out exactly how we're doing that hours [Music] create an estimated time framework nope it could be accessible uh no we need to go from draft to published and that information right now and is that as per policy or is that the entire quote so if they format one policy would that be accessible and as they go into the groundwork could be done individual so it's something I'd like to see done in terms of progressing for this once the training has been affected by uh you know your assistant um and then there's a question of the hours I want to take actually properly um [Music] they had their last meeting on the 31st of May where they elected new leadership um the new co-presidents vice president um from the bpac organization uh they just wanted to send their thanks to the board and to [Music] listening to all of the parents on a variety of topics with children and of course looking forward to continue um as we've been wrapping up the end of the school year from an Administration standpoint we had a great uh 2023 graduation ceremony last night very very nice congratulations to all of my credits um and then moving into the summer we have Blazers on July 11.

remember that Success is Not defined solely by your grades or your achievements but it is by the character and compassion that you so be kind to one another respect differences and always lend a helping hand and together you can help create a brighter and more inclusive future so we can't wait to see what you do next congratulations you still have a room to go at high school where we wish you the best and we're all very excited to see what you do so thank you very much thank you Dr Gentile it is now a great pleasure that I also introduced fisherman from totally wire assistant principal Mr stock engineer students Mr Freeman [Applause] furthermore like you said my heartfelt graduate to the Fisher parent Association represented by group presidents Mrs French and Mrs Greener Treasurer Ms Morse is secretary Mrs Curtis their tireless efforts throughout the year including organizing fundraising activities sporting breakfast arranging memorable trips and orchestrating assembly programs have greatly enriched our school program so thank you for that in addition I want to express my sincerest appreciation of all the teachers and support staff who have generously volunteer the time for the event tonight I would also like to recognize the evaluative contributions marine and his Hawkins has been working behind the scenes for a few weeks to ensure the success of this event so thank you now we can move on to celebrating our Fisher Middle School class April 2023.

okay may I have a motion I make a motion for approval I'll second do Mr Cruiser says aye Mr Hopkins aye Ms Olson aye Mr Guthrie aye Ms Rodriguez aye that's proof I deserve next item is approval of District signers for the Ajo Unified School District's bank accounts Mr President members of the board to help the district guarantee checks and balances on our accounts with National Bank of Arizona our request is being made recommendation from the auditor or the board to approve a change of signers on ausd's accounts the recommended signers are romansotero landscibald's Babu Casey couldn't culturian and arcelia Munoz attached is an attestation we must submit to National Bank upon approval all great areas will change okay okay may I have a motion on that I so move we approve on the second date Mr Cruisers which is aye Mr Hopkins aye Mr Guthrie Miss Rodriguez aye Ms Olson aye the next item is additional work hours and position for finance clerk for Gloria Gutierrez Mr President members of the board the administration is requesting an increase of hours for Gloria Gutierrez to work four hours in the finance office Miss Gutierrez will continue to be a paraprofessional for Jumpstart and during the 23-24 school year I recommend the approval of additional hours and added Finance duties for Gloria Gutierrez may you have a motion on that I'll make a motion I'll second okay Miss Olson aye Mr kurzner aye Mr Hopkins aye Ms Rodriguez aye Mr Guthrie next item is the approval of additions additional summer hours for just not Augustine Mr President members of the board the administration is requesting two additional days for 14 hours to be approved for Miss jesna Augustine school nurse to plan prep and document records for new students additional hours must be completed by 8 4 23.

436 dollars so I'll cover that a little more when we talk about your m l budget and what I talked to the doctor sotero about utilizing that money for the last bullet their District additional assistance increase um that is uh and this legislation has also increased it was a three-year initiative at the the legislation has kind of honored and it's about 20 million for three years we're on year two of that and so that 20 million Statewide uh equals 5500 for Auto in terms of ongoing increases to that Capital fund um the state legislation has realized that they're really understanding districts in terms of capital um if you recall from previous years there's there's been several cuts to the district additional assistance fund I wasn't just until two years ago that this was fully restored to um 2008 2009 level funding so these increases are really needed um and if you ask me I mean there should be more there and there is legislation or there is a capital lawsuit in place in which several districts are a part of yo indicating that the state has underfunded districts in terms of providing enough Capital to maintain and sustain their buildings and their facilities so um that's that's kind of on the tail end you know at that legislation or that um lawsuit probably won't be settled anytime soon but um this increase stems from that kind of understanding that Capital has been underfunded for multiple years just you know that's the lawsuit that Dr Dooley was involved with okay coming down to uh your physical 24 ml budget so I kind of broke it down um a little bit I didn't want to go into too much detail but um if the budget forms are attached if you want to dive dive deep into the details but at a high level this is kind of what your budget uh for mno looks like for fiscal 24.

okay 23.95 so we have to make a motion on that as well Amanda he can amend them amend the motion the big motion that we amend emotion is that what I say yeah okay [Music] um okay let's start with uh start on the sideworld today Julie can you remember age by law action items a by law 93 21 time place and notice of meaning promotion and divorce of Education suspend through the January 15 24. foreign [Music] regular meetings that requires one more meeting and the second one is the Wednesday of each month to allow for a pilot program of a monthly monthly workshop and we will you know a massage me as recommended by the policy committee and in accordance with 23-16 page 27. okay a second discussion [Music] no I mean I I just want to take a general I mean we try to do the Workshop would be the kind of all together it seems like it was the same thing so I don't know I mean [Music] that's all I'm saying it is participation recognitions and the same thing pretty much so I'm hoping to uh you know any suggestions so we had a conversation about this about this policy meeting we have conversation about this at the policy meeting and I think the census was that this private program had not gone long enough for us to really evaluate it we do share similar observations which is that the Workshop format was pretty close to the meeting format which made it hard for us to sort of differentiate between the two um I think the intent here was just to give space so that if we wanted to continue using this format we could do that we you know we came up against the deadline for it so this is the question of extending it or reverting back to the old format so in this motion the question is to extended so I guess we'll put it up for a call to anyone else doesn't have anything so bad all right all in favor okay if somebody knows extensions okay of course can you read the exposure education 2023 that's 2024 meeting scheduled that the Board of Education of political Board of Education meeting scheduled for 23-24 in accordance with 23-97.

and we'll proceed with roll call Richard Brown Stephen Castro president here Edward palwa present Vanessa Jones present Donnie Lou absent Hector Miranda Terry madhuras absent bam Perdomo present Karen rugley present Lori Ray president thank you if I could just remind everyone that we have to pull the mic directly directly directly in front of us before we start speaking um we'll move on to 3.1 public comment do we have any public comment on agenda and non-agenda items yes we do and we have Mickey Carpenter at the podium good evening Surplus properties committee members my name is Mickey Carpenter I'm director of Community Resources for the city of Azusa and the divisions that my department oversees are the divisions of recreation Senior Services family services and transportation and we are just really grateful and proud of our relationship that we have with Azusa Unified School District it shows through the many projects that we partner on including the summer activities including day camp and swim and we are very grateful that for that relationship and the sponsorship that ausd provides in addition to the summer nutrition program thank you very much for that I wanted to share a little bit about what's going on in the city when it comes to my department because I think there's a lot of potential alignment with some of the conversations that I've been hearing with regard to Surplus properties committee as well as to the school board and um just thought I would make a few comments here tonight so I'm also coming at this from my background which is also rooted in healthcare public health and in education um that's sort of the lens that I look through as I develop and we continue to reorganize Our Community Resources Department um and what I'm seeing is that there's a lot of alignment particularly with your community schools initiative and we have known that from the beginning because we have an initiative that's called all in for Azusa and that is a cross-sector collaborative of groups all over that actually all over the region really that serve Azusa coming together to provide greater programs and services for the community without necessarily creating new programs and services we are helping to leverage the existing Partnerships so that we can do more for our residents here all in for Azusa has been in existence for about three and a half years and there are many pilot projects and working groups that we have going including things like Workforce Development a senior network of Care Community engagement and diversity but one of the ones that has probably developed the most is Our Youth and Family Center and that's only been in existence about 10 months but because of the Partnerships we've developed over the last few years we were able to do everything that you see in your brochure in front of you so this is just an example of some of the things that we're doing at the Youth and Family Center over the summer and so I encourage you to take a look at that some of our partners include of course ausd Azusa Pacific University several departments at Apu also with other non-profit groups including the YMCA the YWCA we also have the boys and girls club that are offering programs this summer and so you'll see that there's a wide variety of activities from Fitness to health Recreation to arts and crafts Rubik's Cube classes stem programming and and much more including music and art and the other and additional activities so please take a look at that and think of us as you consider the uses of some of the the properties that you're looking at I know I've heard things like Community Center that kind of thing the goal of Our Youth and Family Center is not for these services to to just stay in its current location we want it to be spread throughout the community and in every corner resistance so thank you for your time tonight thank you Mickey do we have any other public comment no other public comment we will move on to agenda item 4.0 approval of the minutes can I get a motion for approval of the minutes a motion to approve the minute you Karen rugley moved just remember to say our names after emotions please your bike's not on it's even Castro second again um all in favor hi hi I'll opposed any discussion the motion has passed item 5.0 discussion and review 5.1 review revised draft of committee report and discussion of structure content and drafting so um in advance of the meeting tonight I sent a draft of the report to each of the committee members by email with some changes that I had made from the prior um from the prior meeting based based on you know comments discussion and requests um for for that report it's also in in the binders in the handouts that are in each of your binders um and I think this item will really be the focus of our meeting tonight but the goal is to you know just kind of review in detail and give us some additional time to to talk through the content the findings and the recommendations I know when we when we left our last meeting there was um there was some more conversation to be had the committee felt like we needed another meeting to really have additional discussion about how to formulate the findings and recommendations um so we can you know certainly walk through the report um and then you know we can facilitate additional discussion on the content um and I can highlight some of the changes that I've made from from our last discussion um to to try to encapsulate what we discussed um at the last meeting um so just to review um the the format of the report we have the cover page we have the executive summary that talks about um kind of the way that this uh that this committee was formulated it lists out all of the members um we explain uh the particulars from the Education Code about the duties and responsibilities of the committee um then we list out the properties at issue and we have the date um on which the Board of Education asks for those properties to be reviewed by the Surplus property committee um I've listed out the dates that we've met here and then I'll continue to do those as we have a meeting in July and August as well potentially just so it's clear you know exactly the dates that the committee met to do its work um then I explain um in this this next paragraph we talk about all of the data and information that was presented to the committee as a part of their review um this is here based on feedback that I've received from prior committees where they uh were very insistent on it wanting to be clear you know what they looked at and what they were presented with in in um in order to come to the findings and recommendations that they are making within the report um so here we we talk about um um we talk about how the committee um was provided with enrollment information and other data as well as options for current and possible future uses of the properties that the committee received a presentation from dcg strategies about a feasibility analysis for each of the properties as well as the uh the plotted facilities map and the estimated facilities upgrade cost chart that we looked at and I believe uh the last meeting on May 17th um and then also that at each meeting we've been bringing back um some feedback from District staff in the Board of Education about the district's needs and goals from there we move into the committee's findings and then into the committee's recommendations which I think is where the majority of our discussion will be tonight in in you know trying to further uh further revise and um and specify you know exactly what the committee wants to communicate to the board in its recommendation um so I'll start I think by I can read out each of the committee's findings as I have them listed here and then feel free to jump in and um you know let me know if you'd like to discuss more about the particulars of those findings if you if there's a particular word I've used that you don't like and you would like to replace again you know this is the committee's report I'm just really here to facilitate the drafting um so the committee's findings uh the first we have specified is that the committee finds that the properties are not necessary to house existing District student enrollment or for ongoing core instructional needs of the district the second is that the committee finds that many of the properties will have the potential to generate one-time or ongoing Revenue to help pay for other District priorities the third is that the committee finds that due to the number and location of properties they provide the opportunity for facilitation of district and Community benefit uses and the fourth finding is that based upon the committee's review of this information and after studying the real property owned by the district at issue uh the committee came to the following recommendations um and this is where we have our our chart that lists out um each of the locations the addresses of the property and then a property designation and I know um when we talked about this chart at the last meeting um we weren't happy with the heading on the second set or the second row um and so I've changed it to uh to property designation because this is where ideally we would list whether the site is Surplus to District needs or not Surplus um and then for each of the of the six sites I have them listed as Surplus based on feedback from the last meeting where um I think there were several members that expressed that there really wasn't concern about them being Surplus they felt very you know very very comfortable that that was the label that we wanted to give to each of the sites um so I'll pause there based on those you know on those four recommendations or those four findings rather what does the committee think how do we feel about those I apologize for not being here last time um but can you just go over what this means as far as the Surplus what it the Surplus and not Surplus to the district so I can get a good gauge on that sure sure so um so the designation of a property as Surplus or not Surplus really is kind of the the core responsibility of the committee right that's what what's what we're here to decide is are these properties Surplus to the poor educational needs of the district um usually what I'll say about you know uh what does it mean to be Surplus it means that um the district doesn't currently need those sites to house enrolled students um right to um to you know build additional you know programs or classrooms because of overcrowding at sites for example um what it doesn't mean is that that the committee is saying to the board that we don't want to have any additional you know District uses of those sites the um to say that differently the uh the committee can find a property to be Surplus and then still have a recommendation that it be used for athletic programs or you know a community center or um to even you know like re-house existing District programs that want a little bit extra space or want to be in a different location um so really just means at its core that that site is not needed to to house you know current enrollment of District students and the designation of surplus gives the the district and the board the ability to start to make additional inquiries into what they want to do with that property right so um you know you have the ability to think about doing a lease of that site for various uses or you know sale of the property if that's where it goes but also you know think about um you know Community use or like shared use benefit um for the site pardon me I have a question sure proceed I have a question on procedure okay um I have some suggestions for use of surplus property okay would that be better served to make those suggestions at a school board meeting or in this committee I think that would definitely this would definitely be an appropriate forum for you know for those suggestions um and that's that's kind of kind of a part of what we can work into the recommendations for example where we get into more detail about uh potential use of the site as a community center or for extra parking and Athletics um so yes feel free to to share your ideas Sarah for me but to your point that would be in the next section so when we start looking at that section that's when we can have that conversation right now we're looking at the findings and then the the designations of the properties correct right right that's true that's true all right thank you so any concerns about the findings that I just read through or you know disagreement about the way that they are phrased or additional detail that you want to provide in the recommendation I do have one question in finding number four you say and after studying the real property owned by the district at issue can you tell me why you have the word real in there please yes yes um so from a legal perspective when we talk about real property it means the land itself um and that is just kind of a a way to help designate that we're not talking about um you know fixtures necessarily I mean the buildings that are attached you know to the land obviously that's you know a part of our consideration um but it's it's kind of a a technical like a legal way for me to designate we are talking about you know land that you know uh particular Parcels that have been a part of the conversation thank you just give everyone a minute to read through those and absorb there's no rush this one perfectly so on findings number one yes we said to house existing right District student enrollment yeah um I'm sorry I was not here on the first meeting uh did we discuss future enrollment as well like the immediate strategic plan that the existing uh school will be able to handle incoming uh or whatever increase in enrollment yeah yeah that's a great question so we did we looked at some enrollment numbers um and some rough projections about what we think enrollment will look like in future years um and it showed uh there's a chart I'm visual so I'm thinking of the chart that we saw in the presentation that kind of showed you know the anticipated enrollment over time and then it showed the space available in the facilities and there was a very large gap I think is the best way that I can explain even after considering um you know kind of our our expectations for the future and I'll just say you know those those those are just projections right like based on an expert demographer right that has that has that has looked and um has you know used their best guess at what we think student enrollment will look like um but but based on those numbers the result was that there there's going to be an increasing Gap in the the number of facilities that we have and the number of students that we need to house thank you I can also add even with our current facilities that we currently have projected to be open for next fiscal year none of our campuses will be at 100 capacity so I was I was going to add actually I think that's a good point about the language um to the extent that it you know that it specifies that the that the committee has only looked at existing enrollment I could I could add some additional words that you know make it clear that um that the committee has found that you know the properties are not necessary to house existing or projected I think that's a good station thank you and I think if I can add you you alluded it to uh to it Sarah uh but just to to be clear uh the projections are not just staff projections but they're demographer projections as well so maybe it would be wise to add something um in that sent in that finding about that it was an expert demographer who actually consulted with us that it wasn't just our findings that based on consultations that that's why we came to that conclusion yes certainly certainly happy to add another sentence that makes that clear okay great we have one more comment on that so sure if for some reason Medusa all of a sudden became the home of new generations of people and we needed more schools uh there's no land available we're just so I was going to uh suggest that we were consider reserving one of those emerges growing and I think that's that's something that that has been captured and what I've been hearing from a lot of the committee's discussion is you know uncertainty about um disposing of properties right so so this this first step where we call a property Surplus or not Surplus certainly does not speak to whether it will no longer be owned by the district right you know the school district can still maintain ownership of the of the property after it's called Surplus um you know we could you know you could do like a long term or short-term lease right to use it to make Revenue but still you know still very much be the the owner of that property and transition use um but but I certainly take your comment and I think you know hopefully that is that that is also kind of reflected in the recommendation that you know the committee is not saying sell every parcel I think it's captured in I know we're going to get to that section after this but it I think it's captured in bullet number two well there was a one more point there was a discussion about having a place for keeping a place for um an alternate High School you talked about that mm-hmm and um should that be part of this recommendation yes and I think when we get to the next section because the for this part right right here are the findings and then when we when we get to the next part of the report that's exactly where we'll talk about that okay because I have that and one more thing okay excellent I will come back to you don't worry I will get all of your comments on our next section um okay so so some great some great changes and edits to the first finding anyone else have additional thoughts about findings two three and four or if you're feeling really comfortable with them feel free to express that to me and we can we can move through them I I will have a honor on point two where it says where other districts priorities at the end reminder priorities being physical improvements and not necessarily educational or academic well yes so I think what you're speaking to is the restrictions on on the uses of Revenue that that comes from Surplus property so so the distinction that I'll make there and and the reason I wasn't super specific with my language is because um there there are particular restrictions if you do a lease with an option to purchase or a sale so those those two types of like dispositions of property are subject to to restrictions on on use of the revenue where it can only be used for in general facilities improvements it can't you know it goes into a separate facilities fund and not just into the general fund for those uses now a straight lease of the property with no you know potential for sale that that money does not have those same restrictions so there is there is some flexibility um and I'm I'm certainly happy to further you know Wordsmith that to be to be more specific um my general idea was you know I think part of the conversation we've been having um as the committee was this you know kind of excitement about the potential Revenue that can be generated by these sites through through various options and I didn't want to you know be be too specific because I know we've talked about lots of different potential uses lease sale you know joint joint use and I think all of those are still very much on the table it was really emphasizing that the you know the committee wants to you know convey to the board that you know generation of revenue from these assets would would be a great option in in whatever form people have interest you know to make use of them okay thank you and I say that kind of saying that for everybody and people listening to as a reminder that um the sale of a property isn't going to maybe bring in new programs or something like that because there are those restrictions and so that wording in there coming in at it blind just to understand that part that yeah no that's that's very helpful I appreciate you making that distinction I mean we could we could be more specific I'm trying to think of what more I could say there we could say um the committee finds that many of the properties will have the potential to generate one-time or ongoing ongoing Revenue to help pay for um for facilities improvements and other limited District priorities to kind of you know uh kind of hit home that most most of the revenue will have restrictions to be used for facility improvements some small portion could go to other priorities what do we think about that suggestion when we make a suggestion like that where um are we assuming that the board as the the deciding body ultimately will know all of those restrictions because I think if we're if the board already knows what the restrictions are I see no need in having to clarify it further because we're ultimately leaving it in their hands and they're the ones who are elected officials to know what the restrictions are um so I have no problem with keeping it generalized I think I think to answer your question it's fair to say that that the board will know or will have the opportunity like I'm I'm more than happy to advise I know staff will will also make it clear that you know when they're asking questions about the various options for disposition we'll say you know here are some of the limitations on that any any other thoughts about specificity versus wanting to keep it wanting to keep it General how do we how do we feel about that this report goes to other people I think you guys that it does well it does yeah who are those other people that this report goes to so um it goes to uh to several other state agencies in uh depending on the process that the board decides for a particular property so um the first one that I'm thinking of for example is if the district decides that it does want to um uh sell a property or lease it for a very long term um there there is a set of like priority offers that the district has to make to certain entities and um there's a process by which the district can avoid having to make offers to certain affordable housing agencies so the way that the law is currently drafted is it it kind of has this uh this restriction and it says if you're going to uh to open it up for those uses then you first have to offer to these people um if the board decided you know there's some other use that we'd like to make of that property that's different from affordable housing there's an exception where we can submit this to the California Department of Housing and Community Development and they will actually just because you have all convened here as a 7-Eleven they can give the district an exemption to that rule they will look at the uh the report of the committee to make a determination that you all met as a 7-Eleven um so that's that's the first place where this will go um the second is that if the district decides to sell any any of the parcels um there's a pretty strict process within the code about how that sale has to happen so they'll um you know like put out and an invite and all the potential people that have interest will have to come to a board meeting and they kind of have this like live auction um style sale that doesn't tend to be the most advantageous for the district because it doesn't let us negotiate with with various interested parties on anything more than just price right the law says that we have to pick the highest price um and so there's a there's a process I've talked about really briefly before the committee where we we can submit a waiver to the California Department of Ed the State Board um and they can allow the district to do a more flexible process of accepting rfps and negotiating with interested parties based on factors other than just price like uh for example like Community benefit right so if you say there's someone that's interested in buying the property for a use and they're not the highest price but maybe they have a really great use that the board really likes for the site um using the process of the waiver lets them consider those offers and this will be provided as the packet of as one of many one of many documents that would go to CDE as a part of that process so so short answer to your question is yes those are the those are the two examples of places where I can see this going to be reviewed by by other public agencies in in as a as a part of the Surplus property process I do have a question um sure so also the public can it's open to the public to view correct uh the report yes it is so it is as a kind of as a part of these meetings right like anyone can you know can come and provide comment um at our next meeting we'll have a public hearing that is that is all about this report right so that so our final version of the report will be uh will be made available with the agenda and um embedded within our public meeting will have a public hearing where we allow folks from the community to come and speak to the content of the report so yes it is certainly open to the to the the public to provide feedback and those are those are like usually the Forum in which they can they can come and speak to it because in that case I think being more specific would help because you know the board might know and and the other agencies that you're going to send it to but maybe the public you know clarify it for them sure sure yeah that's a thought how do how do others feel about the specificity versus being a little bit more non-specific I would like to identify what I believe we should I can't speak for everyone but for me I want to advocate for housing okay low income housing housing provided by non-profits profit non-profits should have the first track okay yeah yeah and however whatever it takes to get that done that's what I would like first okay I don't know if anybody else cares I sure and and just you know just so you know to that point um if the district decides to do a long-term lease or a sale of the property there you know there is a structure within the code that requires that we make offers to non-profit so there's there's there's one for uh for housing for housing entities actually not just non-profit it can be for uh for like for uh for-profit developers that do affordable housing but there are separate ones that we can't waive out of we can't get rid of we're stuck with them we have to to um to uh to non-profits and to other public agencies so those those will always be there there's those that will always be a part of our process well I misunderstood I but I heard you say that the way the rules a small subset a small subset of them yeah they're so they're they're kind of three three offers that we have to make and um the the small subset that goes to certain um affordable housing agencies is the one that can be waived we still have to make offers to uh to all non-profits though right so if they so I mean they could still in theory make an offer through their through their non-profit status or as a public agency and the decision to to you know to to um be exempt from any of those offers that would be that would be the the board's purview right that's not something that I'm I'm necessarily like asking the committee to to make a decision about but but we can certainly Express um you know for example what I'm hearing from you is a recommendation that you you would like to see some of the sites potentially used for that purpose and that we can definitely Express I'm greedy I want it all question yes what is on the non-profits we're not only talking about housing or what what could be other non-profits um so the way that it's designated from a legal perspective is is any any non-profit entity that is uh like organized within a um a certain section of the tax code so it's it's open it's it could be any any educational uses yeah yeah as long as they are um you know properly like organized in that way and they're cited to in the code section they you know they would have a priority to the the property and that's again if the board decides to sell or lease long term right but just if I'm not mistaken even though there's a non-profit uh let's say that builds hospitals yes they can be interested in the property but the the roadblock or what we we have heard is that all six of these properties right now when when having conversations with the three entities are zoned for housing that's right right so so a non-profit Hospital may want the property but the city and or entity is not going to Grant the Zoning for them to build a hospital because the zoning right now housing is King right right that's a good point so so um so what I was speaking to is this kind of strict process in the Education Code about what a district has to do to kind of offer up the property to these various like priority entities out outside of that um and very much to the point of the superintendent um whether or not those parties can use the property for their intended use is is going to depend on the zoning of the site and and whether the the city um and or the county depending on the location gives them the ability to rezone the site so in essence whatever's left to just from what I'm reading I'm going a little bit ahead of myself but um the the Board of Education had they're going to decide what properties to use for let's say community schools and all that and what's left um if it's housing first per se which zone for housing then like uh superintendent Ortega had said yeah we get it so if what would be the Zoning for a non-profit let's say for Education what would that zoning be so so there um maybe certain uses by a fit that fits into the existing zoning right so we have zoning by right which I which I think is how it was referred to by dcg um in that you know the the city and or the county isn't going to mess with how the site is currently zoned right so so if your use fits into the existing zoning then you're safe right whether it's the district doing it or another entity that's that's making that use of the site um and it's if it's an you know non-profit educational entity they probably would fit within the existing zoning designation um but if you have a you know even a non-profit hospital or organization that is going to be coming in to you know to to build a hospital building that that likely wouldn't fit within some of the zoning designations and then that's all going to depend on the discretion of those public agencies and what they want that property to be used for and what they're willing to approve and what we're hearing from dcg is that they've expressed kind of off the record that housing housing housing housing is the only option well as impassioned as I am about housing I am also very concerned about the how do I want to say this without getting overly worry when I came up through the school system the the use of the high school in particular was to train people for an occupation we took we took we had classes available for typewriting shorthand I took wood shop an electrical shop I learned the very basics of how to use a few tools so it would seem to me that we should be returning to Our Roots there's all these Highly Educated people that can't find jobs because of the emphasis on college education over the last 50 years and it's run its course there's a shortage of animal mechanic there's a shortage of Highly skilled cabinet makers so the thank you I think you'd be happy to know that we have an auto shop uh at the high school where students can actually uh complete a pathway we have um we have a a partner ship with Citrus that they can matriculate into those programs you know they have that the Toyota um and so we do have an auto shop a course built with its own garage and tools and so um not only just auto mechanics but also going into the future thinking about solar and electrical as well well right now if I want a specialized education in computer science it's readily available but everybody can't be a computer technician you know we just kind of got waited but going back and examining some of these areas maybe there's some real use for an educational facility to do each other trade so I'll go ahead and add that those are recommendations that we can we can work on in the part when we get to recommend foundations we were on a number two and the district priorities that wording specificity and generalization and because to me this is going to be put out the public and maybe I don't know if I'll just take a vote on that we keep it how it is so I need a little guidance from you Sarah um but I don't have exact wording on that number two because I'm now just going to go in order um that District priorities based on the limitations of law from the Board of Education something in there about making sure that the public knows that it can't go to a trade program even if we wanted it to some you know just so that that understanding is there yeah yeah so so we don't need to take a vote because it's not it um it's not designated as an action item per se but I'm certainly looking for kind of a consensus right if I'm if I'm hearing we want you know specificity from three or four of you then I think that that seems to be you know the uh the committee speaking as opposed to individuals um so so that was part of me saying what is what does everyone think about specificity versus you know keeping it more General because once I kind of start to hear a consensus then I'm feeling like the committee is speaking and I can you know I can start to add more more um more language or different language um so what I'm hearing is that there's there's a potential recommendation that we add some additional um language to the second finding that that speaks to the fact that um we we just we put some more some more like modifiers on priorities right we we make it clear that there there are some you know some limitations on the expenditure can I ask a follow-up question sure um will uh in in reference to this report and whatever is made public and whenever we have to send things to people will they also receive the copy of the dcg like report that we had which like labeled all of the zoning essentially if we're going to be more specific will it also be included what properties are currently zoned for so that when board and everyone else is making a decision about what to do will they also receive all of the additional items that we have which have helped us make those those um certain decisions so so certainly the board will have all of that information and like we talked about before they'll have even more information that we can't share with you right in this forum um but uh I can't say that every time that this report gets shared with another public agency that they're going to get all of the backup that you've seen but uh to your point the yes the the board has all of that information already and and we will continue to make sure they have all the contacts that they that they need to to see kind of how you came to this this you know set of recommendations so they will know the zoning of the sites I don't necessarily have a problem with changing it um so then another follow-up question when we have a public hearing I know by reading that if somebody hears that they're going to think and or um are dreaming as we've talked in at you know meetings um just if if the public comment usually comment only not a discussion like this so if somewhere they understand or the general Public's not always going to listen to these uh meetings understands that and obviously I assume more allowed to say that when we talk out in the community by the way yes I was on the committee and this is what or to um Facebook is you know has conversations and other community organizations have um comments you know that about that so I don't necessarily need it but James because I get it and the person the people who you know the board is gonna get it but just as long as in the public understand so I'm going to State it now that there are limitations on where that Revenue and yeah yeah I think that that's wise I wonder if we even add uh like a sub bullet or a sub number that says um you know based on uh District priorities or these some of the fine some of the sales the properties um can only be used in certain ways you know for more information see the district or something like that if there's another way because I think that that's really smart to keep in mind those who haven't been a part of this process and obviously we have much more resource and the school board has even more but the public doesn't if they're not watching these things so I think providing something for them would be helpful is to be aware of the limitations of what that spending looks like yeah so what I'm thinking pulling all that together is um I could add some additional language onto this sentence that just says um to help pay for other District priorities in accordance with um established uh like legal restrictions on use of Revenue and that makes it clear you know it's as in four priorities as they're allowed um or you can put note the reference of the education yeah just do a footnote I mean the sentence you said is good you then could have put note saying TDE uh blah blah blah say restricted funds are you know wherever we're coming from Legally okay so that's getting really specific which I'm certainly happy to do but that's but that's definitely it's definitely getting really specific how are we feeling about that we want to footnote with the Education Code site is it a lot it's not no no it's not long it's not long at all I mean certainly you know it could be footnoted it's just it is getting very specific right we're like pointing them to one one or two sections of the code that have those limitations I personally would stray away from that if we don't have control over what those codes cite at any given time if we're not the the governing body over what those could say if their state of um State education codes that could change at any moment and so I think it would be wise to just leave it generalized to the State Board of Education or however we would want it worded that's fine Sarah yes just adding a comma after priorities and say subject certain legal limitations then say for example they can add a general example yeah okay so when you're so when you're when you're thinking that that like for example Clause you're thinking like first I would say for example um restrictions on use of the revenue from sale of surplus property or is that is that not a specific were you thinking like more of a specific example I didn't have okay okay because um so when I think about the restrictions right I think about um restriction on sale and sale with with an option or at least with an option to purchase and then um and then straight lease doesn't have those same restrictions I think that's really really the Restriction that we're thinking of right is um is the sale the sale option so I guess I guess my question is still similar to the last do we want to get that specific by by giving them an example or do we do we like this just kind of additional like modifier that says in accordance with all the applicable uh like legal restrictions on Revenue I think if the general public cared as that much they would look up themselves what the legal restrictions on the public Revenue would be okay so I would vote to I my recommendation would be to keep it um more on the the generalized addendum that you had okay I'm seeing five nodding heads which is definitely a consensus so we're gonna go with that for now um okay so let's go to let's go to recommendation three or uh I'm sorry finding three um the committee finds that due to the number and location of properties they provide the opportunity for a facilitation of district and Community benefit uses any thoughts there my goal there was to kind of encapsulate this this discussion about there are six properties that the uh the committee has been asked to um to review and that because there are so many opportunities that there there is great um you know great potential for a district or Community benefit use on on at least you know some of those sites so we have the uh the the the prior bullet about potential use for revenue and then the next bullet that kind of speaks to but also you know Community uses would be great okay um so moving on to finding four this is where we list we list the six sites and we designate them all as Surplus any concerns thoughts discussion on that finding okay not seeing any we'll we'll move on to the recommendations which I know we are excited to get to um okay so I'm going to read through the recommendations one through six just to get our get our juices flowing and get us um thinking about these um so the first recommendation is the properties should be declared Surplus to the educational needs of the district that one's kind of a repeat of of the finding the second is uh the committee recommends that the board explore use of at least two of the properties for the following types of community benefit uses and I list out a community center Conference Center or Student Services Center kind of all in a single bullet extra parking Athletics and recreational space um additional room for Central um for expansion of a central kitchen and then finally reorganization of existing student programs so I kept some of those kind of broad right to to try and encapsulate all of the potential uh community and District benefit uses so you know for example the uh the reorganization of existing student programs that could speak to additional you know like Hands-On learning opportunities for example um it could speak to um you know some some programs that maybe are at an existing site and we want to move them and expand their their their space to one of the Surplus sites um I know we had we had discussion about the central kitchen space we talked about it kind of at length at the last meeting so I do have that that that um that idea listed here and then also extra parking Athletics and recreational space we talked about this a little um at the last meeting and there was also some feedback from the board about that being a potential interest in in wanting to use one of the sites at least one of the sites for those potential uses and then finally our kind of this ongoing idea of the community student student services and Conference Center um so my goal there is to kind of list out all of the all of the creative options that we have or at least give them you know some categories any anything you think we I haven't encapsulated there that you would you would like to add as far as ideas and I go backwards to point one sure we had added in the previous findings something to the effect of a declared Surplus to the current and anticipated future educational needs to the district should we replicate that exact wording in that point one as well I'm open to that yes sorry I didn't speak into my microphone yes I'm certainly open to that option also on that point one yes um the recommendation is very general educational needs that can also be uh you know the community center so may we use the exact for instructional needs meaning it's the classroom because other properties can be used for educational needs but not necessarily the classroom right so we were talking Surplus for the core instructional needs of the business okay okay great I can I can make those changes foreign about the listing of the particular potential Community benefit uses I know that's where we we focused a lot of our discussion the past couple meetings I just want to make sure um I know some of the feedback also from the board at our last meeting was you know we would like to see some creative options so that was my goal here was try to try to make sure that we've you know we've listed for them in the in the report some of those you know some of those options I don't have a comment I have a question sure on the committee findings number one that we just talked about right now yes what we're saying is that this committee has found that the six properties are not necessary to house student enrollment or future enrollment for ongoing instructional needs a core instructional need and so I'm interpreting core meaning school yeah so what we're saying is hey we don't need the six properties first for for schools the properties that we have that we're going to have that's enough to house our students for school yes I think I think the distinction is we we don't want to rule out reorganization of existing programs correct yes but but then if we put the property should be declared Surplus for the core educational needs of the district aren't we contradicting ourselves because number one should should be about educational needs not the poor because the core were taken care of it would seem that that's contradictory to me yeah I think I think the goal of having a bullet in findings and then in recommendation right the findings is saying we've looked at this data and we've identified that the the properties are not necessary to house existing you know core enrollment and then here um and I and I'm glad that you asked this question because I think it actually has a different intent is that we're saying because again this is this is so first let me back up the difference between the findings and the recommendations right the findings are we've looked at all of this data and and this is this is what we have found from all the things that we've looked at then we have a you know the separate section recommendations is where you know we're saying above and beyond those findings here's what we are recommending that the board do right so so here the goal is that we're saying um in our in our in our set of findings there was actually in finding four right we said all the properties are Surplus and so here we're saying we are recommending that the board find that these properties are Surplus right because it's because you make that recommendation the board then takes official action declaring the properties as Surplus um they would still be Surplus to so the reason I have it phrased this way is this is kind of like a parroting of the education code where it says the properties are Surplus to the educational needs of the district um actually now that you explained it that way it makes it makes more sense to me so I see what you're saying you're recommending to the board hey this finding that we have over here we're recommending that you declare that finding and so now it makes more sense to me okay thank you so I wonder if it would be helpful to say the property should be declared Surplus to the educational needs of the district based on our committee finding point one or or something to that effect that would draw back then you can leave the language as is and you just add based on our committee's finding of 0.1 or something similar or we could just say like based on uh um based on our committee findings because I I almost think um you know Finding four speaks to that too yeah um agreed okay and that's kind of a nice way to to tie them together in a way that makes it clear that the committee was thinking about both in conjunction and you know they they they they weren't intended to say different things I think it also highlights that there are two different things that what we're saying is there's findings and now based on those findings as you mentioned we're now making recommendations so I think it ties them together while also make sure that they're distinct okay okay how do how do others feel about that okay I'm seeing some nodding heads yeah when we talk about core um what do we mean by that I mean because we do have supplemental programs so shouldn't there be some worrying of supplemental perhaps in core or Norse or part of your core and then supplemental falls under that yeah so when I use the word core in the findings section I was trying to get at this um this you know kind of attention about we're saying the facilities aren't needed to handle existing enrollments right it's it's not like we we are in need of additional you know facilities to to house more students but not wanting to kind of rule out this recommendation about expanding or providing new or different spaces for existing programs um so when I say core I don't mean to exclude supplemental programs or you know non-traditional programs um I really I was getting towards the um kind of you know existing and projected enrollment let me look back at how that's worded could we use the word essential instead of core because anything that the board approves as far as programming and stuff is what they deem essential mm-hmm yeah I'm open to that change so the the first finding would say the committee finds that um finds that the properties are not necessary to house existing and projected future enrollment um sorry I'm reading through all of my notes existing and and projected future student enrollment for ongoing essential instructional needs of the district I just want to add because when my interpretation of core is math English reading like that's it when you say that that's what I hear so that's like got it okay encompassing but that's what I think I see okay all right so we're going to use the word essential because I get that core is kind of a loaded term in the education in the in the education context um okay so for for uh for recommendation one we'll say the property should be declared Surplus to the um essential instructional needs of the district um or maybe we can start the committee recommends because all the states start with that okay so what I'm thinking that would look like is the committee recommends that the board declared the property is Surplus to the um essential you know I would use the same language we just we just spoke to so essential instructional needs of the district um based on based on the committee's findings okay how do we feel about that re-re rejigging rewording of that finding or that recommendation rather okay all right I'm seeing some heads nodding um all right if there aren't any additional thoughts on on on section two yes please okay so in reading that everything looks great and the recommendations [Music] um the way I read it and it says um recommends that the board explore use of at least two of the properties in that language it's also saying without saying but there's potentially for that the board can um sell or lease I'm just wondering if we need that language in there just because now we're just only talking about two like when I read that now we're talking about a few properties for the recommendations what do we recommend you know yes well so so I will say I I intentionally said at least two with the goal of saying we we've said two would be great could be all six right um so so certainly no limitation there but there's no need we don't have to specify a number that was kind of you know me hearing what I was hearing in the discussion and to the extent we wanted to be specific about at least this many um I'm I'm I am not completely you know married either way to it to it having a specific number let's remember our mics of course I think the way it's worked with at least two like you said at least opens it up to could be all six could be three four but at least two at least I mean in looking at these needs we we've got to have a minimum of two at the very least so wording is not nice I don't think when you get into specifics it's going to be like okay we said three but we don't need three so then we could fall into a trap there just thinking I mean we could use a a more general term like sum or a few or various I would go with that I think using at least two does that restrict the board only two or no I'm sorry I'm sorry that kind of restrict it may restrict them to thinking I don't know I know there's at least two but what if they don't want to use any of any of the problems remember they have that right this is just our recommendation as a committee to the Board of Education they can receive our recommendation and decide to do nothing or they can decide that they completely disagree with everything you guys said and they want to go different direction I can't say that I've seen that right they they're usually happy to receive recommendation um but yeah yeah this is this is really just advisory but um you know to that point to the extent that you're concerned about you know out like even even just in the context of the recommendation like limiting them by by you know putting a specific number in front of them we could say uh the committee recommends that the board explore use of some some of the properties for the following types of community benefit uses and Sarah this may have come from I don't know this may have come from staff's recommendation when we have been uh when we have uh shared our recommendation to the Board of Education shared it here that staff not the boy I'm not speaking on behalf of the board of education but that staff would like to see the use of at least two properties one for possibly giving Sierra High School its proper school and then another one for this community slash Conference Center and maybe that's where you pulled that from yeah yeah because we we have we have been uh we have said that publicly that's true that's true didn't we say something about the high school at this time so we certainly can um so let me say this this would be the place yes this is this is the place to do it yes and um that that final bullet the reorganization of existing student programs was kind of my broad attempt to you know speak to that potentially while not sitting up coming out and just saying that in case there were other other potential programs that the that the board wanted to you know reorganize or provide additional space to and that's the way I interpreted that bullet as well okay so how do we feel about some as opposed to at least two and I'm not even married to the word some we could use we could use we could use a different one I think using some would be good it didn't it's not so specific okay do we feel like that's adequately representing what our a our ausd staff is asking us to do I'm just hesitant to feel like if we if we leave it at some we also have to take into consideration what ausd staff and faculty are asking us to do so I would be personally I'm hesitant to remove some or to remove to or to put in them I'd like to keep a number on it because I think we're we're asking them to explore at least this um yeah okay okay and we had uh our Committee Member here earlier and I don't know if we need to if the committee wants to consider adding like a number seven but I think that if and I'm not advocating for this but the way it reads I think it also satisfies um the desire to have in the recommendation just in case all of a sudden there's a boom in population I think this also addresses that versus getting rid of all six properties and then you know went to the demographers that's not going to happen but I think it addresses that piece also because now at least we're rotating two properties if if we need it for expansion [Music] I like the wording and maybe I'm stuck on the the absence of the word re retain or retaining because use of it indicate that it's being used and the board may see that they can still retain a third without using it and maybe that's just my personal language the way I think and and all of that but explore the retention and use of it you could put retention and or use of at least you then it gives you know that that idea of what you're saying because I like the idea of delineating that retention is considered we do want them to consider retaining maybe they might not use them immediately but at least if they're retaining them then they they're at least available to them okay okay how do we feel about that I think that kind of helps to encapsulate I mean various concerns not necessarily wanting to you know dispose of them all saying let's keep at least one site you know for potential growth you know later on um and then um also you know providing this this goal to have you know some community in District uses unexpected demand yes yes um okay so the the second recommendation would then read the committee recommends that the board Explorer explore retention and or use of at least two of the properties for the following types of community benefit uses I know we were we were going back and forth on at least two or some about whether we wanted to be specific or less less specific on on the number we could say a few that's kind of right in between I think a few most people interpret that as at least two I think I think that's that's always been my understanding that a few is two three okay okay well so maybe that causes more confusion than we than we're really hoping for um okay I like at least two at least two yes because it like you said the board ultimately yeah and so if we give them some sort of recommendation then we're giving them that at least yeah okay right at least right I think from two it doesn't show that we're sized okay two it was a number we we talked about it okay um all right so I'm going to move on to uh to recommendation three uh the committee desires to give the Board of Education the necessary uh flexibility and discretion in selecting specific sites most most appropriate for the potential uses specified in recommendation um one above and that actually should be recommendation two above after considering the following non-extensive list of factors um neighborhood preferences and Aesthetics surrounding amenities and access land value market conditions and interest um relative facility Improvement costs administrative and ongoing operations costs and location of existing programs and the my my goal with this section was to um we had talked about well do we really want to provide the board with specific recommendations about use this site for this use the site you know for the community center this might be a good you know site to sell things like that and um I think where the committee landed was because of all the information available to the board and you know some information that isn't necessarily available more widely to the committee or to the public about the properties that we wanted to give them the flexibility and discretion to kind of decide which sites make sense for different uses but I also wanted to encapsulate all of the factors that that the committee talked about that would go go into that decision right we we talked about um thinking about where other existing City and and District programs um are located um I know there was some feedback from some of the existing residents that you know that that live near some of those sites right and so I wanted to make sure we encapsulated the neighborhood preferences and Aesthetics right kind of what they want to see in their communities um uh surrounding amenities and access there was some discussion about maybe we should put the community center somewhere where you could walk across the street to a to a gas station or to a restaurant or kind of continue the community activity outside of the facility um and then of course you know the value of the land and then like market conditions about you know who would be interested in having a lease on on one side as opposed to another um and I wanted to make clear that it was a it was a non-extensive list so we were just listing out all the things that we or some or most of the things that we talked about but this shouldn't be restrictive on the board if there's other factors they want to consider by all means that should be a part of it as well uh my only this is a very thorough list and so I'm hesitant to add anything else to it sure however sure um one of the things that has really given us pause as we've considered as a committee is the zoning and so I do wonder if we explicitly say something to the effect of land value and current zoning or or something because that is something that we've really considered a lot would be to just add the word zoning specifically somewhere you're welcome okay yeah so here's what I'm thinking we can add um existing zoning and uh General plan designations because I know when we talk to dcg those are kind of the two right the two factors the how it's Zone and then what it looks like in the general plan so we can I can add that would you would you put city of Azusa General plan or just leave it as general plan because it we do have all of the other the three districts yeah just my thought was to leave it general just so because we could get specific but then we'd have to list them all and explain you know um so yeah I was gonna say um General plans then with an S since there is three appropriate dinner plan this thing zoning and general planning General plan designations General planning designations um yeah General plan objectives designations I think that captures it existing zoning and general plan designations I think acknowledges there are there are multiple General plans applicable to to various properties yeah that's what I was saying making it plural I think acknowledges that there are multiples so okay excellent okay I will add that to our list anything else on that third third recommendation okay moving on to recommendation four uh the committee recommends that the Board of Education lease sell or otherwise leverage some of the properties to generate Revenue that could be used towards Improvement of other properties for the district and and Community benefit uses and my thought there was just to kind of encapsulate part of our discussion at the at the previous meetings was how do we leverage value of some of these sites to put into the programs that we want to construct at some of the others so like for example would it make sense to sell or or lease or somehow you know generate revenue from one site to be able to have the upstart cost to build a community center again I don't want to create redundancies but would it be helpful to also delineate here that there are only certain ways that these that the funds can be used if we lease sell or otherwise Leverage to to to just hearken back to what we had just talked about would it be helpful to add something to the effect of um as provide or as outlined by the state of education however it is that's delineated how we can actually spend the funds yeah yeah so here's one thought that I have though about how it currently reads right we say sell or otherwise leverage some of the properties to generate Revenue that could be used could be used toward the Improvement of other properties maybe that's where I get more specific because my goal there was was really to say that revenue is going to be used for four facilities improvements right it's like pointing to that to that particular restriction on the revenue um but then also kind of saying Improvement of the properties or Improvement of the facilities for district and Community benefit uses um so let me let me think quickly about how we can adjust that or could we just add the same ending that you put on the other because I think that's what the ask is oh sure sure that's simple enough um yeah so in accordance with existing um legal restrictions on use of Revenue great yes we will I will do that anything else on four should we move to five okay um recommendation five to the extent the Board of Education decides to sell lease or otherwise convey any of the properties the committee desires to give the Board of Education the necessary flexibility and discretion um in choosing a method of disposition or Revenue production as appropriate after considering all the district's interests and needs of students staff the community surrounding surrounding neighborhood conditions Market interests lease rates and and land value among other factors so that's that's a bit of a mouthful but the goal the goal there is to say to the extent that the board decides to sell or lease or otherwise convey any of the properties um again we'd like to give them or the the committee would like to give them the the uh uh the discretion to decide what form that takes is it a sale is it a lease is it a is it a joint use you know what what type of like Revenue generation will that look like and then again kind of listing out all of the factors or at least the majority of the factors that the committee talked about that they would they would want the board to consider in in you know for example deciding between a sale or a lease of a property well again speaking for myself I like your wording because we are not in the position to make uh legal decision mm-hmm depends on you would both for those little Nitty Gritty decisions that's not our job yeah we don't we don't operate but above our Bay grade yeah yeah I know I think to your point that's that's um you know we we want to give the discretion to the board like our recommendation even though it is just advisory is to you know to to acknowledge that we haven't made particular decisions about particular sites I wonder since it is such a mouthful would it be helpful to make it two sentences where we say you know we give you the flexibility and discretion choosing a method um as appropriate period the committee recommends you consider the district interest the needs of students um so we've essentially just break up between what we're actually recommending for the first point or what we're giving them and then the the actual list of things that were we'd like them to consider yes I like that idea I like that idea I like that okay so we'll we'll split that up and create two separate sentences one that speaks to the flexibility in the method of of disposition and then one that talks about the factors that we would hope that the board would consider okay all right moving on to recommendation six uh the committee understands that the Board of Education may decide to file for a waiver of certain Surplus property procedures otherwise applicable to the potential sale of the properties that the Board of Education um and that the Board of Education ultimately decides to sell if any um let me go back that doesn't make sense um the committee understands that the Board of Education may decide to file for a waiver of certain Surplus property procedures otherwise applicable to the potential sale of the properties um I would say and that if the Board of Education ultimately decides to sell if if any just take out the if any if the Board of Education ultimately decides to sell and the committee approves and supports the fund or the committee approves and supports the filing of any such waiver okay okay so take out if any and yeah okay okay I was trying to hedge there because I know some people were very uncomfortable with the con with the concept of a sale and so I wanted to make sure it was clear that we were saying if they decide you know if they decide to sell any of the sites and they decide to get a waiver but I agree that that there doesn't make sense in the context of the sentence um or we can do the same recommendation we had from the previous one is to split in two so the first one is our understanding of the Board of Education may decide to file blah blah blah It ultimately decides to sell period the committee approves or the committee recommends approval and supports the file okay yeah that's an idea we could just make a two sentences so that next sentence would read the committee approves and supports uh the filing of any such waiver anticipating that I'm more flexible process for solicitation of offers uh creates value for the district and allows the Board of Education to consider factors other than only price so remove a in front of waiver and he said waiver yes gotcha yep is everyone comfortable with this waiver yeah so let me explain the waiver because I know I talked about some different options and I want to make sure it's it's you know kind of clear what this particular waiver is so this would only come into play If The District uh the board decided to to sell a property it's only in the context of a sale if the board decides they want to sell the property um again the existing statute provides a very strict process by which we essentially have to sell to the highest bidder and they they have to come to a board meeting and they raise their hand and they give the oh you give your offer and sometimes you know someone else will bid up the property um if the board wants to consider other factors outside of just price then there's a process by which we submit this uh this request for the waiver to CDE and it and it lets the district do a process of like you know uh soliciting informal offers or soliciting like requests for proposals for example where you know um in a party that's interested could you know like write out a proposal this is my anticipated program or use of the site it would include pricing but but what this really does is it the the waiver would give the board flexibility in in selling the property to someone based on factors other than just the highest price foreign number six it's uh it does have the word may right we're not saying it's just a recommendation yes right right would just be an option and and actually I'll explain um the reason this is here is that um one of the things that the State Board of Ed asks for very specifically is was the concept of a waiver discussed with the committee and uh was was the committee in support of the concept so they're very you know intent about wanting this concept to have been addressed by the committee if the board decides to to go that direction obviously with no certainty that the board is gonna you know decide to sell any of the sites right so we don't know if if that will be the way that they go but this is kind of just just trying to cover our bases in case that's what they decide I think if we're explicitly saying that they need to consider things like a community center Conference Center Student Services Center the likelihood that organizations within the city of Azusa or surrounding communities can outbid potentially a developer I think are slim to none and so we need to be able to say if we're recommending that you consider these types of sites we understand that that will come with a process which includes the waiver so we Grant you the ability to go ahead and move forward with that waiver because to us it's more important that you consider the needs of our community rather than the financial implications that this might bring so I think for me this is kind of a non-negotiable that we have to include that a waiver is is recommend that we we give them permission to seek that waiver and I would just say I think it's not in in any way like inconsistent with the rest of the recommendations right we're saying you know that we want to give them the flexibility to to think about various options we would like them to think about some Community benefit uses oh and by the way there's this weird like procedural thing that we want to make sure that you've considered so that you have the ability to do that so does everyone feel okay about the waiver any any questions about what it does or what it is or anything like that okay okay not hearing any um I'll make I will make these particular changes to the report and then um what we'll do at the next meeting is we'll schedule a public hearing so we'll still come back for the public meeting and then really the kind of um I was going to say the core but now I know that that's a loaded word the the main intent of that meeting will be for us to have the public hearing where the public can kind of come speak to the report um you will you will have an opportunity at the um during that meeting or at the end of the public hearing if you know something that said makes you want to change or adjust uh the wording of the report that will certainly be an option we want to make sure that you know you can still make changes after you hear from the community as well um but if if that doesn't happen then you know this this report with the changes that we talked about tonight will be the final form and then we'll come back at a future meeting for the um for the committee to take official action to approve the report um and then we'll have the chairperson sign so that's just that's just kind of a look forward into what we did what we will expect in our next couple meetings and just to um to announce that because the public hearing uh is happening at our next meeting uh we the district are taking um the step of sending a mailer to all residents in the boundaries of the Azusa Unified School District um to announce that we will be having a public hearing about our Surplus property um because obviously not every resident in our boundaries have kids or students that come to our schools and so we want to make sure that we are being as um forward and you know um just trying to be proactive and so we will be sending a mailer uh if the committee tonight approves the date um then we will go ahead and fill that in and get a mailer out to the to the residence okay so with that we'll move we'll move 6.1 I'll throw it back to our chairperson thank you can I get a motion uh for the approval of the next scheduled meeting on July 26th 2012. I have a question on that because we've gone so far with the third Wednesday of every uh the third Wednesday of every month this is the fourth Wednesday of the month so is there a reason for pushing that one more additional week yes um the reason we pushed it one additional week is we thought about if we did the 19th would there be the potential of some folks saying we did this right in the middle of summer um we were on vacation you know that kind of stuff and so we thought if we just pushed it one more week closer to the opening of school um so that was the intent um of pushing it one week further to try to erase that possibility not to say that that's what would happen but we thought it is right smack in the middle of summer and so maybe pushing it back more closer to the opening of school would make more sense I think it also just gives folks a little bit more time between this meeting and the next meeting to get ready or adjust schedule to be at the at the public hearing if they feel really importantly about you know wanting to be there oh yeah that was that was the other uh to make sure that we cover our bases to make sure that the Flyers get to or the mailers get to all of the residents as well can I get a motion for the approval of the next scheduled meeting on July 26 2023.

autism rates are off the chart add peanut allergies we've got Strokes we've got myocarditis we've got miscarriages and still bursts all day long over to Enloe so um Erica's got my card and my information you've got a lot of nurses here at this school district anytime during the summer if you need me to come over and give detox strategies the the brilliant thing here is there are ways to detox this toxic Spike protein out of your body there's a way to make sure that your children who are out there playing sports and Athletics are safe so please tap into me I'm working with react 19 it's a national advocacy firm so yeah we need to protect these children and we're doing a lot of damage and harm so anyway thank you for letting me have the time tonight thank you I want to apologize in advance for the harshness of my message to you tonight I really wanted to believe that school boards were operating in good faith were benign in their teaching methods and focused on the primary mission of public schools to transfer skills and knowledge essential to adult life like Reading Writing Math Science History and citizenship what a horrid disappointment to discover the reality what has taken the ultimate place in your agenda is apparently transformation transformation of Education to indoctrination equality of opportunity to equity of outcomes you have abandoned your role as public servants to parents and instead transformed yourselves into into Servants of an oppressive state sex education at an appropriate age to sexualizing every aspect of the school experience from the playing field the locker rooms the bathrooms and the library from partnering with parents by following the parents lead to a claim of superior right to deny parents their right to control deeply personal matters involving their own children you are working hard to undermine the very institution of the family we have discovered the deep relationship between the despicably behaved adherence of Stonewall Alliance and the counseling staff of every school in this District who are being trained by some of the vilest social justice Warriors in Chico to personally intervene in Reckless and negligent psychological manipulation of children's delicate and vulnerable emotional confusions without parents consent or even knowledge far from being helpful or even a benign influence in our community public schools have become something to be feared and avoided if at all possible history is a harsh judge and you will be judged harshly thank you yes you are number three please approach the podium all right good evening um I would definitely have a lot of uh concerns with the school district here in Chico And I think that we can now chalk up being afraid to go to Enloe Hospital for their issues regarding covid-19 and how they were handling um patients there and we have so many problems after covid-19 from the medical system and public health and not being advised and told the truth um and now we can have the school district that we can worry about next in line we have public health the school district you know you're getting to that point where it's almost a joke it's a running joke that if it's a government-sponsored program you better be aware and they're not telling you the truth and this is not conspiracy theory this is people doing their due diligence understanding what the facts are finding out who's involved in you know creating the curriculum at your school finding out the hard way when the kids come home and tell you what they're learning at school I would just say you know between Public Health the school district um this is just it's really deplorable and there's no there's not really a place for the community to weigh in you know there should be representation of the parents and I don't see that happening at all in Chico I see it's almost like you've got this trickle down from Sacramento saying this is what we're going to do you have the teachers Union and associations saying this is how we want to do it and then the parents kind of last to know and it doesn't really matter it's just this is what we're going to do so hope you like it and what I tell most people I know is to take your kids out of public school immediately just take them out whatever you're going to do Private School homeschooling programs are amazing there's huge networks now of homeschoolers um the African Community African-American Community is the largest users or participants of homeschooling now demographically so that should tell you a lot um so you know I just think a lot of people are not on board with this agenda and time to rethink it thank you thank you all for bringing your thoughts and concerns to the board we will move on to consent calendar item number seven do we have we do have one sign up for public comment on consent um it's Elaine Ward um so I look over every agenda item just to see because obviously my concern is with special education and I feel everything on there usually pertains to special education in some way this time it was regarding classified employees specifically paraprofessionals um so looking through it we have four that were appointed which I'm assuming means that they were put into positions as Paris we have one taking a leave of absence six are retiring they had limited terms and then we have seven to eight that are Regis that have a resignation termination as voluntary to me that means that they are choosing to leave the position so we've heard from a district that we can't hire Paris we can't keep Paris but the question is why why is that a problem yes we know life happens people move people move on but do we really know that as fact like why are paraprofessionals leaving these positions is it pay is it the lack of training I feel that we have to really pay attention and to answering the why to help solve the problem of being Limited in paraprofessionals for our students we know that recently we hired 88 pairs in our district but how many more did we need to hire on top of that as well um and I also know too that there might be some misleading that's happening with the hiring of Paris I know someone that was hired as a paraprofessional being told that they were going to be in a mild mod classroom and they told me that and I was sharing with another parent we were just like what mild mod costume were you going into because as far as we know and people other teachers have shared with us there are no more mild mod classrooms they're all mod severe and mod severe have much higher needs and much more behaviors than a typical mild mod classroom so I feel as if as a district if we really want to solve the problem and answer the question of why paraprofessionals are leaving we need to ask why like are we having exit interviews is that part of the process we have to get to the why you can't solve a problem unless you answer the why thank you um okay so um is there anyone who would like to pull a consent item for further discussion um yeah actually I think that uh having a discussion about a brief discussion about the item that Mr just brought up is worthwhile so I'd like to ask a couple questions myself regarding let me find the number of that piece uh what is it for uh four two seven four two yeah please okay so um we can pull that item sorry repeat the number again 742-7242 thank you okay do I have a motion to approve consent as is uh with 7.4.2 removed at this time for further discussion yes okay um uh member Robinson moves second and I remember tennis seconds do we have further discussion on the further further discussion on the consent calendar for tonight I haven't had my words all week so I'm just trying to catch my gears thank you all right it looks like we can get started with a roll call so I'll actually start with Mr Lando at the end here Dolby I konk and I all right um that uh passes unanimously and we will now visit 7.4.2 under the consent calendar um so many many moons ago I asked for a running tally of our Paras as they came on left I don't think it ever came about but I would like to know in the future no I'm not putting it on the spot right now where we are in terms of the number of pairs we have as opposed to say last year this time and some clarity on the mild mod situation are we telling people that we are hiring for mild mod classes that don't that don't exist or is that a miscommunication that we need to address in our hiring somehow again there's this question I don't expect anybody to answer right now I know I'm going to put you on the spot and thank you Miss Ward for bringing this up I appreciate putting it on our radar again but perhaps the next time we meet we could dive into that a little bit that said oh Mr Lander just to clarify because my boosting speaker isn't quite working is what you're asking for is an accounting for vacancies or um running total of how many we have but knowing how many positions we have open at the same time would be very useful again something I brought up I think a year or two ago we're asked you know as we got more pair as what our totals were actually adding more positions and or more actual people filling the positions so I just want to get some clarity on whether we have How many pairs we have actually who will be on site at the beginning of the year as compared to the beginning of last year and how many positions we have both um could you accept a friendly Amendment I'm not making a motion right now so sure oh you didn't make a motion I'm just asking staff for you know oh because feedback next time I I wanted I I'd like a differentiation between Paras that are signed for something other than to fulfill an IEP if that's okay you mean non-special Ed like kindergarten there wasn't a distinction that Mr Landau was making about what the assignment was of the pairs he was asking for and it's my experience that if you're going to take a look at pera's and coverage and stuff especially after going through what our targets are with our lcap that it would be helpful if we differentiated between Paras that are assigned because of an IEP and peras that are assigned and employed just to fill you know a vacant position yeah that that one I'm not sure we can get but we'll take a look at the data and see if we can can do that Jim I can't hear you that one may be more difficult to get because you but what we're going to do the best we can to try to do that but I'm not sure we can we can yeah they're still they're still called the same thing so we'd have to dive into each IEP and and trace it back together yeah because even in the in the Personnel actions they don't differentiate right whether they're why they're hard just that it is either a vacant position or uh yeah that would be difficult okay I'll go with Tom's interest in how many vacancies how many filled I think what else is relevant to you is the number of hours right because there's a variable number of hours and there's a flux of um a position being classified as a voluntary resignation because they're being reclassified under something else and those hours adjust sometimes accordingly and so it sometimes it's kind of a moving Target to follow the numbers of how those assignments are are adjusting yeah and I think what would be helpful if it was if there's some relatively easy way to pull that data and just simplify it because I know it's a moving Target when we have something like this this obviously it's a very long list of of those moving um or you know leaving and coming in positions and the changes in the number of hours for all of them um you know to know how many hours need to be fulfilled still um how many hours are being appointed how many hours are being vacated just so I don't know it would just be useful like this is good information but I really would have to spend some time to to run those numbers and get a better idea of like you know where we're at and if I think the number that that matters the most is the number of vacant hours that we we maintain right how many how what is our shortfall right now and is that getting worse or is it about the same staying steady are we increasing is it getting better yeah just generally I think would be helpful right I think you're correct because the seniority rules people tend to take more hours as they open up so so they may vacate one position and take another one and it comes across in here as a somebody leaving but they really didn't leave us they they went for more hours and then and then that just works down the kind of the food chain for the least seniority so um so I think looking at the overall hours would be a better measure thanks Mr Hamlin um uh do we have a motion for 7.4.2 yeah I'll move seven adopted from 742 God we've talked about it thanks okay all right we have a motion by Mr Lando in a second by member Robinson do we have any further discussion board since the last vote was unanimous we can do with uh just a Voice vote um all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye aye um it's unanimous again thank you and we will move right along to item number eight this is our discussion action calendar um we are going to start with Educational Services um 8.1.1 is a discussion action item resolution number 1600-23 a draft resolution calling for school and family Partnerships I'm going to go ahead and kick this one off the board when we went through El Cap last year really asked us to do more in terms of reaching out to our community and while we had been meeting with targeted groups going far beyond what was required in the lcap there was a need and we heard it very loudly from our special ed groups we heard it from our bipod group there was a need for us to have more meetings with them and better understand the issues that we're facing at certain populations within the district so our ed services department did develop a calendar they held 18 different community and family meetings over the course of this past year and this resolution came out of the recognition of what the board was asking us to do to do more Outreach and to listen to our families and see what we could do to support them as they were supporting their students so that was the intent that is what we heard over and over in the meetings that we had that we needed to continue to provide both academic social emotional support for our students in our schools the things that we heard repeatedly as needs as you will hear in our lcap you know was additional counseling support and in particular Wellness counseling and targeting case managers so this was an effort not to reflect anything other than what staff can committed to do throughout the year and to continue to do as we reach out to the community and and listen to support our students yeah I think the board has a list of our meetings for next year as well so we certainly appreciate the board encouraging us to do this it has been um enlightening it has been rewarding it has been frustrating it has been all of those things and we will continue to learn and continue to improve as a result do we have an overall idea of or data set that expresses any Trends in the number of contacts we've made with families whether it was through the community meetings or a beautiful set of data would identify what type of contact it was right and to if there's any trends that we might have seen over the last four or so years that relate to that I'm asking I'm asking I'm asking staff right now yeah so you will hear about that um in the ocap report that there were certainly trends that we saw and as I mentioned those tend to be need for additional support for kids whether that's in the social emotional or academic realm and Outreach from the school's two families targeting case managers again is one that comes up repeatedly right there along with counselors and uh can you clarify just what the the process and purpose of a resolution is really um in terms of like how a resolution might come to to be and then um how it comes to us eventually so resolutions can come forward for a lot of different reasons we have resolutions that come forward from business side of the house that are required we have resolutions that come forward from the education side where we're saying this is our commitment to continue to provide Outreach it was a theme we heard over and over from the board that they wanted us to do more at reaching out and holding Community meetings in particular not so much just the surveys but actually face to face with different groups and this was our commitment to do that and to get guidance from that to listen and learn and develop plans which you will hear with the lcap so this is kind of why we tied this in with the cap at this point we did bring It Forward earlier this year and there was lots of discussion about it at that point as well so so so just to clarify because there are I mean sometimes we request resolutions as a board sometimes resolutions are required because of um just the way that the state requires us to do things and then sometimes resolutions come from within where you want to make a statement of commitment in a particular way excellently stated okay thank you and so this this particular resolution is is the third the third thing it came from within based on our board the board's desire for there to be an increase in that Community engagement which really from my perspective because I started you know not until the end of 2020 I know that that was the kind of the peak of of us realizing that there's a lot more that we could probably be doing to engage families in a meaningful and more productive way and um and then I think we've we've Revisited it pretty frequently since then and anecdotally it seems like there's been a lot of improvements and I think that we see that reflected in the lcap when was the first draft of am I on here um yeah Miss Robinson was uh yeah um waiting to speak but I was anxiously awaiting for my opportunity and to speak on behalf of the resolution after reviewing especially the first 25 30 pages of the lcap and following along with what we state in what our intentions are for our programs and things the resolution follows almost exactly what we have declared in the lcap and so it it is just a one document restatement of the commitments that we make in the lcap that we're about to take a look at and consider this evening so I'm very much in support of the resolution as a way of highlighting um you know what commitment we're making with the approval of our lcap as well Mr tennis when was this uh first draft um when was this first drafted April 5th I guess I have a different perception of the origins of this resolution this draft resolution I feel that it's here because of the controversy in our community over the parent secrecy policy and I think this is a um I I smoke screen comes to mind word salad comes to mind it doesn't it doesn't endorse you know the rights of parents to you know overseer provide meaningful input to their kids education in fact it um it leaves me with the impression that you know we know best and while you were all feeding and clothing children you know it's us who are gonna know what's best to do and so I think it really misses the mark of what I would want a resolution to say that was attempting to affirm the commitment of the our school district to strong school and family Partnerships I think Mr mounts comments were right on point how can we say we're committed to trying to work with families and parents if we're you know not telling them what's going on in the classroom over matters that are completely Central to their child so um I think I'm just looking at you because you're there and you know so no I'm going to vote no on this resolution I thank Michelle Cooper and others who may have worked on the resolution that you drafted and put together I think we should table this matter and try to present the board with a couple of different options I think we should have an option that is you know strongly worded and deferential toward parents and families so that's what I think we ought to do are there any further um points of clarification for staff um we're in not in discussion time but in the put in order where we are asking for clarification or further questions well we have been provided with clarification um of staff before we move down to discussion yes meaning I don't I don't think that we need to be addressing what each other is saying just yet until we have emotion on the foot and hear public comment I'm just making sure that we're being upfront about that so is there any more are there any further questions for staff about the resolution yes it came from Ed at uh ed services and and stuff there are guidelines from [Music] um the courts on the broad interpretation of parental rights under the 14th Amendment did you take a look at any of that as you drafted the resolution to make sure that the resolution was in compliance with those guidelines no this was a commitment from what we as a district are committed to doing in terms of holding meetings and hearing directly from our parents one of one of the things that has been provided us as a board is the um the right to establish regulations and stuff for public interest and the right to establish boundaries that allow courts to regulate the treatment of children in their best interest and not that doesn't extend beyond the threshold of the school door the court says that then becomes the district's right it's the parents right to decide whether not to put them in school and it's the parents rights but they don't have due process rights to interfere with curriculum discipline hours of instruction or the nature of other curricular or extracurricular activities so that all of the things that are in this resolution comply with that mandate that's why I support it I'm gonna um move ahead and open it up for public comment um so we are going to follow the same rules as we do three minutes Bell at 30 seconds I do try to call the the runner or that next person the on Deck person ahead of time so for 8.1.1 um we will hear first from Loretta Torres and then Arwen funk I'm Loretta Torres I'm an 80 year old grandmother of two in your school system I believe in God I believe he's present and every single person in this room I believe he made you he created you I don't believe he would be happy when we don't protect the most innocent of his creations the innocent children your proposed policy has no language that specifically requires your teachers and their counselors to share information on their children's sexual gender questions parents are not stupid this policy that you've drafted is again a smoke screen and a Panacea don't fool yourself others have come before you and said if we don't do this for our children if we don't transgender them early in life they may commit suicide well guess what the new data is now showing that children that transgender at a very early age are in distress for the rest of their lives when they discover this treatment did not solve their emotional problems why do we want and my for the life of me I can't understand why this school wants to get in between parents and their children on this quote sensitive issue family issue of sexual sexuality uh I wonder are you afraid of the lgbtq community because they are scary I was afraid to go to my my car on March 5th when they showed up here I had to ask somebody younger and bigger gentlemen help me out there because I was afraid of them I believe you should be sticking to the three R's and the rest of it teach our children to be successful in their lives after they leave here protect them don't teach them transgender ideology in your schools I believe God will hold you accountable each and every one of you he keeps track of what you do in your lives and the decisions that you make R1 Funk and then Danielle penny so I first want to start by saying thank you we always have one board member that we can count on to say the quiet part out loud really lets us know what's going on around here I want to point out that we are being told that this resolution was created based on listening you're doing a lot of listening you're not listening we've been talking for a very long time you are well set in your ideas and you are utterly closed off to the possibility that you might have been wrong about something in the past you are not listening this resolution is ridiculous it's garbage it's what you already do which you then lied to us about for months and then voted yourselves the right to keep secrets from us which you were already doing and you had lied about it's the same stuff this is a waste of time and I'm sorry so much of your staff's time has been wasted with this you need to go back to the drawing board and you need to find a resolution that actually protects parental rights there are some very significant bills coming from Sacramento and they are going to cause incredible problems in the lives of families all over this state if ab665 and 957 pass school districts in this state will have the right to take their children away from parents with no notice no recourse no appeal anyone who's considered a mental health professional in the schools which is pretty much everybody you will have that right what you need to do is pass a parental resolution that protects us from that your job is to protect us your job is not to rubber stamp every stupid thing that comes out of Sacramento I'm so tired of hearing that we're just following the law Gavin Newsom in Sacramento flips the bird to Washington DC all the time immigration abortion cannabis he just calls us it slaps a little sticker on us that calls us a sanctuary he calls it good nobody fights with it you could do that you don't have to give the state or teachers or anyone the right to take our kids away just because a child might be questioning something and we happen to go to a Christian Church this is stupid come up with a better resolution you can do better than this up next is Danielle Penny and then Michelle Cooper stroke speak me all right Carrie Kruger reading on behalf of my friend Danielle Penny to start with a quote ideas are like seeds from Tiny seeds dropped in Fertile ground grow Mighty Oaks that anchor the land altering the course of the rivers and the wind and from ideas planted in the fertile soil of the human mind grow the thoughts convictions of mankind altering the course of history this resolution came out about because parents spoke up about ideas birthed from a particular controversial world view that appears to be from outside sources these ideas have very little to do with academics but have everything to do with shaping students socially on October 13 2021 I witnessed an elementary resource teacher reading the book when Aiden becomes became a brother I asked this teacher if she had notified parents and she said no and informed me that she would not stop reading the book I went to administration because I knew several of the parents of these children would be upset the district office made the decision that the teacher must stop reading the book as it was not an elementary standard during a recent public records request an email from January 14 2022 was found from our director of student support and special education Diane Olson concerning the same book in her email to District staff she says Aiden is a boy yet it is very clear from the first sentence of the book and I quote when Aiden was born everyone thought he was a girl on another page it says Adrian didn't feel like any kind of girl he was really another kind of boy and on another page it has Mom saying when you were born we didn't know you were going to be our son we made some mistakes but you helped us fix them Diane's email States also for those of you who have not read the book that created the Ruckus in the first place here's a link an approve watchable video on Chico USD net filter Diane continues in her email I really feel that I need to advocate for the ND teacher as they researched this more deeply I don't understand the reason for the concern for this book I feel that I have done a big mis-service to this teacher by not being more vocally supportive during our discussions as I did not want to go against the group or decisions that were being made by the group please take a moment to watch this video the sped and resource Community is one of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged communities the director of sped didn't understand the danger of putting ideas into the minds of elementary school students who belong to this vulnerable population these kids are simply trying to master phonics and learn to read why would we allow authority figures to plant seeds of doubt in their minds regarding whether they are a boy or a girl why cause them to question their parents and assume they made a mistake as this book suggests doing so only breeds suspicion and confusion and we wonder why there is a mental health crisis among the youth in our country there is an identity crisis sweeping our educational system especially regarding student sexuality let's leave this to parents and let kids be kids let's get back to educating our students and informing our parents hello again um so I did submit to the board a resolution that was drafted by a group of cusd parents and concerned citizens and FYI that was reviewed by an attorney this resolution was drafted because we felt that the board and District were missing the mark on how parents feel and what they want and expect from this District the resolution named a resolution of support of parental rights is a resolution to affirm the commitment of Chico Unified School Board to the fundamental rights of parents and legal Guardians to direct the Education Health and well-being of their minor children the language in this draft is meant to create trust between parents and this district and states that Chico Unified School Board Administration and employees will uphold the traditional partnership between teachers students and parents and legal Guardians by directly communicating with and involving parents and legal Guardians in the education programs of their children I don't think this is too much to ask we believe that this resolution is the only one that truly encompasses the language that parents in the district are searching for we ask that the resolution provided be reviewed and adopted by this school board if that means tabling this item to bring it back then that's what it takes thank you um do we have any further public comment at this time I have a prepared statement but I I'm going to just talk to you directly first of all Mr tennis thank you for your observations you pretty much expressed what I was going to say and thank you Miss Robinson for demonstrating exactly what it is that we have a problem with the idea that when kids show up at the schoolhouse door you suddenly assume parental responsibilities for the health and well-being of other people's children is false it's dangerous and it is destructive now with regard to language as you know some of you know anyway I'm an attorney contracts attorney one of the things that we really pay attention to is the precise meaning of language as it relates to the expected actions that are going to follow from the use of that language this resolution is full of what I would call ambiguous terms that can mean anything to anyone for example you say in there uh we will uphold the partnership between teachers students and parents by providing opportunities to communicate and participate in the education of their children well how generous of you to allow parents to participate in the education of their children the arrogance and the ambiguity and the control that this kind of language enables the school district is is unconscionable a clear resolution which is has no legal standing a resolution is simply a statement of intent it has no bearing on anything other than to describe what it is you intend to do a clear statement of intent is this school district commits to stay in its Lane and to provide a direct educational transfer of knowledge for skills important to adulthood and to leave the health well-being and mental health of their children up to the parents that is not in your lane so table this thing and start from the beginning what is your mission as a school district is it to try to assume the responsibility and obligations of a parent in all regards to a child and if there are any limits whatsoever exactly what are they what are the limits where is the line that you will not cross when it comes to the division between parental rights and the responsibilities of a school district put that in some plain simple direct language and we could support that thank you very much do we have further public comment at this time okay seeing none I will invite the board to make a motion I move we table this item and either present two drafts you know one based on what's been submitted and then one that looks like this and and decide at a future date which one or a combination to do I second okay we have a motion by Mr tennis in a second by remember konkin to table this item and so we are open for discussion Madam president I'm going to seek some advice I I don't think that what I'm going to say is about tabling other than pointing out that we do have other direction and I'd like to read that into the record um but I'm I'm how about if I read something in the and then you rule on the appropriateness of the sentence and then elaborating on because this just treats right to the issue at hand it's on the limits of parental rights and it's a decision out of a California case in the ninth circuit in 2020 and it said the Court held that parents have a right to remove their children from public schools but not to dictate school policy and there's there's more to it huh there's a good solution to the issue I don't find any problems with our resolution because it restates what we have in our lcap our legal guidance says that that we that parents do not have a right to dictate school policy they have the right to take their kids out of school they have a right to go to the classrooms and help but they do not have a right to write curriculum and stuff and and this this resolution doesn't get into any of the things that parents do not have a right to so I think right now we have an emotion on the floor right whether to to table table postpone it and table it and um I don't have any problem with that but bringing it back in a different form I do not support so I don't know what whether I'm saying yes to tabling or I'm looking for Direction let me reiterate my motion I think we should have two drafts one that looks just like this and another one that looks like what was submitted by our constituents and then we can have time to review them and maybe integrate them maybe there will be something in the what was what was submitted by the public that you might not find objectionable if added to the resolution and where I'm sitting I'm I'm looking at a quote from one public commenter that said that this is this resolution is what the district is already doing and it's true yes um and another public commenter said it's just a statement of intent um and so it's just that it's just that it's very simple as a document that states reiterates what the district is already in doing and what it intends to do and continue to do and improve upon which is relations with parents and and ensuring that parents are involved in students um success who said they thought it was it was what we were already doing yes um if you want me to be specific I was trying to just be nice about it but our one Funk was um quoted as saying that this is this is what the detective is already doing so why do we even why are we even bothering discussing it Rob Berry was the one that said it's just a statement of intent so I was just summarizing those two things and I I could personally be on board with not passing it at all because we are already doing it and not passing it doesn't mean that we're not we're going to suddenly stop doing these things um and so I would be I would also be probably in favor of just letting it die and not not addressing this anymore I don't know if tabling kind of effectively does the same thing except for it prolongs the conversation and it keeps bringing up this other issue which really to me um is it's it goes beyond the scope of this resolution because that is something that is impending little litigation and pending um legal uh things that are beyond our scope of um of what we we do have control over right now at this time yes thank you um I also think there's a kind of fundamental miscommunication going on or we're talking past each other whereas I hear staff saying we've done lots of listening we've heard lots of parents and the group of parents who have spoken tonight and at many of our most recent meetings saying no we are not being heard um I think both those things are true the staff has and we'll see in the lcap the number of meetings and surveys and the ways in which we do a we put a lot of effort into Gathering input from the community and from parents and there is a small committed group who doesn't think we're doing the right thing and I hear that but that doesn't necessarily perhaps mean that you speak for all parents and you are heard you're here every single meeting and we hear you and we get your email so it's not that you don't get to have the input so if there is some kind of overwhelming support for this alternate version I'm happy to be wrong that's how we learn right if we get you know signatures from a huge chunk of our family saying hey this is really what we want then by all means let's let's do that and let's find out I don't remain convinced that the draft here is actually going to be supported by anywhere near the majority of the parents in our district I don't think that we can keep on coming here and saying these are the parents the ones who hear with the same frustration every single time I hear you I understand that you're frustrated I if you speak for all parents then let's find some way to quantify that because again I'm happy to be wrong but until then um I agree the draft resolution we have is a statement we intend to continue to work with and gather information from parents which we do do and as a group I think we do a very good job of working very hard to grab the input from parents there are a lot of problems with the draft resolution that came from your group and if we do bring that back I'll be happy to address them for now though I think I am also inclined to either table this or simply move to pass no motion and move on with with our business other business okay so we have a motion to table and request to the staff to bring back at least two versions maybe that are slightly revised based on further input from parents and possibly even legal counsel as sorry Michelle Miss Cooper pointed out theirs was her version was reviewed by illegal counsel I know we run everything that we do by legal counsel um but you know I think that that's that's what we are voting on at this time because that's the motion on the floor that summarize that well enough Mr tennis except that I would just include the source material posted early enough so that anything that was in that could be commented on commented on and Incorporated if it was the will of the majority right so if it's not properly agendized it couldn't be incorporated into a final that being properly agenda is that doesn't make sense to me if it wasn't properly like this was properly organized what soever I mean you can't just you know create aware put this in in the the motion and let's vote on that right now because it wouldn't be properly posted um just include this Source material as as you know part of the agenda item so that it could be utilized right I do think that we do have the flexibility and I think Miss Miss daily might be saying the same thing um to change wording a little bit when we have a resolution on the table and and requests like we you know we vote to approve this with this paragraph removed we've done it before or with this yeah like you do with board policy if you want to make changes when you have the document in front of you you want to make changes now to that document you have the right to do that because it is it has been agendized and published so I could write aware as just just out of thin air and brand new language that no one had ever seen before and we could agree on it and vote on it as long as the topic we're on the agenda yeah however I think following your line of thought I think it would be great if we were going to bring back a couple of versions to be discussed to properly post those for full public input and the opportunity for the public to I appreciate that my guy's background you know there's that's one calendar out there that like if you want to have something that's really in the agenda packet you've got to have it to us by such and such a date I think that would be good if if this was in the agenda packet as background material I think it would be a good way to honor our constituents who've come to so many meetings and and if you didn't like something that I had to say you wouldn't have to vote to support it any other points of discussion well I like to make I would like to make a substitute motion thanks which is simply that we reaffirm here now our dedication to working with parents and community members but move to uh past no resolution at this time I'll second that motion okay um so we have a second motion on the floor um which is to um just would substitute the original motion which is to um reaffirm verbally now our commitment to continue to engage with our parents and community members um as we do and do try to continue to improve upon those practices and pass the resolution at this time is the intent to be a substitution for the original motion as in like they wouldn't come back yeah just like we've been right where we have the if this didn't pass then we would go to your original motion but if it passes by board majority that that eliminates the original Mission okay um is there further discussion or questions yeah I have some more comments on that um so when a lot of my colleagues some of them talk about parental involvement they're not talking about addressing the issues that are important to you they are talking about I believe in conversations that are happening within the lcat process the lcap process is just a huge just months long like I mean it's really year-long process of basically um and anyone's free to straighten me out on something but but basically every interest group every constituency within the entire District special ed I mean you name it all of the different Target groups that we're trying to you know Elevate their performance homeless and Foster at-risk youth of various kinds the lcap process goes deep on every single one of those those issue areas and takes in every single imaginable thing so so no I mean lcap process will not address the concerns that you have in any meaningful way at all so so if if we're saying here by vote that uh that you know the lcap is going to solve these concerns then I can tell you that that's false because it's a way to cover up substantive things that are that are really important to large groups of people and instead fill it in with a bunch of just bureaucratic just staff time and reports I would disagree um and that's it's okay to have obviously I have your opinion I would disagree that um that the L captives meet those the lcap specific meetings don't provide the opportunity for parents to express concerns for their students um I think it's a good a good way if if parents are engaged and are are noticed about the meetings and have a concern that they want to bring in that type of setting to to bring those our lcap has three three components it's academics which is what I think people say mean when they say the three R's which is actually RW and a right Reading Writing and arithmetic um and it also encompasses social emotional health and well-being as well as the third component which is um Behavior thank you I was getting there um and so the the concerns of our constituents here who have who have given a lot of input and have shown up to most or all board meetings especially in the last six months um those top that top those topics are in line with social emotional well-being and behavior and so um I would disagree with Mr tennis that that the lcap process doesn't doesn't give you a way to give input on those concerns but again that's my opinion so some other people might think differently if they see it through a different lens is there any other input or discussion all right I'm ready to vote as well um because this was a substitute motion by Mr Lando we'll start with you Mr Linda when do I tennis name Dolby I Robinson I conquer name okay it passes three to two and so the decision was to not to table but to let this resolution go we won't be revisiting this resolution in its form if something like this would ever come up again I'm sure we've learned from this process that there is probably a better way to to develop a resolution that that incorporates um multiple stakeholders I don't know why I just closed my agenda packet that was silly of me now I have to find my plan now I have to now I have to find my place thank you for staying for for part of our meeting and watching our Pro our process yes thank you for being here um okay I think that we move into the lcap which is item 8.1.2 unless you feel now would be a good time I was going to ask if this would be a good time for a break um or 7 30.