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we step it down to 40 and then we provide that 40 to U of M for their distribution system um and they we have a series of of substations that uh are for for U of M on the south side of town near Briarwood uh is actually uh one of our probably most state-of-the-art substations we have right now it's a a combined station where again ITC brings in 120 transmission we step it down to 40kv sub transmission that 40 KV sub transmission then goes out and feeds a good majority of the substations in Ann Arbor as well as several other stations around um the city but that substation near Briarwood also has now a 120 to 13 2 connection Point uh where we serve that Briarwood area so yes DTE does work with ITC on uh connections for substations however the substations that we have left in Ann Arbor are served by the 40 KV system and we believe our upgraded uh or replaced substations on those sites will continue to be connected to the 40 KV system so at this time we don't see a need to go through the regional approval process with miso with ITC so we don't see that it continued or additional time lag on those projects the projects that we have in our plan are ones that we can move forward with as we get approved through the mphc so we are definitely not avoiding uh conversion to 13.2 if anything uh in Ann Arbor we're looking at how we can expedite that so that's always an area where we look to the community to the leaders here [Music] um you know for those Partnerships um as we're as we're bringing uh projects to the table um so we will be bringing those uh whenever we do substation projects or the large rebuild projects those go through the city approval process for permitting and all of that so um you'll be learning a lot more of that as uh as those plans go through design process the last question was a two-parter um and it's it's probably something we could talk for hours on itself is around um what we call contribution and Aid of construction or ciec um and and what that really boils down to is the the question was why we are charging some developers uh for capacity and uh what it comes down to is um you know if customer one um wants to add some load and it creates an overload or projected overload on our system um that customer is responsible to help us mitigate that if they don't uh contribute uh cic uh then that cost is uh pretty much goes into the rate base and would be absorbed by all rate payers um so if you look at it at a wider scale um just like we can't charge uh customers in Ann Arbor hire on their bill or customers across the board but customers in Ann Arbor for this purpose higher because we're um you know supporting work for the Gordie Howe Bridge um you know that the large projects have to contribute some ciac into that uh contribution or otherwise it it goes across all the repairs so um we're not double charging or double um making profits on any of that is basically whatever a developer pays into a project is less money that we ask for in our array cases so there's no no additional uh funding there so that's kind of the short answers to those I know I kind of talked to for a while but uh definitely open to any questions the council has and uh go from there thank you so much Mike that was a really thorough uh discussion and I'm so happy you shared all that um I wanted to ask you just briefly before we open it up um you know hearing your your kind of four strategies here both long term and and short-term to use some of the reliability issues can you just speak to sort of like 5 10 and 15 years I know that the distribution grid plan is coming out um but you know and also hearing that we're kind of like towards the five-year end of the cycle for tree trimming like within five years what maybe projects do you see completed um you know and what kind of results I know you don't have a crystal ball like maybe a short response um because I would like to open it up but but do you see what I mean like just give us a sense for your for um approaches to improve reliability what are the timelines for those yeah so the the tree trim and your your standard maintenance those are going to be ongoing um so customers can expect that every five years we're going through trimming trees and the the biggest change over the last decade has been are changing our tree trim standards um which you know unfortunately in some situations does mean trimming a little bit wider away from the wires um our new equipment like we said when we can go to armless we're bringing those wires closer to the pool so we can bring that trim radius along with us um but yeah tree trim and and your standard pull top or equipment maintenance whether it's on poles or at substations um those are going to be ongoing your biggest ones like I said are going to be the the conversions your rebuilds um which feeds into reliability feeds into capacity and then enables the automation so what I would say in in the next five years uh we'll have you know obviously the the buckler substation project uh we'll be wrapping up within the next year or less uh so that's one big piece there for the kind of northern part of the city um and then those other three that I mentioned uh that are out of engineering now on the northeast side Southeast side and West Side um those projects when you look at them they're about 40 to 60 million dollars a piece so it does take uh several years to work through those both in terms of the the sheer number of pole and wire Replacements you have to do um we are definitely um pursuing underground opportunities where it makes sense and um you know so that doesn't mean that in all the residential areas we're going to take the stuff that's in in the back areas and and put it underground um we can talk about that uh at another time at length um there's a lot of uh pros and cons to that um but what it does mean is we're we're looking at opportunities where it does make sense to um get some of the core infrastructure um the most important piece is get those underground so um you know sometimes where it's along main roads or um you know really bad careers we're looking at those opportunities so it's definitely something that we are very interested all the way at our at our executive level um and then you have the substation parts of those projects so they take a little while um to go through those but I would say in in the five years you should kind of start to see that perimeter of um of the 4.8 to 13 2 conversions start to come into the city um and then in the five to ten year range uh would be the next core of uh substations um working through those so um that's that's kind of where we're at I think you know city of Ann Arbor we're probably in the 10 to 15 year range for full conversion and like I said we're we're looking for uh opportunities to to uh to bring that in uh at every uh at every opportunity great thanks for bringing that down for us okay I'd like to open the conversation up for anyone who would like to share and ask questions bless your heart all right thank you thank you so much that was um a great presentation I appreciate the attention the detail on a lot of the issues um from from both speakers um one of the questions I had about with respect to DT is I I know recently that there's there is a sort of longer term plan that's been laid out and you're just we're speaking to that I'm sort of wondering what it looks like also beyond the 15 to 20 year time frame in part because you know I think you know as we look back in some of the news reports there's quite a bit of talk about how old a lot of the infrastructure is and and how it's needed updating and sort of I'm wondering if you're able to speak at all to sort of what that looks like now moving forward I'm really appreciative of the sort of 15 to 20-year time frame as the sort of outward look but then what does it look like as we sort of shift our time frame forward are we are we thinking about 15 to 20 year time frames now every year moving forward or are you thinking on a longer term scale how does how's DT thinking about that sort of longer term Vision Beyond even just this current sort of planning cycle you know that's that's a good question um it's tough because right now they're you know there's there's so much excitement here on the engineering team about having this opportunity to rebuild the grid and you know at the tail end of this 10 to 15 year window here uh Ann Arbor is probably going to have one of the newest Distribution Systems in the country um you know we're doing it throughout our whole territory um and uh honestly Detroit and Ann Arbor have um been a big Focus of of our conversion efforts so um you know Ann Arbor's uh uh you know quite a bit smaller than Detroit's footprint so uh we're gonna get through that um I I think in a decent amount of time here and uh beyond that it's really going to be wherever the wherever the uh the industry goes uh you know back to the question of ders uh solar and storage I think are going to be big components um you know different um opportunities for that smart grid and automation that we're we're really pushing for um that's something we we're looking to get a lot more here in the in the immediate future you know the next five years as well so all of those things combined I think is going to be a very uh dramatically different grid um than you're used to today in terms of uh reliability and uh resiliency and like how the the group can react um to those issues because you know a lot of things we're seeing ice or um trees and a lot of the trees that are coming down you know gotta say it's a lot of them are despite what we trim it's it's a large tree from outside of our uh easement and those are um you know always tough um but uh you know if something goes wrong at a substation or something like that we're building a grid that can absorb um those contingencies uh without overbuilding as well thank you Richard mursky good evening thank you for your presentation and also thank you to Professor um glickema uh I hate I'm hoping that um Mr witowski you're able to answer something that the professor addressed um he indicated that utilities evaluate costs and benefits when deciding um how to upgrade um for reliability purposes um I'm wondering if there is um a clear understanding and definition for example imposed by the mpsc or um maybe some type of Association on how that is evaluated and what are the costs and what are the benefits that are included um I've been impacted several times in the last year by outages um and the last time I just recently three weeks or so ago I lost power for two days um in spite of buying ice we lost a lot of things in our freezer some of which we were able to consume some of which we couldn't um so I'm I'm really wondering when he says utilities evaluate costs and benefits how was that done and is DTE do it the same way that consumers does or that Duke power does or um PG e how how is this evaluation done yeah that's a really good question and we do work with the mpsc very closely on that um we have what we call a a GPM or a global priority model um where all of the projects um that our Engineers are proposing um are put into the model and um scored based on a variety of categories benefits could include safety impact um uh outage impact frequency duration um risk of a risk of what the event could be uh you know like uh kind of like the professor mentioned in terms of like storm outages or restoration strategy um you know is it is he is an event at a site gonna affect a thousand customers or 100 customers is it going to affect a hospital or a public service like a water station something like that so um it is a an endless amount of variables that that weigh into that benefit side of the equation um but we've done a lot of uh work a lot of discussions with uh the mpsc and we do have um pretty good support um for our our push to convert the 4.8 system um and that's where a lot of our dollars are going um long term um and that's that's what's that's what's now driving um a lot of that uh investment into the city of Ann Arbor uh between that and uh like I said some of the newer Technologies around automation [Music] um we're doing Pilots with micro grids um really really doing a lot of uh a lot of things in Ann Arbor now that uh you know we we weren't uh approved for in the past I have a couple of other questions if I may uh the professor also mentioned two standard metrics um that are used um I didn't get those exactly but um I have a more general question and that is DTE has a service Monopoly that's granted um to service customers in a region um including residents industry Etc um I'm wondering what level of performance transparency there is that DT has for example on these two metrics um overall for its uh entire service area as well as by jurisdiction um that anyone like myself or a customer that you know pays a billion dollars a year for for power to DTE where can they access information on DTE performance and similarly you gave a lot of anecdotal information um well first let me finish the first thought so what I would love to see I don't know if this possible but this is something that you know we're talking about also for the city is um performance means what are the trends um over time um how do those Trends compared to goals that have been set in the past um how what are the goals for the future and how does your performance compare to benchmarks um CMS was mentioned as one Benchmark but there's clearly probably other benchmarks and without that you can talk a lot about we're looking for opportunities and you can list 15 different projects and things like that but without really seeing what the outcomes are it's difficult for us to understand what those are so I'm wondering what is being done in that regard yeah I'm just I'm getting some uh some additional support here from one of my VPS so um yes um so the two metrics that you mentioned are uh Safi and Sadie um real simple way to look at those safety is frequency Sadie is duration so if I mean neither one of those um as I understand it and the way he is described as well includes a factor or a multiplier indicating the number of residents impacted or the number of businesses or anything like that right neither one of those really includes an impact yeah those those actually would include the whole system or or an aggregate um so when you look at the duration piece um Katie with a c would be an individual customer so you would have a Katie okay actually everybody on this call would have a Katie that's how long you were out um for a for a year or whatever the period of time is if you wanted to aggregate why um when you put those all together that becomes the Sadie the system average so um but again at their course safety frequency Sadie duration right uh when you look at the DT system as a whole I don't have the numbers up here but um and I'm not going to pretend to make them up um but our our safety on average um is usually fairly good um there are definitely Pockets um where customers experience a high frequency of events in a year um I'm with you right now I've had three including the two during the ice storm and one two weeks ago so um you know right now nobody's nobody's immune to it um even though we're focusing on it duration um that is an area where where we're um under performing some of the other uh peer utilities um and that's that really goes to our Focus around the automation space and that smart grid space where can the General Public access that information is is it on a GTE web page is it through the mpsc how is that reported yeah so we do report it to the mpsc um I don't know if it is um published on our uh website it looks like it is um starting the first quarter of this year um it's reported on the npsc website um and it was initially reported as an aggregate aggregate system total now it is published by ZIP code and it is uh now reported quarterly so [Music] um you know like you said the data we got to get that visible um and that's uh something that the npsc has uh has requested so um it's it's out there um and we're definitely you know willing to to come meet and talk again more about any you know specific Ann Arbor issues for sure the other thing that you did is you ticked off a number of different projects I'm wondering if there is a again a web page public pacing web page where that kind of information is available I'll give you a an example of what the city of Ann Arbor does it has a web page you could take a look at it the city of Ann Arbor pavement condition page and you can go and you can see what the average pay payment condition is in Ann Arbor you can look at the pavement condition um for Indian individual streets you can click on those streets and you can get information that indicates when those are on the schedule to be paid resurfaced whatever the case may be it would be wonderful if that kind of information was out there again for us so that we could understand um what is DTE doing other than just sort of anecdotal and a list of projects information from you um and so that we we would be able to plan accordingly um with you know any projects that might be impacted by that here is anything like that available yeah so you actually also brought up something that I'll touch on too um yes there is a map that is available um it's pretty high level uh but it is available to the public so we can share that link with you um the DGP the distribution grid plan is also posted on the mpsc website um it's I think the prior version might be over 100 Pages um and the the new one we're trying to slow down a little bit but it is a good read um one thing you mentioned um is you know really looking for I think Partnerships with communities where you're doing projects uh where you might be doing a road project how [Music] you know that may overlay with the work we need to do um so that's that's something that uh we're definitely interested in having those discussions um and seeing where where those overlay and um you know it could be you know significant cost savings um for all parties so I don't know if you intended to to spark that thought but but you brought that up good I I have several other questions but I'll yield the floor because I don't know how much more time we want to devote to this I'll just let you know that there's a lot of interest from the general public I had two people text me with questions um and I really didn't get to either one of them I mean one of them was simply um we pay high rates higher than the average in the Midwest and why doesn't DTE simply hire more people and accelerate the conversion from 4 between 4.8 to 13.2 not only here but also in in underserved areas in Detroit um as you're probably aware um there's been analyzes done on that um but you don't have to answer that question I mean there's a lot of other questions that the community has on this this topic as you might imagine yeah thanks commission moroski yeah I'd like to um gather those actually commissionersky if you could share them maybe with Joe and we can get them on um on the meeting minutes because I'd like to start compiling a list and I think that tracking this um along with the documents and the kind of public resources that were shared around reliability are super important um you know I I have a similar um experience of just having friends you know contact me and ask specific questions and that's some where some of the motivation came from my questions so um yeah I think as a community we all are checking this individually and it makes a lot of sense to kind of get together and make sure that um our voices are heard so thanks commissioner mursky council member Regina are you ready to share thanks um I also have a number of questions um and so I'm gonna I'm gonna try to keep them um relatively focused to kind of your area um Mr rotowski because I I know that um not everything that I I have would necessarily probably be best directed to you um but specifically on some of the grid capacity um you've touched you touched on this briefly and and I guess I wanted to dig in a little bit more um around exactly where I I've uh where where the the challenge is um particularly when we have new um new builds in the area that are are going to create a capacity issue um and one of the frustrations that I think continues to be a bubbling up seemingly more and more and particularly as Ann Arbor is working quickly to address our housing crisis and our affordability crisis is that we will have a new proposal for for um uh an apartment complex a multiple unit housing complex that's willing to come in and I'm hearing consistently from the developer on that project that hundreds of thousands if not a million plus dollars of grid improvements are are being requested from DTE in order to in their view uh have the benefit of then paying you for the power that they're going to use as well and so I know it you mentioned it doesn't it's not really double dipping but they are I mean they're essentially paying you to put in the infrastructure to pay you for the product and I guess I'm wondering I I heard your explanation around spreading that across rate rate payers would be the alternative um I've heard mixed things about where the hold up on that that is you know I I would actually challenge a little bit I mean when we're hearing that this is adding hundreds of thousands if not a million plus dollars to every new Housing Development that's coming in um that makes every one of those units even less affordable for our community and so that challenge is also exacerbating our our affordability crisis here and so I guess I'm trying to understand a little bit more about what goes into that decision what goes into that cost and why there is such a heavy burden for kind of the last in to make up for really the the um the additional grid capacity that's needed yeah so um yeah like I said earlier we could we could talk on this for hours um I actually kind of do lead our our ciac uh policy around this and we're we're always anything that we charge a customer uh to contribute towards your towards a project is always the um minimum standard so we're not going to charge them to rebuild Miles and Miles um because it's something we want to do we're going to charge the the minimum of what it takes to serve their development um oftentimes we do opt uh to invest beyond that to continue those upgrades to set up for um some additional projects so we are looking for those opportunities um you know I would definitely be interested in in talking with you further on this I I haven't seen one lately that has been in the million dollar range but there very well may have been um some of the most challenging projects actually are downtown Ann Arbor um some of the ones I'm thinking of right now are actually more relocation based versus capacity based um so if we have to move lines put them underground those downtown underground builds are especially expensive um putting in the conduit and the cable and replicating an overhead system with switching opportunities um it can be quite expensive so that might be some of those most expensive ones um and uh yeah as we continue these conversion projects um a lot of the capacity will be there um so you know I guess I'm not giving you a uh you know a brief and Brilliant answer to that um because there's many layers to it but um cic is a policy um at the mpsc level um so let's you know we're working through that requirement and looking to be as efficient uh with those costs to the developers as as absolutely possible and the biggest thing we really do encourage developers to do is as soon as they're thinking about a project start talking to us um because sometimes it means we can um you know look at what we've got in our plans sometimes that means um putting their electrical room on the west side of the building versus the east side of the building um because sometimes the difference of a block uh can be in capacity is there or it isn't um and uh so getting those early discussions um you know we can really be a partner in this and um you know make sure capacity is there when customers need it yeah I appreciate the offer to continue that conversation as well because this is something that's coming up more and more frequently um and particularly as we're trying to expedite the increase of housing stock in the community um I've also heard kind of a much smaller level um luckily impact on kind of a Housing Commission project that we have there it's even you know more impactful when we're trying to build specifically affordable units um and so uh I would very much appreciate a continued conversation on that and if it's something that needs to be addressed at the mp uh SC level I think that's a conversation worth having um uh also a bit on infrastructure and I I don't know if this is outside of your scope is on the actual technology that DTE is using itself um the outage map in particular um I've consistently heard from folks about kind of the inaccuracy around the outage map um sometimes the outage map itself is out um and then also I think what I've been hearing a bit more frequently from constituents is reports on the outage map that they're back on uh that their power is back on when they are not back on they have to resubmit a report and then feel like they're starting all over again in the process and so that comes down to a bit of the public trust issue but also around the reliability concerns is that I get the question does DT even know which power is on and which power is off during these major outages um so I don't know if you can address kind of some of the reliability of the outage map itself I can't really speak to the outage map itself um I I will say we we hear those concerns and um the team is definitely looking into um modifications to make those improvements um the second piece that you touched on um is a very um frequent thing that we hear from customers um and you know as I'm downtown working on the Storm teams um that's a big challenge that we look at um so that's it's this whole concept of Trouble behind trouble um and you take the simple form of it let's say a whole circuit is a thousand customers um and that's on day one we roll out there because that's the biggest job we've got out on the system we're gonna send a crew out there get that wire back up on the poles and think that we restored that thousand customers um what happens uh a lot of times is um there may be a few section a smaller section 50 customers 100 customers towards the end of the circuit well there's a wire down and a blown fuse there too so what what has to kind of happened is that first event gets fixed and then another event gets created for that smaller event and when you look at the the whole restoration strategy that you employ during a storm uh just like the professor mentioned you know you're trying to hit your critical services but you're also trying to get as many customers back as soon as possible um you know the unfortunate the way that plays out is sometimes those customers get a response that says hey congratulations your power's been restored no it hasn't you're still out it's very frustrating um so that is something we have a lot of attention on trying to figure out how to um manage that um and um both in in terms of the operational side but as well um in terms of the messaging side so um we definitely hear that and um we're we're trying to get an answer on how to uh fix that situation um I also heard you mention that kind of over the next 10 to 15 year period that with the plans Ann Arbor or will have one of the kind of most upgraded parts of the grid um I I hear that as kind of an elected official with you know 10 to 15 years particularly the type of year we had this year it it's not super encouraging to me um and I I actually want to challenge something a little bit that um that you didn't say actually the professor professor said but I think is worth discussing here and and I'd like to hear a little bit more about dte's plans I'm I'm grateful to hear that you're now open to the possibility of working with the city and potentially burying lines when we're doing existing road work that's something that council member Briggs and I actually brought up in a conversation with DTE in our first term or the first half of our term uh two years ago um and at the time it was not an interest area um so I'm glad to hear that that's shifting um but I I do want to challenge a little bit on the notion that undergrounding lines isn't is cost prohibitive um and and I wanna preface that with I know that the data is the the study could be updated um to use current data but there's a FEMA study out there that that was looking at um the fact that two significant storm events uh two major storm events essentially pays for undergrounding a line the costs that go into that I'm sure that it's potentially three or four Now by today's costs um but I look at you know last year the last several years DTE averaged almost a billion dollars in profits if we accept that it costs a million dollars uh a mile to Barry lines every year for the next 10 years you know we could be burying a thousand miles of line every year so and and not only I mean does that seem to make good business sense in the long run for me but for my constituents the people in Ann Arbor the people in Ypsilanti the people throughout Southeast Michigan why is that not the best investment that DTE could be making in terms of the astronomical costs if you every household that has to throw away an entire refrigerator of food every household that has to get into a hotel room because it's freezing um those costs are being borne by the community already and so I guess why shouldn't we expect that DTE should be looking at making the most reliable grid possible when they are reporting a billion dollar in profit every year yeah so on the on the Underground piece um like I said we're definitely open to it um we have a variety of um pilot projects that we're looking to see where we can make cost improvements on that and if we are successful in those Pilots um you know it is something we hope we can bring uh to scale in a lot wider areas so um all the projects I mentioned for Ann Arbor like I said we are looking at underground um at the simple level um it's taking more underground from the substations um like I said for those for those core parts of the circuit what we would call like a backbone that impacts the largest number of customers we're looking to to extend that Underground um you know how we bring that into the residential areas uh there are challenges there in terms of um easements where to put Transformers um you know putting underground uh lines in a residential area could have almost a you know more detrimental impact to trees depending on where the roots are um but that's not everywhere so um we are going to look for those opportunities um and I think definitely looking where there are our road projects are some of those Maybe you know more optimistic opportunities where um there's there's some cost benefits so um yes it's something where all right like you know I was in a meeting uh proposing a project just a couple of weeks ago with our president and we said oh you know we want to put overhead here and he's he's ticking off on the side you know here's two miles of missed underground opportunities so it's it is high focus um all the way to the top so um it's it's something we're uh we're looking to do and um you know you know looking to to improve our cost on that sorry um I think I think the last question I have that I'll ask right now before I seed the floor for a minute for for others um because I know that I have opportunities to talk to um to other folks at DT more regularly um I guess this maybe goes a little bit towards the question that John was asking about benchmarking and and some of the DT has relatively reliably at least in recent times been one of the worst in the country in terms of the the frequency with which there are outages or shutoffs um I don't believe that we have kind of the worst situation in terms of trees or storms and so I guess I'm wondering if DT has been analyzing like how did we get here how how I mean I think I'm I maybe know that I I personally feel maybe we have not invested enough in the infrastructure improvements that have been needed over the years but is is DTE acknowledging how we got here to make sure that you know I I hear 10 to 15 years Ann Arbor's going to have the best grid but then 10 to 15 years after that will we will we be back in the same place again um and and I guess I just would like to be able to understand how we can trust that DTE is not only going to upgrade the grid now because there's a bit of pressure on them from Ann Arbor as we explore our opportunities and our Alternatives but that this is something that we can count on into the future and and I I just don't know that I I have that confidence and so I'd I'd like to hear a little bit about what DTE um is doing in terms of benchmarking and making sure that where we are right now is not the future yeah um you know the the short answer to that is yes we do a lot of uh benchmarking both with uh Midwest utilities uh you know look in the utilities in the South that face hurricanes um you know we don't get hurricanes but you know we've had some some pretty strong winds um more frequently than we would have expected recently so um you know looking to see what is successful well in those areas uh we're also part of a variety of uh industry um groups um one of them being epri who does a lot of studies um and uh different benchmarking type efforts across uh the whole country and even outside of the country so um we're looking to uh those that's where we're getting uh some of the new uh equipment uh that we're bringing in [Music] um so how we can employ those um the distributed resources uh like I said solar storage um wind um and using those um into that micro grid space uh that's something really exciting that we're just starting to get into um so those are the things we look at and yeah I mean it's a valid question you know what what happens at the end once once Ann Arbor's got one of the newest in in the country um you know it like I said it's going to depend where really the industry goes what the usage goes um you know how we got here is is a long story we can um definitely come back and and talk with that another time there's a lot of variables into that um you know when you look at uh population shifts um over the in in Michigan over the years and um how that factors into uh um you know the the rate plans and everything so a lot of things that we can definitely come back and talk more on because it's it's a good question chair McKenna if I could I actually looked down and I do have one more question I focused all of mine on uh so far largely I'm I'm grid reliability and improvements um one of the other pieces is around as you're making these upgrades um I I don't believe I heard in the four bullet point points um any conversation around uh transition to Renewables and um and I guess I would like to hear if you can answer a little bit more about the plan you know I dte's transition to carbon neutrality uh is lags behind even consumers here in the state um as we're looking to to our own 2030 climate goals here in the city um what are the plans as these upgrades are going in not to just put you know concrete posts but to actually make sure that the power that's flowing through them is with cleaner and renewable clean renewable energy because I think it's worth acknowledging that as we see increasing storm um severity that our power companies own some of the responsibility for that because they continue to rely mostly on fossil fuels you so um great question that is not my specialty but I did I did get some notes so um yes we've spent this whole time talking about the distribution system within Ann Arbor um we did just uh have a uh a great outcome with our uh what we call the IRP to integrated resource plan um where uh we actually brought down uh or actually uh sped up the uh transition away from coal and I believe it's uh uh now projecting to be uh off of call by 2032 so the prior was in the in the later 2030s and we put together a plan to bring that in a large piece of that uh does come from the renewable space um solar and really important is going to be storage um such that you can manage those uh those Peak periods and and uh you know the overnight time so um there's a lot in that IRP um if you haven't seen it we can get you a copy of uh of what we shared with the npsc and like I said that uh just got approved by the mpsc a couple of weeks ago and it's something that a lot of people are really excited about great um sirkowski just a couple of closing comments here um I'd like you to come back and share your analysis of essentially how we got here I think councilmember Medina had a really important point there um in terms of trust and um just the the kind of in our words experience um not only with our own power reliability and the repercussions that we bear the cost of um yeah of course including food hotel stays appliances and such um that have been ruined but also when we think about development and housing I mean um the cost borne by developers are not just you know maybe the idea of double dipping but also the fact that you know how can we trust that that in fact the system hasn't been underinvested in over the course of the last century and and kind of is getting us where we are today um and so you know it's uh yeah just seeing how the housing crisis kind of um overlaps a bit of a Venn diagram look what's happening with the distribution system I think it's pretty tragic anyway I'd like to definitely take you up on the offer to talk further about the your analysis of of that history and if that's you or somebody else we'd love to um invite that person as well so um I'll follow up with you on that we can have you come a little bit later in the year um okay any other final comments before we move on to the next agenda item okay all right Ms Rakowski thank you so so much for joining us um and we really enjoyed your time with us yep thanks again uh for all the time and uh really good really good questions um we're excited to uh bring these improvements to Ann Arbor I know I've been I've been working on them uh my whole time here so uh excited to get them going and uh hopefully get them sped up and uh look forward to uh seeing this group uh again sometime soon thanks take care fantastic okay we're gonna move on to our next agenda item um that is our presentation and our representation of the 2022 greenhouse gas inventory so if we have Thea on the line hi Thea thanks for joining us hi good evening good evening I'll let you take it away okay um I'll make sure my screen okay can you all see those slides all right so we saw a hands up um well okay I'll get started then uh thank you so much for having me here this evening uh for those of you who don't know my name is Thea jagerlener I'm a senior energy analyst with the city of universe office of sustainability and Innovation uh every year I complete a community-wide greenhouse gas inventory for the city of Ann Arbor um and I'm excited to be here today to present an update on the 2022 calendar year greenhouse gas inventory um so to get started uh just some brief uh background notes on this as I mentioned I estimate the greenhouse gas inventory on an annual basis um very rarely is there uh data available specifically for the city of Ann Arbor for exactly what we're looking for um so a lot of this data is aggregated scaled or modeled uh just as a caveat as we look at it uh I follow the ickley U.S Community protocol when I put together the greenhouse gas inventory uh I am sharing it today with you all but I also report it on an annual basis to the CDP choose to stand for the carbon disclosure project uh which helps fulfill uh some commitments the city van ever has made in terms of uh climate action um and so by following a standard protocol it means our inventory can be relatively easily compared to those of other cities um this inventory currently includes three greenhouse gases uh CO2 n2o and CH4 which is methane and it factors in the global warming potentials of of each um one last comment on the scope of this so this really looks at the missions of the community as a whole if anyone on here or listening to this presentation really wants to know what your household emissions inventory looks like I just want to direct uh you all to a good resource which is a cool climate calculator offered by Berkeley which is great for estimating individual uh carbon preference so with that I'll get into [Music] um some data so I do two not two different inventories but two um scales of inventory so the first I'll call this simple inventory um this allows comparison to the inventory Baseline of the year 2000 uh we now have more data than when it's available in 2000 so about half of this presentation I'll switch over to talking about more Mission sources that we can report on but this lets us look at our um uh changes over the last 23 years um so since the year 2000 by 2019 we had a 25 reduction uh in emission levels I'm stopping at 2019 here for this graph because um once we hit 2020 and impacts from the covid-19 pandemic uh emissions year to year start looking a little bit different um and I like to talk through those individually uh and so where do we see those changes happening from from 2000 to 2019 uh those are permanently in our buildings and in transportation and honestly primarily in the carbon the carbon intensity per unit of um being a little bit better so I think from 2000 to 2019 we actually used more energy in Ann Arbor but the carbon intensity of that electricity uh decreased um here I have commercial and institutional buildings lumped together uh since spring 2019 um acquired a lot of buildings uh it's kind of tricky to try and keep them separate um so they're combined here uh and then some uh efficiency improvements in vehicles as well um so 25 increase decreased sorry from 2000 to 2019.
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and it is um it is the time for us to ensure grants are maximized with the minimal budget carry forward the encumbrance period will conclude at the end of this month I have highlighted areas um where grants and I will have to move expenditures around to ensure that we do not have any over budget expenditures accounts payable and purchasing are working hard to close all purchases purchase orders and once they have confirmed all goods and services have been received or paid for as the purchase orders are closed we will release any you unused or encumbered expenses overall busd currently has a 30.03 or 12 million 343 078 and 16 cents budget balance excluding in conferences the USD has received revenues totaling 27 million 419 249 and 73 cents as of 731.23 in fiscal year 23 from all funds excluding funds for Student Activities and Insurance Fund do I have any questions vanilla go ahead sure I have questions right now Ruben already answered some of them but the one that I was worried about was the SR funds they know we have a couple this year before with one more year for the sr300 oh fiscally 24th right yes when we complete this year is the ending of this we've got funding yes and the other one is the health insurance which went up it did go up a little bit I think was that last word I think glasses would be presented on the um the insurance and it went up just a tiny bit when we tried to move around different plans and to give the employees more options to have the same kind of benefits where the price wouldn't go up as much and USD incurred some of that cost for them so that they wouldn't enter all of that increase in the encounter a day they'll sell some outstanding for insurance yes there are still purchase orders that are open and that we're working to get invoices to um finish paying up um but that ends at the end of this month thank you so was the invoices that are going to be done by the end of this month yes we're working very hard to get everything in and so that we can pay it so we're working with each department to give us all the invoices for their open purchase orders so that we can close up the year okay and so anything after that [Music] we are able to pay it out of this year if um we can explain but typically it should not be paid out of the next fiscal year we should be done in complete so why are we outside of order not following through policy or procedure when it comes to making sure that we're done without any questions thank you we have had several deadlines for each department to submit and close out POS um if there has been ordering we we asked that ordering stock I think our first deadline was um April 10th and then we extended it out a little bit because we had some grants that we need to use up um so we extended the deadline another month um but there's always last minute things that come up and straggling POS purchase orders purchases we ask that purchasing stock but in a perfect world we'd love for it to stop but it just it doesn't and we did have some purchases as late as um 6 30 6 28 yeah and so that does make it more difficult for our department to try and close up their purchases but I know Sherry's been working very hard and we have had outside work trying to gather all this um invoices or giving us the okay to close the PO that they're done using it but our department only knows what we received so if we don't know there's been another order out there there's no way for us to complete or you know to know that there's a straggler out there so we we depend on the Departments to let us know what purchases they've made and that they've confirmed that everything is complete and paid for but but you said deadlines in closing yes but anyway the other question might happen so um but yeah basically I think basically and that way that they are do they have special things if you close at deadlines and they want the purpose something after that deadline they you know they ask you or you know that it's yeah [Music] oh I know what my question is Grants are they on a different year foreign [Music] so that we don't cross fiscal years and work with three different years uh we purposely do that so we close everything out on 6 30.
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and we've got the Glencoe math that we use in sixth through eighth grade which was also adopted in 2012. as we get more research in education brain-based research and what's best for kids a lot has changed since 2012. I remember being a part of the committee as a third year teacher you know bright-eyed and like let's do this let's change the world right and um even what I went into seeking in a math curriculum has changed in the last 10 years so that's what we're looking at for elementary I also want to make the distinction that I use the term on this slide conventional and I want that to mean universal I don't want that to get mixed up with the traditional math adoption that we just went through last year we're looking at a math adoption for all of the other students is what we're looking at sped gen Ed across the board and to continue on with that we have our sixth through eighth grade students currently use Glencoe math there's three courses there that was adopted in 2012 and then you'll notice that from uh the high school levels which begin at Algebra 1 all the way up through calculus a b and BC um all of those are content specific the majority Algebra 1 2 and geometry are using Carnegie which was adopted in 2014 and then the pre-calculus calculus and a b and BC calculus they were adopted additions that were recommended by college board again though back in 2014 one of the pieces that I would like to add to a little bit of what Robert had shared was we talk about a lot of changes over the last 10 years I'm sure each of us at this table can share different changes that have occurred that have changed and affected education but in the math world all of these adoptions that are listed above you the Arizona academic standards have have changed since then as well so in addition to education and learning loss and things like that our teachers have been having to dive into some other pieces with supplemental there's another one that you may hear at some of the schools that have used illustrative math for some components that's not necessarily are adopted across the board but there are different pieces that have been pulled from because teachers are trying to supplement where the curriculum that was adopted in 2012 and 2014 didn't meet those standards that then got added in when the standards were revised so I think that's important to hit on and that's a nice lead-in to what we're seeing in the world of special education as well teachers by with good intent have attempted to supplement Resources with a variety of curriculums to meet the varying levels of disabilities within the special education world we currently have a few different curriculums that are out there Matthew C touch math and others they're currently not supported by the district or the sped Department as we're phasing them out because we have learned um in our audit of everything that is out there that we really want to guide all of our teachers to use genetic curriculum when at all possible there are a couple programs that it's not appropriate to do so but the vast majority of programs that we have can and should be using genetic curriculum so that's something we'll talk more about later in this presentation is why that's important and what we discovered in that audit and in those differences in learning foreign so when we started this conversation we have actually been talking about it for a couple of years when we would get to the point of um moving forward with math we've had a few other adoptions over the last couple of years and one of the things that has been our main every time we start having conversations how do we get back to what is the main purpose of why we want to go forward with a method option and we identified that as the philosophy that exists there so the philosophy is on this slide I know everybody can kind of read along there but ultimately it's bigger than the math philosophy our teachers within this District our department chairs our math leaders this is a philosophy that you'll see hanging in classrooms I really do believe that a majority of our Math teachers would be able to identify this as a math philosophy and or something that they personally believe in as a math teacher K-12 pre-k through 12.
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so I'm thinking maybe 10 meeting at Craigs Park I there I believe okay yeah so we'll talk about it because I think last time we had we kind of met as a group because of parking and cars so I'll get some more Logistics out for you um but then you'll be carrying candy so we're your comfortable walking I'm not sure we got to figure out cuz Nelson left the way with his vehicle I believe yeah but I I wasn't there last I think didn't you get one of the we got the van School Bus sco so we need to make sure that we get again yeah I think so yeah I'll be out of town again this year right we even met here if you wanted to park here and not have to drive there yeah so that was very nice and I and I handy but I'll email here but I willon be there okay I had a truck so we can put candy in the back um the other update I was just going to alert uh the community uh our our community newsletter is out it um we got copies we have it for you today as well um these will be hitting the um mailboxes in the next few days so make sure that you look for that um and the other thing we wanted to highlight and this is a thanks for Mr Brown this is the ELC handbook well for preschoolers so we want to get the information out to community about helping their little ones um we are going to be putting these out in all the libraries we're going to be sting them to the Village Halls we want to have these as pass arounds um for people I think we've ordered you know a good couple hundred uh so people can pass these around again uh we want to make sure that our little ones are ready for school when they come as kindergarteners uh this week we have done uh kindergarten screenings for our little ones and that has been received very well um we thank our staff for taking the time to do that um it helps to better prepare them uh for their uh conversations with the classroom teachers teacher can better know their students before they come in and then they're going to be using that time to talk with families on those first two days of school so we're really um stepping up with that relationship piece and connecting with our families so um please pass these out to people that you know really really well how go I I spoke to someone I spoke to a parent uh I believe it was Saturday about the screening thing and she said there was like very short it was very short notice where the screening happened uh and she she she asked if we could maybe give it a little more prep time well I I'll tell you what it was short notice because of the time of when we made the decision to do that next year we are going to have it uh based with a registration back in in April or June okay so yes we know that okay yeah we wanted to get something out this year I know we was trying to pack things in in a small package here but I do commend Dr cogin and superintendent Miss Perkins there that this this is really commendable to you know getting us out so we and it's duly noted Alex yeah it was it was like hey let's something is better than nothing and I I I look forward to next year and the years coming after and this will be part of our registration process moving forward and I think it you know again it just better prepares us and gets us out there in the community talking with families thank you so thanks everyone's help Miss chest where can we pick up a few more of these from our office here okay um we've got a big stack of them but like I said they'll be out in our local areas and if you know of any local areas that you could drop some off at please feel free to do that okay excellent and that is all I have oh I saw Ken Ken you had I know you're going to talk about the life safety but you had something regarding a tour of the buildings you reached out to the board members on that right oh yes thank you I do I can I can talk a little bit about that while we're getting here okay um so tomorrow we are having uh walkthroughs of the building uh those under construction we're going to start at tala tomorrow morning at 7:30 in the morning we've allocated about a half hour for each building just to kind of walk through and see where they're at and all of that um they are in pretty good shape um so we're going to go tala CSK creep borrow I think is what we're doing I think those are the ones we're doing tomorrow okay so we'll start at 7:30 in the morning at um at tala and then we'll move to CSK then n Cree then borrow uh the board is more than welcome to join us on any of those um we do have uh our executive team going around along with b& and along with our Union reps too so we'll be having kind of a contingency just kind of going around and seeing how those are okay um so we're in pretty good shape though with those so have to report um I'm going to talk I'm actually going to talk about three things tonight one is the life safety projects and then the other question that came up was about a kind of a financial summary of the short-term facility plan we talked about I'm going to give you an idea where we're at the other thing that came up I think at one of the board meetings I was not at in July was cyber security so I want to I just we're going to touch on that Eric's here tonight I've asked him to be here to touch on a couple things so uh you can just kind of sit back for the next two hours as I go through this um and we'll be good so let me let me start with the life safety um so this is kind of an overview of the 10e life safety survey every 10 years each board of education is required to survey its school buildings and effectuate any recommendation in accordance with 23.12 the health Life Safety Code and with the guidance of this chapter School building or School means a building occupied in whole or in part by public school students or intended for occupancy by such students so again what this says is that every 10 years we need to have someone come in and it has to be a third party they have to be licensed to do that we normally get our architect to do that who is licensed for that and what they really do on this is they come in and check to see if the bill buildings are up to the current codes and that's what happens every 10 years just to make sure that and make sure things are are are safe there are some things that are Life Safety things there are some things that are not I'm going to give you a perfect example of this um heating and air conditioning heating is required in the school air conditioning is not so that's why on Life Safety surveys you won't see that the school needs air conditioning because it's not required but if if it needs a new boiler that will be in there so those are just some things to kind of give you an idea this is a chart oh and let me say this too I have posted this to board book so for the public it is in boardbook board if you do want to copy this we have some last I had some last minute Financial things on this so I didn't get you a copy but if you want to copy this I can I can get that out to you okay so this chart I put together because I think it's really important because the question comes up is when is our next life safety survey so I've worked with our architect and also with the Illinois State Board of Education on this so let me let me explain this for I put listed all of our current facilities these are when the actual survey was completed so it was completed by our architect let's just take B Mo was completed in 2012 that's when the survey was completed the ISB survey year is 2014 that is when the board of education at that time approved the survey and it was submitted to is so what that means that starts your 10year clock and so the next 10 years Life Safety survey isn't until 2024 all right so that's why I I just kind of put all three of these dates so that you see this but again our main two columns are these two which is when it was submitted to ISB approved by ISB approved by the board and then this is when the next 10year survey is so for most of our facilities you'll see the next one is in 24 and I've got a recommendation of that that I'll I'll talk about at the end and then for mon Elementary and the high school it's okay now I'm going to get into and I and I made this chart and I and I kept it really high level just so you can see this is Bel moral so you're going to see um a little uh pie chart I have here of the percentage completed of all the life safety projects and I've also put on this side the ones that have to be completed yet so you'll see eight out of 11 have been completed at belmorrow 73% three are left to be done and these are the three and I'm not going to go into detail of all of these but I just want to show you how this is kind of laid out and then I've also put a date in here when I think we're going to have these completed all right as we go through our cycle here so you're going to see here at borro we have to replace some exterior doors frames and Hardware to provide uninstructed easily operable exit systems exits uh exterior exits we won't be able to complete that next year because we can't do that while kids are in school so that'll be done in 24 summer of 24 and then you'll see these are new directory panels for electrical panels and and these are really the directory where like if you have your fuse box at home you go in there and there's something written like okay this one goes to the stove this one goes to the air conditioner that's what these are okay and then panel cover ifications and and filler plates fire to conceal busting and Hardware just some cover plates that we have to put in so those will be done by December we're working on those now but they'll be done by December I just put December of 23 on there okay so that's kind of how I've structured this I'm going to go through each building here I'm going to go a little bit quicker but I'll go through these buildings so you can see at least where we're at and then I have a summary too of all the projects okay so that's borro here's Creed Creed had 3 three items listed we've completed 23 of those and again you'll see a lot of those you'll see some walls that still need to be done some code compliant doors that we won't be able to do till next summer all right so again you'll just kind of see that at CSK we have 11 of 14 projects done again there's just three here so again some missing handrails that we're going to have to do next summer also some ramps that we have to do this is some concrete work so coming out of classrooms uh there's a step down and it needs to be ramped for ADA requirements so those type of things and then again some electrical panels at Moni Elementary uh which is one of the current ones four of six projects have been completed we have some door closers that we have to replac by December and some uh concrete work that we also need to do there at talo we have one project that still needs to be done and that's the electrical panel directories um so that'll be done by December December our ELC which is our current building we have two projects that still need to be done again uh panel directories and then putting a lock the electrical panels at our Middle School uh we haven't tackled any of those projects yet but again what you'll see is you'll see a list of projects here that still need to be done most are really minor there's really not a lot of major things but some we do have to wait for the summer to do and then this is the high school 13 of 29 have been completed there about 45% and again you'll see some of the things that need to be done there uh some door Edge Hardware stage curtain that's that's flame proof so we're going to have to buy some uh new curtains for the stage um and some other things there so from a summary standpoint what you'll see is 88 out of 132 projects have been completed so far uh you'll see the breakdown here about 67% I would say by the end of December we're probably going to be at the 80 85% and then we'll finish off the rest of them next summer I'm going to stop there anyone have any questions about that part of it about the projects at all I think the the good news I will share with the board is the fact that we did we have done a lot of the major projects that were in the Life Safety like the piping the water pipes and all those type of things that had to re be repl placed and so those have been done so that's that's the good news and that we've tackled that first I think a lot of these are are minor things that need to be done but we'll get them done yeah and I agree with you Ken those are those big guns are are completed and that says volumes and I think all the rest of the open items very workable and very durable to be completed by 2024 and thank you for that clarification cuz I had stuck in my mind as 20 23 been the end date but the way is become in and I had the same thing Mr Brown yes I thought the same thing but then I clarified everything so that that'll help so and let me let me go back on that and say so what I think the district should do then is complete the projects in summer of 24 then commission your architect to come in in September or October of 24 and do the new life safety survey what will happen is the board will probably not approve that till 25 with is and then you're set and then you can start a new cycle and that so that would be my recommendation and what I would do oh you're going to be around to hear that Jason's just a phone [Laughter] call um okay so let's talk about the financial summary and I and I've kept this high level and there's a reason I did this is because a lot of the projects have been intertwined over the year and again let me give you an example of that this year we're putting a lot of flooring in because we had to remove the asbestos that flooring was actually in the Cosmetic Improvement budget for next year so we've done that so things are kind of a little bit intertwined but let me try and clarify from a financial standpoint where we're at so for I think uh Alex and Jamie I don't I don't know if you've seen this document but this is our short-term facility plan so this back in 21 this is what we started it was about a three or four year plan of going through the process of updating our buildings and all of that all right things are separated out on this you'll see Life Safety projects here with some HVAC these are all budget numbers that we had come up with estimates on things and things we did so you're going to see the demolition of the Sixth Grade Center here you're going to see temporary cooling rooms that we put in and some other things all right so this is the plan and I wanted to show the board this because this is our start starting point this is where we started from the net okay all of these projects total 76 million 768 million is where we're at okay so these are the proceeds that we use for the short-term facility plan in December of 2020 we took out some working cash bonds $ 17.5 million in November 21 we did debt certificates and then of this amount but then in February 22 we took working cash bonds to pay off those debt certificates and we took another 7.5 million out to give us 52.2 million and finally in September of 22 we did another selling of working cash bonds for $14 million this was earmarked for the addition at the high school which gave us a total of $ 83.78% so here's a breakdown okay so what we decided to do with all of that money with that 83.7 million is we're keeping $6.1 million in fund balance we're not touching that that's staying in fund balance so I've listed that so we can see that we took $900,000 and we reimbursed ourselves for the uh burville property where maintenance is we purchased that and we reimbursed oursel with that out of this fund these are the actual numbers right now except for this one down here these are the actual numbers right now of our project so the demolition came in at 1378 I'm just going to go back here it was budgeted at 15517 again it came back it came in at this amount cooling rooms came in at this amount this is our LED lighting at the high school all of those blue boxes this is what the number is that came in $24 million 25 you'll see it all the way down to the high school edition this one here this cosmetic Improvement is an estimate and that because we haven't started any of those yet and this is our budget so it gave us expenditures of $ 83.5 million so in essence we're looking at about a $270,000 surplus right now uh of funds that we would have as we move forward okay when we look at all the numbers and all that so you'll see that we had Pro AES of 83.7 million we had expenditures of 83.5 27,000 now again keep in mind there $6.1 million that I'm keeping in the bank that I've included in expenditures that's staying in fund balance that okay so so Ken we're I think in all the projects we had about a 10% contingency cushion so if we eaten into the contingency cushion we have a lot of those we have some we didn't some we did and that's so you know that's why I wanted to kind of give a a high level here because there is some that we had to eat into um but there was there's some that we didn't have to eat into so it just kind of you know it it it kind of balances itself out all around and all that stuff too you know I would say right now you know you're looking at you have contingencies of about $270,000 that you haven't used yet because if we you know we budget it right now so that's kind of where we're at going back to when we borrowed the Orin working cash did we intend on keeping 6.1 million of that in working cash at the end of these projects I can't recall the the intent was to keep the $6.1 million in working cash in fund balance to keep the fund balance so we could keep it our 50% so we can keep it our 50% so that our financial rating will stay up So the plan is not to spend so that's just not Surplus that we that was that was part of the plan to begin with that was part of the plan to begin with yes yes okay so so out of the 83.7 million there is a percentage of that that is your 10% how much of that is is left over if we didn't use all of it you know well right well again right now I mean you're really looking at this 270,000 but again you've got some projects that still aren't done here like these two still aren't done and we're still working on these here so there still might be some add the gold and the purple go over budget some of these went over budget so like when we went to and all of that stuff some of this stuff went over budget you know when we found more asbest and all of that so some of it we had to we had to go into and and and tap into some of those uh some of those uh contingencies some of the concerns is the Cosmetic improvements we didn't do this summer in this building in talas because it was over budget yes so are we going to be able to still do that we'll be able to do some of those again you know that's why this is this is helping me because now I know that I've got at least 102 which is the original amount so now when I sit down with the architect I can see what we're want to prioritize first now again you know the good news is in this 102 I had flooring but I'm spending it up here already so so that's okay that's part of it just so we understand the 8.3 million in contingency isn't all spent it's just already spent a little earlier than the 2024 some spend a little bit earlier some yeah so just as so we're on the same yeah and that and that's why you know I debated how to present this to be a real honest with you I didn't want to get project yeah it is you know and because I look at it as a whole yes you know because they're working cash bonds I can look at it as a whole because they're all one Bond so you know I and I think that's the way you kind of had to look at you know again the demo of the Sixth Grade Center came in $200,000 cheaper well I I can actually kind of I don't like doing this but I'll just say this you know if I have to go over in a project so they find more aestus you know $100,000 well I know off the top of my head I got 200,000 and I don't need to to tap into any and those are things that have to be done yes it's we don't have an option right right um High School addition is probably what 60 65% in its area so are is the budget on online budget right now yes we are on budget we're there we're on budget right now we've had to use some tap into some contingency for some things and all that stuff but we're on budget there yes yes so have we conquered in your opinion all of our supply chain issues big issues now have we conquered that do we still have some lingering supply chain issues that could get us in trouble I I don't know I'm going to ask Jason in a second about one Supply issue but uh I do know that we're still waiting on um electrical for the high school trans 480 panel a 480 panel the 480 panel we're waiting on um have you heard anything about the chillers still okay September 1st on the chillers look good okay and those are the chillers excuse me for creed belmoral and CSK yes okay so those are the big supply issues right now on the High School Mr Brown uh the substantial completion date has been pushed to November 15th instead of October 15th because of this 480 panel that um because the reason they need to get this 480 panel in is they have to because your floor in a gymnasium is a wood floor they have to condition the building and the wood before they put that down so this this 480 panel is crucial to getting to getting that done and getting it the building powered up actually um we have actually a meeting I think tomorrow or Thursday to have a discussion about okay if this panel doesn't come what's our alternate to power that building up so that we can condition the wood in the floor so we can get this thing completed on time that's why we got luy in the country yes because of the weather yes yep who's the manufacturer is it Seaman or GE okay yeah I'm just looking if you go parallel path on you know you have a lot of Manufacturers out there make 480 panels and sure you know if there something need to come from overseas or whatever but I'm sure you guys looking at that just parallel path so I just would definitely highly recommend either you know Seaman is the panel of choice you go maybe to Western house or sure or you know another vendor sure we can find out all right um any other questions on the financial side of this then no and just reiterate the fund balance that's only dealing with the project right that's not our overall no that's just that's just with this that's not our overall no cuz you probably have you know 3040 million in our fund balance okay you said 50% where you then you mean 25% I heard you say 50% well our goal is to try and have 50% cash on hand is what our goal is for a fund balance yes six months yeah board policy is 25% right yes right and the six months is 180 days that's what short that's for cash on hand to get us through the the bad days to get our financial profile of four right that have 6 months at 180 days okay all righty but this is really good Ken this is very informative and I do ask if you can get uh Alex and Jamie that the actual book that you had given us that exactly if you can get him a copy y That's information I have readily available that they can refer back to yep okay um the last thing I want to talk about is cyber security one thing I want to mention about facilities too just to make the board aware also is that the scoreboard is being installed as we speak oh he's not here to yeah I know's not here um but we we can remind of that so theard is getting cyber security um I've asked Eric to come here today but I want to preface this a little bit um we're not going to talk about a lot of it and we're not going to share a lot because we don't want out in public or on YouTube what we're doing to protect ourselves it's like you know giv The Prisoner the keys to the cell all right here you go so I've asked I've asked Eric come just to kind of um give an overview of what we do for cyber security um and then if you have any questions for sure Eric is here to answer uh but I just wanted to prep you that we're not going to be just giving a lot of detail on this that's all so Eric I'm going to turn over to you hey Eric hi it's been a while since I've seen so director of Technology uh in I believe it was June of 22 last year Dr Cara and Ken um tasked the IT department with the goal of increasing our cyber security over the course of FY 23 and to do that we took a look at our backend systems our internal systems our external systems and our end users um as far as our backend systems go we have a Next Generation firewall um we uh our prior network administrator was uh very highly certified set us up really well as far as uh you know outside penetration that kind of thing and Don has continued to do uh great work on those things so our backend is really really solid we're fully CPA compliant uh the child internet protection act and uh we have ai based uh mail filters and uh internet filters as well um the mail filters on the student end are also backed up by real people that look at um potential emergency situations found in email where we found we were lacking was actually with end user security so um for example teachers or or just end users in general clicking on links that came to them through the email uh with scrutinizing that and so that was really more of an education piece that we had to roll into so over the last year uh we've been sending out monthly trainings the little four-minute cartoons with uh quizzes at the end that have really um I think moved us forward in the end user security uh we have implemented complex passwords and uh in the next month or so after school starts we're going to be going to multi multiactor authentication which is just like when you log into your bank or Facebook or something else and it wants you to authenticate that it's really you uh we're moving to that we're trying to find the way that is least intrusive uh for teachers last minute trying to do a lesson plan so they don't have to go through five minutes of stuff to get longed in so we'll be implementing that in the next month uh over the last year we also did uh an internal fishing attack so we we sent uh the only people that knew about this were were myself uh Ken and Dr Cara and Ken and Dr Cara did not know when it was coming um it was a great company they sent out over a hundred different emails to the staff so no more than 7 or eight people in the district got the same email very convincing looking we were trying to see who would click on a link who would open the email that kind of thing and we did have a few more people opening and clicking than we would like um so there was an educ ation piece there I'm happy to report that Dr Karen Ken did pass Dr Cara sent the email to me right away said this doesn't look right great job but uh our final big push for cyber security uh is going to be the end user education piece and multiactor authentication and with that we feel that uh we have a really quite secure environment um especially given uh the budget and you know the school district so but that's kind of a high level overview um as Ken mentioned we don't want to get too into the weeds with this and give away everything we're doing but on the back end we're very well positioned so is there any any questions yeah yeah I think I brought this up in July because I'd seen the article about I think the Minneapolis School District was had a ransom wear and and uh they chose not to pay the ransom and and then a lot of a lot of data was spilled out in the community and we are prepared for such anity so thank you for addressing kind of the back end the front end and all the things you're doing there the one thing that though on that article was just is there any review underway of what data do do we hold any data that's kind of extraneous not outside of our mission as a school district in our data files that you know that was one of the conclusions there is they have a lot of data that really they didn't need but then was damaging to them when it was hacked so right so um again without getting too deep into that um we our school management system uh we use Skyward uh the way that it's backed up um would help prevent that sort of issue as far as uh extraneous data we sort of abide by the board policy as far as data retention okay um this year is the first year that we're letting go of old student email and student drives so once the students have graduated and left we do not retain their information anymore uh but due to state law and board policy we do retain all employees uh email Drive contents that kind of thing extraneous data um that would be what we what we still hold in our student management system or School management system and I can't speak to What would be extraneous there yeah that's sort of that's not really my decision to make I'll I'll keep your data you just decide what you want so right right yeah I think the one thing too that I just want to mention about the data is most of our data is not stored on site no um you know so for Skyward it's stored at a third party um offsite I'm not going to mention who but it's it's a third party offsite which is where a lot of Staff student Student Records are is is in Skyward that that's what we use so that's all offsite very secure uh the company that does it is redundant backup yeah redundant backup all of that stuff um the other big system we use is Frontline and um you know again offsite we don't have that here so uh which is which is what we all prefer you know when we're we're looking at that so for the most part I I would say 99% of our data is offsite it's not even on okay okay thanks a lot anything else thank you yeah all right okay I'm done thank you thank you uh Ken and and very informative data that you present to us any questions from the board members comments any further comments or questions thank you again thank Ken for that that was a tremendous uh appre presentation giving us an update and just to let some of the new board members know that we have had life safety issues that have been kind of lingering on for not just years but decades decades so I think you'll be pleased that things are happening on your shift that we will come to closure on these things and at the end of the day our schools will be safe we would have addressed all the life safety issues that again I never thought it happen in my lifetime but it has happened okay really that's how when I when I saw and I'm not pointing the fingers in no previous board members or boards or anything like that but at the end of the day I thank all my colleagues for working together getting the ball rolling on this and getting things to completion all the hard work our superintendent and her staff has done to make this happen and I just want to remind you now I I noticed up there on Ken's presentation that not only did he have life safety he had some small components of renovation yeah so we still have some challenges ahead of us we still have things that need to be completed throughout our district such as parking lot repairs roofs Windows possibly so you know we only had a certain chunk of money we had to pick and choose our battles and address the life safety issues and have done a good job uh with Dr Cogan's leadership and making the most and making our building look good with what we have so continue doing what you're doing Ken and you're not going to leave until everything is completed all right thank you so much no further questions on any topics from our business manager and thank you Eric for uh I heard some good things from security there that the company that I work for UTI I some of those same uh defenses that that you put together and and that's why I knew you was on the mark you guys on the Mark here so all right good job again all right um before we go for motion to approve the consent agenda do we have anything we need to pull out anybody want to pull anything out to be voted separately if not before I have Dr Cogan speak I would like a motion to approve the consent agenda so moved someone moved by uh Nelson second is that Alex second by Alex okay uh sup you're up okay under superintendent item one approved press plus issue W 12 updates item two approve superintendent goals for 2324 school year item three approve fireworks at cre money High School under business number one approve Board of Education financial report item two approve a final payment of 151,939 97 to RL Soho for the work at ELC and tala elementaries item three approved final payment of 187,188 again at r l Soho for the Balo Elementary item four approve a final payment of 107,104 199 to RLC Soho for the work at Creed Elementary item five approve a final payment of 18311 and66 cents to ARL soul for the work at CSK item six approve of payment of 1.3 uh one 12957 to CCC Holdings Inc for work completed at creep money High School item seven approved payment of 89,90 in 8 cents to ARL Soho for the work at CSK item eight approv a payment of 1,855 66 to RL Soho for work at cre Elementary item nine approve a payment of 1,374 21052 at Aral so for work at Balmoral Elementary item 10 approve a payment of 75148 57 to RL so for the work at tala underneath Personnel report for approving Personnel would be to approve certified staff employment resignation intend to retire and educational support staff employment leave of absent intend to re retire reassignment and resignation uh thank you drise uh do we have any comments or any further discussion on the consent agenda I just say that I'm glad to see that we've got some final payments yeah that was tired of reading them we got we look like we captur four there yeah yeah okay any other questions I I do ask if there's no any other questions from the board members regarding this matter so Ken regarding if not Ken regarding the final payments so basically they are saying that they have completed all work right they have yes and so all the punchless items have been completed punch list that's where going to yep okay so before we relinquish any funds uh we have Ure that the punch list has been completed yes great great job and Kudos out to the contractors okay it's taking a little while a little longer than I left that's all right we moving forward and just and just let them know the board appreciate their hard work okay if there's no further questions or comments m secretary roll call please okay Miss s stumbris i Mr swales I rup is and I Mr gagos I Mr alch I Dr Hall president Brown I motion carry I like a motion to approve and then Action Report item number a 8 a alpha under the business approved a revised purchase agreement to buy a property at 690 West Exchange Street in Creed Illinois so moved move by Alex second second by Nelson um need to say any further thing on that Ken no I mentioned last last uh week during the committee of the whole that the only change on this agreement is the dates in here uh to move it to close the property by August 31st um there are no changes to the financial matters in there or anything else in the agreement okay thank you okay any further questions comments by our board members Ken on on the funds to purchase this uh will we do any kind of reimbursement Arrangement if we issue Bonds in the future we can uh so that would need to be done is we would put a resolution before the board um I can do that prior to doing the bonds if you want to do that and then it can be the board decision on whether you want to reimburse them or not but we can do that do we have to do it before the closing or no you don't have to do it before the closing do it afterwards May would just give us the option if we do issue bonds what we have about 18 months to reimburse ourselves or yeah I think I think it is something like that so I I can put something together I don't think we have any plans issue bonds but why not give ourselves that option I can do that for the September meeting I have the resolution okay done why don't we yeah if that makes sense to other board members I'm in agreement okay okay uh we got a consensus on that board members so we pay oursel back for this purchase okay thank you thank you Ken thank you Nelson for that comment as no further comment on item number 8 a i' like a roll call Madam Secretary please all right Mr G I rup is and I miss site stumbris I Mr swales I Mr alre I Dr Hall uh president Brown I motion Carri next up line item number eight under the action report B Bravo personnel and culture approval of guest great changes I don't know if anybody wants administrator uh let me just go ahead and get a motion out there can I have a motion so moved moved by uh Jamie second second by Alex anybody want to speak on that Dr Carol or or we pretty much got a handle on that no further discussion so is this in response to that public comment it's kind of I don't know if say a direct respond yeah okay um no this was just bringing back we discussed this last week so this is just bringing these rates to for approval in regard to the public comment um when I had asked for the guest current guest rates that one was left off so I will be bringing that to you at the next meeting yeah some Prof yeah in indirect there's you know has some validity with this and the public comment but I think Dr kogan have you you said you did respond to that public comment already um Dr M did reach out twice tce to try to connect and she was responded back okay but you have reached out okay great all right we got a motion it has been moved any further questions or comments on this particular line I item number eight B Bravo if not Madame secretary roll call please all right Mr alre I Mr gigos I rup is and I Mr swales I miss sight stumbras I Dr Hall president Brown I motion pass okay do we have any old business hearing none do we have any new business is that old or new um I guess new but it's recurring so okay um so I'll call new business because it's related to this year's audit I just wanted to update everyone we're on week two of our final fieldwork for our audit which is about two months sooner than we're used to to we're working with new Auditors things have been going very well we spoke yesterday they were on site and they just said that so far there's no concerns we're on Pace and we should be done by the October 15th deadline this year depending on when they're able to present to the board so definitely in a better spot than we have been the past few years so just wanted to update everyone on that sounds good awesome and we got something in the mail that I don't remember Ever Getting before have we oh you guys so everybody every board member got something from the auditing team yeah so you did get something Cheryl uh anybody else did you guys reply yeah it took me two times but I I did send it back just save here a second notice for real and when second time I'm like okay it's for real oh I did not know that I thought it only came to me so I don't I was vice president last time I don't ever I think I think this is new auditor maybe little bit of a new practice but our old auditor would call me in set up a time just find out if I had any concerns about controls or anything like that so we actually got a former so you got a document too yes I did I told Brian I told Brian earlier I told Brian earlier today I said I'm not going to get a third notice okay so I thought I was going to ask any of you that you have anything you want to share with me and I will compile it and send it over to the person who was requesting it but it sounds like you each and every one of you got yeah a questionnaire or something too right okay so everybody plan to get it back if they have it not best they could answer it you know just na na na if you don't have anything to to you know share okay so just yeah don't get that third notice that's not good so okay thanks Brian everything is good to hear everything is going well and again I knew as a Township they sent it to all the members all of the team sent us each member a questionnaire they saw anything that shouldn't be right or anything went well so okay great if you can get that in again as soon as possible greatly appreciate it everything all the accolades for Dr Hall all everything about a scoreboard and football stadium and whole nine yards voted on new fields and yeah you did yeah we needed one vote tell me one we way both short I was looking for you and but you see see doc we need a talk all right if there's no further I don't think we have a reason for close session okay if not all in one voice can I have a a motion to to adjourn I'll say by saying I I or do we need a motion we need a first need a motion I we need a motion sir motion Dr Hall second second Alex M all in favor any Nays nay write that down that down he want us we are we are journ thank you public for joining be safe out there enjoy the rest of your summer God
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thank you again I would like to congratulate Diana Ochoa so proud of your accomplishment and I'm so proud to be able to work alongside you in its services um I would also like to thank our summer administrators staff students and families for a successful summer school program we were able to serve over 1400 students this summer through various offerings and programs um and also looking forward to welcoming teachers and students next week back to our our reorganized schools good evening everyone I would like to continue to congratulations um for Miss Ochoa I want to thank you for your hard work your dedication and your support um throughout um my tenure here as well as your support to all your colleagues and the fellow CCA and non-classified members as well um went to I'm looking forward to next week to seeing all the children faces so they see that beautiful Furniture um so I'm super excited about it um just um to be able to offer that to students um to me that's just huge I mean a lot of students um they're still using what we would call hand-me-downs or something that's broken something that's nice but to let our students to actually see and touch something that's new that was bought just for them I'm just overly excited to see that experience and how that changes the learning environment I'm also happy to report that we are continuing with our underground utilities at Lee Elementary um it's a lot it's a lot um and so um we're not where we're supposed to be we have brand new system challenges as far as connecting the new pipes with the old pipes under the classrooms but it's getting there it's getting there and I know the students are going to be excited they're going to have a new blacktop their new playground equipment has been installed so just allowing the lead Community to have um something fresh for the new year looking forward to that and then lastly want to invite everyone next Wednesday to our welcome back from 11 to 1 p.m we'll be having food games you can come watch the superintendent lose in a couple of games because we already we're gonna have food like we had last year we have a taco truck I believe we're having some kebabs and some barbecue but it's open to everyone so please come out minkle with the staff and get ready for our new fire 23-24 school year thank you and I also want to start by congratulating Diana Ochoa for her well-deserved award uh like has been said already um this is an enormous award for a Souza um and the school district um and being one of five employees to be recognized is absolutely great for not just csda's chapter 299 but the entire District I want to share that uh Mr choa is a fierce advocate for all things Azusa our students our district our and our employees especially our classified employees I know this firsthand because I happen to sit across from Mr choa and I get to hear that advocacy and I will say that at the heart of everything that miss Ochoa is advocating for I know it's a sincere care for our students our employees and really wanting to move our district forward so thank you for what you do I'm super happy that you've been recognized by the entire state in csca the entire csda at the state level that's wonderful news for all of us I'm also happy to report that the HR department has been really busy filling our new positions that we're bringing online and newly created vacant positions throughout the entire District so I want to publicly thank our HR team for all the hard work that they're doing to to make this a reality for next week when we have students come on board and lastly I want to share with the board that this Thursday um is our new teacher orientation I enjoy this opportunity to welcome our new teachers to our wonderful district and really introduce them to the Azusa unified way thank you thank you Mr inkyo and now moving to item 10.1 we do have a request to pull item 10.25 with that is there a motion to approve the consent agenda uh and pull 10.25 make a motion to approve with second moved and seconded I'll call for the vote moved by board vice president seconded by board member Benavides foreign should we take a hand Vote or should we give it a second okay so we'll vote online and the motion passes unanimously then if I am counting correctly we are moving to item 11.1 this is the approval of the agreement between Unified School District and the zoozat police department I may have a motion they have a question before we have a discussion I'm sorry you said Police Department you said 10.2 correct 10.25 the original item was 10.25 10.25 yes or 10.5 25 10.25 at the uh just making sure I just the last item in section A I just had heard 10.2 so I am just going to follow our uh protocol by asking for a first and a second and then discussion so is there a motion to improve second okay moved and seconded End discussion okay the discussion I have I like to table this item for the following reasons uh they are missing a very important uh paragraph on here if you look at um page three under prevention item R the sentence that states the precise responsibility of the sros shall be manually agreed upon between Azusa unified representatives and police department representative the srl should be assigned to Azusa School excuse me this is a high school and Sierra High School and elevated by his or her division Commander with input from ausd now they're missing a really important I'm not sure how that was missed but the there should be an addition a paragraph that's missing this is this is the police department is aware of the Unified School District board policy 5145.11 which states except in cases of child abuse or neglect the principal or designee shall notify students parents slash Guardians within 24 hours after law enforcement has interviewed the student on school premises the purpose to that was we did at one point um had a parent that was very upset at Azusa High School that her she was not notified for several days after or I don't even know she'll notify it at all and we made this provision at that time and I think I like to keep this on her um before we vote on it I would like it tabled and I'm not sure what the process is you talk to the police department I'm not sure what the process is before we um make a vote on it because this was a very important paragraph that is left out board vice president I um I just want to make sure I heard you correctly when your motion was to approve but then I'm hearing you say that your intention is to to table it to table yes to table it would you like to amend your emotion I would like to amend my motion and I would like to table this item 10 points okay 10.11 11.1 I like to table this item until we discuss this further or we can have this added back okay and is there a second for the amended motion second moved and seconded um I have a would we be able to bring this back August 22nd the table to August 22nd we can definitely work with the let's do the police department if that's the wishes of the board to bring back on August 22nd yes I think we'd like to be able to review the amended contract as soon as possible any further discussion thank you okay and so we will I'll Now call for the vote on 11.1 to table 11.1 possess the motion yes that is yes it is I make that motion yeah so moved with tabling seconded um discussion and now we'll vote and the motion passes four zero now moving to item 12.1 presentation of Azusa unified English learner progress Ms Camacho thank you [Music] Mr Sanchez is it possible to get the screen on the presentation on that screen as well does anyone need to see it from the board on that side or are you okay with looking on your computer okay Clicker okay thank you and for members of the audience and those in public as we load the presentation this is the soft opening of the renovated boardroom um so uh soon we'll have our screens up four screens mounted on the wall directly Miss Camacho while that is loading if you could go ahead good evening Dr Beau Board of Education superintendent Ortega and cabinet tonight I will be sharing a presentation and providing an update on our English learner progress we'll Begin by just looking at the enrollment of our English learner students over the last three years as you can see our English learner population has increased over the last three years and here on this table we are looking at um three years of our English learner proficiency assessment data this is the annual assess language proficiency assessment that all English Learners in the district are required to take um if you look along the bottom levels one two three and four level four is the overall score that students are English learner students are required to achieve in order to meet the criteria first criteria for reclassification so as you look along those colored bars the blue being 2021 the red B 2022 and the yellow being 2023 you will notice the trends at level one are decreasing which is what what we want to see we want to see that progression um um increase across proficiency levels so over the last three years our percentage of English Learners who are achieving that level four overall score has been increasing post pandemic and this year we have met um where we were pre-pandemic so we are are happy to see our English Learners continuing to progress along those positive con that positive Continuum we have made a lot of investments in our English learner programs through seal and a lot of professional learning and coaching with our teachers and we can see some some real positive outcomes through that work and support so I just want to just go over the reclassification criteria for our English learner students so there are four criterions that the students need to achieve in order to reclassify the first one being as I shared previously achieving that level four on the English learner proficiency assessment the second criteria is the teacher evaluation our teachers are required to evaluate the students in order to make a recommendation and to support their reclassification third criteria is the parent consultation this criteria requires us to meet with parents and families to share with them the criteria the reclassification criteria that the students have met and to give the parents an opportunity to ask questions about the reclassification and to share their thoughts and opinions and the fourth criteria is basic skills in relation to our English proficient students so this criteria is in place to demonstrate that our English learner students are achieving in a similar proficiency rate as our English only students and can continue on without the support of English language development you know it was it was really great to see the students getting the certificates so many students from the high school to the middle schools that are reclassifying it's really it's really great to see that we are really proud of that and you know as you can see the request reclassification criteria students have to achieve all four of those in order to reclassify and the trends that we see um um in other areas is that our reclassified students um actually um sometimes surpass um their achievement level surpass um other students so we are very proud of of what our English Learners are achieving and so um just the reclassification rates that we've had since 2021 post pandemic we um we're at about a nine percent and last year we had a significant increase to 14 and this year is to be determined because the students have the entire uh year to meet all those four criterias so as we provide rlcap updates we will be providing the Board of Education updates on where we are on on that trajectory so I have two questions um what's the expectation of the time it takes to reclassify and does that vary based on age or grade level of student um it varies um by student when we think about language development research shows us that students who are learning an additional language can take anywhere from four to six years to develop language proficiency so um when we talk about language proficiency it's not just oral language there's four domains that the students are assessed in um oral language so listening speaking reading and writing so we're looking at proficiency across those four domains so typically the goal is for students who have entered at kindergarten or TK as English Learners if we're considering that four to six years that they would reclassify within that time frame I'm just asking my second question and then make sure that my colleagues also have time to ask a question my second question is um can you tell us just a little bit about our process for monitoring long-term Els yes after they're reclassified so when students are reclassified they're no longer in that category of uh being English Learners they are now considered reclassified but are students who don't reclassify when they um exceed six years as being English Learners we then categorize them in what is referred to as a long-term English learner and so what happens is we actually take a previous year and we begin to to identify students who are at risk of being long-term English Learners so we look at students who have been English Learners between four and five years and are not progressing on the Alpac if they are progressing on the lpac we are monitoring that to ensure that they are going to meet the reclassification criteria if we see that a student is stuck somewhere on one of those proficiency levels either a one or two and a three and are not able to kind of make it over some of those humps we want to make sure that we are providing some interventions and supports in order to move them along so that they don't fall into that criteria of being long-term English Learners we know that students when they begin to move into that category becomes a little more difficult for them to to reclassify yeah you just answered my question that was my my next question the intervention if they do not reach that goal thank you yeah that's exactly does that intervention what can you explain what it includes so there are different um interventions obviously based on whatever the students needs are so we look um the Alpac is one measure right that is one assessment that they take per year we also have internal assessments um that students take our English Learners take that measure similar the similar domains it's called the the tell um and we use that to monitor the progress of our English Learners at intervals um before they take the lpac so we look at where are the areas of need do they need some support in writing do they need some support in Reading is it listening is it speaking is it all four domains and then we're able to intervene um in order to help the students increase in those areas that are still deficient thank you Miss Camacho I just wanted to say thank you um I seen you work with and working with you with English language learners for the last 25 years I've seen the progress in collecting the data and being able to to see students reclassify um thank you for sharing that experience and how well we've come along to be able to provide those interventions um with our district you know for our students and keep up the good work thank you thank you and moving to item 12.2 the fourth quarter Williams uniform complaint report again Ms Camacho no items to report for this quarter thank you and Mr Ortega item 13.1 is an info action item thank you Dr Beau um tonight uh we're gonna have the pleasure of listening to some committee members that sat on the Surplus property committee also known as the 711 committee um our chairperson um Miss Vanessa Jones uh had planned uh to be here tonight but unfortunately uh some things got in the way and so she could not be here tonight uh but I am happy to announce uh that our uh Karen uh rugley is here uh tonight and is Karen going first or is all right and so I'd like to call her up uh to the microphone thank you hello thank you so much try it now check good evening okay better good evening board ausd family and Community it has been a pleasure to serve on this committee as a representation from the community this committee was formed through a public application process in which applicants were chosen in an anonymous process names were redacted and members were chosen based on the information provided in the application our committee met once a month from March through July of this year where we were given the overall purpose and process of the committee and we were presented with data and information to make a decision about the six School sites and properties that have been vacated through the school district's reorganization process the six properties that have been the focus of this committee are Center Middle School Ellington Elementary School Mountain View Elementary School Howell Elementary School the former Sierra High School and adult education center and Slauson Middle School we were also tasked to decide if these properties are Surplus to the current needs of the district current needs are the basic academic programs of the student population during our meetings the committee was given a presentation on the district's historical and projected enrollment numbers and any legal obligations and we were given the opportunity to request more information and data that would help us in the decision-making process the committee received a presentation as well from dcg strategies which is a consulting firm that provided us information about each site including maps and location overviews zoning and land use designation and estimated cost of facility retention including upgrades where applicable the committee had also discussed discussions and feedback from the public as well as the district about potential site uses and District needs so at this time we're prepared to present the findings of our committee and our recommendations of the Surplus property committee for the Azusa Unified School District so I'm going to turn it over to my fellow Committee Member Mr Liu who will be presenting to our findings um everyone thank you so much my name is Johnny Liu I am one of the members of the Surplus committee um I hear that you all also have copies of this so um I won't be reading directly from it but what I will say is that um there are four basic points the first point is the committee finds the properties are not necessary to house existing and in future uh protected District student enrollment for ongoing essential instructional needs of the district um the committee finds that the properties will have will have the potential to generate one-time or ongoing Revenue to help pay for other District properties um and also the con the committee fines that do to the uh number of properties they provide the opportunity for facilitation for district and Community benefit uses and number four is based on the community's review of this information and after studying the real property owned by the district that issued the committee came to the following recommendations that all of the six properties are indeed Surplus for us it was really important to wrestle through that main question right the question asked us was are these properties still needed for continual educational use from the school district and all all of us agreed that they would all be deemed Surplus with given that that we have found that all of these are deemed Surplus we do have recommendations for you as the Board of Education to consider we have six recommendations that we would like to present to you the first is that based on the findings we recommend that the properties that you do declare them Surplus our second recommendation is that you would explore the retention or use of at least two of these sites for the following types of community benefit uses things like a community center or a conference center Student Services Center maybe something like extra parking Athletics or recreational space for the district potentially an additional room for Central Kitchen expansion or the reorganization of existing programs that are currently housed within the Board of Education our third recommendation is that we desire for you as the Board of Education to have the flexibility to select specific sites thinking about what these retention or use of at least two of these properties are but we do ask that you take into consideration things like neighborhood preference and Aesthetics surrounding amenities and access the land value the existing zoning and the general plan designations we ask that you look at market conditions and interests the relative facility Improvement costs administrative and ongoing operation costs as well as the location of your existing programs in our open forums particularly the community from surrounding Ellington Elementary School was very concerned about how they might use this property or how the Board of Education would use this property moving forward so they expressed significant concern particularly about their neighborhood preference and Aesthetics as well as existing zoning how people would come in and out of the area our fourth recommendation to you the board of education is that you would at least sell or otherwise leverage some of these properties to generate Revenue that could be used towards the Improvement of other properties within the district our fifth recommendation is that we would like for you to consider the following non-exhaustive list of factors when you choose which School site you might choose to give up or sell or lease or otherwise Leverage we would ask that you choose or look at The District's interests we ask that you look at the needs of students staff and the community we ask that you look at surrounding neighborhood conditions existing zoning and general plan designations Market interest lease rates and land value our last recommendation to you is that we support the flexibility that you need as the Board of Education to make these decisions and in those decisions that might require you to file for a waiver of certain Surplus property procedures that would otherwise be applicable to the potential sale of one of these properties we do ask that you consider other factors than just the price that these particular properties would benefit for the district in general as a committee we really appreciated the opportunity to serve our community as well as our Board of Education in this way as this is and info action item Mr Ortega is the action to receive this but we're so we're not voting but are we voting to receive it or that is correct the action that we're actually taken for 13.1 that is correct the action and the vote is to receive the um the report okay hearing that is there a motion for 13.1 I make a motion to receive 13.1 or 13.2 because that's where the vote comes in right 13.1 one okay I make a motion to receive 13.1 the findings report of a zoo Unified School District facilitate advisory 7-Eleven committee with findings and recommendations a second moved and seconded is there any discussion seeing none I'll call for the vote and the motion passes 4-0 thank you so much to our Surplus property committee members for your sustained and thoughtful work in preparing this report moving to item 13.2 approval of resolution 23 2402 declaring real properties as Surplus this is an action item may have a motion make a motion to approve 13.2 second moved and seconded is there any discussion seeing none I'll call for the vote and the motion passes 4-0 moving to item 14.1 this is an action item approval of bid award for me products may have a motion motion to approve 14.1 second moved and seconded any discussion seeing none I'll call for the vote the motion passes 4-0 14.2 action item may have a motion to approved 14.2 second moved and seconded any discussion seeing none I'll call for the vote and the motion passes four zero fourteen point three may have a motion make a motion to approve 14.3 second moved and seconded any discussion and seeing none I'll call for the vote the motion passes you uh 4-0 14.4 may have a motion motion to approve second moved by board member benavida seconded by board vice president Rodriguez Pena is there any discussion seeing none call for the vote it was a photo finish on the seconding so the sound waves came this way so that's the one I had to hear first um and the motion passes four zero fourteen point five may have a motion motion to approve come on guys second and you see anything moved by board clerk Ariana's seconded by board member Benavides is there any discussion seeing 90 call for the vote and the item passes for zero now moving to item 15.1 presentation of CSEA 2324 fiscal year negotiate negotiations with the district this is an info item Mr runkio yes thank you Dr Beau uh before the Board of Education are the um articles in the collective bargaining agreement that will be open by csda for negotiations this year uh government code requires that the board presents these uh articles in Open Session and um following this would be a hearing to hear any public comment on the articles that will be negotiated are there any questions or comments for Mr ankio thank you we'll now move to item 15.2 this is a public hearing and action item so may I have a motion to open the public hearing make a motion through 15.2 is there a second second okay any discussion on this okay I'll call for the vote and again the vote is to open the public hearing and the item passes four zero hope is there any public comment on this item during now that the public hearing is open at 807.
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what are they gonna give you girl [Laughter] okay they give amazing scholarships I don't know what they're gonna give me but I'm yeah thank you thank you it's not gonna take me anywhere anymore I can't take you anywhere um I have one last thank you I want to give and I wanted to thank city council and the parents and our adagante youth advice report who really worked on trying to get um the speed bumps done before school started and so those have been uh already installed and we're just very happy to see that they were able to accomplish that before the start of school so thank you to the mayor and all the city council members and all their staff the city staff that made that happen um so I just I'm very pleased to see that also I will notify our new Communications person of the upcoming meeting with um they have the city puts on a meeting it's it's around safety uh in the city and they're going to have theirs coming up I don't have all the information but they have invited our youth to come and and participate in that meeting um and so I will have further information so if any Community member wants to come they have them once a month here and then the next day they have it up in reunion and they're at the rec centers and so the the last one I attended we had very few community members and that's because they really didn't know it was happening and so I want to make sure that we get more of our community involved because um the the city is interested in hearing from everyone so I want to make sure that I put that out there because I am very pleased and I know our kids are very grateful that they feel heard and of the community too that they you've all heard so thank you thank you for that yeah that reminds me um and sorry to add something else to your plate Dr Lydia but um when the group presented we had the gentleman set up in the corner back there that had the um safety uh signage I don't know a better word for it but um I would love if we could look into the cost of those because I think um it was such a huge statement and um on the quick action of our city council to install all that I mean they went above and beyond to even Venture into the Adams County unincorporated part basically saying you're if you're here to support us great but if not we're getting these installed and they did it before school started um so I think we should honor the works at the the youth committee did and and look into that as well as um I know parents and and teachers have been wanting training on the crosswalks and the students even just to learn how to be safe when you're crossing the streets because people will be speeding in Commerce City and especially right now during like new the the school starting we've been reminding people every day like even on Facebook letting people know remember remember that the kids are starting school uh watch because everybody's like rushing all the time you know what I mean yeah that's the other thing yes please respect the stop signs from the bus please okay thank you uh I guess I cannot can I just share about that also just since director Amador uh was sharing I I Really Wanna in one of the youth uh part of our deck and I was at alsop for the back to school night uh is it Monday or last Friday I think but uh and she was there also um one reason I mean I'm making faces because of sponsorships because the doc has said uh that their uh funding has been reduced so to be able so I was like man why don't we give those two thousand dollars to our doc to get some more you know so they could get fed properly uh and taken care of and be able to do more Outreach uh you know so I do want to say that they showed up to Echo Fest they showed up to the environmental justice Coalition event at Reunion uh and this is Brandy Betty and Aaliyah so our DAC is really doing uh you know I like had to get up oh also to the uh to the town hall they showed uh Brandi was at the Town Hall last week uh you know I'm like I'm I go to I try to go to the rec almost every day with my kids drag me over there uh you know but um so I have seen a lot of the the movement the members of the dark especially Betty Alia and uh Miss uh Brandi the chair uh the chair The Madam chair uh really doing a lot of Outreach so if we could also support our deck a lot more I know when I was there one of the things that was really important to us at that time we were together was to make sure that we were fed correctly you know that they were fed I mean I've come to some meetings I'm like whoa that's how much this costs you know I'm like I can't even afford to go there but for our dacs I mean they're volunteers uh we have like they they were going to give us t-shirts or some kind of vest last year I don't think we got it um I was part of that too um again I was not part of the board at that time I mean I continue to be part of the deck because I asked for it and this board allowed me to and I love helping on the deck because that's really where I come from I'm Grassroots as a mom so I do want to again shout out to the the parents and the students from DAC oh the students because uh very uh and I don't want to get emotional y'all know how I get but I was at do you Pro this weekend and we it was awesome to see our Inspire kids uh from Adam's 14 uh there and it was like a familiar because like we all like gravitated to each other like you know like where's my where's my fourteeners you know and and what there's one of the kids that are very he's very like excited about everything as in Candela you know and he's like I go I need a picture with you guys so I'll send it to to the to you guys soon miss Dr Lauria but he gathered all our students and these are VIP students from d for the DU program which I'm very honored to have my daughter was part of that and there's this that you know it was very uh as a parent all the parents that were there I also got to talk to some of the parents from our district and they were very proud of the work I was like At first I was like oh my gosh you're gonna slap me or what what's she gonna tell me you know what I mean but they just really came direct like because they came like charging at me I was like I was like you know how we we already used to this but um you know they're like I just wanted to thank you you know thank you because their kids my kid is here and whatever we're doing uh so yeah I wanted to give a shout out to those students from inspire player and the Inspire program that I think it's a really amazing program I also got to be at the Adams 14 Scholars Scholars dinner last week so I got to join for that um and it was really again uh honored to have this was a business uh The Deck Tech yeah yeah that was that did a dinner for the scholars and they helped so it was um it was good to show we do um continue um support of our students in college and they have two at least two annual uh dinners to check in and they teach them everything from um like Jonathan at the duck Superstore taught them about financial literacy and how to build your credit and how to get things when you're at college and advocate for yourself so they they do support throughout their college after they they obtain our scholarships well anyway I did want to just give them a shout out and thanks again to the doc over and over for showing up to all these spaces lastly was that one again of the concerns was about the funding was because um or maybe they need more technical support uh because I remember at that time when when I was on Deck we had Jesse at that time that was like Lucy what do you guys need uh we need this we need that he had like he was on top of it and that encouraged me as a parent like oh okay you know we're taken care of as parents um because um they were not able to have a table at a echo Fest because it was um you know the process you have to get the sponsorships pay the 50 for the table and so there's little things that they might be new as leaders in that that might need to they need to be empowered or have that guidance because they need to be there and I tell you why because uh the charter schools were there they paid 500 to be there so um you know and I did mention to you what there but you know I did uh let people know that how it impacts public education so yeah anyway yeah again thank you welcome back maybe we maybe we could get um at a study session um part of our when we do our budgets see what that budget line item looks like for Jack which reminds me I also want to see the one for our board yes thank you anything else all right um 8.3 was any other communication do we have any other communication from the board we kind of look like we mishmashed all of all of the last three apologies um all right um this concludes our Jennifer this evening we want to wish our students and staff a fantastic 23-24 school year and we'll see you at our study session on Tuesday August 22nd at 5 30.
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um so as I mentioned uh that was the simple inventory which looks at um comparing data sources that we also have comparable data for for the year 2000 but there are also important emission sources I think that are important to include um as we as I kind of dig more into more details um so this table kind of summarizes it a lot of these are fairly small in scale the largest impact is those of uh commuting of passenger vehicles and kind of out of boundary uh Transportation trips um so the numbers from the previous slides will be smaller than what I talk about going forward um but I again cannot compare to 2000. um so this is our expanded inventory since 2015 as I said I do it I complete the inventory every year um and I want to talk through a few General Trends here before I dig into why things are happening and where we're saying things so the simple inventory I stopped at 2019 um and that was because 2020 was a pretty anomalous year with the kova 19 pandemic um with folks both staying from home and we having less uh Transportation trips as well as um buildings being unoccupied uh occupancy patterns for buildings looking incredibly different um we saw a significant dip in emissions in 2020 uh by 2021 we started to see vmts sorry vehicle miles traveled uh come back up again um and by last year 2022 we're only about um a fraction lower or a really small uh percentage lower than where we were in 2019 pre-pandemic um and so I want to dig into kind of like where are we seeing the changes um some of them are expected I think from recovering from the pandemic and some of them I think are a little bit less uh expected um so just to quickly illustrate um the darker blue line here is the simple inventory that I was talking about the lighter blue line is the expanded inventory with additional emission sources that increase those numbers up uh and then this dashed line here is showing a really simple trajectory to carbon neutrality by 2030 um which we can now see is quite a dramatic line and we certainly have a lot of work to do uh okay so in 2022 where did emissions come from uh 21 from residential buildings 15 from commercial buildings and then 29 from institutional buildings this is by institutional I mean the University of Michigan um three percent Upstream 17 from Local transportation so that's Transportation occurring within the boundaries of Ann Arbor uh 12 from commuting uh and then three percent from solid waste and Wastewater um so we still see buildings being the primary Mission source with Transportation falling the secondary um and how has that looked year over year uh again um so there's I have another chart kind of breaking this out a little bit more um but the the two sources that we've kind of seen big changes in year over year has been electricity and and vehicle fuel um electricity uh one we saw occupancy patterns change a little bit I'll also dig into some changes in the DT's fuel mix and carbon intensity which has had an impact on emissions as well and then the vehicle fuel emissions has largely been driven by Vehicles miles traveled which we saw a huge decrease and try 22 2020 um an increase in 2021 and pretty close to pre-pandemic Levels by last year um so I broke out before kind of like the sectors where emissions came from this is a chart showing where this uh sources of emissions come from so 39 from electricity uh 28 from natural gas and 28 from vehicle fuel I also include some Upstream emissions here as well I wanted to make a brief note here that the Upstream emissions for natural gas include those that um DTE sites for their estimated methane fugitive emissions in their system uh I would recommend um and it's something that we consider when we look at specific calculations not necessarily for the inventory but maybe comparing um a type of appliance that uses natural gas versus electricity um so natural gas can have a a lot of fugitive methane emissions uh associated with it um the estimates for that are have a wide range of values um the inventory is hard to present a range of those uh constantly so I would for specific uh calculations that can be useful to pull out um and look at that range of values for comparing lifetime emissions for for a certain um fuels so I hope that makes sense oops so um from 2020 to 2022 again admissions have increased year over year um where have we seen those emissions increases um primarily in electricity and in transportation um and um electricity has been both in an increase in consumption as well as an increase in carbon intensity and then Transportation largely an increase in consumption or Vehicles miles traveled cool so I'm going to run through a few sectors and talk about some changes that have happened um recently in the last few years uh so our missions from our residential buildings um so this is uh our homes it's a multi-family um these come from like like electricity natural gas and a little bit of Propane fuel that we estimate uh people consume uh in 2022 uh since the last year um electricity consumption was actually down about three percent with um natural gas consumption up about seven percent uh the reason why we see this is because residential energy consumption is actually pretty closely tied to weather and temperature um so this is the heating Degree Days uh compared to um how much uh natural gas uh residential buildings have consumed over the last few years um the scales on the side are a little bit focused but I just kind of wanted to show overall Trends how closely correlated these are so a heating degree day represents how cold it is the more heat and degree days in a year the more uh heat people are using or the more you have to heat to be comfortable um so we see again from 2021 to 2022 that increase into degree days that correlates to an increase in natural gas consumption uh following for the inverse so cool in Degree Days the number of um an estimate for like how much we have to cool our buildings to stay comfortable compared to how much electricity consumed are also fairly correlated so we see a decrease um 2021 to 2022 which we also saw reflected in consumption foreign I have included this here I will caveat this by saying that DT has not provided uh data for a commercial building for the last few years so commercial building uh energy consumption is currently a really rough estimate based off of what previous years have looked like uh we are currently waiting on um some mpsc rulings on data access to uh local governments to academic institutions to just the general public and hoping that we can get aggregated commercial data again in the near future but again that is contingent on an mpsc ruling that's still ongoing um we do have uh really accurate data from University of Michigan um so the University of Michigan completes also an annual greenhouse gas inventory it will caveat they do there's on a fiscal year so it can kind of lag in a weird way but in general is useful to include um the University of Michigan uh used both uh three percent increase in electricity and a two percent increase in TCF um which of national gas which combined with uh kind of a higher intensity um grid resulted in increased emissions of 21 2021 to 2022 um and so I'd like to dig into what I've been talking about a little bit with increased emissions um so this is DT's fuel mix since uh um the way DT prevent presents their fuel mix is one the percentage of uh sources of um electricity that they produce but they also they also share uh the carbon intensity of fossil fuel produce electricity as well um so the two factors that are important here are one the percentage of electricity that comes from fossil fuels and this chart that's represented by oil coal and natural gas and then combined with that is the carbon intensity of that production um so from year over from year to year sometimes the carbon intensity of just general electricity is better or worse than previous years in the case of 2022 we see one um so this top or this middle Blue Line represented by natural gas we can see from 2021 to 2022 an increase and the total fuel mix represented by fossil fuel in addition the carbon intensity also increased um the results of this is an 11 increase in the overall carbon intensity of electricity from 2021 to 2022 which is one of the primary drivers for emissions increases that we're seeing um overall we've seen a seven percent decrease since 2015 um but I just want to kind of explain why we've seen an increase in emissions the last couple years okay so I am going to do my best to finish as well as I can but I understand that it's a little bit confusing um I shared earlier that I can complete the greenhouse gas inventory following the specific protocol um which the protocol doesn't let you account for things like uh voluntary green power purchases things like wrecks things like offsets the intention of the inventory is that we could using a regional example for Washington County we could add up Ann arborers and Ypsilanti and the townships and we could get a complete inventory for Washington County um so what that means is um and the scope of inventories it ends up being double counting if Ann Arbor accounts for renewable energy that's being produced somewhere else but that's being reported on their um that Region's e-grid numbers um however uh annivers also has a 100 renewable energy goal and I think it's still important to look at what percent is coming from renewable energy even if it can't be directly attributed to um the uh specific generation that Ann Arbor pulls from uh so this chart here represents the chart on the left represents uh the total electricity consumption in Ann Arbor from last year and the sources of um green power purchases that it's attributed to so the dark blue section shows just total non-renewable energy um this is an order of scale um U of M now makes so GP in these charts stands for green power purchases uh U of M now makes significant green power purchases uh it's actually larger almost larger in scale than DT's Renewables percentage in total uh DT has about 13 Renewables in their fuel mix uh DT um has an initial two percent to reach their 15 State uh renewable portfolio standard mandate um and then there is also residential and Commercial participation in green power purchases as well that we know of um so in total that's about 29 of um the total electricity consumption that can be attributed to renewable energy again this is not reflected in the inventory numbers that I report on but this chart on the right does um which drops the total emissions down to about 1.92 um so I just wanted to do my best to explain um renewable green power purchases that are happening as well okay uh the last section I wanted to talk about was Transportation so again uh we have seen this big dip in 2020 again I think everyone can remember standing out and saying empty roads um which increased in 2021 and we are almost back up to 20 to 2019 levels last year um so again this is uh vehicle miles traveled specifically these are kilometers um which you can kind of see is the pretty much direct uh Trend that we see in VMT um or in emissions so the primary driver for that emissions trans is the amount of Miles traveled um I will continue to say that one of the um easiest ways to reduce emissions is by simply not driving um we have a lot of commuting at Ann Arbor uh the 2020 uh just having less commuting in general was incredibly impactful um and continuing to support working from home policies or enabling uh less committing in general can be really really impactful um so this data is actually from a uh recently available uh data source called the Google environmental insights Explorer so they use uh everyone's phone data anonymized and aggregated um based on where you're going and how fast you're traveling um and they're able to estimate and Aggregate and scale to incredibly high accuracy compared to other data sources um here to your vehicle miles traveled they're also able to estimate uh trips and Miles traveled on foot on bus and on bike based on those patterns as well so I just wanted to share um kind of this interesting tidbit uh this is for in boundary trips so this is not representing miles traveled but the number of trips taken and this is only showing in boundary trips so trips that are within the boundary of Ann Arbor so this doesn't include any trips coming into Ann Arbor or any trips going outside of Ann Arbor so I want to make that scale really really clear um and so you can kind of see that light green bar of bussing essentially disappearing in 2020 and coming back again over the last couple years uh but I just wanted to point this out h0 has a goal of 50 of trips within the study of an ever being done uh by non-motorized and public transit um and we're about eight percent shy of that that goal based on this data um it's hard data to track and find a good data source for it but this is one of them and hopefully provides some interesting context great um so that was the inventory um I'll pause for seconds in a second or pause for questions in a second but I wanted to share some um interesting or some new tools available out there uh one we now have a um OSI performance metrics dashboard out this is on the study administrator's page um I would say the easiest way to find this right now is to Google OSI metrics dashboard and you should get there um but one thing I wanted to share this is just a screenshot I took a a while ago um 2022 data is now available on there as well but these are interactive charts uh so you can hover over and see the specific numbers of sectors you can select and deselect sectors so if you want to see the greenhouse gas inventory let's say without U of M in it or you only want to see what natural gas looks like and vehicle fuel this allows for anyone to kind of customize how they want to look and evaluate the greenhouse gas inventory another resource I wanted to share um is the osi's community greenhouse gas inventory page on there I post um similar recordings year to year of this presentation um I also have on their um annual reports and a guide to methodologies used so if anyone's interested in methodologies use assumptions made data sources what a mission Factor was used and where it came from that is all publicly available as well um so I think that's it with that um I'll pause I know that there were a few questions shared beforehand that I think I did my best to respond to all of them but um if not feel free to ask them again now for clarifying or follow up on email um via email but with that open up person sessions yeah I mean thank you uh see just a question about missing data um my understanding was that you said that we still don't have data from DTE on I think we grouped as commercial and industrial buildings is that correct for three years now uh for I think it's two years now um go ahead oh no I'll just go ahead and see what your question is I I would make an appeal to uh council member Adina and to Council in general um to um intercede where possible um potentially through the Michigan Municipal league and through other entities um because this kind this is just really unacceptable I hope the VP that was listening in earlier from DTE is still listening in and and he recognizes that it's really unacceptable that we don't get this um just more generally I'm also concerned that we had this report in August of last year where we had the inventory presented um and uh we agreed at that time that we would like to see this earlier in the year and I know that we had problems with getting data again this year more generally I can only say that um any business would would never be driving by looking in the rearview mirror eight months arrears and really this is something that we really need to improve on and I think we need people in high places um talking to other people in high places whether it's at the mpsc or whatever to to address that situation um just if if I may um just two comments that I have for now um you don't have to go to the slide but or you can if you want to slide seven I think if uh we're all to do a mental best fit slope on slide seven there we are of what our emissions reductions have been 2015 to the present and you look at that slope and then you look at the slope that's necessary uh we we really need to Double Down um and I'm really concerned um obviously there's some big big drops foreseen in the A200 plan where we go to 100 clean renewable power through CCA or through some other means but nevertheless this is really a daunting task um the other thing that I want to point out is on slide 12 if you can go to that this is residential emissions you can see basically in 2022 were exactly where we were um in 2015 through 2017 2018 basically on average we really haven't haven't changed much and what I think we all have to recognize is that um as far as I know uh since 2020 roughly since June of 2020 when a20 was approved uh roughly 2600 new housing units um have been approved by the Planning Commission and city council um probably very few of those um are reflected in any of these figures yet in the vast majority of those are all natural gas connected so um that's um I think there's roughly 50 000 residential units in the city right now and that means we're adding another five percent and most of those are natural gas connected and those are not going to be converted to 100 Electric in the next 15 years probably because these are all new units so what we're not seeing here is this trend that was coming out of the pandemic from 2020 to 2022 is most likely going to continue to be on this curve at least for emissions from residential buildings those those are my only two comments and the I as you know I posted a lot of provided a lot of comments before the meeting you addressed many of them I'll go over and look at those again and I'll um ask you if you would wouldn't mind to respond to any that I think um at least I still have a question in my mind thank you all right hey Thea would you mind not uh unsharing so I could see the good people thank you so much anybody else yes commissioner mursky you're a mute I do have one other question since there was a at least a few second present second applause there and that is um the University of Michigan um has decreased let me see where's my little sleep paper that I enjoyed this down um it reported in fiscal year 21 um net emissions equal to gross emissions of 523 000 metric tons of co2e in fiscal year 2022 it's indicated through its tracking that gross emissions Rose to 576 000 uh metric tons of CO2 that's an increase of 10 but their net emissions dropped to 486 um thousand or a drop of 10 versus the prior year so that's a Delta of 20 and this difference between net and gross um is in a an Excel file um that is accessible through the office of sustainabilities metrics and if I'm not mistaken in my recollection the first year there was a difference between net and gross was this year and I'm one I'm not aware that the university is buying any offsets and I'm wondering if this is some kind of new accounting for green power purchases um and I guess lastly if if this these numbers from the University are correct then that would mean that the reduction that we've seen in emissions from 2019 to 2012 22 all of those reductions have come through actions from the University and none have come from the city so if you go back and look at emissions in 2019 granted U of M is reporting on a fiscal year but if you look at the Delta between emissions in 2019 versus what they are currently at U of M it's a something like a drop from 640 000.
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and as far as your deadlines you are correct we have deadlines set up but of this year I know uh with summer school played a part into it so some of them didn't have any orders or supplies needed so we offered and extended that using grant money to go ahead and do that as well so sometimes we'll extend it but I think this year we extended a 2 visit that procedure and that policy can pull back and hopefully everybody can plan appropriately especially because of the intentions to continue with that type of group almost the whole middle school or short-term contract basically of school year yes right aside from the regular school year then I think that that needs to be very yes I think too what maybe was maybe have caused a bit of confusion for some of the Departments as having an open field I think they thought because they have an open PL in the system that they can keep on ordering from them when we had set our deadlines so I think that um that didn't help a little bit and then um just last minute orders are trying to get you know we we try to prepare them and say these are going to be the deadlines we give them to them ahead of time so that they are able and we remind them you know of their summer school there is um end of year getting ready for the next year so put your supply orders in you know to prepare yourself for the beginning of the next year and unfortunately that doesn't always happen expenses where you're having to adjust that those are specific you know what whatever it is that's happened someone who was working in a school year or whatever knew those deadlines granted if they were going to do some school there is a there's a whole different type of feel that does need to probably be brought back and adjusted and understood because we didn't know that and now we do and so exactly we do talk about this in our cabinet meetings also we're always reminding um but I think this year having the budgets the department budgets will help them to um plan a little better and and have things ready um so I think that will help and well that's one way we're trying to help fix this I know there was some discussion on how these budgets are actually developed and I really truly hope and this is not me trying to recognition in a way but it's really hope that there is some inclusion for everyone involved in those budgets are set up so that they understand that these are the reasons that this is how why we do what we do this is your budget this is what expectation is rather than oh you have a budget here it is I'm just putting it feel like I know that there was some discussion before at one of the research about well who sets the budget up budgets actually why are you over budget and fighting or you could you know adjust um but you know I think for as far as the sake of the board that's how I would say we will share is saved here there's whatever was done was done let's move forward and make sure everything is clear yes we're not limited to these types of questions yes I'm sorry president Rodeo members of the board um I will make a note and I'll make sure that we may get very clear of what a deadline stand for so that we can then continue to plan ahead of time and bring everyone's Clarity of what needs to be done prior so we don't have to be dealing with this level and amount of cucumber um [Music] it's fast um I was just gonna say I guess you know as a CFO you really need to put your foot down and make sure that those deadlines are being met um because I know the year before there were pills that were open and and um everybody was kind of hassle to try to get receipts and all of that stuff and I thought maybe this year it will be better because of last year but it sounds like it's still the same so it doesn't seem like there's some there's I think more emphasis on your part as far as the CFO you need to really put your foot down and make sure that those deadlines are being met whoever whoever it is from whatever this the schools you're working with or the Departments you're working with that they understand that you have it's going to fall back on you yeah so yes you know you you have to make those yes make it known that those things are necessary because at the end of the year we're going through this again yeah yes I I agree I agree and I think that too um part of us again we're all here to help the kids and we're all here for the students so it when we find that they need something for the students we will do what we have to do to make sure and if that means us having to scramble at the end of the year because things are bought towards the end of year after the deadline then we try to do that just so we make sure that the kids have what they own so um it's it's a tough spot to be in but you're you are right you're correct it was just I think um not only put down but uh and I don't mean any other books but present and Advising and checking in on where are you on your displeasure or whatever you know whatever it means to actually be to be I don't know if it's called more Hands-On or more at least and then you have your academic needles I'm sure there's a schedule but to what degree and how much are you actually reporting those type of students to say okay here we are this is what it used to be or where we're at um and and I guess I would say being pointed about what you're waiting for and I'm not going to wait this long and then I'm going to start to report it wherever I need to or if anything to the board I don't know you know I I just want to be able to support the fact that Miss Vance is right yeah yes I'll buy stuff I feel like absolutely you know we're not here to also stand in the way of what's needed but I really truly feel like if we are working together as a team collaborating and understanding our sites our departments our responsibilities aside from the emergency type of situation generally School the intern pretty much the same amount as they always are so let's let's understand okay I know I'm gonna plan for this and I need to make sure I have that yes but maybe it's more Technical Training that everybody needs I don't know I mean no I just wanted to ask that um but also that you know that scenario that we as a board have to always feel because it is how the school is is coaching is those projects yes and so it's very important that you know um also um do you do a calendar or a schedule for the year on what you know what you know um well especially you know there are deadlines yes and we do send out emails and reminder emails um to the staff to let them know the deadline is coming up or this is the deadline we have for Supply items um and then we've also um in the past we've done um you know here's the deadline for Community Day orders here is the deadline or graduations coming up please put in your orders by this date so we try to be proactive with the sites um so that they know you know or rewind it because I know they have a lot going on too on what's coming up and um when we need orders by to be able to process them and get them their items okay thank you all right thank you okay uh number four is our barbecue Unified School District school principal reports president I never saw the board I never saw the community staff at this point I would like um assembly request to be going forward and two special announcements um please highlight your board as well as some other questions on attendance that I emailed earlier yeah amazing voice all right um I hope you've had an opportunity to read it I do want to highlight Aaron if you could scroll up or down third go down to the attendance portion um this is only the first week of school keep going but we did that we went too far right there uh Pre-K Tinder [Applause] they did get over or 90 or above um second and third were really close so that brought us to a school-wide percentage again it's just the last week of July but 89.
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and in addition to that there's a lot of other work that has happened within teaching and learning in Gilbert Public Schools over the last several years so we talk about revamping our professional learning communities the PLC process that we have here we have created a brand new instructional framework that is really driving teacher Clarity so it's really made us reflect and evaluate what curriculum we're using how we're teaching what we're teaching and making sure that all of our students are included in that gen Ed curriculum as Darren uh highlighted and as we continue to move forward with the different School improvement process and our school goals this math philosophy continues to be at the root and truly genuinely what drives our teachers and what is to the core of that so um I loved the presentation that occurred before us because it really hit on a lot of the beliefs and I think Crystal was nodding away back there while the elementaries were presenting because it's all about creating problem solvers that can solve problems in the real world and that critical thinking that they are required to kind of deepen that understanding and not be given the answer right away or uh to take the time to persevere through that and really show um that they may not get the answer right away but that they truly understand the reasoning of how to get there and so with that as we've shifted uh towards some other things we have identified some areas of need as well so when you dive into our accountability our letter grade AIDS growth points proficiency we have noticed that across the district but more than that across the state Across the Nation there's been this dip in math and there's some grades where that's more prevalent but it's there and we can't we can't dismiss it we can't hide from it but the more we dive in uh we really do believe that in order to truly live this philosophy in the classrooms and to support our teachers to be able to live this every day in their classrooms but that's going to start with revamping the curriculum which then would be aligned to all of the other pieces that I had shared the instructional framework the plc's and and so on so that everything that we're doing we've worked really really hard as a leadership within Gilbert and that includes our sites to really make sure all of our arrows are going in the same direction they all overlap and if they don't what can we do to update that to revise it to improve it and that's kind of what led us to this decision can I ask a question so I love the idea of critical thinking and problem solvers and perseverance but I've talked well my own children who I still have um a junior right now but I was talking to a parent over the summer whose child was had been had such a frustrating year of algebra that it was to the point of and this is a parent who's who understood and was supportive of this but it was to the point of just meltdown breakdown lack of confidence quitting even though they had tried and I think the teachers had tried to instill that um grit and perseverance and she was trying to take it over the summer you know to make it up so I think I guess I just want to ask you with this philosophy which is exciting how do we really address though also the I guess the realities of students like coming up against roadblocks and not being able to get across it and just feeling lost because they're supposed to figure it out themselves and they really don't have the tools to do or they just feel like completely completely overwhelmed how do we encourage and make sure that teachers are stepping in at that point to really guide and you know give some bridges to get kids to the next step rather than just have that floundering that's yeah not effective for anybody I will say and um I live this firsthand with my own children in this district and I as a previous building principal saw that occur as much as we want to believe this unfortunately sometimes I think when teachers either don't have the correct resources or curriculum to lean on or they feel like they're doing the best that they can our teachers work so hard to do this but I think sometimes there is maybe a lack of training or understanding and so with the instructional framework and a lot of the professional development there's been so much Rich work that's gone into intervention and how to identify students and I think that that's building that capacity with our teachers and we are again not hiding from the data so the more we dive in and we now have instructional coaches everywhere that are literally targeting that exact conversation so that the teachers that know how to navigate it the right way are doing that but if there's a teacher that doesn't know how to connect with that student or doesn't know how to get them there do they have the right tools within their classroom because sometimes it is just that instructional uh strategy that's maybe missing so there's a lot more with walkthroughs and observations in addition I will give a huge shout out to Tim and tia because uh we are really not just improving instructional strategies through those coaches and from the teacher lens but that starts with our Administration so they've done a fabulous job of working with our administrators to build instructional capacity and leadership as well so therefore that can transfer into the classes but it's not perfect and we definitely believe that going back to what Mr Ryan kind of started with that it has to start with having a consistent curriculum that we know is vertically aligned but also horizontally aligned because right now there's a major problem with exactly that when you go onto a campus and maybe you've got five different teachers within the same team slightly teaching things different so the more we can get to being consistent on a day-to-day basis where all of our students are getting access to that same curriculum you know you're seeing the same thing when our instructional leaders coaches administrators go into the rooms they're then seeing the same thing so that they can Target those exact issues through instructional strategies and instructional Improvement it's a lot harder when you're going campus to campus and you don't see those consistencies so um I guess for right now I hope that that kind of answers but I also know that at the end of this presentation Mr Ryan's going to go a little bit into what our plan is because we recognize that those issues do exist and we believe that we have dove into some research that has mapped out a strategic plan for how we can Implement uh in a more meaningful way than we ever have with adoptions that have occurred and part of that is that we keep repeating it the same way and we recognize that this was a decade ago why do we have so many inconsistencies that that we have to reflect on that and recognize that maybe a it's the way that we're training or having accountability and things like that so we've done a lot of looking in the mirror at our district leadership and our site Administration to make sure that we all understand what that plan is going to be and I know again Mr Ryan's going to go into that at the end of the presentation great if you don't mind just one last thing to go with that so can you give me like a specific example of how a teacher would what would be an instructional strategy to help a student in that way when they see I don't know if this is you know if this puts you on the spot I'm just trying if you're not trying to get some more specifics of like how and maybe how a parent could help or you know reach out to the teacher or or Bridge or give a bridge just can I make a comment would you mind I just was thinking of the teacher of the year and I'm sorry I can't yes yes because I I loved that in her classroom she talks about making mistakes that they'll be inspected respected uh corrected and I think every student has a math story certainly in my family we all have a math story and every one of them is different and I think that when we have that clear instruction that kids aren't afraid to make mistakes I just loved when I heard about the way she taught math I thought that is just so fundamental to making that understanding I was just really impressed this Gavigan's a great example to answer your question um I'll be honest that there is a lot more exploration that occurs when you would walk into a math class 10 years ago you would see more of a traditional style they're in rows they get the lesson they do the homework that really has shifted and so now you if you walk into a math class and a majority of our classrooms you will see students up at whiteboards you will see them huddled in a group and it is start student centered to answer your question though it is building that capacity it is not figure it out on your own and then I'm completely hands off so it's identifying the teachers to be able to say when they don't know how to do it and they get stuck when do you intervene and how do you help them there's a delicate balance there I would say for any of our parents that are maybe listening in or curious for that same point to encourage the students to Advocate and depending on the level I know for our elementary students that would be more of the parents advocating at the secondary level encourage your students to Advocate sometimes in class that frustration if you don't have maybe that safe environment or you don't feel like you can make mistakes you'll keep it in and so we're really encouraging our students and our teachers to make that environment across the board but sometimes students don't speak up if the teachers don't know it by reaching out maybe after class if it's through an email or whatnot and then at that point my hope would be that our teachers would meet the student where they're at and kind of engage there we have some really great um in in my experience observing and walking around at our campuses our math departments are really great at offering tutoring it looks different a little bit on each campus but I will say that it's probably the number one Department that is very intentional about tutoring and so I would encourage uh to get involved there depending on and this goes a little bit more to the junior high and high school you're going to see they set up peer tutoring because some students maybe learn from their peers they don't have that intimidation from teachers you can even suggest that maybe they get tutoring from another teacher I know at a couple of our high schools they do tutoring during math and they actually send the students to a different math teacher with that mindset that sometimes they maybe don't learn it from that exactly so that's great and I know that's going none I just had talked to parents specifically and it was just again what are what can we do as parents and we I mean we're in favor of the grit and the perseverance and everything but at some point it becomes just but they just completely withdraw they quit even if I know the teachers are trying I know Parents try new students are trying so I just want to keep remembering that that's especially in math absolutely you know I think that's a good segue Mr praska do you want to talk about how the philosophy looks like for sped and I was actually going to add Robert will later talk about the the real thoughtfulness that we've tried to put into an implementation plan which will Encompass more professional development more prep and training so that there are less instances of the example that you gave so he'll talk about that later but for me personally and it's not just about special ed but it's really about all types of Learners everybody at this table learns differently regardless of the topic so it's really about students that are accelerated accelerated traditional gifted my world is special education but we get a lot of questions related to what you're asking um uh elements of frustration I learned differently I'm not understanding the content the pace is too fast and for me really and for all of us at this table uh We've really foundationally embedded uh adopting a curriculum with the priorities of inclusion and access so access to a curriculum that is universal for the majority of our students and then what that looks like within the Gen Ed setting and this kind of spirals back to what I shared earlier about and really what we all shared about the sheer number of curriculums that are available that we've made available to all of our students is that oftentimes what happens whether your accelerated gifted special ed is that if you're learning a learning a strategy a math strategy in this case a different way with a supplemental curriculum when you're integrated back into the jet end setting and the majority of students are being exposed to a genetic curriculum imagine the frustrations that that student feels with coming in because of whatever disability they might have so what we want to do is get ahead of that by providing a curriculum that is available and all students have access to so that we can alleviate some of those frustrations with students parent questions concerns so it really starts there and in that audit that's what we really discovered with good intent there were lots of supplemental materials being provided trying to Target the disability at its core and in the most effective way but in the end it just created a larger gap between the majority of kids and kids that learn differently so it really goes to the heart of grading practices inclusion access and ensuring that the students are having access and then from having access their um the lessons are being designed to address whatever the needs of the students are okay so other than putting a Highly Effective Teacher in front of our students curriculum having a coherent curriculum is leads to the second biggest impact on learning so that's really what we're going after here otm has done solid and thank you the governing board for allowing us to get contracts out sooner and ensuring that we can get a Highly Effective Teacher in front now we feel like getting this a coherent curriculum for our teachers is the next step in this process I reflect president wood with um the the where we're at I saw second and third graders at the elementary level I'm already I'm bad at math I can't do that it's such a mindset thing and you see it it's almost some classes have to do a support group like you can do this and pump them up before they're even ready to hear the math part of things um because nobody wants to do something that you think you're going to fail at you have to get them to believe in themselves and you have to give them digestible cases so they can see success on a small scale and then look you're done we did the whole thing and I think that's really it's a foundation in elementary that we need to set the stage for because everything Builds on it in math and if you have a shaky foundation in third grade right fourth fifth sixth and Beyond are you're going to see an impact um sorry okay go ahead thank you turn on your microphone thank you so uh a couple of questions I've got um I'm back on the our philosophy page the second paragraph it talks about mathematics conversations and challenging misconceptions so we're not at our level even in the AP courses we're not challenging math theories right there's established math theories we're not coming up with a new String Theory or something like that right so and math is is very much a this is the problem and it has one answer now I know that the math is not that way hang on now I know that there's different ways to go about getting that one answer but generally speaking you know there's a math problem and there's an answer and and I totally agree that uh you know different kids learn in different ways maybe if I explain you know hey I've got if I want one plus one equals two I have to use you know for one student they just will get that right away for another student I'll say okay if you have one apple and your friend has one apple how many apples one plus one is two right um it's just you know that's a very simple example but I guess my question is because math is very um I don't know finite is the right word but but because every math problem has an answer it's not one plus one equals two or three right it's just every math problem has an answer what help me understand what conversations are taking place in math and what misconceptions are are we challenging I'm sorry we yeah are we challenging I think the way that you set it up and I get exactly what you're um kind of establishing with the answer part um the misconceptions the perseverance to deepen understanding when we say that we are setting students into groups and we want them to explore and work together as a team what we have found is that uh maybe and I'm going to say the old school way of teaching math uh was here's the formula this is how you do it copy me show your work we want it to look the same at this point it is get together with your group what you're thinking your thinking can be different we could have seven groups in the room and maybe everybody's group thinking is totally different uh but if you get to that answer how did you get there and along the way if you're not getting to that answer being able to identify where you didn't figure it out where did you go wrong because a lot of our students if they get the answer wrong they going back to what Mr Bircher said it's I'm not good at math well you're probably really good at math maybe it's just that one piece we even found that with the state assessments changing we added in mimic assessments that our district now does the benchmarks and even different mimics that match the high school level assessments and these are all the way K all the way through 12 and what we found this last year was our Math teachers at first when they were because they're data people so when they first see the data they want to argue and like give you all the reasons why there's no way they know their students that's that's not accurate but we dove into it a little deeper this last year more than we ever have before and what we found was that students actually weren't getting the content or the answer wrong um they weren't maybe answering the question correctly for example there are a lot of questions now that will say what are the best three answers or what are the three options that are the closest to the reasoning here and students would choose one well that question is asking them to choose three things that fit within that problem so if you don't understand all of the steps of the formula you may not be able to identify all three of those steps so it's less worrying about just knowing how to get to that and answer and really this is helping to better prepare them all the way up through college and in the real world where they have to be able to think through and break down a problem to figure out where is it going wrong and that's where like our Innovation our coding a lot of our stem there's a connection to that math piece there as opposed to just memorizing formulas and memorizing how to plug it in um same thing with calculators if they're just using their calculator a lot of the problems that exist now you might be able to use a calculator for a component of that but what's that real world thinking and that perseverance again to get you through multiple steps and so it is when you see it done really well and a lot of our teachers I mean it's really taken off just in this last few years you're seeing more and more classrooms where the students they just feed off of each other and they get so excited and I don't want to say argue with one another but it becomes a very competitive like trying to get to that answer and truly even our smartest brightest AP students like an AP BC class I joke that I feel like I'm in a foreign language class because it is way up there and when we started making this shift to be uh more exploration uh based in their thinking our AP students were the ones that struggled the most because they were like just tell me what you want me to do I can I can figure it out I can follow a formula but just tell me how to what you want me to do give me the formula and I'll just follow that so this is getting away from just following that formula and that script and how do you get to that on your own um I hope that kind of answers um just a little bit to the elementary-ish so um yeah sorry Mr rushing was my um trig teacher I have never used sine cosine in my real life but um what we have is I've heard it said that math is the language to teach problem solving and what we want are students that can solve problems so while I've never used sine cosine tangent um you know as I'm hanging a frame on a wall you know the conversations that we want our kids to have is what data should we collect before plugging into the math oh well I probably need to know how long the Wall is I need to know how big this Frame is okay great well we can do that now you can give them the number so it's kind of diagnosing a problem rather than just spitting out an algorithm all the time I would I would say a few years ago when my daughter was in high school we we had this conversation because the way math was being taught was changing and um my husband is an engineer and my son has had a lot of math and what they felt was that instead of waiting until calculus to say here's the problem take figure out the problem and then solve it with math now we're starting at the elementary level because really what math is is there is a real world problem and you have to figure out what math to use to solve that problem whether it's computers or infrastructure or building all kinds of math that we use every day but it's not there's no formula given to you the problem is given to you and you've got to figure out what math goes with that problem and how you solve it and so that's what we're we've started to do from the get-go instead of waiting until they take care ridiculous so I I understand but at some point we have to teach these kids math right at some point they in order to solve real world problems which that's it's a different topic but in order to in order to solve real world problems they have to know the math first right um and so are we it sounds like from from some of the things I heard that were almost putting the cart before the horse a little bit and not and not I guess one concern I have is that are we laying the foundation so that when we get to a point where it's like okay here's a problem go solve it with math if we're doing that from the very beginning which I get I get um are we are we are we spending enough time focusing on the basics and and the underlying and the underlying formulas of how things are being done and the reason you know and one thing that that I'm really concerned with is one crucial piece of mathematics is repetition we learn our times tables we learn the rule of nines you know these are things that we can just that we that are drilled into our kids you know first second third fourth grade so that when we get to those bigger equations we don't have to you know use a calculator to figure out what 9 times 8 is right um and so it is part of our philosophy also making sure that we're that we're teaching the foundation instead of instead of the end result of creating these amazing problem solvers are we also focusing on the foundation so if I may you may um agree wholeheartedly with everything that you're you're saying and both in terms of perception and then what is the reality and it's a great question one of the reasons and I'll speak specifically for myself in this case I'm passionate about this um is because there isn't necessarily consistency across the board with whether it be the amount of time we spend on specific skill development prior to moving into to a different level potentially if we don't have consistency across all classrooms it's really difficult for us to analyze that sure so as we try to break down data and and Dr Cox was speaking to that earlier as you're trying to break and dig deep into this what's causing what to occur and we don't when we don't have something common to look at and we don't have necessarily across the board things at the same levels to look at it makes it challenging and Miss Wood when you were speaking earlier it reminded me of recently and I shared with the folks that I work with there's a a young man in an honors algebra one class right now who took an assessment the first week of the school year and the assessment was on pre-algebra material they scored a 31 percent devastated used to getting good grades devastated talks to his friends oh I got a 93 and a 91 and an 88.
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there are no blue cards for members of the public in person and Lika are there any members of the public online who wish to make public comment uh or participate in this public hearing we have no public comment on Zoom thank you and since uh We've exhausted our list of members of the public who wish to participate I will now call the public hearing to a close at 807.
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may I have a motion to adjourn welcome to adjourn oh second thank you Ramona roll call please hi hi Ms Lovato aye Ms Molina aye Ms Zubia aye great we are adjourned thank you all for hanging in there with us
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metric tons of CO2 down to this new net figure of 487 000 if you take that Delta that Delta is the entire emissions reduction for the community um I I put some of that in my email to you not this net gross difference I'm hoping that CAU or Tech can speak to um some of these figures or at least the conceptually um um I will do my best and I'm going to clarify I'm not going to make I'm not going to attempt at Mental Math since it is nearing my bedtime so I hope everyone uh apologizes for that if you want uh specific numbers feel free to follow follow up in an email and I'll be happy to look into things um some things I will share so if you're saying that the missions decreases are only coming from U of M um you we can see looking at the inventory Broken Out by different sectors that decreases have come from certain sectors specifically for example Transportation VMT is lower than 2019 you can see for your transportation um just the total emissions amounts are lower for that specific sector um if you were saying that the the U of M's total decrease is equivalent to the city's totally decrease because we've also had some sectors increase as well I think that's what you're saying um I will say if you go through U of M's shared spreadsheet on their um uh inventory um there are I don't look at it and take out an aggregate number I pull out specific uh data points that they share on specifically how much fossil fuels they're consuming um things like how much they're using on their buses things like how much natural gas using both in their buildings and in their power plant um sometimes they use some fuel oil and then how much electricity they're purchasing they also report on how much renewable energy uh purchases they're making as well um and so um has shared uh that they are starting to um they account for that in their inventory um because they're not following they don't have to follow the same protocol that I follow um and so they are able to uh kind of like claim that and share that as an official inventory um it may be a question going forward on how we share uh information on renewable energy purchases kind of for informational purposes not necessarily for this is Ann Arbor's official inventory um as I think that difference will continue to become more significant in upcoming years good thank you yes Commission yeah I'm not I'm I can't answer the question either um but I suggest we get uh Shauna Weber our new associate VP for sustainability uh to come and join us and maybe bring uh a staff member who know really knows this stuff um and we should you know because it might be we don't want to put her on the spot that'd be a horrible way to start a good relationship um and certainly the new president is very committed to um reducing our emissions and exceeding that up as is the CFO who has shot as boss she reports to both of them um and she comes from Princeton so she has experience with University and all that uh so we'll get we'll get the answers we're after uh the one thing I can offer is what we're doing now uh trying to do is uh zero out our scope 2 emissions um and I think we're really close in other words we said we do by 2025 and the office sustainability keeps saying we're going to do it we're going to actually reach the Finish Line before then um at the same time were so there and we've got big rfps out on that big RFP out of that front but we also have uh you know for renewable energy we also have a fairly sizable one and I remember I can't remember the numbers um but pretty big and surprisingly big uh for on-campus generation um so it'll count against scope one um what is it I think so I know the city is piggybacking their RFP yeah with with the universities um at least in terms of the structure and things like that Joe do you know if that if the 25 megawatt makes is is correct sounds right yeah but you know that's like given that the president's Commission on carbon neutrality did not suggest doing that because it is more expensive um I personally like the idea because you know we want to show what we're doing not just do it um but in any case that's good news um and then of course we're we've started our first geothermal field um for one of our new buildings so that whole Enterprise is often uh to a slow but nonetheless I think meaningful start um and the big thing that it hasn't been finished yet is uh an assessment well two things one is an assessment of what we could if anything use offsets for um uh and even though I was kind of supportive of that and I'd say a minority of our president's commission and permanent neutrality were um eager to do it uh it would cost more money and but it would get us to zero faster um and then we could backfill with real uh local Michigan Action and on campus but the point is is that that's that still has to be done and then Greg keolian and sees is doing the uh scope three you know he's leading a team to do the scope 3 assessment which as far as I can tell you know isn't going to be done at home for a little while 2025 too um so but that doesn't mean we will make progress in scope two so I think that's you know I'm not an expert I could if I wasn't lazy uh just go on the website there's a all this is reported um so people can see it but a lot of work remains to be done hope that helps a little bust your heart yeah thanks for the presentation I I just wanted to ask a question about the resolution of of some of the data and the inventory particularly and I guess the question is is about how um how resolved can it get beyond beyond the year um and is are some of these data either in terms of fuel mix or otherwise um for the different sectors something that can be looked at either seasonally or monthly and if if so in your opinion does that sort of have any benefit in terms of the potential for how we look at or potentially Target some of some of the opportunities to to make reductions and I'm thinking primarily of sort of what we saw with the pandemic in that you know there are changes of behavior and if we look a little bit more closely at them we can see that and and we know I would imagine that we're using more natural gas for example during the winter than the summer and vice versa so I guess it's just a question of sort of how we how we look at how highly resolved um or if there's any benefit to looking at it more granularly beyond the year yeah so currently nearly every data source I use is provided on an annual basis uh especially the ones for the largest submission sources and buildings so the and the consumption is provided as an annual aggregate total the fuel mix is provided annually at YouTube provided every other year so that feels like an improvement um but um and then transportation is also uh provided on an annual total uh commissioner Mercier mentioned on the timeline of these um that data source comes out uh later this year than they expected it came out late May or early June this year um so it it kind of hinders when you really want to be looking at the data I acknowledge that's a pain Point um uh the one data source that we do currently have more uh frequent reporting on is our waste data which is a relatively small in terms of emission impact uh it of course has larger impact in terms of sustainability in general and we do have more time granular data available there um I do think there could be relevance especially for electricity at looking at more granular data if it were ever to be available um there are specific situations like especially as we look at increasing how much increasing the renewable percentage of our energy and electrifying or even before electrifying buildings in general I think it'll be important to see the emissions intensity and the winter when Renewables might be offline versus in the summer and things like that um other cities have actually looked at adopting um uh 24 7 renewable energy standards so pairing uh hourly total energy consumption with Renewables since you can look at this uh aggregate annual total but the hourly data might actually tell a really different story um and so some other cities have started to tackle uh looking at that level of detail thank you fantastic okay thank you see ya again for um joining us we're going to move along in the interest of time um all right going to the next agenda item can we have news from the energy office and any Commissioners who have news to share yeah I can go ahead um don't have a couple notes um as I'm sure some of you are aware um heard the home energy rating disclosure ordinance had its first hearing um at Council last night um again remember I know it's been a couple months but you know the energy commission did uh have that initial hearing of it um and did provide feedback which was incorporated into that um into that into that version um there'll be I believe a second reading will be coming soon um so feel free to uh uh check in on the council meetings for that um but again thanks for the feedback that went into that um also want to note in terms of um I have too many things open um I did want to note that uh coming up this Friday um from five to nine the Ann Arbor's Farmers Market uh we're having our second annual home electrification Expo this is an event uh it has a bunch of contractors that are doing work in the electric electrifications uh and decarbonization space give people an opportunity to interact with contractors learn more about it and just kind of you know see see what makes uh what could potentially make sense um so if you're available or know of others who might be interested uh encourage you to check that out um I think those are the uh those are the main updates I have uh right now thank you Joe for sharing that news okay and commissioner ski would you like to report on the environmental Commission sorry uh uh it's it's ironic that I have nothing to report because the environmental Commission meeting was canceled because it was during the power outage that we hit so just one more impact oh yes well that speaks for itself okay we'll move to our final uh public comment section this is an opportunity for people to speak for up to three minutes sorry uh yes could I also just oh yes I wanted to add on to uh Joe's comment so in addition to herd passing first reading last night one second reading comes uh it will have a public hearing attached to it and so I just also wanted to emphasize that if folks wanted to call in um while it did um pass first reading unanimously last night there is still some considerable opposition to it um I think there are still probably a few questions that will get asked between now and second reading um and so for those folks who I know who have been working on this for a long time if you wanted to call in um or to come to the meeting and participate make sure you pay attention for the public hearing um and then we also had a um the nomination of a new energy commissioner and so hopefully that will be approved at our next meeting as well amazing thank you for sharing that okay all right so we'll move into our last opportunity for public input this is an opportunity for people to speak for up to three minutes if you're watching on CTN please call 888-788-0099 or 877-853-5247 and enter the meeting ID 956-8718-7876 this information is also displayed on the meeting agenda and video feed City staff will select callers and have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of your phone number to electronically raise your hand to indicate your desire to speak please press star 9 on your phone you'll hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area and mute television or background sounds so that we may hear you clearly and please set your name and address at the beginning of your comments Joe do we have anybody on the line uh yes caller ending in one three four thank you Mr Lang this is Ken Garber again um thank you for the really great discussion on both the grid and the inventory um yeah a few words about the inventory um you know whether or not the the weather in 2022 and higher DTE carbon intensity we're responsible for the 2022 admissions increase overall we're not reducing emissions by the 15 to 20 percent annually that we need to um I'm not talking about the 820 goal I'm talking about the entire developed world needs to do this um because we put off um any kind of meaningful action for the last 30 years we're faced with this cliff um and uh it to me it looks impossible it looks like we're doomed to fail um emissions are actually going up probably will continue to do so on the local level with all the new gas-fired construction projects um approved and in the reviewer planning process um yeah buildings and transportation are the big sectors and we continue to build with gas do very few Electric retrofits people are driving more and more bigger and bigger vehicles and inventory doesn't even try to estimate scope 3 emissions which are supply chain and personal consumption um I think Cornell recently published a study showing that scope 3 represented 60 of their emissions we have no idea what's going on with these in Ann Arbor our emissions may be much higher than what the inventory shows and maybe going up even faster as people travel more order more stuff for delivery and otherwise my point is we are failing here in Ann Arbor as well as nationally yet the messaging from the city is unrelentingly positive I realize that the city's philosophy is that you cannot motivate people with fear and negativity maybe not but we're certainly not changing Behavior now except for the worse um I think somehow we've got to change both the tone and substance of the way we communicate the dire situation that we're in um we need to tell people that what we're doing is not working the implication that we can somehow make this huge change without altering fundamentally the very destructive way all of us live including making the necessary personal sacrifices um I I guess I'm I look at this inventory and I am incredibly demoralized and depressed and I don't really see a path forward um and I wish I had something more constructive to communicate except that we all have to just keep trying but I think we have to acknowledge above all that what we've done so far is not working thank you um no further callers okay and that's sobering note um I have a couple of comments on items for next agenda and I'd also like to hear if anything comes to mind you know quickly quickly-ish um so let's see I wrote down hmm some thoughts kind of going from the back to the front um having uh Shauna Weber from uh University of Michigan come on and maybe share um more recent plans for decarbonization at U of M um I'd like to you know incorporate a little bit more of a conversation and maybe have some other folks pack if you'd like to speak we could have um others from Seas or others at the University I think that'd be really nice um I also noted that you know I invited uh Mike butkowski back potentially to speak later in the year or maybe next year um depending on the urgency um around just thrust in the company and talking about uh an analysis of of the history of how we got here from a reliability sense and I have some notes on what specifically I would ask um does anybody else have anything else that came up for them that they'd like to get on that list your heart yeah we you know we with the the discussion today um we heard a lot about the sort of systems level resilience um facing Ann Arbor particularly with this Vector grid and one of the things I think that potentially would be helpful is how we might also take up sort of individual household neighborhood resilience as well um particularly with respect to sort of things that um you know whether individual uh renters or homeowners might be able to do to help um in terms of their own setups and systems and and the ways that they're sort of experiencing this and yeah I don't I don't have a particular suggestion I think for how to accomplish that but um there may be some options in terms of who we're able to get to speak to that pretty they also heard a mention in the um greenhouse gas inventory about sort of marginal emissions or hourly emissions I know that that's of interest um or has been stated in the past so maybe we can incorporate that as well into future discussions um you know now that we've had the um now that we've had the discussion about the inventory we can we can kind of broaden that and talk a lot more about the implications commissioner marski I'd be very interested in a report from the city about how the city plans to take the the really great effort in the Bryant neighborhood um my understanding it's roughly 260 households um and how that effort um is planned to be rolled out city-wide and replicated and accelerated um particularly in in light of Mr garber's comments um we're now three years into the plan um we've got a great Grant to look at a networked uh geothermal uh heating system for that neighborhood that's probably a year out until that's done that doesn't that means it's still not implemented so the question is how do you take that model and accelerate that and roll it out to all these different subdivisions to apartment complexes um and so on and so forth I mean I could I grew up in Ann Arbor so I could you know tick off 10 different subdivisions in neighborhoods across the city where we need to have a similar effort and we only have um seven years to do that so we've got one one neighborhood that's going well and we probably have 50 neighborhoods that need to be this where we need to be doing the same thing so if we could I mean that that may be something that is not realistic in the next couple of months but it should be something that we look to hear about certainly um at the end of the year early next year thanks and would you look to the OSI or there maybe other City departments that would be helpful just trying to get some more perspectives and like think about the reality of what that rollout looks like it could be a team effort it could be you know yeah and and yeah but I think it probably has to be led by OSI sure hey anything else right seeing none I'm gonna move on okay great so we're ready to adjourn um it is now 8 24 and I declare this meeting adjourned thank you so much for your participation good night everybody see you next month I think so
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[Applause] I do want to think we had quite a few volunteers come in last week to support what the supplies that we received for the students so they've stuffed over 300 backpacks so we're going to be disbursing those either Thursday or from the community Friday our Lord Miss Valdez always does an amazing job we got some student work there already to putting up some art on this side you can see some self-portraits of our tinders um and then some uh back to school or first day of school pictures that are there um currently we have 320 students enrolled uh 14 students have dropped meaning they are attending a different school either outside of cells or one of the bie schools our daily attendance for the first 11 days of school has come in at about 86 percent and um we still have some that were yesterday was the 10-day drop so they were working on dropping kids today that have not shown up but before they're doing that they're making phone calls to see um what's been happening why they're not attending um what we can do to support them and then for some reason they came back and you know all the germs so Thursday and Friday we got lots of doctors notes of absences because of illnesses um so we're hoping to see those numbers increase as time goes on because they were here so let's just say for example they came for like the first two three days of school then they got sick went to the doctor and then they had notes to not return until certain dates so we did get quite a few what were any of them for 10 days you know if it's 10 consecutive days then we called by day six or my office staff was looking at consecutive at 60s and they were starting to make phone calls home so by day seven we actually had 10 kids that parents said oh no we're not gonna bring them we're going somewhere else or we're enrolling them in another school 14 14.
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what wasn't the test right potentially and and so we kind of go down the Avenue a little bit and we end up figuring out that pre-algebra teachers were doing two different things one was following a standards aligned curriculum throughout the the course of the year the other great evaluations good teacher very intelligent great relationships with the kids but some standards were simply missed not on purpose not because they weren't working hard not because they weren't but now the next year you go into the school year now you want to talk about a frustrated student looking for support now you want to talk about a frustrated student looking do I even belong here anymore so all of these things we're talking about there are foundational skills that every student needs that must have and we have to guarantee that every student across the board within each grade band or course description or course selection receives that then above and beyond now we talk about the individual approach of the teacher now we talk about the the you know Cooperative learning opportunities now we talk about the engagement strategies now we talk about right so all of that works together and we're going to talk about the difference between curriculum and instruction right right now we're talking curriculum we're talking about what it is that students are exposed to and that's why we're here we want to ensure that there is a substantial amount of consistency across the board for all of our students foundationally they have skills and knowledge that we expect them to have that they need to have we're obligated to ensure that they have at every grade level along the way sorry did you have a follow-up or so just just a a thought and a thought slash um observation slash concern uh Miss Cox you miss Dr Cox Miss Cox Dr Cox Dr Cox you bet um you mentioned you know test scores going down and I know that's a big problem and I know that it's it's been an ongoing problem for as you as you pointed out for a while seems to be trending down from an observer's point of view the trend downwards seems to coincide with trying to revamp how we're teaching kids math and it seems like every iteration that we go through using a word that we learned earlier from our we heard earlier from our stem group every iteration that we go through we get again this is my observation further away from from the concept of this is this is the equation this is the answer this is one of two or three ways of how you get there and the more we get towards this kind of you know I'll use the word in here this conversational math the further test scores dive and at some point maybe we need to look at the this thought that well gosh you know maybe maybe if we keep trying as we keep trying to revamp math and how it's taught and test scores keep taking a dive maybe we need to revamp the other way yeah and it'd be interesting to see if test scores go up and I will share uh I want to highlight Mr Ryan commented about having the consistency of what is being taught in classrooms so that we can better uh dive in and do a diagnostic to figure out like how to better focus on some of those pieces that's the starting place like we can't we're there's going to always be all these what ifs that exist until we have consistency that exists there no matter what curriculum we're using um but more than that and we'll talk about it a little bit more in a moment um because as we get deeper into this then you do start to talk skills versus standards which is another component that we will dive into deeper that I think will hit on some of the concerns that you have um we have started doing uh screeners with our students this last couple of years but I will share I don't know and I've overseen math and I've worked with math for the last decade and um I think that there's several variables that play into that that very well could be one but I have personally observed other pieces that I think uh play a larger role for example our state assessments have changed rapidly to be more of this type of assessment so for example the question that I just shared where they're looking for multi-step problem solving the state assessments that existed five years ago even 10 years ago they were a one-step problem and so when we look at the data and break it down to see how our students are performing on these assessments we're not finding evidence that they're struggling on some of the skill I mean they are but overall the ones that we are seeing the biggest issue with is multi-step problems and more of those bigger problem solving steps and that is from kindergarten all the way up um and so I think that there's several variables but again I think that in a moment when we dive into talking about the skills I just don't want you to think that we're bypassing that I'm just saving it for a little bit because we 100 firmly agree with you like everything you said I think we were all sitting here nodding uh so I don't want you to think that we're that it's not on our radar thank you yeah and then one last question um in regards to the curriculum and sped so is there do we not have sped math programs or I mean that's that's a wrong way to start that so so if I heard you write that you're saying that there's there's the Gen Ed gets one math curriculum and sped gets a different math curriculum or a simplified version of that math curriculum depending on the student is that right it's such a variety and that's part of that's part of why we're all here I think really taking a look at that there is a universal curriculum and access for all over the course of many years in any District I've ever been in is that in an attempt to meet the needs of the student and whatever those learning needs are um it's it isn't just about slowing it down it isn't just about um reducing the number of problems in the in the case of math sometimes it's about looking at a completely alternate curriculum in order to address whatever the disability is so it's really a range it is all those things you just said there are definitely special ed kiddos that are currently using genit curriculum and then there are students that are not and then there are students that probably it's not appropriate that they do so because of just the the varying needs of the kiddo so what we're hoping for in this math adoption is that um there's a curriculum that's Universal for all and then depending on the needs of the kiddo again accelerated or gifted or special ed depending on the Range that it's more about uh using the standards and using the content and meeting the needs from one curriculum versus finding things out there that could meet the need so if I'm hearing you right you're you're your main objective is to find a curriculum that can be implemented at all different skill levels 100 okay got it thank you Mr Thompson if you don't mind could we just say special education I just don't prefer that sped I just feel like it's um not something that most uh special needs kids respond to or parents sure I was just yeah I was just using the term that we've heard tonight and I think it's the term that is used on the district website and well I know it is set there as as an abbreviation but I I would really prefer in this board reading if we use the term special education thanks you did summarize very well though with your last point that is the Hope then thank you thank you I'm glad that you asked those questions and let's keep moving and then if you guys are okay if we keep asking please we really appreciate the opportunity yeah where you're coming from and to get a really good idea of all this so I'm excited thank you yep so again what we had kind of alluded to is having a coherent curriculum has the second biggest impact on student learning so that's kind of our jumping off point uh of getting that with our teachers we also have through the mtss process which is the multi-tier system of supports um we're seeing that establishing a solid tier one instruction best first instruction um that's effective and meets the needs of our students provides less need for intervention in the long run so we've got to do a better job of number one picking a curriculum that offers both enrichment options intervention options as well as on grade level options but we also have to train our teachers better in how to use the different resources that are within a curriculum so that they don't have to be hunters and gatherers on their own time and I think that's going to be critical to meet the varying needs of the students that we have in our class I also think it's important that a curriculum I know is a new teacher and I'm talking specifically we've got teachers coming from all different areas they're not just traditional teachers and that you went to a four-year University you did a year or a semester of student teaching and now you're going into the classroom we have pathway alternative certifications and I feel like that having a coherent comprehensive curriculum for math can be a common denominator that kind of leads to to better gains for all of our students I know as a young teacher um I didn't always know what I was going to do at the end of the week but I found solace and the fact that okay tomorrow I'm going to teach this lesson right and I had something to go home with so I feel like that we have a bunch of teachers going out and trying to find things I think that's way more stressful than doing a solid job of implementing um and training our teachers on a coherent curriculum at the start before we move forward before we move forward can you explain to me what you mean by this first line the second biggest impact on learning is from what is taught I'm I'm assuming that the the biggest impact is the teacher and how it's time that's a hundred percent what it is is besides having a Highly Effective Teacher at the front of our classrooms having a coherent comprehensive curriculum has the second biggest gains in educational research thank you and of course those are all behind the parents right the first teacher right so um this is what we control within the walls of our buildings so so we spend getting talking about the standard alignment and I wanted to take a little bit of time to just dive in a little bit deeper I think some of the questions I may go through this a little bit quicker in regard to the things that we've already hit on but we really want to establish teaching and learning consistency so as a teaching and learning Department K-1 pre-k through 12 what are our expectations and what is recommended versus what is expected and required and so with that we have mentioned vertical alignment from the lowest grade level all the way up which is very important but to put emphasis again on the horizontal alignment as well so for example if you have a grade level or a department at a school I know that there are some that we've worked with revamping our PLC process to get alignment within a school within a team but our goal in big picture and to be as successful as we believe we should be and can be is to really extend that across the district so all of our Algebra 1 classes they're following the same thing all of our third grade math classes they're following the same thing when we look at our data and of course there's always going to be those rock star teachers even when there is consistency but there are such uh gaps in the variety of where some of the teachers and students are performing and so it makes you wonder why and so if we can create this consistency then when we see a rock star teacher and we know that they're all teaching from the same curriculum and all of our students are exposed to the same thing we can go to that teacher and that's part of that PLC process to kind of dive into what are you doing because you're doing something really well but I'm your colleague and I know we're now teaching all the same stuff so help me to learn like what are you doing in this unit and if that's based on a skill going back to the foundational pieces or a standard it allows our teachers to have more meaningful conversations in their professional Learning Community to know what do the students know when they don't know it what are we going to do about it which goes into the conversation of the skill so when Robert mentioned kind of that tier one that's your initial instruction that all students get but if they're not learning well it is our job as Educators to dive into the why sometimes that is a struggle with them meeting that standard but sometimes they don't have the basic skill to even allow allow them to begin looking at that standard so we are doing a more intentional job with some of our screeners and even when we look through the curriculum part of what we're looking for as well is that it is well-rounded and it meets on the standards and can help support with those skills as well and so if we have more consistency there it allows for the horizontal alignment and then we can start having more meaningful conversations with the vertical alignment because everybody will have a better idea of what everybody's doing um to set those expectations in addition to that uh so I just want to really put emphasis on the fact that there is and I have this truly in my notes that there is a uh focus on having a balance between skills and standards and that will be at the core of what we do throughout the entire uh committee and we want anybody that comes in that's helping us vet the materials from the vendors making presentations that they are looking for both of those components um and then with that when we talk about through what lens we will continue to use our instructional framework with Clarity how teachers can design their lessons what instructional strategies are there what assessments will be included a lot of curriculums that exist now will provide assessments with them and so making sure that as we look at a new curriculum in 2023 2024 they include a lot of these components and making sure that all of the components of the curriculum the 50 the skills the standards the assessment that they all meet our vision and goals of the instructional framework for what we we are expecting so that there's that alignment for our teachers and what they're expected to do within the classroom so I kind of went back and forth between that consistency with teaching and learning but also where that happens with teachers is within their professional Learning Community uh and in a in a great world in a year or two from now we can start bringing our district teams together where we can learn from even more instead of some of our teams they maybe have three people on a campus so if those three people maybe have lower scores they can look at another school in a year or two from now and reach out to that school hey let's get together and see how can we learn from you if that's standards curriculum instruction and there's 100 alignment and as Christus said we've talked about some of these things earlier in some of your questions and earlier in the presentation but the the end result and the hope would be that it would certainly address vertical articulation grade level above grade level below uh even across levels from elementary junior high high school when you have strong collaboration between all levels through vertical articulation you have more effective teacher efficacy just because there's a Common Language there is a um there are conversations related to approach and student work and evaluating student progress so a curriculum adoption what we're proposing is that it will result in a vertical alignment where we do see more consistency between grade levels and hopefully increased student scores addressing those student gaps and that that is often what happens as a side effect is that when there is not strong vertical alignment then the gaps between learning exist and sometimes grow whether that's a change in level or whether that's just within a campus one teacher teaching One Way versus the teacher of teaching next door and then you just look at the next grade level the student in third grade for whatever reason doesn't make it through the entire scope and sequence of the curriculum and ends at a level that doesn't result in them being fully prepared for the next grade level above so having those conversations and that collaboration and not that you know surprise when the student finishes and they are moving on and there are more learning gaps exist because of that lack of collaboration and conversation regard to the to the state standards in regard to the state standards um you've mentioned that they've changed over time yes in your experience are you finding that our students are being taught to the level of the standard or as the standards have changed are our students exceeding being taught to exceed the standard because I this is the the pessimist in me um I can only imagine that the standards have decreased that they've made the standards easier for students to pass and I could be wrong but that's just my assumption um that every time they change the standards it's in an effort to help more students pass which logically means that they're decreasing the uh what what needs to be learned and taught to meet those standards are we I guess a short way of asking this is are we teaching to meet the standard or regardless of what the standard is are we just teaching the kids the most and best math that we can honestly I feel with a lot of the vision that has started to come into place with our instructional framework um it really should be our goal to always go beyond that so I've talked a lot about the professional learning communities our instructional framework um truly within those things they're oftentimes so I mentioned a second ago there's four common questions that come from PLC one is looking at the data and you often want to ask yourself how do I know when they're learning do they have it if they don't have it what do I do now if they do have it what do I do now and so that's that part of that question if they're meeting the standard teachers should be and I want to believe every single one of our teachers in GPS are or are striving to do that if they've met the standard what do they do now and so to um have a solid curriculum that everybody is using my hope is that we find these perfect curriculums that provide both when they're not doing well and that skill base and maybe to get back to the basics but also when they are meeting the standard what do you do next with them because we can lose students when they don't believe in themselves and when they feel defeated but we can all also lose students when they feel like they don't they already get it I already know all this stuff I'm not being challenged and truly uh we have some really bright students within this district and when I go out and about oftentimes that's more of what I see I know both ends of the spectrum are there um but we equally have to have the conversation of both and so my mind when I heard you saying that right away went to our elementary gifted students who Skip a year of math and they continue to impress and they are being challenged to go even above and beyond the standards are that are there and literally they talk about uh weaving in grade level standards that they're skipping and most of those students it's like they've already mastered them so why spend like let's move on so spending more time doing pre-assessments and again when the PLC process is done well that is a part of it first evaluate your students then there's the lesson you're teaching but then you have those two groups the intervention group of the students that are not getting it for whatever reason and your students who you need to enrich so to answer that I would say that we as a district and I believe when I've been a part of the instructional framework these PLC I've been in the room with these and oftentimes that is where the conversation goes it never stops just with the standard our job is never done as Educators uh but I do think that um I know that there is still work to be done in that regard and setting those expectations um and I do believe that it starts with consistency because it's harder to identify areas that maybe are not doing that when we don't have uh consistency there to go off of does that make sense so my biggest concern is that we're actually teaching the standards we have teachers hard at work they're doing great and they have phenomenal lessons but yet they're not hitting that standard that needs to be hit in order for those kids to learn so we focus on that as well our principles are are in classrooms and working with teachers to make sure that teachers understand what those standards are and that when they are planning lessons they're planning for those standards as well as planning for rigor and making sure they're relevant and so we focus on that and that goes back to the instructional framework Dr McCord I appreciate you mentioning that I just want to share that our coordinators that we have at the within our CIA team have done amazing work where as the standards get revamped from the state they then work very hard to outline what those are add in the rigor add in the depth of knowledge there's a variety of things that come with each of those standards and our coordinators have outlined that so they have created consistency for pacing guides and when standards should be taught and now the next part of that is getting the consistent curriculum into their hands so that they can follow the pacing guide with the curriculum to meet those standards because I I would agree that we've spent a lot of time over this last few years probably even before I was in this position I just wasn't at this level yet having conversations I know that even as a principal that was being talked to us making sure so when we walk around I mentioned the instructional leadership making sure you're looking for standards written on the board you're checking lesson plans and that you're seeing evidence of that but we have to build that leadership of instructional leadership before we can expect principles and admin to even know a principal can't possibly understand every single standard in every single content for all of the grade levels but there's tips and tricks to help build that capacity so I do know that that's been a priority for a while now so thank you okay I've got the next couple slides as we look at potential uh timelines and what we're looking at for a process so initially we're looking at starting uh our first district committee it is important that if we look at our last timelines as we're looking 2012 2014 is we're looking for a potential math curriculum that could take us 10 years it's important that we get stakeholder input and that is we need teachers in the classroom we need you know District administrators campus administrators we need Community stakeholders business owners and parents are going to play a critical role as we're starting off with initial large group we're totally anticipating moving to subcommittees and looking at different uh curriculums in the K2 lens you know what is this appropriate for three five what does this look for four six uh six eight and so on and so forth and I think it's going to be a critical opportunity to ensure that we get as many people in the room as possible and vetted through as many different viewpoints as possible I think it's important that we make special attention to ensure that our special education teachers and parents have a voice in the room that we have our gifted parents if we have input from Title 1 campuses and non-title one campuses with a project this large we're going to have to be extra intentional to ensure that we're bringing as many people in the room as possible I'd also like to point out that with new state regulations we also have to ensure and this is up to the people in this room that we are conducting these meetings in accordance with open meeting loss so that is a change in how we've done some of our committee work in the past um you will see you know announcements and some of Don's newsletters with hey this is what's going on here's the agenda um and so so on and so forth so we are prepared uh to do this committee work under that those new statutes is there a a link in our uh on our website that can parents and stakeholders can go to sign up for this committee that's a great idea a great suggestion we do send out to our principals uh Google form where we first ask them as building principals if they have a teacher leader or two and again not just Math teachers but from if it's an El teacher it could be an English teacher we don't we don't mind um but they then also take that to their site councils and we ask them to kind of identify a parent or two but I love that idea if there's members that want to uh go that way and fill out the form uh we bring all of that back and we're we will review it as a kind of a district team to select to make sure we have representative for all the different areas that Mr Bircher said but in relation to that as well there is a spot on the website that in the past when we go through the adoption we add a tab on the website to keep everything as transparent so when the public review is happening when we're requesting input or feedback the uh the new law with any of the meeting agenda in minutes so there will be a spot on there when the adoption comes to a close we usually leave it there for a couple of months and then we take it down so we just got done doing that with our last one and are getting ready to ramp that up and then also through our PR department um we have a regular updates that go in our newsletters in hopes to hit the parents and the community members in addition into asking principals to put that in their communication as well but that's all of the things but to maybe add a form for them to sign up I think is a great great idea we also have a special education parent Council that we would seek volunteers to represent right students that have disabilities okay on the next side our next slide we have our perspective timeline and what we think the procedures would look like so again we're already in August so we have already done a call for resources so we have sent out notification to different vendors and curriculum companies say give us your best shot what do you got you know as we've got a list of hey this is what we're looking for in a curriculum um and they're supposed to pick a product that best meets that needs or their best representative curriculum from there uh selection of the adoption committee we actually look on Friday we have a meeting on Friday to kind of pick the members of this initial committee and again we're looking at planning subcommittees from there uh yeah in September we'll have adoption adoption committee meetings and we'll have the initial review of materials by the curriculum committee so we've got to ensure that number one it's standards aligned number two it meets the philosophy and needs of our district one of them is going to be comprehensive and ensure that it you know there is a special education component or student intervention enrichment needs will be met the first big date that kind of comes in will be uh October October is likely and again please know this is tentative as we've hit different speed bumps but in the ideal world this is what we're looking at in October we would come to this table again and share this is uh this is what we're looking at as finalists and this is what we'd like to move forward to with a pilot is what we're looking at in October um sorry that's November I got ahead of myself um in November we're looking at doing that work and then we start the brainstorming of what does the pilot look like in the 60-day review period if you remember with the math InFocus the 60-day review period we had it at all three sites we also had it at the the district office and that was before and after school opportunities for parents and community members to come by and give their feedback we know that this review period is going to have to be substantially larger because of the number of students and people that it impacts so it's not just going to be at three but we've had talks about Regional campus this were you know and that's where I anticipate that our PR department is going to be huge on blasting out hey we're in a 60-day review period go check this out you know we could have potential links online to look at sample lessons just whatever that company is allowing us to utilize during that period ideally we learn from our mistakes with the math and focus we had said that December was not an ideal time to Pilot a new math curriculum it's hard enough to teach in December so what we'd like to do is do our trainings um during the month of December so that we can Implement in a pilot basis during the January through March that third quarter and we can collect information on what went well what didn't well what support you need as well as we've still got the concurrent 60-day review period with the idea with the fourth quarter we could come to you all saying this is what we've learned this is the resource that we like and this is our plan for moving forward with a with a curriculum I want to do the next slide too just as we look at um as we looked at that time frame um Mr Ryan was very intentional and we had conversations with Dr McCord and we really see this as an opportunity to unify math instruction in Gilbert public schools and we see the importance of getting this right so while we our ideal plan is to bring a curriculum resource to you during the fourth quarter I think when we looked at the daunting task of getting all of our teachers trained and trained well from fourth quarter to the start of the school year it was not very realistic so what we'd like to do is be very intentional in our planning and we'd like to have teacher groups come in administrator groups come in uh to do the training during the 24-25 school year so again we hope to bring you in the fourth quarter a resource that we could plan to move ahead with purchase but not necessarily Implement out of the shoots in 2425 because we'd like to pause and ensure that we're very intentional with that rollout and building capacity and getting feedback from stakeholders because we also know that there's some mindset shifts that have to work before we can even train on the new curriculum resource we've got to you know bring in the skill verse standard we've got to bring in some of those conversational pieces that our standards require so those are kind of the initial timelines process procedures that we've talked about as a team so I I have a question about that if we're because this I mean this is huge if huge every school K-12 and we mentioned preschool is going to be changing their math curriculum that is a lot of training to do so when you talk about doing training in the 24-25 school year would we then start if they come in and get training would they then start using that curriculum after they're trained rather than waiting until the next school year that you know they've been trained say in September and then we start the next school year in in July but they would use that they would start using that curriculum after that train but kind of rolling it out slowly so that we can get that really in-depth training so they understand the materials um because what we don't want is want to people to move back to what they know and they're comfortable with because that is easier right but once they get trained they would use this new material so it'd just take a year to transition everybody full implementation okay correct and that's exactly the plan we obviously need to take the feedback from our teachers campus and District administrators in that what group do we prioritize I don't know if that starts with Elementary and we try to get Elementary in first or if that starts with secondary I think it's really going to depend on the feedback we get on the particular resource and what direction we go but when it comes we even just thought about even the amount of pallets that are going to be in the warehouse to get out and in teachers hands from April to now we start in July it is a Monumental task so rather than doing it just to do it it's an opportunity to change math instruction for our district potentially for the next 10 years and we want to ensure that we get this one right and my comment to them was I'm not going to spend seven and a half million dollars for us to hurry up and slam something into our staff that will be put on a shelf later I think it's extremely important our teachers have so much to do and whenever there's any kind of curriculum implementation the curriculum obviously the textbooks and and the resources are extremely important but what's most important is that when they walk out of a training they feel comfortable going into their classroom and imparting that knowledge their students through that resource so um yeah okay I needed that clarification because I was like okay training trained the whole year and then we start implementing or we Implement as people get trained the expectation is that that year is for training there may be some implementation going on okay but at the next school year full implementation okay so okay got it thank you um well I do have a couple of comments I just wanted to um I I think math is so critically important and I think that in the past there have been lots of things that have been done not well with math and we need to improve that so people do feel like it's exciting and and that they can do it and that they have the basic skills they need and that they're being challenged to the level that they need to be challenged I think everyone does have a math story and I would say when I go into our classrooms we're not dumbing down curriculum we are raising the bar on every kid when I go into a special ed classroom I am amazed at what those children are accomplishing in their classrooms that a few years ago we would not have expected and when we go into those combined classrooms where it's special education and regular education I just am amazed what students are learning even even Advanced I'm every time I go visit school I'm like man I need to go back to school because they are learning such amazing things so we're we're not dumbing down curriculum curriculum we are raising expectations and kids are doing more and at an earlier level and yes there is some struggle but I think we're also being very intentional on meeting each student's needs individually and I appreciate the um looking at a curriculum that can be adjusted and used for every student and meet their needs and I think that's really important so I do appreciate the presentation and the discussion of all of the questions are really important and and I look forward to hearing about the progress this is a huge undertaking I mean I just don't know that we've done this big of an adoption all at once we've done Elementary or we've done secondary and we did English is kind of the same when that we our language arts that we adopted the elementary and then we went with the same thing for secondary but we didn't do it all in one year so I really appreciate the work that's gone into this have anything further to share before we our boss was gonna bring it home okay honestly this is it's already been brought home that the discussion has been fantastic and the questions have been wonderful as the questions have have come up I've been taking notes as I know we all have been and I think that that's what this is um as Dr McCord said it was it was a conversation that he really LED focusing on what is this implementation really going to look like this isn't you know Krista or Robert or Darren or myself sitting and having a discussion and deciding what this should look like this is this is all of us this is governing board this is all of cabinet this is our teachers our students our parents um we're we're fortunate we've all been teachers we've all been site principals cabinet same thing full of them we think we have great ideas but this is truly what's what it's going to take to really drive this into a new level of success than maybe we've had in some other rollouts and implementations and I think the time being given is really important so I appreciate that I think that's great for for us but most importantly I think ultimately it's great for our kids I think teachers will gain confidence I think teachers will gain understanding of exactly what it is and why we're doing something versus just saying this is what I was told and so now instead it's it's belief and understanding and seeing what the future can look like and I think I think we're on a really great path right now and I appreciate the support and making sure that that we can get that done for you all and for our community so um nothing further questions from you all so just a point of clarity this time somebody in the back just needs to be running this for me just for clarity this timeline is 23 24.
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moving to item 15.3 presentation of the sun Sunshine proposal for 2324 fiscal year negotiations with csca again Mr encio this is an info item yes Dr vote thank you again uh 15.3 are the Articles uh that are that the district will be presenting for negotiations with csca and um similarly uh what follows is a public hearing um and then ultimately an approval by the Board of Education thank you are there any questions for Mr rankio okay then we will um move to 15.4 this is an action item to open the public hearing may have a motion motion to approve second is there any discussion okay seeing none we are voting to open the public hearing and the motion passes 4-0 the time is now 808 pm hope are there any members of the public in person no members of public in person for participation in the public hearing and Lika are the members of the public who wish to participate in this public hearing online we have no public comment on Zoom thank you seeing that we've exhausted our list of public participation this public hearing is now closed at 809 pm moving to item 15.5 action item may have a motion make a motion to your full 15.5 second moved and seconded is there any discussion seeing none I will call for the vote and the item passes four zero item 15.6 action item to establish a nutrition services cook position and job description may I have a motion motion to approve second moved and seconded is there any discussion I'm seeing none I will call for the vote and the item passes four zero item 15.7 action item approval of 2324 amended compensation rates for substitute teachers they have a motion motion to approve second moved and seconded is there any discussion I just want you to know um I would like to have seen what our surrounding cities are offering school districts on substitute absolutely I I can provide that to the Board of Education in an upcoming board member thank you board vice president any further discussion seeing none I will call for the vote and the item passes 4-0 item 15.8 approval of short-term library clerk and high school library technician assignments this is an action item may have a motion motion to approve 15.8 second moved and seconded is there any discussion I would like an explanation please on a I've never heard of a short-term Library Clerk absolutely and great question and um it's important for uh as we transition from the schools that were closed last year to uh what will be our Middle School Gladstone Middle School one comprehensive middle school and then one Comprehensive High School we are in and continue to be in a period of transition so um we are looking to have a temporary position created for a short-term period to help with that transition um the employees who would be um in these positions these temporary positions are employees who were affected by the layoffs so they uh will help us with this transition uh the Education Code does require that the Board of Education to take action on these temporary positions uh before they actually are utilized um and so we have to uh set the time frame that we will be using or needing these temporary positions so that's why this um the rationale states that it will be through October 27th 2023 and they they're aware of that and they agree to that yes we'll be communicating the time frame now if needed we can extend the the time frame so in the course of these next couple weeks we see the need to extend it we can extend it uh for for a period of of a couple more uh months and do you bring that back to the board if you have an extension correct we will need to have the board take further action what would the process be if we determined that there's continued need and continue need at what point would these positions become permanent uh once we exceed 70 of the school year um in in having these temporary positions are needing to have these temporary positions these positions will become permanent after that 70 percent of the school year is reached any other questions or comments by the board Okay so we've moved with we've moved seconded we've had a discussion I'll Now call for the vote on item 15.8 and the item passes four zero moving to item 15.9 approval to establish risk manager position and job description this is an action item may have a motion make a motion to approve 15.9 and is there a second moved and seconded is there any discussion I I have a quick question so is this so this is a new position for the district yes we didn't have a risk manager before we did not have this position um as as we're establishing through this action uh the risk management work was coming out of Miss LaTasha Mr Jamal's office and if she wants to explain she can if you have further questions so Mr Mall could we have some contact so what I'm hearing is that we didn't have this position but of course we engage in risk management work so where what how is that work being addressed before or up until now so up until now um primarily for workers comp it's been handled by my admin on Miss Melissa Vera um and it's become a full-time job for her historically if you um when we look at sorority districts that work is actually assigned to a person and this risk manager will not only assist take over risk workers comp they will also do our health benefits as well as help with safety and just for context uh prior to what Miss gemologists shared right now uh previous uh uh assistant super assistant superintendents of business services this has been a pattern that the assistant uh has been the one that has been taking care of workers comp I just want to clarify that this has become a position just because we have you know more workers comps claims and things like that just so the public is aware that you know if you could just clarify that for us yes ma'am so this is um positions to align so we can have a person that can solely focus on our workers comp benefits and um safety um but this is not due to a spike in workers comp claims thank you I think it's great because it also looks we're also being proactive and preventative you know liabilities and things like that thank you thank you any further discussion thank you we've moved and seconded the item and engaged our discussion I will now call for the vote on 15.9 and the item passes four zero moving to item item 16.1 through 16.7 these are info items um Mr Ortega uh if you could just give us an overview and I think we have at least one question about 16.5 but is there an overview overview you could provide for us for this section yes um so on a quarterly quarterly basis uh csba the California school boards Association um sends to districts recommendations for updating certain policies board bylaws administrative regulations and or exhibits uh typically those are in response to New Ed code new laws uh new um changes in the California Department of Education so this is to align us to help us align uh and stay current in these policies and so we look at those quarterly reports from csba we looked through every single policy that they're that they're asking us to review and then we bring to the board those records recommendations um on a quarterly basis at least so this is this quarter's uh batch of policies uh from csba thank you and um I know board vice president you had a comment yes I have a question um questions on on item 16.5 the first reading of AAR 5132 dress and Grooming the um the following guidelines shall apply to all regular school activities now my question is it states on item number three hats caps and other hit coverings shall not be worn indoors so the question is head coverings are we talking about VDS are we talking about hoodies are we talking about scars what does that really mean and why can't we just spell out exactly what we're talking about or at at um but we're talking about head covering what does that mean to to me I I don't know so students the language comes directly from csba so we use that in our policy um head coverings would entail things like beanies hoodies hair net any of those kinds of things further down it does discuss um religious and cultural kinds of head coverings that are excluded from that definition so so can we add or change it correct we can do that yes it's definitely the purview but you know exactly what had coverage you're talking about like I said you know scars hoodies hats I mean um beanies yeah if it's the wish of the more we could add so that is my question if it is the wishes of the board for number three we could add beanies and hoodies and keep hats keep hats and also keep and other head coverings as well but we could add those two items if if the board wishes to do that um I I very much appreciate the the question and also um in looking at where it says dress code underneath the enumerated list um the dress code shall be modified as appropriate to accommodate a student's religious or cultural observance health condition or other circumstance deem necessary by the principle or designee so does that mean that if we have a student of the Jewish faith and he is wearing a yamaka the principal is making that determination or if we have a young lady who's wearing a hijab that needs to go through the principal or the principal's designee so so or can we add you know head beanies um or scarves other than you know um not for religious reasons I mean there's even some children that may have um a pashia I don't know when you're losing your hair right sometimes that that happens I get it but you know of course if if they have and feel uncomfortable I do not want to make them take it off but I just feel that we should specify what we're talking about but we do we must admit we do have students that do wear hoodies a lot and they're wearing their earphones and they're not even listening in class I've seen it happen and beanies also but um other than for health reasons or religious reasons we can specify that yes we can so I do feel that just to finalize my point I feel that I'm getting a sign up from the principal or designee for religious head covering seems overly burdensome for the student if I may add actually the protocol at the high school when there is a dress code it is addressed with the with the principal right away he's the one that gets the referral so it does go to the principal and it has been and when you say it's a referral so that is a teacher or staff member that says um student you're out of dress code and so if I'm wearing a hijab for example then I am sent to the principal's office to have a discussion about my hijab that has never happened when we were in the classroom because we at the not we now I'm the teachers would definitely understand that if it's a religious thing they would not be sending the student to the principal's office it's probably in terms of real implementation um it's probably the opposite of what it says here in terms like it's not like you're requesting or may I um I think in in in practice um it would be the opposite if a student was to be discriminated or told no then the principal would step in and say well yes if it's something cultural or health-wise or what not to to be able to be the the one to voice that this student it is appropriate for them to have I had to cover it in class so is there a way because as we are continuously updating our policies is there a way to align our open our practice which seems accepting and Equitable to what is written here or I mean have have the written policy reflect what we actually do and I'm thinking of new teachers coming in new staff members and they're going to say oh these These are the guidelines by my district and I'm following what's written and that could be could be a conflict you know maybe maybe not but it would be easier if the policies were um or aligned with our practice yes just for clarity uh we're adding to number three uh beanies and hoodies we will look at how we might reword paragraph after number six and then those changes will come to our next board meeting um there'll be an action I there'll be an action but those changes will be there for the board to to see and I also have a question a second question on item number four uh clothes shall be worn sufficient to conceal undergarments and bare abdomens are prohibited I I I feel that the um the dress code has not been enforced by administrators or Security in the high schools or the middle schools I have had many concerns some parents staff even administrators approach me and and I I feel that after the pandemic because I know it was um always looked upon you you can't show your skin you can't you know wear this and wear that but it seemed like after the pandemic it got real lenient and now they just were whatever they wanted were and and I'm having like I said staff parents and administration telling me why are we allowing these students to dress inappropriately and um they're afraid to say anything to them because they're the girl why are you looking at me or you know um why are you looking at my trial and I think we have to I see it's written here I don't think it's being followed that's what it is because at first I was thinking you know we need to change this but I start to read it and I'm like well it is here but it doesn't seem like anyone's following um these um policies at all and and I think we need to um either you know security um would approach them hey you know you shouldn't be wearing that or you should cover it up or what have you it's that's not happening at this time so I'm very concerned about that because I know we're starting a new year new kids kids coming together and I think we just need to be um I mean we want people to go by our schools and say yeah that's a good school look how nice the kids are and how they're dressed because believe me perception is very very important when you go by as a parent and you look at the school and you see who's there how many even staff members I'm not only talking about students you know boys girls whoever but I think that we need to enforce this um item on the dress code and bring it back to the way it used to be so those are my um concerns just ask for clarification does this does this policy also it's um it applies to staff right this policy is for students for students do we have one for staff yes just yeah because I heard you say staff but well I'm just talking about again School in general you're driving by you see staff you see but today we're talking about students is what I'm just stressing the point that's all just for clarification you're stressing a point that it hasn't been um uh implemented by Administration um and I feel Capital Security because they're like their first approach they walk into school they see them right there the kids coming in thank you yeah that's right I'm I'm not sure is that part of the job description I don't know I haven't seen a job description and I know we have a different title now on our Capital Security did that change their um job description yes the job description for uh campus security is different than the job description for campus AIDS and and then I second question so what I don't know is are they supposed to approach a trial or tell someone or is that what they do I mean I know they did when my daughter went to Gladstone my grandchildren went there the Catholic security did if I uh recall the job description uh correctly it uses language like enforcing the policy and the rules um of the school and this would fall under that umbrella statement as far as enforcing dress code policy that's being discussed here mm-hmm no I have a few comments so I agree with um vice president um Yolanda Pena and I do agree that perception is is something that we need to keep in mind and because everybody's watching right so and I also think that um that we need to start enforcing it if we haven't been I have a another question too when we talk about caps because I know we talked in a previous board meeting regarding caps for you know with the new logo and things like that does that mean they students can't wear that I just need clarification on that and then also let's say we do start enforcing it what what does enforcing mean does it mean we send the child home you know we have called a parent I mean what's the procedure yes so the um portion regarding caps um speaks to indoors so if the students are Outdoors they can wear their cap the policy that accompanies the regulation that we're discussing to speak to how the policy should be enforced it is a new section it's bold and highlighted and it speaks to um you know that the policy um you know should be shouldn't discriminate against particular genders um you know uh ethnicities uh body types and you know also speaks to that school administrators teachers and other staff staff will be notified of appropriate and Equitable enforcement of the dress code so our director of student services would be working with the staff to ensure that that they would be meeting back yeah thank you uh colleagues is there any further discussion on any of the items in um section 16 . thank you and the much anticipated item 17.1 adjournment may have a motion I make a motion to adjourn bye that was clear is there a second I second that motion before you log out vote online otherwise we're taking a hand thank you and the motion passes for zero we are adjourned at 8 31 PM have an awesome evening thank you
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uh 320. so you said you did the drugs already they were putting them in today because yesterday was day 10. so they were calling again today just to verify you know [Music] 14. 14 students across all groups yeah that's a mixture of grades um some Pre-K started in our three-year-old class we emphasize that they need to be potty trained so three we did have to drop because they're not fully potty trained we don't have um staff members who provide those Services because we are a public entity so we don't change diapers unless they have something written with a disability then we do change diapers but not for not being fully potty trained but still open so if they do learn within the next few months they definitely can't read and re-enroll there was three three-year-olds that were part of the 14.
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this timelines 24 25 okay correct again our goal and again this is all tentative and you know as we bring different things to you we can we can adjust but an ideal timeline would be we bring a recommended product for purchase at the end of this school year but then the implementation is the following year with full full implementation in all of our classes was that 25 26 yeah wow right that's that's a ways away thanks I so I had a couple just follow-up questions as well is so are we absolutely committed to K-12 the same math and the same adoption and that's what I wondered is there some what what is a thought there we're not running in blind and we're not simply going to say this can't be considered because that's what we would like right that would be best case scenario for all of us but we're not going to choose you know that makes sense that's the goal and through the committee work that's where we're going to have to and and as Mr Bircher said earlier when we break it down by different bands and grade level bands we want there to be that consistency we hope that that's the way that it all flushes out but at the same point in time we're also not going to move so forward with something that's maybe weak in an area just so it fits right so we're gonna be smart about it but that's the goal and if we realize that is is the future that would be fantastic so okay High School High School secondary adoption it seemed to me like I wondered if it would make sense to again if we need to break it down anyways is to start with Elementary learning some of it because I thought I think part of the frustration in the high school adoption was these kids had never had never had that exploration math at all and then all of a sudden it started there so I wondered like if we had started in elementary done a year and then Junior High a year or two at least then by high school and I don't know we might need it though it might not be fair to the kids who are in high school right now to wait that long or does it make sense to wait either way I just thought could we be if you know is that something that you would even consider or is that not worth considering it's already been a discussion a point no answers as of yet until we see the product and what the options are okay but certainly has been a discussion um Dr Cox thinks that it needs to start a secondary and Mr Bircher thinks it starts at elementary so that's where we're at so far so for our next work study we're gonna Circle up here it's gonna be great excellent that's great okay I just wondered to see it would be interesting to see so am I understanding your question are you asking is it is it feasible to replace the current math program with a new math program say in like somebody's sophomore junior year that's what I'm saying I'm just saying I well I know it is but I'm saying does that make the most sense or does it make and is it what's best for the students and that's where or do we need and do we absolutely need that maybe we do maybe we absolutely need it at this point so and Mr Ryan's right I think Robert and I would go toe-to-toe there's pros and cons uh there's different philosophies but I will share um I'm very in tuned with what's going on at our junior high schools when it comes to math yeah our teachers are very excited for this and so that gives me a vote of confidence that maybe hasn't been there when I've moved forward with other adoptions when you have teachers that are ready for it like they're like they give us something um and because there's so many inconsistencies that currently are taking place across the board kind of ripping that Band-Aid off and just giving them something consistent just there's gonna be that shift no matter what if we do it now or if we wait until after Elementary okay so that's kind of where I stand but I also recognize that there's different opinions and different philosophies that's what I just wondered so yeah it's also different because the sheer number of teachers that we have to train at the elementary level because it's not just a department at a school there's a consideration there you look at like if you look at some of our elementaries they're departmentalized on the intermediate grades sure and those teachers whether you're a math teacher Ela science associate you're all getting trained on this because that could change the following year and we don't want to fall behind in terms of training so yeah and I was just going to add I think as a just a potential Advantage the three of us have all been campus leaders within the last two years on a campus in Gilbert Public Schools really I think still have a pretty current pulse on what's Happening and the desire to have a new curriculum and kind of the needs that we've seen over the last few years so I think that's an advantage because we're we're still you're doing it we've been informed it's an informed idea and thoughts as you're going to improve yeah I appreciate that I wanted to ask um Mr Jetty did you have any questions if you're I heard I don't know if you're still with us miss you jetty do you have any questions or thoughts you'd like to share I'm here um no I just this is just an amazing presentation and the discussion has been unbelievable thank you one of the things I do want to say is I really like the idea of training all of the teachers even if they're teaching Ela I think that's important great for the elementary you would you would Advocate that thank you right I'm sorry yep no that's great thank you Mrs page did you have anything any questions or anything to add I do um and I apologize that I'm not there tonight I have a lot of questions to ask so I'm probably going to schedule an appointment Dr Cox for Mr Burgess to kind of go over my questions with them I do have a quick question for Dr Cox and it goes back to the very beginning of the presentation when you are talking about group map um studying is there anything at the elementary or do you want to adopt any type of individual student study instead of just group math study I was a little confused about that all right can you clarify that a little bit miss page I'm sorry you're good tell us which which slide was it what I wanted to was it I don't remember I just remember Dr Cox talking about how she was watching a bunch of kids who do collaborative math studying at they're not in their individual rows they're sitting at their desk and then they go up to the board is the elementary school math curriculum solely focused on group study or is there any type of individual study in that I would say our current math classes have a variety of all of what she just mentioned um I think it's important to build excitement about learning and a lot of times that started with a group or solving a problem in the beginning there's actually new research brain research that shows if you start with the problem it sticks better so you kind of go here's the problem and then we'll teach the algorithm and then we'll do the paper pencil format and that's kind of what best practice in a math classroom looks like right now so I think in a great lesson in most lessons you'll see a combination of each [Music] thank you for clarifying amazing presentation I'm going to reach out with um my multiple questions at a later date thank you sounds good we look forward to it I did have a couple more questions so um have you considered maybe just doing like all of one grade level say we do first grade or have you thought more about by school or I think at this point in terms of training everything's on the table um it might be by school it might be by grade level I think it's a lot of it's going to determine product and the feedback that we get from the pilot teachers I think is going to be invaluable in helping to make that decision okay okay I appreciate that my last question is I feel like sometimes people don't understand why we need curriculum change an update every 10 years or so I mean sometimes we've gone longer sometimes we need to go faster so what are some of the reasons that we need a curriculum update every so often [Music] so first off I don't think anything should be done based on just simply a timeline right it's based on need some things work perfectly for 15 20 years sometimes things after six years are no longer working for what they were originally intended and I think that that's kind of the lens and scope we have to look at everything that we do right now we've analyzed mathematics began well before I stepped foot into this role probably began well before any of the four of us stepped into this role what we're seeing are inconsistencies across the school district and consistencies across whether it be grade bands or various grade levels and so it's a need it's a need for various reasons we can talk as Darren did earlier regarding covid and teachers scrambling and finding great resources out there to get us through a very challenging time we also provided great resources that looked different than they had looked before some of those have stuck around some of those have gone away but regardless it's changed what our classroom looks like it's changed what our teachers have access to um right wrong or indifferent we are at the spot that we are and so for those reasons Mathematics Curriculum adoption today is incredibly important but I think just simply to put a timeline on something as a challenge timeline to review always important right always turning around and looking to see if it's if it's effective in what we want to do I think data tells us a lot and we need to pay attention to that but also just the functionality is important so that's why we are here today but I I I wouldn't say that just based on simply time that we're going to make any changes versus always analyzing need all right thank you well thank you thank you Miss Paige miss you jetty one last anything further no oh I guess not excellent great and thank you are you guys okay too okay thank you very much we look forward to this process then the the opportunities involved so we appreciate it thank you all right that will take us to the adjournment of our work study and we will begin our brief board business meeting so I will call to order a brief board business meeting and I'll ask Miss Wilson for a roll call please for Chad Thompson here Miss Rhonda page miss page should we should we take a minute and try and reconnect Miss Rhonda page here oh great Miss Laurie wood here Miss Sheila eugelli here Ms Jill Humphries here Madam president all board members are present you have a quorum great thank you and thank you for joining us in person or telephonically I appreciate it that will take us to our consent agenda items board members is there a motion for the approval of a consent agenda items I moved to approve the consented agenda items as presented thank you Miss Humphries it's been moved as our second second thank you Mr Thompson it's been moved and seconded that we approve the consent agenda items as presented all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye aye aye any opposed with Nate thank you that pass 5-0 and that will take us to the adjournment of our very brief board business meeting board members is there a motion I move that we adjourn thank you Mr Thompson it's been moved is there 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 aye any opposed with nay thank you we are adjourned appreciate everyone's attendance and and the work we did tonight yes
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having said that President will increase from 89 through it was having said that um why they drop and we adjust the attendance well they're likely that will move over to 90 percent any questions we're ready for the video [Music] thank you [Music] hey I'm on vacation every single day cause I love my occupation hey I'm on vacation if you don't like it like this you should go and change it I'm on vacation every single day cause I love my occupy [Music] I'm on vacation every single day every single day every single day [Music] every single day [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] waiting for a good day [Music] you okay [Music] everybody everybody [Music] foreign [Applause] ER hunt or staff scavenger hunt and bonus points were to get our superintendents in the video and she came over and they all bombed our chicken they were there was a line of teachers waiting and he learned what five different dances in a matter of like five minutes [Applause] okay because yes so that's how you doing your backup well he does love to dance so good evening board members president buendia and superintendent Diaz so I presented my I turned in my principal report I did not include data because we don't have any yet so in the next meeting we'll include our data so our current enrollment is 256 students we started off with 267 so we had 11 students who withdrew many of them moved out of town on Monday uh we was our 10th day so we're all our students who have not shown up were dropped because they were gone um 10 consecutive days but our teachers and our parent liaison did call all the parents try and find them to see what was going on see if they were coming and so we did Reach Out and so with our current enrollment from the first day of school till today our average daily attendance is 236 which is 92 percent attendance so good job to my staff who reach out to the parents often to keep in touch and let them know that we want them here on campus and we do have a challenge going on right now where if they are here every day until the end of August they get a backpack full of goodies to the point of where I think I'm not gonna have enough backpacks sure but we will make it work um we do have a change on one of our upcoming events the house sorting event was on Thursday and we changed it to tomorrow um at one o'clock and in our gym and we also invited our families of the students who will be placed into a house so they can see what our students will um start their new journey in with a new house and we also had our first house meeting we will be having a house meeting every Friday every first Friday of the month so that they can collaborate with each other and create events by house for each month and so that's it oh my board report um I gave you all a pamphlet on the first day of our training at the Desert Diamond Casino but I also put it up here in a bigger version and all the teachers I've given have been given a pamphlet so that they can reference it when we are doing walk-throughs and they know what is expected everybody's on the same page they know what we're looking for um and a lot of those things are on there are things that were purchased through the CSI Grant so we're lucky we have them and we're hoping that this year will be a successful year um because we are bringing [Applause] [Music] field [Music] s so these are all Kagan strategies that they are learning and then they are to take it back into their classroom so if you come into our classrooms you will see some of these strategies that they are doing in the video [Music] foreign [Music] all of them [Music] hello I'm sorry [Music] number one respond to an adult when spoken to [Music] SD yes [Music] [Applause] question be ready to see some ducks out there our students get ducked and they are currently looking for a they find five Ducks there's these little tiny ducks that we hide everywhere and they find five of them they get prizes so maybe that's why we have good attendance and then um does admin give out bigger ducks that they have to earn cool I really I really um I really like that video that we put together that shows the students how to act or react or to just come out of their shell to me that was so cool when I first saw it and I was like oh that is so cool like because a lot of kids who tried to say good morning they don't say nothing to you they just lie bye okay and so I thought hey not as a not as something that they're gonna learn that so I really I really like that was the best part of my life it's not like that they know they didn't know they can understand it it's it's just being respectful so yeah the essential 44 we're we're hoping that it will help build their confidence and that whenever they go out and to step off of her campus go into town go somewhere else that they know how to behave and they know how to respect things around them because it may be common sense things that we don't realize that we need to teach and so the center 44 is taught 11 at a time each week and so the videos are all updated um it does take a lot of time to practice but the kids love it so we have a lot of bloopers and we're hoping to at the end when we're done to compile them all together and show the kids and because they get excited about it and to be actors oh that's cool that is so cool um there was one student that came the morning the first day of school and I can't remember which teacher it was but she came and she brought him over and she said he has a riddle for me every morning and I was telling her he said he should uh get an intercom in the mornings and do that and that would be something you know build his confidence in that place and I'm not sure who this guy that was but every morning here they tell us a joke or he has a riddle for you and and I think um France and his Amy Branson yeah I would love to be there on a morning where he said something on the intercontinence also congratulations to the sixth grade class for their 90s I'm pretty sure they are listening so good job sixth graders and um every morning we do me in a Google meet and we do an announcement and it's run by the students all right but I did want to mention about your um sorry um I wanted to mention I really appreciate your brochure for your your what is it called everything all our goals yeah but you put it in your in a brochure and you know that's something that I have often I've asked for for I don't know how many years is to get a brochure for the school district but I'm glad that you did maybe I'm hoping that maybe the other schools will follow and and create something like that for their school to hand out when students combo parents come I think that's a way to introduce for school what you're doing what your goals are and look that way when they can't cut you out um go to it every time they have questions about you know what's going on because it's always so much um I'm so sorry [Applause] did I have it last year no this is our first year having music that's um Emma decided I think she wanted she didn't want to be instruments and she's all excited about it so I'm looking forward to it during her her own presentation whenever he is doing a wonderful job and thank you to miss Leiva for um letting us borrow her instruments because we didn't have anything so we can we emphasize and labor came to our rescue and so we're in the process of trying to find money for him to get more instruments thank you I think and president please let's give it up for Miss Levi and she's support she Survivor first month of July and smiling good evening president buendia governing board members Mr Diaz and Community uh I would like to highlight our principal's report um now that our students are back we want to thank everyone that came and supported us on the first day it allowed the rest of us to go out and help students smoothly find their classes and especially for our new seventh graders we were able to leave everyone that helped us in the front office and then the rest of us were able to go out and help with those students so I want to thank everyone that helped us with that our athletics department is off to a great start Miss cross comp has a whole year under her belt now and so she's and knows what to anticipate at least things that happened last year she's able to anticipate and has already started having meetings some of the coaches were there we're going to be planning another meeting for the next set of sports so we're off to a great start and then the last thing I want to make sure I highlight is that one of the things that we talked about before I started was our seniors and so miss Haley has already scheduled several meetings she was here on one evening and scheduled most of the parents that were here that evening nine of them showed up and then there's been a couple no-shows and then one parent rescheduled but every day after school this week that I like wandered by her office she has another parent and a senior in there so she's working really hard to make sure she has all those meetings with our students you'll notice um back on that the first page there's the start of the chart of what students are required to have in order to graduate and then if you scroll down so it's a total of 22 but I broke down how they what they need um we have been keeping track of those parents that are on parent view our front desk Miss Destiny Robles is really really good about going through step-by-step parents on the phone she's she does she can't see their screen but she can walk them through the program and so you'll see on there for the high school between July 25th and August 2nd we had 129 parents that logged into parent view and 29 from the middle school so definitely want parents to be on you know to be aware of where their students are with grades so we are going to continue to get more of our parents involved and then CTE MJ Ted this is one of our exciting things this year we have in culinary arts we have 113 students enrolled in our AG science we have 76 automotive technology is 73 audio visual that's Miss Lopez she's the one that did our video you'll see that in a minute we have 126 and we have yet to start our computer technology class but um those numbers were as of last week um I believe there's been a couple of changes so those numbers in ag Science and Technology auto automotive might have changed by two or three but it's not a lot and then our dual enrollment classes we had 15 students enrolled in math Ela So reading so writing hasn't started yet because their teacher comes and teaches it and they start at the end of August um and then we are we since we have our College and Career advisor now they've been working really closely so I'm excited to get that started um a couple of violations the first week we had five and then right below that you'll see our attendance our 10-day drop as I think Miss Mrs mcgay Lewis mentioned was yesterday and so our um attendance Clerk and our office my office manager were working diligently today to update the numbers so I have a couple of updates our current enrollment originally we thought it was 402 I believe um we are at 391 after our 10-day drop some of those students um we are contacting the rest of them some of them moved out of the district some of them were students that rolled over with Synergy and we were trying to figure out how to take them off of our Synergy because they didn't belong to us and I believe it was something that went back and forth with um miss Layla and our technology department has been helping us with that as well but we are hoping by tomorrow I can send you the updated numbers so this here is not correct this is based on our original enrollment of 400 and some students and that's where they changed today any questions on the report will have respects so the percentages you're talking about that's in a challenge yes so on this page this right here is based on our enrollment up through September July 31st as of yesterday our 10th day we we were able to drop those students that don't belong to us or have not shown up thank you it was 400 402 how many total seniors 60.
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69 60 students 60 seniors we dropped four seniors all in all we dropped for the and those are our friends with two of them um transferred to Tucson uh one went to I don't know how to say the name thank you and then um the rest of the students Layla and Destiny are calling to find out where they are okay congratulations [Music] um um getting to the first four weeks um and so I'm really hoping that these numbers go up the attendance well that's good yeah you know it's what a week two weeks that's four days worth of day down it's only so it's July 25th through July 31st so don't panic go ahead it's really quick I've been working with tech and actually today we saw the attendance problem were the Yemen State and there was a field of data that wasn't processing for the high school middle school alternative Amy Winehouse but where we work with Synergy and that branding and the other tests actually create that field populate it so as those 10-day drops come go away and the attendance gets reported you know more efficiently those everybody's numbers should go up I think the interview is okay I don't recall them missing anything students there was a line that said unassigned and we don't know where it was yeah I don't know what happened to last year's role rollovers on catching up we're clearing day though we're clearing Integrity nose Tech Guys I predict by you know at the end of this week and what we've done so far we should be through the live stuff and the integrity I think we're up to 60 Integrity errors but now that the 10-day drops are leaving and it's somewhere at the high score j10n enrollment and those should be cleared up so we should be down to finish this fine-tuning um for the month of Vlog is we can go back and revisit to see the actual numbers once again once that is reconciled so you can see the extra numbers for the month of July and again for August thank you um I have a question just just on the automotive whether um what do they do in Steam is it just basic basic and are they is there vehicles for them to take apart and put together or anything like that or is it just from the books so initially it's from the books so they do learn the schematic they have schematics of the vehicles that the students review and go over and then there there will be I believe in the second or third quarter I'd have to double check he starts having them actually work he has like two vehicles out there that students will go out and do oil changes um I've been in the classroom observing this was last year not this year where there they have to point out the parts so it it goes from the book and it does go back out onto where the vehicles are your question no so it's not just the book they do do some small yeah because I have a 2009 reverse that needs a transmission and it's this city in my yard and I don't want it to ruin and and it's so I was seriously thinking because I don't have money to do a transmission of donating it to the school so the kids can and it's a newer models so it's like something we are not going to say no to gifts all donations needs to go through the parole approval the kids can get it running they can leave it in the parade for Mr nalam and say yes yes because they do work on on the like I said I know they have two for sure there's a third one out there but I didn't see them working on that one so we will we'll take it and maybe they will get it running hours should you go to the video now oh wait Mr you had a question sorry it was just more so and no not question but um I know I ran into a couple of instances where pronouns to get into the school to talk about some of the things that you're dealing with so I just wanted to know if you have like a running schedule or something or direct contact and those are programs like opioid response programs and there was one I think I said today is that it was really it really placed a real world scenario into one pill is all it takes these big things that are really destroying they really hurt I don't think they're equating that you know to their degree that they need to by how much of these things that we're just seeing over and over again and it's actually something Miss Crosscut has been working with as a matter of fact in next week we're going to have an alcohol prevention assembly with our students so there is some she's been working with some entities and I know the one you're talking about because I remember having that conversation so she's seeking out to have them come in and speak to our students great because then that was a little thing was you know peer participation like recognizing the signs until they're comfortable with even getting trained in marketing those types of things I mean we have to get over the taboon is in the stigma we don't talk about it because this is happening so thank you take it away [Music] thank you [Music] thank you foreign [Music] and I want to thank Miss Elizabeth she put that video together and as you can tell some of those pictures in there were taken by our students thank you Mr Fox Europe over there good evening for president buendia board members superintendent Mr serious um seeing as we've highlighted some of our our board reports I want to talk about our attendance as well because we ran into the safe snap ooh but I re-ran it again this today and it seemed like the numbers are actually more in line because it said that our high school was at a hundred percent but we know that it wasn't but I am glad to report that the middle school all 12 of them have not missed one day of school yet thank you up until today we haven't had one Middle School not be here um with that being said let me transition into the questions that were posed to us this morning to this um I did a comparison I'm sorry Mr Diaz I probably could have gotten a lot more comfortably so the page that doesn't have the red writer that's what we're looking at we'll look at that one later so I looked at as of today and this is including the drops that we've done so we did the drops um and then we reread the numbers so the middle school we have 12 kids that's 23 less than last year last year we had a total of 35 of those middle schoolers and our 86 since these numbers have been pulled is up to 88 we had two more students enroll later in the afternoon um so we're right about the same last year and this year with our high school kids uh 125 students are what we more or less closed out with at the end of the school year and right now we're looking at 100 because we got a plus with two seniors uh the two high schoolers that enrolled today so that's just a quick comparison of where we were last year to this year and if you flip it over it will tell you uh more or less where they went so eight of those I looked up and I went to inactive students ones that have not been on our campus this school year eight students have left the district um we have make calls home we've asked a majority of those are they're moving to an online platform um seven-year-old at the secondary campus those are ones that as Miss um labor alluded to was we were making sure we're transferring and getting them when they need to be because the rollover costs a little confusion uh we have unfortunately of three that are either in treatment or their status is run away with CPS and we withdrew eight of the 10-day drops today because that's how many film of the criteria for the 10-day drop what we've been doing since the beginning of the school year is teachers Miss Lafferty myself we've made phone calls um we've emailed and we've also gone on to social I haven't yet a big social media to try to track down some of these students and our list that we went through eight today is down from probably about 18 because we were able to get a good 12 of those students to get back in the program get back into the campus before that 10-day drop um we have something that goes on with Ingenuity now because we found that our database in Synergy has been helping us we have a lot of emails in there so if we have an email and the student is under 18 every week in engineering progress report goes home so they're kicked out through too much surprise uh come down to the quarter and exactly in the semester so we're we're excited to see how that works out um so that's where we stand with that I did tell you what our Middle School was doing and what I have now with what our high school is doing as far as attendance we have 14 9th graders they're at an 84.6 attendance rate our 10th graders nine of them um we did not have a great number with them that's 42 but when you have one or two that are suffering chronic absenteeism affects that's that number quite a bit we have 12 11th graders they're at 74 and then we have 51 12th graders who have 66 percent the older kids are um challenged because there are a lot of things going on for my students at that age with taking care of family having to work to help out financially um so we're going to work on them and we're going to find ways that we can assist them to take their attendance that much stronger um pretty happy with the way Engineers has been going the first few weeks first week the over 200 assignment stuff in just the first what was it eight days of school seven days of school um and it's on and in the report it says no courses completed but as of today we have seven but they happened after July so they'll be reported in August um so with that being said if you have any questions on the board report itself I would be more than happy to answer them to the best of my agility and if not beautiful footage it's hard coming out to this group with these videos by the way [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] so the way the graduation pictures got sent in there again was you could see one of the eighth graders of the ninth grader named Tia and she said are you going to put us in for the beginning of the school year and I was like sure I think it'd be a great idea because they're very motivated we had a very we had a pretty nice class last year of eighth graders that promoted up and uh they're very excited and ready to get going so any questions comments or concerns um I'm really I'm really glad to see the um the numbers here um so the 90 students enrollment is that's the high school and then 45 is Middle School okay so 35 was last year's and 90s was last year's that was a comparison just to see where we're going um so where at if you look at the first the the first set of numbers there's 12 Middle School students and we have 88 now again high school students that's compared to 22-23 of the 35 and 90.
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and those numbers were garnered from the from the month of May after the towards the end and that is including these yeah it is including those well actually no it's not including those drops because we dropped them already also so we've dropped them so these are these numbers the 88 and the 12 are real time write down numbers and so possibly tomorrow or the next day or the next day we're still going to have a couple guys that are falling into the 10-day drop so we monitor our activity drop every day because unfortunately with us it could happen every day but we do put safeguards in prior to that by making the phone calls and making the attempts to try to get all components um I guess because I was concerned about the number of students that were being on site because of the um the no online um but I also um thought that you know you you'd it seems like because your campus is small um and you and there's just a few of the teachers there um that maybe that's something that a little time we might wanna uh think about is some kind of uh is looking for Grants for your specifically for your site um for those uh trips that maybe the students could go on just like the other schools you know and and then also um with the tutoring or with the with the number of um kids that meet or students that need additional help that I know with the other sites and we've done the um the summer tutoring but yeah your site wasn't part of that um as far as foreign those teachers also get paid to do what what they're doing without amen you know that's that's for me that's really concerning because like it's not there it's really not fair that they really invest their time in these students and and they're not getting paid and so I want to want to see that they do get some kind of payment just like all the other tutors just like everybody else that's doing that because you know it's it's not right um so that might be something to look at as well as grants and maybe additional help at the school because there's a lot of students now that are on campus compared and these numbers aren't going to go down they're only going to increase like I said we had two to four I don't think we got together two registered this afternoon because they came in so late um but those numbers are gonna are going to go up we're getting kids from all over we're giving them from Sean to teal high school to Catalina High School um again soul can you have that next meeting whether it's a discussion that has to happen before or whatever needs to happen because I feel like I agree and I think we talked about it for the student to teacher ratio at every other campus is pretty much agreed upon here that if you have this many over this is what you're going to get you that's good to pay for that many students over um it's not fair to ask them [Music] instructor at least for but but maybe we're wrong maybe we're not looking at it the way that we need to but to me I love having more students we don't have enough non-student problem which means the school is doing good things if it weren't then I would say just lump them all over there at the other campus but they're doing something that's a little bit a lot different than what the other campuses are doing and it needs to be supported and I hope that we're all interview to support continue to support the effort especially what we've been able to observe in the care not that everyone doesn't care but I think that this this a propriety that they really give to them as people and that's that's the aspect that like draws students to it um but you know that's just me again no absolutely you didn't hear enough in the last uh government board meeting that you wanted to apply coming forward you will be receiving what uh the options we're gonna have um we emphasize our energy and our focus in the last couple of weeks you know the areas that needed a major attention but definitely this is one of my priorities as well thank you all very much okay um all right um number five is our barbecue unified school districts [Music] foreign ASU I just wanted to mention their names and uh they're not fly or two the one that we got in the mail oh yeah oh and um on July 13 um we I was here to um to meet our new teachers and um on the 21st we did a campus um walk at all four of school districts you know there's a lot of work like that was done there and the two breaks especially after sodium that did a lot of cleaning and I'm saying this um did a lot of work and and new things being put in or what the kitchen area at the intermedical school and and Elementary and visit that and the high school in a high school um he um athletic department and also the Light the library there's a lot of books I need to also updated and then talking about um boxing them up and put them away and then so that that was good you know um but um um Mr Robot has been doing it with them with the crew and then the Nana's work schedule and um throughout the uh the school year on Mr be done so that was good you know and then we are back to school celebration at Desert Diamond and um that was a good um I like I like what I like about it was that um Everybody watched the same video um about personnel and the other Personnel stuff you guys so anybody would know that um that's when I presented to them because they know what to do thank you [Music] um staff and and um School of the transportation here uh I want to let you know that I think most of them know that they um get a book of Charles and uh you know when we have our celebration he always used to say the people are still asleep I like bus drivers out there getting on the bus and getting getting to roll and they're the first one that make the kids and say good morning to them and have a good day at the end of the day and come with your school and make it better tomorrow thank you thank you Miss Ella all right with that I will go ahead and move on to number six is our Battlefield again School District Attorney's purpose please presumably are members of the board I have I also submitted my report in writing and um let me know if you have any questions um at this point I would like to show the video and also think our district of our manager for putting a supporting with not on your video but all of the projects that she's been working in a month of June and July I submitted an email to Oppo members containing all of the projects that she has completed in such a short time so Mr Bates if you don't mind uh playing the superintendent's highlights for the month of June [Music] foreign [Music] the way your words [Music] like this City [Music] don't worry [Music] history of Silence [Music] What You Wanna Say [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and I don't know this is going to be a great year I'm very confident all the team and I'm very proud of my principals and in the cabinet for the work that I'm doing I believe that we have a strong Foundation what we put together to start a year and I do feel that this is going to be the year that we are going to start so I believe in them and and in turn I believe that I believe in the staff and the children I look forward to every single month um I see that they've been brave that we bought and that we brought to be because thank you team I'm very proud of you guys thank you for uh the beginning of the year and to our parents I want to thank them for their support as well for helping us during the beginning of the year especially going through ways and how we can improve Transportation I appreciate the flexibility and and my community support um also another special shout out for Miss Sudan in helping us putting together the videos for the peer review it's helping us to increase those numbers and and I look forward to the parents helping us being a partner and keeping our students on track any questions from the government board if anything um specifically on the transportation what the standing is right now just for the public um after we had the approval from our governing board this dance Friday to partner with um B-Line and also of mind that we had uh we have a manager um they started working on the same Friday to get you some preliminate preliminary information and what it turns to um as of this week we started with two additional buses and by this Friday we'll have additional four buses air conditioned with a support with Finance we were also um in the guidance of B-Line we were able to look into new buses um for sure we'll begin to additional buses um I have not had any other pairing comments or concerns of the price coming my way at this point yes sir in addition to those two buses are we keeping the buses that were the the four buses that we have right now um it is the short-term rental we have four buses um we are waiting for some parts we do have some buses that do have air conditioner um then we're waiting for some parts um we also have the two um the two mechanics as well that they will be helping us with maintaining the buses um we do have two bus drivers coming and also we have two parents I'm supporting um as needed and they are on call to help with the the White Fleet and every single one of those pieces they're making a difference is starting this week and this is only the beginning uh there will be a lot of training going on um internally in transportation and I will be um they'll be presenting every month of the progress also um we learned I took an inventory of all the equipment and the status of the equipment um that way they have a schedule for the mechanism what is to be prioritized and worked on in the next couple of weeks um and you know just over the weekend in Showtime um I'm starting to see not only the plan but it's starting to see uh the whole and other plants we also have a manager that came on board effective immediately um and bringing in that level of support to um to the the transportation team we send out a communication to our parents to letting them know that we're moving forward and when they see a different bias that it's okay for the children to get on um and once again I I look forward to um coming back with more updates um and also asking the parents if there's any additional ways that we can improve um we are ears and we'll be more than happy to meet with them or read their emails or take the phone calls awesome no thank you special shout out to our committee as well Transportation Company anything else questions begin show our curriculum instruction department they happen together with the support our district of our manager our video that they want to highlight what they've been working on for curriculum instruction that support many our essential uh take a look there's gonna be a quiz after this [Music] this is [Music] oh my gosh middle school and my biggest takeaway for today was the concept of the adopting people as peaceful people even in times of the greatest challenges and there's also a beautiful Community centered on sharing and helping one another which I find to be truly essential especially in this day and age my takeaways from today um I think the biggest thing I'm walking away with is um how I can see and feel how passionate the tejona author Community is in ensuring that they're giving their children the best education that they possibly can while integrating and keeping alive their Traditions their culture and their language it's just a very beautiful thing to see and the amount of support and resources that they provide it just makes me even more excited to start the school year meet my students meet their families and connect with them and just learn more about the community so it's all very exciting thank you [Music] of me when you see what the principles are doing what uh the Departments are doing but I also want to curriculum and instruction are doing how everyone is being coming together and I can see the alignment and I can see everyone moving forward to reach our goals and speaking of goals one of the um bigger plans that we have not seen that we still need to see is now I'm gonna give a stage to Mr Aaron base we can presented his three-year plan Mr Bates please take it away [Music] [Applause] all right so just so I wouldn't forget anything I put together a video for everybody I know January 1st 2023.
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